RiverCrochet

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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
they had very flat (on one side) Ethernet pigtails in the PCMCIA days.
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
On the NES, most mappers would control which 16Kbyte blocks from the PRG ROM appeared in the upper ($C000) or lower ($8000) block of the NES ROM space. Often the upper block was fixed because of IRQ/RES/NMI vectors. I think later
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
I haven't seen an open network around me or anywhere I go in years. Even places like gyms, coffee shops, and restaurants require passwords typically. I think it's much more likely TVs make deals with cell phone companies and offer
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
Elitism doesn't logically counter an argument. If you're yearning for the skill that makes you elite, then work to get it. If you want the output of skill without the work, you're fake, and it will show in your output. There&
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
Downloading artists' songs is not equivalent to people using AI to generate sounds/images and claiming they are an artist. I really don't have a problem with people using AI to generate sounds/images for their own person
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
> What plug? Cloudflare.
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
> So you object to its current implementation, not to the principle itself Correct. The greater principle is freedom. Copyright is supposed to be a temporary trade of limitation of freedom in exchange for the progress of art. > Isn&#x
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
> can't creators decide who gets access to their creations? If it's on their physical property. > Is it not inherently theirs? No. For example, a creator of a song does not own my hard drive. > What's the difference
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
The comparison with money is interesting but not equivalent to copyright infringement. The closest valid application of the concept of counterfeit to songs, for example, would involve using them to make media and its packaging look like any
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
This: The basic idea of freedom, that I should be able to generally do things including accessing media without interference from a third party. Someone using a physical property can possibly deprive others of its use. This applies to the p
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
Besides life imprisonment without parole, what other punishment is appropriate for those who use the term "compile" to refer to what an assembler does (which is literally "assembling" not "compiling")?
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
Isn't this how the Xbox 360 got hacked? Not necessarily rowhammer but other methods.. IIRC some shader code in King Kong was able to affect CPU execution or something like that.
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
> so you're saying kids with bad parents deserve to suffer? I don't see how. Help me understand. Explain how kids with bad parents are suffering because parents might get fined or other legal action if they don't prevent t
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
> study after study is damning against the unfettered access of it. No child is accessing the Internet without something a parent allowed them (or a different child) to have. Bad parents are the root of most of societal ills. This is an
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
Oh I understand the tech is there to provide zero knowledge proofs, etc. But honestly don't really agree it's a reasonable approach to the Internet. I shouldn't need something issued by the state merely to visit a website.
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
Link-local addresses (LLAs) are needed in IPv6 because IPv6 doesn't have broadcast. IPv6 uses multicast instead. Broadcasts go to all IPv4 addresses in the subnet, multicasts only go to those who subscribed to a multicast group. To sub
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
Yes. But parents should be penalized/inconvenienced if they can't control their children, not the store/website. In some states, bounty hunters can find violators of various laws and bring them to the state in exchange for mo
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
N64 didn't have the wobble, but it definitely had the blur.
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
I think minors shouldn't be in any store period unless accompanied by their parent or guardian.
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by RiverCrochet 4mo ago
The new morality must be that building a world of pleasure for humans is a good thing, as it will make people want to live in the world, instead of a suffering-based world that people will opt out of if robots do everything and suffering is
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
I'm betting in that particular time and place you couldn't privately conduct scientific research under Lysenkoism. It had to be approved by the government to exist at all. I'm no historical expert nor USSR expert though. If t
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
All the Commodore BASICs, Applesoft, GW-BASIC, QBASIC from what I remember. Very certain about the Commodore BASICs.
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
They did. AND, OR and NOT were bitwise operations as well as conditional operators. E.g. POKE 254, PEEK(254) AND 127 would turn off bit 7 of memory location 254 without affecting other bits.
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Connecting to the creator of a work of art provides meaning, which makes the experience of art better and more interesting. It allows you to experience worlds other than your own. I don't go into deep dives of all music I listen to, bu
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Not on C64 BASIC. C64 BASIC converted ints to floats internally and converted them back to ints when needed. What sidestepped part of that conversion was using variables instead of literal constants. So, doing something like N0=0, and using
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
You really used a modem instead of the tape out jack?
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
A silver lining is that Javascript code will run on any modern browser+OS and can be created with nothing but a text editor. Even though this is many degrees of abstraction from facing the bare metal that was there in the 80s and 90s, it&#x
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
If modern x86 microcode ever gets sufficiently understood and reverse engineered I bet someone gets a PLAYDOOM instruction working. (I know it's been at least partially implemented on FPGAs)
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
On a higher level than individual URLs and separate from browser favorites. Something like versioned packages of links with decorations. Something like a ".urlpackage" format that will have - a list of urls - optional metadata for
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
An open way to trade, store, and export lists of websites in a way that works seamlessly on desktop and mobile browsers would be pretty neat.

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