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'Digital Circus' Google easter egg

google.com
3 points·by Lammy·21 giorni fa·2 comments

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

github.com
2 points·by Lammy·3 mesi fa·0 comments

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

archive.gamehistory.org
8 points·by Lammy·3 mesi fa·0 comments

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

xcancel.com
2 points·by Lammy·4 mesi fa·0 comments

Pwning Supercomputers — A 20 year old vulnerability in Munge

blog.lexfo.fr
2 points·by Lammy·5 mesi fa·0 comments

America's various flirtations with the metric system

gribblenation.org
2 points·by Lammy·6 mesi fa·0 comments

An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)

doom2.net
30 points·by Lammy·6 mesi fa·2 comments

Quake Setup Guide (2023)

sarge945.xyz
2 points·by Lammy·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)

quaddicted.com
77 points·by Lammy·6 mesi fa·17 comments

Dealing with abandonware (2024)

blog.hris.to
1 points·by Lammy·6 mesi fa·0 comments

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 100.00% Decompilation

decomp.dev
3 points·by Lammy·7 mesi fa·1 comments

Google "6-7" easter egg

google.com
3 points·by Lammy·7 mesi fa·1 comments

NASA internship prototyping radiation-tolerant Framework Laptop 16 mainboard

stemgateway.nasa.gov
17 points·by Lammy·7 mesi fa·5 comments

Tono, actually

olympiatime.com
2 points·by Lammy·7 mesi fa·0 comments

Printer tracking dots visible after holographic foiling of transparency print

xcancel.com
2 points·by Lammy·7 mesi fa·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by Lammy·7 mesi fa·0 comments

EarTrumpet — Volume control for Windows

eartrumpet.app
1 points·by Lammy·7 mesi fa·0 comments

The Microsoft/Hotmail Debacle (2003)

jimbojones.livejournal.com
5 points·by Lammy·8 mesi fa·0 comments

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

docs.ruby-lang.org
6 points·by Lammy·8 mesi fa·2 comments

Shader Basics

bobacupcake.com
2 points·by Lammy·8 mesi fa·0 comments

comments

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

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