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CursedSiliconon U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues

Why remind people of the lies? We all knew they were lies. And the people who believed the lies will not have their minds changed

There's a 30% bedrock of America that appears to be simply broken beyond repair. That's his permanent voting and approval base

CursedSiliconon Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1

Given who founded Xlibre (Metux) has some...interesting history (he was banned from the X.org project due to poor code quality and practices [1]) I would say no

Metux himself also has some "fascinating" takes as archived from other projects such as the LKML [1] and Devuan [2] mailing lists

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/work_items/179...

[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/957

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyn...

CursedSiliconon OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

If someone says "the sky is blue" and someone else says "actually the sky is polka dots!" are you going to ask for citations from both?

CursedSiliconon Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

That's a strange take. But okay

He also wrote the book "Public Opinion" in 1922 [1] which explained how the US mass media apparatus could be used to influence the common man.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)

CursedSiliconon Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

Ah, yes. The media. Famously the voice of the proletariat and the oppressed

Walter Lippmann is spinning in his grave

CursedSiliconon Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS

The Commodore chunk of retro computing is an extremely small pond. Of which he's an obnoxiously loud voice due to his youtube presence. Much to the chagrin of most of them (and most of us who orbit the greater "retro computing hobby")

CursedSiliconon Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS

Right, I forgot to bleat about how he was a (literal stand-in!) for Hayden Christensen on Star Wars. [1]

He got a bunch of old hats to sign their name to...what, exactly. A C64 on an FPGA? That he tried to lock down before getting backlash from the community? [2]

But none of that answers the question. What's the point?. Are "super fans" just paying through the nose because having something with the word "Commodore" on it truly means that much more to them?

"Mr. Fractic" has done nothing but shell out money and is now trying to recoup his investment. He created nothing (the phone was AI hallucinated for god sake) and seems to just be hoping that folks making actual new equipment around the C64 (and I guess Amiga?) sign on to get his blessed license. But, again. What are they buying?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190711081426/https://starwarsi...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/1svq98v/commodore_now_...

CursedSiliconon Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS

I've less than zero love for Commodore stuff, I'll admit up front. Even as a retro computing enthusiast and computer historian I think the adoration that Commodore (both the C64 and Amiga) get far outweighs any practical reasoning of what the machines are capable of

But the thing I've truly struggled to understand, particularly with PeriFractic and his bleating of "I OWN THE COMMODORE NAME NOW!" is just

...who cares? If you like Commodore stuff, great. Do things that make you happy. But does having a C64 with "the commodore name" printed on it owned by some slop peddling youtuber (both in his embracement of LLM's and that bizarre "dumb phone but also not" project) truly change anything for fans?

If you're buying an "A1200 accelerator" does the fact it says "AMIGA" on it make it more valuable than if it just said "68K accelerator" or some other generic term?

CursedSiliconon DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

Australian but go off :)

CursedSiliconon DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

Whispers

Hey, hey

Did you know

Multiple things can in fact, be bad

CursedSiliconon CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K

Careful now. For some reason celebrating not using the slop machine attracts a lot of negative attention.

There's no room for dissent against the slop bot for some reason

CursedSiliconon Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

Actually, one of the larger youtubers is currently facing massive backlash from his own community because all his projects are done by the slop machine :)

The great thing about retro computing is we want to see what people come up with. Not slop bots!

CursedSiliconon Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

You seem either deliberately or functionally unable to grasp the premise of why anyone would do this (or reject LLM's)

I suggest instead you go read up on why people dislike them and gain a more well-rounded and nuanced understanding of the topic

CursedSiliconon Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

What a bizarre take

Many people refuse to use LLM's for various reasons that I don't need to rehash here

CursedSiliconon Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

Can you provide citations for this? The original Xash3D engine is listed as open source on ModDB

CursedSiliconon Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

At least in retro spaces there's a lot of rejection of using AI to do things.

Half-Life (and the later Source engine games such as Half-Life 2 and Portal) were ported without LLM assistance however

(Source: I am in the Discord where the developer has been working and diligently posting updates on the project)

CursedSiliconon I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore

This smells a lot of "I'm miserable so everyone else must be as unhappy as I am"

What if we make a better world for everyone, instead of a planetary crab bucket?

CursedSiliconon FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet

Can we start with the military?

CursedSiliconon Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

I love it already!

CursedSiliconon Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

Why do we need any other sites at all? Let's just all use Facebook

CursedSiliconon Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Microsoft was a massive corporation

To imply that every single person there was evil to their core simply by association is utterly ridiculous.

I doubt the guy who created Minesweeper was dreaming of world domination while working there

CursedSiliconon OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root

What else is out there that fits openWRT's use case? BIND seems like it would be a bit "heavy"

CursedSiliconon Is The Economist Always Wrong?

Sorry, but

...Normie?

What does that even mean in this context

CursedSiliconon Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach

I must admit I immediately questioned the credibility of the article when the author admitted they "aren't a gamer" and then started making allusions to vague political threads. Not to say these criticisms aren't valid, but they're a weird jumping off point

The reality is none of the companies want to do these things. Every step in this process locks out some subset of customers. And that's not including the ones who meet the technical requirements but are turned off enough by the decision to just avoid the games anyway

They're an unfortunate response to how utterly profitable and expansive cheating in online games has become. They cost the companies precious development time that could be spent making the game better to instead make it just vaguely "playable" for normal people

CursedSiliconon The future of Flipper Zero development

Ah, the "I don't hate the gays I just wish they'd keep that at home!"

CursedSiliconon Africans Are Turning to Starlink

When you derided people using it for youtube :)

CursedSiliconon Africans Are Turning to Starlink

Hi, I'm a Youtuber.

I talk about computer history. Is my knowledge not valid just because I'm "on youtube" ?

CursedSiliconon OpenRA

It's half-implemented in OpenRA's engine and then spread across a bunch of mods that attempt to augment as much of the game in as possible

CursedSiliconon OpenRA

Would be nice if they finished Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2 support.

I only complain because I put in over $1,000 USD as part of a crowd funding campaign to do just that

...13 years ago :(

CursedSiliconon OpenRA

EA showed they had Red Alert 2 tapes in the archive when they did the C&C Remaster stuff back in 2018-2020

The Mental Omega folks are also known to have a complete archive of everything which is why their "mod" is such a technical achievement above what the game engine can normally do