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by zeta0134 8mo ago
I'm trying to understand how this is even a bad thing. Where is the privacy invading verification? Surely a given OS can implement the API response however it wants? If you're root, tell me your age. If you're not, (a child a
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by zeta0134 8mo ago
The need to use optimal patterns didn't go away, but the techniques certainly did. Just as a quick example, it's usually a bad idea now to use lookup tables to accelerate small math workloads. The lookup table creates memory press
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by zeta0134 8mo ago
I don't use a list generally, because I have a fairly fixed path through my local grocery store and I know what I regularly need to stock up on. On occasion however, if I'm unsure, I'll close my eyes and browse the kitchen, p
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by zeta0134 8mo ago
Sorta depends on how you define the concept. A sign on the side of a storefront is definitely marketing. If I walk into a department store, every product on the shelf is wrapped in advertising, from its packaging to the brand name to the
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by zeta0134 8mo ago
The irritating thing to me here is that I actually don't mind the concept of advertising. Mostly it's the implementation. Newspaper ads don't bug me one bit, because they're not physically capable of moving, animating,
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by zeta0134 8mo ago
My options are "fairly loud, low rumbly, mostly full spectrum noise" or "continual, nonstop barking." Only one of these options makes sleep possible. :) I'd prefer quiet, but it's so rare to actually have it.
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by zeta0134 8mo ago
The second thing that came to mind was paywall evasion. Any time a news article behind a paywall gets posted here, someone in the comments has the archive link ready to go, because of course they do. The incentives for online news are reall
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by zeta0134 8mo ago
The main benefit for me is hiding content I'm actively uninterested in seeing. Shorts are portrait mode content that pretty much never seem to be long enough to discuss anything interesting. I watch on widescreen monitors, so I just do
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by zeta0134 9mo ago
The strategy I see with the most success in online communities is something to the effect of, "If it appears in the trailer, or what is very obviously the earlygame tutorial area, it's basically fair game. Otherwise use spoiler ta
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by zeta0134 9mo ago
The giant bugbear in this conversation is always multiplayer. That's because almost all of the big players in that space currently favor rootkits in the form of overly invasive anti-cheat, which the Linux wrappers (mostly the wine proj
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by zeta0134 9mo ago
Personally I just don't use a banking app. The website works fine? I don't like the idea of having to use something from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, both companies of which could randomly decide I don't need
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by zeta0134 10mo ago
I've been using Kooha, but it's painful in a few ways, not least of which having aggressive compression that can't be disabled. SSR was nice because of the reduced time between "decide to record" to "draw a rec
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by zeta0134 10mo ago
KDE Plasma switched to Wayland by default sometime last year, and so far the main issue I run into is that a few screen recording tools I like stopped working. (Mostly simplescreenrecorder, which seems to be entirely unmaintained at this po
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by zeta0134 10mo ago
The ability to own a TV at all, since even the cheaper sets now have this nonsense built right in. Loosely I think the idea is to subsidize the cost of the hardware with the marketing deals, but I don't actually know.
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by zeta0134 10mo ago
Helpfully, neither is "I won't solve it nor help anyone with it" actually normal. That's what documentation, mentorship, peer review and coaching is for. Someone has to actually write all that stuff. If I solved it initi
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by zeta0134 10mo ago
I am absolutely paid by the hour to learn stuff. The things I'm learning are mostly messy business domain bits: how does our internal API work, who wrote it, what were the constraints, which customer requested this feature, how much SL
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by zeta0134 10mo ago
This weekend I'm working on a new song for my NES game, Tactus. I've been busy setting up the business and preparing for its first outing at a convention, so it was nice to relax and just create for a bit. https://bsky.
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by zeta0134 10mo ago
The primary complication is that objects move around between frames, so the list doesn't stay sorted. Insertion requires a second scan once I've found an object that is out of position, whereas bubble can swap right away. (The can
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by zeta0134 10mo ago
I used bubblesort on purpose in a game project. Specifically, to sort sprites in an NES game back to front, lazily, spending as few CPU cycles as possible. Bubblesort on the very small list (a dozen objects max), and early exit after the fi
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by zeta0134 11mo ago
6502 can do it in one. 12 opcodes are glitched in a way that permanently halts the CPU, by causing it to never reset the internal tick counter (...sortof) that starts the next instruction. Recovery is only possible with a power cycle.
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by zeta0134 11mo ago
Sure. That also means it doesn't have to be kernel-level rootkits that fundamentally break the security model of my operating system and risk my bank account. Most people will be stopped by userland anticheat, right? It's inconven
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by zeta0134 11mo ago
Honestly this feels like the best possible outcome. It's pretty unusual for an appstore implementation to support multiple feeds[0], but it's great resilience to large company failures when they do. This way, users can totally sti
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by zeta0134 11mo ago
Rebecca was well known in emulation circles for her high quality work on various games of the era, often pushing the hardware in unusual ways. This article is one of my favorites, detailing the wacky tricks she used to get Another World&#x2
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by zeta0134 11mo ago
I just built one of these as well. For your Xbox controller, see if this works: find any Windows PC and download the Xbox Accessories app. Connect the controller (via USB) and update its firmware. Once I did this, I was able to pair it with
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by zeta0134 11mo ago
Ah yes, we often get folks in the nesdev community bickering over which "NES Palette" (sourced from their favorite emulator) is the "best" one. The reality is extraordinarily complicated and I'm barely qualified to
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by zeta0134 1y ago
I have one of these that I use when dealing with retailers for which the phrase "I don't have a smartphone" does not compute. Saves the hassle of having to explain it every time, and so far I'm the only one using my made
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by zeta0134 1y ago
Now that I can finally test on hardware, I completely rewrote input handling. I can now support original NES controllers, but also SNES and the Power Pad dance mat, for anyone crazy enough to try that. The hardest part was working around a
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by zeta0134 1y ago
What you're doing is perfectly fine and normal. If necessary, confidently walk through the steps you'll take to research the problem, especially if you have any idea of the soft resources (other people, internal docs) you'll
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by zeta0134 1y ago
I've been busily porting my NES game, Tactus, to Windows, Mac, and Linux as a "native" build. It's been fun to consume my own emulator as middleware, and then lightly modify it to support things like a widescreen view, w
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by zeta0134 1y ago
Duolingo was exceptionally useful to get me started on my language learning journey (Spanish, a bit of Japanese) while knowing basically nothing. It tapered off pretty fast, is very slow to introduce new vocabulary, and the core lesson

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