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New comment by clemiclemen in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

clemiclemen — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:03:57 +0000

The ISP named Free in France also did this a while ago.

It was fairly well implemented I think: separated from your network, bandwidth was limited (to avoid impacting the host), you could opt-out (which meant opting out of using the guest network), joining the wifi was automatic if you had a cellphone with the same ISP and it was the same "guest" network for all routers so in big cities, you could rely only on this to access Internet.

It was stopped a few years ago when they deemed cellular network was reliable enough to not need the guest network.

New comment by clemiclemen in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

clemiclemen — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:58:05 +0000

It comes from the GitHub repo description. There is a typo though but this is maybe intentional as the name of the repo is librepods

New comment by clemiclemen in "The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith""

clemiclemen — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:23:23 +0000

A bit late to the party but there is a famous French internet show called "Faux-raccord" which does exactly what this article does: every episode is focused on mistakes for some movie, told by the duo Michel and Michel with some jokes along the way.

Very pleasant to watch :-)

Link: https://www.allocine.fr/video/programme-12284/

Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTbUDA_Dd9s&list=PLAUaCoiUsx...

New comment by clemiclemen in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

clemiclemen — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:01:24 +0000

At which point does a monopoly becomes a monopoly?

There is no need to have a "clear" monopoly like Windows in 1990's to abuse your power and presence in the market.

New comment by clemiclemen in "EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games"

clemiclemen — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:33:46 +0000

I don't if the remake will come at some point but in the mean time, you can enjoy this online port by fans: https://game.chronodivide.com/

You can play Red Alert 2 in the browser, with other players online.

New comment by clemiclemen in "Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox"

clemiclemen — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:14:27 +0000

Biometric or password is necessary for every access (which may be an inconvenience for some).

Basically, the addon communicates with a native application on the OS (the iCloud application on Windows or the password application on macOS) so there is nothing stored in Firefox.

PS4 Emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS

clemiclemen — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299745

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by clemiclemen in "Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store"

clemiclemen — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:52:33 +0000

The application seems to be back in the Play Store. It is a shame that Google can pull these kinds of behaviour without any repercussion...

New comment by clemiclemen in "Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii"

clemiclemen — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:12:54 +0000

This is very impressive but I think Short-Stack [1] is a more impressive project because it is a fully fonctionnal Wii (as in, it works on its own as you would expect from a regular Wii) compared to this one where it needs other accessories to be able to play.

[1]: https://github.com/loopj/short-stack previously discussed 3 months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071826

New comment by clemiclemen in "Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA"

clemiclemen — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:36:34 +0000

The free version does too. The paid version only adds cosmetics, last time I checked.

New comment by clemiclemen in "EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow"

clemiclemen — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:48:23 +0000

The implicit line here is that if there is peace, then there is military security. And the EU has been pretty good at providing that within its borders (compared to the history of wars between countries of the EU).

New comment by clemiclemen in "Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone"

clemiclemen — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:56:24 +0000

Those looking into the history or the user agent, and why it happens to advertise itself as Firefox, Safari and Chrome ate the same time, can look into this article: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/comment-pa...

Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui

clemiclemen — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:08:06 +0000

Article URL: https://stalw.art/blog/stalwart-webadmin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39983018

Points: 214

# Comments: 67

New comment by clemiclemen in "Hello World"

clemiclemen — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:12:55 +0000

The min-sized-rust project [1], which you may already be aware of, has a lot of optimisations to decrease the size of a Rust binay. I think with all the optimisations, at the end, it was around 8kb for the hello world.

[1]: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

New comment by clemiclemen in "Simpson's paradox"

clemiclemen — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:21:33 +0000

This reminds me of a similar story with YouTube [1] where improving the page weight decreased the metrics because more people with lower end connections could access the page.

Metrics interpretation is as important as the metrics themselves!

[1]: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

New comment by clemiclemen in "Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative"

clemiclemen — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:05:07 +0000

I think this already exists for issues. git-bug [1] uses git internal files to store the issues. It is distributed and it even comes with a web ui in addition to the usual cli.

[1]: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

New comment by clemiclemen in "Planner programming blows my mind"

clemiclemen — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:39:16 +0000

This approach to programming is not all new to me (I studied Prolog at university which looks very similar but does not have the planner feature) but the planner is a very elegant and simple way of solving problems.

The comments about video game at the end of the article makes me wonder: the planner feature allows solving problems very easily by writing few lines of clear code. However, how does the performance compares against an algorithm written in imperative programming?

Picat seems to be fairly efficient compared to similar languages [1] but I don't find a comparison against "standard" languages.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2538

New comment by clemiclemen in "Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code"

clemiclemen — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:46:02 +0000

This is impressive and actually looks like a real movie scene. And to think this only fits in 256 bytes makes you rethink how bloated the things we are using everyday are and also how powerful current browsers are.

I am however more impressed by the 8K demos such as "the Sheep and the Flower" [1] which was shared on HN recently or "One of those days" [2] which is a remake of an actual Youtube video [3] (granted not exactly the same video by the second but the style is immediately recognizable). They are way bigger than this 256 bytes movie but convey a lot more graphics and story.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121101

[2]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75790 and YouTube video: https://youtu.be/8T_Um-cw0Wc

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NagZN2kjY

New comment by clemiclemen in "Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice"

clemiclemen — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:04:05 +0000

Changing the search engine in Safari is limited to a very specific list though. Using Kagi as a search engine in Safari requires using an extension that intercept search engines queries and redirects through Kagi[1].

[1]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...

New comment by clemiclemen in "Metric Time"

clemiclemen — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:10:19 +0000

Fairly good article as to why removing time zones is a bad idea: https://qntm.org/abolish

(The article is still relevant with metric time/weeks)