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(on Wikipedia)
https://jdownloader.org/
Just some random notes.
glances
All posts tagged glances
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-us/
https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-us/
A fixed-angle-view roguelike.
My general conclusion is that it’s a good game, but doesn’t have enough variety of abilities.
Path of Exile – (2013 game) is better in terms of difficulty, complexity and player-immersion. In fact, Diablo 3 has been copying features straight from Path of Exile. Doing things badly, but, still, obviously copying.
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Properly titled Diablo III
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mumble.com/
A VoIP client.
Particularly awesome not just because of it’s spectacular quality, but because it’s free (client and server), and forces all of its users to fix their fucking microphone settings so everyone else doesn’t have to constantly fiddle with their per-user volume.
You can also run your own server “Murmur”.
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Software > Web browsers >
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/midori-browser/core
https://gitlab.com/midori-browser/midori-core
https://astian.org/midori-browser/
A semi-light web browser. It’s been creeping in as many features as possible over the years.
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2020-05-23 – Abandoned/migrated into another project.
TODO – make a proper page
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/
A down-and-out traveler discovers a pair of sunglasses which let him see through the illusions aliens have been using to control mankind.
With overtones of the manipulation of the everyman, I would easily put this movie in the same class as Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, the otherwise weighty impact is cushioned by comedy, great characters and a great story. Though old, this movie stands the test of time. Easily considered satirical-horror, there’s much more to it.
This is, in a sense, a bubblegum movie that delivers a subtler message. It tickles the viewer’s cognitive dissonance. Some viewers will easily “get it”, and some will merely find it entertaining. I hope those between those two groups will be particularly intrigued.
Mandatory viewing.
- Based on Eight O’Clock in the Morning – (1963 short story) by Ray Nelson (archived)
- See also fnord
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They Live has concepts found in Buckaroo Banzai – (1984 movie).
http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php
A light xterm. And it’s actually lighter! Not tabbed.
I got this working with a nice vga font from DOSEmu. See 9×15 versus DOSEMU’s vga font. However, I learned that aterm does not support unicode. It suggested rxvt-unicode, and I got it working with a nice unicode vga font. See Unicode VGA font for that info.
TODO – make a proper page
https://code.google.com/archive/p/skippy-xd (ppa)
Skippy-XD is a lightweight Exposé-like application switcher.
