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New comment by iguessthislldo in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

iguessthislldo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:18:46 +0000

A year or so ago I had to speedrun turning on developer mode on Android because my grandma had somehow installed an app that did a ransomware-like fullscreen popup after about 10-20 seconds after bootup. Could've factory reset it and called it, but wanted to try to rescue it for my grandma. Used adb to figure out what app was doing it and removed it. I might be misremembering details, but I think one of the reasons it could do what it was doing was it was using Samsung-specific permissions, which Google shouldn't allow on the store. I reported the app and looks like it's gone now.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

iguessthislldo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:32:54 +0000

So they kidnap him like they did with the president of Venezuela? I don't understand how they think this is going to play out well.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty"

iguessthislldo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:07:34 +0000

The Webkit blog post talks about this, didn't know it had a name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Four Column ASCII (2017)"

iguessthislldo — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:21:04 +0000

Going off the timelines on Wikipedia, the first version of ASCII was published (1963) before the 0-9,A-F hex notation became widely used (>=1966):

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#History

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal#Cultural_history

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Suicide Linux (2009)"

iguessthislldo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:58:35 +0000

Zsh can suggest the corrections to commands and filename. I'm not sure if that's what they're talking about, but zsh has been around for awhile.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool"

iguessthislldo — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:27:33 +0000

Most of it is commented very well. Also I like it because it has a little bit of personal character.

  > " Incrementally match the search.  I orignally hated this
  > " but someone forced me to live with it for a while and told
  > " me that I would grow to love it after getting used to it...
  > " turns out he was right :)
  > set incsearch

New comment by iguessthislldo in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

iguessthislldo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:34:04 +0000

I've never used gh workflow run, but I have used the GitHub API to run workflows and wanted to show the URL. I had to have it make another call to get the workflow runs and assume the last run is the one with the correct URL. This would obviously not work correctly if there were multiple run requests at the same time. Maybe some more checking could detect that, but it works for my purposes so far.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

iguessthislldo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:37:33 +0000

The average person willingly connects them to their wifi, why would TV makers go through the effort and expense? Maybe I'm being too optimistic though...

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

iguessthislldo — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:52:36 +0000

Out of all the dead Google products so far, I'm probably going to mourn for it the most once the existing ones are basically unusable, which I know is coming someday. I've always loathed the idea of giving TVs themselves internet for various reasons. The various boxes are marginally better, but the Chromecast felt revolutionary to me when it launched, because the TV didn't need to be complicated by UI or a remote with a million buttons, it was all in the phone. Also to me personally this user hostile act feels like a betrayal because in the early days of Chromecast Netflix's app seems to have the least number of issues with Chromecast. Even if that was just my subjective experience, it was still the app I used most with Chromecast when I got my first one because Netflix was a different beast then.

I still have my dead 1st gen and I look at it with fondness. I'm not surprised the mega corporations don't have the same feeling, but it still feels bad when they want to take away something they made that I actually liked.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

iguessthislldo — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:48:07 +0000

I think they're the same except '.' is POSIX and 'source' is specific to bash and compatible shells. I personally just use source since it's easier to read and zsh and bash account for basically 100% of my shell usage.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?"

iguessthislldo — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:54:34 +0000

I have one of them (don't remember which number) and OLED part is very nice. I haven't done anything with the TV itself, but I forked an old library (https://github.com/iguessthislldo/libLGTV_serial) to control it remotely through serial and Home Assistant without connecting it to my WiFi. I originally set this up for a much older 1080p LG TV, and was able to use it with a newer one with a few modifications.

edit: Apparently I specially have C3PUA according to the model data I added. Also if anyone is interested in this, I can update the README because I didn't change it after I forked it.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall"

iguessthislldo — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 02:52:46 +0000

That one is relatively easier to read, I guess because it looks like normal font that was cut into strips.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)"

iguessthislldo — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:10:03 +0000

This is something I experienced first hand a few weeks ago when I first used Claude. I have this recursive-decent-based parser library I haven't touched in a few years that I want to continue developing but always procrastinate on. It has always been kinda slow so I wanted to see if Claude could improve the speed. It made very reasonable suggestions, the main one being caching parsing rules based on the leading token kind. It made code that looked fine and didn't break tests, but when I did a simple timed looped performance comparison, Claude's changes were slightly slower. Digging through the code, I discovered I already was caching rules in a similar way and forgot about it, so the slight performance loss was from doing this twice.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers"

iguessthislldo — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:28:21 +0000

I'm not skeptical about DSLs in general, but I agree with you on robot framework. I think it has a few good points like how it formats its HTML output is mostly nice, but how I'm not happy with how tags on test cases work and actually writing anything that's non-trivial is frustrating. It's easy to write Python extensions though so that's where I ended put basically all of logic that wasn't the "business logic" of the tests. I think that's generally what you're supposed to do, but at that point, it seems better to write it all in Python or the language of your choice.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Framework Laptop 16 Review"

iguessthislldo — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:42:56 +0000

I just got my AMD Framework 13, which I'm mostly happy with, but I'm in the same boat. It's great that's it's possible to attach these devices to the laptop, but the true nature of this seems to be that you have to make these things because there isn't a real market for them beyond what Framework is selling.

I did come up with something I would want enough that I'm willing to try to make it though. Taking inspiration from some other modules like it, I'm currently looking into adding this microcontroller with a transparent case:

https://github.com/01Space/ESP32-C3FH4-RGB

If I'm happy with it, I was going to try to have it show battery status like some other laptops have. This might be possible by wiring up another microcontroller to the SMBus on the battery. I'm still researching that part though.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "2×4 Lumber Sizes – The History Behind the Mystery"

iguessthislldo — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:06:00 +0000

One even has a watermark and a Youtube seek bar. This was painfully obvious.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Doom for 16-bit DOS computers"

iguessthislldo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:19:17 +0000

I was wondering that as well since Wolfenstein got a CGA port: https://github.com/jhhoward/WolfensteinCGA

The CGA mode is playable, but pretty bad looking as would be expected. It looks much better with the Tandy graphics mode enabled. It'd be cool to be able to run Doom on my Tandy 1000 as well.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "Going back to the old (pre-X) Twitter iOS app"

iguessthislldo — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:09:46 +0000

I think that's their issue with it.

New comment by iguessthislldo in "The many planned moon landings of 2023"

iguessthislldo — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:39:05 +0000

I noticed the Columbia logo on one of the pictures and thought it had to be something other than the clothing company, but apparently it is: https://www.intuitivemachines.com/_files/ugd/7c27f7_149bfecc...

New comment by iguessthislldo in "The Rise and Fall of CORBA (2006)"

iguessthislldo — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:45:07 +0000

I graduated in 2018 and it was only mentioned off hand in a systems programming class in a discussion of RPC frameworks. That was basically all I knew about it until I became a maintainer of a CORBA implementation as part of my job. It's not the main part of my job and honestly I still don't know a lot about actually using CORBA. The only part I know a lot about is the interface description language (IDL) used for code generation, which we use a ton of in another framework that I'm actually paid to maintain.