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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 11 months ago

The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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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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  • @[email protected]
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    16•11 months ago

    Cool dive, and I agree that winamp is rad.

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      10•11 months ago

      It really kicks Facebooks LLM ass. Wait… wrong llama

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    4•11 months ago

    Wow what an adventure ! :3

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    26•11 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      10•11 months ago

      There’s a weird nostalgia about the things he found

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2•11 months ago

    Did I hear that winamp has been open sourced?

    • @[email protected]
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      It was made source-available.

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

        • @[email protected]
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          4•11 months ago

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

          • Amanda
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            2•11 months ago

            If you sign up with your email address, yep!

  • @[email protected]
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    22•11 months ago

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

    https://skins.webamp.org/

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    4•11 months ago

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

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