Hacker News: pteraspidomorph

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

pteraspidomorph — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:13:55 +0000

Just a lil' userscript.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

pteraspidomorph — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:25:20 +0000

This is why we need to rename "social media" to the more accurate "antisocial media". I think everyone reasonable wants kids to be social with each other.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

pteraspidomorph — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:22:56 +0000

I really dislike the font on this website. It renders extremely misaligned at small sizes, or is that just my browser?

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Meta VR Glasses"

pteraspidomorph — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:24:54 +0000

Pancake optics are really cool, very clear and lightweight without some of the light distortions you get from traditional optics. They are worth the tradeoff. But they don't work out beyond 100-ish degrees. I think the Steam Frame is really pushing the maximum the industry seems to be able to get out of them.

More niche manufacturers like Pimax have accomplished much higher FOVs but people keep returning them because they're expensive, heavy and uncomfortable (I think they're popular among people who lie down in cockpit rigs).

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Meta VR Glasses"

pteraspidomorph — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:15:41 +0000

Valve never sells at a loss. A significant slice of that is probably the RAM and storage, even at scale.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

pteraspidomorph — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:35:45 +0000

I drew Vuk,a boy who lived in the 13th century Balkans. He died at 2. His dad was already gone. According to the statistics the life expectancy at birth for him was around 50%. I suspect a lot of our random people would have died early, if they were born before the 19th or 20th century...

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

pteraspidomorph — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:23:36 +0000

You can access page info through address bar shield > connection secure > more site information too. It used to be easier to access from there, but they redesigned that at some point I think.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

pteraspidomorph — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:37:52 +0000

Also, people can and should go to the firefox settings > Permissions and data > Autoplay and change the Default for all websites to "Block Audio" (at least).

You can set per-hostname exceptions if you like! CTRL + I > Permissions

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

pteraspidomorph — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:45:53 +0000

Graphene passes basic integrity, so most of them work. There is a list here:

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

pteraspidomorph — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:34:46 +0000

I suspect that while Ron Gilbert is great at what he does, Tim Schafer was always the funnier writer of the Monkey Island trio...

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Em dashes are fucking amazing"

pteraspidomorph — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:38:13 +0000

It's a stylistic choice. Here's an analysis, complete with a link back to an old HN discussion:

https://www.pbjstories.com/blog/spaces-around-em-dash

I beta read for a popular american author and they started using spaces too.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

pteraspidomorph — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:03:26 +0000

> It sucks that Google is probably using OSM data to check what they are missing and adding it to their maps

If only. Maps are still super broken around where I live. I personally mapped everything in OSM (which thankfully is used by most third party services these days) a couple years ago, but Maps is still people's primary source for routing and traffic related stuff.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

pteraspidomorph — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:30:40 +0000

Remember it's also coming for you:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require...

> The KIDS Act Regulates Private Messages, Too

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Your ePub Is fine"

pteraspidomorph — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:13:47 +0000

Have you tried foliate? Their embedded reader works quite well for me.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

pteraspidomorph — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:17:12 +0000

Maybe because a lot of users still have those games wishlisted?

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "State of Kdenlive"

pteraspidomorph — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:30:24 +0000

I can confirm that it got more stable for me in 2025. Good job!

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

pteraspidomorph — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:43:22 +0000

I had this problem with Facebook 15 years ago. Nothing new, but as always, people will avert their eyes until it begins to affect them personally.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

pteraspidomorph — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:13:16 +0000

And we're still getting passwords changed periodically or requiring a number, upper case letter, symbol...

I'm an European engineer and I can confirm that our tech is often broken and customer-reachable people are usually obtuse and hostile about it. We don't even seem to properly implement our own legal requirements. Sometimes, Americans implement the RGPD better than we do.

New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

pteraspidomorph — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:21:42 +0000

As someone who has been on Discord since the beginning, runs Discord communities and writes Discord bots, here's my list of three things that I believe would make a viable Discord competitor:

- Free without requiring self-hosting;

- Absolutely frictionless community access - here's an invite link, you can start chatting immediately;

- High quality voice calls with screen sharing.

I don't think there is a competitor that hits all three points right now. Screen sharing in particular is often disregarded by developers who have limited interaction with Discord and don't truly understand the platform. It was not an original feature, but it is Discord's killer feature. Because screen sharing is also impromptu videogame streaming.

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

pteraspidomorph — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:16:21 +0000

OK, but you're not the one making that decision and you don't know/can't control how that decision is being made.