CursedSilicon

"That's why we had "mod chips" for decades"

See when you only take half of something someone said, then run off with it and draw incorrect conclusions. You sound foolish

Yes. And that's why I said "decades". Unfortunately the person replying did not realize I was speaking in a historical context

The PS5 has had modchips for decades?

I'm pretty sure my original comment both specifying a timeframe longer than the PS5 has existed and hardware that never was produced for the PS5 would suggest I was talking about other devices

So why did they drill holes into the Xbox 360's DVD drive when they could've just hacked the hypervisor all along? :)

Pirates don't usually bother hacking consoles. It's easier for them to just bypass the security on the disc drive. That's why we had "mod chips" for decades

Are you seriously suggesting America's influence is increasing?!

I guess you're in the 22%

>Tesla's product design and market fit was right on the whole

The company he invested in, then sued to be declared "Founder" and now parades as his own, personal invention?

>SpaceX was almost all right and not wrong

Except about the things Elon opines on. Because he doesn't know shit about rocketry

>PayPal was a lot more right than wrong

He was kicked out of Paypal for all his stupid ideas

"a lot of good technical instincts"

Like when he wanted to abandon UNIX for Windows NT at PayPal? [1]

[1] https://archive.is/L3ue8

"Europe are so stupid. They're busy selling shovels when there's gold in them hills!"

Could you skirt around it and just remark "there are no viruses for AmigaOS"

(Probably not literally true. But functionally true in the sense that they were likely transmitted via infected floppy disks, of which there'd be virtually none left in the wild in 2007)

Why do you keep making burners?

(Whispering) multiple things can, in fact, be bad

Success and fame in...selling an AI slop phone?

If that's something to be jealous of, I guess?

It's weird how you say that those terms are meaningless, then redefine them to fit your specific needs

From what I've read, the phone did not (does not?) yet physically exist

All his marketing has been via AI renders

His behaviour, mostly

I mean, that Peri Fractic clown "owns Commodore" now and tried to sell people a phone that was rendered entirely using AI.

Maybe Amiga people are ready to drink from that chalice too?

As someone who also attended (both as a table and speaker) this last VCF Midwest. The biggest problem that event has is the base mercantilism.

If I'm attending that event, I want to see cool machines doing cool things and hear the stories and things people love about them.

I don't wanna see a bunch of AI slop coffee mugs and tee shirts of various old video game consoles taking up an entire fucking wall

"This is the thing I think of when X"

"Oh, so what you're describing is Y, actually"

"HE NEVER SAID HE WANTED Y! STUPID PARTISANS!"

Okay buddy

As The Onion put it eons ago [1]

"There's no shame in being second best!"

[1] https://youtu.be/53tGLKlsQv8

Oh, you want "libertarianism" then. Not the original kind, the Ayn Rand kind

That always works out well. Until the bears come [1]

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...

Never underestimate the power of the fourth estate

I think they made a movie about that

Careful now. Criticizing the slop machine is a great way to get harassed on this site

Do you work for IBM? [1]

[1] In IBM there's a religion in software that says you have to count K-LOCs, and a K-LOC is a thousand line of code. How big a project is it? Oh, it's sort of a 10K-LOC project. This is a 20K-LOCer. And this is 5OK-LOCs. And IBM wanted to sort of make it the religion about how we got paid. How much money we made off OS 2, how much they did. How many K-LOCs did you do? And we kept trying to convince them - hey, if we have - a developer's got a good idea and he can get something done in 4K-LOCs instead of 20K-LOCs, should we make less money? Because he's made something smaller and faster, less KLOC. K-LOCs, K-LOCs, that's the methodology. Ugh anyway, that always makes my back just crinkle up at the thought of the whole thing.

The problem (particularly on places like HN) are that if you are openly Anti-AI the people who disagree will flex their ability to downvote you (which contravenes HN's rules [1] [2])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605192 (currently at -1 but went as as low as -7)

You go on other sites like Reddit and posit a question. Someone will inevitably reply "So I asked $insert_AI_bot and it said"

It's like second hand smoke. Those of us who don't want to smoke are still subjected to the externalities of the people who want to smoke in public

Removed By Facebook or removed by a group admin?

Not to sound like I'm criticizing them too harshly. But I do wonder what the poor souls Facebook hires through a litany of contractor and sub contractors are actually told to remove

I've reported images of Swastikas, hate speech such as the N-word in comments and all other manner of vile interactions

I have yet to have seen them remove any of it in over a decade

That seems to be an "April Folks Joke"

PFsense gleefully ships vulnerable code to their own customers. They are an even worse data point

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...