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Marcus R. Brown

@mrbrodev

Navigating fatherhood and coding. Committed to open-source, renowned hardware hacker. Infusing an LLM mindset into tools designed to copilot life. 🦾👨🏽‍💻🎮

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Joined March 2009
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1/6 WITNESSETH! A thread with history of how Sony had treated us "hackers" in the past. Sony attempted to drive me out of games for years for legally opening the PS2 and PSP. This "agreement" went down before the George Hotz lawsuit on PS3. I'll add the background in the thread
Page one of forced agreement with SCEA. To continue lawful development of PS2 games, I had to sign this with Budcat principals. This page outlines my "crimes".

ALT Page one of forced agreement with SCEA. To continue lawful development of PS2 games, I had to sign this with Budcat principals. This page outlines my "crimes".

Page two of an agreement I had to sign to protect my livelihood. Sony inked in a blurb to serve as a gag order except for SCEI and SCEE. All of these companies are just PlayStation now, afaik.

ALT Page two of an agreement I had to sign to protect my livelihood. Sony inked in a blurb to serve as a gag order except for SCEI and SCEE. All of these companies are just PlayStation now, afaik.

Riley Russell was telling his friends/connections all about this agreement, outside of Sony. I later had heard from Budcat that Sony told Nintendo I was hacking their systems. I had never publicly released any hacks for any Nintendo system. I was working on a Wii game as a lead programmer when I was told about the lie.

ALT Riley Russell was telling his friends/connections all about this agreement, outside of Sony. I later had heard from Budcat that Sony told Nintendo I was hacking their systems. I had never publicly released any hacks for any Nintendo system. I was working on a Wii game as a lead programmer when I was told about the lie.

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Creating a Personal Automation grants the shortcut behind it access to resources. This one uses Send Message, which means Shortcuts implicitly grants access to any action belonging to an app. Dropbox and iCloud are storage providers, and it makes sense to give access to Home.
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It dawned on me to create a reminder while editing an automation in the Shortcuts app, using Siri. A serialized NSUserActivity is attached to the generated reminder. The editor launches when you tap the icon, but using the Library editor instead of the Automations interface.
The image is a partial screenshot of the Reminders app on iOS 14.6, displaying a Shortcuts automation attached to a reminder. The reminder shares its name with the automation. Tapping the icon opens the Shortcuts Library editor instead of the default Automations editor.

ALT The image is a partial screenshot of the Reminders app on iOS 14.6, displaying a Shortcuts automation attached to a reminder. The reminder shares its name with the automation. Tapping the icon opens the Shortcuts Library editor instead of the default Automations editor.

This screenshot shows one of my Personal Automations open inside of the Shortcuts Library editor. The Share button and Details panel are both available.

ALT This screenshot shows one of my Personal Automations open inside of the Shortcuts Library editor. The Share button and Details panel are both available.

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Replying to @zoshi_eth @BaptisteGreve @SetProtocol @MakerDAO @compoundfinance @tokensets @synthetix
Hey just installed the app, but I get a crash on launch - iOS 13
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At @MoneroKon today 💯
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I had a great time on the panel for @ASULawCLE Blockchain Speaker Series! Thanks to Ceci for moderating and putting it together! #BlackInBlockchain
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I did an interview this morning with @NewconomyM on "investing in blockchain gaming" (starts at 2:40). It didn't seem too specific to investing and it was fun to do! igg.ms/2S0iuzi
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It was a great panel! Big ups to @HadasZeilberger @pyskell @o_rourke @ViragMody @Yazanator for being amazing panelists and for the surprise $btc sneak attack from @_Kevin_Pham! Ethereum vs. Ethereum Classic @tabconf
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No ‘bull$h!t’ allowed at @tabconf! The setup at GSU is nice and lots of room for tomorrow’s panel. I got a podium 🤔
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Kicking off @tabconf at @GABeerGarden 🍻🥨 Finally met @pyskell and @Yazanator in person!
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Excited to particpate as moderator of the $ETC vs. $ETH panel at @tabconf in Atlanta this Sunday! I’m working on a list of questions to ask the panelists, navigating differences in philosophies and similarities in tech.
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