ajdude16 hours ago
remywang13 hours ago
I had some good fun writing non-gaming apps for the playdate console including a browser [1] and Kagi news mirror [2] and feel the device has great potential as an alternative to android/iOS duopoly
xstas110 hours ago
I had never heard of the Playdate but it looks like a very interesting device... and... I want it? Would you suggest getting one?
archargelod8 hours ago
I would've got one if it wasn't so pricey for these specs. You can get a cheap Anbernic for 40-60$ running linux, with decent ARM CPU and a good backlighted screen.
remywang6 hours ago
I really like my playdate! Lots of indie games, and their Lua API is very good, coming from someone with no prior experience with Lua or games programming.
Auracle6 hours ago
The games are quirky and too many use the crank, IMO. That said, if you want something a bit more unique than everything else it’s a fun toy.
ddtaylor8 hours ago
I was given one and it had some fun gimmicks but if doesn't really last beyond a few sessions. The ecosystem is strange and I just went back to a "real" device a bit after.
daniel_iversen12 hours ago
Here’s a nice YouTube video about GameBoy WorkBoy; a hardware addon and software productivity apps for the game boy,’unreleased and recently recovered https://youtu.be/1Y98jj3Kn84?si=dMII3mTmeDI0XrCn
Sorry if it’s in the article, I can’t access it either
marcosscriven14 hours ago
Blocking Apple iCloud privacy is pretty extreme.
dmitrygr13 hours ago
It isn’t blocked. It is on for me and the site loaded fine.
marcosscriven13 hours ago
It was at the time. Now it’s loading fine. In the 403 screen it specifically called out iCloud privacy.
DocTomoe7 hours ago
It was on for me again, 6 hours later.
Ah, another domain for the blacklist.
retired13 hours ago
It’s basically “give me your IP address before you can continue so we can better data mine you”
as1mov13 hours ago
Yeah, the community run TCRF wiki is banning VPNs just so they can mine your data along with the luxurious $400/mo they're getting from Patreon. And not because they're constantly being besieged by rampant bots that they have to resort to such drastic measures.
thenthenthen5 hours ago
Funny it works for me while being on a vpns that gets blocked everywhere…
calmworm12 hours ago
Why not use a captcha or turnstile?
retired13 hours ago
I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me. I do see trackers from multiple big corporations on tcrf.net.
What bots are using Apple Private Relay?
Xkeeper12 hours ago
This is fascinating to me, because you just said you can't see it, but also that there are "trackers from multiple big corporations". Can you tell me what those are?
I ask primarily because we explicitly don't use any trackers, to a degree I actually pride myself on running a website that doesn't contact anything else: https://mini.xkeeper.net/private/C58L77azpY.png
The sole exceptions are YouTube embeds, afaik. I even switched out the MediaWiki and CC badges to be local.
Telaneo12 hours ago
uBlock Origin shows nothing out of the ordinary but Youtube, Google and Doubleclick, so Google, Google and Google, and I assume all of those are due to the embed.
Xkeeper12 hours ago
If you mean the block page, yes, that's just the YouTube embed. You'll see the same results on any wiki page that has a YouTube embed for the same reason; it's not tracking or anything I have control over (other than outright not having YouTube embeds). But I think if anyone has concerns over that, they're better addressed at the local-user level by disabling all unauthorized iframes.
MarioMan8 hours ago
There are lightweight YouTube embeds like https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed. It’s lauded for faster page loads, but it likely has good privacy implications too since it basically just loads a thumbnail unless you click on it.
retired3 hours ago
Maybe don’t do YouTube embed if it’s just a flickering logo. Use a GIF for that.
I’m not disabling my VPN if a website with multiple trackers asks me to.
retired12 hours ago
On the “ Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now” page I get tracked by Google, YouTube and DoubleClick according to the report by Safari.
I also have 924 kilobyte of data stored on my device after visiting tcrf.net without any consent.
Telaneo12 hours ago
> I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutting_Room_Floor_(websit...
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LRDEV11113 hours ago
ooo free data!
calmworm16 hours ago
Site blocks VPN users.
Xkeeper12 hours ago
Unfortunately true. I wrote about it early last year here: https://blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorized/tcrf-has-been-getting...
The story has not changed much. Every so often I will remove most of the blocks put in place, and within a few hours I'm back to having to block them. Many of the cheaper VPNs are also hosted on AWS / Google Cloud / Azure (or other cloud providers), which are also unilaterally blocked.
I would much prefer we did not have to do this, but it is what it is.
deadbabe16 hours ago
This is why you should self host your VPN.
Retr0id13 hours ago
But where do you self-host it? Most sites that block VPNs also block VPSes
retired15 hours ago
Does that not defeat the anonymity aspect?
deadbabe15 hours ago
VPNs even from big public providers have not been a reliable way to protect anonymity for a while now. Use VPNs for cryptographic security and circumventing region control.
DANmode14 hours ago
You mean pseudo anonymity, from advertisers mostly?
ErroneousBosh14 hours ago
Many of us only like legitimate users, and therefore block VPNs.
lxgr14 hours ago
What makes a VPN user inherently “illegitimate” in your view?
ErroneousBoshan hour ago
They're using a VPN.
I've never seen anyone using a VPN for anything other than disruptive behaviour. I had to block vast swathes of mobile broadband providers in a certain warlike Middle Eastern country because if I didn't I'd have anywhere from 100 to 1000 new users every single morning who'd all posted hate speech that won't post here for fear of triggering the right-wing apologists.
Now they just do that over VPNs, which makes keeping them out all the more difficult.
mschuster9113 hours ago
The problem is the whack-a-mole game with hackers and script kiddies. It used to be the case that banning known colo ASNs was enough to get rid of nuisance by STROs, then there was a flood of hacked routers being used for DDoS that was really annoying to get rid of, and then came "residential IP" VPNs and commercial VPNs, both of which get routinely abused by AI scrapers and frankly, the AI scrapers are a worse enemy than the skiddies of 10 years ago. They ruin everything.
And you as a site operator can't really tell apart skiddies, griefers, AI scrapers and legitimate users apart any more.
deadbabe13 hours ago
What are they doing exactly?
therein13 hours ago
Almost as if you shouldn't be banning users because of their IP unless that IP specifically has openly attacked you.
Or I guess you can just DENY ALL.
ErroneousBoshan hour ago
If all the traffic you see from a particular netblock is people posting hate speech, you're probably not losing much by dropping everything from that whole range.
DocTomoe7 hours ago
Well, you can just give me a list of the domains you operate, and I can put them in the network blacklist.
ant6n16 hours ago
The linked video seems to provide a much deeper story: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZcrPM-jDqY&ra=m
initramfs12 hours ago
yes, amazing complement to a super rare non-release (but protoype) exists.
dbalatero15 hours ago
When I try to share this page on iMessage it unfurls the link as "LLM / AI Standard Test Page" so I guess I won't share it!
tedmiston13 hours ago
you can do the period trick:
> . http://example.com .
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/03/15/how-to-send-links-w...
DANmode14 hours ago
You can choose to display the text of the link,
instead of letting your device’s defaults decide who you are,
and then telling all of us about it.
DANmode9 hours ago
Downvoters: Just press and hold, lol…
willXare14 hours ago
The original "work from anywhere" setup, as long as anywhere had two AA batteries.
asdff14 hours ago
Four AA
retired13 hours ago
Anywhere with enough ambient light.
pfannl13 hours ago
10 AA
marethyu11 hours ago
Does anyone know where can I find contents for the 2020 gigaleak?
marethyu4 hours ago
nvm, I found it in archive.org
MBCook11 hours ago
I remember this being shown in Nintendo Power. As the kind of kid who liked computers and gadgets I really wanted one, and read the article many times.
But of course it never came out.
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snvzz4 hours ago
Applaud the preservation.
dgellow16 hours ago
Access seems pretty strict
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403 Forbidden
You are unable to access this site.
Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now.
If you are using a VPN, try disabling it first. We block many VPNs because of abuse.
If that does not work, the block may be due to one of the following reasons:
You are connecting using a network we have blocked. Your connection is still using a VPN or proxy (incl. Apple Private Wi-Fi, CloudFlare relays, etc.) You are a badly-behaving or unwelcome bot (ChatGPT, bingbot, yandex, etc.) You are using a badly-behaving extension (eg. Imagus, etc) that is trying to load every single version of a file in the background If you were able to view pages before, and this error message has suddenly appeared in place of what you were expecting, make sure you are not running any extensions or tools that are attempting to download everything at once. It is possible you were manually blocked, and it might be removed soon. If not, well, sorry.
If this page always apppeared, there is likely not a lot you can do. If you are using a VPN, turn off your VPN and try again.
Sorry for the trouble. We have been under a long-running DDoS attack.
willXare14 hours ago
403 Forbidden is just the modern version of blowing into the cartridge.
free_bip16 hours ago
That's weird, I can connect just fine over mullvad.
MrDrMcCoy16 hours ago
I'm on Mullvad and got blocked.
echelon13 hours ago
30 out of 34 comments are about the content blocking.
Only four comments are about the content of the article, and none of them really go into depth.
This has been at the top of HN all day. If people can't see it, what gives?
Bratmon12 hours ago
People who can see the article can see that it's incredibly mid and not worth commenting on.
But for people who can't see the article, it could be anything! For all they know, they're being kept out of the greatest content of all time!
Xkeeper12 hours ago
From my logging, most people can access it just fine.
As for "what gives", I have no idea. The article itself isn't interesting and doesn't contain much of value; the "game" itself is what is interesting, but that's not what the article is there to cover.
So my guess is it's just only the people who can't see it, because for others there's not really much to discuss. I don't know why this was even posted here, to be honest.
Asfand209914 hours ago
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montag14 hours ago
Where are you seeing this?
iamjackg14 hours ago
It's probably a bot account that tried to read the article to come up with a reasonable comment, but TCRF likely serves a "you're a bot, go away" static response page when it's accessed by bots. Pretty funny.
iamjackg14 hours ago
I take that back! It seems to be happening to multiple people using VPNs. My bad. I should have been more charitable.
girvo13 hours ago
Funnily I think you are still right re. the specific account under discussion.
lxgr14 hours ago
There do seem to be annoying false positives, but this particular account really is a bit strange. Months of silence after signing up, and then this non sequitur…
rcxdude13 hours ago
The style is also very LLM-y, though not a complete slam dunk.
