Chip Collier

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Procgen wizard wannabe. Cosmic Doom.

Fix your hearts or die.

http://allyourfaultforever.com

I watched the first season of the Rings of Power but never went back. Was season 2 better? Did any of it matter? It seemed entirely off the record plot wise.
I had to get this idea out of my head. #TheyLive #LLM
Okay, this is a brilliant site. Chiptunes on demand, lightweight DOS-like interface. Two thumbs up! https://chiptune.app/browse
Chip Player JS

An online MIDI and VGM music player with SoundFont support. Over 250,000 songs, focused on performance and nostalgia. Play VGM, SPC, NSF, S3M, XM, MOD and more.

The new White House android app:

Injects JavaScript into every website you open through its in-app browser to hide cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login walls, signup walls, upsell prompts, and paywalls.

Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal's servers.

Loads JavaScript from a random person's GitHub Pages site (lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app's WebView.

Loads third-party JavaScript from Elfsight (elfsightcdn.com/platform.js) for social media widgets, with no sandboxing.
Sends email addresses to Mailchimp, images are served from Uploadcare, and a Truth Social embed is hardcoded with static CDN URLs. None of this is government infrastructure.

Has no certificate pinning. Standard Android trust management.

Ships with dev artifacts in production. A localhost URL, a developer IP (10.4.4.109), the Expo dev client, and an exported Compose PreviewActivity.

Profiles users extensively through OneSignal - tags, SMS numbers, cross-device aliases, outcome tracking, notification interaction logging, in-app message click tracking, and full user state observation.

https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

I Decompiled the White House's New App

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Thereallo

I am begging website owners to always provide a light mode. It’s an accessibility issue for me: my aging eyes are no longer able to view light-on-dark text for extended periods without severe ghosting/afterimages.

#accessibility #website #design

futures i still believe are possible:
- civilization no longer depends on fossil fuels
- food, housing, physical and mental healthcare for all
- no billionaires
- full reparations to the colonized and the enslaved
- computing without big tech
- an internet without advertising
- total liberation for gender nonconforming people
Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.

This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have told me it’s

Westenberg.
Posers.

after several hours of messing around i have djgpp with a modern version of gcc and allegro 4.2.2 on windows (with soundblaster fix) as well as a test program in dos working!

instructions will be in my next post(s)

#RetroComputing #DOS #RetroDev

To everyone who has become dependent on LLMs to program

Don't worry, I'm pretty sure the energy shocks that are are quickly solidifying into a long-term problem

Probably won't affect the cost of using them

When asked about the biggest bottleneck, Altman of OpenAI “We need to make more electrons”

Long as electrons are not 'created' /w oil or LNG, think there should be no issue

(...guy thinks generating electricity is when electrons are 'made'.. only most of the economy bet on this moron ffs)