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CursedSiliconon Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power

The Americans elected a sub-par actor as their leader

Twice

CursedSiliconon My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

Doing things that are fun is the point

CursedSiliconon F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

You sure did provide a convincing counter-argument

CursedSiliconon F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

I don't know why pro AI people are so upset all the time

It's not like we're insulting your work

CursedSiliconon F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

I wonder how long it'll take people like you breathlessly chanting "this is the future!" before the slop bots hoover that up into their training data like narcissistic poison

Tell the slop bot it's wrong about something and it just starts berating you "get used to it!" "I'm the future!"

CursedSiliconon Meta approves Class C structure, strikes deal to retain Zuckerberg in California

Insert the "Obama awards Obama medal meme" here, of course.

God forbid his "high score" go down even marginally

CursedSiliconon Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

I could use a hammock

CursedSiliconon Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

Remember. Over 20% of America still supports this fascism.

Statistically some of them would be here

CursedSiliconon The plight of the public potty

What a prototype you are

CursedSiliconon Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty

Good lord man go back to Reddit or something

CursedSiliconon Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty

Your bewildering obsession with "populism" sure does define your entire worldview

CursedSiliconon Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher

Fortnite's shop is is psychological abuse against children and to compare it to Valve's "gambling" is laughably carrying water

CursedSiliconon Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher

They literally just shipped a massive update for a game they've been developing for several years (Deadlock) and are releasing more content for it this Friday

CursedSiliconon Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

Richard Stallman was a noted centrist for decades after all

CursedSiliconon Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

DD-WRT? Absolutely fucking not.

Brainslayer is (and has been) a complete nutjob for decades. To say DD-WRT is an "open source" project is stretching things to breaking point.

To get a device "supported" by DD-WRT you have to send Brainslayer a router. Nobody else can build the project because he intentionally obfuscates and breaks the build process as much as possible to "prevent people from selling DD-WRT" (as you're proposing doing here)

Once he receives it. He simply takes the vendor GPL firmware tarball and glues DD-WRT's UI onto it. There's no improved security for a DD-WRT device. Particularly the Broadcom ones back in the late 2000's/early 2010's when DD-WRT was more popular, Brainslayer never bothered to update from the 2.6.18 kernels the devices came with which left the Wi-Fi performance absolutely lacking.

OpenWRT is a completely different bet. But then you're fighting with GL.iNet who are literally a Taiwanese OEM selling OpenWRT-out-of-the-box devices

CursedSiliconon Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

Good to see the bots are regrouping

CursedSiliconon Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

US? Absolutely not

UK? Quite possibly. Given their recent admission (finally) around the Russian propaganda for Brexit

CursedSiliconon Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

You're mixing it up with NT's "personalities" of which OS/2 was the primary target at the time. UNIX was purely for FIPS contracts

CursedSiliconon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

"And remember: Service Guarantees Citizenship!" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1vWxUqpFI

CursedSiliconon Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser

Art is never over. No matter how hard you clutch your monkey jpegs

CursedSiliconon 'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'

Here, let me surmise it for you at your level

"concerning!"

CursedSiliconon Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Would you like to buy some tulips?

CursedSiliconon PS5 Relapse Exploit

"That's why we had "mod chips" for decades"

See when you only take half of something someone said, then run off with it and draw incorrect conclusions. You sound foolish

CursedSiliconon PS5 Relapse Exploit

Yes. And that's why I said "decades". Unfortunately the person replying did not realize I was speaking in a historical context

CursedSiliconon PS5 Relapse Exploit

The PS5 has had modchips for decades?

I'm pretty sure my original comment both specifying a timeframe longer than the PS5 has existed and hardware that never was produced for the PS5 would suggest I was talking about other devices

CursedSiliconon PS5 Relapse Exploit

So why did they drill holes into the Xbox 360's DVD drive when they could've just hacked the hypervisor all along? :)

CursedSiliconon PS5 Relapse Exploit

Pirates don't usually bother hacking consoles. It's easier for them to just bypass the security on the disc drive. That's why we had "mod chips" for decades

CursedSiliconon US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

Are you seriously suggesting America's influence is increasing?!

I guess you're in the 22%

CursedSiliconon Musk, the Movie

>Tesla's product design and market fit was right on the whole

The company he invested in, then sued to be declared "Founder" and now parades as his own, personal invention?

>SpaceX was almost all right and not wrong

Except about the things Elon opines on. Because he doesn't know shit about rocketry

>PayPal was a lot more right than wrong

He was kicked out of Paypal for all his stupid ideas

CursedSiliconon Musk, the Movie

"a lot of good technical instincts"

Like when he wanted to abandon UNIX for Windows NT at PayPal? [1]

[1] https://archive.is/L3ue8