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Demoscenes are a uniquely human endeavour.

If you have a dedicated IPv4 address, those behind NAT and CGNAT face significant throttling and false positive blocking. It's been made worse by scraper botnets.

The fact that we have yet to fully deprecate IPv4 should be considered a great failure in the tech industry's competence.

In another decade this headline would be "please let books die" or "please let tv die". Some people are biologically wired to process information in a maladaptive way (so much research about this), and the medium is irrelevant.

I say this that even simple text based sites like hacker news can be used inappropriately.

CD ROM encyclopedias were only really viable when dial up speeds limited the amount of multimedia content on the internet. Both Microsoft and Britannica were victims of internet encyclopedias. And now static internet based encyclopedias are themselves under threat of personalised AI content as well. The pursuit of knowledge keeps changing what knowledge itself looks like.

Backwards compatibility has limits. When a piece of software has been abandoned for 30 years, there is very little commercial value in supporting it. Apple, Google and even Linux are more aggressive in dropping support. It's only IBM on mainframes with multi million contracts that is really going for backwards compatibility at any cost.

Doing something that engages your brain in a unique way rewires your brain. I'm currently learning Astronomy and it is changing my thinking already. There are so many academic fields out there that each wires your brain in a unique way. We say were are in the age of AI but human intelligence needs to be studied even more than ever.

There's probably an old X11 app from the 1980s that could be executed through xwayland somewhere.

It all started when people linked to lmgify instead of just giving the answer.

We have Rust in the kernel now, of course the language that Linux uses is relevant.

I remember having to buy GTA Liberty City Stories to jailbreak the PSP. Then there was the infamous Cubic Ninja jailbreak which caused the game to become worth hundreds of dollars.

The Switch 2 jailbroken with the help of a Switch Flicker. Really funny.

A lot of software is going to be forced to update or retire soon, all unpatched software should be retired off the internet immediately because AI agents are in waiting.

Mozilla will do anything but work through the decades old backlog on Bugzilla.

And Microsoft should counter by advertising physical media.