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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 07:29:36 JST Vokainen
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- Administrize
@r @admin Second this. Just curious what was going on, though I can wait the later writeup

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:23:40 JST Vokainen
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- Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧
@jeffcliff Well, from what I read around, many people got newsfeeds, email, and Internet access from AOL, and they paid for that.
Maybe the logic is to go "hack" the AOL database, and see to what payments that email address/AOL account is associated to. Usenet access indeed had profiles, and those usually were sold bundled with email accounts

The writer probably assumed *anyone" could do that, although I heard that back in the day you could indeed append a /dir to a website name and get into their directory, so, maybe like that?

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:04:47 JST Vokainen
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- nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
@phnt @nyanide In my experience you can find early-to-mid millenials either working on sourceports of open sourced 90s games or emulators of 80s-to-90s consoles, as well as all kinds of official IT employing scheme.

Early Gen Zs go much more around, some are reverse-engineering games from the mid 90s onward (Think the recent Tomb Raider Remastered, that required reversed engineering, although its lead director is probably a late millennial), others are doing odd things here and there, many are into the modding scene modding games they grew up with.

Thing is, only early Zs will know how to use a computer, and only if they were exposed when they were literal kindergarten/primary school kids, since smartphones came around just as they were hitting middle school, but fliphones were already quite popular and many of them I remember having some.
Later ones probably only found computers in their schools' computers lab, or at home, but they likely were already wielding smartphones or tablets.

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 01:51:15 JST Vokainen
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- nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
@nyanide You have to mark network manager as manually installed if you want to avoid recourse uninstall incidents

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 03:09:43 JST Vokainen
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@dushman I remember a professional game reviewer I chatted with writing "I lost trust in Ubisoft since last generation".

This was in like 2010, and he loathed Assassin's Creed and was sure as hell Assassin's Creed 2 was going to be a trainwreck

Funny thinking back that all game reviewing websites were already dying thanks to YouTube reviewers looming their heads out, and soon enough the entire reviewing complex would trigger the GamerGate. Man, oh man how many things were brewing and we didn't notice

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 08:02:33 JST Vokainen
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@jeffcliff @GoodBoyUV @absurdlyobfuscated @nugger @scenesbycolleen @ElDeadKennedy I recall the existence of Soviet-aged attempts at growing fruit trees in trenches deep enough to create microclimates, assuming no snowfall. Can't find the paper, though

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 19:38:07 JST Vokainen
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- Fish of Rage
@sun No joke, if this had been successful, it would have prevented Chrome from becoming Internet Explorer 2.0 (Because most of the internet is Chrome-based phoneposters now)

As for the OS, doesn't matter, all phones use shittier forks of other OSs

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 16:33:25 JST Vokainen
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@matrix I hope they didn't put btrfs on that RAID 0 stack they're probably using now :beato:

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:44:10 JST Vokainen
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@sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato But cracked servers wouldn't be a problem if things were host-able by users because "it's their problem", and it was never about piracy or cracked servers, it was about forcing users, gradually, into closed source and wallgardened ecosystems where they can be milked for much more easily.

PC, not being a closed enough platform, was to be removed from the equation. Of course, Valve threw a wrench into that, but that's what they were going for at Microsoft.

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 02:24:55 JST Vokainen
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@sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato Back when developers considered themselves "l33t", they had been trying to kill off the PC market for decades, since closed platforms were easier to optimize for, while Microsoft was attempting to move over its gamer userbase with Games For Windows Live.

Of course, Steam was about to throw a wrench into their plans and demolish the entire industry in the process, but it didn't start because of Linux (Which noone took seriously as a game platform in the late 2000s), it's just that developers didn't want to optimize for PCs, and Microsoft wanted to get Microsoft gamers into the 360 to milk them from a dual Windows + 360 point of view.

Piracy was largely an excuse, since people that couldn't afford 60$ games + DLCs were unlikely to afford game consoles + paid online + 60$ games + DLCs

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:56:43 JST Vokainen
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@sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato It became more and more difficult to play with frens when the dynamic duo of 360/PS3 came out, and they were already matchmaking/global servers first platforms.

Sure, there was still LAN (As a second thought, with plenty problems on average), sure there were profiles/accounts/gamercards where you could build clubs of "friends", but the writing was on the wall already when you *had* to play in a big server with strangers to fill up the quota of 16/32 players, even if you actually managed to bring your whole squad along, nevermind going duo/trio.

I remember clear as day game site reviewers lamenting the death of LAN parties and users saying they were thrown into servers with weird Latinos/Eastern Europeans and having miserable experiences.

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 01:41:15 JST Vokainen
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@sendpaws @david @phnt @raccoon @japananon @mischievoustomato How many of those broken/denied titles have their servers closed down already?

Y'all act like it's a Linux problem, when if you're unable to self-host your multiplayer-first game is effectively a time-limited license unless it's Fortnite.

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 10:56:22 JST Vokainen
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS Theoretically there should be ways to substitute copper for various kinds of amorphous metal alloys, but I bet there's no relevant manufacturing capacity for those.

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 23:29:34 JST Vokainen
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@phnt @lucy Still relevant today

Also, funny hearing "aero interface" being mentioned without the funny bits of nostalgia cropping up here and there on the web

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 22:29:19 JST Vokainen
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@supersid333 @DW2 @PraxisOfEvil @Hoss There's the @MeanwhileInOhio man who can tell everyone what he is going through and what shitshow he has to deal with daily for job hunting purposes.

My 2 cents is that it was never good since the latter half of the 90s

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 06:51:24 JST Vokainen
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@nyanide @mitchconner @ElDeadKennedy @mono 2010 still had windows PCs in schools and windows 7 was on them, funny to think about it.

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 23:05:47 JST Vokainen
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@MK2boogaloo @lina @sj_zero He got increasingly repetitive and soulless. Part of it obvs is the increasing difficulty in finding new content to talk about, but since he dropped his actual job to do YouTube you kinda feel he's less himself

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 23:03:07 JST Vokainen
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@lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero Imagine when your average customer experience becomes like buying a fumo :apugnome:

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 22:54:31 JST Vokainen
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@lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero A race mostly lost already, and most collectors end up as grifters when they decide to rid of their stuff

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Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 22:49:36 JST Vokainen
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@lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero Back when LGR was still cozy he often noted that there were already entire shops selling for hundreds dollars what he could find by thrift hunting.

It probably is even worse now.

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