Hacker News: prurigro

New comment by prurigro in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

prurigro — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:38:39 +0000

The difference between ntfy and another type of push is that you don't need a server owned by the group that makes the app forwarding messages through apple or Google. You can have your chat server send messages to your ntfy server, which then arrive on your phone.

New comment by prurigro in "Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory"

prurigro — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:19:39 +0000

For what it's worth, I've been using element x with unified push for a month or so now and I get notifications with message contents without any delay. Maybe they fixed the issue you're worrying about?

Self hosting the call/video feature became a lot more complicated though (and it's incompatible with the old system).

New comment by prurigro in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

prurigro — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:48:33 +0000

It generates a few formats by default including srt

New comment by prurigro in "Let me pay for Firefox"

prurigro — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:02:27 +0000

A-Frame is awesome; I use it to share all the photospheres I take with friends and family. I'm not aware of another easy, cross platform way to do that.

New comment by prurigro in "Garmin Connect services were down"

prurigro — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:30:03 +0000

They don't directly embrace open source, but their more advanced watches that don't require the connect app for certain features like sleep (such as the fenix series) are nearly completely supported by https://gadgetbridge.org/ - the only thing I can think of that doesn't work is the weather map. You can even update the firmware and maps over wifi directly on the watch or use the PC software.

New comment by prurigro in "Yggdrasil Network"

prurigro — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:29:12 +0000

I use it all the time to connect to my boxes at home when I'm out and about, and I chat with friends on an IRC server running on there.

Development is pretty active, and the latest release just improved the routing algorithm by having it favour hops with the lowest latency which had a noticeable improvement.

If you're looking for a big community hub within the network you might be disappointed (you could always try to set one up!), but there are a lot of people using it for their own purposes and the protect is far from abandoned.

New comment by prurigro in "Yggdrasil Network"

prurigro — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:57:25 +0000

It can do tcp/ip, but it's extremely slow. Like 5+ seconds for a character to appear over ssh with a direct connection.

New comment by prurigro in "Doomretro – The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC"

prurigro — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:30:17 +0000

Doom is open source and I don't believe the author is shipping the copyrighted assets

New comment by prurigro in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"

prurigro — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:45:17 +0000

Isn't mpv a more modern and maintained mplayer fork? Mplayer was my go-to for many many years, starting in the early 2000s, but I switched at one point and can't remember why. What do you prefer about mplayer?

New comment by prurigro in "The Origins of DS_store (2006)"

prurigro — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:39:34 +0000

That's a good question. I get the impression the system is fairly opaque even to the people working there. I was told it was "resolved" and had my ticket closed a bunch of times, only to have another 30+ copyright violation emails the next time someone uploaded a batch of files from MacOS.

If the person who finally managed to figure it out ends to reading this, thanks for the resolution :)

New comment by prurigro in "The Origins of DS_store (2006)"

prurigro — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:33:56 +0000

For sure! I made sure to have an open ticket with them until it was resolved so I'd have someone to call if some other automated system decided to shut down our services for it.

New comment by prurigro in "The Origins of DS_store (2006)"

prurigro — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 02:46:30 +0000

Google sent a copyright violation notice for each .DS_Store anyone at my company uploaded to Drive for nearly a year (yes, many support tickets were filed).

It wasn't Apple's fault, but it still would have been nice if there was a way to turn them off.

New comment by prurigro in "There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge"

prurigro — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:26:05 +0000

Isn't that how the SNES enhancement chips that allowed for 3D games like Star Fox worked?

New comment by prurigro in "Google Chromium, sans integration with Google"

prurigro — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:46:33 +0000

Are you building on an HDD? I went from 3-4 hours to under two when I switched to an SSD.

New comment by prurigro in "Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line"

prurigro — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 05:16:35 +0000

Since not everyone will click the link and read to the end of the post, it seemed worth pointing out that the vulnerability being commented on here was fixed: https://schollz.com/blog/croc9/

New comment by prurigro in "From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)"

prurigro — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:49:14 +0000

I just tested and it works for me, I'm fully up to date too.

New comment by prurigro in "Distcc – distribute builds across multiple machines simultaneously (2006)"

prurigro — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:44:10 +0000

I was actually just playing around with distcc for the first time last night. Compiling ungoogled chromium normally takes my desktop about 12 hours, and using distcc to share the load with my laptop (with a gigabit connection to my desktop) took a little under 7 hours. It definitely improved the speed considerably for me.

New comment by prurigro in "Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter"

prurigro — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:59:31 +0000

and "tomodachi" means friend, so "tamagochi" is sort of like "egg friend"

New comment by prurigro in "Show HN: Shortly, a serverless pastebin"

prurigro — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:12:22 +0000

Kinda like how ezcrypt works? https://ezcrypt.it/