Hacker News: Uvix

New comment by Uvix in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Uvix — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:03:44 +0000

Just as you can download old games on Steam for now. Either will pull the plug whenever they want.

New comment by Uvix in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Uvix — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:31:00 +0000

Sony wouldn’t see any benefit from switching to game key discs. Nintendo introduced them to save on manufacturing costs, but game key discs wouldn’t give Sony any additional market or reduce costs any; they’d only shrink the physical market further.

New comment by Uvix in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Uvix — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:26:02 +0000

You can still download games for PS3 and Vita after they stop selling them. It’s no different from how Steam no longer sells some titles it used to.

New comment by Uvix in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Uvix — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:23:22 +0000

Or they’ll just stop “selling” copies in those territories and only allow short-term rentals or monthly subscription services.

New comment by Uvix in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

Uvix — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:30:53 +0000

Don’t jurisdictions generally offer ID cards for non-drivers that are functionally equivalent for ID purposes, you just can’t drive?

New comment by Uvix in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Uvix — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:17:16 +0000

Some people don’t want to carry two devices and prefer BYOD, even if the company offers a work phone.

New comment by Uvix in "Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares"

Uvix — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:19:47 +0000

Wait, I thought one project = one assembly, so you would never have "types in assemblies in the same project which the current assembly depends on".

Should that be same solution instead of same project?

New comment by Uvix in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

Uvix — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:38:23 +0000

It seems trivially simple until you have two dependencies with conflicting exact version requirements... So I don't think you can get rid of floating versions entirely. They did add NPM-style lockfiles for PackageReference, but currently not mandatory.

The version numbers for BindingRedirects are orthogonal to the package versions. You can have multiple package versions use the same AssemblyVersion so that applications don't need to create BindingRedirects. (e.g. Newtonsoft.Json - 13.0.0, and 13.0.1 in NuGet are both 13.0.0.0 for binding redirect purposes) And .NET Core/5+ don't need BindingRedirects at all!

New comment by Uvix in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

Uvix — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:12:25 +0000

But just the dependency list isn't sufficient to pick a specific version, thanks to dependency ranges. If Package A depends on Package B >= 1.0, and Package B has v1.0 and v1.1 available, it will use v1.0. But if Package B suddenly unlists v1.0, then future restores will change to v1.1.

New comment by Uvix in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

Uvix — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:01:13 +0000

NuGet is lock-by-default for the parent package, but with the move from packages.config to it's no longer lock-by-default for dependencies.

New comment by Uvix in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

Uvix — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:57:02 +0000

Could be worse. It’s finally gone now but I believe that my employer used VS6 as late as 2025.

New comment by Uvix in "WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64"

Uvix — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:36:52 +0000

It’s the opposite - if a 12-year-old thinks it’s cool it probably needs a rethink.

New comment by Uvix in "I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan"

Uvix — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:29:29 +0000

Amazon.jp does ship everywhere, but their international items use a separate warehouse, and sometimes items are only stocked in the domestic one(s) and are unavailable for international shipping.

New comment by Uvix in "WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64"

Uvix — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:26:37 +0000

“It sounded good.” https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211214-00/?p=10...

New comment by Uvix in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

Uvix — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:15:54 +0000

That makes sense. Thanks for explaining!

New comment by Uvix in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

Uvix — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:01:07 +0000

Why not leave your functions but have them invoke the libraries instead?

New comment by Uvix in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

Uvix — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:22:43 +0000

But there is no such thing as a “genuine” $30 bill.

New comment by Uvix in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

Uvix — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:08:40 +0000

It's impossible to know which Steam games are DRM-free since Steam games without DRM are not marked in the store. They have to all be assumed to have DRM.

New comment by Uvix in "Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)"

Uvix — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:47:56 +0000

I know we used to use them in our corporate environment. Not sure if we still do, or if they gave up and called OneDrive “good enough”.

New comment by Uvix in "Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM"

Uvix — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:16:50 +0000

They also still don't have ASP.NET Core support for SQL Server Reporting Services - you're stuck in ASP.NET Web Forms land if you want to embed reports in your app.