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New comment by fckthisguy in "YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox"

fckthisguy — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:23:22 +0000

A half decent NAS, with Dockerised *rr is the gold standard of torrenting. I never knew it could be so painless.

New comment by fckthisguy in "The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs"

fckthisguy — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 21:33:29 +0000

Adoption on desktop is 100% more related to Steam support, at least in the gaming segment.

Anecdotally, among friends and colleagues, people are only staying with Windows for gaming support.

People generally dislike Windows but are forced to stay their for gaming. As support for Linux improves, they'll be less willing to put up with Windows' BS.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons"

fckthisguy — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 21:13:42 +0000

The VTTES plugin for Firefox/Chrome allows for importing/exporting between OrcPub/DungeonMastersVault, Foundry, and roll20 formats.

Worth checking out if you could support one of those as an import target.

New comment by fckthisguy in "CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months"

fckthisguy — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 23:16:13 +0000

> You cannot have a labor union and still be a successful company. Unions are cancer.

Hard disagree.

New comment by fckthisguy in "TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts"

fckthisguy — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:05:35 +0000

If the government knows somebody is a danger to children, they can't just have kids. In the UK at least, they'll be taken into state social care.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Ask HN: Tech that seems to have vanished?"

fckthisguy — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:06:30 +0000

Because people caught on that it's a terrible idea with terrible (unstated) goals.

New comment by fckthisguy in "YouTube using antipattern to force people enable history"

fckthisguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 05:07:58 +0000

That's pretty much what's been happening for the last decade. I turned off search history an age ago and I've had a slightly tailored (based on subscriptions) but mostly generic home page since them.

It's not a cas where they can't. They decide on this course of action.

On a related note, they already show an (almost) totally generic feed for Shorts. If you turn search history off, you see a lot of Andrew Tate, anti-trans, and "masculinity is under attack" messaging. It's disgusting to think that's what Google are showing to new sign users.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Mr. Beast video taken down due to CSS toggle copyright claim"

fckthisguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 05:01:47 +0000

To be clear, the copyright strike is for a small two second animation in the middle of a much larger video.

The correct course of action here is for Mr Beast to apologize to the animation owner (AO) and to reupload the video with the animation removed. Or, to license the animation.

YouTube should then lift demonization.

AO didn't suffer any damage so there's no compensation owed. Legally, AO might be able to chase this but the payout will likely be far less than the court costs.

Mr Beast seems to be a pretty upstanding guy, so I wouldn't be surprised if he licensed the animation for a generous price.

Ultimately, it was the editor who messed up so the Mr Beast team need to review their processes.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Mr. Beast video taken down due to CSS toggle copyright claim"

fckthisguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:53:00 +0000

Most videos like this make the majority of their money in the first few days. If they get demonetized, they're effectively dead. Considering the huge costs involved, that's pretty bad.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files"

fckthisguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:42:25 +0000

I'm not 100% sure the problem you're trying to solve, but I've solved a similar sounding one that may be of use to you too.

We needed to set env vars on React applications (the frontend) inside Docker containers. The containers were going to be built in CI/CD, and we didn't want different builds for each environment.

We solved this by adding a small JS script that is included in the base HTML. It pushes env vars into the window object, so they're accessible from window.env.

The JS file is generated by a Bash script that's ran whenever the container starts (by modifying the entry-point.sh file used by Nginx's Docker image).

The Bash script loads enumerates any environment variable with a given prefix.

Docker already allows you to set runtime environment variables from the run command, or via Docker Compose.

Im the end, the developer experience comes down to "docker run image:tag -e PREFIX_FOO=BAR".

New comment by fckthisguy in "The Cart Narc and His Camera"

fckthisguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:16:29 +0000

I think the benefits vastly outweigh the costs here. There's a lot of things that hinder people with reduced mobility much more.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Astro framework lowers competitors by ~40% on performance graph to looks better"

fckthisguy — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:53:55 +0000

Only if the URL links to a specific tweet. The feed, and users' post history requires a login.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

fckthisguy — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:23:20 +0000

Imagine asking for 50% Allied / 50% Axis news.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

fckthisguy — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:21:35 +0000

A number of local councils in the UK do for realtime news.

New comment by fckthisguy in "New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes"

fckthisguy — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:51:27 +0000

Sounds like they chose not to apply the policy to you. What would have stopped them, if tiit was something you wanted.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Gandi.net – Pricing Update"

fckthisguy — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:44:15 +0000

INWX AG are based in Switzerland and Germany, and offer MFA.

(They call it "Mobile TAN" which is the phrase often used in german to describe SMS-based MFA but has slowly expanded to also describe U2F/Fido/etc.)

New comment by fckthisguy in "Gandi.net – Pricing Update"

fckthisguy — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:39:26 +0000

Swiss companies have a history of telling the US gov to pound dust. There's a list of Swiss based registrars (that provide .ch domains) maintained by the .ch NIC:

https://www.nic.ch/registrars

New comment by fckthisguy in "Ask HN: Lots of AWS credits expiring soon, ideas?"

fckthisguy — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:36:22 +0000

A prepaid credit card, or virtual card (like those provided by Wise) would do the trick.

Unless AWS doesn't allow those.

New comment by fckthisguy in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

fckthisguy — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:41:59 +0000

There's a lot of trains in Switzerland so there's a lot of apartments by tracks. For the most part, the apartments are just built well.

Plus, the trains and tracks are very well maintained, so they create a lot less noise than you may be used to.

New comment by fckthisguy in "UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal"

fckthisguy — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:18:01 +0000

Why would the US part ha e all of the talent? Are/were Activision's development teams based solely in the US? I thought they had devs elsewhere too.

Might make sense if their EU/UK offices were mostly admin.