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by HeckFeck 4d ago
Related: McDonalds producing a GameBoy game in 2023 developed using GB Studio as a 90s throwback: https://www.grimacesbirthday.com/
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by HeckFeck 4d ago
Even I've heard of Chex Quest and the brand has never been available in my country. Interesting lesson there. No one hates marketing tie-ins when you make something genuinely fun, i.e. that people want to play. Opposed to forcing a d
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by HeckFeck 4d ago
>static hosting on a $5 VPS with Nginx might handle an HN surge My personal site is hosted on this exact setup. Twice I made the homepage, twice I noticed no slowdown whatsoever. The only problem is that in May of this year, when my SimC
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by HeckFeck 5d ago
>it’s missing key features that are useful for organizations that aren’t sharing their code with everyone. I agree. Let's go back to subversion.
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by HeckFeck 6d ago
I'm actually building this as we speak: A hardened phpBB 1.4.4 that targets PHP8 and modern MariaDB. Why ever not.
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by HeckFeck 6d ago
Initially I tried to build PHP4, with Squeeze being what I hoped amenable to that. It didn't work so well. So I later opted to try PHP5 with some patches, which it now does. I imagine it could run on something a bit more recent. That s
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Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker(thran.uk)
54 points by HeckFeck 9d ago|38 comments
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by HeckFeck 3mo ago
Peter Molyneux continues to re-invent himself. His newest "god game" claims to have the ability to code any game you like, on demand. Just as you'd expect from an omnipotent deity!
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by HeckFeck 3mo ago
Perl, for all its quirkiness, remains my favourite language - even though I've never done any professional work in it, and I took it up long after its glory days. A shame how it plummeted. It feels like "Unix, but as a scripting l
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by HeckFeck 3mo ago
I used telnet to send mail via SMTP once, it's quite literally a good social protocol because it begins with a polite 'HELO'.
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by HeckFeck 3mo ago
Aw, but what have you against kawaii?
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by HeckFeck 3mo ago
Aside from that, I don't want to take responsibility for that which I don't understand. And even if I can read the code generated by a LLM, that's not the same as thinking through a solution or planning a design. You can&#x27
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
They are committed. I found this kernel extensions project: https://github.com/i486/VxKex Perhaps that'd be the OpenRCT2 fanatics' salvation.
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
Wild shot - but I wonder whether the newly emancipated Last.FM are looking to hire? I've loved the site since I got my old account back in 2024. Recently I created a fun widget maker using its API: https://github.com/lo
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
I've found the support email address. It might still be open for support queries. If you send me an email I'll send you what I know. My email address is in my profile.
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
Get in touch with LFM support, it's good. I hadn't used my LFM since 2011, but I remembered my old email address that was likely used with the account. I emailed support asking them kindly to reset my password to my new email, and
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
I wish Apple Music would support scrobbling to the Last.FM API like Spotify, but to get the ball rolling we'd need someone on the Apple Music team who can nudge it up the list.
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
Would be nice but it can't be done. I stopped scrobbling in 2011, then found out the site was still alive in 2024, one email to support later and I was back in. I wanted to import my Spotify listening history from the intervening years
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
I agree. Someone should have this dangerous man sectioned.
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
Hey, if you make your money from playing to an audience, you can take a little joke ;)
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
Looks pretty cool. Reminds me also of Metropolis 1998, which is also going for the isometric style - with a lot more detail, i.e. you can design individual homes and see the lives of "sims" too, something like if SimCity and The S
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by HeckFeck 4mo ago
That spliced in USB hub looks messy. Does a new controller necessitate Xinput? I assume Windows still supports DirectInput, which was used in the past with more complex controllers. I'd recently brought up "JOY.CPL" in Window
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by HeckFeck 5mo ago
I remember renaming .html files as .hta and thinking I was a developer.
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by HeckFeck 5mo ago
I've a Compag Armada E500, and it runs Windows 98 fairly swiftly with its PIII processor and 256MB RAM. I've also a 2009 MacBook and it runs Snow Leopard like a dream, yet with "only" 2GB of RAM. And either of these mach
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by HeckFeck 6mo ago
I got my Steam Deck that month, so pleased to be a part of it. The Deck fills a gap that has been empty in my soul since the PSP was discontinued, and feels like a genuine step forward that makes technology fun again. It's fully open!
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by HeckFeck 6mo ago
1-3 are covered by package managers in pretty much every Linux distro and BSD.
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by HeckFeck 7mo ago
I keep track of these on my website, Well Made Web. You may like a visit: https://wmw.thran.uk/
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by HeckFeck 7mo ago
They aren't comparable. Showing an ID to a staff member isn't stripping my anonymity. I know the retailer won't have that on file forever, tied to me on subsequent visits. Also they stop ID'ing you after a certain age ;)
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by HeckFeck 7mo ago
He curates his own tags. I knew it. https://github.com/riverscuomo/mp3tagger
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by HeckFeck 7mo ago
This is the coolest thing I've seen in months. Licence it as beerware, then I'm obliged to owe you one.

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