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The highest capacity blurays available are 128GB and there's a good chance the game is larger than that, so it'd need to be a multi-disc installer.

I used to think physical media was great, but optical discs do have a finite shelf life. DRM-free is the important part, so you can make your own backups (like you're doing with your 360).


I reported a fun security bug to Google recently (not high in CVSS terms but will probably make the HN front page when it goes public), and the report was auto-closed in minutes as "not reproducible". If they tried to use an LLM to reproduce it I'm not surprised, since it requires a soldering iron.

Having seen the other side of a security inbox I totally get it, and fortunately I was able to get it re-opened via backchannels. I think the future of bug reporting will run almost exclusively on reputation and connections.


Not unless they also have a SEP exploit.

Many are dumped publicly at https://securerom.fun/

Some were dumped via known exploits, but I don't know how A12/A13 were dumped in the first place. I'd guess someone got code exec via fault injection and dumped it out that way, or perhaps just a privately known vuln.

iBoot source code has also been leaked, in the past.


Very tasteful web design, too. I was curious how the layout was done, and the answer is the venerable <table>

Made with pycco, a variant of docco:

https://pycco-docs.github.io/pycco/


I agree, it's a really cool way to lay out code with commentary. I wonder if it would be useful to generate a layout like this from code interleaved with comments, moving the comments to the sidebar.

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Could it be a framework / library? Since it looks exactly like [0]

[0] https://khamidou.com/compilers/lisp.py/


The exploit happens before any patchable software is running, it's not called ROM for nothing.

> No WebGL

Why is this an advantage? I have a GPU and I'd rather it was used. As-is, one of my CPU cores is pegged at 100% just rendering the landing page.


> > No WebGL

> Why

Sometimes hobby projects are a fun challenge because of the limitations you set for yourself. “No WebGL” (and “no canvas”) comes directly between “Render textured 3D meshes in the DOM” and “Each scene is a single <pre> you can…”. Why did I write some SQL to use TSQLs geometry types to draw a dragon curve fractal in SSMS way back when? Certainly not because it was an efficient use of the tech or my time!

How this challenge aspect translates to a project that (going by other comments) is largely vibe-coded escapes me a bit, if I asked an ML algorithm to complete a sudoku I wouldn't feel any sense of achievement, but each to their own.

> Why is this an advantage? I have a GPU and…

Away from the “because that was the challenge the maker set for themselves” aspect: WebGL does not always work, such as over most remote desktop solutions (there are of course ways to make the access it needs to the GPU possible, depending on the remoting option you are using, but one of those being configured is far from a given). This will continue to operate in those circumstances.


Presumably because its an intentional throwback to the era when most people didn't have a GPU?

When the topic is rendering 3d models using ASCII glyphs, we've already exited the realm of advantages and disadvantages. This is just supposed to be cool.

Cool things are allowed to be practical and well-engineered, too. Either way, it seems weird to list a disadvantage as a headline feature.

Sure. But I think the idea is already absurd, so I'm not expecting a performant engine out of it.

I get your point though, that the same ASCII rendering effect might be doable at much higher scale without pegging the CPU.


maybe to prove the output is purely text only?

heh, i came here to say basically the same thing

Refreshing.

For some reason it's very hard to find window units for sale in the UK, single-duct portables are the only thing available for cheap (although it's a fairly easy mod to convert one to dual-duct).

Probably because the UK - similar to most of Europe - does not use the US vertically sliding sash window type, does it? The typical "walmart window AC" does just not really exist in (most of) Europe, because the windows for it don't exist, afaik.

Edit: Turns out, sash windows are more commonly found in the UK (compared to other European countries), but still not as common as in the US. So, UK = not as hot (so far), thus still probably not worth it (yet) as a market.


I have a skinny tall window unit. It is called a casement unit. Pretty small market though at least in the US, only a few makes and models in comparison to the plethora of traditionally sized window units.

Why are the windows different, actually? They don't seem to be smaller overall, just skinnier and taller?

But you should still be able to get two tubes fitted into any kind of window with the right seals. If you were really up for renovations you could get closeable exhaust holes punched through your brick or something maybe.


Sash windows are just not as common. Seems like they are in the UK somewhat, though numbers I found vary, but overall in Europe they're pretty uncommon.

And yes, there are options for tubes/ducts for the more common window types. Like tilt-and-turn windows, horizontally sliding or all the other kinds of inward or outward opening windows - but most of them are the ducted portable units the original comment was speaking of, which aren't great. There are also some better portable split units, but those are pricier and the install is not as easy. (They're great though.)


one issue with tilt and turn is getting window screens for them. It's possible but mostly they get installed on the inside if you have the proper wall spacing that allows window to function without interfering with the screen. mini splits are great but it's much more money than a simple window unit or portable unit.

Living in the US I honestly miss the German windows that swing open. You can open the entire window whereas sliding windows can only ever open halfway.

I also sometimes miss being able to stick my head out the window but that's a tradeoff about screens and in the end of the day I prefer not to have to worry about bugs.


I have a swing out window in the US. Fun cranking the lever.

Oh, I have two tiny one of those in my bathroom in the US. Is yours full-sized? I've never seen once with a crank in Germany.

> For some reason

The reason would most likely be low demand.


It might bypass the fs, but it does not bypass the kernel. Cool, though!

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