Hacker News: Uvix

New comment by Uvix in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

Uvix — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:31:21 +0000

The FAQ reads as "not yet", not "won't". This is second-hand but my impression is that publishing patches through GOG is not as easy as through other platforms (possibly because of their need to build new installers?).

New comment by Uvix in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

Uvix — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:15:31 +0000

You can but having to hook it up to a mouse and keyboard and monitor every time I want to install new games from not-Steam would be a pain.

New comment by Uvix in "The development pipeline is a production system"

Uvix — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:56:04 +0000

We can do that on our developers' machines no problem, but there still needs to be a place for QA to do their testing.

New comment by Uvix in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

Uvix — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:10:32 +0000

Target as well. It was one thing when it was just Amazon acting as a sketchy third party storefront, but now everybody’s doing it.

New comment by Uvix in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

Uvix — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:26:54 +0000

I haven't found digital signage displays with the same brightness for HDR content, or variable refresh rate support.

New comment by Uvix in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

Uvix — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:39:11 +0000

Interdiction at the ports is the buyer's problem, not the seller's. Kidnapping people because of their employer sounds like a great way to lose tourism permanently.

New comment by Uvix in "Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped"

Uvix — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:47:40 +0000

It’s sustainable at $1/month at current costs, but those costs will go up over time. The subscription price could be raised accordingly but they can’t go back and ask for an inflation adjustment from people who bought it.

New comment by Uvix in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

Uvix — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:09:45 +0000

Per your link, Sony will soon be disallowing new purchases, but has not set a date for disallowing downloads of existing purchases.

New comment by Uvix in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

Uvix — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:25:15 +0000

Amazon may not be going away tomorrow, but they have form for disallowing redownloads of old ebook purchases. If you dared to buy ebooks from them pre-Kindle, you can't access them anymore. If you hold onto your Kindle devices for too long instead of replacing them with a newer model, you can't access your old books that aren't already downloaded until you buy a new device.

For now, Sony has no issues with people redownloading PS3 games. Or PSP games onto a Vita - not sure if you can still download onto an original PSP. They'll probably jump on the Amazon revoke-download train eventually, though.

New comment by Uvix in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

Uvix — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:07:15 +0000

Only additional third-party DRM is listed there, not Steam's own DRM.

New comment by Uvix in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

Uvix — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:11:50 +0000

Until Steam starts telling me before I buy which games have their DRM and which doesn't, they belong in the same category as Sony and Microsoft.

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.