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OVERWORKED LICENSE (OWL)

dude idfk if i maintain this shit at all its some kind of miracle. like i can barely maintain myself let alone some software i made out of desperation. like just fucking do what you want with this shit i do not care. try not to be evil with it i guess, but no matter what i write here some jackass will find a way to ruin it.

this license is to apply to all derivative works

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Sheptember, Sneptember... Both are good! <3
Saber Shep and @kieran

Arts by Skylar (skylardoodles.weebly.com)

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Hi!
You look pretty cool,
but I look better. Ha ha!

of all the kinds of themes in software the ones i've really come to hate are low-contrast dark themes. don't give me this grey on grey shit

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Hi! How are you?
Have you heard of Big Foot Joe
who lives on the north side
of White Mountain?
He's crazy!
He's hunts for fake bears!

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Is...art an "explosion"?
- E..explosion?..
- Yes! It's an explosion!

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Also fucking Windows. Oh you can't access the ports on your own computer unless you go through a slow driver written by someone who paid us for a certificate. Fuck off let me bang some bits

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Yeah it turns out it is faster on Linux and can pretty much get up to the speed of the original (albeit not 100% reliably) so it must just be the Windows driver slowing it down. Which on the one hand is a bit of a pisser that it's a problem I can't fix, but it's also good to know I've done everything "right" on my end and it's not a problem with my code

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I suppose I should also try compiling this on Linux and see if it's any faster there. The driver it needs on windows might be adding overhead. On Linux it can just raw dog the port

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So initially this was so slow it would've taken over an hour to dump a single megabyte......
After some tweaks I've now got it reliably transferring a MB in 4 mins but the original communicator on Linux could do it in 1 min so it WOULD be nice to bring it down further....

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Did you ever use a BBC Micro? β€” yes at primary school! this was in the 90s so they were already out of date & the school only "officially" used them for some simple educational programs. but because my mum worked at the school… retrospring.net/@taizou/a/1130

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