Hacker News: agret

New comment by agret in "Investigating corrupt Winamp skins"

agret — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:02:43 +0000

No mention in the page if it's compatible with Winamp skins?

New comment by agret in "Investigating corrupt Winamp skins"

agret — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:58:12 +0000

Wow believe it or not I was thinking about that program about 2 weeks ago but thought I'd never be able to remember the name of it. You've made my week.

I used to use the Bdog871018 skin. Which one is yours?

New comment by agret in "Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft"

agret — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 01:46:32 +0000

Just have to right click the task bar and change the news settings to 'reduce updates' & turn off open on hover.

Turning on 'reduce updates' just has the taskbar display the weather and not change to some random stock ticker of a company you don't care about or whatever other item of interest they feel like showing.

New comment by agret in "What happened with ASUS routers this morning?"

agret — Tue, 23 May 2023 08:52:26 +0000

If you read the article it was not a firmware issue, it was one of the security features it has downloaded an invalid config due to ASUS staff errors, the config caused the router to run out of available storage space and soft-brick. There was no firmware issue, any device will start crapping out when it runs out of available storage.

New comment by agret in "Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?"

agret — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:47:59 +0000

Shared passwords is a hard one, they've got you by the gonads there. I moved to Bitwarden and all I did was export my password database as a csv then import it into Bitwarden and it all came across with no issues.

New comment by agret in "Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?"

agret — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:46:38 +0000

I use Spotify in my car over Bluetooth and for the past couple months it has this super annoying bug where you get in, start it playing and it finishes off what song you were listening to but then doesn't continue playing the playlist, it just goes silent and when you open the main app screen there is no playlist in sight. Have to manually re-open a playlist and pick a track to keep it going.

New comment by agret in "Skyrim on Mac When?"

agret — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:50:45 +0000

On MacOS Mojave before Catalina ended support for 32 bit binaries I was surprised how many Steam titles were downloadable as Mac native. I'd say almost 20% of my library was downloadable for MacOS which impressed me a lot. Steam was the best thing for MacOS gaming, Catalina was the worst. Now that Apple are moving to ARM expect the library to shrink further.

New comment by agret in "Skyrim on Mac When?"

agret — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:48:00 +0000

Not just optimizations to blame, MacOS shipped with an extremely outdated OpenGL and Apple refused to update it. This caused many projects to drop support for MacOS entirely.

New comment by agret in "Skyrim on Mac When?"

agret — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:46:26 +0000

Apple have made it clear they don't want games on MacOS. They have not updated the OpenGL for way too long and it's missing any of the modern extensions. There is MoltenVK thankfully but none of that thanks goes to Apple who only push for Metal.

New comment by agret in "FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet"

agret — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 03:23:29 +0000

Mumble is pretty great for low-latency audio. TeamSpeak3 too.

New comment by agret in "Playstation 5 root keys obtained"

agret — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 08:37:40 +0000

What currency is that in?

New comment by agret in "Playstation 5 root keys obtained"

agret — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 08:36:01 +0000

EB Games Australia have just announced that people on the pre-order list for PS5 won't receive their consoles until some time in 2022. You massively underestimate the high demand/low supply for this console.

https://press-start.com.au/news/playstation/2021/11/08/eb-ga...

New comment by agret in "How does Google Authenticator work?"

agret — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:59:19 +0000

I use LastPass for password sync and Authy for 2FA. Feels a bit safer having them seperate.

New comment by agret in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

agret — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:30:18 +0000

Then when you want to actually do an activity like a deathmatch you have to wait for matchmaking and then the loading - takes forever. Once you are finally in a match it's okay but as soon as the match ends you have to wait for the world to load again and then queue again which takes bloody forever. Spend 2hrs playing the game and have only a few matches, more time spent looking at loading screens than actually playing anything.

New comment by agret in "Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through proxy servers in iOS 14.5"

agret — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:54:28 +0000

> This happens on a device with no apps installed, with no apps running. No Apple ID. Fresh install.

On a fresh install you have Software Update, News, Safari, iTunes Store, App Store, Stocks, etc. which are all going to be a part of polling for available push notifications. When a new device update releases you will get a notification about it, even without an Apple ID signed in.

Yes, locally running apps can trigger time-based notifications but all network-based notifications should be handled by Apple's push services as iOS doesn't allow long-term persistent background tasks due to battery drain and it doesn't make sense for every app to have its own individual polling occurring at random times.

New comment by agret in "Calligra- FOSS Office Suite by KDE Team"

agret — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:25:12 +0000

LibreOffice also has a tray icon pre-loader you can enable on slower machines.

New comment by agret in "Yuzu (Nintendo Switch Emulator) Progress Report January 2021"

agret — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 04:27:38 +0000

Modern game consoles have a lot of common library / OS system calls that instead of emulating you re-create those calls and make your own implementation with the expected return values. The low level stuff and shader translation aspects are very complicated though.

New comment by agret in "Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messages on a locked iPhone"

agret — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 23:07:33 +0000

Should read the article before you comment next time ;)

There is a screenshot in there showing it is directly parsing the Signal sqlite database. I am guessing on his device he had not set an access passcode to the Signal app so no key was required to decrypt the local message cache. Towards the end of the article the Signal creator hit the nail on the head saying this is a phone security issue and nothing to do with Signals security.

New comment by agret in "The New iPhone Is Ugly"

agret — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 13:12:27 +0000

The author bemoans the notch on the iPhone saying we'd all like to be rid of it and that edge to edge screens are frustrating. He then goes on to complain that the Samsung has bezels.

New comment by agret in "Personal information and ads on Twitter"

agret — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 13:06:33 +0000

I assume the Facebook message is through a Facebook bot running embedded on the website. It won't automatically collect your data until you interact with it and that falls under the Facebook privacy policy since the individual site doesn't have access to anything more than your Facebook name and public profile picture.