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wila

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Author of Vimalin, the app for making reliable backups of your Virtual Machines on VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation and VMware player. Backup while you continue to use the VM(s).

https://www.vimalin.com

Also the author of

https://vimarun.com

and -for developers- an ActiveX wrapper for the Microsoft WebView2 control:

https://antview.dev

Writes code in DataFlex, C++, C#, bash, perl, delphi and sometimes javascript.

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wila··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Never installed it myself, but the following might help in getting it set up:

https://support.west-wind.com/Thread5YZ172FPW.wwt

wila··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
There's been a 64 bit version of FoxPro for years and years [1].

No, not the official VFP as released by Microsoft, but a version made by a well known VFP developer.

Besides that I do know of some developers actually using this for building their software.

No connections here, just know that it exists and is used and well before LLMs became the answer to everything.

[1] https://www.baiyujia.com/vfpadvanced/f_vfpa_about.asp

wila··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
Ok, will see if I can find some time for play. Thanks.
wila··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
Figured that would be the case. Thanks.
wila··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
Is there anything one can reasonably run on a mac mini M2 with just 24GB RAM or should I not even try?
wila··on How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
Just tried it. Google lens is fine, it does work.

However -some way or the other- it decided to only show pictures from 2024 and older. Something is messed up in that respect and thus I switched back.

wila··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
It's not a consent, because the options are "Yes" and "Yes", you cannot opt out unless you quit the call.
wila··on How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
Is google lens still available? That's perhaps the only cloud feature I sometimes use, in order to translate Chinese text to English or similar.

Also is it possible to undo (in case there's something I don't like?) Is it just a matter of adding the app back to your account?

wila··on ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol
This looks great! Thank you.
wila··on From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)
Thank you!
wila··on From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)
Interesting.

Do you happen to know if that batronix board useful to have even if you have a Rigol DHO 924S without the logic probe (PLA2216)?

wila··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Same in the Netherlands too.
wila··on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back
that you're arguing with an LLM :)
wila··on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever
If you can't run a recent browser anymore then there's always the option to run the browser in a VM.
wila··on AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it
and then the chips stay in Asia?
wila··on Owls in Towels
Also on mastodon:

https://earthstream.social/@owlsintowels

wila··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Working on AntView.

AntView is an ActiveX wrapper for the Microsoft WebView2 component. AntView enables programming languages that cannot use the WebView2 component directly to have a modern browser component in their applications.

You can find it here: https://antview.dev

wila··on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
macOS I assume? I use a little app called noTunes (it's on github) to prevent that from happening.

edit: should be this one: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

wila··on Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma Silently Enables iCloud Keychain
I had to blink twice last time when I installed Sonoma on a new partition that I did not have to provide a wifi password. This appears to confirm that. While I can understand that some people would appreciate this, I'm not exactly chuffed by a fresh install silently grabbing passwords from an old install.
wila··on TinySA – small spectrum analyzer and signal generator
The tinySA can also be used for that, it's not only a spectrum analyzer, it can also generate signals and optionally modulate those for you.

edit: https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Specification here says it works from 100kHz for the low output. When I just tried it did let me select 60kHz and turn it into output mode. Haven't hooked it up to a scope to see what it does. Sorry no time to set it all up now. 60kHz is very low though, if you browse AliExpress then I'm sure plenty of signal generators will offer that for a really low price (cheaper than the tinySA)

edit 2: Sorry my European brain kicked in and missed you are looking for a 60Hz one that is very precise and not a 60kHz one. I'd better get some sleep.

wila··on Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?
> It did not seem to affect home computers like the Apple ][, Commodore 64, and such.

Your software most likely did not ran off a hard disk. So it was slow to load anyways.. and after that it ran within the memory it had. One program at a time, no memory swapping.

> I don't think it affected PC compatible computers running DOS.

Umm.. I remember being mesmerized by disk defrag programs. There was also TSR programs and other ways to run more as one program at a time.

wila··on WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
I downloaded the images and then compared them via Beyond Compare.

After that it was pretty obvious what the author is talking about.

wila··on Most companies using AI are 'lighting money on fire,' says Matthew Prince
> For a straightforward approach, she suggested starting from the ground up with employees and having them create what she calls a “toil bucket,” essentially a list of everything they hate doing that they hope AI could take off their plate.

Talking with customers about their issues appears to be number one everywhere? :)

wila··on Ask HN: Why haven't we seen a race to the bottom in SaaS pricing?
Great, how about you start with the documentation. :D
wila··on Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation
Ladybird is amazing.

They move so fast and are building all of it in the open. I'm very impressed by what the Ladybird team is doing.

wila··on Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation
> 3. Embedding. Like I said, using a web engine as a component seems to have been forgotten in modern times. Surely that can be sold to somebody, because there are plenty use cases for embedding web engines in stuff.

It's not forgotten. Microsoft has WebView2 which uses the same engine as MS Edge and it can be included in your .net applications.

If OTOH you want an ActiveX then you can buy AntView, which wraps WebView2 in an ActiveX control.

Disclaimer: AntView is a control sold by my company.

wila··on Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints
How about a book?

I like "Advanced Windows Debugging" by Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat.

wila··on Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
I'm not religious, but it shows a lack of respect. Besides it "being the point".
wila··on Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
Relating a statistics language model to religion is ... beyond words.
wila··on Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly
On top of this the default for PowerNap is to not run when on battery, only when plugged in.
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