Hacker News: Villodre

New comment by Villodre in "Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330"

Villodre — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 07:17:30 +0000

An excellent answer - the very same kind of post I come here to read and not the very same machine-generated content that's everywhere in the Net ;-)

New comment by Villodre in "90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president"

Villodre — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:54:20 +0000

It made me a bit sad that he bothered to answer in what came to me a little like a patronising response. Not expecting a "oh the good ole times" but perhaps a polite acknowledgment and a dismissal instead of the "Not sure why" part.

New comment by Villodre in "How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (2016)"

Villodre — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 02:46:22 +0000

I remember that, in order to play S3&K in emulation, you just had to concatenate both games in a COPY S3.BIN + S&K.BIN way (if you used DOS) so I mostly knew the answer already.

But man, that answer in the Stack site was excellent. Informative, long but concise, and very fun to read.

New comment by Villodre in "Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days"

Villodre — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:11:17 +0000

READABILITY AND FRIGHTENING LEGALESE

New comment by Villodre in "Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days"

Villodre — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:10:54 +0000

I'm glad this is the first comment, because there's no way these terms of use would (should?) fly in the EU. I don't know about the USA, but it is plain deception to advertise a service along a product and then proclaim that you're in no way responsible of how it works or if it does at all.

New comment by Villodre in "111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]"

Villodre — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:56:16 +0000

I found a Half-Life CD in the street, just laying there, when it was a new game and all the rage. I guess it slipped from somebody's jewel case or the like. By some miracle, it wasn't scratched enough to be unreadable, so I went and installed it but… no key. Out of frustration I started to just type silly sequences, until arriving at one that worked: 1234567890 until filling the textbox completely.

Man, the sheer joy and happiness when the game installed and ran without issue. I had to tweak the settings a lot because I had a P75 with a 3dfx Voodoo accelerator card but nonetheless I enjoyed a lot of that game and I still have that disc. I hope the original owner was able to get hold of a copy and still use his original licence though.

New comment by Villodre in "I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you"

Villodre — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:08:29 +0000

I'm sorry to say this on this site but this post is unmanageably long, I can't bring myself to read it fully. Also, the entitlement and disregard for the work of others is unbearable. This is one of the most low key infuriating posts I've ever seen about something that could've been somewhat sympathetic to.

New comment by Villodre in "Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera"

Villodre — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 04:10:16 +0000

I had an S60 some 4 years ago, also equipped with a FLIR camera and although I tried to love the phone, I simply couldn't.

For starters it had a mediocre Snapdragon SoC - better than the average cheapophone, but lacking in a product that was in the premium tier regarding price. The FLIR camera was neat, but inferior to the add-on camera I was using at the time, yet still decent. The cherry on top came when the "ruggedised" phone couldn't cope with normal wear and tear and the plastic started to separate from the case, in a manner similar to the grips in an Xbox Controller Elite game pad that I also owned during that time.

At that point I just desisted from having the CAT phone as my mainly driver and mostly relegated it to the role of auxiliary tool just to have it die suddenly on me. I tried to follow CAT's convoluted RMA process (or perhaps their Bullitt licensee who actually make their phones, I can't remember), chock-full of awful chats and sending non-stop repeated information prompts in order to process a return until I realised I bought it from Amazon and just obtained a refund.

As I said, I really tried to like the product but my experience was so horrible that I gave up on "working phones" altogether.

New comment by Villodre in "The exploding Ford Pinto of 1973 (2021)"

Villodre — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:06:40 +0000

This article in Spanish is quite similar in wording and expressions used: https://noticias.coches.com/noticias-motor/ford-pinto-seguri...

Really, I think that the Internet now is mostly bot generated.

New comment by Villodre in "271 years before Pantone, every color imaginable in an 800-page book"

Villodre — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 04:00:30 +0000

That was in my mind for the entire length of the article, and I readily went to the comment sections expecting it to be addressed. I saved, from a previous job and just for curiosity's sake, a Pantone colour book that I was told wasn't usable any more because it was several decades old and the pigments would have faded or changed from the original tones.

New comment by Villodre in "The Dissolution of the ZA/Um Cultural Association"

Villodre — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 22:52:00 +0000

I knew of them more of an artistic movement (with socialist views) which spawned the "Disco Elysium" video game.

The Dissolution of the ZA/Um Cultural Association

Villodre — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 22:27:42 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@martinluiga/the-dissolution-of-the-za-um-cultural-association-779788390a03

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33050737

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by Villodre in "Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)"

Villodre — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:42:00 +0000

I always loved Bombadil. A discordant note among wizards of great power and elves of slender form and perhaps a metaphor for Nature itself, but I also have enjoyed a lot this take on the character.

“Bring your own team”: Recruiter firm offers hiring whole teams

Villodre — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:03:58 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/getmanfred/status/1536308368196894722

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31736761

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Villodre in "X-Clacks-Overhead"

Villodre — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:22:10 +0000

I always insert it (with permission from the owner, of course) in the sites that I manage, just as a little gesture. It's bit like that ASCII duck saying "meow!" on Amazon.

New comment by Villodre in "X-Clacks-Overhead"

Villodre — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:19:39 +0000

What a mean and unnecessary thing to say :-(

New comment by Villodre in "Solid-state cells will cut EV charging time and increase volumetric density"

Villodre — Wed, 11 May 2022 09:44:39 +0000

I chuckled audibly at this xD Saving that comment for later

New comment by Villodre in "USB Cheat Sheet"

Villodre — Thu, 05 May 2022 12:09:43 +0000

I'm always flabbergasted at how difficult and hostile to the user is discern between the various USB standards.

New comment by Villodre in "A blue connector does not USB 3.0 make"

Villodre — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:32:01 +0000

I've tested a handful of them and they're always the same: not a single one of them are advertised in a honest way. Some have even a true USB 3.0 connector soldered, which of course the chip doesn't support.

I didn't know I had you to thank for a far better support in Linux!

New comment by Villodre in "Paper-First Verifiable Credentials Specification Using QR Codes"

Villodre — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:36:22 +0000

I think we've thought the same, although you've put it better than I would: exactly how verifiably would this be for such a large deployment like the COVID passports of one of the examples?