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by sprash 5y ago
I was able to fit about 60 MB per channel on a 90 min audio cassette [1]. The bias frequency of that particular deck was about 60 kHz. This means bypassing the recording circuitry could lead to much higher data rates. 1.: https:/&#x2F
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by sprash 5y ago
> X11 is not really a viable solution anymore. These are very unsubstantiated claims. X11 works perfectly. Wayland on the other hand is not a viable solution at all at this point. You can't even take screenshots. > The API has so
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by sprash 5y ago
> Not really Yes really. It makes no sense that every application has different non unified font rendering or rendering in general. Also things like kinetic scrolling and all kinds of application behavior is now potentially completely di
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by sprash 5y ago
Personally I prefer the Novaterm font [1,2]. It is a bit larger (3x7 instead of 3x5) but supports full ASCII and is in my opinion much prettier. 1.: https://imrannazar.com/content/img/c64-80x25-font.png 2.: https
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by sprash 5y ago
It also feels amazing with all the animation and kinetic scrolling. I just wonder where to get the "Apps" showcased in the ssh demo and the screenshot.
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by sprash 5y ago
Some high performers deliberately behave like assholes just to make a point that they are so skilled that people respect them despite their behaviors. It's a psychological thing. But I disagree that is does any damage. Everybody with m
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by sprash 5y ago
That's the whole point of CoCs: divide and conquer. As a result people "Just walk away". Assets paid by Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce and Google are pushing this.
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by sprash 5y ago
No jokes allowed. Those CoCs are installed by paid assets in order to stifle and reduce the participation rate in FOSS projects. They poison the mood and create division so that voluntary participants leave and those holes then can be fille
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by sprash 5y ago
Interesting project. In an ideal universe something like this would make the "Web" a.k.a. HTML/CSS/JS completely obsolete.
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by sprash 5y ago
The abandonment of established interfaces happens on purpose on proprietary platforms to force customers to upgrade. The abandonment of established interfaces happens on FOSS platforms equally as frequent without any obvious purpose.
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by sprash 5y ago
I like the very entertaining and thorough documentation. However this just shows that FOSS GUI programming is in such a dire state that people have to resort to TUIs because it is so much easier to develop for and to deploy.
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by sprash 5y ago
Thanks for the hint. The next thing to try would be to connect the tape head directly to the IO-Pins of a Raspberry PI and then use a simple manchester encoded signal ramping up the frequency. A Raspberry PI can push up to 1 MHz and has an
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by sprash 5y ago
I used my 16-bit 192 kHz sound card to determine how much data can fit on a cassette by "prolonging" the length of each bit until I got an acceptable error rate. I found that the absolute best you can do with a decent old Technics
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by sprash 5y ago
Bash has a /dev/tcp/$host/$port pseudo device which covers almost all use cases of Netcat just in case your machine has no Netcat installed. I still don't understand why such a device/file is not shipped with U
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by sprash 5y ago
They won't. Matrix is a meta data sponge hence it is heavily sponsored by the intelligence community. Truly descentralized and peer-to-peer solutions like Jami won't recieve such funding.
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by sprash 5y ago
Considering the timescale the asteroid belt could have formed a planet by now as well. Something doesn't add up about the established creation theory of the moon.
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by sprash 5y ago
SciHub needs to be decentralized. Zeronet seems to be a good blueprint on how to do it.
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by sprash 5y ago
The general perception of IceWM as a minimalist Windows 95 clone hides the fact that it is indeed a very powerful fully fledged tool for window management. Just icewm-winoptions file and the icesh program enable so much opportunities for au
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by sprash 5y ago
> A new userspace should be built similar to Android Why do poeple always forget that Plan9 exists? The Android way is the wrong way to do it.
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by sprash 5y ago
As additional strategy for reducing PNG sizes losslessly not mentioned in the article is the brute force optimization of the DEFLATE compression algorithm (via zopflipng). This gives you usually a few percent improvement for "free&quot
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by sprash 5y ago
The lack of server side window decorations has much more severe implications beyond aesthetics. Unresponsive applications can not be closed by clicking the X button. And for the compositor to find out if an application is unresponsive or no
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by sprash 5y ago
The Philosophy is completely wrong on many levels. On one level for some applications you want "every frame is recent" and can tolerate some glitches as trade off for not having perfect frames. Also displays have different pitch v
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by sprash 5y ago
> However the competition is X which is effortlessly surpassed at a design level. I strongly disagree. Wayland makes the wrong abstractions and does not offer vital functionality usually needed on a Desktop system. As a result every Tool
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by sprash 5y ago
The biggest problem of Wayland is that it has the wrong philosophy ("Every frame is perfect") and the wrong abstractions ("Everything in the universe is an array with RGB values"). If your foundations are flawed like tha
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by sprash 5y ago
The Rust compiler is very slow and has very high memory requirements. Compiling the Kernel on e.g. older Raspberry Pis is already barely possible and will potentially become completely impossible once rust enters the kernel.
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by sprash 5y ago
X was meant to be a lowest common denominator for Unix workstation vendors to base their proprietary software, window managers and desktop envrionments on. Too much standardization at that point would have meant less distinguishing features
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by sprash 5y ago
In my opinion the mistake was to move away from the terminal in the first place. Many gui commands like "draw button in bottom right corner" could be done via escape codes and creating a gui program would be as simple as writing a
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by sprash 5y ago
There are already several standardized mouse protocols available some even with pixel precision. The most complete implementation of those protocols has xterm. They can be tested with a program called "vttest".
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by sprash 5y ago
If anything the vt100 ttys are just as suitable as ever. Command line interfaces are superior even today because the step from interaction to automation is as minimal as possible. I predict that the futuristc VR GUI of tomorrow will still b
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by sprash 5y ago
So a report by the elite (Brookings is essentially Rockefeller) is telling us how elites are evading taxes. Sorry, I expect this PDF to be full of BS.

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