exikyut · HackerTrans

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

No affiliation (I wish), but: https://gptshop.ai

This site apparently sources ex-enterprise(-only) systems and puts them into desktop style enclosures.

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hace 4 mesesdiscuss

This is interesting (and the UI looks very nice), but it's defaulting to my Mate 20 Pro's front-facing camera FWIW.

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

Devbox seems to be semi-public, and/or offered to customers: https://devbox.microsoft.com/

Curious if there's a way random people can test it.

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

I'll bite; ok, what'd you do? :)

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

https://archive.md/3qot3

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hace 6 mesesdiscuss

I wonder what that group of people would have made of https://youtu.be/zy_ctHNLan8

(Chaotic lawfully :D)

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hace 6 mesesdiscuss

https://archive.is/aokho

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hace 6 mesesdiscuss

I wonder what happened to the building when us-east-1 went down.

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hace 9 mesesdiscuss

At the moment there's a [dead] subling comment by the project author explaining what it's about. Because the comment is dead I can't reply to it asking further questions unfortunately.

The project was apparently designed and created on a phone.

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hace 9 mesesdiscuss

I'm curious: what does MUC stand for? :)

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

What's this in reference to? Sounds mildly interesting

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

This was posted only a month ago: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-history-of-tor... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44838378)

The article provides a good foundation for opposing arguments.

Excerpting:

> The researchers wanted to find a way to do the seemingly impossible — to give the military the benefits of a global, high-speed communications network without exposing them to the vulnerabilities of the metadata that the network relied on to operate.

> ...

> There are other implications, as well. For a CIA agent to use Tor without suspicion in non-U.S. nations, for example, there would need to be plenty of citizens in these nations using Tor for everyday internet browsing. Similarly, if the only users in a particular country are whistleblowers, civil rights activists and protesters, the government may well simply arrest anyone connecting to your anonymity network. As a result, an onion routing system had to be open to as wide a range of users and maintainers as possible, so that the mere fact that someone was using the system wouldn’t reveal anything about their identity or their affiliations.

> ...

> Anonymity loves company — so Tor needed to be sold to the general public. That necessity led to an unlikely alliance between cypherpunks and the U.S. Navy.

> The NRL researchers behind Onion routing knew it wouldn’t work unless everyday people used it, so they reached out to the cypherpunks and invited them into conversations about design and strategy to reach the masses.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

It should be embedded into the website alongside the pictures, in a carousel.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

I'm hijacking this comments section just a tiny bit to talk about Creative TextAssist. It can be downloaded here: https://archive.org/details/creative-sound-blaster-cd-softwa...

It was a speech synthesizer package that (I assume) used the CT1748 mentioned in the article (^F "CT1748") to render very 80s-90s sounding but acceptable speech. You could even precisely control the phoneme generation using a scripting language to make the voices sing songs, with surprisingly tolerable results.

My call to action here is that all the SB16 emulation in PC emulators seems to skip over the CT1748 and/or other necessary parts that makes the speech synthesis possible. Here's Windows 3.1 running in PCem stating "The speech engine cannot be opened. Speech commands cannot be executed." - https://imgur.com/a/bBOihec

So if anyone out there wants a fun project, it would be finalizing the emulation in PCem, 86Box (a PCem fork), DOSBox-X or similar so that this software can run. Essentially it's currently in a state of bitrot and in the process of becoming forgotten.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

FWIW, X11 also includes a bunch of quaint background patterns as well, in /usr/include/X11/bitmaps.

You can try each of them by just doing `xsetroot -bitmap <filename>`. I have mine set to wide_weave, which is incidentally identical to Pattern 15 in https://paulsmith.github.io/classic-mac-patterns/

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

I know NQP here isn't Not Quite Perl, but I'm not sure what it *is*. Seeking enlightenment!

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

You're probably already aware there are some hilarious drivers for I think VirtualBox that let ~Win3.1 achieve practically infinite VGA resolution.

And then you have your choice of networking via eg SLIP or (more sanely lol) a program that can mount VHDs offline.

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

Just to contribute: yet another instance of "cool slideshow" on my (most definitely low end) laptop with integrated graphics.

Then tried it on my aging Mate 20 Pro (not too new, not tooo old), and it just seemed to get stuck at "Downloading runtime". Got a funny feeling my flaky 4G wasn't actually to blame, inspected the tab from my laptop (chrome://inspect) via USB, and was greeted with

  Uncaught (in promise) Error: Needs OES_texture_float_linear to function
      at M (worker-3ec07b2e.js:1:3338)
      at J (worker-3ec07b2e.js:1:3403)

It is what it is. It's a good philosophical question about whether it's worth coding up an error screen, since it's all just to tell people they can't play with the toy. Hehe.

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

Mild expression of curiosity, since I'm not sure if this'll be useful for me (I'm in AU): this is listed as "requires Android 6+", yet shows "Does not work on your device" for every single device listed, including my main phone which definitely isn't that old. But it's not showing "not available in your country".