vaughands

Would love to read about these stories if you ever decide to blog and/or write a book about it. :)

Thanks for the fun read.

I think you're underselling this. Sunshine can't do any resolution on Linux. That's huge. :)

It's impressive but it seems like they cut out a ton of the grinding to level up the Charizard to brute force through the game.

While this is no small feat, it looks like Claude was unable to actually use a balanced team and instead just circle-square-pegged this thing. :)

I see a lot of hate for Google in this thread but at least one thing they do well: it's really easy to fix. Takeout actually works. You can just download your photos and leave. As the top post identified here, Microsoft makes this a REAL pain to leave after they snared you.

This is a social network. Did I miss something?

The author posted this on a vibe coding subreddit, so I'd be willing to wager some AI deep research with manual clean up.

It's vogue on HN to sometimes criticize critically so I want to try and be as constructive as possible:

I work for one of these companies. I also have pay bills to pay. I'd like to understand what a real, good alternative is.

Frontier labs such as Google DeepMind are not just going to shutter their doors because 10% of the peons dropped their jobs. I believe, at least, that we should be demanding political accountability and safeguards for society. I only get to live once: if I am to spend it for social change, I best maximize by expected return.

And quitting a job in a capitalist society probably has negative return overall.

This post seems to be haphazardly proposing that big tech will inevitably make everyone's lives miserable. And by working for them, you are enabling this.

It offers no constructive alternative and the author (yes, I know who he is) seems to have no issue with Google hosting their email.

It's hard to take this too seriously (even if there is some legitimate worry here)

Seriously, what is the benefit to the US here? I can't understand how this benefits the country at all.

Thank you for your efforts!

These days Proton makes a lot of this unnecessary. I hope Trails games will continue to at least function on Linux. :)

It's more common to have to guess in blackbox / proprietary software, like games.

A quick and dirty way to do this is run the program through `strace` and find out what syscall it issues to read it.

I had to do this to figure out where Cold Steel was reading save files from years back: https://vaughanhilts.me/blog/2018/02/16/playing-trails-of-co...

Yep, in terms of just getting storage back I just simply run `ncdu` once a year and go for it.

I kind of like digging through the downloads folder every year or two though and seeing all the things I had done and explored.

I copy anything useful to a NAS and then delete the rest.

This clip is unfortunately not available in Canada.

Just a small note: it is not possible to unDRM books published post 2023 at this time. Amazon has changed their DRM scheme.

It's likely someone's 20% project.

Refactoring those services sucks though if the data model changes. :(