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Hey bluesky! For those that don't know me I run a service called XLink Kai. Its software running on your PC to allow LAN play over the internet for 14 different game consoles and over 1300 games for free. Check out the supported games list :) Have fun! www.teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/Support...

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shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

Its a bad day to be a software engineer/sysadmin :(

Anyone have recommendations for 2.5" or 3" die-cut stickers? I need to restock (~300), but prices seem to be very high locally now.

on AI eroding trust and humanity

The day they kill off old Reddit is the day I'm done with Reddit. The recent change to require login to use old.reddit.com was nearly enough

this article is really good with a lot of well researched interviews and perspectives and context as to what was going on in the studio. but sometimes. sometimes there's really only one sentence that speaks louder than all the others

I'm up to my usual nonsense but it's got me thinking. Was the original Xbox's ability to use SCART cables on NTSC region consoles a stock feature? Like, could you just do that? It *does* support it internally, but was this a thing people did?

Hell yeah

Hosting web based projects in $currentYear is challenging but sometimes its not AI scrapers giving you trouble, but just popularity

I don't even use BD-JB or Vue After Free but if you do and also want to record gameplay with a capture card without having to dig around in the settings menu after exploiting, or buy a hdmi splitter with a serif font on it. Here you go payload for you github.com/InvoxiPlayGa...

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

A successor website to redump.org from the same staff team just launched, featuring better registration and metadata submission processes and HTTPS in 2026 among other things #redump redump.info

Happy 25th birthday, Game Boy Advance! To celebrate, I am happy to announce the Game Boy Enhance is FINALLY here! The Game Boy Enhance (AGBM) is a circuit-level recreation of the Game Boy Advance. It uses almost all-new components, but still uses the original CPU - it's not emulation!

I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Unless it's about a physical process video guides are a waste of time! On top of not being searchable, indexable, or even updatable...

copy.fail THANKS, I HATE IT.

Does anyone have the capability and consoles to take very high res shots of original Xbox motherboards? We're looking for the level of resolution of the wonderful shots @jft-jnftech.bsky.social took of Xbox 360 motherboards ("Image" section next to each model) consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_36...

The high quality, wallpaper worthy version of the Earthset photo take yesterday from Artemis II. images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

One of these days the linker and I will be friends. Today is not that day.

I'm working on something really cool for the original Xbox and it should be out soon :)

gotta be another way to do this

New 360 app drop! This should be useful for people who fix or mod a lot of 360s and run into ones with Parental Control passcodes on them. No need to bother with dumping NAND for it anymore. consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_36...

Fun fact; half of Team XLink's annual expenses operating XLink Kai is domain renewals!

This is amazing

Repaired and installed a necessary kitchen appliance today. (Full tube swap) Have a pi hooked up that shuffles a playlist of curated cartoon shows.

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

I made a readme guide for my game boy repos... girl has done a lot lol github.com/nataliethenerd

When setting up a new VM last week it didn't have cron??

If you're still using Twitter/X in any capacity get the fuck off now. Cut ties entirely. Any following you have is not worth it. For any reason.

Me: I am a professional programmer, they pay me the big bucks to do this! Also me: Googles the syntax for malloc again

Happy New Year! To go with the recent Hardware update, I have an update from the OpenXHD firmware dev team for you. Thank you Clegg and everyone else on the dev team for your hard work! I also spent the last week reorganizing some hardware for an easier to hand assemble layout for the new board.

Merry Christmas Xbox fans! It has been two very challenging years, but work continues on the OpenXHD project. Hardware is complete, pending updates from the FW dev team. Speaking of which, there is a FW dev team! Things are moving along quicky now and I will have more news for you soon!

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

while we're on the topic of what's the correct way to implement placeholders in your game, here is an excerpt of unfinished dialogue from the april 2000 prototype of spyro 3