Hacker News: Ruthalas

New comment by Ruthalas in "A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'"

Ruthalas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:34:25 +0000

I think you are saying something fundamentally different than the parent comment.

I think they are saying 'make something that appeals specifically to you as the creator, and it will resonate with some people out there'.

I personally agree that this seems top result in works I enjoy. (As evidenced by behind-the-scenes content or interviews with creators espousing a similar philosophy.)

New comment by Ruthalas in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

Ruthalas — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:40:23 +0000

Why are you quoting a phrase that does not exist in the post you are responding to?

New comment by Ruthalas in "Google Street View in 2026"

Ruthalas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:50:40 +0000

Panoramax[0] is another, perhaps more open option, though it is currently primarily used in Europe.

[0] panoramax.openstreetmap.fr/

New comment by Ruthalas in "In Search of a Discord Replacement"

Ruthalas — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:28:02 +0000

The iOS client is available through testglight right now, and has this in a banner on the repo:

"This app is still in early stages, and not yet ready for production."

Just for others who are evaluating it as an option.

New comment by Ruthalas in "[dead]"

Ruthalas — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:59:59 +0000

Anecdotally, myself and several others can no longer connect to Flatpak, and downdetector shows an increasing report count.

New comment by Ruthalas in "Show HN: I made a fireplace for your wrist (and widgets)"

Ruthalas — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:20:53 +0000

In both cases you pay for the energy used, it's just that there are many more steps to get that energy to your watch!

New comment by Ruthalas in "Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work"

Ruthalas — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:41:00 +0000

I went on a ferry ride with a friend who is a welder by trade and they spent a full hour examining the railings and critiquing the welding. It was pretty interesting.

New comment by Ruthalas in "My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi"

Ruthalas — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:37:37 +0000

What are you using as your temperature sensors, if you don't mind?

New comment by Ruthalas in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

Ruthalas — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:53:39 +0000

Unfortunately they did close that loophole recently. :(

New comment by Ruthalas in "How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap"

Ruthalas — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:51:21 +0000

I imagine the curators did this to entertain themselves. I thought it was a great juxtaposition when I visited.

New comment by Ruthalas in "Pixel 10 Phones"

Ruthalas — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:02:13 +0000

The wobble actually factors onto my device choice as well. It's just annoying to live with for the life of the phone if you can't find a case that widens it, which many don't.

New comment by Ruthalas in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

Ruthalas — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:00:36 +0000

To be fair, in the case of Steam they legitimately did try. They supported bitcoin purchases for nearly two years before they stopped, citing volatility and processing fees:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...

New comment by Ruthalas in "How slow motion became cinema’s dominant special effect"

Ruthalas — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:03:48 +0000

At the cost of increased input latency and (frequently) graphical artifacts around any moving object.

It is a very cool tool, but not a silver bullet, just for context.

New comment by Ruthalas in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

Ruthalas — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:36:42 +0000

I think the trouble here stems from the lack of alternatives to the small group of payment processors. The near-monopoly allows their choices to override the choice of all the other involved groups, and almost no viable alternatives exist for Valve to move to if they disagree.

New comment by Ruthalas in "Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020)"

Ruthalas — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:16:58 +0000

There is a tradition of placing small tokens or flowers on his palm! At one point the owner had a tumblr where they posted pictures of the offerings it received occasionally.

New comment by Ruthalas in "Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with Mapillary"

Ruthalas — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:01:04 +0000

For those concerned about contributing to Mapillary specifically, there are alternatives to contribute to, like Panoramax, which is fully open source and supports federated instances, and is not owned by Meta.

(Panoramax integrates with iD and JOSM just Lille Mapillary.)

New comment by Ruthalas in "China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to invade Taiwan"

Ruthalas — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:08:20 +0000

This seems like quintessential whataboutism. I think expanding on how that concern is "largely invented" would serve your point better. I, at least, would be interested.

New comment by Ruthalas in "670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision"

Ruthalas — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:54:33 +0000

You may also have trouble applying the Aspirin to only one location.

New comment by Ruthalas in "Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migration completes"

Ruthalas — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:09:56 +0000

Regarding [1], do you foresee this changing at some point? I'm interested in self hosting, bit have heard consistently that it is painful, so I've been waiting in the hopes that it will eventually improve.

New comment by Ruthalas in "X1Plus: Custom Firmware for Bambu Lab X1 and X1 Carbon 3D Printers"

Ruthalas — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:14:16 +0000

As far as I can tell, this is exclusively for the X1C. There is not yet an equivalent for the P1S, correct?