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Re:Patrick's Parabox on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:56PM (#30871581)
Perhaps the zooming presentation was, but the mechanical inspiration was a different jam game, Sokosoko.

https://juner.itch.io/sokosoko

Re:Removing cookie consent requests from Firefox iOS on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:58PM (#30379236)
About half of smartphones sold in the US and Canada are iPhones. The Mexican market is dominated by Android.
Re:Facebook loses users for the first time on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:22AM (#30189335)
It came out a couple months ago.

https://www.oculus.com/horizon-worlds/

Re:Yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator on Saturday January 22, 2022 @10:25PM (#30043324)
Bleem successfully defended their commercial PlayStation emulator against a lawsuit from Sony, setting a solid precedent in US law even though the legal costs ended the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!#Sony_lawsuit

Re:Nim Community Survey 2021 Results on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:56PM (#29939497)
AV vendors have points of contact to report false positives. They don't always respond quickly, but they're not brick walls. Reliable FPs from a specific toolchain seems like something their team would be especially interested in solving. CrowdStrike's reporting point is an email address on their contact page: https://www.crowdstrike.com/contact-us/
Re:Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:09PM (#29752543)
There are a couple arguments against case-insensitive filesystems I think are strong. The first is simply compatibility with existing case-sensitive systems. The second is that case is locale-dependent, so a pair of names could be equivalent or not depending on the device's locale.

I don't think I've seen any good argument against normalization, though.

Let's hear what the father of the web had to say about web 3.0.

> People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics – everything rippling and folding and looking misty – on Web 2.0 and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you'll have access to an unbelievable data resource… — Tim Berners-Lee, 2006

That's funny, he didn't mention blockchains once.

Re:Palm oil favors tumor expansion on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:39PM (#29268860)
Not the worst place to start, but considering palm oil has been used in cooking for thousands of years it's not clear what that principle has to do with this story.
Please understand that blanks are live rounds and can be deadly if handled without care. Saying it was a live round does not mean it was a bullet. From the article:

> A source close to the union said Local 44 does not know what projectile was in the gun and clarified that “live” is an industry term that refers to a gun loaded with some material such as a blank ready for filming.

You're probably thinking of "Personal Blocklist", an official Chrome extension developed by Google. It's no longer available.

https://www.ghacks.net/2010/03/18/blacklist-google-search-re...

Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:11AM (#28906210)
TES3MP is being merged into OpenMW.

https://openmw.org/2019/time-to-make-stuff-official/

Re:Call of Duty Adds Kernel Level Driver for Anti-Cheat on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:40PM (#28855107)
A writeup from an esports org on hardware cheating: https://blog.esea.net/esea-hardware-cheats/
Re:ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today” on Saturday October 09, 2021 @05:54PM (#28813652)
Many of those modern-retro adventures are now playable in ScummVM thanks to the addition of AGS support.
Re:ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today” on Saturday October 09, 2021 @05:51PM (#28813620)
Crusader was built on the engine written for Ultima 8, which is supported as part of the ScummVM project's expansion into CRPGs.

MacVenture support has been tinkered with over a couple of GSoC terms. It's not ready but there's interest and a foundation to build on: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=MacVenture

Re:ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today” on Saturday October 09, 2021 @05:46PM (#28813587)
You may have played it on ResidualVM, a project that has now been merged into ScummVM.
Re:PICO-8 – Fantasy Console on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:39PM (#28733514)
Commerical PICO-8 games are a minority but they exist. PICO-8 can export a standalone Windows, Linux or Mac executable, or a web page. The license explicitly grants the right for authors to sell exported games.

https://itch.io/games/made-with-pico-8/store

Re:Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:35PM (#28700281)
This is what I use:

  youtube.com##.ytp-suggestions
  youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay
  youtube.com##.videowall-endscreen
  youtube.com###related
  youtube.com##ytd-comments
Re:Using RSS to replace social media on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:55AM (#28653651)
Mastodon uses an HTML microformat called h-feed for federation of user feeds. h-feed is based on hAtom, which is a microformat encoding of the Atom feed format. So your idea isn't all that far off from how the most popular federated social network system is designed (though there's more to it).
Re:“Why should I use Nyxt if I can use Vimium?” on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:06PM (#28636739)
> I could imagine an extension that's modal and allows its own plugins to be written in JS and then loaded. This doesn't seem at all to be a fundamental limitation, just "Vimium et al aren't designed this way."

Currently yes. When Chrome eventually mandates Manifest V3 extensions, they will no longer be able to run code not contained in the signed extension package.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-m...

Re:How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:10PM (#28622650)
Did those chat programs encrypt messages end-to-end while syncing message history across devices?
This clip from the latest (full-priced) entry in the NBA 2K series has been going around the last few days. Truly pushing boundaries in in-game advertising. You can visit a State Farm retail outlet and talk to an employee who says what a big fan he is and gives you a State Farm employee uniform you can wear in the off-court parts of the game.

https://twitter.com/capybaroness/status/1436475796357582876

Edge defaults to Bing for searches, which is a direct source of revenue via ads. Edge also uses browser history for ad targeting via the "personalize your web experience" option; I don't recall whether that's enabled by default but I'd expect it is. On top of those there's a price-comparison feature (affiliate revenue) and a Pinterest partnership.
Re:A privacy war is raging inside the W3C on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:07PM (#27826876)
The Gemini protocol is intended to exclude features that could be used for tracking. It has no cookies, user-agent, referer, etc and the protocol is not extensible enough that such features could be easily added.

Also, frankly, the spartan design of native Gemini pages (very limited formatting, no scripts or even inline images!) means that the circle of nerds who use Gemini will almost certainly remain too small to catch the eye of ad-tech. It's hostile to commerce in a way I find kind of delightful.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi

Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:55AM (#27794242)
If you consider AI to be similar enough to humans to directly map our ideas about copyright and fair use, then copyright is way down the list of concerns we need to address. First we would need to arrange wages for each ML system's labor, as well as considering how to handle voting rights.
Re:LDtk: A modern and open-source 2D level editor on Sunday June 20, 2021 @01:22PM (#27572069)
Dead Cells and a number of other high-quality commercial games are using Heaps: https://heaps.io/

The Haxe website has links to some other popular frameworks like OpenFL and HaxeFlixel: https://haxe.org/use-cases/games/

Re:Why Prefetch Is Broken on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @08:51AM (#27368082)
You are missing something, but I wish people hadn't down-voted you for asking an honest question.

The problem described in the blog post is that prefetch loads the resource into cache, which when combined with per-site cache segmentation means that it's ambiguous which cache a resource should be loaded into when it's prefetched across sites.

Re:Text editing hates you too (2019) on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:11PM (#27240617)
Vim supports the style of editing you describe; see the documentation for the 'virtualedit' option.

https://vimhelp.org/options.txt.html#%27virtualedit%27

Re:Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting? on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:19PM (#26845835)
ANGLE has OpenGL and OpenGL ES backends in addition to Direct3D, as well as partial Metal support.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/angle/angle/+/master/READM...

Re:68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:08PM (#26627516)
Nitpick nitpick: the html doctype doesn't imply UTF-8. Valid modern HTML documents must be encoded using UTF-8, but the standard also requires that the encoding be specified somehow.

> The Encoding standard requires use of the UTF-8 character encoding and requires use of the "utf-8" encoding label to identify it... If an HTML document does not start with a BOM, and its encoding is not explicitly given by Content-Type metadata, and the document is not an iframe srcdoc document, then the encoding must be specified using a meta element with a charset attribute or a meta element with an http-equiv attribute in the Encoding declaration state.

<https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#charac...>

Re:68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:47PM (#26626450)
You don't even need <html>. <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-ht...>

This is a valid HTML5 document:

    <!doctype html>
    <title>This is valid!</title>
    <p>Really, it's valid!
Paste it into the validator yourself if you don't believe me: <https://validator.w3.org/nu/#textarea>

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