Hacker News: ROFISH

New comment by ROFISH in "MRubyD: A new mruby virtual machine implemented in pure C#"

ROFISH — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:52:22 +0000

The author mentioned Unity in the README, but every other game engine I know requires NativeAOT support. I hope it doesn't run into the limitations of NativeAOT otherwise it's just Unity-only.

New comment by ROFISH in "Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams"

ROFISH — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:03:59 +0000

I love this. Seriously.

I have teams with 1-2 permanent members and 8 more that may or may not want to check like... maybe once a week at most. Seat limits really mess with the "compliance officer needs to do something every once in a while but do we really need to pay for a separate seat?" issue with per-seat pricing.

A heavy user and a one-time-monthly user are different costs to the product but charge me the same. ;_;

New comment by ROFISH in "Burning and Playing PS2 Games Without a Modded Console"

ROFISH — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:27:04 +0000

https://cturt.github.io/freedvdboot.html

tldr; out of bounds payload on the dvd player

New comment by ROFISH in "CockroachDB license change"

ROFISH — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:46:41 +0000

Agreed. I talked with them in the past and the pricing was far too expensive to make it worth it.

As always: “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”

New comment by ROFISH in "Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email"

ROFISH — Fri, 17 May 2024 21:28:21 +0000

It's a really old meme.

New comment by ROFISH in "Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos"

ROFISH — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:23:54 +0000

So if you delete your image the entire trained data set is invalid because they no longer have license to the copyright?

New comment by ROFISH in "Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership"

ROFISH — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:54:49 +0000

The fees are higher everywhere. Their pitch is "our fees are higher, but we have higher-end customers who spend more", which roughly tracks with reality. But a hot dog stand isn't gonna have whales but an upper-end store might, so it's not surprising to see less support it.

New comment by ROFISH in "EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals"

ROFISH — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:04:08 +0000

Good! I'm looking forward to having to uninstall a crypto miner on my mom's phone because it told her the only way to play a slots app is to allow third-party apps.

New comment by ROFISH in "Unity's oldest community announces dissolution"

ROFISH — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:17:59 +0000

Unity has been on a buying spree including traditional TV/Movie CGI firms for some insane reason†. They're just plain _bad_ at spending money.

(† Yes, I know the growth potential from real-time to rendered. I still think it's a terrible investment.)

New comment by ROFISH in "EV Chargers Should Be Dumber"

ROFISH — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:09:29 +0000

West coast US; and it’s awful. The only times a spot is free is at like 6am, otherwise you’re waiting at least 30 minutes (actively, so no one can take your spot in line) to wait another 30 minutes to charge.

New comment by ROFISH in "EV Chargers Should Be Dumber"

ROFISH — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:07:00 +0000

Yes, I mean west coast US.

New comment by ROFISH in "EV Chargers Should Be Dumber"

ROFISH — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:40:35 +0000

While this should be especially true for destinations, such as hotels or even apartments, there still needs to be fast-charging infrastructure for road trips. And right now, the not-Tesla charging infrastructure is hot garbage.

Half the plugs don’t work.

The other half is at 1/4 speed, or less.

And because it’s all mostly older people, they don’t understand that it takes like 30 minutes to go from like 0 to 50% but 45-60 minutes to go from 50% to 100%. Which is annoying because:

With so few chargers, and the ones that are working at slow speed, it is VICIOUS out there. People in Porches yelling at other people to get spots.

I don’t know what it’s like for Tesla people, since its twice as much to charge than at the other chargers, but right now the road trip experience for EVs is awful just because of so few working chargers.

This is before you get to the 20-30 minute charge times.

New comment by ROFISH in "Serial adapter/reboot controller for Apple M1/M2"

ROFISH — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:29:24 +0000

Related to anyone seeing this:

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-mac/reviv...

If an update goes really wrong (ie. battery died in middle of an update), the Mac may need to go into DFU mode and get a firmware write over USB.

I don't know if this is the actual format the firmware update uses, but the ports listed in the official documents match the "special" ports in the wiki there.

New comment by ROFISH in "Samsung Remote Test Lab: Run Emulated Samsung Phones from the Browser"

ROFISH — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 01:05:05 +0000

Does it let me test the built-in browser? I’m starting to get issues only on Samsung’s built-in browser (as opposed to an Android’s Chrome default).

New comment by ROFISH in "[dead]"

ROFISH — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 01:16:10 +0000

I’m not a huge fan of Shopify for a myriad of reasons. That said, I got my payment as usual.

New comment by ROFISH in "YouTube Is Killing Stories"

ROFISH — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:09:49 +0000

The worst part is that the Shorts interface on the desktop web is awful. I hate having to watch a Short there because all the buttons and UI are all completely different. I accidentally scroll down to view comments to see the pause button and instead just get to another video.

I'm sure some PM made that so that they can increase "next view" viewership, but all it does is insult me.

Yes, I know Shorts can be viewed with the regular video viewer by changing the URL, but that's a pain to do that on every video. Just give me my regular UI controls back and stop enforcing this silly vertical video format on a desktop.

Again, I understand why vertical videos are being promoted; mobile is indeed king, content is now made for mobile. Fine. But desktop is not mobile so give me my standard 16:9 controls back.

New comment by ROFISH in "Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service"

ROFISH — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:13:43 +0000

Because it stores data on a user's computer, isn't using localStorage to track sessions still considered to be a "cookie" for ePrivacy Directive purposes? To that end, I don't think it's not "no cookie banner" compliant for the law as it exists today.

(Note: It _may_ be compliant for future updates of the directive coming in a couple of years, but iirc that isn't out yet.)

New comment by ROFISH in "1Password to Add Telemetry"

ROFISH — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:57:04 +0000

https://palant.info/2023/01/23/bitwarden-design-flaw-server-...

New comment by ROFISH in "1Password to Add Telemetry"

ROFISH — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:55:11 +0000

Bitwarden does some of the KDF operations server-side which means that a portion of the password (even if it's been through some KDF operations) is sent to the server.

EDIT: https://palant.info/2023/01/23/bitwarden-design-flaw-server-...

New comment by ROFISH in "1Password to Add Telemetry"

ROFISH — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 23:51:26 +0000

Even more hilarious: I have recorded customer service events specifically stating against all three of those.

I liked 1Password when it was an amazing Mac-only app. Now it's just another Electron app I can throw away and discard for different Electron app, there's nothing special about it.

The problem is that I don't see any particular alternative. I don't like Bitwarden's security (password is provided to the server to partially unlock so a malware server or MITM could get the password) and LastPass has known issues.

EDIT: And standalone apps are neat and cool, but doesn't let me share the Netflix password with my family.