Hacker News: Krutonium

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???

New comment by Krutonium in "Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990"

Krutonium — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:56:46 +0000

https://openloco.io/ too!

Chris Sawyer made a lot of games that have since been reverse engineered lmao.

New comment by Krutonium in "Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format"

Krutonium — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:49:43 +0000

We're tired, chief.

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

Krutonium — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:17:33 +0000

My UI is pretty responsive. Of course, I also don't run MacOS or Windows, so...

New comment by Krutonium in "GitHub is down again"

Krutonium — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:36:47 +0000

Fucking REALLY?!

New comment by Krutonium in "Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI"

Krutonium — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:38:12 +0000

That's making a LOT of assumptions, like that he saved the seed and so on.

New comment by Krutonium in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

Krutonium — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:55:28 +0000

Amazon Mechanical Turk?