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New comment by tentacleuno in "A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

tentacleuno — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:34:19 +0000

An interesting experiment. I suppose that if you make things like CAPTCHAs too hard to do, we'd end up struggling as well. I can't imagine Ghost Font would be a good fit.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

tentacleuno — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:49:23 +0000

Is that implementation open-source? I'm sure it's bundled as part of Google Play, not AOSP.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

tentacleuno — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:40:59 +0000

Perhaps the AI boom will encourage / subsidize(?) native development in a way? If it can be made more approachable, then maybe it would become more prevalent...

New comment by tentacleuno in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

tentacleuno — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:38:54 +0000

Isn't Edge slightly more efficient than Chrome on Windows? Maybe it's changed, but that's always been what everyone has said.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

tentacleuno — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:38:02 +0000

I really only enjoyed Windows Media Player for its visualizations. I found that VLC could get close, but not quite an exact match (most likely due to licensing); there's something quite entrancing about them, and how they'd move in time and change with the music.

It's come and gone, and I'm still not fully sure what Groove Music was; was it something to do with the Zune?

New comment by tentacleuno in "Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file"

tentacleuno — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:27:48 +0000

I imagine that the database for the online file association service for Windows XP has been lost to time, but for those who remember it: was it any good?

It seems like quite a good idea now -- if I remember correctly, Windows as of current seems to suggest a generic Bing search, which brings up all the spam "What extension is XXX?" sites.

That could have changed; I haven't really used Windows after 11's debut.

Bell.com

tentacleuno — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://bell.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617340

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tentacleuno in "The AirPods Effect"

tentacleuno — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:14:14 +0000

What was your experience with them?

New comment by tentacleuno in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

tentacleuno — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:20:40 +0000

The "Technology Secretary" is actively investigating it[0].

[0]: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-vpn-...

New comment by tentacleuno in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

tentacleuno — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:06:40 +0000

Many thanks for your link to the article, it was a very interesting read; fascinating to learn how glycerol interacts with lithium salts...

New comment by tentacleuno in "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"

tentacleuno — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:31:59 +0000

A browser engine maintained by AI with less human oversight sounds like a recipe for disaster.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

tentacleuno — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:53:13 +0000

v8 does have a sandbox feature for running untrusted scripts, and it's quite good. There's also Node's VM module.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Cloudflare Email Service"

tentacleuno — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:57:41 +0000

I recall them actually marking Microsoft emails as spam. Not sure if that's even changed.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

tentacleuno — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:29:31 +0000

I assume Google are very hesitant to add additional permissions, and any additions get very carefully thought about. Having too many prompts can lead to popup blindness, which defeats the entire purposr of the permission system in the first place.

I'm sure I recall much older Android versions presenting all of the app's permissions at install-time. I'm very willing to bet that most users didn't actually read any of it. Overall, it seems like a very interesting problem to solve.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

tentacleuno — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:40:22 +0000

> As an aside, I've noticed a huge drop off in license literacy amongst developers

What do you mean by this? I always assumed this was the case anyway; MIT is, if I'm not mistaken, one of the mostly used licenses. I typically had a "fuck it" attitude when it came to the license, and I assume quite a lot of other people shared that sentiment. The code is the fun bit.

TypeScript-Derived Languages

tentacleuno — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:21:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orta/awesome-typescript-derived-languages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086570

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tentacleuno in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

tentacleuno — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:32:06 +0000

It was never going to be perfect. I suspect the goal with things like these is to add additional friction to the process, to make it much harder for the general population to bypass them.

New comment by tentacleuno in "Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy"

tentacleuno — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:30:45 +0000

Ehh, who cares what the snobs think? Drink what you like! I've been experimenting with coffee for like 2 years, and have found myself really enjoying dark roasted stuff (as well as lighter stuff!)

The truth is, you can get a really fruity single-origin bean but as soon as it goes into a latte, typically you've lost 99% of the origin characteristics. It gets a bit wasteful and expensive. Cafes typically go for house roasts that lean darker, and I can see why: they just work better in milk!

New comment by tentacleuno in "Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy"

tentacleuno — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:28:23 +0000

There are definitely speciality shops that sell dark roasts like you might want. One in the UK, Rave, sells the most amazing Italian-style blend with robusta mixed in. It's not fruity at all, just pure dark roasty flavour (yes, I've got an espresso bar lol.)

That darker style gets frowned upon a lot ("bleuch! it's bitter!"), as a lot of people in the space have kinda embraced the more fruit-forward lighter roast stuff (if you roast darker, you tend to obscure them.) I like that too (some stuff is kickass), I just categorize it separately from darker stuff.

I believe some people have started calling it goop, presumably as an anthesis to soup, which is very coarsely ground espresso typically using lighter roasts.

Not sure where you're based (US?), but there will be stuff out there. Try r/coffee or your local forum maybe? Once you find a really good one, you'll probably just stick with it :-)

New comment by tentacleuno in "Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public"

tentacleuno — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:58:15 +0000

You can actually see what users have told Claude to add to the site, too[0]. The person continuously trying to add hash computation features for the course of 20 minutes provides a very unique entertainment :)

[0]: https://monitor.sharedclaude.com/