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Just some random tidbit: When I was in high school I bought every computer gaming magazine I could get my hands on and could afford with my allowance. So when Deepmind first made h…

What happens in practice that there are only so many grocery stores where consumers can choose to shop thanks to corporate mergers and lax antitrust enforcement. So if all of them …

Surveillance pricing should be outright banned IMHO, but Cory Doctorow had an article earlier this week explaining all the ways this particular ban is broken [1]. It was probably b…

Can I just do a shout-out for UnxUtils [1]? I've had it on every Windows computer I used at work since forever now, and it is extremely useful to be able to use things like `sed` a…

SimCity 2000 showed a message "Reticulating splines" when it generated the landscape that didn't mean anything in particular. It became a bit of a meme in the years since.

I've also used GrafX2 for this kind of pixelart work. It takes cues from old Amiga paint programs http://grafx2.chez.com/

Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand

Google's concerns about security rings hollow to me. I believe it is strictly to exercise more control over the platform. The appeals to people in Southeast Asia being scammed remi…

It's the perception. "I couldn't be bothered to write a proper README, so I had the AI do it"

I disagree. Code is the expression of knowledge and can be protected by copyright. A lot of the popular licenses on GitHub (like MIT) permits you to use a piece of code on the cond…

That average fortune 1000 developer is still expected to abide by the licensing terms of those libraries. And in practice, tools like NPM makes sure to output all of the libraries'…

But the license terms state under which conditions the code is released. For example: MIT license states has this clause "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shal…

Maybe you should quote the full title of that post: "I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote a new file format. It's 100x faster than CBZ." I…

The blog just leads to https://research.swtch.com/qr/draw/ , which is the demo page of the blogs [1] and [2] written by Russ Cox many years ago about putting pictures in QR codes b…

Or "relevant" in the sense that it's something I bought recently: I searched for vacuum cleaners, found one I liked an bought it. Now I will be seeing ads for vacuum cleaners for t…

I've taken to using Markdeep [1] for this. You write your markdown file, but add the code snippet at the bottom of yor document and save it with a .md.html extension. Then when you…

There is also a thread on Stack Exchange [1] for John Skeet facts, who has the most reputation there. [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

I got such a kick out of the "Reverse Engineering the Neuralink V4 Bluetooth Protocol" comments: > My son tried something like this and now he speaks in JSON whenever he gets excit…

I see a lot of mention of ProtonDB in this thread, so I thought I'd take a look at which of my favourite games are supported. Unfortunately, when I try to open it, it gives me a NS…

Sadly true. There was a time I would've given them the benefit of the doubt. And don't call me Shirley

The cynic in me believes Google is doing this to exert more control over the Android ecosystem, and has very little to do with security. I'm also afraid it will make it easier for …

Another issue with AI not crediting such a post is that the license is CC-BY-NC (at the bottom of the page), so in theory AI would be able to launder the license. I wonder how many…

Neat. Somebody ported the old mobile Doom RPG to Amiga https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=5049

There's a company called Tin Man Games that have adapted a couple of titles for modern devices. Here's a link to their adaptation of Warlock of Firetop Mountain: [0] [0]: https://t…

Grafx2 [0] has support for some retro screen resolutions. Not sure if has everything you have in mind , though [0] http://grafx2.chez.com/