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If my 32-year old memory serves me correctly, TIE Fighter only supported VGA 320x200 256-color mode 13h. The system requirements on the box[1] claim MCGA support, which I'd expect …

It's not cheap, but getting it legally is easy, and you don't need a VAR. Specifically, you can buy a single-seat Microsoft 365 E3 subscription directly from Microsoft for $432/yea…

Even games with strong anticheat could benefit from sandboxing, as the anticheat mechanisms that need access outside the sandbox represent a much smaller surface area for exploits …

As opposed to streaming video services, which, aside from the content they provide, have been shit from day one. While the web UIs suck compared to local media players, they work w…

Middle-out compression was indeed the first thing that came to mind when reading the headline. That, and billionare investor Russ Hanneman standing in front of his orange McLaren w…

A technology company that's profitably doing over $50 billion in sales after more than 100 years with no obvious signs of impending doom sounds like an okay position to me, even if…

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” — Stephen Colbert, 2006 https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-step...

Who said anything about free? Advertising isn't the only possible business model. And profit isn't the only possible motive to provide a service.

Not really. For the most part, accessibility APIs provide programmatic interfaces to user interfaces, application APIs provide semantically meaningful interfaces to application fun…

In other words, AppleScript in the late '90s.

Do you want to do something that can't be done through AppleScript, macOS accessibility APIs, and something like Puppeteer to control the browser? Or something you don't understand…

And easy to identify anonymous cards. https://www.google.com/search?q=identify+anonymous+visa+mast...

The nicest thing about this rush to find and build "agentic" endpoints for controlling everything is that there's no reason these same endpoints can't be consumed by deterministic,…

I paid $300 each for my last two SSDs, 4 TB Samsung 990 Pros. They’re currently selling for $942.72 on Amazon.

Density, power efficiency, write endurance, sustained write speeds under continuous load, power-loss protection.

From applications that capture the screen or use accessibility APIs, perhaps, but what about, e.g., Windows applications that capture window messages, e.g., https://devblogs.micros…

Windows has similar APIs and tools, see, e.g., https://accessibilityinsights.io/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/insp... https://github.com/FlaUI/FlaUInspec…

I think this is just saying you can’t sign up for a new account after a previously created account gets suspended, not that the act of suspension itself causes you to violate the t…

I had one project where a desktop application deliberately hid the contents of all grid controls from Windows accessibility APIs, took measures to ensure checkbox and radio button …

In what world would a vision agent be the default, when whatever HTTP-based mechanism a site uses to communicate with the server can usually be reverse-engineered and easily emulat…

Historical auto design and technology is interesting. Two random tech examples: the first concept car with a back-up camera was the 1956 Buick Centurion; both Chrysler and RCA sold…

People have this image of farmers as ignorant bumpkins, when owners of even small family farms are some of the most intelligent, objective, and economically-motivated businesspeopl…

Violation of these rights may be criminal without meeting the strict legal definition of theft. This can even extend to stealing physical property. Depending on local laws, stealin…

Likewise. And after reading the Wikipedia article on Drebbel, how have I never heard of this guy? I'm particularly curious how the Royal Navy failed to realize the value of the sub…