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rzzzt··on YouTube as Storage
It was a tongue-in-cheek / silly suggestion outright. I don't think many people are actually using the tool for its off-ToS purpose though, there is also a lot of prior art across multiple sharing services. It's still interesting to think about the inner workings of it.
rzzzt··on Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
"Rood Luck, Have Fun!" A rood is a unit of area that is equal to about one fifth of a football field.
rzzzt··on YouTube as Storage
Upload to other video sharing sites for redundancy. RAIVS!
rzzzt··on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
"Enjoying yourself?" https://youtu.be/q_A1GNx0M9M
rzzzt··on How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
You don't even have to try-y
rzzzt··on A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
It has an 8-bit color, a True Color and a 3dfx executable side-by-side in the installation folder.
rzzzt··on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
Blasphemy!
rzzzt··on People who know the formula for WD-40
WD-40 is now the designation of a whole bunch of products, including chain grease.
rzzzt··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
Does anyone remember a Chinese website that did something similar? IIRC it was one of the selectable rendering modes of a Google Maps equivalent.

Edit: this submission has a few links that could be what I had in mind but most of them no longer work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282466

rzzzt··on Level S4 solar radiation event
Blaring Klaxons! https://youtu.be/LX2KX0OaofI
rzzzt··on PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
You pull out the plug, but nothing happens. A shape resembling a human face appears on the screen. It has an evil grin.

Exits: N W

rzzzt··on Find a pub that needs you
A form of property tax it looks like, charged on businesses: https://www.gov.uk/introduction-to-business-rates
rzzzt··on Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
It's equivalent to Win + Shift + F23 so you can map it to some useful action if you have a suitable utility at hand.
rzzzt··on Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
Which one, the "strapped to an upright stretcher" variant, or just hold on to a handle or a metal pole like in a bus?
rzzzt··on Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension
Presumably the opposing party is residing in non-US-or(and? depends on the order of evaluation)-EU territory, but I might be mistaken. "They" refers to both sides in the parent comment.
rzzzt··on I wrote a batch script to keep my 2011 ThinkPad alive for 24/7 streaming
Do things heat up if only OBS is running but streamlink and VLC aren't? Are you using them to monitor what the output looks like for viewers?
rzzzt··on Keep the Robots Out of the Gym
Ryan Anderson: Are We Having Fun Yet? https://www.instagram.com/itsryandanderson/reel/DRR241Mjr_F/
rzzzt··on Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
Also the pause button seems to take the GIF back to its first frame, then resume from where I paused... either that or I need a good sleep.
rzzzt··on Don't Become the Machine
We do what we must, because we can / For the good of all of us
rzzzt··on Don't Become the Machine
I totally failed on the balancing part, was working on the thesis like a runaway diesel engine. I could sleep and step away from the word processor window but it kind of consumed my thoughts at all times. Towards the end stress started to spill over to the physical domain and it took about 4 months after the submission and thesis defense (no snakes fortunately) for symptoms to subside.
rzzzt··on Don't Become the Machine
AA-lib is alive and kicking (I think): https://aa-project.sourceforge.net/
rzzzt··on Don't Become the Machine
A very un-scientific screen grab and saving as a GIF gives me 604kB at 990×1000 pixels, but this does include color fringing at the edges of each letter and I'd be inclined to treat this as a 1 BPP image.
rzzzt··on We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
An MPEG-1-based screen sharing experiment appeared here 10 years ago:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954870

- https://phoboslab.org/log/2015/07/play-gta-v-in-your-browser...

rzzzt··on I'm just having fun
don't do it
rzzzt··on Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems
I remember a GitHub repository where someone documented problems and resolutions related to their house in the issues section.

I'm also trying to gather a personal backlog of things at home patiently waiting to be resolved, but can't even get myself through the collection phase...

rzzzt··on Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
GNU Stow? https://systemcrafters.net/managing-your-dotfiles/using-gnu-...

Keep the alternate sets in different subdirectories.

rzzzt··on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
At least you don't have to type the same letters while holding a thin tape over your screen to erase them!

Apple also had separate Return and Enter symbols on keyboards for a while, which also sounds like typewriter territory but their intended use was a bit different: https://creativepro.com/a-tale-of-two-enter-keys/

rzzzt··on 30 years of <br> tags
I have also dug around a bit to find out this one, and the earliest httpd I could get my hands on is 1.3.0 which is hosted on the Apache archive site: https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/

"src/modules/standard/mod_include.c" says:

  /*
   * http_include.c: Handles the server-parsed HTML documents
   * 
   * Original by Rob McCool; substantial fixups by David Robinson;
   * incorporated into the Apache module framework by rst.
   * 
   */
Rob McCool is the author of NCSA HTTPd so it seems there is direct lineage wrt. this feature between the two server implementations.
rzzzt··on 30 years of <br> tags
I meant the "include" statement of PHP which you can use even if your HTTP server is not configured for processing SSI directives.
rzzzt··on 30 years of <br> tags
PHP's initial release announcement mentions includes as a feature that can be used even if the server does not have SSI support: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.c...
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