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Re:Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:58AM (#50231671)
I know this is no consolation, but passions often have no recognition or monetary reward.

Personally I will keep doing things I love. For instance, I didn't stop studying and playing chess when it was obvious that my career would be in engineering and I would never be a pro, or when computers became clearly much stronger than humans, which happened while I was already playing chess somewhat seriously.

I intend to keep rawdogging my stuff, especially the stuff I do for myself. It's more of a personal drama when it simply rug-pulls somebody's livelihood all of a sudden. This is not a new phenomenon, but it's happening at a remarkable rate right now. I wonder if this time around there will be enough people that they won't be dismissed as losers against progress.

like with any SaaS, but what you're charging is not remotely amortisation plus a profit margin - that barely enters the equation, hence why it's a bit of a stretch to call it renting
for the device, the analogy works better, like with coin op arcade machines back in the day

in this case, you're clearly not allocating a device for your sole usage for a given period of time; it's a gaming SAAS, which isn't really renting

i find the entire concept alien and i have zero interest in becoming a customer in such models, so i'm not into it and i might be misinterpreting things, but aren't those games you never "bought" in the first place?

i mean, it sounds like it's a subscription plan and some extra session passes added on, not like you actually bought a game at any point, correct me if i'm wrong

Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:07PM (#50105705)
always has been

when the software is supposedly maintained, too

Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:11AM (#50102052)
i can bet on it if i can host it in my computer
Dumping is shady af.
i guess they're in relatively separate spaces? that's how it's like in my local area in the UK

I'm finding that libraries in the UK outside of big cities are resembling those in the article, just nowhere near as popular, and with a more pedestrian book selection

Re:XCancel Taken Down Again on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:49PM (#49706733)
Xcancel helps people migrate away from X, or simply stay outside of it. The fact that X is trying to shut them down, plus the fact that they silo replies and interactions in the first place, should be a good hint that X themselves don't regard that degree of openness to work in their favour.
It's pretty much the standard to either soft-block or hard- block access into silos. Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok, etc ... all do it. Of course it's an openly anti-consumer practice, but it's one they get away with when they're big enough to flip the service burden to the client.
Re:Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:06PM (#49688129)
They have always been spivs. Their entire business model is dishonest and predatory.
yea but that's clear from the context

we use "going to Europe" and "going to the continent" fully aware that the UK is in Europe

Re:Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:47AM (#49536168)
changed my life
Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:35AM (#49511021)
which is obviously getting progressively reduced for the things that matter and more things moved to different forms of majority, and for good reasons too because the EU is already dysfunctional enough as is
Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:55AM (#49497562)
their voting power would be essentially zero and the policy opt-ins very significant

no doubt in my mind I'd vote no in their place

Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:45PM (#49493178)
I think it would be a grave mistake for them to join. They would lose all bargaining power right away and they'd be joining a very dysfunctional EU.
Re:Quantum battery upends the rules of charging on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:07AM (#49432523)
yep, maybe when they're not 800kg devices that need to stay solidly in place under the forces you experience in a car

this system does work for mopeds in Taiwan though (Gogoro)

the main problem with RISC-V is also the main selling point: there is no single owner company behind steering development and making sweeping decisions

how will that pan out over the long term is really unclear and the reality is performance is actually catching up quickly

idk this seems like a very rose-tinted title considering the results
Re:Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:32AM (#49272988)
interview from October 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm-szurM5VY

*corrected date

Re:Beauty In My Backyard on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @05:45AM (#49166290)
did that really happen to Innsbruck?
Re:Less Coffee, Better Sleep on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:22AM (#49154801)
Sleep is considerably more fragile with age, regardless of what you do.
yep, human bias makes 4-digit pins and patterns a lot worse than the theoretical entropy, but still it's a decent starting point

my comment was about the decision of that person who deleted the comment to go for the pattern lock, while/because? 16 chars was supposedly bad for the password (although he/she has a point in that the limitation is annoying and counterproductive)

all of this i reckon was not criticism of GrapheneOS but stock Android, AFAIK grapheneOS's choices are all very sound

nope it was arguing that this is a difference with stock android and that it is 16 chars there, idk about that though
There was some comment here somewhere arguing that 16 characters for a password is too little, but that he used the pattern lock. Looks like it was deleted.

Anyway. The pattern lock in Android provides Log2(389112) =~ 18.57 bits of entropy. This is less than 3 random characters, or 4 lowercase letters, or a decimal PIN digit password of 6 characters.

Granted, you could use mnemonics for long passwords, but how convenient is to input those long passwords?

I wonder why don't they just allow for longer passwords and just use a hash digest when it's too long, rather than just disallowing people from using strong passwords that they will remember. This pushes people to reuse passwords, send them to themselves, and other bad practices.

Re:Resetting Xbox on Monday July 06, 2026 @07:39PM (#48811923)
you don't get the insane profit margins they want without those predatory practices, not in this industry and if you do it's a one-off and not something you can do every fiscal year
Re:AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:06PM (#48806599)
it depends

it allows you to run smaller models much better

imo 3090s make the most sense if you can buy at least 2x ideally 4x but of course we're talking about a completely different budget at that point

Re:Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:40PM (#48700148)
there's certainly massive amounts of porn, esp. if you look at active traffic, but perhaps even worse than that is random crap collected for no good reason and "backyard genius" trash content pooled together by the gigabyte

quality and traffic are grossly uncorrelated, so finding stuff is a huge challenge

Re:Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:17PM (#48667186)
probably worth adding some ML filter to it because yeah, most of the bulky stuff in bittorrent is always going to be garbage - a lot like the internet generally, the value is in filtering the good stuff out
Re:8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @03:15PM (#48649916)
still worth it because otherwise you have essentially no software advantage over competing architectures (at the time, mainly Motorola 6800 successors and the PDP-11 architecture)

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