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snipem··on Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
True, but it looks for me like a tool that can generate a „nice“ path for every game. The path is true for every instance of the same game. If the path is done once, everyone can benefit from it. So a patch would not bundle copyrighted material, only the changes made from your tool that anyone else would end up with anyway. It is just a convenience thing. One would need the path, not running your tool over and over again for everyone wanting to play the sane version of the game.
snipem··on Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
This is great. Would you provide the changes as patches like they do for romhacks?

This is some true quality of life improvement when playing these games and have to make dinner.

snipem··on PhotoPrism: web app for browsing, organizing and sharing your photo collection
Unfortunately, it still wants to move and rename your files. I don't want this. It should be read only.
snipem··on New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
It also trashes the resell value of Android devices.
snipem··on How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos
Problem is if you leave Facebook you're not going to be invited for school reunions.
snipem··on How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system
With every release Android makes it harder to have a service running in the background. With the introduction of doze there is no alternative to using FCM. FCM has a privileged service where it is able to wake up the device from doze. A custom push service will never be able to do this.

There might be hacks, but I'd rather take Googles approach than to work around on each and every release.

snipem··on How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system
Another difficulty was caused by the Doze mode, introduced in Android M. The Doze, which is turned on after a period of inactivity, among other things prevents background processes to access the network. As you can imagine, this prevents our app from receiving notifications.

We mitigate this problem by asking users to make an exemption from battery optimisations for our app. It worked fairly well.

This is why we were migrating to FCM from our own custom built MQTT solution that was invented back in 2012.

snipem··on Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac
Draw.io is also pretty capable, interchangeable with non-Mac users and they have a native-ish app