Hacker News: thomasmarton

New comment by thomasmarton in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

thomasmarton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:45:02 +0000

Piracy is justified especially when it comes to movies!

If I am buying a DVD, I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. If I "buy" or "purchase" something online, I expect the same thing.

I'm not always a fan of the EU over-regulating some things but I feel like they should start fining companies who want to re-define the meaning of the word purchase

New comment by thomasmarton in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

thomasmarton — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:41:04 +0000

I'm commenting this blindly so apologies if I'm wrong, but if it's possible I'd try and compile this against .NET Framework 3.5 instead of .NET 8.

A lot of people (myself included) have XP/7 machines for retro games like Civ1 and I'd personally love to use that machine instead of my modern one to play the game.

New comment by thomasmarton in "Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite"

thomasmarton — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:27:10 +0000

While not a dump per se, there is an API where you can get HN data programmatically, no scraping needed.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Enterprise Scale UniFi Cloud Gateways

thomasmarton — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:39:04 +0000

Article URL: https://ui.com/cloud-gateways/enterprise-scale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41103077

Points: 2

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New comment by thomasmarton in "X won't let users hide their blue checks anymore"

thomasmarton — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:06:55 +0000

I still remember the early days of this pay for blue check system when Biden was talking about man parts while being indistinguishable from the real account

New comment by thomasmarton in "Microsoft to change PrintScreen button to open the Snipping Tool in Windows 11"

thomasmarton — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:08:57 +0000

Wasn't Microsoft the "let's not break backwards compatibility for any reason" company?

Coming from software development, we do have tests that insert a screenshot into the report in case they fail, and I'm assuming we are not the only ones that found the PrtScr button to be useful for that

New comment by thomasmarton in "Windows Sandbox"

thomasmarton — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 07:20:38 +0000

I hella learned something new. I'll be sure to look into this after work. Thank you!

New comment by thomasmarton in "Windows Sandbox"

thomasmarton — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:00:26 +0000

This is basically Microsoft's big chance to create Docker for windows. Prebaked images on top of this lightweight layer and shared folders which are already supported.

I'd love to see this happen on environments where you need Windows, but you still want the ease of deployment feature of Docker

New comment by thomasmarton in "The End of Front-End Development"

thomasmarton — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:50:14 +0000

At this point we could even deviate from software development and say this about any job that requires thinking and decision making around a set of rules.