| BearOso |
Posted on 19-04-20, 19:46 in MS is about to release a discless Xbone, this time for real! (revision 1)
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Posted by tomman Or “Xbox To.” Slogan: “Their it is, you’re new Xbox.” Now that I think of it, "Xbox Tú" would actually be creative. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-05-17, 17:54 in Your daily dose of processor unit vulnerabilities
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Post: #82 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by JieFK We just need the last one now, mitigations=off. Thankfully, someone had some sense and realized these aren't exploitable without already giving a person significant access to a system. The only reason we're seeing such panic is because most kernel programmers work for virtualization providers. |
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Posted on 19-05-25, 16:35 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Post: #83 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
As a GTK app developer: "Please theme my apps. The Adwaita theme uses too much whitespace for no reason, preventing programs from being information-dense. Also, I want you to feel comfortable using your computer. Thanks.' |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-02, 20:07 in Regarding Super Famicom.bml
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Post: #84 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
You’re probably breaking the encoding when you save the file. The indentation and encoding should be intact. If you’re using Windows notepad, don’t. It’ll screw up any UTF8 files by adding a marker. |
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Posted on 19-06-03, 00:16 in Regarding Super Famicom.bml
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Post: #85 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce I think the BOM fix was only just released in Windows 10 1903. Lots of people with Windows 7 still, too, so it's hard to recommend regular notepad since you have to mention all the caveats. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-07, 18:46 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Posted by creaothceann I don’t think so. You can do a lot better with just black and white. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-08, 16:50 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Post: #87 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Windows ripped off Xerox, too, but did a terrible job with it. The original Macintosh team was a close-knit group of truly smart people who cared what they were working on. That's the reason for the better adaptation. That or if Jobs had seen something like Windows, he'd scream "That's shit! Start over!" |
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Posted on 19-06-10, 19:17 in Something about cheese! (revision 1)
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Post: #88 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by wertigon Yes. IQ is nothing more than knowledge. All IQ tests include subjects like "World History." Suppose a person took said IQ test and missed a question about world history. Immediately afterward, the person is taught that fact; the person takes the IQ test again and gets a higher score. Thus, it's proven what we call "IQ tests" don't solely measure innate intelligence. They're a load of crap. Same goes for standardized tests like SAT and ACT. I got a high score on the ACT and I'm an imbecile. Posted by "sureanem" Missing the point? The framing article is about how to proceed with revelation of results given that correlation is not causation. What is the measure used for "intelligence", anyway? IQ like above? Then it's meaningless. Posted by "sureanem" It probably comes from the fact that you're advocating social darwinism. Posted by "sureanem" Careful, there. Your capitalization implies something you shouldn't go into. |
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Posted on 19-06-11, 19:09 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Post: #89 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by tomman Remember when Phoenix (Firefox) came out because the Mozilla browser had too much crap, and people wanted a browser to just be a browser? Firefox premium is like “Mountain Dew: Code Red car repair.” They’re abusing the brand recognition for a quick buck. You’re a non-profit, Mozilla, your sole purpose is your browser. Why are you trying to raise money if it’s at the expense, not benefit, of your only reason for existing? Oh, that’s right, you’re lead by asshole executives that don’t care about the company and just need more cash for illicit substances and silencing prostitutes. Yes, I’m disgruntled. :-) |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-20, 18:47 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #90 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by Screwtape I just use an official PS4 controller. The dpad is decent and in the right place, and the wired protocol is just USB HID. Everybody is doing a competing sale on them for ~40 USD right now, but I don’t know if that extends outside NA or not. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-21, 16:30 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #91 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by Screwtape PS4 controllers are USB HID, so they're generic. The HID mapping doesn't match the expected order of the face buttons expected by Steam or whatever, so the square, cross and circle buttons are mixed up if the game has "PS4 button icons." Speaking of wine, how's the game's performance with it? I'm deliberating whether to get it for PS4 or PC, but I might just wait until the next patch to see if the issues are ironed out. |
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Posted on 19-06-22, 16:36 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #92 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by Screwtape Lutris also has an auto-downloader for several different builds of Wine that you could try. It stores these in a user's .local/share/lutris directory. Looks like there's some debian packages. Videos can be a pain. You could try "winetricks amstream quartz devenum" then add an entry to disable winegstreamer in the libraries section of winecfg. If it's a WMV codec, it's probably not going to work no matter what. |
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Posted on 19-06-22, 19:20 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO!
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Post: #93 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
They'll be forced to backtrack this decision, mark my words. This is another example of dumb developer logic: "All I do is write JavaScript and play music on my computer, so that's what everyone else does!" No, just because you use a piddly, micro-thin laptop with integrated graphics and do nothing more processor-intensive than running a web browser doesn't mean other people don't actually, you know, run programs on their computers. I compare it to the Lennart mentality when he wrote PulseAudio. It was clear the only use case he thought of was playing music on bluetooth speakers, but it took over the whole audio system. He didn't think beyond what he needed personally. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-24, 03:35 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO!
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Posted by Screwtape It’s libGL.so, but we’ve got Vulkan ICDs now and glvnd, so it’s a little more complicated. Regardless, the number of packages needed to be provided by the OS is minimal—a couple dozen at the most. Often the only difference in a build script is adding a -m32 flag and pointing at a lib32 directory. There just wasn’t any substantive argument for the removal. Some foolish pragmatic thought he could get some street cred, but he grossly misunderstood the user base. Now they’re trying to walk it back and save face, but nobody is buying it. They need to forget the damage-control bullshit and admit they were wrong. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-24, 17:23 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO! (revision 1)
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Post: #95 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by Screwtape No, the need was there from day one. "Multiarch" is Debian's name for its most recent repository solution, but there were definitely 32-bit libraries packaged right from the start of 64-bit x86 support. Cross-compilation from my experience is different. The target libraries are stored in a cross-compiler-specific directory, not alongside system libraries. *edit* Forgive my misunderstanding. If I'm understanding you correctly now, you're saying the need for 32-bit on 64-bit drove multiarch support? Then yes, that's the only practical purpose. It's just an evolution of an earlier way of doing 32 on 64. They have a separate repository instead of bundled packs of 32-bit libraries in the 64-bit repository. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-26, 22:10 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #96 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
"Tech Expert" my ass. "I use Firefox like the 1337 haxors now because I'm in the know, so I'm cool beans." |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-27, 19:12 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO!
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Post: #97 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
I looked into Snap packages and they’re a disaster. There’s so much Ubuntu-specific crap in the spec that unless you’re relying solely on Ubuntu’s packages it’s almost impossible to create one. Flatpak was much cleaner and easy to work with by comparison. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-06-29, 15:37 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #98 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by creaothceann I'm amused that many of these are hour-long. The usual suspects have been done to death, so they've completely moved on to longer games. I could invest maybe 5 minutes to watch an interesting speed-run, but I don't have the attention to watch someone spend 2 hours playing Minish Cap. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-07-08, 00:54 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Posted by CaptainJistuce Yeah, he's definitely never done any Win32 programming, let alone with a free compiler. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-07-08, 03:14 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Post: #100 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by sureanem Visual studio wasn’t free until recently. The free version until a couple years ago was also non-optimizing. Before that we had RSXNT, LCC, then Cygwin and Mingw. VC6 was several hundred USD at the minimum, and VC7+ only came with the more expensive Visual Studio, so nothing else was available for the aspiring young programmer. |
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