LoZ: Twilight Majora’s Ocarina

Source code is just text with special grammar rules, that’s easy for a human to read and think about. But it’s not possible for a computer to execute source code directly.

So it’s run through a “compiler”, which takes the text and compiles it into binary machine code (x86 Assembly). This is what gets written to the CD and shipped

“decompilation” is the process of starting from the raw machine code, and trying to figure out what source code text could have generated that machine code.

Typically you use a tool that can do an initial decomp pass, but since it’s missing a lot of context, the resulting text is generally incomprehensible (and may not even fully compile). Variable x123ieh48hdc could be Link’s velocity, the currently loaded map, or it could be a temporary scratch variable

The real challenge to decomp is figuring out which incomprehensible variable and function names actually correspond to in-game

(Note, usually “100% decomp” means they’ve fully translated machine code to source code. But there may still be large parts of the source code that remain incomprehensible. Ocarina of Time decomp still has sections like this)

The reason this is exciting, is because the source code is much easier to modify. So having 100% of the game in source code means you can do fancy things like PC source ports (even if some of the code remains incomprehensible, though i imagine that makes it more difficult)

It’s not an exaggeration

They are selling user data for profit. It’s anonymized sure, but it’s still selling user data

https://youtu.be/4litc5DxoHQ

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

TL;DR Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”), and we don’t buy data about you. We changed our language because some jurisdictions define “sell” more broadly than most people would usually understand that word. Firefox has built-in privacy and security features, plus options that let you fine-tune your data settings.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847R59

Removing “no we will never sell your data” from your Q/A page is not a good look

Servo and Ladybird are in the works. They’re both new browsers built from scratch, but they’re both largely still in alpha

Firefox is the biggest non-chromium browser competitor, and was an advocate of privacy and not selling user data

But they recently did a 180, started selling user data, and are now shoving FF full of AI bloatware nobody wants

So the userbase is feeling very betrayed

Not wanting to maintain a multi-language repo, and not wanting to maintain support for rust integration

Edit: I kinda assumed the guy in the pic was that kernel maintainer who kept throwing a stink about Rust code, but it’s apparently not

I like solving puzzles, and I have a knack for programming specifically

“Unlisted” means you can’t find any of them via search or on the creator’s page. But if you still have the URL, you can view them directly

Which includes public playlists other people have created

Python

It’s an amazing scripting language, and my goto for writing automation scripts.

It’s the most lenient of the 3 with dynamic typing and managed memory. It’ll let you learn the basics of reading / writing / running code as well as basic control flow and logic

C is also great to learn, as it teaches you how computers work at a fundamental level, but it’s more stuff to learn up front, and can lead to some very difficult to fix bugs

Java is good as an “application” language. Being memory managed like Python, but statically typed like C. Static typing makes it easier to manage larger code bases

Snake milk

Snilk

Stormlight Archive also has a magic similar to this (Lashings)

The wind would make it rotate

That’s how you end up with a 200lb missile smashing your guts out

I’m not aware of any class of problem that humans can solve that we don’t think are solvable by sufficiently large computers. That is a really good point…hrmmm

My conjecture is that some “super Turing” calculation is required for consciousness to arise. But that super Turing calculation might not be necessary for anything else like logic, balance, visual processing, etc

However, if the brain is capable of something super Turing, I also don’t see why that property wouldn’t translate to super Turing “higher order” brain functions like logic…

I don’t think the distinction between “arbitrarily large” memory and “infinitely large” memory here matters

Also, Turing Completeness is measuring the “class” of problems a computer can solve (eg, the Halting Problem)

I conjecture that whatever the brain is doing to achieve consciousness is a fundamentally different operation, one that a Turing Complete machine cannot perform, mathematically

Also also, quantum computers (at least as i understand them, which is, not very well) are still Turing Complete. They just use analog properties of quantum wave functions as computational components

I suspect Turing Complete machines (all computers) are not capable of producing consciousness

If that were the case, then theoretically a game of Magic the Gathering could experience consciousness (or similar physical systems that can emulate a Turing Machine)

Lox

Once i have a solid implementation, I wanna morph it into a custom scripting language for generating diagrams (a la graphviz or mermaid js)

https://github.com/Lightfire228/lightweaver

I literally just wrote this a few hours ago (line 55)

IIRC, kernel level anti cheat works for linux. It’s at the company’s discretion if they enable support for Linux clients