Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Linux_RocksThat's actually pretty cool, especially the finding the printed source code in his garage. lol

Now if they wanna actually be cool, they'll open source all the way up to MS-DOS 6.22 and either open source Windows 3.11 or make it freely available on their site. They've got no money to lose in doing so and it'd just be easy PR for them.

If they do that, wonder if they'll first pull out whatever they did to make sure Lotus wouldn't run . . .

AFAIK, they didn't have to implement any specific anti-Lotus or anti-Borland sabotage code. They simply didn't expose functions in the public api that would let software by those companies run efficiently; all the while their own office suite, IDEs, etc., made use of appropriately optimized private functions.

So it's unlikely that a smoking gun could be found; it's how things work (?!) when the private company owns the whole software stack, & hides the code from the rest of the world.

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Quoting: Salvatosnot made up ammunition for baseless prejudice

What's the 'baseless prejudice' regarding Denuvo?

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Quoting: doragasu

Quoting: AlveKattI have a feeling this isn't an LLM but an actual specialized AI system. The companies keep conflating different machine learning cases to drive their AGI narrative.

It's LLM, and might be nothing special, just marketing as usual: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/ [External Link]

+1 for that article. It's a hugely interesting blog in general.

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Quoting: Cley_Faye

Quoting: WORMI can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.

VoiceMeeter is actually free, although they do ask for money if you want. And it provides a lot of features that makes it a breeze to manage a fair amount of real and virtual input/output with multiple routing, in addition to a pretty good networked audio solution on top of it and various built-in effects.

It's actually the piece of software I miss the most from windows, although I just coded a pair of scripts that tweak all my audio devices as needed, now, so all of this is kinda moot to me now. And it also auto-toggle when my wireless corsair headset connects, which was impossible to do on windows, as far as I know.

Still, it's nice to have more good UI for audio management moving forward. Pulsemeeter is another project, but seems to move very slowly, and not everyone is comfortable with just piping scripts in `pw-cli`.

I've used VoiceMeeter 'Banana' on Windows earlier this year to route the output of a midi synth instrument & microphone to OBS, & then to video conferencing -- and yeah it was a breeze to set up, there was no added noticeable latency on the midi instrument, etc.

qpwgraph is very powerful on Linux, but doesn't cover all of the use cases that 'Banana' helps with, especially the easy routing of virtual io -- so I'm really excited to see this new program.

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Thunderbolt is already a thing, a well-known thing in tech.

Yeah, not only that, but my mind went to Mozilla's other (?!) Thunderb*** immediately -- 'are they changing Thunderbird's name? Is this a typo? Is this a chatbot inside Thunderbird? Is Thunderbird going to force-summarize my emails from now on?', etc.

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Quoting: PhlebiacDunno what jackasses buy that nonsense, but at least you'll be able to map them to something useful.

It's not as though consumers have a choice; MS makes an agreement with Dell or whoever, and all new desktop pc keyboards come with those keys. The first IBM PC came with a 102 key keyboard; then post windows 95, MS just made it so that that standard became 104 keys, with the addition of the 'start' and 'menu' keys.

It's not at all bad for unix *and* emacs nerds, of course; because at least we get to approach (?!) the number of keys were on the non-IBM machines that those environments started in, such as OG Sun workstations, the Symbolics machines, etc.

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FWIW, AC Valhalla was surprisingly good; though it does get heavily discounted occasionally. I got it from the ubisoft store for the equivalent of ~$5 last year, IIRC.

Of course the DRM sucks, etc.

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Experience Eternia like never before with massive, highly detailed pixel-art sprites and lush environments that look exactly like the original 1980s cartoon come to life.

They've put more work into the animations & backgrounds than the original show ever did.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: Ehvis...but what then?

Microsoft had a chance to keep the web somewhat independent by keeping the original Edge browser alive, or maybe even partnering up with Mozilla. But instead they made Edge into a reskin of Chrome, and gave Google full control of the web on a silver platter.

MS stalled the development of web standards for years, with Internet Explorer. It's a good thing that they aren't an independent meddler nowadays.

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There isn't anything on the changelog about the overview screen appearing blank on a duplicated display.

It's the issue in this 'resolved' bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481222 [External Link]

Though maybe the fix isn't yet merged for this release?

UPDATE: It's fixed!

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