xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

You know what online games are missing nowadays that was awesome in the 80's and 90s good announcer effects like this classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4I6mMilmio

I loved the usage of this is CS 1.6 / Source lobbies with sound plugins.

if you've got a 4k-compatible blu-ray drive, you might be able to dump gamecube/wii/xbox games and more now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuioEfLtVyo

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One of the victims with a technical background that spoke during the enemy of state event at the national libertarian convention today referenced the name of the specific remote management protocol that governments are using to take control of ISP supplied routers/modems and spy on users.

As someone behind a product that hinders this sort of abuse through a router that can sit between your ISP supplied modem/router (or spying device) and your actual network I found it quite interesting to hear from a technical user describe their experience when a government exploited this functionality against them.

So it’s something we’ve known was possible on routers and I’ve mostly only read about in the case of cellular phones and/or articles have alluded to.

On routers it's called the TR-069 protocol, and apparently has been succeeded by TR-369.

In any event I hadn’t known the name of the specific protocol prior (not that it would have been hard to figure out, it’s not a secret) and thought it was interesting to hear that it’s what was in fact exploited and used against him.

My companies routers solve this problem of course which made it particularly interesting for me to hear someone even if only briefly bring it up where it’s been used against an actual person with first hand experience.

Basically the moral of the story is stick a router you actually control in-between your ISP supplied modem (or for that matter any modem) and computers/printers/devices.

If your interested in watching the video you can find it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h450fh7qvks

These are the two router products my company currently develops that can mitigate the threat:

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-mini-vpn-router-v3-tpe-r1300

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-gigabit-mini-vpn-router-tpe-r1400

>another dumbfuck fell for hachi's bait

"Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as 'commercial use' could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail."

Stupid people do stupid things. There is a reason why for ~30 years I have refused to touch Meta (Facebook), Google (Gmail, etc), Apple (IDK what they even sell), or Microsoft products (also not super familiar with their product line-up).

Not to mention Adobe, and many others. And that is just in "tech".

I was once young (~11 ? or so maybe) and maybe not near as naive as the average adult today, but even I was questioning my use of Hotmail long before Microsoft bought the company.

I was 100% right to be skeptical that Hotmail wouldn't sell out to Microsoft, and then they did.

I was right not to use Facebook when everyone around me was hopping on board.

I was right in my quest to move away from Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop.

I made a lot of good decisions ... now if only other people would take responsibility for their own stupidity and stop blaming the evil people behind said companies.

You enabled this. Take some responsibility for your actions and spend some time and dollars [euros/bitcoin/monero/etc] where it matters to mitigate that stupidity.

The free market enables changes, but only if people actually utilize it to their benefit.

I also have been maintaining a mail server for about as long. When I was abused- I learned- I switched to less hostile operators. I've dealt with different companies and some were terrible/abusive- one suspended an account I had in 1997 I believe after they changed their policies to prohibit mp3s and then immediately scanned and suspended accounts without warning.

Someone just made a public domain version of Netflix.

https://github.com/select/movies-deluxe

Update 14 of #MakeRoom has been released! This enhances the lighting system, adds new languages, 250 objects and much more! (it's also 20% off now!)

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2212670/view/662735945909405440

Super excited to announce Kenney × Youtooz and reveal the Kenney plush! ✨

It'll be available May 20th and it's the perfect #gamedev companion (he'll listen to your code explanations)

i'm not anti AI (even in games) but i think it should raise the expectations, like in most places.

if the AIs are so good why are programs still missing minor features everywhere and why are they buggier and bloatier than ever. "see we can now have a fleet of interns for cheap" should be raising the quality demand, not lowering it

@mischievoustomato luddites is completely the wrong term. We're not talking about a cotton gin or metal lathe. Those things, baring hardware failure, generate the same end result deterministically if you use and maintain them correctly.

The weighted random code generators produce all kinds of things non-deterministically. They are not 100%, or even 95% reproducible machines. They would never qualify under the old six-sigma quality control metrics

The luddies were concerned about labor rights and did not start out as technologists. The current generation of software engineers are technologists, many who embrace good things. These things still have so many issues. I'm fighting one right now. At work, I'm now the lead on a project where my manager Claude-vibed $300 worth of tokens on his personal account per month and then took another job; and now I find new horrors every damn day.

I am not a luddie with the code demon, but I understand it's just math and weights and it's optimized to have catch all exception blocks and other things that swallow errors silently so things look like they work as your actually losing data.

@icedquinn that's a really good article; I dig the author's vibe.

I think the best way to use these things is limited; functions at a time. You never want it to generate so much you can't refactor it after (and you should refactor it after every time).