Notices by asie (asie@mk.asie.pl), page 2

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange We spent many years trying to correct a video game's release date, just because its author gave the wrong one in an interview done 10-20 years after the fact (which is a more reputable source than the game's own documentation, naturally).

We only managed to resolve it because someone who happened to be an experienced Wikipedia editor walked into our community and proposed to clean up the article for us while dealing with the editor politics.

At this point, I honestly encourage specialized communities to build their own wikis, treating Wikipedia as a kind of "jack of all trades, master of none" place.

I wish I had the motivation to learn the new crop of systems programming languages, even to learn more about C++ properly honestly, but it kind of feels like I just stick to C because I'd rather stick to what I know. It feels every time I try to touch another systems programming language I end up being demotivated by not seeing the benefit from the initial hurdle of "relearning new ways to express what are effectively the same solutions".

maybe I'm just not that excited about programming languages anymore to treat learning more about them as an entertaining activity in its own right, and that's Okay. in fact going by my coworkers I'd argue for most people that's Normal

i see two paths in front of me

i'm so happy i never bought balatro,

PSA: If you want to help 86Box emulation accuracy, the project is seeking dumps of ISA plug-and-play cards' PnP ROMs to facilitate more accurate emulation. Here's how you can dump your retro rig's PnP ROMs easily:

1. Download https://github.com/86Box/probing-tools/releases/download/2024-02-06/probing-tools-2024-02-06.zip
2. Put isapnp/ISAPNP.EXE on your retro PC
3. Run ISAPNP.EXE on the retro PC (if you have many ISA cards, consider running it many times as to cover them all)
4. Respond to this Fediverse message with a ZIP file containing the output .BIN files!

Sound Blaster and ESS Audiodrive dumps are particularly sought after by the project (including duplicates - a few undocumented revisions have been spotted this way), but any and all dumps will be useful long-term! Thank you!

I'm running out of hard drive space, plus my drives are aging... What are your thoughts on Toshiba N300/MG08 helium drives (12-18TB bracket)? They seem to be available for like $20-$22/TB here (with the more enterprise model being cheaper), but I'm not sure how loud they are in practice - I could build a NAS and put it in a separate room eventually, but for now I'd have to put them in my (noise-padded) computer...

For context, I generally use HDDs as long-term storage drives, and SSDs for day-to-day work; this is why I'm worried about NAS drives not being the right choice, as they are rather noisy even if they are rather durable too.

If you have other recommendations, I'd like to hear them, too!

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

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