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New comment by parlortricks in "Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed"

parlortricks — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:14:39 +0000

I guess we call advertisers hippo butt leaches now? haha, i like that analogy of yours.

New comment by parlortricks in "Build a Game That Fits on a Single Floppy Disk: 1.44MB Game Development Contest"

parlortricks — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:40:19 +0000

Love that one, and recently this one too, QUOD https://daivuk.itch.io/quod

New comment by parlortricks in "Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com"

parlortricks — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:07:15 +0000

Well this is a shame. I hit this, this morning, without knowing about the change. Guess my journey with Reddit ends here.

New comment by parlortricks in "Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025)"

parlortricks — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:32:52 +0000

Do you have a link to your books so we can check them out?

New comment by parlortricks in "Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console"

parlortricks — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:38:00 +0000

I have a similar story, forced to use LLMs like a lot of us, and like yourself I come home and play with Picotron and TIC-80 to create fun little things, no AI.

Its a great joy, I wish to keep.

New comment by parlortricks in "Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs"

parlortricks — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:47:36 +0000

Wouldn't you need a marauder for that?

New comment by parlortricks in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

parlortricks — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:54:28 +0000

I keep reading all these posts about terminal slowness, and here i am just sticking with Konsole + fish + starship.rs. Seems fine and responsive to me.

New comment by parlortricks in "Satya Nadella 'Not Sure' Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI"

parlortricks — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:02:27 +0000

Time to take out the CP/M machine from the closet, :)

New comment by parlortricks in "C array types are weird"

parlortricks — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:20:05 +0000

In C a[i] is converted to *(a+i) internally. i[a] is converted to *(i+a). Array names also act as pointers in c. so (a+i) or (i+a) give an address (using pointer arithmetic) that is dereferenced using *

New comment by parlortricks in "C array types are weird"

parlortricks — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:02:09 +0000

I didn't understand why a[3] == 3[a], but i found this stackoverflow that explains it.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16163840

In C a[i] is converted to *(a+i) internally. i[a] is converted to *(i+a). Array names also act as pointers in c. so (a+i) or (i+a) give an address (using pointer arithmetic) that is dereferenced using

New comment by parlortricks in "Ontario looks to ban reselling tickets for more than original price"

parlortricks — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:29:49 +0000

Id like to understand how this creates a monopoly. It isn't banning the re-sale of tickets, just limits the sale to less than or equal to original cost of ticket.

New comment by parlortricks in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

parlortricks — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:35:24 +0000

Have you tried a firefox fork like Librewolf? Not saying it makes a difference but it feels faster on my desktop compared to regular firefox.

New comment by parlortricks in "Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux"

parlortricks — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:19:23 +0000

This one looks to be the active fork, https://github.com/benstone/3DMMEx

i should have read the article first...

New comment by parlortricks in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

parlortricks — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:40:51 +0000

We added other weapons to make a poor mans scorched earth as we were only allowed to make games.

New comment by parlortricks in "PySimpleGUI 6"

parlortricks — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:25:39 +0000

You could try Lazarus + FreePascal or even Delphi

New comment by parlortricks in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

parlortricks — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:31:16 +0000

I love FreeCAD, designed some parts, did a bunch of Solidworks challenges and entered CAD comps.

I also love playing with build123d, dune3d (uses solvespace constraint) and SolveSpace.

Do love Solidworks but I'm on linux now so time to embrace the other options more.

New comment by parlortricks in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

parlortricks — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:26:54 +0000

Cargo cult represent! How good are they, aye. I bought one 2 months ago, had it for 2 weeks and already done 200+kms on it, and that has saved me $60 in fuel so far. It is great for getting around and grabbing shopping last minute, going to work and just feeling more connected and happy.

New comment by parlortricks in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

parlortricks — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:59:03 +0000

This is great, i use a 3x3 font i drew up for lowres games, though there are many example that look mostly the same since it is such a small space.

New comment by parlortricks in "Can I run AI locally?"

parlortricks — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:05:25 +0000

Yeah, second the norgb option. Even more annoying when openrgb just randomly hangs scanning devices and now im stuck with rainbows i cant turn off!

New comment by parlortricks in "BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs"

parlortricks — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:57:59 +0000

You gotta love it, simple and straight to the point.