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mogery

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About mogery

maker of odd things

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    oh hey! i worked on this a while back! really cool project. runs unity games too. author is a very talented guy

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    i suck at chess, but this is lovely!

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    Show HN: Chroma – One copy of Electron to rule them all

    chroma keeps a central, up-to-date version of Electron, and makes all your installed Electron apps use it, in order to save disk space. Current caveats: linux only, no flatpak or A…

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    How is Adoption a chicken and egg argument? RCS is, by its design, slower to update than iMessage.

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    Really, using a Teensy 4.0 to make scrolling faster? That seems really overkill to me. You could make a small computer out of a Teensy 4, quite excessive to use it as a display-out…

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    Yeah, I've realized that the currently used API just lets you request a key for the public Spotify Web API, and I can just get the collection of the user and etc. from there.

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    To be fair, any other platform could easily outdo Spotify in this regard, if they publicly documented their internal API. :D

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    I haven't had any issues on the RE end, mostly because I didn't need to do a whole lot of it, as the librespot people have already paved the way. But I've still gotta figure out th…

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    Spotify is actually fine with librespot existing (funnily enough, one of the main reasons the old API is still around is that librespot uses it, lol). So, I doubt it will ever get …

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    Thanks! Yeah, Rust and the Switch don't mesh together very well, at least for now. I was tempted to take that route also, but I ended up reimplementing librespot in C instead, whic…

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    Spotify DRM is basically security through obscurity. It's just AES-128-CTR over a plain old OGG file. The tricky part is figuring out the extremely odd protocol you have to request…

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