I had an incredible deja-vu feeling on the guys standing around the hoop, so weird.
Me also. Immediately. And I see a lot of other people. I think it’s the baggy formal shirt and hair styles.
Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
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#82Love this stuff - so weird and obscure. The Acura skin is cracking me up. I'm listening to OP's playlist now
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It's got that early-'00s digicam look to it. My pictures from the end of high school have a similar vibe, despite having no basketball.
When I look at the sky and the bricks I get the impression that the photo has “grain”. I wonder if it was actually shot on film.
Early digital camera sensors could be quite noisy.
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A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.
It is an irony that Windows makes keyboard shortcut users out of even non-techies.
FWIW, you can configure the minimum distance for a mouse move to count as a drag. The default was adequate for 640x480, but maybe should have been increased.
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#85Bob's car is from Greenock, Scotland (via geospy.ai)
There's always a chance that Bob _is_ the car. Twenty-five years ago, in Winamp days, I remember several peers naming their cars.
It doesn't seem to happen now we're older :(
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Here is the original: https://maps.app.goo.gl/?link=https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
Why does Google do this. There isn't any need for so much data just to link a resource
They do offer a link for sharing as an alternative: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HZMATsSJJhpcejoJ8
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#87Was the internet better back then or am I just old?
When a new island is formed, usually it is first inhabited by algae and moss. As the ecosystem matures, plants, birds, insects, and all sorts of organisms populate it. You can still usually find the early algae and moss. They are just harder to spot due to the thriving and abundant ecosystem. I think the Internet is a lot like that.
And one platform has, arguably, been infested with rats!
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#88I’m mostly using Windows, so even today, it remains my main audio player. I use Winamp for FLACs and DI.fm streams
If you're in Windows you should check out Tray Player
https://www.trayplayer.com/
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I get this argument from a lot of people but it is not true. There was a much higher spirit of sharing and just cool shit back in the day. Now everyone is trying to make a buck, and shit is slow, like Slack.
There still is amongst the users on Discord, e.g. in some gamedev Discords, etc. - it's even easier to do things together ad-hoc with screen sharing built-in. It really is just that we're old now so we don't interact with them. Although I agree the grindset culture has harmed Internet culture.
I'm in my 30s and I am interact a lot with discord. I agree gamedev is one last large scale space where interesting things happen.
But overall people are just trying to optimize total compensation and bend over backwards to get into FAANG. Imagine telling us to get into IBM back in the day.
So things have definitely changed. The punk spirit has also been lost. Normies have arrived. It's good for the normies, but we won't get a Napster again.
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#90I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications).
To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount of customisation my Linux theming gives me.
I feel like a huge reason the indie web died off was OSes and programs limiting user customisation which was a gateway drug for many. MySpace themes would get people learning html/css. Winamp skins got people learning photoshop/graphics. mIRC scripting taught people basic coding. OS customising had all of it. Now you just shut up and use it as they dictate.