I Built A "Playstacean"

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🎮👻 OMG, kids were apparently scared by a "haunted" N64 game cartridge! Because clearly, when it comes to ghost #stories, #poltergeists love nothing more than to chill inside retro gaming hardware. Next up: a gripping expose on the cursed Tamagotchi epidemic. 📟👻
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250501-the-haunted-video-game-that-traumatised-the-web #hauntedgaming #retrohorror #N64ghost #cursedtech #HackerNews #ngated
Ghost in the machine? How a 'haunted' N64 video game cartridge terrified children around the world

A second-hand Zelda cartridge. A cryptic forum thread. A generation of terrified children. This is the story of Ben Drowned – the internet's most infamous video game ghost.

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Which of these is secretly alive?
📺 Your TV
📷 Your phone camera
🧸 That childhood teddy bear
🪞Your mirror
#SpookySuspicions #CursedTech
@JordiGH this is #cursedTech, but I do applaud the effort!
@catsalad this some @NanoRaptor - level #Shitpost of #CursedTech...

Today I learned: If you don't add (require 'server) before calling (daemonp), your Emacs daemon will silently hang.

The thing I don't actually want to learn at all, ever.

It took 3 hours to debug, I found solution completely accidentially: just forgot to remove it, when was playing with (server-running-p).

#til #emacs #cursedtech

@ptoothfish this some hardcore shite - you need to document this as this is some @ActionRetro - level of #CursedTech...

Wikipedia on disadvantages of sparse files:
"Loading executables on 32 bit Windows (exe or dll) which are sparse takes a much longer time since the file cannot be memory mapped in the limited 4 GB address space, and are not cached as there is no codepath for caching 32 bit sparse executables"

Who thought "I will make a dll that's full of 0 bytes, and let the filesystem handle it as a sparse file" could possibly be a solution to their problem?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file

#CursedTech

Sparse file - Wikipedia