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farmerbb··on Mozilla: The state of open source AI
Feels like a mobile website that was never optimized for desktop usage.
farmerbb··on When 2+2=5
Hail to the Thief is a goated album. The live album of HTTT performances that Radiohead released last year is a pretty great listen as well, band sounds like they're on fire.
farmerbb··on Rebuilding the Computer Room
> The smartphone tooked this further

Normally I'd laugh when I see a silly typo like that, but nowadays it's refreshing to see a thoughtfully human-written article with little imperfections here and there.

farmerbb··on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
> I haven't managed to really figure out what's the best way, but my latest thinking is really having boil down tasks to almost unit operations "add UI button, wire to Api call. End".

And at that point you might as well just code the thing yourself.

farmerbb··on F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel
Just finished reading the README, it was refreshing to read something that wasn't generated by an LLM for a change.
farmerbb··on Windows NT for GameCube/Wii
That's correct, same person.
farmerbb··on Zenzizenzizenzic
I understood that reference.
farmerbb··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Yeah I'm surprised they didn't mention Fire TV or even Alexa in addition to Kindle.
farmerbb··on TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
Not to mention, the typo in the word "equivalent".
farmerbb··on -​-dangerously-skip-reading-code
I legit can't tell if this article is satire, or not.
farmerbb··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
I think it's a FreeBSD variant, if I remember correctly.
farmerbb··on Programming Still Sucks
Thank you for writing this piece, resonated a lot with me. Looking forward to reading more from you in the future.
farmerbb··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
The project's readme states "Proudly written without AI." Love seeing this.
farmerbb··on Lunar Flyby
It looks like changing the `~large` in the image filename to `~orig` gets you the full size versions.
farmerbb··on Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
Rare Replay is another exclusive that comes to mind.
farmerbb··on Skip is now free and open source
Looks like Redwood, sadly, is no longer under active development as of a couple months ago.
farmerbb··on Show HN: Tasker – An open-source desktop agent for browser and OS automation
I'd recommend you change the name of your project sooner rather than later, Tasker is a well established app in the Android power user community for automating various tasks (albeit without AI)
farmerbb··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
It shows up as a Christmas tree for me on my phone in portrait mode. In landscape mode the braille is messed up.
farmerbb··on Pebble Watch software is now open source
As a Kotlin multiplatform developer myself, this is wonderful to see!
farmerbb··on The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released
If you're using an HDMI converter then that's most likely your reason for Hydro Thunder not working. Hydro Thunder notoriously doesn't work well with VGA output (HDMI converters for the Dreamcast usually convert the VGA signal)
farmerbb··on A Year of WordHopper – Modern DOS Game Development Retrospective
Really digging the IRIX-style CSS theme on this website.
farmerbb··on Adding 16 kb page size to Android
Flutter/Dart, yes, React Native/Javascript, no. With RN the app's code runs via an embedded JavaScript engine, and even when, say, Hermes is being used, it's still executing bytecode not native machine code.

Also important to note that any code that runs on Android's ART runtime (i.e. Kotlin and/or Java) can get some or all of its code AOT-compiled to machine code by the OS, either upon app install (if the app ships with baseline profiles) or in the background while the device is idle and charging.

farmerbb··on Windows NT for Power Macintosh
https://twitter.com/virtuallyfun/status/1811812177805767078/...
farmerbb··on Dolphin Emulator changes to a rolling release model
They were considered "beta" releases, the last "stable" version was 8 years ago and users were discouraged from actually using such an old version. This is just codifying what has already been the case for a while, that the formerly "beta" releases are stable enough for daily usage.
farmerbb··on Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers
Working fine with me under Wayland, on Ubuntu 24.04 + Gnome 46
farmerbb··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Last I checked you could only exploit Switches manufactured in the first couple years of its lifespan without going the hardware mod route.
farmerbb··on New Flutter/Dart Features
Kotlin + Compose Multiplatform is another up-and-coming option for fully cross-platform apps that is compatible with WASM.
farmerbb··on Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
Thanks, going to try this out. Mp3tag is one of the few apps I use regularly that I've still been resorting to firing up a Windows VM for (or running it through Wine).
farmerbb··on Swift Tooling: Windows Edition
We've had Kotlin Multiplatform for a while now, so a developer writing an Android app in Kotlin could bring it over to iOS and desktop platforms today with reduced effort. Compose Multiplatform aims to take this a step further by allowing UI code sharing instead of just business logic.

The future is not that far off where you can write a 100% native Android app and, minus any Android OS-specific functionality, port it over as-is to iOS and desktop.

farmerbb··on An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK
Correct. Gradle is the standard build tool used for Android apps.
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