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| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-07, 11:17 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
 Post: #21 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by Kawa But sometimes there are posters that are not toxic or are harmful to the community, but whose opinions you strongly disagree to and you simply wish to not read them. Think more on it as "personal sanity" rather than active harassment, and hence why custom filtering is a good idea to have. When posters become actively poisonous, yeah, that's when proper moderation should kick in. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-09, 23:01 in First!
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Dinosaur
Post: #22 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
What does mean the post counter here? For example, for most users the values are equal (a new user with a single post would read "1/1"), while for some other the readings are... weird. For example, my last post here reads "13/21", and even Kawa's posts on THIS page have different readings (34/46, 46/46). Is that a sort of "post number / total post count"? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-10, 17:40 in Cartoons, imported (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #23 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I now learned Crunchyroll is now dubbing anime to my glorious Latin American Spanish (including things like popular licenses like Re:Zero), and that someone also figured out how to pirate Netflix shit (fuck them for 1- not having a free tier, 2- zero Linux compatibility [outside installing Chrome], and 3- their "no simulcasts, EVER" model), so I guess I'll finally be able to watch anime made this decade. My first target? Little Witch Academia. Wish me luck~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-10, 18:54 in Cartoons, imported
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Dinosaur
Post: #24 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by creaothceann Already took care of that. And the "hardware decoding because HD" bit (now you get why all of my UVD pains, so I don't have too plug the laptops to the external display) is also mostly solved. Even storage is not a problem anymore, thanks to my pile of refurb HDDs (and the fact there is still a small number of new dubs) What I need now is time... ... and Netflix licensing titles I actually want to watch: their dubbed anime catalog is mostly junk to me, I'm not into mecha or gore stuff at all, yet for whatever reason they often license/coproduce that kind of stuff the most. Crunchyroll picks are quite interesting: for example, Free! got a dub out of the blue Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-10, 18:58 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #25 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Feature request: a "Ignore thread" option, so the board never tells me there are new posts on whatever thread I want to ignore. Case in point: the Politics thread. It would work this way: open your undesired thread for the last time ever, click "Ignore", done. Board never applies the "new posts" status to it, posts to it do not get reflected into the Last Posts section, etc. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-11, 00:15 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #26 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Awesome, your a god~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-11, 20:51 in Cartoons, imported
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Dinosaur
Post: #27 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I had a friend years ago that referred to SAO as "Stretch Ass Online". Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-11, 23:18 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #28 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Even if you aren't a chemistry nerd (and if you're a dweller at the bBoards, chances are you aren't one), you will enjoy this series of blogposts from an actual chemist that earns a living making drugs (of the legal variety!): Things I Won't Work With Things I'm Glad I Don't Do His posts are quite understandable, even for those that their only knowledge of chemistry are blowing up things at high school classrooms. Look for "Satan's kimchi", "cocaine-soaked cobras", "hexanitro" and "the scientists-to-limbs ratio" for some good (if dangerous!) fun. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-12, 23:40 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #29 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I could easily go over 100 posts if someone or something triggers me. Say: cellphones, Javascript, AAA videogames, shit I have to live in my shithole, dumb computer users, hard disk drives, or my newest obsession: banknotes. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-13, 23:05 in Board feature requests/suggestions (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #30 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I still want a dark text over light background theme. I've tested all the themes currently listed, and so far I've settled with Old Metal, which offers a decent contrast for this somewhat busted-up LCD panel on my Dell (very readable as long as the CCFL lamp has been given enough time to warm up). But one of the things I still miss from the original bBoard is the default theme (IIRC it was called "Serenity"). So... pretty please? I get you nerds love your DOS console-esque dark themes, but I stopped using CRT displays for computing purposes years ago! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-16, 13:42 in First!
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Dinosaur
Post: #31 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I could have registered on Launch Day to get my single-digit UID. Sadly I registered on (Launch Day)+3, so my ePeen is not happy :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-16, 13:48 in sr.ht, a new software forge
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Dinosaur
Post: #32 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Be aware that at the end of the day, you're still hosting your code at Other People's Computers™, and if said people don't find ways to make the service profitable to cover operating costs (said computers are not free, same for moving electrons across power or data wires, and even your precious freon [or whatever RoHS-compliant gas they use nowadays] for keeping those electrons cool isn't cheap either), well, hope you don't rely on those sites for keeping your sole backup. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-16, 14:13 in Your daily dose of processor unit vulnerabilities
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Dinosaur
Post: #33 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Another day, another load of Spectre/Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities get disclosed by researchers: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/11/14/181225/researchers-discover-seven-new-meltdown-and-spectre-attacks Yes, it seems those now come in But this doesn't end here: it seems we now have Meltdown for GPUs! https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Uni-GPU-Side-Channel-Flaw ...not that GPUs have been guilty-free before, but this certainly is new. For now nVidia is affected (:linusfuckyou.jpg:), but presumably AMD may be impacted too. This doesn't surprise me, as GPUs and its device drivers are very complex beasts with a huge attack surface that it's only now being explored and exploited. Anyway, expect more performance-crippling software patches to come in the future, despite the fact there are no real-world exploits doing the rounds yet (exploiting Spectre/Meltdown is doable if you're a well-funded nation-state level actor, but not exactly at the reach of Babby's My First Skript Kiddy Toolkit). Or simply give up computers for good - after all, a secure PC is one that is sitting inside its shipping box, not to be plugged to anything EVER. Make sure to remove the CMOS/RTC battery too! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-16, 14:22 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #34 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims Dude, seriously!? Y U NO BACKUPS!? If your work footage is worth that much, why the hell are you misconfiguring your software with potentially dangerous settings!? No, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU NEGLECTING TO PERFORM BACKUPS FIRST AND FOREMOST!?!?!?!? Sure, Adobe software is garbage (and it's easy to blame them when shit hits the fan, considering they've made trully horrible stuff like... Flash or Acrobat), but so are computers, and any computer user should be very aware that computers are ticking time bombs, and if your data is worth SOMETHING, you have to act accordingly and BACKUP YO' SHIT. This guy deserves to lose the lawsuit and to be billed massively by your nearest data recovery service. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-16, 20:11 in PSA: The kilogram has been redefined (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #35 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46143399 https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/11/16/162253/kilogram-gets-a-new-definition A bunch of scientists have decided that the current reference for the kilogram (a shiny cylinder made of pure platinum safely stored somewhere in France) is no longer accurate (apparently metals age or something, losing weight and therefore rendering any speck of accuracy completely moot), and they have been pushing for years to switch to non-material ways to define weight. They've succeeded, and starting in 2019/05/20, the kilogram will now be based to the Planck constant, or the mass of a particle of energy (correct me if I'm wrong, but we were never taught such advanced stuff at school, and I didn't pursued a career in pure physics). Mind you, this also hits other SI base units, to match the same criteria already used for measurements like length and time. And if you're one of those Imperial system smartasses, think again: your glorious pound is already tied to the reference kilogram, which means these changes WILL impact those LOLunits too. Anyway, if you're Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-17, 04:32 in Your daily dose of processor unit vulnerabilities (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #36 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by BMF54123 To opt-out of this madness: - Linux: append "pti=off spectre_v2=off l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier" to your kernel commandline (exact arguments may vary depending on your specific architecture). Details! - Windows: You can edit the registry. Or for a more Windows-esque user friendly solution, run this checker tool which (when run as admin) allows you to toggle both protections on and off. I haven't noticed that all of my vulnerable PCs are slower due to the fixes - good ol' software bloat already takes care of that. But I'll keep those switches in mind for future usage. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-20, 02:04 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #37 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
From the new Sony that now bans boobs, force Japanese developers to submit their release applications in English, and now skips the E3, we get their next "innovation" in gaming: blockchain! https://games.slashdot.org/story/18/11/19/1845213/blockchain-gaming-is-coming-to-the-ps4 Apparently someone forgot to relay the memo to Sony and IBM: blockchain is no longer hot. Oh, speaking about IBM, it seems they now own the house of systemd. And CentOS/RHEL. And JBoss/WildFly. And other things for computerizing blockchains in The Clown. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-20, 03:29 in MS is about to release a discless Xbone, this time for real! (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #38 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Right now this rumor is doing the rounds: https://games.slashdot.org/story/18/11/16/2253219/cheaper-disc-free-xbox-one-coming-next-year-report-says https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/report-cheaper-disc-free-xbox-one-option-coming-next-year/ https://www.thurrott.com/xbox/192184/microsofts-building-a-disc-less-xbox-one-for-release-in-2019 While this is only a "unsourced report" so far, knowing MS' games division it wouldn't be too far-fetched: remember, they tried to pull this very same stunt all the way back prior to the Xbone release (remember the "TV TV TV TV!!!!" stuff), trying to tie discs to devices/accounts, killing the second-hand market and heavily eroding YOUR consumer rights in the meanwhile. Fortunately common sense prevailed, and after gamers revolted and threatened to make the PS4 the winner of this round of the console wars (spoilers: it actually happened, if sales charts are to be believed), forcing MS to backpedal and shelve their shady plans... for a time. Well, it seems they're back to the same crap (they claim that this will be an alternative hardware version for those already heavily invested into a digital-only market), but this time the reactions of the gamer public have been... less radical, so far. Unlike five years ago, a not so insignificant group actually WELCOMES this (not so consumer-friendly) move, claiming that they've yet to insert a disc on their Xbones and that they live in the Fairyland with unhackable credit cards, unmetered gigabit connections with five-nines availability, and bottomless HDDs (hint: upgrading the HDD on a Xbone is NOT a trivial operation and will void your warranty, unlike in the PS4 where Sony actually makes the procedure as user friendly as possible). Everybody wants cheaper consoles, but nobody cares about cheaper games, it seems (from what I've been able to read so far, consoles rarely -if ever- have Steam-like sales, and even worse, digital-only games can be as expensive as physical releases... if not even more costly outright!). Oh, and if you STILL want to play your game discs bought with your hard earned cash on those "alternative" discless Xbones, MS has got you "covered": they will allow you to "trade-in" your discs in exchange for licenses tied to your account. Not only you will be forced to forfeit your precious discs, but should you ever get the banhammer, you might lose your games forever. Much progress! Don't get me started with the whole game preservation angle... which unfortunately has been rendered quite pointless with "50GB+ launch day" patches and endless truckloads of DLCs :/ But hey, this is the future you gamers want. If the PS5 or Xbox 4 are going to embrace the discless digital utopia, why even bother buying consoles in the first place?! Remember, they're heavily locked down x86-64 PCs, so why not commit yourself to jump ship to PC Master Race™ for real? Ugh, I'm glad I no longer have time to play videogames anymore, much less to pay attention to what the industry pretends to disguise as "modern videogames" nowadays. Between this and the cellphone junk, this genre of entertainment is as doomed as TV and music. EDIT: There might be a very good reason of why MS is reconsidering their discless plans, so here goes my conspiracy theory: currently the BD-ROM drive on the Xbone comes from a single source, PLDS (Lite-On's ODD arm). This is important to know, because PLDS already exited the consumer BD drive market a while ago (they no longer make BD burners anymore: their last new design was introduced around 2012, and was discontinued sometime around 2016, same for their PC BD-ROM SATA drives). Their last PC-style BD-ROM drive is the custom jobbie for the Xbone (the DG-6M1S). While the Xbone sells well, I guess PLDS is not really profiting that much about making those drives, and they might have gave notice to MS to find another supplier, which in 2018 seems to be Mission:Impossible (realistically speaking, their other option would be Hitachi-LG -HLDS-, an OEM they've never very fond of, considering how uncommon were those drives during the X360 production runs). So maybe this would be a rare opportunity for Marketing and Engineering to be aligned on the same line of thought: Engineering can't be assed to keep dragging along with a BD drive noone wants to manufacture anymore, while Marketing can go ahead with their nefarious digital-only plans. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-20, 21:02 in MS is about to release a discless Xbone, this time for real!
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Dinosaur
Post: #39 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by Wowfunhappy Well... they actually are. Last time I've checked, there were only 4 OEMs for BD drives: Hitachi-LG (HLDS), Lite-On (PLDS), Pioneer and Matsushita (Panasonic). Pioneer is not known for doing custom OEM jobs, while Panasonic actually has been the exclusive provider for every Nintendo optical disc format, and outside that, they aren't known for OEM projects (in fact they barely make ODDs nowadays). Everyone else either went bankrupt (Toshiba-Samsung), got absorbed by somebody else (Optiarc), or quietly left the market (QSI). In general, outside game consoles and standalone players, optical disc drives ARE a endangered species :/ But there IS hope: in a surprising twist of fate, Lite-On decided to return to the ever-shrinking UHD-BD drive market with this portable model, just announced a month ago. I guess they actually decided they can make drives for almost free nowadays, and there is still profit to be made even after the licensing/patent fees (which actually are the biggest cost on anything tech-related). As long as MS keeps paying them, there will be BD-ROM drives on your Xbones... at least until MS forces the world to embrace a discless utopia, which is what they're trying to do now. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-22, 01:04 in Weird issue with DVD-video ISO and ODD emulators
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Dinosaur
Post: #40 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Usually when I download a DVD ISO rip of whatever stuff I can find, all I have to do is to mount it using my optical disc drive emulator of choice (WinCDEmu under Windows, CDEmu under Linux), and let media players pretend they're dealing with an actual physical disc made of ol' fashioned polycarbonate. As long as whoever did the rip wasn't drunk/high and didn't screwed up in the basics (removing CSS crypto, testing their uploads to ensure there were no flipped bits in the way), I've never had problems with this. The worst I've had to deal so far were with proprietary file formats (because LOLJAPAN and fuck you very much China), and even those are usually not a problem for CDEmu (mount the image, properly "re-rip" it to standard formats, done). BUT! There is always a first time for everything! See, one of the many things I'm trying to collect are Touhou video releases on CD/DVD/BD, mostly becaue But here is the kicker: turns out that VLC CAN play DVD media from raw ISO files, no need to mount them. And sure enough, if I just open the ISO with VLC, the fucker DOES PROPERLY PLAY! The menu works, all chapters do play spotlessly, audio is completely clean and beautiful, etc! So... what in the name of Tanned Cirno is happening here!?!?!??! Anyone can test this: there is a download link for the ISO on that forum thread I've linked to (amazingly the link is still alive, despite being Mediafire). Mount it with your ODD emulator/virtual drive software of choice and watch it how your favorite media player chokes with it. But if your media player can access ISO files, it should play OK... I should try burning this to a DVD and checking if it still fails there. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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