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Re:Can Minecraft be played without giving MS a Phone#? on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:13PM (#30621694)
MultiMC.
Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual de... on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:41AM (#30556265)
Interesting tidbit: a few years back I encountered a Minecraft server with a dynamic map on a website. After checking it out for about 5 minutes I noticed some weird CPU usage so I asked the server admins.

They apparently to came to an agreement with the players where, to support the server, a browser miner would be ran on the dynamic map website.

Re:Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:08PM (#29938805)
spent a good part of my morning trying to figure out why Reddit was down but nobody on the internet mentioned that. Tried chrome and Reddit is fine, so something weird must be going on with FF
Re:It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:25PM (#29132574)
Have you tried Steam Family Sharing? https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing

It won't support every game but it should help you in your quest to share games with your son

Re:Party.js – JavaScript library to improve users' experience with vis... on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:58AM (#26804262)
Ignore me, clearly I should get my eyes checked.
Re:Party.js – JavaScript library to improve users' experience with vis... on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:57AM (#26804250)
It would be nice if there was a demonstration of effects on the linked page, or even a gif on the GitHub README. I didn't see one from my skimming.