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I’m guessing it’s because they can’t compete with store brands and other cheap competition. My family buys this stuff, and we never pay the premium for the brand name.

The local PBS station carried a science show called Newton’s Apple. Not only was the content amazing to a nerdy kid, the theme song was way too cool for a PBS show.

That and Animaniacs.

It is very clearly written so individuals won’t be able to buy a printer without this junk in the firmware. Afterwards maybe they can fix it, but according to the article it includes a provision that 3D printers (or CNC, etc) can’t even be bought online in NY.

Your version is much better.

I don’t know what OP used, but I have done similar with a reversed lens on a DSLR camera. I got an adapter that goes on the lens where you normally put filters or the lens cap, and the other side of the adapter connects to the camera mount, so the lens is backward and works kinda like a microscope.

Unfortunately I think those pictures are long gone.

Here it is just outright spoiling a joke (censored, but you can see that it quotes the punchline):

The two that fired the shots have been named.

Thankfully Costco stations don’t do that. I’ve not seen an ad at a pump in years.

I switched to Smart Launcher because it was the only one I found that mentioned being able to import my Nova backup. The transfer wasn’t perfect, but extremely good.

That somehow doesn’t surprise me

That’s true, and I should have been less absolute in my language. However all of those activities were niche and actively scary sounding to the ‘normies’ (and to a lesser extent still are)

I actually did find “warez” on BBSs before I had Internet access. But I really think even finding BBS numbers in the back of a magazine and trying them out put me outside most computer users of the time.

Well. That explains why it was very suddenly and forcefully uninstalled and blocked at work.

I hope this means it can be unblocked now, but I’d assume not anytime soon if ever.

Ah, that makes sense

Security by obscurity would have made a lot more sense before global communications allowed people to share the results of poking around like this.

Even after the Internet was invented probably 99% or more of users would have no clue about digging into the systems.

I’ve mentioned this before, but on one of my early contracts I found an ‘encryption’ function with a keyspace of 32… values. I don’t mean 32-bit. The key was prepended as the first byte to the stream, and the decryption function could accept the full 8-bit range.

Fortunately that was replaced by real encryption some time before I left. But I’m pretty sure nobody actually cracked it before then, because I think nobody thought to try it.

What about a maze that adds a few hundred ms to the response time with each request, so the load gets less the longer it’s trapped?

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Although ‘enjoy’ is rather a strong word. More like “fail to dislike”. Barely.

I’ve never skydived so I don’t know, but that does genuinely sound like something that may be helpful or even necessary.

They asked if the numbers were from servers. No, the numbers are fake. The calls may be backed by SIMs, and that is an interesting implementation detail, but doesn’t change how to treat them (which is don’t try to retaliate)