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| tomman |
Posted on 24-03-21, 15:18 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1281 of 1287 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 1 hour |
I never bothered using release versions of SeaMonkey on my daily driver anymore - the nightlies are Good Enough™ for daily usage given the slow pace of changes. You may want to ask frg and folks on IRC for any late-minute breaking changes (and watch out with your addons!), but these days I just upgrade to the latest nightly once or twice a month. From the Chromeisms front, the latest serial offender is Clownflare, as usual - they now have a tradition of breaking any non-Chrome'd browser YEARLY without explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317886 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/browser-integrity-check-broken/381029 https://community.cloudflare.com/t/broken-in-the-latest-pale-moon-what-does-cloudflare-require-to-work/518036 Two weeks ago, I fell victim to this, and at very sensitive place: one of my banks (to name and shame: a hipster-ish bank that goes under the stupid name of Bancamiga - literally means "FriendlyBank" in English!) decided that it was an AWESOME idea to deploy ClownFart's Browser Integrity Check (which is the most likely reason to get served CF captchas these days if you get caught using a web browser not approved by the Internet Party), and combined with a late minute update by Clownflare, I got effectively locked out from logging in into my bank (where I have, among other things, part of my savings, my one good credit card, and even a international debit card from the very few authorized to be issued in this country, so just closing this account and switching banks would hurt me BADLY). Called the bank, told them that ClownFart got in the middle, got told to pound sand and "upgrade my web browser, clear the cache and cookies, and try again or use a cellphone". Even called Venezuela's banking regulator (got the chance to don my Loyal Party Member™ cosplay), telling them that Clownflare not only was getting in the middle, but also the bank got unresponsive AND CF being a California corporation means that this bank is one Executive Order away from breaking the laws (effectively turning this into a potential national security threat, yay~!). They tried initially to dismiss me with the same pathetic excuses as used by the bank ("y u no cellphone?"), but eventually they told me to file a formal complaint letter to the bank, OVER EMAIL, then wait 20 days... and if the bank doesn't favorably reply, I should call again to escalate the complaint (I'm still in the process of gathering enough legal and historical background to write said letter). After some online research, turns out that I wasn't alone - Pale Moon users were being subject to the same ABUSE by Clownflare's latest deployment of Chromeisms... and even worse, they were dismissing Moonchild's formal support ticket (he is a paid CF customer) under bogus arguments. Users complaining at CF's forum (which uses the abomination known as Discourse, so a double whammy for us not using a Jeff Approved™ browser) were also being shooed away, to file useless claims with site operators for a problem caused by CF. Incredibly, before we were forced to escalate the complaint to Silly Con Valley's complaint department (aka Hackernews), someone at Clownflare realized the fuckup, and 4 days later I was able to logon into my bank again... and to the other half of the Internet relying on Browser Integrity Check, but only after enduring "you are a human, right?" checks on SeaMonkey because I'm a threat to CF's bottom line, it seems. If you work at ClownFart: FUCK YOU. Hope our paths never cross in this life or things will end [censored]. You're a enemy to the Internet and to freedom. Hope you guys get hacked to shreds by [insert your favorite villain here] - mightier evil actors have fallen, and CF won't be the exception! Site operators: STOP USING CLOWNFLARE SERVICES FFS! CF doesn't care about security, they care about being in control of everything - they have the MITM power that many governments around the world drool with... As for Bancamiga... I was happy with the services of this bank, but not anymore - trust takes forever to build, and seconds to destroy. This case is NOT closed yet, I shall get that formal complaint letter filled promptly, to serve as a warning for the rest of the banking system in Venezuela. (I sincerely hope that if The Angry Cheeto wins again, he bars Clownflare from selling services to my country) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 24-03-24, 12:28 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Dinosaur
Post: #1282 of 1287 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 1 hour |
Finished the Oreimo PSP VN, getting all those extra Kirino endings was dogawful. Turns out however that this odyssey is not done yet! There is a DISC 2, and it's even translated! And you must 100% Disc 1 if you actually care about getting into Disc 2 as intended. And I'm sucker for pointless punishment. Ah well, at least it has Kuroneko's lil' sisters~ First stop: Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 24-03-31, 17:32 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1283 of 1287 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 1 hour |
Wayland remains permabanned in this house. If Debian ever drops Xorg, then I'm done with Linux, and possibly with computers in general. This is set in stone. I don't oppose to technological progress, I do oppose to enforced enshittification, which is what projects like Wayland mostly represent to me. --- In other shittier news, this has been doing the rounds around the community for the weekend: someone slipped a big fat backdoor on a otherwise inoffensive library: xz: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/29/malicious_backdoor_xz/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-CVE-2024-3094 Yup, yet another good ol' supply chain attack (which strongly reeks of nation state actor attack, and some promptly blamed China because the name of the compromised contributor sounds Chinese), a historically weak point of FOSS since noone has the resources to pay attention to the code that ships on the libraries we use! Instead, half of the Internet is at full blast hateboner mode with the threats to dump xz for zst or whatever compression algorithm is trendy this week, or blaming systemd for being systemd (seriously, El Reg's comment section is beyond pathetic - only Moronix gets worse) instead of focusing on solutions for the actual problem here. Github shutting down the main xz repo is only fueling the conspiracy theories here. Fortunately us Debian Stable dinosaurs got spared from this mess, but if you are using Testing or Sid, watch out for your SSH ports! (Why in the hell are you using development releases in production in first place?!) But, just like idiots shipping buttcoin miners disguised as npm libraries, that's a dire reminder that SECURITY MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY when shipping software! UPDATE: Excellent recap at Ars from the xz backdoor saga: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/ This was discovered by a Microsoftie debugging weird troubles with PostgreSQL using Valgrind (so you can say that Valgrind saved the world? Or Microsoft? WTF!?). And one of the conditions triggered for the "baking-in" of the backdoor is when building Debian or Red Hat packages for x86-64 - other distros may or may not have been targeted so far. This "Jia Tan" dude was very clever, hiding his nasty acts in plain sight, taking over the maintenance of a core package where its previous maintainers were basically giving up, pushing distros to ship his code without checks, and of course, crafting this carefully concealed backdoor. Wonder from where he really is, and his TLA/party affiliation, because I doubt he was doing this just to see the world burn. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 24-03-31, 18:05 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 5)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1284 of 1287 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 1 hour |
Done with Oreimo PSP Disc 2 (that final pesky CG refuses to unlock for unknown reasons, but it's 100%'d otherwise) In general, far better than Disc 1... but then the PSP game is non-canon, and therefore writers had more freedom to give fans what they (more or less) wanted (and that could ship legally). Since reviews of Disc 2 contents are surprisingly rare in English, here goes mine (SPOILERS AHEAD): - General: Well laid out presentation. The engine can now display variable height text. For whatever reason, Kyosuke's offscreen dialog is now non-voiced, which is a minor loss. Not sure if you absolutely need to 100% Disc 1 to unlock all the routes on Disc 2, it took my 99% savegame from Disc 1 and I was off to the races - a few visits to our two totally unknown hosts yes sir at Destiny Record are enough to get all the needed OREs for each heroine route, and then some. Unlike Disc 2, I got most of the good endings at the first try, and actually had to consult a walkthrough for clearing everything else. Most OREs and two-shots are actually useless here, except on a couple routes. Many "bad ends" are just the regular good endings sans the post-credits epilogue (notable exceptions being the Ayase and Manami routes) - Translation patch is well done, even cleaner than the Disc 1 one. They even managed to translate the CG names this time! - Kirino: They managed to dial down the tsun-tsun on this bitch a LOT, impressive! Of course they had to pull the whole "they are not really blood siblings lol" stunt to give the fans the Kirino ending many wanted. Her route is basically "let's get approval from our friends to be a couple", and except for Manami getting a massive troll at the very end (which seems to map nicely to her later-episodes canon persona), it was exactly what you were expecting for. - Ayase: "Yandere: The Route™". Oh boy, it's Kotonoha all over again :P But if you manage to keep the lewdness down enough, and actually glue to eyes to Ayase and only Ayase, the later half of this route is actually sweet, to the point that things DO get a bit spicy, something very off-character for our heroine... but that's character development for you, I guess. - Kuroneko: The staff of the PSP version really loved our awkward chuuni cutie, to the point of giving TWO routes to her: the regular "Ruri" one (where it's basically deconstructing the thick chuunibyou layer on this shy girl and actually progressing slowly as a couple with Kyosuke, spiked a bit with Hinata being a trollish tease), and whatever the fuck is "Yamineko" (more awkward chuuni nonsense, as a continuation of Disc 1's Ayase normal ending). Worth it, damn it! - Manami: Our ordinary childhood friend becomes a big-breasted college hottie with the same mannerisms as ever. Redoing the Kyoto trip courtesy of a extremely eager grandpa desperate for having grandchildren (respect, Gramps!), this route ia basically "keep her happy and you may be rewarded handsomely". And of fucking course, there are two separate CG sets for Manami, unlike every other heroine because she uses glasses and you get to choose at some point which Manami do you want. Keep little sisters away! - Saori: Get to know our big dual-persona heroine in depth. Help her getting past her chronic shyness. Learn why she became an otaku in first place. Solve her complex family background. Get along with Onee-chan and NOT DIE IN THE WAY (because of course there big sisters have to be dangerous). It's Saori, it's full of weird, and it's a good read anyway. Pay attention to the details because THERE WILL BE A QUIZ! - Kanako: She doesn't give a fuck on what you think about her - she just wants to be. Yet another heroine with a complex family background, and on top of that, you get Kyosuke's harem trying to pry her apart from his love target. But her resolve is impressive, and she manages to git gud, even earning the difficult parental approval in the way. If you came here looking for lolicon bait, move aside - this Kanako gonna kick your ass. - Sena: She only has eyes for three things: gamedev, homos, and her dear onii-chan (think a very dere Kirino, but even more rotten). Seriously, this girl is THAT braindamaged, but that's what makes her route fun (also, Kouhei Akagi doubling down as the Final Boss). Unlike the other heroines in town, you DO not get the regular good ending with her (and the bad ending has our boys literally looking for job at Bandai-Namco!) - For the lolicon pervs out there, you do get a route with Kuroneko's lil' sisters (yay~!). Sadly, Kirino gets on board and she turns out to be a borderline pedo here, forcing Kyosuke to play the straight man figure here. Short and sweet, with a non-ending for obvious reasons. - PPSSPP experienced many ridiculous graphic glitches with this title, particularly with some screen transitions and menu renderings, but only on Android. Yay Adreno. Switching Vulkan drivers may trade away some glitches for a new kind of glitches. Veredict: Disc 1 is kinda meh, but Disc 2 Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 24-04-02, 02:11 in What are you listening to right now?
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Dinosaur
Post: #1285 of 1287 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 1 hour |
Hana-tan - Paranoia (Original Mix) - ENDLESS OF Paranoia This album is basically all remixes of the same song, basically. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 24-04-27, 03:24 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1286 of 1287 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 1 hour |
Welcome to the newest member of the fleet, codename "Kuroneko". (very fitting wallpaper selection indeed - I love that "don't mess with my setup, you lowly being" smug face) Honest Abdul's Preloved Computerizers And Cheap Aircons has made a killing by bringing refurb officeboxes by the bucketload, and he now decided that creditcards are money too, so when I spotted a Dell Optiplex 9020 USFF for "only" $85, I simply could not resist abusing the poor ol' MasterCard. Plus, I'm in need of something that can play modern video codecs even if it is in software. Of course, this thing runs Debian... and only Debian - I have no plans to infect it with System specs: - i5-4570S, so Haswell vintage. - HD Graphics 4600, with no hope of expansion... but at least it does Vulkan. - 8GB DDR3. May expand it in the future, should the opportunity arise. - This thing came with NO HDD, so I just slipped in a spare SSD for now... that shitty Acer SA100. This thing has a mPCIe slot as its sole expansion slot, that can also take mSATA SSDs, so the future plan is to take advantage of that. - USFF chassis no bigger than a phonebook, or a late gen VHS deck. Smaller than a PS5, even! Debian 12 installation notes: * Fast fiber + SSD makes for really quick installs, even on old hardware. You can go from zero to desktop in 30 minutes or less! * VLC is unusable on this thing unless you disable hardware video decoding, because it really hates that VAAPI-to-VDPAU bridge, and upstream is simply not willing to restore VAAPI support to the 3.x branch at all. Fuck 'em, just use mpv, enable hardware decoding on mpv.conf, and be happy. * This thing doesn't need firmware blobs, other than CPU microcode. * Haven't done a pure UEFI install in ages. Make a ESP partition big enough for the future - some would say 512MB is a safe choice, but for me that's a waste. 128MB is more than enough for now - I'm not switching to fancy boot systems, or hoping that the Linux kernel becomes a EFI executable. BTW, Secure Boot came disabled on mine, so no problem there. * The audio is lameass Realsuck HDA, so abandon all hopes of great audio quality. * By default Debian STILL installs PulseAudio, so I had to manually install pipewire-alsa and friends. Initially that broke audio via Pipewire and I couldn't run Easy Effects (but Pulse-bridged apps were working), but a reboot fixed this. * You want this for good ol' GTK2 styles on Qt 6 apps. Not available from Debian yet, so you have to compile it. If the compile dies with some weird "Parse error at IID" message, you need to install qt6-base-private-dev to fix that. qt6ct initially crashed after selecting that style, but again, a reboot fixed this. WTF is this, Windows?! QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct now works for both Qt 5 and 6, so no more conflicts there. * Initially I went with MATE, but that's because Debian doesn't ship TDE. Ended installing TDE the usual way (again, do not install tde-trinity as it will conflict with base Debian packages and bring a lot of junk you may not want! Install the individual metapackage instead, plus tdebase-trinity). * Achieving that GTK2/3 theme integration is tricky (and outright impossible at some points), but here are some hints: - GTK3 fonts will not obey your selection whatever you do. Give up. At least your theme choice will stick. - Packages you need to install: tde-style-qtcurve-trinity, gtk2-engines-qtcurve (install that with --no-install-recommends or it will bring a bunch of Plasma 5 junk!), gtk3-tqt-engine-trinity. One of those will also bring the GTK appearance control panel settings page, dunno which one. Do NOT install kgtk-qt3-trinity, it will break your GTK3 apps because it will try to mix GTK2 and 3 libs on the same process, which is ILLEGAL! * TDE sticks to the longstanding KDE tradition that xterm MUST be black text on white background, which severely hurts my eyes and it's stupid. This is stupid, so use .Xresources to enforce your favorite theme. Mine is just: xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white * If you're missing Japanese characters on some applications under TDE, that's because you need to install more fonts even if everything looks right at first on, say, MATE. A few good choices are fonts-noto-cjk, fonts-unfonts-core, fonts-ipafont-gothic, fonts-ipafont-mincho, fonts-vlgothic. Install, logoff, login, done. * Doing a apt-get dist-upgrade targeting bookworm-backports is not a bad idea, but remember that this can cause dependency problems in the future if you try to install some packages if you don't specfically tell you want to target backports! (installs will fail with version conflicts). No big deal, just remember that you need to opt-in to the latest shinies on EVERY install! * Steam client runs like a bloaty pig, sadly. Officially it has heftier system requirements than ~80% of my game library! Since Valve fully committed to the webshit kool-aid, there is no hope. I suggest pirating your own videogames, if possible. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 24-04-28, 02:33 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1287 of 1287 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 1 hour |
Posted by CaptainJistuce ...and goodbye Kuroneko - the shitty spare Acer SA100 SSD decided it was time to never ever boot again, after... 300ish hours. Yay. So I'm starting over, on a fresh new $65 960GB Kingston A400 I wasn't intending to use on this build! GOD DAMN IT ACER. The SA100 is even worse than StorageReview's $3 Aliexpress Chinesium special, except that this one costed $20! I'm glad I keep writing those notes here, because here I am, using them less than 48 hours later! Posted by CaptainJistuce Sorry, my name isn't Jamie W. Zawinski :P Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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