I seem to vaguely recall some buffer overflow for Sun Solaris, which was fun to login with. I do wonder what fun AI would have had crawling through these old code bases to find the crazy exploits available back then

This is great stuff. Wouldn't this be lovely to go "fix" misbehaving devices (LG TV)

thank you.

if you have a steam account, and you open it on Linux most of your games will be present to be played. Most of them will just work. Those that don't you can look up details on protondb.com.

as mentioned above if you play any competitive games that come with anti-cheat features, then you won't be able to join in the fun. So if you don't care about those games, you'll be fine.

> if you play any competitive games that come with anti-cheat features, then you won't be able to join in the fun.

I'd say it's a majority of games that won't work if they require anti-cheat, but some will.

Forza Horizon 6 was a bit of a shit-fight to get it working. GPU crashes, audio just failing, and 20-questions with what combination of runtime and configs would get it to play ball, and it would break after some patches, but it really stabilised now and most issues I’ve had have disappeared.

Game companies are adding their anti-cheat into Proton. Ubisoft for sure. Others will follow.

I don't see my beloved 5060ti. looks great though

nor my plain 5060

totally. I'm really getting behind the slight replacement of TL;DR to AI;DR If you can't be bothered to read your own AI slop, then I'm not reading it either.

I solved this by running a music stream. All songs i "like" are in a collection, and ices/icecast randomly select one song after another (i can also request things via discord bot) and i just fire up VLC and listen when i need music. Yeah its a little too random at times, but its also fun.

My day job (company died a couple of weeks ago). We had > 100,000 LTO tapes in the end. With data archived way back in 2002 until present. We were still regularly restoring data. In our busiest years we were doing what averaged to 177 restores per day (365 days a year). Barely any physically destroyed tapes.

I see a few articles citing robotic failures as a big issue, but really someone can just place a tape in the robot if critical recovery is needed and the robot has died.

Curious to hear more details about your previous job? What were you doing to require 100k tapes?

Vfx Every commercial, movie or TV worked on would have the assets used to create the content archives.

I'm currently using icecast and ices to host a music stream. It'll effectively stream music to a port, and multiple clients can enjoy.

Anyone doing something similar, I'd like to migrate to something more modern.

Snapcast is similar, but will keep all the clients in sync for multi-room audio

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

Snapcast is nice because if you have an existing setup it can just use stdin as the audio source.

That's actually something I've always wanted. Thanks, I'll take a look

I did something similar a while back with mpd its httpd output: https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins.html#httpd

I think that's still pretty modern. My stream setup uses liquidsoap to generate HLS files which are served as a livestream directly from Tigris/S3. But a lot of users of liquidsoap still use the icecast output I think.

I can see why someone looking to easily handle massive scale wants HLS, but why is it useful here?

I currently host icecast/ices. Does your above options allow multiple clients to listen to same stream. I see it mention jukebox mode.