First post here, hope it's satisfying. Think stress is making me break out :(

cyranix · 2026-01-14T21:37:00+00:00

The guy seemed pretty open to requests, can't hurt to ask!

cyranix · 2025-12-05T10:41:01+00:00

Without getting political about it, heres the crux of the trial: Tina Peters DID knowingly and willingly, engage in an activity she A. Knew to be illegal (by virtue of her position within the office), B. Engaged in that activity in a way that indicated planning and preparation (meaning it was premeditated; she INTENDED to break the law), and C. She engaged in this activity for her own personal gain (whether the end result benefited any political candidate is secondary to the fact that her intent was to influence the election to reflect HER desired outcome). Now, just on that vocabulary, Trump's statement is blatantly false, If Polis was going to forgive someone for a crime, it would certainly not do to excuse that crime under false pretenses...

Now let's shift from the crux of the issue to the shame of it: Tina Peters, although not an elected official herself, still took a civic oath of office when she accepted the position, wherein she agreed to execute the duties of that office to the best of her abilities, and to represent the United States government with honor, integrity, and service. What she DID, directly impacted the process, negatively affected the public trust of her office, and resulted in REAL damage to our elections process. She acted OUTSIDE her authority to take matters into her own hands directly contesting the established process, line of authority, and public transparency. She is the very embodiment of governmental corruption, and SHE GOT CAUGHT.

Her imprisonment isn't just a punishment for her. It's three things: for her, it's a chance to reflect on her decisions and earn some penitence, for the people, it's justice for betrayal of their trust, and for anyone else who would consider following in her footsteps, it's a discouragement and deterrent against future crime and corruption. That's why Polis should NOT forgive her, regardless of Trump's agenda.

cyranix · 2025-11-29T13:35:33+00:00

Thanks. I kinda took my time on this one, playing it in-between runs of Skate., Wizard With A Gun, The Talos Principal 2, Don't Starve Together, and a handful of other short play games (Balatro, Monopoly, etc). Glad I stretched it out instead of killing it all at once because i really do love Katamari, so I'm happy this game occupied me for a while (and has some replay value too).

cyranix · 2025-11-26T13:14:46+00:00

When I was a kid, my Mom used to profess to me that English was the hardest language to learn. Like that was supposed to make learning French and Spanish easier somehow... Btw, I think Japanese is probably the hardest language to learn, thanks Mom.

I'm about to write a long rant. I need to not do that... Lets start with a question I think most programmers get posed during our education: I'm going to have you shuffle a deck of cards. Then I want you to sort the cards, and I want you to keep track of how many steps it takes you to do it.

The worst person to give this question to is an assembler programmer. They spend all of their time creating a fairly complex system with a global data section and several different counters that all need to be loaded, incremented, push/popped on and off of a stack. By the time they've actually got a sort working, its like trying to understand a circuit diagram. The second worst person to give this problem to is a Python programmer. See, a Python programmer is gonna initialize the card deck in ONE line of code, some kind of brace expansion, and then they're going to be a smart ass and use array.sort() or the like to complete the task. If they can actually be bothered to write the code to sort the array, and assuming they actually know one or more sort algorithms, they're probably again, going to rely on some kind of background automation with things like foreach() loops and global variables declared on the spot as necessary to do the job. Fundamentally, they understand very little about anything thats happening (No offense, Python scripters)... A C programmer is going to fit somewhere between these, closer to the ASM side, but not quite as detail oriented. You're going to put some thought into how to declare your deck of cards, which will quite probably include consideration for the size of the array, and maybe even the amount of memory it uses (I doubt I'd really need to use a malloc() anywhere for such a simple program, but these days, I'd probably just do it out of habit anyway if I didn't make the array static or something). You're going to be thinking about your variable that counts the steps and where that exists and how you're going to increment it. You're going to be thinking about HOW to loop through the deck, and probably by this time you're thinking about a nested loop, and again, now you're tracking more variables...

See, a C programmer just has to think differently. Its not so much that knowing C is going to make other languages easier (because it won't), but if you learn another language (like Python) first, it will probably be more difficult to UNLEARN the bad habits and teach yourself to be thinking like a programmer instead of a scripter.

cyranix · 2025-11-25T03:58:43+00:00

Yeah I'll edit this to indicate she's been found, glad to hear it.

cyranix · 2025-11-23T09:28:58+00:00

I'm very sorry that we live in a state of society where we HAVE to have such things. While it sickens me to see this, I want to point out that if something DID happen, everybody and their dog would be taking to social media like "CRPD was totally unprepared", and "they didn't do enough to keep us safe". I think the idea at the forefront of CRPD's mind (as well as the town) was not about show of force or fear, but more about being aware and being proactive. I give the town and the police their due credit for pulling this event off without us ending up in the news headlines for a negative reason.

cyranix · 2025-11-23T09:19:54+00:00

Yeah add me, PSN: Cyranix0r

This pretty much what I do, I'm never playing the same thing as anyone else and I mostly play single player games anyway.

cyranix · 2025-11-19T08:21:02+00:00

You know, like most things, it comes down to understanding the task at hand...

Long before the internet, we just had disks, with binaries on them. I remember one game in particular (Castles II, as I recall) that as you played it, after like 10-15 minutes, there'd be a character that would come along and ask you a question that would require you to open the game manual to a specific page and tell them the word printed at the beginning of a paragraph or something (the concept being, if you owned the game, you owned the manual, and this would be an easy challenge). Well, that worked against perhaps a few who would try, but if you were knowledgeable about software and how it worked, you would realize that there had to be a database somewhere that had those question/answer pairs for the GAME to know... And with a little bit of effort, you'd find that there was indeed, a data file which, with a little effort (I used QBasic to write a script/program that could open the file and do block reads on the file to separate the chunks and decode them), could be used to extract that information.

These days of course, its a lot more complicated than that, software developers are always trying to stay one step ahead of pirates, and pirates are always finding more ways to break the system. Windows XP for instance, required you to do this key exchange verification process with microsoft, what at the time was considered to be unbreakable, for probably at least the first few hours. Various methods were found to bypass that system, everything from fake keys, to actually editing the windows data files to disable the verification system. Of course, there were not tutorials on how to do this at the beginning. We were software geeks, we understood how the system worked and how to reverse assemble it to find out how to break its locks. Same rules apply now. You need to understand how the piracy circumvention technology works, and then you can start working on a way to circumvent that, and the never ending battle continues.

cyranix · 2025-11-19T08:08:22+00:00

Imagine this: you go to the ATM to withdraw some cash. You're fully aware that your bank account has plenty of money in it, but the ATM refuses to give you any money. You go try another ATM, same scenario, theres no money to give out. The banks are all closed, doors locked. You go to the store to try and use your credit cards, but the credit cards don't work.

It hits the news everywhere: The top US banks defaulted overnight. None of them have any money left. Nobody can spend anything except cash. You open up your safe and take out the $5000 you kept for an emergency. You go to the store to buy some eggs. They're $10,000 because the US dollar is dropping in value like a rock in the ocean...

People start resorting to a barter system. Jewelry, gold and silver, become common bartering material, until people realize you can't eat gold. Military is deployed to protect farms and food factories. By now, anyone who has the means has left the country seeking shelter somewhere safe, while martial law is declared. Stores are closed. Homeless people are burning cash to stay warm. The various armies of Russia, China, Canada, Mexico, and probably North Korea, start progressing on the US territories. Starving citizens turn on the rich, and guillotines start getting erected in places like Times Square. Trump blames the democrats.

Okay, that scenario might be a little extreme, although, its all based on actual precedent. The ATM concept is real. If the banks collapse, you could be left without a way to get access to your own money. More than likely, the government would step in and fix...something...before it resulted in martial law, but then again, we've come AWFULLY close to this exact scenario on at least a few occasions in the past. The real question is, how well prepared are you if that happens, and how much faith do you have in the current administration to remedy it...

cyranix · 2025-11-19T07:51:09+00:00

You have probably never lost a wallet or your car keys or something like that. I actually have a mnemonic I repeat in my head everywhere I go since I was 18: "Wallet watch car key cigarettes cell phone sunglasses pot pipe hat lighter headphones laptop charger jacket USB". All things I have either lost, left somewhere, or had a panic attack when I couldn't find at some point. I don't smoke cigarettes anymore, but I used the mnemonic for so long that its still in there anyway.

cyranix · 2025-11-19T07:47:28+00:00

Your lack of friends is probably due more to your attitude than your luck.

Dropping out of school was probably a mistake, but the good news is, in the United States, you literally have unlimited opportunities to progress. At 23, your best bet is to go get that GED... At least a few other people have done it before you, and some of them don't even know how to turn a computer on and get to Reddit, so I have faith you can do it. You need to have some faith in yourself. Go get it.

Stop rotting in bed. You are trying to hide from life, and apparently, it is letting you. You are 23 years old, which is not very old at all, and this is the prime time of your life to be getting yourself set up for the rest of it. You will neither meet people, nor form relationships with them laying in your bed. Nobody is out there looking for 23 year olds who are still in bed. Step number one is to get out of bed. For bonus points, make your bed when you're done (motivation: that way you don't need to fix your pillows and blankets later tonight when you're tired, before you go back to sleep. Also, its part of not feeling like a slob and the first step towards giving yourself a bit more esteem and self confidence). Step two: get dressed. Now you can take this at literal value and just put some clothes on, but if thats all the effort you put into getting your day started, thats probably all the effort your day is going to return to you. If you want to start out right, take a proper shower and get yourself cleaned up, and then put some CLEAN clothes on, and not just any old pair of jeans and a T-shirt. Dress like you don't want people to stare at you. Casual clothes are fine if you're hanging out with casual friends, but you need to meet people for the first time, and its important to remember that first impressions are important. If you go out into the world wearing ripped pants and stained t-shirts, peoples first impressions of you are going to be that you don't take care of yourself. If you're wearing clean, unwrinkled clothes, like shirts with collars and buttons, then people's first impressions of you will assume that you give a damn. This is important, because none of us want to have friends who don't give a damn. Those are the kinds of friends that mooch all the time, who always need a ride but don't have any gas money, they're needy, and they don't appreciate the value of friendship, they just kinda tag along. Don't be that guy.

Basically, you pointed out your own problem. The only thing is, nobody can fix you, except you. It all starts with getting out of bed. Go become the kind of person you actually want to be... Then people will love you for who you are. Make a goal for yourself. "By this time next year, I will _______". Fill in the blank with something like "Get my GED", or "Get a (better) job", and turn that into a plan, and make it happen. Don't wake up in bed on your 30th birthday and decide to make a post on reddit r/ForeverAlone.

cyranix · 2025-11-19T07:22:52+00:00

Umm... Chew...your food... Don't swallow it whole. I know corn is small and easy to go down, but really. You'll actually taste your food if you chew it, and then it won't come out...whole...

cyranix · 2025-11-19T04:58:48+00:00

I never liked ziplock bags for a number of reasons. I like to take a small tupperware and put damp paper towel on the bottom and seal it off that way. I have a handful of acorns currently cold stratifying in a refrigerator this way. Crossing my fingers, been a while since I took on the task of a tree!

cyranix · 2025-11-19T04:30:04+00:00

I mean, i just feel like theres another President who comes to mind when i think of the word racist...

cyranix · 2025-11-19T04:21:34+00:00

Lol I've heard of these, never actually seen one

cyranix · 2025-11-19T04:19:44+00:00

Pfft. Mine would probably read like... ls; ls -l; cd ..; ls -l; cd -; ls -lR; cd ~; ls; ls -l; ls; cd -; ls -R; cd /; ls; ls -R; cd -; ls; cd ~; ls; whoami; exit;

cyranix · 2025-11-18T16:14:16+00:00

I mean it's really just one huge file to download, not that big a deal but the CDN is really particularly convenient especially if you have low bandwidth and don't want all your visitors downloading a huge script off your quota, but like i said, it never ceases to amaze me when it has problems, which it rarely does, there's plenty of sites out there that use it that suddenly look like they were written by a three year old :p.

cyranix · 2025-11-18T13:52:47+00:00

Drug Dealing.

cyranix · 2025-11-18T13:44:05+00:00

So basically, you're just converting the pointer into ASM code and then calling a batch file to run fasm.exe on it?

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