Sometimes I just want to play a simple game of #Solitaire, no fuss, no need to sign into anything, just #play. #Windows95 might be nearly 30 years old, but it certainly plays a vital role in my life on a Saturday night.
I just figured out how to generate lines on a compute shader. The program generates 100 lines with 1000 vertices in each line, then renders them as line strips.
This is the kind of thing I used to draw when GPUs didn't exist even in sci-fi XD
Next I'll try to render triangle strips and plain triangles.
Just showed the kids Windows 95 running in a browser (🤯) and the thing they were amazed about is how clean it was. No toolbars everywhere, no junk in the task bar, nothing that looked like ads, etc. It's sad how things have evolved.
#Edge ist ja übel. Da braucht man ihn zwei drei Wochen nicht mehr und beim nächsten Start sieht er aus wie ein Trojaner-verseuchter #Windows95#InternetExplorer ...
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@lowqualityfacts 139 was every '90s script kiddie's favorite number. The Winnuke attack required the victim to have an open #TCP port, and every #Windows95 machine had port 139 (#SMB file sharing protocol) open by default. So, connect to port 139, send some bogus packets, and boom, the victim's computer immediately goes #BSOD.
The cool thing about "Every App is actually just a browser, and we're all using Chromium" is that now critical, actively exploited vulnerabilities like that WebP CVE-2023-4863 applies to dozens of software components that your inventory doesn't know are effected.
Amidst the journey of life, remember the days when 'It is now safe to turn off your computer' was the message that closed chapters of our digital adventures, reminding us that endings, too, can hold a touch of nostalgia and the promise of new beginnings~