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I wonder how they must have felt to have coded a 9/11 scenario of Arsenal Gear crashing into the Twin Towers, and then watched it actually happen a few months later. This was cut from the game bu…

Crowdsourcing the preservation means the one UND ONLY ONE copy can't be destroyed by fire, flood, disk failure, ransomware, whatever else.

Also how WarioWare: Smooth Moves shows their in-house developers using third-party emulators to source graphics for their first-party nostalgia bait: https://tcrf.net/WarioWare:_Smooth…

How can you trust that the commenters aren't AI too?

You are engaging in bad faith when you act like I only have the belief I have because I don't understand yours yet. Don't comment if you can't respect somebody disagreeing with you.

You can't bully me into agreeing with you. Why are you struggling with that?

Why do you assume banks would keep on doing the same old thing but paying more because of it? The cost would make them learn not to design systems where something like this hypothetical scenario was p…

Millions of computers are still vulnerable. Not-knowing about it doesn't mean the vuln isn't there :p

Yep, I'd be fine with that. My bank has insurance, and my money would be returned.

Until now there was never a reason to have a permissive software license that tries to restrict where the recipients can store the code, because this is a new issue. My software is AGPLv3 but I'd…

> It was extremely irresponsible As a user and admin I disagree. Makes one appreciate what a masterful bit of lexical-engineering “Responsible” Disclosure is, kinda like “Secure” ( from me, not f…

I like Divvy because it supports more than just halves and quarters — I use a 7×6 grid so my browser can be wider than my editor and terminal: https://mizage.com/divvy/ Pairs wel…

How do I opt out if somebody pushes a copy of my project's repo to their own namespace on GitHub?

> Back in the late 90s or so, there was a proposal This one: https://www.w3.org/PICS/

I assume they meant C.R.E.A.M. :p and probably Once In A Lifetime

BitTorrent has supported trackerless torrents for twenty entire years :p https://github.com/sparkslabs/kamaelia/blob/master/Sketches/... …

“Organizations” didn't exist until GitHub was already popular and entrenched, and it got popular and entrenched by centering the person developing the code instead of the code that was being deve…

Why are you thinking in terms of “sites”? I was imagining something more like a GitTorrent.

> But maybe the most underappreciated thing GitHub did was archival work: GitHub became a library. It became an index of a huge part of the software commons because even abandoned projects remained…

> In the past few years, GitHub has absorbed both a fundamental paradigm shift (agentic coding) AND several different hockey sticks of growth. It's messy. I'm not always proud of the resu…

> Its the ultra independence mindset. And there's nothing wrong with it! I take detours on road trips all the time following “Historic <thing> →” signs or just because I see something in…

> Not all diners look like train cars, but many do because they were fabricated to look that way, […] features a corrugated metal surface Article would do well to mention that this particular style…

> Not just the wealthy I think you misread. I literally used myself as an example and am definitely not that wealthy :p > because they think it will be beneficial The Capital-class have , on th…

> If you're right, the rest of big tech is in a much worse position. Part of “Big Tech” hiring isn't just to have an important thing for everyone to do but also to keep competitors from h…

Appreciate it; not a math person :)

It was inevitable as soon as enough people believed that spending money is necessary to live. Money is the next stage of life. As individuals, people's only truly limited resource is their attent…

> and sending it to the government It literally is. The network itself is always listening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A The mere act of making a network connection…

The people who write any individual feature want to be able to prove usage in order to get good performance reviews and promotions. It's so awful that it's become normalized. Back in The Day…