Elfi, known bug enjoyer 
@elfi@pixie.town
- Pronouns
- she/her, fae/faer
- Location
- Canada
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and 
, and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS
Joined Feb 2020
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Character concept:
A socially anxious vampire who can only exit her house when invited.
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hey look, an actually useful orange-site comment, about HP ink cartridge hardware hacking
"Put a resistor, about 1kohm, in the power line to the security chip on the cartridge.
Now, whenever the printer tries to read data from the chip, it works. Whenever it tries to record data to the chip (for example, marking the cartridge as empty), that uses more power, and the memory chip doesn't respond.
Amazingly, the whole setup just works and prints forever, saying the cartridges are always full... "
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I have a visitor! a very handsome visitor indeed!! no idea what they are though
I need more shelves. bigger shelves.
@welshpixie I dunno if my seestor got a cake when she joined, can you verify? @pineconeparty
@mos_8502 Well, these days I'm turning back to libraries for my information, as thankfully paper books are too much trouble to make with LLMs and old editions will still exist
@mos_8502 I'm down for subverting capitalism's tools against itself
@welshpixie oh no, what did people do this time
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Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
nintendo's really having a blast telling everyone to pirate their games! so far in the past couple of months, nintendo has:
- shut down the eshop for wii u/3ds
- issued a DMCA to lockpickRCM, preventing switch owners from legally obtaining keys needed for emulation (and it caused a switch emulator to shut down due to fears they'd be DMCA'd too)
- sent a new 3DS update that blocked all free methods of homebrewing the console
- and just recently, they told steam to take down the dolphin emulator
remember: pirating nintendo games is good.
(edit: fix'd some info!)
@sabine_potato @ExpiredPopsicle holy crap this is so good <3
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@delroth yeah, it's really all speculation until they do something
@Are0h yeah, people like that never really have any useful insight beyond identifying whatever their newest talking points are anyway :/
@Are0h I may not know anything about it myself, but seeing you livetoot about it with such energy is heartwarming, so I'm sorry something you enjoy is getting shat on by bigots
@delroth I figure the last thing anyone wants is a lawsuit, between crushing legal fees for one party and risk of establishing precedent for the other
Maybe it'll just be a matter of Dolphin getting cleared to reupload without the keys
@NullOffColor Thanks, this confirms the worst I expected about the original post too
"Tools in a toolbox" my ass, skeddles, that may as well be tracing
@NullOffColor On the subject of AI, I can only see it being considered a valid tool if and only if it satisfies two clauses: an ethically sourced, opt-in data set; and an output divested of its source works, e.g. fill tools, model posing, etc, decidedly NOT producing a composite image like it's currently doing
Right now, the current LLMs and generative models are an unregulated, overreaching, and power-hungry menace being shoehorned into positions it was never meant to fill thanks to magical thinking, and they deserve to be smacked down hard
@NullOffColor aw darn, I was hoping to see the roasts :< Oh well
@NullOffColor got a link? I wanna see this before it gets deleted
- Pronouns
- she/her, fae/faer
- Location
- Canada
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS
Joined Feb 2020
