Hacker News: omnibrain

New comment by omnibrain in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

omnibrain — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:21:12 +0000

The German ID card (Personalausweis) supports certificates and communication via NFC. I really don’t understand what’s all this about?

Open Source Routing Machine

omnibrain — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:51:37 +0000

Article URL: https://project-osrm.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633908

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Phantom of Heilbronn

omnibrain — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:17:37 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566834

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by omnibrain in "WSL Manager"

omnibrain — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:42:01 +0000

Yes, I since embraced pwsh for terminal stuff on Windows. For everything else I switched back to proper VMs or remote hosts.

New comment by omnibrain in "No right to relicense this project"

omnibrain — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:22:53 +0000

Nobody that is not already writing (L)GPL licensed software wants to pull LGPL licensed libraries into his software. I'm not a lawyer. If you have it in separate object artefacts that you can dynamically link to, you should be fine. Everything else may be more difficult.

See what FFmpeg writes on this topic: https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

New comment by omnibrain in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

omnibrain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:25:24 +0000

> It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate.

You can't really blame MS that around the same time screen manufacturers started to switch to 16:9 for cost reasons and cheap laptops all only offered a 1366x786 resolution.

New comment by omnibrain in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

omnibrain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:23:24 +0000

> people who've already come to grips with the app

They would, or should, be using keyboard shortcuts anyway.

New comment by omnibrain in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

omnibrain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:22:25 +0000

> 2010 was my favorite Office UI.

Mine too. Office 2010 was what made me switch back to Windows after using Linux and OpenOffice for years. I found the ribbons to be perfect for my use of Office. They usually automatically focused on the task at hand. Everything else was just a click away. Advanced stuff stayed in the menu. And, at least for me, it helped discoverability of features.

New comment by omnibrain in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

omnibrain — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:47:54 +0000

Try reading Masters of Deception first, to get in the right mood.

New comment by omnibrain in "A History of Haggis (2019)"

omnibrain — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:20:44 +0000

One of the worst things about Brexit for me in mainland Europe is that it became very difficult to obtain real, proper Haggis and Stornoway Black Pudding.

New comment by omnibrain in "East Germany balloon escape"

omnibrain — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:47:22 +0000

It's interesting that this is a serious movie by the director Michael 'Bully' Herbig, who is generally known for bad taste comedies, full of clichees about race and sexuality.

Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch

omnibrain — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:36:58 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/01/online-mod-for-rockstars-classic-bully-is-abruptly-taken-down-after-one-month/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651877

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by omnibrain in "Scott Adams has died"

omnibrain — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:29:19 +0000

His explanation why he endorsed Hillary Clinton was pretty lunatic though.

New comment by omnibrain in "Unifi Travel Router"

omnibrain — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:34:39 +0000

How does it compare to the PiKVM?

New comment by omnibrain in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

omnibrain — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:26:24 +0000

I have fond memories of Publisher. We used it to layout our school newspaper back in the 90ies. I even considered going into the DTP field as a career and did a small internship. But I soon realised that while I can easily master the technical aspect and learn all the rules, my "design work" just doesn't "pop".

Nonetheless, for years after, I was the goto layout guy if a relative needed something done. I soon stopped using Publisher after I "found" a copy of QuarkXPress.

Video Games Like Assassin's Creed Feed into Conspiracy Thinking

omnibrain — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:10:23 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/culture/2025/11/video-games-assassins-creed-conspiracy-theory-epstein-qanon-media.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090797

Points: 8

# Comments: 5

A visual guide to how the Hong Kong fire spread

omnibrain — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:49:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-c9792622-43e7-4b04-8374-2771dce4fcd1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086337

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by omnibrain in "The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends"

omnibrain — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:18:49 +0000

> ?

exactly

New comment by omnibrain in "OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation"

omnibrain — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:44:25 +0000

Morrowind had (and still has) a huge modding scene. Especially because it's even more mod friendly as its successor. A big plus back in the day was that the Construction Kit came with the original game disks. So you had direct access to the real dev tools. Like Unreal came with UnrealEd but with access to an Open World RPG instead of "just" a shooter.

Nexus Mods started as portal for Morrowind mods.

New comment by omnibrain in "Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX"

omnibrain — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:38:42 +0000

Sadly it's just 16:9. Not even 16:10.

I now run 2 3:2 Displays (BenQ RD280U) at home (more in the office, but I never go there) and love my vertical real estate. (No, portrait mode won't work out)