Hacker News: chungy

New comment by chungy in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

chungy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:45:07 +0000

Sneakernet was common also. Say you have a class of 30 kids, and one of them has access to Usenet to grab qcrack.zip. He'll put it on a floppy disk and share ;)

New comment by chungy in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

chungy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:09:31 +0000

Mind that every Quake release includes the same soundtrack, it's not just the shareware version ;)

There's millions of such CDs in the wild, both shareware and fully purchased copies.

New comment by chungy in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

chungy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:08:34 +0000

I guess they could have done a public/private key pair in 1996, but doing that over a phone call was going to be painful. A simple password read over the phone and verified by the software was the best solution at the time.

Mind, this was also intended for a world where internet connectivity was not to be expected. The majority of PC owners were not online.

New comment by chungy in "GIMP Development Update"

chungy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:36:22 +0000

the SQLite archive format (it's probably worth linking to the main documentation[1], instead of the very old experimental repository) may not really be a good fit for something like GIMP's native file format. (To be clear, "SQLite archives" are not special compared to any other database: it's just a well-defined schema for an sqlar table, which the sqlite3 command line tool is able to create, update, and extract using syntax like the tar command.)

That being said, SQLite would still be a good choice, especially as it's a format that's really intended to be modified in-place, and has good data integrity features (eg: keep WAL enabled so that mid-save crashes/shutdowns don't corrupt your file), neither of which are provided by Zip. You could even just run zlib on data (be it XML or what have you) if optimizing the on-disk size of the file is desirable.

[1] https://sqlite.org/cli.html#sqlite_archive_support

New comment by chungy in "NetBSD 11.0"

chungy — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:44:53 +0000

> Seriously though, why still publish CD formats when a usb-stick is far more ubiquitous and much easier to actually write.

You can make ISO images that boot fine from both CD and USB sticks, when written to either format. Why "Fix" something that ain't broke?

MAME 0.289

chungy — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mamedev.org/?p=565

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117660

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by chungy in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

chungy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:31:03 +0000

Guix solves the same problem in similar ways, though it uses Scheme as its configuration language.

New comment by chungy in "86Box v6.0"

chungy — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:58:49 +0000

Different use cases than QEMU, honestly, to the point that there's not much overlap. QEMU is extremely good at running modern operating systems, and not so much at older ones (DOS and Win9x are pretty sore points in QEMU). 86Box is extremely good at running old operating systems (including DOS and Win9x!), but modern operating systems are mostly out of the question (you can run WinXP, but https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/faq.html#can-i-...).

86Box v6.0

chungy — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://86box.net/2026/05/31/86box-v6-0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342935

Points: 58

# Comments: 6

MAME 0.288

chungy — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:23:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mamedev.org/?p=564

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313267

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Linus Torvalds Is Unhappy About the AI Influence in Linux Kernel Development

chungy — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:58:32 +0000

Article URL: https://ostechnix.com/linus-torvalds-ai-influence-linux-kernel-development/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267643

Points: 17

# Comments: 6

New comment by chungy in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

chungy — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:05:23 +0000

Files in Git don't have timestamps, only commits do. It got swept up when `git commit --date=...` was run.

New comment by chungy in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

chungy — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:09:05 +0000

Funny part is, that NFSv4 supports SIDs for user authentication, but the Linux implementation leaves it out (among all the other ACL features) simply on the basis that Linux doesn't support them at all.

The FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows (yes, even Windows) implementations of NFSv4 are fully featured with this stuff.

New comment by chungy in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

chungy — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:56:42 +0000

Related: Fossil has a `fusefs` subcommand: https://fossil-scm.org/home/help/fusefs

The DIRECTORY/checkins/ directory doesn't list out anything by itself, but you can look things up by any of the supported checkin names (hash, tag, branch, date...): https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/checkin_names.wiki

New comment by chungy in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

chungy — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:34:19 +0000

Consider Fossil[1], which packages the entire repository state—code history, wiki, tickets, forum—into a single file, and that state gets cloned.

When/if you need to change hosting providers, you get to lose zero data in Fossil because of it.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/

OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it (2024)

chungy — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:12:02 +0000

Article URL: https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2024-10-27-openzfs-dedup-is-good-dont-use-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121453

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chungy in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

chungy — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:46:05 +0000

It was actually part of Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95. It wasn't directly available for Windows 98 at all, but the Windows 98 install disc does include an INF file so you can install it, provided you have a copy of Plus! for Windows 95.

It was also included with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows Me, and Windows XP (both the original and x64 versions). Finally removed in Vista to never return.

New comment by chungy in "PySimpleGUI 6"

chungy — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:29:33 +0000

Delphi and Lazarus are still kicking, the latter is free and open source.

I know you asked for "the language", but Object Pascal really ain't that bad to get around. If you were proficient in VB6, you should be fine adapting. :-)

New comment by chungy in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

chungy — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:44:35 +0000

Too vague of a question to give you an answer you'll likely sound satisfactory :)

You probably just needed to create indexes over your data to speed things up.

New comment by chungy in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

chungy — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:11:15 +0000

> "Right joins are just left joins in the wrong direction, you don't need that crap"

SQLite has supported all types of joins since version 3.39 in 2022.