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'Digital Circus' Google easter egg

google.com
3 points·by Lammy·21 days ago·2 comments

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

github.com
2 points·by Lammy·3 months ago·0 comments

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

archive.gamehistory.org
8 points·by Lammy·3 months ago·0 comments

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

xcancel.com
2 points·by Lammy·4 months ago·0 comments

Pwning Supercomputers — A 20 year old vulnerability in Munge

blog.lexfo.fr
2 points·by Lammy·5 months ago·0 comments

America's various flirtations with the metric system

gribblenation.org
2 points·by Lammy·6 months ago·0 comments

An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)

doom2.net
30 points·by Lammy·6 months ago·2 comments

Quake Setup Guide (2023)

sarge945.xyz
2 points·by Lammy·6 months ago·0 comments

Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)

quaddicted.com
77 points·by Lammy·6 months ago·17 comments

Dealing with abandonware (2024)

blog.hris.to
1 points·by Lammy·6 months ago·0 comments

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 100.00% Decompilation

decomp.dev
3 points·by Lammy·7 months ago·1 comments

Google "6-7" easter egg

google.com
3 points·by Lammy·7 months ago·1 comments

NASA internship prototyping radiation-tolerant Framework Laptop 16 mainboard

stemgateway.nasa.gov
17 points·by Lammy·7 months ago·5 comments

Tono, actually

olympiatime.com
2 points·by Lammy·7 months ago·0 comments

Printer tracking dots visible after holographic foiling of transparency print

xcancel.com
2 points·by Lammy·7 months ago·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by Lammy·7 months ago·0 comments

EarTrumpet — Volume control for Windows

eartrumpet.app
1 points·by Lammy·7 months ago·0 comments

The Microsoft/Hotmail Debacle (2003)

jimbojones.livejournal.com
5 points·by Lammy·8 months ago·0 comments

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

docs.ruby-lang.org
6 points·by Lammy·8 months ago·2 comments

Shader Basics

bobacupcake.com
2 points·by Lammy·8 months ago·0 comments

comments

Lammy
·9 days ago·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
·14 days ago·discuss
”If a tree falls in a forest”, U=U, etc. This is just FUD otherwise.
Lammy
·14 days ago·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
·15 days ago·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
·15 days ago·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
·15 days ago·discuss
I like how “Update” has become corporate PR's favorite weasel word for headlines bearing bad news.
Lammy
·17 days ago·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
·18 days ago·discuss
You're the one being dishonest and ignorant comparing defeating DRM to something that is open from the start
Lammy
·18 days ago·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
·19 days ago·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
·20 days ago·discuss
Those are not comparable at all, because cars also have humans inside.
Lammy
·21 days ago·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
·22 days ago·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
·22 days ago·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
·22 days ago·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
·22 days ago·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
·22 days ago·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
·23 days ago·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
·24 days ago·discuss
> to "increase protection" for unspecified reasons

Everything old is new again https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041116-00/?p=37... (2004)
Lammy
·24 days ago·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:"