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Dwedit··on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Until 2023, Edge was sending every URL you visited to bingapis.com.

Microsoft's current privacy statement also says "Depending on your settings, this browsing history is sent to Microsoft"

Dwedit··on Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)
C++ ABIs are why Win32 settled on things like COM to do cross-module passing of objects. Because nobody could agree on a standard, the COM standard enforced a very specific calling convention, and a very specific vtable layout for COM objects.
Dwedit··on AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot
Would exposing people to an obviously hallucinating AI help people here? Then they won't blindly trust it so much.
Dwedit··on Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
I've looked at Visual 6502 and it's way beyond me. I've even looked at the scans where it shows how they severed the connection to disable 6502 decimal mode on the NES.
Dwedit··on Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM
There seems to be a bug in the code for handling input, certain combinations of pressing or releasing left and right can cause the paddle to get stuck moving to the left or right, especially when Left and Right are held down simultaneously.
Dwedit··on Bubble Memory
MRAM (magnetic and non-volatile) had some applications in GBA cartridges to replace small amounts of battery-backed SRAM.
Dwedit··on C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
Great, now converting a float to int will cause the C compiler to randomly reformat your hard drive...

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49599

Dwedit··on State of multi-player Wayland
Focus of controls is the hard part. You end up needing a Per-seat version of focus in an application.
Dwedit··on Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
Shooters or protesters?
Dwedit··on Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification
Usually the delivery person asks for ID when delivering the wine?
Dwedit··on Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines
How many Portal test chambers could be solved with Mario 64 jumping alone, and no use of any portal gun?
Dwedit··on Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper
Maybe count perfect solves in a separate average than solves with mistakes?
Dwedit··on Stolen Buttons
Careful you might run afoul of the infinite scrolling laws.
Dwedit··on My Images Are Dithered
When I mentioned "perfectly reversible", I meant the FFT itself. You run the FFT. You run the inverse FFT. Because the FFT was quantized to 0-255, you end up with a lot of stuff that doesn't belong in the image.
Dwedit··on My Images Are Dithered
That one does not seem to be an undither project, it appears to be a special way to encode chroma information within a monochrome dithered image. NTSC television also encodes chroma within a grayscale signal, but that's different than black and white only.
Dwedit··on How My Images Are Dithered
Speaking of which, are there any good ways to undither images? Things like GIMP FFT are not perfectly reversible.
Dwedit··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
Pressure is on shipping things fast, not making things lightweight.
Dwedit··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
I just stick with TOTP.
Dwedit··on Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns
AI images (or even Stock Images) of food in a menu are false advertising. Full stop.
Dwedit··on My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault
We know that crooks are selling fake drives where the size is over-reported. Shouldn't something that tries to be sneaky under-report the size instead? Not just in the partition.
Dwedit··on Classic Amiga titles, free to download
A magazine disk was the first time a game containing Sonic the Hedgehog was released. He was thrown into a game as an enemy character in a platformer game (Adventures Of Quik & Silva) without any regard for copyright law. This happened before the actual Genesis/Mega Drive game released.

(and no, that game is not on this site)

Dwedit··on A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game
Not anymore, now you just get an AI overview, followed by SEO slop results.
Dwedit··on Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux
When you have a dialog window too big for the screen, you can Alt+Space to open the system menu, then activate the Move menu item, then you can use arrow keys to move the window around, even with the title bar out of bounds.

Not just for obsolete systems, sometimes a full screen application might pick a tiny desktop resolution as well, and not properly restore the resolution, so you could need to deal with a too-big dialog box in that situation as well.

Dwedit··on Regressive JPEGs
Interesting that people are making hacks of PNG to do animations, yet there's also APNG sitting over there saying "Hey I exist!"
Dwedit··on Decoy Font
"intentionally" letting your eyes defocus is not a simple task for most people. Because most people use their eyes normally, they can't do things that are unusual. Look at how many people struggle with Magic Eye stereograms. Squinting on the other hand is something that is simple to do.
Dwedit··on Show HN: QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled)
How much is yours, and how much is the LLM's?
Dwedit··on Decoy Font
This is just level of detail. Gemma E4B reads the sharper text until you resize down to 150x150, then it reads the other text.
Dwedit··on OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court
I wonder how that trademark logic would apply to something like OpenGL.
Dwedit··on Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
1.6 bits if you want the most practical way to pack five 3-state numbers into a single byte. But even then, they usually pack four 4-state numbers instead.
Dwedit··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
A webpage cannot harvest your personal data in ways that an app can.
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