towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Misinformation = mistakes?

So disinformation leads to misinformation?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Who cares what people imply.
Bring receipts you fucking idiot.

If it was anything more than misinformation, you would be pointing to credible reports, news outlets, proof.

But yes, if Ukraine was committing genocide, then I would want it similarly sanctioned/punished

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago

This is the classic "Boblin the Goblin" DND meme

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think you are forgetting about Systemd/Linux

[–] towerful@programming.dev 11 points 6 days ago

Just add an autounattend.xml answers file in the iso before installing windows.
I use https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

Recently I had to re-install and configure a bunch of software on 20ish machines.
All I had to type during the install was the hostname, and powershell scripts did the rest (granted, those powershell scripts contained all the bullshit to get windows to actually behave and work like a proper OS).

[–] towerful@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why can you never have more that one egg?
Cause one egg is Un œuf (enough)

My favourite bilingual joke. It's so silly, it's so fantastic

[–] towerful@programming.dev 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The first play part is setting up arbitrary (in this case, player-entered) code execution.
The 2nd part is entering the arbitrary code to be executed.
The 3rd part is the arbitrary code being executed.

From the description:

This is a Tool-assisted run of Pokémon Yellow, playing around with arbitrary code execution and testing the limits of Gameboy hardware.

Tool-assisted meaning a program entering the data into the game. A lot of times tool-assisted is in the context of a speed run, a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun).
A TAS file can be shared and perfected by many people, and reflects the most optimised way to finish a game as fast as possible.
Sometimes TAS runs include techniques that are "TAS only", an extreme example being alternating between left & right every frame for 30 seconds. Sometimes these "TAS only" techniques end up being performed by actual speed runners. And some TAS runs are "Human viable" as in "no techniques used that can't be executed by a speed runner".

Some TAS systems can interface with an actual console, pretending to be a controller (called "TAS Bot" I believe). Generally, they run the game in an emulator or interface with an emulator.

So, this video is about a TAS (well, the tool-assisted part, not necessarily the speedrun part) setting up arbitrary code execution (ACE) that then executes a bunch of user-entered code, which is what happens in the rest of the video

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

reattaching cables should be easy enough to a new unit in case of replacement

Unless, for whatever reason, the pinout on the new unit is different from the old unit.
I almost fried my PC with that, before I paused and beeped the new and old cables out and realised they were wired differently.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So a modular PSU.
But instead of standardising cable connections & wiring across the industry, they made a connection plate thing.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeh, for 99% of casual internet users... they just aren't going to care about that.
They don't want their email/Facebook/back account pwnd.
Like, at all.

It's like saying that 0.01% of traffic fatalities are because an airbag forces your head into the roof of the car. So you should wear a helmet when driving.

You aren't wrong.
Internet is a massive part of our daily lives. We should be able to fully trust the things we use to interact with it.
But convenience is going to win

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's fair.
What would you have them do? What are they missing?

 

I've been here a while, and I appreciate the community and the defed/hiding list.
I also know programming.dev contributes to upstream Lemmy repos.

I saw another post about another instances funding.
Which reminded me....

Is programming.dev on track for funding?
Need some more donations?
Is there a runway?

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