seritools

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by seritools 14d ago
> Personally, I did not learn that much from that experience. What did you expect?
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by seritools 1mo ago
no, Windows still leaves that to the program. Usually handled by the msvc runtime for argv/argc, but the base windows API is GetCommandLine, giving you a single string. EDIT: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/
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by seritools 1mo ago
What's the point you're trying to make?
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by seritools 1mo ago
why not "just" do it for them?
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by seritools 1mo ago
on my screen it's the opposite: the glow makes it look like i didn't clean my glasses for a month, disabling that `text-shadow` makes it readable, and the slight scanline effect is nice
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by seritools 2mo ago
(1987)
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by seritools 3mo ago
near lossless refers to being 89.65/90.26 = 99.32% of baseline, i'm pretty sure.
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by seritools 4mo ago
just look at that giant 8-line headline, insanity
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by seritools 4mo ago
then add a second r and it's suddenly piracy or torrent related!
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by seritools 4mo ago
> This has the side effect of removing empty directories yeah, this will inevitably break things. excluding those from the directory stripping shouldn't be too hard (TM)
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by seritools 5mo ago
as far as i can tell, no it does not. it only desaturates 00 in particular. the other colors you see in the screenshots come from matched formats/patterns. it does not do direct coloring based on byte value.
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by seritools 5mo ago
pretty sure 486 support only _just_ got disabled, and will be gone with 7.1: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486
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by seritools 5mo ago
headlines often trade legibility for terseness, sometimes a bit too much though :) EDIT: Headlinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese
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by seritools 5mo ago
> I miss the wobbly windows I had in Linux when we started playing with Compiz. KDE still has them: Settings -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects -> Wobbly Windows
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by seritools 7mo ago
you can also just uninstall the "new" notepad, at which point Windows will let you run the old one again (which is still shipped!). By using a version that is _that_ old you do lose out on some of the actually useful updates legac
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by seritools 7mo ago
You are mistaken: > The malicious code would execute in the security context of the user who opened the Markdown file, giving the attacker the same permissions as that user.
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by seritools 8mo ago
TIL I'm an AI
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by seritools 8mo ago
not even opposite, as mentioned in my comment it does have Initiator Mode, allowing it to act as a host
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by seritools 8mo ago
If the reason to connect them is to dump them, something like https://bluescsi.com/ in Initiator Mode might work: https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode
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by seritools 9mo ago
For a quick fix: `font-variant-ligatures: none;` on body or similar.
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by seritools 10mo ago
Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.
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by seritools 10mo ago
Author here -- previous discussions/blog posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23313577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37787161
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by seritools 10mo ago
I specifically checked if DirectInput from DirectX 5 already supports/provides USB HID devices, and it does! Granted, even then it was unlikely to encounter 8 USB devices, let alone HID devices in particular.
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by seritools 10mo ago
Because I felt like it :) Also works for multiple versions/patchlevels. But yeah, with the info provided it should be patchable. It's a `push esi` though, where esi has to stay 0 for a few further usages, so it's a bit more t
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by seritools 10mo ago
Usually dgVoodoo handles most of the games (that don't have actual bugs like this game) fairly well. Otherwise, 86Box is a pretty good full-system emulator for everything up to the early 3D era. As for DRM, there's various ways ar
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by seritools 10mo ago
> am I right in thinking the DirectX library only exports a single function and _everything_ else is through DX interfaces Yup! That's why I didn't have to create a gazillion passthrough functions. The original DLL in my modern
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by seritools 10mo ago
Author here -- given that r9x is also my project it wasn't entirely random :^)
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by seritools 10mo ago
AFAIK they are all backed up. For the blogpost I used the DX5 SDK docs, DX7 SDK docs, and the MSDN Library from VS2005 (last version to include 9x information). The VS2008 version purged all API information regarding pre-Windows 2000.
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by seritools 1y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B#Histo... , the last version to support Win3.1 is VC++ 1.52 (which was shipped with VC++ up to version 4). Unless you mean NT3.1 of course :^)
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by seritools 1y ago
this comment thread hasn't been talking about win16. but you're right, win16 can only load some 32-bit PE files through something like Win32s

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