Hacker News: Krutonium

New comment by Krutonium in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

Krutonium — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:51:26 +0000

IIRC the difference is the effective requirement of having it for the intended function of the software; To whit: Printing to a Bambu printer. It's a legal gray area but the general legal consensus as I understand it is that the dynamic loading is enough most of the time up to the point where it's a requirement for functionality.

Of course, IANAL and just a random passerby with a SUPER rough understanding.

New comment by Krutonium in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

Krutonium — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:17:34 +0000

I do wish Namecheap's Dynamic DNS support supported IPv6 though...

New comment by Krutonium in "Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports"

Krutonium — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:12:43 +0000

I actually use a capture card on PCI but I'm well aware I'm unusual.

New comment by Krutonium in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

Krutonium — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:30:02 +0000

Tying physics to framerate at all is a mistake. Like, should be filed as a bug mistake.

There's no scenario in which that's desirable.

And yet even Rockstar gets it wrong. (GTA V has several framerate dependent bugs)

New comment by Krutonium in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

Krutonium — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:06:23 +0000

The Vision Pro was a Development Kit; Just like the first generation Apple Watch. It's not meant for the consumers, it's meant for the developers among the consumers.

We will see if they ever release a new VisionOS device, but it's not the first time they did that; see also the Apple Watch.

New comment by Krutonium in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

Krutonium — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:04:57 +0000

It's also notably not the first time they switched. They did the Motorola (I think MIPS?) Archictecure, then IBM PowerPC, then Intel x86 (for a single generation, then x86_64) and now Apple M-Series.

New comment by Krutonium in "Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one"

Krutonium — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:50:46 +0000

IIRC Sim City 2000 is one such piece of software.

New comment by Krutonium in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

Krutonium — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:40:57 +0000

wdotool exists, and global hotkeys are a thing under wayland, but is desktop dependent. KDE allows it by default, Gnome can be made to do it as well with an extension.

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

Krutonium — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:45:23 +0000

Based on the website they're banking on people thinking they were always a brand, and thus a lot of artists use their speakers?

New comment by Krutonium in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

Krutonium — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:20:10 +0000

If I recall that correctly, Atari didn't want to do anything about it because it drives sales for TTD and RCT (in the case of OpenRCT2, it drives sales for 2 games even, since you need the assets from 2, and can also import more assets from 1, and even further, you can also use Classic as your base, so like, many many options), while Chris Sawyer didn't particularly like their existence, but not enough to go and force Atari to do anything about it.

New comment by Krutonium in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

Krutonium — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:08:10 +0000

OpenTTD has had entirely their own assets for 15 years.

New comment by Krutonium in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

Krutonium — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:07:08 +0000

You're correct. It's part of the Steam Publisher Agreement that basically, you can't remove your game from users who have paid for it.

And if you push an update that deletes the files, Valve can, will, and has rolled back the update.

Of course, there's also situations where Valve has assisted in removing titles at developers request, but it was a situation Valve was involved in - Specifically, a game called "The Ship" had a Multiplayer version, and it was built on Source, but they could never quite get it to work correctly, even with Valve's help. Wouldn't sync.

Valve helped them remove the Multiplayer version. (but you still kept the single player.)

New comment by Krutonium in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

Krutonium — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:03:36 +0000

As someone who has been involved in OpenRCT2, which is another Chris Sawyer/Atari game, from what I can tell, Atari has a very hands off approach to these things.

We know they know about us - We saw their Head of PR giving away keys for RCT2 on Twitch while playing OpenRCT2, prior to the release of RCT World (What a terrible game sadly).

As far as we can tell, it's basically a "don't cause us problems and we won't bother you" situation.

New comment by Krutonium in "Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later"

Krutonium — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:50:45 +0000

You're assuming Apple is going to continue even supporting HFS+ long term. They already convert volumes to APFS opportunistically.

New comment by Krutonium in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

Krutonium — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:50:00 +0000

I think their point is more along the lines of the energy availability of Fossel Fuels allows for the Mass Farming and Construction that we do, not so much that we can pour it on a fire in place of wood.

New comment by Krutonium in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

Krutonium — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:31:19 +0000

To be fair - it SUPER does. Being down frequently makes your competition look better.

Of course, once you have the momentum it doesn't matter nearly as much, at least for a while. If it happens too much though, people will start looking for alternatives.

The key to remember is Momentum is hard to redirect, but with enough force (reasons), it will.

New comment by Krutonium in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

Krutonium — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:15:25 +0000

If I can avoid it!

New comment by Krutonium in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"

Krutonium — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:02:17 +0000

...Yes. We're all fucking nerds.

New comment by Krutonium in "Password managers less secure than promised"

Krutonium — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:50:53 +0000

Just a heads up, Fireproof Safes are not failure proof, you should have that key securely stored somewhere else as well.

New comment by Krutonium in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

Krutonium — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:53:11 +0000

In a similar vein I made an account on ebay once years ago, and inside a day I was banned for "unpaid seller fees"

On my one day old account that had never done a transaction???