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> A while back I helped a friend (read: dumped a bunch of compute power into it) brute force the SSL keys for Sega's "Phantasy Star Online" Dreamcast game.

Is there anything published online about this? It looks like the Sylverant website still requires patching the game.

https://sylverant.net/connecting-to-sylverant/

And you have to fill out a Google Form to get that link in the first place.

> I just want to get rid of forms. Like, I never want to fill out a form again.

The opening line from this interview with Sameer Samat on the Google for Developers YouTube channel in June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvVsdZL2ogY

> Modretro agreed to publish the game as a physical launch title for their M64 (a modern N64 clone), complete with cartridge, packaging and manual!

The article says the game is published by ModRetro.

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The article says "Something important that should be clarified before we move on is that machine translation (specifically a combination of DeepL and ChatGPT 4o/4.5) was used during the initial hacking phase for testing purposes. Once it was time to translate the game proper, multiple human translators then took over."

Fan translations have used Babel Fish or similar during the development process for decades. If the final script isn't AI translated I don't see any issue with that.

Unless the membership pages is locale-specific, I believe the Patron level fee is actually €240k, not USD.

> Masad, 38, has felt obliged to speak out about Gaza ever since, calling out those in tech who, in his view, have supported Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people.

This sentence would be better without the scare quotes. Something like "calling out those in tech who support what he views as a genocide."

This is an example of a passport issued by a recognized sovereign entity without any associated territory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...

> It's possible to be gay and be far-right

It's not uncommon either. Ernst Röhm comes to mind, but there are plenty of contemporary examples too.

~"Minimum Wealth Cutoff for the 99th to 99.9th Wealth Percentiles" in that link reads to me as 1 in 1,000 households have a net worth over $13 million, not 1 in 100.~

edit: seems like I'm wrong

The survey defines the top one percent as "Net worth of $13,390,060 or more," which sounds greatly skewed versus what I assume is a lower median net worth at the 99th percentile. I don't think 1 in 100 Americans have over $13 million in assets.

Constant violations that they refuse to address. afaik they've never released any of the GPL code they use.

You could use Chef in local mode and pull down the cookbooks from s3 or something.

IMO Ansible is easier to get started with, but less powerful than Chef.

Someone in the article's comments asked about working part time and the author responded "veterinary academia doesn’t really understand <1.0 FTE." Is the same true of FAANG-ish companies? Can you (officially) work part time in a big tech job?

The actual headline appears to be "US Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot"

Your landing and product pages don't mention macOS, only the pricing page, but the docs make it look like the macOS runners are the same price as Github's.

I didn't watch this talk but I read the article it's based on.

When an Iraq War supporting Tory like Niall Ferguson criticizes the US military for being both bloated and stretched thin by underfunding, it gives away that the critique is just disingenuous contrarianism.

Kirby is only source-available, not open source, and requires a paid license for usage. I think that's a deal breaker for a lot of Wordpress users.

> If you walk into a booth and that vendor is selling over 5 types of produce, there's no way they all ripened at the same time. They may not even all be grown by them. Once, he actually saw a vendor at Boston farmers’ market selling carrots from Target! He could tell from the packaging because he used to work for them.

I don't think this is true. In California and New York City, vendors at farmers markets can only sell what they grew themselves, unless they get an exemption for a specific product and prominently label the product as grown by a third party, specifying the third party (usually things like cranberries grown by one vendor in the fall). Very occasionally you'll see foods like apples in plastic bags with supermarket labeling, but that's because the farmer packages and sells the produce directly to the supermarket.

Can you review the changes async or over email?

How do you control/diff System Initiative resource changes with git? I'm not a fan of GUIs for infrastructure stuff since it's usually harder to review, automate, and roll back to a version other than N-1.

That's probably a safe assumption since the previous article on this blog is "Save time generating code with ChatGPT."

Is there a reason why you'd want to save archival material in a proprietary format? Wouldn't it be better/easier to use wget with the `--warc-file` flag?

Ray Niaura was on the PBS Newshour recently and I was surprised to see a public health researcher seemingly downplay teen use of ecigarettes and nicotine pouches, referring to them as "clean."

The muscle group importance weighting seems off. I created a barbell workout for "Chest, Lats, Traps (mid-back), Traps, Forearms, Calves" on beginner and it includes no lifts for pecs, just accessory work like wrist curls and calf raises. Is this because bench press is considered an intermediate lift?

That think tank is funded[1] by the anti-regulation Charles Koch Institute and the article should be read with that in mind.

[1]: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/international-poli...

Jared Friedman and Gustaf Alströmer want to make it easier to kill other human beings, and turn a profit while doing it. Shame on them and anyone else who works on "defense technology."

> I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (p. 19)

What are the issues with Mozilla's use of onerep?

Reasons not to build a "defence" startup: your work will directly or indirectly be used to kill humans.