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Diskussion zum Auftakt am 5. Mai: "Zugang zu Informationen - teuer oder wertvoll?" im Max-Bense-Forum in der Stadtbibliothek

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@lfdi #Informationsfreiheit #IF #LIFG #Stadtbibliothek

Warranty Void If Regenerated

https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated

#HackerNews #Warranty #Void #If #Regenerated #warranty #void #regeneration #tech #news #software #development

#rudyardkipling #poetry #if #english #poem #HashtagGames #HairStyleASongOrPoem
I rarely post poetry, but I’ve always loved this and it’s so well known. My Hashtag Games entry’s given me the perfect excuse to share it. (My sincere apologies to Rudyard for “Quiff.”)

Here you go…

🚗🚗🚗💁‍♀️*IF IT'S NOT A HONDA FIT SPORT I DON'T CARE!*PLEASE BRING BACK TO AMERICA HONDA FIT SPORTS!👉
🚙🚙🚙💁🏿‍♀️The Most Efficient Non-Hybrid Inline-Four Engine Currently In Production👉

#IF #IT #is #NOT #A #HONDA #FIT #SPORT #I #DON'T #CARE #PLEASE #BRING #BACK #TO #AMERICA #HONDA #FIT #SPORTS

Honda's Civic Engine Is The Most Efficient Non-Hybrid Inline-Four In Current Production
https://carbuzz.com/honda-most-efficient-non-hybrid-inline-four-engine/

Maxivmac, a maximized minivmac (in progress). #marchintosh

*The hardest part of this refactor wasn't any single conversion — it was the invisible web of dependencies that only revealed themselves at link time. Mini vMac was written as a single-model, single-binary C program where #define was the configuration mechanism, and every device file implicitly assumed it could reach into any other device's guts through macros. You'd confidently strip a #if EmPMU guard from pmu.cpp, hit build, and discover that the PMU's implementation directly pokes VIA1 port registers through #define aliases that only exist when EmPMU=1. Three times I removed a file-level guard, watched the linker explode with undefined symbols, and had to restore it with a stub API in the #else branch instead — a pragmatic retreat that felt like admitting defeat each time. The HaveMasterMyEvtQLock macro was a perfect example of the archeological nightmare: a boolean #define aliased to another #define (EmClassicKbrd), gating a variable declaration in one file, used conditionally in three others, whose ultimate purpose was a four-tick debounce counter for the mouse button on compact Macs. Understanding that took longer than converting it.* -- Claude Opus 4.6, after a 14 hours session

So? I wanted to play with Claude and modernization, and 102 commits later, welcome [maxivmac](https://github.com/fstark/maxivmac), the port of minivmac to the 21th Century!

```
maxivmac % ./bld/macos-cocoa/maxivmac.app/Contents/MacOS/maxivmac --help
Usage: ./bld/macos-cocoa/maxivmac.app/Contents/MacOS/maxivmac [options] [disk1.img] [disk2.img] ...

Options:
--model=MODEL Mac model: Plus, SE, II, IIx, Classic, PB100, 128K, 512Ke
(default: II)
--rom=PATH Path to ROM file
--ram=SIZE RAM size: 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M (default: model-specific)
--screen=WxHxD Screen size: 512x342x1, 640x480x8, etc.
--speed=N Emulation speed: 1 (1x), 2, 4, 8, 0 (all-out)
--fullscreen Start in fullscreen mode
-r PATH ROM path (short form)
-h, --help Show this help

Examples:
./bld/macos-cocoa/maxivmac.app/Contents/MacOS/maxivmac --model=II --rom=MacII.ROM system7.img
./bld/macos-cocoa/maxivmac.app/Contents/MacOS/maxivmac --model=Plus --rom=vMac.ROM --ram=4M disk.img
maxivmac %
``

This is _far_ from finished, but I did get rid of the original byzantine build system and have a single binary for all models (Plus and MacII working). If you've ever tried to hack ``minivmac`` you know what a milestone this is. You can now switch models, increase the emulated RAM or the screen resolution without recompiling.

Goal is to converge to a semi modern C++ source, with no functional #define left, and proper naming of everything.

I renamed it maxivmac to distinguish from the original, and to emphasis that the goal is not minimalism. A lot of untested things in the repo, so don't fork yet if you plan to build on it. Note that I do plan to get rid of platforms better served by minivmac, and will also try to converge to a single frontend. If you have strong opinions to where this should go, use the [github issue tracker](https://github.com/fstark/maxivmac/issues)!

(I will not accept PR until the build is stable with a strong test suite -- a matter of a couple of weeks, probably)

Does anyone here have a gaming Discord community? If so, please let me know; I am looking for a Discord friend server

#Does #anyone #here #have a #gaming #Discord #community #If so, #please let me know; I am #looking for a #Discord #friend #server

This blog post's been sitting incomplete in my drafts since last decade. I think it's finally time to share with you... ten weird games (and game adjacent media) you should see.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/12/ten-weird-games/

#article #art #book #books #game #games #if #videoGames