#binance hack apparently involved "getting access to one employee's access through a sophisticated social engineering fake interview scheme and zero-day... then asking the internal AI tool nicely for other people's login credentials"
we're so cooked!
Sounding the alarm for #Apple / #Macintosh fans in the US Midwest - ran across this Facebook post: A giant piie of stuff that must go in 30 days! Located in Kansas City, MO area.
has anyone posted this yet. am i too late. we're all doing php jokes now?
@vga256 lol are you the r/sosaria mod now
y'all have no idea how often i reference this video. SHUT UP SHUT UP AI B2B SAAS
I'm in some groups for long-dead properties (Ultima, Sierra adventure games, etc) and I've noticed people in those groups seem to have a much greater appetite / acceptance for AI slop. Part of it is they're largely boomers, but I think the real issue is just that because such things are out of the public spotlight, there's a dearth of artists / musicians / writers / game modders / creative types who have simply moved on to other, newer things.
The result is a group of old hangers-on who have also seen everything already, and are simply desperate for novelty. In that environment some AI generated Ultima rap is at least _something_ for the starving. Whereas a "healthy" community has current cultural output and therefore can mount a rejection of slop.
It's a depressing end! I'd sooner see a quiet "nothing" than the remnants being fueled by artificial injections of "content", but, many of the members clearly don't want that.
something you know, something you have, something you are, something you see, something you ate yesterday, something you believe, something you regret,
subtoot but "you claim to hate llms but won't fork the linux kernel (an admittedly impossible task), so you must not actually hate them and you're just pretending" is a wild take i'm sorry
Bug fixes AND performance improvements? in THIS economy??
Doing some reading about Everquest and its ill-fated sequels, and I came across this wild forum post from 2023
Guy paid $100 to pre-order EQ Landmark (2016), then suffered a horrible industrial accident and was in and out of coma for like 8 years. Came back to the forum asking "where's the game?" Turns out they launched then cancelled it in 2017, and he missed it entirely.
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq2/index.php?threads/everquest-landmark.609653/
hm I need a tool for editing pixelart-type png images w/ palette and some transparency support - GIMP is very broken on import/export of these and damages the palette or creates bogus colors. Is there a good pixel art editor people use for this kinda thing - free, OSS maybe? I basically don't even mind if it lacks most drawing tools (an MSPaint-like would be fine) as long as it can edit the palette and color of transparent pixels without creating a huge mess
One of my friends went to #Grinnell College (Iowa) and talks occasionally about "Plans", a text-only social media site for Grinnell students / alum that functions as a sort of blog, message board, essay hosting, etc.
The name confused me for a minute, until they sent me this link to a history of Plans - and it turns out it's older than the Web! Originally it referred to a social system of users on the school's #VAX machine, where you could stage a .plan file and use the "finger" command to read messages "posted" by others. And then they retired the VAX, so Plans moved online!
Anyway, it's a neat read about the novelty of using a shared #UNIX system back in the days before the Web.
oh well, just unsubscribed. sorry about your follower numbers or whatever
#freebsd subreddit is a cesspool right now, bunch of AI generated garbage ("here's a song I made for the new release with Suno" / "here's an image I generated of Beastie and Tux walking hand in hand" / etc) and now we're getting a video giving a Nuanced Take about how we shouldn't just call it all AI Slop, from some guy trying to get his youtube channel off the ground. Mods seem fine with it all. This sort of thing is why I feel it's a fundamentally anti-social technology - the only thing it does is displace real conversation and fill in any gaps like a bacterial colony
updated #wordpress for my "one post every 6 months" project blog and immediately whacked in the face
Stumbled across "Whispers in the Moss" today, a JRPG written in QBasic that uses a unique ANSI art style. The author had been working at it sporadically for about 12 years but finally shipped it in April 2024. A really neat find!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETpK9IJlacA
I also liked this write-up from the author about their experiences trying to publish on Steam / do marketing / sharing sales numbers etc
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1rvasgj/i_spent_12_years_making_an_ultraniche_qbasic_jrpg/
Paging @dosgameclub / @Tijn / @rnlf - after 30 years we finally got a new version of Machiavelli: the Prince (?!?) Andrew at HDI, who previously patched up Emperor of the Fading Suns for a 1.5 patch, has taken another look at Machiavelli and brought some much-wanted QOL improvements.
https://holistic-design.com/machiavelli-the-prince-enhanced-now-in-stores/
Pretty incredible to see this game get some love after all these years!
Does your clock really need a full Box2D physics model. No. But is does make it a lot more fun.
This is my BadClock™.
It runs late when you don’t wind it. Hands fall off when you’re too rough and it forgets how DST works. So it may adjust your clock in the wrong direction. Or not. Who knows.
Trying to help a Redditor identify a song from an #Atari (likely) 8-bit computer game - they have a noisy tape recording of the tune, about 1:38 in length, and not much else to go off of. Located in Houston, TX, USA, so that excludes most of the European market at least :P
I put it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laVD0EpXFrE
The Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/atari8bit/comments/1r8mjza/help_identifying_an_old_video_game_song/
If you recognize this, let them know! I do strongly suspect it's Atari, that out-of-tune POKEY bass is a giveaway :)
Been listening to the ASAP archive Games section but nothing of that length is a match...