netdoll

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by netdoll 10mo ago
Texinfo ultimately gets the @ convention from Brian Reid's Scribe[1], as developed at Carnegie Mellon during the late 70s and commercialized by Unilogic[2,3] in the 80s. Coincidentally, there was a close derivative of Scribe called Mi
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by netdoll 1y ago
Is this Chromium Ubiquity port publicized anywhere? I would love to try working with something like it again.
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Spatial Nautilus: A Postmortem(mycophobia.org)
1 points by netdoll 1y ago|0 comments
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by netdoll 1y ago
Was this an independent hobbyist reimplementation? Gobe did something similar in order to port their productivity suite (sorely missed) from BeOS over to Windows and Linux.
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by netdoll 2y ago
I believe the implication of OP's comment is that Doom and Wolfenstein 3D were originally released under non-commercial source available licenses before being relicensed to a FOSS license (GPLv2) a few years later, and the same could v
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by netdoll 2y ago
The classic book references for programming shmup bullet patterns (in Japanese) are シューティングゲームアルゴリズムマニアックス and シューティングゲームプログラミング, but in general, a lot of this stuff is folk knowledge and isn't communicated well outside of trial and e
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by netdoll 3y ago
If I had to wager a guess, probably something like labwc would end up in that role for a distro of DSL's scope and philosophy. However, I think we're still a while away from that, and for the targeted machines, X is still complet
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Bitters(m15o.ichi.city)
3 points by netdoll 3y ago|0 comments
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by netdoll 3y ago
I wonder if there will be any substantial increase in pedojacketing among cultural elites towards those they see as undesirables now that the bill is passed, or whether the second order effects of the bill will lead to a backlash against th
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High Tech Hayekians(philsalin.com)
1 points by netdoll 3y ago|0 comments
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by netdoll 3y ago
For ARM32, RISC OS is probably the closest to the value proposition offered by Menuet, albeit with a decent amount of high level code and a lot more support from developers for applications, languages, and games.
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by netdoll 3y ago
Xanadu comes close to this "ferengi Internet" mindset with some of the tactics it chooses for monetization of content, albeit from an entirely different angle (enabling remix culture more or less indiscriminately while preserving
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by netdoll 3y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but the author uses AppImages for GUI applications wherever and whenever he can. He's very well aware of this aspect of the classic Mac OS and seeks to emulate it as closely as possible.
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by netdoll 3y ago
I believe most of the things OP mentioned have to do with the shell and not the terminal. At the very least, most of the things thus mentioned can be configured in zsh (I don't know how, as I haven't looked into it really)
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by netdoll 3y ago
This is where the classic Mac OS really shines: one fullscreen application which is totally dedicated to the task at hand. It's why I still favor it for many "creative" endeavors and why Apple was able to survive so relative
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by netdoll 3y ago
> The wording has some ambiguity, but it does sound like TFA hasn't heard of Xerox or Perq - perhaps attributing some misplaced invention, rather than popularisation, to Apple. The way I read it, they were attributing the intercombi
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by netdoll 3y ago
ROX is one of those things which is great except for the ecosystem it tied itself to. I would love to see a Wayland rewrite one day, or something using the same concepts. Or really anything that isn't r/unixporn tile rice #9001
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by netdoll 3y ago
Conversely, I find anything above 1920x1080 very displeasing precisely because it removes my ability to practically use bitmapped fonts. Subpixel antialiasing is very distracting and Retina (IMHO) is a solution in search of a problem when
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On Desktop GUI Minimalism(mycophobia.org)
94 points by netdoll 3y ago|91 comments
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by netdoll 3y ago
> However, I’m curious about how the complexity of big systems can be tamed. A system that is hard to reason about even with the source code being accessible is more expensive to maintain and to modify. By removing the misfeatures that m
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by netdoll 3y ago
Mozilla and Opera existed at the time, as well as a bountiful amount of IE shells which essentially acted as the Chromium derivative equivalents. Outside of Chrome (technically) shipping the same binaries across all the platforms it suppor
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by netdoll 3y ago
That's right, I definitely had the ordeal of freeing Solaris in mind when I was writing the comment. Honestly something of a minor miracle it even happened. (also I'm pretty sure all the closed stuff got purged out of illumos?,
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by netdoll 3y ago
Even presuming the will existed in Microsoft, there's enough licensed code that open sourcing it as is would probably be a non starter. Probably a more viable approach would be open sourcing individual components as the rights are cle
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by netdoll 3y ago
Licensing issues would probably prevent this from happening, I can't comment on third party code from other sources, but rather famously, Microsoft got in trouble for disk compression code in the 6.x releases and had to substitute it l
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by netdoll 3y ago
Also relatedly to the idea of doing source releases, it may be worth looking into doing officially blessed public -binary- releases of old Microsoft software. I'd imagine it would be at least somewhat easier to get past legal and woul
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by netdoll 3y ago
If you're not able to do large projects easily due to licensing conflicts, I would focus on small, -mostly- self contained ones in the meantime. A couple of nice, high sentimental value suggestions here (IMO) would be MASM, the Window
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by netdoll 3y ago
In addition, the imposition of RTO strictures on employees who are neurodivergent (which makes up a relatively high percentage of the valley and other tech hubs for reasons I don't need to explain here) can also be considered a kind of
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by netdoll 3y ago
I can personally attest to this, until I moved out to the city, I was significantly kneecapped in terms of what speeds I could have and it had an impact given how many services just implicitly assume you have high bandwidth and more or less
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by netdoll 3y ago
5 gigabit symmetric right now, if you're American.
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by netdoll 3y ago
Honestly, while I have a running boycott of consoles on moral grounds (Steam Deck notwithstanding), I feel like the Switch and PS4 are the best systems in quite a while, both for the variety of independent/AA games in all genres on the

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