HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

thomasmarton

90 karma · joined March 19, 2023

submissionscomments
thomasmarton··on Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
Times when Windows Update was not a thing
thomasmarton··on Windows 11½
> Win 11 parody

I'm sorry but where is the parody?

- A Win11 Home user

thomasmarton··on Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
I tried it on my Pixel 10 Pro XL as well. Latest version of GrapheneOS, latest play store version of the app and it works.

Even tried completely nuking app data and logging in again. Login, security check, fingerprint setup, everything worked (I even got the alert that it used the Play Integrity API)

I assume if anything, this is probably the contactless payments. I do somewhat understand why they are really trying to lock something like this down, but as everyone pointed out, giving the green light to a CVE infested version of Android while prohibiting the use of a version that goes above and beyond when it comes to security is absurd.

thomasmarton··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
Piracy is justified especially when it comes to movies!

If I am buying a DVD, I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. If I "buy" or "purchase" something online, I expect the same thing.

I'm not always a fan of the EU over-regulating some things but I feel like they should start fining companies who want to re-define the meaning of the word purchase

thomasmarton··on OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
I'm commenting this blindly so apologies if I'm wrong, but if it's possible I'd try and compile this against .NET Framework 3.5 instead of .NET 8.

A lot of people (myself included) have XP/7 machines for retro games like Civ1 and I'd personally love to use that machine instead of my modern one to play the game.

thomasmarton··on Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
While not a dump per se, there is an API where you can get HN data programmatically, no scraping needed.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

thomasmarton··on X won't let users hide their blue checks anymore
I still remember the early days of this pay for blue check system when Biden was talking about man parts while being indistinguishable from the real account
thomasmarton··on Microsoft to change PrintScreen button to open the Snipping Tool in Windows 11
Wasn't Microsoft the "let's not break backwards compatibility for any reason" company?

Coming from software development, we do have tests that insert a screenshot into the report in case they fail, and I'm assuming we are not the only ones that found the PrtScr button to be useful for that

thomasmarton··on Windows Sandbox
I hella learned something new. I'll be sure to look into this after work. Thank you!
thomasmarton··on Windows Sandbox
This is basically Microsoft's big chance to create Docker for windows. Prebaked images on top of this lightweight layer and shared folders which are already supported.

I'd love to see this happen on environments where you need Windows, but you still want the ease of deployment feature of Docker

thomasmarton··on The End of Front-End Development
At this point we could even deviate from software development and say this about any job that requires thinking and decision making around a set of rules.