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by ale42 5mo ago
I remember looking into BASIC sources to figure out how they did some things I had no idea how to do with BASIC... and finding POKE statements with weird numbers, it was looking a bit like magic... (I was probably 10 or so, though)
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by ale42 5mo ago
Interesting: "whitehouse.gov cannot be mogged because it resolves or redirects to a private/internal network address."
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by ale42 5mo ago
They were silently sent to the client browsers... ;-)
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by ale42 5mo ago
Looks like a collection of dead links? (didn't try all of them) Too bad, the title sounded interesting
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by ale42 6mo ago
Given the implications, I guess nobody is going to touch those setups to put an SDL-based program on them, though...
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by ale42 6mo ago
The issue is that the choice of those companies is sometimes to host your stuff on MS365...
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by ale42 6mo ago
Infomaniak is quite well known in Switzerland, often one of the go-to alternatives when one doesn't want US cloud. Decently priced too for many things (not all of them though).
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by ale42 6mo ago
Not really. It's because the target audience is more academic/scientific rather than the Swiss population at large. In the latter case, it would be in the local languages. The law is relatively clear for this. English is not accep
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by ale42 6mo ago
I'm not sure to understand, what kind of reader is that? They speak of RFID but then it gets a barcode reader?
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by ale42 6mo ago
I first thought it was a 1st April joke. But the date is wrong.
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by ale42 6mo ago
I think I downloaded it from Canon 5-6 years ago. It should still be around I guess, but I can share it if needed. EDIT: you can find it here for example: https://asia.canon/en/support/0100304802
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by ale42 6mo ago
Didn't run it (yet) but it looks nice. Great that some people are still able to optimize code! I'm wondering if this would run on actual hardware (VGA + a sound card supporting MPU401 emulation)
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by ale42 6mo ago
I'm using an ancient Canon Selphy photo printer... on Windows 11 without any issues. Using the Windows 7 64-bit driver, worked basically out-of-the-box. It's definitely not officially supported, but to date it works totally fine.
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by ale42 6mo ago
This was sarcasm, right?
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by ale42 7mo ago
Just put a Google Voice line behind a FreePBX or Asterisk and you get all the call filtering you want. You can even make your internal numbers or whatever. I first found the Tin Can cool, but now seeing their privacy policy, it's defin
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by ale42 7mo ago
Is there such a thing? Given it's radio waves in regulated radio spectrum, I'm not sure such a device would even be allowed to operate without a license. This said, there are 3G Nokia dumbphones (e.g. C2-01). I just had to stop us
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by ale42 7mo ago
Internet traffic today is estimated to be a few tens of exabytes per day. Even if you assume 100000 Starlink satellites (we're far from that), each satellite would have to handle hundreds of terabytes per day. That's tens of gigab
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by ale42 7mo ago
(1988)
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by ale42 7mo ago
Apart from actual support on real networks, isn't this the problem IP multicast was supposed to solve ages ago?
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by ale42 7mo ago
That one seems to be an RPC framework, whereas the other one is for PHP applications... maybe an unfortunate name clash, but they don't do the same thing nor anything I'd call similar.
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by ale42 7mo ago
This is just kind-of low-power. Some microcontrollers (e.g. PICs) can have sleep consumptions measured in nanoamperes. Months to years on a coin cell... just, they would need an external wifi module, which is highly inconvenient.
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by ale42 7mo ago
Except that in a contemporary PHP that doesn't work any more. PHP Warning: Uncaught Error: Undefined constant "flase" in php shell code:1 This means game over, the script stops there.
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by ale42 7mo ago
On what? I'd be curious to read more (documented sources)
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by ale42 7mo ago
Funny project... Tried to run SHELL from QBASIC, but it crashes: D:\qbasic.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. Reason: illegal instruction Address: 0x00002fee
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by ale42 7mo ago
Sure but if you click on the "online one" you still have to skip two pages offering you to use the app instead. The same pages you see in the article.
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by ale42 7mo ago
Is audio transmitted while it is being recorded or afterwards? Is it played before everything is received or is everything buffered? In the later case, I find it more akin an audio message on Signal or similar, than as a walkie-talkie, wh
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by ale42 7mo ago
For those who are interested, that one is Alt-7 (numeric keypad) on Windows. This works because in the "OEM" codepage (e.g. 437), char 7 corresponds to a symbol that is mapped into Unicode to • (← I just typed this using Alt-7, an
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by ale42 8mo ago
Maybe, but it should first be aware of that. Given that many AIs even tell you to walk to the carwash to wash your car... I'm not sure they would understand.
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by ale42 8mo ago
I didn't say that length was a requirement, I was only thinking about why one would want to use an LLM to write a comment that is only a few words long, while the prompt might be as long as the (short version of the) comment itself.
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by ale42 8mo ago
I guess to have the LLM write a lengthy descrption of why the code is bad? Otherwise it doesn't make sense to ask an LLM instead of typing // TODO: bad coding style.

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