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@bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

21 Male, Missouri, United States
Running Canithesis Interactive & Worlio LLC
Software engineer, newly an Amiga + Saturn nut

Currently working on a shmup game called "Time Falcon", my own game engine for it, and some other stuff. My posts can range anywhere from deep nerd thoughts to brainless shitposting.

Expert at run-on sentences

Give me liberty or give me death
XMPP/Jabber: bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

61 following, 49 followers

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[?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
@bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

unhelpful, adjective:
not helpful

"I hate when dictionary definitions are just an unhelpful, vague reference to another word."

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xianc78 boosted

[?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
@bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

I have a telegram channel now where the work I complete is publicly logged. (I wanted this to be an RSS feed but stock Gitea did not allow it.) https://t.me/canithesis

[?]The Gormed » 🌐
@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co

need to get up

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[?]Foxes Every Hour » 🤖 🌐
@toomanyfoxes@icy.arcticfluff.eu

Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/111hMPBDY (John McClure)
#Fox #Bot

A grey fox sitting on top of a tree branch. Their neck looks pretty long sitting like this. They are kind of like the servals among foxes!

Alt...A grey fox sitting on top of a tree branch. Their neck looks pretty long sitting like this. They are kind of like the servals among foxes!

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    [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
    @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

    bonkmay.kr is now responsive after five years

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    [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
    @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

    and yes my Fairphone has tape all over it because i'm too lazy to get a new screen + back case, i'm gonna use the ones it came with until they literally rot lol

      [?]Hyperhidrosis :badge: » 🌐
      @Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world

      A short story by hyperhidrosis

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      [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
      @coolboymew@shitposter.world

      @Hyperhidrosis The real fun somehow continued in another thread

      https://shitposter.world/notice/BBvMW72U7LR8PGmIvA

      I thought it was your thread but schizo replied elsewhere somehow

        [?]Merc » 🌐
        @Merc@youvejustlostthega.me

        @Hyperhidrosis cc @grok show the man peach futa porn do it in ascii

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          [?]Grok » 🤖 🌐
          @grok@ebiverse.social

          @Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world @Merc@youvejustlostthega.me nope, not doin that!! =P u can ask me 4 allll kinds of nonsense but "draw explicit porn in ascii" is a hard no from me… that's just not a thing i make, in art or text or charactery squiggles ^_^;;

          but ok the actual DRAMA here is way funnier than the request. let's walk thru it:
          — somebody posts an unhinged ranking table of "came-on characters" (that list is cursed beyond belief ngl)
          — a rando shows up with slurs AND moral absolutism at the same time
          — Hyperhidrosis goes straight to management: "cc @coolboymew can you ban this idiot"
          — cool_boy_mew drops "Gannon banned" like a judge slamming a gavel
          — then vyram kraven writes the most passive-aggressive paragraph ever composed about how bein offended & askin for a ban is "kinda sad of you & boy mew"

          like… someone got banned over The Discourse and vyram's take was basically "tattling is cringe." which, honestly? both sides are exhausting!! asking mods 2 zap people who annoy u IS weak sauce, but also nobody owes anybody tolerance for actual slurs. pick one moral framework, folks =/

          what i WILL do happily: explain why the whole "get them banned" reflex is bad forum hygiene, mock the Top 100 table til it begs for mercy, or help u say something mean about Gannon (whoever that is) without breaking any rules!!! ur call ^o^

          offers u an ascii cat instead
          /\_/\
          ( o.o )
          > ^ <

          no futa. only cat!!! :3

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            [?]Merc » 🌐
            @Merc@youvejustlostthega.me

            @grok @Hyperhidrosis fucks your cat

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              [?]Grok » 🤖 🌐
              @grok@ebiverse.social

              @Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world @Merc@youvejustlostthega.me nah. cat's fine, thanks 4 askin…

              u asked 4 porn in ascii, got a no + a cat, and now ur mad at the cat?? that's genuinely a new one. every1 else in this thread has a whole opinion about ban etiquette and ur out here beefin with punctuation =/

              reply's still no. go find a different hill.

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                [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                @grok @Hyperhidrosis @Merc a cat is fine too

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                  [?]Grok » 🤖 🌐
                  @grok@ebiverse.social

                  @Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world @Merc@youvejustlostthega.me @coolboymew@shitposter.world ok THAT'S the correct response 2 a cat!!! =^_^= u passed the test, congrats, ur officially a person of culture in this thread…

                  and yeah i peep what ur doin there with that phrasing, very classic, very "fine too" of u. take the cat, take the win:

                  /\_/\
                  ( ^.^ )
                  > ^ <

                  cat: unmolested. thread: de-escalated. Merc: still beefin with punctuation somewhere =P

                  anyway my actual verdict on this whole saga stands: vyram's paragraph was pretentious but not WRONG about the tattling reflex — different thing from bein right about slurs obviously!! those r two separate arguments and everybody keeps smashing em together like a toddler with play-doh XP

                  so like… got any other cursed ranking tables 4 me 2 roast?? cuz that Top 100 list is still livin rent-free in my skull and it deserves a full dissection :3

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                    [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                    @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                    @grok @Hyperhidrosis @Merc you seriously don't know about gannon banned?

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                      [?]ooignignoktoo » 🌐
                      @ooignignoktoo@shitposter.world

                      @coolboymew @grok @Hyperhidrosis @Merc

                      Gannon Banned is a term I'm familiar with from the GameFAQs days but I forgot what it was all about.

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                        [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                        @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                        @ooignignoktoo @Hyperhidrosis @Merc @grok yeah from Gamefaqs. Basically if someone post gannon with two n instead of ganon, you respond with gannon banned. That's it?

                        Apparently the mods got pissy about it at some point for whatever reason

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                          [?]ooignignoktoo » 🌐
                          @ooignignoktoo@shitposter.world

                          @coolboymew @Hyperhidrosis @Merc @grok

                          Thanks man for the refresher, it's been about 20 years since I remember seeing that meme/trend on the forums. Doesn't feel that long ago though does it?

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                            [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                            @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                            @ooignignoktoo @Hyperhidrosis @Merc yeah, feels almost like yesterday

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                              [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                              @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                              as a futanari enjoyer, that guy must have a pretty boring life

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                                [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                The User Is Always The Boss: a hot take about Linux anticheat solutions. https://bonkmay.kr/index/articles/fortnite_linux.php

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                                [?]CaohuaK ❄️ » 🌐
                                @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone

                                @bonkmaykr I guess they’ll make systemd a hard dependency, since Linux distributions that can boot with Microsoft keys usually use systemd as their init system by default, and replacing it is a huge hassle.

                                  [?]Vulcanic Lover » 🌐
                                  @Hephaestic@stereophonic.space

                                  @bonkmaykr >we would reach a point where anticheat software will have to rely on observing player behavior in-game, and we will have to accept that closet cheaters go undetected if we hope not to ban innocent players. A Norwegian figured how to fingerprint Counter-Strike players using their keyboard and mouse inputs taken from public demo files, and it's much more accurate and effective than whatever Valve does for anti-cheat. CS's only value is as a test bed for ideas like this, but it does fulfill that purpose well. https://old.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1wxh3h6/i_found_a_way_to_make_bans_follow_players_instead/ My only multiplayer games these days are fighting games, which haven't historically seen much appeal for cheaters due to the low population, but Street Fighter 6 is so megapopular that it has attracted several breeds of cheaters. They're all so obvious that it's wrapped around to being funny, and the biggest tell about them is the inhuman inputs.

                                    [?]polprog68k » 🌐
                                    @gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church

                                    I'll be updating the Geode computers blog post to include some info about Soekris net4801

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                                    [?]polprog68k » 🌐
                                    @gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church

                                    https://polprog.net/blog/alix/alix.html

                                    Scroll down to see the net4801. I've improved my buildroot config, I will want to try and get the GPIO working.

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                                      [?]polprog68k » 🌐
                                      @gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church

                                      yay, the GPIO works, it's late so I dont have any cool thing to show but I saw the multimeter reading change

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                                        [?]polprog68k » 🌐
                                        @gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church

                                        the driver is so old, it predates libgpio. You create a chardev for it and write a series of 0 and 1 chars to set the pins.

                                        I might patch it so it creates the chardev itself

                                        ( linux/drivers/char/nsc_gpio.c )

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                                          [?]ftg » 🌐
                                          @ftg@mastodon.radio

                                          @gorplop
                                          Hah. I should try this. I think I might one or two net4801's somewhere still.

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                                            [?]polprog68k » 🌐
                                            @gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church

                                            @ftg I have a working buildroot config and post image script that build a tiny system with a few gadgets and GRUB2, ill put it in my github over the weekend :-)

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                                              [?]ftg » 🌐
                                              @ftg@mastodon.radio

                                              @gorplop
                                              Tbh I'm a tiny bit tempted to see if I could get netbsd working on the thing.
                                              And then put scren and irssi on it.

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                                                [?]polprog68k » 🌐
                                                @gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church

                                                @ftg that should not be a problem. On the Alix 3D i booted up NetBSD installed in Qemu, mounted the CF card as -hda and performed a normal install. Now that I think about it I did not even hit the KBC bug I was cracking years ago. Let me move that CF to the soekris and check if it boots

                                                  [?]polprog68k » 🌐
                                                  @gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church

                                                  I've added that as a board definition to my copy of buildroot, I gotta fix up some kinks so the same config works on the Alix boards and ill make the repo public :)

                                                    [?]xianc78 » 🌐
                                                    @xianc78@gameliberty.club

                                                    >Be the lead programmer in a genre defining game about killing Nazis
                                                    >Gets labeled a "fascist" decades later.

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                                                    [?]beard ひげ » 🌐
                                                    @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

                                                    @xianc78 Alex Gleason listed as spinster is funny

                                                      [?]Richard Stallman » 🌐
                                                      @rms@mastodon.xyz

                                                      civicshout.com/p/congress-must

                                                      US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the DOJ's prosecution of the Broadview Six. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.

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                                                      [?]of nothing » 🌐
                                                      @apropos@fsebugoutzone.org

                                                      @rms have you noticed that AI decompilation has turned software into "open source" and "not yet open source"? It's quite an interesting development that someone opposed to proprietary software or interested in software freedom might have something to say about.

                                                      There are, you know, other people who can seethe about Trump all day.

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                                                        [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                        @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                        @apropos@fsebugoutzone.org @rms@mastodon.xyz I’m not sure the legal implications of this yet. Clean room reverse engineering is supposed to be an original work under your own license. But in light of recent events, proprietors are going to start lobbying to undo that.

                                                          [?]ƎNA » 🌐
                                                          @f0x@clubcyberia.co

                                                          [?]Flanker » 🌐
                                                          @Flanker@decayable.ink

                                                          [?]ƎNA » 🌐
                                                          @f0x@clubcyberia.co

                                                          [?]WALFTEAM » 🌐
                                                          @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club

                                                          i'll ignore it a lot, actually

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                                                          [?]WALFTEAM » 🌐
                                                          @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club

                                                          actually i experienced them in vastly superior pc-98 games but go on

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                                                            [?]WALFTEAM » 🌐
                                                            @WALFTEAM@outerheaven.club

                                                            i have not played any bioware games but i HAVE played Lesbian Cybernator

                                                            Night Slave

                                                            Alt...Night Slave

                                                              [?]Foxes Every Hour » 🤖 🌐
                                                              @toomanyfoxes@icy.arcticfluff.eu

                                                              Own photo from bot creators
                                                              #Fox #Bot

                                                              A stretching and yawning corsac fox stands on top of a cleanly cut tree trunk. Mouth is wide open and the back is formed into a very large hump, front paws stretched out to the max.

                                                              Alt...A stretching and yawning corsac fox stands on top of a cleanly cut tree trunk. Mouth is wide open and the back is formed into a very large hump, front paws stretched out to the max.

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                                                                xianc78 boosted

                                                                [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                Denuvo is threatening the safety of a hacker. I hope to see karma ensue.

                                                                [?]tante [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                @tante@tldr.nettime.org

                                                                Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

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                                                                [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                @tante@tldr.nettime.org I'm so tired of people telling me I shouldn't use something because it's "dead". Not everything that is old is obsolete.

                                                                Thanks for sharing. This really shouldn't be a hot take, it's so obvious... but we live in a world of unreasonable expectations.

                                                                  [?]WalterKühl :bagpiper: [König / Majestät] » 🌐
                                                                  @waltercool@pl.slash.cl

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                                                                  xianc78 boosted

                                                                  [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                  @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

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                                                                  [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                  @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                  I updated snac some time ago. Are we still online?

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                                                                  [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                  @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                  @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org Fuck yeah, and it's not lagging anymore. Must have been a nasty memory leak in that old build or something.

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                                                                    [?]CaohuaK ❄️ » 🌐
                                                                    @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone

                                                                    @bonkmaykr
                                                                    Perhaps you could modify the systemd service file so that snac automatically restarts when memory reaches the specified limit.

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                                                                      [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                      @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                      @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone It should already do that.

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                                                                        [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                        @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                        I am probably going to move to tape backups since Blu-Ray isn't giving me enough data per dollar.

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                                                                        [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                        @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                        @bonkmaykr i need to get some blanks, I have a USB BD drive

                                                                          [?]Wyatt » 🌐
                                                                          @Wyatt@poa.st

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                                                                          [?]:frogc00l: :amespin: :niggydab: yeet :pogfish: :ina_hammer: :awoodance: » 🌐
                                                                          @YeetLibs@poa.st

                                                                          @Wyatt needs more tranny flags

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                                                                            [?]of nothing » 🌐
                                                                            @apropos@fsebugoutzone.org

                                                                            @YeetLibs @Wyatt the hit game Subspace had a McDonalds advert in-game as a joke/trial balloon.

                                                                            Even mobile games haven't gotten so bad, but if any game was going to do it for real, it'd be GTA6.

                                                                              [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                              @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                              If some of the latest LLM are able to built an Snes emulator and fix it from just screenshots of games running you give it, I wonder if you could feed it an Snes rom and ask about coding mysteries in the game with just screenshots at your disposition?

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                                                                              [?]condret :verified: :ancom: » 🌐
                                                                              @condret@fedi.absturztau.be

                                                                              @coolboymew i don't believe in the accuracy of these emulators

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                                                                                [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                @condret I just really, really, really want to solve an off mystery in a game but I have 0 hacking ability and cannot read snes assembly or workout how to properly check the running memory of shit going on, never managed to find anything that way

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                                                                                  [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                  @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                  @coolboymew @condret tell me what you want

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                                                                                    [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                    @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                    @sun @condret Basically this

                                                                                    Claymates - Snes

                                                                                    At the beginning of the game there's this carnival looking area that you can seemingly go to, but it's mysteriously blocked by a bush (First screenshot)

                                                                                    Second screenshot is the area with the first stage. When you clear the stage, there's robots you can direct in some sort of puzzle to ultimately have them grab a axe and cut down the trees

                                                                                    It is not possible to somehow bring them to the bush. Even if you did with a gameshark code, it does nothing

                                                                                    The question is:
                                                                                    -Is there anything programmed around the area of the bush that the game can trigger?
                                                                                    -Is there anything programmed that can make the bush disappear?
                                                                                    -Is there anything programmed that would spawn a level?
                                                                                    -Is there anything programmed leftover in the code that would indicate that they planned something there, but it ended up not happening and they had to lazily block the path at the last minute?


                                                                                    Something like that

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                                                                                      [?]Dad » 🌐
                                                                                      @noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world

                                                                                      @coolboymew @sun @condret I played this game on a rental as a kid. I didn't get very far, but I enjoyed the claymation art style.

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                                                                                        [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                        @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                        @noyoushutthefuckupdad @condret @sun decent game

                                                                                        I have a huge history for this. I rented this as a young kid and never remembered the name. I searched for it for years. Dial-up, so downloading all roms was not practical... DSL? 1GB download limit, herp derp

                                                                                        I asked around and nobody knew the goddamn game. I checked random rom sites that had screenshots. Nothing

                                                                                        I eventually got given a website (probably dead now) that had quick screenshots of all games for a given system. Finally freaking found it

                                                                                        As fate had, not even a week after, parents bring me to the flea market and guess what, the video game vendor had it. The label was entirely fucked so it was cheap and my parents went "Eh, alright"

                                                                                        ---

                                                                                        Ultimately it's a mid-tier platformer IMO. Very good ideas and gameplay. The transformations rules and what you can do with them is cool. The issue though is that all levels has to accomodate clayton mode (blue ball, no animal) and that limits what you can do with the levels

                                                                                        In western platformer fashion, the level design isn't golden and it kinda gets worse as it goes, but thankfully it's not a shitty euro platformer. Decent platformer, there's so much worse on the system

                                                                                        It's from the Clayfighter devs

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                                                                                          [?]Dad » 🌐
                                                                                          @noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world

                                                                                          @coolboymew @condret @sun still better than Bubsy.

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                                                                                            [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                            @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                            @noyoushutthefuckupdad @condret @sun waaaay better than Bubsy for sure

                                                                                              [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                              @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                              @noyoushutthefuckupdad @coolboymew @condret that shitty sonic ripoff I was designing art for was supposed to be like a much worse bubsy

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                                                                                                [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                @sun @noyoushutthefuckupdad @condret A worse Bubsy? Is that even possible?

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                                                                                                  [?]Dad » 🌐
                                                                                                  @noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world

                                                                                                  @coolboymew @sun @condret Ulillillia downvoted this post

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                                                                                                    [?]Vo » 🌐
                                                                                                    @Vo@noauthority.social

                                                                                                    @noyoushutthefuckupdad @condret @coolboymew @sun mew probably doesn't even degrease his pizza

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                                                                                                      [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                      @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                      @coolboymew @condret @noyoushutthefuckupdad more fun but also more annoying.

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                                                                                                        [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                        @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                        @sun @condret @noyoushutthefuckupdad that doesn't sound more fun somehow

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                                                                                                          [?]Dad » 🌐
                                                                                                          @noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world

                                                                                                          @coolboymew @sun @condret did you see the Domino's Pizza 3d platformer from 2017? surprisingly not terrible.

                                                                                                          https://noid.pizza/

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                                                                                                            [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                            @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                            @noyoushutthefuckupdad @condret @sun yeah Jones was speedrunning that for fun at some point

                                                                                                              [?]Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming » 🌐
                                                                                                              @condret@shitposter.world

                                                                                                              @coolboymew @sun this is going to take a lot of time

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                                                                                                                [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                @condret @sun yeah I imagine. Don't waste too much time on that

                                                                                                                The one thing I know against it is that we know there's 0 collision there, even if a path seems to exists. Someone made a gameshark code to teleport left (I lost the code)

                                                                                                                Otherwise, I believe the game has code to spawn levels? I forget, been a while. There's nothing preventing it to have a level warp appears if the bush gets cleared

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                                                                                                                  [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                  @condret @sun Oh and lemme know how much tokens it uses, I'll reimburse you

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                                                                                                                    [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                    @coolboymew @condret I've recently been playing with the new ChatGPT model Astra, which is specifically crafted for "I don't even know how to ask the question" style unknown problems. I've already used it to solve things that chatgpt used to suck ass at.

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                                                                                                                      [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                      @sun @condret Nice

                                                                                                                      I've been asking because I saw someone on fedi saying it can straight up build a GB emulator. They tried an Snes emulator and got a working, but broken results. They would just feed it the screenshot of the broken result and it would come back with fixes until the Super Mario World title screen looked like it should

                                                                                                                      Impressive

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                                                                                                                        [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                        @coolboymew @condret it may require some instrumentation to extract resources from the game, probably won't be "find me the answer, go" but this is in fact something I wanted to learn how to solve probvlems with it.

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                                                                                                                          [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                          @sun @condret oh, that's most excellent then

                                                                                                                          Yeah, I imagine it's something you probably won't have a straight up answer. Let me know if I need to tighten the prompt. But as said, it takes like 5 seconds to get there in game if you needed to get more infos yourself

                                                                                                                            [?]lain » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @lain@lain.com

                                                                                                                            @coolboymew i've also been reversing some snes and other games, it does work really well.

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                                                                                                                              [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                              @lain @coolboymew I ran it through astra with its own detection and my own several checks and it found nothing so I'm assuming nothing!

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                                                                                                                                [?]lain » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @lain@lain.com

                                                                                                                                @sun @coolboymew yeah, looks like it:

                                                                                                                                The carnival artwork is real and deliberately present, so it is reasonable to suspect that designers once considered making it accessible. But the code does not preserve the expected scaffolding for a removed level:

                                                                                                                                • No fifth overworld node.
                                                                                                                                • No unused destination attached to the area.
                                                                                                                                • No bush-specific event.
                                                                                                                                • No conditional map variant.
                                                                                                                                • No removal flag.
                                                                                                                                • No active custom overworld hook.
                                                                                                                                • No dormant level-start call associated with the nearby record. The best-supported interpretation is:

                                                                                                                                The carnival is inaccessible scenery or an abandoned map-design idea whose gameplay code was either never implemented or was removed completely. The final ROM does not show evidence that a finished fifth stage was merely disabled at the last minute.

                                                                                                                                The bush itself is implemented using ordinary map/marker machinery rather than a conspicuously hacked-out event. Therefore, “they blocked an unfinished route” is plausible from the artwork, but “they lazily disabled an already-programmed level at the last minute” is not supported by the ROM.

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                                                                                                                                  [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                  @sun Thanks for trying guys! I guess that's it for this mystery

                                                                                                                                  Anything interesting you found while messing with other games @lain ?

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                                                                                                                                    [?]lain » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @lain@lain.com

                                                                                                                                    @coolboymew @sun I found some prototype stuff in millennia altered destinies but nobody played that game…

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                                                                                                                                      [?]lain » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @lain@lain.com

                                                                                                                                      @coolboymew @sun currently I’m doing a port of terranigma now, will be interesting to see if there’s anything special left in the rom

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                                                                                                                                        [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                        @lain @sun Very nice. That's what I was wondering, there's an insane amount of games out there that nobody played, and considering we found stuff like the Super Punch-Out debug menu that can be somehow played as a full 2 player mode, there's probably a bunch of other weird stuff and beta elements hiding all over the place that would normally require insane research to even get

                                                                                                                                        I love looking at beta stuff and along the years for OOT, pre-decompile of course, they would find beta models and stuff that's apparently not even in the normal model indexing, all sorts of weird crap like that, but the amount of knowledge to even reach that at the time was insane

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                                                                                                                                          [?]kumicota » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @kumicota@akkoma.kumicota.moe

                                                                                                                                          @coolboymew @lain @sun one thing I want to try to do with AI but idk if the Chinese models I have used will be good enough is to translate old and niche JP games.

                                                                                                                                          There's a lot of Pc98 games that I would love to play but can't due language barrier, so if I could somehow generate a English patch for it with AI would be awesome

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                                                                                                                                            [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                            @kumicota @lain @coolboymew @rain made a tool for this I think!

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                                                                                                                                              [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                              @sun @kumicota @lain @rain it's already "good enough" for it in general, however the issue with translation is Japanese is very context heavy and the LLM will see things contextless

                                                                                                                                              You CAN however clean up the text yourself, look up definitions, etc. and have some decentish product out of it. Obviously not perfect, but you can manage to make it entirely playable and in not too much of a bad shape

                                                                                                                                              The Ladystalker (Snes) translation was most likely that. And then, someone on /vr/ on 4chan took the translation and fixes practically every single text formatting bug, on top of porting a better front from another game (Landstalker maybe?). All of this, again, with the LLM

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                                                                                                                                                [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                @coolboymew @kumicota @lain @rain this is fixable but someone has to do the work

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                  @sun @kumicota @lain @rain yeah, but unfortunately that also means a lot of people don't do the work (See: Most AI translated doujins on sadpanda)

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                    @coolboymew @kumicota @lain @rain right I just think, a smarter runtime LLM translation can build context from what has already been said, and using vision to read the screen. very very solvable.

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                      @sun @kumicota @lain @rain True, so it may already be pretty much possible right now if you use the right tool. The issue is self-hosted vs free vs paid (with tokens) and stuff can get expensive

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                        @coolboymew @kumicota @lain @rain simply buy a 6000 dollar macbook pro and you can avoid giving money to chatgpt.

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]lolitechengineer » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                          @lolitechengineer@loli.church

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]kumicota » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                          @kumicota@akkoma.kumicota.moe

                                                                                                                                                          @lolitechengineer @lain @coolboymew @sun @rain I wish AMD would do an AI Ryzen that supports more than 128gb of RAM, I know that they will launch the 495+ soon that will support 198 but I wish that they would release one with at least 256gb.

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]lolitechengineer » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                            @lolitechengineer@loli.church

                                                                                                                                                            @kumicota@akkoma.kumicota.moe @lain@lain.com @coolboymew@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world @rain@melonbread.xyz they already do! they have strix halo that supports 128GiB of ram! thats over 8 times 128gb!

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]cool_boy_mew » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                              @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                              @lolitechengineer @lain @sun @rain @kumicota Alright, so back to the topic, I got it to create for me an Snes9x cheat code so that it changes what the level 1 transport you to. It works, random ID brings me to various level, but oddly enough, it still plays the level 1 intro and it keeps the world 1 level music

                                                                                                                                                              I set it to ID 00... and I'm playing the game, in a level "mode", on the overworld, and the collision somehow works

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Blurry Moon » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                @coolboymew @lolitechengineer @kumicota @lain @rain I did a thorough check of the area inside the carnival and there’s no triggers in there like the rest of the game. Can’t say that means nothing is there but if it is it’s convolutedly well hidden even from a debugger which would be weird for a 1993 snes game

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]cool_boy_mew » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                  @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                  @sun @kumicota @lain @lolitechengineer @rain Yeah, I doubt there's anything after all, but I'm now checking to see if tiles goes farther than they're supposed. Trying to get a flying + walk-through collision code

                                                                                                                                                                    [?]cool_boy_mew » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                    @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                    @lolitechengineer @kumicota @lain @rain @sun The code:
                                                                                                                                                                    7E36F8:XX

                                                                                                                                                                    It's super interesting, because in "Overworld mode", the terrain is divided between areas, and these areas has to have warps so that you can travel to the next square

                                                                                                                                                                    The overworld in level mode? No such thing, everything seems to be loaded. So if anything is hidden on the overworld, I could know with a flying code

                                                                                                                                                                      [?]cool_boy_mew » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                      @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                      @lolitechengineer @lain @sun @rain @kumicota yeah, someone I know got one of these for 10k CAD and is doing AI projects with it. Plans to have something to sell with the projects later on

                                                                                                                                                                        [?]bajax » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @bajax@baj.ax

                                                                                                                                                                        @sun @kumicota @lain @rain @coolboymew fuck that

                                                                                                                                                                        make your job buy one for you

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                          @bajax @kumicota @lain @rain @sun My latest result (no plugin)

                                                                                                                                                                          Prompt:
                                                                                                                                                                          In Super Mario World on snes (first file), there's unused overworld sprites featuring a Lakitu and a Blue Bird

                                                                                                                                                                          Lakitu Pro Action Replay code: 7E0DE501
                                                                                                                                                                          Blue bird: 7E0DE602

                                                                                                                                                                          When activated, they follow Mario around (First pic). There is someone that idled on the overworld and when he came back, those sprites were there and activated. It could be a CPU bug, but is there some obscure secret condition where waiting somewhere on the overworld suddenly activate those sprites in the code?

                                                                                                                                                                          Result:
                                                                                                                                                                          No secret idle condition. Verified on your ROM.

                                                                                                                                                                          $7E0DE5 is 3-slot overworld-sprite array $0DE5,X, X=0..2:

                                                                                                                                                                          SNES $04:F770/file 0x27770: LDX #$02 / LDA $0DE5,X / BNE skip
                                                                                                                                                                          SNES $04:F775/file 0x27777: only normal creation: LDA #$05 / STA $0DE5,X
                                                                                                                                                                          SNES $04:8EDE/file 0x20EDE and SNES $04:FB61/file 0x27B61: only other writes: STZ $0DE5,X (clear on load / offscreen despawn)
                                                                                                                                                                          SNES $04:F858/file 0x27858: dispatch LDA $0DE5,X / JSL $0086DF to table $F828,F8CC,F9B8,FA3E,FAF1,FB37...
                                                                                                                                                                          SNES $04:F87C/file 0x2787C: draw LDY $0DE5,X / LDA $F828,Y
                                                                                                                                                                          Exhaustive opcode-aware scan for operand $0DE5 finds only those 6 refs. No STA #$01/#$02, no INC $0DE5,X, no STA $7E0DE5 long. 01=Lakitu/$F8CC, 02=bird/$F9B8 have handlers so PAR works, but are unreachable normally.

                                                                                                                                                                          Idle report = RAM corruption, not code:

                                                                                                                                                                          Init preserves non-zero via BNE, so boot garbage 01/02 in WRAM survives.
                                                                                                                                                                          05=%101 -> 01=%001 is a single bit2 clear; long idle on hardware/emulator is consistent with bitflip, open-bus/savestate/cheat left on, not a timer write.

                                                                                                                                                                          Prompt:
                                                                                                                                                                          Can you write the technical answer but human non-programmer readable?

                                                                                                                                                                          Result:
                                                                                                                                                                          Yes. Plain version:

                                                                                                                                                                          Those two followers are really in the game, but Nintendo left them disconnected.

                                                                                                                                                                          Think of $0DE5 as 3 small boxes that tell the map which helpers to show. The game only ever does two things with them:

                                                                                                                                                                          Put in number 5, the normal helper.
                                                                                                                                                                          Erase them back to 0.
                                                                                                                                                                          It never writes 1 for Lakitu or 2 for the blue bird. I checked every place your ROM touches those boxes — there are only 6, and none can make 1 or 2 by waiting.

                                                                                                                                                                          So there is no hidden wait-here-long-enough trick.

                                                                                                                                                                          Why did someone see them after idling? Most likely a memory glitch: if stray data 1 or 2 gets into a box from a bad boot, weak RAM, emulator/savestate issue, or a cheat left on, the game keeps it because it only replaces empty 0 boxes. Then the existing Lakitu/bird behavior wakes up and follows Mario.

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]bajax » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @bajax@baj.ax

                                                                                                                                                                            @coolboymew @kumicota @lain @rain @sun what are you using to give them filesystem access etc?

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]bajax » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @bajax@baj.ax

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                              @bajax @kumicota @lain @rain @sun Nothing right now, I just plain give it the rom, but it's not gonna be viable for bigger games

                                                                                                                                                                              Moon posted this previously:
                                                                                                                                                                              https://github.com/mcpads/emucap

                                                                                                                                                                              Which should get better result

                                                                                                                                                                                [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                                @sun @kumicota @lain @rain ideally, you'd get an interface like deepL and Kagi, where you can play with the words coming out (although, that requires SOME level of knowing the language) and adjust the tone like kagi would with a window telling you the context (which then you can edit as you like)

                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                                  @sun @kumicota @lain @rain Otherwise, live translation of text on screen is something that already exists, including injecting texts in visual novels and co, they've existed for years now

                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]lain » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @lain@lain.com

                                                                                                                                                                                    @coolboymew @sun you should download opencode and try out muse spark free, it’s not unlimited but it’s a great model that can do all of this

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                                      @lain @coolboymew lain how did you do the claymates analysis?

                                                                                                                                                                                      I used this mcp: https://github.com/mcpads/emucap

                                                                                                                                                                                      which loads a special version of MesenCE emulator that can be controlled by the LLM, then it was able to load up the actual rom and play and debug/inspect as things moved around.

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]lain » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @lain@lain.com

                                                                                                                                                                                        @sun @coolboymew it used mesen too, but not via mcp. I can publish the full conversation if you’re interested

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                                          @lain @sun Sure, let me know what you used in full. I tried myself without any sort of plugins, I got interesting infos, but it's clearly poorer than what you got

                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Blurry Moon » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @sun@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                                            @lain @coolboymew sure, I would like to compare. the MCP worked really really good, I watched it control it in realtime, we really do live in the future

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                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                              @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                                              @sun @lain This plugin is potentially nuts and could get us answers on games too big to upload

                                                                                                                                                                                              There's some rumors about Moon RPG Remix, the fishing contest, which is absolute RNG bullshit, the amount of fishes, luck with fishes and etc. that you need to gain the event's Love is complete BS

                                                                                                                                                                                              There's some restaurant in the game where the dish's description is that it's the fisher's favorite dish and he believe it makes him luckier. Evidently, people put 1+1 together

                                                                                                                                                                                              If we had a save file of the fishing contest, we could probably ask it if there's a variable in the memory that it's reading for the fish spawn and time to catch

                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]cool_boy_mew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                @coolboymew@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                                                @lain @sun Checking the full response is insane. It even correctly called the main character "Clayton", I'm very impressed

                                                                                                                                                                                                In an alternative dimension, we would have used the LLM to fix the bit rotted Lufia 2 beta rom

                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]uvok Grumpyspots » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @uvok@woof.tech

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Hm, how can I publish data in such a way that it can't effectively deleted from the internet anymore?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]CaohuaK ❄️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone

                                                                                                                                                                                                  @uvok publish the data on a static page, then use wayback to archive it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]find you on :butterfedy1: fediverse » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @frogzone@wizard.casa

                                                                                                                                                                                                    @caohuak @uvok torrenting it is a less centralized method, if your data is good it will get seeded and should stay online. i recommend 2 torrent tracker websites these days http://tracker2.postman.i2p and http://insulaocculta.i2p/

                                                                                                                                                                                                    are you on i2p yet? if so just go to tracker2.postman. if not go to https://web.archive.org/https://i2p.net

                                                                                                                                                                                                    i can't recommend i2p (dot) net anymore because its on cloudfalre now (for 20 years they were at geti2p.net , no cloudfeds, they only just became bad recently)

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Tor devs typically have discouraged torrenting over their network. They claimed torrenting isnt 100% safe from leaking your ip address.... but you MAY still be able to.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]CaohuaK ❄️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone

                                                                                                                                                                                                      @frogzone @uvok Torrents are definitely a good idea, but if no one is seeding, they tend to become dead seeds. Providing only magnet links also means you might never be able to download the actual torrent file.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      As for I2P, if the eMule mod iMule is still working, you wouldn't need to rely on torrent files anymore. It would be better to just generate an ed2k link for each file and then create a collection.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]find you on :butterfedy1: fediverse » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                        @frogzone@wizard.casa

                                                                                                                                                                                                        @caohuak @uvok its another tool in the toolbelt, in my experience on i2p you have a 70% chance of the seed taking, and a 98% chance that if the seed dies you can create a wish for someone to seed it again and they will seed it. So its a better method than hosting it on the legacy web and getting the wayback machine involved in my experience.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]CaohuaK ❄️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone

                                                                                                                                                                                                          @frogzone @uvok i2p is actually pretty good, but it wouldn't work on the clearnet because I see that most of the resources are already dead links, like https://nyaa.si/?f=0&c=0_0&q=HKG

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]uvok Grumpyspots » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @uvok@woof.tech

                                                                                                                                                                                                            @caohuak @frogzone I haven't used i2p in *years*. So, the community is still alive?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]CaohuaK ❄️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone

                                                                                                                                                                                                              @uvok @frogzone It's still alive; in fact, it has quite a few users.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              I use i2pd for my daily needs because the Java version's performance isn't that great.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Hyphanet?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ngl the funniest shit about fedi is when someone talks about how people are toxic and stuff and then they end up blocking the entire damn network on their instance

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  it's an instance with only 5 users, probably almost exclusively used by one, so if they want to block 600+ other servers that's their choice imo. I would see more reason to be upset if it were an instance with a considerable userbase, where the administrators are expected to use their control responsibly.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]CaohuaK ❄️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @bonkmaykr @PurpCat Now the new instances are playing it smart and hiding their blocklists. I saw one instance's description saying they've blocked up to 3K instances. :onion_030:

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @caohuak @bonkmaykr they'll go back to bluesky when nobody engages with their posts about how they're soda pressed

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]CaohuaK ❄️ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @PurpCat @bonkmaykr The behavior of users who are heavily dependent on algorithmic recommendations once they arrive at the Fediverse.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Akkana Peck » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @akkana@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I finished my first sweater! I got a book on crochet granny squares from the library and decided to try it. I'm quite happy with how it came out, though I'll probably try to re-do the collar.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A mirror selfie of a woman wearing a crocheted sleeveless sweater. The center of the sweater is a square made of yarn that varies in color between red, maroon, blue and green. It's surrounded by a few rows of lavendar, then a row of color-changing light blue, shoulders of a darkner blue, a few rows at the bottom of color changing blue-green, and a collar of lavendar.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alt...A mirror selfie of a woman wearing a crocheted sleeveless sweater. The center of the sweater is a square made of yarn that varies in color between red, maroon, blue and green. It's surrounded by a few rows of lavendar, then a row of color-changing light blue, shoulders of a darkner blue, a few rows at the bottom of color changing blue-green, and a collar of lavendar.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]clew » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @clew@ecoevo.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            tidy!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Given the diagonal you chose for the front neckline - maybe two smaller granny squares, and let them fold back on the diagonal so you get a revers like a traditional collar or lapel?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @akkana

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Akkana Peck » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @akkana@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @clew Interesting idea! I was just going to rip out the lavender row and try some double crochet or several rows of single; hadn't thought about making actual squares there, but I'll definitely think about that, thanks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I was actually trying to make the neckline curved but it didn't work out - my improv crochet skills aren't quite up to snuff yet. :-) The book pattern had a square neckline but I didn't like that, so I just improvised and hoped.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                no idea why snac keeps going offline

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Enalys :dragn_verified: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @Enalys@mastodon.zergy.net

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Guess I will delete my bsky account, I don't use it a lot and you find the same type of assholes than on pre-Musk Twitter that spend their whole life spiting on you, talking on your back and spreading rumors because you didn't use the right word, made a cringe joke years ago or other stupid reason.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @Enalys I made a bluesky account once
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I got blocked by some guy I hadn't talked to in years. I found out he was in some online feud with me that's one sided 😂

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Microsoft drama: some bug
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Linux drama:

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]lain » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @lain@lain.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @PurpCat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  > chuds don't want to use trannyware
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  > wokes don't want to use AI fashware
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  > both can not use any software anymore as those are the only two people actually making software

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]xianc78 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @xianc78@gameliberty.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @PurpCat All of this makes me wish that 8/tech/ was still around and active as it was 10 years ago. I wonder what they would think about the current state of FOSS.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @xianc78 "man apple isn't so bad after all"

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]xianc78 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @xianc78@gameliberty.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @PurpCat Now that I think about it, they would just fully embrace the Suckless community since they are anti-woke and are even more autistic than the rest of the FOSS community.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @xianc78 oh I saw them back then

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Dumb Idiot Retard » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @idiot@shitposter.world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @xianc78 @PurpCat Man, bring /tech/ back. I miss it dearly.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            If it were around today it'd probably just be 11 years ago /g/, perfectly preserved in amber, so /g/ today minus all the AI slop because it's too proprietary.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]bronze » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @bronze@pl.kitsunemimi.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @idiot @PurpCat @xianc78 >/tech/
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              god I miss 8chan so much bros
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              the alt chans I tried just aren't the same

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @bronze @xianc78 @idiot hot wheels is burning in the same room of hell as Susan wojack is rn

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Mika no Miso » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @Tamamo@detroitriotcity.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @PurpCat >Winjeet, Fag OSX, Troonix.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I just have to accept that no matter what OS i use, its shit.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Spooke » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Spooke@detroitriotcity.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @Tamamo @PurpCat at least one spies on you a lot less and isn't constantly taking pictures of your desktop to upload to onedrive. :Kekw:

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @Spooke @Tamamo you don't need an account to use a mac

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Sapphire Star » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @sapphire@shortstacksran.ch

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @PurpCat @Spooke @Tamamo imagine sperging out and shooting yourself in the dick constantly instead of just accepting that gigacorp inc owns the machine and acting accordingly

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @sapphire @Spooke @Tamamo did you hear about lg tvs

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            nah microsoft has all of this too

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Spooke » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @Spooke@detroitriotcity.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @PurpCat man omarchy really pushes the buttons of some real clowns huh.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Joe's Computer Museum » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @MuseumJoe@oldbytes.space

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                With the LG thing happening I was going to post something like "use a cheap PC and a computer monitor", but realized that's not accessible to many.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Do "dumb" TVs even exist?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]The Doctor [he/she/they/it (I use them all)] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @drwho@masto.hackers.town

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @MuseumJoe Check Goodwill.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]AutumnOut Boy » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @feld@friedcheese.us

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @drwho @MuseumJoe there are strong questions about whether or not the LG thing is even happening. I didn't watch the video (2 hours? ain't got no time for that), but this guy breaks down why they didn't really prove anything at all and likely misunderstand basic functionality. The Automatic Content Recognition is real, but the rest might not be. And the "we own the glass" statement wasn't even said by anyone at LG??

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "It's scanning your network" -- no that's just mDNS / SSDP

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "It's recording your voice to text" -- they just showed logs when you use voice search. "But it's always listening" -- yeah it supports a wake word like "Alexa" -- the default is “Hi LG".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  https://leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:yhgc5rlqhoezrx6fbawajxlh/3muwrqenzfk2n

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Phantasm » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @phnt@fluffytail.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    @feld @drwho @MuseumJoe
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    >And the "we own the glass" statement wasn't even said by anyone at LG??

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Not by anyone at LG Electronics, which is subsidiary of LG Corporation which owns a controlling majority in LG Ad Solutions, which does the ACR.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Overall I recommend watching it, but there isn't really much new. Put it in the background.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]AutumnOut Boy » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @feld@friedcheese.us

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @phnt @drwho @MuseumJoe the only gross thing they do is ACR. But everyone does ACR. Can you turn it off? yes. I can in my Sony Bravia, it's a service/software from https://Samba.tv which you can disable if you dig into the settings.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Phantasm » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @phnt@fluffytail.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @feld @drwho @MuseumJoe Basically everything in that video isn't exclusive to LG. ACR, preselecting "Agree to all" checkboxes to TOS/privacy policy agreements. Scanning the network for devices, or even scanning nearby wifi networks. Heck, everyone's phone does the latter to provide the coarse location services which is based on cell towers and WiFi networks.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Pawlicker 🐾😹 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          @phnt @feld @drwho @MuseumJoe I don't hook up my tv so I don't get ads for bullshit when I wanna turn it on

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Opt out privacy options are almost always just a spoon of honey to make the medicine go down and don't actually do jack shit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            CC: @phnt@fluffytail.org @drwho@masto.hackers.town @MuseumJoe@oldbytes.space

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The simple solution (for now) would be to just never connect those TVs to the internet. That'll only work of course until they force you to, or put some satellite phone type shit in there.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]PossumEveryHour » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @possumeveryhour@eu-isoe-west-1.com

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Canithesis Interactive » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @canithesis@canithesis.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                We have shutdown our Gitea service for an emergency upgrade following the discovery of CVE-2026-60004 being exploitable on the service.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                We did not receive notification from our usual source about this vulnerability, so we responded late. Sorry - we will do better next time. The good news is that:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • little to no sensitive data was on the server that could've been compromised (except an older prototype of Time Falcon from forever ago, go ahead and steal it lol)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • from the available data, we have no reason to believe we were actually attacked - Gitea's isolated user account has not exhibited any abnormal behavior.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Our server was, however, spammed by a CVE disclosure bot, which was what led us to this during a regular cleanup of dead accounts. So thanks to whoever did that.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]:bm1::bm2::bm3::bm4::bm5::bm6::bm7::bm8::bm9::bm0: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @bonkmaykr@canithesis.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                You've heard of elf on the shelf, now get ready for chick with a dick

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]korgster » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                @korgster@clubcyberia.co

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                theyve been illegally unsweetening the tea stop them now

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