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HTML5 Canvas Tips and Tricks(sidneys1.com)
2 points by Sidneys1 2y ago|0 comments
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Booting Sun Sparc Servers(sidneys1.com)
17 points by Sidneys1 2y ago|3 comments
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by Sidneys1 2y ago
Here, eat your heart out: https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2024/10/04/booting-sun-s...
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by Sidneys1 2y ago
I absolutely adore the terminal. It appears to have several VT-compatible modes, so should be very usable with modern Linux. Except I don't have the accompanying Wyse keyboard with the appropriate setup keys required to switch compatib
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by Sidneys1 2y ago
Yes, I got ahold of these just weeks before moving to a new state. Things have been a bit chaotic since then. Here's a video of it booting, though! https://youtu.be/lGCLvFzGYX8
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by Sidneys1 2y ago
A couple years ago I got a reply to a Craigslist ad I had posted looking for 90's and 00's era computers people were looking to get rid of. This guy said he used to run a small website starting around 1995, and had a couple "
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by Sidneys1 2y ago
Not with 4o, but I tried it with 4 (through Copilot) a while ago and the results were abysmal, even with very neatly printed handwriting.
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by Sidneys1 2y ago
I'd like to hear more about this! I keep coming back to trying to OCR my journals, but nothing I've tried so far works well (enough) on handwriting.
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by Sidneys1 3y ago
There's always gsudo: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
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by Sidneys1 3y ago
Stardock Groupy adds this functionality to Windows, and Microsoft briefly toyed with the idea themselves [1]. [1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-windows-10-testers-w...
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by Sidneys1 3y ago
https://signal-bot.readthedocs.io The actual Pip package isn't published yet, but the documentation should be self-explanatory.
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by Sidneys1 4y ago
Where's the fun in that? I've been looking for a good reason to play with `std::filesystem` anyways.
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Reverse Engineering a Windows 95 Game's Asset Storage Format(sidneys1.com)
6 points by Sidneys1 4y ago|3 comments
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by Sidneys1 4y ago
This is part one of hopefully three. Future parts will look at disassembling the binary to find secrets!
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Show HN: Stail.sh – Short Tail(gist.github.com)
2 points by Sidneys1 4y ago|0 comments
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by Sidneys1 4y ago
Two RSS submissions today, from different sources. Interesting. Haven't seen this in the comments for either: https://miniflux.app/ A very lightweight self-hosted web client for managing RSS feeds. I very much like it.
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by Sidneys1 4y ago
I have - I've used IPFS to archive the channel of a creator I like (in true data-hoarding fashion). It is neither convenient nor especially easy. It's mostly managed by a home-grown bash script that uses yt-dlp to archive videos,