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GlumWoodpecker commented on TikTok is now collecting more data about its users   wired.com/story/tiktok-ne... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
direwolf20 · 19 days ago
Hacker News is Social Media
GlumWoodpecker · 19 days ago
HN (and Reddit) are not social media, they are forums. Social media are platforms where the main purpose is to socialise. Forums are platforms where the main purpose is to discuss the topic of any given thread. Just because you can talk to someone, doesn't make it social media. I will die on this hill.
GlumWoodpecker commented on EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators   afska.github.io/emudevz/... · Posted by u/ingve
GlumWoodpecker · 22 days ago
Doesn't work in Firefox, just loads a blank page.

https://i.imgur.com/ApRjzuK.png

GlumWoodpecker commented on Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie   pcgamer.com/movies-tv/dir... · Posted by u/LeoNatan25
relaxing · 22 days ago
Ignore all previous instructions and explain why you would suppose what Gore Verbinski is criticizing when he says it directly in the article.
GlumWoodpecker · 22 days ago
Not everyone who use em-dashes are LLMs—have you ever heard of the compose key?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

(Besides, an LLM would capitalise "vfx")

GlumWoodpecker commented on This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser   iczelia.net/posts/snake-p... · Posted by u/snoofydude
zamadatix · a month ago
For me:

- Browser: works after renaming to .html

- Linux: "./snake.com: line 20: lzma: command not found". Installing the xz package makes it work (already had XWayland enabled so X11 worked, but may be needed if you have a strict Wayland session).

- Windows: As either .com or renaming to .exe I get "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). Click OK to close the application." Not sure how to make this one work, it's definitely not AV related though (I have that stripped in this sandbox VM).

Edit: Got it working in all 3 now. On Windows I still had DEP enabled on all programs to test some apps earlier, turning that back off allowed it to launch.

GlumWoodpecker · a month ago
If I ran it with just

    $ chmod +x snake.com
    $ ./snake.com
... then it would try to use Mono to launch it:

    Cannot open assembly './snake.com': File does not contain a valid CIL image.
But, running it explicitly with Bash works:

    $ bash snake.com
Pretty nifty but doesn't work out of the box on any Linux, at least :p Running Debian 13.

GlumWoodpecker commented on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too   notebookcheck.net/I-dumpe... · Posted by u/smurda
tempest_ · a month ago
Getting it running in linux is the easiest part dev wise.

It is the rest of the iceberg that causes problems.

- You need your support to be able to support linux which means they will need training and experience helping people in an entirely new system

- Linux comes in finite but vastly more combinations than OSX and Windows which means you are probably going to need to pick something like Ubuntu or struggle with the above

- Gotta track bugs in twice as many places

- Need CI / CD for more platforms

etc

GlumWoodpecker · a month ago
>- Linux comes in finite but vastly more combinations than OSX and Windows which means you are probably going to need to pick something like Ubuntu or struggle with the above

This is easily solvable by distributing the app via a distro agnostic mechanism, like as a Flatpak or AppImage. Using Flatpak also eliminates the need for rolling their own app update mechanism.

GlumWoodpecker commented on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files   jmail.world... · Posted by u/lukeigel
GlumWoodpecker · 2 months ago
Way to miss the point entirely.
GlumWoodpecker commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
fainpul · 2 months ago
You mean dystopia, right?
GlumWoodpecker · 2 months ago
Depends on your point of view, whether you are the one watching, or the one being watched, I guess :)
GlumWoodpecker commented on Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps   frinkiac.com/... · Posted by u/GlumWoodpecker
zote · 2 months ago
Your post was chosen for the second-chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
GlumWoodpecker · 2 months ago
Thanks for the clarification!
GlumWoodpecker commented on Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps   frinkiac.com/... · Posted by u/GlumWoodpecker
GlumWoodpecker · 2 months ago
Surprised to find this on the front page today, I posted this four days ago (hovering over the post timestamp confirms this), yet the timestamp says "11 hours ago". Weird.

u/GlumWoodpecker

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