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I wonder if the title was meant to say Sweden, as the text mentions Sweden and Belgium? The map at the bottom correctly excludes Switzerland. It does however include Norway and Ice…

I wonder how many libraries correctly handles the date 1712-02-30 in the Swedish calendar (according to Wikipedia the only official 30th of February in history)? https://en.wikiped…

At first Windows 95 was not great for games, so at least through 1996-97 many games were still released for MS-DOS and often only for MS-DOS, or only had Windows ports later. Looki…

Krita, not GIMP, has been the FOSS flagship 2D bitmap editor for many years, the way Blender is for 3D. Can't remember when I last used GIMP for anything.

RIP. Here in Sweden the headlines mention primarily his role in Ivanhoe, a movie that has aired on Swedish TV almost every New Years for over 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I worked for several American companies in Sweden an all of them insisted on calling us engineers. Many I work with happen to be engineers, but I dropped out before getting my (com…

It bothers me that my large collection of legally bought, drm-free, works (ebooks and digital games, mostly) will basically transform into illegal warez for my heirs, as I understa…

My understanding is the laws you describe are mostly limited to a few European countries, while most of the rest of the world are more restrictive? Also, with with the limited righ…

I like this boardgame kit that the Germans printed for their soldiers: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30082557

Useless fact I just learned from Wikipedia: Ångström/Angstrom (in Sweden of course we still use the original spelling) has its own UNICODE symbol, Angstrom sign: Å (U+212B) not to …

The problem with C++ string slices is that after many years of C++ becoming increasingly memory-safe with std::string and smart pointers, now we reverted to something barely more s…

That's pretty much what git over https does by default (is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh?). https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol

Except the one on the right is in Swedish.

And Ion Fury, from 2018, made with the Build engine: https://www.gog.com/en/game/ion_fury

There is 16-bit DOS support in Free Pascal these days (yes, added long after 32-bit DOS support). That makes it easier to get a pointer to video memory. Makes other things less eas…

Same as for GitHub Copilot? "For more on how Anthropic handles this data, see Anthropic’s commercial terms and data retention policy. Enabling the Claude Fable 5 policy constitutes…

There is also fennel, earlier language originally by same developer, that is similar, but compiles to, and is fully implemented in, Lua. No standard library of its own so missing m…

I do the opposite and put all games together, with DOS BAT-files to launch the games. I boot up my virtual dream DOS machine by just starting DOSBox-X and then I launch the games t…

I never had any issues using WINE to install GOG games, but maybe running WINE on a Mac is not as easy now as it was back when I did that on a x86 Mac? I always run the GOG install…

Termux and DOSBox are great for running or writing software on a phone. I almost never resort to installing or writing apps anymore as that is just more cumbersome and has APIs tha…