Notices by asie (asie@mk.asie.pl)

Where can I read up on good/novel ideas in RTOS design? I want to figure out if there's a valid reason to have my own go at this thing (just for the sake of being made by me is not valid, so...).

In "things that are true, but he shouldn't say it": for any given FOSS project, users who don't pay or contribute are technically a cost, so kicking out those who annoy you is a form of savings. Catering to non-contributing users is a form of volunteering, an act of charity on behalf of the developer.

As such, I'm not surprised a lot of projects kick or block people liberally, at the slightest whiff of annoyance. I think people treat too many FOSS projects as if they were companies which stand to lose something significant if their PR suffers even a minor hit.

In the end, "fork it if you don't like it" and similar sentiments are not an insult, they're a challenge. Some accepted this challenge and were even successful! If you're unhappy with a project, try making a hostile fork and see how far you get - I mean it.

PSA: If you find a non-functional Discord attachment link ("This content is no longer available"), you can access it by pasting it into Discord. This makes Discord renew it with a new token, making the file behind it accessible again.

@soop@wetdry.world https://www.whatbeatsrock.com/ it's an LLM based game but it's a fun novelty

@HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe the truest form of nostalgia is mourning for a person you could never have been

So apparently Stripe banned "Transactions that provide compensation to creators without an underlying piece of digital content associated" recently.

But they still brag about GitHub Sponsors, a service which is predominantly used for exactly that, as a key client of theirs: https://stripe.com/en-pl/customers/github

What?

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social The wild part is that this exploit was introduced in a firmware update in 2021, with seemingly no actual usecase other than to be exploited?

https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/SSSL/

"As of 5.5.5, CA's crafted in a specific way may take a newly introduced alternate path for verification. This allows for a CA's signature to not be verified correctly. Instead, the Wii U simply checks if the CA matches one already known by the system, but not the signature or contents of the CA. We have no idea why this change was made, as it does not benefit Nintendo at all. It almost feels intentional."

Just say it's a labor dispute. "Stolen datasets" rings hollow if you're using ML upscalers, ML translation software, and ML face tracking software - most of whom have also been trained non-consensually and/or in violation of the expectations of the data's authors or rightsholders.

It's hard for me to agree with the current "AI" "art" hate train for this reason. Never seen as many people react to literal art theft than they do to LLM-generated content. I've heard of people complaining about "AI" on piracy websites which reproduce the work of independent artists they claim to stand with.

People are even complaining about usecases where using someone else's artworks en masse was already accepted - like inspiration/references. I don't understand - LLMs, to me, are best understood as highly imprecise/hallucinatory search engines, and I consider their output similarly "tainted" in a copyright sense.

Making the discourse about copyright will backfire. Adobe is already trying to get their LLMs cleared. Companies like Apple and Getty are in a position to. The thing about copyright law is that the house always wins.

It's a LABOR dispute. The problem is the erosion of creative LABOR, not copyright. Almost nobody minded the copyright violation potential (waifu2x, all the VTuber tracking programs derived from non-commercial use restricted datasets, etc) until the LABOR was threatened.

@HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe We're releasing new DOS games made for the ZZT game engine from 1991, if that counts?

https://museumofzzt.com/file/search/?title=&author=&filename=&contents=&company=&genre=&board_min=&board_max=&year=2023&rating_min=&rating_max=&lang=any&details=15&details=13&details=18&details=37&sort=title

I think the two highlights are WiL's releases for the platform, though, which use a version of the engine modified so much they might as well count as new DOS games:

https://stale-meme.itch.io/zoz
https://stale-meme.itch.io/gfs

be me
a Discord channel is having a drama
but I have real life friends over so I cannot participate in the drama
ask them politely to stop having the drama until my friends leave so I can participate
literally the next minute Discord servers crash againthank you Discord, I knew I could always count on you ❤️

In 2000, the WonderSwan received a web browser supporting a subset of HTML 3.2, tables, GIF files, reading Japanese text, bookmarks, and cookies - all on a handheld competing with the Game Boy Color.

From 2004, it no longer worked due to a missing gateway server. UNTIL TODAY.

I wrote a tutorial, so you can make it work again too, if you want!

It's up on my blog: https://blog.asie.pl/2023/08/browsing-the-web-wonderswan-2023/

... Apple? Is this the "Game Porting Toolkit" you've showcased at WWDC? Is that... Is that just WINE?

https://github.com/apple/homebrew-apple/blob/main/Formula/game-porting-toolkit-compiler.rb

@michcia@ak.kawen.space

Twitter architecture Akkoma architecture

I'm not good at drawing, please forgive me ;__;

#AsahiLinArt

(There are things I could improve had I redone it, but sometimes it's better to use art you find not-terrible enough to post as a way to make yourself more comfortable with the idea of posting things you might not entirely be happy with...)