as the years went on, i started seeing more and more stuff that was web-based rather than being an actual computer program i could own. PHP forums, java applets, flash, javascript SPAs. people tried to make websites do more and more, but they still always felt like... not real software? there was always something janky and bad about the whole experience, or the design, and that feeling's never really gone away for me. everything on a computer is like this now, even the OS feels like a web page
a miserable pile of secrets.
It's a huge pain in the ass tbh. It's so that you can run smol computers inside your regular computer, because developers have a hard time understanding how your computer works and want you to just use theirs.
rip wordpress long live grav and classicpress
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If there’s one good thing I’ll say about Facebook, it’s that they know full well how blocking should work.
You block someone on Facebook, it’s like they cease to exist entirely. They’re gone. No trace of them left behind. Thanos-snapped out of existence.
More services need to make blocking exactly like that.
Wow... Winamp is open source now?
https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp
I mean, I'm using Jellyfin these days but I can't say I'm not at least curious about this development. Hopefully the chiptune situation on linux can get better as a result. #linux #audio #opensource
new on the #linkcache
The US Ruler - Do you have trouble communicating metric sizes to Americans? Then this tool is for you!
Your Name in Landsat - Type in your name (or any word, really) and see it spelled using satellite images of the Earth!
Look Scanned - Upload a PDF to this website and make it look like the pages have been printed and then scanned back into your computer, without the hassle of doing it for real.
https://youtu.be/8jjT4AjTUMA - Okay, so. Click through to this video, and enable loop. Watch it go by. Listen to how just changing the _pitch_ of "The Microsoft Sound" in progression gives it a soothing but melancholic feel. I don't know why this audio with these paintings works so well for me. Calling it minimalist vaporwave doesn't really do it justice. Maybe vaporwave meets Phillip Glass? ...Glasswave. can I coin that?
meta, Ro + Ra'il, misogyny, discourse about entitlement over womens bodies
ah, well, GAME, SOAKER and VIEWER ROM dumps for mega drive already existed here http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/demos/index.htm
those are most likely the same ROMs just formatted different
GAME does not have a SNES version, however SOAKER and VIEWER do. i don't understand much about the SNES ROM format but those aren't in the same format emulators expect either
so the mega drive ones aren't a mystery anymore, but the SNES ones still are
i've looked into the SNES archive. there are no sources. there are, however, compiled binaries.. in a weird format. and, also, for the mega drive.
looking at the mega drive ones, the header information seems to be there? but it's not in the right offsets it should be. which makes me wonder if this is somehow in a slightly compressed format, or a format for some esoteric devkit. i can't really get much else out of this and wish someone else would look at it
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HRT: 15/11/2015
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