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These all sound like convenience factors. I don't see why my identity with one provider has to be tied with my identity from another provider at all. Having a crypto wallet (for this purpose) is just certificates with extra steps (quite literally, as it's cryptography).

What's wrong with a username and password?

I was not accusing you of ill behaviour. That's why I said "good." I thought you were making a subtle joke and it generated a lot of discussion which is what good trolls do. I was trying to be friendly because the alternative is worse.

It's pretty horrifying that someone really believes "people make things for money, not love or art." and frames it as "let’s be honest here," implying that to hold any other belief is lying to yourself. That's textbook expecting everyone to agree with you.

If you're not joking, then I've met someone who disregards my entire career and background as a lie. You really can’t imagine how disappointing it is and how little it makes me want to engage in the future.

I'm giving Haxe a try for that reason. It's not python however.

Emulation is also legit (as long as you use genuine cartridges)

eyyy good troll

I had a scanner that became much more stable running on a Mac OS 9 machine than a Windows machine simply because the scanning software could "hang" the mac and monopolize the SCSI port with exact timing.

my go-to writing system was a repaired (got two broken ones for free, cobbled together 1 working one) 800MHz Celeron Sony VAIO with an 800x600 LCD, xubuntu, and abiword. The thing /couldn't/ connect to the internet (required a dongle I didn't have) but had a USB port for using a thumbdrive.

I got so much work done on that thing.

It's supposed to only happen when you're running from them (though I think it shouldn't happen then either), but the reality is they will do it if they feel like it. The only thing stopping them is physics. Police are generally not held accountable.

Either that or I could argue we already have a killswitch like that - suspending your license - if I also go along with the idea that the cop won't flip your car when you're not running from them because that's also illegal.

So either we have a world where the system works or where it doesn't, but unfortunately we have both.

They already can. Police will simply crash your car if they feel like it by using their car.

It might not, but the behaviour would be the same, so the effect is achieved.

Why would you not want the additional protection if you have to pick a colour to make the room anyways?

Anything UV sensitive is usually done in a yellow room, so that's probably it.

I know this is exactly the case for PCB manufacture and printing press plate making to lessen accidental exposure, so it's exactly like a red safelight in a darkroom.

Could this have anything to do with how FairPlay DRM was implemented on iTunes Store purchased tracks back when it existed?

There's pretty much nowhere to host your repo now that bitbucket gave up (and outright /deleted/ all hg repos which was criminal, but that's besides the point)

The big three I know of (github, gitlab, bitbucket) are all git-only.

I'm not sure what particularly you mean about this article since it seems a lot easier than webdev to me. Javascript devops and Webpack in particular drive me up the wall. Qt is usually click-button-receive-EXE (when using an IDE, otherwise qmake is pretty painless) and this seems like the equivalent in just "fbs freeze"?

You might've called "OS 7" growing up if your first Macintosh ran "Mac OS" 7.6 or later.

Unfortunately doing anything other than 35mm brings a massive jump in price, so I think it's here to stay for a long time. I loved doing medium format/120, but it's absolutely cost prohibitive. Minilabs scanning before it's sliced? Oh hey that's me!

Basically film development has become so expensive that it's more economical for me to either develop (or have developed) the roll and then scan all the pictures to see what they are. Realistically, I have nobody to share prints with, so any photo I want to share has to be digitised anyways. The TIFFs /are/ the prints now.

Film holders make my life pain since alignment becomes a huge problem, however film carriers are good. They're usually some roller assembly that may or may not have a thru-path (in the case of my nikon it can take up to 6 frames before bottoming out). Sprockets are usually counted optically - I've never actually seen something that physically engaged with the sprockets. I've tried using a flatbed but the time spent aligning (during which dust has an opportunity to come to the party) and slowness of the scan means what used to be "1 hour photo" is now more like 3 hours. I explored pacific rim's primefilm options, but swore them off when I discovered 2 scans of the same image would have odd distortions. The stepper motor was vibrating the CCD!

I know a lot of people use Epson flatbeds at the low end for a hobby, but how can you deal with that massive time sink? I've been on the edge about trying to create one of those camera based scanners. I've seen plenty of small trapezoidal scanners that are definitely a smartphone camera pointed at a light box, and I'd actually be fine with this, but they almost always just output pre-baked jpegs to an sdcard for grandma. I've been toying with the idea of recreating one with a raspberry pi & their "pro" camera so that I can have controls over the scanning process. Literally any control at all would be nice.

I still miss my old sony scanner's ability to set a film colour correction profile by reading the barcode on the edge of the negative /and/ set the frame count and filename in a batch from that data.

I am trying to scan usually about 40 negatives at one time so I may be hitting every one of it's weak points in one go.

"get a new scanner" doesn't work when no currently manufactured scanners have the same features that some of the old ones did. In particular, anything involving film scanning seems to involve painful use of film holders when 35mm has sprockets for a reason. I suppose I should be happy I never bought into APS film :P

Every time I've tried it it's been an absolutely hellish experience. It abstracts too much of what the scanner driver is doing. I don't know what units it's doing things in. It snaps input numbers to the nearest number the scanner driver supports (if I enter "5" it'll change to "4.998" after a second), but again, I have no idea what it's actually measuring because everything's in scaled floats when it shouldn't be.

Auto exposure uh... happens, but I don't get to know what it's decided, nor can I set it manually. I can "lock" the auto exposure for all frames in a strip, or I can add or subtract from the auto-chosen value. Do I get to choose the value though? Nope.

If it runs out of ram it just deletes previews and makes you scan them again when you go scroll back to them (you can increase the ram limit in settings to mitigate this), losing your settings for that image.

All in all, I'm glad I can use my scanner at all, but it's too buggy and I wish they would let me pay for their huge amount of reverse engineering effort as a driver and write my own TWAIN software on top. From what I understand it's just a two-man team behind it and I think it's just too much to expect them to maintain the amount of complexity they've signed on for, so I can't be mad. However, it does sound a lot like that FSF/GPL origin story where RMS got mad he couldn't fix something in the printer software.

(clicks link) time to get /sad/ about being a SEGA fan again.

More seriously I wish some of the old consoles were officially opened because the absolute install base of PS1 and NES compatible hardware must be insane. Indie NES games specifically have become popular lately, but I don't think any of the 3D capable consoles are popular or open targets.

I say KDE is the best desktop if they could just get their shit together and debug it on all hardware configurations. It's absolutely miles ahead of Windows in features, however, as a power user I can fix it if it gets wonky, but a regular user shouldn't be expected to.

I feel like those definitely were a thing because they wanted you to be able to upgrade the internal storage (unlike iPhone), but not read it on a computer (like iPhone).

They could've changed the public's perception on that easily if they just sold the vita in 32/64/128gb options that happened to just be a card that was already in the machine.

Okay, but to be fair I immediately recognised the "ready" signal 0xAA or 0x55 as "oh, it just toggles the bit every clock. That sounds oddly useful. You can probably sync a clock or something on that." I've also run into situations where I'm counting bits and the flip-flop doesn't actually get set until the /next/ clock pulse, so having the phase change bit arrive one cycle early seems like a kludge around that sort of thing.

Ya gotta remember that Sony is hardware people so they do inscrutable things in software that probably turn out to make silicon implementation easier.

There are plenty of cities worldwide where building up has worked. Regardless, if buying a town home or single-family has become out of reach, it's far better to have /something/ to live in rather than be forced to fight the market for a small box in a high-rise that you still can't afford.

Those non-advantageous traits may have no bearing on the ability to do the job though, only the ability to take the test. This is precisely why it's illegal.

School should be made later.

I suffered even with switching because no matter what part of the year we were in school was scheduled to wake me up in the dark.

write the init as a perl script; you know you want to.

I mean it used to be that you could design the best page around and the AMP version would still get a higher search ranking so that's why. Thankfully not true anymore?