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Good times! I never came across Tracer or Sculpt 3D, but I did start out with Real 3D [1] which actually was created in 1983 for the CBM64 and later came to the Amiga in 1990. Abou…

Unfortunately, performance doesn't come free on a computer. Have you tried limiting the number of CPUs Firefox uses? You can see a setting "Performance" in the first tab, uncheck t…

I just had my GitHub account flagged for the second time, updating a wiki entry. The first time my account was flagged when deleting a repo with the response from the customer serv…

Well, one reason could be that Saudi-Arabia is planning so-called "smart" cities and Google wants to be in the center of it all (a UN driven program - IMO a potential tyranny spray…

Is there a chance we could get MAFF: (and MHT:) protocols as well and let our web-extension handle those (single-file archived web pages if anyone wondered)? This would allow us to…

PRISM is/was a small program. "Upstream" programs is the what most should be worried about and goes sort of around companies (and anyone/anything else). Though, some companies are …

> As far as I understood the reason Microsoft broke Skype so badly was because they used centralised servers with backdoors In fairness, it was eBay that first bought Skype [1] in …

Why do people assume posts on the front-page are driven fully automatic + some secret juicy for points and what have you? Why wouldn't YC just use a human (or two) to bump/nudge po…

How will you deal with fair-use?

There is absolutely no reason for any government to have this capacity unless it is to target potential dissidents and critics of their political agenda (as well as training "pre-c…

You could actually take any ancillary chunks into consideration, ie. chunks starting with a lower-case first letter. These are non-critical/mandatory.

Deflating can be applied to some chunks, but not at will. The zTXt chunk can be compressed while for example the tEXt chunk cannot. The newer iTXt chunk can vary. The two former ar…

Yes, YOU, and me. We can all do our own research to discern what is fake or not.

> China, gov't has evolved to a whole new level, they don't manipulate media with fake news, but with selected truth. This is unfortunately nothing new. They did this in the USSR a…

Not OP, but here is one related source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin02... I do not think the technology involved artificially generated voice though, …

You mean, like they did pre-2000 [1]? Don't know how good this would sound today, but nevertheless interesting. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin02...

Nice and simple. I had no problem with with UI and I found the music I was looking for (incl. my own :) ).

In the early 90s I created a small custom language. The purpose was to learn/build a compiler though, but other projects came along so it was eventually scrapped. I did get fruits …