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Re:Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the meas...
on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:28PM (#50310386)
I've always felt very conflicted about the ending of that episode. That to Picard, a life as a reliable if ordinary astrophysicist on the Enterprise was literally a fate worse than death always shocked me, given that I could think of no greater opportunity in life than to be an ordinary astrophysicist on the Enterprise. I understand it was not what he personally strove for in his career, but I always felt a little awkward as he lambasted it.
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:32AM (#49994269)
Well while you're here, there definitely are some issues with animated image support. Just earlier this week I attempted to use an animated .avif as my avatar image. It uploaded fine, the preview showed it fine, but the actual applied image was static again. Not sure if there's some issues with in the pipeline to handle those.
Re:StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:50AM (#49922423)
I wonder if it's by design. TestFlight apps have a hard user install limit, I remember waiting around for someone to leave previous betas to try them out.
Re:PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:29AM (#49643403)
This situation seems very similar to Konami's frustrations with him a decade ago. Don't get me wrong, Konami too seemed hell-bent on driving into the ground, but Kojima does have a reputation for going over time and over budget. In a world of tightening belts, I wonder if Sony execs felt the same frustration as their counterparts did. We'll see how he fairs with Xbox, which seems even more eager than the other two to shutter things these days.
Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:44AM (#49168904)
I'm a pretty heavy GoG customer and I disagree with a lot of this premise. Most games aren't getting updates past a year or two after their release, and the ones that are aren't DRM-free. And even if they weren't, I'd rather be able to play an older revision of a game I own than not own it at all.
Your Steam games run on Linux run due to Valve's (truly excellent) work on their compatibility layer. However, that work is not exclusive to Steam. I can play my DRM-free GoG copies of big budget Windows games just fine on Linux. There's an extra step you have to invoke, but they still run superbly. Supporting DRM-free is the best we have in an increasingly hostile customer market.
Re:User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @10:59AM (#49098434)
If you're interested or nostalgic for these types of UIs, I would strongly recommend Picotron[0]. Not only is its UI very reminiscent of these types of programs, with its own music tracker software, but developers have been making their own software and utilities with their own custom design sensibilities.
Re:Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software
on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:52PM (#48821969)
I think this is more discovering the rot left from the previous leadership who sat around for years and years on their bad decisions, and then using the young clueless outsider as the face.
Re:It's Linux, on a Sega Genesis
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:39AM (#48732622)
You're lucky, I search fairly often and never come across CRTs at thrift stores. The only option is to buy comically overpriced ones off marketplace, and I live in a large metro area.
Re:Mechanical Watch
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:50AM (#48555308)
While I do agree, if the author is reading the comments one piece of feedback I have is the overuse of the phrase "In this article I will...". It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, and they use a version of the phrase three times in the first four paragraphs.
Re:AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit
on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:27AM (#48504632)
As people have noted, this sort of thing has become inevitable and likely to increase in occurrence unless some changes are made. I'm a big fan of the AUR PKGBUILD system, and I leverage it quite frequently to write my own. The most egregious issue in my opinion, and one of the low hanging fruit to fix, is the fact that anyone can adopt an orphaned package with no notification to end users that this has happened.
It's honestly more trouble than it's worth to get your package deleted, instead leaving orphaning as the more optimal way to relinquish control. This should be the opposite in my opinion, or at the very least the users should be made very aware that an orphaning has occurred. Perhaps that burden is more on the AUR helper like paru and yay (who I would encourage to make such a change).
Re:Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @12:08PM (#48372126)
I can't speak for Chrome, but I can right click a Firefox picture-in-picture window, tell it to remain on top, and it does, no problem. I've been using Plasma Wayland for years now and this has worked for ages
Re:Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:44PM (#48315954)
I have such a soft spot for this scene. I saw this movie in theaters when I was a high schooler, and this exact scene with Sam entering in commands piqued my curiosity to learn if it was a real thing. I eventually discovered that OS X came shipped with a bash terminal, and that I could manipulate a computer in just the same way. It really made an impact on me, which I certainly wasn't expecting when buying tickets to this film I knew nothing about.
Re:Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:34PM (#48298486)
Where do you think all the supply that the Steam Deck was previously leveraging went?
Re:Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz
on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:23PM (#48184249)
I thought that was
A. MI6, not the Americans
B. 25 years earlier and
C. Less of a revolution as Shah had always been around, they just supported him in kicking out his own prime minister (and exerting autocratic rule as a result)
Re:PC Engine CPU
on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:55PM (#48067905)
Ah, I thought the URL sounded familiar. This is the dev of the new-on-the-scene but quite good jgenesis emulator. It started out doing just Sega systems, but has started branching out, sounds like the PCE is next.
Re:New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:01AM (#47778406)
The panels are designed to not provide current if no current is detected on the mains. Otherwise you would also have a live plug at the end of the panel. Killing your own customers is typically not a good business strategy, so quite a lot of safety has been focused on ensuring this isn't a problem.
Re:WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:56AM (#47764443)
Speak of the devil, I was just looking for something just like this earlier this week. I may have even have ran into this exact project, but it didn't have functioning playback until now. I have a spare CRT in my office that I use for some old consoles, and thought it would be neat to stream some 4:3 media onto it, but didn't want to bother with getting some client box and HDMI to composite converter. If this works well, it would solve that problem nicely.
Re:The “small web” is bigger than you might think
on Monday March 16, 2026 @04:29PM (#47404466)
What methods are you using to find them? I notice my own doesn't appear, although it does show up well under some (very niche) Google search terms. I suspect there's the potential for an order of magnitude more sites than have been found.
Re:Palm OS User Interface Guidelines [pdf, 2003]
on Friday February 27, 2026 @12:12AM (#47176816)
Ars did a retrospective on the Palm line-up that I occasionally go back and re-read. I never got into the ecosystem, although my dad had a Palm III(?) when I was younger. Had I been a decade older I think I would've been infatuated with them.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devi...
Re:People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much
on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:33PM (#47108190)
One of these is not like the others
Re:Plasma Effect
on Friday February 06, 2026 @07:46AM (#46912147)
As someone who has seen this effect before, but was unclear how it was done, this article is very "and now draw the rest of the owl". They define a basic equation, it's about what I expected, but the end shader code doesn't use it in that form, and I found it pretty difficult to parse, I can't say I'm much better off in the end.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:03PM (#46625236)
https://aquova.net
Definitely a playground for whatever I find interesting, mainly game-related topics
Re:Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:01AM (#46589432)
To be fair, I remember visiting my aunt's house in the mid-2000s, who had a surround sound set up her husband had set up. It required three or four remotes to work and no one but him could ever get it working. I think UX has forgotten a few generations by now.
Re:Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:00AM (#46589412)
Reminds me of HitClips from the early 2000s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitClips
I remember being quite entranced with one that a neighbor had. It feels like a bit of a silly format now, but perhaps it's time for a resurgence.
Re:Video Game Websites in the early 00s
on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:32PM (#46519761)
It's not quite as stylish as these, but my personal favorite video game site was the Super Smash Bros. Brawl blog site, which had its heyday around 2007 or so.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071001132450/http://www.smashb...
It was the first time I had ever seen pre-release information about a game, and I checked the site religiously. The game director himself wrote all the posts, and it felt like a revolutionary way to get me excited about the game.
Re:Sega co-founder David Rosen has died
on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:41PM (#46507734)
It's part of the strange history of Sega. Even back in their heyday, Sega of Japan had a pattern of treating its American and European offices as subordinate, yet the founders of the company just a few decades earlier were Americans
Re:I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
on Friday November 14, 2025 @09:31AM (#45927027)
I see this sentiment a lot, but I never agree with it. Sure, some of their projects seem very odd for them to lead, but given that they are completely reliant on their competitor for cash -- a revenue source that has been threatened several times by anti-trust cases against Google -- they should be looking to branch out. Firefox alone won't pay the bills, so they need to try and find some other revenue source. Plus, Chrome has essentially won. Not necessarily for any engineering reason, at least not these days, but from continued momentum of being the market leader. Sitting around quietly isn't going to get people to switch, they do need to find some way to distinguish themselves apart from Chrome, which again leads to these misc features being thrown out there.
The AI inclusion seems like the same reason everyone else is adding AI, they don't want to be left behind if or when it's viewed as an essential feature.
Re:IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:09PM (#45840448)
"Range" here refers to a range of products, in this case a collection of Matter supported devices
Re:The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)
on Monday October 20, 2025 @10:45AM (#45644519)
I really wish ShaderGlass supported Linux. If there's a good(ish) alternative that anyone knows about, I'd love to try it out.
Re:New England's last coal plant has stopped operating, according to i...
on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @11:05PM (#45587678)
Unless "coal generating station" means something in particular, this isn't true at all, there's around 200 coal power plants in the US