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New comment by cyxxon in "In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?"

cyxxon — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:58:54 +0000

Is it cheating, though? I find it is more like bringing the games difficulty down to an acceptable level. I enjoy puzzle games, but often the puzzles boil down to combining everything in your inventory with everything in the game world (in LucasArts terms). That can simply be unfun for some of us in a game we otherwise enjoy. A variant of this is that I would e.g. enjoy open world-ish action combat fantasy games, but I really do not find the Souls like loop of git gud compelling at all, so I... basically don't play these games. But AA or AAA fantasy action games with this kind of presentation are (at the moment) basically only Souls like, so... yeah, great. At least for puzzle games I can "cheat" if one of the puzzles is simply illogical for my way of thinking, so I can skip over that part and go back to enjoying the rest of the game...

New comment by cyxxon in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

cyxxon — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:27:41 +0000

I remember a different app thats was used on e.g. festivals where the local broadcast cells where overwhelmed when a quite rural area suddenly had to server 50000 to 100000 additional people and 3g and 4G basically stopped working. I think it was called Firechat or something.

New comment by cyxxon in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

cyxxon — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:32:13 +0000

Now owned by Qualcomm, not exactly know for their open source friendly attitude.

New comment by cyxxon in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

cyxxon — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:56:28 +0000

That seems to me to be a direct result of too many actors involved in the creation of the Deutschlandticket actually ebing against this ticket, and so those in favor tried to appease them and created this absolut disaster of a booking process. There is no other reason for this otherwise, and it would be trivial to sort this out by e.g. having a validity period of 31 days, or always going until the end of the month and costing only a percentage. But that would be too easy.

New comment by cyxxon in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

cyxxon — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:20:29 +0000

I was with you until this point, but 1.2 is bigger than 1.10, because 1.2 is a shortened version of writing 1.20 _unless_ you explicitely want these to be version numbers or something like that. The normal expectation would be to treat numbers as, well, mathematical numbers, and not SemVer, especially if we only have one decimal point, don't you think?

New comment by cyxxon in "Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification"

cyxxon — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:59:08 +0000

Just some days ago I found some videos (not sure if on YT or Instagram) from a young women who took over a restaurant from her grandfather, and she was tattooed, had colorful hair, and was a great chef. She faced a lot of backlash in the rural area where this was located due to her looks, and I assume, this is also a problem where young people try once and then forget about it, or don't even try...

New comment by cyxxon in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

cyxxon — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:41:27 +0000

Huh? Even in Europe most cars are longer than 4m (a VW Golf is 4.28m for example).

New comment by cyxxon in "Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names"

cyxxon — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:12:24 +0000

Just to add this to make it more clear: GrubHub used to belong to the same company as Lieferando, and was only sold at the end of 2024. So in a way this comment is more a "yes, they did it in the US as well".

New comment by cyxxon in "Spotify Down"

cyxxon — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:43:19 +0000

Streaming itself seems to work though, I could just press play on my Sonos system and it just continued with the playback.

New comment by cyxxon in "Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license"

cyxxon — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:01:56 +0000

Seems like an aqcui-hire from Notion is the answer here: https://www.notion.com/blog/welcoming-campsites-founders-to-...

New comment by cyxxon in "Show HN: Kotlin Money"

cyxxon — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:20:53 +0000

Huh? 1 and 2 eurocents have not been deprecated, afaik only Finland and the Netherlands don't use them anymore...

New comment by cyxxon in "A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase"

cyxxon — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:27:29 +0000

Small nitpick: the example "LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (“ß” U+00DF) uppercases to the two-character sequence “SS”:³ Straße ⇒ STRASSE" is slightly wrong, it seems to me, as we now do actually have a uppercase version of that, so it should uppercase to "Latin Capital Letter Sharp S" (U+1E9E). The double-S thing is still widely used, though.

New comment by cyxxon in "ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture"

cyxxon — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:38:07 +0000

Saw this on their page:

"Unlike the NT™, system does not feature a separate Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) between the physical hardware and the rest of the OS. Instead, XT architecture integrates a hardware specific code with the kernel. The user mode is made up of subsystems and it has been designed to run applications written for many different types of operating systems. This allows us to implement any environment subsystem to support applications that are strictly written to the corresponding standard (eg. DOS, or POSIX)."

New comment by cyxxon in "An infinite canvas for code exploration"

cyxxon — Tue, 07 May 2024 12:06:51 +0000

Looks interesting to me - I am using the mouse button on the left side of the mouse which is bound to back by default. That just flickers the login page. Actually clicking the back button on the browser UI works, though (Edge Win10/64).

New comment by cyxxon in "Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers"

cyxxon — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:56:47 +0000

So, Twitter did a clbuttic mistake in 2024 and went live without testing this, presumably?

New comment by cyxxon in "The day I canceled my Spotify subscription"

cyxxon — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:49:54 +0000

Maybe it's you indeed. Spotify shows me Podcasts I should listen to supposedly based on the ones I currently listen to, but... I don't listen to Podcasts, and I don't subscribe to any. I listened to two episodes two years ago on vacation with my girlfriend in the car, and didn't even finish them, and now I need to listen to all this great stuff!

In addition to that:

"Jump back in" and "recently listened" are basically the same list of albums. I have tried to understand the logic behind them, but it makes no sense to me, and could very well be just one section.

I listen two some very much non mainstream media. I do have two or three sections of "please listen to random German Rap, or maybe Taylor Swift, everyone likes that". If they base everything on data, they really should know that this won't make me listen to what they propose, so why do they do that?

New comment by cyxxon in "Realtime Planet Shader: Interactive 3D planet animation"

cyxxon — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:21:12 +0000

Generally very nice, but for me the planetary texture looks doubled, everything is a bit blurry and it seems as if the texture is there twice, a bit offset against each other. Edge Win10 64.

New comment by cyxxon in "Free Online Graph Paper"

cyxxon — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:19:36 +0000

I just saw that a very typical sheet used a lot in Germany is missing in your awesome offering: Millimeterpapier, i.e. a 1mm grid with slighty thicker lines every 10 mm, in a reddish hue, as can bee seen here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimeterpapier - but from there I noticed that on Wikipedia there is already a ton of these PDFs as samples!

New comment by cyxxon in "What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023"

cyxxon — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:52:11 +0000

That's sounds a bit false to me. The Umlaute (ä,ö, ü) and the "eszett" ß are actually part of the German alphabet[1]. Also it is kinda weird to describe them as ligatures of the original letters and the diaeresis, because while this is what they started out as a long time ago, they are just their own letters now (as opposed to "real" stylistic ligatures like combining fi into one glyph). The advice your kid was told that they can be replaced with ae, oe and ue is correct - it is a replacement nowadays.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Alphabet

New comment by cyxxon in "The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays"

cyxxon — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:42:58 +0000

Inlucind a link to this collection of screenshots of his posts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LundukeFacts