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0pointson StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

Very much agree.

The query in this thread further confirms it, by november 2022 (ChatGPT reveal), usage had already dropped to ~109120 questions/month as compared to peak usage in March 2014 at 207169 questions/month.

The trend continued since but their decline is surely not caused by LLM:s.

0pointson It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360

> Slackdot

What kinda insult is that?

0pointson Where is all the new, good software?

The question was about good software. Those photoshop clones won't even let you get basic work done.

0pointson The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4

That's a witty joke, we used to make them all the time ...

0pointson AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)

Good old confirmation bias.

0pointson No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls

And here I was thinking this was proved beyond any reasonable doubt when 4chan users spoofed the Time Magazine person of the year poll of 2009 to spell out "MARBLECAKE, ALSO THE GAME" by the initials of the top winners:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/time-magazine-throws-up-it...

Or when Kim Jong Un won in 2012, spelling out "KJUGASCHAMBER":

https://observer.com/2012/12/4chan-successfully-votes-kim-jo...

0pointson Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%

I think you are being misguided. The repository itself contains disassembly directly from the copyrighted ROM, and is thus not original work.

0pointson Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%

> endangering preservation

Luckily preservationists are found outside such ridiculous jurisdictions, and most recognized titles have been preserved for a long while already.

0pointson Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA

This?

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

> The FDIV bug affects the 60 and 66 MHz Pentium P5 800 in stepping levels prior to D1, and the 75, 90, and 100 MHz Pentium P54C 600 in steppings prior to B5. The 120 MHz P54C and P54CQS CPUs are unaffected.

0pointson Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

AI made a zodiac-looking cipher for the headline image.

0pointson QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

Typo. I meant FWIW

0pointson Open-weights world models' parameter size doubles every ~6 months

    // ==UserScript==
    // @name                   Twitter Alternative
    // @description
    // @match                  *://*.x.com/*
    // @namespace              TwitterAlt
    // @run-at                 document-start
    // ==/UserScript==
    window.location.replace("https://xcancel.com" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search);

0pointson Jellyfin 12.0

Are you describing a plex feature? I was under the impression they required the media to follow certain naming conventions. [1]

Maybe mkv-renamer is of use to you? [2]

1: https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-...

2: https://github.com/ssanj/mkv-renamer

0pointson QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

How you remembered it is anecdotal, it's not relevant for the discussion unless you add something of value.

Way back when is not when it broke mainstream. It's when the service started getting attention.

It was literally pitched as a "micro blog site" for techies to communicate news, and the "app" was 160 character SMS messages.

Nerds used it as a free (as in beer) way of sending alert SMS on server errors. (At least I did).

In 2008, twitter had already started to become mainstream, quickly shifting focus away from nerd interests.

0pointson QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

FWIF, way back when, Twitter was the "Twitter for tech nerds".

Lots of water under the fridge since...

0pointson Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

    // ==UserScript==
    // @name                   Twitter Alternative
    // @description
    // @match                  *://*.x.com/*
    // @namespace              TwitterRedir
    // @run-at                 document-start
    // ==/UserScript==
    window.location.replace("https://twit.0r.cx" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search);

0pointson The Citizen Developer

> Though I'd really need 2 drives - one replacement, and a mirror.

Yea, with just a single drive it's not really a backup is it?

> If I copy some files with zfs to another drive, I'd also like to check that there wasn't an error in the copying process.

That's what rsync is for.

> I wouldn't mind buying a mirror set a year or two ago, but storage is so expensive now.

Prices went up, yes but not that much to be fair. And I think it mostly affected M2 disks.

Here's my very limited notes on HDD prices.

In 21 october 2023, a 22 TB disk cost me 0.37 SEK per gigabyte.

In 28 may 2026, a 26 TB disk cost me 0.36 SEK per gigabyte.

Both were WD red disks.

0pointson Linux 7.2

> This would not have happened 10 years ago.

Funny you say that, as I was installing Ubuntu on peoples laptops and it just worked, like 15 years ago... :-)

0pointson Terminal-code: VS Code inside the terminal

It's a full on GUI, with icons and everything.

> "Works over ssh"

Using kitty's graphics protocol is not ssh nor "works over ssh".

0pointson Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

FWIW, I blocked the US for a while.

Eventually, my lets encrypt cert expired and it turns out certbot is run from USA, so the auto renewal failed me.

0pointson Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

You'll get best compatibility for 20+ year Windows gaming using either

A) qemu with a XP/Vista guest and a older dedicated nvidia gpu pass thru.

B) Fully software using 86box/pcem but performance will suffer.

0pointson Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago

In Norway, the oldest written records are barely 1000 years old.

0pointson YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

Don't fall for the whataboutism trap.

0pointson YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

This situation only exist because Microsoft would allow kernel level anti-cheat in the first place, which is a moronic feat wrt security.

0pointson Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

We do see your comments, you know?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476243

etc etc etc etc.

As you yourself put it there, you are happy to have moderation abuse pointed out but when I do, you just ban me.

Such a wasted potential and time to move on.

0pointson Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

> the CEO were backing Trump and Vance on Reddit and other places

Something happened, but THAT didn't.

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-tr...

0pointson Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

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0pointson Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools

Daniel Stenberg has been vocal about AI generated patches in the past, and it's interesting to see him changing course here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845878

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907376

https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3407-ai_slop_attacks_on_t...

0pointson Binary Formats Gallery

There's a metric ton of them by now. Here's incomplete notes from a couple of years ago:

### kaitai - https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct - https://github.com/kaitai-io/awesome-kaitai - http://formats.kaitai.io/dos_datetime/index.html

### Hexinator / Synalyze It! - Universal Parsing Engine - Hexinator is freemium version of Synalyze It! - https://github.com/synalysis/Grammars/blob/master/bitmap.gra...

### quickbms - http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms.htm

## multiex - http://multiex.xentax.com/

### Game Extractor by WATTO - http://www.watto.org/game_extractor.html

### 010 editor templates - https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/templates/

### hex fiend templates - https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/tree/master/templates

### malcat - has some form of binary templates - https://malcat.fr/

### Andys Binary Folding Editor - http://www.nyangau.org/be/be.htm

### winhex templates - https://www.x-ways.net/winhex/templates/index.html

### TRiD - file identifier - TrID is an utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. - https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

### GNU file - https://github.com/file/file

### Noesis - Noesis is a tool for previewing and converting between hundreds of model, image, and animation formats. - http://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?content=inc_projects.php... - https://github.com/RoadTrain/noesis-plugins - https://github.com/RoadTrain/noesis-plugins-official

### Ninja ripper - extract individual models from DirectX 3D games, while they are running - https://ninjaripper.com/

### Unpakke - http://www.nullsecurity.org/unpakke

### Camoto online-only universal game modding tool - https://moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/Camoto - https://camoto.shikadi.net/

0pointson Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026

> Swedish here. The impression is common.

Swedish here, too.

Your impression is misguided. Maybe it's the norm in Stockholm, but 80% of the population live elsewhere. We do use cash and nobody thinks its suspicious to pay with cash, stop making stuff up.