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Re:Iterating Backwards in C on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:35AM (#50302574)
> Obfuscated code is code that does something different from what it seems to be doing at first glance.

What you're describing is called "underhanded" code, see The Underhanded C Contest [0].

[0]: https://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_2.html

Re:A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:34AM (#50231416)
> Also, what is this writing style. Every sentence is numbered with options to tweet it [...]

It's an archived copy of a Twitter thread, as it states in the first paragraph.

Re:Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:18AM (#49975668)
> People were calling it an actual open source alternative

Photopea is not, and has never been open source, AFAIK.

Re:PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:38PM (#49859820)
Morphe [1] seems to be the one carrying the torch.

[1] https://github.com/MorpheApp/

From the hero image:

  *wire* every count it cannot prove is a total ships labelled as a floor
What on earth does this mean?
Re:strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @04:02AM (#48367333)
I appreciate TUIs for

- Optimizing for fast, keyboard-only usage

- Allowing me to customize the presentation according to my preferences

- Not having to leave my terminal, where I spend most of my time (I do realize this is something of a chicken-and-egg situation)

Re:Blue Prince Is a Roguelike Puzzle Masterpiece on Saturday April 12, 2025 @07:19AM (#43663436)
While I presume they don't provide a native Linux build, it is listed as Playable on Steam Deck.

> Valve's testing indicates that Blue Prince is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.

> • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read

> • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration

> • This game shows Steam Deck controller icons

> • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck

Re:GIMP 3.0 Released on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:43AM (#43396666)
You might like Pinta[0].

> a GTK clone of Paint.Net 3.0, with support for Linux, Windows, and macOS

Used to use this way back in the day for quick edits on Linux, happy to see it's still active.

[0]: https://www.pinta-project.com/

Re:Noise on Saturday October 05, 2024 @09:43AM (#41749774)
Up is a high-pass filter, down is a low-pass filter, left and right moves between different chords.
That could be a fun exercise, I'd imagine you might end up with something like "I Am Sitting In A Room" [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk

Re:Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021) on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:07AM (#33967785)
Try Meta Mate 23 [0] if you can find it where you are. It's vacuum packed while fresh, so instead of the usual bitter road dust affair you get a vibrant-green mate with a mellow, grassy taste. Haven't bought anything else after I discovered this one.

[0] https://metamate.cc/product/23/

Re:My Custom Stream Deck Toolkit on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:04PM (#28051572)
This is not a new product. It's the author's configuration for an existing product, the Elgato Stream Deck.
Re:Dev Fonts on Monday November 23, 2020 @04:33AM (#25185038)
A sibling post [1] mentioned Xanh Mono, which looks similar to NSimSun IMO. They both have that distinctive "Latin script alongside eastern script" serif look.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25161756

> [...] I think I'd prefer that filter to be called 'rainbow' or something.

That is, in fact, exactly what the author did.

https://github.com/cacalabs/toilet/commit/be1054fefd6cda23ca...

Re:Facebook and the Silent Bob Effect (2019) on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:55AM (#23017736)
Anybody remember the name of that open source browser-based RSS / social media feed aggregator from a while back? It had a really unique (colourful but simplistic) visual style and IIRC the domain had a novelty TLD. It had support for RSS feeds as well as plugins (?) for different social media sites. As far as I remember, one of the main talking points the author presented was the idea of being in control of the content you consume.

Edit: Found it! https://fraidyc.at/

From the author:

> Fraidycat (https://fraidyc.at/) is a delightful browser extension for following people on the interwebs. It's an easy-to-use yet hackable, FOSS, privacy-respecting, and experimental next-generation feed aggregator and reader. Not every platform offers RSS, so Fraidycat tries to build those bridges for you, scraping and packaging it up for you automagically. It aims to enable you to tailor your own feeds, priorities, and timelines from across the web in your browser.

> Instead of being beholden to cycling through endless applications and platforms to follow people: use Fraidycat to simplify, defragment, and take ownership of your window into the lives of others on the web. Fraidycat is afraid of what the web has become (and is becoming), and it's savagely fighting back.

> I want to bypass the treadmills and middlemen which aim to commodify my attention span and the pipelines between me and others. I don't want my browser to become just some surveilled thin-client dehumanizingly displaying a walled-garden web engineered by whatever an oligarchy of corporations chooses for me. Fraidycat allows me to more independently use my resources to track and represent people on the web for me. I'm convinced it gives the power of surfing and taking the pulse of the web back to the user.

> You own the aggregation process with Fraidycat because it runs in your browser. Political and technological autonomy requires turnkey tooling for users to actively shape the algorithms which pick out what they find salient on their own terms and devices. We have to shape our own filter-bubbles and how we feed ourselves information. Fraidycat is the kind of a lens-crafting tool we need.

Re:Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:55PM (#11323859)
Yup, got my processor up to a toasty 94 degrees celcius/200 degrees fahrenheit.
Re:I Just Poured Water on my Scanner on Monday March 30, 2015 @10:19AM (#9289651)
The scratches don't seem to match between the scans, so it seems that it is indeed his scanner glass that is scratched.