Why is Steam even operating in Russia? Isn’t Russia under sanction so rest of the world doesn’t do business there?
Readit Newsbillyjobob commented on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers reuters.com/world/uk/brit... · Posted by u/alex77456
Missing the point.
A passport is the universal identity document. It's way too valuable to carry around and expediting a new passport is costly and slow. Checks need to be done in person and the passport holder needs to be told in advance about the check (so impromptu checks don't work and expired passports get through, also catching fake passports and the like is hard).
A digital ID as its name says is digital, checks can be done remotely (as often as you want) in a secure environment with physical checks possible in addition to that. Regular and unscheduled checks are possible with a digital id after the initial check both presential and remote. Online checks especially can cover for things like the same id being used in multiple places, it also means employers cannot fudge it as the actual repository of truth lies online. None of this is possible with a passport.
Citizen IDs and more recently digital IDs have been used in Europe for decades now. Having a redundant piece of ID is incredibly valuable.
The fact that the UK doesn’t allow “impromptu checks”, otherwise known as “Papers please!” is not a bug, it’s a feature that distinguishes our democracy from other states and we are pretty proud of it.
billyjobob commented on Apple Photos app corrupts images tenderlovemaking.com/2025... · Posted by u/pattyj
He says the checksums are different but he doesn’t provide a diff to show how different. It could just be a single flipped bit or something. And that could happen in his own RAM/disk/CPU/router so seems premature to immediately blame Apple.
billyjobob commented on Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE jriddell.org/2025/09/14/a... · Posted by u/thangqt
The other side of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266332
Doesn’t sound like we have the full story from either side. This blog post from Nate reads like he is continuing to gaslight. But then Jonathan doesn’t explain why he didn’t just buy into the partnership like the other 2 did if he wanted to be a co-owner.
I'd like to give these a try - what's your way of using them? I mostly use Claude because of Claude Code. Not sure what agentic coding tools people are using these days with OSS models. I'm not a big fan of manually uploading files into a web UI.
Both of those models have Anthropic API compatible endpoints, so you just set an environmental variable pointing to them before you run Claude Code.
billyjobob commented on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor breezepdf.com... · Posted by u/philjohnson
Please don’t use the adjective “free” when describing proprietary software. We know you mean “free as in beer” but those outside our community may not and it may cause confusion over the meaning of free software.
billyjobob commented on Fully documented source code for Lander on the Acorn Archimedes lander.bbcelite.com/... · Posted by u/ibobev
To be honest, it wasn't easily playable on the Arch as Lander or Zarch.
Remarkable game for its time, as was the machine. It always felt like if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines. Instead, based out the UK it was hard to get economies of scale to mass produce and ship world wide.
> if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines
Is not ARM (the Acorn Risc Machine) the most popular type of machine in the world currently?
billyjobob commented on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable matthewball.co/all/roblox... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I've had this half-idea for recreating something like Garry's Mod in Godot for a while now. It seems like something someone would have created by now but it doesn't exist yet for whatever reason.
Like, a framework for building first-person FPS-ish game modes and handling all the asset management, sync, etc, like GMod being built around Source does and just letting developers build the game modes without worrying about the annoying tricky stuff.
Like The Mirror? https://www.themirror.space/
It’s not “the world economy depends on this stuff why is it not properly funded” (which is true) it’s “never before has a coupe of guys or girls in a garage been able to reach so many people, and stand a chance of getting funding”
The troubles people have finding ways to make a living whilst providing value to people suggests something is wrong not with them but the economy