Hacker News: Jigsy

New comment by Jigsy in "Neocities: Create your own free website"

Jigsy — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:55:36 +0000

I do like neocities. Especially when designing KISS principle websites. (Modern web design has become RAM eating garbage...)

Ended up stumbling on bsgen-new.neocities.org hosted there last week; which is used for generating blue sphere codes in Sonic. All 128 million of them.

New comment by Jigsy in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Jigsy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:29:58 +0000

Actually, thinking about this now, I tried to play PS1 games on my PSP about two years ago, but couldn't because they needed to be (re-)authenticated.

Sadly, there's NO way to authenticate PS1/PSP games on PSP anymore. Even connecting it to the PS3 via USB and trying to authenticate it didn't work.

(At least PS1 games still work on PS3 for now, though.)

New comment by Jigsy in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Jigsy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:09:54 +0000

Oh? It was fake? It was very convincing.

But yeah, it's a trend that will sadly probably happen.

New comment by Jigsy in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Jigsy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:33:30 +0000

> I can see this happening with games more after the death of physical media.

I saw a screenshot of something like this recently with the pre-orders of GTA VI.

They apparently "ran out of digital copies..." of something that doesn't exist yet.

New comment by Jigsy in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Jigsy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:22:54 +0000

Plus GOG allow people to download games and store them on a hard drive.

UT99 can't be bought anymore (though I think Epic now allow people to share it freely), but I can still download it (for now), and access my archived copy.

New comment by Jigsy in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Jigsy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:21:11 +0000

I don't own a PS5, I do own a PS4 however and still buy physical copies of games - some of which of late have been secondhand from CeX - because 1. I don't like renting content, 2. I hate DRM, 3. physical copies are harder to censor.

Sony recently expunged copies of movies people had bought, so I honestly don't trust them not to do the same with games.

Also, they announced the closure of the PS3 store, so that's even less reason to trust that I won't be able to reobtain the games I've bought digitally in the future...

New comment by Jigsy in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Jigsy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:09:23 +0000

> I can ignore that too, you know. Not all laws are reasonable.

I can speak from personal experience on this one! Civil disobedience is a wonderful thing.

New comment by Jigsy in "ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware"

Jigsy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:34:48 +0000

I find ReactOS interesting, but I could never get anything to work the last time I tried it - which was a few months ago.

I also have a feeling that I'll be dead for centuries long before it ever becomes a viable replacement.

On the plus side, at least it'll be finished quicker than GNU Hurd will be...

New comment by Jigsy in "Widower can't renew license because DMV software unearthed 47yo speeding ticket"

Jigsy — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:10:06 +0000

Wouldn't there be a statute of limitations on this?

New comment by Jigsy in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

Jigsy — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:03:36 +0000

> Sites that use reCAPTCHA/Turnstile/etc. have already been broken for me for years now due to neverending captcha/refresh loops.

I had this problem recently with the Indeed website. (Cloudflare Captcha)

Thanks to someone on Reddit, it was discovered that anyone using a Chromium based browser (Brave, Vivaldi, etc.) on Linux was being punished.

Awfully frustrating having to set up a Virtual Machine just to be able to access one website via Firefox since even my hardened Firefox was being punished.

New comment by Jigsy in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

Jigsy — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:56:17 +0000

Aside from watching anime, reading manga and listening to Japanese radio (which was to help me get acclimated to people talking fast), I try to play games in Japanese.

That's always a great way to learn new words.

New comment by Jigsy in "Mahjong: A Visual Guide"

Jigsy — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:41:11 +0000

I didn't have much interest in Mahjong originally, but after playing Yakuza 0 back in 2016(?) I really got into it.

New comment by Jigsy in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

Jigsy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:53:29 +0000

My issue with SimpleX is that the company is in the UK, and it's developed in the UK under UK law. https://simplex.chat/transparency/

Considering how fiercely anti-encryption the UK is/has become (because "only child molesters care about encryption!"), this is sadly reason enough for me not to trust it.

Do I believe they have a backdoor in their software? No.

But if the UK passes a law demanding they introduce one...

New comment by Jigsy in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

Jigsy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:49:32 +0000

Windscribe is now the third one to be terminated by Microsoft as well...

https://nitter.net/windscribecom/status/2041929519628443943

New comment by Jigsy in "Apple Just Lost Me"

Jigsy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:48:31 +0000

You know what's funny? Even China doesn't do OS verification and block everybody from every website by default.

New comment by Jigsy in "Apple Just Lost Me"

Jigsy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:48:00 +0000

As someone from the UK, do you honestly believe the UK government would be happy with just "true or false" data?

New comment by Jigsy in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"

Jigsy — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:02:47 +0000

> but if it's a drawing of a real child

How would you even prove that, though?

New comment by Jigsy in "The 49MB web page"

Jigsy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:21:12 +0000

I agree with this. Just because a website can eat all my RAM doesn't mean it should...

New comment by Jigsy in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"

Jigsy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:40:45 +0000

Australia also believe that women with small breasts in porn causes people to become child abusers...

New comment by Jigsy in "Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images"

Jigsy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:12:35 +0000

I can't agree with the photorealistic AI images because they're indistinguishable from an actual photograph.

Everything else I do agree with you on, though.

The probem is, prosecutions are just looking for easier ways to jail people for things they could do based on what they personally believe. (E.g. "Manga causes child abuse")