Hacker News: badocr

New comment by badocr in "Veracrypt project update"

badocr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:08:05 +0000

My theory is that Le Roux was just financing the (two?) TrueCrypt developers.

New comment by badocr in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

badocr — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:53:56 +0000

I have a "quotes.txt" from slashdot days with some MS jabs in it:

> Last week, I left my 2 XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view. Someone broke into my car and left 2 more.

> The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

> A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine

Juvenile some might say, but they still makes me giggle.

New comment by badocr in "Story of XZ Backdoor [video]"

badocr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:47:02 +0000

> (But also, my conspiratorially-inclined mind is quite entertained by the thought of some sort of parallel construction or tip from a TLA.)

For sure you were/are not alone in this thinking. How fast the whole thing was exposed in decent enough details was... surprising.

New comment by badocr in "Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)"

badocr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:54:16 +0000

It's not later than 2001 since the dude closed the site on "Sunday 25th November 2001 ". I used to frequent it all the time back in 2000~2001 since it was the only SP review site still being updated. He was notorously grumpy.

Here's what he posted when shutting down the site:

    Site closed.
    This site is now closed. This is because I haven't enjoyed reviewing at the site
    for about 9 months, and because I am no longer interested in supporting the Quake
    mapping scene. My email address is also closed. The current content will remain
    here as an archive.

New comment by badocr in "How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack"

badocr — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:45:45 +0000

I recall reading about TCP/IP-powered Internet multiplayer DOS Quake in TECHINFO.TXT that shipped with the retail version of the game, and I quote:

  Beame & Whiteside TCP/IP
  ------------------------
  
  This is the only DOS TCP/IP stack supported in the test release.
  It is not shareware...it's what we use on our network (in case you
  were wondering why this particular stack).  This has been "tested"
  extensively over ethernet and you should encounter no problems
  with it.  Their SLIP and PPP have not been tested.  When connecting
  to a server using TCP/IP (UDP actually), you specifiy it's "dot notation"
  address (like 123.45.67.89).  You only need to specify the unique portion
  of the adress.  For example, if your IP address is 123.45.12.34
  and the server's is 123.45.56.78, you could use "connect 56.78".

I looked around a little and sure enough, a copy of the software was avaiable in a subdirectory of idgames(2?) at ftp.cdrom.com. I knew nothing about TCP/IP networking at the time, so it was a struggle to get it all working, and in the end, the latency and overall performance was miserable and totally not worth it. Playing NetQuake with WinQuake was a much more appropriate scenario.

New comment by badocr in "How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack"

badocr — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:32:24 +0000

Yes, Doom with multi-monitors! There's (at least) one video on Youtube showing it in action with 3 monitors plus a fourth one with the map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NQQ7bPf6U#t=1798.333333

New comment by badocr in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

badocr — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:37:19 +0000

It's a functionality of banking apps. Yes, transfers are done either via a QR code or via one or more "Pix Keys", that the person/bussiness authorizes in their baking app. These keys can be the brazilian equivalent of your SSN, a cell phone number, an e-mail address or a randomly generated UUID-formated one.

New comment by badocr in "Jeff Bezos: Americans don't trust the news media"

badocr — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:05:27 +0000

Why is this flagged but the thread titled "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris" with 1041 comments isn't? What am I missing?

New comment by badocr in "The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011)"

badocr — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:35:32 +0000

> Anyone remembering this Russian guy arrested straight from plane when he landed in USA going to make a talk to defcon ?

I had to look it up, but it's Dmitry Sklyarov [1], who worked for the russian-based ElcomSoft, which was known for selling all sorts of DRM cracking programs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.

New comment by badocr in "Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)"

badocr — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:31:14 +0000

https://ttm.sh/BR4.jpg

New comment by badocr in "I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser"

badocr — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 17:27:19 +0000

Maybe it's Notch. It'd make sense to me.

New comment by badocr in "FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims"

badocr — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:44:59 +0000

Jeffry Picower estate settled for a US$7.2 billion sum circa 2010 according to Wikipedia. This Picower character seems to have had a shady fortune history, he also was found dead at his swimming pool around 2009.

New comment by badocr in "3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 recreated via reverse engineering (2021)"

badocr — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 16:45:37 +0000

Uh, as far as I recall, the 6000 never reached retail shelves.

New comment by badocr in "The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago"

badocr — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:17:13 +0000

> "his Kung Fu is strong."

Was this a reference to Mitnick's phone calls to Tsutomo?

New comment by badocr in "Doom 3DO: Or How I Survived Hell – Burger Becky"

badocr — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 23:41:02 +0000

Was already familiar with the story from her YT video[1] about it, which goes into way more details and less conference fluff. But the real gem in this talk seems to be the Q&A that starts at around the 28m mark.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBbIil2HPSU

New comment by badocr in "Denuvo Launches Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection"

badocr — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:03:51 +0000

Reminder that Denuvo is not an anti-cheat, it's DRM.

New comment by badocr in "Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player"

badocr — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:01:11 +0000

I'm on Windows as well. Just get rid of the 'best' argument for '--ytdl-format'. Also, 'bestaudio' is mostly only known as a keyword for Youtube videos.

New comment by badocr in "Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player"

badocr — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:42:10 +0000

Eric S. Raymond commented on that commit, congratulating wm4.

New comment by badocr in "Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player"

badocr — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:37:58 +0000

It's the reddit effect. As reddit's popularity keep increasing for the past 5 years or so, HN links posted on the platform get that much more attention. Specially true for indians, pakistanis and chinese.

New comment by badocr in "Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player"

badocr — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:22:39 +0000

> Sometimes all you need is a list of flags and a brief description of what they do [...]

$ mpv --list-

Pipe to a grep-like program for keywords.