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Might be best to disclose that you seem to be the lead developer of BlenderDMX ;-)

Incredible that he got pardoned.

No, and this is by design. If you go over the limits (can also happen if a build machine times out, ask me how I know), you will be billed without any recourse. If you have no billing information and refuse to set it, at the very least they'll permanently ban you from their platform.

Which, if it remains the only consequence, seems like a blessing now.

So, all this hubbub about open weights is already over? It will remain closed?

There's a manual verification process if you contact support. Obnoxious that it's needed, but works for many people.

The original Xbox was locked down so only code signed by Microsoft was allowed to run on it. The executables also had a flag specifying which media it was allowed to run from. This meant that you couldn't run a game from a copied disc (different media-type) or the internal hard drive (again, different media-type).

There were plenty of hacks that allowed you to circumvent this. Once you get some form of code execution on the Xbox, it's over, everything runs in Ring 0, meaning you get full access. You can use exploitable executables to maintain persistence without having to do any hardware modifications. However, all these methods relied on an initial entry through either:

A. Installing new hardware (a modchip) to run an altered version of the Microsoft Xbox kernel that doesn't perform the usual checks.

B. Transferring an altered save game to the Xbox through the memory card (internally it's just a USB drive), running the game and loading the save, which triggers an exploit

C. Booting the console (which unlocks the hard drive), waiting until the hard drive activity ceases, "hotswapping" the IDE cable to your computer, modifying the files, swapping it back and turning the console off so the drive locks again. (If the hard drive loses power, it locks itself again too, hence why the hotswap-which is not supported by the PATA standard obviously-is needed)

Now, with this, there is no more reliance on bespoke modchip hardware, aging vulnerable game discs or machines that you can still hotswap an IDE drive to. Which means that Xbox modding has gotten more reliable for the coming years. Which is good news in my book.

Don't forget "Police have seized my wife's laptop after one of her friends discovered and reported my wife's modded version of Skyrim."

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1974t9g/poli...

Decency laws are a joke.

Yeah, surely the author can't be Dutch or Flemish? Where the van prefix originates?

That, and you've skipped ahead and gotten a bit of the social reward for the project without doing it yet. So the reward will be less too.

It's rather the other way around, they'd been working on the remasters for a while and were completely blindsided by the publishing of the re3 / reVC source code, which promised to be a better option than their own remasters could be. This scared them shitless and led to the lawsuit.

Rockstar bought the developers of the private server software out and integrated them into their teams, presumably for GTA 6.

I've been reading up on it. Seems like it sends spoofed de-Auth packets to AP's it deems "rogue". That sounds highly illegal.

I've trialed Kagi but it's not given me the best results, especially not in my native language or related to my local area. I still prefer to use Google or even DDG.

Although it's probably faded from everyone's mind, I think Cloudflare and Backblaze still have the Bandwidth Alliance going which means free egress if you combine them.

Better?

Actually, Ambuchannel was forced to remove his videos by his employer. The police seems to have a few sanctioned channels though.

No need for all this, just shift+f10 in the setup and type oobe\bypassnro

DNS is always a good guess

It is incredible. Truly incredible. I know of no other FOSS project that comes close.

They might as well, since they will be insecure.

I guess we're going to see a surge of shitty Updater programs, services, tray icons, etc. again.

It's worth mentioning that there's a dedicated online community over at https://www.jazz2online.com/ and the linked discord, which maintains a community patch called JJ2+ (https://docs.jj2.plus/) which does amazing things with the game, including online coop.

I don't like Cloudflare skirting the responsibility of a hosting provider by claiming to be a neutral third party similar to an ISP instead of a company paid by their customers to distribute their content on the web.

Also them not taking a stance on housing despicable stuff like KF that literally bully people to their deaths.

It's striking how similar some of this low probability word vomit is to the type of messages you can get from mentally unwell individuals on unfiltered mailing lists or obscure, unmoderated forums.

Now I finally realise what Musk has been reminding me of since he took over Twitter. Remember forums back in the day where sometimes the owner / admin was just a little bit too involved? A little bit too self-righteous, imposing inane rules after being slighted, etc.

I've not quite been exposed to this on the same level in years (apart from some Discord servers) until Musk's Twitter takeover.

Then I wonder, what's the point?

DPI will make short work of your unencrypted DNS records..

Not just that, the fake profiles ("decoys") also seem like basic fraud.

It's basically what Xemu (and XQemu before it) are doing. They have a slightly more easy job though, as the entire OG Xbox architecture is basically a slightly hacked x86. Still, the console-specific stuff like the GPU does require very accurate emulation.

I wonder how one would select a competent law firm that won't charge exorbitant fees, knows what they're doing and actually has your best interests at heart. It seems like a similar problem to the one you're trying to solve by finding a law firm, namely not having any experience in the area to make a good decision.