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| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-23, 18:06 in Sales and giveaways (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #101 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Weird. While the commies here banned the use of credit cards on foreign places starting in early 2015, I can remember that prior to that, there was no difference between paying directly to Valve or through Paypal (except for the latter charging a fee on our cards per transaction for no good reason at all, IIRC it was 1% or something like that. I usually paid through Paypal as I liked the extra protection layer, given that Steam itself had been breached not that long ago). The only picky ones were Amex cards (which are generally unpopular over here, even for national purchases as only two banks issue them, and most marketplaces and PoS terminals will reject those), and even then, Steam usually didn't had major problems with our Venezuelan-issued Amex cards. Dunno if things have changed for the worse after that, as I've been unable to buy games with my own money since then, but at least you guys now have regional pricing, which is usually good for you (exchange rates usually result in cheaper games in the Americas, unlike Euro tier where you're ripped off HARD). The glaring exception in Latam is, naturally, my country (protip: if you live in Venezuela and somehow have access to hard currency, don't spend it on Steam! Get someone elsewhere in Latin America to buy the games you want, have him/her gift them to you, then transfer them the money through other means - you will save money that way because without regional pricing, we're forced to pay USA prices) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-25, 19:28 in Happy holidays!
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Dinosaur
Post: #102 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
For those living at commie hellholes like mine: There is nothing to celebrate when most people are struggling to have something to EAT this season! We have to keep fighting so we can have something to celebrate in the future, unless if you did like what most people are doing: surrendering. If that's you... well, fuck you, and enjoy your chunk of coal. You will need it Real Soon™... For those living elsewhere: Enjoy the season, eat/drink/drive responsibly, and recycle~! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-25, 20:18 in Weirdass issue with integrated Bluetooth and Linux kernel
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Dinosaur
Post: #103 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Recently I was installing updates on one of my Debian laptops, just to discover that, after a reboot, Bluetooth stopped working. Normally I don't even bother with Bluetooth: whenever I need to transfer data between PC and my cellphones, either I take away the memory cards or go wired. I don't have wireless mice/keyboards, and I forgot when it was the last time I played with my Wiimote. But still, broken things that used to work are always a massive annoyance to me, so it's time to dig out and investigate! Once again, the subject it's my trusty ol' Inspiron 6400, with the Dell 355 integrated BT dongle (it lives inside the battery compartment) BTO option. Since Dell has always been cozy with Broadcom wireless solutions, the dongle is based on a BCM2045 IC, very popular in BT dongles of the era. This IC has always been well supported by Linux since the beginning (although it would take some years for BlueZ and friends service offerings to catch up with the Windows/Broadcom BT stack). In my case, since my DE of choice is MATE, I'm using Blueman, which will subtly but clearly tell you when BT is not working, by overlaying a small red X over the trademarked BT icon. I tried turning it on again, and although Blueman cleared the red X, I still got no adapters listed! Tried rebooting, nada. Tried checking the settings on the BIOS (I've had luck with this in the past when dealing with wireless malfunctions on other laptops), but nope. Tried cycling the radio switch (Fn+F2), without results. Maybe the adapter fried and I didn't had noticed? Couldn't be - the BT LED on the laptop was solid blue. And here are when things take a turn to the weird: tried booting Windows 7, and BT was working flawlessly! (ruling out possible hardware issues). Rebooted back to Debian, and noticed not only BT was not working, the BCM2045 device was nowhere to be seen! Not in lsusb, not in the kernel logs. But, it eventually appeared on its own (!?!??!). Toggled it with the Fn+F2 hotkey, it never came back - the kernel was simply ignoring whatever it was plugged on that internal USB port (which according to Windows and lsusb when the device works, it's Bus 004, Port 002). That kernel version is 4.9 (4.9.110-3+deb9u5~deb8u1 from 4.9.0-0.bpo.8-amd64 on jessie-backports). I had got rid of all earlier kernels but the oldest one (3.16, which is the stock kernel for Debian Jessie). Surprise, the USB port works without issues on 3.16! Whatever was happening here is clearly a kernel issue with the USB stack, but that for whatever reason only affects the USB port where the internal BT dongle is plugged in - all other USB devices work as expected. Then, after checking the lsusb output, I've noticed something REALLY odd: when running in verbose mode as root (sudo lsusb -v), the output would pause for a split second when listing the details for Bus 004 (that is, the root hub where the BT dongle resides; it has 2 ports but only one seems to be connected to an actual physical port), and surprisingly the BT device would activate! So... uh, I'm completely dumbfounded here. Unfortunately I can't test newer kernels on this thing (unless if I build them from source, something which is a PITA if done the Debian Way™) because Jessie stopped getting backported kernels at 4.9, and this is one of the systems I am NOT upgrading to Stretch and its highly UXtarded DEs full of insanity, and considering Jessie is now at its LTS phase, filing a bugreport might be useless... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-26, 12:23 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #104 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
That sounds like "Souljagames". Are we now selling knockoff consoles here!? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-26, 13:45 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #105 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Microsoft just introduced Bricking as a Service (BaaS): https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/19/%E2%80%AFintroducing-project-mu/ Well, not really, but what could go wrong about unexpected firmware upgrades released with the same QA they're employing right now with regular Windows upgrades? Seriously, "Firmware as a Service" isn't something I want to ever hear from any hardware vendor doing something as critical as low-level hardware-specific hardware bootstrap code and services. At least something good is coming from all of this: they're opensourcing the UEFI core from the Surface firmware, because plain vanilla TianoCore isn't "flexible" enough for a fast release cycle suitable for modern disposable toys, or whatever. They're branding this as "Project Mu": https://microsoft.github.io/mu/ I wonder, why simply not contribute to Coreboot instead? EDIT: TianoCore can be used as a payload for Coreboot, so I guess Project Mu could be too (they don't consider themselves to be a fork, as they will always target the latest TianoCore sources as their base, with the MS mods on top). This doesn't include the hardware-specific bits, as it is strictly an UEFI core. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-27, 00:25 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #106 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Posted by BearOso ^This^ If a website treats you like a delinquent, never go back there. I was recently reading some article at some well known USAian magazine site (can't remember if it was Time), where they pulled the same stunt, completely breaking navigation. I decided to never visit that place again. In other news, dumb design decisions are dumb, even two years later: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/18/12/26/219258/two-years-later-i-still-miss-the-headphone-port Those Appletards (and whatever it is their equivalent on Android) that claim that nobody needs the headphone jack should have their ears painfully removed. Possibly using chemicals. And I say this as a longstanding Motorola RAZR user (the FLIP dumbphone, not the much newer Android slab), where depending on dongles that were IMPOSSIBLE to acquire in my country just to enjoy my music wasn't my idea of "courage". And mind you, that was in freakin' 2007! But even back then Motorola finally listened to its users... late, but they did, and that's how we got the VE20, where you could PLAY and CHARGE, no dongle needed because the phone featured both a MicroUSB port AND a good ol' 3.5mm jack. And you better use it, because even when the MicroUSB jack does accept Motorola MicroUSB headsets and dongles, you can only get MONO on this phone that way! (the 3.5mm jack was true stereo). Oh, it also featured Bluetooth A2DP, but it was so unreliable you should pretend it isn't there. It seems tech has not evolved that much, almost 12 years later. But hey, Apple now does it, so it must be great, awesome, flawless, convenient and user friendly, right? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-27, 12:16 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #107 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
The problem is that people wants his Fecesbook and Youtubers, which by design aren't compatible with a sensible browser design. Therefore nobody but hardcore graybeard nerds would want to use it :/ ...still, there is hope: as soon as normies leave Real PCs™ for good (the only good side of the endless Appification of the Internet), we will be able to reclaim our territory! ...sort of. Let me be clear: I have no desire to go back to coding client-server native internal applications, but there is no real need to have a web browser being able to natively run a Linux kernel or Windows VM, much less a "VR/AR experience" (videogames belong to Steam/GOG/whatever, not to browsers!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-28, 11:35 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #108 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Also, your yearly reminder about the 35C3 This year console rape talk covers the always unloved PS Vita. I guess $ON¥ has already dispatched their Special Ops Army to jail those "evil piracy hackers"... no wait, they don't love the Vita that much for going that far this time. Also, really like that Best Korean Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-28, 14:06 in Happy holidays!
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Dinosaur
Post: #109 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Fun fact (and by "fun", I mean "completely boring"): Today is December 28th, which for you rest-of-the-worlders is an ordinary day near the end of the year, but for Hispanic countries (which are of mostly Catholic ascent), it's actually the Feast of the Holy Innocents. In other words, unlike the rest of the world, our April Fools is actually TODAY. People rarely (if ever) pull pranks that day (over here we usually get a couple joke news at the headlines, if anything). In fact, only Spainards actually care celebrating the "Fools' day" (because everything is still assbackwards at Mother Kingdom of Spain), while a lot of Latam places already embraced The One True April Fools Day. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-28, 17:21 in Sales and giveaways
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Dinosaur
Post: #110 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
For those wondering when Unfortunately no game has been applicable for conversion for unlimited time - every single game has been available for only a short time of window (typically one week). Miss the window and you lose: no game has ever performed twice on that list. GOG claims that this is solely on the publishers - they aren't in control here and this is the best they can do for now. This isn't automatic either - you have to wait until the window opens for your desired game (which may not happen ever: just ask any of my "MADE IN JAPAN" games), and once it does, you have to manually reclaim your game. Once the window closes, it's over. They only convert a handful of games per month, sometimes there have elapsed months between windows! And to make things more confusing: GOG doesn't maintain an official list of Connect-reclaimable games anywhere on their site (not even on their forums, it seems). Your best bet is to subscribe to this Steam thread (which is actively maintained although it doesn't look like it is official), so you get an alert every time the magical window of deDRMization opens for your game, if ever. The whole system sucks, thanks to publishers... but also due to GOG itself, as I feel they could put more pressure over publishers in order to give more weight to their "your games are yours forever" mission. But then, I understand the business part of it: you want people to BUY games at your store - bandwidth isn't cheap and a sudden influx of users with massive free game libraries doesn't really help to keep the lights on. So, I feel that the whole GOG Connect thing is a double edged sword. Bundles (HIB-style, not "20 Steam keys for $1") are a better option, as you get all your bases covered from the start: you get your DRM-free downloads, AND your precious Steam keys. But then, most bundle sites don't even bother keeping their DRM-free files up to date, as they assume you're just seeking for cheap Steam keys and don't give a rat's ass over a file that is actually YOURS, FOREVER :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-29, 17:26 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
Post: #111 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Talking about shit UX, now it's Google's turn again for piss over their users: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chromes-new-ui-is-ugly-and-people-are-very-angry/ https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/12/29/0847212/google-chromes-new-ui-is-ugly-and-people-are-very-angry Apparently the last batch of UI/UX changes on Chrome's "mobile first" user interface are having a really harsh reception among its desktop version userbase, with some Twitters even threatening to pull a Mozilla ("I'll switch to Firefox!/I'll disable autoupdates and stick to the previous version until the cold death of the universe!"). But then, there is no shortage of "you're complaining about nothing, shut up" one-size-fits-all apologists around those threads. In the dawn of the personal computer era, we had plenty of choices to suit the needs of different user bases, even taking in account the fact that a lot of those choices were working around the limitations of the hardware of the era. But then, progress marched on and the hardware was no longer the limiting factor to fully unleash the imagination and creativity of developers and UI designers, yet still we managed to keep the market full of options, at the same time standards were arising to place a common ground to build minimum expectations from users about specific tasks they have to perform every day on their personal computing devices. Uniformity ensued, but there was still plenty of room for drawing users to your software (did you know USAian lawyers still stick to WordPerfect nowadays due to its particular feature set for legal stuff?). Then, cellphones happened. And they came with the same limitations that personal computers had in the beginning, so software developers and UI designers had to work around them to produce (barely) usable products. Hardware progress was rapid, except on a little thing: form factors. You can't simply tuck a full blown laptop into the pockets of your shirt/pants, so there have to be compromises, and the mobile UI happened. Not a big deal, as there was a big, long, and thick wall separating cellphones from personal computers, and we still got choices on both platforms. During this period, a parallel development was the tablet computer: no longer constrained to "half a laptop" limitations, those devices made the jump to an ordinary cellphone software stack and no input devices other than a touchscreen and a couple side buttons. Then, the Social Network happened. People discovered that not only they could post whatever inane details about their personal lives for fun and profit, they even got aware of the fact you don't even need a expensive and clumsy "computerizer" for such menial tasks. Service providers quickly started promoting this, and thus, the UXtard was born. Personal Computers no longer matter in this era where "everybody has a cellphone", damned the power users (which in the eyes of the Facebooks and Twitters of the world are old graybeard paranoids that are not monetizable anyway, thus they're decreed persona non grata on their data silos), and hence this leads us to the "Mobile First" (or more precisely, "Mobile Only") prime design directive, where desktop software pretends it's living on a cellphone, completely ignoring decades of both dedicated input devices and flexibility progress. "One size fits all, because the only available size is XS". Once again, according to those people, anyone that dares complaining about the state of things (with actual evidence in the hands, no less!) is an old grumpy senile dinosaur that HAAAAAAAATES CHANGE and should shut up and go extinct for good. Ladies and gentleman from the jury, behold, Exhibit A: There are so many users saying that they are downgrading that Google engineers have stepped in to tell people to switch to other browsers rather than use an old Chrome version. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-29, 21:50 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #112 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
"Yo dawg I herd u liek Chrome so hard we turned Firefox into Chrome!" https://github.com/pratyushtewari/firefox-like-chrome This is so sad at so many levels: I can get the old Chrome (which Google has just took away without asking and without recourse) on my Firefox, but not the old Firefox (or Mozilla) on my new Firefox. It is like suddenly tomorrow all car paint makers phase out all but three colors: panty pink, vomit green, and rust. And the Toyota dealer will justify their decision because 99% of the car buyers are happy with their new 2020 Panty Pink Priuses or Texas Rusted Edition Tacomas, and I'm delusional for wanting a car in any other color than those. Since when we let Henry Ford in charge of software user interface design!? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-30, 16:40 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #113 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Winamp is a very interesting example. (According to The Wiki, their classic signature skin debuted with version 1.006, but it wasn't until the original 2.0 release where the skinning support got extended to the EQ/playlist windows) They created a easy yet distinctive UI, suitable for the displays of the era and with the option to paint it any color you wish (I myself remember using a customized Win2K-esque skin back in my WinMe era). Then Nullsoft had their Firefox moment with Winamp 3 (skins and plugins being the main contention point, among other issues like stability and performance). Did they said "you're nobody, go away"? NO! They kept maintaining Winamp 2.x for a long time, THEN they came with version 5, which not only switched to yet another UI redesign (Bento), they still managed to isolate it to a plugin, while bringing back support for classic 2.x skins and (IIRC) plugins. You can have the best of both worlds. I'm no longer a Winamp user, but last time I used it, I liked Bento for being a tidy, clean and orderly layout, at the cost of requiring a high resolution display to take advantage of it. For older displays, Classic is still king. THAT'S HOW YOU DO UI/UX, YOU SILLY VALLEY MORONS!!! Sadly, the days of peaceful coexistence between past and present are running out, now that Radionomy owns the leftovers of the former Nullsoft product and has already threatened to commit to a "mobile first" focus :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-31, 03:37 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 4)
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Dinosaur
Post: #114 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
First World Problems at its finest: https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/12/30/1644209/as-more-retailers-ban-paper-money-its-making-things-awkward-for-customers-without-plastic ...I don't get it, why the fuck we now get stores hellbent on REJECTING LEGAL TENDER CURRENCY?!?!?! As much as cash can be annoying at times, you can't simply go out and tell your customers "hi, your money is not welcome here, go away"! And before you come up at me with your "cashless utopia", here are several good reasons of why you must still take cash: - Cards/PoS terminals (the bank-issued ones) can (and WILL) fail for oh-so-many reasons (peak time congestion, faulty card readers, I forgot my PIN, etc.) This simply is the nature of everything that involves the use of electronic devices, which are designed to fail at the worst possible moments. - Banks can (and WILL) close your account at any moment without prior warning. This is not common, but it HAS happened to people I know (with no other recourse than "your $12K check is in the mail, we don't want your money with us anymore despite your account being old enough to vote and drink hard liquor") - Any kind of transactions that involve banks rely on telcos. The phone company is NOT your friend when you most need it (phone/DSL/cell dies -> can't make transfers/swipe cards/pay from your cellphone) - I'm not sure about 'murica, but in most of the civilized world (and some banana republic shitholes), you CAN get fined or even go to jail if you refuse to accept cash! - There are some legit reasons for avoiding the use of cards or other banking products: just ask to your granny/grandpa which no longer have the dexterity to keying in a PIN on a keypad, and prefers to spend half a day at their nearest bank branch every time they get paid their monthly pensions so they can buy food and meds. - Of course there is still a small number of people without access to the banking system. No accounts, no cards, nothing. - Your newfangled "apps" require a smartdevice of some sort, of which not everybody is willing to own one (with its consequent maintenance costs and service pains), plus they're usually even worse than good ol' chipcards (unless if you live in Japan, where they somehow managed to perfect this at their first try, almost two decades ago) No, "privacy/Big Brother is tracking muh transactions" is NOT a valid reason to refuse dealing with banks (as evil as they can be, but they're a necessary evil), so you can stop furiously masturbating at the idea of wearing your quad-layer lead-reinforced tinfoil bodysuit. I DO have real reasons to refuse living into the cashless utopia, as I've just described before. Once again, contrast with Soviet Venezuela, where we see the complete radical opposite of this, the "bankless utopia", where cash is king, queen, and everything in middle, but with an hyperinflationary twist: - Retailers can (and often WILL) charge different prices, depending if you pay with cash or cards (usually the latter is more expensive) - Going to the extreme, there are retailers that will refuse to take anything BUT CASH, for some or all of the products they sell. - Forget about paying with lower denomination bills, which lose their value even before leaving the printers! I've been BANNED from several retailers (and sometimes even been threatened with physical violence!) just because I tried to defend my right to pay with legal tender cash of low-denomination bills just because 1) they don't want to waste time counting banknotes even if they have one of those fancy bill counting machines, and 2) those pigfuckers have a side business selling money in the black market (because there are morons desperate enough to pay exorbitant premiums just because the Central Bank no longer delivers enough cash to the banks) - Having cash can be an advantage when our fragile payment networks break for whatever reason, particularly when your alternatives are to walk out with your hands empty, or to spend the next five hours standing at a checkout line waiting for the PoS terminals to come back online... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-01-01, 04:12 in Happy new year
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Dinosaur
Post: #115 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Frist post of the year*! *by "year", assume a timezone context of -0400 VET. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-01-01, 18:46 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #116 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
The last and first controversy of the year: Mozilla now tries to shove ads down your throat, they call it "an experiment HONEST!": https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/12/31/2219257/mozilla-says-ad-on-firefoxs-new-tab-page-was-just-another-experiment Furious nerds are threatening to switch browsers... but to what browser?! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-01-02, 15:34 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #117 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Today I got aware about this old controversial tweet, made by none other but Elon "I AM ELON MUSK" Musk. Every single time Musk uses Twitter, it's to post some stupid shit that ends at the headlines while pissing over someone else, from cave rescue workers ("pedos") to the SEC (which ended costing him his CEO position at his beloved Tesla). And now he messed up big time with the Touhou fandom (and beyond, including weebs, otakus, and transspecies people, whatever that means). See, he posts something stupid related to "catgirls" or something. But of all the actual catgirls in the franchise (not to mention other franchises with even easier examples, like Nekopara), he had to explicitly choose a werewolf, of all things! With DOG ears and DOG tail. Hell, even a 2-second Google Images query has quite a lot of examples of catgirls (except for the poor Kagerou, which became the antiexample thanks to Musk). The reactions from Western artists (as noone seems to care about who is Elon Musk in Japan) have been rather funny, certainly better than the original tweet. Either Musk is a moron, a troll, or a complete ignorant (or possibly all three, which seem to be the perfect companion for his attention whore personality). Anyway, the guy should quit social media (and possibly the Internet), for his own good. He should go back to sell cars, or something. Or do whatever CEOs are supposed to do, which doesn't include "being a dick in public media" last time I bothered reading public relations literature. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-01-02, 16:23 in Various copyrighted stuff is finally becoming public domain
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Dinosaur
Post: #118 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
I guess Big Mouse Co. is too busy trying to drive Netflix into the ground for pushing yet another copyright term extension this time. But relax, this oversight will be corrected soon! We can't let the people have fun with products we're not really profiting anymore! Seriously, fuck Disney. They're the sole reason of why public domain is a joke nowadays :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-01-04, 13:14 in Various copyrighted stuff is finally becoming public domain
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Dinosaur
Post: #119 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
In 1998, I did got my first computer, dial-up wasn't even available nationwide yet (Internet was "this new cool thing from the USA!"), and we were still under the rule of the "trojan horse" government of Caldera (who was the man that set Chavez free, leading us into our current hell). Oh, and piracy over here was still in diapers. CD-Rs were the novelty (I still keep my very first batch of pirated software on 650MB gold Dysan CD-Rs with the infamous green dye, wonder if they're still readable...), and 1998 was the first year I had contact with something called "Winamp". And DOOM II. If you wanted to commit copyright infringement acts, you were pretty much limited to cassette tapes (which restricted you to music as computers were rare, yet new enough to not depend on tape drives), unless if you knew the right people (usually far away from small cities like mine) who could hook you up with those fancy, expensive CD-Rs full of cool shit. Movies? VHS or die. Although one of my uncles had Beta for whatever reason. Blockbuster was big in Venezuela, with all important cities having one (Caracas had like half a dozen or so), despite rampant piracy elsewhere (I do remember that one of my aunts ran her own video club, full of bootleg tapes... where you could see the true nature of VHS as a crap media). So... yeah, in 1998 we weren't even aware of the Internet in general. In 2018 noone gave a shit about their rights to public domain because it's natural to shit all over Disney precious IPs over here, and they can do nothing about it. The joys of being a 3rd-worlder, I guess. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-01-06, 19:47 in JILost's computer stuff returns
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Dinosaur
Post: #120 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 14 hours |
Why not take the computer apart and look it yourself? Benchmarking and information tools sometimes aren't very specific about system-specific details. High-accuracy emulation is strictly CPU-bound. More RAM won't help your cause at all, but it's always nice to have since modern software is extremely bloated nowadays. Remember the old motto: "RAM is cheap, developer time is not". Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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