My favorite was the tiff exploit to install virtual CFWs by scrolling through an album of digital chickens. Good times
They still call PlayStation homebrew enablers ‘HEN’ :)
Readit Newsace2358 commented on Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games overkill.wtf/sony-playsta... · Posted by u/rcarmo
ace2358 commented on Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox github.com/XboxDev/endgam... · Posted by u/Lammy
The original Xbox was locked down so only code signed by Microsoft was allowed to run on it. The executables also had a flag specifying which media it was allowed to run from. This meant that you couldn't run a game from a copied disc (different media-type) or the internal hard drive (again, different media-type).
There were plenty of hacks that allowed you to circumvent this. Once you get some form of code execution on the Xbox, it's over, everything runs in Ring 0, meaning you get full access. You can use exploitable executables to maintain persistence without having to do any hardware modifications. However, all these methods relied on an initial entry through either:
A. Installing new hardware (a modchip) to run an altered version of the Microsoft Xbox kernel that doesn't perform the usual checks.
B. Transferring an altered save game to the Xbox through the memory card (internally it's just a USB drive), running the game and loading the save, which triggers an exploit
C. Booting the console (which unlocks the hard drive), waiting until the hard drive activity ceases, "hotswapping" the IDE cable to your computer, modifying the files, swapping it back and turning the console off so the drive locks again. (If the hard drive loses power, it locks itself again too, hence why the hotswap-which is not supported by the PATA standard obviously-is needed)
Now, with this, there is no more reliance on bespoke modchip hardware, aging vulnerable game discs or machines that you can still hotswap an IDE drive to. Which means that Xbox modding has gotten more reliable for the coming years. Which is good news in my book.
Oh man! That hot swap method! I remember my computer, running Linux (which freaked 14 year old me out) from a live cd, case open, and plugging in the hdd while the Xbox and pc was on.
I felt like a warlock when I could rip my games after that.
Great memories.
And my mate at school saying there is no such thing as a soft mod! Haha
ace2358 commented on Disconnecting the Playstation 5 from Internet installs DVD games faster old.reddit.com/r/PS5/comm... · Posted by u/wslh
That also has the effect of preventing pre-release leaks, though as we've seen some of Nintendo's own games shared on the internet weeks before release I don't imagine it's a big part of the reason for requiring a download.
Tears of the Kingdom leaked a week or so early from the cart, full game.
ace2358 commented on Disconnecting the Playstation 5 from Internet installs DVD games faster old.reddit.com/r/PS5/comm... · Posted by u/wslh
According to the comments there it seems the console is downloading the bulk of the game from the online servers rather than off the disc, when connected to the internet, rather than waiting for the disc installation then downloading patches.
So I suppose for the users affected their connection is slower than pulling off the disc.
Probably due to day-1 patch :( so the disc is ‘out of date’.
ace2358 commented on Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi dzombak.com/blog/2023/12/... · Posted by u/ilikepi
I imagine it comes down to if you want macos or not. Seems like a niche choice when comparing to something like the pi.
When I switched from Intel Mac to the M2, I was easily able to get my Linus and windows VMs running again.
As well as my intel apps. Was pretty smooth and the speed and power efficiency gains are obvious. My mac book air draws about 5w total while the DAW is cool as a cucumber.
I understand the logic here, and I'm aware Microsoft has a large number of convoluted backward-compatibility requirements, but this seems like drinking to solve your problems and just putting off the inevitable hangover. To be clear: what you're doing here is lying to the user and the developer. Maybe that's justified in isolation, but now this lie is one more bit of "hidden state" you have to keep track of in further development and integration testing. And just like in the real world, lies have a tendency to compound on themselves until you're completely lost in them and have no idea what reality is.
I have a feeling that "solutions" like this are part of why an increasing number of my computing problems take the form of, "I tried to take an action, nothing happened. No error, no activity, nothing.", and are impossible to debug or diagnose. UX designers made themselves terrified of ever showing an error code to a user, but they took that and replaced it with a world where your shit just doesn't work, and when you try to figure out why, all the OS does is shrug.
This resonates with me. My computers used to crash at the app level, OS level or hardware level.
Now when something goes wrong the system just kinda gets lazy and stops working. But it won’t crash.
I’ve had my mac pinwheel on the login screen. I can still access the shell and file shares remotely, and even screen share to a logged in user.
But login.app refuses to crash so it’ll just pinwheel.
I’m glad I never forgot to turn things off and on for troubleshooting :(
Command-` is the shortcut you want for cycling through windows within an app, otherwise Exposé/Mission Control is the layer that can be configured to think in “windows” instead of in “applications”.
Don’t forget to add the shift key to scroll backward through the apps or windows.
I still remember the apologists (circa 2011) trying to justify OS X's system-wide autosave feature when it came out despite its obvious pitfall -- users could make inadvertent edits to their documents without noticing. When users pointed out that Apple's own XCode didn't adopt that feature, the apologists' excuse was simply "IDEs are different".
What?
Autosave also has versioning. You can always go back through the auto save history. You can also revert to the original opened file. This is done from the file menu.
Also, if like a good mac user you have Time Machine configured and on, you can browse your versions further into the past.
Heavy iWork user, I don’t know about Xcode though.
ace2358 commented on Every default macOS wallpaper 512pixels.net/projects/de... · Posted by u/jorgesborges
The one that mystifies me, is why Apple pulled their original Dubai At Night screensaver[0].
[0] https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=766810966790684 (This seems to be the only place to find it online).
I thought you could pick that categories in the settings, I swear I turned off the city ones cause I hate the city and I don’t live i. A city.