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Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by LennyHenrysNuts »

Bratmon wrote: post #162
ryan_n wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how does the ps3 hack "power many a lab"?

Many research labs in scientific fields other than CS need a lot of compute power and have an insufficient budget. In the PS3 era, the PS3 had the highest compute power (FLOPS) to cost ratio of any commercially-available computer, due to a combination of its parallel architecture and the fact that Sony's business model was to sell the console at a loss and make up the money by taking shares of game revenue (and by ch…

Sony actually allowed "OtherOS" until Geohot screwed it up for everybody and they locked it down.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by zem »

everdrive wrote: post #138
Maxatar wrote: post #134

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You're kind of being a dick now.

I'm just so frustrated by how quickly and easily people give in to these things. People face relatively small inconveniences and quickly give away their rights. Smart phones and social media (in large part, enabled by always-on, always-present smart phones) have so, so many negatives effects and people won't even consider moving on. "It's hard to find parking" or "some restaurants are now inconvenient to eat at" are…

the problem is not the people who want impulse satisfaction, comfort, and convenience - these are all perfectly normal human desires. the problem is that we as a society have allowed predators to tie these needs to surveillance and addiction engineering. there is no intrinsic reason that couldn't have been regulated against - look at some of the absolutely idiotic things the government is willing to spend time and money in micromanaging.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by kalleboo »

eightysixfour wrote: post #182
fsflover wrote: post #163

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>So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. Have you considered using a GNU/Linux phone (Librem 5 or Pinephone)? There is no dependence on a megacorp and QR codes work fine. Some services might redirect you to a web app if you show them such phone.

Neither of those are dumbphones and neither resolve 90% of the problems I mentioned. I wasn't trying to get away from walled gardens or chase additional privacy, I was trying to get away from the most distracting devices ever created and to intentionally not have 24/7 access to a web browser. My path was iOS -> LightPhone 3 -> GrapheneOS -> iOS. The LightPhone was the right level of capability for the distraction fre…

What's your opinion on the Commodore phone? It runs a smartphone OS but web browsers (and social media apps) are intentionally banned for distraction reasons.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by lulzury »

tangenter wrote: post #145
torginus wrote: post #58

I remember watching this urban exploration video, the guy went into an abandoned Russian nuclear bunker, deep underground. Watching this titanic effort of engineering, made by people who were both highly intelligent and had vast resources at their disposal, yet felt it necessary to build it to have an answer to the unthinkable horrors the future held, all of this reflected in the sturdy but utilitarian design of the…

You better find that video for us. Sounds juicy af.

I feel like this comment is validating the post's point.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by throwaway173738 »

bena wrote: post #123
NetMageSCW wrote: post #76

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>This has been a solved problem for a long time: you look up the movie times and such prior to departing for the movies. No smartphone needed. Strangely, not everyone is at home when they decide to go to the movies.

Oh man, the past was fucking wild, because you would do this. You'd just show up to the theater and look at what was playing. Or, if you were close to a store, you'd go and buy a newspaper that had the movie listings for your local theaters.

Or just call the theater. You can still call stores and ask them if they have something, rather than looking it up on Amazon.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

torginus wrote: post #58

I remember watching this urban exploration video, the guy went into an abandoned Russian nuclear bunker, deep underground. Watching this titanic effort of engineering, made by people who were both highly intelligent and had vast resources at their disposal, yet felt it necessary to build it to have an answer to the unthinkable horrors the future held, all of this reflected in the sturdy but utilitarian design of the…

This is my all-time favorite bunker video, and it will be yours, too

https://youtu.be/NPpeSYytxMQ?t=296&is=tvKwOwthNBU5lzKd

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by wolrah »

LennyHenrysNuts wrote: post #191
Bratmon wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many research labs in scientific fields other than CS need a lot of compute power and have an insufficient budget. In the PS3 era, the PS3 had the highest compute power (FLOPS) to cost ratio of any commercially-available computer, due to a combination of its parallel architecture and the fact that Sony's business model was to sell the console at a loss and make up the money by taking shares of game revenue (and by ch…

Sony actually allowed "OtherOS" until Geohot screwed it up for everybody and they locked it down.

> Sony actually allowed "OtherOS" until Geohot screwed it up for everybody and they locked it down.

I recall exploits allowing some level of access to the RSX and other components Sony had locked away from OtherOS as far back as 2007, and Sony had already removed OtherOS from the PS3 Slim with no warning or explanation in August of 2009.

Geohot didn't even start on the PS3 until December of 2009. At that point Sony had already made it clear that they no longer saw value in OtherOS and wanted to get rid of it. Geohot's exploit (which was janky, required external hardware, and didn't even enable homebrew much less piracy) gave them a convenient excuse but there's no reason to believe they wouldn't have jumped on any other excuse.

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I do love how Sony immediately learned the hard way that there are a lot of very skilled people out there who are more than happy to play in a sandbox and not make a mess in the rest of the yard as long as it gives them enough room to do something interesting, but if you take the sandbox away they're going to play everywhere else.

Re: Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

throwaway173738 wrote: post #196
bena wrote: post #123

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Oh man, the past was fucking wild, because you would do this. You'd just show up to the theater and look at what was playing. Or, if you were close to a store, you'd go and buy a newspaper that had the movie listings for your local theaters.

Or just call the theater. You can still call stores and ask them if they have something, rather than looking it up on Amazon.

Remember MovieFone? That guy with the Mr. Moviefone voice?! Oh, man!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moviefone

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