Hacker News: TonyTrapp

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

TonyTrapp — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:48:36 +0000

Specifically, it means that more information is required to complete the task (e.g. requesting the filename for saving a file). If the action is literally about opening that dialog (e.g. something like "Show Properties"), the ellipsis is not needed.

Lucona

TonyTrapp — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:59:29 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucona

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246803

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Bet on German Train Delays"

TonyTrapp — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:25:25 +0000

…rzüge?

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

TonyTrapp — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:50:20 +0000

I've had this exact problem for years. My IP addresses have been used for 15+ years for sending e-mail, they are spam-free, but Microsoft keeps blocking them. Every two months or so I have to ask them to unblock the IP again, then I can send mails to Outlook again, until they just random decide to block me again. It's an absolute clown show.

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

TonyTrapp — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:45:56 +0000

The blog is fine, it just looks like he didn't foresee that there would be a month where wouldn't post anything, so the navigation links break down. If you go to the last month he posted in, everything works as usual: http://blog.fefe.de/?mon=202505

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

TonyTrapp — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:57:07 +0000

Dividing? Are you sure you are not thinking of fefe, who has a somewhat similar real name?

New comment by TonyTrapp in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

TonyTrapp — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:12:59 +0000

The server is and has been clean the whole time. I don't even run WordPress or anything similar on that server that would be a common hacking target. If it was hacked, I'm pretty sure Google Safe Browsing would be the first to flag the site, not some random PiHole list.

New comment by TonyTrapp in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

TonyTrapp — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:50:23 +0000

Yuuup. My personal website has been inaccessible to a few friends, they thought my server was down. It turned out they had some blocklist (not related to AI) installed on their PiHole, and for whatever reason my website was on that list. It is, in fact, to this day, because my request to unblock it went completely unanswered. I still don't know why the website is on the list.

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

TonyTrapp — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:03:51 +0000

Win9x Notepad in particular can only load files up to 64KB in size (edit: and supports only ANSI encoding, no Unicode). There were some actually useful additions to it up until Windows 10 or so - for example being able to handle LF (in addition to CRLF) line endings. But yeah, everything added in Windows 11 is just pure bloat.

Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency

TonyTrapp — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:42:44 +0000

Article URL: https://cdm.link/ni-insolvency/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781466

Points: 26

# Comments: 13

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Nuudel: Non-Tracking Appointment Tool"

TonyTrapp — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:37:54 +0000

Probably not, according to the person that set the system up originally: https://fedifreu.de/@chpietsch/113605585123034992

New comment by TonyTrapp in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

TonyTrapp — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:23:20 +0000

To be fair, this grip indicator only (and still) exists when the window has a status bar. It's part of the Windows status bar design, not of the window design. Of course, many more applications used to have status bars than they do now, so that's why you see it less often.

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Backing up Spotify"

TonyTrapp — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:22:03 +0000

This, a thousand times this. I have gone back to collecting CDs because it's often the only remaining way (short of pircay) to get original masters of many artists. Even lossless download stores like Qobuz don't have them.

New comment by TonyTrapp in "30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness"

TonyTrapp — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:05:34 +0000

Still my favourite RTS to this day, with a fantastic soundtrack that I will never forget.

New comment by TonyTrapp in "The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition"

TonyTrapp — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:03:27 +0000

They don't do Scottish accents!

New comment by TonyTrapp in "YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019)"

TonyTrapp — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:41:18 +0000

The same is true when running Winamp. When I was dabbling with FreeBASIC many years ago, my games performed better when I was listening to music. Same reason!

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Sued by Nintendo"

TonyTrapp — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:05:45 +0000

The Tetris Company isn't the same as Nintendo.

New comment by TonyTrapp in "VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT"

TonyTrapp — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:53:20 +0000

Note that his was the VST2 era. VST3 was commercial license or GPL 3, which was an improvement, but only slightly, because it excluded open-source software released under the GPL 2, and also MIT/BSD/whatever-licensed software couldn't use it (without effectively turning the whole software into GPL-licensed software).

Months After Being Notified, Vendor Is Still Exposing Confidential Court Records

TonyTrapp — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:36:34 +0000

Article URL: https://databreaches.net/2025/10/13/months-after-being-notified-a-software-vendor-is-still-exposing-confidential-and-sealed-court-records/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45578361

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by TonyTrapp in "Corral.BAS"

TonyTrapp — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:17:58 +0000

Entire BASIC interpreters were shipped in the very size-constrained ROMs of almost all home computers of the 80s. There was no luxury of parser generators. It's absolutely simple enough that you can write the lexer and parser yourself.