4thguy
Re:Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on D...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:58AM (#50286237)
Exactly. It's not like there aren't multiple timezones in Europe already
Re:Show HN: Encarta 95 Web
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:52PM (#50265631)
Does anyone else remember the encarta CDs that came with boxed Kellogg's cereals?
Re:PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, dire...
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:09AM (#50231176)
GOG was down during the mad scramble this week, so there's that
Re:Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you b...
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:17AM (#50194905)
> Why do they keep stressing the "games you already bought!!!" part? There is no charge to play the game on your own hardware.
Correct, that is why the "to stream games you bought" qualifier exists in the title :)
Re:The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:37PM (#49914044)
Copilot LIVE
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:58AM (#49876110)
Jeez that's sad. Thank you for sharing, I appreciate it
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird?
on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:39AM (#49874767)
I'll settle for idiots not posting screenshots into comments sections as an answer
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:07AM (#49828090)
I was an Ubuntu user at the time. From an outsider's perspective Ubuntu Touch thing looked so promising... then everything went sideways
Re:The Scourge of x86 Emulation
on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:14AM (#49752253)
That will open a can of worms. For one thing, Valve will be accused of trying to create a walled garden. Plus there's the whole problem of supporting the back-catalogue as others have said.
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Maybe the best that they could to is to offer to distribute recompiled versions of the emulated binaries, similar to how they distribute compiled shaders. But I don't know if that would work, especially legally.
Re:An Update on Wayback Machine Access
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:26AM (#49723142)
Kudos on that. I don't know what site you're hosting, but I appreciate knowing that it is there
Re:List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digit...
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:52AM (#49644771)
No of course not, they merely license it from the government /s (or not /s? this whole thing is confusing)
Re:Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:40PM (#49539703)
Same here. Why do they do it do it this way?
Re:The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:29PM (#49539532)
Reminds me of this joke https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/i-peeked-into-my-node-mo...
Re:EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:24AM (#49522440)
That person clearly doesn't know any people who make art.
Re:NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in t...
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:34AM (#49521109)
Jeez, that takes me back. I could have sworn that it was earlier than 2005 though
Re:Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days
on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:19AM (#49477017)
Looking up Nightdive Studios is how I discover that Thief: TDP is getting a remaster. Worth it
Re:Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:50AM (#49385078)
This explains so much about my experiences
Re:MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:33AM (#49371944)
As I read down the readme, I kept saying to myself "ok, that's reasonable," right up until I saw the 300GB free space requirement to build the image. Is that really what is needed to build an image for a phone or is this a one-off?
Re:Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @07:29AM (#49344133)
The most polite error message ever
Re:Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @07:28AM (#49344128)
The video game Uru shipped with the sounds as ogg files. Post installation they were decompressed to wav files, I'm guessing so that they can squeeze some more performance out of the game
Re:HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons
on Monday August 17, 2026 @06:38AM (#49328859)
> "Think about it. Think of the most average person you know. 50% are more stupid than them. And you won't get any value out of speaking to those"
That right there is very telling. They don't know the difference between median and average
Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor f...
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:54AM (#49283696)
I want to piggy-back off this: if there must be an electron application, then at least make it available on different platforms
Re:Bubble Memory
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:34AM (#49182692)
I had initially learned about bubble memory from the Logopolis serial of Doctor Who. I actually went and looked it up after watching it because the concept sounded neat
Being able to put epubs bought elsewhere and reading them without needing to convert the files is a huge plus
Re:Kill The Cookie Banner
on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:48AM (#49067217)
Sorry, no. Code doesn't magically go from the intern's workstation to live. If the chain of incompetence is that long, then the most generous read is that they don't care
Re:Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:25AM (#48759167)
I'm sorry, but what does "pre-installation deals with smartphone makers" have to do with being open?
Re:Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:16AM (#48759100)
Also, very rich given their very active attempts at nailing the door shut on every version of Android except for Android + Google
Re:Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:14AM (#48759088)
I think you might need to reconsider how open Android actually is given the recent moves.
Re:Font-Family Recommendations
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:45AM (#48730434)
The first few seem like sensible thoughts to me. What if the font doesn't load from the CDN for some reason?
Just add a font fallback.
Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @09:54AM (#48585403)
The first thing I did when I read the parent comment was to double-check if I mixed-up my German companies.
There's only one reason why they're doing this: it benefits them in some way.