Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

Hack into people's IoT garbage purely to flash a new rom on them and install Doom.
They don't have to pay a ransom to use their fridge, they just have to beat E1M1 on it.

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It begiiins.

I hate that the current going meme on Twitter is controversial opinions, because Twitter thrives on discourse as being a source of engagement.
The spread of controversial opinion memes is simply supporting this source of engagement as being effective.

Twitter knows this - an official Twitter Movies account is asking for "controversial movie opinions".

I feel like corporations don't understand the difference between archival and maintenance.

Okay maybe that's not the right words.

Basically take old roms and the original Doom for example: Nintendo keeps wanting to resell you Virtual Console ports of things, and Bethesda is trying to sell ports of Doom on consoles.

But the thing is, these games are old enough that 95% of the original developers aren't working at their respective companies at best, or the original companies don't exist at all and the trademark is owned by someone else now at worst.

The current distribution model holds the perspective of treating the games as a product to continue selling on the same level as actual new games, but that's the wrong way to go about it. This is what I mean about "maintenance", the corporations want to keep servicing you the product as if it's brand new, to keep profiting off of it.

(And maintain copyright.)

These games should be free. They should be presented as relics with the preface that the games might not work, or would require emulation efforts on the part of the user.

Archivists could work to assist in the accessibility of this with their own source ports and the like, and this work could be supported through donations.

While you could argue that's the intent of the corporate model - to provide accessible means to play old games with source ports - the fact is is that profit still remains a motive. Money is not going towards the devs of the game, while being framed as purchasing the game. Donating to archivists for their work isn't framed as buying a game, but supporting archival and maintenance.

This maintenance too allows archival to be essentially criminalised as copyright infringement. Frankly this is absurd for numerous reasons, but it may mostly stem from the fact the digital age has broken the concept of "theft".

Imagine if libraries were punished for having copies of books that publishers decided to resell in new editions for. Of course, this isn't strictly an appropriate comparison because physical books exist in a finite number. Data fundamentally doesn't work this way, copying data does not create any loss in the availability of that data.

Despite that no original devs may exist at the copyright holder, despite that copying these old games does not hurt the accessibility of those games, copyright infringement is treated as "theft" because certain higher ups want to keep control and maintenance of a product, because the industry can't comprehend that nothing is lost from letting someone else distribute some ancient software.

Hell the tech industry wants to make everything you own just rented in the form of subscription models, so they can keep an even tighter hold on things, but this post is long enough.

@Eon Shiny and smooth is the best, isn't it? None of those unnecessary imperfections, and a lovely painted/printed-on fur colour, expression, eyes...

And creaky squeaky joints and bends...

@Eon A good manufactured vinyl toy. Smooth and perfect and made to exist just the way you want.

For god's sake Youtube, I know you have the feature, when will your AB testing give me the option to block channels so I can stop getting PDP recommendations?

... for that matter, Paypal, when will your AB testing let me set invoices to not require a delivery address? I know that feature exists too! Other people have it!!

@SamIO Is this a role, is it just me...
... how can you tell what the difference is...

Changing up more of my profiles as I get more Amaterasu commissions and fall further down this rabbit hole~.

... if we had spaceships with artificial gravity, what would stop those gravity cores from curling themselves, or the ship, into a ball?

I guess the best solution would be spherical ships.

@DarkOverord What a lot of valves.

@Goldkin Depending on the date you set your seed for, would it be possible to detect a date that doesn't seem legit? Especially if say, you send a pokemon into the network to be traded and the capture date is set in the future...

You know half of this wouldn't be such a hassle if you could just set new tabs to load the home page you set?

Like, why let me set a custom page for the home page, but new tabs only allow "Firefox Home"?

I wonder when they'll stop allowing custom pages, too?

Really hate how any time Firefox breaks userchrome because of some random background change (read: element rename) I then have to spend hours searching for solutions.

I have better things to be doing.

Anyway apparently -moz-binding got deprecated, thus breaking the dynamic loading of CSS and JS I was doing. This was apparently done in FF72, and yet it didn't rear its head until tonight's 72.0.1 zero-day patch.

Which makes no sense, but, wwwhaaaatever.

Computers!