This is the first I’ve even heard of this show. It must have dropped during one of my “pissed off that Disney can’t be arsed to keep their Android app working.” phases.

Oh well.

I appreciate what BeeHaw brings to the wider community, and particularly appreciate the reminder of the values that power that.

Thank you.

Let’s see how he union negotiations go.

They have plenty of leverage. WoW runs on centralized servers which cannot maintain themselves, and are likely still under constant forms of Cyberattack, waiting for a serious vulnerability.

The work of these innovative new AIs is Coming Soon! to a VHS $3.00 bin near you!

Yeah. The demand for red team skills is complicated.

There’s plenty of work to do. But there’s a lot of anxiety, and in some cases laws, that make hiring managers cautious.

When a team member is going to sometimes physically break into a data center, things are much simpler if they have an unimpeachable reputation.

And that, itself, is unfair, since everyone’s definition of “unimpeachable reputation” is going to be a bit different. I’m inclined to factor in motives, but not everyone can.

So it’s not the end of the world for a young hacker with a conviction, but they definitely have a more difficult time.

They have a good point though. Pen testing is a vanishingly small corner of our field, and I haven’t seen anyone with a past conviction get hired for those roles, in a long time. (Edit: Of course, I work with privacy respecting folks, so there could be, and their conviction just isn’t famous.)

I’ve seen too many hacker kids think their hacker reputation is going to get them out of trouble, and it didn’t.

doubt the furries will care much about being outed as furries, but cybercrime is a big no-no when it comes to actual employment

Absolutely.

I would prefer our gay furry hackers keep things fully legal, for their own sakes.

That said, Mike needs help from folks like me to catch these kids, and as long as they’re sticking to ethical hacking, I’m not motivated.

Also, I don’t like Mike.

His claim that he actually has my kind of help, actually on his side, is… overconfident, I think.

I can’t guarantee that, though, so I’m glad to hear our ethical hackers have decided to lay low.

In any case, everyone has a slightly different perspective on what counts as ethical, so I hope they’ll stick to legal as much as their conscience will allow, from here out.

Lol. The gay furry Cybersecurity activist’s reputations are already established.

We like them.

I appreciate what they’re doing, and hope they keep a strong eye on where their ethical boundaries are, and keep out of anything too hot for their opsec to handle.

But Mike Howell needs to watch Ocean’s 13.

“I know all the guys you would send after me. They like me more than they like you!”

but was unable to reproduce those images in my testing

I bet they worked hard at this…

Asshole lawsuits and “day one patches” finally killed my love for the Switch.

I don’t feel good about sending money to Nintendo anymore. And I don’t feel confident that my physical media Switch cartridges will stand the test of time after Nintendo shuts the patch servers down.

But I’ll always appreciate the innovation. I’m not buying games for it anymore, but it’s a fun part of my home game setup.

“extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy,” got me. It’s perfect.

Also, your username is perfect for this moment.

Blind faith in organizations claiming to protect our long held traditions makes us vulnerable to fascism?

I don’t like to jump to conclusions. I’m going to give it a few more films to see if the pattern holds. Lol.

Yeah. You’re both right.

The board is a usually a cheap single board computer (usually running Android, and an emulator or two).

The board is custom to the extent that the operating system has been optimized to know that it’s running inside an arcade cabinet.

Pandora’s Box is a game machine, with games pre-loaded. It tends to have thousands of arcade games pre-loaded.

It’s a popular choice for restoring actual full size arcade machines, with dead motherboards. It’s also an option to upgrade (or just revive from motherboard death) an Arcade1Up.

With some effort, a cheap PC will do the same job, but some folks like that they’re premade and ready to use.

So, they are just a fancy decoration?

Exactly. There’s so many better ways to play these games:

• Pandora’s Box
• Batocera / Emulation Station / RetroPi on a Raspberry Pi
• Various mini systems with a jailbreak (Sega Genesis Mini and PlayStation Classic are particularly good)
• SteamDeck or PC with Emulation Station and RetroArch

So the price is really only justifiable, to me, by thinking of the cabinet being a piece of the decorated furniture.

As someone who sometimes buys these, the price, when on sale, is often cheaper than buying wood and hardware to build my own outer cabinet, control deck and screen.

There’s trade-offs - the materials used aren’t quite as nice as I would pick, but then the included, already applied, art is very nice. And there’s the convenience of not having to plan out all the details like control layout, monitor, side art, top bezel.

To me, it’s really a piece of furniture, rather an affordable way to play the included games.

The CPU cores also only last about 5 years, for me. Which isn’t good, considering that a cheap modern computer will easily last 8-15 years.

I, personally, don’t give a ton of consideration to the included games. I’m really just buying the outer shell and licensed artwork. That’s what I’ll be looking at when not playing.

I’ll replace the innards with a Raspberry Pi when it dies, if not sooner. So I’ll play whatever games I want that fit the control scheme.

I also replace all of the controls, about half the time. The included controls outlast the CPU core, but don’t feel as nice to play on as a set that’s reasonably easy to replace them with.

Yeah. This is going to suck worse before it gets any better. The good news is that all the useful content (outside of sales gardens) is going to be here in the Fediverse.

The other good news is that the state of Cybersecurity investment is abysmal, and the walled garden content is going to get breached/leaked/pirated a lot, for a long time to come.

Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.

How dare you!? /s

Yeah. Good point.

It’s really hard to go wrong with Debian.

That’s my safe answer.

If you share more about your interests, hobbies, I might have other ideas.

I suppose, when in doubt, there’s always Linux From Scratch. It’s a very interesting experience.