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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 red-iron-pine »

3form wrote: post #50

This really does - I don't mean it in a disparaging way - read like a mid-life crisis writing. Having to come to terms with the fact that the "old world" is not the current world anymore, which is too bad, because you like the old one, and you don't quite fit in the new one either. This feeling has existed across generations and most of us have to go through it eventually. The world, however, is not any less real tha…

> This really does - I don't mean it in a disparaging way - read like a mid-life crisis writing.

OP is living in a world of hyperreality of his own making. dude has always been doing software and never been able to break out of that.

it's not like he's been bartending though college and then slide into CS/dev work and is struggling with how startups are it's own weird universe. it's all hes ever known and is now convinced that the hinge dates and axe throwing are the weird, not-real thing.

homie has been in his weird autism-tech-bubble and never had a reason to get out of it

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

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Post by Bratmon »

ryan_n wrote: post #51
nicman23 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol he is right. his work both on the ps3 and now with the hacked p2p drivers is powering many a lab

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 charging $6 a month to allow the console to connect to the Internet)

But it turned out that it was possible to jailbreak the PS3 to run software other than certified PS3 games (this was officially allowed at first, but Sony quickly pulled the plug). And as a result, the best bang for your buck for "highly parallel we just need FLOPS" supercomputer workloads was to build a rack of PlayStation 3s.

But that only worked as long as the hack worked.

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

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Post by fsflover »

eightysixfour wrote: post #112
everdrive wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, sorry, I wasn't familiar with him. Looks like he was born in 1989, and so is not so young. I'm a bit baffled to hear that he doesn't think he can escape his smartphone given that he was resourceful enough to jailbreak an iPhone 4 back in the day. I understand he's speaking poetically and emotionally. Maybe he just means he has the knowledge but not the means.

I am a similar age to Geohot and I have tried to escape smartphones to a dumb phone. It didn’t work. So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. • Surface parking in my city is all by QR code. Where there are machines, they are broken because no one cares. • Social groups are on iMessage or RCS. RCS is not nearly as backwards compatible with MMS as it seems and you…

>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.

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

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Post by fsflover »

Havoc wrote: post #118
rmunn wrote: post #29

From the article: "... there is no other Internet, just a place with five corporate towns and some Chinese ones that are really hard to visit if you don’t speak Chinese." Yeah, that's only true if you don't hang out in the old-style Internet. I spend most of my time on blogs, reading and replying to discussions on wide-ranging topics, talking to interesting people who know a lot more than I do about many subjects (in…

How do you find the non walled garden places?

https://wiby.me

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

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

Havoc wrote: post #118
rmunn wrote: post #29

From the article: "... there is no other Internet, just a place with five corporate towns and some Chinese ones that are really hard to visit if you don’t speak Chinese." Yeah, that's only true if you don't hang out in the old-style Internet. I spend most of my time on blogs, reading and replying to discussions on wide-ranging topics, talking to interesting people who know a lot more than I do about many subjects (in…

How do you find the non walled garden places?

From other such places. phpBB forums, imageboards, private trackers, webrings are good gateways.

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

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Post by ryan_n »

cbdumas wrote: post #111
ryan_n wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I worked as a undergrad assistant in a research lab in 2011-ish, and the lab had a shelf full of PS3s working as a cluster. Regretfully my project didn't get to use it.

Okay so circa 2011 it was powering some labs. Don't think there are many/any frontier labs in 2026 running ps3's, or at least no one has provided any evidence of that still..

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

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Post by red-iron-pine »

stavros wrote: post #116
dgellow wrote: post #26

> What killed the hacker culture I grew up in was spectacle. That’s so rich from someone known for his public stunts against Sony & co

What public stunts? He jailbroke a console, it's not like he went on a talk show.

dude was cracking iphones for the glory and lulz as much as for practical access reasons

lots of folks be working on exploits and jailbreaks who, as a rule, STFU 100% OpSec 100% of the time

"the real, scary hitmen aren't the ones bragging about it"

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

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Post by btrettel »

justjash wrote: post #57
rmunn wrote: post #29

From the article: "... there is no other Internet, just a place with five corporate towns and some Chinese ones that are really hard to visit if you don’t speak Chinese." Yeah, that's only true if you don't hang out in the old-style Internet. I spend most of my time on blogs, reading and replying to discussions on wide-ranging topics, talking to interesting people who know a lot more than I do about many subjects (in…

I miss all the old forums that have died out. Still some gems out there, but not nearly as active anymore as far as my hobbies and interest go.

Unfortunately, running an online forum has been a pain for a long time. You have to promote the forum to keep it active, deal with various bad actors (historically spammers, trolls, and black hats), maintain the forum, deal with drama, etc. It adds up and largely isn't appreciated. People act like a forum exists by itself, but it doesn't.

And in the last 5 years, running an online forum has become more of a pain given how badly behaved some bots are. Just recently, I installed Anubis on some online forums I run, and I've been amazed by how much traffic dropped. Before, server load was becoming a problem to the point where all the forums I ran were taken offline by their hosts! I have been thinking about how there's a need for a forum software which produces static HTML for the content, while all dynamic components are behind a login. Bots won't increase server load much in this case. If the forum administrator decides to end the forum, they can easily keep hosting the content without any future maintenance beyond paying the bills. Two of the forums I run are just archives at this point, and I'd love to be able to flip a switch and make them static HTML... (I probably will adapt some script I found on GitHub do to this in the future, maybe with help from LLMs.)

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

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Post by red-iron-pine »

tangenter wrote: post #21
ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #15

> I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT Why...

Because it’s a numbers game and nothing wrong with playing to win.

lets abstract the human interaction process even futher

and homeboy is a rich tech bro, he doesn't have to play the numbers game

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