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5,546 karma · joined April 7, 2010

I care a lot about build systems, because nobody else seems to.
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endgame··on Q2DOS – Quake 2 backported to MS-DOS
I think the search term you want is "svgalib" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVGALib

It looks like at least some versions of Allegro and SDL supported it as a backend.

endgame··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
> Technical Capability Notices

> The 2016 law [Investigatory Powers Act] is nicknamed the Snoopers' Charter and forbids unauthorized disclosure of the existence or contents of a warrant issued under the act.

> "Apple can appeal the UK capability notice to a secret technical panel, which would consider arguments about the expense of the requirement, and to a judge who would weigh whether the request was in proportion to the government's needs. But the law does not permit Apple to delay complying during an appeal," the Post wrote.

Sounds like the godawful "assistance and access" laws that were rushed through in Australia a couple of years ago, right down to the name of the secret instrument sent to the entity who gets to build the intercept capability.

endgame··on Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
Aren't you still going to be on the hook for data transfer out?
endgame··on Haskell: A Great Procedural Language
The other ones most people point to are https://pandoc.org and https://shellcheck.net
endgame··on Portals and Quake
IIRC Duke3D also had a map where you had to walk a circular path twice to get back to where you started.
endgame··on VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles
That "should" is doing a lot of work, and it is not always easy to convince a bureaucratic system that it has made a mistake.
endgame··on Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
Who here has never been up late hacking on something and thought "but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep"?
endgame··on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
While I vehemently disagree with Australia's proposed solution to this problem, this is very reductive and handwaving away very real problems.
endgame··on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
> The problem with banning specific features etc is that it will most likely just leave giant loopholes and will be extremely hard to actually enforce.

I invite you to read the Bill^WAct and look at how it defines an "age-restricted social media platform".

endgame··on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
> undisclosed facial recognition testing at flinder street station

I hadn't heard about that particular intrusion. Got a link?

endgame··on "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"
No data was lost because APRA rules require funds to back up across multiple clouds.
endgame··on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
The problem with AU's U16 ban is that it's going to end up being a de facto real ID requirement for any Australian to communicate online. And also, how many of us on this site were able to learn and grow because they got online as teenagers and learned things?

It would have been much, much better to regulate out the worst features of social media platforms for everyone than to pass a Bill that nobody knows how to implement, with a timeline of "well, you've got a year to figure it out".

endgame··on Save Music, Save the Archive
What on _earth_ is the IA thinking, sitting on something that valuable and poking the bear like this!?

We need a backup of the backup, because so much of what they've got is irreplaceable.

endgame··on "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...

Google Cloud accidentally wiped an Australian super[annuation] (pension) fund's entire cloud deployment earlier this year. I think that if you really want durable backups, they have to be reducible to object storage and put in someone else's cloud.

endgame··on Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
Even aside from that, you probably want to register your own .sucks and .rocks, which just means whoever operates that registry gets to make a bunch of money from companies squatting domains that nobody wanted and bring no value to the world.
endgame··on Category Theory in Programming
This two-part keynote might give you a good flavour:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WMfKhKKVN4

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zooYfk5-yPY

If you can stand up a Cartesian-closed category, it is a model of a lambda calculus. So you can make a compiler plugin that takes lambda terms (a large subset of Haskell) and compiles it into all sorts of exotic settings (dataflow diagrams, derivatives of the function, ...)

KittyHawk used it to compile Haskell to C in https://github.com/sellout/compiling-anything-to-categories and someone talks about their work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUBj8NW7uMA

endgame··on Ask HN: Is uBlock Origin removed from Chrome extension?
The technical reason was that uBlock Origin uses the "Manifest V2" extension interface. The new "Manifest V3" standard ever-so-coincidentally doesn't provide the tools necessary for thorough ad-blockers like UBO.

You should switch to a browser that maintains support for good ad-blockers.

endgame··on An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)
I know your description includes "still get regular radio play", but one of my favourite pieces of troll music is "The Most Unwanted Song". They surveyed people to find the things they liked least in music and put it all together. I don't want to spoil just how creatively awful it is or what's in there, so I'll just drop the link and go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08

endgame··on Web Locks API
If certain lock names become well-known, maybe you could DoS browsers by holding random locks and never releasing them?
endgame··on Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective
The problem is not with the slides package, it's with the content I want to put on the slides:

https://github.com/Dherse/codly/issues/35 and in particular, this comment from the author of codly where he sounds constrained by Typst: https://github.com/Dherse/codly/issues/35#issuecomment-24667...

endgame··on Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective
Typst looked promising, but the very first thing I wanted to do with it - generate some slides with code snippets, and use highlights to call out specific features of the code - is not possible. The core layout engine seems to merge `styled(...)` spans in code blocks far too aggressively, making it impossible for codly (the code highlighting package I tried) to pick out precise ranges to highlight.

I went back to beamer.

endgame··on Funding restored for man-page maintenance
This isn't reddit.
endgame··on Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak
Just use paper, and count by hand on the day.

You need to present an election system that will convince Joe Q. Public, who is almost certainly not as tech-literate as this forum, is probably not even white-collar or university educated, and likely also suspicious of globalisation. "Tamper-proof Indian system-on-a-chip" does not have that property. Otherwise you get increasingly unhinged arguments over the election results until something breaks.

endgame··on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
> Have governments become more authoritarian?

Judging by the various misinformation legislation they're rushing to adopt, yes. The free internet said too many things that powerful people didn't like.

An Australian example: https://x.com/SenatorRennick/status/1834455727764869593#m

endgame··on "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
Or, as Ballmer used to say, "developers, developers, developers, developers."
endgame··on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
Counter example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_7Hx42P1Y

There's also the multi-world randomiser community, where people network a bunch of emulators together, and finding an item in one game can actually unlock something else in another player's game.

endgame··on "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
I criticise Mozilla in tech circles, I recommend Firefox and a working adblocker to friends and family, and I donate to Ladybird. What else should I be doing?
endgame··on A free and open internet shouldn't come at the expense of privacy
Yep, I'm already a sponsor.
endgame··on A free and open internet shouldn't come at the expense of privacy
Ladybird cannot come soon enough.
endgame··on Who died and left the US $7B?
This is a problem with all kinds of virtual world economies. Players accumulate so much gold that some substitute becomes more useful. Diablo II had the Stone of Jordan, for example.
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