Notices by Shiz (shiz@mastodon.social)

thanks to the download folder preview in macOS there's now an intimidated anime girl staring at my trash bin

got a VERY big PlayStation 1 in the mail today, the original board for the first versions of Beatmania IIDX!

it plays videos by controlling a full-ass external Hi-Fi DVD player over a proprietary serial link, muxes that output back into the video signal, loads the game through a SCSI CD drive and gets its sounds from an IDE hard drive... somehow it all still seems to work after almost 25 years!

DDR-IIDX cabinet link imminent 👀

always the #why2025 memes

#why2025 night impressions

@jwz here you go: https://shiz.me/junk/dev/xscreensaver-6.09-ffmpeg-7.1-api/

also contains two optional patches I used to make it build at all on my Fedora setup, since for some reason they put the FFmpeg includes in /usr/include/ffmpeg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@jwz wrote something, will send patch later

@nafmo I would never want to take the joy of ffmpeg porting work from someone, so I'll just quietly note that I posted my patches further down-thread too :)

@whitequark @jhwgh1968 @r i'll just leave this here https://github.com/shizmob/smol (now maintained at https://github.com/porocyon/smol)

so did you know Windows XP phone activation still works?

neither did we

*and* with a random retail key off the internet, fully automated