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jervanton VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver

$ claude

> write me a USB driver for Windows NT. qemu is at /usr/bin/qemu-system-i386 and a local NT installation is at nt.img

* Doing Something...

jervanton Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco

Older Porsche 911s take about 11 quarts.

jervanton Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

Nine Inch Nails also has some new merch and soundtrack album for the 30th anniversary:

https://shop.nin.com/

jervanton Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral

> instagram

> random social media website

jervanton Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Direct link to GitHub repo: https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat

jervanton Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

What's so important about retaining your existing account? Remove payment methods, change the account email address, then close the account and open a new one.

jervanton Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video]

And yet practically every Mac after 1986 had SCSI onboard. Why the PC industry didn't embrace it to avoid having to wait until USB is beyond me...

jervanton No way to parse integers in C (2022)

https://man.openbsd.org/strtonum

jervanton 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

Snow

jervanton SSH Secret Menu

I'm pretty sure the ~ command style came from cu(1) which had it in at least 4.1BSD. I don't think rsh (which came in 4.2BSD) ever had such commands.

jervanton Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

How many languages are using LLVM as its backend vs Go's?

jervanton Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

It looks like you set a startup command in the "Advanced Configuration" menu for the host

jervanton (Open) Widevine support added to the OpenBSD Chromium port

That's not true and wouldn't work on OpenBSD anyway (binaries are not compatible). The files you're copying from another device are just encryption keys.

OpenWV is implementing the decryption itself:

https://github.com/tchebb/openwv

jervanton Postal Arbitrage

There are also things on eBay with a starting price of less than a dollar with free shipping that never get bids. I "won" two auctions like this the other week for brand new USB-C cables, each of them costing me 13 cents shipped.

I have no idea why sellers would do this with eBay fees and USPS small package shipping costing well over 13 cents.

jervanton Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page

From the headline, one might assume he directly edited or locked the page when he just commented on the article's discussion page that it should have a more neutral tone.

jervanton Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail

Yes, though you still need to renew the certificate through OS X Server.

jervanton Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail

https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-daemon

https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-plugin

jervanton BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX

Maybe hardware should start offering virtio interfaces

jervanton Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops

firmware

jervanton Mistral OCR

I wonder how it compares to USPS workers at deciphering illegible handwriting.

jervanton Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]

"Cingular has allowed Apple to launch a device with WLAN and inbuilt services"

Ugh, that "allowed". It's wild how much Apple shook up the mobile phone market and pushed phone companies back to just being dumb data carriers.

jervanton DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

Surely making deals with companies like Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine was a big part of building that market share. How many iPhone users bother to set a different search engine in Safari?

jervanton We bypassed the geoblock on Apple's AirPods pro hearing aids feature

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118399

jervanton IMG_0416

Do you use iCloud Private Relay? YouTube gives that message and Google requires a CAPTCHA for web searches very often when iCloud Private Relay is enabled.

jervanton How to Self-Host All of Bluesky

How are Direct Messages implemented in Bluesky if anyone can access a firehose of all network activity?

jervanton Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL's 'You've Got Mail ' Alert, Dies at 74

A final "{S goodbye"

jervanton Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

That event has the enthusiasm of old Apple demos

jervanton iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video]

I was sure this was going to be a dosdude1 video, he's upgraded the flash on a lot of things

https://youtube.com/@dosdude1