Hacker News: capitainenemo

New comment by capitainenemo in "Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today"

capitainenemo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:15:37 +0000

Hedgewars has a mac build. It's at least in the genre... Although with these old games I feel they'd probably play fine in a VM...

New comment by capitainenemo in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

capitainenemo — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:00:38 +0000

Hedgewars had to lock down its bugzilla and repo too, for the exact same reason. So far the really simple method used (basic auth with the creds posted on the main site) seems to have resisted the scrapers. Presumably if they are too stupid to scrape correctly they are also too stupid to incorporate a trivial auth.

New comment by capitainenemo in "A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]"

capitainenemo — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:45:14 +0000

Ah. missed those when reading the intro page. thanks.

New comment by capitainenemo in "A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]"

capitainenemo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:13:33 +0000

The esolang wiki has a few simpler to grasp piet examples too. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

New comment by capitainenemo in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

capitainenemo — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:33:25 +0000

And was still not really possible without some really unlikely conditions. Not that car fires aren't dangerous, regardless of whether the vehicle is ICE or otherwise, but the fireball thing doesn't really happen.

New comment by capitainenemo in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

capitainenemo — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:32:00 +0000

I don't see why it's either/or. There are a lot more legacy doors and stairs especially around the world, than there are people who could be helped with a climbing wheelchair or exoskeleton frame. And there's some infrastructure that might not be possible to upgrade, for historical preservation reasons.

Maybe the tech will always be too bulky, but it could also be rented out on location when traveling.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

capitainenemo — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:16:45 +0000

Requires a good mix though. The parent is still correct. Mythbusters spent a long time trying to get cars to blow up in a dramatic hollywood fashion in various episodes and determined that under most conditions it wouldn't happen.

They did get it to happen, they just had to try really hard.

In most accidents the gas tank will not blow up.

New comment by capitainenemo in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

capitainenemo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:33:28 +0000

You're right. I have no idea what it's for, but I'm guessing for distinguishing between deployment images. I'm certainly not going to get too concerned about it.

The issue with the microsoft account was not unique IDs - tons of unique things on a machine.... it was a unique thing tied to an account and shipped to remote places.

New comment by capitainenemo in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

capitainenemo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:30:06 +0000

I mean, there's a ton of unique identifiers on machines already tied to hardware and disks, but that must be a systemd thing since my Devuan machine does not have it.

But given there's no cloud accounts on linux I would imagine it's trivially changed just like a NIC's MAC

Also, seems unlikely it would be used for any single-signon with cloud services.

New comment by capitainenemo in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

capitainenemo — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:24:48 +0000

I bet most of 'em also have minecraft, but fair 'nuff.

New comment by capitainenemo in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

capitainenemo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:39:48 +0000

Self-hosting a minecraft server is still an option. And tons of customisability there and you aren't turning everything over to a centralised server.

New comment by capitainenemo in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

capitainenemo — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:26:37 +0000

Many rust nightly versions + no clean / sweep / clean-all?

New comment by capitainenemo in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

capitainenemo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:29:47 +0000

I thought this was well put. https://web.archive.org/web/20160301022121/http://www.revisi...

A now defunct site discussing why ORM is a poor map.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science"

capitainenemo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:44:09 +0000

yeah, as the other comment noted, I wondered if it was related to that "meme" of total heartbeats. regular exercise reducing total resting heartrate, but excessive exercise overwhelming that gain with excessive stresses and high rates. dunno. just random speculation, I have no expertise in this...

New comment by capitainenemo in "Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science"

capitainenemo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:38:19 +0000

I'm sure that's the case that there's a lot of poor record keeping, but just as an anecdote here, a family member who lived mostly independently and lucidly until the age of 102 was a regular wine drinker. When we celebrated his birthday it was with shots and multiple glasses. And there was definitely no error. His elderly children can attest to that, and he was born in a modern area with good record keeping.

He was no athlete but was tanned, slim and healthy, walked regularly. I do wonder if excessive athleticism can be a problem, maybe increasing the number of total heartbeats through constant strain, wearing out the heart early and overwhelming the benefits of exercise to the heart. Perhaps moderation is the key (that and getting lucky with the genes ofc ;) ).

New comment by capitainenemo in "In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words"

capitainenemo — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:23:16 +0000

At least in Firefox I can select multiple dictionaries. Firefox will ignore words that are a match in any of those languages, at the cost ofc, of typos that are in one language but not another so sometimes I'll right click and uncheck a language temporarily.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News"

capitainenemo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:38:58 +0000

... true. it's frustrating that /from supports site= but not points= and /over supports points= but not site=

Sometimes HN is a bit too minimalist for no good reason IMO.

Well, there's always running curl on the API. Maybe someone out there has made a nice minimalist non-JS interface that merges /from and /over or otherwise uses the API in a simple HTML wrapper.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

capitainenemo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:42:57 +0000

[edit] correction - I looked this up - I thought they used the chrome version, but they wrote their own sandboxing layer from scratch. On top of that they go beyond Chrome's measures with containers that isolate pretty much everything tracking-related if you use them. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/18/introducing-sit...

That's on the desktop. I don't know about the situation on Android, but my impression was the codebases are pretty similar these days.

Where did you get the idea there was no sandboxing?

New comment by capitainenemo in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

capitainenemo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:30:39 +0000

Yes, the (significant) salary increases happened well after the servo team was cut. In 2020 when that happened she was at 3 million at a revenue of 466 million or 0.6% of revenue.

They laid off 320 people that year. If she had taken a salary of $0 they could have paid them each <$10k with that salary.

I don't think the salary was appropriate, but like a lot of these CEO compensation things, it's not going to make a huge difference to the final problem. Which was people switching to Chrome which google was pushing aggressively everywhere. ... and I guess purists here abandoning them for... Chrome? Again, no idea what the point is here. Mozilla has flaws, so screw 'em?

New comment by capitainenemo in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

capitainenemo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:13:42 +0000

Cite? I think the timeline has issues there. That predates the CEO controversies AFAIK. They did ditch a lot of R&D as their userbase kept shrinking due to chrome growth. 'course this sort of thing keeps coming up - yeah, I do think their CEO is overpaid ... and? Solution is what. Kill firefox off completely, hand internet over to chrome? Basically, where is this point going?