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by amiga386 1y ago
Picture the scene: you have a 102KiB executable game that you want to enter into the 96KiB-or-less game competition at a demoparty in 2 weeks time. You and your friends have been working on this for months. This amazing thing you have is cu
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by amiga386 1y ago
So if I understand this right: * common.lin contains filenames, so that filename-expansion code in the game can work. But the offsets and sizes associated with the files are garbage * <filename>.lin contains a stream of every byte rea
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by amiga386 1y ago
People who have money to rent DDoS services from criminals also have money to rent VPNs that use US residential IP addresses (usually from home computers infected with malware under the control of criminals)
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by amiga386 1y ago
False flag attacks are a thing that wannabe censors do. They post CSAM to some service/site, then immediately report it to every possible contact of the site's hosting provider, DNS provider, DDoS protection provider, etc. But not
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by amiga386 1y ago
On Return of the Obra Dinn 's dithering specifically, here is the original developer blog on its dithering: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374... It's intended, aesthetically, to remind
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by amiga386 1y ago
I think you're missing the point. 5 year old me was writing their own computer games and at no point did I need or ask my parents how to do it (though they did buy the computer; thanks mum and dad!), they didn't know. There were a
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by amiga386 1y ago
I was programming age 5 in BASIC. Raspberry Pis are the modern equivalent and I think every child should have one. > they learn how to function without technological dependencies. So like the Amish? Or are they still too technologically
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by amiga386 1y ago
Windows won't let you overwrite files "in use" and "file" is determined by the full pathname. Linux will let you overwrite files "in use" (though the program(s) using them may not notice) and "file&qu
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by amiga386 1y ago
Whether I like it or not, it seems that the modern chat client (e.g. Discord or Slack, not IRC) has developed the expectance that you "react" to chat messages as they happen - because there's a mental model that you're l
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by amiga386 1y ago
I believe "controlled" means "has traffic lights" (controlled by pedestrian signals, or on a cycle). "Uncontrolled" crossings I think include Zebra crossings.
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by amiga386 1y ago
> the user you emailed in the first place gets an irritating email and they suppose that you are a dick Funny you should say that. I think that people who cause me to recieve an irritating email with nothing more than "like [person
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by amiga386 1y ago
"No Way To Prevent This" Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens
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by amiga386 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability > Even if you are sure something is true, it must have been previously published in a reliable source before you can add it. If reliable sources disagree with ea
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by amiga386 1y ago
They should ban the over-18s too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67012224
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by amiga386 1y ago
Simple. They get new staff whose job is to shove intrusive surveillance and advertising into the product and push out an update, they don't have to support or develop the product. The company bought the product to bilk money out of its
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by amiga386 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn > The 9th Circuit ruled that hiQ had the right to do web scraping. > However, the Supreme Court, based on its Van Buren v. United States decision, vacated the de
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by amiga386 1y ago
I don't think saying "humans only" is going to fix the problem. It's actually very useful for bots to crawl the public web, provided they are respectful of resource usage - which, until recently, most bots have been. The
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by amiga386 1y ago
> C coreutils is not in fact modular, reuseable, and easily-comprehensible It's not. I never said it was. Nor are my bank's systems; I don't want them to fuck them up either. My bank's job is not to rewrite their code
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by amiga386 1y ago
You're just in attack mode now. I listed a specific thing -- that Rust's ecosystem grinds people towards newness, even if goes so far to actually break things. It's baked into the design. I don't care that it's hyp
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by amiga386 1y ago
The difference being that the authors of sysvinit didn't advertise obnoxious messages at boot time ( https://systemd.io/SEPARATE_USR_IS_BROKEN/ ) and try to get the filesystem standards changed. One is like "I&
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by amiga386 1y ago
This is whataboutism to deflect from Rust's basic ethos being to pull in the latest shiny-shiny. > This also picks the newest version that might be incompatible with your compiler, if the newer version uses a newer language standard
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by amiga386 1y ago
sysvinit had no problem being told to mount /usr as soon as network was available, and if you set up an init script to run before /usr was available, but the script needed /usr, that was your own fault. systemd relies on thin
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Please describe to us how you do dependency management with C. PKG_CHECK_MODULES([libfoo], [libfoo >= 1.2.3]) AC_CHECK_HEADER([foo.h], ,[AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find foo header])]) AC_CHECK_LIB([foo],[foo_open], ,[AC_M
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by amiga386 1y ago
> and when the root process writes its lock it destroys that file. Unless you do open("/run/lock/foo.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOFOLLOW)
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by amiga386 1y ago
More-clickbaity title -- Debian Technical Committee tells its doofus maintainers to stop worshipping Poettering so much
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by amiga386 1y ago
I'm going to throw in another one. Cargo always picks the newest version of a dependency, even if that version is incompatible with the version of Rust you have installed. You're like "build this please", and it's l
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Replacing code written in C with code written in Rust is good in and of itself, even if there are some costs associated with the transition. No it isn't. In fact, "Replacing code written in <X> with code written in <
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by amiga386 1y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/politics/kristi-noem-d... ( https://archive.is/WIEgU ) https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?indexName=awardfull... -&gt
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by amiga386 1y ago
You're not a remorseless psychopath, though. Some people are. For a nuanced discussion, the Illustrated Guide to the Law is an excellent introduction. Here's the section on Punishment: https://lawcomic.net/guide&#x
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by amiga386 1y ago
I think you're very, very confused. > guywithahat [...] I'll be waiting for Scott Adams to tell me what to think about this Scott Adams Text adventure guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_

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