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teroshan··on Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter
> Warhammer grew massively and now has a presence across many game genres (and table top of course)

StarCraft now also has its own figurine tabletop game. No idea what it's worth though: https://starcraft-tmg.com/

teroshan··on Any Nix package, live in the browser
That being said, isn't it the best use-case for slop? Generating working, interactive ideas to sell an idea and kick-start a discussion to see if it's anything worth pursuing?

Rewriting it after that first MVP with a first round of inputs is better engineering anyway, right?

teroshan··on Any Nix package, live in the browser
And verbs seem to clearly be really pricey in terms of tokens
teroshan··on Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?
Thank you for writing this.
teroshan··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
For some reason I never received any stickers, shirts, or socks here in France.

I do remember them asking about shipping information at some point though.

teroshan··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Exactly: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html
teroshan··on UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub
I'm (unironically) sure it's a multi-faceted issue with a lot of actors having genuinely good motivations to push for this.

That being said I'm also sure those groups are especially vulnerable to fear-mongering [0] and it would not be particularly hard to rile up these bases to work towards the same end goal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

teroshan··on UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub
Officially I'm sure. It gets revived in the 2023 Online Safety Act and is followed by strong EU push for Identity Verification, Chat Control, etc. at the same time. I don't think it's wrong to look at them from the same lens.

It's not necessarily nefarious though: the same ideas/fears permeate all society so it makes sense they pop up together. The work may have already been done by some legislators, ready to be used by others.

But the corporate lobbying for weakening online anonymity and encryption is not something new either, and the benefits are clear. It wouldn't be the first issue large-scale lobbying has taken place in their interests, and for something as critical as identify verification I genuinely cannot imagine it isn't one of the most important issue in surveillance capitalism.

teroshan··on UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub
Good news, the end goal that is being pushed by corporate lobbyists is still in sight.

Give it a few years (months if you're an optimist?) and you will have to use your Google/Apple hardware device to formally tie your real identity with your digital identity for every site that has even the slim possibility of being a small danger to hypothetical children.

I'm sure Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg will gladly join this effort to reduce harm to children as well, I'm sure that's high on their priority list. They may even already have the infrastructure in place to handle that digital ID, what an amazing coincidence.

Everything will be fine!

teroshan··on I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
The issue with RSS on my e-reader is 1. the amount of feeds I'm subscribed to and 2. I'm often using my e-reader when I'm offline.

1. is not an issue on my computer/smartphone as I can scroll through the feeds and go through interesting links quickly, the keybindings help me do that quickly.

2. Can either be fixed by downloading all links when online (not practical in my case), or by picking and choosing which articles I want to read later.

I used to use Wallabag for this, but right now my setup is a self-hosted Readeck [0] instance with the associated KOReader plugin [1].

I really like Readeck because contrary to Wallaback (which I also used because there is a KOReader plugin for it) it captures the content from a page from the client-side through the browser extension [2]. That helps with paywalled articles which don't expose the full feed through RSS typically.

[0] https://codeberg.org/readeck/readeck

[1] https://github.com/iceyear/readeck.koplugin

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readeck/

teroshan··on Slap ROM Patcher
Absolutely, I should have made it more explicit, thanks for clarifying it. That's what makes this possible and legally compliant.
teroshan··on Slap ROM Patcher
I recently stumbled upon https://www.hackdex.app/ which is a lovely website dedicated to Pokémon ROM hacks.

It's a really vibrant scene, with a lot of different hacks that go all the way to fully-fledged games, but because it's so rich it can be a pain to find what is available and what the latest version of a given ROM hack is.

This website has a neat feature where you upload any base Pokémon ROM file, and it filters all available ROM hacks that are compatible with it via a neat UI. And of course it offers you a one-click download (well, in-local-storage-patch) to the given ROM hack.

Source code: https://github.com/Hackdex-App/hackdex-website

teroshan··on Cyberpunk Video Games
> of which there is arguably only 1

IYKYK :)

teroshan··on Cyberpunk Video Games
I enjoyed the game for the reasons you mentioned. I'm even able to enjoy the completely scripted and linear railroad shooters just like I'm able to enjoy a Hollywood blockbuster when my mood calls for it.

I have some issue with the initial marketing and the discussion surrounding the game though: choose your own backstory? Absolutely no impact at all, except some pre-recorded wingers in dialogues. RPG with a skill-tree? Absolutely 0 impact, you always have a way to get to a closed room, regardless of the perks you pick. And even if you pick non there is a vent open.

As long as you are aware that you are getting into what is basically a linear story in an open world, instead of another CD Projekt RED game _à la_ Witcher 3 which involved side stories that are as fleshed out as other full-sized games, yes it can be enjoyable.

It still one of the most amazing open-world futuristic games I have personally explored, which is a shame considering the rest of the game.

teroshan··on Cyberpunk Video Games
And we can't mention Transistor without shouting out Darren Korb (and Ashley Barrett on the vocals) for its amazing OST:

https://supergiantgames.bandcamp.com/album/transistor-origin...

It plays an important role in the story, so it double the reasons to talk about it :)

teroshan··on Cyberpunk Video Games
> this game is the best available to allow players to immerse themselves in a cyberpunk setting

Depends what you mean by "immerse". If it means driving through Night City on your bike and enjoying the view, sure.

If it means role-playing as a character and building it your position in the city via meaningful choices with consequences, really not.

teroshan··on Cyberpunk Video Games
There is currently (for a week, until 2026-08-10) a Cyberpunk-themed sale going on on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/category/cyberpunk

teroshan··on Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
I'll expand on a few reasons why I personally love Kagi:

- Ability to block/lower/raise/pin domains. Some examples of commonly tuned domains are here https://kagi.com/stats?stat=insights

- Shared custom bangs across my sessions. I can add work-specific bangs (e.g. !bug -> Jira search) and have them available across my devices.

- Regexp redirects, to automatically redirect online documentation results of some libraries to the specific out-of-date library we use in a legacy project.

All of these are not as important as knowing there is no incentive for the search engine to enshittify the results to bump some sponsored product in the results, to raise ad-heavy websites to the front to get back some precious ad revenue due to a conflict of interests, and to lower the quality of results in the hopes of making me search a second time so I am served a second batch of sponsored links.

teroshan··on Hacker Public Radio
https://somafm.com/defcon/

> Want to know more about the hacker dropins [1] we play between songs? Here's a list of the DEF CON speaker drop-ins we play.

[1] https://nerdshow.com/def-con-somafm-clips-with-quotes/

teroshan··on French musician Kavinsky found dead
Between letting Kavinsky play at the closing ceremony [0] and Gojira play at the opening ceremony [1], I really can't applaud and thank Thomas Jolly enough for directing the 2024 Olympic ceremonies.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSayp2tArqA

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Iv5kq93K4

teroshan··on French musician Kavinsky found dead
He's rightly credited as having participated in the popularization of the musical and visual "Synthwave" aesthetic:

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Synthwave

teroshan··on KOReader
Not only is it the superior piece of software, the freedom it offers by dissociating the choice of hardware from the choice of software is another example why free software and interoperability is something we should strive for.
teroshan··on Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules
The Dolmenwood Campaign Book [0] has been nominated in the both the "Best Setting" and "Product of the Year" category of the 2026 ENNIE award [1]

[0] https://necroticgnome.com/products/dolmenwood-campaign-book

[1] https://ennie-awards.com/2026-nominees/

teroshan··on Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them
> another underutilized resource - the public library

As an indication of where things are going on this front, from the same publisher: Sony announced that games are not going to get distributed as physical copies anymore. So no new video games to be borrowed from public libraries, and even if you can borrow older games the new Playstations probably won't even have a disk tray to read them.

Whatever your stance on video games being something that is worth having in a library is, if they could get away with it that's probably their ideal end game for movies as well.

teroshan··on Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
I'm vouching for Frontier as well, as well as "Carbon & Silicon" [0] from Mathieu Bablet. All of his work is gorgeous, I love his art.

If you liked Frontier's theme and are into video games I recommend you check out "Citizen Sleeper" [1] illustrated by Guillaume Singelin as well.

It's a 7 hour narrative text-based adventure that really hooked me one week-end. Your choices depend on how you "spend" your dice, dice that are cast at the beginning of every single day on the station so you get to pre-plan your actions somewhat.

Gameplay wise it's mostly reading, but I liked exploring the station they created.

[0] https://www.magnetic-press.com/carbon-and-silicon/

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1578650/Citizen_Sleeper/

teroshan··on GTA 6 will cost $80
The benefit for the player is they get a few additional in-game cosmetic unlocks, and the benefit for the publisher is they get a large wad of cash in advance and and an excuse to generate a new hype cycle surrounding the game.
teroshan··on Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
Perhaps.

I like the idea that a piece of art, in addition of ultimately ending up as pixels on my screen, is also a window into a world that has been dreamt up by real human imagination, driven by their hopes and fears.

Semiconductors based generation may give me the first part, but not the second.

I'm speaking for myself here, I agree with your point though.

teroshan··on Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
Scared for the same reason I found last year's 'Ghibli filter' craze upsetting, I would have personally hated to have seen this artist's legacy used for promoting AI image generation.
teroshan··on Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
Unrelated but when I read inpainting and Moebius I was scared it was related and using the art of the great Jean Giraud [0] a.k.a. Moebius

https://characterdesignreferences.com/artist-of-the-week-3/m...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud

teroshan··on I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station
What fills that void for me: https://www.nts.live/

I have a list of "Shows" I follow, with regular updates from star guests (Tim Reaper for jungle music [1] , Lena Raine for video game OST [2], ...)

Their "NTS Guide to..." [3] is really great to peek into a new genre as well.

I highly recommend.

[1] https://www.nts.live/shows/tim-reaper

[2] https://www.nts.live/shows/lena-raine

[3] https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to

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