* Posts by Bronk's Funeral

24 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jul 2019

Google to kill off URL shortener once and for all

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Re: Good riddance

ADfly are still a thing among murkier audio software acquisition websites, I have heard.

US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants

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Re: Beware the law of unintended consequences

I came here to post something like 'wake me up when they're shipping Puma Sisters,' but you got there first. Ahhh, I miss *proper* catgirls, the ones that you get these days are a pale imitation.

So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off

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Does this mean I'm *more* or *less* likely to get any acknowledgement whatsoever of my emails asking why they've removed paid-for content from my library (Deathspell Omega's discography, innit)? Bandcamp nuked a TON of stuff a while back (just before the Epic takeover), and are ghosting even representatives of decent-sized indie netlabels.

Hallucinating ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons

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FlowGPT have been running game jams along these lines for a while now. I've been trying to put together a prompt that makes GPT act as a D&D *player* that a user can act as DM with—it's hard to wrangle but the sodding thing goes off in some wild directions, sometimes. It's fun, because it's almost entirely unpredictable, and a good DM should be resilient to unpredictability.

Here's an early attempt. Ignore the first wall of text—it's the prompt: https://chat.openai.com/share/3ac574f6-c49f-4b80-9e41-317487f69f2f

One weekend's TwitX chaos brings threats from Japan; indemnity promises for users; prominent account seizures

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Hold on—do you mean X Japan as in 'used to be Twitter Japan' or do you mean the excellently-coiffed thrash lads X Japan?

Eight-core 3.8 GHz CPU. 12 TFLOPS GPU. 1TB NVME SSD. 16GB RAM. Not a half-decent workstation, it's the new Xbox

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I think EA hold the rights to mobile versions only—the Tetris Company can still release on consoles and PC. Puyo Puyo Tetris and Tetris 99 on Switch are pretty good (the latter is by Arika and is actually superb) and Tetris Effect, designed by Tetsuya Miziguchi of Rez fame, is an incredible piece of work on PC.

I really, really like Tetris.

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If it's backward compatible with 360 titles, it'll be one of the only consoles able to run a home version of Tetris The Grand Master (so worth it just for that!)

Hear, hear: The first to invent idiot-cancelling headphones gets my cash

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Oh, the singing woman is a thing now? I experienced my first one onna train this week. Well, I say singing, it was more a tuneless hum, with a time signature that would have made Car Bomb scratch their heads in confusion.

Tabletop battle-toys purveyor Games Workshop again warns of risks in Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP project

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Re: 'Good project management'

Just commenting on my experience of GWHQ management, project and otherwise :)

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Re: 'Good project management'

It's *Games Workshop*.

AMD rips covers off 64-core Threadripper desktop monster, plus laptop chips, leaving Intel gesturing vaguely at 2021

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Re: I hope Scott feels better...

Scott Herkelman didn't write that.

Source: I write stuff like that.

Who's that padding down the chimney? It's Puma, with its weird £80 socks for gamers

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Re: PUMA Socks

"Motorists can buy shoes designed for driving. Gloves too."

Mmm, simracers can buy those, too. It takes a while to stop feeling like an idiot while lacing up your OMP boots before sitting in front of the computer, but for some reason it works.

Proper racing gloves are a must too, if you have a direct-drive wheel, because those things can mess your hands right up.

Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

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Re: DIKE

'Did the nasty looking word scare you?'

Apparently not as much as not using the nasty-looking word scares you.

Beware the trainee with time on his hands and an Acorn manual on his desk

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Re: punchlines

Twenty years of booting up your—BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP—Dreamcast.

That's not long division, Timmy! China school experimented on pupils with mind-reading tech

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Re: Were you drunk when you wrote this artice Richard?

There's nothing wrong with starting sentences with conjunctions, fam. A lot of people think Latin construction rules have their place in the English language.

But they don't.

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

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So, like, is this just an Android thing? Could I conceivably stick Retroarch on it and play Herzog Zwei on a fridge? That would be superb, for about five minutes, and then I'd get bored and depressed about spending three thousand pounds on a big, cold cupboard that can go on the internet for some reason.

Bus pass or bus ass? Hackers peeved about public transport claim to have reverse engineered ticket app for free rides

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I liked the bit where he posted it to r/manchester, and everyone pretty much went 'huh?'

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

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Re: "should risk their necks to protect your shiny tech toy "

Right, but whos going to yell 'stop that man—he's stealing my laptop, which as well as having a hefty financial value also contains many months of work which I haven't backed up, and several gigabytes of photos and video of my recently-born child which I also haven't backed up! I'd be terribly grateful if one of you could trip him up as he- oh, he's gone'

Just wouldn't be practical. And while I feel for this imaginary bloke I invented just now whose wife is probably going to kill him, I'm not risking my neck to protect his shiny tech toy. I like my neck.

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Re: That's horrible.

My macbook is covered in anime waifu stickers, horrible black metal band logos and a couple of bits of PVA glue I smeared on there that look like dubious stains.

Means I look like even more of a chozzler in a coffee shop than I would with a pristine mac, but I like to think that crims would be too embarassed to nick my shrine to thingy out of Evangelion.

They say piracy killed the Amiga. Know what else piracy is killing? Malware sales

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Re: This reminds me of Son May

I assure you that bootlegged vinyl is still a thing, at least in the slightlier murkier black metal trading/distro circles. I've got a copy of Judas Iscariot's 'Distant In Solitary Night' which turned out to be an illicit reprint of the Sombre Records original.

Blake Judd of Nachtmystium's tale is a dismal one indeed, but catnip for those of us who love a bit of internet drama!

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Re: This reminds me on Son May

I create things that I think have value, I therefore ask that, if you want to consume or use them, you meet my expectation of that value. The value isn't just placed on my items and objects—it's also placed on the time, effort and expense I spent on creating them.

If you take these things, you think they have value, too. At least, they have enough value for you to _want_ them. If you can afford to meet my expectations, and choose not to in order to take these things for nothing, you're telling me that my time is worth less than nothing.

Now, I would much prefer to live in a Banksian universe of weirdly sinister anarchocommunism, where it doesn't _matter_ whether you pay or not because value has no meaning when everyone has access to infinite resources. As it is, I need heat, light, and food in order to carry on making the things that apparently have value. when you deny me the means to acquire those, while still telling me you consider my creations to have worth, I think you're a right twatty spacker.

'removal of tangibles' is the excuse of a weakling.

Dear hackers: If you try to pwn a website for phishing, make sure it's not the personal domain of a senior Akamai security researcher

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Larry Cashdollar is a _superb_ name.

Virgin Media promises speeds of 1Gpbs to 15 million homes – all without full fibre

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Mmm, I regularly got around 400 on mine—faster than the Hyperoptic GIGABIT ULTRABLAST package I ditched it for often manages.

300,000 edgy folk pledge themselves on Facebook to storming supposedly UFO-tastic Area 51

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Re: If 300,000 truly determined people really did show up there

Stay AWAY from Area 51's BINS.