Hacker News: GlumWoodpecker

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

GlumWoodpecker — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:33:25 +0000

Here's an open source solution on F-Droid, presumably malware-free:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mateusrodcosta.apps.share2s...

https://github.com/MateusRodCosta/SaveLocally

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

GlumWoodpecker — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:39:20 +0000

Theatres need a piece of the pie too :^)

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "FFmpeg 9.0"

GlumWoodpecker — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:45:28 +0000

I've been waiting for this feature! Whenever I've encountered an animated WebP, I've had to drop it into ezgif.com to convert it to mp4, now I can just write a quick Bash function to transform it with ffmpeg.

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "KOReader"

GlumWoodpecker — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:47:45 +0000

KOReader is fantastic! I use it on my pocket-sized Xiaomi InkPalm 5 to read anywhere (I carry it at all times along with my phone). The combination of KOReader and the ease of use due to the size of the device has enabled me to read many more books than I used to, so I'm very happy with it. Being able to just turn on wifi and click "calibre" > "connect" to transfer books from my PC is a killer feature—the stock Kindle I keep in bed has to connect via USB to transfer new content (I don't use Amazon to buy content for it).

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "Wireless LAN SD"

GlumWoodpecker — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:09:48 +0000

I own a Ben NanoNote, at this point an ancient (2010) open-source, niche micro-laptop that ran a modification of OpenWrt. With a tiny keyboard and screen and all. It had no built-in anything, so the only way to get wireless connectivity on it was to buy one of these SDIO WLAN adapters. Had a lot of fun tinkering with that thing, maybe I should find it again...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

GlumWoodpecker — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:48:05 +0000

Disagree. The word "native" in a software execution context has a very specific meaning—it means that the software is running on the target hardware with no emulation, translation layer or modification by any middleware. Games running through Proton/WINE will never be native, by definition.

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

GlumWoodpecker — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:05:09 +0000

You can use the `hdajackretask` program in the `alsa-tools` package to retask your jacks.

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-tools/tree/master/hdaja...

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "Ghidra by NSA"

GlumWoodpecker — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:52:46 +0000

The author of this has an excellent tech YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@lauriewired

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "TikTok is now collecting more data about its users"

GlumWoodpecker — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:30:55 +0000

HN (and Reddit) are not social media, they are forums. Social media are platforms where the main purpose is to socialise. Forums are platforms where the main purpose is to discuss the topic of any given thread. Just because you can talk to someone, doesn't make it social media. I will die on this hill.

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

GlumWoodpecker — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:09:34 +0000

Doesn't work in Firefox, just loads a blank page.

https://i.imgur.com/ApRjzuK.png

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie"

GlumWoodpecker — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:01:31 +0000

Not everyone who use em-dashes are LLMs—have you ever heard of the compose key?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

(Besides, an LLM would capitalise "vfx")

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

GlumWoodpecker — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:52:49 +0000

If I ran it with just

    $ chmod +x snake.com
    $ ./snake.com

... then it would try to use Mono to launch it:

    Cannot open assembly './snake.com': File does not contain a valid CIL image.

But, running it explicitly with Bash works:

    $ bash snake.com

Pretty nifty but doesn't work out of the box on any Linux, at least :p Running Debian 13.

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

GlumWoodpecker — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:01:00 +0000

>- Linux comes in finite but vastly more combinations than OSX and Windows which means you are probably going to need to pick something like Ubuntu or struggle with the above

This is easily solvable by distributing the app via a distro agnostic mechanism, like as a Flatpak or AppImage. Using Flatpak also eliminates the need for rolling their own app update mechanism.

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files"

GlumWoodpecker — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:38:13 +0000

Way to miss the point entirely.

UK to "encourage" Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

GlumWoodpecker — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:17:33 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/uk-to-encourage-apple-and-google-to-put-nudity-blocking-systems-on-phones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281567

Points: 50

# Comments: 18

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

GlumWoodpecker — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:28:06 +0000

Depends on your point of view, whether you are the one watching, or the one being watched, I guess :)

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps"

GlumWoodpecker — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:23:55 +0000

Thanks for the clarification!

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps"

GlumWoodpecker — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:51:26 +0000

Surprised to find this on the front page today, I posted this four days ago (hovering over the post timestamp confirms this), yet the timestamp says "11 hours ago". Weird.

Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

GlumWoodpecker — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:28:18 +0000

Article URL: https://frinkiac.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126380

Points: 175

# Comments: 65

New comment by GlumWoodpecker in "'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately"

GlumWoodpecker — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:37:46 +0000

It is though, because no one is a victim in that transaction. Nobody lost anything and nobody suffered any loss of potential profit because they actively refused said profit.