Hacker News: emsixteen

New comment by emsixteen in "Veracrypt project update"

emsixteen — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:40:58 +0000

How's that work? Got a link handy to explain to a dummy?

New comment by emsixteen in "How to get better at guitar"

emsixteen — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:05:55 +0000

My partner's also a dance, and this is what's always come across from her, too - that you can tell a dancer from a glance in an instant, even on the street. I have a little bit of an eye for it but only by virtue of being around that environment.

(also: ex-pro ballet to HN? Can't imagine there's much crossover in that Venn!)

New comment by emsixteen in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

emsixteen — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:58:54 +0000

That's a much worse interaction.

New comment by emsixteen in "Digg is gone again"

emsixteen — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:57:09 +0000

The legibility of that site is incredibly bad.

New comment by emsixteen in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

emsixteen — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:20:16 +0000

This is the one I use, too. Learned this and the near-instant one, but this is actually really practical and produces a nice and even knot. Winner!

New comment by emsixteen in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

emsixteen — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:59:19 +0000

This has me wondering if I can use my release Switch as an Android TV box

New comment by emsixteen in "Backing up Spotify"

emsixteen — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:01:07 +0000

The cost of rest of the hardware, running it constantly, and 'admin' overheads aren't to be scoffed at to be fair.

New comment by emsixteen in "Backing up Spotify"

emsixteen — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:59:38 +0000

I worry about potential bans from scraping files through this sort of thing.

New comment by emsixteen in "Backing up Spotify"

emsixteen — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:57:18 +0000

Exactly the same here, I just wanna back up my playlists and liked songs, in an organised and tagged manner, at a non-potato quality.

New comment by emsixteen in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

emsixteen — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:40:09 +0000

I miss it deeply.

New comment by emsixteen in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

emsixteen — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:04:21 +0000

OiNK before that, too. Once waffles and what disappeared then I was never 'able' to get on to one of the newer ones… the whole process is some real archaic thing. Used to have a great 'profile' on those others, but yeah.

New comment by emsixteen in "No ARIA is better than bad ARIA"

emsixteen — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:23:34 +0000

I think it would be very beneficial if the browser vendors, together with screenreader vendors and those who use them, were able to come together to actually unify the approach to how elements/these attributes/etc. are communicated to the end user.

New comment by emsixteen in "[dead]"

emsixteen — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:46:27 +0000

I have it pointed at my domains just for basic stuff and luckily that seems to be working at least.

New comment by emsixteen in "Unreal Tournament 2004 is back"

emsixteen — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:35:53 +0000

Railgun trail to match the reload time, always!

New comment by emsixteen in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

emsixteen — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:33:19 +0000

Will hop over to one of these the day that the AAA multiplayer titles I want to play are supported. I know it's down to the anticheat, but I still wanna play 'em. Hopefully Valve are able to push that forward.

New comment by emsixteen in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

emsixteen — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:32:13 +0000

I'm on the hunt for ways (system instructions/first message prompts/settings/whatever) to do away with all of the fluffy nonsense in how LLMs 'speak' to you, and instead just make them be concise and matter-of-fact.

fwiw as a regular user I typically interact with LLMs through either:

- aistudio site (adjusting temperature, top-P, system instructions)

- Gemini site/app

- Copilot (workplace)

Any and all advice welcome.

New comment by emsixteen in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

emsixteen — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:27:58 +0000

… and then the return argument is that those who actually want to do this nefariously are already going to be able to hide device modifications/rooting.

New comment by emsixteen in "LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain"

emsixteen — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:19:44 +0000

Insanely ignorant.

New comment by emsixteen in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

emsixteen — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:36:55 +0000

Source was the game that never really grabbed the 1.6 playerbase, moreso than 1.6.

New comment by emsixteen in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

emsixteen — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:35:35 +0000

For us the combination of WoW and WC3, then later LoL, are what ruined the thriving LAN centre scene across Ireland. There were 12 or so actual GAMETHEWORLD centres, then other wee franchised ones. WoW especially just didn't lend itself to LAN gaming, absolutely sucked the life out of the centres.