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by amatecha 4mo ago
Err, strange, what browser? I'm using Firefox on a ThinkPad from 2018 running Linux, and cssquake was running at a smooth 60fps just now (and at 1080p resolution vs the 320x240 or 320x200 someone would likely be running on a P133)
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by amatecha 4mo ago
Ah man, hell no :( The music in DOOM was such a huge influence on me. I had the Macintosh version which IIRC had the .mid files alongside the game, so I hung onto those and listened to them outside of the game quite frequently. I was jus
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by amatecha 4mo ago
88/100, scores were 20/20/18/14/16. Born & raised in western Canada fwiw.
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by amatecha 4mo ago
Suddenly remembering the days of dialup and your browser serving a fully-functional cached copy of a webpage when you try to access it and you're not online...
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by amatecha 4mo ago
indeed, there is https://www.irccloud.com which is quite excellent!
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by amatecha 4mo ago
Working on a web client and bouncer for Hotline, the old chat software from ~1997. Just want to chat with my peeps who still use Hotline, from the comfort of the browser I have on whatever machine, while some server maintains the persisten
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by amatecha 4mo ago
Stop using corporate-owned walled gardens and manipulation factories.
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by amatecha 4mo ago
Yeah, I've had to fight to get medication that the doc insisted "doesn't work" - had to cite actual studies that showed blatant results showing effectiveness. The way society has this widespread "appeal to authorit
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by amatecha 4mo ago
Hmmm, that's a great question, I'm not actually sure! I don't _think_ Jellyfin has a music curation/recommendation system built-in. I did a quick search and https://github.com/LumePart/Explo came
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by amatecha 4mo ago
That's the problem with subscription services. It's a coercive relationship where the terms are unilateral. As an alternative, I've been buying music from Bandcamp for quite some time now and have a huge library built in ad
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by amatecha 4mo ago
I'm pretty frequently blocked by Cloudflare when I use Firefox on OpenBSD -- apparently it's too suspicious of a combination for their liking, or something. Even on Linux I've occasionally had issues. I've had to email
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Yeah, I wouldn't care if someone cooks with bare hands, assuming they actually wash their hands properly. I'm only unhappy when I see them taking their nasty smartphone out of their pocket and doing something with that, then cont
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Yeah, I contacted my MP (via email). No response. :\
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Yeah I was daily-driving a 2012 machine (X230) until 2024, when I then switched to a 2018 ThinkPad which I'm still using.
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Yeah, I was actually running it on a 386 at first. In those days I didn't have much money and I just dumpster-dived computer hardware that was thrown out behind computer shops. Back before recycling stuff got regulated, PC repair sho
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Yeah, probably not - because they don't explicitly have to, as outlined in the post. The very architecture of CF's services essentially enables "blackmail as a service" in the sense that, CF protects the attacker and es
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Yeah, I ran a phpbb forum (alongside my normal static site) on a 486 in 2003 or so. It worked. It was slow, but it worked just fine for my friends and I! I remember it took multiple minutes to generate the SSH server key after the initia
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Oh yeah, I know "the average person" still thinks Chrome is the best browser (if they even care at all about what browser they use), but I mean in tech circles is where it surprises me...
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by amatecha 5mo ago
I'm just surprised people use Chrome at all. Google has proven over and over they can't be trusted and will exploit you every chance they get.
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Yeah, it depends. Some webapp vendors will actually look at metrics of interaction with those tooltips/tutorials, though I'm sure most don't. But yes, there are things I've had showing on the screen for months and mont
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Yeah plus 99% of the time those reshuffled features are extraneous shit I never cared about for a millisecond in the first place. "We moved Stickers over here!" ... that's nice, I'm here to make some software and had to
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Any kind of tour/nag tooltip on any app/site I use stays up forever, until they hopefully finally realize I am never going to interact with their cognitive-energy-wasting noise that should never have been shown to begin with. I&#
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by amatecha 5mo ago
Makes me think of that scene of Neo waking up from the Matrix the first time and seeing the "battery pods"... yeah...
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by amatecha 6mo ago
Oh, do you perhaps mean Theodore Payne Foundation at https://theodorepayne.org/ ? I was just searching Thomas Payne Foundation and that was what came up
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by amatecha 6mo ago
IG was cool when it started, but yeah, its acquisition (and shortly before) was such a swift downhill slide. Haven't even logged into my account in years and years.
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by amatecha 6mo ago
Been using Flickr since 2005, and been paying for Pro since 2015 (it cost $24.95 then). It's still the best photo-sharing community, by far. Pretty disappointed my Pro subscription somehow increased by 60% this year. That's pret
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by amatecha 6mo ago
Yeah the time capsule thing is a big part of its value to me. I will never forget how disappointed I was when the "Macintosh" group disappeared. I think at some point I actually chatted with someone who worked at Flickr and expl
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by amatecha 6mo ago
As someone who has been online since 1992, I love the post. I miss the internet of the late 90's every day. We're no longer "one quick search" away from anything now, because web search has been completely poisoned by
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by amatecha 6mo ago
> Collecting replies like pokemon seems like a real waste of time in my opinion It's a hobby. "Let people enjoy things". Please remember this: it's a hobby. It's right there in the name: amateur radio. We
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by amatecha 6mo ago
Yeah, all that stuff depends where you are located. Up here in Vancouver amateur radio community, any kind of bigoted/discriminatory/exclusionary crap is totally not accepted or tolerated. There are always people experimenting w

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