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It should be fine to post about your own projects, as long as it is

- in context

- not excessive

- and you make clear that you are involved

So this looks all good ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I suggest editing your link somewhat because the space between skinny and domain can be confusing aha.

I do blame Amazon for their short-sightedness. This is driving people away from using them and in the long term I don't think it will have been good to allow this sketchy shit.

You are right that other consumer protection laws etc. should be put in place to make fake reviews, product listing swap-outs etc. impossible.

I'm late with this reply but I've found LosslessCut[1] works quite well for what I need (cutting gameplay footage to upload to youtube). It doesn't have very many features though.

[1] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

It seems you've posted this in the wrong thread.

Thanks for the link! Very good video indeed and I'll have to look into some more of his videos. Very funny and well presented.

Aha I see what you mean - that's great.

((check out the second-last item in the gallery))

Note AFAIK WA is e2e encrypted BUT they can flag any weird looking messages (weird patterns etc) to see and review their contents.

So I think Meta/WA can opt to decrypt any suspicious messages they come across.

Wow I vaguely remember that reddit thread and I think I felt a bit confused about it. Seemed like such an OTT reaction to something that should be handled internally - and then for a public statement you would keep it short, sweet and indirect (i.e. 2 paragraphs where you don't blame anyone except maybe yourself and some section of the company).

Very glad Mick made this thorough post.

I think "Instant Apps"[1] are/were meant to be the Android analog, but I haven't seen them used anywhere.

Also can't find any proof that they are still a thing... except for this[2] sketchy looking app that has 1 billion+ downloads, offered by "Google Play Store"

[1] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7683278

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Could be your adblocker sometimes blocking them, other times not?

Though it probably is some bug or... rapid A/B testing thing Google has going on.

And who knows, maybe they still plan on putting HEVC support in their release notes at some point.

My "new features in this update" section is often 6+ months delayed - as in I will have had access to a feature for 6+ months before seeing it in Chrome release notes.

Interestingly, a couple minutes before WA went down my messages were being sent while only displaying a single tick (as in the other parties could see my single-tick messages).

Thought it was quite weird/concerning that that could happen.

All of Captain Disillusion's videos are great but this one seemed more technical than most - thought that could make it a good candidate to post to HN.

There's some good discussion about it on Reddit too[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/yaq2n7

Yeah I'm not sure how anyone's meant to find something impressive to look at when there's a layer of vaseline over all of it. Maybe there's a higher quality version being served to some Twitter users.

Big, low-res, jittery gifs on a YT blog post? Weird choice...

I'm late to this but just wanted to mention - I'm checking out the extension and like it quite a lot.

Only feedback I have right now (that I haven't seen anyone else mention) is that I'm finding it hard to jump to the next "top-level" comment. If I'm half way down a comment thread and decide I just want to skip the rest of this thread, I'm used to just scrolling down a bit until I see the next top-level comment and I'll read from there. It's easy enough to do in non-skinned HN because the everything is left-aligned, but with the extension I haven't been able to intuit a left 'border' yet and am not sure if it'll ever come to me.

If I had the money I'd probably get one of the more expensive Sony phones. They seem great, at least in theory.

This looks great but I'm surprised there isn't any % of the paid money going to charities, good causes or something.

I'd like something like this that pays into my retirement, a long-term investment or donates to charity, with maybe 1-20% going to Beeminder or whatever.

Your first point is fair I guess but nothing to worry about really. The up-front cost is virtually zero (just find a friend to agree to do this with you), so if your friend wants to bail you could try find another friend.

Your second point shouldn't be an issue for anyone who has some level of maturity and/or values their relationship with their friend... not like it is likely to break a friendship but it seems like a dick thing to do.

Isn't "swatting" just the practice of calling 911 and saying e.g. "I'm at [streamer's neighbour's address] and there were gunshots fired at my neighbour's house! Please send armed police!"?

I don't think there's a simple way to stop swatting, though if a streamer/someone else who is a likely swatting target phones ahead of time and asks to be put on a "likely to get swatted, please disregard suspicious calls" list then the police should honour that list (AFAIK there is something like this but it often doesn't help).

I don't think time has yet forgotten Doom

Seems you should be able to play at least the Shareware version online: https://archive.org/details/msdos_SCORCH15_shareware

EDIT: this seems to be the full one, but I'm not sure how one would check (never played this game): https://archive.org/details/ScorchedEarth

Will always have a soft spot for CK!

My dad introduced me to Keen, Prince of Persia (and other classics like Doom and Wolfenstein etc.) when I was tiny.

I still recall how he contrasted the comical/arcade-y movement in Keen to the "realistic" movement in PoP. I was 3 or 4 years old, mind. It was great to see this [1] on HN the other day - it led me to this [2] video which kind of served to explain to my dad and I how he got the movement so right. Sorry weird tangent.

Two other games I remember enjoying was The Incredible Machine and Chip's Challenge. TIM was amazing! Must remember to dig that out if I ever have kids.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538026 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbk5qH2-1S8

DoxBox does IMO work well on Android but it's clunky to set up - you likely need some variant of a "hacker keyboard" installed to make initial setups easier for games, and then AFAIK you'll probably need to also install another keyboard of choice that supports the buttons your game needs.

All in all it likely is worth it for some games if you're nostalgic enough for them but don't feel like playing them when you're at your PC.

I've had more success playing old PlayStation games, personally (on ePSXe these days but I've used RetroArch in the past, which I should probably look at using again).

Off-topic but the wording in that ad struck me as odd.

May as well go with something more direct like "Flexport is hiring big-ego no-lifers".

I think this is fair but not at all what you were saying in your initial comment.

I don't think the old lady was being a NIMBY Andy.

That thing looks fancy! Perhaps make sure there isn't a "light sleep" or similar option in its OSD that allows it to blank the screen without fully sleeping.

On my monitor (~5ish year old Dell) I have the "Deep Sleep" option disabled and it suits me very well like this.

I would think the same for some products but AFAIK those Ecoflow batteries are quite fancy.

I printed a document using one and generally printers hate running off generator power.

I hoped to see a more solid answer because I caused a (I think) similar thing to happen on a friend's MacBook a couple years ago.

I think I was using some utility to force the resolution down from retina levels for some emulated game we wanted to play. Something went wrong and the top ~1/5 of the screen started flickering insanely quickly.

We restarted the laptop and the flickering continued. Then I think we turned it off, left it off for a while, then turned it back on. Still flickering.

In the end we left the laptop on for a couple hours and it slowly became less flickery until it was eventually entirely back to normal.

Super weird. I was so confused and my friend was so nice about it all that I didn't even think to take a video or document any exact stuff we tried aha.

Not sure on exact products but I'd probably trust B&H [1] over Amazon and Newegg for something like this - if you're worried about getting fake products etc.

In my experience they run a great store. I also don't think they have the kind of third-party seller BS that Amazon and Walmart do.

[1] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/