Im sure there are such rippoffs, I’ve heard of them but they were still way bigger than a game cart. I like the idea of physical cartriges/media for games, let’s see how this catches on.
Their act was cool. Post-hoc bolting a protest social action on top seemed dishonest.
It's fine to say you did something cool because you could, in fact the coolest things are done just because. Adding commentary that it was a protest for stolen / wasted space, spare me the minutes please
You should hang more in anarchist circles. Squatting as a protest and as an art piece has been alive and well for far, far longer than I've been alive. (40-50 years)
Go read about the Paris Commune, Villa Road, Pieds Plats, Frances Street, or that group who squatted in NYC until the city capitulated and turned the buildings into low income housing.
What evidence do you have that they aren't genuine about their reasons, given it's not at all uncommon for squats to exist as a form of protest?
Well, I watched it. The archival footage makes it pretty clear they did it for the lulz and only in the present day interviews do they bolt a social action to it. I prefer if they kept it purely for the lulz because then it was art.
years ago the daily wtf had a challenge for writing the worst calculator app. my submission maintained calculation state by emitting it's own source code, recompiling and running the new executable.
I first learned to program on a Wang 2200 computer with 8KB of RAM, back in 1978. One of the math teachers stayed an hour late most days to allow us nerds to come in an use the two computers. There were more people than computers, so often you'd only get 10 or 15 minutes of time.
Anyway, I wrote a program where you could enter an equation and it would draw an ASCII graph of the curve. I didn't know how to parse expressions and even if I had I knew it would be slow. The machine had a cassette tape under computer control for storing and loading programs. What I did was to take the expression typed by the user and convert each one into its tokenized form and write it out to tape. The program would then load that just created overlay which contained something like "1000 DEF FNY(X)=X^2-5" and a FOR loop would sweep X over the designated range, and have "LET Y=FNY(X)" to evaluate the expression for me.
As a result, after entering the equation, it would take about five seconds to write out the overlay, rewind a couple blocks, and load the overlay before it would start to plot. But once it started it went pretty fast.
Check out wang2200.org if you don't know about it. There is an emulator that runs on windows and osx, lots of scanned documents, many disk images, and some technical details on the microarchitecture of the various 2200 CPUs (they didn't use a microprocessor -- they are all boards and boards of TTL components, until they finally but everything on a single ASIC in the 80s).
It is an audio/video/midi plugin standard for the web and it is rather mature.
During covid I worked on a collaborative browser-based DAW, https://sequencer.party. I definitely bit off more than I could chew, but you can wire up plugin chains at least.
I would strongly suggest you consider adding webaudiomodule support and instantly get ~50 plugins supported in the DAW. I also packaged up a bunch of them ready for consumption here: https://github.com/boourns/wam-community
Yes, that is what I'm talking about! I had once dreamed of building a service you could ask questions like "what other artists recorded in the same city in the same year as artist xyz" and have it figure it out via the discogs dataset.
If there are abuses we should strive to minimize or abolish those abuses. The alternative - to tolerate incalculable human suffering and force the loved ones of those suffering to stand there and watch - is unacceptable.
So far there have been zero murder convictions for the KNOWN abuses. Bleeding hearts will downvote this knowing full-well the truth is that they are lowering the bar to the point anyone can be euthanized for any reason. "Mental Health" is an awfully wide net and described specifically in the article which it appears no one has read.
Unfortunately, it seems HN suffers from this pseudo-fascist "Altruism". "Ending the incalculable suffering" was the same justification the Nazis used for their euthanasia program. Virtually the same words too. "Mental health" was a reason thousands upon thousands of children and adults were euthanized. Sorry, this position cannot be compromised with. Euthanasia inevitably leads to mass murder. Very progressive of us to repeat history.
Reminds me of the chrome bug I filed years ago that is still unfixed. An extension with access to all browsing tabs can open a hidden iframe to a website that commonly would have mic and camera permission (like hangouts.google.com), and then inject its own JavaScript into that hidden iframe to capture mic or camera.
For this to work hangouts.google.com had to not include the HTTP header to block iframing but thankfully if you make up a URL the 404 page served on that domain does not include that http header.
