CopperWing

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by CopperWing 8mo ago
Which ones? Honest question. I only remember games for which GOG apologizes in their store page for missing cosmetics or extra features because originally tied to online services (e.g. the Mafia or Yakuza games), or ones in which they are u
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by CopperWing 8mo ago
As far as I remember, the only games which optionally need Galaxy running are those will online multiplayer, and only if you want to play online. This is because the original developers shutdown their own servers for matchmaking or original
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by CopperWing 10mo ago
No more: https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/05/introducing-...
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by CopperWing 1y ago
For sure all the mobile gaming based on microtransactions, collectibles, the Skinner box principle and other dark patterns leading to addition.
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by CopperWing 2y ago
https://youtu.be/nLdexZlVkAY?feature=shared
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by CopperWing 2y ago
The DMA subsystem maintainer has some reasons: at this time you can disable all rust drivers when building the Linux kernel but you cannot disable rust wrappers to C language APIs. So if you need to change for example the DMA APIs, you also
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by CopperWing 3y ago
Nintendo chose Nvidia Tegra X1 when its previous design based on another custom ARM-based SoC failed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZzXidHVvJU
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by CopperWing 5y ago
Suse/openSuse comes with Ruby pre-installed because Yast, their distinctive system manager tool, is written in Ruby.
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by CopperWing 5y ago
> The question may be silly, but how does GOG handle multiplayer ? It depends: some games implement multiplayer through their publisher's private servers (e.g. Paradox games) so users can play together regardless of the shop they bo
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by CopperWing 8y ago
In C++, nullptr.
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Tovalds: It looks like the IT security world has hit a new low(plus.google.com)
3 points by CopperWing 9y ago|0 comments
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by CopperWing 10y ago
Signatures were introduced in git as part of the response to the kernel.org hack in 2011.
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by CopperWing 10y ago
As far as the Wikipedia definition of it goes, yes it is a "weak copyleft", but that basically means that the license on code and patents is liberal, while license on trademarks is not. That is to prevent bottom feeders to take fo
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by CopperWing 10y ago
Well, LibreOffice is not "copyleft" licensed. It is distributed under a joint of licenses: GNU Lesser GPL v3+ and Mozilla Public License v2. The latter is not "copyleft".
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by CopperWing 10y ago
OpenOffice and LibreOffice are already "merged". In fact in the past years, after the fork, LibreOffice developers regularly tracked OpenOffice source code repository and merged all the useful changes they could find, by either pi
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Mantle Programming Guide and API Reference Is Out [pdf](amd.com)
3 points by CopperWing 11y ago|0 comments
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by CopperWing 12y ago
They already discussed about this few years ago, but they decided against a date-based versioning because that would have meant breaking a lot of scripts and programs doing kernel detection assuming the old scheme. [1] [1] https:/&#x2
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by CopperWing 12y ago
OpenSSL package maintainer for SUSE says openSUSE/SLES will stay with OpenSSL (plus handpicked commits from LibreSSL repo), because of missing FIPS and other questionable commits in LibreSSL. https://plus.google.com/110
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by CopperWing 13y ago
Lot's of FUD there on ewontfix.com. A better source of information: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd