Hacker News: skuthus

New comment by skuthus in "Townscaper Running in the Browser"

skuthus — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:47:56 +0000

Part of the fun for me is that it's kind of like a zen garden, but for buildings. I would love to see people start to populate and let the computer decide what they do and what the buildings are used for based on conditions created by the design of the city.

New comment by skuthus in "What does microblogging give you that forums didn't?"

skuthus — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:38:41 +0000

consistent uptime, apparently

New comment by skuthus in "M1 Pro and M1 Max MBP owners complain of crashes playing HDR YouTube videos"

skuthus — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:40:45 +0000

you know that's bad, right?

New comment by skuthus in "Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016)"

skuthus — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:34:55 +0000

it's called the macbook air

New comment by skuthus in "My small revenge on Apple"

skuthus — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:43:32 +0000

To be fair, Apple users only care about privacy when it suits them - 5-6 years ago, it was not a priority of any apple user and many mocked non-apple people for caring about it. If apples handing it to you, it must be important, or so the thinking seems to go

New comment by skuthus in "Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten"

skuthus — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:56:08 +0000

obsidian has a whole number of these things - to what degree, I do not know, but it's definitely worth looking

New comment by skuthus in "Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten"

skuthus — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:03:58 +0000

You could do all this work, or you could just use https://obsidian.md/

New comment by skuthus in "Near, the creator of higan and bsnes emulators, has died"

skuthus — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:54:09 +0000

Thank you! Didn't see it before I posted.

Near, the creator of higan and bsnes emulators, has died

skuthus — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:46:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/near-creator-of-the-higan-and-bsnes-emulators-has-died/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27667875

Points: 7

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New comment by skuthus in "How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler"

skuthus — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:05:12 +0000

I agree that corporations should be curtailed in both their size and power. This would resolve the paradox of speech being free, but it's platforms being controlled by a few large organizations. However, to say that free speech is absolute is absurd, because absolute free speech in this context would require the limitation of rights of organizations and owners too.

New comment by skuthus in "How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler"

skuthus — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:37:42 +0000

precisely. A better way to look at it is that you are free to travel by other means. The burden is convenience.

New comment by skuthus in "How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler"

skuthus — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:23:11 +0000

>the billionaires running the digital tools all decide to ban me, I am silenced.

How so? Are you incapable of using non-digital media to communicate? Are you incapable of creating your own digital platforms for communication or using alternative, less popular means to do so? Are you prevented from going to city hall, council meetings, political rallies, or voting? Your speech as it relates to your rights granted in the constitution remains completely intact. Your rights are unaffected by your access to certain digital platforms.

New comment by skuthus in "Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support"

skuthus — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:52:37 +0000

Sounds like reasonable open internet regulation, like the type that "The Left" has been fighting to get for decades, would have really been something useful for Republicans to not oppose simply because of its popularity among the left.

Instead, we are left with mega corporations being the arbiters of their own platforms, Just like those supporting deregulation wanted.

New comment by skuthus in "Notion is having a service interruption"

skuthus — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:14:55 +0000

Totally - you can also easily sync it with your own service, if you don't want to use their sync service. The flexibility is definitely a huge selling point.

New comment by skuthus in "Notion is having a service interruption"

skuthus — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:00:06 +0000

Over the course of the last year I have been working on building a personal zettlekasten. I started in Notion, making several relational databases. However, after experiencing some down time, I decided to switch to Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) it's a much, much better program, does not have slowdown issues on my mac, is fully cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and has a sync system that works pretty seamlessly. Not to mention that the files are all plain markdown and stored locally.

New comment by skuthus in "Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)"

skuthus — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:50:14 +0000

Also used in Watchmen (2009) to great effect

New comment by skuthus in "macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years"

skuthus — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:44:53 +0000

>I don't want to worry about whether my music will work five or ten years from now

This is exactly what Apple has already done to the iTunes world, music you had a decade ago is suddenly inaccessible

New comment by skuthus in "PokéWalker hacking: A complete device takeover and ROM dump using infrared"

skuthus — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:59:18 +0000

Very cool, love seeing projects like this produce repeatable results.

New comment by skuthus in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

skuthus — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:50:51 +0000

My thinkpad works very well with linux, I recommend Zorin or Arch

New comment by skuthus in "macOS Big Sur"

skuthus — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:54:18 +0000

As of now it says the issue is 'resolved' for users failing update, but none of my macs attempting to upgrade agree with that status.