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CursedSilicon

1,008 karma · joined September 2, 2024

Linux Sysadmin with a penchant for old and arcane computer things.

The best place to reach me is via Mastodon, https://social.treehouse.systems/@CursedSilicon

My public resume is available here https://cursedsilicon.net/resume.pdf

Please contact me via Mastodon if interested

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CursedSilicon··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
Hashing might not work since the stream itself would be a variable bitrate, meaning the individual pixels would differ and therefore the computed file hash
CursedSilicon··on Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on
Now show what banks (and where) have apps targeting that phone

Not glorified webpages. Full on apps. Preferably by the banks themselves (sorry bedroom hobbyists, I don't quite trust you with my banking details yet!)

CursedSilicon··on Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite
There was a native Linux client available when the game was still in alpha. Circa 2002/2003

Blizzard leans heavily on making sure their software is portable!

CursedSilicon··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
I don't consider the opinions of a bunch of deranged children "evidence"

They're too busy lying to themselves about what they did to Byuu/Near

CursedSilicon··on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

CursedSilicon··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
If by "forum" you mean one of the most vile places on the internet. Sure

Also interesting "first post" for a 13 hour old account...

CursedSilicon··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
Oh. So you're just transphobic. Got it
CursedSilicon··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
Being called a "concern troll" for daring to question such a bizarre accusation makes me think it's just a bunch of weird losers
CursedSilicon··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
Instead of prompting me to "do my own research" (spoiler: The 'evidence' is lacking and is mostly tedious speculation) you could provide something more compelling
CursedSilicon··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
That's a weird way to avoid providing evidence :)
CursedSilicon··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
Is there any evidence "Asahi Lina" is Hector?
CursedSilicon··on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
Yeah but this time it's different!

Hey have you seen my tulip collection?

CursedSilicon··on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
I suppose it's easier to blame ones self than to critique capitalism
CursedSilicon··on Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips
The faithful also dismiss it out of hand as "well they have to do it!"

Not just even with Trump. Accuse iCloud in China of being backdoored and someone will step in and demand "proof"

Apple gets a weird "free pass" on far too much

CursedSilicon··on Lobsters Interview
>and the thing called "freedom of speech" lets me say those last bits. :)

I mean, sure. If you don't know what freedom of speech actually means

CursedSilicon··on The Lions Operating System
This is "The Lions" operating system, not "The Mountain Lions" operating system

Ergo it would be 10.7 Lion, no?

CursedSilicon··on The Lions Operating System
You mean OS X 10.7 Lion?
CursedSilicon··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
32MB under Win95
CursedSilicon··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
OpenRA has been promising Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2 support since 2011

Instead of working on finishing it though they just add more tedious features to RA1 (an in-game encyclopaedia, really?)

CursedSilicon··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
Mental Omega is rumoured to have the source code (and all tooling for the game) which is why their mod is so all encompassing beyond any reasonable limits of what the TS/RA2 engine is capable of
CursedSilicon··on Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand
Is it pure Ops. Or also coding? I've managed Linux servers for nigh 20~ years at SMB's and personally. Kubernetes is misery
CursedSilicon··on Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand
I got hired on as a 1099 to help implement some "Facebook clone but for your company's internal intranet" because they specifically needed a US citizen to do it for "compliance reasons" (energy company)

After coming to terms with their... questionable software stack (Apache on Ubuntu in which they rented AWS bare metal to then run ESXi???) they asked me if I knew anything about Azure, so they could broaden their cloud support

I had their entire stack transliterated and ready to run within hours the same day (their app really could just be on a VPS somewhere)

Despite this, I was told I'd have to apply for their Sysadmin job the same as anyone else. Okay. Fine

It later came back that I was pruned from even being shortlisted because "you don't have any Azure experience"

I ported your entire stack to it in mere hours but I guess not!

CursedSilicon··on Rebecca Heineman has died
I was lucky to catch some of Becky's livestreams on YouTube over the years.

More than a brilliant programmer she was truly a kind soul. She never approached topics with any kind of ego. Just a joy and love for the things she'd worked on and the people she'd worked with

CursedSilicon··on When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
Likes the creak of some old wood
CursedSilicon··on Steam Machine Companion Cube
I do hope they do a "GabeCube" version, for how delightfully tongue-in-cheek that would be

Heck. Gabe himself has been "online" long enough he might even get a chuckle out of it

CursedSilicon··on Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
"Don't dump toxic waste into fucking manholes" is "left-wing" now?

You're gonna have a real head spin moment when you find out who founded the EPA!

CursedSilicon··on FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown
Kind of glad I picked Amtrak to go down and visit family for Thanksgiving

Gonna be rough if the shutdown lasts to the end of November. Shame the usual suspects didn't get the memo about how badly their party was just decimated across the country. Should've been a canary in the coal mine moment

CursedSilicon··on Writing FreeDOS Programs in C
Nope! 720x400 72hz was extremely common for games and apps. It's also why a lot of cheap Point of Sale LCD monitors around the turn of the millennium had 75Hz panels

Or if they were "high resolution" 800x600 56hz

CursedSilicon··on Writing FreeDOS Programs in C
72Hz actually!

CRT's were "strange" :)

CursedSilicon··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
Sorry. Given the context of the thread

Who is "they" exactly?

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