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New comment by monkeywork in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

monkeywork — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:40:30 +0000

If that was the truth I have a strong feeling your wording would be different.

New comment by monkeywork in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

monkeywork — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:56:13 +0000

why because "elon bad" ??

cut your nose off to spite your face if you want but the rest of us will recognize the importance of space-x and be grateful it is here.

New comment by monkeywork in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

monkeywork — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:46:35 +0000

for my use case I think the docker container is better solution. I listen on several different devices so having plexamp send everything to last.fm and use that as the "source of truth" and then the docker container monitors last.fm and resends that info to other targets makes a bit more sense - this way I never have to make sure I have something running on my listening device.

New comment by monkeywork in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

monkeywork — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:48:56 +0000

Earlier this year I decided to move away from streaming platforms and rebuild my local music collection and serve it out over Plex. Plex supports last.fm so everything gets recorded there.

I also use the following docker containers on my home server:

Multi-Scrobbler: https://hub.docker.com/r/foxxmd/multi-scrobbler Koito: https://koito.io/guides/installation/

This allows me to share my last.fm input to both a local scrobbler (Koito) and to listenbrainz - I figured having this data in multiple locations makes it a bit more safe.

Honestly between last.fm and listenbrainz I find myself exploring more on listenbrainz - even though most of it's users don't really fit the same listening profile I do.

New comment by monkeywork in "Disney Lost Roger Rabbit"

monkeywork — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:26:12 +0000

If the developer was a work for hire and never owned the copyright then no.

If the developer licensed the game to a publisher then maybe.

New comment by monkeywork in "Disney Lost Roger Rabbit"

monkeywork — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:24:54 +0000

Is that what is happening? My understanding of Termination of Transfer is that it keeps you from being able to make a sequel to your video game using the characters you licensed from me, but that the game you have already created you can continue to sell.

What the termination allows me to do as the creator of that character in this analogy is say - charcircuit isn't doing anything with my character for 35 years - I'm going to take back control and maybe do something myself with it or license it to someone else to do something with...

New comment by monkeywork in "Microsoft makes Zork open-source"

monkeywork — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:47:29 +0000

Where do you get that the announcement was written by an LLM - they list the authors of the article on the page.

New comment by monkeywork in "Steam Machine"

monkeywork — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:58:23 +0000

GOG is hardly a toy and is the platform I look to purchase tons of games on instead of Steam (which I really like) and definitely over Epic (which I've never even installed)

New comment by monkeywork in "Affinity Studio now free"

monkeywork — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:45:44 +0000

Wish they would properly support linux - the Affinity products are PAINFUL if not near impossible to get working in wine.

New comment by monkeywork in "Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making"

monkeywork — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:33:52 +0000

The idea that you don’t need an app to charge is, in my view, highly dependent on the region. I follow several YouTube channels where people document long EV road trips to showcase how the charging infrastructure is evolving. While things have definitely improved over the past couple of years, using non-Tesla charging stations still often involves:

- Charging speeds that fall short of what's advertised

- A requirement to use an app for payment (even if no account setup is needed)

- Chargers that are out of service but not flagged as such in the system

New comment by monkeywork in "Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making"

monkeywork — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:27:52 +0000

Until N. America lifts the 100% tariffs on Chinese cars, it doesn't really matter if they are equal to Tesla or not in this market.

New comment by monkeywork in "Sora 2"

monkeywork — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:13:20 +0000

Would also love an invite code if anyone has one.

New comment by monkeywork in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

monkeywork — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:42:11 +0000

That reads more like:

- site owners can have protection as long as it doesn't inconvenience me.

New comment by monkeywork in "Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms"

monkeywork — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:48:05 +0000

do you have an automated method of doing the filtering or is this all manual

New comment by monkeywork in "Revamping an Old TV as a Gift (2019)"

monkeywork — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:26:42 +0000

how do you figure they've deleted all their posts? When I click the second link I seem to find a normal profile with several posts (although it hasn't been used since 2023)

New comment by monkeywork in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

monkeywork — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:16:09 +0000

Why does anyone not financially motivated care about how many views a video gets? Use the like function if you want I guess .

It makes sense to have the view count only show views that could be useful for ad revenue ... This way you can be honest with advertiser's about roughly how many eyeballs they can expec5

New comment by monkeywork in "iPhone Air"

monkeywork — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:23:52 +0000

depends which camp of apple watch (or smart watch in general) users you are asking.

the camp that sees the smartwatch as an accessory to their smartphone that does fitness tracking and maybe a few other useful things to avoid pulling their phone out constantly - those people want MUCH longer battery life.

the camp that sees the smartwatch as a REPLACEMENT to their smartphone, they are perfectly fine with the current battery life.

New comment by monkeywork in "YouTube views are down (don't panic)"

monkeywork — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:38:02 +0000

thanks for pointing that out - I didn't know that nor really catch it when he had that in the post I assumed the opposite.

New comment by monkeywork in "YouTube views are down (don't panic)"

monkeywork — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:36:24 +0000

Most people have lived with ads their whole lives, so the slow increase over decades barely registers. Many HN readers have spent the last 15–20 years avoiding them almost entirely with ad blockers, streaming, and piracy. Coming back to ad-saturated spaces feels jarring - like stepping out of a smoke-free world and into the 1960s, where everyone’s lighting up indoors.

New comment by monkeywork in "YouTube views are down (don't panic)"

monkeywork — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:38:54 +0000

To manage my child’s online viewing, I remove YouTube from all of his devices and instead use Pinchflat[1] to automatically download videos from a curated list of pre‑approved channels. We periodically explore YouTube together to discover new content aligned with his interests, which I then add to the list. Pinchflat retrieves new uploads within hours and automatically deletes them after a set period. The videos are stored locally and made available through Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin for remote access. This approach eliminates ads and algorithm‑driven recommendations while giving me full control over content, though it requires some setup, ongoing management, and storage capacity.

[1]https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat