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New comment by rainingmonkey in "Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95"

rainingmonkey — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:32:33 +0000

The FxTec Pro 1 is the closest I've found these days; it has a slied-out keyboard and an unlocked bootloader so you can run LineageOS or Ubuntu Touch (PMOS support seems spotty).

The keyboard isn't as nice as those on phones from ~2010; it's a bit too big for the thumbs to really fly and sliding it in & out is not as effortless as it should be, but nless you count Unihertz's blackberry-likes, there's really nothing else around that comes close!

New comment by rainingmonkey in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

rainingmonkey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:17:35 +0000

Do you have any evidence that Russian espionage backed the far left before 2006?

New comment by rainingmonkey in "What is a Demand Coop"

rainingmonkey — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:53:17 +0000

Consumer cooperatives go back to at least 1844

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Society_of_Equitable_...

New comment by rainingmonkey in "A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity"

rainingmonkey — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:19:36 +0000

This is the conclusion of the article (and presumably the researchers) but I don't think it necessarily follows.

It seems to me equally plausible that one group were more interested in the craft of an accurate depiction, while the other was more interested in the arrangement of a pleasing aesthetic - both could be considered "solutions" to the given task.

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

rainingmonkey — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:12:34 +0000

Will you produce a keyboard with full size up/down arrows?

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)"

rainingmonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:02:30 +0000

>It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians

Mine owners hired planes to bomb striking miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)"

rainingmonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:31:06 +0000

>with the intention of killing and without being any kind of strategic strategic objective

Wikipedia says "The airstrike was carried out in the mistaken belief that Italian mechanized troops were stationed in the village. Once over the target, the pilots mistook the market's awnings for military tents." (Carlos Saiz Cidoncha, 2006)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cabra

New comment by rainingmonkey in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

rainingmonkey — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:56:05 +0000

> very bad user experience

"To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

rainingmonkey — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:48:47 +0000

The EU has received at least 69 shipments of Russian LNG in 2026. At this point, who isn't trading with Russia?

New comment by rainingmonkey in "America Has Lost the Arab World"

rainingmonkey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:43:33 +0000

[Citations needed]

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

rainingmonkey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:55:47 +0000

Imgur is blocked in the UK, and last I checked blocked connections from VPNs too.

Which scene are you referring to?

An experimental Linux distribution that Redefines the filesystem hierarchy

rainingmonkey — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:07:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gobolinux.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674770

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Exigy Shareware Construction Kit

rainingmonkey — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:18:17 +0000

Article URL: https://exigy.org/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326145

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP"

rainingmonkey — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:18:13 +0000

Does anyone have any examples of using this in the wild?

I have fond memories of IRC channels full of all sorts of bots; the Matrix and XMPP rooms I've seen don't seem to have nearly as many fun automations.

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

rainingmonkey — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:12:42 +0000

You may be interested in https://geminiprotocol.net/

New comment by rainingmonkey in "The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code"

rainingmonkey — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:05:30 +0000

What is the scrollwheel thing on the left side of some windows?

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

rainingmonkey — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:26:21 +0000

"Surveillance Valley" is another excellent book about the tech industry's military roots.

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Samsung Upcycle Promise"

rainingmonkey — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:56:47 +0000

FxTec Pro1 comes with an unlocked bootloader, and a slide-out keyboard for the true 2010 experience!

Compost Modernity

rainingmonkey — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:05:56 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/in-solarpunk-cities-of-the-future-tech-follows-natures-lead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124206

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rainingmonkey in "Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell"

rainingmonkey — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:18:00 +0000

Also loosely related: Redbean is a webserver in a single-file that runs natively on six OSes for both AMD64 and ARM64

https://redbean.dev/