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@inference I don't think it's about line count, to me it's about not making the tool that has to do one thing modular for no reason, about avoiding unnecessary abstractions. I always fall into this trap myself — making my code reusable from the very beginning, being prepared for the most rare use cases. All that makes the code hard to understand.
When I ported PAM auth patch to my xlock, after shaking cobwebs off my C skills, I looked at the source and I could tell what that code does. It's good

@fcktheworld587 @Arcana @thor
You are doing God's work!
My instance doesn't have federated timeline or whatever they call this thing that shows you posts from people you don't explicitly follow. So searching by tags and people like you are the only means I have to encounter other people on Fedi and maybe even follow them.

@neural_meduza Когда захотел достать дерьма и получилось это сделать не в жаргонном, а в буквальном значении, но всё равно решил упороться 🫢

@Elizafox
> You can't be everyone's friend.
But what if I can if I try hard enough? That is what my younger and less experienced self would think if you told him that 😊

@james
> Maybe they'll use this to their advantage and get rid of every other privacy frontend to every platform
Not to the ones you host privately and not make reachable from the outside 😉
@gabriel

@neural_meduza Если учесть, что вареником иногда называют… Ну, вы поняли.
Я думаю, что это враки — просто власти скрывают. А может уже как в СССР — секса нет 😱

@n0icz
Певица? 😏
@neural_meduza

@neural_meduza От пяти до десяти, если быть точным. Скучно не будет 😅

@thor
Or a game! C&C came on two CDs, NOD campaign was on one CD and GDI on the other. And you could give the second CD to a friend and play multiplayer 😁
I remember, my CD drive got broken and I asked a friend of mine to give me his so I could copy the files to HDD and use CD emulator to play the game — we didn't have No-CD version.
@bitterblossom

@bitterblossom
s/MPEG2/MPEG1/
Sorry, it was a typo 😋
@thor

@bitterblossom
> "CD with a movie on it"
In fact, there was such a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD
MPEG2 compression was used, I think I might even still have a few of those😅
@thor

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network
It wasn't that hard, but it required lots of boilerplate code: creating a window, making it modal, handling the events, etc.
Making a complex GUI app with that would be a nightmare, same with Xlib. So Windows had a variety of libs to facilitate that: MS had MFC, Borland had some too for their C++ Builder — VCL, OWL? 🤔
@thor

@swaggboi Is it non-venomous, like natrix? 🤔

@thor Oh, yes, CDs are outdated. 128 kbps MP3/AAC streams on the other hand are pretty modern 🤣

@thor Yeah, both Live and Painter are not that old, it's just that I forgot I even had the boxes. We are past even that now — computers no longer have CD drives, it's all digital downloads now.

@gme Yeah, that's definitely where they "drew inspiration" from 😅
Other than interface being in Russian it was very similar.
@thor

@thor I got an idea to find my USB floppy drive, plug it into my not-so-modern Mac record a short video clip of it reading floppies. Didn't find it, gave up for today, but… That cabinet has lots of artifacts in it beside floppies: VHS tapes, boxed versions of Ableton Live, Corel Painter and… School Days VN, SCSI streamer tape drive, lots of manuals from the 90ies and whatnots 😂

@thor None other than Gabe Newell was responsible for porting Doom to Windows — as a part of MS strategy to make Windows take off as a gaming platform. No one wanted to move to Windows, gamers preferred DOS versions even if they had Windows ones and developers were reluctant to invest manpower in porting to Windows 🤷

@thor Nah, they say Internet keeps it all, but unfortunately that's not the case. I've had an instrument pack for Ableton Live stored on external HDD and the file got corrupted, I still have update for it, but the original file is nowhere to be found — this is not some third party pack, it's Ableton's, for their popular software and it was released ten years ago or so. If it's not some historic piece of software, but some obscure stuff from the nineties — forget about it 😢

@thor In early 90-ies I had Paintbrush for DOS and Russian painting software called Пихта (Pikhta) — unfortunatelly I can't find any traces of it on the interwebs, it didn't have colors, but had lots of these fill patterns.
Yeah, it was mostly DOS software, my HDD was 40 Mb, Windows 3.1 required 10 Mb — so did Alone in The Dark, the choice was an obvious one 🤭