Please please please tell me this was recorded.

This isn’t quite “white whale” territory, but I’ve always wanted to play this game.

I miss the creative, quirky Dreamcast era and this seemed like one of the best, unfortunately region-locked, examples.

This is tragic. I can’t think of how many computers I built using incomparable Anandtech articles. The depth of the testing, and careful, scientific planning really has no match in tech journalism.

The high water mark just lowered.

Musk is taking it to the farm upstate.

I’m recording calls just fine on my Pixel 7 Pro. Any rooted phone can do it free and easily. https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BCR

Musk repeated the DDOS claim when the Space finally began around 8:40PM ET. “As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” he said.

So not only is he fabricating the DDOS out of thin air, but he just assumes out of nowhere that it’s politically motivated by the “opposition” to silence Trump - when Trump is vomiting nonsense that blankets the media 24/7 and this would do absolutely nothing to prevent Trump from exposing himself to the unwilling public. Galaxy brain genius logic right there.

Oh, it’s by Agg23 - they also released a bunch of Analogue Pocket emulators, great developer.

My good faith response to your good faith question: because having a DRM-free copy on your own server or hard drive is the only way to be sure you will be able to play it tomorrow.

Streaming services are a complex collection of licensing deals that are by design temporary. You may not hear beforehand when your favorite artist’s label’s parent company’s conglomerate’s CEO decides to pull their content because they’re going to start their own streaming service, or another service gave them a lucrative exclusive deal.

And while you’re never going to have a hard time finding Taylor Swift, that one 70s esoteric album may become instantly impossible to find once it drops off a streamer.

In the end there are no promises with a streaming service. On the other hand, you put in a small amount of work to grab MP3s or FLACs, set up your own Plex server (or Emby, etc), and you’re good for pretty much forever.

Similarly, support artists by buying their direct merch, going to shows, and so on, but they are barely seeing any Spotify money. Between Spotify and the labels, they are cleaning the plate and artists are getting whatever crumbs fall off the table (unless you’re Taylor Swift or another global artist).

Today, the House Judiciary GOP’s official account on X called GARM being discontinued a “big win for the First Amendment” and a “big win for oversight.” X CEO Linda Yaccarino also applauded the news.

It’s just opposite day? We just say whatever is the opposite of what’s true?

Right? I’m rewatching the first season before starting the second, and it’s actually really solid. A little "palace-intruige"y the first few episodes, but it sets up characters, plots and conflicts really believably and efficiently.

Has a GOP-controlled congressional committee uncovered any actual evidence in the past 20 years or so?

I take notice of whenever they have a new hearing or investigative issue, and each one I can remember has always been “let’s go on a fishing expedition to find dirt or at least impugn the character of a political rival” followed a year later by a Friday-night quiet disbanding of the committee with no findings, or a report being issued that says nothing of importance whatsoever.

The beatings will continue until ad revenue improves.

This is very incomplete. National Amusements, News Corp., Disney, etc own a ton of other companies.

Russia is not a superpower, but they are absolutely kicking our asses on information warfare. They spent probably in the order of low single-digit millions of dollars in 2015 and 2016 to influence that election.

Though we’ve all read headlines that there’s “no proof” they succeeded, I think that’s a statement about how difficult it is to prove, not how likely it is that they affected the election. With how narrow Trump’s victory was and how gullible so much of the voting public is, it’s impossible to think they didn’t have an effect. Trump is still here just barely not leading in the polls in 2024, 9 years later, a sword of Damocles hanging over the nation’s democracy.

I don’t doubt for a second that they’re going to throw everything possible at us, and that they may succeed, given that return-on-investment and previous success.

Just to be clear - there is no nearest-alternative site, is there? Honestly the only other site I’ve seen release things is gbatemp, and a forum format scales very poorly for releasing and finding romhacks.

I’ve had decent luck with US magazines here: https://www.retromags.com/

I’ll have you know…I closed the thread just as I was reading this, and came back to upvote it.

In the end, people just like hearing familiar voices. If you trick people into getting familiar with your voice, it doesn’t matter what’s being said as much as it seems.

It’s actually a fascinating bind Steve/Reddit has put themselves in. Because it is a non-exclusive license, you can affirmatively declare your content is free for anyone to scrape or use.

After that, if Reddit ever asserts rights over your content by, say, suing Microsoft for improperly using your content in training data, you now have a legal claim against Reddit for interference with either your ownership rights or with a contract via whatever license you have made your content available under.

Now, maybe Reddit has a claim release in their TOS, but it wouldn’t prevent you from getting an injunction enjoining Reddit from restricting your data from being used by Microsoft.

It’s kind of academic, because… it’s not really a victory that Microsoft is also training its AI on your data. But, hey, they’re probably doing it anyway and at least this way we get to screw over Huffman for being an ass.

Honestly? Just use YouTube and ublock. There’s pretty much always a better karaoke selection.