xianjam, xianjam@programming.dev

Funnily enough, that engineer also disallowed Linq because it was slow. It’s been 7 years since I’ve worked with him. wonder if he ever changed his tune.

Yep, that’s still true. However, you can install ABadAvatar onto a USB stick which will run the exploit automatically upon startup. It usually takes about a minute for the exploit to successfully start and occasionally crashes (only happened to me once).

I actually only tested XBLA games, so yeah!

Well, it’s over 20 years old now, so probably. It’s also really easy to softmod recently. Last year I got one for $25 at a thrift shop and modded it, so it’s also a great time to get one.

So far, I only played Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie on it though, and messed around a bit with the first release of Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition.

+1 for both. IMO, it’s easier to sell your friends on Signal than Matrix. Edit: In the US. I’ve just read that Matrix is more popular in Germany.

Minecraft is insanely popular. Even if they use advanced DRM, someone will find a way to crack it.

I thought that this was known. My understanding is that Bitlocker is fairly secure as long as you never link your key to your account. I don’t think it has been independently reviewed, though, and of course I’ve heard of theoretical TPM attacks and attacks if the machine is on or recently powered off. Of course, the best course of action for a secure laptop is probably Linux + fully encrypted LUKS, yadda yadda.

From 2021-2024, I worked for a company where this crap mattered. I’m so glad I quit. Now I work for a small company with 3 other engineers.

Please, no more TextControl ads.

Interesting stuff. I used to work under an engineer who was obsessed with performance tuning. I remember him converting all of our foreach loops to for loops. He probably told me, but I never knew/retained that it allocated on the heap. I also had always assumed reflection = slower.

Though, as he points out, .NET 10 does a similar kind of optimization for you. So, it seems like largely an unnecessary optimization. I can only imagine a 40-byte allocation optimization matters in an extremely low memory environment or at extreme scale.

Oh man. 13 years between the games vs. 21 years now.

As someone whose favorite game as a kid was Kirby’s Adventure, yes, Kirby is supposed to be accessible to young children. 100% completion can be a bit hard. I remember Sakurai saying that he tuned Kirby to be the easiest to control in Smash games because kids like to play him. As an adult, they’re relaxing to play. They’re not all easy though – Canvas Curse might not be retro, but I think it’s hard!

They replicated the CVE themselves with pictures, so it’s not total slop, but I think most articles now are AI-assisted.

Regardless, it’s a thinly-veiled ad for PVS-Studio. I’m also questioning the relevance to gamedev.

Yeah, the article is AI slop. Their Github is full of hundreds of vibe-coded repos with no license. This costs money? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was vibe coded too, or is just a wrapper around something else. If I wanted markdown to PDF, I would definitely not use this option.

TIOBE is controversial, but regardless, I’m not surprised. C# is a pleasure to use, and the barrier to entry is decreasing every day. It’s the best option for web, video games, and desktop apps. I wouldn’t be surprised if it overtook Java.

I hope that means that this community and the dotnet community will become more active.

I just subscribed. I would love to review people’s code.

I try so hard to move away from this but I seem to always end up crawling back because something is missing or broken. DotRush is hopeful, though (assuming C#)

I gushed over them when Android Open Source Project, Chromium, and the Google summer of code were new. I still think the free and open source projects they maintain are positive things, but I’m disgusted with just about everything else they do.

What changed you?

Me too. I really thought that one day my dad would say “You were right. I’m sorry.” There is nothing that can change their minds, and I don’t know what the solution is.