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New comment by krige in "The kids with phones are alright"

krige — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:34:44 +0000

> Social Media allowed ordinary people to challenge on a global scale the oficially-sanctioned narrative.

Hasn't been true for a while. Now it grants people with money and state actors unprecedented control over what ordinary people are allowed to see and mold them to desired narratives.

New comment by krige in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

krige — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:39:03 +0000

These charts are seriously out of date though. Five years in the current economic climate? Might as well be ancient history.

New comment by krige in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

krige — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:37:10 +0000

Damn, it's the same as on my luggage!

New comment by krige in "Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites"

krige — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:54:54 +0000

There's a lot of space in air, and yet we have multiple midair collisions every year.

New comment by krige in "How to build a circular LCD clock"

krige — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:52:44 +0000

There's a multitouch function

New comment by krige in "Grok 4.5"

krige — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:39:26 +0000

At least they made the trains run on time! /s

New comment by krige in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

krige — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:37:07 +0000

For whatever reason idsoft has not been licensing their engine for a long while. AFAICT it's not that "nobody's buying", it's that "they're not selling".

New comment by krige in "IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course"

krige — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:18:16 +0000

only for a given value of works

New comment by krige in "Resetting Xbox"

krige — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:59:55 +0000

> Too little too late. Xbox is dying and PS won.

Seems like currently PS is too determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

New comment by krige in "Resetting Xbox"

krige — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:51:06 +0000

Tim S. has this doohickey for Unreal where you tell the AI what game to make and it makes the game! Totally out soon and to be beloved by everyone around /s

New comment by krige in "Resetting Xbox"

krige — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:48:01 +0000

Good Ol' New Nintendo 2DS XL naming scheme.

New comment by krige in "Majority of id software to be laid off by Microsoft"

krige — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:33:27 +0000

Release a single player game day 1 on freaking gamepass, and then wonder why the sales numbers aren't happening. Galaxy brains over at MS are something special.

New comment by krige in "Resetting Xbox"

krige — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:31:44 +0000

Yeah, cool, but right now they're axing idsoft, which was anything but "artistic vision over fun gameplay". What they did also pretty much kills idtech as a viable engine.

New comment by krige in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

krige — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:14:45 +0000

> Consoles are a significant investment, to only be able to buy content from one source creates monopolies.

It used to be that consoles were generally the cheaper alternative to a gaming PC, which was subsidized by the price of games, which in turn stimulated the second hand market as people tried to recoup their investment in games, not the system itself.

But now that it's no longer really true, and system prices keep going up for little in return, it's really the worst of all worlds: expensive systems, expensive games, no way to resell, and two of the big three are acting increasingly worse (the jury's still out on what will Nintendo do next, but their ridiculed key-on-a-card system at least allows for reselling).

And this is on top of Sony outright lying about the reality as various leaks and scraps of that indicate that physical sold very well, better than digital.

New comment by krige in "CarPlay Is Additive"

krige — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:28:58 +0000

Ah but now you're just imagining things when it's simple to check. OP is, or at least claims to be, a midwesterner in his own comments.

New comment by krige in "The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025)"

krige — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:29:22 +0000

Even not touching the laughable sample size for both studies - almost halved sample size between 2025 and 2026? Sounds like a massive selection bias, and not in the way they're implying.

New comment by krige in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

krige — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:23:10 +0000

EU? It's mostly happening elsewhere though. See: Australia. See: California. See: KIDS act. See: KOSA.

Sounds like denial or tunnel vision.

New comment by krige in "Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator"

krige — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:17:11 +0000

Having used it a few months back, it certainly feels like it was made decades ago. UX is horrid all around.

Entertainment Software Association: "Minecraft private servers are illegal" [video]

krige — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:31:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgmtdeBIZ2s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48729586

Points: 3

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New comment by krige in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

krige — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:30:56 +0000

Running old software. Like, late 90s to early 00s. Most of the time I can get them to work reasonably well under Win10, but wine keeps failing (and don't get me started on proton).

Plus, godawful midi support cripples many dosbox experiences.