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If it happens in the 21st century, there should be a bunker with EMI/EMC shielding containing ethernet PHY blueprints, tcp/ip codes, internet protocol codes, operating system codes, documentation and hardware specification sheets for routers, switches, etc. The first thing I thought of was that undersea fiber optic cables may not be directly impacted if land is the main target (excluding marine life). VSAT satellites will not be affected unless anti-satellite missiles are launched in large numbers or nukes are detonated in the atmosphere. Internet Exchange Points, Point Of Presence, data centers, buildings where the main root servers reside, etc will have the misfortune to be hit. This horrible thing reminds me of metro:2033 and metro:last light game

The picture reminded me of the rumor that the arpanet was designed as a command and control system that could survive a nuclear attack

Here are some updates on disabled/locked button experiments I just tried: - elevator button experiment in accountant 2 FM: the disabled elevator button on the lowest floor does respond to scroll/blackjack but does not open the elevator door (because the door activation button is in a different location). The elevator engine noise indicates that the elevator is responding when this disabled button is pressed. - elevator in leutenant 3: the locked elevator button does respond to scroll and blackjack but only makes the lock frob sound(the logic works as intended) I think it might be related to the button script used by some fm authors?

I'm still doubt to put it on the bug tracker. I need a second opinion from FM author and devs here

okay this is make sense, most likely not a bug but the fan mission author did not set the settings above. what sort of use cases that can be broken by the way?

To preface, this is a continuation of my comment yesterday in the Hidden Hands:Blood and Metal fan mission thread regarding a bug where a button in a disabled state (cannot be pressed again or there is no highlight to turn it back on) can be turned on again with blackjack or scroll/piece of paper. In Hidden Hands:Blood and Metal, you can do that to or (I'm using spoilers here to not reveal the objectives) Turns out that this also applies in other fan missions. This is likely a large-scale bug that affects all fan missions that use the method where you have to fulfill an x/y condition just to activate a button. I took the example of Night In Altham by @joebarnin here, there is a condition where you have to get the elevator key to be able to use the elevator button. But I was able to turn the button on by simply using a scroll Here is my video about it : Sorry if I always post bug-related videos in the Off Topic section (Random Video of the day).

exactly what i thought. I'm trying to repproduce that bug in another fan mission right now *or someone else here who is a darkradiant whiz might be able to replicate it, I can't remember the name of the fan mission that has a special mission to activate the button with certain conditions so that the button can be activated *edit : let's see if i could encounter the same bug in mission 2 and so on

@JackFarmer i Found a bug in this mission. It turns out that you can turn off the camera screen near the scroll on the wall that states that once the camera is turned on, it cannot be turned off and the technician will have to fix that button in the first mission. Besides that, you can turn on the elevator in the first mission without having to install a fuse! The way to do it is easy, just blackjack the camera screen on/off button and blackjack the button that indicates floor I/II on the elevator. To do it silently just stick the scroll to the button (press R like dropping an item from the inventory but don't drop it) and point that to the button i know it sounds like cheating

Today I tried downloading 3 different Fan missions. I fired up tcpdump with the intention of capturing all download traffics and opening the saved .pcap/pcapng file in wireshark. These are the results I got: - Downloading hidden hands blood & metal for the first time : - Getting sneak & shouffle FM from official TDM server( previously downloaded but I tried to download again) : - Downloading Terrible Old man : I can attest that the URL mirror choices can be different. If we start from the first sequence of clicking the download mission menu and let TDM fetch the list of fan missions from the server, we will find an xml return result together with HTTP 200 OK status : Nothing appealing from this xml wall of texts. I had one question in mind: what caused the randomness of the URL mirror choices? For a moment, my eyes were drawn and laser focused to the "weight" attribute. Is it possible that the weight determines the randomness? Not long afterwards, I skim-read TDM source files in the official TDM's svn repo (honestly I'm not used to reading large codebases) and I found this interesting piece of codes in file called MissionManager.cpp: Could this code be a factor of randomness? *I also skim read directory /missions and /http where some http code is located. Warning : C++ isn't my strongest forte so take this with a grain of salt. Perhaps official TDM devs could weigh in into this discussion...

computers like this were very expensive 4 decades ago in my where i live (based on information from my parents), they had the opportunity to use computers in their office around 1985 until 1993/4. Most of these computers are placed in government buildings and universities (some universities seem to use DEC VAX11/750 or 780 machines and hewlett packard unix workstations). I don't really know the other mainframe brands

I'm looking forward to play this FM. I've only seen the progress of beta testing so far and this makes me even more curious

i can't stop laughing because age 0 is included in the poll seeing all those vintage computers above makes me want to disassemble it and see what's inside. When hardware 3-4 decades ago was not as complex as today's hardware and could still be learned easily. it was the story behind the TTL 7400 and the development of the data bus that sparked my interest in it but I forget which book mentioned it. The book is so old for MS-DOS OS, the 21h interrupt made it fun . Other than that, yes I will not forget the A20 address line

=================================== i wonder how expensive is it to buy a multitrack isolated instrument recording of a band and how costly is it to obtain a rare demo tape of a band...

Old news but it slipped through my attention. i am getting quite irate over this. i will take a tiny step to be a part of /r/datahoarders movement considering i have much bookmarks that mostly contain niche websites, old documents , papers and old manpages(mostly in .ps or postscript format) that i can no longer access and not all of them are covered by archive.org... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/ anyway i found this interesting article and number 42 keeps racing through my mind : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02969-8 I also just heard 2 days ago that duckduckgo was blocked in my country, it's interesting to see these 'competent' people working in the ministry of communication and informatics. The reason behind the decision is laughingstock. Truly /r/upliftingnews material. I love Dns Over Https so much because i use it to circumvent censorship *edit : great they are tightening up their deep packet inspection firewall, DoH is ineffective as of now. VPN is the only option this very time.

with this fatiguing AI craze, personalized ads, exploit-ridden,over-commercialization by big tech companies, excessive internet telemetry usage and tracking technologies taking over the internet, for the past 6 months I started to revisit the history of how the internet (i mean TCP/IP operation and development in particular) was created and when the internet was still in its experimental stage and was for academic and research purpose. I am doing this just to reminisce the painful birth of the internet , what we take for granted and to know how it got to where it is today. here are interesting things from the long gone days of experimental internet : circuit switching to packet switching invention(The key people are Kleinrock, Louis Pouzin and Paul Baran) , ARPANET IMP router and NCP protocol ,a person who coined "datagram" term, van jacobson compression and congestion control, the birth or early protocols like FTP , ARPANET EMAIL and TELNET, initial root server system , the very first RFC request, vint cerf & bob kahn and early tcp/ip written on TOPS-20 OS(this is why i love a now defunct company like Digital Equipment Company. I also like the backstory of DEC LanServer bridge and fuzzball router running on DEC PDP ), BBN-ARPANET contract (including early BBN tcp/ip code on BSD OS prior to 4.2BSD ), history leading to 4.4BSD and CSRG & AT&T lawsuit and the story goes on. When you see the long journey of the internet development in retrospect, internet protocols were developed with no security aspect in mind. Internet wasn't built with security by design from the start. SMTP,HTTP(without S), Rlogin, Rsh, Telnet and something in that vein doesn't have encryption at all. Even BGP can be hijacked. Then protocol wars happened : DECnet, IPX/SPX , banyan vines protocol , Xerox Network System(XNS), appletalk, IBM SNA joined the party. In the end, TCP/IP, which is an open standard and more superior, leave them in the dust. You had to pay extortionate sum of money to use those proprietary protocol. Fast forward to the year when HTML , browser app and HTTP were already mature (enough), IMO this is what started it all. The widespread of HTML allowed web to incorporate audio , image and video instead of just pure text. But at that time, there was not enough processing power and bandwidth to place ads and include other things like data mining, targeted ads , running AI models, browser fingerprinting ability on the modern web. Regarding search engine, we've are familiar with SEO engineer and optimization boom in early 2010s, aren't we? why the SEO is getting worse, why are we keep shitty personal coaching blogs, business blogs, cypto blogs, technical forum URL aggregator sites, and other rubbish site? Why do I have to append the word 'reddit', or add double quote ("") and minus operator/symbol(for the sake of eliminating out irrelevant results ) at the end of my search query to get relevant results? I thank w. richard stevens (excellent author, R.I.P) and charles kozierok for their tcp/ip book. I'm halfway reading Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet (1988)