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jakemauer··on Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA
That's crazy I would have never ever guessed that would be an issue. I'm interested in any forum links you can share.
jakemauer··on Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA
You have to base your build around either the DE10-Nano or one of the clone boards from QMTech. If I were getting into MiSTer I would skip faffing around with dev board builds and just get a SuperStation One, and I say this as someone who has two MiSTer builds based on DE-10 boards. In my case I'm using a MiniITX motherboard that the DE-10 plugs into called the IronClad Plus. The SuperStation one is apparently awesome. Great IO options, reference quality analog video, and nice industrial design.
jakemauer··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Same thing if you search for a PS5 Pro. And I have no idea how these aren’t taken down.
jakemauer··on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far
The suggestions are terrible and insensitive at worst and benign at best. No matter what they're distracting. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn them off, you have to turn off Apple Intelligence as a whole on the device. As long as I can't turn this stupid feature off on its own, Apple Intelligence will remain disabled.
jakemauer··on Jmap-backup: Back up Fastmail mailboxes to standard EML format files
I've been looking for a backup solution for Fastmail for a while, thank you!
jakemauer··on Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine
Woah this is awesome, added it to my wishlist.
jakemauer··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
You can also split the difference and run Dokku[0] on a vps and basically host your own instance of “Heroku”. It can even use the same build packs and procfiles.

Feel free to message me and I’d be happy to help with server stuff.

[0] https://dokku.com/

jakemauer··on MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD (2008)
Musepack! There are dozens of us! Dozens!!

Back in the early 2000's when I was getting into ripping my collection I didn't have enough space for FLAC so I surveyed the options and Musepack seemed like the obvious lossy codec winner. I still have that collection of .mpc's somewhere.

jakemauer··on Chiptune.app
Wow this is really great, thanks for sharing.
jakemauer··on Chiptune.app
I still listen to all of the following regularly. Castlevania IV and ActRaiser in particular have pretty incredible arrangement and sound design for being so early in the system's life.

From the Super NES:

  - Super Castlevania IV
  - ActRaiser
  - Axelay
  - StarFox
  - Gradius III
  - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time
  - U.N. Squadron
  - Final Fantasy VI (III in the US)
From the Genesis:

  - Sonic 2
  - Sonic 3 & Knuckles
  - Ranger-X
From the Unreal Tournament Soundtrack:

  08 - Botmca
  11 - Enigma
  17 - Skyward Fire
  28 - Foregone Destruction
Note: I think there's something up with chipplayer.js' tracker playback because some of these Unreal Tournament tracks were definitely playing slower than they should.
jakemauer··on Another World ported to FPGA
Mykaruba!
jakemauer··on Bret Victor update
Quick link to his Mastodon: https://posts.dynamic.land/@bret
jakemauer··on Bird.makeup: a Twitter to ActivityPub bridge
For Twitter at least, this seems to be explicitly allowed by their terms of service[0]:

"You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. What’s yours is yours — you own your Content (and your incorporated audio, photos and videos are considered part of the Content).

By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same."

[0]https://twitter.com/en/tos

jakemauer··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
Elon’s contact info was not shared publicly with millions of people. The location of his private jet, which is public information, was republished on Twitter.
jakemauer··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
That video was the first time I felt like I understood the Javscript stack. Really grateful you put that talk together.
jakemauer··on I finally found a use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+
In addition to the other helpful suggestions you’ve received, look into using Log2Ram. It does what it sounds like, puts log writes in ram and then writes them to disk on a slower cadence that doesn’t work your SD card that much.

https://github.com/azlux/log2ram

jakemauer··on Ask HN: What software do you miss that no longer runs on modern hardware?
Wow I totally forgot about that Disney game. You could ride your creations in first person!
jakemauer··on The Mac keeps growing in shipments while PC shipments are falling
Take a look at the OpenCore project’s legacy patcher: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

The trash can might have a little more life left in it yet.

jakemauer··on QNX DEMO disk (1999)
I feel like it was literally called “freeinternetaccess”, definitely not one of the major ones like NetZero.
jakemauer··on QNX DEMO disk (1999)
This brings back memories. I remember marveling at this with my best friend when it came out. I got into BeOS around the same time.

I used to use those ad-supported dial up ISP’s and found one that worked with a standard PPP dialer so I didn’t need their software. I remember carrying around the QNX disk and login info so I could get online with basically any computer.

jakemauer··on Integrating with Fastmail
Updating to be more accurate, it's more like 2 spam messages a week on average make it through. It's a nuisance for sure and not a dealbreaker but does make me wonder if Gmail would be catching them.

Also I do have to praise their web interface, it's startlingly fast.

jakemauer··on Integrating with Fastmail
I've been doing the wildcard/per-site email thing for a few years now, unfortunately these spam emails are coming to a more generic address that I used to use for everything that I can't quite ditch yet.

Also regarding calendars, can you share that calendar with arbitrary people who don't have Fastmail accounts?

jakemauer··on Integrating with Fastmail
I migrated from Google Workspaces to Fastmail earlier this year and their migration tools made for a smooth transition.

My only big complaint is their woeful spam filtering. I get 1-2 spam emails a day, and I mark each and every one as spam. They're all of the same format; The subject line is something like [Symantec Invoice #431343] with the body being empty and a single .jpg attachment of a fake invoice. The company name and design of the invoice changes but it's always the same pattern.

I've contacted support but they shrugged their shoulders and suggested I just keep marking them as spam.

It's annoying, but I pre-paid for 3 years so I don't quite feel like jumping back to Google.

*Oh I just thought of another gripe that I didn't consider before switching: their calendaring system isn't really that useful for shared calendars unless the other people you want to share with are also Fastmail customers. This seems obvious when you think about it but I take for granted that literally everyone in my life has a Gmail account that I can share calendars with.

jakemauer··on MacOS 10.15: Slow by Design (2020)
I wonder if you’re encountering MacOS’ Gatekeeper malware checking being slow to communicate with Apple’s servers. My understanding is it checks the app every time you launch.
jakemauer··on ‘Blade Runner’ at 40
I will second Annihilation, I think it's incredible.
jakemauer··on Sega Megadriver Synthesizer in Depth Look (2020) [video]
Woah this is amazing, thank you for sharing.
jakemauer··on IKEA Instructions for Algorithms
I really like this idea.

One thing about about the public key cryptography example that I’ve often wondered, wouldn’t it be better to explain the private party’s contribution as a lock that can only be opened with the public keys?

jakemauer··on Michelle Yeoh, martial arts and the multiverse: inside the year’s wildest movie
Thanks for that, I didn't think to pre-order the digital copy. Done!
jakemauer··on Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole
I have a collection of mechanical keyboards but yeah honestly the Apple bluetooth keyboard of that era, pre magic keyboard, was great.
jakemauer··on A neurologist who hacked his brain and almost lost his mind (2016)
I didn't know about Wikiversity, thanks for sharing.
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