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by 3036e4 1y ago
With some emulators (at least DOSBox-X) you can enable modern graphics modes that show up in SVGA in the emulated DOS and can be supported by DOS software just like any other modes. Anyone making DOS software today that isn't going exp
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by 3036e4 1y ago
GW-BASIC is fun. Microsoft released it with a MIT license and then someone forked it to make it compile and actually work: https://codeberg.org/tkchia/GW-BASIC For development it is convenient that PC-BASIC exists, tha
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Microsoft included almost a full 1988 toolchain (masm, C, make, etc) in their MIT licensed MSDOS repo last year: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0/src/TOOLS There is no source
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by 3036e4 1y ago
GOG used to have a small selection of DRM-free movies that you could buy to download and that would then make all those things possible to do in a way that would be legal or at least able to do locally in a way that would have a zero risk o
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by 3036e4 1y ago
It's because they managed to get DRM-circumvention into copyright laws in most countries, so they just have to put some kind of DRM in the ebook and then they can claim that any attempt to use the ebook outside of the official software
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Easy to forget, but some of us still browse the web on laptops and desktop computers where users still have slightly more choice when it comes to what software to use. For now. Of course eventually Google or someone else will manage to spre
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by 3036e4 1y ago
You can even cut out parts of the text to re-sell, which is exactly what press clipping services did for newspapers. No copies were made, so no copyright infringement (that simple logic was fine until someone managed to get DRM-circumventio
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by 3036e4 1y ago
No, that is not how copyright works, at least not in this country, but probably not in many countries. You buy a book, not a license. Copyright luckily isn't an unlimited right to dictate exactly how a work is used. Ebooks sadly are di
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I am a heavy ORG-mode user, but this looks like a more complex variant of a gemlog. A gemlog is just a gemtext file with a list of links to posts, including the date of each post in the link text. Then each post is just a gemtext file. Gemt
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Markdown really isn't a specific thing with all the incompatible implementations, many of which allow embedding HTML (i.e. "whatever happens to be supported by current version of Chrome" is also part of those Markdown formats
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by 3036e4 1y ago
> I just wish I could know how many times I've watched it too. I exported all my private data from Netflix and it had very detailed information on exactly when I (or anyone else in the household) watched what. Sadly it only went ba
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Things can remain backwards compatible forever. That is what any good standard does. Web standards and much else in software is sadly a complete mess where too few care about all the downsides of instability. I am a bit worried because for
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by 3036e4 1y ago
GOG games that use DOSBox I just run the installer and then copy the game files to run in my own DOSBox-X installation. They will run forever even if GOG stopped supporting the games on some new OS. Sometimes launching a game is a bit trick
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I used it like sibling commenter to get subtitles for downloaded videos. My hearing is bad. Whisper seems much better that YouTube's built-in auto-subtitles, so sometimes it is worth the extra trouble for me to download a video just to
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I don't think installing (i.e. compiling) whisper.cpp and using it to do audio-to-text is very difficult. If the documentation is too technical I am sure you can ask some LLM to walk you through it. I have used it on Android in termux
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by 3036e4 1y ago
At least whisper.cpp only supports a few input formats like WAV and MP3. To get subtitles for videos I always have to first run ffmpeg to get an audio file and then run whisper.cpp. Guess this new feature may mean that I can do it in just o
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I did this as recently as today, for that reason, using ffmpeg and whisper.cpp. But not on the fly. I ran it on a few videos to generate VTT files.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Latest Aseprite is still available with free (as in beer) source code to compile, even if it is a bit heavy on the dependencies these days, including requiring that you install a special fork of Skia iirc. I paid for it to get the pre-compi
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Maybe optimistic, but reading posts like this makes me hopeful that AI-assisted coding will drive people to design more modular and sanely organized code, to reduce the amount of context required for each task. Sadly pretty much all code I
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Looks like efrit requires an Anthropic API Key, or at least that is what the README says, while gptel works with several different remote or local backends?
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by 3036e4 1y ago
The great thing about many (not all) "worldbuilding or other creative tasks" is that you could get quite far already using some dice and random tables (or digital equivalents). Even very small local models you can run on a CPU can
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Make sure they get local models to run offline. That they rely on a virtual friend in the cloud, beyond their control and that can disappear or change personality in an instant makes this even more sad. That would also allow the chats to be
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Isn't the SMS just 1 factor, and for 2FA they will also need the other F (e.g. password)? Relying on only SMS sounds like 1FA?
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Problem is, I assume, being stuck relying on some brittle apps that might or might not still run after some OS upgrade or after buying a new device. Like the DOSBox app I use on my Android phone is amazing but knowing that eventually it wil
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Reading the title was enough for the Super Cars II intro music to start playing on repeat in my brain. A top-10 game music track of all time. But regarding the A500mini version, I thought SC2 was one of the bundled games that was a bit too
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by 3036e4 1y ago
That was probably true a long time ago, but I bought software using that model that did not have any physical releases and at least one had frequent minor releases adding new features. It seems to me like the "subscription model"
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Sibling comment and article mentioning "Electric network frequency (ENF)" lead to further reading mentioning both audio and visual fluctuations being used.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Have a vague memory of some old HN discussion about how known fluctuations in light because of slightly varying electricity frequency have been used already to detect fake video and that databases exist with information about frequencies by
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by 3036e4 1y ago
That is the old way. You bought some application and it came with upgrades until next major version release or similar. Then when that release came out you could decide to pay again or just keep using the old (now unsupported) version you a
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I would be fine with really any version as open source or at least one that was free-as-in-free-beer to make it possible to maintain virtual machines running old software without having to rely on dodgy downloaded versions... I'd even

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