Lammy

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by Lammy 5d ago
What? The GBA knows exactly what it is and has all sorts of sprite scaling and rotation features that would look like total crap on a CRT: https://gbadev.net/gbadoc/sprites.html#attr3 Look at Kuru Kuru Kururin for exam
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by Lammy 5d ago
> These public caches were much less wide spread than you appear to believe You can keep your belief or disbelief. I ran my own, transparently with Squid on my FreeBSD PF gateway box back in The Day when we had a cable ISP with a restric
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by Lammy 5d ago
> It's ridiculous to argue otherwise. I wholeheartedly disagree :) If you will refer to the “survivability onion”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivability#/media/File:Surv... Do
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by Lammy 5d ago
Some server-focused programs pull in UI toolkits anyway. Take qBittorrent for example: I only use its web UI, but it's still a QT program, and on my OS of choice its package will try to pull in a bunch of display-related stuff by defau
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by Lammy 5d ago
> in coordination with TLS-terminating CDNs Not what I'm saying. No coordination is necessary. I'm talking about metadata, not encrypted contents — just the fact that you made some number of connections, at a certain time, fr
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by Lammy 5d ago
> The rest of the upgrade came out of my junk drawers. Two DDR4 sticks from an old laptop take the memory to the platform maximum of 32 GB Realtalk: make sure you are religious about testing your RAM if you're going to run ZFS wit
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by Lammy 5d ago
Which ironically makes the Internet more surveillable, because now every single connection has to hit some TLS-terminating origin and can't be cached at the edge of our own networks. Don't confuse security with privacy.
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by Lammy 10d ago
Normally I would agree with this, but all of the discs I've ever have that did rot (LD, CD, and DVD) were ones pressed by SONY DADC lol
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by Lammy 10d ago
> Golden Gate is our second consecutive release named for a body of water, following a stretch of releases named for towns/regions (Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia) Monterey is a body of water tho: https://en.
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by Lammy 10d ago
I love the track from Escape From Noise (1987) that predicts our current housing crisis and criticizes the hypocrisy of anti-development mindsets and Prop 13 and all of that by comparing it to the way people talk about firearms prohibitions
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by Lammy 11d ago
Relevant: - USAF Directed Energy Directorate home page during the years 1999–2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060831035044/http://www.de.afr... - USAF Directed Energy Directorate home page during the
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by Lammy 11d ago
I was all about some 98lite ‘Sleek’ on my hand-me-down 486DX/2-66 in the late '90s, Windows 98/98SE/Me with the original Windows 95 pre-OSR2.5 non-Active Explorer swapped in :) - https://www.litepc.com/sw
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by Lammy 11d ago
I lol'ed in the theater when I watched Top Gun Maverick as a double-feature with the original and the first thing you see is PRODUCED BY DAVID ELLISON — very “ecrof ria eht nioj”
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by Lammy 12d ago
The difference is that now the breakage comes to you instead of being something optional that you can seek out or ignore. I remember installing, like, fewer than ten updates ever for Windows 95: The ‘95A’ patch, a few updates to Dial-Up Net
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by Lammy 12d ago
Rather than AVIF or JPEG XL or WebP or HEIF or any of that stuff, my actual ideal choice that I wish everyone used is just good ol' JFIF. I like that I can take a file downloaded from the modern Web and open it on my '90s and 20
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by Lammy 13d ago
Or a projector, which is a way better experience anyway if you can stand having a curtained room.
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by Lammy 15d ago
These days they call it Cloudflare and make you pay for it lol
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by Lammy 16d ago
In the future, people willingly surveil themselves 24/7 with cryptographic proof, because fake images and video will be so good that it will be the only way to prove what one didn't do. Total Information Awareness achieved :D
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by Lammy 16d ago
Why would you help build Google's place-database moat for them for free?
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by Lammy 16d ago
The System loves leaning on the Cult of Safety to justify taking away people's autonomy and freedom of movement
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by Lammy 17d ago
How could I know? He literally said it's a secret.
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by Lammy 18d ago
> Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich, the epitome of "both sides are the same." idk I feel like an election boiling down to “Which Bonesman would you like?” is a valid thing to question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Lammy 18d ago
> Let's say you want to go back to 2001 and experience the glorious days of the early forum-sphere. ‘Peak’ would have been Invision Power Board 1.3 IMO, but still cool archaeology project :) And lo: - https://github.com&#
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by Lammy 18d ago
Getting code to re-compile byte-for-byte into the original game is the first step to being able to clean up that code to be human-readable.
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by Lammy 18d ago
> Have the creators ever reconned with their role in normalizing and popularizing.. the current situation? For just one of them, ‘it never happened’ :p https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/south-park-gaslights-a...
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by Lammy 18d ago
If something is technically possible, one should act as though it is already happening and hope to be wrong rather than refusing to consider the issue until sufficient “proof” is given, by which it will be too late. Doubly so when advertise
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Super Smash Bros. Melee is 100.00% decompiled(decomp.dev)
19 points by Lammy 19d ago|4 comments
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by Lammy 20d ago
> we were sat in a room thinking 'How do we design this to be different, so we don't get sued by Apple?' The Mac had a menu bar of text across the top, so we thought 'we can't go across the top, we'll have t
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by Lammy 22d ago
> 20k films at let's say 30m average is 400+ continuous, unbroken days worth of content You are making the mistake of assuming someone can only have one monitor displaying porn at once. Have you never seen a real gooncave?
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by Lammy 22d ago
The System economically rewards those who successfully build Room-641A-as-a-Service

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