Aardwolf

My only complaint is the esc button you need in some of the games, make the fullscreen go to the small display again

> KDF settings are stored on the server without authentication, allowing a malicious server to reduce the iteration count

How though, that would also require the client to re-generate the key based on the server setting without te user choosing to do so, does it do that?

You don't necessarily need the same hardware to read it, just like you can read a vinyl record optically without a needle

I have no idea if this was the reason behind turning the dark yellow into brown, but the brown was a much better looking color for DOS games so it was a good call

They could also have done something about the two magentas though... E.g. made one of them orange?

gdb (the debugger) sometimes prints dark blue text on a black background, which is unreadable. I customize the dark blue color when possible in VTE's due to this, but it's not always possible everywhere

But I wonder what the developers of gdb were using that made them not notice this

Surprisingly it's not hexagons, because hexagons are supposed to be the bestagons!

How impressive holding 10k times ones weight is, depends on size right? E.g. an ant can hold 50 times its weight, but a 10x10x10 times upscaled ant would not be able to do that

The size and 10k amount here are impressive compared to the ant nonetheless

Imho ascii wasted over 20 of its precious 128 values on control characters nobody ever needs (except perhaps the first few years of its lifetime) and could easily have had degree symbol, pilcrow sign, paragraph symbol, forward tick and other useful symbols instead :)

Includes link to a 2020 one that's still operational by the same person in the addendum at the bottom!

> Gaming was supposed to be one of the best drivers for 8K adoption.

While the step from 1080p 1440p to 4K is a visible difference, I don't think going from 4K to 8K would be a visible since the pixels are already invisible at 4K.

However the framerate drop would be very noticeable...

OTOH, afaik for VR headsets you may want higher resolutions still due to the much larger field of vision

The same person might be both kinds of users, depending on the topic or just the time of the day

Every now and then I play quordle, octordle, and once a thousand-word variation (which breaks down gameplaywise to just getting every letter at every spot).

A bit of reuse of the same word in the one-word version can't hurt I think

I thought this was going to be about nomograms. TIL that monograms, nonograms and nomograms exist

I was thinking Andor's Trail :)

Do those updates matter?

Not for me at least usually (exception might be something like an rpg game expanding the world), apps nagging to get updated is annoying in fact.

> It would go on to run Windows 3.0, Windows 95, early Linux

That feels like a stretch :) Maybe it indeed ran on it, but Pentium was available when Windows 95 was released and it was probably far more likely to be sold along with such new Pentium multimedia machines, than someone getting it for their old 386. But Windows 3.11 was its exact match!

If true, this would mean more websites with genuine content from the "old" internet won't show up (since many personal websites won't have this), while more SEO-optimized content farms that of course do put up a robots.txt will...

> I'm not a fan of the bias towards "Gears are old tech, and that makes them bad"

If the gears don't at least require an app with a subscription and regular updates to use, they must be old tech

/sarcasm

When there's some big ongoing thing in the news there'll be many articles on that same topic on news websites and sometimes you can't even find the original one that tells what actually happened. Wikipedia's article on it is usually a great summary

Checking its API, I'm surprised that Temporal.Duration has a constructor with many parameters for years, months, days, ... all the way to nanoseconds, while Temporal.Instant has no way at all to create it given a current year/month/day, only from unix timestamp equivalents (or strings)

That seems to be functionality you'd want to have? Or is the intention you convert your numbers to string first and then back to a Temporal.Instant?

Bump maps and detail textures were a highly advanced and praised graphics technology in 1998, interesting to now see it explained as fake trickery from back in the day

P.S. I still see polygonal instead of truly round barrels in modern games, when will we finally have quadratic surfaces or some other solution for that?

16 too: seize

Obviously 666, 1337, 9223372036854775807 etc... in the leaderboard are fake, so if I had to try to figure out what the highest legit score is, I'd guess milkman with 227. Unless someone was clever enough to make an inconspicuous fake number :)

Nice puzzle! But I'd like a button to go back to your most optimal solution so far: it's tedious to try other options but then have to convert it back to your better solution again...

Firefox's reader mode works on this one!

Is it accidentally showing the uppercase font for lowercase characters for 14SEG? the 7SEG's lowercase is actually lowercase

I didn't realize the article was from 2016. I still have to click motorcycles and traffic lights sometimes. So nothing has changed at all! I didn't know they were using those motorcycles and traffic lights for almost 10 years already

Base 16 (or base 10, as they would call it) is the perfect base: http://www.intuitor.com/hex/

Once quantum computers are possible, is there actually anything else, any other real world applications, besides breaking crypto and number theory problems that they can do, and do much better than regular computers?

But what if you weigh this by usage time? The firefoxes without extensions might be hardly ever used