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abareplace commented on The Rise of Whatever   eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/th... · Posted by u/cratermoon
amiga386 · 2 months ago
But can't you see what he actually wants?

He wants normal banking and money transfer... but just to anybody, and for any reason. As an example, he'd like people to be able to pay him to draw bespoke furry porn for them. Or as another example, why can't a US citizen pay an Iranian citizen to do some work for them? (e.g. write a computer program)

That is totally possible. The only thing that stands in his way, and drives him into the arms of the cryptocurrency frauds, are moralising and realpolitiking governments that intentionally use their control of banks to control what bank customers can do with their money.

In an ideal world, government would only regulate banks on fiscal propriety and fair-dealing, and would not get in the way of consenting adults exchanging money for goods and services. But because government does fuck with banks, and sometimes the banks just do the fuckery anyway and government doesn't compel them to offer services to all (e.g. Visa/Mastercard refuse to allow porn merchants?), normal people start listening to the libertarians, the sovereign citizens, and the pump-and-dump fraudsters hyping cryptocurrencies.

He wants decentralised digital cash. How can it be done, if not Bitcoin et al?

abareplace · 2 months ago
Eevee is she, not he. See the website footer and the home page.
abareplace commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
abareplace · 2 months ago
https://www.abareplace.com/

An old-school regex and text processing tool for web developers. Great for browsing source code, automating complex replacements, and decoding Base64, URL encoding, or Unix timestamps from your clipboard.

abareplace commented on Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?    · Posted by u/amanchanda
abareplace · 3 months ago
It helps to start blogging about things that are related to your product or interesting to your target audience. I got the first users by writing about text-processing tasks that you can do with regular expressions: https://www.abareplace.com/blog/
abareplace commented on Notepad++ is 21 years old   learnhub.top/celebrating-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
asalahli · 10 months ago
How would you calculate line numbers if you did that?
abareplace · 10 months ago
Exactly, not loading the whole file into memory works well only for hex editors.
abareplace commented on AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted   arnaud-carre.github.io/20... · Posted by u/msephton
red_admiral · a year ago
Is this similar to the Windows (since at least 3.1 I think?) BitBlt function, that takes an `op` parameter to decide how to combine the source, destination and mask?

I remember there are names for some of the codes like BLACKNESS for producing black whatever the inputs are, COPY (or something like that) to just copy the source to the destination etc. I always thought BLACKNESS and WHITENESS had a kind of poetic ring to them.

As far as I know, I think this is from Petzold, it's implemented in software but the opcode is actually converted to custom assembly inside the function when you call it, a rare example of self-modifying code in the Windows operating system.

abareplace · 10 months ago
Yep. BitBlt originally used complex 16-bit "operation codes" that store the binary operations in reverse Polish notation. Then, they added "operation index" that stores the same information in a byte, like in Amiga, which is shorter and more elegant. The coding is now redundant because each raster operation code contains both an operation index and an operation code. See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180528-00/?p=98...
abareplace commented on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison   blogsystem5.substack.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
markus_zhang · a year ago
How do you get Windows NT4 style buttons on 11? That's something I want to do with my application!
abareplace · a year ago
If there is no application manifest, you will get Windows NT4 / Windows 9x style buttons. Just tested this on Windows 11.
abareplace commented on The "email is authentication" pattern   rubenerd.com/the-email-is... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
abareplace · a year ago
booking.com natively supports this "email is authentication" pattern, so you even don't have to change your password and come up with a throw-away password. They just send you a link by email, you click the link, and you are logged in.
abareplace commented on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful   tulach.cc/writing-gui-app... · Posted by u/wild_pointer
crazygringo · a year ago
As a non-Windows user, I'm confused, maybe you can clarify:

> If you use the regular Win32 controls then they will automatically get the styling the user has set.

Does that mean they'll get dark mode if the system is in dark mode?

In which case I don't understand what the author is complaining about. Sounds like dark mode would be working as intended.

They want "easy styling" but I took that to mean things like icons, some colors, etc. Not totally replacing what buttons look like. I agree -- being consistent with the OS is a good thing.

abareplace · a year ago
No, they won't get dark mode and this is the biggest problem for Win32 UIs now. If Microsoft would make dark mode available for classic Win32 apps, it would meet all requirements of the original poster.
abareplace commented on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful   tulach.cc/writing-gui-app... · Posted by u/wild_pointer
markus_zhang · a year ago
I'm teaching myself the Win32 API for a future RE project, thinking that knowing it helps with the reverse engineering effort. I have just achieved creating a window, loading a text file and printing it on the main window. Scrollbars are there but don't work yet.

It actually take s a lot of work. The boilerplate code is OK but I never realized that showing strings on Windows is such a PIA. I have deep respect for anyone who wrote Windows GUI apps back in the late 80s -> early 90s before RAD is a thing.

As a side note. I recently got a book about WinG game programming on Windows 3.X/95. I remember back in the day the game Fury3, a fascinating 3d flight shooter game, was developed in WinG. It could be an interesting archeology project to develop something serious with WinG, the predecessor of DirectX.

abareplace commented on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful   tulach.cc/writing-gui-app... · Posted by u/wild_pointer
rty32 · a year ago
Agree. "Single executable" combined with "less than 40mb" is just looking for trouble for what the author is trying to do. If you want to do win32, go ahead and give up styling. Otherwise, make compromises. I think many of these are excellent choices chosen by many programs that I use, it's the author's stringent requirements and unrealistic expectations that is holding back.
abareplace · a year ago
My app is around 500 KB (not megabytes) and it supports dark mode (see https://www.abareplace.com/). So this is definitely possible without using Electron or bloated GUI libraries.

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