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newxon Tell HN: People forget that you can stick any data at the end of a bash script

As I understood, you base64 the zipped data on input and the other way around on output.

The reasoning being that the base64'd binary data is safe from being corrupted when the file is edited in text editors, as a response to the warning stated on the last paragraph of the original post.

newxon Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (2021)

Pretty nice discussion over here too, for the same article, two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25633483 (2021)

(Pointing this out/linking in best faith for references)

newxon BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD

First: I agree with you.

As for the reason: I believe it's for 'performance gain' as those mitigations have performance impact

newxon Ebullism at 1M Feet: Surviving Rapid/Explosive Decompression (2000)

That is wrong. m is the unit for meters M is the unit for millions

newxon Show HN: kutty, jQuery-free intercooler.js

Great idea! ++ for things that are jQuery-free. :)

One quick (fix/)suggestion: the kutty header on the top left, even being a clickable link to home as expected, changes the cursor to textual selection cursor upon hover instead of the usual link/hand/finger pointer. :)

newxon Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

Pretty cool idea!

One suggestion: add thumbnail/preview of how docs will look like after "scanned". Or maybe even a "Before and After" teaser! :)

newxon Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding

Inside the repo there are examples that help to understand how it works: https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/orca/tree/master/examples

newxon Urbit OS 1

Suggestion to the leads of this project: make the product objective/statement clearer.

Maybe I'm not the target demographic for this but I was met with a wall of text and couldn't make much of it all. It seems exciting and also complex, at least for me, but selecting the right words can go a long way.

I know that I can search the archives and this current thread to get more context but this might not be the case of whoever gets directly to the introduction page.

Feel free to contact me should you want to review those texts. I'd gladly try to give you my humble help.

newxon Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

I miss verge-rpg.com. While it still exists it's not the same it used to be back in the day, I picked it up when Verge2 was just out of the oven.

It was such a nice community. We hosted Hours of Verge (HoV!) events from time to time, usually from 24 to 72 hours long, to team up and build games around a theme, and voted for the best afterwards. It was so fun to play the other games created. Yes, there are other sites and communities that still do that but Verge was dear to me and what really got me started into development.

I met some awesome people that turned out to be brilliant devs in AAA games and composers that made songs for many cool games such as Unreal.

Edit: Fixed "HoV" casing, very important :-)