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The worst PDA of all time
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (369+ words) None of this is new, however. In the late ’90s and early 2000s, companies were already doing the same thing. In fact, there’s one device from this era which combines both business practices – it’s both a cheap knockoff of a wildly successful…...
Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (267+ words) In the last few days, I built a shoot ’em up game by embedding a tiny custom bytecode VM and rendering the graphics using a fullscreen pixel shader. The result is a 3kB Windows executable. This was done for Langjam Gamejam,…...
Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (241+ words) A while back, when chatting with a colleague over their computer, I noticed that a logo did not look exactly the same as it did on mine. It looked thinner on theirs and more faithful to the original image. It…...
Redox gets installer improvements, merges new CPU scheduler
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (362+ words) Another month started almost two weeks ago, so we’ve got a new monthly report from Redox, the general purpose operating system written in Rust. The month of July – it seems the report was published with a bit of a delay,…...
The OSNews Fundraiser continues: you made me use Windows, now make me use macOS
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (189+ words) The OSNews Fundraiser, to celebrate the fact I posted 20000 stories in 21 years, is still underway. The first major incentive was reached, and I, a long-time Linux user, published my experiences using Windows 11 for a month. It wasn’t a success. Keep…...
The little-known winstart.bat batch file
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (318+ words) Raymond Chen explains what, exactly, the file winstart.bat in Windows 95 is used for. In Windows 95, you could create a winstart.bat file in your Windows directory. During startup, the virtual machine manager initializes and creates the so-called “System virtual…...
Delphi 13 Community Edition released
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (396+ words) Delphi is still very much a thing, and still very much in active development. The current stewards of Delphi, Embarcadero, released the Delphi 13 Community Edition today. Delphi Community Edition is a full-featured, free edition of Delphi for building native applications…...
GNOME showcases a number of possible GNOME Shell changes
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (711+ words) The GNOME Shell user interface has mostly seen minor refinements and quality of life updates in recent cycles, but on the design side we’ve explored a lot of longer-term things we’d like to do. Some of these we have relatively…...
An ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (99+ words) I found some ambiguous wording in the c89(/c90) standard, where GCC and Clang disagree on the interpretation. It concerns the behavior of implicit function declarations, which were removed in c99, so this was never disambiguated. ↫ Sebastian at sebsite I am not going…...
Microsoft drastically increases costs of Windows licenses for OEMs
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (459+ words) This was bound to happen. According to a new report from Taiwanese publication United Daily News (UDC,) Microsoft is raising the cost of Windows license fees for hardware makers by a much higher amount than normal. According to the report,…...