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AI is developing these kind of things faster than Sony could send C&D Letters - crazy stuff

I had this moment when we designed shirts for the marathon we ran as a group. Instead of Brainstorming something funny, we just prompted ChatGPT and chose one of the results.

I felt lost immediately. All the creativity, the humanity, the endless hours of putting soul into something. Gone

For one hour or so I had some kind of existential crisis. Just because of a funny slogan on a shirt. And sometimes I still feel empty on new projects. You can produce so much things so fast, but if it should be something original - it is hard to get it generated by AI while still feeling that it is something that you came up with

Yes kind of. You have to differentiate between all the different kinds of data. A lot of data was already included in the client files, but for the rest you had to sniff packages, analyse combat logs, watch 360p videos of boss fights and try to figure out exactly how mechanics are working. It got very ugly after a new expansion has been released, because it was not possible anymore to sniff for the older expansion.

It was always a “best effort”, but also very rewarding if you got a specific fight “somewhat” close how it was on the official servers.

Holy! When I moved over to Linux (2018ish) video and photo editing was still the thing, where I was still moving back to Windows or macOS But apparently I should really take another look at Kdenlive, looks like a lot of things have improved heavily, that it could hit the sweet spot between my love hate relationship with Resolve and the ease of use of Sony Vegas back in the day. Thanks for posting !

It really looks pretty interesting and helpful for me and a lot of persons out there! :)

But one thing: If you record demos please try to setup your mic correctly. In the demo you've shared the audio is pretty often clipping (which does not really sound great/ sounds unprofessional)

Otherwise: Good luck on your journey!

There are a few (unofficial) moddable games if you look into the homebrew scene. But for this you need to have a Switch that is capable of running unofficial code (either old Switch with a softmod or a Switch with a hardmod)

If you have such a Switch you can use a tool that overwrites/unions the content of the game cartridge with content of a folder on your SD card. That means you could add some files (e.G. maps) into the game.

From the top of my head you can definitely mod the Skyrim Switch version as well as the Star Wars Jedi Knight Games (at least these were the two games which I've played around it). But I am pretty sure that there are Mods for the mario games.

I really love the current days of OSS, because they enable such software that may fit into the needs for a smaller usergroup. Great job! :)

Wow, i almost forgot about Firebug.

From my point of view it was really a game changer. The first time debugging and understanding web-applications became accessible. Probably all browser dev tools were inspired by this tool

7 years seem to be a long time, but for something that operates on such a low level it isn't. Rust also exists for 12 years now, but got the most traction in the last 2-3 years. From my point of view wasm is currently in a state where a lot of companies and people are learning. Most of the toolchains had to mature before the broader mass of developers (who have an interest in this technology) took a look into it.

Yeah, you are right, it is lesser used than e.g JavaScript, but tbh it also has a different target audience. You probably can build UI by using wasm. But why don't use JavaScript, which is way more comfortable and has a bigger community around it? (Unless you have some specific needs) As a web developer you don't need wasm right now. If you are doing some lower level work (like trying to run AI models/training) and you really need the performance, then wasm gets pretty interesting.

Most of the cool wasm projects I've seen in the past few months/ years were open source ports of games or emulators compiled to wasm (like Doom 3 ), which really ran very great. And my guess is that the broader development community is currently doing exactly this: they are playing around with wasm to learn for what use cases wasm could be a great fit.

(more known Wasm users are for example Figma or Google Earth. Iirc I've read that BBC is currently exploring if they can use wasm for their media players)

This gives me vibes of Windows Vista, where you got x-Modals if you just want to open anything... :D

Just a side note: Iirc Spotify does not use Electron - it uses the Chromium embedded Framework. It is kinda the same as electron (it gives you an Browser) but instead of JavaScript you have to use C++ (or a wrapper around the library in you favourite language) to implement the Backend side of the app