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mox

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  • Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

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  • Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

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  • You had cassettes? We had to manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.

  • PHP Sadness

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  • Long ago, I solved all of the ways in which PHP made me sad...

    ...by abandoning it.

    Nowadays we have better languages that can do the job at least as well.

  • Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a Masterpiece, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an Indulgence

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  • Breath of the Wild: Beautiful. Mysterious. Inspired.

    Tears of the Kingdom. Big. Shallow. Boring.

    I found the first dozen or two hours of TotK exciting, as I encountered new mechanics and a darker side of Hyrule. But it wasn't long before the new and exciting became endless expanses of copy/paste encounters and terrain, forgettable characters, and annoying enemies. Nothing felt clever or interesting. I lost interest in exploring, and wandered away from the game.

    Then I went back to the first game for another run.

  • Place to buy Monero for online payment

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  • Do these accept cash, or only ATM cards? (The latter would link your transaction to your bank account, of course.)

    What do they give? A printout of a wallet address?

  • YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels

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  • SomaFM uses shoutcast/icecast streams, so just about any half-decent media streaming device or software can play it.

  • Raytracing overblown?

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  • You are not alone in feeling it's overblown.

    Well-done ray tracing can be beautiful, but realistically, it doesn't matter to me. I'm not Narcissus; I don't play games to stare at my reflection in a puddle. My time and attention are almost entirely devoted to things that move too fast for ray tracing to matter, or reading text, or the geometry of a scene as I plan my approach to whatever I'm about to do.

    If all other things were equal, I would gladly take the extra eye candy. But to me, it's not worth paying significantly more money for real-time ray tracing hardware and higher electricity bills.

    Please wake me up in ten years or so, when every GPU does it well without measurably increasing power draw.

  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)

    oldvcr.blogspot.com /2025/03/more-pro-for-dec-professional-380.html

  • Why steam is so great, he also hits the nail on the head as to why people are going from consoles to PC

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  • Why?

  • PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

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  • Their metric for "older" is two years or more.

  • Any recommendations from the Steam Spring Sale?

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  • Good point. I forgot about that possibility because I don't spend much time playing in Open mode.

    The same thing tends to happen on stronghold carriers in Solo mode, I suspect because Frontier programmed the game to spawn a bunch of NPC ships eager to dock with those carriers when a mini-instance is created. You can be the only player within light years, and still have to wait several minutes for all those NPCs to leave before you can dock.

    facepalm*

  • Any recommendations from the Steam Spring Sale?

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  • Ah... Yes, it was most likely a fleet carrier, then. Those are owned by players, and not always open to the public.

  • Any recommendations from the Steam Spring Sale?

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  • Was it Elite Dangerous? Stations grant docking clearance if you're within range when you request it; I think it's about 7500 meters. Check out the in-game the tutorials. One of them teaches this.

  • Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]

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  • I expect MatrixRTC will be capable of screen sharing if it isn't already, so this is probably just a matter of time, so long as Matrix gets the sponsors they need to continue their work.

  • Mixxx accepted for Google Summer of Code 2025, Get Involved

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  • I don't find it surprising at all. Lots of software bugs remain hidden until some circumstance triggers them. Different hardware, different levels of system load, different filesystems... all sorts of things can make a difference.

    For what it's worth, I was using packaged builds on Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Debian.

    Glad you've been lucky. :)

  • Mixxx accepted for Google Summer of Code 2025, Get Involved

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  • I've tried it several times over the years, but was disappointed every time to find that it was very crashy. I hope they get that sorted out.

  • Monthly update on the FOSS "Ladybird" browser engine

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  • I would be satisfied with people not making wild, misleading, insulting claims about others in the first place.

    I wonder why you're so intent on arguing in support of that behavior.

  • Monthly update on the FOSS "Ladybird" browser engine

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  • I don't know if any of what you claim is true, since I haven't followed those discussions. However, even if true, none of it would mean they are anti-LGBT.

  • Removed

    A reel is in 4/4 time, whereas a jig is a three-step. 'Reel' has four letters, 'jig' has three letters.

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  • Ladybird seems to be the next big topic but where's the discussion around Servo?

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  • Servo is a web rendering engine, not a browser.

    Also, Ladybird is newer, and therefore news to more people. That, along with the fact that it only recently became a stand-alone project, could explain why you see more talk about it lately.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Atmospheric Water Harvesting With High Voltage

    hackaday.com /2025/02/24/atmospheric-water-harvesting-with-high-voltage/
  • Programming @beehaw.org
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    Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces

    blog.codeberg.org /we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    A C64 Sprite Multiplexer - in BASIC

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation

    www.phoronix.com /news/Zrythm-1.0
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World

    www.404media.co /the-open-source-project-deflock-is-mapping-license-plate-surveillance-cameras-all-over-the-world/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
    mox @lemmy.sdf.org

    The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World

    www.404media.co /the-open-source-project-deflock-is-mapping-license-plate-surveillance-cameras-all-over-the-world/
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    All You Need For Artificial Intelligence Is A Commodore 64

    hackaday.com /2024/11/03/all-you-need-for-artificial-intelligence-is-a-commodore-64/
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's secret identity

    oldvcr.blogspot.com /2024/10/the-unreleased-commodore-hhc-4s-secret.html
  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK rice commonly contains arsenic, but most of it can be removed by boiling in water (4:1 ratio) for 5 minutes, and discarding that water before starting the regular cook cycle.

    www.sciencedirect.com /science/article/pii/S0048969720368728
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    The Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections (2021)

    www.reuters.com /investigates/special-report/amazon-privacy-lobbying/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    How a little-known tool is sweeping the real estate industry by giving instant access to vast amounts of homebuyer data

    therecord.media /forewarn-app-real-estate-homebuyer-data
  • Entertainment @beehaw.org
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    SomaFM: Over 30 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting to the world.

    somafm.com
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor

    proton.me /blog/docs-proton-drive
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction

    arstechnica.com /gaming/2024/06/from-infocom-to-80-days-an-oral-history-of-text-games-and-interactive-fiction/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Mozilla restores Firefox add-ons banned in Russia

    www.theregister.com /2024/06/14/mozilla_firefox_russia/
  • Entertainment @beehaw.org
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    Arcane Season 2 | Official Teaser Trailer

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: The Skin Deep web site catalogs personal hygiene products and cosmetics, each rated with a hazard/irritation score and per-ingredient details.

    www.ewg.org /skindeep/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Debian 12 KDE Plasma: The right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024. Reasons and complete installation guide.

    www.davidrevoy.com /article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide