Why is it scrambled? To keep people from copying it?
Yes. Common practice to hide your code from the user, or potential rivals. I think they’ve been obfuscating the whole time, even back in Notch days.
It was kinda pointless in this case, and was the reason why mod updates were slow between versions, even for simple mods.
Looks like the house was right on the water. It’s possible their only escape from the house was onto the beach or into the water.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_over_Coax_Alliance
Similar idea to powerline adapters, except over coax lines instead.
Winner takes all only applies to presidential elections. In this case, they are redistricting for more congressional seats.
Looks like TrueNAS.
https://fex-emu.com/
They are referring to FEX-Emu, which is already open source (MIT).
I think the idea is that they will adopt it and contribute some development, similar to what they did with proton.