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Very interesting bit about the Yokoi story, and totally wasted on the conclusion …

I stopped at “AI is a withered technology in Yokoi sense”. Well it is exactly the opposite: of sound engineering decision, of the characteristics of mature technology, of engineering on itself. So the article fall off completely.

Eight-six ~= Exit ?

Even if I am against this kind of “defaults”, today I learned how you customize this for any folder in the home directory !

For linux based system, you do like told in https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/

~/.config/user-dirs.dirs specifies the current set of directories for the user. This file can also be modified by users (manually or via applications) to change the directories used. Note: To disable a directory, point it to the homedir. If you delete it it will be recreated on the next login.

So at last I disabled Music, Templates, Pictures and Videos . Cleaner Home !

Monopoly is when you purchase other actors of the industry to extinction, and annihilatr competition this way. It has never been about having big market share due to superior service.

I first built a dice roller : the core is just a call to random.randint module, but you need to have the terminal interface to get the instruction ( like “4d6” means you need to have 4 times random generation between 1 and 6). You can do it only with regexp, and if you want to get fancy you can try and find solutions to have compounded formulas, try to have the results stored during a game session, etc.

Second project was a small game: the idea was to have a map of coordinates (xy), and each game has random spawning of 2 goblins and 3 gold within the map ; the goal is to move around (nswe) getting the 3 gold without hitting a goblin.

So also no graphic representation of the map, you just have the game running at each keystroke.

You just need to be able to define functions and do string manipulation ; for logic you can stay with if-then-else and while loop.

And good luck with the learning !

If you know the “dd” command, you are already engaging in non-trivial stuff… It is just “point & click” using daemon tools, and you just need an image of the CD, which is not inherently “cracked” ; the crack is needed to bypass security (or you get a developper cd registration number, which is how it was done for old games like diablo or starcraft). Anyway, cracks for software that is not anymore published or maintained do not constitute an economic loss to said publisher, so of course it is a solution. You just risk yourself (your computer) by using modified software for which nobody else is held accountable for.

For the required cd drive : normally you use a virtual one (like daemon tools) . For the computer it makes no difference

Didier Super !

Is she not growing older ? It looks like she took the pictures on the same day 😅 nice to see the boy grow up

Stalin sort

Maybe it was just role playing games !

Because they hate GNU and free software. They is european lobbyist companies

Ah ha ! Well it was a stupid joke then 😅 my first grievance is still about not packaging GNU software though (exim, mailutils, just on top of my head but etc.)

Devuan now

I had a very good ride with Void for 3 years, a polished distro which taught me to play with init.

But a lot of GNU packages are not packaged, and lastly I saw a news regarding the distro being split between pro and free version so …

I used Antix after that, but AntiX can really get behind on package and kernel version, so I stumbled back on Devuan, and voilà ! With backport, Devuan is really like Debian without the hassle of never knowing if your system us really shut down when you close your laptop (systemd ! 🫵)

GNU is for computer users freedom, which is the closest you can find regarding a software license that is “for human rights”, because it gives you a way to avoid corporate/government mingling with your computer by forking a version without malware. It does not provide instant programming skills to realize it so you depend on fellow coders to do the change, but it is the same as the fact that you need to hire lawyers to defend your rights efficiently.

You are FOSS friendly ! Great list 😄

The pseudo is wow

It is just that simple.

Because they are racist. They only identify you based on your difference, not on shared values.