Spyke

Replies

firefox

Comment on

Manifest V3 updates landed in Firefox 127

Just in case somebody only reads the title and wants to ready their pitchforks:

And to reiterate a couple important points we’ve communicated in our previous updates published in March and May:

  • The webRequest API is not on a deprecation path in Firefox
  • Mozilla has no plans to deprecate MV2
196

Comment on

priorities rule

Reply in thread

Mark Stevenson, lead artist of DK64, has already said in an interview with Nintendo Life that the use of the Expansion Pak to fix a bug was just a myth. This kind of bug did exist but was fully outside of the context of the Expanion Pak:

That story has become more-or-less accepted fact, although Stevenson believes the truth is more complicated. "This one’s a myth. The decision to use the Expansion Pak happened a long time before the game shipped, in fact we were called in by management and told that we were going to use the Expansion Pak and that we needed to do find ways to do stuff in the game that justified its use and made it a selling point. I think the bug story somehow got amalgamated into the Expansion Pak use and became urban myth."

"There was a game-breaking bug right at the end of development that we were struggling with," he clarifies, "but the Expansion Pak wasn’t introduced to deal with this and wasn’t the solution to the problem. My memory is that, like all consoles, the hardware is constantly revised over its lifetime to take advantage of ongoing improvements in technology and manufacture methods to essentially make the manufacture more cost effective and eventually profitable. I think there we’re something like 3 different revisions of the internal hardware by this point and the bug was unique to only one of these versions. We did eventually find it and fix it, but very late in the day."

Source: Nintendo Life - Feature: Donkey Kong 64 Devs On Bugs, Boxing And 20 Years Of The DK Rap

Stevenson later in an Games Radar Interview explained that the Expansion Pak was used for having bigger maps as well as being able to do more advanced lightning techniques:

Artist Mark Stevenson remembers it being beneficial in terms of standard things like level size in Donkey Kong 64, but there were also more creative uses. “One thing I remember that we did use it for was that we had a lot of dynamic lighting in there, which was hard to do and expensive,” he recalls. “One of the engineers wrote a system whereby you’d go into a cave area, and there’d be a swinging light - the first swing of that light, it’d record all of the colour changes on all of the vertices in that area, and then save it as data and just play it back as an animation rather than going on to calculate the lighting constantly. You’d get a little bit of slowdown when you went in, but after that, it was nice and smooth.”

Source: Retro Gamer - How the N64 "confidently signposted our way into the 3D future"

firefox

Comment on

Twitch is now blocking firefox

Reply in thread

That's the solution if you immediately tried to login and it didn't work.

Twitch login has in general very misleading error messages. The exact same message with unsupported browser also appears if you take too long to login

Comment on

Repurposing 3rd Gen Rev A Apple TV

Some have already suggested jailbreaking and installing Kodi but honestly, it's almost not worth it if you don't have a specific use case for it. The latest Kodi you can install is 14 vs. the current 21 which is super old. At this point I'd honestly then just go for some other media center solution (Raspberry, Mini PC, ...). You could maybe use it as an AirPlay point to cast your MacBook screen but not sure how feasible this is in your case and I'd still argue there are probably better solutions

android

Comment on

Report: EU may not force Apple to make iMessage interoperable with other services

In the article, it specifically mentions "Business users" and I can torally agree on that. Not many people use iMessage here in the EU or Switzerland anyway and for business I would say practically zero. I have seen bussiness use Threema, Wire, Telegram, Slack or Google Meet.

And heck, if businesses here have customer live chat with messenger, it's either WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.

I personally never had to use iMessage after the rise of WhatsApp - neither privately nor in bussiness.

Comment on

*Permanently Deleted*

Reply in thread

That's totally true, though, in this case with LEDs I feel like the rebound effect is less of a problem here. The LEDs are not only using less electricity, but they're far brighter with addition to using less electricity for that brightness. It means that even if somebody decides to fill their room with 5 LED lamps with 806 lumens instead of 1 incandescent bulb, they'll still waste less energy - in addition with 5 LED lamps of 806lm making your room look like the sun is shining inside.