CursedSilicon

Valve and Costco are the only two companies I respect anymore

Everybody else could stand to take lessons from them

I'm sorry for the person you choose to be

Minor correction. At 27c3's "Console Hacking 2010" talk. Geohot's Hypervisor work is mentioned at 4:25 or so. Described as "really unreliable" and "eh whatever" due to requiring hardware modification and only granting rudimentary hypervisor access.

These were the same people that then went on to explain how they reverse-engineered the encryption keys of the PS3 to enable "fakesigned" code to be installed

We're actually hosting it in just under two weeks! Free event, but donations to SDF are appreciated

https://vcfpnw.org/

(Disclaimer: I'm an exhibitor. So I'd love more attendees!)

I've been fortunate enough to know Stephen Jones of SDF through his running of the local Seattle retro computing event (now rebranded as VCF PNW)

He's an absolutely kind soul who is deeply interested in all kinds of retro projects. I wish there were more folks like him in tech generally

"Some people are just losers. Accept that"

At least you outed yourself in your original post

How? He's "investigating" CNN right now for...something? Something about them reporting on the Iran war

Cameron is known to have a TALOS II machine

Do the VG224's manage V.90/V.92 speeds? Jeff's setup falls into the usual trap other YouTubers do. Dialing a modem through an ATA or other device directly into another modem caps the speeds at V.34 (33600 baud)

From what I understand of telecom of that era. You want to effectively keep as much of the signal digital as possible. With (ideally) the only "analog" part remaining being the link between the customer modem and the PBX.

The VG224 being (effectively) 24 ATA's in a trenchcoat seems to meet that requirement. Though once installed you'd need to connect it to a PBX such as Asterisk. Then, as I understand it, "trunk" that as a T1 line into something that can digitally handle modem calls such as a Cisco AS5300.

I've read the blog posts (actually we corresponded about Battle.Net back in 2012!) but I'd love to see StarCraft opened for historical interest :)

PS: Still waiting to hear about the "Westwood's reaction" blog post! :p

What part of it isn't accurate? They're the top commenter and said exactly what I stated

It's a shame that when a Redditor discovered the source code for the original StarCraft "gold master" on a CD, they sent it back to Blizzard in exchange for some fucking blizzard merch [1]

EA a while back released the source code to (most) of the old Command & Conquer games [2] though interestingly left out Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, StarCraft's closest competitors at the time.

Would've been nice for historical preservation to be able to peek behind the curtain and see StarCraft's code in a similar fashion

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/68xzxt/star...

[2] https://github.com/electronicarts

How much work is it to port drivers between Free and Open BSD?

Anything to defend your own ego I suppose...

I'm very sorry for the person you choose to be, then

I don't think it's (all) AI generated. But they seem to be weirdly determined to gaslight me about my own opinions on their comments

Thinking way too deeply into it. Maybe that's the troll. "Look how easily manipulated people are. I don't even need AI to do it!"

Nah. Their reply was far more nuanced than your weird gaslighting of "you don't have your own opinions! You're being trolled by the person you agree with!"

The thing about using slurs is when you respond with "but [group] deserved it!" you've implied that you're happy to use it against someone if you subjectively believe they're "deserving" and that the term should be received negatively

Am I gullible or white knighting?

Or do I simply disagree with you enough to comment?

I guess you could go ask the slop machine and come back :)

Hey uh. Slurs aren't cool.

You could've just as easily said "investors are morons" and had the same connotations without disparaging a group of people

Isn't that what Grok is for? It already called itself "Mecha Hitler" so it knows what its users (and creator) want

People having different opinions to you is not "performative"

They're handling Ukraine better than America is "handling" Iran

Sorry. Did you miss the term "still" ?

I mean. At least we'd still be living as a species

So much of what this admin has done "needed" to be approved by congress. They're complicit in the overreach of power

Not without a big beautiful bribe [1] I assume

[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-...

DMCA requests lead to legal consequences for ISP's in extreme cases. Botnets meanwhile there's no "lobby groups" that are directly impacted enough to 'care' at a financial level

Wrong kind of death. Taking mods away after a decade and a half of the game being modded inside out would massively reduce the creative scope of the game for players. It would become "boring" and die out

Let me guess. Was it the "trans surgery for immigrants"