retroplasma

Private Incremental File Storage on Usenet

Disclaimer

This is just a concept. Don't spam the Usenet.

How Usenet works

Usenet is an old replicated network that is basically a giant forum. There are many providers that offer access to it. Clients use NNTP to read and write articles in newsgroups. A newsgroup is like a directory that contains a stream of articles that each have a unique message ID.

Unlag Neo: A "fix" for the cursor lag on Macbook Neo

Macbook Neo (I'm on macOS Tahoe 26.5.2) cursor is lagging when the cursor is near the screen's edges or when it enters a Terminal window. [1][2][3][4][5]

[Click here for more info and background]

Why is it lagging?

I don't know. But at the moment when it lags the system switches from hardware cursor to software cursor (CGCursorIsDrawnInFramebuffer() goes from 0 to 1) so maybe that transition is stalled somehow on Macbook Neo.

Pseudo True Tone: Webcam + Night Shift

It roughly does what real True Tone does, but without the sensor. It uses the webcam to estimate the warmth of the environment and sets Night Shift settings accordingly.

It's for devices without True Tone, like the Macbook Neo.

Multiplayer chicken kart (racing? game?) in Google Earth in the browser:
3 chicken karts

- Shift key: nitro
- Space key: jump

	"use strict"

	const fs = require('fs-extra');
	const path = require('path');

	/************************** config **************************/
	const PLANET = 'earth';
	const URL_PREFIX = `https://kh.google.com/rt/${PLANET}/`;
	const DL_DIR = './downloaded_files';
	const [RESEARCH_DIR, DUMP_JSON_DIR, DUMP_RAW_DIR] = ['research', 'json', 'raw'].map(x => path.join(DL_DIR, x));

	"use strict"

	/************************** config **************************/
	const PLANET = 'earth';
	const URL_PREFIX = `https://kh.google.com/rt/${PLANET}/`;
	/****************************************************************/

	const { getPlanetoid, getBulk, traverse } = require('./lib/utils')({
	URL_PREFIX, DUMP_JSON_DIR: null, DUMP_RAW_DIR: null, DUMP_JSON: false, DUMP_RAW: false
	});

	const vec_sub = (a, b) => ({ x: a.x - b.x, y: a.y - b.y, z: a.z - b.z });
	const vec_dot = (a, b) => a.x * b.x + a.y * b.y + a.z * b.z;
	const vec_len = a => Math.sqrt(a.x * a.x + a.y * a.y + a.z * a.z);
	const vec_norm = a => {
	const norm = vec_len(a);
	return { x: a.x / norm, y: a.y / norm, z: a.z / norm };
	}

	/*
	* JS version of

	#!/bin/bash
	set -Efeuo pipefail

	SSH='ssh user@server'
	DIR='/remote/path'

	#assumes that "find" and "sha256 -r" commands work on the remote machine

	#count files to show live counter
	file_count="$($SSH "find $(printf %q "$DIR") -type f" \| grep -E '/[0-9a-f]{64}$'\|wc -l)"