Froztnova

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by Froztnova 16d ago
Hah, I wrote an interpreter for this in C years back after hearing that it was a good first project for people who have an interest in virtual machines and emulation. I think I actually used some of the diagnosis/test suite ROMs that t
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by Froztnova 1mo ago
I've really soured on votes in recent years. They promised a sort of crowdsourced moderation and I appreciated the cleverness of the idea back around the time reddit first came out. But now I think that downvotes have just kinda become
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by Froztnova 2mo ago
https://xkcd.com/603/
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by Froztnova 3mo ago
For a time I thought steam on Linux had begun to add .desktop files for games. Nah, just Factorio. Wube really is the GOAT.
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by Froztnova 3mo ago
This is what I've been using for a long time now. It's probably too technical for most people, especially if you're talking about syncing across multiple devices, but that's not a problem for me.
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
Ah yes, the moral height of humanity: The 1980s.
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
Exhalation is really excellent. It's not really sci-fi but I also really enjoyed The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate, and the one about the tower of babel, I forget the name at the moment.
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
It's been getting pretty bad around here lately. I had someone reply to a post I made in that Idiocracy thread a few days ago advocating for eugenics. Really really gross all around. People here think that they're much smarter tha
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
My mind goes to the science fiction novel Footfall by Larry Nivel and Jerry Pournell, in which Earth is attacked by aliens and, at one point, a journalist figures out about a secret project to carry out a counter-offensive and is going to r
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
This is one of those threads that's making me feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Like, I don't think enjoying Idiocracy makes someone a bad person or anything like that, but it's pretty clearly making a eugenics argument
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
I disagree. I can't imagine any sort of cultural influence that can make grown adults incapable of performing basic tasks that a child could do. https://youtu.be/jbmq9P-8FiM
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
I think that the movie makes it really, really obvious that the intellectual degradation goes beyond just culture. The people are presented as being borderline mentally disabled. https://youtu.be/jbmq9P-8FiM
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
It does explicitly reference IQ and, at one point, shows an adult taking an intelligence test and trying to put a square peg into a round hole. There is nothing in the movie that suggests that the decline in average intelligence is a result
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
I mean yes but the point at the end of the day was that the people who were breeding in Idiocracy had genetically inferior intelligence.
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by Froztnova 5mo ago
Intelligence is watching Idiocracy and identifying with it profoundly when you're younger. Wisdom is looking back at how much you liked Idiocracy and cringing at the fact that you gleefully and uncritically swallowed a eugenics tract.
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by Froztnova 7mo ago
I've been building some stuff with love2D for a while now, more a hobby than anything else, and I've really enjoyed the process. Nothing really crazy, just a 2D platformer. I think that if I were making something in 3D or I were m
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by Froztnova 8mo ago
It's that brand of humor that isn't really humor anymore because the person writing it is clearly positively seething behind the keyboard and considers the whole affair to be deadly serious. I've never really been able to get
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by Froztnova 8mo ago
Feels like we're headed back towards governments attempting to control the sharing and usage of cryptographic algorithms again.
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by Froztnova 8mo ago
Tor doesn't work like this. i2p, however, does. At least by default.
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by Froztnova 9mo ago
It's super weird to me because none of the jobs I've had as a programmer have been super demanding of my time or effort? I have to work, sure, but generally not as hard as I had to work at college. I rarely get called to do things
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by Froztnova 9mo ago
To be honest while I dislike most AI integration that gets pushed, I really enjoy Firefox' local translation model features. I appreciate that I can conveniently translate things with a reasonable degree of accuracy without having to s
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by Froztnova 9mo ago
It's always interesting to get a window into this sort of thing because I've never really felt the urge to just buy stuff for the sake of buying it. Like, I don't live like a monk. I have a nice computer, a tv, my living spac
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by Froztnova 9mo ago
Would zero knowledge proofs work here? I'm not enough of a cryptography nerd so I don't know if it would be a practical use-case.
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by Froztnova 9mo ago
I first learned how these sorts of programs worked using memory inspection tools that some emulators have built into them, but eventually flirted with some very basic cheat engine stuff myself. More advanced stuff like code caving is hard u
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by Froztnova 10mo ago
I know that at least one modding framework for a certain online game makes use of ImGui (or some equivalent thereof). Given the use case it does make a lot of sense, considering they're essentially strapping a third party UI onto an ex
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by Froztnova 10mo ago
I'm in a similar boat. I still dual boot "just in case" for a lot of things, gaming among them, but I'm really looking forward to the day that I can just cut it and go purely Linux.
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by Froztnova 10mo ago
The fact that they have this accumulating crust of interfaces, usually with different capabilities and visual styles stapled on top of one another, really makes you wonder whether Microsoft is really thinking about what they're doing.
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by Froztnova 10mo ago
> because 4chan's services are available to people residing in the UK I don't understand why 4chan is obligated to be the one to ensure that UK citizens don't access the site when this should be entirely within the UK gove
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by Froztnova 10mo ago
TBH, without going into overmuch detail, I wouldn't generalize from my educational experience to the American educational system as a whole. I think it was better in a lot of ways, and worse in a few ways, than what most people would h
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by Froztnova 10mo ago
Correct, it was around the time I learned how big Islam was in certain parts of Southeast Asia in general. It's just massively under-represented in news and popular culture and my historical/geographic education never really went

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