Hacker News: gbil

New comment by gbil in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

gbil — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:04:32 +0000

Ah Phantasmagoria, that was an interesting case with my CDROM drive at the time, I think it was a Mitsumi one and there was a compatibility issue with specific discs from the 7disc bundle, so I buy the game, going home and start playing with some friends - that was common practice back then - we finish day 1 and I enter the 2nd disc and the FMV is choppy as hell! Try again and again and again and I assume the disc is problematic, so we go back to the shop and they ask what CDROM drive I have, I say Mitsumi and they tell me that it is a known issue with some drives and there is no workaround, so they offer to exchange the game for a different one, oh this "Harvester" game looks intriguing :) Fun times!

uBlock Origin stops dealing with Facebook any longer

gbil — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:55:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/about_disgusting_facebook_devs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270977

Points: 4

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New comment by gbil in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

gbil — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:05:11 +0000

Talking about a 6s pro and got at the beginning around 10 days without much GPS enabled exercise, after 6 years I get about 9 days!

Good thing with the Fenix line is that you stop the updates which I did a year in so I don't really care about them, but I do think they stopped firmware updates for the 6series about a year ago.

New comment by gbil in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

gbil — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:10:24 +0000

The title is misleading at least, to compete with garmin you need the similar offering, with swimming/waterproofing being the huge outliar here but also the ecosystem and like it or not features like the notifications.

Very valiant first effort for sure but after 6 years with a Garmin Fenix still holding 90% of its battery (and being able to replace it), I'm not their potential customer.

New comment by gbil in "German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications"

gbil — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:23:23 +0000

You forgot the new US tarrif because of "forced labor"! At least in China things are much better on labor side!

Sorry couldn't resist....

New comment by gbil in "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"

gbil — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:21:54 +0000

The main drawback of anything other than plex is that you can’t simply install it on some major TV brands.

New comment by gbil in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

gbil — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:06:58 +0000

Annoying for sure but on VWs you should be able to add lane assist and speed limit assist as shortcuts on the screen and click on them to turn them off. Again, annoying but I would like drivers that have been caught speeding to have them turned on permanently as punishment for X months.

New comment by gbil in "Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand"

gbil — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:41:46 +0000

I've already dropped sites/services where annoyance-invasion/usefulness ratio is above 50% but I'm afraid it will be unavoidable in some cases.

At least I know what kind of hand gesture they will get first :)

New comment by gbil in "Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'"

gbil — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:56:43 +0000

I got a lot of ads related messages and I can tell you, this site works much better by actually disabling javascript!

New comment by gbil in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

gbil — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:04:54 +0000

More than 10times higher (possible valuation), 10+ years of Musk showing what kind of liability he is and at that time Zuck didn't have all the main CxO positions.

I don't think it is similar therefore.

New comment by gbil in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

gbil — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:47:35 +0000

>Akademikerpension also said the governance structure of SpaceX was "extremely deficient", adding that Elon Musk is expected to control more than 80% of the voting rights while simultaneously serving as chief executive officer, chief technology officer and chair of the board.

Their skepticism seems pretty valid to me

New comment by gbil in "The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader"

gbil — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:14:55 +0000

I hope that at least they keep the one great thing from this exercise, the controls-UI bundle. Looks really great, intuitive and unique enough for the brand

New comment by gbil in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

gbil — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:15:57 +0000

> Now let's work together and improve the tooling at Railway b/c I have always LOVED the service stack and tooling

He learned NOTHING, that is my take. If he learned something it would be to have people that know how their provider works, that know how their API tokens work and above all to have people - starting with him - that acknowledge their mistakes so that they learn from them!

New comment by gbil in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

gbil — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:18:40 +0000

I use an Android tablet with detachable keyboard and works great also with Samsung DEX if you want something more for basic multitasking and there i want the shortcuts, I actually used it a lot, before firefox switched to Fenix base, for navigating tabs, opening closing them really really smooth but then....

New comment by gbil in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

gbil — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:03:43 +0000

If this means that they release a iOS version with the same Adblock features as brave then I’m sold. I use essentially all OSs and I want a browser with basic features like adblocking/custom filters on all the platforms and currently Firefox fails this on iOS devices. Still I believe the Firefox sync is much more robust than eg. Brave one , among various platforms. But then I will also need Firefox to fix keyboard shortcuts on Android which they had until the Fenix rebase some years ago and still haven’t fixed since

New comment by gbil in "Why Not Venus?"

gbil — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:24:27 +0000

This really struck a chord for me. The majority of the people I know - including me - want to be drawn into a topic somehow and that somehow is story telling. People like Sagan and Tyson are amazing story tellers, they will draw you in with their use of language, their voice and pace and will open the doors for everything else. This is how great teachers do it and this is what is missing for most of the people to be interested into a topic, no matter how basic it is.

New comment by gbil in "Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'"

gbil — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:02:07 +0000

I saw this the other day in a couple of apps, I've checked other apps and didn't have that, did a quick check on HN frontpage and saw nothing and said wth I'll update to see if something changes in the app or there is a message. Got nothing, and didn't think more about it but I'm not sure why, is it the "trust in the process" thing or what?

New comment by gbil in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

gbil — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:22:20 +0000

I can find it on my S25fe with exynos android 16/oneui 8.0 if I search for it in the setting but is greyed out. I wait for 8.5 to see if it is enabled then and is the only time I'm happy to have an exynos device!

New comment by gbil in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

gbil — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:12:27 +0000

My understanding is that the integrated linux terminal is not supported on all processors like snapdragon ones and also is not available on all manufactures like Samsung. Therefore this approach covers a much bigger audience.

Sony and Tcl Sign Definitive Agreements for Strategic Partnership

gbil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:23:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sony.co.jp/en/news-release/202603/26-0331E/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588720

Points: 3

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