#obscuretech — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh, joy! Another PDF extraction library, because the world was clearly suffering from a dearth of those. 🤦♂️ Written in Zig, for those who like their obscurity with a side of performance bragging—5x faster than MuPDF, because who doesn't love playing with the tiniest 🐌 of time savings?
https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf #PDFExtraction #ZigLibrary #PerformanceBragging #ObscureTech #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, joy! Another PDF extraction library, because the world was clearly suffering from a dearth of those. 🤦♂️ Written in Zig, for those who like their obscurity with a side of performance bragging—5x faster than MuPDF, because who doesn't love playing with the tiniest 🐌 of time savings?
https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf #PDFExtraction #ZigLibrary #PerformanceBragging #ObscureTech #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, because the internet was just itching for another deep dive into the thrilling world of Linux kernel #features 💤. Who knew "Binary Format Miscellaneous" wasn't a lost Radiohead track but a riveting saga of custom file execution? 🤔 Keep this up and soon you'll have enough obscure knowledge to bore a sysadmin to death. 💀📚
https://dfir.ch/posts/today_i_learned_binfmt_misc/ #LinuxKernel #BinaryFormat #SysadminKnowledge #ObscureTech #DeepDive #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉🥳 After only two decades of hard labor, #MAME managed to get #sound working on an #arcade system nobody remembers! 🎮 The true triumph here is fast-tracking PC Engine LaserActive support, because who doesn't love prioritizing the obscure? 🚀 Keep those Tokyo vacation slides to yourself, Wes.
https://www.readonlymemo.com/mame-hyper-neo-geo-support-sound-emulation/ #PCEngine #RetroGaming #ObscureTech #HackerNews #ngated -
🤯 Oh, look! Another riveting YouTube "exclusive" on tech no one asked for. 🤓 Mini #smartphones from #Japan that are so obscure, even their inventors forgot about them. 📱✨ Welcome to the future, where big things come in tiny, irrelevant packages! 🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e27TfHibTg #technews #miniaturization #obscuretech #gadgets #HackerNews #ngated -
🦀✨ Ah, yes, another riveting tale of someone cramming #Datalog into #Rust because who doesn't love combining obscure technologies for funsies? 🚀🔧 It's like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and calling it innovation—now with extra GitHub links for the brave souls who pretend to care. 🎉💾
https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2025-06-03.md #Innovation #TechHumor #ObscureTech #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🥳 Breaking News in the World of Obscure Computing Hobbies: 🥁 Rocky Linux 10 will bravely venture into the thrilling, high-demand land of #RISC-V support! 🤯 Get ready, tech hipsters, to run your favorite software on gadgets nobody owns! 🎉👾
https://rockylinux.org/news/rockylinux-support-for-riscv #RockyLinux #ComputingHobbies #TechNews #ObscureTech #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, another day, another obscure Amiga hack nobody asked for! 🎉 A 'Dual Kickstart ROM' replacement for a computer that's about as relevant as dial-up Internet. 🚀 What's next, a floppy disk defragmenter? 🤣
https://github.com/cdhooper/kicksmash32 #AmigaHack #DualKickstart #RetroComputing #ObscureTech #FloppyDiskFun #HackerNews #ngated -
I'm trying to track down an #article I read years ago about how #Microsoft tracked leaks of either the #XBOX or the #xbox360 where they embedded the details of the xbox into the drops or the rings or something in the background, so they could find the exact person from a photo of the screen.
Anyone know where I can find it?
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For years I have thought the third-party 360 controller receiver that I bought on Amazon was just junk. Then I found out it works flawlessly on Linux.
JUST TODAY I found out you can manually install the driver on Windows. Not the 10.x driver from this year, but the 2.x driver from 2009.
- Open "Device Manager" (if it still exists at the time of reading)
- The "Other devices" section should be auto-expanded
- Right click "Unknown device" if you don't see anything else corresponding to your adapter.
- Select "Update driver"
- DO NOT SELECT "Search automatically for drivers". That will fail every time
- Select "Browse my computer for drivers" and then "Let me pick from a list of available drivers" and then under "Xbox 360 Peripherals" select the "Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows Version: 2.1.0.1349 [8/13/2009]"GAME ON!
Search Keyword: "X-360 PC Wireless Gaming Receiver"