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yincrashon Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy

The host sets up a GATT server and the other players have a client role.

The other option was setting up a game via whatever WiFi network was available, but many hotspots now restrict peer to peer access. For cross platform support, iOS doesn't allow local hotspot creation (which could have been an alternative) even thought Android does. Bluetooth was the option that all platforms could support without having to deal with third party WiFi.

yincrashon Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries

As a regulatory decision, this isn't about protecting the consumer. It's about preventing an externality being handled by all of society, specifically reducing e-waste.

yincrashon GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

Also really excited about this because there are several games that get kind of borked because they get stuck on an intro video before you get to the game menu without doing any winetricks.

> With all of that work done, I am happy to say all of the games listed above now have functional video playback with NO winetricks needed and NO dll overrides needed. No quartz,no dshow, no amstream, no lavfilters, no klite, no rsx3d, no wmp9, no wmp11, etc. -- All the functionality previously needed from those overrides is now patched directly into wine for the listed games that needed them, and the protonfixes that were previously added have now been removed since they are no longer needed.

yincrashon GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

It's interesting to read that an entire video streaming rework was done with AI, but likely won't be upstreamed because of the upstream policy on AI gen code. I wonder if that will ever be re-done using the plan GE outlined in the release notes.

yincrashon Show HN: Aide – A customizable Android assistant (voice, choose your provider)

I appreciate the feedback. I could probably smooth out the custom API to just put in the full endpoint URL.

yincrashon Show HN: Aide – A customizable Android assistant (voice, choose your provider)

Free trial implemented. 5 day trial

yincrashon Show HN: Aide – A customizable Android assistant (voice, choose your provider)

Unfortunately, it's my first time using the discount code, and I didn't realize it required in-app code to enable it. There is a new build that should now have the discount. I will extend it another week.

I like the trial idea. Will see if I can get that out quickly.

yincrashon Show HN: Aide – A customizable Android assistant (voice, choose your provider)

Still needs a server. You could run a server locally if you had a model that your device could handle then point aide to the localhost URL.

yincrashon Show HN: Aide – A customizable Android assistant (voice, choose your provider)

Feel free to ask me any questions about the app.

yincrashon Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load

To fall asleep, presumably

yincrashon Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

Even if you believe the previous administration switching fonts was virtue signaling, then by the same logic you have to also believe this is just virtue signalling.

yincrashon California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month

This is currently being attempted in Wyoming, but required both state and federal reg changes. Currently timeline is for it to be online by 2030. https://wyofile.com/natrium-advanced-nuclear-power-plant-win...

yincrashon Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

There's a reason Star Trek teleporters have a "Heisenberg compensator", we cannot record both the position and momentum of a particle precisely. Scanning the "configuration of particles" to transmit to this theoretical printer is the first impossible roadblock. The human you scan can never be the same exact person printed.

yincrashon TSA to end shoes-off policy for airport security screening

With no explanation on the change, I will have to assume that taking off our shoes never made us any safer.

yincrashon Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)

One thing that Homebrew does not do easily is to easily allow for creation of universal libraries and binaries - https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/4647

Maybe that could be a place where sapphire differentiates?

yincrashon CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion

Ah, the non-developer option setting to enable 120Hz on later Pixels is under "Settings"->"Display & touch"->"Smooth display". With that enabled, Chrome will use 120Hz if power and temperature settings permit it to.

yincrashon CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion

The 120Hz shadertoy works on the Pixel 8 (and hopefully other 120Hz Android devices) if you go to Developer Options and enable "Force peak refresh rate"

I wonder if there's a way to ask Android Chrome to ask for 120Hz.

yincrashon Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table

As someone who ordered the previous licensed version that never ever delivered and that company is currently being taken to court by the state of Pennsylvania, I'm not touching this.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pa-attorney-general-...

yincrashon The Onion buys Infowars

From the statement -

| As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal.

yincrashon New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike

According to Maggie Astor, news is not behind the picket line -

NYT Games and Cooking are BEHIND THE PICKET LINE. Please don’t play or engage with Games or Cooking content while the strike lasts!

News coverage — including election coverage — is NOT behind the picket line. It’s okay to read and share that, though the site and app may very well have problems.

https://bsky.app/profile/maggieastor.bsky.social/post/3la4qg...

yincrashon New York Times Tech Guild Goes on Strike

It appears that one of the things the tech workers are striking for is to not force remote workers to RTO including folks who were originally hired fully remote.

It's good to see in office workers choosing to strike to support remote workers.

yincrashon New York Times Tech Guild Goes on Strike

https://bsky.app/profile/maggieastor.bsky.social/post/3la4qg...

From @maggieastor

NYT Games and Cooking are BEHIND THE PICKET LINE. Please don’t play or engage with Games or Cooking content while the strike lasts!

News coverage — including election coverage — is NOT behind the picket line. It’s okay to read and share that, though the site and app may very well have problems.

yincrashon Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card

Reading this, it seems like the Z80 emulator is a Gameboy emulator and the quirks that the dev was finding with the Z80 emulation was due to it not really being a Z80 emulator?

yincrashon Winamp Legacy player source code

```Any User-Generated Content you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control).```

Section D.5

Whoever the user that is posting the content is agreeing to the terms of service. If they don't actually have permission to agree to those terms with the content, then where that liability falls will likely fall to a court, but I'm sure I would argue as a user who forked the content, that I was given permission via the TOS which has to be followed by the user posting the content.

yincrashon Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

Check out the short stack GitHub for an overview of how a previous mod was done. Literally chopping up the motherboard to the bare minimum then adding back things with daughterboards https://github.com/loopj/short-stack

yincrashon KidPix

https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix/issues/16

It appears because the underlying HTML5 Canvas tools are being used, things like antialiasing are unavoidable without remaking certain API calls. I'm sure it could be done though!

yincrashon A Visual History of Windows Icons: From Windows 1 to 11 (2021)

If you have an inkling to experience old Windows UI in a casual game - Progressbar95[1] is one way to experience all the iconography.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spookyhous...

yincrashon Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone

My mobile computer of choice in school, the TI-83 series calculators.

yincrashon Airport security line cutters are target of first-in-the-nation California bill

It's called the "Screening Partnership Program"[1].

It's an agreement the airport makes with the TSA to maintain TSA standards (and I believe the airport gets federal funding to run it).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screening_Partnership_Program