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butz··on OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
What a coincidence. Only today I learned about Pierre Computer, while reading release notes for Bootstrap 6 Alpha. And they got sold the same day.
butz··on uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch
Every decent web browser must implement controls to disable download and autoplay of any media, be it video, audio or even gif images. And very neat feature would be to inform user how much bandwidth this media file will consume before clicking play button. And using scrollbar should not be considered as an interaction with website that enables autoplay.
butz··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
And that's why having some competition is useful for consumers. I would like to see this trend to continue and game launchers improving not only startup times, but RAM usage and disk size usage. I just looked into my `.steam` directory, and it is taking up over 10GB of disk size, and I have only single game installed, that is only about 500MB in size.

Now patiently waiting for GOG answer to this competition.

butz··on Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks
What about license of such output? Won't Google and OpenAI be coming to my door for their share from the sales of "my" audiobooks?
butz··on Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux
My "two week" estimate was too sarcastic. Thank you for detailed explanation about all the problems and challenges that comes up when building a file sync client. I really admire your attention to detail while trying to correctly integrate the sync engine in all different file clients.
butz··on Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux
If Proton got their devs together for a two week internal hackathon, they could build a very simple Proton client for Linux that would match functionality of Dropbox and quickly gain a lot of new customers. And make existing customers very happy thus creating free publicity to attract even more customers. Alas, their priorities are trying to upsell unnecessary products to their existing customers and not providing products they actually want. And I am saying all this as a paying Proton customer.
butz··on Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110
Is there any way to add custom apps to this series of Nokia phones? It's so annoying that 20 years ago mobile phones were running Java apps (J2ME), and now - nothing.
butz··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
Keep rounding UI and adding more AI, and finances will keep going down.
butz··on Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent
Yeah, there are better names out there, try Unity or Proton.
butz··on Why don't more developers "use the platform"?
Some developers are locked in to using some in house UI solution that is slow to implement any new features from evergreen browsers and even is still shipping hacks for IE11, although it was depreceted company wide years ago.
butz··on MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
There is "Prefer WebGPU" toggle (on by default), but it does nothing. How hard would it be to add simple support test to check if browser has all required capabilities to run your application? I think at least allowing to browse models does not require WebGPU, right?
butz··on Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor
The worst thing is when browsers are adding rounded corners to viewport and covering part of website. This is breaking design and in some cases might even hide crucial information.
butz··on A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
Very worrying trend is thin scrollbars on websites, or in some rare cases - scrollbar just hidden. Fortunately Firefox has a setting in about:config: layout.css.scrollbar-width-thin.disabled=true .
butz··on Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%
Are there any similar projects that do recompilation for old DOS games? I am mainly interested in games written in Borland Turbo C, as I am trying to work out how one of them works. Some resources like tutorials would be great too.
butz··on From 2027 you must be at least 18 to use Dropbox
Also, period of inactivity for free accounts will be reduced.
butz··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
Default apps in GrapheneOS are really outdated. Especially "Gallery" where on standard "compact" device top navbar is still too small and requires very precise touch. Hopefully, little by little, all stock applications will be updated to more modern variants. I personally had plans to build some open source stock Android applications, but after whole nonsense with platform being locked down I do not see the point in investing my time, just for google to block my apps.
butz··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
Would be neat if Fairphone would build a real compact smartphone, something with 4" or 5" screen. Current device is too large for human pockets and all those protruding camera bumps and buttons are really uncomfortable.
butz··on Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer
Galaxium can't run in this browser
butz··on Tim Curry has died
Here's an obsure one: Tim Curry voiced the main antagonist of Brütal Legend, Doviculus.
butz··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
We get the message alright - everyone move over to alternative platforms. Biggest issue to get local government socials moved to something more open and accessible without an account.
butz··on Nextcloud Native client – independent and community-driven
I cannot believe it is not an Electron app.
butz··on Banned Words List
This is ungood.
butz··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Cloudflare's "Verify you are human" captcha is the new cookie banner.
butz··on We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
Next they are going to round of the corners of your website, either you like it or not.
butz··on CodePen 2.0
I wonder why styles.css editor is missing scrollbar? index.html has one, though.
butz··on Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland
Very timely post. I wonder, is it possible to clone one single mouse cursor, to duplicate exactly same actions on two windows placed side by side?
butz··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
We need a follow up, how this change panned out, how much did performance improve?
butz··on Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
Considering the size of current smartphones, using laptop as more compact alternative is quite clever idea.
butz··on HMD Touch 4G
Neat. Even with all that padding it is smaller than current "compact" devices.
butz··on Light Flip
Everything I ever wanted from a phone. And unlike latest HMD Nokia phones, this one has SDK - https://github.com/lightphone/light-sdk .

Shipping dates will definitely test my patience, though.

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