Hacker News: Kristine1975

New comment by Kristine1975 in "Mozilla Removes Gab.com's Dissenter Plugin from addons.mozilla.org"

Kristine1975 — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:46:43 +0000

Apparently the add-on sends every URL you visit to Dissenter: https://github.com/gab-ai-inc/gab-dissenter-extension/issues...

That's probably why it was removed.

New comment by Kristine1975 in "System Shock 1 source code released under GPL"

Kristine1975 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 11:15:03 +0000

>Because they've been unsuccessful in completing the reboot, releasing the sources is a way of apologizing.

They wanted to publish the original source code from the get go. Here's an article from mid 2016 talking about it: https://www.gamezone.com/news/system-shock-s-original-source...

>Since the instructions mention a PPC requirement to build on Mac, I'm assuming these are fairly old.

The game was released in 1994, so yeah, they are old :-)

New comment by Kristine1975 in "System Shock 1 source code released under GPL"

Kristine1975 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:17:23 +0000

The (partial?) source code for Thief 2, SS2 etc. was leaked a few years ago. You can still find it on the Internet.

New comment by Kristine1975 in "System Shock 1 source code released under GPL"

Kristine1975 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:13:40 +0000

I'm pretty sure CodeWarrior was able to deal with any kind of line endings: CR, LF, CR+LF.

New comment by Kristine1975 in "System Shock 1 source code released under GPL"

Kristine1975 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:12:45 +0000

>I have no idea if that version of the data would work with this version of the engine, though.

IIRC the Mac version doesn't use the original data files, but converted them to use the Mac's resource file format. And judging from a quick look at the source code it doesn't contain support for the original data files.

So: no, you'll have to use the Mac version's data files.

New comment by Kristine1975 in "System Shock 1 source code released under GPL"

Kristine1975 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:07:35 +0000

Use this fork with changed line endings: https://github.com/ToxicFrog/shockmac

New comment by Kristine1975 in "System Shock 1 source code released under GPL"

Kristine1975 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:00:58 +0000

https://github.com/ToxicFrog/shockmac/blob/master/ShockMac/G...

    inslwi   r0,r10,16,8
    insrwi   r11,r10,16,8
    rlwimi   r0,r10,16,24,31

How I missed this!

New comment by Kristine1975 in "LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack"

Kristine1975 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:22:27 +0000

Which in some cases might make it cheaper for customers to use their own hardware, resulting in cloud providers losing business.

LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack

Kristine1975 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:09:52 +0000

Article URL: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16070050

Points: 433

# Comments: 242

Things Developers Believe About Video Files (Proven Wrong by User Uploads)

Kristine1975 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 06:47:45 +0000

Article URL: https://speakerdeck.com/demuxed/things-developers-believe-about-video-files-proven-wrong-by-user-uploads-derek-buitenhuis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15463687

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How to fit an elephant (2011)

Kristine1975 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 07:37:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elephant/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456297

Points: 50

# Comments: 23

New comment by Kristine1975 in "HyperCard On The Archive"

Kristine1975 — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 06:19:38 +0000

Given that there's a topic "hypercard_xcmd-xfcn" I'd wager they are. Archive.org is essentially emulating a Mac Plus that runs HyperCard in the browser.