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by hlandau 5y ago
ScummVM is an outstanding project. Originally an interpreter for the LucasArts SCUMM engine games, it has now seemingly become effectively a centralised home for assorted open source game engine reimplementations. I sometimes like to say th
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by hlandau 5y ago
Blank page without JavaScript.
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by hlandau 5y ago
I feel the same way; I actually ended up liking the first version of the image better. There's something about it that feels authentic to the period.
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by hlandau 5y ago
Is it bad that the strangest thing about this story to me is that the Canadian mafia procured an Itanium server and then just used it for random webdev?
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by hlandau 5y ago
The term "vogon" has also gained some popularity to describe this archetype, in addition to the UK term "jobsworth".
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by hlandau 5y ago
Of course, there are smartcards that could do this, you're just not allowed to have them. Plenty of smartcards nowadays are just flash and an ARM core which theoretically could be programmed arbitrarily. These tend to be used for credi
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by hlandau 5y ago
I use it fairly often for processing documentation (think DocBook) and XHTML.
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by hlandau 5y ago
Pretty much. The only problem with this is you'd prevent genuine innovation in print technology, but a requirement that all printers use some open standard (even a novel one published by the manufacturer) would fix the problem well.
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by hlandau 5y ago
If I were king for a day I would simply ban printer makers from selling ink/toner/cartridges. This would fix practically all of the perverse incentives currently plaguing the printer industry. For that matter I'd also ban cel
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by hlandau 5y ago
How is light to be modulated with these? They're not going to use PWM, are they? I'm pretty tired of seeing displays that exhibit visible flicker when a camera is pointed at them, especially as flicker imperceptible to the human e
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by hlandau 5y ago
So what is to stop me from signing up for a Signal account using your phone number? It's patently obvious that to use phone numbers as identifiers you have to prove control over them at some point. That involves the telephone network.
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by hlandau 5y ago
I'm aware of portability. This doesn't create ownership, it simply seeks to alleviate the most common pain point around the fact that numbers aren't owned. It's not the same thing as ownership such as regards a domain na
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by hlandau 5y ago
Signal's use of phone numbers is an absolutely terrible practice and is one of a number of reasons for which I condemn it. In particular, Signal's use of phone numbers cannot be independent of SMS routing as you propose, because S
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by hlandau 5y ago
And everything about this is a million times better than E.164. Whereas you pay for a number from a VoIP provider, this does not make the number "yours". Domain names are registered in one's name (and sometimes traded for sub
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by hlandau 5y ago
But this has nothing to do with anything I complained about. I don't recall complaining about the scarcity of "designer" phone numbers (for example), just that it is a closed system relative to email. The complaint, amongst t
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by hlandau 5y ago
No it doesn't. The architecture of SMS more or less precludes this (which I have been meaning to write about, maybe soon). Moreover, people can choose their email provider to a far greater extent than they can choose their phone number
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by hlandau 5y ago
This is a defect with the email service provider or user's security practices, not the email system. A well-run email system provides far greater security than SMS. "Approaching 100%" is not "the email system". This
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by hlandau 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Domain names are not meaningfully "scarce", unless you mean in the sense that you pay for them. But even then domain names are not "scarce" because one domain can support an effectively unlimi
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by hlandau 5y ago
The trouble is there appear to be many services purporting to provide SMS "2FA" which make the bizarre assumption that SMS is more secure than email and allow you to recover access to your account purely via access to that phone n
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by hlandau 5y ago
Author here. I also had this issue and switched banks to fix this, as I also wrote about: https://www.devever.net/~hl/phonebank
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by hlandau 5y ago
No it doesn't. E.164 is a closed system in which I cannot own my own identifier, in which interconnection is based on an outmoded billing system based on the now false presumption of a circuit switched architecture, and any ability to
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by hlandau 5y ago
Author here. Amusingly I tried that once with an Android VM; it accepted the input and tried to proceed, then failed with an unexpected error, implying the developer of the application hadn't anticipated this. The account entered some
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by hlandau 5y ago
Author here. Email addresses work fine.
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by hlandau 5y ago
This offering isn't, as far as I know, anything new. AFAIK ISO is funded by their paywall and as an international treaty organisation is probably far harder to reform than industry organisations, so I don't have much hope for this
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by hlandau 5y ago
This proposes to add expanding accordions to the navbar and to some pages. Will these work without JavaScript?
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by hlandau 5y ago
I might be doing some digging into IRC archeology soon, so would be interested in knowing people knowledgeable in IRC history. Maybe drop me a PM if you like? [1] [1] https://www.devever.net/~hl/contact
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by hlandau 5y ago
Thanks for the correction! Updated.
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How the K-line got its name: history of IRC daemon configuration(devever.net)
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by hlandau 5y ago
Interestingly the fallout of this practice isn't just academic. Colin Percival, who is the author of Tarsnap and who sometimes posts here, is also the author of bsdiff, an efficient binary delta patching algorithm. His website notes he
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by hlandau 5y ago
Author here. These lawsuits involving Lee are also of interest: https://corrupt.tech/1708590130-ocr-compressed.pdf https://distfiles.dereferenced.org/stuff/ltm/1760687104.pdf

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