Hacker News: coldacid

New comment by coldacid in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

coldacid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:39:08 +0000

You can always use a distro that doesn't use systemd or roll your own. Sure you lose the GNOME desktop environment, but if you ask me that's a net positive.

New comment by coldacid in "Dinit, the init system systemd should have been"

coldacid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:08:58 +0000

systemd is not monolithic in the same way that a brick wall is not monolithic. Sure it's made up of a bunch of smaller parts, but when you start removing any of them, the whole thing starts to fall apart.

New comment by coldacid in "Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot"

coldacid — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:14:17 +0000

Qt?

New comment by coldacid in "Leaving Arizona – the Story of the Motorola 6800 part 2 and creation of the 6502"

coldacid — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:16:29 +0000

>I couldn't see a 16-32 bit story. It's like it hit the spot, and stopped growing.

And yet WDC (Bill Mensch's company post-Commodore) put out the 65816, a 16-bit expansion of the 6502 that was the core of the Super Nintendo. So it still grew even if not to 32-bit level.

New comment by coldacid in "Ask HN: What do you feel about ditching Steam for GOG?"

coldacid — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:05:17 +0000

Steam's end of service on Windows 7 and 8 is based on CEF, just as it was for XP and Vista. I don't see Google/Chromium dropping Windows 10 support at Microsoft's EOL especially given how much market share Win10 still has -- it would be shooting themselves in the foot.

In the meantime, instead of ditching Steam, ditch Windows. Steam works amazing on Linux, and with Proton, the vast majority of Windows games Just Work(TM). You don't even need SteamOS (although it helps).

New comment by coldacid in "Commodore Bookmarks"

coldacid — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:01:45 +0000

That's a shame, because there's a lot more to Commodore than just the 64 (even if that _was_ the best microcomputer of all time).

New comment by coldacid in "Commodore Bookmarks"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:59:17 +0000

No link to EAB?[0] Amiga Future?[1]

[0]: https://eab.abime.net/

[1]: https://www.amigafuture.de/

New comment by coldacid in "Ask HN: What do you feel about ditching Steam for GOG?"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:16:51 +0000

In other words, you're simply making an _assumption_ that Valve will instantly drop support at Microsoft's EOL date.

New comment by coldacid in "Modest: A fast HTML renderer implemented as a pure C99 library"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:11:19 +0000

Project is deprecated in favour of the same developer's lexbor project[0].

[0]: https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor

New comment by coldacid in "Ask HN: What do you feel about ditching Steam for GOG?"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:16:05 +0000

This is the first I'm hearing that Steam's dropping Windows 10 support, got a source on this?

New comment by coldacid in "Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:10:24 +0000

We really do.

New comment by coldacid in "Ancient City Found in the Amazon"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:09:54 +0000

How can they just claim the city's been "found" when it's been known about for half a century? All they did (that's relevant to the article) is a recent LIDAR survey of a site they've been digging on for 25 years.

New comment by coldacid in "Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:36:08 +0000

HTTP(S)-only _is_ the limit.

New comment by coldacid in "Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:31:57 +0000

Nobody has ever accused Cogent of being reasonable or competent.

New comment by coldacid in "Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC"

coldacid — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:13:08 +0000

Yeah but there's nothing saying that you have to support _every_ platform Unity runs on if you offer some package extending the engine.

New comment by coldacid in "Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim"

coldacid — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:41:58 +0000

>I’d expect that if the maker undertook a thorough and well-documented search for the rights holder; then just made it anyway, they’d legally be covered

In a sane, rational world that would probably be the case. Too bad we don't live on one!

New comment by coldacid in "RIP Microsoft WordPad"

coldacid — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:35:44 +0000

And an MFC demo application.

New comment by coldacid in "Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs"

coldacid — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:47:47 +0000

Because you bought a closed-source device by which you surrendered your privacy to whatever the source-controlling company wants.

New comment by coldacid in "Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes"

coldacid — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:43:16 +0000

Any hints on what's next? Smalltalk, perhaps, or HyperCard, or maybe NeXTSTEP Interface Builder?

New comment by coldacid in "Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes"

coldacid — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:18:29 +0000

There are so many quality of life improvements I could make for myself if only Pipes was still around. Nothing I've encountered since has ever matched or beat it.