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apgwoz commented on Rats Play DOOM ratsplaydoom.com/... · Posted by u/ano-ther

Is it ethical to turn rats into gamers?

apgwoz · 9 days ago

I think it might be _unethical_ to not spread the joy of playing Doom for the first time? Though, I’m not entirely sure there’s been enough research done about the effects of violent video games in rat gamer populations.

apgwoz commented on Rats Play DOOM ratsplaydoom.com/... · Posted by u/ano-ther

ginkoleaf · 9 days ago

For those afraid to click: This does not appear to hurt the rats or involve doing any surgery on them.

apgwoz · 9 days ago

I was very happy to see this. I’m fairly against live animal testing, but giving rats the joy of playing Doom??? I think I _may_ have to be OK with this.

apgwoz commented on IBM to acquire Confluent confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12

sausagefeet · 14 days ago

HCP wasn't any prize when they got bought, though, right? HashiCorp Cloud was more like a fog in terms of growth. A bunch of products got lost a long the way (Boundary? Waypoint?) HCP lost 50% of its IPO value by the time it was bought. Yes, I know IPO's are high and always go down, but it went from around a $14bn valuation to being bought for something like $6.5bn.

apgwoz · 14 days ago

Not to mention HashiCorp bled talent before the acquisition was even announced (BUSL started it) and it didn’t really stop as far as I’m aware.

apgwoz commented on Show HN: Boing boing.greg.technology/... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky

gregsadetsky · 22 days ago

I considered it for a minute, but then I remembered https://xkcd.com/1138/ .. ha. but let me know if you have other thoughts about this

apgwoz · 22 days ago

Heatmap based on coordinates of the start of the boing!

apgwoz commented on Show HN: Boing boing.greg.technology/... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky

skrebbel · 22 days ago

Elasto Mania is a great game from decades ago (but still for sale!) that exploits this fact to a hilarious extent. You control a motor bike with excessively wobbly physics making all kinds of stunts possible (and necessary, to complete the levels) that are spectacular and surprising.

https://elastomania.com/

apgwoz · 22 days ago

Wait. Is Jelly Car basically a rethinking of this? I never managed to have the elasto games, but looking at the trailer, there’s a lot of similarities.

apgwoz commented on Email verification protocol github.com/WICG/email-ver... · Posted by u/sgoto

jgalt212 · a month ago

tell me how it's not.

apgwoz · a month ago

The onus is on you here… but, I think I know where you’re going with this. In terms of number of email addresses people have and use, vs number of usernames people have and use, you might be right that some people have 1 or 2 email addresses and many usernames.

Email masking has become easier to use, and many people use `+addressing` to uniquely tie their email to the service for spam prevention / tracking, which would make stuffing harder.

In these cases, email would be much more unique and a better protection against stuffing. HOWEVER, it’s not obvious how Email verification protocol would work for these types of things.

apgwoz commented on Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment) github.com/samrolken/noko... · Posted by u/samrolken

apgwoz · 2 months ago

I think that the "tools" movement is probably the most interesting aspect of what's happening in the AI space. Why? Because we don't generally reuse the "jigs" we make as programmers, and the tool movement is forcing us to codify processes into reusable tools. My only hope is that we converge on a set of tools and processes that increase our productivity but don't require a burning a forrest to do so. Post AI still has agents, but it's automatically running small transformations based on pattern recognition of compiler output in a test, transform, compile, test ... loop.... or something.

apgwoz commented on Democracy and the open internet die in daylight heatherburns.tech/2025/10... · Posted by u/speckx

slightwinder · 2 months ago

No, not really. You want to change the world, but bring up a technical solution, when it's a social situation. If you want to strengthen indymedia, then work on the social level, not technology. Reinventing the same thing again, will not change anything.

apgwoz · 2 months ago

You’re not wrong to bring up the social level, but you also have to combat the technological level as well. The systems that already exist don’t work not just because of social reasons. Mastodon/ActivityPub was gaining decent traction, despite its usability problems … and then the more usable, better funded BlueSky stepped in.

There are lots of options for running your own Mastodon/ ActivityPub implementation, etc—it’s not easy, though. This is purely a technical problem.

Of course, I am not really talking about Chirp clones here, but this is a pretty good analogue for comparison.

apgwoz commented on Derek Sivers's database and web apps github.com/sivers/sivers... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

apgwoz · 2 months ago

And here I am doing this as a joke (https://sigusr2.net/serving-traffic-directly-from-sqlite.htm...)…

apgwoz commented on Democracy and the open internet die in daylight heatherburns.tech/2025/10... · Posted by u/speckx

slightwinder · 2 months ago

That's a different problem, and won't be solved by any P2P-platform. There are more than enough ways for discovering selfhosted content, people just don't use it.

apgwoz · 2 months ago

> people just don't use it.

… which means it’s a problem.

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