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New comment by avd201 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

avd201 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:42:21 +0000

Nethack4 is the name of a popular fork, they probably wanted to avoid confusing people

New comment by avd201 in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

avd201 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:29:10 +0000

The thing the annoys me the most (to use polite language) is that product design went off the window with the AI craze. You could probably ship actual products that actual people would want to use, but instead everyone wants to turn everything into a chatbot, as if chatbots are the pinnacle of user interface, the crabs of software, the purpose, goal, and telos of technology. It drives me nuts.

New comment by avd201 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

avd201 — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:02:48 +0000

Back when I was on undergrad I sometimes managed to get to the castle, but never very consistently. Opening NAO was one of my go to ways of dealing with spare time but I haven't played the game much since. This is wild tho, never imagined we would get to version 5

New comment by avd201 in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

avd201 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:20:38 +0000

I remember struggling with it in the beginning (it has some quirks in the UI and how you configure folders and what have you) but once I got a hang on it it was pretty good

New comment by avd201 in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

avd201 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:18:20 +0000

Fake until you make it

New comment by avd201 in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

avd201 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:08:50 +0000

How many millions of dollars did this even cost anyway?