<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Nexxxeh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Nexxxeh</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:48:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Nexxxeh" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nexxxeh in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks smooth, but holy motion sickness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:47:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650593</link><dc:creator>Nexxxeh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nexxxeh in "Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the impact of international terrorism and crime on India, minimising illicit money flow in and out of the country seems an inherently sensible precaution.</p>
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<p>When I was starting out as a kid learning to make applications, moving from VB6 to Delphi was such a huge improvement.<p>Tempted to use a client's plotter and roll of paper to print this off.</p>
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<p>I missed this story directly elsewhere, only saw this story from the Preston Stewart interview that OP has linked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:19:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805768</link><dc:creator>Nexxxeh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nexxxeh in "US Company Ubiquiti Aids Russian Military [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hunterbrook exposed that the distribution network for an American company, Ubiquti (allegedly),  knowingly supplied Russia after the start of the Ukrainian war. Doing so in clear breach of sanctions.<p>US gear being used to facilitate attacks on Ukrainian civilians and military.<p>To say "Ubiquiti could likely do more..." is a massive understatement.</p>
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<p>Is it not more "VST author just does the bare minimum to keep honest people honest, because more invasive DRM risks ruining a live performance"? I'm not understanding why TFA author has such an attitude about this. Is the VST author a horrible person or running a toxic business model or something?</p>
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<p>Omores did a video on it with NT 4.0, and the description says it does also work with NT 3.5.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvT9-ZfW1Iw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvT9-ZfW1Iw</a></p>
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<p>For those of us who like seeing old OSs running on old bare metal to a daft extent, a YouTuber "Omores" is worth a look:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@O_mores" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@O_mores</a><p>He has videos on this driver running on NT and 2000.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:34:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104574</link><dc:creator>Nexxxeh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nexxxeh in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm in the UK and have McDonalds semi-regularly. A few times a month at least. Get a receipt, fill out the online feedback form, get a code. Put the code in the app, get an offer for £2.99 sandwhich (McPlant, Big Mac, whatever the chicken thing is) and either fries or a salad. £2.99 for a McPlant and fries at 3am is a godsend.</p>
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<p>There's at least two in the Cardiff City Centre, one on St Mary St and one on Queen St.<p>Having used both at normal and at peak pisshead hours, they're both alright.<p>Not great, not a disaster. Slightly understaffed, and occasionally short on English language skills, but there's not an issue if you want hot food (inc vegetarian and vegan) or drinks at a daft hour.</p>
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<p>My sincerest apologies to Eben. I don't know how I flubbed that, as I opened another tab and searched for him so I knew I'd get the spelling of his surname right. A fellow Welshman and everything! I am suitably embarrassed.</p>
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<p>I took too long to write my comment, you beat me to the punch. I didn't plagiarise your comment, but I do largely agree!</p>
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<p>He's definitely got brand recognition. He's THE guy for Raspberry Pi and SBC stuff. I'd suspect more people would recognise him then Ebon Upton nowadays. Not ignoring the other stuff he's done, but anyone into Pi/SBC will know him.<p>Honourable mentions to ExplainingComputers and "Platima Tinkers".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815668</link><dc:creator>Nexxxeh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nexxxeh in "Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"...I find it beyond lazy and insulting." Using the words "lazy" and "insulting" in this way sounds rude, insulting, entitled and arrogant.<p>They are very negative words and it is rude to use them when referring to someone else's work or things similar to that work.<p>TFA is certainly not lazy (and it's very obvious to an NT that a LOT of effort went into it).<p>We should ideally all be producing content in an accessible way when possible. But doing so is difficult and is a learned skill set.<p>Making things accessible to NDs can be difficult because normal written English heavily utilizes things that NDs can be unable to intuitively process.<p>There is also often a trade-off involved in making work accessible. Aesthetically specifically, artistically generally, or in terms of brevity or convenience to others.<p>Your inability to read the context clues and process the visual information is your inability to do something. A thing that the vast majority of people can do. TFA clearly wasn't intended as insulting and your interpretation of it as insulting is unfortunate.<p>Your very specific needs are not the needs of the vast majority of people who are reading it. If you cannot see the difference in subtitles between the two sets of examples and tell that one is bad, then you are not the main target audience.<p>The new generation of subtitles are bland and poorly integrated with the context.<p>Previous subtitles were attractive and well integrated, with colours, typefaces, orientations and locations picked to best suit the content. Everything (including background signs) are translated with attention paid to details.<p>The article uses a lot of visual examples to explain this. It is written in a way that is intuitive and easy to digest for most people. I can literally skim this and understand it.<p>If you wished to write your comment in a way that wasn't rude to the OP, you could provide the same important information without using negative language:<p>"I am autistic and don't watch anime. I've read the first few paragraphs and I'm finding it overwhelming and overstimulating to precisely identify the problem.<p>What is the exact issue? The subtitle's location on the screen? Contrast or font? Quality of translations?"<p>Relevant parts of TFA that explain are:<p>>...translations for dialogue and on-screen text aren’t even separated to different sides of the screen – everything is just bunched up together at either the top or the bottom. Lots of on-screen text is even left straight up untranslated.<p>>The amount of it varies from series to series, but almost every anime out there makes use of on-screen text at one point or another, with some featuring downright ridiculous amounts of signs (what on-screen text is called for short). With all this on-screen text, it is also very common for there to be text visible on the screen potentially in multiple positions, even when characters are speaking.<p>>At bare minimum, when subtitling anime, you should be able to do overlaps (multiple lines of text on the screen at the same time) and positioning (the ability to freely place subtitles anywhere on the screen).<p>>Overlaps and positioning are really just the bare necessities for dealing with on-screen text in anime though – ideally, you should also be able to use different fonts, colors, animate text in various ways, etc. Making use of all these possibilities is an art unto itself, and this art of on-screen text localization is commonly referred to as typesetting. Typesetting is important even when dubbing anime, as all that on-screen text is going to be there in the video all the same!<p>>[Crunchyroll started] mangling subtitles with typesetting into something compatible with the awful subtitling standards of the general streaming services [Netflix and Amazon Prime].</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45756545</link><dc:creator>Nexxxeh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45756545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45756545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nexxxeh in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel that the Saudis purchasing EA is specifically a good sign <i>that future EA games won't be profit-focused at the expense of quality.</i><p>I was talking to the GP and P comments in regards to the company's focus. They discussed the problems of current EA and whether future development would be increasingly profit-driven at the cost of quality.<p>>>I feel like the need for constant growth (instead of just sustainability) is what has caused much of the issues in the current gaming market.<p>>I'm not sure the investment group attempting to diversify Saudi oil income is going to be less profit oriented than the stock market in general<p>I suspect that EA was not purchased with profit as the primary motive, and that decreasing quality further would run counter to their aims.<p>I think their motives are more sinister and subversive. I'm not sure what the relevant equivalent term to (e)sportswashing is for this. Gamewashing or whatever. I think buying EA is going to be a prominent example of it.<p>My comment included calling Saudi Arabia's Crowned Prince Mohammed bin Salman by his nickname Mohammed Bonesaw. This refers to his alleged direct order to assassinate and butcher Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.<p>The 15-person Saudi agent hitsquad used a bonesaw to dismember Khashoggi, hence the nickname.<p>This makes clear from tone and context that I do not feel that the Saudis buying EA is a good sign overall.<p>I realise that relying on tone and context clues to remove ambiguity is not good accessible writing so I apologise for that.</p>
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<p>Muhammad Bonesaw grew up on Age of Empires, and enjoys(/enjoyed) CoD. They also want to use it to shape global perspective. I think signs are good, or at least less-bad.</p>
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<p>The concentration of Jews was a direct result of a different process of concentrating Jews, specifically in camps.<p>And the expulsion and persecution of Jews from Arab countries and Iran.<p>Regardless of what timescale you use, the presence of Jews in the region predates both other main Abrahamic religions by necessity, as Jesus was himself a Jew.<p>We can complain about how badly Britain and other colonial powers carved up failing empires til the cows come home. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh certainly can have an opinion on the British Empire. And great swathes of Africa can point in any direction and be pointing at someone who screwed them over.<p>At some point, we have to deal with how the world is <i>now</i>. History is important to learn from, agreed, but unless it's a really think history textbook it's not saving you from a terrorist putting a 7.62mm-based hole in you, or feeding you pressure-cooked ball bearings.<p>Most of the terrorist threat to the West is from Islamic extremists, foreign (inc imported) and domestic, and to a lesser extent the opposite end of the horseshoe it emboldens. To blame Israel for global or even regional Islamic extremism is both ironic and myopic. It's also academic. No change Israel could make is going to stop the Muslim majority countries wanting Israel wiped out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:30:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330985</link><dc:creator>Nexxxeh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nexxxeh in "Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps it was a rushed tradeshow/employee perk gone awry. Something like:<p>Tradeshow coming up very quickly, previous merch supplier has let the sales team down.<p>Mid-level Haribo employee responsible for merch finds a supplier willing to rush through everything, because let's face it, Haribo are probably going to pay their bills.<p>MoQ is 100 units, which is 1 lot.<p>Sales person intends to order 2000 units, better to be safe than sorry and run out. Accidentally orders 2000 lots of units with 100 units per lot. This isn't noticed until they're already printed and then it's, as they say in the legal profession, no takesie backsies.<p>Haribo suddenly have a lot more power banks than they have booth visitors, and employees combined.<p>Rather than store them indefinitely, they sell them off at cost and shift them quickly though Amazon. This drastically cuts down on warehousing space of small lithium (explosive) packs that the candy people have to store.<p>And kids and grown-ups love it so, with 20,000mAh wherever they go.</p>
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<p>Think of the weight of all the extra hairs though.</p>
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<p>They do indeed appear to have a lot of sympathy for their friends in Hamas, who are the occupying power starving the Gazans who won't pay.</p>
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