Readit Newsakkartik commented on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone stetsonblake.com/%2425+Wa... · Posted by u/stets
Anybody here have this phone? I'm curious to hear how well it runs https://love2d.org. There's an apk on that page that you can download and install.
(And then if you could try out my https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel and report back, that would be even more helpful.)
Edit 20 minutes later: After I posted this I remembered I have access to a https://www.walmart.com/ip/AT-T-Maestro-3-32GB-Ocean-Green-P.... And both LÖVE and my Carousel work great on it! Much less laggy than any other app on that phone. Including the browser.
akkartik commented on Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/nonfamous
akkartik commented on Factor 0.101 now available re.factorcode.org/2025/12... · Posted by u/birdculture
Years ago I built a website in Factor for testing HTML 5 video in browsers using the Theora codec. It allowed uploading videos, playing them in the browser, converting to Theora, transcoding YouTube videos, etc. It operated for a few years.
About the same time I wrote an 8080 emulator in Factor and emulated Space Invaders and a couple of other games using the Factor UI code.
For quite a while it was my go-to language for implementing things.
Ah, yes that's exactly the sort of things I was looking for. Are any of those still around and runnable?
akkartik commented on Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/nonfamous
This happened to me when the local credit union, TechCU, overhauled their web interface and app. I called their help line and stumped them for a while. I finally figured out their interface allowed me to use a period in my password and confirmation field and accepted them but somehow their login process did not. To their credit the characters they listed as allowable did not list period which I did not read carefully and just skimmed the first time I saw it.
This year I don't even get to the point of making a password. It's possible something about my attempt 10 years ago has polluted my phone number. So it goes.
Notice, too, that my story is about the utter lack of support like in OP.
akkartik commented on Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/nonfamous
This Kafka nightmare is somewhat funny when it does not impact your life, but with increasing centralization, I worry for the future. What happens when an AppleID/Google account in good standing is required to open a bank account? Go grocery shopping? Hold your drivers license? Apply for a job anywhere?
Big tech has repeatedly shown that they are willing to ignore life destroying account workflows so long as they only impact a minority.
The best answer I have is: for those of us who start life with some level of privilege, it's important to make good decisions and manage your risk exposure. Life is geopolitics.
But yeah, I'm not looking forward to the day I need to show a Google or Facebook account to receive government services. US Visa applications are already going in that direction.
akkartik commented on Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/nonfamous
Funny story: I can't get an Apple ID.
I tried around 10 years ago, repeatedly would provide a password, get a notification, click on it, get asked to type my new password.. and get told the password was invalid.
Anyways, I moved on with my life. I was only reminded of it this year when I got referred for a job at Apple.. and guess what, I still can't make an Apple ID. So now I can't ever get a job at Apple :) Oh well, first world problems.
akkartik commented on Factor 0.101 now available re.factorcode.org/2025/12... · Posted by u/birdculture
Does anyone know of larger apps built using Factor? The closest I found is examples at https://www.concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor
Are there non-trivial projects using the graphics? Games?
Is there a collection of awesome things built using Factor somewhere?
Read to the end
Ha, thanks.
I kinda liked some of his previous articles, but come on. A picture of a plaque for a department is pretty much a guarantee it won't happen.
Not to mention: departments?! Anybody still desiring to create new departments in the bureaucracy of our modern educational institutions has a stunted imagination. The appropriate attitude with which to approach creating a new department is while holding one's nose.