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| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-03, 13:33 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1061 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
It seems that in this latest console generation, gamers are doomed to suffer of joystick drift forever: first there was the Switch and its infamous joycon drift (which got so bad that Nintendo is now replacing failed joysticks for free), then there are reports of the PS5 experiencing the same woes. Now it's the turn of the Steam Deck, but Valve claims it's a software bug and "it has already been fix, just update your OS": https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-deck-stick-drift-is-a-software-problem-and-a-fix-has-already-rolled-out/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-04, 19:52 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1062 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
And of course, fucking Google keeps pissing me off every time I have to use the https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255 http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3087883 After running this nastygram over my bullshit decoder ring, it seems that starting May 30th (so less than 2 months from today), you can't fetch your email over POP3/IMAP with only your Google username/password, as this is considered to be "DANGER MINES UNSAFE PUTIN ALREADY HAS YOUR PASSWORDZ!". Instead, these are your options: - OAuth2: basically every MUA must shoehorn a web browser (or invoke your system default, whenever possible/practical) so you can perform a web logon on your mail provider website. - App-specific passwords. I still use my ol' XP/Debian 8 laptop these days exclusively for email, both for GMail (which is about to render my setup useless because I AM A DINOSAUR WHY AM I NOT EXTINCT YET!?) and Hotmail (which could pull the same shit Soon™ as MS is now Google/Apple's puppet for webshit). So yeah, I need to take a decision, now: * Enable OAuth2: not an option for the last XP/old Linux-friendly SeaMonkey release, 2.49.5, sadly. I would need to move my mailboxes to another of my OAuth2-capable SM2.53.x machines, but that involves Effort™... including reminding how in the hell I did my current Windows/Linux shared mailbox setup years ago! * Generate an app-specific password: Google really doesn't want you doing that because "DANGER MINES UNSAFE XINNIE ALSO HAS YOUR PASSWORDZ!!!", but this is still supported... for now. Unfortunately you need to enable 2FA on your Google Account, which requires either: 1) enrolling an Android cellphone into the Googleborg™ (oh hell NOPE THE FUCK OUT!), 2) installing Google Authenticator (which also most likely requires 1), plus risking getting permanently locked out of your email if you make any wrong mode, judging by the lovely truckload of 1-star ratings), 3) using Winauth or friends (already experienced the pains of recovering a forgotten Steam accounr that way NEVER AGAIN!), 4) using SMS codes, which suck (unlike what sekuritah paranoid nutters would believe, SIMswap hijacks are not of concern here as our telcos aren't THAT stupid, but our Soviet Venezuelan telcos are notoriously unreliable for everything else, including timely delivery of SMS OTP codes - already experienced that shit with Hotmail last year when it suddenly flagged my account for spam because I rarely send email these days) * Ditch MUAs and use webmail. Do I look like a masochist?! * Degoogle myself and pay for my own email. Of course, the only email account worth owning is the one you pay for, but sadly that's (currently) not an option for me as a citizen of this shithole. Not only that, but it will be also oh-so-convenient to spend weeks chasing down long-forgotten website registrations to get my email changed, also walking into my banks (oh dear, BANKS!!!) to update my email on fine, in the middle of a neverending deadly pandemic. I'm really fucked, it seems... Fuck my life. IF we survive the Mutual Assured Destruction between Put-It-In and the rest of the world, spare a couple nukes and direct them towards Mountain View and Cupertino, pretty please? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-04, 23:35 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1063 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Ended going with the SMS OTP codes option (also printed a backup codes card, for emergencies), just to create a app-specific password for SeaMonkey. The day Venezuelan telcos get shitlisted by 'murica (or fucked harder by Maduro), I'll get locked out of my email. But then, if that day ever comes, getting locked of my email will be the least of my worries... Either that, or Movistar/Google will find the way to get me screwed up hard. Oh, and Google still complains that "app-specific passwords are DANGER MINES UNSAFE TRUMP IS COMING FOR YOUR SOUL!!!", but at least it's no longer threatening me to get me locked out... for now. The authenticator apps are riiiight OUT of the question. Getting a hardware key is also a non-starter here. Migrating my mailboxes to a newer SM setup is still on the table (after all, that XP laptop will eventually die, plus I'm out of spare PATA 2.5" HDDs!), but that's something I can't be bothered to do right now. Degoogling is theoretically on the table, as soon as I can sort out my web hosting/domain situation (no money + my preferred hosting provider no longer offers email for personal hosting accounts, and all other "local" hostings are resellers for 'murican ISPs, soemthing I want to avoid for many reasons), but for now it's back to the drawer. --- Our friendly Fedora guy and extremey boring bug researcher, buc, has shared his SeaMonkey builds with the world - check them out! https://buc.fedorapeople.org/seamonkey/ buc's builds have some very neat features: - Test patches implementing supports for some Chromeisms™ - All localizations built-in, with automatic detection according to your system locale (and if you're not on Spain, it should default to es-AR!) - Site-specific UA overrides - Optimized build flags with newer compilers - And if you're using RPM distros, well, .rpm packages Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-05, 23:10 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1064 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
It's fun to unlock hidden features on long-forgotten hardware: https://dreamlayers.blogspot.com/2016/11/switching-from-ide-to-ahci-on-ich7-m.html Turns out that Intel chipsets have had AHCI support as early as the ICH7 on my Inspiron 6400 laptop, but for some boneheaded reason, some OEMs chose not to enable it (or let the use decide), so we're forced to live with legacy IDE mode 'till BUT! Intel datasheets are public (thanks Intel!), and they nicely tell you which bytes to poke to switch from old and busted IDE to the new AHCI hotness if your OEM hasn't done it for you. However, you must poke said bytes as soon as possible - ideally before your OS has taken over, otherwise expect trouble. Fortunately, GRUB 2 allows to fondle with PCI config space bits, so it's matter to put the magical POKE command somewhere in your boot script: (Note: this is for the ICH7 - this also applies for the ICH8 but you need to figure out the correct PCI device ID for your IDE controller) This command must be the very last one on the boot script (after the kernel/ramdisk lines), as poking that magical byte will cause the PCI device to reenumerate and appear under a different device ID, and that may cause the BIOS to lose its mind if you tell to load stuff from a no longer existing PCI device! Pros: - You can now use NCQ and other SATA/AHCI-specific bits, boosting performance on both HDDs and SSDs. - Extra power saving modes or some stuff. Less heat is good, right? Cons: - May not work properly on all systems, as not all BIOSes properly initialize the ICH ATA controller (FWIW, my Inspiron 6400 has been rock solid since booting on AHCI with setpci) - Will break sleep mode unless you're willing to do ACPI DSDT fuckery. Depending on the hardware and your use cases, you may or may not care. - Will also break PATA ports, which means that if you're on a laptop, chances are you're going to lose your DVD drive too (if there is one). Once again, you may or may not care (and desktop drives over USB are far superior than flimsy slimline junk anyway) Since I don't use sleep and all of my laptop DVD drives are busted, I now need to figure out how to make the setpci stuff permament on my GRUB2 config. I also need to figure out if the same can be applied to Windows 7 chainloading (IIRC I need to enable the MSAHCI driver on the Registry prior to any hacking attempt). Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-07, 18:09 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1065 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
JWZ tries to play PlayStation games... again. Someone should have the guts to tell this guy that... - his Mac most likely doesn't have enough muscle to run PS3 games at any acceptable speeds (or for quality PS2 emulation) - he needs to get his hands wet AND TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS DOWN TO A T if he really wants to get serious with disc-based console emulation - it's not like NES emulators where "1) load ROM, 2) play game"! - he needs to stop asking about piracy, even on his personal blog (which seems to be very popular, so a easy magnet for lawsuits) - he should stick away from messing with console internals without following proper servicing procedures. Oh, and that optical drive PCBs have been "married" to consoles since the X360/PS3 era! But hey, this is the same asshole that still believes that stable Linux distros must not exist, that Linux itself is still a dumpsterfire of teenager-developed software, that Apple is still the solution (even whe he has been actively fighting against his own Apple gear in the last 5 years at least), that holding a grudge against Microsoft in 2022 is still fine, and that everybody and their dog are fudging the numbers to get him to catch China Pest and die, despite the fact he still runs his (tanking) nightclub... which is the last place on Earth where I would want to be in the middle of a deadly pandemic. But sadly, that's JWZ for you. Have you purged XScreenSaver out of your machine yet? Do it NOW. No computer deserves to run assholeware, no matter how useful it is, because when the day you will need support eventually comes, you would be facing an asshole straight away, and that often doesn't lead to useful solutions. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-08, 20:10 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1066 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Pixiv now fully drank the Chromeisms kool-aid, with a healthy spoonful of "fuck you, baka gaijin": - Google WebComponents® is now a mandatory requirement, which means Chrome, "recent Firefuxed", or maybe Safari. - You can no longer logon with a ordinary Pixiv ID - you must instead log on with Google/crApple/Twatter/Farcebook. Unless you are Japanese, of course: if you switch the page language to Japanese, you get a Pixiv ID logon form on top of the social network logon crapola. - Even then, if you're on a non-Google-blessed browser, said logon form will misbehave, trying to authenticate/redirect to URLs with "/undefined" on their paths, returning HTTP 400/404 errors. So yeah, if you wanna watch While I'm glad Japan is finally leaving the 1997 web behind, the replacement is even more horrible (Googleisms and cellphones), and very un-Japanese to me. Oh, forgot the mandatory FUCK PIXIV! UPDATE: Found a workaround - there is minimal, broken, very preliminary support for Google WebComponents™ on current SeaMonkey releases - nothing actually useable, but enough to fool Pixiv: you need to turn on the following prefs: - dom.webcomponents.enabled - dom.webcomponents.customelements.enabled Switch the logon page language to Japanese (sadly that's mandatory now if you still want to keep using your Pixiv ID), logon, done. The whole site will revert back to English (or to whatever language you've setup on your prefs) afterwards. Pixiv doesn't even seem to be using WebComponents® beyond the login page, so you should turn off those prefs after you're done (in order to not get other sites' hopes high!) The whole place works fine sans that logon page disaster, but overall it feels laggy as hell as Pixiv has gone full-on SPA since at least 2021, and their JavaScripts are... well, what you would expect from modern webshit, but with some Japanese hellstew thrown in for good measure. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-10, 19:36 in Japanese Keitai - How To Upload Java Games Into A Docomo
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Dinosaur
Post: #1067 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Short version: If you want western J2ME games on these phones, forget it. Long version: Japanese cellphones (keitais) are like a black box that never got properly cracked open, mainly due to their very closed mobile ecosystem, heavy DRM (for the era), tight control from the telcos over phone feature sets (which makes our Verizons and Telefonicas to look like EASY MODO), and of course, proprietary standards for nearly everything. - DoCoMo phones used DoJa, a proprietary Java ME profile by DoCoMo for i-mode handsets. Those phones WILL NOT RUN ordinary J2ME MIDlets (that is, .jar/.jad software), but only DoJa stuff. There were a few Euro phones with i-mode, but I have no idea if anyone managed to preserve games from those, or what are the procedures to upload DoJa apps to i-mode phones... (FWIW, there is firmware out there for Japanese versions of the Motorola RAZR V3x/V3xx aka M702iG/S with some preloaded DoJa stuff) - Don't know what Vodafone JP/SoftBank used on their phones, but it's certainly non-standard too. But I know that SoftBank loved to heavily lock down nearly every phone feature if a SoftBank SIM wasn't detected (look for "Softbank multimedia lock" - Howard Forums used to have a pretty good section on keitais, but it's long gone...) - KDDI au used BREW, the very same BREW that nearly every CDMA telco in the world got forced to use due to Qualcomm, including Verizon (the kings of Western lockdowns), and the couple Venezuelan telcos that heavily relied on it before the arrival of GSM and cheap gray-market Nokia... and to this date, noone bothered cracking BREW's DRM, so there is no way to sideload games/apps on those, much less to preserve the already existing ones :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-12, 14:47 in Building Dolphin on Debian Stable: problems!
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Dinosaur
Post: #1068 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
It's that time of the year again, when Dolphin build errors kindly remind me to not postpone my Debian distro updates for longer: https://pastebin.com/8VZFxiuP Last time I managed a successful build under Buster was in the very last day of 2021, but of course that was decades ago. C and friends hate me as much as I hate them, but it also means that GCC 8.3 (the one that ships with Buster) is no longer good for building Dolphin. Since Debian will never offer newer GCC versions via backports, these are my options: - Build with Clang. Unlike GCC, we DO get newer Clang/LLVM versions via backports, and the newest one there for Buster is Clang 11 which build latest Dolphin just fine. I suggest keeping separate build directories (one for GCC, another for Clang) - Update your distro. Bullseye ships with GCC 10.2, which is the same used by Dolphin Debian buildbots. But man, I'm laaaaaazy.... - Backport GCC 10+ yourself. Do I look like a bored teenager? So Clang is it, for now. FWIW, latest Clang seems to be 13, but that's only available on current Testing (Bookworm), and hasn't been backported yet to Bullseye. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-12, 14:59 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1069 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Some very bored idiot just done this shit: spoofing ADS-B traffic (and getting banned from flight tracking websites): https://nitter.eu/MathieuPeyrega/status/1502205679175675912 As much as I hate Put-It-In, what this idiot is doing is extremely wrong in many ways: 1) Spoofing ADS-B traffic can be criminally dangerous (this guy just used a transceiver box directly wired to a FR24 receiver, but nothing stops any asshole -including murderous dictators- from doing the same with highly powered antennas!) 2) Seriously, this is a disrepect to the memory of the late An-225, as much as I want to get Put-It-In haunted for life by the ghost of Mriya with the souls of the Ukrainian children massacred by the Russian thugs as passengers. 3) The last thing we need right now is more fake news, you dipshit! 4) Way to point the obvious flaws on ADS-B... and potentially ruin flight tracking fun for the rest of us that just like tracking random planes in the air. What do you want, a proper replacement with heavy crypto that can't be cracked unless you want to end in prison? (for military aircraft there is Mode-5, which is illegal to decrypt) Man, I hate Twitter. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-14, 00:57 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1070 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
My latest FUCK YOU AND ROT IN HELL goes towards MercadoLibre, the shittiest, unrivaled eBay clone we have in Latam. And unfortunately they don't have competition here in Soviet Venezuela (aside of Meth™ crapps AKA "Get Scammed, Robbed and Even Hurt zone"). Three days ago I went to list some random junk I need to sell, everything went fine from my shiny new SeaMonkey 2.53.11. Today, I went to list some other random junk I also would like to sell, and... was greeted with more Chromeist regex vomit: "SyntaxError: invalid identity escape in regular expression" ...pointing to a one-liner, several megabytes vendor.js which seems to be highly rotten Node.js manure (did I forgot to mention that MercadoLibre is now a big fat blob of bloat that only causes pain for web browsers not named Chrome these days?). The offending regex seems to be this: And of course, I can't even use their fancy cellphone webshit crapp, as it's crippled by design (can't "clone" an existing listing there to modify as a new listing, which was what I was trying to do today), so it HAS to be a Chromeist web browser on a Real Computer™. Had to fire the testing Firefox setup while I used all of my willpower to not punch my laptop display (as I can't afford a new one... and it's not even fault of the poor ol' laptop that Google has become the Vladimir Fucking Putin of the web!) because I actually want to sell stuff online. If you work for MercadoLibre: DRINK POISON, NOW. I don't care about which poison, just drink poison and die. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-14, 02:56 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1071 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
This is why we're getting more and more random sites breaking: since the Internet is now built over a pile of shitty JavaScript frameworks built over another pile of shitty JavaScript frameworks, you only need for one of their dependencies upstream to bring the Chromeisms™ (which have been decided by decree that no browser other than Holy Chrome™, its clones, and "latest Firefuxed" shall not be supported, EVER) to bring collapse to anyone deviating from The One True Browser, which is of course, Holy Chrome™: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/issues/19968 Yes, it's Manchild screaming to the clouds again, but the guy has a serious point there: webshits DO NOT GIVE A DAMN these days, and use lame excuses ("it's not frameworks' fault that we break 'older browsers'", "developers decide which browsers to support"... except that 99% don't care) to defect their obvious responsibilities into this webshit pandemic. The day I finally drop off from the Internet is getting near for me, sadly. But hey, apparently digital ostracism is fun because "we must be disruptive! Disrupt All The Things!!!" in Silly Valley... --- In other less terrible news, it seems Asshole Master Tobin has dropped off the radar, due to unknown reasons (although I know that the relations between him and Moonchild have been a bit frosty at times) - he hasn't been insulting people (or even posting anything) on any public forum for at least the two months that have elapsed since 2022 began. GOOD. Hope he takes this timeout to become a better person, or at least to not behave like a dick in public, alienating more and more of the potential user base of any product where he is involved. On the flip side, Moonchild is working overtime to fill his void by being more snarky than usual... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-17, 16:46 in Japanese Keitai - How To Upload Java Games Into A Docomo
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Dinosaur
Post: #1072 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Regarding all other features that aren't games/applications on non-smart keitais: - SMS: Those never were a thing there (only DoCoMo supported those, and only between DoCoMo subscribers) since Japan already had moved on to mobile email by the time they adopted 3G. Forget about those on our western networks! - Internet (data services): Those are 3G UMTS devices (some may even do 2G GSM, assuming you can still find a compatible working network), which means that they use APNs to provision their network connections. Sadly, APNs are pretty much hardcoded on those devices (from what I've read years ago), so short of firmware hacks (or if you're lucky, access to OEM/SoC-specific confidential phone service software that allows you to mess with NVRAM setup), you can't get any of those phones to access the wireless Internets provided by your non-JP telcos. - Multimedia: Telcos love lock-in, but Japanese telcos went further ahead and became the only gateway between you and foreign media on your phones. Also, the local copyright cartels (from record labels to JASRAC, the JP's MAFIAA equivalent) are very stingy with regards of electronic formats, and this is why almost no non-smart keitai supports playback of MP3 music (you must use AAC, and there were further restrictions on allowed format of the files themselves). Ringtones were even worse, as you couldn't just use any random piece of music you threw at the phone, no no no no, that's not how things were done in Japan! At least in the case of DoCoMo keitais, ringtones had to be encoded into a proprietary format (for which there was only one encoder tool available to the general public which wasn't free and has a bunch of stupid restrictions, from filesizes to max length, and the format wasn't ever reverse-engineered so forget about FFmpeg and friends). FFS, even Verizon wasn't THAT evil! And don't get me started with videos (hello, arcane file naming schemes!), as that's another can of worms! - Let's not forget about SoftBank's infamous multimedia lock. Even if you had one of the very rare "factory-unlocked" or "world mode" phones, if yours ran SoftBank firmware, it would LOCK OUT EVERY NON-CORE PHONE FEATURE as soon as it detected a non-SoftBank SIM (or network? Can't remember right now), and the only cure would be to let the phone roam again back in its original network. Total massive bummer, which meant that back then if you wanted to import a keitai, it HAD to be a DoCoMo model. (IIRC that's SoftBank specific - Vodafone JP never did any of that) - KDDI/au phones are completely useless outside Japan (unless if it is one of the uber-rare "World Wing" 2G GSM-enabled models) because those were CDMA, and used CDMA-specific SIM cards (best known as RUIMs). Even back when CDMA was king in USA, Canada, and Soviet Venezuela, none of our telcos used RUIMs, and even if you went to one of the two other RUIM-enabled networks out there (IIRC those were in China and India), there was simply no way to unlock those phones! Oh, and Japan used those unique special snowflake CDMA frequency bands noone else used in the world... - OTA DTV ("1-seg") tuners: Only useful on ISDB-T countries (so basically most of Latam excluding Colombia), and even then expect incompatibilities (different codecs and metadata formats, for starters - Latam uses ISDB-Tb, where the "b" is for "Brazil actually improved the goddamned thing for us!") - Those phones often required SIM hacks as there were no unlock options for those (remember early AT&T iPhones and TurboSIMs?). And once in a while, keitais running under such hacks would completely lose signal, requiring to move the whole SIM hack contraption to a good ol' Western 2G dumbphone to "reanimate" them (the procedure was known as "CPR", dunno if it affected SoftBank or DoCoMo models, but it was a royal pain in the ass for those affected users) My knowledge of keitais predate 4G/LTE models (no, I never owned one, but I really wanted to! The best flip phone we get here were the RAZRs), or anything released after ~2013 or so, so things may have changed for better, or for worse. And given Japan has pretty much fully embraced the Android/iPhone duopoly, well, I guess their modern offerings must be terrible :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-18, 12:22 in Is the Wii finally dead? (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1073 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
We all know that Nintendo has been slowly dismantling the online services for its legacy consoles, including the Wii: - WC24 shutdown in 2013 - Onlime play shutdown in 2014 (due to the demise of GameSpy) - Wii Shop Channel closed in 2019 But the Wii wasn't completely dead in the water, as Ninty's NUS servers were still up for two reasons: - Allow people to redownload their purchased WiiWare/VC games - System updates ...until yesterday: https://nitter.eu/OatmealDome/status/1504206758213947394 I heard of this at Dolphin's IRC channel, and initially people thought Nintendo finally found a way to block emulator users, but after some quick check with Wireshark and our web browsers, turns out that most of NUS infrastructure for the Wii is down - apparently Nintendo had a network services failure two days ago, but they claim that all services are up again. Most Wii NUS servers (including nus.shop.wii.com and ccs.shop.wii.com) are still down, while the CDN-backed nus.cdn.shop.wii.com has been giving HTTP 503 errors, until this morning - now it gives bad SSL cert errors (as the cert now belongs to a bunch of Chinese hostnames!) despite resolving to the same IP. This basically kills the remaining Wii online features, as we can't download updates or purchased content anymore! (as the Wii Shop Channel won't even open anymore). Emulator users are affected too, as you now need to rely on console NAND dumps for installing the System Menu. Interestingly enough, noone in the media seems to care... and Ninty doesn't either. While they have yet to announce a final sunset date for the Wii online services, I guess this is the (unofficial?) end - if that's true, well, RIP Wii (2006-2022), it was a good run~! ...oh, this failure also impacts the deader-than-dead Wii U as it uses the exact same servers... except that the Wii U got a firmware update last year (if only to update expired root certs) UPDATE: The outage also impacts the DSi: https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-dsi-shop-wii-shop-channel-quietly-pulled-offline-with-no-ability-to-redownload-titles.609415/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-20, 17:19 in Is the Wii finally dead?
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Dinosaur
Post: #1074 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Well, I guess the Wii U doesn't share as much NUS infrastructure with the Wii anymore. The Wii/DSi servers are still down, with no official word from Nintendo yet. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-25, 02:04 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1075 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
So, Moz://a is trying yet another desperate plan to depend less on https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/introducing-mdn-plus-make-mdn-your-own/ Yes, the same Mozilla Developer Network where management sacked almost all of the department during the last major purge, with the excuse to giving it to the community (read: lrn2git). Apparently you can now pay Moz://a's to get notifications, article collections, and even a fancy PWA for offline browsing, while funding the SJWs and art school dropouts in charge of the UI/UX asylum. Needless to say, Hackernews' reaction on it is split: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30792365 - Half of the Hackernews believe that Mozilla is doomed and that we should all be praising Apple to be the last standout in the browser wars. - The other half thinks that Mozilla is tanking because their CEO salary is not big enough as Silly Valley Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-25, 20:16 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1076 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Aaaand.... Tobin finally snapped off and went nuclear! http://web.archive.org/web/20220322141859/https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=28003 (archived link: the original thread now requires a login) UPDATE: The official fallout: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28044 ...and don't let the door hit your ass in your way out, asshole! Wow, "frosty" isn't enough to describe the relationship between Tobin and Moonchild. This dude is not just toxic - he is RADIOACTIVE! No wonder why many people (including me) ran away as fast as we could from Pale Moon. But seriously, comparing the leader of your project with 4chanisms is low, even for you. Guess you won't be welcome on any other software project (be it FOSS or proprietary), EVER - Tobin's ego is as large as Moz://a's CEO salary, and that benefits noone. Oh, and be careful to who you trust your root credentials, as you WILL get royally fucked should things go the Putin way! I'll stay with Team Seamonkey for my sanity, thanks. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-26, 21:56 in What are you listening to right now?
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Dinosaur
Post: #1077 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Nana Takahashi - LOTUS LOVE Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-31, 00:55 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1078 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Works fine here, might have been temporary. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-31, 01:09 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1079 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
If you need to do a netinstall over WiFi, do not download the ordinary netinstall ISO. Use the alternative unofficial non-free ISO instead (it's like 100MB bigger because it ships with all firmware .debs from non-free) ....and whatever you do, NEVER EVER write the ISO to USB media in any mode other than "dd" (this goes double for Rufus users, as that one insists that isolinux mode is the best one), because the firmware ISOs have symlinks for the firmware .debs that WILL be broken because good ol' FAT can't cope with those. If the Debian installer asks you to manually type in the SSID instead of displaying a list of nearby AP's, you've made the wrong turn at Albuquerque, dude. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-04-10, 00:33 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1080 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Just got back from visiting family, with some good and bad news regarding computerizers. I'll leave the bad news for the smartdevices thread (as smartturds are involved), so the good news is that I was so bored that I made a personal record number of Debian installs in so little time: - A desktop HP thing - can't remember the model right now but it was an Ivy Bridge i5. Pretty much straightforward, although I chose to stick to MBR/legacy boot here as I had to setup a dual-boot with Win7. I did took the chance to install KDE on this one, and... oh boy, Plasma 5 braindamage has progressed in rather weird ways. Since I have to rant about smartdevices and my blood pressure levels are already reaching the "careful with that hypertension, buddy" levels, I'll leave it at that. Sadly this setup won't see any use as this was my cousin's desktop (which he hates), and he just found a good deal on a Ryzen HP laptop... with - One of those HECHO EN SOCIALISMO® government brand laptops (a VIT M2421, more precisely), another Sandy Bridge system of the same vintage of my Asus (but this was a lowly i3). This also belonged to my cousin, and he hated it too because he - Yet another shitty Siragon AIO from hell, the rare AMD APU garbage-powered Series 5150 (which had to pay a visit to the friendly BGA rework shop to fix its nasty habit of "not turning on because AMD APUs and RoHS solder are a pox on our society). The original owner (my uncle) really wanted his Win10 despite hating it, so I just did a dual-boot, all-UEFI W10/MATE setup. Even with MATE, these garbage-tier APUs (it was some E-series junk) are lousy performers! Don't bother boosting RAM or SSD swaps on anything AMD ever made by Siragon - you are wasting your time! Oh, and the internal LCD panel is not wired over LVDS/eDP, but analog VGA (the OEM design is by Shuttle). WHY. - And a free Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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