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New comment by richrichardsson in "Don't be a meat proxy"

richrichardsson — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:37:48 +0000

My mistake, I was under the impression Reddit was the place for facetious "funny" comments.

New comment by richrichardsson in "Don't be a meat proxy"

richrichardsson — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:04:03 +0000

Aren't you clever knowing the periodic table symbol for gold! Actual Intelligence could grasp this was a simple keytranspose typo...

New comment by richrichardsson in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

richrichardsson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:24:01 +0000

I'm fed up of Croatia never appearing in lists of EU states. I'd get involved if they were added to this site.

New comment by richrichardsson in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

richrichardsson — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:17:40 +0000

Same, my D.O.B. is 1/1/1970 for anything that doesn't justify having the real deal.

New comment by richrichardsson in "Backtrack-Free Cursive"

richrichardsson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:10:14 +0000

I read the backtrack free "pretty" as "pretly" at first; it adds cognitive load to understand it as intended.

New comment by richrichardsson in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

richrichardsson — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:12:45 +0000

https://opus-codec.org/

Been around a lot longer than Claude Opus.

New comment by richrichardsson in "OpenWarp"

richrichardsson — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:52:46 +0000

The other thing I really love is the cross-platform support.

I don't have to tweak my usage of the terminal depending which platform I'm on.

I just have to remember to use Ctrl+Shift for copy/paste on Windows/Linux.

New comment by richrichardsson in "XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?"

richrichardsson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:13:15 +0000

For 68k depending on the size you're interested in then it mostly doesn't matter.

.b and .w -> clr eor sub are all identical

for .l moveq #0 is the winner

New comment by richrichardsson in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

richrichardsson — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:50:10 +0000

> Did generated code decrease the price of software products?

I think it's too early to say.

You could argue that if software development is low effort due to "vibe coding" then it doesn't have the same value as it once did. Perhaps there'll be a race to the bottom by new entrants to the market who don't need to pay a whole development team and can massively undercut the incumbents. Or perhaps the race to the bottom will be in quality along with price, but the savvy user will see the value the incumbents provide.

New comment by richrichardsson in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

richrichardsson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:44:44 +0000

Same! Beautiful nod to this amazing demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMFBAOjuMWw

New comment by richrichardsson in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

richrichardsson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:42:34 +0000

This came up in the Discord party chat, basically there isn't a size limit in the rules[1], but going beyond 2GB would be concerning that it's not a real-time demo but instead just playback of animation.

[1] https://2026.revision-party.net/competitions/pc/

New comment by richrichardsson in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

richrichardsson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:50:11 +0000

Not sure I agree with the final takeaway point. At least from a personal standpoint anyway. I used AI images in a couple of Amiga intros, but actively admitted to using them. At the time there wasn't quite the backlash against their use, so now would completely steer clear, but not having access to a graphic artist is reflected in the output I've managed in the recent times (zero).

New comment by richrichardsson in "Apple Just Lost Me"

richrichardsson — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:08:57 +0000

I tried using a debit card, it will not let me progress. The issue is a debit card can be issued to anyone, including those under 18. So that then becomes a useless age verification.

New comment by richrichardsson in "Apple Just Lost Me"

richrichardsson — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:28:45 +0000

This new age verification is such bullshit, I don't even live in the UK any more yet have to be subject to that bullshit because Apple (and a bunch of other companies) can't comprehend the concept that people might want to change which country they live in.

Can't use my expired provisional license to confirm my age.

Can't use my Croatian ID to confirm my age.

Can't use a credit card, because I never have had nor do I ever want to have a credit card.

So I'm fucked.

New comment by richrichardsson in "Apple Just Lost Me"

richrichardsson — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:18:35 +0000

I doubt they will. I suspect the rumours of a touch screen MacBook are likely true and that's the reason for the shitshow that is Tahoe's UI.

New comment by richrichardsson in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

richrichardsson — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:47:55 +0000

Netflix age recommendations are a complete joke.

There was one documentary series that apparently appropriate for 7+ and had "motherfucker" within the first 30 seconds of one episode.

I don't know which parallel reality they're from where that is an appropriate word for a 7 year old to learn.

New comment by richrichardsson in "Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)"

richrichardsson — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:10:15 +0000

Instantly took me back 35 years.

I wonder if you can age a person based on them knowing this and whatever the Siegfried Sassoon poem that was covered in order to demonstrate onomatopoeia? I suppose it would depend how long it was (or indeed if it still is) part of the curriculum.

New comment by richrichardsson in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

richrichardsson — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:53:28 +0000

I would half like to move back to the UK, but I'm terribly worried that after jumping through all the hoops so that my EU citizen partner could come with us and be a part our children's lives that Reform would get in and throw out all the "undesirables" (basically anyone without a British Passport at first, sure they won't stop there). I'm really not sure how likely them attaining power is, but it sure looks like a terrible but possible future from afar. :(

New comment by richrichardsson in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

richrichardsson — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:30:24 +0000

Switch off your ad blocker/pi hole temporarily..

I tried three times of getting insta-banned before getting advised here to do the same.

New comment by richrichardsson in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

richrichardsson — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:30:38 +0000

Isn't the 650 billion required per year, so the monthly cost is automatically 12x