You can grab it off minerva and play it in an emulator pretty easily, which is the second most authentic way to experience it in my opinion. The first is of course on original hardware. I’m not sure what the point of a slop PC port is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.
The hate is at least partly because there is and has always been a holy war over programming languages. Your choice of programming language greatly affects me. The software you write in language A (usually) can’t interoperate well with the software I write in language B. You end up with duplication of effort and many implementations of a thing, one for each language, usually more than one, with differences between them that makes things complicated. You have more choices when there are more languages, adding complexity to the making of software. I would say Rust gets the brunt of the hate because it’s new, but in 2026 that’s not really true anymore.
To make things more confusing, there’s a goofy formula which tells you the actual capacity of a given advertised capacity. A drive advertised as 1 TB will always have exactly 1,000,204,886,016 bytes. It helps to have consistency, but nobody seems to knows where the formula came from.
I just created !PapersWeLove@programming.dev if you’re interested in sharing/discussing academic CS papers.
There are textbooks you can grab on shadow libraries and recorded lectures on youtube (though exceptionally hard to find). Edtech is all crap, frankly. It’s even more crap when it’s AI-generated. The best way to learn a subject is still the way people have been doing so for hundreds of years.
How does it look for double hyphens? I would expect those to be more common in code comments (before the LLMageddon at least) as an em dash just looks like a hyphen in the typically displayed monospace type.
I couldn’t remember the name of the game. Looks like I found an off brand version.
They also do it to lessen the outrage that might be more likely to happen than if they rolled out the change on everyone all at once.
CEO in effective altruism cult claims product is so powerful that it will become skynet and kill everyone and that they need more money to make it stronger to prevent that from happening. More news at 11.
Mozilla’s warning is funny. “Don’t use this to reject attestations from unapproved authenticators!” That’s, like, almost the entire purpose to attestation. It tells you an Apple device or a YubiKey or whatever created the credential. What else could you use this information for other than to make life harder for users using certain authenticators?
Best advice in this entire thread.
I don’t have a name.
You don’t… have a name?
That’s right. I don’t have a name. I was given a number at birth.
What’s your number, then?
1337
Hmm, it seems I can’t type digits in the name field. Are you sure you don’t have a name?
Yes. Just type it.
But…
I SAID TYPE IT!
Customer name: one three three seven
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb fucks
Nitpick: the author seems to be under the impression that attestation occurs at login, but what I remember from reading A Tour of WebAuthn is attestation can only happen when a credential is created. In the case where Xitter wants to prevent you from logging in from Lineage OS, the effect is broadly the same. The difference is, instead of Xitter refusing login, either (a) Xitter refuses to create an passkey login option for you if the device does not offer attestation or if the attestation indicates the device could later expose the credential to an “insecure” operating system OR (b) the device simply can’t have Lineage OS installed at all or erases the credential or prevents Lineage from accessing the credential while Lineage OS is running.
I’m also not sure if governments or government agencies being members of the FIDO alliance is an indication of nefarious intent. Their intelligence agencies engage in offensive operations, but are also interested in defending their countries against cyberattacks, yes? Moreover, the NSA is not a member. NIST is, but NIST is a standards body, not an intelligence agency.
The advent of Turing-test-passing AI was such an enormous mistake. There’s no shortage of people who want to do creative, intellectual work. People even do it in their spare time and give the product away. They’re trying to automate the wrong kinds of jobs.
Oh, I’d recognize those parenthesis anywhere. Any sufficiently complicated javascript program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, supply-chain-vulnerable, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.