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Shoutouts to the type of #fanfiction that makes it blatantly obvious there were supposed to be sex scenes, and it doesn't take much digging to find the author's patreon or w/e where they keep the NSFW bits.
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Reminder to plug your old and dusty #3ds cartridges into your console occasionally, to avoid them corrupting themselves over time!
Ideally, you can verify them using this tool: https://gbatemp.net/threads/corrupted-cartridge-fixer-release.628539/My copy of smash was behaving wonkily (hanging at random moments, mostly), and even though I've managed to get into a fight, the tool is finding many other bad blocks and fixing them :)
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Wrote a silly script to showcase how to use unshare + chroot/pivot_root in order to manually enter a #linux #chroot / #container without needing #root privileges:
https://gist.github.com/mid-kid/9293f4f0617052b9c3aa45422fb89f90
I rarely see anyone mention how this can be done without needing to reach for #bubblewrap or systemd-nspawn, and I think it's important to see how you can leverage the primitives that drive container technology.
The script can be simplified, but not without sacrificing correctness. I hope the comments help.
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TIL #microchip still makes new PIC18 #microcontroller designs with modern peripherals like I3C, cheap development boards, and even a DIP option. Hard to find exact dates but the one I'm looking at (PIC18-Q20) lists 2021 in the copyright.
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Dead Cells was ported to tiny #linux retro handhelds. This took a lot of work in recompiling the game's code to arm64, patching the game to reduce graphics calls and optimizing its assets for the reduced specs. Really impressive things are happening in this world.
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One killer feature of the #3ds, that I've yet to see replicated anywhere else, is the note-taking applet. You'd go to the home menu, tap the pencil, and you'd be able see a screenshot of the game you were playing and write/draw anything.
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Time to promote this one in 1h. This was an incredible research project, and having seen the talk before at WHY, it's really well explained despite how technical it is.
Spectre in the real world: Leaking your private data from the cloud with CPU vulnerabilities
dimarts, 30 de desembre del 2025 0:15 CET (Europe/Berlin), Zero -
Tried #porting #cavestory (nxengine-evo) to the #why2025 #badge, fixing all the weird C++ picolibc errors, making sdl2-compat link statically with the badge's sdl3 library, etc... Only to find that the binary won't fit in the flash (and the .bss region won't either) 😅, at least according to the default linker script.
I'm ending my efforts on that, might publish my code soon as it might be useful for other ports, but I don't even have a badge, so idk if it would work at all.
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Are there any "advanced" #android rooting/modding support channels? Places where I can ask things like:
* Is it possible for me to decrypt and mount the /data partition manually from the lineageos recovery?
* What exactly was it that google changed about play integrity that broke bypasses? It doesn't seem to affect microg, will it in the future?
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Having users of your project be confronted with developer tooling is generally a bad idea.
This is yet another example why: https://github.com/pret/agbcc/issues/84
Unfortunately, the projects associated with this tool are in a weird limbo where the point of it is being able to build modify the source files, but is also meant to be used by non-programmers. I'm not sure how that can be improved...
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Among the ones I tried: Artix, BlissOS, Bodhi, BookwormPup64, Bunsenlabs Boron, CrunchBang++, Chimera Linux, Damn Small Linux, InstantOS, KNOPPIX.
These all didn't work for one reason or another.
I am also pending to try: Mabox, MX Linux, Nitrux NX, PorteuX, Q4OS, Solus, Ubuntu Unity.
All of these have something unique about them that makes them interesting to run in a live environment, and I recommend you do too!
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@profoundlynerdy @PurpleJillybeans Makefiles for special-purpose projects like embedded systems or consoles are generally fine. Two pitfalls I see rather frequently are regarding header dependency generation (either including `$(wildcard *.d)` or not having a `%.h:;` dummy rule will cause it to break when removing .h files, even if you remove all its #includes. The other is using `cmd $< > $@` and forgetting to remove the output file when it fails (it remains empty otherwise).
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Yesterday I woke up angry at the world. So I channeled my anger into getting rid of the useless #2FA #app I would otherwise need to log in to my company's account. OneLogin Protect is just an elaborate way to hide a #TOTP token while simultaneously punishing people for exercising their device ownership by #rooting their #android device. Now I have the token I can just use any other #MFA app.
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Managed to get an Articuno from the GTS as well. This concludes filling the national dex, sans a few events. I'm lacking Mew and (apparently) Diancie.
I have some 20th anniversary events I can trade for those, so if anyone is up for trading, I'd love it.
(Sorry @rootcompute if you had that articuno for me...)
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Progress report: Registered Staravia, Levanny, Ambipom, Lopunny, Mismagius, Lumineon. Going for the simple fodder still.
Filled out the gen3 boxes, gen2 and gen6 are already filled, lacking Mew and the birds for gen1, gen4 will be done once I evolve the other staravia and grind BP for the electrizer/magmarizer, after which I can focus on gen5.
I really didn't leave a lot left to complete back in 2016
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Being back playing #pokemon #oras for a while again and filling up the remainder of the dex I definitely remember why I really enjoyed this entry and consider it a really solid one: There's a lot to do in the region after beating the game, and it ties in very neatly with postgame grinding. I think I've revisited just about every corner of the region just training new pokemon, visiting secret bases, farming berries and rebattling trainers, where in other games I'd just stick to one spot.
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What's better than a #desktop screenshot? A desktop snapshot!
I spent a couple of months creating a set of scripts to build a #bootable #ISO image out of my #gentoo install, with all the packages, patches and configurations it involves.
Doing this allows me to create an archive of not only what my desktop looks like, but what it *feels* like. #gnu #linux keeps changing, and with it, my setup. It's hard to bring back old configs.
Check it out: https://github.com/mid-kid/RocketISO/blob/master/docs/RELEASE-2024.md
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But as with anything, it's never easy and more of a people problem. The technology is there and widely employed by package managers such as dpkg, pacman, apk, etc...
It just never was an issue, as you'd spend more time compiling anyway.