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I can’t speak to the specifics of it, but Bedrock and Java editions are functionally entirely different games. They’re designed to function nearly the same, but under the hood, the only real similarities are in the graphical assets. Past the user interaction, they’re not really comparable at all.


Since OpenNIC resolvers are user-run, doesn’t that mean a bad actor could theoretically pop up at any time and log any request that goes through them?



Dorsey was on a tear yesterday, unfollowing all but three accounts on X while referring to Elon Musk’s platform as “freedom technology.”

Ah, I see. He went insane.


I recommend you learn how to make an argument that actually suits the context before commenting on the media literacy of others.

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The problem is, that doesn’t make sense for digital media. A large part of resales is media degradation. You pay less, but you take a risk upon yourself for it. Being able to refund a game that isn’t for you seems fair, though.


Plays include tone from the actors. Similarly, books include tone from context. One sentence does not.


This isn’t a Windows thing, it’s a firmware thing. It’s HP’s doing, and HP is well known for screwing with the usability of their devices. In my case, on my Victus, it’s F10 that opens UEFI, but the menus are incredibly stripped down. Looking online, F10 seems to be the key to access it on your device, too. Maybe you just aren’t getting the timing right, sometimes you gotta mash the absolute hell out of that button to get it to register. Once you do get it, setting a post delay will make it easier in the future.


They’ve been talking to Tencent, I’m gonna stick with “no.”


Their online tech support these days is no better. Just a maze of dead links and broken, 503-ing pages.


HP anything is a bad investment. I bought a HP gaming computer because it was on clearance for less than it’s graphics card alone, and learned that they lock the bios down to the simplest, most useless options.


It strikes me that this attitude might carry more weight if it came from a company with a better library… I mean, they have a handful of good games, most of which are quite old, and otherwise, mostly act like a cheap sequel machine.



Hrm… Ya know, you’d think the extensions would move off of GitHub after everything…


the fangame runs on nintendo licensed hardware using nintendo licensed SDKs.

Legally shouldn’t have ever been their problem. If I, without any permission, ported Mario 64 to the Xbox, it would make zero sense for Microsoft to raise issue with Nintendo over it.

A lot of fangames that mod valve games don’t use any steam tools and Valve is still completely fine with the mods.

Statement’s a little incongruous: I would take a fangame that mods Valve games to mean something like a Sonic game built on the Source engine. Regardless, I’m pretty sure I get your intended meaning, and the fact is, there really aren’t that many to reference. I can only think of two notable ones off the top of my head, both of which are flash games, and both of which Valve ultimately did profit off of. After digging for a short while, I came up with two others, one being a short celebration of the series made for it’s 25th anniversary by a very well-known fan site, and the other being an obscure Unreal Engine project. The only other thing I can think of that might apply is Xash, which they definitely aren’t fine with, they just don’t have the legal standing to get rid of it without legally endangering every third-party tool made for their games.


So Valve takes down any project related to their IPs that isn’t made utilizing their tools and done in a way they like and/or can profit from?

How is that different from Nintendo with things like Mario Maker?


Ya know what? I hope they do it. That many rich assholes with more ambition than brains in one place? It’ll burn from the inside.


Damn, I don’t remember that part at all.



Most people don’t understand and are put off by the concept of federation and the difficulties that can come with it.

You have to find a suitable instance. Many instances are specialized, require applications, or simply don’t allow new users at all. I myself have yet to find a well-suited instance, and instead, I’m on an instance where discovery of my content is impossible.

With Twitter, if someone shares their profile, it’s two clicks to follow them. With the fediverse, you have to get their profile, then manually search for it on your own instance. In some cases, this doesn’t work reliably due to federation errors.

Its possible you’ll find yourself in the off-putting position of being unable to follow some people you’d like due to instances being defederated. This can make the process of finding an instance harder, or for people who are unfamiliar with the concept, result in them declaring the whole thing broken and moving away.


The problem is finding a viable alternative. Mastodon and Firefish are too much trouble for most people, BlueSky is a walled garden and Threads is… Well, Threads is Threads, enough said.


Breaking news: Elon is a hypocrite. In other news, snow found to be cold.

I mean, it’s not like this is new. He ranted about free speech for months, then as soon as he bought twitter, he started removing journalists that spoke out against him. He’s scum, plain and simple.



I had a similar problem with my ISP’s CGNAT, and Zero-Tier One is what got around it for me.



Not to mention that many ISPs also use CGNAT, so one public IP can relate to a number of different people at once.



It definitely happens with extremists on both sides, but I think it’s much more common on the right. Like, I encounter it on streets all the time from the right. I recently had a “climate change doesn’t exist because a day was cool last week” conversation with someone on the fourth-straight record high day in a row.


I’d say they probably still have the source. It looks like they did the same thing for Manhunt and Max Payne, but then pulled older, pre-SecuROM exes from their archives when they got busted.


It means the publisher was too lazy/greedy to remove their ancient DRM themselves and just nabbed the work someone else did, slapped Steam Stub on top and sold it.


Sad fact is, Rockstar doesn’t give a shit. They got busted using a cracked EXE in the Steam release, so they just tried to cover their asses by using an old EXE without SecuROM. I expect the same thing from this game before long.

Couple lucky things for the players, though. First off, the Razor 1911 crack is still in the files, they just renamed it to testapp. Second, old RS games have a dedicated community that give way more of a shit about them than Rockstar ever will. Silent and Fire Head have both released major patches for Manhunt that not only get it running right, but fix a bunch of other broken shit that Rockstar never cared enough to deal with.


Because it’s a bare link, some apps interpret the underscore as the end of the link.


Better than their in-house attempts to remove anti-piracy measures. The Steam release of Manhunt has had all of its bullshit triggered for over ten years now. It’s literally impossible to play without community patches.

Edit: Lol, as it turns out, Silent’s discovery of this was triggered by the recent revelation of this about Manhunt!


FMHY’s mod team has moved from Reddit, or at least isn’t as active as they used to be.

They run a site where these lists are gonna be better maintained.

https://fmhy.net/unsafesites


No, LLM text generation is generally done on GPU, as that’s rhe only way to get any reasonable speed. That’s why there’s a specifically-made Pyg model for running on CPU. That said, one generation can take anywhere from five to twenty minutes on CPU. It’s moot anyway as I only have 8GB ram.


I have an R9 380 that I’m never going to be able to replace. Local isn’t really an option.



ChatGPT API Piracy
Is this even still a thing? It seems to be pretty well dead. Poe-API shat the bed, GPT4FREE got shut down and it's replacement seems to be pretty much non-functional, Proxies are a weird secret club thing (despite being nearly totally based on scraped corporate keys), etc.
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Someone in there finally said, “We can sell them the parts, and then the ones that fail to fix it either have to buy a new one or send the old one to us to fix at even more cost!”


I’m with the only uncapped service in my area, it’s $90/mo for 10mb/s and it’s unreliable as all fuck.



Is Xmanager a Scam?
So, I've heard about XManager for a little while and just finally decided to try it, and... So just level with me, is this thing an advertising scam? When I tap on a version and choose download, an ad appears, I wait for it's timer to finish, close it and... Nothing happens. It never downloads anything, just serves ad after ad. Edit: So, after disabling ads and trying again several more times, I was able to download and install.
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Soulseek With No Port Access to Forwarding?
I've got a big music library of CD rips that I'd like to share, but [my ISP routes my traffic](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/84apc6m2o24.png), meaning I can't forward shit to my computer. I can't change ISPs because I live in a functional monopoly and this is the only provider with reasonable data rates. Is there anything I can do to share? Thanks in advance!
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