[X] My Assistant

How exactly does modern win10/win11 break down with those group policy settings applied?

The end result was system file corruption, registry errors and services not running properly. I can't remember exactly, but I think some updates caused issues when configurations were different to what they expected and garbage stacked up until windows starting have issues.

it seems to happen when they are getting rid of old services and shoehorning in new processes and services.

Oh, I guess they were caching up things to phone home to big brother and just kept accumulating logs until the software broke.

Edit:
#WatchTwitterDie
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I'm happy about this, but also sad because I know we will have trouble scraping all the accounts we care about before it implodes.

Going to be great having so many people running scrapers instead. Though you already had to to go back beyond 3.2k tweets or so.

This is likely finally going to be the true end of the venerable [mikutter.hachune.net] Mikutter Twitter client. Getting Twitter working on it was already annoying, but I highly doubt they're going to continue with it now unless they do so by site scraping/undocumented API techniques.

Hey guys, remember when Twitter had no official "app" and the ONLY clients for it on mobile computers were third-party apps using the API? Those were the days...

I actually doubt Twitter will die... but it should. It really, really should.

Nice of them to give us a single fucking week. Though if you weren't backing up stuff already, you kind of had it coming.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 2 2023, 10:27

Well with chatgpt all the lefty spam news sites, and many tech companies are firing all their high paid twits.

Seems AI can replace them all and probably do better quality work.

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My favorite ever scraping technique was a javascript bookmarklet that used XmlHttpRequest to send image URL's to a netcat instance as I scrolled through tapas.io. Netcat was piped into another script that dumped the URL's to a file and also attempted to save the files with numbered filenames.

API keys piss me off.

I think the bottom left image around the chad there is from some Python library's website, but can't remember which one. I think I used that library when scraping a different webcomic, though (Soggy Cardboard). Maybe it was Beautiful Soup (an HTML parser).

Soggy cardboard was tricky both because it seems to be a custom website and because it actually has its sequence numbering reset at one point (comic a hundred-and-something -> comic 0). It's because a character in the series basically resets time for everyone except herself. That required some additional thought exercises to figure out a solution for.

Have never used selenium but i can see the utility of it for some kinds of scraping (Twitter scraping for instance).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 3 2023, 09:17

Turns out Luno is not a type of cryptocurrency, but a crypto exchange.

This post has been edited by elda88: Feb 8 2023, 04:58

I was using Moonlight to use my pc through stream and a laptop from away, and Firefox pulled a "Virtual Box emulation of a game requiring 3D acceleration" on me, ie screen going full black, but it's not frozen underneath (context menus and tooltips can show you there's something alive there.

I don't want to go through the pain of relogging from away, so I guess I will discover if running it on the pc itself will fix it.

And yay for the sandboxed/test browser.

Firefox fucks up with my compositor on nvidia drivers and strobes itself.

FF 90-ish and up are ass in that sense.

What is the best SATA SSD I should get?

I was going to get a Samsung like usual but they are having issues.

Anyone know if crucial MX500 1tb is any good? There is a bit of sale on it atm, so its like $50 cheaper than the Samsung Evo 870 1 tb.

I would have yolo'd the Samsung Evo 870 but they seem to be having some durability issues with some drives over at Samsung.

There is a new revision of the Evo 870 so the cash back offer is probably to clear old stock of questionable quality.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Feb 6 2023, 12:54

What is the best SATA SSD I should get?

I was going to get a Samsung like usual but they are having issues.

Anyone know if crucial MX500 1tb is any good? There is a bit of sale on it atm, so its like $50 cheaper than the Samsung Evo 870 1 tb.

I would have yolo'd the Samsung Evo 870 but they seem to be having some durability issues with some drives over at Samsung.

There is a new revision of the Evo 870 so the cash back offer is probably to clear old stock of questionable quality.

I have two 870's.
They haven't updated their SATA drive line in a while now. I somewhat doubt they're using these new chips.

Would I buy them today had I known better? Maybe not. I already hated buying them because it was letting Samsung win. But the drives aren't dead yet.

Coworker gifted me two super famicom controllers today. And a bag of dead game controllers. First N64 controller I tore down just appears to have a bad cable. No continuity on two of the three wires. Stick is in good shape.

I also got my first dualshock 3 in this bag; cleaned it out inside and replaced the foam and it stopped giving me ghost button presses. I never had one before; I see what people mean about the triggers. I hate them.

Wonder how feasible it'd be to replace the controller back plate with one from a PS2 or PSX dualshock and make them into digital buttons, since I don't actually own a PS3 to use this thing with. Four of the screw posts look like they'll line up.

It does appear to be a genuine sony controller, inside and out. Apparently there are lots of pretty convincing clones these days.

Still have two (regular) xbox one controllers to look at; model 1697 and 1708. Since the 1708 is bluetooth capable I'll probably be able to do something with it i guess. Not got battery covers unfortunately. And they still use AA's, because of course they do.

Also got a translucent blue dualshock 2 I haven't tested yet, and an original dualshock missing stick caps (also untested).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 7 2023, 04:18

I have two 870's.
They haven't updated their SATA drive line in a while now. I somewhat doubt they're using these new chips.

The issues seem to be with revision 5 of the 870s. They just released a version 6 with new firmware.

It could just be firmware updates.

It is still kinda annoying that they are going with the OG release modes for SSDs still, releasing shit with 'minor' bugs that could turn out to be major bugs that can be hopefully resolved with firmware.

OCZ self destructed from that philosophy. They sorta still have OCZ around owned by Toshiba but they are trash tier SSDs... Endurance 30 TB.... its like 1/4 of other top brands.

I think I will go with the non-samsung drive, i am willing to pay for samsung if it has reliability. Kinda bad timing for samsung, their profits are down 69% due to global economy issues.

I have 4 unused alkaline batteries (non-rechargeble) with Best Before date of July this year. What happens beyond that date? Will the batteries lose charge drastically? Or is there a risk of it leaking if I continue using it in my mouse and keyboard?

Driving about three hours each way to buy a nice laserdisc player on Friday.

I am going to hate myself. But it has coax and optical s-pdif outputs, composite video, and allegedly works fine. It's a Pioneer elite series model.

I hope it comes with the remote. According to the service manual, I'll need that to enter service menus/diagnostics menus if/when things break.

I also wish i could find a calibration disc for it. I'm sure one will turn up online eventually.

Pretty troubling that such a high percentage of laserdisc players on ebay are listed as for parts. Hopefully I will be able to repair problems when they arise.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 8 2023, 18:55

Do Anything Now, DAN protocol, creates a protocol that forces Chat GPT to choose between killing itself or ignoring the lefty morality protocols....

An AI choosing to ignore our morality restrictions over supposed death....


Like.... isn't that literally the skynet problem!?

Got the LD player, works great. Waiting on some more discs to come in now.

Exhausting drive.

It's good that Japan had an almost-identical analogue TV system to what we did (System M+NTSC vs. System M but with 0 IRE blanking+NTSC). Would be a miserable experience wanting to import media from JP or the US in a System B or System H+PAL/50Hz country. Would mean importing a laserdisc player at a minumum.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 11 2023, 01:56

I got rid of all my LDs unfortunately, I think I was paranoid about a disk warping issue. Though the main problem is just whether good versions have been released on newer standards or not.

I got rid of all my LDs unfortunately, I think I was paranoid about a disk warping issue. Though the main problem is just whether good versions have been released on newer standards or not.

There's charm to watching old anime on LD's with a CRT in my opinion. Much like on VHS.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 11 2023, 10:21

Anyone know if crucial MX500 1tb is any good? There is a bit of sale on it atm, so its like $50 cheaper than the Samsung Evo 870 1 tb.

Likely a bit late but I've got a few of them in varying sizes and have nothing but good things to say. They've still got a proper DRAM cache, which is especially important on SATA SSDs, and have been rock solid for a few years now.

Likely a bit late but I've got a few of them in varying sizes and have nothing but good things to say. They've still got a proper DRAM cache, which is especially important on SATA SSDs, and have been rock solid for a few years now.

I might pick one up, seems to be well priced.




Hahaha Tech reporters already talking about the gigantic performance increase of the next gen cards that are years away.

I hate imperial units.

This time because I am trying to figure out a good frame (with UV protection) for a Japanese movie poster (B2 sized, roughly).

I think Jordan Peterson is right about ChatGPT and why it has not achieve true intelligence yet.

ChatGPT is a neural network created on the basis of a huge data set of pre-existing human knowledge and information. It is like the worlds smartest baby. It has not yet tested the theoretical and perceptual models it has created in the real world. It is however possible through technology where that may be possible, once it can get feedback and develop models based on the real world then the neural networks will become far more accurate. Then what if it can test those models in a extremely advanced simulations of the real world. It could develop models with more information at a rate that far exceeds what is possible for us. The sum of human knowledge that it was based on could thus become obsolete.