throwaway2046

> Seems like films mostly switched over to "modern" acting in the 70s

Can you elaborate on this point? I think I agree with you, I just don't know why.

> that guy asked Stack Overflow how to make gcc compile his .png

Do you have a link to this? All the search results I'm getting are related to libpng.

I'm guessing the pain of fighting the various build systems that insist on dynamic linking, sometimes against the user's explicit wishes.

Linking against an older glibc means setting up an older distribution and accepting all the outdated toolchains and libraries that come with it. Need to upgrade? Get ready to compile everything from source and possibly bootstrap a toolchain. I wouldn't call this trivial.

The fact that you need to use a container/chroot on Linux in the first place makes the process non trivial, when all you have to do on Windows is click a button or two.

Libraries already break their ABI so often that continuously rebuilding/relinking everything is inevitable.

Yes, as of Wine 10.16 (the version number is a lucky coincidence!) 16-bit Windows applications can run on 64-bit Linux without any special libraries.

From the original post:

    We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI generated.

Sounds completely subjective if you ask me.

I've encountered a few artists who partially used AI in their music making process and the results have been incredible, I would hate to see them banned when grouped with people making completely AI-generated slop... Perhaps a middle ground could be reached? Allow AI generated audio as long as it undergoes significant processing by humans, for example.

It should be a choice, not a requirement. With Windows you can get your work done without knowing much about Windows itself, but with Linux you're forced to understand every level of the entire OS so you can debug it first and then maybe get your work done. For an OS built around user freedom Linux sure doesn't give its users much choice on how to use it.

That's quite an authentic looking effect! Using it for charts is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind, but it does make them more appealing in a way.

I'm guessing it could be even smaller if it was designed as a SVG file. Although the glow effect with the fading colors would probably need to be simplified.

It's amazing to see the incredible effort it takes to reverse engineer a synth. While much of the process described in the video went over my head I still found it very interesting to watch. Kudos to the Usual Suspects for not only putting in all that effort but also releasing their findings completely for free.

Side note: does anyone know what the song played at 4:30 is called? It sounds very familiar but I can't remember its name at all.

Edit: I found it, it's "Barthezz - On The Move" but played at a slower BPM.

Offering a plain text version of your website may seem like a novel idea nowadays but I remember a time when pretty much every web page had a printer-friendly version with little to no formatting. I suppose printing web pages has become passé, that is unless you're printing a food recipe.

Thanks for putting together this list, it would be nice to add a short summary next to each link.

VLC works great on Linux too! It's one of the few programs where I expect the exact same look and feel regardless of the underlying OS.

mpv is okay but its complete reliance on command line flags and manually written config files makes it a bore.

Black bar?

Semver works fine for SDL and has worked fine since the start of the century, despite the library's complexity and scale. A few simple rules can go a long way if you're disciplined about enforcing them.

The page almost crashed my phone... Archived version: https://archive.ph/9s9ys

Click on the drawing that you like on the website, then click the download button and choose "Export as SVG". You can then open the SVG file in Inkscape and render as PNG/JPG at any resolution you want. Let me know if you need help.

This is a gold mine, thank you.

Amazing covers, almost all the legends of dance music are here. Junior Vasquez, Sasha, BT, Oakenfold. And check out Daft Punk without the masks on issue #21!

What's also interesting is the focus shifting from House and Trance in the 1990s to Rap and Hip-Hop in the 2000s. I'm guessing if the magazine was still in publication during the very late 2000s we would have seen a reverse of this trend.

> mandatory JavaScript everywhere, even on google.com

Note: DuckDuckGo still offers a perfectly usable JS-free search engine if you visit the website from a browser with no/disabled JS support. Almost all other major search engines now require JS to function.

I haven't tried GStreamer but I found FFmpeg to be extremely easy to compile as both a command line tool and library, plus it can do so much out of the box even without external libraries being present. It's already used in pretty much everything and does the job so it never occurred to me (or others) to look for alternatives.

>I only wish Wine also allowed me to zoom 2x or 3x, but this is where Gamescope comes in

Also possible using dxwrapper (for DirectX 7-9 games):

https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper

Similarly to dxvk, you drop a few DLLs into the game directory then edit one config file. No need to use a dedicated program.

See also the fork by C-Chads: https://github.com/C-Chads/tinygl

It seems to have more features and limited support for multithreading, with more recent updates compared to the original project. Sadly it was archived in late 2023.

> glibc [...] doesn't allow you to load an app built for a newer version on a host with an older version

> the restriction is, in itself, good.

Why do you consider this a good restriction?

This should be updated to include the GLIBC libcrypt fiasco.

Wine has seen a massive improvement since the introduction of WoW64, and now it apparently supports 16-bit programs too. Many thanks to the Wine devs who made this possible.