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The glEnd() of Zelda: Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)
Author : akeck
Score : 194 points
Date : 2023-10-10 16:55 UTC (23 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (tom7.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (tom7.org)
| lakomen wrote:
| [flagged]
| frabert wrote:
| What would you expect to be stolen by MITMing the connection
| between you and a plaintext blog?
| mattigames wrote:
| They could redirect the user to other website (eg a phishing
| one), I know it's unlikely but better if there is no chance
| of it happening.
| immibis wrote:
| Several major American ISPs actually did this. It was one
| reason for the big push to HTTPS everywhere.
| adamjc wrote:
| Does it matter? You're not giving the site any sensitive
| information.
| immibis wrote:
| Yes, it does. An MITM attacker can deliver malicious code to
| you which runs in the website context, and can exploit any
| bugs in your browser's javascript engine.
| nmilo wrote:
| Sounds like FUD
| philihp wrote:
| Sounds like you have a bigger problem if your browser isn't
| properly sandboxed.
| mattigames wrote:
| Your ISP (or your router) can easily add their own
| JavaScript/HTML/ads on websites using http, it's likely that
| you are using a decent ISP that doesn't but is better if it's
| not even possible.
| wongarsu wrote:
| Public wifis are still a thing, many of them not well
| secured against Mitm attacks. Also compromised routers. So
| even if you trust your ISP (and their IT security and
| supply chain) there are still good reasons to want HTTPS
| everywhere
| lakomen wrote:
| Yes it does. You seem to be living under a rock too asking
| that question. Here, let me Google that for you:
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=why+use+https
|
| How hard is it, now that we have had free certs via
| letsencrypt and the certbot tool to automate vhost
| configuration to have encrypted and signed data transfer?
|
| It's a matter of 2 minutes to add.
|
| What excuse do you have to not use https?
| starshadowx2 wrote:
| Highly recommended that you read the Hacker News guidelines
| linked at the bottom of the page, especially the "In
| Comments" section.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| bassdigit wrote:
| OP doesn't owe you an excuse for offering content for free
| through a technology you disapprove of.
| adamjc wrote:
| I think you should re-evaluate how you speak to people
| online, it is unnecesarily hostile and I guarantee you
| wouldn't speak to me this way in real life.
| [deleted]
| peoplefromibiza wrote:
| _have you been living under a rock_
|
| judging from how you speak to people that put a lot of effort
| into creating some very engaging content for free, you're the
| one that's been, and still is, living in a cave.
| agumonkey wrote:
| what a pun
| sbjs wrote:
| This is similar to a drop-in mod for pico8 games that can turn 2d
| games into 3d games instantly:
| https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=37982
| [deleted]
| deceiverofg0ds wrote:
| I wonder if tom7 has worked with or is aware of the people at
| geodstudio working on 3dsen. 3dsen is what this video reminded me
| of.
| isomorphic- wrote:
| Wow, this is very cool. I hope to see this early concept refined
| and improved upon!
| kmarc wrote:
| I'm luckily, fairly good at thinking outside the box, but when I
| see content like this... WOW
|
| I guess a logical next step in the 2020's is to render a nice sky
| and fitting surroundings with AI.
| titaniumtown wrote:
| Tom7's content is always very interesting and funny, he has a
| YouTube channel as well:
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3azLjQuz9s5qk76KEXaTvA His
| "Harder Drive" video is especially a favorite of mine.
| LoganDark wrote:
| I like "reverse emulating the NES"
| DaiPlusPlus wrote:
| I'm also a long-time fan of Tom7 - I got into him after seeing
| the video about his reverse-emulation work to get Doom working
| on a NES - what I like about it is how subtle it is: using the
| same technique you could play Halo or GTA 5 on a NES, but by
| using a game that's _almost_ contemporary with the NES it has
| some kind of _je ne sais quoi_ aspect to it that I appreciate,
| even if I can 't describe it.
|
| ----
|
| All of his videos are about very distinct projects - not only
| demonstrating his high level of skill in those areas, but that
| he's very imaginative and creative. When I introspect myself I
| can tell that as I've gained technical skills that enable me to
| (say) recreate his work, I've simultaneously lost most of my
| imagination and huge chunks of my creativity as I've gotten
| older: I can certainly try my own hand (working from scratch,
| without using his work even as a reference) at a robust NES-
| to-3D render system, but I guarantee that the idea never would
| have come to me. My question is, how does he do _that_?
|
| I'm hoping I'm not the only one experiencing this kind of
| creativity-deficit-disorder?
| dharmab wrote:
| Keep in mind that- as far as I can tell- Tom7 doesn't need to
| work for a living. He has a _lot_ of free time.
| iforgotpassword wrote:
| Eh, at least I had periods over the last 15 years where I
| had a lot of free time and could've done a lot of things I
| always wanted to do, but just about got some basic things
| done. Nothing of the scale of some of Tom's projects. He
| says he's not working on that stuff constantly, but still,
| he always eventually gets back to these things and finishes
| them. That's pretty impressive to me regardless of free
| time.
| the-rc wrote:
| You sure? I remember him being an engineer at Google. See
| this from July
|
| https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/pac-tom-pittsburgh-
| proje...
| adql wrote:
| I'm sure that someone running around city as a pac-man
| have plenty of free time, job or no job
| kzrdude wrote:
| did you miss the part where he had been working on
| running every street during 17 years?
| noelwelsh wrote:
| This is the difference for me. There are many things I
| could do, but far fewer it's worth spending my time on. If
| I didn't have to make bank the calculus would be very
| different.
| bowsamic wrote:
| I think he's just a complete genius, honestly. I don't think
| it's possible for a vast majority of us to be on that level
| lifthrasiir wrote:
| Not only that, he actually completes all the projects, or at
| least some of them (because who'd know how many shelved
| projects are there). I too have a long list of personal
| projects accumulated over last 2 decades, and none was that
| impactful compared to Tom's in my scale. And he seems to do
| all of that while having a daily job (Google) and a family
| (seen from the PAC-TOM video, specifics unclear) _and_ time
| to play all the games. How is it even remotely possible???
| offices wrote:
| And running long distances!
| iforgotpassword wrote:
| My favorite is still the generic NES "AI". And I just realized
| that was ten years ago. Wow.
| omgmajk wrote:
| Love Tom7, his video "Compiling C to printable x86, to make an
| executable research paper" [0] is my favorite but most of his
| stuff is super interesting.
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
| Affric wrote:
| Harder Drive is truly a masterpiece.
|
| My dream is a swap file on the hardest of drives.
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