Firehawke

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by Firehawke 11mo ago
This just wrecked my trust in KeePassXC. Time to go see if anyone's going to continue this from a fork where they aren't setting themselves up for a massive security failure of some variety.
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by Firehawke 11mo ago
That seems very likely. One of the first things I'd noticed back in the early 90s when I got my shell account and used Pico for the first time was that the UI was similar (not exact copy, mind you) of how Wordstar was, with some basi
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by Firehawke 11mo ago
Same. My first internet access was a BSD shell account back in 1993; I had Pine and Pico on there. Coming from a world of MS-DOS BBSes (I ran one myself!) it wasn't that hard to take QEdit skills and move that over to using Pine and Pi
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by Firehawke 11mo ago
Something like that happened to me in first grade. I was trying to go down a slide and a friend decided to climb the slide itself. He ended up launching me off the side of the slide. It was maybe a five or six foot slide, and I remember goi
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by Firehawke 1y ago
It's also how easy the userland can break things. Windows backwards compatibility tends (even if it's not 100% successful on this) to stay relatively stable. It's kind of funny that the most compatible way to distribute Linux
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by Firehawke 1y ago
This is exactly the same for me. I definitely like being able to switch between a tablet/e-reader for regular reading and using my phone when I'm stuck waiting in line or transport. I don't specifically need the physical book
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by Firehawke 1y ago
I never said cognitive, just dissonance. A tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Yeah, that's a pretty big case of dissonance there. While I agree with large parts of the article in general, the bit about getting yourself fired is just completely out of touch with reality in a job market trying to replace engineers
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Not much in the way of WYSIWYG, unfortunately. There've been some VSCode extensions in the past to simplify editing but that's about as good as it gets.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
MAME's documentation was moved to Sphinx (and thus RST) a number of years ago. I headed up that project, in fact. There was a significant learning curve getting good output when converting some of the old ASCII charts out of .txt files
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by Firehawke 1y ago
DJGPP was the primary development platform for MAME when it was limited to MS-DOS. It certainly got the job done.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
I've been mulling over the concept of a codec designed for streaming NES video. Stream the VRAM tiles and the RAM data needed to reconstruct the output locally, which could be done in a shader along with CRT simulation if desired. Very
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Hey, you go and stop every DDOSing asshole out there and I'll be glad to express that cloudflare should go away. Otherwise, those paying per-byte on bandwidth overage are more than glad to have a safety layer.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Then why even have a HDR display as the handheld screen itself ? Come ON.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
It means that Microsoft won't suddenly disable your Windows 11 install's ability to update. Microsoft has already, on at least one occasion, disabled further updates for computers that don't meet their specified requirements
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Right. You're not going to use V-size and H-size to remove the borders because that screws with literally every other use of the TV (other computers, TV shows, etc).. About the only way to properly calibrate what the borders "shou
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Problem with this theory is that it's not taking into account what the artists were designing their art to be. Not every circle is meant to be a proper circle in the end-- sometimes there's a mix of PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) art an
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Yeah, no, you need to run the community patch. As noted before in the article, it's being actively maintained by the community. You wouldn't expect a 1.0 launch version to run well in 2025.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Dreamcast didn't have game patches over the internet. That wasn't a thing until the Xbox. You could, in rare occasions, download additional content (e.g. PSO had downloadable quests) but the vast majority of games were standalone.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Completely wrong. You can play it offline one player or split-screen with just the disc. You can play it online with the disc and a minimal amount of extra work. https://sylverant.net for instance is a PSO server that supports D
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by Firehawke 1y ago
I'm normally not one to attack the messenger and just attack the message, but lay off the crack. 99% of users don't want anything even remotely like this. The thought of a single database (even encrypted) that could contain random
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by Firehawke 1y ago
How long ago did you try that? I use WSL2 to handle Linux (and Windows cross-) compilation regularly, along with running a number of native tools that are specific to Linux. I've never had any issues with that, even to the point that I
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by Firehawke 1y ago
I'm shocked. They were adamant it wasn't going to happen for a long long time.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Regulation. The cost of regulation compliance and tracking that you're in full compliance, and the lawyers needed to keep all of that in line.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
As of 24H2, you can just "wsl install" from the commandline and it'll do all necessary setup to get you up and running, including installation of Hyper-V components if needed.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
It's a bit more than just some candy, there's substantial glue on both the Linux/Windows sides to get Plan9, WSLG, and the other components to work. That said, the kernel they distribute is open source and you're not lim
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Nope, it's been available in the Steam client beta since 2016, and somewhere around 2017 it went into the mainline client.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Microsoft really should go back and look into open sourcing more of their really old tools. Get versions of MASM, QuickBasic, VisualBasic (the DOS version, of course), and so forth out there. There's a lot to learn from these old tools
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Installing WSL2 as of the latest versions of Windows is as simple as "wsl --install" to get a basic Ubuntu install set up. It'll do all the steps, including turning on all necessary Windows features, in a single command.
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by Firehawke 1y ago
Hard disagree. Accessibility matters, and some of us are photosensitive to large amounts of bright white. Design your CSS to not completely break with a forced dark theme and this won't be a problem.

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