Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
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There's finally a serious effort to get a .furry TLD! www.dotfurry.org/
They've already been accepted into ICANN's Applicant Support Program, which reduces the fees by 75%, but final approval is not guaranteed. They are looking to raise $90,000 in total.
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Cryptography challenge for anyone willing to undertake it: Wii U discs, much like GC/Wii prior, seem to use a non-standard scrambling algorithm for their raw sectors. So far we have been unable to break it.
Two sectors are here: workupload.com/file/3v6vzgRYZHh
When descrambled correctly, the first should simply read "WUP-P-AMKP-00-410EUR-0" followed by all zeroes, and the second should be all zeroes.
In 2024, MPF (the graphical interface used to dump games for redump) was included in a disc bundled with Italian magazine, "Win Magazine". Since this disc also included a free game, it was itself eligible for addition to the redump database (redump.org/disc/133277/). So now you can dump games for redump entirely just by using a disc from the redump DB.
So Daemon Tools, a popular application for mounting disc images, has been distributed alongside a backdoor for the past month: securelist.com/tr/daemon-tools-backdoor/119654/
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@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz went to check myself and clicked the "Disclaimer" link out of curiosity and got an error 404. Great job Google!
wanted to block a channel from being recommended on YouTube or showing up in Shorts, went to look up how. Turns out the only way to do this is to make your account a child's account and link it to an adult account which has control over it, and then block it there. Kinda ridiculous.
anyone else see the resemblance?
on the one hand fox mccloud being in the mario galaxy movie makes very little sense and is clearly just being done for the word of mouth it will bring
on the other hand... fox mccloud is hot
Does anyone have a texture pack for Twilight Princess that ports the textures over from the Wii U version? The existing 4K pack doesn't look right to me, I'd much rather play with the official Wii U textures.
Feeling left out because there are no elections in my county so I there's no chance my local Tory councillor will get ousted.
That being said, if you do have local elections today, go and vote and preferably for someone not shit.
gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/commit/a31ec8da9572672e04ae46792a398da942649875
finally, no more having to set WINEDLLOVERRIDES when installing mods for games in Wine. Much overdue change, glad they finally did it.
Guess it was actually the bad future after all
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@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net the tiger/red panda/fish set modelled an actual tailhole on the tiger, wonder if they did the same with the wolf here 😛
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@dolphin@social.dolphin-emu.org UK here, but I definitely remember a GameCube Starlight kiosk from when I was in hospital around 12 years ago, it played one of the Mario Party games.
shoutouts to whoever at Nintendo, who when working on the textures for the "Glinty Circular Disc" (which is a Japanese copy of Wave Race: Blue Storm), decided to accurately recreate the ringcode on the shiny side to exactly match what you would see if you looked at a real disc.
You can tell it isn't scanned because the spacing of the text is off compared to a real disc, but the text is 100% accurate (barring upscaling artifacts that make some characters hard to read), meaning the texture artist must have deliberately gone to the effort of transcribing the text 1:1, for something that almost nobody would even notice!
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@dolphin@social.dolphin-emu.org 2013 might seem kinda late for GameCube but I am 100% sure that is what it was, because I remember thinking it was weird they didn't upgrade to the Wii kiosk that I knew existed
Weird networking thing I hope someone can answer: we pay for a static IPv4 from our ISP. Last night the gateway (Amazon eero) did an update and rebooted. Since then, our IP address as reported by IP detection sites was no longer the same (149.x.x.x vs 88.x.x.x). However, the reported WAN IP address by the gateway itself remains as 149.x.x.x, and it is set specifically to use that IP address as a static IP.
How is this possible? 88.x.x.x isn't a CGNAT range so it isn't that. What could be going on here for the gateway to report a different IP than what is actually being used?
My ISP recently changed my static IP, and it seems to be in a range that was until recently used by a data centre. This is causing problems with certain sites flagging my IP as being non-residential and either throwing up more captchas or blocking entirely. Anyone know if there's a list of IP metadata providers that I can contact to get this updated?
my home broadband connection, which is supposed to be asymmetric 1000/300, suddenly has become a symmetric 1000/1000. No notice from the ISP and their site still has them showing only an asymmetric offering. really hoping this is a permanent upgrade and not just some configuration issue on their end.