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webkike··on Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit from a Sexual Abuse Survivor
No, you cant, because porn sites don't let you see the webcam of the person watching your video.
webkike··on Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a profit
It's also the only social network I haven't deleted my account for yet
webkike··on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads
Alright, fine, I'm getting an Apple TV
webkike··on California wants to end Cupertino's tax deal with Apple
What does SF have to do with Cupertino?

You think that ending this deal will make Apple move to Texas? Lol, fat chance, the people that work for Apple are among the very few that can actually afford to live in and enjoy the Bay Area

webkike··on Othello Is Solved?
IMO that's still not cheating
webkike··on Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow
I haven’t met him, but he has bought out my favorite social media website solely so he can insert his insipid opinions and comments, so I think the negative reactions are warranted.

Why do people always talk about needing to meet a guy to have an opinion on them? I haven’t met Dick Cheney either

webkike··on Texas employment tops 14M as state job growth tops U.S.
A random place in Texas? San Antonio is a large city with a population of 1.4 million. Huron, for comparison has a population of 6 _thousand_
webkike··on RabbitOS
I find the idea of putting a natural language model in front of my OS silly and misguided, because I naturally know how to use my computer and translate my thoughts into actions on the mouse and keyboard swiftly. Putting a (probably poor quality) text input as a barrier feels like it would degrade my experience
webkike··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
Did you read the article? This is about cops setting up a protection racket
webkike··on Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session
I understand the reasoning here, and frankly supported. I've been using X11 while having an available Wayland session because some applications are subtly broken on Wayland - discord has weird text input issues, same thing with Emacs, and Wezterm just flat out doesn't work on Wayland with Nvidia GPUs. However, the slow breakage I've seen with X11 has caused me to start migrating. To explain, every now and then on X11 my screen will simply go black for a couple of seconds. It happens often enough where I'm no longer willing to accept in. And so thus I've moved to Wayland. And frankly, with a little bit of effort, I've found work-arounds for all of my issues - Wezterm works if you disable wayland, Emacs 29 works fine, and Discord is acceptable in the browser. And thus, I think that disabling X11 is a good idea because finally it would force people to actually make things work well under wayland, instead of being able to rely on X11 as a fallback.
webkike··on Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art
(I could be wrong, but here's what I'm guessing) 3D refers to RGB, and 4D refers to RGB plus Alpha
webkike··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Windows has supported window snapping for years. It has been the mainstream default for years
webkike··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Please, for the love of god, add native window snapping.
webkike··on [dead]
For those of you wondering what this does, it prints out the time in seconds since the Unix epoch.

It doesn’t do it in a particularly interesting way - the meat of this is implementing the itoa function (integer to array) that converts a number to a string. That implementation is itself not particularly special, just fairly condensed. Everything else is done with standard library functions

webkike··on Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard
Ortholinear is what you are referring to and it is absolutely worth it to learn. Staggered keyboards don’t make sense anymore - the originally reason keys were staggered was because the bars could not physically overlap - and it is far more natural to type only moving each finger along two axis
webkike··on Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard
I’m probably going to get the Glove80 depending on if I like the switches more, but I really wish that there was one ergonomic keyboard that had 2.5ghz wireless connectivity instead of Bluetooth. I actually use these keyboards for gaming, and adding 10ms of latency is fine for typing but absolutely unsuitable, so I will have to keep it wired
webkike··on Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
This is very sad. I was at one point one of those anonymous cowards who criticized Naomi. But as I matured, I realized just how incredible she was, and it deeply saddens me to see that view isn’t shared by the CCP
webkike··on Tetris Randomizers (2018)
I really wish TGM3 was more popular, and got a good port to modern consoles. It is so incredibly unique and in my opinion far more enjoyable than modern Tetris. The one thing they need to fix is the completely inscrutable “t-spin” notification that appears
webkike··on I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one
I’ve recently been looking at this space for using a Gc smart pointer in a language I’ve been writing. It’s extremely useful - you can integrate builtins and external functions very cleanly
webkike··on Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
I applied for a job there, got to the personality test thing, said to myself "this is really stupid" and stopped replying to their emails. Just not worth it
webkike··on If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity
When you live closer to grocery stores, you buy less food more often. I live two blocks away from the grocery store, I go fairly frequently, and I never have an issue with the weight I’m carrying. And I deadlift the same as you
webkike··on Austral Programming Language
Why? No ability to nest functions? Why do you need a semicolon at the end of "end"?
webkike··on Eddiots
My problem is that if there was a two bear minimum, he'd let in more bears
webkike··on Eddiots
I clicked on random and it showed me a comic where a bear wasn't let into a bar because the bar has a "two bear minimum."

I don't think I'm the target audience

webkike··on Bill to allow corporate landowners to vote in elections in Seaford, Delaware
you still don't need to live in Delaware. Hence, the law
webkike··on Marche – open-source Forum Software written in Rust
With the Reddit blackout in full effect, I was reminded of a project I worked on last summer that I never got around to promote or release in any way. Hopefully someone can use this project to create their own community.
webkike··on Quake's lightning gun bug explained [video]
But gunplay and movement is the essence of Doom, unless you're saying that the best part of the original Doom games were the labyrinthine level design
webkike··on A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans
I would personally never use a chatgpt transliterated library
webkike··on A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans
Maybe not if you consider good as a threshold, but the quality of good libraries will improve with a larger pool of skilled contributors
webkike··on A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans
You get more and better libraries if the language is popular. Your favorite APIs (such as AWS for example) implement clients in the language
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