Friday, June 05
Daily News Stuff 5 June 2020
Regenerator Upset Edition
Regenerator Upset Edition
Tech News
- A lost Maxis game has been unlost. (Ars Technica)
Sim Refinery was a prototype created for Chevron for training non-technical refinery staff, to give them a better idea of what was going on around them. It was never brought to market as either a game or a training tool, and was presumed lost.Until someone emerges with SimRefinery's original code, this ancient title screen—and today's massive feature about its history—is all Maxis Business Simulations left the world.
Now it's on archive.org.
- Which means it's nice and safe and nothing bad can happen. (TechDirt)
Download it now. Download everything now.
- The Core i5-10600K competes quite well AMD's 3600X. (Tom's Hardware)
Unfortunately thanks to AMD it's now priced like the 3700X.
- Docker-OSX. (GitHub)
docker pull sickcodes/docker-osx
So, first, Docker can now run full virtual machines, which I guess is no surprise because so can LXC. And second, you can now download a Mac.
docker run --privileged -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix sickcodes/docker-osx
# press ctrl G if your mouse gets stuck
- China, Iran, and Russia are working together to call out the US for not murdering protesters en masse. (ZDNet)
The article has one comment, which criticises the author for... Being a flaming neocon.
- Instagram just threw its remaining API users under a 1080 pixel square photo of a copright violation of a bus. (Ars Technica)
Unusually for this sort of thing it's not Instagram's fault, but rather a bad decision in a copyright case that forced their hand. The same case could kill Twitter if the the plaintiff ultimately succeeds, because it would mean copyright supercedes user agreements - that users can sue for infringement even if they've accepted terms that allow the social network to distribute their content.
That would be... Some weird quantum superposition of hilarious and terrible.
Disclaimer: Hilarible? Tellarious?
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I'm probably going to upgrade my son's 8400 to a 10600K with a bit of an OC just as soon as they're available again--Intel's still got a slight lead in gaming and that's what he's most interested in.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, June 06 2020 06:41 AM (Iwkd4)
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"Unusually for this sort of thing it's not Instagram's fault"
They do deserve some blame because they could've granted users a sublicense, which would've cut the legs out from under this case, but they declined to do so.
They do deserve some blame because they could've granted users a sublicense, which would've cut the legs out from under this case, but they declined to do so.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, June 06 2020 07:09 AM (Iwkd4)
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I actually really like that article about China, Iran, & Russia: It ticks all the dumb journalism boxes, and the "Neocon" comment really is the donkey-semen icing on the giant dung-cake of interweb commentariat.
Posted by: normal at Saturday, June 06 2020 09:07 AM (obo9H)
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