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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 个月前

The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

jordaneldredge.com

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 个月前
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I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
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    I love this! “Digital ephemera” is such a unique treasure trove, there could be literally anything in there. It’s like finding a used sd card, or an old answering machine that still has a tape in it.

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      There’s a weird nostalgia about the things he found

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    The Winamp Skin archive he built was a nostalgia trip I needed:

    https://skins.webamp.org/

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    Cool dive, and I agree that winamp is rad.

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      It really kicks Facebooks LLM ass. Wait… wrong llama

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    Really excellent article with just the right amount of bizarre and nostalgic content.

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    Wow what an adventure ! :3

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    Did I hear that winamp has been open sourced?

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      It was made source-available.

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        I thought it will be released but it isn’t released yet right?

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          Oh, so it’s not even fake open source. It’s promised to be fake open source.

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            If you sign up with your email address, yep!

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