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ChickenLadyLovesLife

@ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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  • I love it

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  • I wonder if my old app circa 2000 would actually run on Linux/Wine. One of my projects for this winter is to install Linux on one of my Windows laptops. I'll have to give the old app a try.

  • I love it

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  • It was originally written as a C DLL utilized by a Visual Basic front end. The C DLL used the Win95 API, though, so it wouldn't have worked on anything but Windows 95 and onwards. I subsequently ported the entire thing to C# but still using the same API to do the actual playing of the audio (I experimented with using DirectSound instead but that was really not appropriate for an application doing its own audio mixing). Now I'm working on an iOS version and I couldn't give two fucks about Windows at this point.

  • I love it

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  • As a programmer, it's pretty wild how much of Windows under the hood has remained completely unchanged. I started writing software synthesizer applications back in the late '90s, using a part of the Win95 API called "winOutX". The functions are kind of clunky to use but they allow you to programmatically create your own audio buffer arrays filled with whatever sounds you're up to creating and dump them into the playback stream for seamless audio. This shit has remained in place, working pretty much perfectly, for the last 30 years. It was even there in WinCE/Windows Mobile, which allowed me to write software synthesis applications for early smartphones circa 2005. And it's still all there today.

    I like to rip on MS as much as the next guy (not least for them completely dropping the fucking ball as far as smartphones were concerned), but sometimes their incredibly long-term conservatism can work to your benefit.

  • Straight into my adblocker

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  • I had to buy adult diapers for my elderly parents. Whoo boy did that unleash a storm.

  • Straight into my adblocker

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  • I bought a used school bus on eBay a few years ago (to turn into a skoolie) and since then I've been bombarded with ads for used school buses. I can assure anyone interested that one is more than enough. Yes, there are school districts and companies that maintain large fleets of school buses, but they do not buy them on fucking eBay.

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • "I'm serious as cancer when I say that TikTok is a cancer!"

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • domestic

    <niche item only available in Spain>

    Domestic manchego. Aka Velveeta.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • didn’t understand the concept of an import tax

    That's why the media uses the term "tariffs" and describes them as being "imposed on {country X}". That lets the people who desperately want their masters to be in the right to imagine foreign countries are being bullied into writing big checks.

  • Removed

    It's Stalinist to want walkable cities with fewer cars, apparently 🤦

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  • the Molotove-Ribbentripp pact

    Here's a fun mostly-unknown fact about this one: the pact(s) included military technology transfers, with one result being that advanced anti-aircraft guns earmarked for the battleship Bismarck were instead given to the USSR. Bismarck ended up being fatally crippled by British biplanes.

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    It's Stalinist to want walkable cities with fewer cars, apparently 🤦

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  • You just need to re-open the coal mines to get the 100% employment.

  • The Democrats are campaigning as if the mid-terms will be free and fair elections. That is a mistake.

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  • Fucking Federman before the 2024 election castigated his fellow Democrats for daring to use Trump's actual fucking felony convictions against him as a political tool, because (according to him) Democrats are supposed to be "the party of forgiveness". Just unbelievable bullshit from him, even worse than his "Trump signs are Pennsylvania's state flower" comment.

  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • I'm sorry you had to lose your mother to this bullshit.

  • Johnny Appleseed planting apple trees for kids to eat

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  • Let me introduce you to my neighbor Mr. Groundhog.

  • Slay Girl

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  • Crows are complex, though. The ones that live around my house can often be found ganging up and chasing away the red-tailed hawks that like to snack on the squirrels. The squirrels repay the favor by chasing off the crows who come to eat the peanuts I leave out for them (and eating the peanuts themselves). One time the crows flew around above me making a godawful racket until I went to the back yard and freed a baby raccoon that had accidentally gone into the box trap I leave out for groundhogs; they immediately flew off as soon as I let the little guy out.

  • Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days

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  • In my opinion, the rightward correction has gotten even worse since the defunding. For a long time now they've run a graphic showing their corporate sponsors before each broadcast (Meta and oil companies often show up there). They love to say it's "viewers like you" that make them possible, but I think the corporate sponsors are a lot more important. It's been a very long time since the government funding has even been that big a chunk of their income.

  • Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days

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  • I don't watch PBS News Hour but my parents do and I have to listen to it from time to time. They characterized this issue as one of Grok creating "explicit" AI images and artificially generating pictures of real women (not "girls") in "bathing suits". Not exactly an accurate characterization of CSAM.

  • It works tho

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  • Escort carriers?

  • full monty

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  • "Bored of Peace"

  • full monty

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  • He spent most of his adult life dodging taxes -- no surprise that he would be pro-brexit.