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há 9 diasdiscuss

near lossless refers to being 89.65/90.26 = 99.32% of baseline, i'm pretty sure.

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just look at that giant 8-line headline, insanity

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

then add a second r and it's suddenly piracy or torrent related!

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há 2 mesesdiscuss

> This has the side effect of removing empty directories

yeah, this will inevitably break things. excluding those from the directory stripping shouldn't be too hard (TM)

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há 3 mesesdiscuss

as far as i can tell, no it does not. it only desaturates 00 in particular. the other colors you see in the screenshots come from matched formats/patterns. it does not do direct coloring based on byte value.

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há 3 mesesdiscuss

pretty sure 486 support only _just_ got disabled, and will be gone with 7.1: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486

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há 3 mesesdiscuss

headlines often trade legibility for terseness, sometimes a bit too much though :)

EDIT: Headlinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese

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há 3 mesesdiscuss

> I miss the wobbly windows I had in Linux when we started playing with Compiz.

KDE still has them: Settings -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects -> Wobbly Windows

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há 5 mesesdiscuss

you can also just uninstall the "new" notepad, at which point Windows will let you run the old one again (which is still shipped!).

By using a version that is _that_ old you do lose out on some of the actually useful updates legacy nodepad received, such as LF line ending support.

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há 5 mesesdiscuss

You are mistaken:

> The malicious code would execute in the security context of the user who opened the Markdown file, giving the attacker the same permissions as that user.

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há 5 mesesdiscuss

TIL I'm an AI

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há 6 mesesdiscuss

not even opposite, as mentioned in my comment it does have Initiator Mode, allowing it to act as a host

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há 6 mesesdiscuss

If the reason to connect them is to dump them, something like https://bluescsi.com/ in Initiator Mode might work: https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode

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há 7 mesesdiscuss

For a quick fix: `font-variant-ligatures: none;` on body or similar.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

Author here -- previous discussions/blog posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23313577

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37787161

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38810782

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

I specifically checked if DirectInput from DirectX 5 already supports/provides USB HID devices, and it does! Granted, even then it was unlikely to encounter 8 USB devices, let alone HID devices in particular.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

Because I felt like it :) Also works for multiple versions/patchlevels.

But yeah, with the info provided it should be patchable. It's a `push esi` though, where esi has to stay 0 for a few further usages, so it's a bit more than a one-byte patch. It also wouldn't fully resolve the OOB write in the rare case where you _do_ have 9+ game controllers connected.

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

Usually dgVoodoo handles most of the games (that don't have actual bugs like this game) fairly well.

Otherwise, 86Box is a pretty good full-system emulator for everything up to the early 3D era.

As for DRM, there's various ways around it of course :)

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há 8 mesesdiscuss

> am I right in thinking the DirectX library only exports a single function and _everything_ else is through DX interfaces

Yup! That's why I didn't have to create a gazillion passthrough functions.

The original DLL in my modern Windows installation has these 8 exports:

    DirectInputCreateA
    DirectInputCreateEx
    DirectInputCreateW
    DllCanUnloadNow
    DllGetClassObject
    DllRegisterServer
    DllUnregisterServer

The game only calls DirectInputCreateA, and the rest happens via the COM object that that function creates.

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