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droolboy··on Making the news available at no cost is a victory
As a Canadian with "free news" it's not great. You get media outlets that almost never criticize the government for fear of getting defunded. We saw this with the lack of coverage on major bills just yesterday.
droolboy··on Claude Opus 4.7
"We have a better model. But here's this significantly worse one." Thanks Anthropic.
droolboy··on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
The only game I miss when I moved to Linux was League of Legends. Everything else pretty much works. I get that it’s not worth it for them to deal with more potential cheating, but it’s a bummer.
droolboy··on A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI
When I was in my first year of junior high they had formal dances. But for the (cooler) nerdy kids with no dates they opened up the computer room. One of the older kids had a big floppy he brought from home. On it he had a simple QBasic RPG. If you ran into an enemy it would start an RPG battle and all the graphics were made from 2D arrays. It was awesome! It blew my mind and I spent the rest of the year learning and building my own. Great times! Thanks!
droolboy··on We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online
Try trying to delete your open ai data. Even if you live somewhere with the right to forget or some protection they refuse the request unless you upload a copy of your ID. But then they have that data.
droolboy··on Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)
I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone know of a tutorial for the sound of a game boy emulator? Most of these tutorials never cover that piece and when I try it on my own I find it hard to properly implement or even understand the reference material well enough to implement on my own.