Early Console Modchips - From Piracy to Freedom [10:56] | Modern Vintage Gamer
With the launch of optical media in game consoles such as the Sony PlayStation 1. The console could be hacked with a use of a simple modchip - an unauthorized hardware modification that was soldered directly onto the motherboard. This was done to circumvent security features. While the original goal was for piracy and backups, as modchips evolved, so did their use cases. Everything from Region Free, homebrew, emulators, makeshift development kits and more were soon possible. In today's video we look at the earliest modchips and how they shaped the video game landscape.
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First Open Source dating app
Alovoa - Meet new, exciting people!
Meet new people in your area, absolutely privately using open-source technologies. You're only a few clicks away to find new friends, dating and sexual partners.alovoa.com
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Then I guess isn't worthy trying to use it. It's sad cause sounded like an alternative for Tinder and the rest of meeting apps from the Play Store that have the Google infestation on them.
Unfortunately I think projects like this have extra challenges over even regular social media platforms. There's also retromeet which seems even more dead (it may have not even made it to a stable release).
The idea is great but for a dating app to work, it needs to quickly get past two network effects: the global network effect (there must be enough people globally, or in a larger region, to get other people interested in trying out the platform) and the local network effect (there must be enough people to match with in most users' local areas to keep enough people interested). With corporate backing that's easy enough to do with a dedicated team to market and develop, but FOSS rarely has that sort of manpower. Slow growth is hard too, since users tend to leave dating apps quite often.
There's also the funny problem if the dev gets a partner usually the partner doesn't appreciate them staying on dating apps. Developing a dating app could be even worse for the relationship... actually now that I think of it, maybe I should make start a similar project since I don't like dating...
GitHub - retromeet/core: This is the core API of RetroMeet, an open-source dating app
This is the core API of RetroMeet, an open-source dating app - retromeet/coreGitHub
needs to quickly get past two network effects: the global network effect [..] and the local network effect
Sounds like a job for Fedi-date! If you could somehow hook a dating app into the fediverse, then maybe it could survive long enough to get sufficient users. If it also offers more general IRL meet-ups (like meetup.com but without the corpo rent-seeking), then it could perhaps begin to get popular that way too.
That's exactly what Retromeet was trying to do :)
Though I do agree that having a broader scope than just the hot-or-not swipe thing would really help to attract enough people to join. Retromeet doesn't seem to do that, though I haven't used it so I could be wrong.
Local network effect is enough, even when it’s restricted to a specific demographic or subculture. Once a dating platform grabs a hold in a location and demographic, it can extend from there.
Of course to keep a project like this running, you need a way to pay for hosting and development.
Maybe we can agree to disagree because I don't think a specific demographic is enough to overcome the negative network effect at the start. The problem, imo, is that the attrition rate of dating apps is really high and dating apps are only good if a lot of people are located geographically nearby. You either need broad appeal to avoid running out of people early on or a demographic that is unusually geographically concentrated and usurps the attrition rate (ENM comes to mind for the latter).
Of course, you could always make something for dating without the geo proximity, but I think most people won't want to use something like that at all.
The beauty of new FOSS projects is that they're quite often hosted and developed for free, so I don't think that's much of a limiting factor as long as the community is there. That's also why I think it's important to make it big quickly, because that's the way to get a big enough community before the creator loses interest.
Churn is an issue you mentioned.
I was specifically thinking about men who have sex with men. Grindr and similar platforms are very successful. Most of it is about casual sex between promiscuous men. They are also a great target group otherwise. Travel between gay metropolises is common as. Pride tourism is big.
I think a lot of engineers underestimate the amount of non-technical effort that goes into running platforms with users.
It's a shame I think there are some really interesting problems that a less profit driven dating app but currently anything without a big marketing budget isn't going to have the userbase to support it.
This kinda app would need at least an attempt at a technical solution to the bot problem. An open source app can't just pay people to kick bots out. And even the paid apps that can are drowning in bots.
Something cryptographic maybe. Tor is kinda magical, makes anonymity possible while the each machine knows who they are talking to. Maybe something where you can show that you are "a verified user" without showing exactly which one.
Other apps do have some good anti-bot measures which could be adopted for a FOSS project. The problem with a lot of cryptographic solutions for this is that often cryptography is usually more about proving your identity more than proving something about your identity. Tor is also focused on privacy from middle-men, which doesn't really make sense for a dating app.
I think the challenge boils down to how to prove you're human without biometrics or other PII. And I think the sad reality is that you can't prove it. Though you may be able to prove you have unique PII with some sort of zero-knowledge proof...
Maybe it would need to draw on experiences of moderating chat rooms and forums - these are very often done by volunteers who put a lot of time and energy into it because they believe in it.
There is also the "Web Of Trust" concept, where, given that everyone can prove their identity, people can then vouch for each other.
actually, the biggest ratio is human to bots being prolly something like 1:100...
But the idea is awesome tbh, could have been activitypub powered though!
Not yet. Craigslist was a great example of free to use dating site based on a generic platform.
Just make a channel for your city and advertize it. That's probably all there is to it. If you build it, they will cum.
If you build it, they will cum.
The joke with the quote of that shit movie.
Perfection.
you are technically right, but easier said.
might as well try to build a community on an app dedicated to this, like the one advertised.
which is still hard because of network effect.
M with Arch and Long Socks looking for that special self hosted someone with BPM>0, let's meet at the abandoned factory and compare notes about brutalist architecture.
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I really appreciated how unmonetized and not emotionally manipulative it was.
There's like no people on there though.
Orion Browser
Any mac users out there who tried this browser? Linux alpha is coming this month so will try it myself then.
It sounds like they are building a new browser from the ground up.
Orion Browser by Kagi
Orion — a web browser designed from the ground-up. Native WebKit speed, full extension compatibility, and absolute privacy is finally together in one browser that respects you.orionbrowser.com
I'm so confused with this random audio issue
Speakers -> Worked via Line OUT for months
Take PC apart and change PSU, assemble PC back.
Speakers - Line OUT detected but can't test Left/Right audio channels, options missing. No AUDIO from speakers unless I select them as default in Pavucontrol or manually assign outputs via Helvum.
Fedora 43 GNOME
How do I get my GNOME audio settings to work again?
This is so random and funny at the same time... yet frustrating because it makes no god damn sense :D
Grocery prices shot up by more than 30% since 2020, says StatsCan
Obligatory - Loblaw is out of control
The PBO report estimates the one-time payment will cost more than $3 billion this year, while the annual increases will cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion annually through to 2031.
Not that expensive. Still these moves without addressing the rent seeking (profit maximization) in the consoludated supply and retail chain is a band aid. Minimum wages are also woefully underadjusted but they'd only have positive effect if the grocers can't just jack up their prices to where they think the new market conditions would bear.
Not that expensive.
list the hospitals and schools you would like to close to subsidize Loblaws.
Zero obviously.
If we assume Loblaws gets 100% of this money and those 12M Canadians get no extra food as a result from it, then I would be 100% against this. However I bet that 12M people will get some more food, probably not the equivalent of 100% of the spend but not zero. Loblaws would get the rest. Hunger isn't lower priority than healthcare. Both are cut-to-the-bone issues and food very much affects health and healthcare. So I think this will provide needed relief in the near term. We all know what happens in the long run. It's very much not the type of policy I would do if I were PM.
Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer an Avi Lewis gov't setup a non-profit public grocer and distributor and have zero money go to Loblaws, which is why I'm getting people to vote in the NDP election. I'm just commenting on the current material reality.
A rebate sounds like a positively insane idea. It's just a corporate subsidy with extra steps.
If you want to lower prices, you can't give people money to give to the oligopolies. You have to break up the oligopolies, regulate the hell out of them, and send some people to prison for price fixing.
Help managing access to multiple VPN services (Tailscale, Wireguard, Twingate)
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34942012
I find everyone using different services, so unsure how to best manage (and balance) concurrent access in Ubuntu/Debian to:
- Local network services
- Tailscale services from userA
- Tailscale services from userB
- Wireguard (OpenVPN also option) from userC
- Twingate from userDEach user is wanting to share different services via VPN, and pressuring any to change their production setups to a different style of VPN is not going to happen.
- Management via software
- Possibly up a routing device along the lines of OpenWrt or OpnSense.
- Could even distribute such devices between these friends.Thanks for all thoughts!
Example setup:
- Jellyfin user access from TailscaleA
- Nextcloud user access from TailscaleB
- Jellyfin user access from Wireguard
- Jellyfin user access from Twingate
- Jellyfin user access from local services
How would you manage this in a somewhat seamless manner?
I'm not sure what you'd like here. You didn't give much info.
Did you want someone to literally work out a full config for you in here? We don't know what you're even running.
AI controls is coming to Firefox
Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.
They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Software engineers at Microsoft are now expected to use both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot and give feedback comparing the two, I’m told. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot as its AI coding tool of choice to its customers, but if these broad internal pilot programs are successful, then it’s possible the company could even eventually sell Claude Code directly to its cloud customers.
Guys? Are we going to have to rename Microsoft products from Copilot to Claude soon?
Microsoft Claude 365?
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code, despite selling its own GitHub Copilot AI tool. Microsoft’s developers are now testing out both to compare them.Tom Warren (The Verge)
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42586503
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febrero 2, 2026Ernesto Limia Díaz es historiador, escritor, miembro de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (conocida como UNEAC, su acrónimo en español) y director del programa cubano MARCAS. También es autor del libro bilingüe Patria y cultura en tiempos de revolución. El pasado octubre, Panorama-Mundial publicó una entrevista con él sobre los desafíos que enfrenta hoy la Revolución Cubana.
Los jefes militares de Estados Unidos saben que Cuba no es Venezuela. Que acá no tendrían el paseo invernal del 3 de enero. No conocemos la palabra rendición y por ello Trump se ha propuesto reeditar la vergonzosa página de la Reconcentración de Weyler, dispuesta por aquel general español para rendir por hambre a nuestro pueblo ante su incapacidad de derrotar al Ejército Mambí en el campo de batalla. No nos pueden perdonar que a pesar de todas las dificultades se nos tome como brújula moral, y el espíritu de revancha los lleva a actuar con saña genocida. ¿Qué hará la humanidad: plegarse ante el fascismo o responder con valentía e integridad? “Quien se levanta hoy con Cuba, se levanta para todos los tiempos”.
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos
de Panorama Mundial
febrero 2, 2026Ernesto Limia Díaz es historiador, escritor, miembro de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (conocida como UNEAC, su acrónimo en español) y director del programa cubano MARCAS. También es autor del libro bilingüe Patria y cultura en tiempos de revolución. El pasado octubre, Panorama-Mundial publicó una entrevista con él sobre los desafíos que enfrenta hoy la Revolución Cubana.
Los jefes militares de Estados Unidos saben que Cuba no es Venezuela. Que acá no tendrían el paseo invernal del 3 de enero. No conocemos la palabra rendición y por ello Trump se ha propuesto reeditar la vergonzosa página de la Reconcentración de Weyler, dispuesta por aquel general español para rendir por hambre a nuestro pueblo ante su incapacidad de derrotar al Ejército Mambí en el campo de batalla. No nos pueden perdonar que a pesar de todas las dificultades se nos tome como brújula moral, y el espíritu de revancha los lleva a actuar con saña genocida. ¿Qué hará la humanidad: plegarse ante el fascismo o responder con valentía e integridad? “Quien se levanta hoy con Cuba, se levanta para todos los tiempos”.
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos - Panorama-Mundial
El 29 de enero de 2026, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump emitió una nueva orden ejecutiva declarando un "estado de emergencia nacional" debido a la "inusual y extraordinaria amenaza" que la nación isleña supuestamente representa para Estados…world-outlook.com (Panorama-Mundial)
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos
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Ernesto Limia Díaz es historiador, escritor, miembro de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (conocida como UNEAC, su acrónimo en español) y director del programa cubano MARCAS. También es autor del libro bilingüe Patria y cultura en tiempos de revolución. El pasado octubre, Panorama-Mundial publicó una entrevista con él sobre los desafíos que enfrenta hoy la Revolución Cubana.
Los jefes militares de Estados Unidos saben que Cuba no es Venezuela. Que acá no tendrían el paseo invernal del 3 de enero. No conocemos la palabra rendición y por ello Trump se ha propuesto reeditar la vergonzosa página de la Reconcentración de Weyler, dispuesta por aquel general español para rendir por hambre a nuestro pueblo ante su incapacidad de derrotar al Ejército Mambí en el campo de batalla. No nos pueden perdonar que a pesar de todas las dificultades se nos tome como brújula moral, y el espíritu de revancha los lleva a actuar con saña genocida. ¿Qué hará la humanidad: plegarse ante el fascismo o responder con valentía e integridad? “Quien se levanta hoy con Cuba, se levanta para todos los tiempos”.
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos - Panorama-Mundial
El 29 de enero de 2026, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump emitió una nueva orden ejecutiva declarando un "estado de emergencia nacional" debido a la "inusual y extraordinaria amenaza" que la nación isleña supuestamente representa para Estados…world-outlook.com (Panorama-Mundial)
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42586503
de Panorama Mundial
febrero 2, 2026Ernesto Limia Díaz es historiador, escritor, miembro de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (conocida como UNEAC, su acrónimo en español) y director del programa cubano MARCAS. También es autor del libro bilingüe Patria y cultura en tiempos de revolución. El pasado octubre, Panorama-Mundial publicó una entrevista con él sobre los desafíos que enfrenta hoy la Revolución Cubana.
Los jefes militares de Estados Unidos saben que Cuba no es Venezuela. Que acá no tendrían el paseo invernal del 3 de enero. No conocemos la palabra rendición y por ello Trump se ha propuesto reeditar la vergonzosa página de la Reconcentración de Weyler, dispuesta por aquel general español para rendir por hambre a nuestro pueblo ante su incapacidad de derrotar al Ejército Mambí en el campo de batalla. No nos pueden perdonar que a pesar de todas las dificultades se nos tome como brújula moral, y el espíritu de revancha los lleva a actuar con saña genocida. ¿Qué hará la humanidad: plegarse ante el fascismo o responder con valentía e integridad? “Quien se levanta hoy con Cuba, se levanta para todos los tiempos”.
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos
de Panorama Mundial
febrero 2, 2026Ernesto Limia Díaz es historiador, escritor, miembro de la Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (conocida como UNEAC, su acrónimo en español) y director del programa cubano MARCAS. También es autor del libro bilingüe Patria y cultura en tiempos de revolución. El pasado octubre, Panorama-Mundial publicó una entrevista con él sobre los desafíos que enfrenta hoy la Revolución Cubana.
Los jefes militares de Estados Unidos saben que Cuba no es Venezuela. Que acá no tendrían el paseo invernal del 3 de enero. No conocemos la palabra rendición y por ello Trump se ha propuesto reeditar la vergonzosa página de la Reconcentración de Weyler, dispuesta por aquel general español para rendir por hambre a nuestro pueblo ante su incapacidad de derrotar al Ejército Mambí en el campo de batalla. No nos pueden perdonar que a pesar de todas las dificultades se nos tome como brújula moral, y el espíritu de revancha los lleva a actuar con saña genocida. ¿Qué hará la humanidad: plegarse ante el fascismo o responder con valentía e integridad? “Quien se levanta hoy con Cuba, se levanta para todos los tiempos”.
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos - Panorama-Mundial
El 29 de enero de 2026, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump emitió una nueva orden ejecutiva declarando un "estado de emergencia nacional" debido a la "inusual y extraordinaria amenaza" que la nación isleña supuestamente representa para Estados…world-outlook.com (Panorama-Mundial)
it is at 34 seconds it is a fart noise you have to turn up the volume lol. He ends the thing prematurely right after
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I once was close enough to an elephant seal to smell his belch.
Would definitely prefer that fishblast over whatever that room had to deal with.
Perhaps there’s some skullduggery here too.
Wiarton Willie predicts early spring, but Punxsutawney Phil disagrees
Wiarton Willie, along with most of his Canadian counterparts, has predicted an early spring after he did not see his shadow on Monday morning on Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day is a long-held tradition of watching animals coming out of hibernation to predict whether there'll be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
Every Feb. 2, groundhogs and even a crustacean emerge from their shelters to see if they see their shadows.
Fuck ICE, both the frozen water and the highschool drop outs who cannot be productive members of society.
predict whether there'll be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
Where I live 6 more weeks of winter is an early spring.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns that failed to move the needle for years, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy. The Rights Alliance confirmed it will begin filing civil lawsuits against individual students who are caught sharing even a single digital textbook. The anti-piracy group prefers not to mention the targeted platforms but says it uses undercover monitoring of private groups to gather evidence.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy * TorrentFreak
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives - Rest of World
Proton Mail and UpScrolled attract users looking to quit Big Tech services like TikTok, Meta and Google.Rina Chandran (Rest of World)
Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion
Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion
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The fact that Anna's Archive isn't responding to the court tells me they couldn't give a shit about the lawsuit.
Glorious.
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Working Anna's Archive link :
Anna’s Archive: LibGen (Library Genesis), Sci-Hub, Z-Library in one place - Anna’s Archive
The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.annas-archive.li
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If the litigants suffered these tremendous losses bc of AA, can they not deduct these losses from their taxes?
Oh, wait...
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Just like the Pirate Bay they will try to find and prosecute individuals behind it and then try and force governments to block the domains. Which they did, all of those guys spent trivial prison sentences (this was early internet and in Sweden, circumstances are not the same anymore), and TPB was down for like... A year I think, before it popped right back up and is going just as strong as it ever did. Because just like these capitalist laws to protect the technofeudal class evolve to protect them, so does the methods by which creative hackers employ tech to fuck them in the ass.
Hydrabay 4 lyfe
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According to the article, $150,000 is the maximum damages allowed per track. So $150,000/track * 86,000,000 tracks is around $13 Trillion. So they are asking for the maximum that the law allows.
They could ask for infinity billion dollars for all it matters; you can't get blood from a stone.
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At this point I must cancel my Spotify subscription. Any suggestion on how to implement a somewhat automated music discovery system that can replace Spotify's "radios" and playlists?
I already run a Navidrome instance.
ListenBrainz
Track, explore, visualise and share the music you listen to. Follow your favourites and discover great new music.ListenBrainz
$13.000.000.000.000
Like, are we 12 now? I too would come up with these bazonker numbers at that age.
Fuck Spotify,fuck the current legal system that got us here
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Wouldn't it be in the best interests of state sponsored hacking teams to hide or blame other states?
Of course. If I were leading an offencive team at CSIS, I'd do my best to procure machines and credentials in anorher country to launch the campaign from. Ideally a known adversary. That doesn't mean that country isn't executing their own attacks. In fact my charade wouldn't work if I chose a country that has no track record of attacks.
Dude this is notepad++, no one cares, we all know china Russia, employs multiple teams for hacking. But they still get caught and nothing happens, because they all will deny it.
This isn't the chinese Uber team, that plans ahead several months, this is more: oh I found exploit in notepad++, via some tool. It isn't worth the effort, because they are just looking for exploits in the wild.
gup.exe making network requests for other than: notepad-plus-plus.org, github.com and release-assets.githubusercontent.com
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The write up is from December when it was first disclosed afaik
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I don't think I ever actually used the stock Xbox OS
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