Hacker News: aquova

New comment by aquova in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

aquova — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:50:59 +0000

While I do agree, if the author is reading the comments one piece of feedback I have is the overuse of the phrase "In this article I will...". It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, and they use a version of the phrase three times in the first four paragraphs.

New comment by aquova in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

aquova — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:27:52 +0000

As people have noted, this sort of thing has become inevitable and likely to increase in occurrence unless some changes are made. I'm a big fan of the AUR PKGBUILD system, and I leverage it quite frequently to write my own. The most egregious issue in my opinion, and one of the low hanging fruit to fix, is the fact that anyone can adopt an orphaned package with no notification to end users that this has happened.

It's honestly more trouble than it's worth to get your package deleted, instead leaving orphaning as the more optimal way to relinquish control. This should be the opposite in my opinion, or at the very least the users should be made very aware that an orphaning has occurred. Perhaps that burden is more on the AUR helper like paru and yay (who I would encourage to make such a change).

New comment by aquova in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

aquova — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:08:00 +0000

I can't speak for Chrome, but I can right click a Firefox picture-in-picture window, tell it to remain on top, and it does, no problem. I've been using Plasma Wayland for years now and this has worked for ages

New comment by aquova in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

aquova — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:44:51 +0000

I have such a soft spot for this scene. I saw this movie in theaters when I was a high schooler, and this exact scene with Sam entering in commands piqued my curiosity to learn if it was a real thing. I eventually discovered that OS X came shipped with a bash terminal, and that I could manipulate a computer in just the same way. It really made an impact on me, which I certainly wasn't expecting when buying tickets to this film I knew nothing about.

New comment by aquova in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

aquova — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:34:17 +0000

Where do you think all the supply that the Steam Deck was previously leveraging went?

New comment by aquova in "Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

aquova — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:23:44 +0000

I thought that was A. MI6, not the Americans

B. 25 years earlier and

C. Less of a revolution as Shah had always been around, they just supported him in kicking out his own prime minister (and exerting autocratic rule as a result)

New comment by aquova in "PC Engine CPU"

aquova — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:55:27 +0000

Ah, I thought the URL sounded familiar. This is the dev of the new-on-the-scene but quite good jgenesis emulator. It started out doing just Sega systems, but has started branching out, sounds like the PCE is next.

New comment by aquova in "New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows"

aquova — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:01:41 +0000

The panels are designed to not provide current if no current is detected on the mains. Otherwise you would also have a live plug at the end of the panel. Killing your own customers is typically not a good business strategy, so quite a lot of safety has been focused on ensuring this isn't a problem.

New comment by aquova in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

aquova — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:56:50 +0000

Speak of the devil, I was just looking for something just like this earlier this week. I may have even have ran into this exact project, but it didn't have functioning playback until now. I have a spare CRT in my office that I use for some old consoles, and thought it would be neat to stream some 4:3 media onto it, but didn't want to bother with getting some client box and HDMI to composite converter. If this works well, it would solve that problem nicely.

New comment by aquova in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

aquova — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:29:51 +0000

What methods are you using to find them? I notice my own doesn't appear, although it does show up well under some (very niche) Google search terms. I suspect there's the potential for an order of magnitude more sites than have been found.

New comment by aquova in "Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]"

aquova — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:12:32 +0000

Ars did a retrospective on the Palm line-up that I occasionally go back and re-read. I never got into the ecosystem, although my dad had a Palm III(?) when I was younger. Had I been a decade older I think I would've been infatuated with them.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devi...

New comment by aquova in "People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much"

aquova — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:33:44 +0000

One of these is not like the others

New comment by aquova in "Plasma Effect (2016)"

aquova — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:46:02 +0000

As someone who has seen this effect before, but was unclear how it was done, this article is very "and now draw the rest of the owl". They define a basic equation, it's about what I expected, but the end shader code doesn't use it in that form, and I found it pretty difficult to parse, I can't say I'm much better off in the end.

New comment by aquova in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

aquova — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:03:16 +0000

https://aquova.net

Definitely a playground for whatever I find interesting, mainly game-related topics

New comment by aquova in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

aquova — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:01:06 +0000

To be fair, I remember visiting my aunt's house in the mid-2000s, who had a surround sound set up her husband had set up. It required three or four remotes to work and no one but him could ever get it working. I think UX has forgotten a few generations by now.

New comment by aquova in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

aquova — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:00:03 +0000

Reminds me of HitClips from the early 2000s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitClips

I remember being quite entranced with one that a neighbor had. It feels like a bit of a silly format now, but perhaps it's time for a resurgence.

New comment by aquova in "Video Game Websites in the early 00s"

aquova — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:32:09 +0000

It's not quite as stylish as these, but my personal favorite video game site was the Super Smash Bros. Brawl blog site, which had its heyday around 2007 or so.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071001132450/http://www.smashb...

It was the first time I had ever seen pre-release information about a game, and I checked the site religiously. The game director himself wrote all the posts, and it felt like a revolutionary way to get me excited about the game.

New comment by aquova in "Sega co-founder David Rosen has died"

aquova — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:41:22 +0000

It's part of the strange history of Sega. Even back in their heyday, Sega of Japan had a pattern of treating its American and European offices as subordinate, yet the founders of the company just a few decades earlier were Americans

New comment by aquova in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

aquova — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:31:40 +0000

I see this sentiment a lot, but I never agree with it. Sure, some of their projects seem very odd for them to lead, but given that they are completely reliant on their competitor for cash -- a revenue source that has been threatened several times by anti-trust cases against Google -- they should be looking to branch out. Firefox alone won't pay the bills, so they need to try and find some other revenue source. Plus, Chrome has essentially won. Not necessarily for any engineering reason, at least not these days, but from continued momentum of being the market leader. Sitting around quietly isn't going to get people to switch, they do need to find some way to distinguish themselves apart from Chrome, which again leads to these misc features being thrown out there.

The AI inclusion seems like the same reason everyone else is adding AI, they don't want to be left behind if or when it's viewed as an essential feature.

New comment by aquova in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

aquova — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:09:22 +0000

"Range" here refers to a range of products, in this case a collection of Matter supported devices