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Chickens have come home to roost. Someone had to pay for the servers and the debt, and its us!!

Arrogant. End users decide by deciding what they want to use. Thats all there is to it.

Interesting to see this stuff. I really enjoyed cracking this back in the day, just for friends, but took a different approach of using sector editors to read the code on the disk to find where the checks wer done to see if the protections were present and replacing it with NOPs ($EA), or changing BNEs to BEQs. What was more interesting was how the code that did the check was also moved about the disk, I remember seeing for a particular piece of code it did a B-E (Block Execute) on Track 5 Sector 5. I could plainly see the protection check on that spot on the disk. My young self was very excited about working it out. The puzzle of copy protection was more fun than playing the actual games. Very frequently the directory tracks (18?? I think) were overwritten but it was obvious looking over the disk to see the headers for various programs and the load start address so it was easy to rebuild. Golden times. I've coded since then, and only recently have stopped as AI has finally got better than me!!

Indeed context awareness is the big difference here, GPT5 is a vast improvement. It doesn't lose track (as easily)

A discussion of the victim is not relevant. A discussion of the root cause is.

NO. I work on very public software, I receive pretty terrible criticism in reviews and email. Generally a vocal minority of people are unkind scammers and want it all for free and let me know. Blaming the recipient of the emails (victim blaming) or saying the individual may be suffering from wider issues is not on. It is irrelevant, it is their private life. At issue are the scum who scam.

I agree (and its not often I agree with folk on Hacker News), Apple provide a far superior password service inside a far inferior UI. The handling of authentication codes is particularly great in the Apple ecosystem, but very poorly promoted.

For a company that markets itself as secure these are retrograde steps.

Blah Blah Blah. I use ChatGPT for this every day to write code to save my own efforts and it is doing just fine thanks. I also use it for creative content in my apps, although I edit this work to get the tone in its writing correct. It is excellent for this.

Terrible idea, the reason why Apple is so popular is that the apps are extremely diverse. Being suggested here is an app store with apps curated by computer nerds who think they are diverse but are probably left biased. Terrible. If you want curation, go on to the Apple app store Today, Games and Apps tab pages. For everyone else there is the Search tab. A good balance.

A book called "Astronomical Algorithms" was written back in the 80's or 90's. It was very exciting and inspirational for me that the sun and moon and the position of planets - nature itself - could be predicted by code. It still is an inspiration for me today.

Outstanding blogs, really enjoyed reading them. Someone talented actually performing a hack, rare these days.

This comes up often in various postings and forums, and I enjoy it every time I read it. I like the perspective.

It is important here that he wrote LETTERS. Not emails. LETTERS.

Folks are firing off emails all the time. Taking time to write a letter is more likely to get a response, from just about anyone.

Whatever laptop you already own.

Looks amazing, but the youtube video on the site is so frustrating, endless demos and credits, not much gameplay - takes nearly 3 minutes of viewing to get to anything Prince of Persia related. Not the way to sell a game, but it does look great.