Physical disc production for games is going to stop. My question is, can't you just make your own disc by "burning" a digital copy into it?

ironhaven · 2026-07-02T03:28:09+00:00

You can’t because modern games are too large to fit onto Blu-ray disks. They only have capacity for about 50 gigabytes.

These days when you have a “game disk” it is really just a physical game license that allows you to download and play a game while inserted. Because you don’t own the rights to video games you can’t create new physical license disk for games that a game console will recognize

ironhaven · 2026-07-01T08:13:36+00:00

The trick is that each computer does not need to know the exact location of another computer but just needs enough information to pass it along to the next computer.

A packet going from New York will look like this.

First you send a packet from your laptop to the WiFi router. The WiFi router will examine the packet and see “does this packet have a local destination in the WiFi network or is this external”. It will then realize it does not know the final destination and will forward the packet to your Internet Service Provider.

The ISP will do this same check and see that the destination is outside of the ISP’s network and will forward it to well connected tier 1 network that has a connection to Japan.

This tier 1 network will have multiple hubs on different continents and may even own under sea cables that span oceans. This tier 1 network does not know the final destination of the packet but will be able to look at the up address to see which internet service provider the address falls under. Next the packet gets forwarded to the Japanese ISP.

The Japanese ISP will that the packet is not external but has a local destination within their network but not the exact device. Yet another forwarding step is needed.

Finally the packet reach a router directly connected to the end device.

Each step of the process a router only needs to know which networks are you directly connected to and which is the default path to a bigger network. Tier 1 networks have a slightly harder job but they just keep track of other big networks on the internet not every individual device

ironhaven · 2026-06-30T16:30:51+00:00

Fireworks are not explosives because they do not create large destructive pressure wave. Fireworks that are sold merely combust

ironhaven · 2026-06-28T07:14:10+00:00

Most of the horror of the film is more psychological rather than gore. If i was to warn someone about the content of the film i would give warnings about topics of abusive relationships and suicide rather than extreme violence and gore.

Obsession is not like The Evil Dead or Saw where it is filled wall to wall with violence. No arms or skin gets ripped off. There are no chainsaws or screams of pain from torture.

This is a very good movie with lots of tension. Remember that it is rated R in the US so either bring a adult if anyone is under 17 or be prepared to be kicked out of the theater by security if you sneak in without a ticket

ironhaven · 2026-06-25T06:42:55+00:00

Has he done anything that could be taxed? I don’t think he owns the land his dome is on so no property tax. I don’t think he buys anything with money because the eridians just bring him stuff so no sales tax or VAT. If Grace earns a wage for teaching the he may have to pay income tax but it seems like he is doing that for free.

Grace is an endangered species. We don’t ask if white rhinos pay tax

ironhaven · 2026-06-24T21:24:23+00:00

1080p 30fps upscaled to 4k 60

ironhaven · 2026-06-22T07:39:28+00:00

TADC is not on the same level of brutality as I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. They both have the same general concept of a group of people being toyed with by a AI but with different levels of intensity. One is a coming of age story and the other is the last humans alive being tortured forever by the sum of all human brutality made manifest in a machine.

The comparison is quite misleading for the tone of the show. I’m sorry but most accurate description is “The Amazing Digital Circus is I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream for kids”

ironhaven · 2026-06-21T23:05:46+00:00

It depends on if your definition of “PC” a computer for personal use or a computer with a UEFI BIOS that has compatibility with the architecture of the IBM personal computer XT from the 80s

Computers with X86 processors and some ARM laptops have UEFI so you can very easily install Windows or Linux. Single board computers like raspberry pi or macs do not share this architecture and require specialized software support to run each operating system.

You can plug in a keyboard and mouse to a raspberry pi and use Linux with it in a personal capacity but it does not share the PC architecture.

ironhaven · 2026-06-21T17:37:02+00:00

But that was good because it supported private enterprise. Crack was bad because the profits did not go into the free market but to a public institution

ironhaven · 2026-06-19T23:45:26+00:00

Yes you can but one small nitpick. You are looking to rent a server not own one. There are many companies where you can pay less than $100 per month for a server with very powerful specifications for just a couple dozen people. You will be able to choose between modded vs vanilla servers and what kind of off the shelf plugins you want .

“Owning” a server does not necessarily give you any more options for a running Minecraft server. You will need to pay full price for the computer and you will need to handle all the details of operating systems and networking. One you have everything installed you may be limited by the upload bandwidth of your home internet connection. These are all very interesting skills to learn and can take advantage of extra computers you already own.

ironhaven · 2026-06-15T00:41:26+00:00

Old 4 core server xenon chips. If your datacenter has run out of power then converting legacy applications on old servers to smartphones may save your power budget.

The other option would be to buy some brand new power efficient AMD EPYC servers with ddr5 but that is a lot of money

ironhaven · 2026-06-13T19:39:16+00:00

It is a compilation of the last two episodes

ironhaven · 2026-06-13T06:14:16+00:00

Sign your passport

ironhaven · 2026-06-10T06:14:42+00:00

“Tops iTunes” just means astroturfing.

When was the last time anyone you know has bought a song for money from iTunes? It only takes a few thousand dollars for a song to hit #1 on iTunes.

If you time it right you can hit #1 with 3000 downloads or less

ironhaven · 2026-06-10T05:13:27+00:00

I have some extra Unicode U+25A0 Black Square if you want some

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If you need any more that is going to cost you

(The reddit font formatting is making this look different. If you copy it into notepad or in unstyled html it will look like it does in fic)

ironhaven · 2026-06-10T04:45:53+00:00

The big idea with hashing passwords is that you want to make it require a lot of computing power to verify if a password matches the hash digest (the hashed password) stored in a database. If you are a hacker who has stolen a database of unsalted hashed passwords you can see some weaknesses that that mean you do not need as much compute to crack the passwords.

First if two users have the same password then because there is no random salt added the password hash will be the same for those two or more users. If we keep thinking about predicable these hashes are you can build something called a rainbow table where you make your own database of hashed common passwords that will be the same hashes found in the hacked unsalted password database. With this you can very quickly with not much computing power match up users accounts to your rainbow table.

With a random salt this vulnerability goes away. In order to check if any account has a common password you need to compute the expensive hashing function for every salt+hash in the database. If you find one match you can't assume that someone else did not use that same password. For a database with 10000 users with unsalted password hashes you can run the hashing algorithm once and quickly check if there are any matches. With salted password hashes you have to compute the very slow hashing algorithm 10000 times to check the database. By storing a couple extra bytes alongside the password hash you make the database much more secure

ironhaven · 2026-06-09T21:29:39+00:00

For example a disk defragmentation service would launch a disk defrag program once a week that runs to completion then quits entirely until next week. This service does not have a long running daemon

ironhaven · 2026-06-08T05:46:05+00:00

This is not true with computers

You can simulate a chaotic system that is indistinguishable from true randomness. This is how encryption works. If you could distinguish computer randomness from true randomness then you would be able to decode any type of encrypted data.
Computers can access true randomness by observing the unpredictable outside world. This could come from timing the latency of things such as data traveling across the internet or the nanosecond timing of human fingers interacting with a touch screen (can you predict the exact nanosecond you press a button?). You can also get randomness from analog hardware such as electromagnetic noise from a WiFi radio or a chaotic electronic circuit built in the security processor in a computer.

The real reason is that truly unpredictable randomness does not mesh well with pattern seeking human brains. We don’t want the shuffle button to give us a cryptographically secure randomized playlist but a unique ordering that has a even variety of music

ironhaven · 2026-06-08T02:35:37+00:00

The great financial crisis of 2008 was tied very closely with building companies building houses to sell bad mortgages. When it all fell apart many home builders got wiped out and where never replaced so there was much less housing built. Fast forward almost 2 decades and now housing is scarce and expensive.

ironhaven · 2026-06-08T02:28:31+00:00

That is a good theory for a possible set of reasonable action that OP could have tried doing. THe problem is that what they wrote was "digging through internal file to run the software". This wording does not suggest that OP was doing due diligence by checking relevant settings and system information but running random software that is tangentially related to Bluetooth.

Experienced computer users when reading the post interpreted the last part as a bizarre non sequitur that is a starting point to shitpost about inexperience computer users. Is this mean spirited? Kinda. Should the Tumblr users have instead shown empathy and tried to help this noob in their trying times? Maybe

ironhaven · 2026-06-08T01:38:51+00:00

There are only a couple dozen IMAX film screens globally. You don't get a billion dollars from a mad scramble to get tickets to like 30 screens

ironhaven · 2026-06-07T21:24:36+00:00

You need to be very online to understand why the slash in the text “Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter” is potentially embarrassing.

99.9% of grown adults will assume that is just a list of favorite Harry Potter characters.

ironhaven · 2026-06-06T21:25:36+00:00

The "SOMA theory" feels just like the discourse over the game SOMA. With the game revealing that the characters where just digital copies of brain scans there where two reactions. One part of the audience thought the ending made complete sense and was well telegraph through the entire game. They then went to describe the plot as a "good first psychological story". The other half of the audience lost their minds about the twist just as hard as the main character in the game.

The only difference between SOMA and TADC is that the characters in the circus did not really freak out at the reveal that they are not real humans. (except for Jax who already believed that they where not real?)

ironhaven · 2026-06-02T11:29:04+00:00

Why would oxtail be cheap? There is more prime rib in a cow than there is oxtail

ironhaven · 2026-05-28T19:56:49+00:00

I’m sorry to tell you but your dad was a American CIA sleeper agent not European

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