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Stories · 2

  1. NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode

    Games · Classicgames · · posted by timothy · from the pressing-issues dept. · 165 comments
    An anonymous reader writes After years of relative silence, the development team behind the classic roguelike game NetHack has posteda question: going forward, what internal representation should the NetHack core use for Unicode characters? UTF8? UTF32? Something else? (See also: NH4 blog, reddit. Also, yes, I have verified that the question authentically comes from the NetHack dev team.)

  2. TiVo File Encryption Cracked

    It · Encryption · · posted by kdawson · from the platform-equity dept. · 250 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "TiVo file encryption has been cracked. Details on the project can be found on the wiki. Mac and Linux users rejoice!" The project page says, "The conversion still requires the valid MAK of the TiVo which recorded the file, so it cannot be used to circumvent their protection, simply to provide the same level of access as is already available on Windows."