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New comment by MortyWaves in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"

MortyWaves — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:55:35 +0000

That’s pretty funny. The UK had something like it called PhoneJackers for a while.

New comment by MortyWaves in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"

MortyWaves — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:38:51 +0000

Got a link?

New comment by MortyWaves in "The SD Association has an official SD card format utility [Win/OS X/Linux]"

MortyWaves — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:25:23 +0000

Sadly it doesn’t seem to be able to fix the several SD cards killed by the raspberry pis I have.

New comment by MortyWaves in "Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor"

MortyWaves — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:03:06 +0000

All the examples I see is there’s a network unit file, a cron unit file, etc all for one application. It would be nice to colocate.

Then there is composition of multiple applications too.

With docker compose I have a single file for running all my services.

With systemd it has to be N number of files for each service too.

New comment by MortyWaves in "Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor"

MortyWaves — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:23:03 +0000

The thing I don’t like about systemd is the inexplicable need to have multiple files for a service. Why can’t they all be declared in a single unit file?

New comment by MortyWaves in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"

MortyWaves — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:47:10 +0000

I see you haven’t stumbled across the Minecraft community much, because this weirdness is just every day for them.

Take for example, the infamous 2B2T Minecraft server.

Exploits and game breaking mechanics by virtually impossible to discover bugs, and the no rule against hacking and cheating, have led to things people didn’t think were even possible in Minecraft over the servers ~15 year history.

New comment by MortyWaves in "Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes"

MortyWaves — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:41:45 +0000

It was rejected because it needed JS to even work.

New comment by MortyWaves in "Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)"

MortyWaves — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:02:30 +0000

To be honest I haven’t really thought about it and it’s definitely something it can’t do, you’d probably need to call their APIs or something.

I am fortunate in that the only things I want to reuse is package manager caches.

New comment by MortyWaves in "Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)"

MortyWaves — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:59:05 +0000

Honestly not really… sure it might not be as fast but the ability to know I can debug it and build it exactly the same way locally is worth the performance hit. It probably helps I don’t write C++, so builds are not a multi day event!

New comment by MortyWaves in "Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)"

MortyWaves — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:05:25 +0000

It’s why I’ve started making CI simply a script that I can run locally or on GitHub Actions etc.

Then the CI just becomes a bit of yaml that runs my script.

New comment by MortyWaves in "PuTTY has a new website"

MortyWaves — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:19:22 +0000

Looks like you’ve gone for something like the classic text mode 80x25?

New comment by MortyWaves in "PuTTY has a new website"

MortyWaves — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:22:54 +0000

I find the Terminal more readable because the white seems brighter in your screenshots

New comment by MortyWaves in "PuTTY has a new website"

MortyWaves — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:53:59 +0000

Indeed, that and “git bash” were always the weird outliers. I’m glad there’s now native options.

New comment by MortyWaves in "PuTTY has a new website"

MortyWaves — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:37:35 +0000

I’ve never noticed any issues on any computer with it…

New comment by MortyWaves in "PuTTY has a new website"

MortyWaves — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:23:23 +0000

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work.

Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

New comment by MortyWaves in "OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself"

MortyWaves — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 03:56:33 +0000

Fascinating how each “standard” or intrinsic that gets added actually totally fails to give you the real numbers promised.

New comment by MortyWaves in "Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?"

MortyWaves — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:20:31 +0000

You can’t be serious…

New comment by MortyWaves in "Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps"

MortyWaves — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:32:36 +0000

Frankly quite insulting to call any Windows app legacy

New comment by MortyWaves in "Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure"

MortyWaves — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:32:47 +0000

HN only really seems to exist as a funnel for VC, but I don’t think us saying it’s all a grift will be a popular move ha.

New comment by MortyWaves in "Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]"

MortyWaves — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:39:21 +0000

Having a real https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion moment! Somehow I never knew the word “colorways” existed until a few days ago and now I’m seeing it all over.