Hacker News: anothermoron

New comment by anothermoron in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

anothermoron — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:47:59 +0000

Sadly they forced anybody with an older nvidia gpu to use some AUR package some months back.

New comment by anothermoron in "Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers"

anothermoron — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:59:07 +0000

Therefore...

4. I don't need this app.

New comment by anothermoron in "Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter"

anothermoron — Thu, 16 May 2024 13:22:59 +0000

In early 2000 I was playing a stand alone mod for Unreal Tournament 99 called Tactical Ops. UT99 provided an IRC client right in the game and people used it to coordinate matches, when somebody from nato-ladder (North American Tactical Ops Ladder) discovered that spamming a specific character to a player in private message (or even in public channel where the player was) caused the game to crash with nothing to show in the logs.

They used it intelligently during tournament, not overusing it, just making a particular player drop at the right moment and probably abused it for sometime before it became publicly known.

I don't remember if this was an issue also present in UT99 or just TO.

New comment by anothermoron in "The Tetris Effect"

anothermoron — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:31:18 +0000

I get this on other genres as well, mainly SHMUPS and Rhythm games!

New comment by anothermoron in "AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)"

anothermoron — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 19:07:04 +0000

I love how they literally use the XKCD comics in their about page.

https://toffeeshare.com/about

New comment by anothermoron in "Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge"

anothermoron — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 18:11:22 +0000

Yea It took some time before I had it available in the PlayStore here in Canada after the release, but the app from this article had updated their description saying they are not related to META Threads.

New comment by anothermoron in "Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)"

anothermoron — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:34:36 +0000

Wow, as a Canadian I always thought that Interact was international.

New comment by anothermoron in "The Essential Philip K. Dick"

anothermoron — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:54:43 +0000

I love that line:

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

New comment by anothermoron in "Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (2016)"

anothermoron — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:11:41 +0000

Is that true ? 24fps is even specified in the Netflix requirements for content...

https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...

New comment by anothermoron in "Part of my code makes Copilot crash"

anothermoron — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 03:19:29 +0000

The answer was selected by Dave Cheney from Github https://github.com/davecheney.

You can see it in the original link to the discussion: Answer selected by davecheney

New comment by anothermoron in "Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?"

anothermoron — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:02:44 +0000

Yea that was an amazing time, there is a website that list a lot of those https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/category/Design%20&%...

I used to go on k10k and deskmod all the time back then!

New comment by anothermoron in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

anothermoron — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:45:41 +0000

Github got rid of her pretty quickly. And guess what ? She accused them of being sexist for doing so.

New comment by anothermoron in "Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2019)"

anothermoron — Sun, 31 May 2020 15:59:43 +0000

I don't know much about Cryptography but this article made me want to ask this:

In his example with facebook and trump, the original handshake to get facebook's public key isn't encrypted, isn't that a problem ?

I may be totally not understanding this at all, but lets say when somebody connect to Tor if the original connection isn't encrypted and everybody know that I just connected to Tor isn't that bad even though they can't tell what I'm doing afterward ?

New comment by anothermoron in "Nyancat on the touchbar"

anothermoron — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 02:53:14 +0000

You seem to have a strange definition for "usefulness".

New comment by anothermoron in "How Millennials Get News"

anothermoron — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:04:51 +0000

They get their "diverse" opinions from an echo chamber. They really believe they get diversw opinions but they are actually from people with the same agenda.

New comment by anothermoron in "John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”"

anothermoron — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:57:19 +0000

> I second this. Its something we can all take a lesson from. Unfortunately I see too FAR many programmers who model their persona's after Kanye West.

Most indie dev. are like that, they don't have anything to show but act like they know everything and that everything they say is pure gold.