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Haijo7

@Haijo7@snac.haijo.eu

Computer enthusiast from 🇳🇱, libre software and (retro & indie) video games.
He/him, cis het.
Game and software dev.
I hack all of my game consoles.
Privacy advocate. Anti big tech/FAANG.
Music from the late 20th century is just better.
Learning to play piano.
ANSI C is the best programming language.
Jung personality type is ISTP.
I have several mental disorders.

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aral, to DuckDuckGo
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“Choice.”

Qwant search for foo at 09:18: Qwant is temporarily unavailable.
Ecosia search for foo @ 09:17: There was a problem loading search results for “foo”
Two astronauts staring at Earth from space. Front astronaut: “you mean it’s all just Bing?” Rear astronaut, aiming gun at front astronaut: “Always has been.”

Haijo7,
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a work in progress stand-alone search engine https://clew.se/
a search engine with only minimal websites https://wiby.me/
you're not going to find a lot with either, but people don't actually need search engines that much anymore. everyone just always visits the same websites, so bookmarks work just fine

Haijo7,
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makes sense, but how often do you visit a website you have not visited before?

CC: @aral

Haijo7,
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i guess it just differs from person to person. i don't visit websites i haven't visited before very often

CC: @aral

eniko, to mastodon
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little #mastodon protip: due to how posts federate there's no guarantee someone will see a link/video preview when they see your post, especially on small servers. this means that you'll probably want to add some kind of relevant description in the post where you're posting the link, like repeating the headline or quoting a relevant excerpt

Haijo7,
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the fedi software i use doesn't support embeds

foone, to random
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The god damn Nintendo switch doesn't support usb floppy drives? Even in homebrew?

What the hell, Nintendo? I want my money back.

Maybe I can hack this back in. I hate doing usb coding but maybe

Haijo7,
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the device can run linux and android, those should have floppy drive support

Haijo7, to random
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I wonder how many people on the fediverse have never used twitter or mastodon

YoSoyFreeman, to random
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Spent the day TRYING to understand how to work with C++. Step by step, i guess, but i feel like is my first day ever using a computer.

I don't know if I'm in a stage of improvement or i'm stuck. It is a scary feeling.

Haijo7,
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i recommend starting with C.
actually, i recommend sticking with C. C++ just adds clutter

joel, (edited ) to Miyoo
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    Haijo7,
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    i found a git repo related to the device a few weeks ago, apparently it uses a custom wrapper to run the proprietary ds emulator called drastic. i was hoping i could port this wrapper to other systems, but i'm pretty sure it can't be done because of how the emulator itself was compiled

    RL_Dane, to random
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    Haijo7,
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    did this on my desktop computer, there appears to be a problem with Plasma's wayland compositor. My monitor and computer kept de-syncing under heavy load, so the screen turned black frequently.
    I'm still on Plasma 5 though, I'll wait for 6 to be packaged for Debian. If the problem persists on Plasma 6, I'll open an issue I guess.
    I've read that changing some compositor settings can also fix this, but I haven't tried doing that.

    me, to random

    To those who argue "my VPN can't track me because I pay them in bitcoin":

    You know they have your IP address, right?

    Haijo7,
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    there is a vpn service that recommends people to connect to the vpn though tor

    Haijo7, to random
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    a few weeks ago i read the code for a tetris clone i made a few years ago. the code sucked so i'm making a new one

    YoSoyFreeman, to gamedev
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    Tiny steps, but they are a world for me!

    Work of today with raylib in C

    #gamedev #indiedev #Raylib

    The application launches and the ray lib logo gets drawn (I didn't do that part), then, it transitions to a scene with retro window decorations i made and some centered text that says "The Freeman's cage". After a coupe of seconds a subtitle appears under it: "A game bleed by YoSoyFreeman"

    Haijo7,
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    modifying existing code is a good way to learn, but keep the license in mind. you might not be able to release your modified code depending on the license

    CC: @greenmoonmoon

    Haijo7,
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    @YoSoyFreeman @greenmoonmoon I've never used raylib, but it looks somewhat similar to SDL.
    I've made a few personal projects that use SDL with Physfs.
    Physfs allows you to read archives, anything from .zip files to doom .wad files.
    The author recommends using zip files as a balance between speed and size. It allows you to mount directories and archives, kind of like you'd do with a usb drive. These are then treated as isolated file systems, so say you were to add mod support (lua is another good recommendation), you can ensure mods can't read or write outside of the mounted archives or directories

    Haijo7,
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    The operating systems from the PS3, PS4, PS5, 3DS and Switch and Mac OS are based on FreeBSD. The Wii U probably also runs something based on FreeBSD.
    Linux for the PS2 is based on Red Hat.
    Chrome OS is based on Gentoo

    CC: @MDKAOD

    Haijo7,
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    dualbooting is often messy because windows update can delete things required for linux to boot.
    or to be more specific, it deletes grub, the bootloader.
    i've heard you can use a different bootloader called refined to prevent this from happening, that might be worth looking into.
    as for which distro, it doesn't really matter. the only real differences between distros are the package managers and repositories (servers for application and update downloads) they use by default. if you like frequent updates, you choose one that has frequent updates, if you don't, you don't

    Haijo7,
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    true, but this would make it difficult to update the console version because i can't include contributions from the pc version in the console version. i'd have to maintain two versions instead of just one. or not update the console version, but that's not a good solution either.
    say a contributor fixes a bug, i wouldn't be able to use the same code in the console version because this code is property of the contributor and is GPL licensed. but the console version would make references to a proprietary console API of which i can't share any information, thus can't add the code. so i'd have to find a different way to fix the same bug or leave it as is

    Haijo7,
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    i'm procrastinating on a game also made using only free software. i want to release the code without the assets under a free software license (just like doom). but if i do this i can't release the game on consoles unless i don't accept contributions. because of devkit NDAs

    CC: @rah

    Haijo7,
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    maybe, actually. i could technically turn the game into a library and put the parts of the engine that handle input and output in a separate application. but i'd have to find a license that allows this. i don't remember the details about linking libraries in the GPL 3, iirc the LGPL has something to do with libraries. but this would also allow others to include the game library into a proprietary application, providing they don't make any changes to the code

    Haijo7, (edited ) to random
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    i wonder if i can make a poll with only one option

    Haijo7, to random
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    apparently the PSU in my PC is broken, this explains a lot

    ayo, to webdev
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    what's the laziest dark mode implementation? is there a 3-liner code change? 😄 asking for a friend (not me)

    Haijo7,
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    @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { color: white; background-color: black; }

    heyfluxay, to random
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    Looks like I’m starting Crosscode.

    Haijo7,
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    it's a pretty fun game. the puzzles and combat are great, but after beating the game it felt like the story wasn't complete. though maybe i'm just missing something

    CC: @heyfluxay

    djlink, to random
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    This is incredibly concerning, I wish I could use other OS exclusively for my work, but Windows is still the only place for a lot of dev tools. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

    Haijo7,
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    I'm seeing many people wanting to switch to linux recently.
    It probably won't take long for some tools to be ported or get alternatives on linux.
    cross compiling from linux to windows works, in case that's something you're concerned about

    cory, to ai
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    https://www.vox.com/robots.txt

    Fox Tv Popcorn GIF by The Four

    Haijo7,
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    robots.txt is a file server admins or web developers can add to the root of a website.
    it contains info about the permissions for bots navigating the website. usually webcrawlers for things like search engines, or more recently to plagiarize text and images for fake neural networks.
    under normal circumstances

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    should make it so no bots that obey robots.txt can access anything on the website, apart from robots.txt.
    but the file from this link has a lot of other rules that should already be covered.
    i get that people don't trust the authors of the bots to respect the rules, but adding more rules isn't going to help with that

    CC: @cory

    koen, to random
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    Ik had deze link nog niet teruggezien op de Fediverse.

    Antwoorden op de #kamervragen over het voornemen van @SIDN om het registratiesysteem van de .nl domeinnaam naar AWS te verhuizen:

    https://www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/document?id=2024D11400

    Haijo7, (edited )
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    Ik bied alvast mijn excuses aan voor mogelijke spelfouten in deze post, ik heb dyslexie en mijn computer is op engels inesteld.

    Met alleen meer IT opleidingen komen we niet veel verder.
    Ik heb zelf alleen een MBO opleiding software development afgerond, als ik kijk naar de stof die word behandeld op het HBO vind ik het het niet waard een HBO opleiding te volgen.
    De qualitiet van de stof bij zowel MBO als HBO lijkt erg laag.
    De enige goede ICTers zijn de mensen die er in geinteresserd zijn en zelf dingen uitzoeken.
    Dit komt voor een deel door dat moderne computers steeds verder dicht getimmert zitten.
    Er zijn nu zelfs mensen die moeite hebben met het concept van bestanden en mappen omdat mensen hier niet meer mee werken op hun smartphones.
    IT opleidigen gaan er van uit dat mensen met de meeste dingen al bekend zijn, dit vind ik best logisch. Maar er is hier door een toenemende groep mensen die bepaalde basis kennis mist en stopt met hun opleiding.
    Het verschil in kennis tussen studenten is te groot om dezelfde lessen aan verschillende studenten te richten.

    Ik ben het helemaal eens met dat opleidingen zelf hun IT infrastructuur moet draaien.
    Maar niet alleen IT opleidingen, dit zou overal de norm moeten zijn.
    We moeten stoppen mensen afhangkelijk te maken van deze big tech services.
    Zelfs de nederlande rechtbank is nu afhangkelijk van microsoft, dit is belachelijk.
    Daarnaast vind ik ook dat opleidingen zich meer moeten richten op programmeer talen die niet door big tech bedrijven beheerd worden. C# bijvoorbeeld. Microsoft heeft volledige controle over C#. Voor problemen als deze lijkt op het moment helemaal geen aandacht te zijn.

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