CoreDump

Cyberpunk themed maker projects and inspiration. I would love to see a Cyberpunk maker movement, like Steampunk, but totally functional. Personal projects include Cyberpunk themed wearable computers, mesh-net nodes, pirate boxes, MUD engine and FPV...

[zsh-official]

[miniaturize]

the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you

[captain-price-returns]

[coredumpproject]

When I started using BBS and the Internet, we were taught to never use our real names! It was against the rules!

We need to go back to private forums.

Trying to get everyone in the world on one website is stupid.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[scifiseries]

[yodaprod]

The Broadway Arcade, Broadway & West 52nd St, New York (1990)

Source: Youtube/Vampire robot

[coredumpproject]

I went to the broadway arcade sometime in the later 90s. It must have been right before it closed, because I was super excited to go again the next year, and it was gone.

[liaraswife-deactivated20210629]

SHIT

[coredumpproject]

How is this the first time I'm seeing this as a meme?

[segacity]

Burning Sensation ‘Garou: Mark of the Wolves’ SEGA Dreamcast

[coredumpproject]

I have the NeoGeo arcade machine version of this in my basement. Mark of the Wolves really holds up.

[coredumpproject]

I keep seeing these nostalgia posts, and I think we need to turn this feeling into action.

Nostalgia, fauxstalgia, etc, etc ...

I am begging people to realize that you could have this experience!

Why don't we come up with emulation images for ultra-cheap 4-player games that work on cheap TV's? Just like neocities just did what geocities did, but in a 2020's way.

We could explain how to invite people over. Phones go in a Faraday bag, and you just eat shitty pizza and drink store-brand soda until the wee hours.

Lan parties, gaming nights, etc ... the only thing missing is the people, and I think people want it, we just don't have a name for it, or a simple process to help people set up.

The technology is all still there. Better, cheaper, more accessible. Cheap pizza and store brand soda are still cheap.

How do we teach a generation to throw, and attend, basement lan parties?

[liberalsarecool]

Capitalism kills ingenuity.

[coredumpproject]

I wonder how many people don't realize this?

The Internet was, originally, funded by the government like public libraries.

ARPANET and MILNET were military. We were seeing so much use from universities and libraries of these new networks, that it was important to connect more computers in non-military ways. So, the public, and universities, funded and built the internet.

Through the mid-90s it was run very much like a library. Nerds were mostly concerned that the information was free and accessible to everyone. People worked for free.

Everyone was encouraged to create and host their own webpage. People were hosting servers, in their bedrooms, and that was largely considered a good thing!

Anything a corporation did on the internet was suspect. No one wanted anything about making money on the system. Spam came first, and was immediately treated like an intrusion from the enemy.

For the longest time, there was no way to buy anything on the internet because good encryption wasn't available to the average users. Even when we got PGP it was clunky, and no one would ever consider sending a credit card number to a company with it.

Everything good on the internet came from that period.

The corporations invaded a free, open, system built on the backs of the people who were building a free, open, forum.

They took that and twisted it into a theme park. A garish, tasteless, money pit that is unhealthy in any more than the smallest doses.

[tacticalneuralimplant]

[animentality]

[coredumpproject]

Reminds me of the old joke: "In spite of the rising costs of living, it remains a popular choice".

That phrase should always hit like dark humor, not something we just say, as if it's okay to starve the poor.

[rebbellsinchad]

Honestly why can’t someone just take care of all your needs and expect nothing in return!

Why should I have to pay for my food and water and shelter it should be given to me for free.

-a literal child’s mindset

[coredumpproject]

Saying the cost of living should be easily attainable isn't 'everything should be free', you fucking child.

Only seeing everything as 'free' or 'unattainable for the masses' is a literal child's mindset.

It's a mind that hasn't grown to grasp nuance.

Children, literally, only grasp abstract concepts as good or bad, black or white, expensive or free.

There are countries where Burger King workers don't face medical debt and homelessness because living simply doesn't require so many resources that 40hrs of work a day can't pay for it. At any job.

You. Fucking. Child.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Travis McGee on Enshittifcation (1974):

There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer types come in on their twinkle toes and take over the store, and in a trice they figure out just how far they can cut quality and still increase the market penetration. Their reasoning is that it is idiotic to make and sell a hundred thousand units of something and make a profit of thirty cents a unit, when you can increase the advertising, sell five million units, and make a nickel profit a unit. Thus the very good things of the world go down the drain, from honest turkey to honest eggs to honest tomatoes. And gin.

[andallofthemwitches]

this needs a hostage negotiator

[coredumpproject]

This is why only Open Source is allowed to stay good. Because there is no drive for profit. So, there's no reason to get the slide rule out. We need more open source hardware, and more open source software, and we need it as quickly as you can make it. The best way to fight the power is to make them irrelevant.

[only-cat-memes]

[coredumpproject]

A friend of mine asked if I'd noticed that we no longer experience things 'together', but instead 'in parallel'. I see a thing. He sees the same thing. We feel close because we saw the same thing, but did not share the experience of seeing it.

There's a difference there ... something lost.

[only-cat-memes]

[coredumpproject]

A friend of mine asked if I'd noticed that we no longer experience things 'together', but instead 'in parallel'. I see a thing. He sees the same thing. We feel close because we saw the same thing, but did not share the experience of seeing it.

There's a difference there ... something lost.

[afloweroutofstone]

Got a great ad encouraging people to dismantle surveillance equipment and then sell the guts at a pawn shop

[coredumpproject]

Those precious metal numbers are absurd. 3g of gold is worth $435 right now. That suggests each camera has $535 in precious metals in each of them!

They're made of lead, and copper, and not enough to sell to anyone.

They are trash.

Put them in dumpsters where they belong.

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[coredumpproject]

I'm not ready to say there's no way he did it, but I don't think you're crazy for thinking he was just a guy that someone called in about, and they were like 'Well, grab up all the evidence we've found, they found him! We gotta pack an evidence backpack with everything we've found!', without, for a second, considering that it could be an over-excited McDonalds employee, and some rich kid who didn't do a thing, thinking 'This is going to be my book deal moment'.

[chilewithcarnage]

[coredumpproject]

I worked at Dunkin Donuts in the early 90s. It was my only non-computer job ever, aside from a summer in a factory, and I was fired after 2 weeks.

They had us bag all the 24hr old donuts, 20 dozen or more, and dumpster them. Every day.

But, I grew up in a trailer. I knew the poor kids. So I'd box 12 dozen (I worked alone) and walk behind the shop and hand them out.

Fun fact? That's not even why I got fired! Hahaha