never knew demakes were a thing

I don’t really know the details but afaik it uses new algorithms introduced in windows 10 and there is virtually no overhead.

compact.exe, it’s a built-in tool in windows for compressing executables. there’s an open source GUI too, very useful for compressing games and the compression is “transparent” so you can still play the games after compressing. there’s more info on the page I linked

the telegram bot is not available anymore but there’s a workaround, if you make an account on zlib website and go to “edit profile” page there’s a button at the bottom to get a personal telegram bot

some publishers don’t use DRM so there’s that, otherwise I guess there’s overdrive which is… not that good, and requires library card but it’s free

perplexity

maybe it’s just me but I tried mastodon and just couldn’t really make friends, hard to find discussions that interest you or like-minded people

not to mention it was only available in US… but then again the rest of the world doesn’t exist anyway, right ?

any suggestions?

seems like that person got banned.

Edit: the reason in modlog says “troll”

and afaik it’s the only one that is actually free

I’ll just go where there are more users, no point in having a good concept or whatever if there’s no activity

I just want to learn the low level stuff about how programs are written in C, and things like how system starts processes, how programs interact with the OS etc, (I guess that’s basically systems programming ?).

It would be good to know what does make them “bad resource” in your opinion

some that I’ve looked up seem rather shallow and don’t explain things well, what I’m struggling with is the memory allocation stuff, like what is malloc ? realloc ? calloc ?

why is Python not enough?

Python is enough, I’m happy with it; I just want to learn more.

nosleep replacement

which one ?

r/writingprompts

if they add support for forums I might even consider using it, but if it’s just reddit, twitter, tiktok or whatever then it’s not really all that useful