New Edge of Emulation just dropped, hell yeah! If you're at all interested in reverse engineering and/or emulation, shonumi's website is an absolute treasure trove.

Xcancel link

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/707234

Comments

Emudev sickos get in here

One key finding of the analysis is stunning: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity medical experts say is necessary to stop the spread of measles, which had once nearly been eliminated. The data further reveals that:

• Since 2019, 77% of counties and jurisdictions in the U.S. have reported notable declines in childhood vaccination rates. The declines span from less than 1 percentage point to more than 40 percentage points.
• Vaccine exemptions for school children are rising nationwide: As many as 53% of counties and jurisdictions saw exemption rates more than double from their first year of collecting data to the most recent.
• Among the states collecting data for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, 68% of counties and jurisdictions now have immunization rates below 95% — the level of herd immunity doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak.

[...]

Student enrollment in Saint Louis Public Schools has been declining as a growing number of people are moving out of the city or choosing to send their children to charter schools.

That puts tremendous financial strain on the school system. Average daily attendance primarily determines school funding, according to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. And the board of education is considering a proposal to close half of its schools for the 2026-2027 school year.

Boleyjack blames steep budget cuts for lax vaccination enforcement. She said that some administrators allow noncompliant children to stay in school to keep enrollment up to be eligible for tax money.

"They got to get their dollars. So they're going to let in students who may not be completely compliant," she said. "I don't agree with it, but that's what it is."

Found thanks to a Video Game History Foundation tweet (Xcancel link, Bluesky link); you can browse the magazine (the November 1983 issue of Electronic Games) and do full text searches in their archive.

Interesting quantitative look at web performance and how designs made for people with high-end devices can be practically unusable for people on low-end devices, which disproportionately affects poorer people and people in developing countries. Also discusses how sites game Google's performance metrics—maybe not news to the web devs among ye, but it was new to me. The arrogance of the Discourse founder was astounding.

RETVRN to static web pages.^[Although even static web pages can be fraught—see his other post on speeding up his site 50x by tearing out a bunch of unnecessary crap.]

Also, from one of the appendices:

In principle, HN should be the slowest social media site or link aggregator because it's written in a custom Lisp that isn't highly optimized and the code was originally written with brevity and cleverness in mind, which generally gives you fairly poor performance. However, that's only poor relative to what you'd get if you were writing high-performance code, which is not a relevant point of comparison here.

TL;DR: they were just vibing

I feel a bit silly posting something this trivial in this comm, but I know I'm not the only one with an absurd number of browser tabs open—in my case, the figure is around 1500 tabs open across all my devices, and it's constantly growing. Every once in a blue moon I'll go and close like 50 of them in one day, but it's not frequent enough to reverse the trend. It's to the point where it's a coin flip whether a new tab in my mobile browser will actually work, and I have genuinely run into out-of-memory issues on my fairly beefy PC where stuff will straight-up crash. Beyond the technical issues, it's overwhelming, especially on the PC where I'm actually confronted with the staggering quantity of the tabs whenever I'm actually using it and I have to sift through them to find the few tabs I use frequently (idk what I'd do without the tab search function on modern browsers).

I thought it might be neat for other people with the same issue to congregate and work together to make incremental net reductions in our tab counts (so you can't just close 10 tabs and then open 15 more!). I was thinking that 10 tabs per day might be a reasonable figure—small enough to be manageable, but big enough that even with a few thousand tabs you could still make significant progress. Everyone is free to set a goal that fits their parameters, although I'd err on the side of caution. If you set a goal that's too ambitious, you could quickly miss your target and get frustrated. Slow and steady wins the race! Of course, with this sort of thing it will tend to get harder as you go along, since you'll go for the low hanging fruit first and then need to either make tougher decisions or have tabs that take longer to resolve (e.g. "am I gonna spend 15 minutes reading this article or just close it?"), so adjustments may be necessary later in the process. And if you do miss a day or a target, don't beat yourself up about it—it's a marathon, not a sprint, and sometimes you need to a take a breather. Just make sure to get back in there.

We could each make posts in the weekly self-improvement thread^[I'd also encourage you to post any other self-improvement things you're working on while you're at it!] and edit them daily, posting our new totals as we go. For instance:

Monday: 1500 (-10/10, -10 total)
Tuesday: 1490 (-10/10, -20 total)
Wednesday: 1475 (-15/10, -35 total)

and so on. It doesn't have to be in that precise format, but it's important to keep track of your total open tabs to ensure you're really making a net reduction, and I think it would be nice to show your accumulating reduction to show the progress you've made as the weeks go on.

Anyway, I'd love to hear from anyone who's interested in participating and get feedback on how this idea could be improved!

"[...] with the real calendar. You won't regret it."

- Hilltop, lead developer of said translation patch

(the URL in the OP links to a trailer for the patch)

Meant to post this earlier, but better late than never, I suppose! I'll be following along with the game in August—and by the way, Hilltop mentions that it only takes about 30 minutes per day, so it's not a huge time commitment.

Here's the tweet that I grabbed the post title from which also links to the patch (edit: wich is PS2 only):

https://xcancel.com/HilltopWorks/status/1817625943583949163

And here's the link directly to the patch to save you a click (make sure to read the readme for instructions on patching the ROM and tweaking the game settings in PCSX2—nothing major, just a few clicks):

https://www.patreon.com/posts/boku-no-2-patch-92070798

(if you're not sure where to get the ROM, I recommend Myrient)

Ever since seeing Tim Rogers' Action Button video on the original Boku no Natsuyasumi, I've been very curious to play a game from the series. Looking forward to experiencing this in "real time", so-to-speak, and I hope some of you will join me!

Separately, if you're interesting in romhacking/reverse engineering, definitely check out Hilltop's YouTube channel. The only reason I saw this tweet in the first place is because I followed him after seeing his excellent in-depth videos on PS1/PS2 romhacking.