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badocr commented on “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server windowslatest.com/2026/03... · Posted by u/robtherobber

lelanthran · 13 days ago

Another oldie

"If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows"

Ah, good times... :-)

badocr · 13 days ago

I have a "quotes.txt" from slashdot days with some MS jabs in it:

> Last week, I left my 2 XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view. Someone broke into my car and left 2 more.

> The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

> A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine

Juvenile some might say, but they still makes me giggle.

badocr commented on Story of XZ Backdoor [video] youtube.com/watch?v=aoag0... · Posted by u/Ulf950

mbauman · 17 days ago

I'm still floored that Andres both found this and didn't ignore it. It's such a testament to an incredible engineer.

(But also, my conspiratorially-inclined mind is quite entertained by the thought of some sort of parallel construction or tip from a TLA.)

badocr · 16 days ago

> (But also, my conspiratorially-inclined mind is quite entertained by the thought of some sort of parallel construction or tip from a TLA.)

For sure you were/are not alone in this thinking. How fast the whole thing was exposed in decent enough details was... surprising.

badocr commented on Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001) quaddicted.com/webarchive... · Posted by u/Lammy

egypturnash · 2 months ago

1. When a mapper is learning to map, and indeed learning to make a good map, they shouldn't publicly release a map until they've made a good quality map. When they make test maps to learn mapping, or to try to make a proper map, those maps should be kept on their hard drive, or perhaps privately released to acquaintances and more experienced mappers for testing and feedback, until they manage to make a good map - the good map is the first one they should publicly release.

2. Being a first time mapper is no excuse whatsoever for releasing a bad quality map. Some mappers mistakenly think it is, and try to make such excuses in their texts - sorry, but that excuse simply isn't acceptable. Firstly, the reason above, bad quality maps that one makes while learning to map should be kept on the hard drive until a good quality map is achieved. Secondly, there are plenty of people, from all genres of mapping, who have released good quality maps as their first released maps, some of these have indeed been excellent maps.

Is the entire Quake modding scene this hostile to newbies or is it just this one dude?

This attitude may have made sense back in 2001 when Quake was only about five years old and you could presumably get your friends to check out your first attempts at levels when you hauled your computers into one room for bi-weekly LAN party but when we're talking about a thirty-year-old game I somehow suspect most of your friends are gonna be playing something slightly newer most of the time.

badocr · 2 months ago

It's not later than 2001 since the dude closed the site on "Sunday 25th November 2001 ". I used to frequent it all the time back in 2000~2001 since it was the only SP review site still being updated. He was notorously grumpy.

Here's what he posted when shutting down the site:

    Site closed.
    This site is now closed. This is because I haven't enjoyed reviewing at the site
    for about 9 months, and because I am no longer interested in supporting the Quake
    mapping scene. My email address is also closed. The current content will remain
    here as an archive.

badocr commented on How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack fabiensanglard.net/quake_... · Posted by u/billiob

badocr · 4 months ago

I recall reading about TCP/IP-powered Internet multiplayer DOS Quake in TECHINFO.TXT that shipped with the retail version of the game, and I quote:

  Beame & Whiteside TCP/IP
  ------------------------
  
  This is the only DOS TCP/IP stack supported in the test release.
  It is not shareware...it's what we use on our network (in case you
  were wondering why this particular stack).  This has been "tested"
  extensively over ethernet and you should encounter no problems
  with it.  Their SLIP and PPP have not been tested.  When connecting
  to a server using TCP/IP (UDP actually), you specifiy it's "dot notation"
  address (like 123.45.67.89).  You only need to specify the unique portion
  of the adress.  For example, if your IP address is 123.45.12.34
  and the server's is 123.45.56.78, you could use "connect 56.78".

I looked around a little and sure enough, a copy of the software was avaiable in a subdirectory of idgames(2?) at ftp.cdrom.com. I knew nothing about TCP/IP networking at the time, so it was a struggle to get it all working, and in the end, the latency and overall performance was miserable and totally not worth it. Playing NetQuake with WinQuake was a much more appropriate scenario.

badocr commented on How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack fabiensanglard.net/quake_... · Posted by u/billiob

bombcar · 4 months ago

Or slave two copies to yours and get "side view" which was only supported for a few releases IIRC - https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Three_screen_mode

badocr · 4 months ago

Yes, Doom with multi-monitors! There's (at least) one video on Youtube showing it in action with 3 monitors plus a fourth one with the map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NQQ7bPf6U#t=1798.333333

badocr commented on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant economist.com/the-america... · Posted by u/jcartw

earnesti · a year ago

Can you elaborate on the technicals? Is it a phone app? Does it work through QR codes or NFC? Is there a Pix "card"?

badocr · a year ago

It's a functionality of banking apps. Yes, transfers are done either via a QR code or via one or more "Pix Keys", that the person/bussiness authorizes in their baking app. These keys can be the brazilian equivalent of your SSN, a cell phone number, an e-mail address or a randomly generated UUID-formated one.

badocr commented on Jeff Bezos: Americans don't trust the news media washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/christhecaribou

badocr · a year ago

Why is this flagged but the thread titled "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris" with 1041 comments isn't? What am I missing?

badocr commented on The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011) eurogamer.net/the-boy-who... · Posted by u/grubbs

lifeline82 · 3 years ago

This is an habit with USA to try to extradite in a trap attempt, suspected « hackers ».

This happened to Gaius, in late 90th, for impersonating US president on the hacked White House pabx.

This happened to Casper/leader2 connecting to a shell of military US server after someone on IRC asked him to kee the connection alive.

Back in the day cyber force of USA were fighting for budget, and having hacker arrested and judged in a very advertised way was helping them get more money for their work.

Even if it means to totally disrespect internationnal procedure/law/agreement on dealing with « criminal ».

Once a foreigner puts a feet on US ground, he is totally in the hand of US officials, in disregard of any official treaties and international laws.

Anyone remembering this Russian guy arrested straight from plane when he landed in USA going to make a talk to defcon ?

badocr · 3 years ago

> Anyone remembering this Russian guy arrested straight from plane when he landed in USA going to make a talk to defcon ?

I had to look it up, but it's Dmitry Sklyarov [1], who worked for the russian-based ElcomSoft, which was known for selling all sorts of DRM cracking programs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.

badocr commented on Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006) archive.org/details/far-c... · Posted by u/KomoD

mbs159 · 3 years ago

Dr. Krieger

badocr · 3 years ago

https://ttm.sh/BR4.jpg