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New comment by pferde in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

pferde — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:37:28 +0000

I tried it on my tablet last month, and it's pretty unplayable. The touchscreen input needs a lot of work, half the time it does something completely wrong and random, like selecting a tile halfway across the screen from where you touched.

New comment by pferde in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

pferde — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:00:55 +0000

I was shaking my head in disbelief when reading that part too. I mean, git's whole raison d'etre, back when it was introduced, was that you do not need online access to the repo server most of the time.

New comment by pferde in "Waymo Safety Impact"

pferde — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:20:30 +0000

We all know it would end up just as rigged and as useless as Google's Play Integrity system for Android phones.

New comment by pferde in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

pferde — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:03:18 +0000

That is exactly what civilization is about - for new generations to start not from scratch, but from some baseline their parents achieved (accumulated knowledge and culture). This allows new generations to push forward instead of retreading the same path.

New comment by pferde in "How I write software with LLMs"

pferde — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:04:12 +0000

Did you thank your keyboard for letting you type this comment?

New comment by pferde in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:10:31 +0000

Sure, but I was only responding to the reservation you expressed about Pixel: "I don't like the Pixel and deep integration with Google."

New comment by pferde in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:36:30 +0000

Pixel's "deep integration with Google" is in the OS, so if you replace the OS with GrapheneOS, there is no deep integration anymore.

New comment by pferde in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:35:05 +0000

Indeed you can: https://grapheneos.org/install/web#verifying-installation

New comment by pferde in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:29:48 +0000

The misspelling of "GrapehenOS" in the tags below the article does not bode well for Motorola... :)

New comment by pferde in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

pferde — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:25:06 +0000

I've had a Motorola smartphone for four years before moving on to a Pixel with GrapheneOS and was mostly satisfied with it, so this announcement sounds rather good to me. Can't wait for the product(s)!

New comment by pferde in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

pferde — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:31:45 +0000

Ok, call it a "special military operation" if you want. A war by any other name would smell just as bad.

And what is Congress - or any other part of the US government - going to do about the pedophile not following rules? Stop him? How? Every potential check and balance has either been defanged or is controlled by his supporters.

New comment by pferde in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

pferde — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:25:24 +0000

Wow, this comment is so bigoted and xenophobic, I don't even know where to begin. First of all, we're far from being "overrun by muslims".

And equating following Islamic faith with being supportive of Khomenei's regime is like saying all Christians support Trump's dictatorship.

Be better than this.

New comment by pferde in "OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)"

pferde — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:06:37 +0000

Start fixing it in Openstreetmap yourself, or even better, get in touch with active OSM mappers in Utah, and talk to them about this.

OsmAnd merely makes use of the data from OSM.

New comment by pferde in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

pferde — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:58:47 +0000

Spell check is fine - highlight misspelled words, offer corrections when asked. What's incredibly harmful is autocorrect, as it slowly but surely causes vast majority of computer users to become partly illiterate. And nobody gives a damn, because hey, we're efficiently saving time!

New comment by pferde in "Terminals should generate the 256-color palette"

pferde — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:13:56 +0000

Calm down, they wrote "can", not "should".

New comment by pferde in "MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings"

pferde — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:30:43 +0000

Thanks, I'm a decades-long user of gettext from both developer and translator point of view, and have encountered several of the drawbacks to some extent.

It's very good, and has certainly been good enough for most practical purposes, but innovation needs to happen, and things can certainly get better. Thanks for your work in this direction!

New comment by pferde in "MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings"

pferde — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:55:32 +0000

Did not gettext have this for decades? https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural...

New comment by pferde in "Eight more months of agents"

pferde — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:46:06 +0000

Everybody keeps saying the models are getting better, the tooling is getting better, people are discovering better practices...

So why not just wait out this insane initial phase, and if anything is left standing afterwards and proves itself, just learn that.

New comment by pferde in "I miss thinking hard"

pferde — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:30:24 +0000

Corporate has been using the term "best-shoring" for a couple of years now. To my best guess, it means "off-shoring or on-shoring, whichever of the two is cheaper".

New comment by pferde in "Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk"

pferde — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:01:44 +0000

Since Signal lives and dies on having trust of its users, maybe that's all she is after?

Saying the quiet thing out loud because she can, and feels like she should, as someone with big audience. She doesn't have to do the whole "AI for everything and kitchen sink!" cargo-culting to keep stock prices up or any of that nonsense.