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| tomman |
Posted on 19-11-26, 14:44 in Dolphin and the revival of Nintendo Wi-Fi connection
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Dinosaur
 Post: #601 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Yeah, the reason WFC shut down in first place was because Gamespy was the matchmaking provider, once you found someone to play with, the rest is strictly a console-to-console affair (at least according to the traffic dumps I captured years ago with Puyo Puyo, it COULD be different for other games, dunno how they work around NAT and stuff, but it worked fine back then). Wiimmfi just replaces Gamespy in this scenario, so I guess the anti-cheat stuff involves something else, as the original WFC infrastructure didn't even had provisions for countering cheaters. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-11-30, 20:32 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #602 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Whoever paint jets for Cathay Pacific: they stopped giving F's at all... In sadder AV-geek news, Still, tearing down one of those it's not just "take a hacksaw and a wrecking ball and call it a day" - no sir, those guys needed about ONE YEAR just to broke down one of those down to the naked frame! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-12-07, 18:12 in Revamping my Genesis/MD emulation workbench (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #603 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
I've pretty much switched to BlastEm as my main Genesis/MegaDrive emulator - it works nicely, can run the AWESOME Overdrive demos, and performance is great. There are still a few gotchas present that keep me away from ditching Fusion/PicoDrive for good: - No SCD/32X support yet. - BlastEm can be very picky with ROMs doing unsupported/nasty stuff - instead of the emulated console simply hanging, the emulator will abort/crash (!!!). From trying to read some VDP registers at the wrong moment to executing multibyte Z80 opcodes, all you get is an error message and a dead emulator. - For whatever reason, RESET is somewhat unreliable - you have to reset the emulated console TWICE in order to actually reset your game (note that BlastEm only seems to support soft reset) - The custom "Nuklear" UI is awkward, particularly for setting up unsupported gamepads (if your gamepad is not recognized as a supported model, forget about it. Yes, I do have a X360 gamepad. No, I won't be using for Genesis games, as it layout SUCKS for those) If you can live with those limitations, switching to BlastEm is a wise move you won't regret. Plus you get proper support for Overdrive 2 (I want a Sonic hack using that supasekret blending mode AKA "who said the Genny can't do transparency?!"). Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-12-11, 18:20 in Your daily dose of processor unit vulnerabilities
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Dinosaur
Post: #604 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
The logo-and-website vulnerability of the day: Plundervolt Some researchers just figured out that if you tamper with a power supply circuit, Bad Things™ can happen. Also, root required, but then if you've got root, why bother going deeper? "Buy AMD", they say. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-12-14, 13:45 in The Xbox Series X (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #605 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
The NeXTBoX is here: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-series-x-exclusive-details-say-hello-to-micro/1100-6472190/ Its minitower design is sexy as hell (yet nerds are already complaining about possible Wife Acceptation Factor concerns, AKA "it won't fit under my TV!"). It already packs the goodies you would expect from a next-gen console (AMD Zen CPU/Navi GPU, 8K/120Hz gaming, SSD). The disc drive is still there, not that most people give a damn anymore. And... the name. Xbox Series X, AKA Xbox SX, AKA Xbox Sex, AKA Sexbox. MS really should fire their entire marketing department, seriously. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-12-14, 23:43 in The Xbox Series X
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Dinosaur
Post: #606 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
So you guys never saw an actual NeXT box, I guess. I'm the enemy of minimalism, but even I have to admit that it actually looks impressive. Like an IBM Thinkcentre/Thinkpad (note I say "IBM", not "Lenovo"). Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-02, 01:10 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #607 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Raymoo learns that error money IS serious money. (Touhou + numismatics?! Hell, why not?!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-06, 12:06 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #608 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis/ An interesting article of why beancounters often mean doom for engineering-based enterprises. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-07, 13:03 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #609 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Too bad the cellphone market won't understand that, otherwise I would already have a hi-end flip phone instead of $1K sealed-everything, portless glass slabs and $FREE-with-happy-meal lowend glass slabs. Speaking about Apple, at least they're being honest and upfront: everything on your cellphone DOES spy on you: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/01/06/1848248/iphone-update-reminds-users----again-and-again----of-being-tracked Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-09, 19:04 in Misc. software
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Dinosaur
Post: #610 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Can't remember the last time I downloaded something from CNet, Download.com, Softpedia, or similar scamware sites. The joys of downloading only open source software (even on Windows!), except for the games you buy from Steam/GOG/whatever (where you get no ads despite having to install a piece of bloatware to manage and download your stuff)~~~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-11, 23:48 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #611 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Only in Soviet Venezuela: Incoherent Banknotes When your money is so fucking worthless, you, the local security printer, stop giving a damn about "specifications" and "quality control", and just print those worthless scraps of paper on whatever paper stock you got as fast as you can, nevermind the results. The Boeing of paper money! On the flip side of the coin (no pun intended), this is a fine example of a collector's nightmare: when "gotta catch 'em all" becomes an absurdly complex chore. Did you thought getting those elusive SNES ROM revision carts was a PITA? Now try finding every single interval issue variant for that pesky demonetized banknote! That's our Central Bank for you, ladies and gents of the bBoards. No, I'm nowhere near of getting a half-complete set (22 known intervals, plus all those "one odd out" notes - you could easily get up to 3 different variants on the same wad of 100 consecutive bills), if we strictly follow the interval ranges. And don't get me started with the replacement issues, which are basically unobtanium hell... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-12, 17:26 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #612 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
That's a 100.000 strong bolivar (VEF) banknote, equivalent to 1 sovereign bolivar (VES), so yeah, that's roughly fractions of a cent (1,2285012285e-05 says my calculator). Those notes were legal tender until December 5th, 2018 anyway, but I guess they could be featuring a comeback soon, as our current highest note (the 50000 VES one) is already fucking worthless (unless you have one of the few samples with collectors' value, like one of the ~6000 known replacement notes out of a ~40M -A40039096 is the highest SN I've seen so far, it's not even on the catalogs yet- population of circulating notes) While we're at Stupidville, here is your daily reminder to get your shit fixed for Y2K+: https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/01/12/0221226/this-years-y2k20-bug-came-directly-from-a-lazy-fix-to-the-y2k-bug Guys, COBOL is long dead, rewriting your gigabyte-long tables to upgrade from CHAR(2) to CHAR(4) has to be done eventually. Preferably before shit hits the fan! And in the case of 2K Games, the irony is so strong on all this... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-12, 23:45 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #613 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
:facepalm: You're neither an end user nor a coder that actually cares about doing things the right way in the real world. Reminds me the whole currency reconversion fiasco over here, where there are oh-so-many ways to lop all those extra zeroes, each one with its unique set of pitfalls (mostly rounding errors). It hurt me badly because the VEF->VES transition was done MID-MONTH, instead of the following January 1st (as it was done with VEB->VEF). Do you store all your amounts in VEF and convert them on the fly, by checking transaction dates and moving the decimal point accordingly? (BigDecimal is a godsend here!) Or store amount in whatever currency it was done, then enjoy hell when you're going to perform operations with mixed currencies? (because you now have to check transaction dates at EVERY CALCULATION STEP! Oh, and when you get SQL stored procs, things certainly become quite painful. I survived it, but I had to deal with the beancounters fallout until a few months ago... > 6-digit dates Fuck you. No sarcasm. Sorry, but windowing has to die. It solves nothing, and it only encourages lazyness. Sorry but you and me can't be on the same page here. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-13, 21:23 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #614 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
I'm already ready for the Win7ocalypse: I'll stay on Debian for profit, and keep Win7 for fun (which basically limits itself to whatever games I bought on Steam but can't be bothered to test with Proton/Wine). And since I don't even game that much nowadays, it means my Win7 installs will remain idle for quite some time in the future. (I do have my legit W10 licenses for both of my Win7 laptops, and a test setup on a spare HDD, but that's all) People still run over XP over here. Hell, I just noticed one of my banks still uses an Acrobat Reader version from late '90s (IIRC it was 5.0?) on their i5 Thinkcentres running shoehorned XP (bare metal - not even a VM!). I've been warning people on public/workplace computers with dubious digital hygiene practices to get the hell away from XP, and now the advice extends to W7 (and considering the pathetic state of our hardware specs in the field, it also means W10 is not an option at all for most, so it means "Linux or GTFO"), but the reality is "nobody that matters care". But at MY house? W8+ is permabanned, XP/7 is booted only when absolutely required, and for new software acquisitions (free or otherwise), if your system requirements list doesn't include "a reasonably recent Linux distro", I'm out. Thankfully I don't Adobe/Autodesk/big audio at all :) Kinda relevant: "the PC is dead, the PC is dead, the PC is dead" https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/01/13/0244242/the-end-of-windows-7-marks-the-end-of-the-pc-era-too Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-18, 21:42 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #615 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Toshiba claims they've found code that is faster than computers you can't buy (including computers that don't exist yet): https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/01/17/1431207/toshiba-touts-algorithm-thats-faster-than-a-supercomputer They even claim you can run it at "room temperature", whatever that means... Banks already called first dibs on it, naturally. Wonder that it can also help Toshiba Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-21, 17:26 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #616 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
First MS ruined the calculator, by replacing it with some Now MS also is in the works to ensure your base OS install will ship with absolutely no usable applications: https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/01/21/1614225/microsoft-is-testing-ads-in-wordpad-in-windows-10 Not that I care about Wordpad - if you need a texteditor for large files, there are plenty of them available, at several price tags. For Win32/64, portable editions included! And if you need to edit actual documents, LibreOffice is still free, if you don't want to But still, why bother injecting ads in base OS accessories!? I didn't knew Redmond, WA got relocated to Silly Valley, CA... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-22, 19:14 in How to phone app?
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Dinosaur
Post: #617 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
- Install a notepad "app" so you can store your formulas, then pick a good calculator "app". Bonus points if the calculator "app" do allow you to define your own formulas. - Spreadsheets, that's why they're for, and you can run them on cellphones nowadays. Except that all spreadsheet "apps" I've tried are terrible (including the MS and Google offerings). But then, I guess that office apps don't belong to cellphones beyond "view-only" purposes. - Do you own an expensive phone that can emulate older computers? Then figure out how to QEMU (or whatever) Windows 3.x/95, and use that to run some Visual Basic 3/6 app. Or something that actually allows you to not download half the Internet and install a bazillion frameworks just to write a "Babby's First Calculator for cellphones". - A J2ME emulator? Oh wait, I forgot that J2ME was beyond terrible (I actually wrote a MIDlet over a decade ago, not fun at all), but then I'll take that any day of the week instead of modern smartdevice "apps". - I actually did this once on an old Blackberry (a local Engineering code calculator was required, and all the native BB apps I could find were 404'd since forever): a standalone HTML+JS application that lives somewhere at your local filesystem (assuming you own an actual pocket computer that lets you store arbitrary files on its storage devices, instead of forcing you to interact with crippled proprietary junk that only lets you upload multimedia files). You DON'T have to use Every Hipster JS Framework™ under the sun - vanilla JS is good enough for that. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-23, 20:23 in FUCK hsts
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Dinosaur
Post: #618 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Related: My site does not need HTTPS. It's not late to join Team Seamonkey. If only we could hard-fork Mozilla... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-24, 00:16 in FUCK hsts
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Dinosaur
Post: #619 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
I've always tempted to run rm -rf / on something to see the world burn right in front of my eyes. I once saw something somewhat similar happen: a faulty HDD developing bad sectors which ended wiping /etc on an old Caldera OpenLinux setup back in my college dorm years. X dies and you end dropped to a "Go away, you don't exist" console. Fun times! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-24, 00:19 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #620 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
If boomers are made by Toyota, we're in deep trouble then. I've seen how much abuse can a Toyota withstand. Those things literally run FOREVER, yo. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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