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New comment by pipes in "A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer"

pipes — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:06:00 +0000

It doesn't reward you if you don't produce anything that someone is willing to pay you for. Who has been murdered for not having money?

New comment by pipes in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

pipes — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:54:20 +0000

Hrm... Maybe I should be using this instead of I don't care about cookies then, since that isn't recommended

New comment by pipes in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

pipes — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:26:05 +0000

It seems to have become a given since he won the election, before this, the coverage of binface in the run up to this election has been endkess. If no one in the BBC or elsewhere thought he had a chance of winning, no one would have bothered reporting it.

Binface has been around for years, he never received this level of coverage before. Its pretty obvious that the bbc's natural bias against any anything right of soft left is why he got this much coverage from them.

New comment by pipes in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

pipes — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:26:35 +0000

Buried in the 3rd paragraph of the BBC report, is a minor detail, farage won the election.

New comment by pipes in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

pipes — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:32:10 +0000

BBC spin on a Reform win.

New comment by pipes in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

pipes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:14:51 +0000

None of those come with the downside of a permanently stored record of my conversations attached to ID.

New comment by pipes in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

pipes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:11:34 +0000

You are measuring only the inconvenience you have directly experienced. Not the impact on wider society.

Whistle blowers, journalists, religious apostates, people unsure about their sexuality all rely on annonimity on the internet.

I can't find the Times article but government officials have clearly stated that this isn't about protecting children, it's about controlling political discourse online. They are now floating the idea of forcing YouTube to give "trusted" public service news sources prominence. Again to control the discourse. That includes the BBC, which I personally have completely lost trust in.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plans-for-prominence-of-t...

New comment by pipes in "Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded"

pipes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:51:06 +0000

You are glad people are dying or losing their homes?

New comment by pipes in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

pipes — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:52:10 +0000

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

The bit about SimCity gives an idea of how seriously they took it.

New comment by pipes in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

pipes — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:33:34 +0000

Don't agree at all. Microsoft originally hoped that other vendors office type offerings would be good enough, they weren't (lotus notes) so Microsoft did it themselves.

Bill gates also understood the value great programmers. The whole business revolved around this premise. this was different from other software companies at the time. Read the likes of Gabe Newell and Joel spolsky said about their time there. It was in a league of it's own.

There are a lot of great things we got from Microsoft, a zero fee platform to target, a platform that would run on what ever cobbled together pc parts you threw at it. An unbelievable attention to backwards compatibility. Compare that to what we have now in the app store and play store.

New comment by pipes in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

pipes — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:44:34 +0000

Ha! This is pretty much what happened to me on my steamdeck the night before last. Login via GitHub or something nonsense. I was too tired, I turned it off. I tried a few years ago and I ended up in and endless loop of login redirects. Totally broken.

Why on earth does this it require a login in to play!? I'd prefer to emulated the OG box version, but that is one emulator I've never got working.

New comment by pipes in "ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine"

pipes — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:16:25 +0000

I see thanks :)

New comment by pipes in "A big win for Android interoperability"

pipes — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:38:57 +0000

That was a good read. But I still thought anyone can take graphene os and put it in a phone and sell it? Maybe there is specific licensing restrictions in the android license that stop this.

New comment by pipes in "ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine"

pipes — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:31:02 +0000

I have a 1660 super and I believe it is only a little less powerful than the ti. It definitely is not as powerful as a ps5. Though the original post is saying the bc250 is. I'm not sure which is correct!

New comment by pipes in "A big win for Android interoperability"

pipes — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:22:43 +0000

What prevents this? I always assumed they could.

New comment by pipes in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

pipes — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:27:20 +0000

Yep, that's what I thought too. I contrast it with an accident and emergency consultant I know in the UK. He actually is grinding 70 hours a week and not compensated for it. He works long hours because there aren't enough staff to cover the reality of what's needed.

New comment by pipes in "Our position on open-weights models"

pipes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:47:27 +0000

School shootings aren't carried out by the government. Crazy president democratically elected and criticised by a free press. Things that you don't like about a country are a lot different than things that will get you and your family disappeared by your government.

New comment by pipes in "Our position on open-weights models"

pipes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:50:04 +0000

Are you saying the USA is somehow as repressive as china?

New comment by pipes in "Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines"

pipes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:19:55 +0000

Ah, right, retro pc hardware running perfect dark natively. thanks for explaining;)

New comment by pipes in "Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines"

pipes — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:53:38 +0000

That port is amazing, probably one of my most played games on my steam deck. What is GL 2.1?