Jorge Cohen @jorge@mastodon.excbadacc.es
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Reverse engineering, emulation, retro computing etc.
Currently working on emulator backed remakes of obscure DOS games.
Joined Sep 2020
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Following a discussion with @jlskzc yesterday I wrote a piece about the JavaScript ecosystem and how I feel it's now a soft-power that sustains itself. https://thomasorus.com/the-soft-power-of-javascript.html
Today was sunny so I spent most of it chilling out side. I was surprised to pick up hams on my shortwave radio. In the middle of LONDON!
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Mattis Dovier is a French animator known for his spectacular, pixel-art monochrome animations.
https://mattisdovier.tumblr.com/
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Ham radio has to be the coolest thing ever. So happy I'm getting my license. I've been having a great time recently just listening in on WebSDR during work.
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The Web Needs to Die: A Long Rant
Today I said something that I never thought I'd hear.
I think the web needs to die. I wish I had listened to a friend who, 15 years ago, was ranting about the trend to re-invent the internet on port 80.
We have taken a resilient network with a diverse ecosystem of applications and shoved every damn thing into a web application. The deluge of standards and bolt ons makes the web look like the stacks from Ready Player One - unmaintainable and fragile. We have created a single (and highly corporate/commercialized) single point of failure.
Accessing the internet:80 (or 443) is so fraught that you have to be a big player to make a browser that works correctly, but doing so allows you to gatekeep the whole thing. As a bonus you could mine behavior from that client to feed into your search and advertising machine.
And now we can't do shit without it. We're guzzling the kool-aid such that we write write apps in (originally) hacked-in web programming languages using toolkits that basically turn an entire web browser into a shared library.
I wish I had good alternates or suggestions for a functional replacement, but I have to say it: The web is a dangerous joke.
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What is the Tildeverse?
Spend 20 minutes with me and learn all about it in my newest video.
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK1mInnbfrU
Peertube:
https://peertube.dk/videos/watch/5248e160-242a-4cd4-8546-8f032f24aa61
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Ken Williams' Sierra On-Line book "Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings" is available now!
Paperback ($34.99): https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ken-williams/not-all-fairy-tales-have-happy-endings/paperback/product-5jgwme.html
Kindle ($7.95): https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tales-Happy-Endings-Line-ebook/dp/B08KG2XLMR
PDF ($7.50): https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ken-williams/not-all-fairy-tales-have-happy-endings/ebook/product-5j5y52.html
ePUB ($7.75): https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ken-williams/not-all-fairy-tales-have-happy-endings/ebook/product-ejqnz7.html
"To use Pleroma, please enable JavaScript."
Really? That's disappointing.
I was able to extract all app icons!
BUT... the b/w versions are corrupted :(
I wonder if these are originally like this (probably not), or if my extraction tool is doing this.
Or maybe ImageMagick can't handle b/w tiffs?
I originally wrote the util as a way to learn some rust, unfortunately, not having the time to actually learn it meant any change I wanted to do took longer and made me anxious. The C version is easier for me to work with.
Rewrote my NextStep icon extractor in C, parsing the mach-o file myself, removing the dependency on rust’s mach_object library.
So now, being able to mount the original file systems and extract the icons means I’m ready to start the icon archive!
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Just looked at some projects on Github and saw that the site no longer advertises a standard git command to copy for repo cloning. Now they encourage the use of 'Github CLI' with the syntax of 'gh repo clone'.
No doubt it's a wrapper around git that will slowly gain features that git won't add because there is no need for them.
They are no longer a 'git hub', they are a 'repo space'.
All leading to the classic, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
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I made a small ios shortcut to open gemini urls in a gemini proxy in safari https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/06f1007b20d5408096213c1bb676438d
Added two new notes to excbadacc.es:
Extracting icons from NextStep apps
Parsing debug info on Borland compiled dos programs.
Was planning to self host on a raspberry pi zero I have, but finding a good way to expose the pi to the web got too complicated. So, GitHub pages for now.
Got http://excbadacc.es/ up and running, it’ll take a while to move my notes and journal over, but I guess it’s a start.
I’m currently hand writing the html, but started working a small generator to help with that.
Couldn't get dosbox-x to compile on the raspberry pi, and didn't have the energy last night to deal with the library hell I encounterd.
I guess it's for the best, I'll just have to make my own DOS emulator better.
Jorge Cohen
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- Homepage
- http://excbadacc.es
Reverse engineering, emulation, retro computing etc.
Currently working on emulator backed remakes of obscure DOS games.
Joined Sep 2020
