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Ethan Black  

If anyone is interested, let me know, and I'll take a temporary break from the videogame project and publish online.

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Ethan Black  

Don't be satisfied with your vision for the future. Be satisfied with completing it.
So, don't be happy with saying "I'm going to do this project"; that's just a plan and an intention. If you're satisfied just with "someday I will" then you won't do it.

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Ethan Black  

Just a heads-up, my college has some restrictions on what I can say here :) it probably wouldn't've been an issue anyway, I don't really want to dig at an organization while I'm a member of it, but it is worth noting, as a believer in free speech....

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Ethan Black  

"Too often we attack cultural challenges with a spirit of misplaced certainty. We feel like we know what’s wrong, and we know how to fix it, and when we know we’re right, opposition is frustrating at best and infuriating at worst. The more certain we are, the more likely we are to view opponents not just as wrong, but evil. Do they not want to solve our crises?" - David French

Remember that by far, most people aren't out with the intent to destroy good.
Something to think about

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Miia Mustang  

Hackers in 2003: "Hey look, I hooked up my fridge to the internet!"

Hackers in 2025: "phew, finally got my fridge off the internet! 💪"

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Techmeme  

Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks (Cloudflare)

blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity
techmeme.com/250804/p23#a25080

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BraxtonDK  

„The Explorers“ by Critikill
Platform: Amiga
Released: 26 August 2023

Note: 2nd in the Xenium 2023 Oldschool GFX competition

#GFX_Critikill #YR_2023 #PF_Amiga #PF_AmigaOCS #Amiga #AmigaOCS #DemoScene #PixelArt #DigitalArt

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Ethan Black  

My programming journey mostly began with JavaScript + ProcessingJS library, and ever since then it's been a journey to get down to writing real software for a real computer. Everything nowadays is too complicated and mysterious, with the Intel Management engine and Web browsers and proprietary software and such (and Nvidia -- don't get me started). But finally I could have a computer that's honest and is just... a COMPUTER.
[2/2]
[From my YouTube comment on youtu.be/S2fGP59mJ5M]

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Ethan Black  

This is a dream come true.
I am too young to have used a Commodore 64, but I have always wanted to better touch the Real Computer inside the case. I've always wanted a simpler computer I could understand, down to the core.

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Ethan Black  

It can run in an extended mode with higher speed and more RAM!
And it has an Ethernet port and HDMI. Wow!
I'd happily pay $300 for this. *Especially* if I can play with my own designs on the FPGA. It would be such an amazing testbed for ideas if so.

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Ethan Black  

This can't be happening. is back?? commodore.net/product-page/com
"Commodore has returned from a parallel timeline where tech stayed optimistic, inviting, and human."
"The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware."

I know this news is a few weeks old, but I'm just discovering this. This is the kind of thing I dream about.

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Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:  

@golemwire thanks for the clarification. But the threat remains nonetheless as long as you don't use Free Software.

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muesli  

Debugging: the art of slowly realizing you're the problem.

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J(PP)^3  

I went on Mario Kart World last night and noticed something fascinating.

1. 21 people was the high water mark in my lobby, but getting into a lobby took about 1 minute whereas pre 1.1.2 it was about 5 seconds.

2. Said lobby had people with 8000VR and 3000VR when usually it’s closer to 8000VR and 6000 VR IME

3. The likelihood of an intermission being picked is inversely correlated by VR. Basically, the worse you are at the game, the more likely you are to pick an intermission track.

On net it does seem like World has fewer people online in Worldwides and the game is hiding it by increasing the skill difference between players.

#mariokart #mariokartworld

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IEEE Spectrum  

The U.S. Department of Defense is building custom AI agents to test military operations. They hope to use AI to simulate conflicts and generate scenarios in the future.
spectrum.ieee.org/thunderforge

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Tim Chase  

@xhr

in case it's useful, you can also toggle boolean options within less(1) so if you want to toggle case-sensitive searching, you can type

-i

or if you you want to toggle line-wrap

-S

or squeezing blank lines

-s

or search highlighting

-G
-g

etc. No need to quit and restart it just to toggle an option you forgot.

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Matthias Schmidt  

Wow, after 25 years of #Unix / #linux experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

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Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:  

@vkc

modern operating systems: if you're lucky there's a youtube video tutorial on this feature

unix/linux cli: here, have a detailed text document you can read and refer to at your leisure

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Ethan Black  

Open-source 3?
youtu.be/P8WqSn4JUIQ

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R1 Open Source Project  

KDE released their own immutable distribution KDE Linux that is based on Arch Linux (without Pacman) and uses Flatpak/Snap as the primary package managers. It comes with Distrobox and Toolbox pre-installed

kde.org/linux

#kdelinux #kdeplasma #linux

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Ethan Black  

If anyone is interested, let me know, and I'll take a temporary break from the videogame project and publish online.

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Ethan Black  

I've always wanted to build my own computer system, OS and all, which would be, ahem, perfected. I designed an ISA called SubSky and wrote an emulator/VM implementing it, and made a language + compiler. (It's kinda like UXN in nature, actually, just 32-bit and more 2000s-era than 80s-era.) A 16-opcode, 3-operand RISC with an operand/"pseudoregister" referring to the stack. I'll have to publish it sometime. I'm making a videogame for it.

Cc: @rl_dane (it didn't seem right to reply to the thread)

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laamaa  

Shameless plug… i have my digital discography 75% off in bandcamp today, includes lots of source files as well for those interested :slight_smile: laamaa.bandcamp.com

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Kevin Beaumont  

Your job.

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