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'Digital Circus' Google easter egg

google.com
3 points·by Lammy·قبل 21 يومًا·2 comments

openDoJa — full reimplementation of DoCoMo's DoJa SDK in modern Java

github.com
2 points·by Lammy·قبل 3 أشهر·0 comments

"Special 301" Comments on Nintendo Game Piracy in Asia and Latin America (1994)

archive.gamehistory.org
8 points·by Lammy·قبل 3 أشهر·0 comments

Nintendo adds spyware to re-release of Game Boy Advance ROM from 2004

xcancel.com
2 points·by Lammy·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

Pwning Supercomputers — A 20 year old vulnerability in Munge

blog.lexfo.fr
2 points·by Lammy·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

America's various flirtations with the metric system

gribblenation.org
2 points·by Lammy·قبل 6 أشهر·0 comments

An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)

doom2.net
30 points·by Lammy·قبل 6 أشهر·2 comments

Quake Setup Guide (2023)

sarge945.xyz
2 points·by Lammy·قبل 6 أشهر·0 comments

Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)

quaddicted.com
77 points·by Lammy·قبل 6 أشهر·17 comments

Dealing with abandonware (2024)

blog.hris.to
1 points·by Lammy·قبل 6 أشهر·0 comments

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 100.00% Decompilation

decomp.dev
3 points·by Lammy·قبل 7 أشهر·1 comments

Google "6-7" easter egg

google.com
3 points·by Lammy·قبل 7 أشهر·1 comments

NASA internship prototyping radiation-tolerant Framework Laptop 16 mainboard

stemgateway.nasa.gov
17 points·by Lammy·قبل 7 أشهر·5 comments

Tono, actually

olympiatime.com
2 points·by Lammy·قبل 7 أشهر·0 comments

Printer tracking dots visible after holographic foiling of transparency print

xcancel.com
2 points·by Lammy·قبل 7 أشهر·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by Lammy·قبل 7 أشهر·0 comments

EarTrumpet — Volume control for Windows

eartrumpet.app
1 points·by Lammy·قبل 7 أشهر·0 comments

The Microsoft/Hotmail Debacle (2003)

jimbojones.livejournal.com
5 points·by Lammy·قبل 8 أشهر·0 comments

Ruby Box – Ruby's In-Process Separation of Classes and Modules

docs.ruby-lang.org
6 points·by Lammy·قبل 8 أشهر·2 comments

Shader Basics

bobacupcake.com
2 points·by Lammy·قبل 8 أشهر·0 comments

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Lammy
·قبل 9 أيام·discuss
They also changed the way DRM works for digital games purchased after March 2026. It used to be a permanent license at purchase time and is now a temporary license that requires online check for the duration of the refund period with the claimed reason of combating “refund fraud”.

It's pretty hard for me to believe that going through the trouble to set up an entirely new Playstation account, buy a game, refund it, and have the dedication to stay offline forever to keep the game could possibly have been a widespread behavior. It will obviously be easy for them to ratchet that into online check required every 30 days once the current thing is out of the news cycle: https://kotaku.com/playstation-drm-ps4-ps5-support-30-days-o...
Lammy
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
”If a tree falls in a forest”, U=U, etc. This is just FUD otherwise.
Lammy
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
I just disable UAC. Yada yada bad practice yeah I know. I'm sick of constant slight annoyance due to hypothetical threat. If I get pwned I get pwned; hasn't happened yet lol
Lammy
·قبل 15 يومًا·discuss
>What even is Microsoft's strategy? Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot

Their goal is to help their OEM buddies sell new computers despite the fact that PCs have been “good enough” for a decade or longer, because those new PCs will come with Windows and the cycle is what keeps each one relevant.

Otherwise they'd risk being usurped, which almost happened circa 2006 with the one-two-three-four punch of GNOME2 (great UI), Compiz (‘wow’ factor that gets people to jump in and try it), OpenOffice-dot-org 2.0 (when OpenDocument Format was getting a ton of press), and Windows Longhorn/Vista being famously late-and-then-hated. Luckily for Microsoft, the Desktop Linux community decided to throw all that out with Wayland (which is Fine but set us back two decades) and GNOME3 which is irredeemable — *James Rolfe voice* what were they thinking??
Lammy
·قبل 15 يومًا·discuss
>SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram

Probably an SE/30; vastly different internally than the original 68000 SE, more like a MacⅡx wearing a classic Mac shell. Great machine <3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE/30
Lammy
·قبل 15 يومًا·discuss
I like how “Update” has become corporate PR's favorite weasel word for headlines bearing bad news.
Lammy
·قبل 17 يومًا·discuss
Imagine four balls on the edge of a cliff.

Say a direct copy of the ball nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of balls and takes the place of the first ball. The formerly first ball becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the fourth falls off the cliff.

DOEPDMA works the same way.
Lammy
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss
You're the one being dishonest and ignorant comparing defeating DRM to something that is open from the start
Lammy
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss
I'm surprised they didn't just write it out as GNU IMP in the website, documentation, and about boxes. They could just leave the code alone and save themselves the trouble.
Lammy
·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss
It's a math term whose meaning depends on the qualities of the other people around you, not a reference to any one particular set of characteristics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution
Lammy
·قبل 20 يومًا·discuss
Those are not comparable at all, because cars also have humans inside.
Lammy
·قبل 21 يومًا·discuss
Click the Pomni eyeball at the bottom center of the page. Screenshot for posterity: https://i.ibb.co/rJkpCWL/Screenshot-2026-06-19-at-18-07-55-d...
Lammy
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
> but when it comes to a tasteless house, criticism is elitist gatekeeping?

In the middle of a housing crisis, yes, it absolutely is.
Lammy
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
> Uhh, these are not humble middle class homes.

You misunderstand; the target audience for ”McMansion Hell” is not the people living in a ”McMansion” but those who have less than that and would aspire to more.
Lammy
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
“McMansion” is just a way for The System to shame the middle class for daring to want some space to live in, and I'm disappointed when I see anyone propagate it.
Lammy
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
The problem with web apps isn't that they're slow but that they enable the Room 641As of the world to spy on you, just by virtue of making network connections. Encryption doesn't even matter. Just behavior patterns are enough.
Lammy
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
RE: Start Menu, the article does not mention or show the obnoxious “Personalized Menus” feature which is the one and only ‘must disable’ when I use Win2k. It triggers after some number of days and hides infrequently-used programs from the Programs submenu as a workaround for the menu growing large and unwieldy when many programs are installed, but IMO I think it's even worse than what it claims to fix.
Lammy
·قبل 23 يومًا·discuss
Whoops, seems like that's related to their naming scheme change, and `ReleaseId` stopped incrementing after Windows 10 “2009” (2009 September) got renamed to “20H2”: https://vxtwitter.com/bytenerd/status/1395071115072966656

  PS> (Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion').ReleaseId
  2009
  PS> (Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion').DisplayVersion
  24H2
Lammy
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
> to "increase protection" for unspecified reasons

Everything old is new again https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041116-00/?p=37... (2004)
Lammy
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
> IIS has a legacy behavior inherited from the old DOS 8.3 filename convention.

Is this exposing the underlying OS's behavior coupled with the fact that the IIS document root is `C:\Inetpub` by default? Eight-dot-three filenames are enabled by default on the C drive but disabled by default on all other drives on Windows 10/11:

  PS> (Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion').DisplayVersion
  24H2

  PS> fsutil 8dot3name query C:
  The volume state is: 0 (8dot3 name creation is ENABLED)
  The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default)
  Based on the above settings, 8dot3 name creation is ENABLED on "C:"

  PS> fsutil 8dot3name query U:
  The volume state is: 1 (8dot3 name creation is DISABLED)
  The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default)
  Based on the above settings, 8dot3 name creation is DISABLED on "U:"