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by spicyjpeg 14d ago
ZKPs (as well as C2PA and similar user attestation systems) are quite literally a DRM scheme for the web, fraught with all the usual control and accessibility issues while still being relatively easy to circumvent by a sufficiently motivate
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by spicyjpeg 14d ago
I like to call this phenomenon "reverse compression", or occasionally "depression". It's even lossy and subject to generational loss.
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by spicyjpeg 18d ago
The internet is still full of individuals sharing deep passion for all sorts of things, but only within the walls of invite-only communities you have to go out of your way to find (Discord servers, private forums) and/or make a finan
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by spicyjpeg 19d ago
This isn't even the worst payload ever delivered through Windows Update. The prize for that should probably go to chip manufacturer FTDI, which once abused the system to publish a driver that would semi-permanently brick USB serial b
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by spicyjpeg 19d ago
This is indeed what is happening behind the scenes. By default Windows Update will automatically download and install support packages for pretty much any device Windows can identify through manufacturer/device IDs, which includes PCIe
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by spicyjpeg 19d ago
A particularly worrying trend that keeps spreading is the one of restricting significant amounts of (often non-financial) functionality to the apps only, gated behind your phone passing device integrity checks, in what seems to be a poorly
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by spicyjpeg 20d ago
The FeliCa NFC standard made its way into more than just transit cards in Japan. One notable user is the Amusement IC network, which lets you quickly log into arcade games across multiple manufacturers using a single card. Some implementati
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by spicyjpeg 23d ago
If C2PA and similar signature systems ever become a meaningful authenticity signal, they will create huge incentives for someone (potentially a state actor) to hack at least one camera in order to sign images of arbitrary provenance with it
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by spicyjpeg 24d ago
The article does not make it particularly clear, but the malware in question is delivered through official first-party OTA updates on cheap Chinese aftermarket head units that happen to run Android. It cannot self-propagate to any Android
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by spicyjpeg 25d ago
The 6502 and its variants are still ubiquitous as well, powering millions of toys based on Sunplus/GeneralPlus microcontrollers [1] [2] [3] as well as the vast majority of bootleg game consoles that use variants of "Famiclone&quot
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by spicyjpeg 27d ago
Browser fingerprinting can get creative at times, to say the least. eBay's WebSocket port scanner [1] and Reddit's abuse of DRM and JavaScript JIT exploits [2] from years ago are two examples of the kind of in-depth introspection
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by spicyjpeg 1mo ago
It's even funnier when you realize that not too long ago a decent chunk of the software industry did have to deal with the realities of having to press CDs, print boxes and ship them to retailers in time for the holiday season. The i
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by spicyjpeg 1mo ago
RISC-V is in many aspects just legally-distinct-MIPS, from the base instruction set all the way up to how certain extensions introduce kludges that are very reminiscent of later MIPS additions. While I do somewhat agree on the fact it was a
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by spicyjpeg 1mo ago
The entire point of piracy and related copyright infringement is to build a path to appreciation of an artist's works without necessarily agreeing to their pricing and terms (whether imposed by the artist themselves or by publishers).
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AI vibe coded game projects suck(asecretarea.com)
2 points by spicyjpeg 1mo ago|0 comments
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by spicyjpeg 1mo ago
The wiki of Guitar Hero simulator Clone Hero has extensive information on controllers [1]. Some of them can still be purchased brand new but overall the most popular option seems to be to acquire (and sometimes modify) a used first-party co
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by spicyjpeg 1mo ago
It's slightly more complicated than that. The PlayStation's geometry pipeline uses fixed-point coordinates with a decent amount of fractional precision (12 bits), however the GPU lacks support for subpixel rendering and operates e
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by spicyjpeg 1mo ago
An overhaul of my original PlayStation bare-metal programming tutorial repo: https://github.com/spicyjpeg/ps1-bare-metal It was never really meant to be an SDK of sorts that other PS1 homebrew projects would pull as a
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by spicyjpeg 1mo ago
The same way it's done now with current generation consoles: the manufacturer would provide you with SDKs and development hardware once you paid them a decent chunk of money and signed an NDA. Prior to the fifth generation it was commo
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by spicyjpeg 1mo ago
I am still amazed my own minimalist PS1 tutorial series [1] became as popular as it did, given that prior to it basically all learning material on the internet was written around the decent-for-the-time-but-horrible-now Sony SDK and often b
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by spicyjpeg 3mo ago
On the PS1 it's actually slightly more complex than that. The CPU does support up to 16 MB of main RAM (development kits and PS1-based arcade systems did come fitted with more than 2 MB) and has a register to configure its geometry,
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by spicyjpeg 3mo ago
It does. The SPU only handles decoding and playback of ADPCM samples from its own memory and receives all CD audio from an I2S bus; the CD-ROM sector decoder chip handles XA-ADPCM decoding and resampling to 44.1 KHz internally, then sends t
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by spicyjpeg 5mo ago
I would recommend trying out Snow ( https://snowemu.com/ ), a somewhat recently released 68000 Macintosh emulator that is cross-platform and focuses on low-level accuracy, unlike prior efforts which traditionally preferred HL
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Psxsplash – Build PlayStation 1 Games in Unity(psxsplash.github.io)
4 points by spicyjpeg 5mo ago|0 comments
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by spicyjpeg 5mo ago
The "hard work" in question is a death sentence for computing as we know it today. All implementations of zero-knowledge proofs require device integrity assurance to prevent the otherwise anonymous tokens from being passed onto an
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by spicyjpeg 5mo ago
In case anybody here is interested, a few years ago I put together a similar (albeit far less comprehensive) resource on original PlayStation programming [1], exploring the GPU, geometry coprocessor and serial I/O hardware step-by-step
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by spicyjpeg 6mo ago
Almost all IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives were indeed capable of playing audio CDs fully autonomously, with the host PC basically only sending them the command to start playing; many drives took it one step further and provided a play button in
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by spicyjpeg 7mo ago
Solutions based on zero-knowledge-proofs would solve the privacy aspect at the massive cost of killing general purpose computing as we know it today, by mandating the use of remote device attestation (as that is the only way to guarantee an
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by spicyjpeg 7mo ago
The even worse part about PayPal is that they have a whole system of nonsensical fees to fall back to when you inevitably figure out how to evade the obvious ones. For instance, sidestepping their dynamic currency conversion by temporarily
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by spicyjpeg 7mo ago
A similar, even higher profile case that shook the electronics industry around a decade ago was chip manufacturer FTDI releasing an update to their drivers that would detect and semi-permanently brick clones of FTDI USB serial bridge chips

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