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Does it support original Winamp skins?

https://archive.org/details/winampskins_major_tom_v5_1 was a true work of art

After some digging - https://github.com/spegel-org/spegel/blob/main/LICENSE says MIT

I can see how this would work on a technical level but what's the intended use case?

Sad but true. Anyone wanting to learn more about how dysfunctional the UK's justice system is after years of underfunding should read Secret Barrister[1]. For comfortable technolog…

What's the significance of this? The most recent advisory listed is almost a year old.

Holy crap, thanks for sharing this. It's the first time a conversational AI has impressed me. I can just about find the edges (short memory, relentlessly positive) but in the space…

Slightly offtopic but anyone with a dark sense of humour would do well to check out Chris Morris's stuff - I get a feeling most younger Brits haven't heard of it. Day Today and Bra…

Amazon has had a print-on-demand service [1] for a while so the real question is whether major publishers have been signing deals to use it. Maybe from their perspective it's worth…

I wouldn't say so. The story needs this context to make sense and outside a war, where else would one need to rebuild large bridges under fire. As a technical achievement it certai…

Minidisc lover here - I bought my first MZ-R50 in 1998 and a quarter of a century later I still occasionally use it. With secondhand players getting expensive now what are the odds…

Sure, I'm not hating on Apple - it's a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do. But I'd question how much of global cobalt production was ever going into macbooks/iphones rather …

Well, hmm - is it? I'd naively imagine cobalt content is proportional to battery size, and while Apple sells a lot of devices they aren't large energy-hungry ones. Surely far more …

In the context of a long-lived build server it could permanently compromise the machine, allowing an attacker to modify any other package you publish from there and maintain that a…

That sounded so nuts I had to look it up. Turns out they really are! https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/03/13/s...

Given the amounts of energy involved and (terrible) thermal efficiency of steam traction it would be impractical. You could short the 25kV overhead wires on an electrified route st…

That's absolutely right but boilers aren't the only thing to wear out. With so many moving metal parts, despite an automated lubrication system delivering oil to most of the surfac…

It's very atmospheric, an absolute joy. But the best part has to be turning up at Victoria in the middle of the evening rush in an 80 year old steam train. The looks on people's fa…