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New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Show HN: Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners"

pwdisswordfishq — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:24:02 +0000

To be fair, those do spin, while "spinners" don't.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "F-Droid 2.0"

pwdisswordfishq — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:31:12 +0000

Even more reason not to add superfluous visual flourish.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page"

pwdisswordfishq — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:30:17 +0000

I never expected to find a circumstance in which this article would be relevant, but here I am.

https://jdebp.uk/FGA/dont-use-self-decrypting-files.html

I mean, basing this on HTML arguably mitigates the portability and vulnerability concerns, but the problem of trusting the decrypted contents still remains.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "I said no and Apple said yes"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:40:00 +0000

People without much technical capability don't use the word "bricked" at all.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour"

pwdisswordfishq — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:31:03 +0000

GNU C does the same: memory copies can be optimized into memcpy, various operations can be realized as calls into libgcc, etc.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

pwdisswordfishq — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:15:04 +0000

I'm pretty sure the interism was spoonentional.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:32:39 +0000

Ah, yes, "fixing" the broken American rule for attorneys' fees by corrupting the justice system even further.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:04:51 +0000

Not that the US ever gave a shit about international treaties.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Navier-Stokes Announcement"

pwdisswordfishq — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:53:07 +0000

He had principals, while OpenAI had agents?

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:56:37 +0000

A lapsed trademark can still be under copyright, right?

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:12:53 +0000

And why would they care what the average person thinks about a merger?

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:53:16 +0000

I remember when it was called Wikicities.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Is Advertising Morally Justifiable?"

pwdisswordfishq — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:15:40 +0000

Betteridge's law of headlines.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple"

pwdisswordfishq — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:19:43 +0000

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-module-expressions will fix the latter.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex"

pwdisswordfishq — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:56:59 +0000

A few attempts using it over the years has usually resulted in frustration and giving up after determining it to be a non-starter.

Past attempts to use after downloading and running it natively have revealed it to be very crashy. Trying the browser-based demo today and doing the first thing that comes to mind (loading a ZIP) produces an error that the pattern language interpreter can't resolve the "import std.mem" line, for which there seem to be no hits on Google.

The poor font rendering is also not ideal, nor the fact that the "immediate mode" approach to the GUI (perversely favored by the kinds who tend to identify with software craftsmanship, including ostensible focus on performance, including opposition to bloat and unnecessary resource use) also means fans are constantly spinning up. Running these kinds of apps is basically the same as running a game...

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Kids go from curious to frustrated playing with AI-stuffed toys, UW study finds"

pwdisswordfishq — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:50:14 +0000

> children’s digital experiences are often shaped by persuasive and attention-capturing design strategies that make disengagement difficult, even when children express a desire to stop or take a break

I mean, it's not like adult digital experiences are much better

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Kids go from curious to frustrated playing with AI-stuffed toys, UW study finds"

pwdisswordfishq — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:20:40 +0000

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3773077.3806142?download=...

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "LLMs and Self-Referentiality"

pwdisswordfishq — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:51:45 +0000

"Understood — I am no longer using any em dashes"

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:34:38 +0000

> the worst thing you can say about a git hosting provider is that the performance of their blog is worse than the performance of their git servers

No one has agreed to this premise. You have invented it out of nowhere.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in ""Enshittification" Isn't Real"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:35:24 +0000

Nothing to see here, just the myth of "revealed preference".