Notices by Lothus Marque (lothus@mastodon.social)

@arstechnica I absolutely detest the whole "We said they're doing this, therefore you need to punish them on our say-so" routine... when all they have is an IP address at best. Cox provides a pipeline, and if anything they profit LESS (however tiny the amount) when people use it to download/share more things, so...

@foone Wait, CRC32, not even something as new (and yet still broken) as MD5? ...how long has this system been in place, I wonder?

@foone How did you possibly come into that many power-only cables?! I've only ever run into... I think maybe five in my life, and they were all like... a foot at most and had come with some cheap chargeable device.

@arstechnica I guess it's entirely the fault of the advertisers not lining up to give him money. If the universe worked properly clearly insulting them would make them come back!
I'm reminded of the people who produce something that doesn't sell, and then loudly claim the world is AGAINST them rather than maybe.. the something wasn't that good in the first place.

@arstechnica Honestly the neatest thing is probably that the cartridges they made for it work on the original as well. It's neat, but 2600 games don't hold up nearly as well as stuff from just a generation or so later, so this feels hopelessly over-engineered. (Hell, the Atari Flashback 2 was a 2600-on-a-chip sold for rather less)

@arstechnica About damn time. I expect they finally saw the amount of pressure (like USB-C) and decided to maintain some appearance of goodwill by appearing to do it on their own. I also expect that it will continue to color them differently and there will be "unfortunate" interop problems or missing features to some degree. Still, it's progress!

@arstechnica Screw that. They have a list somewhere for billing purposes. Pull from this, guys. >.< NOT forcing this only means that they can continue to hide surprise fees.

@arstechnica I may not be a real fan of Intel (business practices, etc) but I'm really hoping they stay in the game here. Competition is vital...