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Or graphics cards like that incident at pine gap.

It's strange how people say it's not possible because it was in a TV show ([www.imdb.com] listed as "Factual error") when almost 2 years ago, I posted a link to the research paper that demonstrates that something like that is possible along with a host of other methods listed in said paper.

Apple doesn't need to get stuff certified for dumb professionals to buy their products.

Though I'd rather suffer through Mac OS than Windows any day (at least Mac OS comes with emacs).

It's strange how people say it's not possible because it was in a TV show ([www.imdb.com] listed as "Factual error") when almost 2 years ago, I posted a link to the research paper that demonstrates that something like that is possible along with a host of other methods listed in said paper.

Yeah the real issue was compromised firmware that allowed potential breech of networking protocols or other security protocols.

Not magic wireless, though theoretically possible. I have found that Lidar can be used for audio spying.

More recently there were zero day attacks that allowed unsigned code to run on comps running nvidia cards with older drivers.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jun 11 2022, 02:47

Me: Damn, lost hours of work
Computer: It's your fault, you clicked on the wrong window before typing
Me: You want me to throw YOU through the RIGHT window, you *;$ piece of junk?!

Me: Damn, lost hours of work
Computer: It's your fault, you clicked on the wrong window before typing
Me: You want me to throw YOU through the RIGHT window, you *;$ piece of junk?!

it'll always be an issue that computers do what you tell them instead of what you want them to do

it'll always be an issue that computers do what you tell them instead of what you want them to do

At least it would not have happened in Windows XP and earlier, back when what was in focus was more obvious, and there weren't weird GUI like dark-themed things or big white rectangles with filling.

I just HUGELY improved memory usage in my personal fork of mcomix by doing some manual garbage collection while generating image thumbnails.

Went from consuming around 50% of my RAM (growing every time it made a new thumbnail) to consuming about 10%.

Unfortunaely pypy3 will occasionally hang if you try to use it with mcomix now (with these changes).
I recommend cpython anyway, since mcomix in particular uses a lot of C bindings which are slower in pypy. Before implementing this garbage collection stuff, though, pypy would "leak" less RAM than cpython did.
My guess is pypy is not deleting references to open files automagically, since that would mean it can reach the limit on open handles for the process. Fixable, but that's additional work to do.

Not bad for around eight lines of code (including 'import gc' in three files).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jun 13 2022, 17:14

All my ROCCAT mice have developed scroll wheel problems since I bought them... I really like their mice but they need to get their shit together.

At least it would not have happened in Windows XP and earlier, back when what was in focus was more obvious, and there weren't weird GUI like dark-themed things or big white rectangles with filling.

I'm honestly still not sure what microsoft is trying at this point, especially looking at windows 11 its just a giant mess of UI. not evn the 'oh but it makes sense in mobile' angle works anymore.

All my ROCCAT mice have developed scroll wheel problems since I bought them... I really like their mice but they need to get their shit together.

while the quality is going to be questionable as well, have you considered buying just the scrollwheel parts for it?

in other arguably technology related thoughts which should probably go into the q/a thread instead: every other week or so when I switch all my computer and room stuff on with the master switch the ground fault detection trips. makes me think its some moisture somewhere or something? if things were seriouly shorted it should always trip right away right.
starting to feel like roulete every time I turn my stuff on now

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Jun 14 2022, 21:08

I'm honestly still not sure what microsoft is trying at this point, especially looking at windows 11 its just a giant mess of UI. not evn the 'oh but it makes sense in mobile' angle works anymore.

while the quality is going to be questionable as well, have you considered buying just the scrollwheel parts for it?

in other arguably technology related thoughts which should probably go into the q/a thread instead: every other week or so when I switch all my computer and room stuff on with the master switch the ground fault detection trips. makes me think its some moisture somewhere or something? if things were seriouly shorted it should always trip right away right.
starting to feel like roulete every time I turn my stuff on now

hard disk spinup?

I need to put some of my HDD's on a switch so they don't get power until I flip it (after the rest of the HDD's in my PC have spun up). Otherwise my PSU dies. Right now I'm just unplugging and plugging in.

Or I could buy a new PSU.
Nah.

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Had to spoof my MAC address to get a working network connection today (we have a whitelist for ethernet MAC addresses, and for whatever reason I couldn't re-add my existing one after it expired).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jun 15 2022, 10:11

Eso, a long time ago now you asked me if my contrast (brightness?) got reduced when I calibrated my screen.

I finally have a proper answer for you. Depending on your target gamma curve (and your display's native gamma curve), contrast may be reduced.

For instance, my PowerBook G4's screen has a tendency to crush both blacks and whites when uncalibrated. This might have something to do with the aging of the CCFL backlight, potentially, but in any event the result is that images look very contrasty but very dark and very bright areas of an image might just appear as pure black or pure white. When I calibrate using an sRGB gamma function as the target, the result looks significantly more "flattened" than the defaults. That might have something to do with how old Apple stuff used a display gamma of 1.8.

On my other screens, the gamma functions are pretty close ot that of sRGB, so things look pretty much as they should when targetting sRGB.

If I target the native gamma of the display when calibrating the powerbook, I don't lose much if any contrast/brightness.

I suppose the issue with mine is that the panels in the previous model outperforms it from factory and part of that may be due to the bugged OSD settings, like Gamma 1.9 and 2.2 being inverted or could just be a bait and switch that tech manufacturers love to do these days.

Previous model won loads of awards so then once that rep is out there, then you can milk it and downgrade the next revision.

In the reviews, they use multiple color calibration tools to dial it in, but not sure that is worth it for me.

Various tech tubers use an online site to calibrate or to check for dead pixels, i forgot the site though but i remember seeing Linus from LTT using it.

Before you go to a website to display screens of test patterns, check the monitor's options to see if it already has such display diagnostic screens built in. My samsung monitor had those options to show an all red/green/blue screens to look for dead pixels of that color.

Otherwise: [deadpixeltest.org] https://deadpixeltest.org

I suppose the issue with mine is that the panels in the previous model outperforms it from factory and part of that may be due to the bugged OSD settings, like Gamma 1.9 and 2.2 being inverted or could just be a bait and switch that tech manufacturers love to do these days.

Previous model won loads of awards so then once that rep is out there, then you can milk it and downgrade the next revision.

In the reviews, they use multiple color calibration tools to dial it in, but not sure that is worth it for me.

IMO it is, since with good colorimeters the primaries don't degrade very fast and you can keep using the same one(s) for decades after the initial purchase. If you get one that uses glass primary filters (like i1 DisplayPro/Colormunki Display) then it will probably outlive multiple screens.

I was thinking about a global open ISP and some DNS stuff.

Car lost a rear mud flap today. Apparently Volvo still sells them and they really aren't that expensive (under $20), but it's still annoying as hell.

Finally, after dying for so long..... IE is Dead....

Tested my personal website recently; it renders correctly in IE5 (except for drop shadow effects, which I consider completely non-essential).

Finally, after dying for so long..... IE is Dead....

yet as with any microsoft garbage, its never fully gone and still in their latest stuff.
within edge you can enable reloading tabs in 'internet explorer mode' which handles everything nearly the same, even allowing internet explorer java and flash plugins to run for old site frontends (work related ancientware). I suspect theres going to be more than a bit of ie code floating around eternally in there, all exploits included

Tested my personal website recently; it renders correctly in IE5 (except for drop shadow effects, which I consider completely non-essential).

the real question is does the layout still seem usable in lynx and w3m, most sites survive okay but some of the modern or content heavy stuff takes a tumble when wrung through the cli browsers. usually find it a decent test to see if I went too far with a page to throw in one of those

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Jun 19 2022, 18:49

My computer, screen and everything just suddenly shut down.
I think my UPS may have overheated.
Way to do exactly the opposite of what's it's for: preventing everything to suddenly shut down (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

edit: one more power shutdown later, much longer this time (and could confirm some street lights and the corridor lights were gone too), nope the UPS is not responsible, it's just not doing its job, battery must be dead (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
I'm hesitant to restart H@H or try to reuse my pc normally right now (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

edit2 (19 of June): saw on an official site power is supposed to come back at 00:00 or 00:30, and it's 22:10. I'm gonna shutdown my computer for today to be sure.

edit3 (21 of June): damn it, are they letting their babies play with axes near the cables or something?

This post has been edited by uareader: Jun 21 2022, 17:23