Hacker News: CDSlice

New comment by CDSlice in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

CDSlice — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:27:30 +0000

If your password is long enough it doesn’t matter if they know it is say 16 characters and if it isn’t long enough it also doesn’t matter because they can just brute force all the potential lengths up to it. So yes it is just security theater.

New comment by CDSlice in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

CDSlice — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:50:09 +0000

It is also the only SSO flow I have ever seen that fundamentally cannot work if you have more than one account remembered on your device. So far the only way I’ve found to get it to let you log out of account A and then log into account B is to clear all cookies otherwise it gives you permission denied errors. Have no idea how it can be this horrible

New comment by CDSlice in "HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma"

CDSlice — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:55:36 +0000

Not to mention that they can make back $65M in just a few weeks from one of their two mobile games and they are about to launch a new one. This is basically pennies to them.

Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms

CDSlice — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:25:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-best-qubits-for-quantum-computing-might-just-be-atoms-20240325

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39866651

Points: 2

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New comment by CDSlice in "Scratch in the Browser"

CDSlice — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 20:42:48 +0000

It actually isn't a fork of Scratch3 but was started way back in Scratch1.4 as a JS implementation using Morphic which was inspired by Squeak. It is really good software and IMO is better than Scratch since it provides the tools to scale up from the toy programs Scratch is optimized for.

Edge of Emulation: Nintendo Play-Yan – Part 1

CDSlice — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:42:14 +0000

Article URL: https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art32.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38340539

Points: 2

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New comment by CDSlice in "OpenAI is too cheap to beat"

CDSlice — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:35:55 +0000

If they are confidential they probably shouldn’t be uploaded to any website no matter if it calls out to OpenAI or does all the processing on their own servers.

John Grisham and George RR Martin Among Authors Suing OpenAI

CDSlice — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/openai-george-rr-martin-john-grisham-authors-copyright-b2415530.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596031

Points: 1

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New comment by CDSlice in "Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one"

CDSlice — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:50:18 +0000

Not to excuse Google but I think their main problem is that Qualcomm stops providing support for their chips pretty quickly which makes it much harder to run newer versions of Android that have newer kernels. Apple controls not just the OS but the chips as well so they don’t have to work around that problem.

New comment by CDSlice in "Unity is offering a runtime fee waiver if you switch to LevelPlay"

CDSlice — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 22:03:00 +0000

This isn’t even close to accurate. For one thing, developers already pay to license the Unity engine, it’s only free if you agree to keep the unity logo loading screen and make under a certain amount of money.

Two, unlike the Reddit API changes which just annoyed mods at worst (yes there were problems for people with disabilities but that is such a small percentage it was basically a rounding error for them) this is an existential threat to F2P mobile games which are Unity’s largest market by far. When you aren’t directly selling the game and the only way to make money is to get as many downloads as possible in the hope that a certain small percentage buy IAPs these few cent fees per install could very easily wipe out their entire revenue.

Three, unlike Reddit which had no viable alternatives for the millions of end users to migrate to, Unity has far fewer customers and an extremely viable replacement in the form of Unreal and potentially Godot.

New comment by CDSlice in "Mimimi’s Final Game"

CDSlice — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:11:55 +0000

Very sad to hear that they had to shut down but I am also not particularly surprised. The Shadow Tactics games were well made but also extremely niche. The lack of micro transactions made for a better game but also meant that there wasn’t much recurring income and they had to work while under the stress of knowing that if they make one bad game the entire studio would go bankrupt.

Best of luck to everyone at the studio, hopefully the bonus they are giving out is sizable enough that the workers won’t have to stress out about finding a new job too quickly, especially since this seems to be a pretty sudden announcement.

New comment by CDSlice in "AI real-time human full-body photo generator"

CDSlice — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 02:16:30 +0000

If by virtue signal you mean call out creeps and perverts then yes. The world would be a much better place if people did that more often instead of just leaving them be to hurt women and teenage girls. Maybe then they would at least not act on it in public.

New comment by CDSlice in "AI real-time human full-body photo generator"

CDSlice — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 02:11:18 +0000

It is fiction yes, but if it is lifelike enough does the difference matter? Even without the ick factor of making porn of someone without their consent, it would be so easy to destroy someone's career or relationship by making these deepfakes and then spreading them around. Especially once the tech gets more life-like and loses the current AI gen tells.

And the same would apply to doing this the old fashioned way in Photoshop, however you have to admit that taking it from "need special software and experience in using that software" to "just upload their image to a website and get back their AI generated nudes" is a huge change in how accessible this is.

New comment by CDSlice in "AI real-time human full-body photo generator"

CDSlice — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:35:06 +0000

> The most powerful image deepfake AI ever created. See any girl clothless with the click of a button.

This is just disgusting. I thought it would just be a uncensored generative AI but certainly wasn't expecting peeping-tom as a service. And advertise it so blatantly as being able to virtually strip any girl you have pictures of just makes me sick.

New comment by CDSlice in "Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it"

CDSlice — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:10:16 +0000

When you make less than $15 an hour like a lot of Americans that can be quite a bit of money. Especially since a lot of older cars that they would be more likely to drive are probably less fuel efficient and have larger tanks.

New comment by CDSlice in "Sony just spilled confidential Playstation information because of a Sharpie"

CDSlice — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:44:01 +0000

It only works because on modern consoles the RAM is soldered directly on the board and so the data doesn’t have to travel across PCIe lanes. Doing this on a normal PC would have horrific performance. ARM Macs do have this architecture but you pay for it with not being able to replace any individual components for upgrades or even repairs.

New comment by CDSlice in "Mario Is Moving Away from Mobile Games, Reveals Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto"

CDSlice — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:11:13 +0000

> The mobile gaming landscape is not a place for quality

I’d rephrase that as the mobile gaming landscape is not a place for traditional monetization models. Genshin Impact is primarily a mobile game and although the anime aesthetic may not be for everyone it is easily a AAA quality open world game that has been a resounding financial success, making over $3.6B in just two years. However, it uses the gacha monetization model to fund its live service development instead of the traditional “buy the main game once and then pay for any expansions you want” model.

A position in infinite chess with game value Omega^4

CDSlice — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:17:49 +0000

Article URL: http://jdh.hamkins.org/a-position-in-infinite-chess-with-game-value-omega-to-the-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33373470

Points: 3

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The Little Spaceplane That Couldn't (2008)

CDSlice — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:24:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.space-travel.com/reports/Cult_spacecraft_Part_One_The_Little_Spaceplane_That_Could_Not_999.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33154085

Points: 42

# Comments: 21

New comment by CDSlice in "EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024"

CDSlice — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:26:56 +0000

Your friend's iPhone will go a lot faster after he also gets his battery replaced. Once the battery degrades too much the iPhone slows itself down in order to not crash by trying to use more power than the battery can provide.