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New comment by Svoka in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

Svoka — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:11:43 +0000

It feels more like a war game to be honest. I played both for a while and they share some aesthetic, but not much beyond that.

New comment by Svoka in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

Svoka — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:00:48 +0000

Ninja religions following of treating timestamps (mtime) as 'modified' marker makes it useless with Git and large projects.

You switched some branches back and forward? Enjoy your 20 minutes rebuild.

* https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1459

New comment by Svoka in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"

Svoka — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:02:48 +0000

Seems like a pure virtue signaling: they don't sell or make hardware. It is mandated only for pre-installed operating systems, from what I understand.

New comment by Svoka in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

Svoka — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:48:52 +0000

The news is literally about someone doing it.

New comment by Svoka in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

Svoka — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:07:43 +0000

Did you consider that companies want to sell laptops/PC with Linux in California? This is open-source, you can modify software to align with your business goals, including complying to regulations. If you have something against regulations, take that with lawmakers, not businesses which actually trying to promote Linux.

New comment by Svoka in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

Svoka — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:48:16 +0000

So far russia launched over 57 000 Iranian/inspired shahed drones. They are like 6ft long drones with 40+ lbs payload with couple hundreds of miles of range.

USA/NATO/allies heavily rely on Patriot AA system. Even if you disregard the prohibitive 100x cost difference, there are about 2500 Patriot compatible PAC missiles.

This is why gulf states are scrambling to get their hands on cheap alternatives - Ukraine manages to shoot down over 90% of all drones heading their way, usually it is over 400 per day in big waves.

New comment by Svoka in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

Svoka — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:55:37 +0000

Grow a Garden, a game on Roblox reached 21.6 million concurrent players.

That number is just insane.

For comparison - top Steam concurrent game is 3.2 million in PUBG.

New comment by Svoka in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

Svoka — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:25:15 +0000

I think 'tab coding' should be a distinct group. When wast majority of the code just written through accepting autosuggestions.

New comment by Svoka in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Svoka — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:11:28 +0000

This is why usa had to bankroll russki nuclear security program?

New comment by Svoka in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Svoka — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:30:18 +0000

Ukraine absolutely had fleet of functioning ICBMs and strategic bombers. Unlike russia, Ukraine didn't declare bankruptcy.

And pretty sure people who built those ICBMs and strategic bombers would have no issue maintaining them.

USA didn't pressure Ukraine into giving up nukes, at the same time bankrolling russian nuclear program for 'security' reasons.

New comment by Svoka in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Svoka — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:15:43 +0000

As Ukrainian, I don't remember launching missiles on russia, or, in fact, any aggression towards russia. In its turn russia did recognize borders with Ukraine in multiple treaties, and on top of that security guarantees promised in exchange of 3rd by the size world nuclear arsenal.

Just a quick reminder, that Iranian and Hamas policy towards Israel is extermination. Palestine was never recognized by Israel or USA. Israel is not recognized by Iran.

So tell me, what parallels do you see between these conflicts? Human misery and destruction is hardly a common ground, and even in that, scale is incomparable.

New comment by Svoka in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Svoka — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:58:42 +0000

Russian invasion of Ukraine is absolutely a genocidal war, with genocidal claims spoken out loud and actions documented, tens of thousands of times.

Never heard someone in USA claiming that Iraqis or Iranians had no right to exist, saying that they are not a real country and/or nation. This rhetoric is pretty much main stream in russia and used to justify ongoing genocide.

New comment by Svoka in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Svoka — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:47:27 +0000

I am sure Ukrainians who built said nukes wouldn't have much problems figuring it out and building own nuclear program.

Instead believing in bright and peaceful future USA, France and UK promised. As Ukrainian who lived in Ukraine in 90s that felt like being on a frontier of the modern world, giving up the nukes. Oh, how full of hope we were.

New comment by Svoka in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Svoka — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:40:55 +0000

What an awful take devoid of context. Russia literally defaulted in 1998, and 'somehow' kept the nukes.

And today Ukraine is doing quite amazing, considering 12 years of war. I can only dream what it would be if russians didn't steal a generation. Giving up nukes was a giant mistake.

Back then, giving up on nukes never was about compromising security. In 1993, I remember being full of hope and opportunity to live in peaceful world with less nukes. It felt like we had our backs by France, UK and USA. That was a move full of betrayed optimism, not desperation - giving up third world arsenal because the future is bright.

New comment by Svoka in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Svoka — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:30:00 +0000

In russia they had 2 terms limit as well. Putin found a quick work-around by basically running through Proxy.

I can see JD being a figurehead with very public Trump support.

New comment by Svoka in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

Svoka — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:14:38 +0000

I work with GitHub, so this oneliner relly helps me out. It also doesn't rely on grep, since --format have all you need:

    git branch --format '%(if:equals=gone)%(upstream:track,nobracket)%(then)%(refname:short)%(end)' --omit-empty | xargs --verbose -r git branch -D

It deletes all the branches for which remotes were deleted. GitHub deletes branches after PR was merged. I alias it to delete-merged

New comment by Svoka in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

Svoka — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:19:23 +0000

I was careful not to draw binary. I was saying that Opus in Claude Code is good enough for me to make projects. Using Gemini after it seems like a significant downgrade, which actually doesn't get the job done helping me code. This is my experience, it can change if Gemini will get better.

However, for internal use I opt to Gemini, because of API cost. It is great in sorting reviews and menues out.

New comment by Svoka in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

Svoka — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:55:23 +0000

While price is definitely important, results are extremely important. Gemini often falls into the 'didn't do' it part of the spectrum, this days Opus almost always does 'good enough'.

Gemini definitely has its merits but for me it just doesn't do what other models can. I vibe-coded an app which recommends me restaurants. The app uses gemini API to make restaurants given bunch of data and prompt.

App itself is vibe-coded with Opus. Gemini didn't cut it.

New comment by Svoka in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

Svoka — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:34:48 +0000

Downgrading network to 2.4G is probably all they needed.

New comment by Svoka in "Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan"

Svoka — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:22:34 +0000

Honestly pick between Vulkan and DX12 is very superficial.

But you can easily make Vulkan run on macOS. Not sure what would be the reason to use DX12 in the new project today given free choice of technology, especially when team comes from OpenGL.