<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: PurpleRamen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PurpleRamen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:13:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=PurpleRamen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PurpleRamen in "Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My impression is, that movement it's more about having a modern accessory. All the videos I've seen so far are about look, not technology, purpose or actual usage; thus I label them fashion-deck. Kinda strange, but maybe something more will grow from this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:44:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810377</link><dc:creator>PurpleRamen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PurpleRamen in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> you leave people with nowhere to go for any kind of real success.<p>This game is available on Steam, Epic Games, itch.io, MacOS, Xbox, Switch, Playstation, iOS, and probably some more. Play Store is just one platform, a big one, sure, but it's not like there is a coordinated attack on banning this game from the internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:36:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751772</link><dc:creator>PurpleRamen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PurpleRamen in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The game was only 5 months ago released on Android. And no, this is absolutely niche, most people who are gaming on mobile have probably never even heard of this game.</p>
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<p>Surrendered in what way? Do those billion of people exclusively only use android/iOS and only pay with Visa/Mastercard?</p>
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<p>Most scientists are not very well known, even in their own discipline. Their fame is usually locally and temporary, limited to which ever bubble they were roaming. Luhmann was well known in Parts of Europe and South-american, and died ~30 years ago. Not unusual for someone today to never heard of him if they are living in other regions.</p>
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<p>There have been many fixes over the decades, but it's hard to change the fundamentals of something widely-used.</p>
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<p>Maybe it was added in the meanwhile, but I see Posteo under email. Also, disputable if Posteo is really better, as it highly depend on your requirements. I dismissed it for some reason when choosing and went with mailbox.org, which is also listed.<p>The information is also not stating that all links are affiliate, just that the site does contain them and some might make them money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:22:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625861</link><dc:creator>PurpleRamen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PurpleRamen in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Can you explain the difference then between "crude racism and conspiracy ideology" on the one side and "Israel's religious bullshit" on the other?<p>Jews have a history of 3000 years. Nazis have a history of around 20 Years.<p>Jews have religious scriptures, whose purpose is more practical and positive overall (I guess). Nazis build their whole Ideology mainly on fake news, greed and their harmed ego, completely negative.<p>> Because I don't see much difference between the nazi view that Aryan blood is superior and Israel's view that Arabic lives are inferior.<p>Israel is not moving out to cleanse the world from inferior blood. The Nazis did. Their whole history is a big copping on the big wars outcome and how bad Germany suffered from it and how they seek reparation for it and revenge on those they consider the culprits. Of course, it's significant more complicated than that. My point is, they both are bad, doing stupid shit, but their motivation and the lines they are willing to cross are very different. Israel whole purpose is to control their holy country, they don't care about the rest of the world, but they do care about anyone threatening their little paradise. And everything else is just result of the process.</p>
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<p>It appeared better, because there were fewer features and more time to develop and test. But it's also a lot of nostalgia, because everything moved slower, the world was smaller, there was a lower standard; people will usually remember the later versions of a software, or never even encountered the earlier versions. Without the internet and every one bitching about every little detail, the general awareness was also different, not as toxic as today.</p>
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<p>Skyrocketing in this context is a fast steep rise, moving fast toward the sky; so it's about relative height in a specific timeframe, not absolute height. I mean, nobody would say Windows is skyrocketing, because it already is the sky (here).</p>
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<p>They are not, and it's not helping the message to spread this wrong picture.<p>Nazis had a dedicated machinery, based on crude racism and conspiracy ideology, which was actively seeking and executing their genocide. Israels lunatics lack this, their aim is stealing land, and the mass killings are just a side effect of their religious bullshit.<p>Not understanding this difference derails the communication about this problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612406</link><dc:creator>PurpleRamen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PurpleRamen in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>White text on a mostly white background is not really a good choice, especially if you want to communicate something important.<p>Kinda unrelated, but are any good sources for deaths in that whole conflict before the 7th October, including other areas? Throwing around that number does have some impact, but does not tell the whole picture and is often dismissed as being "just" a reaction to the attack on 7th October.</p>
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<p>The top distro is SteamOS, which is based on Arch, but does not appear as such in the stats. The Arch appearing in the stats has to be CachyOS and other gaming-distros, as also real Arch-users.<p>But yes, SteamOS makes ~25% of the users. Though, thinking about, do they collect per account, or per device? I do have a Steamdeck, but mainly play on the big desktop running on debian, so I'm curious if I'm appearing as one or two entries in that stat.</p>
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<p>The number doubled in the last year. April 2025 it was around 2.3%, and has been jumping around 2-3% for several years. Skyrocking seems justified when looking at a greater picture.<p>Though, it's a longer process, not something that suddenly happened immediately. The combination of Steamdeck, proton, good gaming-distributions and Windows 10 phasing out, while Windows 11 sucks and becoming an AI+Ads-infested mess, seems to have pushed this trend. So let's see how high this sky will be.<p>Edit: Found a good visualization: <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/</a></p>
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<p>Normal customers are not paying for APIs, so there is little value in offering them for free, especially when it can be harmful. B2B sometimes does pay for them, but not always is it obvious from the outside that they even exist. Much commerce is also on tight numbers and thus kinda secretive about their stuff.</p>
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<p>Yes, likely, but make even less sense, as you can't except support for education as a freelancer. I mean a freelancers whole purpose is to sell skill and be gone when the job is finished. You are from the beginning just an expendable tool they don't want to polish outside the scope of the job.</p>
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<p>> For software engineering, the info you need is all online for free.<p>Guided learning with instant feedback can be much more efficient than just consuming and tinkering on your own. Depends on the topic, the teacher and situation of course. The quality of available material is also all over the place, and not every topic has enough material, or anything at all.</p>
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<p>Care to explain a bit more?<p>With 35 companies, that would be around 1-2 years per company on average if you are retired or near retirement. I doubt any company is seriously investing in a worker who would likely be gone the next year. Getting lip service seems already good deal at that point.</p>
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<p>Bumblebee (the Transformer) might have an objection here. Purposeful mimicry can be used for talking on certain complexity. It does not have to be human-level to be communication.</p>
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<p>Neurons are used for more tasks than just problem-solving. Dogs have a good smell, so a big part of their brain is probably used for just this. They seem to be also much more acrobatic and reacting faster in general than an Octopus, so theses are probably also areas where additional neurons are used. Dogs have also a high social intelligence, not sure how Octopi are in that regard.<p>And are Octopi really better at problem-solving than a dog in general?</p>
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