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I did something similar with an rare, old 32bit game I really enjoyed in my childhood. I used deepseek and pi harness and it decompiled it via ghidra and recompiled it for wasm in under 40 mins or so and made it run in the browser. I was impressed!

For anyone who wants to run the game in your browser, here it is - https://bonkheads-port-by-kapil.pages.dev/

Re:Making Tailscale Faster on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:06PM (#49836123)
What would it take to make it work for something like a microcontroller? It may not have all the features but having your IoT devices communicate via secure network with automatic traversal is ideal to me. Can be ported to routers as well other than openwrt.
Re:Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:41PM (#49792302)
Agree. MCP also helps in some esoteric use cases like interacting with legacy windows applications over COM. I created an MCP for Outlook 2019 desktop version and COM was the most straightforward way to let my agent interact with my mails for classification.
Realistically, the 'claim space' service needs to run when the OS 'thinks' it has run out of space to reclaim it. And there can be M amount of waiting time for this and N number of issues that may arrive with it.
Re:Jemalloc 5.4.0 on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:11AM (#49755529)
This is the most funny thing I read today!
I stand corrected. SAML & LDAP is free in zulip.
Seeing their pricing page, mobile notifications for upto 10 users is too less.
Zulip too has similar restrictions even on their self hosted plans. SAML/LDAP is behind paywall too.
Re:fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:40AM (#43481104)
They are very good tools but I now prefer duckdb for CSV processing.
Re:Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450 on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:50AM (#43125786)
Those training datasets can never be free as almost all of them is copyrighted.
Re:Apple Launches Apple Invites on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:10PM (#42943671)
You can install whatsapp on degoogled phones as well! No need of play services.
What? There are literally hundreds of other uses of our space program which if we hadn't developed independently, we would be paying exorbitant prices to other nations for the same. Launching rockets costs us literally 10x lower cost than other nations. This thing doesn't benefit Indians only but other nations as well.
Re:My Hardest Bug Ever on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:37AM (#35066300)
I faced a similar quantum bug in my teen years. I was very much into Android custom roms and flashing phones. I got my hands on Galaxy Y, a cheap Android phone running gingerbread. So, while flashing the phone, the the flash process always failed after around 20-30%. I suspected loose cable connection and tried again. The subsequent flashes failed even early around 5%. So I waited for a while and tried again. The same loop started - first flash fails around 20% and subsequent flash fails around 5%.

During this, I noticed the phone gets heated up above average of what I had experience with. I suspected motherboard might be faulty. Then, a random idea struck me and I put the phone in freezer wrapped in a cloth. After an hour or so, I again started the flash process. The phone was still wrapped in cloth aside the table to keep it cool during the process. And lo and behold, the process completed without a hitch.

In later years I realised it was surely due to the cheap and substandard flash memory that Samsung supplies to other countries compared to the western counterparts.