tomstockmail (u/tomstockmail)

tomstockmail commented on Fun With Pinball funwithpinball.com/exhibi... · Posted by u/jackwilsdon

roskelld · 4 days ago

I would have loved seeing this as a kid. I was obsessed with wanting to build a pinball machine when I was young. At the time my skills only stretched as far as cardboard builds with elastic band bumpers and pencils for flippers, but I got a huge kick out of making different layouts for the balls to travel around.

It would be great to see some home made efforts now with so many amazing off the shelf bits of tech and 3D printers.

The site is also a nice compliment to the Technology Connections series on old pinball machines [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg

tomstockmail · 3 days ago

Although it was some years ago, this writeup of creating a pinball machine from scratch is a good read: https://www.benheck.com/bill-paxton-pinball-making-of/

tomstockmail commented on The Great Unwind occupywallst.com/yen... · Posted by u/jart

wslh · 10 days ago

Love the last line, what Valve has done on Windows emulation is herculean, I don't know (it would be great to know) other businesses creating/investing in incredible and risky third-party compatible technologies to run their real business on top of it.

I worked in what other calls "Adversarial Interoperability" [1] but the scale of Valve is on another level.

[1] https://www.nektra.com/main/2020/01/12/reflecting-on-16-year...

tomstockmail · 10 days ago

On the hand at one point the emulation layer becomes the target. Hopefully game developers will realise this and start using native Linux technologies before they are tied to a single companies abstraction layer. Again.

tomstockmail commented on OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again openclaw.ai/blog/introduc... · Posted by u/ed

currymj · 15 days ago

Anthropic already was using "Clawd" branding as the name for the little pixelated orange Claude Code mascot. So they probably have a trademark even on that spelling.

tomstockmail · 15 days ago

Runescape boss "Clawdia" [1] predates Anthropic use by several years.

https://runescape.wiki/w/Clawdia

tomstockmail commented on NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives blog.adafruit.com/2025/12... · Posted by u/ptorrone

offmycloud · a month ago

I'm using Firefox on a Linux workstation (without Tor) and I still got the CAPTCHA. The statement "blog.adafruit.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding" is misleading at best. Shame on Cloudflare, this kind of dishonesty makes me not want to trust your RCA marketing pieces.

tomstockmail · a month ago

Same with Firefox Focus on Android.

tomstockmail commented on Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat (2023) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcS... · Posted by u/tomstockmail

tomstockmail · 2 months ago

Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40167390

Posted by u/tomstockmail 2 months ago

Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat (2023) [video]youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcS...

tomstockmail commented on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution cachyos.org/... · Posted by u/doener

gf000 · 2 months ago

> outright banned from the gitlab

Yeah, lies and then you come in with shit like this. You can surely show several proofs then, right?

> Wayland on the other is just a insanely stupid API. Everybody advocating for Wayland should be forced to write a simple client at least once without relying on behemoths like GTK or Qt.

Why would you do it outside of toying around? Btw, I have and it's nothing out of ordinary.

tomstockmail · 2 months ago

I believe that user is referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199511

tomstockmail commented on Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant thenewstack.io/psf-gets-a... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

OutOfHere · 3 months ago

The problem is that they went too far. Over-correction is a thing.

Instead of getting distracted by what is a slur and who is using it, focus on the meat of the matter, which is discrimination in all forms beyond merit. Anyone distracting from the core topic is a part of the problem.

tomstockmail · 3 months ago

Can you list examples where the PSF has "gone too far?"

tomstockmail commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

JackYoustra · 6 months ago

The US never owned a brewer, an airline, the major defense giants, etc.

tomstockmail · 6 months ago

"Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(airline)

tomstockmail commented on KDE is removing all colorful third-party app icons from its Breeze icon theme neowin.net/news/kde-is-re... · Posted by u/bundie

panzi · 6 months ago

It takes me at least 3 times as long to find what I need with these minimalist monochrome icons, though. I always opt to the more colorful ones, if possible.

tomstockmail · 6 months ago

As I understand it from reading the original post, they are leaving the third party apps default icon. They're not overiding with monochrome icons. Bad title by a probable AI rewrite, please read the original KDE blog post linked elsewhere in the thread.

This is KDE's decision on their Breeze theme. Distributions can ship the icon set with third party icons if they want.

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