Notices by asie (asie@mk.asie.pl)

Rumoredly, YouTube is getting rid of custom ".ytt" subtitles from their website. Here's a quick shell script if you need to archive them in a few formats for all languages:

#!/bin/sh
for i in vtt ttml srv3 json3; do
yt-dlp --write-subs --all-subs --sub-format "$i" --skip-download --compat-options no-live-chat "$1"
done

New release of the NDS music tracker fork, NitrousTracker! Version 0.5.0 brings theming support and significant stability improvements. Here are a few themes provided by the feature's contributor, prayerie, for this release - with more to come!

https://github.com/NitrousTracker/nitroustracker/releases/latest

@whitequark@mastodon.social here's the draft spec from Tharo: https://hackmd.io/@Thar0/U64-ABI

and the fork: https://github.com/LateGator/gcc

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"the Nintendo 64 homebrew scene has written multiple 3D APIs with different performance/usability tradeoffs"

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"the Nintendo 64 homebrew scene has forked GCC to add a new ABI that benefits performance given its 64-bit CPU core and 32-bit pointers"

at this point I am about 60% certain AGI will be achieved not with venture capital money but with a libdragon fork, for the sole purpose of unlocking additional performance in Super Mario 64 or whatever

I've spent the last two years developing firmware and software for a WS/WSC/PCv2 flash/development cartridge. Now, it has finally been announced and will be sold by 49bitcat from Germany. Sales start November 24th!

Learn more here: https://49bitcat.com/news/2025-10-31-nileswan-announce/

@VD15@pl.valkyrie.world @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo lawyer thinking was at play in this decision

@VD15@pl.valkyrie.world @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo

no, the decision to obfuscate was originally made by Notch all the way back in 2009, and upheld by Mojang's own lawyers long before they were purchased by Microsoft. as I understand it, the call here came from inside the house

@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo not until the game is dead

@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo it's still proprietary, it's just that we've gone from "manually reverse-engineering function/class names" (2011) through "having access to official function/class names, but having to apply them to the JAR ourselves" (2019) to "just having the JAR use official function/class names by itself" (2025). in terms of licensing, nothing changes

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition

Congratulations to who I assume are Mojang's programmers for finally pushing this through. When I started work on alternate community-sourced Minecraft mappings in 2016, I did not imagine that it would start a domino chain culminating in Mojang's legal team finally conceding that the charade of binary obfuscation for one of the most reverse engineered games in the world is no longer beneficial to maintain.

Now let's hope Fabric finally lets Yarn go independent, as they should have done long ago.

apparently a Polish Telegram group has just translated "enshittification" as "gównia pochyła" (as in "zsuwa się po gówni pochyłej") and I think that's beautifully vulgar

Ever wondered where the data used to allow open source VTuber face tracking comes from? I have, and I'm not sure I like the answer.

https://blog.asie.pl/2025/09/how-open-is-open-source-vtubing/

feeling left out because LLM crawlers have not DDoSed any of my websites nor caused a noticeable bandwidth uptick. are they that bad

What's a translator-friendly way to set up translation contributions for an open source project these days?

ELKS (Embedded Linux Kernel Subset) running natively on a WonderSwan! ... With very little memory. But it does run!

guys does anyone have a spare $3125

i need a "clothes@soup.store" e-mail address okay

OH: a computer cannot wear thigh-high socks, therefore a computer must never be allowed to program a computer

@wolf480pl@mstdn.io @hunger@fosstodon.org They'll get dropped by the kernel if the maintenance burden becomes too high to bear and nobody steps in. They've already dropped a bunch of really old ARM chips, for example.

In fact, the main reason the M68k port of LLVM exists is because GCC threatened to remove its own M68k port!

Updated my Anime Web Turnpike knockoff/mirror/clone for the first time in over two years. Don't expect this to become a regular occurence - the work is just too daunting to tackle it alone.

https://anipike.asie.pl/

Now including the earliest website in the collection - a copy of susanooh.anime.net from late 1996!

https://anipike.asie.pl/arch/1996/cb/9215a7af52bf79978f88141c64fc91/susanooh.anime.net/