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popcar2 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
myaccountonhn · 3 days ago
There are tons of things you can do, from spreading the word, organize politically or work on building an alternative ecosystem. Also donate to organizations like EFF.

We're being pushed a message that we're all impotent but the reality is that collectively we can change things, and apathy is exactly what these people try to push onto us.

Things get worse but there are also good laws being pushed: see for example digital markets act and GDPR. 2008 when I started using Linux, gaming on Linux was horrible. Now it's day and night, and linux, while still small, is more popular and usable than ever. Recently alternative social medias like Bluesky, and Mastodon enable more open ecosystems and they've gained a lot of traction.

Android has alternative ecosystems like F-Droid and GrapheneOS that can be built upon and hopefully we can get it to a point where we can ditch Google. We need to keep up the fight.

popcar2 · 3 days ago
Donate is the key term here. If you want there to be alternatives to everything that's getting worse, you need to make those alternatives sustainable - even if they're not there yet. You can donate to alternative Android ROMs, efforts to make Linux on mobile usable, and support companies that actually care about users like Fairphone. They all need money to live.

Sweet talk and online activism is great, but the TLDR is always open-source developers need money to work.

popcar2 commented on Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads   libreantisocial.com... · Posted by u/rododecba
popcar2 · 6 days ago
I've always liked the idea of being able to just post anonymously without any votes, but it always quickly devolves into incoherent spam and endless slurs.

The website has been active for an hour and I'm already seeing some of that. It always turns into 4chan.

popcar2 commented on Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141   mozillagfx.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
joelthelion · a month ago
What are the use cases for this? Are we sure sites are not just going to use it to mine bitcoins using their users' hardware?
popcar2 · a month ago
It'll open the door for more ambitious webgames and web apps that use the GPU.
popcar2 commented on Replicube: 3D shader puzzle game, online demo   replicube.xyz/staging/... · Posted by u/inktype
flipnotyk · a month ago
Very fun! Not sure if it's a me issue, but the music kept getting static-y in the browser version for me. Maybe something to look into.
popcar2 · a month ago
It's an issue with Godot on the web unfortunately, when you're dropping frames the audio starts clipping and crackling. Judging by the other comment, the lua integration must be doing some heavy work.
popcar2 commented on Baba Is Eval   fi-le.net/baba/... · Posted by u/fi-le
popcar2 · 2 months ago
I would be way more interested in it playing niche community levels, because I suspect a huge reason it's able to solve these levels is because it was trained on a million Baba is You walkthroughs. Same with people using Pokemon as a way to test LLMs, it really just depends on how well it knows the game.
popcar2 commented on Defold: cross-platform game engine   defold.com... · Posted by u/xd
LichenStone · 4 months ago
How does this compare to something like Godot?
popcar2 · 4 months ago
It's less featured and has limited 3D support, but Defold is great for making smaller games aimed at the web or mobile. It has a much smaller binary size and it's generally more stable, especially in terms of physics. If you take a look at the showcase it's mostly webgames and a few smaller indies.
popcar2 commented on Palma 2   shop.boox.com/products/pa... · Posted by u/tosh
jdalgetty · 5 months ago
It's not a phone?
popcar2 · 5 months ago
Nope, which is very bizarre. I don't understand the point of the phone form factor if it doesn't have a SIM card slot. It even has a microphone and everything but you can't make calls from it.
popcar2 commented on Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator   telegraph.13ug1mb.com... · Posted by u/leugim
popcar2 · 6 months ago
That is wild, I recently updated my own Morse Code teaching tool to v2.0 yesterday, and it's somewhat similar in concept to this: https://popcar2.itch.io/morse-code-simulator

Being able to transmit your signals to other people here is really cool. Makes it a lot more than just typing to yourself.

u/popcar2

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