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skymt

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    Comment #30871581

    Perhaps the zooming presentation was, but the mechanical inspiration was a different jam game, Sokosoko. https://juner.itch.io/sokosoko

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    Comment #30379236

    About half of smartphones sold in the US and Canada are iPhones. The Mexican market is dominated by Android.

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    Comment #30189335

    It came out a couple months ago. https://www.oculus.com/horizon-worlds/

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    Comment #30043324

    Bleem successfully defended their commercial PlayStation emulator against a lawsuit from Sony, setting a solid precedent in US law even though the legal costs ended the company. ht…

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    Comment #29939497

    AV vendors have points of contact to report false positives. They don't always respond quickly , but they're not brick walls. Reliable FPs from a specific toolchain seems like some…

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    Comment #29752543

    There are a couple arguments against case-insensitive filesystems I think are strong. The first is simply compatibility with existing case-sensitive systems. The second is that cas…

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    Comment #29708664

    Let's hear what the father of the web had to say about web 3.0. > People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics – everyth…

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    Comment #29268860

    Not the worst place to start, but considering palm oil has been used in cooking for thousands of years it's not clear what that principle has to do with this story.

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    Comment #28970320

    Please understand that blanks are live rounds and can be deadly if handled without care. Saying it was a live round does not mean it was a bullet. From the article: > A source clos…

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    Comment #28930649

    You're probably thinking of "Personal Blocklist", an official Chrome extension developed by Google. It's no longer available. https://www.ghacks.net/2010/03/18/blacklist-google-sea…

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    Comment #28906210

    TES3MP is being merged into OpenMW. https://openmw.org/2019/time-to-make-stuff-official/

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    Comment #28855107

    A writeup from an esports org on hardware cheating: https://blog.esea.net/esea-hardware-cheats/

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    Comment #28813652

    Many of those modern-retro adventures are now playable in ScummVM thanks to the addition of AGS support.

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    Comment #28813620

    Crusader was built on the engine written for Ultima 8, which is supported as part of the ScummVM project's expansion into CRPGs. MacVenture support has been tinkered with over a co…

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    Comment #28813587

    You may have played it on ResidualVM, a project that has now been merged into ScummVM.

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    Comment #28733514

    Commerical PICO-8 games are a minority but they exist. PICO-8 can export a standalone Windows, Linux or Mac executable, or a web page. The license explicitly grants the right for a…

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    Comment #28700281

    This is what I use: youtube.com##.ytp-suggestions youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay youtube.com##.videowall-endscreen youtube.com###related youtube.com##ytd-comments

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    Comment #28653651

    Mastodon uses an HTML microformat called h-feed for federation of user feeds. h-feed is based on hAtom, which is a microformat encoding of the Atom feed format. So your idea isn't …

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    Comment #28636739

    > I could imagine an extension that's modal and allows its own plugins to be written in JS and then loaded. This doesn't seem at all to be a fundamental limitation, just "Vimium et…

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    Comment #28622650

    Did those chat programs encrypt messages end-to-end while syncing message history across devices?

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    Comment #28528914

    This clip from the latest (full-priced) entry in the NBA 2K series has been going around the last few days. Truly pushing boundaries in in-game advertising. You can visit a State F…

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    Comment #28513132

    Edge defaults to Bing for searches, which is a direct source of revenue via ads. Edge also uses browser history for ad targeting via the "personalize your web experience" option; I…

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    Comment #27826876

    The Gemini protocol is intended to exclude features that could be used for tracking. It has no cookies, user-agent, referer, etc and the protocol is not extensible enough that such…