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vanchor3··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
Cubic Ninja was not the first. The earlier ones used DS mode as an exploit using a cheap DS flashcard. I'm not even sure that was the first, but it was the first big one.
vanchor3··on The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit
Using 8.8.8.8 and I get the blocked page here as well.
vanchor3··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
I have noticed direct charges a 6% VAT compared to OpenRouter's 5.5% fee, not that it's a huge difference.
vanchor3··on Uncle's frozen Mac says it's infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
An old trick many years ago was to fullscreen the browser displaying the scary message, then rapidly add to the end of the URL in the address bar until it eventually became so long that Chrome froze.
vanchor3··on Raspberry Pi 5 EEPROM update now blocks manual RAM upgrades
This doesn't stop dubious RAM from going into circulation, it just prevents different RAM sizes than what it expects. A Chinese company could still swap in faulty RAM bought in bulk as long as it's the same size. This doesn't do anything to protect consumers or brand, just profit margins.
vanchor3··on You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow
It seems to display the same content that it does on Fandom for me. What page are you seeing?
vanchor3··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
It still shows the headset in stock in the US. The bundles, controllers, and lighthouses seem to be out of stock though, which is likely because they're a much more popular product (the controllers/lighthouses break quite often, and they're often used with other headsets as well).
vanchor3··on VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide
For a model just sending occasional commands to other integrations, they're actually quite slow...
vanchor3··on Fable 5 is Back
I once had Fable flag on one of the three-word session names that Cowork auto generated at the beginning.
vanchor3··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
> Services those emails are used with cannot unilaterally send email to them. They must pre-register how they will send email to them, which breaks services with third-party relationships such as online retail with payment processors or shipping companies.

You're talking about "Sign in with Apple" email addresses here, not Hide My Email. Anyone can send to Hide My Email addresses.

vanchor3··on Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster
They typically ban the glitch entirely. For example cartridge manipulation or "CD streaming" glitches in Zelda speedruns are banned, and if you submitted a run containing them while claiming the game did it on its own, they would probably tell you to get a new copy of the game.
vanchor3··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
Somehow going through closed issues just to reopen them sounds like more effort than just using the built in label system which is made for this purpose, but maybe that's just me.
vanchor3··on The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
They even put in an entire themes menu, with space as if you were going to have more themes you could download at some point, similar to the 3DS. 6 years later it's still just "Basic White" or "Basic Black".
vanchor3··on Claude Code is locking people out for hours
It seems like Cowork can easily chew through a few percent at a time, more if it gets lost in the weeds.
vanchor3··on Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2
> The crucial context here is that archive.today provides a useful public service for free.

So public services should DDoS is your argument?

> Jani Patokallio runs gyrovague.net in order to harass people who provide useful public services.

I scrolled pretty far through the blog and didn't find anything of that sort. Just a bunch of travel stuff. Now I'm curious what sort of "harassment" you hallucinated in the sites that were previously targeted by archive.today's DDoS attacks.

vanchor3··on Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?
They are still USB 1.1 however, so they won't be able to surpass that speed limitation over USB.
vanchor3··on Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²
I'm glad they put the two pieces of Blackmagic gear in the $135 rack mount shelf, just to set it on top of the desk in the end.
vanchor3··on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral
Are you sure you have an iPhone 11? My iPhone 11 runs iOS 18.5 fine and is reportedly going to support iOS 26.
vanchor3··on Why console makers can legally brick your game console
They already do this with used consoles and games. If you buy a used Switch that someone tampered with on the software side, the only way you would find out something is wrong is when you get blocked from Nintendo servers months later. Or perhaps you bought a used game that someone cloned the card ID from, and you end up getting blocked when others use the ID.

Getting blocked from the Nintendo servers doesn't just mean losing online play, you can't update the console or games, play game-key card games, or run downloaded games that it needs to validate your ownership of.

vanchor3··on I tried Windows gaming on a Mac
Lots of newer Mac Steam games do this as well. It's quite annoying as it also hides them from your library when you use the macOS filter.
vanchor3··on Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank
I had gone there a few times probably several months before they closed. It was quite sad how empty it was. Product hangers were lined up in a single row with one item on each hanger. The only shelf that looked full was the one aisle filled with just the same two pack of canned air, nothing else.
vanchor3··on Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?
They don't even need to deal with screen recording which this DRM is trying to protect against either. Just find a device that supports the highest playback resolution and steal the data right off the bus.
vanchor3··on Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro
RED has a patent on compressed RAW. Apple tried to invalidate it but failed, so anyone who wants to use the concept of compressed RAW has to license it from RED.
vanchor3··on Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
In series with the power to the camera would be odd. You would be passing the same amount of current through both the camera and the LED. Unless you meant in parallel, which still leaves the other issue that the camera is likely always powered even when not in use, so the LED would always be on.
vanchor3··on Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
> DRM was re-instantiated, when iTunes started streaming as Apple Music

Purchased music is DRM free. Streaming music was never DRM free, since you arguably do not "own" music that you have not purchased. Though I'm sure record labels would love if they could get DRM back on purchased music again.

vanchor3··on Apple Macintosh before System 7
It is written very strangely. It's not exactly like they reached the decision to use F-line traps for co-processors, I'm pretty sure F-line traps were designated by Motorola for co-processors, and A-line traps were free for use for OS and Toolbox trap instructions.

The "software crashed expecting a co-processor" part doesn't make any sense either, you were always supposed to check if a co-processor was available. There was no big rug pull or anything, both the first models and some later models simply did not have co-processors. Developers were provided this information.

And the last two sentences seem completely unrelated to the prior ones, so I'm not really sure what they're trying to string together.

vanchor3··on Could you pass this 8th grade test from 1912?
I'd imagine it's much easier today, than it was in the past. We have TikTok and other forms of simple to access entertainment, no heavy reliance on cash and writing checks, and worse case you just ask someone else to help you.

Although I assume illiteracy indirectly implies that you can speak the language in some acceptable form, I would imagine it would be similar to living in another country without knowing the language. You go into the McDonald's click on the pictures of the food you want, press the big green button, then use your plastic card.

vanchor3··on Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?
> Why do they need to give that products for free to everyone, or even their competitors?

It is "free". Anyone can make an extension using the API features. However they do not allow anyone other than themselves to bring it to market (i.e. the official extension marketplace).

vanchor3··on Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)
They put in a lot of effort to prevent you from deleting the main executable (you the user that is, malware can probably delete it just fine using the usual methods) however one day I discovered you can delete the .dll files from its folder and it no longer runs, and Windows does not do anything to try and fix it.
vanchor3··on YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally
They do, but YouTube has plenty of excuses to not pay them regardless.
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