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is that the actual devs saying that?

Yes.

Meanwhile; Humanity is pointless now.

It always was.

is that the actual devs saying that?

probably in the good wm4 days

Meanwhile; Humanity is pointless now.

theres good usecases for robotics advancing as well, at least a hand full of people working on these types of projects:

since genetically engineered catgirls are going to stay off limits for the foreseeable future this might be the way

This post has been edited by cate_chan: May 24 2022, 22:28

Created OpenStreeMap account and saw that the satellite data is courtesy of Bing. Judging from the images of Tanjung Manis area in Sarawak, Malaysia, it's severely outdated. The unfinished low-level water tank, pump house and raw water treatment plant and also some missing roads - the images were from between 2015-2016.

I made another seamonkey/pale moon addon to quickly switch to using tor (via SOCKS5 proxy) and back to normal with a toolbar button.

It's really handy. And also impossible to do on the modern firefox addon API since it changes about:config prefs. That and my webcomponents enable/disable toggler are lifesavers, since pixiv doesn't work without webcomponents but some other sites are better off using polyfills.

Side note: to make imgur less crap, set the cookies 'frontpagebetav2' and 'postpagebetalogged' to 0 and reload the page.

Also, Twitter's TOS update adds a "no reverse engineering/decompiling" clause. Fuck them. I'll do what I want. Good luck trying to enforce that clause, though. It never holds up.

Also I had to start reporting an FF 95 user agent string to twitter to use it in FF 89. Does that count as reverse engineering, since I had to analyze the problem and guess that it was trying to do some broken javascript to support "old" browsers?

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 27 2022, 05:16

probably in the good wm4 days

theres good usecases for robotics advancing as well, at least a hand full of people working on these types of projects:

since genetically engineered catgirls are going to stay off limits for the foreseeable future this might be the way

terrifying

This morning, my Internet was going quite wrong, so I eventually exited H@H, then decided to take this opportunity to perform the required soon Windows Update...
"MAMA MAMA, THERE'S AN IDIOT WRITING A POST HERE!!!"
"Shh, don't shout and point your finger at it"
While trying to use Internet to perform an update while Internet doesn't work is...intellectually doubtful, I think I did the right thing with H@H, as I think it did managed to finish all its stuff while exiting, and would have caused slowdown/things blocked for some site users if left alone.

I did lose some trust/quality, but it could have been much worst.

I cross compiled mplayer for windows today. -mconsole/-mwindows compiler flags are so stupid.

Also the program was quitting without telling me why, and it was actually because it was missing some DLL's and just didn't tell me.

I had to use wine on a linux machine to figure that out (since it prints debug messages).
Once again, Wine beats real windows.

I've been in unix land so long that I can't live without MSYS, emacs, and mplayer on windows installs.
Well, I could, but quality of life would be piss-poor. I've reached a point where I have active contempt for windows media player. And any other GUI media player like VLC/MPC-HC.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jun 4 2022, 03:26

I cross compiled mplayer for windows today. -mconsole/-mwindows compiler flags are so stupid.

Also the program was quitting without telling me why, and it was actually because it was missing some DLL's and just didn't tell me.

I had to use wine on a linux machine to figure that out (since it prints debug messages).
Once again, Wine beats real windows.

was there no way to get ldd to play along on windows to print what its (trying to) link to? I slightly recall being able to debug using it even on windows but its been a while since I had to deal with things on windows missing dlls

I've been in unix land so long that I can't live without MSYS, emacs, and mplayer on windows installs.

my personal pain is always lack of good terminal or wm, all such a bother

in other thoughts, while I still hate modern smartphones and despise their existance, their instant recognition and flawless use of cups print servers is a refreshing surprise. both on android and ios my old deskjet burried under a pile of junk and shared through cups on the mediaserver justworks™

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Jun 4 2022, 15:13

was there no way to get ldd to play along on windows to print what its (trying to) link to? I slightly recall being able to debug using it even on windows but its been a while since I had to deal with things on windows missing dlls.

Probably is a way, but I could not find it. I also did not even know it was a DLL problem until running in wine.

my personal pain is always lack of good terminal or wm, all such a bother

Forgot about that; yeah. I find myself holding alt to try to move a window rather often.
And for terminal, that's what MinTTY (part of MSYS) is for.

Keyboard remapping without admin rights is another sore spot for me (for remapping caps lock to control).
Even OS X does that right.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jun 4 2022, 16:30

Broke yet another X201 tablet palmrest.

It's the one part of this laptop that just keeps breaking. Argh.

I should buy like five to ten of them so when they stop being available on ebay I have a stock.
Maybe a couple of spare keyboards, too.

But that gets expensive fast.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jun 6 2022, 03:46

A musing instead of just lurking. Recently switched to using a USB soundcard meant for headsets (coaster looking thing about the diameter of a 12/16oz can, 3.5mm TRRS jack) on my KVM switch. I was starting to think the KVM was just leaking noise into the audio, but turns out neither machine can drive headphones. The Xonar in the linux box sucks all around, and the onboard sound in the gaming box is alright for speakers. The Sony MDR-7510 aren't that odd impeadance wise and are quite sensitive, but seem to demand a good source to sound decent. I suppose the larger drivers need a lower impeadance source to be controlled accurately.

So far, noticed zero issues with audio routing or transfer time- It seems to just take priority over the internal/PCI-e soundcards, and switching works just as fast as the monitor does. So far only tested with the default Windows 10 and Xubuntu 20.04LTS getup. It came with my QC35 II headset, and hadn't used it before, but suitably impressed. Shame Bose doesn't sell it as a standalone product, though I did see ones in good shape going for ~$60 on eBay.

[msrc-blog.microsoft.com] https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/05/30/...-vulnerability/

So Retarded. Microsoft wants uses to manually delete a registry entry rather than patch the problem for a zero-click exploit that grants an attacker the user's access rights.

Don't even look at rtf files from strangers on a windows machine atm. The windows explorer preview or file information can launch the exploit *face palm*

Also affects .doc or .docx except you have open the word doc in that case.

Windows 7 and 8 are safe from that vuln, as are really old builds of windows 10.

Windows 7 and 8 are safe from that vuln, as are really old builds of windows 10.

Ah shit I updated Win 10.




Holy Shoot this is the most hilarious April fools





They put way too much effort with the hopefully fake graphics cards.

Wish that effort could have been put towards signing some firmware for the Nouveau project.

Lol Amazon is so trash with knock off hardware. A cheapo card reader was packaged with dodgy drivers for credential stealing.

It was even recommended by an IT dude at DOD in the US for working from home but another IT professional found that the drivers were compromised by accident.

Its no wonder most US departments got hacked in 2019.

Just supply people with validated hardware and software. Its hard enough being paranoid about trying to train boomers to not click on every scam email link and attachment.

Lol Amazon is so trash with knock off hardware. A cheapo card reader was packaged with dodgy drivers for credential stealing.

It was even recommended by an IT dude at DOD in the US for working from home but another IT professional found that the drivers were compromised by accident.

Its no wonder most US departments got hacked in 2019.

Just supply people with validated hardware and software. Its hard enough being paranoid about trying to train boomers to not click on every scam email link and attachment.

What's funny is that the "IT guy" at the DoD who was recommending them wasn't even following their own policy, since you're required to get GSA approved hardware, for which [www.idmanagement.gov] there is a list. My guess is that the person recommending them isn't employed for long.

Attacks via supply chain had been a thing going as far back as the 2000s with the Chinese mucking with networking hardware before sending them to various defense and government agencies. It's why there's approved lists for vendors as well as blacklists these days. It's a pain in the ass to go through procurement, but there's a reason to do so, or else you're running a risk of getting something like [www.defenseone.com] VoIP phones that spy on you and your internal network.

But seriously, fuck the Chinese. They're the top threat these days when it comes to all of this shit for the past few decades. Russia was a far second in terms of threat followed by Israel.

This post has been edited by chriseras: Jun 8 2022, 07:59

What's funny is that the "IT guy" at the DoD who was recommending them wasn't even following their own policy, since you're required to get GSA approved hardware, for which [www.idmanagement.gov] there is a list. My guess is that the person recommending them isn't employed for long.

Yeah I always thought that was the policy but there seem to be a lot of blind spots in the past few years.

Its an accessory for computers, so maybe it slipped through like peripherals like mice and keyboards. Or the issue is the drivers.

Attacks via supply chain had been a thing going as far back as the 2000s with the Chinese mucking with networking hardware before sending them to various defense and government agencies.

Or graphics cards like that incident at pine gap.

It's why there's approved lists for vendors as well as blacklists these days. It's a pain in the ass to go through procurement, but there's a reason to do so, or else you're running a risk of getting something like

Then it all come undone because people are leaving USB with malware everywhere and hoping someone will plug them in.


Apple also fell victim to marketing vs engineering again:

Apple Engineer: Well... per watt, the M1 Ultra out performs the NVIDIA 3090

Apple Marketing: "the M1 Ultra out performs the NVIDIA 3090"

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jun 8 2022, 12:34

Apple also fell victim to marketing vs engineering again:

Apple Engineer: Well... per watt, the M1 Ultra out performs the NVIDIA 3090

Apple Marketing: "the M1 Ultra out performs the NVIDIA 3090"

Blast Processing 2: Electric Boogaloo

Blast Processing 2: Electric Boogaloo

Apple M1 Ultra with max cores and memory has as much vram as a quadro (slower?) and as much performance per watt (but far lower wattage) as a 3090 and that justifies the price.

I wonder if it has the professional driver certification so they can charge quadro like prices. Its Nvidia's fault for being a bitch to charge that much for that in the first place.