tomaspollak

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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Nice project, congrats! More than pre-installing packages I think it would be great to have a (working) package manager by default. That way users are able to choose whatever floats their boat. I've been using Linuxbrew[1] (a Homebrew
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Not for the moment. I wanted the voting popup to be as least annoying as possible -- that's why it automatically disappears after 10 seconds. I'll add a keybinding to the R key so you can manually toggle it. Thanks!
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Will keep that in mind. Thanks!
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Very helpful insight, thanks again mate. Curiously, I don't normally click on the hamburger icon because hitting the ESC key also toggles the top menu, so I completely agree with you that it doesn't feel natural. I've been te
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The intro was thought as a way to onboard users that don't know much about MIDI (or MOD or NSF or VGM), but it can definitely be improved. I'll play around with a more integrated version as you suggest. :)
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Y-E-S! This is definitely number 0 on the to-do array.
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
It's a mixture of patches from different soundfonts, the primary being the amazing Arachno. Playback is done via libtimidity, and old C library that was ported to JS through Emscripten.
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Yes, as well as a volume control! You can also hit [tab] as a shortcut to toggle the sidepane with the active playlist.
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Yup, just hit the "V" key. I guess you're right. YouTube already hosts a ton of game music videos and they don't seem to have any problems.
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
I guess it depends on the era. Most of the computer games of the early nineties relied on MIDI, although their Amiga ports did use MOD of course, being the de-facto Amiga music format.
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Thank you very much sir!
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Thanks! This is actually a long topic because Muki contains a mixture of ripped vs sequenced tunes, etc. I've contacted some of the authors of sequenced tunes for permission, and also taken great care of crediting both the source where
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Good point! And this is actually the short version of the intro, the first one was like twice in length... :)
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by tomaspollak 11y ago
Hehe, me too. Thanks!
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Show HN: Muki, music streaming from MIDI and chiptunes(muki.io)
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by tomaspollak 12y ago
funny thing: 'robo' in spanish actually means theft.
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by tomaspollak 15y ago
They aren't making our jobs harder, we just want to make it up for all the people that have been constantly asking us about the iOS app. The parallel sale does sounds good though, so thanks. :)
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by tomaspollak 15y ago
Because Find my iPhone is only meant to help you find your phone if misplaced , not stolen. Law enforcement needs static, printable data in order to do their job, because evidence needs to be shown in court and Find my iPhone's informati
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by tomaspollak 15y ago
6 users! wow.
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by tomaspollak 15y ago
you're welcome Greg! really glad to know you got your laptop back. :)
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by tomaspollak 15y ago
yup that's right, at least me and most of the guys that work for Fork (the company I founded after Prey took off). however there's lots of contributors from Europe, the US and Asia.
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by tomaspollak 15y ago
no it's not. and please don't start with this over again. we (the Prey team) don't have the time or the interest to pay people, thieves or whomever to build and publish these elaborate stories. I spent almost all afternoon yesterday on Redd
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by tomaspollak 15y ago
"Having our passwords in plaintext is more secure than obfuscating them precisely because, when a user is not misled by a false sense of security, he is likely to use the software in a more secure manner." I must say I don't agree with the
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by tomaspollak 15y ago
As someone noted, this only applies for the old standalone mode, as Prey needs to store your SMTP password in order to send the report via email later. Most people use Prey + Control Panel nowadays. :)