Hacker News: samplifier

New comment by samplifier in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

samplifier — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:36:03 +0000

Indeed, and then after school care because both parents are still working until 6 pm, quietly eat dinner, watch cocomelon, and then to bed. Horror.

New comment by samplifier in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

samplifier — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:17:46 +0000

Bullet hell, or rather bullet heaven. TA was the first game where I saw the PC struggle during big battles and it was a pleasant experience, unlike the lag in multiplayer games where I mainly played against people across the pond.

New comment by samplifier in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

samplifier — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:27:34 +0000

Eye opener. Thanks for the warning! GrapheneOS sandboxes all apps including GSF as far as I understand. It would be nice if full capabilities could be exposed or at least shown in the app settings. There is the "All permissions" view which has a "have full network access" item with the following details: `Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.` Does this mean the app has this permission and even without it can fully access the internet? If so the primary "network" permission is very misleading. I wish for a smartphone-like device which installs apps with `cap_drop: ALL` by default. I wish for a government which would support such a standpoint and "assist" companies not able to provide a service which require intrusive data gathering. Either that or we're all just one big happy family with no secrets and no jealousy and no drama. sigh

New comment by samplifier in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

samplifier — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:52:48 +0000

I think rather than "incompatible" the issue lies in equality/equity. Too many people are being manipulated.

New comment by samplifier in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

samplifier — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:26:19 +0000

Are there enough of us to run our own country? It makes me feel dumb, but this is a serious question.

New comment by samplifier in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

samplifier — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:04:30 +0000

Because the concepts of freedom and security are not universal.

New comment by samplifier in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

samplifier — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:55:19 +0000

Battlestar Galactica opened my eyes to this problem more than electronic warfare in games of the day did. It's freaky (read: terrifying) that we're getting to a point that people are starting to take "embedded information (and decision)" systems serious enough to deploy them into meat space.

New comment by samplifier in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

samplifier — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:06:36 +0000

Duke Nukem 3D had bouncy pixels that made it "tickle down there". Also: monochrome women "eating bananas".

New comment by samplifier in "Men who stare at walls"

samplifier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:29:53 +0000

Oh this reminds me of The way of Zen by Alan Watts.

New comment by samplifier in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

samplifier — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:07:11 +0000

Proving* that the KYC implementation is bogus as it relies on GSF. *Probably.

New comment by samplifier in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

samplifier — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:23:50 +0000

def reallyDumbIdeaByManagerWorkaroundMethodToGetCoverageToNinetyPercent(self): """Dont worry, this is a clear description of the method. """ return False

New comment by samplifier in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

samplifier — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:12:40 +0000

Thanks! That was fun. I think I got on top of most things with some glitch exploiting save for the green water tower next to the secret person. I got to the UFO but it didn't trigger a secret sequence with the sunbathing space-person. I also got into the sewer pipe but I didn't find any more secrets there. Maybe we need to combine our powers and do the secret emoji sequence. Or maybe spin the sigils in the title sequence to enable cheat mode. :-)

New comment by samplifier in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

samplifier — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:14:37 +0000

A bit nauseous on mobile here too. I think it was mainly due to low frame rates and the controls not quite doing that I was expecting them to do.

New comment by samplifier in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

samplifier — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:02:47 +0000

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New comment by samplifier in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

samplifier — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:32:45 +0000

I'm a recovering completionist. Don't do this to me! I've been trying to find a secret area by walking on the pipes but that is probably a red herring. But why is there a gauge there? I also haven't found the girl on the roof yet, multi-wall jumping doesn't seem to work :)

SPOILERS AHEAD (for another game, which you should have played by now, if you enjoy this game, in my opinion) There's also a hiss at the industrial site which reminds me of the game Full Throttle where you have to kick the wall at the right time. But that can't be a thing, right? But the gauge!

New comment by samplifier in "Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users"

samplifier — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:57:13 +0000

Ignore above. Brainfarted. It doesn't work.

New comment by samplifier in "Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users"

samplifier — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:44:00 +0000

I've noticed that Old Reddit still supports RSS feeds without returning a 403 error. This is in contrast to the main site, which often blocks RSS requests.

Here are some DNS details:

The main Reddit site (www.reddit.com) uses Fastly. Old Reddit (old.reddit.com) also uses Fastly. However, the "vomit" address (which often returns 403s for RSS requests) uses AWS DNS. Is Old Reddit not behind Cloudflare, or is there another reason why it handles RSS requests differently?