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New comment by skymt in "Patrick's Parabox"

skymt — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:56:45 +0000

Perhaps the zooming presentation was, but the mechanical inspiration was a different jam game, Sokosoko.

https://juner.itch.io/sokosoko

New comment by skymt in "Removing cookie consent requests from Firefox iOS"

skymt — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:58:04 +0000

About half of smartphones sold in the US and Canada are iPhones. The Mexican market is dominated by Android.

New comment by skymt in "Facebook loses users for the first time"

skymt — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:22:24 +0000

It came out a couple months ago.

https://www.oculus.com/horizon-worlds/

New comment by skymt in "Yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator"

skymt — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 03:25:01 +0000

Bleem successfully defended their commercial PlayStation emulator against a lawsuit from Sony, setting a solid precedent in US law even though the legal costs ended the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!#Sony_lawsuit

New comment by skymt in "Nim Community Survey 2021 Results"

skymt — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:56:25 +0000

AV vendors have points of contact to report false positives. They don't always respond quickly, but they're not brick walls. Reliable FPs from a specific toolchain seems like something their team would be especially interested in solving. CrowdStrike's reporting point is an email address on their contact page: https://www.crowdstrike.com/contact-us/

New comment by skymt in "Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö"

skymt — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:09:15 +0000

There are a couple arguments against case-insensitive filesystems I think are strong. The first is simply compatibility with existing case-sensitive systems. The second is that case is locale-dependent, so a pair of names could be equivalent or not depending on the device's locale.

I don't think I've seen any good argument against normalization, though.

New comment by skymt in "I made my first web0 website today. It's so cool it just works"

skymt — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:20:53 +0000

Let's hear what the father of the web had to say about web 3.0.

> People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics – everything rippling and folding and looking misty – on Web 2.0 and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you'll have access to an unbelievable data resource… — Tim Berners-Lee, 2006

That's funny, he didn't mention blockchains once.

New comment by skymt in "Palm oil favors tumor expansion"

skymt — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:39:24 +0000

Not the worst place to start, but considering palm oil has been used in cooking for thousands of years it's not clear what that principle has to do with this story.

New comment by skymt in "‘Rust’ crew describes on-set gun safety issues and misfires days before shooting"

skymt — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:09:46 +0000

Please understand that blanks are live rounds and can be deadly if handled without care. Saying it was a live round does not mean it was a bullet. From the article:

> A source close to the union said Local 44 does not know what projectile was in the gun and clarified that “live” is an industry term that refers to a gun loaded with some material such as a blank ready for filming.

New comment by skymt in "Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser"

skymt — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:49:20 +0000

You're probably thinking of "Personal Blocklist", an official Chrome extension developed by Google. It's no longer available.

https://www.ghacks.net/2010/03/18/blacklist-google-search-re...

New comment by skymt in "OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind"

skymt — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:11:32 +0000

TES3MP is being merged into OpenMW.

https://openmw.org/2019/time-to-make-stuff-official/

New comment by skymt in "Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat"

skymt — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:40:39 +0000

A writeup from an esports org on hardware cheating: https://blog.esea.net/esea-hardware-cheats/

New comment by skymt in "ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today”"

skymt — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:54:38 +0000

Many of those modern-retro adventures are now playable in ScummVM thanks to the addition of AGS support.

New comment by skymt in "ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today”"

skymt — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:51:08 +0000

Crusader was built on the engine written for Ultima 8, which is supported as part of the ScummVM project's expansion into CRPGs.

MacVenture support has been tinkered with over a couple of GSoC terms. It's not ready but there's interest and a foundation to build on: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=MacVenture

New comment by skymt in "ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today”"

skymt — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:46:15 +0000

You may have played it on ResidualVM, a project that has now been merged into ScummVM.

New comment by skymt in "PICO-8 – Fantasy Console"

skymt — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:39:32 +0000

Commerical PICO-8 games are a minority but they exist. PICO-8 can export a standalone Windows, Linux or Mac executable, or a web page. The license explicitly grants the right for authors to sell exported games.

https://itch.io/games/made-with-pico-8/store

New comment by skymt in "Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations"

skymt — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:35:27 +0000

This is what I use:

  youtube.com##.ytp-suggestions
  youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay
  youtube.com##.videowall-endscreen
  youtube.com###related
  youtube.com##ytd-comments

New comment by skymt in "Using RSS to replace social media"

skymt — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:55:14 +0000

Mastodon uses an HTML microformat called h-feed for federation of user feeds. h-feed is based on hAtom, which is a microformat encoding of the Atom feed format. So your idea isn't all that far off from how the most popular federated social network system is designed (though there's more to it).

New comment by skymt in "“Why should I use Nyxt if I can use Vimium?”"

skymt — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 23:06:46 +0000

> I could imagine an extension that's modal and allows its own plugins to be written in JS and then loaded. This doesn't seem at all to be a fundamental limitation, just "Vimium et al aren't designed this way."

Currently yes. When Chrome eventually mandates Manifest V3 extensions, they will no longer be able to run code not contained in the signed extension package.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-m...

New comment by skymt in "How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability"

skymt — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:10:23 +0000

Did those chat programs encrypt messages end-to-end while syncing message history across devices?