Randy Simons

@RandySimons
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My open source projectshttps://codeberg.org/randysimons

@Gina

Stop #AppDwang totally, especially by government. I use a #Librem5 #Linux phone. Provide services via the browser and open standards.

https://appdwang.nl/

@MinisterieEZK @fdroidorg

Bied weerstand tegen appdwang! | appdwang.nl

Bied weerstand tegen appdwang en laat je geen apps opdringen! Op appdwang.nl vind je praktijkvoorbeelden en argumenten om duidelijk te maken wat je van appdwang vindt.

@autobrain Ackchyually, it was just one. And it were bits, not bytes. So, Nemesis was 1 megabit, or 128KiB. But that they fit this great game in just 128KiB is perhaps even more impressive!
Here's the complete track of Planet X9 - fight for future, recorded from a Roland SC-88 Pro.

Huh, an Easter egg in Planet X9? I saw that it has a MIDI output option for the music, and having obtained a Roland SC-88 Pro recently, I of course had to try that.

But what was shown on its display when playing the track "fight for future" surprised me! That is Roland Sound Canvas specific, afaik, and probably only the SC-55/SC-88 (and variants)

(Fun fact: the camera, my mobile phone, was resting on a real MoonSound while recording :))

https://www.msxdev.org/2025/10/03/msxdev25-10-planet-x9/

#msx #msxdev25

@janvlug #sailfishos has this:

> The Sailfish OS Secrets Library provides applications with API to access the secure storage functionality offered by the system's secure storage and cryptography service daemon as part of the Sailfish OS Secrets and Crypto Framework. https://sailfishos.org/develop/docs/sailfish-secrets/

Also, the GitHub response says that without secure enclave, #Yivi won't work. Why is that?

While it would be nice to store the secrets in some SHM, I'm not sure if I would like that as a requirement.

Sailfish Secrets - Sailfish OS

Sailfish OS

@gup @zandbelt @EricChrSmit @thefirewall Zelfs als gebruiker van #Sailfishos, een Europees mobiel besturingssysteem, vind ik dit geen goed idee. Ik zie veel meer heil in open protocollen.

Maar in veel gevallen zijn apps ook gewoon te vervangen door webapps, die dan op elk platform werken, inclusief de desktop.

Hoe zou zo'n EUphone eruit zien, als het verplicht wordt om te ondersteunen voor EU-software? Gezien de huidige richting met leeftijdsverificatie e.d. vrees ik weinig goeds, eigenlijk.

@bitsofbas Could very well be. Some accessories are announced for September an October 1985 on the last page, thus they were not released at the time of print.

Also, on the first page "MSX (Microsoft Super Extended)"? That's the first time I see that!

#msx

@bitsofbas That BASIC listing in there mentions "march 1985", so that dates the brochure no earlier than that. It also mentions "le nouvauu standard international". Well not so new anymore at that point. MSX2 was introduced in May 1985, but it probably would have taken a few month before general availability in Europe, I guess?

@Sh41 @aperezdc @electron_greg The floating point representation and math differs quite a lot between these old machines, including in the precision. MSX uses doubles by default, 14 digits precision. That's quite some overhead for these simple FOR loops used here.

However, dropping to single precision (`DEFSNG A-Z`) the time goes down from 53.4s to 50.8s.

Might be fun to compare the "integer version" performance of this code on these machines. The MSX version thus is 26.4s.

@aperezdc @electron_greg Had to check on MSX turbo R :)

Integer math again. Runtime: 4.6 seconds. And, with KUN BASIC compiler: 0.2 seconds :D