Hacker News: functionmouse

New comment by functionmouse in "Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years"

functionmouse — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:53:53 +0000

PS2 emulation leaves a lot to be desired in terms of accuracy and authenticity, and current original hardware backup solutions are not ideal or extremely cumbersome, including caveats like relying on homebrew software which alters the memory layout of games as they run, leading to inaccuracies and broken games, and needing to have multiple copies of backup loading software on your console, as some loaders will work with some games, but not with others. It's a right mess. Some solutions, such as MechaPwn, are more transparent, allowing you to burn so-called "master discs" of your game backups to DVD-R. As far as I can tell, compatibility is 100%, but if I recall correctly, this only works on specific models of console, and the process of burning a master disc can be unintuitive and relies on specific, deprecated, commercial DVD burning software.

From what I can tell, this opens the door to things like optical drive emulators, which replace the disc laser with an SD card slot, allowing the console to read game disc images no differently than the console would read a retail game.

New comment by functionmouse in "Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads"

functionmouse — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:48:39 +0000

Some people are not very smart.

New comment by functionmouse in "Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?"

functionmouse — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:44:58 +0000

this; I don't like it so I simply don't use it.

New comment by functionmouse in "The Boox Palma 3 gets stylus support and a sleek redesign"

functionmouse — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:39:01 +0000

probably USI and thus not usable for things like art, and barely tolerable for handwriting.

New comment by functionmouse in "Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA"

functionmouse — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:00:49 +0000

Will it support 31kHz video out via VGA I wonder? Would love a period-accurate PC in my superstation one.

New comment by functionmouse in "Let's make quality the norm again"

functionmouse — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:57:30 +0000

Seriously. Did this person never have to fix relatives' IE6?

New comment by functionmouse in "On Binary Translation and Its Consequences"

functionmouse — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:54:31 +0000

I believe that falls under competent software. However, I do see your point.

New comment by functionmouse in "AI models don't kill people – people kill people"

functionmouse — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:54:50 +0000

the chances of a proper nuclear exchange when? This week? This year? At any time in the future? The probability approaches 1.

New comment by functionmouse in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

functionmouse — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:53:48 +0000

It seems like it comes down to whether or not you're addicted to Fox News. My grandmother likes Flock, but nobody else I know does.

New comment by functionmouse in "On Binary Translation and Its Consequences"

functionmouse — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:33:04 +0000

> Consumers in the PC segment expect high performance across a wide range of applications

It seems there is a persistent rift between what hardware designers think users want and what users are asking for, only recently being addressed by major OEMs with products such as the MacBook Neo.

Nobody I personally know wants a faster CPU; they want competent, faster, native feeling software and more power efficient hardware. CPUs have been plenty fast for at least a decade now, for anything the majority of users and even gamers are doing. I'm playing through the new and notoriously demanding LEGO Batman game on an RTX 2080 and an i7-4790k, a CPU from 2013 that even the base M1 easily beats. The game runs fine. Most people I am confident do not need better than the M1.

New comment by functionmouse in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

functionmouse — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:34:21 +0000

it turns on when you agree to the 197 page arbitration agreement

source: i made it up

New comment by functionmouse in "Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them"

functionmouse — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:35:37 +0000

seems reductive

New comment by functionmouse in "The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart"

functionmouse — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:07:35 +0000

In an industrial society, too many rule followers results in people being reduced to cattle. We need a subset of our society to be ungovernable in order to stave off tyranny, because historically, smart people aren't trying or succeeding at that. As another commenter in this thread stated, though under different context, our bodies wouldn't make the venom if we didn't need it to survive.

New comment by functionmouse in "The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart"

functionmouse — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:10:30 +0000

and by "manners" they mean "people acting how I think they should act"

New comment by functionmouse in "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers"

functionmouse — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:15:31 +0000

Maybe he did not deliberately log into one drive, but was tricked with dark patterns and suggestive interface design. Which makes it even worse.

Or maybe he in fact is not logged into onedrive, and 365 simply sucks.

New comment by functionmouse in "On Really Trying (2009)"

functionmouse — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:08:13 +0000

cults always utilize this kind of fanservice for initiation

New comment by functionmouse in "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers"

functionmouse — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:36:34 +0000

Sorry, none of what you just said makes any practical sense.

New comment by functionmouse in "Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor"

functionmouse — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:56:28 +0000

Why was this written with explicit Windows 95 support? Just 'cuz?

New comment by functionmouse in "How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)"

functionmouse — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:01:52 +0000

best not, lads

New comment by functionmouse in "Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region"

functionmouse — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:28:32 +0000

new locked down spyware TVs are so cheap, who would want to buy and move -your- locked down spyware TV?