Hacker News: JopV

New comment by JopV in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

JopV — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:57:18 +0000

Orion is based on WebKit, not on Chromium. The Mac version of DuckDuckGo's browser is based on WebKit too.

New comment by JopV in "German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice"

JopV — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:55:01 +0000

Try out SoftMaker Office or WPS Office.

New comment by JopV in "Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document"

JopV — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 11:08:52 +0000

Take a look at SeaTable.

New comment by JopV in "'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drastic and Overbroad'"

JopV — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:57:16 +0000

That is about patents, not about copyright. Patents protect ideas/inventions, and are controversial. Copyright protects works, and aside from what should happen with it if the author dies, is not really controversial.

New comment by JopV in "'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drastic and Overbroad'"

JopV — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:31:03 +0000

You don't have a right to the fruits of other people's labor.

New comment by JopV in "Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database"

JopV — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:30:55 +0000

The EU is trying to make it mandatory to allow sideloading. This is bad, but also the opposite of what you are saying.

New comment by JopV in "Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous"

JopV — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 08:54:44 +0000

Google Maps is for finding your way around where you are. Google Earth is for seeing the world.

I like the combined approach of Apple Maps.

New comment by JopV in "Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous"

JopV — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 08:40:36 +0000

DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for Bing, the results are the same. Kagi and Brave are actual competitors.

New comment by JopV in "The casino in your pocket"

JopV — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:22:37 +0000

The Apple Arcade and Netflix versions give you double the Monkey Money as the microtransaction version. I agree they should have changed more, but it's not true they didn't adjust it.

New comment by JopV in "Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users"

JopV — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 09:16:11 +0000

Kagi does have its own search index of niche sites, they even have an API for it. This is combined with Google results; they used to combine with Bing as well but stopped due to Microsoft charging too much money.

Very different from DuckDuckGo and Startpage which are still just a Bing proxy and a Google proxy respectively.

New comment by JopV in "Has Xbox lost the console wars?"

JopV — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:20:37 +0000

With multiple Switches: Splatoon 3, Monster Hunter Rise, Pac-Man Vs. (part of Namco Museum), 51 Worldwide Games

With one Switch: Super Bomberman R, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, Overcooked 2 (these are also on Xbox), Zarvot, Mario Party, New Super Mario Bros. U, Super Mario 3D World

You can also play through Donkey Kong Country, Pikmin 3, and Untitled Goose Game with two players.

New comment by JopV in "School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘mental health crisis’"

JopV — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 16:20:23 +0000

“School district creates mental health crisis, shifts blame to Meta, Google and TikTok”

New comment by JopV in "Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days"

JopV — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:38:05 +0000

Nintendo sucks at marketing, it’s why the Wii U failed. Apple barely does marketing in my country. They are doing well right now because they make superior products and people are noticing.

New comment by JopV in "Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile"

JopV — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:33:36 +0000

Microsoft does the exact same thing with DirectX on desktop.

And neither Direct3D nor Metal have any real advantages over Vulkan. They exist for locking in developers.

New comment by JopV in "Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases"

JopV — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:55:14 +0000

Please stop calling F2P's "games".