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HackedBunny··on Leadwerks Game Engine 5.1 Released
Congrats, Josh, looks good!

-- The Artist Formerly Known as 'BlitzSupport'

HackedBunny··on Why does everything feel so joyless?
Clicking says it all...

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HackedBunny··on Amiga Pointer Archive
How sure are we?

https://www.hi-toro.com/images/pointers.jpg

HackedBunny··on The Most Spoken Words in Glasgow
Paywalled, but if the top answer isn't 'f---ing' then it's wrong.
HackedBunny··on Making synthesized sounds more acoustic
Rex Basterfield makes tons of free synthesised VST instruments, but created an interesting 'resonating sound box' effect earlier this year that would seem relevant here for the box tone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NBm0CdJ8x0

Got to recommend his Sim-Cimbalom instrument too... he created and released this amazing synth 12 days after I suggested it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALKOXqQXyTs

Many of his instruments provide little details along the lines of those in the article (see his narrated YouTube vids), all freely-available here, most-recent at the bottom:

http://flowstoners.com/quilcom

HackedBunny··on Can’t Hear the Dialogue in Your Show? Many Stream with the Subtitles On
Article just turns into blatant spam for a Sonos Soundbar about 3/4 of the way through.

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Last week, I tried the Sonos Arc...

At $900, the Sonos Arc is pricey. But it’s one of the few soundbars on the market with a speech enhancer, a button that can be pressed in the Sonos app...

[etc]

In conclusion

The Sonos Arc soundbar was helpful for hearing dialogue without the speech enhancer turned on most of the time...

HackedBunny··on Declaritive and Imperitive Programming
> imperitive!
HackedBunny··on EFF to deprecate HTTPS Everywhere extension as HTTPS is becoming ubiquitous
Literally comes a few days after I re-installed it because Firefox doesn't have a per-site fallback mode, or at least not obviously!
HackedBunny··on SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI
Good! Tablet and phone concerns have been the absolute bane of desktop UIs for so long now.
HackedBunny··on You Can’t Disable Taskbar Button Grouping in Windows 11
Glad someone else has recognised this! Worst feature of Windows 11 for me, multiple clicks just to access a window is pretty poor in a windowing system. I always disable that awful "feature".
HackedBunny··on Activision Sues Indie Dev over 'Warzone“ Trademark
"Call of Duty: Warzone could not be more different from Defendant's game, a low-budget, niche virtual board game like Hasbro's Risk," the complaint said. "Indeed, it is inconceivable that any member of the public could confuse the two products or believe that they are affiliated with or related to each other."

Sounds like the defendant should change his product's name to "Call of Duty: Warzone".

After all, "it is inconceivable that any member of the public could confuse the two products or believe that they are affiliated with or related to each other."

HackedBunny··on Gary Numan: 'One of my songs got over a million streams – I got £37'
"In this world in which we're living"...
HackedBunny··on Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs
My quick test of DeepSpeech, as posted on Facebook back in April:

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I just ran a speech-to-text converter on a very clear clip of former Doctor Who actor Tom Baker talking in an interview.

The DeepSpeech converter uses the very latest AI deep-learning advancements to 'listen' to the audio and output the spoken words as text.

After 3 long minutes of running it on a 30-second clip, it printed out its interpretation:

"hooloomooloo how booboorowie i have a honeymoon"

HackedBunny··on Ask HN: Beginner non-trivial transpiler projects to learn from?
These might be too far off the beaten track for you, being non-standard languages with full game library systems, but Mark Sibly's Monkey2 (discontinued for lack of support) is a complex transpiler project written in a very read-friendly language:

https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey2/tree/develop/src/m...

... and one of his previous languages, BlitzMax, is continued by others today as BlitzMaxNG, and it uses a frequently-updated transpiler based off the former/similar Monkey language:

https://github.com/bmx-ng/bcc

Again, easy to read, and the principles are the same for almost any language.

Downloadable distros:

https://blitzresearch.itch.io/monkey2 https://blitzmax.org/

Targets include Windows x86/64, Mac, Linux, Android and HTML5... among others!

HackedBunny··on Hello: Desktop operating system with focus on simplicity, elegance and usability
Literally nothing to see here. A few 11-month old logos and a readme updated 10 days ago only to add a Reddit link do not an operating system make!
HackedBunny··on NASA X-59 Is Building Its X-Plane from Old Warbirds
With all the military parts, including from F117, I call BS... this is a future spyplane prototype leeching off of NASA funding under the guise of "supersonic passenger aircraft".
HackedBunny··on Ask HN: What's your experience with DuckDuckGo search quality?
I find their results pretty abysmal, like ALL modern search engines -- particularly in terms of returning irrelevant results that don't even contain my specific search terms, so you're definitely not the only one!

I think they're all scared of having to simply say "we couldn't find anything that matches what you specifically asked for... or was even close".

HackedBunny··on Homegroove – Open-Source DIY Vinyl Record Lathe
Interesting, but there's a 404 on the project files!
HackedBunny··on How was this jpg encoded?
It is a strange question... but try ExifTool here:

http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

From command line:

exiftool Famil-Law-Courts-Adelaide-copy.jpg

From output: "Encoding Process : Progressive DCT, Huffman coding"

HackedBunny··on Sirin Labs unveils luxury smartphone for security-conscious traveling executives
Don't know what it's like now, but their web site allowed you to sign up for email updates via plain old HTTP not so long ago -- very security-conscious!