Hacker News: jiffygist

New comment by jiffygist in "Using an old Android phone as a music player"

jiffygist — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:28 +0000

I wonder does anyone here do the whole music piracy pipeline (e.g. downloading torrent -> cue splitting -> converting to lossy) entirely on their phone?

I personally find it more convenient to do that on my computer and then `adb push --sync` the PC music directory to the phone, but I'm curious what are other people's setups

New comment by jiffygist in "Using an old Android phone as a music player"

jiffygist — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:47:00 +0000

>using one of smartphone's main functions

New comment by jiffygist in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

jiffygist — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:47:15 +0000

So where are bugs reported now?

New comment by jiffygist in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

jiffygist — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:11:45 +0000

I didn't know openjdk was developed by Oracle. I always thought it was a community implementation of java as opposed to Oracle's proprietary implementation.

New comment by jiffygist in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

jiffygist — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:30:28 +0000

Does the new episode work well in opensource ports? (don't feel like installing steam rn and don't care about nightdive port)

New comment by jiffygist in "Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB"

jiffygist — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:23:15 +0000

We need unlockable bootloaders on ALL phones. Then many more OSes will come

New comment by jiffygist in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

jiffygist — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:38:32 +0000

I didn't know Chocolate was getting SDL3 port moreso by icculus himself.

Of doom ports I know, Woof! already did migrate https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/woof

New comment by jiffygist in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

jiffygist — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:58:18 +0000

I don't like WYSIWYG on the web. You do a long and tedious formatting of a forum post, then close the tab and it's all gone. I prefer to use a local text editor then Ctrl+V into web form. Which I can with markdown

New comment by jiffygist in "Writing your own static website generator"

jiffygist — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:15:12 +0000

Text is too small on mobile

New comment by jiffygist in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

jiffygist — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:24:24 +0000

Will definitely play when it's released. Doom is my favourite game and I enjoy playing it at 320x200.

New comment by jiffygist in "Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler"

jiffygist — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:21:23 +0000

Now that are some scary looking file names :D https://github.com/3WyUFvDOdCbBw7gOZHwcfgKF/ironwall/tree/ma...

Also first confused the name with Ironwail, the Quake 1 source port

New comment by jiffygist in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

jiffygist — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:07:57 +0000

I on the other hand prefer epubs for fiction. I mostly read on the phone.

New comment by jiffygist in "Dav2d"

jiffygist — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:30:56 +0000

Where do I get example AV2 videos to test it?

New comment by jiffygist in "Optophone"

jiffygist — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:01:46 +0000

Any simulators so I can listen to how that sounds?

New comment by jiffygist in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

jiffygist — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:57:19 +0000

I started playing not so long ago. Here's some good lists of tips that helped me. Although I had some headstart with SC2 experience :)

https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/22257-a21-multiplayer-...

https://gitlab.com/mentula0ad/0ad-tips-and-tricks

New comment by jiffygist in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

jiffygist — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:51:06 +0000

Germans are too op in my opinion. Appimage is much appreciated as the game is pain to compile. And it crashes less than previous version that's also good

New comment by jiffygist in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

jiffygist — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:49:46 +0000

I don't understand why would you ever want to have an empty directory. Besides if I see a directory named "build" I expect to be able to just nuke it any time without consequences.

New comment by jiffygist in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

jiffygist — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:53:01 +0000

Discord's voice rooms with screen sharing is a very cool feature i depend on daily. I haven't seen opensource messenger that implemented this yet.

New comment by jiffygist in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

jiffygist — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:09:25 +0000

Stupid question as I never flied: does the limit include drinking water?

New comment by jiffygist in "Chocolate Quake source port preserving original experience even bugs and quirks"

jiffygist — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 10:41:20 +0000

Cool, but segfaults for me when I try to start a new game