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Comment · 13 days ago
Love the A/B tool. Must say, I'm a bit more charmed by Nordwand, even though I always use Jetbrains.
Comment · 17 days ago
Am I correctly understanding that ICQ had an 8 character limit on the passwords?
Comment · 1 month ago
I noticed how easy it is to frame something online when you’re viewing it out of context. I’ve seen myself getting it wrong from time to time, because a title was misleading, and I don’t know why after 30 years of internet I’m not way more skeptical.
Comment · 1 month ago
Please Tailscale don't get enshitified, I love you so much
Comment · 2 months ago
Damn this guy is well versed on the topic at hand. Really clear and nice video.
Comment · 2 months ago
> you might find the quality subpar, but in terms of cost ratio, it is commercially good enough. Business will accept 99.99 at fraction of cost of 99.999.

What is this based on?

Comment · 2 months ago
Never had this, but I kinda wanna add the alias just in case now
Comment · 5 months ago
I want my 5 minutes back. What an absolute waste of time this was.
Comment · 6 months ago
Such a cute read (I mean that in the best way possible). I'm quite a social person and it's really cool to see someone be so systemic about it. But I would not have the balls to just talk to random people in the way you did it, and I really admire that about you!
Comment · 6 months ago
Totally agree with this. Blizzard nowadays is a giant, but nobody would have blamed them if they remained a small studio, trying to protect what they've worked hard for to create. Just because they have a lot of money now, doesn't legally change a thing. It sucks because Blizzard has become a shitty company, and I'd like these types of devs from Turtle WoW to be able to continue their work, but you have to draw the line somewhere.
Comment · 6 months ago
Out of curiosity, as a fellow dev I'm interested in how you go about reverse engineering these types of things. I assume for networking, you keep track of what goes in and out of the live game. How do you go about pathing? How do you reverse engineer spells, how they scale over levels, and how bosses work, when they spawn, and how they spawn (based on non time based factors) ?
Comment · 7 months ago
I think this comment deserves some nuance. Every company has to comply to local laws. Unless you want to run something illegal, at which point it's not a very reliable alternative for all your mail and more.

Proton in some cases was forced to turn over whatever they knew of a few accounts, according to Swiss law. They try to obfuscate as much as possible, so they can't turn over complete e-mail conversations. But some info is in there, and they have to turn that over. But (correct me if I'm wrong) they have to only comply to Swiss law, when there's a court order.

Comment · 7 months ago
I think the real crime here is that browsers are able to probe which extensions you have installed.
Comment · 7 months ago
I was just wondering why this process is not automated. Why do these graphics require redrawing? Resolution difference from EGA?
Comment · 7 months ago
This sounds so snobby. VGA Loom was absolutely stunning. I can understand that you may appreciate EGA more, but "messed up" sounds hyperbolic imo.

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