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New comment by rbits in "KOReader"

rbits — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:20:53 +0000

I was considering installing KOReader on my Kobo. However, I have decided that I don't want to do any tinkering with my Kobo. The entire point of my Kobo is kinda to be a distraction-free device, and messing around with installing stuff on it would ensure I would get distracted messing with the software when I should be reading or sleeping. It means I don't get to sync my progress with my phone, but I'm ok with that.

New comment by rbits in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

rbits — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:13:20 +0000

Yeah I think most of the people who super into Minecraft still play Java Edition if they can. Also MacOS and Linux still don't have Bedrock edition (officially) for some reason.

New comment by rbits in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

rbits — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:06:30 +0000

As far as I'm aware Gnembon still works on Carpet Mod, which seems like a pretty complicated mod. And he still updates it for every single Minecraft snapshot.

New comment by rbits in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

rbits — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:44:37 +0000

This fixed a lot of bugs related to input. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you can see all the bug fixes from this snapshot, there are a lot related to input.

New comment by rbits in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

rbits — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:42:34 +0000

Well that's why it's a snapshot. It will probably be fixed in the next snapshot.

New comment by rbits in "Just Let Me Write Digits"

rbits — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:42:11 +0000

When I get sent a verification code from myGov (via text message), the message contains the 6 digit code, AND a 6 digit phone number for the help desk. I have to stop and double check which is the code, because I have accidentally entered the phone number many times.

New comment by rbits in "LineageOS Statistics"

rbits — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:12:45 +0000

My phone's bootloader is unlocked but LineageOS doesn't support it (Zenfone 9). I would use it if I could.

New comment by rbits in "TypeScript 7"

rbits — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:41:43 +0000

I don't think that's what the comment you're replying to is saying

New comment by rbits in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

rbits — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:03:31 +0000

They didn't say they were buying them. It is just undeniably a bad thing that you can't buy it without DRM. You can say "just don't buy it", but that doesn't make the existence of the DRM any better.

New comment by rbits in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

rbits — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:14:56 +0000

What do you mean? You mean not on Apple hardware? That exists, that's basically every other Linux distro in existence.

New comment by rbits in "Pact: Anonymous Credentials for the Web"

rbits — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:59:27 +0000

> i’m not sure what they mean about agents, however. would this mean a human generates legitimate traffic, and that goodwill can then be utilised by a browser agent?

I feel like this is explained in the article:

> AI agents acting on behalf of a user slot into the same flow. An agent can carry its user’s Credentials, in which case the user remains accountable for how the agent behaves. Sites would not need to grant any more access than they would to the user themselves. Alternatively, the operator of an agent can run its own Anchor and vouch for its agents the way other Anchors vouch for human users. Sites retain control over which Anchors they accept, so they can choose how to treat agent traffic without needing a separate detection mechanism.

So there are 2 things that could happen, depending on how the agent works.

1: An Anchor gives the user Credentials, with personhood verified by e.g. the user's phone number. The agent can then use that to act like a normal user.

2: The operator of the Agent (OpenAI, Google, etc.) acts as the Anchor themselves. That Anchor gives the agent its own separate Credentials, maybe with personhood verified by the user's paid subscription or something. This approach would allow Moderators to block agents, if they wanted.

> and will it be possible to host your own Moderator?

Yes. They say that the website itself can be the Moderator > In the common case the site itself plays the Moderator role, so there’s no new entity or trust boundary.

New comment by rbits in "Deno Desktop"

rbits — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:45:00 +0000

What do you mean by that? Does this[1] not count?

[1] https://capacitorjs.com/

New comment by rbits in "Epic Games announces Lore version control system"

rbits — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:37:36 +0000

I definitely have. But they're all the games that they gave out in the early days, the more recent games haven't really appealed to me. And it didn't convince me to spend any money, I still haven't spent a single cent on anything Epic Games.

New comment by rbits in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

rbits — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:13:49 +0000

Yep. I know the Minecraft optimisation mod Sodium has encountered some issues because Nvidia drivers try to optimise the game in ways that can cause issues for them

New comment by rbits in "Siri AI"

rbits — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:21:40 +0000

Oh damn I didn't realise it sent all this to the cloud. That seems kinda concerning.

New comment by rbits in "Google changes its search box"

rbits — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:52:15 +0000

Go to Google right now and search anything. What is the very first thing you see?

New comment by rbits in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

rbits — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:28:40 +0000

Well they'd just release it under a non-commercial license. The majority of their income comes from Obsidian Sync, and someone can't just host their own version of Obsidian Sync for all the Obsidian users for free. And there are already self-hosted alternatives to Obsidian Sync, in fact Obsidian even endorses them themselves[1].

As for their other paid service, Obsidian Publish, since all Obsidian notes are in plain markdown there are already many free alternatives.

So open sourcing would not harm any of those income streams. It's not about Obsidian losing profit. If you want to read the actual reasons they have decided not to open source Obsidian, they have talked about it on their forums[2]

[1] https://obsidian.md/help/sync-notes [2] https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/1...

New comment by rbits in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

rbits — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:41:05 +0000

So then you just only play it with trusted friends. It's still better than the current situation

New comment by rbits in "The vi family"

rbits — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:04:39 +0000

I really want to use Helix, it clicks with me so much more. But I do not want to learn how to use Helix for development. I want to be able to continue using VSCode. And last I checked, the VSCode extension was not very good. I also use Vim keybindings in Obsidian.

The moment VSCode and Obsidian support improves, I am switching immediately.

New comment by rbits in "The vi family"

rbits — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:58:29 +0000

Well that's one extra key press for every action. For example, you have to do `ved` to delete the current word instead of `de`. Whereas in Helix it's just `ed`.

Also visual mode doesn't work the same. If I want to delete up to the next word normally I do `dw`, but if I do `vwd` then I also delete the first letter of the next word. I guess in visual mode you'd have to do `vwhd` or `vawd`? Which is 4 keypresses instead of 2, which isn't great for something that I do all the time.