Games? Embedded? FPGA? UI frameworks? DSP or Signal processing?
Readit Newsjzzskijj commented on Ask HN: Programmers who aren't front/back end/web developers, what is your job? · Posted by u/superconduct123
> I tried even using local accounts but it causes significant issues in the OS.
Which kinds of issues? Honest question. I don't use Windows 11 a lot on my personal laptop but I set it up with a local account and haven't noticed any major issues in my limited use.
I don't use OneDrive or other MS services on it, though.
I am curious to learn too about this. I have managed to say at Windows 10 with strictly local accounts only.
jzzskijj commented on FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) pcmicro.com/getdiz/file_i... · Posted by u/Lammy
I thought only 4DOS/DR-DOS used that?
I had a tool, which extracted all FILE_ID.DIZ files from the archives (zip, rar, arj, lha, ...) in the directory and created DESCRIPT.ION files from those DIZ contents for those archives. Using 4DOS was joy when going through archives.
jzzskijj commented on FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) pcmicro.com/getdiz/file_i... · Posted by u/Lammy
What I remember is a title ascii screen (yellow letters against a red background or something the like) stating 'if you copy Doom, you will go to hell'. I'm pretty sure I got a copy of the complete game. I guess a lot of people will be going to hell.
If you played Doom, you were already in Hell.
jzzskijj commented on FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) pcmicro.com/getdiz/file_i... · Posted by u/Lammy
When "releases" started to be from 5 to 15 disks
I can remember this, scrolling through page after page of the same release since only 3 or 4 big "PWA" or "FLT" logos could fit on a page. I remember more or less the same visual style as graffiti from the era. I had no idea this stuff was still happening in 2015.
This stuff is still happening even today :-)
http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=107478 for example this 2024 release, if you scroll to the end of the page.
jzzskijj commented on FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) pcmicro.com/getdiz/file_i... · Posted by u/Lammy
Dos and later Windows. Unsure which code pages were used but this was in Sweden.
> Unsure which code pages were used but this was in Sweden.
Interesting. Every PC I ever used in Finland (home, school, friend's, etc.) were always using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 and I would have assumed every PC in Sweden did too. Maybe your did have cp850 or something uncommon.
jzzskijj commented on FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) pcmicro.com/getdiz/file_i... · Posted by u/Lammy
jzzskijj commented on FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) pcmicro.com/getdiz/file_i... · Posted by u/Lammy
This made me chuckle:
> Please don't be tempted to use fancy graphic or ANSI sequences in the FILE_ID.DIZ file, as most BBS software will not allow this, and will render your FILE_ID.DIZ file useless.
Everyone was doing exactly that and even I did something like +hundred artsy file_id.diz headers for the scene groups or my own groups. When "releases" started to be from 5 to 15 disks (packages), many sysops started to clearing the art away from the file lists and just leaving an oneliner of the title visible, like:
The Name of The Release Disk: [03/12]
jzzskijj commented on Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams djmag.com/news/spotify-of... · Posted by u/buro9
I don’t know much about how music licensing works. But would this cause smaller musicians to decide to pull their stuff off Spotify?
I listen to a lot of music on Spotify. And some of it is from smaller indie artists. Not a huge amount, but I’ve definitely listened to songs that are in that <1000 plays category, and for some undiscovered artists that’s a good amount of their library.
It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.
As much as I love Spotify and music streaming, it seems like the economics of it fundamentally doesn’t work and can’t work.
> It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.
This probably has more to do with publishers and licensing contracts than artists pulling their music off from platforms. Sometimes even bigger artists' albums disappear when publisher is sold or goes out from the business. Or the licensing contract's period runs out. As sad it is, many artists don't own the rights to their music, and if the rights owner is defunct, then there are missing albums or even discographies.