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New comment by tapland in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

tapland — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:02:17 +0000

Binding of Isaac runs great via steam/Proton haven't even thought about if its native Linux or not.

New comment by tapland in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

tapland — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:53:57 +0000

Tldr: Yeah it would make it better!

New comment by tapland in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

tapland — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:54:47 +0000

I've had plenty of use for mine, but I wish I had a library of mechanisms that work well that I could put together to build easily.

Learning modelling is a huge time sink, learning to make threaded parts, or anything modular to not have to re-print everything for changes. It's great but the printing is the easy part

New comment by tapland in "The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter"

tapland — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:25:34 +0000

Is this an AI generated response?

Attackers have always been ahead. Its been reality since we've been permanently online

New comment by tapland in "Just the Browser"

tapland — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:29:16 +0000

Doesn’t Brave has their own ‘Leo’ AI built in?

New comment by tapland in "Just the Browser"

tapland — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:26:43 +0000

Yes, if someone wrote a guide on how to do it and why, that’d be great.

Knowing where to look and which settings are relevant, for yourself, is a crazy ask of even very computer savvy users.

New comment by tapland in "TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy"

tapland — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:32:20 +0000

P. Sure the camera in question breaks in fun ways. From my observations because it can’t update it’s time, so messing with it a bit leaving to a need to update, downgrade, block from the web again.

But it’s worth trying

New comment by tapland in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

tapland — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:41:24 +0000

So it’s more like the top 0.001% who have the voting majority in this wonderful democratic system we all have our life savings dumped into.

What was your attempted point? Or did you not understand the issue that was brought up?

New comment by tapland in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

tapland — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:38:58 +0000

You still don’t have a say and the investor is also the customer. How is it democracy or keeping companies to being good for society.

New comment by tapland in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

tapland — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:05:44 +0000

This is great. I’m going to start making something like this, but with some cut apple wood knobs, for my birds.

New comment by tapland in "Steam Machine"

tapland — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:32:43 +0000

It’s a few games, but a few very important ones.

GTAVs online ecosystem with custom servers. Rust hasn’t enabled Linux Battleye support. Valorant

Some releases that are temporarily popular like BF6, playtest of Battleye games where Linux support isn’t enabled (Fellowship, Exoborne). All games in this paragraph also by Swedish developers. Kom igen, linuxstöd

New comment by tapland in "Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes"

tapland — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:23:46 +0000

I’ve seen a few, 9 figure projects to replace essentially 6 devs and three sysadmins.

Another proposed replacement about to fail now, after half the COBOL devs were laid off.

So if anyone needs a remote openvms/hp nonstop or junior z/os dev :D

New comment by tapland in "Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes"

tapland — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:18:58 +0000

And insurance, and there are telcos still having boxes spinning. And places dealing with inventories or airlines and whatever, or healthcare. If databases helped and it was around before 1992 it might still be running some cobol.

New comment by tapland in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

tapland — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:37:58 +0000

Anyone who’s looked at breach data knows to try yourname+service for any service.

This does help in filtering spam though

New comment by tapland in "Tech companies are firing everyone to "fund AI", spending money on each other"

tapland — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:34:27 +0000

Probably just trying to save face after having to close down/scale back the startup to zero.

You too can be a 1 man startup founder.

New comment by tapland in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

tapland — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 01:33:57 +0000

Doesn’t seem like the same pool if you measure 300 counts/min from their hair afterwards.

New comment by tapland in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

tapland — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:54:12 +0000

For me it's been on and off, sometimes a windows installer manages to detect network cards and sometimes it doesn't.

I think I've been blocked from continuing an installation once, so I assume you'll just have to plug something in that it can detect or grab an install image which has the drivers.

I swapped over to primarily use linux a while ago, but was surprised that they've made windows 10 look like (what I think is) windows 11. When did that happen?

New comment by tapland in "iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype"

tapland — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:58:05 +0000

Creative writing sites without anti ai rules are getting swamped. Disheartening looking for people to read and provide feedback when hundreds of users churn out 40k word stories on a daily basis.

New comment by tapland in "Nvidia buys $5B in Intel"

tapland — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:18:29 +0000

The lastest Arc GPUs were doing good, and were absolutely an option for entry/mid level gamers. I think lack of maturity was one of the main things keeping sales down.

New comment by tapland in "StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers"

tapland — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:14:26 +0000

For me it’s been about 25, but since this is the opening premise, and a throwback to the opening scene I think it’s probably one of the most memorable.