Implication from the readme is that the lego island decomp does indeed need original assets:
The simplest way to use the recompiled binaries is to swap the original executables (ISLE.EXE, LEGO1.DLL, and CONFIG.EXE) in LEGO Island’s installation directory for the ones that you’ve built from this source code.
In the US it’s up to individual states to set laws that require breaks.
Fucking insane, and very sad.
I recall that during the cold war, US intelligence agencies were worried that American hams might be sending secrets to amateurs in the USSR. They commissioned some report and the findings were basically “The only thing these nerds talk about are signal reports and radio equipment”.
I’m in the habit of shredding everything.
a) It’s so fun to watch a stack of mailers turn into confetti
b) Deniability. If I only shred important documents, then all my shredded trash is now important. If I shred everything, nobody knows how much of it is important.
Mostly A though. I’m not yet worried about someone trying to reconstruct my shredded trash.
I watched a documentary about that: Into Eternity
What I thought was interesting about the film was the balance between entertaining a fantastical vision of some future explorer stumbling across the radioactive site, and the mundanity of most of the actual work.
One of the engineers said something like: “When we seal this up with so much concrete, there’s no way you’re getting in here without machinery. We should be more concerned about a future civilization that comes back here for radioactive materials when they’ve exhausted all other natural sources”
And then there’s a whole section of the film about rules-lawyering the storage site. The dump was chartered by the Finish government to seal waste “for all time”, and the engineers were mad that nothing is truly permanent.
I liked it. I thought the action was pretty good and Jared Leto worked well. Setting aside my IRL feelings about the “AI” industry, the film had me caring about Ares and the future of programs like him. Whether intentional or not, I thought that the plot connected to how governments IRL are trying to turn “AI” into tools of hate.
Going into the film, I was a bit surprised that there was no real connection between it and Tron Legacy. I though the whole plot about Isos being advanced programs would have some relation to Ares, but it’s not even brought up.
Pedantry:
I can buy all the drinks I want at a bar. I’m just not allowed to consume them myself.
No bar is going to eject someone just because they’re buying drinks for other people.
Problem is that if you use white text on dark background, the bugs will be attracted to your code.
Meanwhile, when I use dark text on a white background, the bugs are only attracted to whitespace. Easily removed with a linter.
Solarized gang rise up!
If I don’t want to be blinded by my screen, I either turn the monitor brightness down or the ambient lighting up.
Does this mean it should be possible to have 30 simultaneous JS8Call transmissions on a single SSB CB channel?
Yes. If you play around with JS8Call, you’ll notice that the UI picks a frequency offset from the SSB band and parks itself there. If you move the offset frequency to be near other traffic, the messages from nearby offsets will auto-populate in the yellow text box.
Do people have to transmit after each other or can they transmit at the same time while being spaced out within the the same channel?
Data frames are synchronized to 15 second time windows (I think). You can transmit during the same window as anyone else, as long as you’re not both on the same frequency offset.
These are really cool! I’ve been meaning to get a 6m antenna ever since I got my IC-705. Now that this page has taught me about the hentenna, I think I might build one.
It is on by default, but can be disabled in your repo config: https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html
The feature works by adding a flag to one random http request to a fedora repo every week. Fedora then aggregates the http logs that have been flagged to derive their metrics. You can opt out of sending the flag, but if you’re querying fedora repos then you still end up in their http log.
Good. The combat was one of the weaker parts of D:OS2.
He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
Doesn’t want to do that? Just like how 6 months ago, Sam Altman said he didn’t want OpenAI to do adult content? Hopefully I’m overreacting, but I’m worried more about this kind of thinking than an AI feature.
I use a PiKVM to manage my server at boot.
It streams video from the HDMI port so I can see what’s happening before boot, and plugs into a USB socket to emulate a remote keyboard.
Saved me the other week when I installed a new network card and the server lost its network connection. Since I could still reach the KVM, I logged in remotely and solved the issue.
Although some KVM devices can take power from the USB connection to the host, you should make sure your KVM has an independent power supply. Otherwise, when you shut down your server, the KVM will lose power and then you can’t remotely turn it back on again.
git commit --amend --author="Automated CI Action <no-reply@github.com>" --no-edit
I love movies with abstract imagery and themes. Usually I can piece things together and figure out what the film is trying to say, but not Megalopolis.
Like, what was Megalopolis (the in-film construction project) supposed to represent? It was one guy’s vision for a better future that he was going to build no-matter what. Fine! But then Adam Driver’s character makes a big speech at the ribbon ceremony about how we need to start a conversation about the future. What conversation? The guy never listened to anyone else during the film! Maybe his wife?
Why was everything wrapped up in the names and imagery of late Roman republic? To imply that American society is reaching an end of its current unsustainable phase. Ok, but then you name Adam Driver’s character after the guy who turned Rome into a militarist principate. So what better future should we be looking towards?
What was the whole deal with Carthage, the crumbling Soviet satellite which destroyed part of the city? The Megalopolis project only got underway when the destruction cleared out a chunk of New Rome, so are we to assume that our bold conversation about the futute can only happen when the once-forgotten ghost of Communism smashes America? But then the satellite’s crash has no impact on anything except some buildings. The mayor doesn’t face any problems as leader during or after this disaster, and the MAGA-coded villains don’t really change tactics either. Adam Driver’s plans are obviously helped by this, but he already had buy-in from the Mayor. It’s not like the disaster was some catalyst for change, but rather a convenience so we don’t have to watch Adam Driver finger-snap another building demolition.
Megalopolis threw a lot of ideas on the screen, but I kept waiting for a payoff that never arrived.
I know it’s late advice, since you already switched from Bazzite, but I’ve never understood why people have an aversion to adding a layered package to the immutable system.
My attitude has always been: If an update breaks something, the whole point is that I can roll back. I’ve been running Fedora Silverblue with many layered packages for several years, and the worst thing that ever happened was when I had to delay a system update by a few hours because the latest build of a layered package hadn’t hit the repos yet.
Plus, for anything like development work that requires build dependencies, I spin up a toolbox to compile it. The nice thing about the default toolbox is that it’s a base Fedora install, so all the system libs are compatible with my host machine. I’ve found it’s often simple to compile a project in the toolbox and then launch the executable from my host system without adding any new layered packages to it.
I think it was August or September. Issue is documented in this forum thread:
Those look like build prerequisites. Many decomp projects do not need original game assets at build time, just runtime.
I read this as another implication that original game files are required. Otherwise, why would you need a registry key telling the new game engine where to look for assets? The
/assetsfile in the git repo contains only 3 pngs of icon images. There’s no way they’ve secretly bundled a whole game’s worth of models and textures in the codebase.