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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by fencepost »

kingcharles wrote: post #239
fencepost wrote: post #237

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Strong suggestion: uBlock Origin ad blocker, including in Firefox on Android. Other options include the Brave or Duck Duck Go browsers - similar features built in, but possibly less bookmark portability, etc

Thanks. I have ethical issues with ad blockers. As someone who has built businesses based on ads it pains me to hurt these sites, even though the ad situation is really fucked up in 2021. I just found out about Brave this week. It looks promising. I didn't know DuckDuckGo had a browser. I've been using the search occasionally. People say they can't switch from Google, but honestly their search quality is over-rated.…

Adblock Plus might be an acceptable solution for you, IIRC it has an "acceptable ads" program designed to only filter out the heavier or more intrusive ads.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by kingcharles »

fencepost wrote: post #241
kingcharles wrote: post #239

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Thanks. I have ethical issues with ad blockers. As someone who has built businesses based on ads it pains me to hurt these sites, even though the ad situation is really fucked up in 2021. I just found out about Brave this week. It looks promising. I didn't know DuckDuckGo had a browser. I've been using the search occasionally. People say they can't switch from Google, but honestly their search quality is over-rated.…

Adblock Plus might be an acceptable solution for you, IIRC it has an "acceptable ads" program designed to only filter out the heavier or more intrusive ads.

Thank you for the tip. Just installed it. Open source, and powered by donations. Awesome.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by metagame »

monocasa wrote: post #188
metagame wrote: post #36

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Both have the same root problem: There's no incentive. There used to be reasons to crack consoles, and there still is for many of them, and eventually there might be an incentive to for the Xbox One, but there's no reason for the Xbox One to be right now and there never really has been. Pretty much all of the good Xbox exclusives are available on PCs as well (albeit some only via UWP, which had its copy protection br…

There's tons of incentive. There's over 50 million Xbox One consoles out there, so there's a giant market for people would love to not buy any games for the one time cost of ~$100.

No, you're missing the point. People who want that can buy a PS4, which has always been cheaper, has more interesting exclusives, and as a result has had its copy protection broken since nearly launch.

There's no point in doing it with the Xbox, because the Xbox has no exclusives anyone cares about and is more expensive than a device that sold tremendously better and is cheaper.

This is the same reason people develop private servers for MMOs, and the exact same reason they don't bother doing so for consoles if there's a better edition on another platform.

The niche of "cheap piracy box" has been filled, and the only way for people to have an incentive to hack on the Xbox while firmware updates are still going on is if it suddenly starts getting big exclusives now that it's EOLing.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by ekianjo »

CarelessExpert wrote: post #184
fragmede wrote: post #165

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Fwiw, the Internet Archive is very much trying to avoid the random S3 bucket deletion problem, and donations to them are tax deductible. The issues of long-term digital storage are such that - use whatever you want for your own blog - but (imo) ASCII isn't going to save you any more than binary blobs are, 300 years into the future after we're all long gone and buried. We're already in a world where UTF-8 is taking ov…

> If I (today) said I had a word document and needed "an old version of Microsoft Word", I'm sure most people would know what I mean, and that I'd find someone with a Windows XP machine and a copy of Office 97'. Meanwhile, there are tons of people who are just going to stare at you blankly if you tell them about EBCDIC, never mind help you find a decoder. Funny, I suspect the precise reverse is true. EBCDIC is a well…

the part about the spec of that office97 format is more or less taken care of by the libreoffice project

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by ekianjo »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #220
romwell wrote: post #216

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>As a simple example, building my personal website atop Markdown ensures that, even if the formatting can't be preserved That's why I built my personal ADHD blog[1] on TiddlyWiki[2]. It's a self-contained HTML page that has everything . I could have even embedded the images. You can archive it with *File -> Save As...* (single-file .mht works). [1] https://romankogan.net/adhd [2] https://tiddlywiki.com

I still don't get why Firefox doesn't support MHT(ML)(=EML), while Thunderbird does, considering how that's pretty much the best digital document format we have...

Mozilla is too busy inserting ads and removing useful features from Firefox.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by md8z »

CarelessExpert wrote: post #182
hinkley wrote: post #156

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One aspect of this is to look at the ways that history is being rewritten now from original materials. All of the -isms of the 1900's painted a picture of straight, white (male) Captains of Industry paving a way to the future, and in revisiting the source materials we are discovering that this image paved over a lot of people that were doing a lot of heavy lifting. History is full of assistants, spinsters and confirm…

TBH, IMO this is all a non sequitur My point is that the nature of digital technologies is such that information is far more ephemeral and closed off than it's ever been, not just for historians but for we, the people who are creating that information. We produce a lot more information , but control and long-term preservation is infinitely harder. Your observations regarding the challenge of historians is absolutely…

"My point is that the nature of digital technologies is such that information is far more ephemeral and closed off than it's ever been"

I don't think I agree with that. For a lot of pre-historical research the only thing we have to go on is fossils and rock formations. Our picture about dinosaurs is extremely ephemeral and extrapolated from a very small number of things in the grand scheme of history, I don't think we can even begin to imagine the sheer number of events that happened in the total history of organic life forms that resulted in the current state of things. But knowing those things is really important for a lot of scientific fields.

Edit: Also I guess I just don't see why digital information is really significant here. It seems just as likely for a marginalized person without safety to have a physical notebook or photo album get lost or destroyed, for example.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by monocasa »

metagame wrote: post #244
monocasa wrote: post #188

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There's tons of incentive. There's over 50 million Xbox One consoles out there, so there's a giant market for people would love to not buy any games for the one time cost of ~$100.

No, you're missing the point. People who want that can buy a PS4, which has always been cheaper, has more interesting exclusives, and as a result has had its copy protection broken since nearly launch. There's no point in doing it with the Xbox, because the Xbox has no exclusives anyone cares about and is more expensive than a device that sold tremendously better and is cheaper. This is the same reason people develop…

I'm not missing the point, I just don't agree with it.

There is an intrinsic economic incentive in breaking the console's security, because there's an untapped market of 50M devices out there already. If I have an Xbox One already, am into the idea of piracy (perhaps I bought my Xbox One near launch expecting the same kind of piracy scene the previous Xboxes had), why wouldn't I spend the cost of modchip?

There's a market for the kind of cracking and it's only because of the stupidily good job Microsoft did on the security that you're not seeing a homebrew or piracy scene (and thus not the seeds for an emulation scene).

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by emiliosic »

nicolaslem wrote: post #3

> allowing for a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now to be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down. This resonates so much with me. Each time I setup a new device that requires an Internet connection, I think about how we can enjoy booting 30 years old retro computers and how the next generation will not be able to do the sa…

I made the mistake of buying a Chumby clock (With Firmware signed by Sony, which likely maintained a VM somewhere to boot their clocks until they decided it wasn't worth the effort) without realizing that it needed an internet connection tho even boot and show the time of the day.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by sundvor »

zardo wrote: post #221
romwell wrote: post #217

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Facebook's search and suggestion engine is hilariously broken. Say, I am commenting in a thread trying to respond to John Smith. That's the only person whose name starts with a J. If I start typing @J..., the suggestions would be for literally anyone else but John Smith in the thread. On their mobile website (which lags behind the app), typing @John Smith will sometimes suggest a number of John Smiths, none of them b…

Once you do manage to tag @JohnSmith, he will get a notification that he has been tagged in the thread. One notification per thread, regardless of the number of individual posts he was tagged in. The link on the notification will take him to the top of the thread. Depending on the thread's popularity, John could have a very difficult time finding the posts he's tagged in.

Ha ha, perfect - you both summed up the hellhole that is Facebook commenting so well.
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