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bhtru commented on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?   whatsit.today/... · Posted by u/mkate
bhtru · 5 months ago
Someone needs to tell me what word could there be with TCAAN?

What dictionary are you using OP?

edit: IT'S CATAN.

Smh

bhtru commented on ChatGPT Pro   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
karaterobot · 9 months ago
I use the emdash a lot. Maybe too much. On MacOS, it's so easy to type—just press shift-option-minus—that I don't even think about it anymore!
bhtru · 9 months ago
Or double type ‘-‘ and in many apps it’ll auto transform the two dashes to emdash. However, the method you’re describing is far more reliable, thanks!
bhtru commented on Akira Toriyama has died   noisypixel.net/dragon-bal... · Posted by u/gaoryrt
tiltowait · a year ago
Not to mention the Dragon Quest series!

I've never been an anime fan, but Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z will always hold a place in my heart. Last year, I decided to read the series manga—the first and probably only I will ever read. In the forward of each volume, Toriyama talks about random little details of his life, like talking about his pets, a painful dentist visit, etc. This is probably common practice in manga, but as a westerner who has never seen such things, it was absolutely charming, and I enjoyed those glimpses more than I ever would have expected.

Rest in peace.

bhtru · a year ago
And the character design not just for Dragon Quest, but Blue Dragon and more notably Chrono Trigger!

Chrono Trigger is one game I'd love to see remade.

bhtru commented on F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/ramn7
mock-possum · 2 years ago
Odd excerpt… ai summary bot?
bhtru · 2 years ago
Likely a typo, I don't see it on the wiki page anymore
bhtru commented on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft   twitter.com/satyanadella/... · Posted by u/JimDabell
jwmoz · 2 years ago
Why is Teams on mac so bad then?
bhtru · 2 years ago
That's a strawman and you know it. I'm not going to necessarily concur's OP's point, but it's inarguable given MSFT's last half decade the positive stewardship Nadella has done.
bhtru commented on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive   signal.org/blog/signal-is... · Posted by u/mikece
DavidSJ · 2 years ago
Sorry, how is this any safer for the journalist? If their phone is compromised in a way such that someone can login and control their Signal app, their chat logs are already compromised. I’m just saying there should be the ability to export those logs once you’ve logged in.

But if they don’t want to provide that, then:

1) Why does the Android app support this?

2) They should warn users of this BEFORE holding their data hostage, and not market Signal like it’s the right solution for everyone.

bhtru · 2 years ago
Wouldn't it be more damaging if the authorities are able to sync and recover the chat logs (they had time wipe the logs)?

If they are able to take the journalist's sim card which is linked to their Signal account and then are able to recover the chat logs the journalist would be done for.

Of course the supposed journalist we're speaking of is already in a bad spot if they're interred. However, they might have plausible deniability with respect to their phone if there's no compromising chat logs to recover.

To your point about exporting, it would be nice. Ultimately, why can't we have both worlds by way of toggling the function?

bhtru commented on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive   signal.org/blog/signal-is... · Posted by u/mikece
DavidSJ · 2 years ago
Personally, I refuse to financially support Signal so long as they're still holding my chat logs hostage on my old iPhone and seem not at all concerned about solving this problem, which has existed for years.

There was (and still is, so far as I know) no upfront warning to users that if they don't first sync with a desktop client, and their phone gets lost or stolen, their iTunes backups do not (unlike most iPhone applications) contain their Signal chats. And furthermore, there's no way to export those chats in backup format from an old phone.

(You can transfer, but the transfer deletes the data from the original source, which is extremely foolish and dangerous IMO, and anyways isn't a proper export accessible from other applications. Furthermore, so far as I know there's no support for transferring from very old versions of the Signal client.)

This has been a critical bug for years [1], it's one of the most complained about issues, and Signal has done (and intends to do) absolutely nothing to fix it. It is absolutely unacceptable to have our own data held hostage by them in this way, especially without any upfront warning.

[1] https://community.signalusers.org/t/ios-backup-keeping-messa...

bhtru · 2 years ago
Interesting, I always saw this as a deliberate feature aligned with what I first came across Signal for (sensitive communications between trusted parties that may need wiping at a moment's notice). If a journo reporting in a less than hospitable regime had their phone confiscated then they need not worry about their chat logs compromising them.
bhtru commented on B612 Font Family   b612-font.com/... · Posted by u/OliverGilan
zoidb · 2 years ago
Another font that has a similar aim is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible I find that it strikes a balance between aesthetics and legibility. Two differences I noticed immediately are the 0 and I characters which are much more difficult to distinguish with this font.
bhtru · 2 years ago
Do you know of other fonts with the same goal as Atkinson Hyperlegible? It's gorgeous.
bhtru commented on Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages   ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/... · Posted by u/robin_reala
notsahil · 2 years ago
Akiyoshi's twitter also has cool illusions:

- https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka

- https://nitter.net/AkiyoshiKitaoka

bhtru · 2 years ago
Nitter is dead no?
bhtru commented on The Development of the M1 Garand and Its Implications   acoup.blog/2023/09/08/mic... · Posted by u/Tomte
carbocation · 2 years ago
> Effective October 1, 2023, the CMP’s new yearly limit on M1 Garands will be 6 per calendar year.

Fascinating.

bhtru · 2 years ago
Believe this refers to per person. Otherwise this would be quite the robust program to only move 6 deadstock rifles a year.

u/bhtru

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