Thought about doing it as a Linux screensaver, but I didn't have the patience to actually wait for the idle time, and that way I can share it with my non-Linux-using family.
devindotcom 3 hours ago [-]
I need the Star Trek modules, which I recall waiting overnight to pirate from a BBS on my 14.4k. "Do NOT pick up the phone, mom."
Also Lunatic Fringe - somehow and for some reason a full top down space shoot-em-up in After Dark. Probably for office workers to play, I do recall there was a "boss mode" that pulled up a fake spreadsheet or something.
If you are idle for too long, the flying toasters / screensaver kicks in.
dallen33 2 hours ago [-]
Has anyone been able to make this actually work as a macOS screensaver? I'm using Tahoe and when I go to System Settings -> Wallpapers -> Screensavers, I don't see any option to select like Afterglow or any of the wallpapers I installed.
jamesfmilne 50 minutes ago [-]
Yes it works, but you need to enable it in the Afterglow settings first.
Scramblejams 3 hours ago [-]
I need this for Wayland. Maybe when the maintainers discover that joy in computing both exists and can be a worthwhile pursuit.
dylan604 4 hours ago [-]
"You can also browse and install software releases directly from the Internet Archive without leaving the app. "
That's a fine line being walked there. If they are worried about rights issues and not including the bundles, this seems like a risky FU by building this feature in directly. The part about using bundles you may have without asking questions of origin is fine. Otherwise, why not just include the bundles?
jedberg 2 hours ago [-]
This is pretty well trod legally. By the user taking a specific action, it makes the user responsible. Comma.ai uses the same technique. Technically their self driving hardware comes with no software. You have to click a button and point it at their GitHub to get the software on it, but it's automatic after that.
schoen 2 hours ago [-]
We lost a Supreme Court case in 2005 on "inducement liability" (not a familiar copyright doctrine before that).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432857
Thought about doing it as a Linux screensaver, but I didn't have the patience to actually wait for the idle time, and that way I can share it with my non-Linux-using family.
Also Lunatic Fringe - somehow and for some reason a full top down space shoot-em-up in After Dark. Probably for office workers to play, I do recall there was a "boss mode" that pulled up a fake spreadsheet or something.
They're there. Installable from within the program.
https://b0b.com/ZMODEM.TXT
The After Dark screensavers are on the internet archive, but obviously they look and run like crap since they're made for Windows 3.x to maybe 95/98.
https://jcs.org/
If you are idle for too long, the flying toasters / screensaver kicks in.
That's a fine line being walked there. If they are worried about rights issues and not including the bundles, this seems like a risky FU by building this feature in directly. The part about using bundles you may have without asking questions of origin is fine. Otherwise, why not just include the bundles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,....
I'm not sure if this doctrine has continued to be applied to anything else.
Hopefully since it's so old, the copyright holders are cool about it.
ps. Hi Seth, good to see you around!
Someone went through the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and re-created all of the computer screens, with animation.
It was a masterpiece of mid-century design and space-age optimism.
IIRC, the author got a cease-and-desist demand, and was left to languish and die when Macs went 64-bit only.
general idea, rip the 4k vids from YT and use a video screensaver app