rollcat

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by rollcat 8mo ago
The technology was there all along, and it's ironic that we're discussing it on this website of all. Look up ViaWeb.
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by rollcat 8mo ago
I feel like using Bash is a double-edged sword. Yes, it's available on every modern unix-like (notably absent from the base system in the *BSDs), but the language (being an sh descendant) is honestly horrible for anything more complex
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by rollcat 8mo ago
The specs link directly to the Pebble Appstore, which showcases a bunch of really cool watchfaces that are... all for the square screen. I think it would be wonderful to land the user on a showcase of faces specifically adapted for the roun
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by rollcat 8mo ago
> But honestly I've had Macs that still work 15 years after I bought them [...]. 2002 PowerBook user checking in. Not great for "modern" work, CPU gets really hot compiling "simple" stuff like git or libressl, bu
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by rollcat 8mo ago
It's been always kinda weird to me that BT spans four layers, from antennas to volume controls. You'd think all the vertical integration should make it reliable and interoperable, yet in practice it's the exact opposite.
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by rollcat 8mo ago
COW on fork has been a given for decades. You can't COW two different libraries, even if the libraries in question share the source code text.
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by rollcat 9mo ago
Nintendo has done this exact thing with the GameBoy: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/11736 If you mess with the logo, the console locks up during boot. If you don't, you're violating the trademark.
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by rollcat 9mo ago
Voting with your money doesn't work in a world where all wealth is concentrated in oligopolies.
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by rollcat 9mo ago
> [...] so you weren't able to change them yourself. This should be illegal. You're supposed to do what, stay on the roadside for 20h before an authorized repairman can reach you? What if the weather is harsh, and you run out o
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by rollcat 10mo ago
You are an average person. A program you're using crashes. The only non-generic word you see in the crash message is "SQLite". You look it up, find SQLite, and you bother the developers for help. The problem is as old as labe
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by rollcat 10mo ago
What about local friends?
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by rollcat 10mo ago
I agree and I do not agree. I still sometimes use a Thinkpad X230, and wait- a G4 PowerBook, and they are fine machines for many tasks. Yet even those have soldered CPUs, simply because of design constraints. You don't need to have to
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by rollcat 10mo ago
> Partnerships could mean more than just fab capacity -- maybe even incentives to build an instruction translation layer so software built for Intel chips could run natively on Apple Silicon. Something like Rosetta, but at the hardware l
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by rollcat 10mo ago
> needs an external app for fractional display scaling Huh? I go to Settings -> Displays -> Advanced -> Show resolutions as list -> Show all resolutions -> you can literally pick *whatever* your screen will advertise? *May
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Tried it for a while, it was death by a thousand papercuts. I wanted the Konsole theme to stay in sync with system light/dark theme. I ended up writing a pair of .desktop files and a helper program to talk to DBus. I want to use my com
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by rollcat 10mo ago
> soldered RAM Hold on a minute. It's not "soldered". It's integrated with the SoC . The benefit is memory latency and bandwidth. If you know Framework, their entire mission is to build upgradeable laptops, and they
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Anyone can recommend something viable for simple tasks? I don't need 32GB of VRAM, just a reliable machine for everyday tasks that's decent, lightweight, has a good battery. (I know I'm describing an M2 Air, but I'd like
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Yep, bad law, I'd also say bad intent. Apple is ahead of the curve[1]. You get a system-level popup asking you for consent to be tracked. Actual, not implied consent - only "yes" means "yes". So you say "no&q
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by rollcat 10mo ago
We've had ad-hoc WiFi for about 3 decades, but that requires a level of device access that no gatekeeper will agree to anymore.
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by rollcat 10mo ago
A physical switch is extra BoM / cost, and doesn't make sense in the context of a networked device. Just make it LAN-first / LAN-only. Any Internet-enabled features should happen on the gateway, and be opt-in.
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Agree. I don't think Gemini plugs any hole that Gopher could've left open. As it is, it's just a motherfuckingwebsite.com, except it's trying to take itself seriously.
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Yep. Manufacturers / distributors should be held responsible. Aligning the incentives is half the battle.
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by rollcat 10mo ago
OK so it's like Minecraft, but with a lot more combat. I can see the appeal. > The most effective anticheat tool really is game design. Yep, that's always been my idea, and why I brought up Elo. IMO second most effective is to
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Yep. Everyone understands email, not everyone understands that email is federated, and yet everyone benefits from federation.
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by rollcat 10mo ago
As an occasional enjoyer of OS X 10.5 on PowerPC, I can recommend... iTunes. It is actually really decent, as is most of Jobs-era stuff. I don't have anything to play FLAC or Vorbis, but the machine has more urgent problems... < htt
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Decoupled: < https://apps.apple.com/us/app/decoupled/id1382409837 > 100% offline-only. Open in Finder, drag&drop music, enjoy the untethered experience.
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by rollcat 10mo ago
OS/Xamp perhaps. Joking aside, there's Audacious[1], which is an excellent and cross-platform player, with support for Winamp skins. Also check out WebAmp[2] and the skin museum[3]. [1] < https://audacious-media-playe
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by rollcat 10mo ago
> Mozilla is currently losing the battle because the leadership doesn't believe they can do it again. I do not believe that this is the case. Their #1 revenue source is Google. The moment they start regaining any foothold? Imagine j
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Mozilla has started so many incredibly ambitious projects: Firefox OS, Rust, Servo/Stylo, Quantum... A slack-alike would at best give them a +1 against killedbygoogle.com. Yep, a federated social network is indeed an ambitious problem,
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by rollcat 10mo ago
Oh that's interesting! I've never played Rust (or any PvP shooter outside of Quake 3...), so forgive me my ignorance. Questions, out of curiosity: - Why no matchmaking, why no win/loss condition? What's the incentive str

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