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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
It is specifically illegal to make a copy of something that has been illegally published, not illegal to make copies for personal use in general. Not that I am a lawyer.
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Sweden has something similar (except, as I mentioned elsewhere, the law was amended in 2005 to explicitly add an exception for downloads). The Berne Convention has a special provision for this. Something about if the biggest rights organiza
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Went the opposite direction here. Copying things for personal use was always legal in Sweden, with some exceptions (notably software, since 1986). That law was amended in 2005 (because of The Pirate Bay, presumably) to say that you are no l
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
I have played around a lot with GW-BASIC (and pcbasic (pip install pcbasic)) lately and this strikes me as something that could be made to work very well with old BASIC variants using line-numbers, since when the interpreter sees a new line
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
DOSBox-x on FreeBSD at least has is disabled by default, but it can be enabled when building from ports (make config). https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/blob/master/READM...
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
I have not used Lynx interactively in ages, but when I want to save some pages of text from somewhere (typically an old web forum thread or blog) I often call lynx -dump (followed by gzip) from a script. It is an easy way to get nicely form
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Even when reasonably sensibly used the result was a page where you could not bookmark sub-pages (important at the time, when everyone was still using bookmarks!). This forum thread from 25 years ago that came up near the top when I searched
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Not sure what you are referring to, but many here are probably familiar with the Secret Service raid on SJ Games headquarters in 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Yes. FF is basically CYOA plus rolling some dice for combat and keeping track of your inventory. The CYOA books were predated by the first Tunnel & Trolls solo adventure(s), that have a more complex rules system than FF (since you are p
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Later (~1990's) gamebook series like Fable Lands or Critical IF (AKA Virtual Reality) improved on the mechanics so much that I find it difficult to go back to earlier types of books like FF or Lone Wolf except for nostalgia. https:&#x
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Online versions of Lone Wolf books (1999, with author's permission): https://projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
That seems to be a problem that is getting worse with time though, with increasingly frequent "major" releases and fewer that consider backwards compatibility much at all. Also it used to be much more common to have published spec
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
It is sad that searching online is so much more convenient, since between downloading dumps of Stack Exchange sites and downloading the full documentation for programming languages and libraries I use it would be easy to have 99% of all the
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
I doubt emacs supports that or that it needs that. Can't you just run the colors through some oklch->rgba converter once to get a palette in a more standard format that works everywhere?
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
It probably ships with python on some platforms. Pretty sure it does on Windows. But it does not really have a python API. Most (all?) extensions that ship with Inkscape are written in python, and it comes with some base classes and helper
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Currently reading The BLUE Book About GW-BASIC and QuickBasic (Thomas C. McIntire, 1991, https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-gwbasic ). It is full of fascinating and somewhat horrible advice. For rendering text-mode
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Windows 95 had a horrible reputation for games in the early days, for good reasons or not (maybe mostly because how bad Windows 3.x was for games?). Quake was possibly the first mainstream game that managed to convince many that it was poss
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Speaking of DOS and configuration. Everyone used to whine about that. Having to put cryptic lines of text in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to get some game running. But I look back now and I see my old configuration files that I used on my la
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
With DOSBox-X, and probably some other DOS emulators as well, you can set up any SVGA BIOS graphics modes you want to (up to at least 32-bit color with 16-bit integers for screen width and height), so a DOS application using just the standa
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
I found it increasingly annoying that almost every time I searched for some variation of "what is a good tool/library/device for X" there was a SO thread high in the search results, but of course the question was closed
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Guess now is a good time to hoard some recent dumps. What would be some good local tools to browse those? https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
There is also a geeklist for just dungeon-crawling games played with pen and paper: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/274219/pencil-swords-and-... And some "Roll and Write" games in general: https:&#x2
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Individualized compensation and treating everyone like expendable faceless factory workers instead of teams of professional hired to work together on solving problems seems to me to be the real problem today, not a solution. We're supp
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
This is a far bigger problem than wfh ever was. Everyone has their own thing to do and there is no incentive to work as a team. I saw it in several companies. I remember better times, working in teams that actually worked like teams, togeth
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
But work from home has revealed how wrong that was and returning to office is a waste of limited free time that we are not compensated for.
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
What benefit does Ollama (or RamaLama) offer over just plain llama.cpp or llamafile? The only thing I understand is that there is automatic downloading of models behind the scenes, but a big reason for me to want to use local models at all
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Everything is fine, unless/until many developers begin to assume systemd is present and make software ports to non-systemd Linux (or *BSD) systems prohibitively expensive.
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
Functions are not always pure, no. Clojure is not so strict about I/O, meaning that function could for instance call out to make a database request. But I think that is unrelated to immutability or ownership of data? Immutability guara
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
I am not sure where "almost" came from. Data in Clojure is 100% immutable? You can pass around data between functions or between threads and never worry about anyone modifying it. I believe Clojure is less strict about I/O th
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by 2mlWQbCK 2y ago
A good alternative for game engines where Lua has literally already been embedded is to use Fennel, a LISP that borrows some Clojure-like syntax and that compiles to Lua-code. In some cases it should be possible, like for Löve 2D, to includ

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