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by admin
Tue Dec 30, 2025 5:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Are your IOT devices with cameras spying on you? (THEY JUST MIGHT BE)
Replies: 1
Views: 3

Re: Are your IOT devices with cameras spying on you? (THEY JUST MIGHT BE)

One could argue this is why we eliminated 2g and 3g in the US. To force us to purchase devices that are all compromised.
by admin
Tue Dec 30, 2025 5:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Are your IOT devices with cameras spying on you? (THEY JUST MIGHT BE)
Replies: 1
Views: 3

Are your IOT devices with cameras spying on you? (THEY JUST MIGHT BE)

Here's a screenshot of a post I just made on Discord regarding the possibility that we (those of us who aren't part of a certain intel agency) are all being spied on. The Mossad watching my selfie camera must take a load of bandwidth.PNG palantir, pegesus, maven, lavender, gospel, aip, cambridge ana...
by admin
Sat Dec 13, 2025 11:15 pm
Forum: Ionic Wind (and Pyxia)
Topic: Express World Wide Web Browser
Replies: 0
Views: 128

Express World Wide Web Browser

While working on Express GUI, I had decided to work on the HTM parsing example included with Express BASIC. In that process, I incorporated a WWW browser using the routines with Express GUI. It was pretty cool, but also daunting. I decided to make a rendition in Emergence BASIC to aid developing the...
by admin
Sat Dec 13, 2025 4:03 pm
Forum: QBasic
Topic: Express GUI
Replies: 0
Views: 160

Express GUI

I have spent several months working on this software. Over 5000 lines of code. Challenges were faced. Coding skills... slightly improved? During development, I had to tackle gui design, random file access, rpn evaluation, wyswyg design, html parsing, file management, font stuff, and more! It was a f...
by admin
Sat Oct 11, 2025 9:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Knowledge Management with HTML and nested unordered lists
Replies: 0
Views: 1002

Knowledge Management with HTML and nested unordered lists

I'm generating trees of information by using the folder structure and tree command under Windows XP. My approach has revealed two problems with itself. One is that I am ending up with the need to duplicate references that are actual files and folders, causing me to over bloat or limit the scope of m...
by admin
Sun Sep 28, 2025 6:18 pm
Forum: Ionic Wind (and Pyxia)
Topic: Dream Quest JRPG inspired casual mini game
Replies: 1
Views: 22123

Re: Dream Quest JRPG inspired casual mini game

Quick update: I was wondering why the hit sound wasn't playing when my friends were testing the game. I now realized why. The setup didn't copy the wav file due to a missing line. That's so annoying because there was just a windows error sound playing instead of the hit sound. That broke the experie...
by admin
Sun Sep 28, 2025 5:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: AI Troubles
Replies: 0
Views: 10145

AI Troubles

I'm starting this thread to share my experience with AI. Starting with my most recent "conversation" with Google AI mode over the frustration I'm having with what should have been a simple search. The following is an eye opening interaction... Me: when the search goes out of its way to pro...
by admin
Sat Jul 12, 2025 6:05 pm
Forum: C/C++
Topic: Express BASIC - an interpreter in C
Replies: 28
Views: 6007619

Re: Express BASIC - an interpreter in C

here's a preview of a new example
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by admin
Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:07 pm
Forum: C/C++
Topic: Express BASIC - an interpreter in C
Replies: 28
Views: 6007619

Small update

Five new examples are now included with Express BASIC (and Express OS)! Horizontal sundial calculations 5 PRECISION 5 10 INPUT "latitude: ", lat 20 INPUT "longitude: ", lon 30 INPUT "meridian: ", mer 40 PRINT CHR$(10); "time sun_hour_angle dial_hour_line_angle"...
by admin
Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:33 pm
Forum: C/C++
Topic: An obfuscated C coding contest
Replies: 18
Views: 260683

Re: An obfuscated C coding contest

Oh man I totally missed that!

There's always next time. Plenty of time to prepare. :)