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by 3036e4 1y ago
I agree with much, but not everything. Some of it was a bit silly. One thing that I would add is that you fully configure MS-DOS using just a few lines of text in AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. And that includes setting up many applications a
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I use rsync.net for borg backups. They create daily ZFS snapshots that are read-only to the user, specifically for ransomware protection. But this was a good reminder I should probably figure out some good way to monitor my borg repo for un
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by 3036e4 1y ago
If/when Corporate Legal approves a tool like Ollama for use on company computers, yes. Might not require purchasing anything, but there can still be red tape.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Amazing! I thought all hope of ever running FreeDOS on the bare metal again on new hardware was lost, but maybe using this code (or something similar) a future FreeDOS installer can fix this at least on some systems.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I surrendered a long time ago and started top-posting like normal people do, but a few times I wrote to someone and they replied the old way with just quotes and bottom-posting, and then I immediately revert to that mode myself. I wish ther
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by 3036e4 1y ago
The Renoise DAW does that as well, except for two or three features that are disabled in the trial version (nothing too vital or that could not be worked around by anyone interested in not paying iirc). Just an offline serial number to unlo
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by 3036e4 1y ago
About 1, directory of files, many formats these days are just a bunch of files in a ZIP. One thing most applications lack unfortunately is a way to instead just read and write the part files from/to a directory. For one thing it makes
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I thought of that game as well, but I never played it or even knew about it at the time. I also forgot about the connection to Slack. What I DO remember is that they released the game art with a CC0 license after shutting down the game. The
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by 3036e4 1y ago
They do struggle with that, or rather some developers struggle with not making assumptions about the way a user's window manager is laying out their windows? I use StumpWM, and for the few applications that this becomes a real problem
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Engine these days implies one of those IDEs with everything included (scene editor etc). I don't know how or why, but language drifted in the last 20 years or so.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Does it add much on top of the old GPL aseprite it forked from?
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by 3036e4 1y ago
They don't need to "silence journalists", since a large number of people were duped to think real truth comes from random anonymous accounts on social media or from some charismatic political influencer they follow. It doesn&
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by 3036e4 1y ago
That is almost my favorite part of DOS retro computing. Every file to name is a little puzzle.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I used Turbo Pascal 2.0 in the early 1990's because that was the old version my dad happened to have. You could not just go online and find whatever latest version of software you wanted to.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Not with the files saved from GW-BASIC though, unless you add the extra A parameter to save as ASCII. I learned that recently when setting up a repo to experiment with GW-BASIC 1.0 (unlike the later Microsoft BASICs the original GW-BASIC is
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by 3036e4 1y ago
In what ways? I paid for both, but I only use TIC-80 since I prefer open source and it has a FreeBSD port. I am also not sure if PICO8 supports alternative languages like Fennel or Janet as well as TIC-80 does?
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Here in Sweden the public service SVT has had its streaming service for years and I watch that more than I watch any of the commecial services I pay for (currently three of them).Incidentally that means mostly watching BBC (crime) series as
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Swedish works the same (unsurprisingly), but note that programming languages also kind of do that. If you had to use a word like that in Java you would just mash all the words together in CamelCase and it would be pretty much the same as us
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by 3036e4 1y ago
If Teal is the TypeScript of Lua, Fennel is the ClojureScript. Except Fennel is fully implemented in Lua itself and it transpiles (usually) to very simple, plain Lua code without much (if any) overhead and with no run-time library other tha
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by 3036e4 1y ago
About blue and green, I know absolutely nothing about this, but I was randomly Wikipedia-surfing a few days ago and found the long page on this topic that is interesting (but has the scary warning at the top about multiple issues). https:&
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I was referring to the APIs required by screen itself to run. If screen is anything like any software I know anything about a fair amount of limited developer time has to be wasted on keeping up with random third-party stuff changing/b
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by 3036e4 1y ago
The good solution is rock-solid, backwards compatible APIs on all levels. That way the work to maintain software would be much lower, making it possible to focus on doing some rare bug-fixing only. In open source in particular this should b
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by 3036e4 1y ago
It's like ignoring backwards compatibility. That is really cheap since all the cost is pushed to end-users (that have to relearn the UI) or second/third-party developers (that have to rewrite their client code to work with a new A
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by 3036e4 1y ago
The sad thing is that even running DOS software in DOSBox (or in QEMU+FreeDOS), or Amiga software in UAE, is much faster than any native software I have run in many years on any modern systems. They also use more reasonable amounts of stora
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Renoise is a DAW with a very high density tracker UI that I think works well. It is a bit friendlier to new users than any oldschool tracker I have tried to use. https://www.renoise.com/products/renoise
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Depends on where you live. In Sweden you can make a few copies of almost anything without violating copyright. There are a few exceptions. Copying entire books was added as an exception in 2005. You can still copy parts of a book. How large
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Unfortunately only shows the source code "for non-commercial use".
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by 3036e4 1y ago
There is the open source VGA Paint 386 to get something similar: https://www.bttr-software.de/products/vp386/ Runs in DOSBox (i.e. runs everywhere and can be expected to keep working). And of course also the open
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I don't know vim well. Why is it not easy to just keep using the same settings? The oldest parts of my emacs config go back at least 30 years and I have had it in a git repo for ~15. I keep my entire .emacs.d versioned, including all t
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by 3036e4 1y ago
One of the few things I do bother to configure is my window manager, but only because it happens to be well designed and make it easy to store all configuration in my config git repo. Too much software put host-specific stuff in settings fi

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