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9point6··on From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod
There's a good chance this might be down to Apple's constantly changing foundations and the fact that a studio's worth of music software can (especially back then) cost a lot of money to upgrade on top of the new hardware requiring the upgrade in the first place. And that's not going into the case where the company that wrote the software has gone bust.

Given you mentioned G4, there's a good chance they had recent memory of having to upgrade a load of stuff to jump from OS9 to OSX. The Intel architecture change required another upgrade for a lot of software, so it probably made a lot of sense to try and eek more value out of the previous round of purchasing before going again.

Hopefully they delayed enough to not get hit rapidly by the changes in Yosemite, Mojave or Catalina which all necessitated upgrades (IIRC, one might have only been some edge cases) or finally the most recent jump to ARM—which still isn't natively supported by a surprising number of DAW or VST vendors.

On Windows I can run any DAW or VST that's been written since about 2006 natively and can even load up a 32-bit DAW if I want to dust off some ancient project with ancient VSTs that never made the jump to 64-bits.

9point6··on Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
I remember cobbling something like this together myself using a Kodi plugin called PseudoTV a number of years ago

Definitely a lot more usable from a browser for sure. I'd echo other comments that a TV guide style interface would be a fantastic addition that would take this from a "that's cool" to something I'd potentially regularly use.

9point6··on Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS
I'm assuming some kind of instant-on OS feature

which if you're interested—Cathode Ray Dude on youtube has several episode series all about that weird and wonderful point of computer history

9point6··on App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report
This is how these EU regulations get their teeth: turnover not profit and global not local to a region—they can't creatively account their way out of the fine and it's always going to be big enough to really want to avoid, no matter the size of the company. None of this "the fine is just the permit fee for those that can afford it" attitude.
9point6··on 2TB microSD card is on the way early next year
The steam deck is a pretty good use case for these cards
9point6··on Mondrian – KDE Plasma desktop inspired by Piet Mondrian's paintings
Flashbacks to the .NET 1.x/2.x default winform icons
9point6··on Interoperability can save the open web
The exact example you're describing is what the ActivityPub spec and the resulting "Fediverse" are aiming to solve. Mastodon and compatible microblogging platforms are distributed versions of Twitter, Lemmy & Kbin are compatible distributed versions of Reddit/HN style link aggregators.

Given the boost both of these parts of the fediverse have gotten from Twitter/Reddit's series of missteps recently, they're starting to look like they could become viable long-term alternatives.

9point6··on 'Cancer-killing pill' is now being tested on humans
Any kind of life extension breakthrough is going to introduce heaps of problems in how our society functions. It is fundamentally not designed to cope with people not retiring and dying.

Plus, if we've not figured out how to live away from this planet in perpetuity around the same time, we're going to quickly run out of space too.

9point6··on Employee refuses to download app that monitors location, says it got her fired
Oh wow, this has slipped me by entirely, have you got an article about it that I can read?
9point6··on Electron 2.0.0 beta
I think the guy you're replying to's point is that Qt versions of the apps he uses don't exist - the Electron ones do.

The alternative to many Electron apps isn't a native app in another framework, it would simply be no app (on linux).

9point6··on UK government should give £10K to every citizen under 55, a report suggests
Double reply, eh? - I've been doing my job. Sorry I can't drop everything to respond to you on HN.

As I said it's not exactly under-reported, that was your cue to search and find something like: https://fullfact.org/news/how-many-fit-work-assessments-are-...

And (to address your other comment) I assume you aren't being literal with your specific example (because the guy you were responding to didn't literally mean people were assessed on their ability to walk to a shop specifically), but yeah there have been reports of people who can't walk very far getting told they're fit for work (For instance this guy: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/photographer... from earlier this week)

Where's your evidence?

9point6··on UK government should give £10K to every citizen under 55, a report suggests
You're aware there's a mass of evidence that the DWP is, at best, ineffective and trending towards excessively cruel in its capability assessments? It's not exactly something that's gone unreported.

Your friend is lucky, I know several people personally who have been dragged through the courts for months before they were able to get their incorrect assessment overturned.

9point6··on Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
Isn't there a Google PageRank penalty for sites that do that now?
9point6··on Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
See above - Windows does now! (and it already did if you were using WSL)
9point6··on AWS Network Load Balancer
I expect the health-checking happens independently of the routing. The routing will just act upon a list of routes which is modified independently by the health check.
9point6··on AWS Network Load Balancer
It won't ever be possible to do this as the NLB runs a few network layers below where TLS runs
9point6··on Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
The difference spin makes.
9point6··on Should I fire an engineer for working on his side projects during office hours?
The employer should endeavour to close those gaps via training or even just advocating things like more pairing. It shouldn't be acceptable for a developer to silo themselves off from the rest of their team (except maybe a non-artificially-short-deadline or start-up type environment).
9point6··on Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)
Judging by the Direct Connect one further down I think "Not Bad" was more of a comment on the name rather than a suggestion for another.
9point6··on GitHub server troubles
Pink Unicorn every time I try to hit the site.
9point6··on HDMI 2.1 Announced: 10Kp120, Dynamic HDR, New Color Spaces, New 48G Cable
We also have had DLNA for around a decade now. It was never perfect, but it was fairly well supported in the past. Unfortunately it didn't evolve quick enough so proprietary solutions overtook it.
9point6··on HDMI 2.1 Announced: 10Kp120, Dynamic HDR, New Color Spaces, New 48G Cable
That and "smooth motion" frame interpolation. I don't know how people can stand it.
9point6··on [dead]
And they used to have a good API...
9point6··on Show HN: Emoji usage on Reddit
I think part of the reasoning was down to there being a lot of Unicode characters that look identical to ASCII ones, and that it would make creating legitimate looking domains for phishing a lot easier.
9point6··on Netflix Downloads
Technically paying for a license to play said content in the Netflix app.

I agree that DRM is a waste of time and the pirates are going to get the content whatever happens, but a $10/m streaming service is only licensing you to watch video in a few specific scenarios. If you had spent $3 an episode (or whatever it is on iTunes/Google Play these days) to own it, then I'd expect a DRM free file to be available (Though I doubt you actually get one in reality).

9point6··on A practical guide to securing macOS
KeePass has open source clients on every major platform.

A central cloud service using closed source applications for storing passwords just seems like an easy target for assailants.

9point6··on The XSS Game by Google
weird, onerror worked fine for me

    <img src="404me" onerror="alert('test')" />
9point6··on The XSS Game by Google
Ah I didn't know you could have it without the base64 encoding.

I did basically the same:

    data:text/javascript;base64,YWxlcnQoInRlc3QiKQ==
9point6··on Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows
I've actually been running an instance of VcXsrv and then running something similar to `bash -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 terminator` to run that under the X session. Way better than the CMD emulator
9point6··on You might not need JavaScript
Technically, they're preaching that you might not need JavaScript rather than advocating against it
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