Xylemon's comments

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

Let's just say that if it wasn't for RSS, I wouldn't have seen this page.

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Magic PNG Thumbnails

When I opened it with ImageMagick it appears to be a transparent PNG. Very clever trick, as it seems to use Twitters black background when viewing an image to achieve the effect.

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

Wine is always a viable option, especially for older games. With DirectX 11 support coming later this year, almost every Windoze only game should hopefully work.

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Microsoft might be interested in buying AMD

I also hear they want to start doing binary blobs and ditch their open source drivers. Yay!

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014)

The way the GitHub page is set up is weird. Basically two different plugins are hosted on one repo. The root tree you linked to has the original client required plugin. Go under "Skypeweb" folder and you'll see it's an entirely different plugin that you can compile and don't need a client (also has its own README).

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014)

You could ask Eion about making his SkypeWeb Pidgin plugin for Adium, or look into it yourself. Here's the plugin I'm talking about by the way: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe...

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014)

"third-party Skype client (e.g. to have support in Pidgin)" Funny because recently the old Skype plugin for Pidgin was re-written to utilize the new HTTP Skype. So now you have a nice client-less Skype chat in Pidgin. I'm certain someone could study it to write their own client.

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Quake in your browser

Quaddicted is a great site ran by a great Quake archivist/enthusiast (Spirit). He's helped keep back ups of Quake mods and maps and even written a java application to download and install them easily onto your Quake installation from his site. Just don't appreciate the domain name, appreciate the guy too!

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: SF: Project mirroring policies will be revisited, existing mirrors removed

Doesn't seem to me that all of them removed...

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger protocol

Nice to see this, hopefully we'll get some more involved features like notification support and group chat. Still sad that Facebook never utilized XMPP chat to its fullest.

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: I hacked Uber's website yesterday

The "Slip and Slide" bit give me a good laugh. Interesting article, makes me curious about what exploits I have on my own site.

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: SourceForge: Third party offers will be opt-in only

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643678

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: Fallout 4

Could you or someone provide a screenshot? I can't get the website to load.

Xylemon | 10 years ago | on: GIMP-Win project wasn’t hijacked, just abandoned

I've heard about how SF has been some financial trouble, but isn't all this adware nonsense just going to hurt them more in the end? Surely some crowdfunding option could've been more of a viable effort...

Xylemon | 11 years ago | on: How Apple Watch Unexpectedly Measured My Vitals During a Car Crash

I don't think "assess" is the word you meant to write haha.

Xylemon | 11 years ago | on: OpenBSD 5.7 Released

It's so weird to see one of my programs on the packages FTP. Feels pretty awesome!

Xylemon | 11 years ago | on: Porting Half Life with Xash3D: Not Strictly Straightforward

I remember a while back Xash3D was a very illegal project gathering code from many other projects (sometimes without any form of credit). I'm unsure if the situation has dramatically changed, but I still wouldn't trust the project.

Xylemon | 11 years ago | on: Project Fi by Google

I would be interested in a beta invite, but it might just close it three to five years anyway.

Xylemon | 11 years ago | on: VHS tapes in the Internet Archive

"We're No Dummies! We Don't take Drugs"

You gotta love how when you go through old tapes and other media, you find hilarious crap like this.

Xylemon | 11 years ago | on: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

Did you enable the 3rd Party Filters?