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Are furries pedos? I did not think that. I just assumed it was autism.

Meanwhile Chernobyl is safer than covid world, so loads of people are messing about there now.



I think its funny that there is still power but it makes sense as the other reactors are still working.

Are furries pedos? I did not think that. I just assumed it was autism.

Not all furries, necessarily (probably not even most), but some. I don't know how statistically significant the numbers are, but apparently a ton of Discord's moderation group (and maybe devs?) are furries.
Based merely on who I know in real life and via IRC, I'd say programming types are more prone to both autism and furriness than the general public. No idea about pedophilia though; I don't know anyone that I know is into that stuff thankfully.

Chernobyl's always cool.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 10 2021, 13:53

It cracks me up, that the stalkers in the zone almost have like an uber eats systems where you can pay for other stalkers to drop off supplies.

2020 meta - Stalkers, Dirty Stalkers, Excursions, Guards, Marauders and Settlers.

It cracks me up, that the stalkers in the zone almost have like an uber eats systems where you can pay for other stalkers to drop off supplies.
2020 meta - Stalkers, Dirty Stalkers, Excursions, Guards, Marauders and Settlers.

In one of Anthony Bourdain's travel videos, he went to the Chernobyl area to see what kind of food culture is in that immediate Ukraine region. There are guided and less guided tours in the area with time limits of course. The geiger counter was clicking pretty good.

I was about to buy some organic raisins one day. Then I remembered what I had read about groundwater contamination from atmospheric spread radionucleotides to adjacent countries. Then I didn't buy any more even though I had enjoyed the first package. Their organic dried raisins were very decent and very dry unlike those USA ones that are very moist (and heavy) since raisins are sold by weight not volume.
[agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...2/9781118962220

If you cannot read the above, your local library, like mine, might be able to provide free access to it. My library subscribes to various online and digitized databases of both publications and research books, and makes the content available for free to its subscribing members in good standing. Ha, ha, I don't get overdue books especially since I like to use the ebooks at the library instead of touching paper versions.

Raspberry Pi 3B+ doesn't have much ass (just enough to run a DE and a firefuchs with uBlock and a single digit tab count), but getting it to output the right display mode and wiring it's GPIO header into the PSU was trivial.
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Picture is a hair dim, but it's a 22 year old consumer grade CRT. It seems to be good enough to turn text/icon sizes down and get a good result, but I can't really use the forums on the dark skin, or use dark themes. It looks better IRL than it does here.
Anime tiddies, because ofc I would.


Current power switch is a dell cmos jumper.
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The existing chassis/psu wiring runs the light and works slicker than I thought- Light goes green when I turn on the PSU, screen lights up when valid video is detected. Buttons stays green, but screen turns off when blanked on video device because of inactivity- lights up again real quick. When I power down the Pi, screen goes out and light turns orange till I shut off the power.
(IMG:[i.postimg.cc] https://i.postimg.cc/xfZLfCvq/20210110-235700.jpg)
Turns out an un-shucked portable dvd drive fits in the chassis hole, so I guess I'm doing that, and I'll figure out a filler for the gap under it.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Jan 11 2021, 14:30

Not all furries, necessarily (probably not even most), but some. I don't know how statistically significant the numbers are, but apparently a ton of Discord's moderation group (and maybe devs?) are furries.
Based merely on who I know in real life and via IRC, I'd say programming types are more prone to both autism and furriness than the general public. No idea about pedophilia though; I don't know anyone that I know is into that stuff thankfully.

Chernobyl's always cool.

I read up a bit, its Twitter but twitter banned people to memory hole the connection. In 2020 there were different Twitter communities that had their VIP groups on Discord and twitter already being sleazy under the surface this lead to loads of incidents of what people call grooming.

It usually blows up with drama when people inevitably leak DMs. Its almost like there is a whole bunch of idiots on Twitter.

[agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...2/9781118962220

Already read parts of it during the Fukushima incident.

Raspberry Pi 3B+ doesn't have much ass (just enough to run a DE and a firefuchs with uBlock and a single digit tab count), but getting it to output the right display mode and wiring it's GPIO header into the PSU was trivial.

Why 3B instead of Pi4? Was it a price issue? Pi4 has so much more ram.

Edit: damn phone.
Pi 3B+ because I already had one. I bought it to run a ZNC and never did that.
I was pricing a 4B last night, but cost after a decent SD card, a case w/ fan, heatsinks, cable adapters; and raspbian being rather shitty, it doesn't make sense to use it as a desktop machine. Would still make sense as a usually headless low-power deal if you need a bit more power than a 3B+. I'm surprised a soft power button isn't an official hat for a 3 or 4.


Keyboard in my last post is a Cherry Stream, and I'm quite happy with it. Good actuation force, and keys have a nice crisp feel and no play, and has media keys.
It also has a calculator key, and it worked by default in xubuntu, so that's cool I guess.
Scissor key mechanism, but unsure what rollover it has. I'd imagine it's wired similarly to my Inspiron.
Tried to replace some keys on my G80, but one issue- the keys are Cherry profile, not OEM profile. The tops are the same, but Cherry is ~2mm shorter. The red Esc is fine because it's off by itself, and the extra height adds to the effect and doesn't get in the way. The super keys were unusable though.
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New key is double-shot molded PBT like the stock one.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Jan 11 2021, 14:42

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Can I have that wallpaper?

can't use the dark theme

Nice work; have you considered fucking with the dials on the flyback to correct the brightness? Not sure if there's a way to adjust it with, say, an arduino. I haven't touched a G3 in probably 14 years or more.
Also what resolution are you trying to run at? Lower resolutions should be clearer.
You also had to use an HDMI -> VGA active converter or something, didn't you? Have you tried that adapter on other screens? It might just be a low quality converter.

If using an Android phone for taking pics, and if the CRT is at around 60hz, do 1/30 or 1/60 for shooting with Open Camera (which allows manual exposure settings if Camera2 API is enabled in settings). Adjust as necessary for other vertical refresh rates.

My Commodore 1942 screen is older than that by about 6-8 years and still is pretty bright.


I used a pair of pliers applied directly to the motherboard as a power switch for around a year once.

To squeeze a little more power out you could also use something lighter than a DE, like [github.com] FVWM (my favorite). I've written two small programs to use with it for things I like - a gui for taking screenshots and a run dialogue.

Or really kick it old-school and run an old desktop like CDE on it, although CDE is kinda meh.
[sourceforge.net] https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
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This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 12 2021, 06:43

Wow, I see people using skate-boards again.
Will there be horseriders next?
Then cars made of stone, and Yabadabadoo?!!

Wow, I see people using skate-boards again.
Will there be horseriders next?
Then cars made of stone, and Yabadabadoo?!!

Skateboards and bright neon pants are very neo-80s. So hot right now.



edit: Is it safe to use firefox? They have gone full woke and are talking about doxing and de-platforming people.

I only like firefox because they are not spyware as much as google, but they have gone full retard.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jan 12 2021, 14:12

Sure. I did fit to height, then background fill was selected from a random blue pixel.

Connor Handke did a remix of Ferry's Faulty Feline Philosophy, that was the album cover for it. Original song below.



That display is the only CRT I own. I do have some LCDs that'll do VGA, but never tested the active adapter on another screen. When I booted up the stock motherboard, it displayed a question mark folder and I noticed that was rather dim (even moreso), and a bit off center. Incoming motherboard has VGA built in. The sharpness isn't bad actually, my camera's focus just couldn't deal. I haven't tried to open the top chassis, or looked for the service manual I know exists in the internet somewhere, yet.

Display mode used was 1280 x 768 75Hz. Phone is a 2017 lower end samsumg, with stock camera ap. I've noticed it's fine enough on 60Hz and 75Hz LCDs, but had never tried to photograph a CRT before. The scanning seems to cause artifacts and confuse the focus even more than the light would. I can't take a decent picture with black and shiny things in view.


Those software suggestions were for a raspberry pi, right? In either case, it was temporary until enough parts show up to put the intended board in it.

Speaking of, I only now noticed there's no USB 3 or wireless NIC on it. I suppose I'll get a pci-e usb card and use a riser cable, then have a wifi dongle inside plugged into a header on the card. I think I'll do 2 or 3 PCI-e brackets and some manner of mount to fill the hole where ports go. The hardest one will be a cat-6, I think. Maybe I can find a bracket meant for a wired NIC card, as I have panel mount cat-6 extensions. I noticed there's a serial header, which is tempting to bring out...

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Jan 12 2021, 14:29

Sure. I did fit to height, then background fill was selected from a random blue pixel.
Connor Handke did a remix of Ferry's Faulty Feline Philosophy, that was the album cover for it. Original song below.
[youtube.com] https://youtube.com/watch?v=KS13XGG8rAY

Thanks!

That display is the only CRT I own. I do have some LCDs that'll do VGA, but never tested the active adapter on another screen. When I booted up the stock motherboard, it displayed a question mark folder and I noticed that was rather dim (even moreso), and a bit off center. Incoming motherboard has VGA built in. The sharpness isn't bad actually, my camera's focus just couldn't deal. I haven't tried to open the top chassis, or looked for the service manual I know exists in the internet somewhere, yet.

Have you ever serviced a CRT before? If not, I'd be happy to step through it with you (if you're a tad brave). I think they're actually pretty fun to work on, so long as you stay safe/don't do stupid things. Since I've seen some of your other projects, I think you may enjoy it, too. The only thing I don't really love doing is swapping deflection yokes, but you shouldn't need to do that.
There should also be trimmer potentiometers somewhere on the board to adjust the horizontal positioning of the raster on the screen, if this is anything like other CRT's I've worked on. The horizontal size might either be a coil with a movable slug or a potentiometer.

From what I can tell, you should be able to reach the focus/grid potentiometers on the flyback without taking the whole thing apart with the G3's. Also, didn't you just say you were having trouble with viewing light text on dark backgrounds? That sounds like a sharpness problem to me… Unless the shadow mask is just not fine enough pitched (I don't think the old imac's used aperture grilles like trinitrons).

Display mode used was 1280 x 768 75Hz. Phone is a 2017 lower end samsumg, with stock camera ap. I've noticed it's fine enough on 60Hz and 75Hz LCDs, but had never tried to photograph a CRT before. The scanning seems to cause artifacts and confuse the focus even more than the light would. I can't take a decent picture with black and shiny things in view.

Yeah, I'd try using Open Camera (free, open source, no ads) and taking pics that way. You can also set a manual focus distance with it (at least on my phones). My earliest phone I remember using it on was a Nexus 6, which should be two or three years older than that Samsung. It's also really handy in some cases because you can make it save RAW's, too.

In either case, it was temporary until enough parts show up to put the intended board in it.

That's fair, of course.

Those software suggestions were for a raspberry pi, right?

Yeah, I was recommending it for low end machines, but I also use FVWM on my 3.3Ghz i5 desktop w/16GB RAM. It's really highly configurable, and once you're used to how it all works its flexibility is amazing. FVWM2 is pretty old but reliable and in most package managers; FVWM3 is a recent development and fixes things like multi-monitor support and properly supports using RandR (FVWM2 used Xinerama).
It also runs on my PS2, which only has 32MB RAM. And both versions support compositing if you use an external compositor like Compton or its forks.

Speaking of, I only now noticed there's no USB 3 or wireless NIC on it. I suppose I'll get a pci-e usb card and use a riser cable, then have a wifi dongle inside plugged into a header on the card. I think I'll do 2 or 3 PCI-e brackets and some manner of mount to fill the hole where ports go. The hardest one will be a cat-6, I think. Maybe I can find a bracket meant for a wired NIC card, as I have panel mount cat-6 extensions. I noticed there's a serial header, which is tempting to bring out...

You can probably put it in the place on the side of the G3 where the mezzanine slot was covered up. There are even screws there you could use for mounting.
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Skateboards and bright neon pants are very neo-80s. So hot right now.

I'd wear full denim if I want an 80's look. or maybe one of those diagonal zipping leather jackets.

edit: Is it safe to use firefox? They have gone full woke and are talking about doxing and de-platforming people.

I only like firefox because they are not spyware as much as google, but they have gone full retard.

IDK, I use Seamonkey which is based on it but definitely isn't it. Modern (post-60-something) firefox won't even compile for 32-bit powerpc (due to them using NodeJS in the build system, which depends on V8 ironically), and as a company I have watched them steadily go downhill for around a decade.
It might be safe to use, but I'd use a fork like icecat or something that doesn't have all the tracking stuff turned on by default (telemetry). The Firefox in the debian repos also has telemetry turned off IIRC.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 12 2021, 21:32

That's it, Flash (swf) is now being sabotaged by its maker, like .hlp files before it by Microsoft.
No longer possible to watch those files in browser or media player (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
I got the exe thingy that allow to still play it (not sure if it requires Flash installed or not since I still have it installed, and would probably be screwed if it requires and I uninstall), so I will still be able to play around with my many old Flash contents (Super Mario Bros Z notably)

That's it, Flash (swf) is now being sabotaged by its maker, like .hlp files before it by Microsoft.
No longer possible to watch those files in browser or media player (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
I got the exe thingy that allow to still play it (not sure if it requires Flash installed or not since I still have it installed, and would probably be screwed if it requires and I uninstall), so I will still be able to play around with my many old Flash contents (Super Mario Bros Z notably)

Seems you don't know much about flash.
[www.adobe.com] Stand-alone player
[web.archive.org] Debugger plugins (archive.org)

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 13 2021, 06:52

edit: Is it safe to use firefox? They have gone full woke and are talking about doxing and de-platforming people.
I only like firefox because they are not spyware as much as google, but they have gone full retard.

*cough* Firefox Studies *cough* You're automatically enrolled? You should check.
[support.mozilla.org] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield...ource=inproduct
In your FF setup options, about:preferences#privacy there is a section for FF data collection and use. In that section is a checkbox for FF Studies.

Firefox's big layoffs in early 2020 was led off by the official press release announcement which at first talked about diversity and how important it was. Then the layoff announcements were the middle third of the press release. Why weren't the layoffs first since the purpose of the press release was to announce the massive layoffs.... FF management therefore got criticized for being insensitive to the laid-off employees as second-class news, but FF management said the diversity issues have importance. Obviously more importance than core competency and the layoff of so many technical people and not layoffs of more "managers" and "diversity compliance" social management. I also didn't like how FF woke management obviously are aware of the financial problems, yet gave support to BLM. Companies in financial turmoil should conserve resources for company survival.

In the future, more of FF management, if not all, may become "woke" since non-woke ones will be laid off. It wouldn't be illegal for FF to create an excerpt (subset of reported data) of non-diversity websites a user visits provided that it can tie it into any existing Study purpose of seeing how users interact with certain types of websites. Since the new updated FireFox automatically (and quietly) enrolls users into FF Studies, the legal possibility is there that FF can be your "woke FaIrYgodmother" peeking over your shoulder and recording all right wing sites you visit to develop a social score quotient on the FF Studies Member. <-- this is a valid concept under the existing rules. Note that I am not saying this type of Study currently exists (now that FF Ion Study has closed), and it wouldn't be publicized if it did especially since it would be done server side due to all the data a Study member's browser can be directed to send back automatically for closer evaluation if the browser was so directed. The Ion Study could have been used to see what things and how much time users spent doing whatever they did at conservative websites, but in FF's defense, they aren't google/firefox/twitter/instagram/pinterest so they don't really deal with advertisers and political firms seeking to "share" and not buy the data. <-- note that companies are allowed to share even tho they all say they don't sell your data. My corporate employer uses a loophole in the laws which allows sharing of employee data within the organization. Thus the company purchased a stake in a company just as other corporations did. They then share parts of their databases into the company they jointly own. No data was sold because the data was only used within a subsidiary of the corporation. This is why people often need to interpret privacy statements at websites in terms of how lawyers and courts speak and not how laymen speak. The understanding of what actually happens may be quite different.

I guess there is a good point as to why FF laid off basically all their tech staff for these types of privacy issues. Such types of employees would be among the first to complain about such data being excerpted from collected data. But if there aren't any such employees, then there won't be any whistleblowing from such employees. Remember that I am not saying FF is already doing this. I am just a suspicious coot who has seen the phrase "If it can be abused, it will be abused" validated many times.

In your Firefox browser address bar, type: about:ion
"Ion puts your data to work to address some of today’s most pressing technology concerns, like misinformation, data privacy, and ethical AI."

"Ion puts your data to work for a better internet. Our goal is to better understand topics like internet usage, online privacy, algorithmic bias, discrimination, and misinformation. This in turn can lead to new products that fundamentally change the tech landscape and hand more power and control back to users."



"Learn some Chinese, not because you live or work here, because China is the future" Biden

Seems you don't know much about flash.
[www.adobe.com] Stand-alone player
[web.archive.org] Debugger plugins (archive.org)

Firefox plugin don't fix anything, and stand-alone player is what I had already found.

Firefox plugin don't fix anything, and stand-alone player is what I had already found.

You were claiming you thought removing the plugin would break standalone. This is false.
Mozilla is complicit with the removal of flash, so you'll need to use an older version and maybe tweak some things in about:config.
Works fine in seamonkey.

CODE

plugin.state.flash=2
plugins.flashBlock.enabled=false
dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode=true
plugin.flash.path=path-to-flashplayer-dll

path-to-flashplayer-dll might be something similar to 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\Macromed\\Flash\\NPSWF64_32_0_0_445.dll' on windows.
On my system (unix), it's '/home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so', since I'm using a library to wrap around the PPAPI version of the flash plugin from a ChromeOS device to get DRM video playback.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 13 2021, 15:31

a social score quotient on the FF Studies Member.

Or like a traffic light score for employment...... I was a bit worried when i saw that and how its used. The algorithms are closed source and last time I saw reports being used, I checked and it was weighted heavily against conservatives and people that like memes already. if its not politically correct as determined by whoever sets the algorithms then you get struck pretty hard. For entry level roles or competitive roles, good luck.

My corporate employer uses a loophole in the laws which allows sharing of employee data within the organization. Thus the company purchased a stake in a company just as other corporations did. They then share parts of their databases into the company they jointly own. No data was sold because the data was only used within a subsidiary of the corporation. This is why people often need to interpret privacy statements at websites in terms of how lawyers and courts speak and not how laymen speak. The understanding of what actually happens may be quite different.

Yeah I have seen that loophole used a lot. In my country it was used to cover up loads of data breaches by certain Asian country.

about:ion

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Building 84 now. During build process, more red flags:

CODE

Build system telemetry

Mozilla collects data about local builds in order to make builds faster and
improve developer tooling. To learn more about the data we intend to collect
read here:

  https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/telemetry.html

If you have questions, please ask in #build on Matrix:

  https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#build:mozilla.org

If you would like to opt out of data collection, select (N) at the prompt.

Would you like to enable build system telemetry? (Yn): n

Also, they don't use IRC anymore because of harassment or something I guess.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 13 2021, 19:52

I found a lot better of a board- USB 3 and wifi, or at least a slot to stick an upgrade m-pcie wifi card. And an absolute unit of a passive heatsink. Same CPU in it, I'll put the other board in the MSI windtop chassis I have.