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New comment by TheCycoONE in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:03:15 +0000

Are you able to run any of the old Loki games on Linux these days?

New comment by TheCycoONE in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:18:32 +0000

CorsixTH requires Theme Hospital assets but we didn't clone or otherwise steal anything that we ship, we require you to supply the assets precisely because we aren't. I presume that's true of OpenTTD as well. In the United States copyright protection for games covers the art and text but not the rules and Oracle vs. Google established reimplentations being fair even when exposing the same api. Truely novel game rules can be protected by patents per Nintendo.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "SuperTux 0.7.0"

TheCycoONE — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:05:28 +0000

Super Tux Kart does have battle mode somewhat similar to the Mario Kart balloon fight though not as polished (and many of the arenas are a little too large in my opinion). It also has a unique soccer mode.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:36:14 +0000

Pythagoras learned from Egyptians that have been largely erased by euro/western narratives of superiority.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:21:01 +0000

Even glibc breaks ABI. The linux userspace ABI is too unstable and games don't have to be doing weird things to hit it.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:23:11 +0000

Most of human history we didn't have electronic distraction devices and we have one Michelangelo; the answer is probably not as many as the question implies.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '"

TheCycoONE — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:18:49 +0000

I suspect they would put out a GOG Galaxy that works on Linux well before promoting it on their web site that aggressively.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Lua 5.5"

TheCycoONE — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:31:01 +0000

lua does not preserve compatibility between minor versions. As such they don't need to reserve words for future use.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Microservices should form a polytree"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:42:38 +0000

I have a question. Does the directed / no cycles aspect mean that webhooks / callbacks are forbidden.

I work a lot in the messaging space (SMS,Email); typically the client wants to send a message and wants to know when it reached its destination (milliseconds to days later). Unless the client is forbidden from also being the report server which feels like an arbitrary restriction I'm not sure how to apply this.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:15:35 +0000

I have strong Tawney Scrawny Lion and Un loup dans le potager vibes from this commercial. Delightful.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:01:44 +0000

It sounded like they were encouraging dnsmasq for home use. I migrated to that successfully. My DHCPv6 is working flawlessly now whereas I was never able to get it running smoothly/persistently on ISC.

I understand Kea has more features so I'm a little curious what I'm missing.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:08:34 +0000

Turns out Linux needed a stable abi for games and Wine provided.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:11:51 +0000

Sure, t2bot and OOYE discord bridges have told us they are not yet compatible and still months away.

The appservice-irc bridge has this issue which is more of a question: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1... which hasn't been answered.

These are keeping our space on an earlier version.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights"

TheCycoONE — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:21:03 +0000

I apologize if it was mentioned anywhere but has there been any retrospectives on the August security update and v12 room roll out.

The v12 room upgrade in particular seems to be difficult, and still not supported by many of the bridges. Is there a plan to force upgrade all rooms on matrix.org at some point?

New comment by TheCycoONE in "The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:30:55 +0000

I held a similar opinion several years ago. The main thing is that lua has less magic than js largely because it's been allowed to break compatibility.

My main example is self in lua which is just the first argument of a function with some syntactic sugar vs this in javascript which especially before 'bind' often tripped people up. The coercion rules are also simpler largely by virtue of making 0 true.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Why I chose Lua for this blog"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:20:23 +0000

Sure that's an option, most distros continue to include every lua version back to at least 5.1; and since luaJIT stayed there a lot of the rest of the community did too.

I guess I'm not sure what advantage lua has in that regard: you could stick to an old version of any language, including node, which was called out as being hard to keep up with.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Why I chose Lua for this blog"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:32:23 +0000

Lua 5.1 to 5.2 was a fairly significant breaking change; one that has forked the community to this day with luaJIT never coming on board. 5.2 to 5.3 also broke things with the introduction of integers but mostly at the level of bindings. There is also very little included in terms of standard library and while luarocks exists many significant packages go abandoned. There are breaking language changes in the upcoming 5.5 as well though they are relatively minor.[1]

All to say I think if long term compatibility is the primary goal there are probably better languages.

Have you already discounted php or perl?

[1] https://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#8

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

TheCycoONE — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:41:08 +0000

SC4 with the NAM mod sounds more in line with your expectations https://www.sc4nam.com/docs/feature-guides/the-nam-traffic-s...

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:25:34 +0000

Skeeter is blue but represents black; Ice king is blue but almost certainly white. I don't know where Megamind fits in; and the Smurfs are almost certainly 'other'.

I think you're onto something.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:10:08 +0000

Public key pinning was rejected so you just need your proxy to also supply a certificate that's trusted by your clients.