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Comkidon Teens are rewriting what is possible in the world of competitive Tetris

My favourite is tetr.js which is open source and has seen multiple forks over the years.

The latest I’m aware of is [0].

[0] https://doktorocelot.com/tetr.js/

Comkidon Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux

Yes, but currently they're defaulting to XWayland when running under Wayland.

You can set `MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1` in your environment to launch Firefox under Wayland natively.

You can check what window protocol your Firefox at `about:support` (Window Support).

Comkidon Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

Brave Search already has bangs, they imported them from DDG. I believe they’ve changed some of them though

Comkidon Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

I played Fall Guys on release on Linux, it worked quite well. Came back a couple of months later to it just blackscreening on launch and I realized they had added EAC sadly. This is great news

Comkidon Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings

As an extensive ranger user, some of the features which lead to me not even running a graphical file manager:

> Using ranger to change directories (see: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Integration-with-other...)

> Launch ranger using a keybinding from my shell (`bind` or `~/.inputrc` for bash, `bindkey` for zsh), which when combined with the previous technique allows me to very quickly switch folders (also combined with bookmarks) and get my bearings

> `:filter` to filter the items in the current folder (supports regex and has a live preview which updates as you type, can get laggy in large folders)

> `:flat` to flatten directory structures (-1 for infinite depth)

> `m<key>` to bookmark something, which you can jump to with `'<key>` (apostrophe)

> `om` to sort by last modification time, `os` to sort by size

> `dc` to recursively find the size of a directory (can be slow)

> `C-n` to create new tabs and `gt`/`gT` to switch back and forth between tabs which can be useful for copying/moving files

Comkidon Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?

For my backups, I use rclone with Backblaze B2 and Google Cloud Storage (Nearline) using Crypt (with the same password and password2 for both B2 and GCS). This gives me the benefit of file level encryption, with filename encryption too. In my case, I'd rather not use encrypted archives in case a bit got flipped and rendered my archive useless.

I have a systemd timer to run (incremental) backups every 3 hours, and I plan on setting up a mechanism to automatically verify all of my data that has been uploaded.

Comkidon How to shoot on iPhone 7

Running Chrome on Linux, videos play fine for me, they're just MP4 videos with HTML5 video controls.

Comkidon Arch Linux: Myth and Reality (2015)

I definitely agree the articles related to bootloaders can be very hard to read

If you want to use GRUB and UEFI, my recommendation is follow the headings up until the end of Installation

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#UEFI_systems

Then you just need to generate the config

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Generate_the_main_...

The partition you're referring to is explained here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition

Comkidon Show HN: Smart bookmarks extension

This seems to be the exact same as this Chrome extension: https://dragdis.com/ I might be wrong, but there don't seem to be any real differences or improvements compared to Dragdis.

Comkidon Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments

I think this would result in a worse off situation because by allowing users with X karma to remove comments and prevent other users from commenting, it is effectively censoring them.

Comkidon Show HN: Crushify.org

http://www.downapp.com/

There are more examples of apps just like this that came before (this is the only one that comes to mind at the moment), the only way I would be remotely interested is if they figured a way to solve the inherent problem of selecting all/some of your friends as crushes to see who had you as a crush, and then what happens when someone legitimately adds the person who was just checking everyone's crushes.

Comkidon What to tell noobs who want to "learn coding"?

I always tell people to find a problem to solve and learn coding on the way, rather than thinking of learning to code as an end goal, to more so think of it as another tool to problem solve, which you can learn how to use on your journey to build something to solve the initial problem.

Comkidon Poll: Was one of your parents a programmer?

One of my parents was a programmer but over time had forgotten all they knew about it so they had no influence on me. I learned to program of my own accord due to an interest in computers since I was young.

Comkidon Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy

using always-online DRM to stop piracy: losing the whole of SimCity's customer base using irony to teach pirates not to pirate: priceless

Comkidon Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?

Ah, turns out it is one-time.

Comkidon Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?

"Rather than having a daily list" I check this very regularly, based on the amount of feed items displayed on the icon. And it's hard to tell, but I do end up reading quite a wide variety of articles some days, other days, I just open the interesting ones, but it's just a sensory overload so on those days, I just end up just opening tabs and leaving them there to read in the future.

Comkidon Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?

That's Feeder Pro, Feeder, the Chrome extension, is free.

Comkidon Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?

Rather than having a daily list, I use Feeder (Chrome extension: http://feeder.co/) to read my RSS feeds, I had always preferred it to Google Reader, I never did get myself into the mantra of checking Reader often (it ended up being once every few months, when I randomly remembered) ; however Feeder is nice in its minimalistic approach, just showing me how many items for each feed, which encourages me to zero it out, although unlike Reader it just shows the titles of RSS feed items, so I end up judging whether or not to read an article based on the title.

A few feeds I follow:

News

* Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss [a lot of the posts are repeated over both, and note these are not necessarily the front page posts, my guess is that they are upvoted new posts, so I end up reading some posts before they reach the front page])

* Phoronix - http://www.phoronix.com/ (http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php)

* ThreatPost - http://threatpost.com/ (http://threatpost.com/feed)

* TheNextWeb - http://thenextweb.com/ (http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thenextweb)

* Wired - http://www.wired.com/ (http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index)

* iClarified - http://www.iclarified.com/ (http://iclarified.com/rss/rss.xml)

* TorrentFreak - https://torrentfreak.com/ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Torrentfreak)

* r/WorldNews - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss)

Blogs

* Securelist - https://www.securelist.com/ (https://www.securelist.com/en/rss/allupdates)

* Buffer Blog - http://blog.bufferapp.com/ (http://blog.bufferapp.com/feed/)

* Raptitude - http://www.raptitude.com/ (http://www.raptitude.com/feed/)

* Priceonomics Blog - http://blog.priceonomics.com/ (http://blog.priceonomics.com/rss)

* Schneier on Security - http://www.schneier.com/blog/ (http://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml)

* Daring Fireball - http://daringfireball.net/ (http://daringfireball.net/index.xml)

* xkcd blag - http://blag.xkcd.com/ (http://blog.xkcd.com/feed/)

* Nota Bene (Eugene Kaspersky's blog) - http://eugene.kaspersky.com/ (http://eugene.kaspersky.com/feed/)

* Troy Hunt's Blog - http://www.troyhunt.com/ (http://www.troyhunt.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss)

Various

* xkcd - http://xkcd.com/ (http://xkcd.com/rss.xml)

* What If? - http://what-if.xkcd.com/ (http://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom)

* OzBargain - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/ (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/feed)

* Bret Victor's website - http://worrydream.com/ (http://worrydream.com/feed.xml)

Comkidon Show HN: Hide Secret Messages In Facebook Photos With My Chrome Extension

Anyone else getting a 'Package is invalid. Details: 'Could not decode image: '128.png''.' when trying to install the extension from the Chrome Web Store?

Comkidon Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users

I was just wondering if you were planning to integrate CasperJS too, which is an awesome addition onto PhantomJS. If not, it'd be interesting to have access to an online PhantomJS REPL.

Comkidon A story about Vienna. (an interactive narrative infographic)

Melbourne, Australia has also been voted the world's most livable city too :P

Comkidon Ask HN: Maybe not the best place to seek life advice but I trust you guys

I've heard from friends, that in India, that it is part of culture to live with your parents until you are married.

Comkidon Chess CAPTCHA

Seeing that computers have already surpassed human in ability to play chess, what makes you think that this CAPTCHA isn't just easier than morphed text CAPTCHAs.

Comkidon Facebook User #41

http://graph.facebook.com/2 - Mark Zuckerberg (back when you could tag people, but they fixed this) http://graph.facebook.com/4 - Public Mark Zuckerberg page :P

Comkidon Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong

Reading the Google Groups responses, he's officially created a http://xkcd.com/1172/ situation heh

Comkidon TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language

Would it be okay to understand arrays as integer indexed keys?

For example, wouldn't that mean something like: