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TheWoodsy

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TheWoodsy··on The Amiga games and demo scene collection
Opening AmigaVision.fs-uae with fs-uae.exe not fs-uae-launcher.exe was the ticket! Thanks.

Bug: The demoscene demo '3D Demo II' bricks after the white text section where the 3d ball should appear. The demo goes blank. Pressing Del stops the music and hard locks the emulator.

TheWoodsy··on The Amiga games and demo scene collection
I rarely give up, but this. Holy shit. Every step is a master class on user hostility...

I just deleted all this shit in frustration. If anyone manages to get this running with an emulator in windows and could show a basic howto/walkthrough I'd give it another go...

See below for the pain:

Nostalgia + Amiga.Vision. Lets do this > Download > We don't have downloads, but here's a download link > Archive search link, not direct link > eventually find big file > download...

Search which emulator is the best > WinUAE/FS-UAE > Pick FS-UAE > No installer > Download 4 rando zips > two need to be extracted in a nested location that doesn't exist until you run FS-UAE-Launcher.exe first

Extract Amiga.vision > readme says "Double-click the `AmigaVision.fs-uae`" > Filetype not associated > open with FS-UAE-Launcher.exe > rom not found > manually run launcher > config appears randomly > find rom > update rom location > save > launch > Amiga screen that shows no disk..

Search FS-UAE/WinUAE AmigaVision > videos > none

TheWoodsy··on Why So Many Ultra-Expensive Supercars Have Montana License Plates
TL:DR: Under Montana law, it’s possible for car buyers to register as an LLC, purchase a vehicle anywhere in the U.S. and avoid paying sales tax
TheWoodsy··on The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
Baffled that https://lcamtuf.substack.com/ or https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ isn't in there.
TheWoodsy··on Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]
Dark mode will be remembered if cookies are remembered. Resist blocks the website from knowing if your OS is light/dark so auto-dark/light, will be disabled unless resist is disabled.

It's all better explained at https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-dow...

Having a look at about:config and searching 'resist' exposes a few other interesting options to customise like whitelisting etc.

TheWoodsy··on Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]
Moved from Firefox Dev Edition to Librewolf. No deal breakers yet.

Procedure to transfer over painlessly: Install and run Librewolf. On both browsers go Help > More troubleshooting information > profile folder > Open. Close both browsers. Delete everything inside the librewolf profile. Copy everything from Firefox Dev profile directory into Librewolf profile directory. Run Librewolf with "--allow-downgrade" once. First run was a tad slow with extensions doing some 'recombobulation'. You can now run Librewolf normally without the above allow downgrade option. Enjoy.

per-site zoom and auto-dark detection disabled unless about:config > privacy.resistFingerprinting set to false

TheWoodsy··on What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
Moved from Firefox Dev Edition to Librewolf. No deal breakers yet.

Procedure to transfer over painlessly: Install and run Librewolf. On both browsers go Help > More troubleshooting information > profile folder > Open. Close both browsers. Delete everything inside the librewolf profile. Copy everything from Firefox Dev profile directory into Librewolf profile directory. Run Librewolf with "--allow-downgrade" once. First run was a tad slow with extensions doing some 'recombobulation'. You can now run Librewolf normally without the above allow downgrade option. Enjoy.

TheWoodsy··on A 'Null' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
2019 - Here's the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRE2QK1Ibc
TheWoodsy··on YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads
So the next generation of Ad-blockers will simply source the video from a proxy, compare, and serve the clean feed. The cat and mouse game perpetuates.
TheWoodsy··on Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?
Keysight Labs did some testing on this a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjYyjQKW-pU
TheWoodsy··on YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
I used to see these exact videos on twitch.tv for months during non US peak times. They were number one in viewers for about 15 minutes until they were reported and nuked. Refresh another five minutes later and they'd be back at number one.

Cool side note: If you report on twitch.tv you get an email; If they do something about it, you get another email saying they actioned it.

TheWoodsy··on Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services
I switched to mailcow recently to test, but I have fond memories of building it myself thanks to workaround.org

He goes into great detail, and if anything edge-case arises, you can almost always find a comment relating to a fix before the main article gets updated.

TheWoodsy··on Xiaomi CyberDog 2
My first thought; $1800 USD for the servos/controllers alone seems like a damn good deal.

I wonder how hackable this thing is.

TheWoodsy··on The Cart Narc and His Camera
I find the entertainment value for me in his most popular videos are the sheer unhinged overreaction of people about a fridge magnet. It's fascinating and perplexes me.

Faced with the same situation I'd simply drive away and gladly keep the sticker as a souvenir.

TheWoodsy··on We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change
I get much better sleep in a completely dark room. I've solved this issue innumerable times with Blu-Tack, electrical tape and straight-up de-soldering or unplugging lights.

3090, Unplugged leads with tweezers. Mobo, Blu-Tack. NIC, Blu-Tack - Notable mention of Intel NICs where you can disable LEDs in ethtool. Bedside lamp, Tape. Standing fan, Tape. yada yada etc. etc.

Only Gadgets I've remembered with light pollution considerations easily accessed is my Mitsubishi AC, Onkyo Reciever and LG OLED TV. All have a night mode where I can disable all illumination.

TheWoodsy··on EXP TV – endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera
Kinda reminds me of neverthink.tv. Similar idea of endless video but curated into categories.

I wish I could find an alternative.

TheWoodsy··on Show HN: Debian-based home router
They are replacing the ISP's FTTP CPE (Media Converter + router/firewall in a closed source black box) with their own solution.
TheWoodsy··on “PayPal forcing me to have a cellphone to access my account”
"sfc /scannow" sigh
TheWoodsy··on Bard now open to use
Works in Australia
TheWoodsy··on Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
I was scrolling for this. I always forget the URL and when I find it I'm saddened to find no updates :\
TheWoodsy··on Airbnb 2022 Winter Release
I rarely watch TV, adblock and pihole everything so I'm not exposed to many adverts. I honestly thought this was going to be satire and was waiting for the onion-esque creepy guy to announce his camera setup and onlyfans or something.

Guess it just hits differently in Australia.

TheWoodsy··on Finding an SBC
Oh man. The single deciding parameter that I'm looking for is not populated. Ethernet speed.
TheWoodsy··on Which face is real?
The biggest tell for me after ears, hair and backgrounds was hard-lighting. None of these generation models 'learn' shadows with point-like lighting.
TheWoodsy··on Why are glasses so expensive? The industry prefers to keep that blurry (2019)
Sunglass frames are in every petrol station. Would it be possible to 3d-print a resin with known index of refraction, then go to town on the buffing wheel for an hour?

Would love to hear more about DIY corrective lenses.

TheWoodsy··on Tell HN: Spectrum is blocking TCP/UDP 5060 at my home
Perfect example of one of the many SIP abuses I have personally seen here in Australia.

Don't get me started on the bajillion 3G+ modems here with default passwords.

TheWoodsy··on Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org
Does anyone have a copy of the exe?

Would love to poke it for research.

Edit: Here be dragons. Found a source: https://old.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/ygbr4o/dangerous_goog...

TheWoodsy··on Science says we could “cure” ageing. But should we?
Taking this to the extreme; How many decades before the majority of the populace is saturated by serial killers, narcissists and psychopaths without natural ageing?
TheWoodsy··on 58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
Well, OK sure. I'm not the most effective communicator but in the end I'm still genuinely 'not getting it' though.

In my image you can see that either portrait or landscape orientation, there is considerable 'dead' area (edit: either side), by default, even if the text was many paragraphs long.

The usual solution is to smash "ctrl numpad +" four times til things fit perfectly at (usually) 150%. It's actually uncanny how I'll do this without even thinking while browsing.

TheWoodsy··on 58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
It seems like I'm permanently in some sort of dystopian nightmare 'unpopular opinion' group where wasting two thirds of my monitors useful space is the right way about doing things.

I have monitors either side of my primary in portrait mode specifically for looking at a bunch of code/text and it still wastes at least half of the useful display area.

https://i.imgur.com/Qk7fM35.png

If I wanted this, I'd press the reader button in Firefox or squish my browser window. Why? Shakes fist at sky

TheWoodsy··on President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/157171227106307277...
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