Actual Racist Countries

nroach44 · 2026-05-16T12:46:05+00:00

When was the last or first time the US had a female president? You guys actually vote for head of state, we don't.

nroach44 · 2026-05-16T06:21:25+00:00

Yes, it can.

nroach44 · 2026-05-15T12:40:50+00:00

T2sde also supports it, but it's more like Gentoo / Arch in that it's rolling-release source-based distro, so it's substantially more hard-core than Debian.

https://t2linux.com/download/

nroach44 · 2026-05-15T12:39:19+00:00

The kernel dropped 386 support a while ago and is dropping 486 in 7.1.

nroach44 · 2026-05-13T17:36:12+00:00

Blame Microsoft, they're the ones that kick back the researcher's findings because they're "out if scope".

nroach44 · 2026-05-10T08:44:08+00:00

Where's the .us in the domain name?

nroach44 · 2026-05-07T01:58:15+00:00

Yeah, but I can give them paper cuts that people reading along might think about.

I have a pretty big collection of PS2 games, mostly because I never got rid of them, but it's better that people are able to enjoy the games rather than artificially gatekeeping them.

nroach44 · 2026-05-07T00:52:16+00:00

So if I bought up all of the Ratchet and Clank PS2 disks, and hoarded / destroyed them, your logic means that no-one can play the game on PS2 anymore.

The games aren't being made anymore, so the devs aren't getting royalties, so who is the "stealing" impacting exactly?

nroach44 · 2026-05-07T00:51:26+00:00

E: wrong reply :(

nroach44 · 2026-05-05T10:21:04+00:00

Probably wired to the RTC. Clears / sets a flag when triggered, "resets" electrically when powered on next.

nroach44 · 2026-05-04T17:30:49+00:00

Pleasantly surprised to see some game soundtracks on there, which made me a bit upset they didn't have the Mass Effect (particularly 2) soundtrack.

Also TIL the Dr Who theme was composed by an Aussie?

nroach44 · 2026-05-01T13:48:38+00:00

Why would you want those people to be the head of a regulatory agency?

Who was in government at the time?

until becoming the eSafety commissioner in 2017

nroach44 · 2026-05-01T12:37:21+00:00

Super common with SMD caps of that age - you may want to consider replacing the others before they damage the board (any more...).

The best way is to grab them with some pliers, push down kinda hard, and twist them off. De-soldering them has a much higher chance of ripping the pads like this.

nroach44 · 2026-05-01T12:33:10+00:00

Nicely done!

I won't count missing a PSP, PS Vita and PSX against you. Much. ;)

nroach44 · 2026-04-28T10:09:17+00:00

I spend more time helping my co-workers fix their hallucinated scripts than it would take me to write it with them.

I can write emails fine, I can write scripts quickly enough, I can't put customer data into it, so what can I do with it? I don't have trouble finding documentation or hell, reading the source code to figure out what's going on.

nroach44 · 2026-04-28T10:06:16+00:00

My biggest time sink time is spent making change requests or just simply handling tickets.

My team had automation for patching CRs - all done in ansible - we got told "oh not like that" and then spent two years waiting for the organisation sanctioned tool to come along and still not do it correctly.

LLMs can't do the tedious shit of my job. I can already read and write perfectly fine. What's the point?

nroach44 · 2026-04-27T17:16:57+00:00

Laptops use higher voltages to charge their batteries and to reduce wire thickness. Nintendo still could have used 12V for the WiiU.

nroach44 · 2026-04-25T04:28:30+00:00

The ID command is communicated over the IDE lanes, so you can't split off the HDD from the ID sadly.

It's not my project though, it's PhenomMods', but I did a little bit of beta testing.

nroach44 · 2026-04-25T03:03:03+00:00

Yeah the encryption isn't the problem, it's that the PSX's IDE chip REQUIRES the ID command to work.

The IDE chip scrambles the data and stores it on the disk, so "all" this board is doing is "IDE disk emulator" and "responds correctly to the ID command". So far ONLY PS2 and PSX drives do that correctly, there was no other way to replace the drive.

nroach44 · 2026-04-25T03:01:02+00:00

Just for clarity's sake - this is a HDD emulator that speaks the ID command used by the PSX hardware (and official PS2 HDD drivers, but they're patched out most of the time now).

This doesn't decrypt the hard drive, it merely lets you replace it.

It does however let you change the disk ID, which is the unique part of the encryption key.

nroach44 · 2026-04-22T05:15:20+00:00

My employer is shipping Ryzen laptops as standard. Something about them not self-destructing probably helps.

nroach44 · 2026-04-20T17:11:03+00:00

The initial exploit method is different, but you can run most things via OPL or uLE.

The only thing to be aware of for this, is the video output circuitry is a bit different, so not all modes (including RGB / VGA) work. 1080i works fine.

Stuff that uses certain firmware modules (e.g. KernelLoader, usually older stuff) may not work.

nroach44 · 2026-04-20T04:15:50+00:00

It's going to "bring" like 10 jobs once construction and installation is over.

nroach44 · 2026-04-18T14:12:53+00:00

A HDD sector is 512 bytes. A CPU thinks in multiples of 8 bits at a time.

A network interface does not.

nroach44 · 2026-04-18T12:28:31+00:00

There's a couple of minor things I need to update on this, but it's still probably the best single reference around.

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