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New comment by dminvs in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

dminvs — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:32:41 +0000

FFXIV's level/stat sync system is also pretty cool for keeping the older stuff playable long past its original release, players get levels and stats and skills scaled down to the max level appropriate for the content

4-player dungeons still end up being a bit of a faceroll, but it's definitely possible to wipe on the 8-player bosses if mechanics are not observed

New comment by dminvs in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

dminvs — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:51:14 +0000

Hopefully, reaction is read as to the action, not some categorization of the actor

"hate the sin, love the sinner", or something

New comment by dminvs in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

dminvs — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:12:48 +0000

I'd consider this a lowball in Austin

New comment by dminvs in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

dminvs — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:03:02 +0000

at The Planet in Dallas c. 2002 the EPO button was exposed with no cover, and in very very close proximity to the "Exit" button for the doors...

one day, a colo customer hit the wrong button on the way out, and uhh, there was an outage

New comment by dminvs in "Slashdot effect"

dminvs — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:34:47 +0000

there used to be a lot more shared hosting in the world when Slashdot ruled the geek news roost

it'd be fine if it's one site on a dedicated machine, but these shared webhosts would routinely cram 500-1000 hosting accounts onto something like a single-core, HT-less 2.4GHz Pentium 4 with two gigs of RAM, running mpm_prefork on Apache 2.0, with single-node MySQL 5.x (maybe even 4.x!) on the same box... which was not terribly efficient as others observed

you carry about 20x the compute power of that machine in your pocket, even a Raspberry Pi 4 could triple the workload

New comment by dminvs in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

dminvs — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:07:37 +0000

well, for football and handegg anyway

NBA Live hasn't caught up to 2K for a long time and Sony still has MLB

New comment by dminvs in "How do I get into the game industry"

dminvs — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:32:04 +0000

https://archive.is/ofX2x

New comment by dminvs in "Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks"

dminvs — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:29:42 +0000

in the case of Azure, the users are the engineers tasked with implementing the infra

I'm not sure I've ever heard of a shop adopting Azure on pure engineering merit but my anecdata are hardly exhaustive. it tends to be forced for weird business reasons (retailers mistrusting Amazon, data residency requirements, sweetheart credit deal, CIO convinced by Azure rep over golf)

New comment by dminvs in "Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens"

dminvs — Fri, 30 May 2025 23:54:44 +0000

I always liked going to well-stocked stores and browsing for stuff. That was Fry's until they shot themselves in the foot.

Micro Center might not be optimal on price, but sometimes you just want to wander a store full of cool stuff and maybe walk out with something you didn't expect, instead of another anonymous box of schmutz from Amazon or wherever

New comment by dminvs in "Multiple security issues in GNU Screen"

dminvs — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:05:40 +0000

> The observed behaviour has been present in Screen versions since at least the year 2005.

and it's been an anti-pattern and covered by tools like rkhunter for around least that long, as well

but pretty sure screen was setuid root in the 90s too

New comment by dminvs in "Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl"

dminvs — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 19:11:44 +0000

DIN plugs are greatly preferred over the cursed 2.5mm TRS with a different polarity depending on which manufacturer one is addressing

New comment by dminvs in "Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]"

dminvs — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:31:34 +0000

Texas DPS was selling driver registration data to car warranty spammers as recently as 2022. This pearl-clutching from Abbott and Paxton is a bit amusing.

New comment by dminvs in "Lacking official sources, some Texans use Whataburger app to track power outages"

dminvs — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:53:19 +0000

s/Texans/Houston-area customers of CenterPoint

New comment by dminvs in "Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time"

dminvs — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:38:01 +0000

And "action" has made the reverse transition...

"Could you action this ask from Bob in Finance?"

New comment by dminvs in "About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off"

dminvs — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:47:36 +0000

I had the same experience you describe with Pandora for years, has it improved recently?

New comment by dminvs in "I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)"

dminvs — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:17:55 +0000

If it was Borland's compiler suite it may or may not have been perfectly standards-compliant, hence the quotation marks. The Borland suite from the early 90s seemed to be pretty relaxed/forgiving about what was valid C/C++.

My school utilized Turbo C++ 3.0 for instruction (and later 4.5), which implemented some weird subset that was pre-C++98. Plenty of things that I was doing when targeting the Borland compiler barfed terribly when compiled with GCC (or G++).

I'd definitely consider what we were writing in those days "C" or "C++" but not anything that resembles modern software...

New comment by dminvs in "A world where people pay for software"

dminvs — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:32:04 +0000

printers can’t flood your kitchen

New comment by dminvs in "The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents"

dminvs — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:37:34 +0000

I guess I'm supposed to be grateful they both died before I was 20?

New comment by dminvs in "Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities"

dminvs — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 01:42:45 +0000

It's possible to create parking space that isn't surface lots

New comment by dminvs in "FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls"

dminvs — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 17:36:24 +0000

A few years ago I received a VM from a spam caller, the content of which was a Twilio tutorial, verbatim ("You did not reveal yourself to be human. Goodbye!")

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016/02/tracking-call-status-how...

This has been going on a while.