#jsmess 2018-03-22,Thu

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00:54 🔗 oscar has joined #jsmess
00:55 🔗 oscar Well, that was weird. Couldn't reconnect for like a day.
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03:08 🔗 SketchCow Hello hi
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14:26 🔗 oscar OK, because last week was a total bust (and because I've got jury duty and a DEFCON event tomorrow), I'm working to get something that's actually interesting today.
14:27 🔗 oscar Gotta get some embedded code for work fixed this morning (yaaaaaay stack corruption under FreeRTOS), but after that, trying to slam through.
14:46 🔗 SketchCow Lovely!
15:24 🔗 DFJustin so here's adventure running on another new zealand computer you've never heard of http://forums.bannister.org//ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=112934#Post112934
15:46 🔗 SketchCow I think I can nearly 100% script uploading handhelds.
15:46 🔗 SketchCow Good for the bundles of them coming, it seems
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16:56 🔗 SketchCow DFJustin: While I understand I'm never going to get approved for the Forums, I wish I could pop in on the shoutbox
16:56 🔗 SketchCow So I'll just use you as a go-between
16:57 🔗 SketchCow I was asked "Can we leech your bandwidth" and I responded "Sure, anyone can leech our bandwidth."
16:57 🔗 SketchCow That's kind of the point of the Archive
16:57 🔗 SketchCow Next, tell me what ROMs are "Locked"
16:57 🔗 SketchCow And I'll unlock them
17:00 🔗 SketchCow I think people sometimes forget that the Internet Archive has precisely one guy on staff for the curation, maintenance and functioning of the software collections.
17:00 🔗 SketchCow So if that guy spends time with his buddy walking him around NYC, like I did yesterday, nothing else is going on.
17:01 🔗 SketchCow But there's two other people whose job is to go through and notice "crap" is happening and then mitigate the "crap"
17:01 🔗 SketchCow With "crap" being "something is eating 8% of our bandwidth", "something is spam", "someone uploaded terrorism"
17:01 🔗 SketchCow And so they have some blunt tools to fix that
17:01 🔗 SketchCow And sometimes, not every time, they go "Huh, looks like a Jason Special" and they ping me
17:04 🔗 SketchCow I think when people say "Locked ROMs", they mean "Declared High Bandwidth"
17:04 🔗 SketchCow And those are "You must log in to view"
17:04 🔗 SketchCow But that's it, you log in
17:05 🔗 SketchCow OK, I have to drive my pal to the airport (3 hour round trip). When you have info from them, I'll work with what I can.
17:05 🔗 DFJustin ok
17:06 🔗 SketchCow I wish people weren't so incredibly, hungrily eager to fill a dearth of information with a steaming pile of conclusions and then building, steadily, on that foundation.
17:06 🔗 SketchCow But, Internet
17:06 🔗 SketchCow Tell them Jason says hi. Talk soon!
17:10 🔗 DFJustin this is probably all coming from reddit
17:12 🔗 DFJustin I've been trying to stay out of that neck of the woods, last time I went in there I got Mad Online
19:14 🔗 Vito` hrm
19:14 🔗 Vito` https://archive.org/details/bob_and_his_amazing_journey_home
19:14 🔗 Vito` can anyone see why IA isn't emulating this in DOSbox?
19:14 🔗 Vito` a friend had uploaded it previously and just added the metadata tags, but it's not picking it up and I can't tell why
20:04 🔗 oscar Oh, Reddit.
21:19 🔗 SketchCow Vito`: The Mediatype was "texts", not "software"
21:19 🔗 SketchCow Workks now
21:19 🔗 Vito` thanks!
21:28 🔗 SketchCow Well, I'll make a round of fixes.
21:28 🔗 SketchCow Also, I'm being reminded how much Al haaaaaates me
21:28 🔗 SketchCow Did I mention how entirely tiring this aspect of things is?
21:28 🔗 SketchCow Like, there's so much to do, so much to handle
21:29 🔗 SketchCow Life so short, etc.
21:35 🔗 SketchCow I think.... I think I'll not be working to "unlock" the ROMs right now
21:35 🔗 SketchCow So good, congratufuckinglations, internal ridiculous political scene-drama, you did it, I'm going to focus on other stuff
21:35 🔗 SketchCow [Thumbs Up]
23:33 🔗 SketchCow oscar: As usual, let us know if you need any help
23:40 🔗 oscar Yup. I'm hitting it now, trying to make sure I get something out tonight.
23:41 🔗 oscar I don't exactly need to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for jury duty tomorrow, so.
23:42 🔗 oscar I'll 100% want testing help once it's up. Will it be helpful to host a server running my branch, or would you rather just pull it from Github?
23:46 🔗 oscar Also, question for future work (NOT for now): what is the general approach re: browser compatibility? e.g. ECMAScript 6 features that are only available on pretty new browsers? Obviously a lot of this stuff runs best on newer browsers anyway.
23:48 🔗 oscar Obviously, for example, Promises are handled with an auxiliary js file if they're not natively supported. But something like, say, modules would be handy for cleaning things up a bit in the future, but they're definitely pretty new.

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