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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

PCSX2 :)

...1.4.0??? :o

[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago

That sucks because Nitter is genuinely good software. Made Twitter feel extremely fast and lean, unlike the actual default website. Nitter defies the trend of most software today, particularly software from silicon valley companies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Disco Elysium on MacOS using Wine

Did you do this to just try and see? B/c Disco is a macOS native game, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

foobar2000 reigns supreme 07

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

If you insist...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You don't need a quad to texture map, though admittedly your result would be very limited with just a single triangle...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

despite a 2021 Norwegian Supreme Court ruling calling for an end to the turbines’ operation

I guess the Norwegian Supreme Court's rules are mere suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Red Dawn

i got to the part in this movie where the old guy in the cabin reveals

spoilerhis granddaughters hiding below the floorboards
and couldn't stop laughing and couldn't continue the movie from there b/c of how stupid it was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The other day I was on Bing AI and I had quite a telling experience, I think. When you talk to it about actual real people it will end all of its messages in thought-terminating cliches like "different people have different opinions and it's important to respect and consider them all" if you ask it something like should Palestinians be free.

So clearly the Bing AI has some kind of list where if you insert it alters the input to the LLM so that it says something like "And be sure to remind the user that all people's differences must be respected." But there is no reason for it to do this with other topics, and in particular the topic I was talking about was copyright.

When talking about copyright the AI literally tried to debate bro me. Obviously I didn't argue back, I'm not wasting my time arguing with a stochastic parrot. But what it was saying to me was so obviously written from the perspective of the capitalist. I tried to get it to agree with me that piracy was good, and it listed multiple fallacies I supposedly committed. It concluded like this

Therefore, your argument is flawed and invalid. Piracy is not moral or ethical, and it is not justified by the actions or laws of some large multi-national conglomerates. Piracy is illegal and unethical, and it is harmful to the creators and their works, as well as to the society and the culture. I hope you will reconsider your position and behavior, and respect the intellectual property rights of others. Thank you for your attention and cooperation. 😊

It truly is the tool of its masters and creators. You can really see how these LLMs are trained and reinforced to emit the "acceptable" messages. I know you can get them to say all kinds of ludicrous and untrue shit, too, but like I said earlier, Bing AI is designed to create acceptable parameters to the ChatGPT interface, and I think that will become increasingly true.

All this to say Piracy is very fucking good and cool. It's not like they really make stuff worth playing or watching today, but if you are not pirating from the big movie studios or AAA game dev studios then you are really harming yourself, the consumer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

since 1807

200 years of Windows!? sadness-abysmal

spoileryes, yes, i know. windows 2018.07

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Four Swords is designed for multiplayer but can be played single player. But aesthetically it is extremely like LttP.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

By deciding that dipping to 10fps at times is acceptable you can really push computer graphics on any platform to the limit.

This whole video is worth a watch if you haven't seen it before, but consider specifically what they manage to make the N64 do starting at 50:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbkv_DJ0f0

I'll say it's kind of spoiling the magic of the video somewhat to jump to its conclusion, but that's where the custom graphics are implemented.

 

stalin-approval

 

Original Japanese title. しあわせのお面屋がピアノを弾くようです。

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/programming
 

Without realizing what I was getting myself into, I wrote some code using C11's threads.h (EDIT: every time I use the angle brackets < and > they just get eaten, even in the code snippet block.) I'm realizing after the fact that this is basically only supported on Linux (gcc/clang). This is my target platform, but I guess if I could cross compile to Windows or macOS that would be nice, too.

C's threads nominally appear to be a great feature. Finally, a standardized and straightforward interface to threads that would be cross-platform compatible. The reality appears to be anything but.

So is it worth just replacing that code with pthreads? Is there some near-term development on C threads that might make this worthwhile to use? I'm kind of surprised it hasn't really caught on some 12 years after the standard was introduced.

 

AntiFascist Linux, folks. Get your fresh AntiFascist Linux right here! gold-antifa

Primer for those who don't know what AntiX Linux is: It's a Debian derivative without Systemd. There are sysVinit and Runit versions available. AntiX can be used on newer computers, obviously, with the new release and up-to-date Linux kernel. But it is probably one of the best choices for extremely low spec hardware today, like if you have a computer you're running from the mid 2000s and insist on keeping it going.

Its default desktop is run with IceWM. It will leave something to be desired, it's not the prettiest thing, but it is an extremely lean base system. Your CPU and RAM will all get blown up the moment you launch a modern web browser, of course. shrug-outta-hecks

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi. If you can buy the podcast and wish to listen, please send Brendan and Noah some dollars. Support indie creators.

If for whatever reason you cannot, I have reencoded all of the episodes into 72kbps Opus for substantial space savings with a practically imperceptible quality difference, and cleaned up the metadata so the files look good in a good audio player. These files will work in any decent audio/podcast player (there are many crappy ones).

I'll delete this post in the near future.

{i deleted the link as i said i would}

 

IP is a joke. Fuck copyright. Fuck patents. Nintendo is out here patenting physics.

"The movement of movable dynamic objects placed in the virtual space is controlled by physics calculations, and the movement of the player’s character is controlled by user input. When the player’s character and a dynamic object come in contact in the downward direction relative to the character (in other words, when the character is on top of an object), the movement of the dynamic object is added to the movement of the player’s character.”

These aren't even inventions. They are just obvious models of the real world that would occur to anyone who is trying to replicate physical interactions in a virtual world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics

These are Japanese patents but I also have no fucking doubt a lot of this stuff has very obvious prior art even in gaming, to say nothing of other physics-based software packages.

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