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New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:13:09 +0000

you pay money to appear as a different sprite with shiny particles around it. important distinction, of course.

and iddqd costs ten bucks to unlock, but it's part of a lootbox with all the other cheat codes in it

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:36:08 +0000

we'd still be on the pentium pro by now. but imagine all the Doom clones we could have!

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:57:59 +0000

.george is a pretty funny one. apparently Walmart owns it, so you probably won't be able to register a .george domain any time soon.

https://icannwiki.org/.george

do companies even use these in the wild or are they buying these TLDs for nothing? ".brother", ".canon", ".nokia", ".panasonic", ".playstation", ".xbox", ".xerox"... there's even ".sandvikcoromant", which is some sort of Swedish metalwork company.

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "RSS is awesome"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:08:36 +0000

Nitter[0] seems to support it still, although it seems unmaintained - not sure how stable it is by this point. if you self host this, you should probably use burner account tokens, anti-botting measures might decide to shut down your X/twitter account

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "RSS is awesome"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:52:30 +0000

you could self-host your own rss reader on a server & set it up to automatically update the feeds in the background every now and then, and just check on it whenever you want to read what's new. freshrss seems to be the popular choice.

there's also some subscription services that seem to do the same thing, but i have no experience with them.

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:17:25 +0000

i've got possible good news for you then, there's a project that adds a translation layer between the two server protocols[0]. it has some limitations dealing with the different quirks and features that differ between both games[1], but it looks like everything else works fine. you could try that out if you find it to be a better option than wrangling with windows updates

as for VR, there's a third party mod for java[2], i tried it a couple years back and it felt pretty smooth, had no issues with it, but i don't have a point of reference to compare it to bedrock VR because i never tried it

[0] https://github.com/GeyserMC/Geyser

[1] https://geysermc.org/wiki/geyser/current-limitations/

[2] https://www.vivecraft.org/

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:01:56 +0000

any particular reason you're on bedrock instead of java? don't you get both versions when you buy the game? i bought mine when java was the only version and i think they gave me bedrock for free when that came out. or is it because of the lack of crossplay? just curious

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "A bug saved the company"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:39:44 +0000

you might want to check out carla[0], it's difficult to find when looking up vst hosts, you have to get past a couple "unbiased" top 5 list sites & outdated ones without vst3 support still being recommended, but it's the one that's brought me the least issues (expect one or two crashes setting it up anyway). seems it's made for linux first but i've had no (big) issues running it on windows so far. you will need to download third party vsts for every effect fl studio usually implements out of the box

[0] https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:18:47 +0000

ironically, making linux users consider sailing the high seas for actual 4k rips instead of actually paying for the service just to get blocky low bitrate 720p content. so this piracy prevention not only creates more potential pirates, but makes paying customers' lives harder while not affecting the aforementioned pirates, who can now watch it at 4k on any device or program they wish

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:10:55 +0000

why do you think you have any say over others' rights? using that same logic, you know what? i think you're going to steal my phone. so do you mind if i sacrifice your rights and install a camera right in your room? wouldn't want you to plot the theft of my phone now would i

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:31:27 +0000

i could be wrong but you should be able to solder/connect the battery contacts to the output of a power supply at the same voltage as the battery you're replacing and just have it plugged into the wall or a UPS, but not sure if the battery manager would still think the battery is being spent and freak out after getting to 0%

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:42:41 +0000

can't wait for ai juries, 12 different ai models by different companies & they all have to reach the same conclusion, but one of them is a 300m parameter 2 bit quantized model and keeps hallucinating, causing an eternal hung jury

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:37:45 +0000

my best guess is, you could've connected from a different ip once 10 years ago and it improperly geolocated that ip as being in a tiny country and now it thinks you're secretly from that country even though you've been accessing the site from a US ip forever. it's the only plausible reason i can really think of. unless they set up a "country estimation" ai or a similar newfangled system and it's convinced for some reason you're actually not american. it's too out there but you never know

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:53:08 +0000

you'd think that by a certain point youtube ads would've been regulated/managed just like ads on tv channels.. it made sense not do to it that way when the platform was in its infancy, but nowadays almost every news channel is on youtube and the platform has the kind of money to manage ad spaces the same way or similar to the way television used to. whether that's the right method of doing it.. there'll probably be some objections to going back to that way of dealing with ads but a new system is needed because allowing instant adsense deployment to the entirety of youtube without any checks to make sure there's no inappropriate material, copyright infringement or scams isn't working out that well

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:39:16 +0000

seems to be the reason they go through UI changes every year or so. like agh, there goes my muscle memory again. at least ol' reliable hn is still the same good old plain renderable-by-anything-more-advanced-than-a-toaster html

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:24:14 +0000

there is no way you aren't able to discern the obvious differences between physical labor such as digging a hole and something as innate to human nature as creativity. you realize just how hollow a set of matrix multiplications are when you try to "talk to it" for more than 3 minutes. the whole point of language is to talk to other people and to communicate ideas to them. that is something that requires a human factor, otherwise the ideas are simply regurgitations of whatever the training set happened to contain. there are no original ideas in there. a steam shovel, on the other hand, does not need to be creative or to have human factor, it's simply digging a hole in the ground

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:11:02 +0000

you forgot to add "tapestry"!

New comment by uz3snolc3t6fnrq in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

uz3snolc3t6fnrq — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:36:49 +0000

is your trigger-word "Ethereum"? he's not even talking about trading crypto or anything you could remotely consider scammy, he's talking about a blockchain based naming system. you're freaking out over nothing, go home man...