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alt187on Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

It would probably look like the Third Temple.

alt187on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows

I agree with the sitting down and focusing part. For me, I've always been extremely inclined to audio processing, so I can sometimes just lay in bed or in a chair, or on the train, and... listen to an audio book. I really don't think it makes a big difference, at least for me. I used to be attached to the sensory experience of flicking pages, but there's also a big factor in letting the book (or, the narrator) take you to their own pace. A good narrator really completes a story.

All that stuff about listening to an audiobook while working out, or cooking, driving, or anything is crystallized bravado from people who think it makes them look clever that they can do two things badly at the same time.

alt187on Tailwind and slop apps

Probably at the very least the one for artists and DJs, you don't think so? You'd rather take your car to the sweaty, unkempt mechanic with his hands coated in motor oil, who you've never seen without his overalls, or the clean mechanic who wears a nice business attire with the classy shoes and tie? I rest my case.

alt187on Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

I mostly agree with your point, but I wouldn't use the term "storyteller". LLMs do not even understand that there is such a thing as a story and a reality. To the LLM, there's not even a border between the game and the not-game.

alt187on Emacs appearances in pop culture

Wow, I use Emacs and tabs over spaces. And K&R braces. Now we must fight to death.

alt187on Slop is not necessarily the future

As opposed to me, who is perfectly rational.

alt187on LibreOffice and the art of overreacting

I'm not sure people get desensitized. Personally, whenever I notice a really unintrusive donation banner, I have more chance to actually give money to this entity, because I've been shown so much crap all over, so I can respect someone who places a gentle nudge at the bottom of a screen I'll look at for a whole 5 seconds. I'm not sure how it degrades the experience, too.

Also, you might want to read the article. LibreOffice specifically points out the banner was moved, and not added or removed.

alt187on The three pillars of JavaScript bloat

describing the setting should (ideally) be done through a character's interaction with the setting.

if you're developing some sort of dystopia where everyone is heavily medicated, better to show a character casually take the medication rather than describe it.

of course, that's not a rule set in stone. you can do whatever the fuck you want.

alt187on this css proves me human

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/

Discerning readers do not stop at the em dash. At least, I don't.

alt187on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

Yes, because everyone is a perfectly rational agent in the economy.

alt187on Zorin OS: The Alternative to Windows and macOS

Nice. I really like ZorinOS. I converted my dad a few years ago, and he never looked back.

alt187on Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM

There's no hardening against idiocy.

alt187on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

> It's one of the reasons why people get annoyed at jargon or are pissed off about pronouns, [...]

It's worth noting there's an overabundance of legitimate reasons people get annoyed at these two thing, making them bad examples.

alt187on Move tests to closed source repo

Whether this was a joke or a backtracking, or this dared waste your oh so precious time- You're missing the forest for the trees. There's extreme covert and even overt hostility between how people stand on AI's gluttonous usage of the commons.

We're about to waltz into a deep period of tension between developers, and people who, empowered by multimillion dollars corporations, bravely violate developers' copyrights in the hopes of replacing their jobs, while bullying these same developers who dare express their discontent.

This is not gonna end well.

alt187on Move tests to closed source repo

Entitled mentality.

alt187on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

"Less fortunate" is a generous wording and framing.

alt187on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

As opposed to OP's extension, I would heartily recommend this one.

alt187on Nearby Glasses

Wow, it's been a while since I haven't read ICE and parsed it this way. Black ICE, even?

alt187on Building SQLite with a small swarm

> But I can think of one possible reason: SQLite has been known to have memory safety vulnerabilities, whereas this codebase is written in Rust with no unsafe code.

I've lost every single shred of confidence I had in the comment's more optimistic claims the moment I read this.

If you read through SQLite's CVE history, you'll notice most of those are spurious at best.

Some more context here: https://sqlite.org/cves.html

alt187on The Day the Telnet Died

It's only a conspiracy and paranoia if it's wrong. 11 years ago was 2015.

alt187on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

One has still yet to convince me of anything IRC has over XMPP.

alt187on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

Because they have an huge PR campaign and a lot of money to invest in keeping their place.

alt187on The Little Bool of Doom (2025)

That's pretty close to the underlying concept behind Guix and Nix. Give them a glance, if you can!

alt187on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

You should look up "doas". It might enlighten you.

alt187on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

That's not post open-source. That's dual licensing, an use-case FOSS has enabled and supported forever.

alt187on Code is cheap. Show me the talk

There's no example because OP has never done this, and never will. People lie on the internet.

alt187on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

Now I wonder, how has this become infeasible exactly?

alt187on How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)

That's called `\e[0;92m`, aka the ANSI terminal espace sequence for bright green. You have 15 others, that will be displayed however the terminal's user wants. They're already available in most terminal color libraries, too.

alt187on Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

I can think of a few things that burn more energy per second that I'll burn in my entire lifetime via the use of encryption.

Coincidentally, they're all, somehow, insanely useless.

alt187on Your app subscription is now my weekend project

Exactly. But it is hilarious that, in the only OS where investing your time in learning something that will almost always be useful in other ways (as opposed to spending your time submitting to a quagmire of bugs), this is described as a "spending".