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| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-14, 12:31 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
 Post: #541 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Whatever, dude. Keep your Reality Distortion Field at full blast, maybe someday, somebody will believe your crap. I'm not. ...back to Moz://a news: after all those years of sucking the Google teat, they've JUST figured how opensource projects used to earn their money honestly in the past. Nope, it wasn't donations, selling premium accounts, ads, or gratuitous CPU assraping. No, it's selling support to enterprise customers, a la Red Hat. https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/13/0917234/mozilla-launches-paid-premium-support-for-enterprise-customers As long as they don't become an Orrible® ("we're not rolling back this just-introduced regression because Some Big Customer needs it!"), I actually approve of this. Why bother monetizing the software if the money has always been on the SUPPORT!? If you don't want to pay, help yourself with the community resources. If you want quick bugfixes and don't want to commit developer resources in endless political fights ("CLOSED WONTFIX NOLONGERWELCOMEHERE"), you write a check. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-14, 16:14 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #542 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
BLU Dash X: Brickable Edition, volume 3. Yes, this shit is back to me with a boothang. AGAIN. Logcat displayed a bazillon file operations failing on /data partition because of a read-only filesystem. This implies that you've got filesystem corruption, so let's fix that. TWRP still worked, so I tried to check the partition on the Wipe menu (what an odd place to hide the [e2]fsck shortcuts). It failed. Tried running e2fsck manually from console, and it bailed out when trying to modify some filesystem flag, with or without journal replay. At this point, I had no option but to do a factory reset and start over. Ugh. Tried that, partition "formatted" successfully... but the phone kept hanging at boot. Another look at logcat displayed the SAME EXACT ERRORS: the old files were still there, the /data partition wasn't wiped AT ALL!!! Tried reflashing the /data partition with the Mediatek flasher using the stock BLU ROM. This time the phone booted... straight to TWRP! Trying a wipe yielded nothing but errors (oh, and TWRP couldn't save its settings anymore since /data was now unmountable). Fuck. Let's reflash the full ROM then, they said. The MTK flasher went A-OK, then the phone booted... and got stuck at the bootsplash. Assumed that the initial boot would be slow. 15 minutes later, it was still stuck there. FUCK. Tried a full format+reflash, but things turned up to worse: now the phone doesn't even boot anymore, battery won't charge, etc. So yeah, I've went from a soft brick (bootloop) to a hard brick (no boot). Surprisingly enough, the phone DOES get recognized by the PC when plugged (either as a MTK 65xx Preloader/PID 2000, or if VOL+ is held, as MTK's "meta mode"/PID 0003 - on older phones reaching this mode involves taking apart the phone and using a pulldown resistor to activate a testpoint). I've tried reflashing bootloader on meta mode, reflashing all partitions, and pretty much anything short of a complete eMMC wipe, but nope, the phone will gladly flash anything you send over the wire and tell that everything went fine, but won't boot. EVER. Fun fact: tried wiping the EMMC_BOOT_1 region (where preloader lives), but it gives a S_DA_SDMMC_WRITE_FAILED error. Looks like internal eMMC is bust on this thing. So much for "unbrickable" devices, eh? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-14, 17:32 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #543 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
The Mediatek flasher has a handy memtest module that can check both RAM and eMMC, so let's try it:ERROR : S_DA_MT_DEDICATED_PATTERN_ERROR (3099) Yup, eMMC is bust. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-15, 16:27 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #544 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Posted by Nicholas Steel More plain FUD from the "security researches" that led to the premature death of the Battery API in Javascript because Teh Googles could use your battery level to sell products and services to you or some BS. Javascript is a unholy mess and can be used for evil, but this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay low in the scale of importance, but hey, it's clickbait. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-17, 11:40 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #545 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Once again, how a thread dedicated to show how Mozilla keeps failing to our world became sureanem's soapbox and his Reality Distortion Field!? I can't even frame this guy anymore as a Slashdot, a Hackernews, a Reddit, a 4chan, or even a "50 cent army" employee. I don't give a fuck about how Tor is pronounced, because I don't use it (I do have a install just for fun, not for any actual purpose, plus it defaults to Asstralis/Quantum Firefux, so I don't even bother launching it) Seriously, dude, cut it off. Mozilla is a cancer on its own (mostly thanks to Google), and that's more than enough for this thread. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-17, 12:39 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #546 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
If I ever relaunch my website, I guess it's time to remove the IE-specific bits that were inserted with Frontpage XP, almost two decades ago (like the rollover effect over the left navbar - now you can achieve that with pure CSS but back then Frontpage came with their small pile of IE-only Javascripts). It's also a shame that <BGMUSIC> no longer works, and its replacements at some point involved Flash (YUCK!), or more scriptfuckery :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-17, 19:15 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #547 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/17/1750247/firefox-moving-to-a-faster-4-week-release-cycle The buzzword of the day: "agile". Because releasing software When It's Done is for dinosaurs - looks like hipster coders compete to see who can cram more half-assed "features" and flaws in their modern pieces of so-called software. Combined with Valve's "it compiles, SHIP IT" attitude, no wonder why I want to get the hell away from interacting with software in general nowadays :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-18, 02:21 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Dinosaur
Post: #548 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
If you love UNO (the card game, not the Fiat subcompact car!), you will love this "mod" with... interesting new cards: http://web.archive.org/web/20060206190002/http://hotdeath.inanutshell.us/html/wingame.php There is even a native Win16 port (that eventually got ported to Win32 because Visual Basic is that cool) But then, we're in 2019, computers are for dinosaurs, and Visual Basic is certainly an endangered species. Fear not, because I found on F-Droid that someone had made an Android port (sans the trademarked names!) that actually gives you an excuse to have a cellphone! Almost: http://www.smorgasbork.com/hotdeath/ https://github.com/jpriebe/hotdeath (Apparently it's no longer on Google Play because Google, but since it's opensource, you can grab the APK at F-Droid) Some cards were renamed to more family-friendly names (for example: Shitter->Big Brother, AIDS->Virus, FUCK YOU->Retribution. However, the Blue Shield 2 kept its Joe Paterno branding), and it seems this guy forgot to include the Wild cards, but aside of that, it's the same game people loved back in the personal computerizer era. Oh yeah, and the AI is a cheating bastard, but you can actually tone it down (or up, if you're masochist!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-19, 20:25 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #549 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
https://simpleflying.com/kenya-mp-in-flight-flatulence/ I could never have imagined that farting is actually a serious issue on airplanes. Hell, even in their wingless equivalents (buses) over here, it has never been a problem to me, despite this being a 3rd-world shithole with low morals. But then, I guess trivial problems like farts take a completely new dimension when you're a few kilometers over the ground on a sealed, pressurized metal (or half-plastic) tube... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-19, 21:51 in bsnes v109 released (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #550 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Decided to revive my SNES emulation setup, so it's a nice time to finish moving my ass to bsnes. Lovin' it. ...except for a very minor issue: why CPU usage goes 100% (single core) whenever any of the file select dialogs are open? Debian Buster AMD64, fully stock, up to date. Even actual emulation is gentle with my CPU, compared to this weird issue! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-23, 19:33 in N64 emulators vs. "PJ64 v1.x" emulators
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Dinosaur
Post: #551 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Posted by sureanem And then you have all those consoles for which HLE doesn't make sense at all, like anything that doesn't have 3D hardware, 32/64-bit processors, or black-box DSPs. What would be the point of a HLE NES emulator anyway? If your target hardware is complex, yes, HLE is a good choice. And in the case of the N64, it was the only choice for a long time, given how complex and undocumented is the underlying architecture (I'm looking at you, SGI!). But eventually, the time for a proper LLE solution has to come, even if it can't run games on anything but a overclocked Threadripper/i9. There is room for both, as long as the target is the same: emulating a console, not inventing a new platform that it's going to be misused by ROM hackers! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-24, 18:52 in What are you listening to right now? (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #552 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
The Action 52 soundtrack, which is surprisingly good ringtone material. And then, I hate my smartphone so I decided to rip some of the tracks from the NSF and turn them into ringtones. Contrary to expectations, both Cheetahmen tracks are not great ringtones, so I ended using the Atmos Quake track instead, and one of the many generic jump sounds as the main notification sound. They're miles ahead of the garbage that Ma' Bell ships on this ZTE junk. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-25, 09:39 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Dinosaur
Post: #553 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce I'll take the dead snail over dialup any day of the year over CANTV, that's for sure~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-25, 19:56 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #554 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
For those of you using Macs with Very Expensive Video Tools™: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/19/09/24/2039236/mysterious-avid-issue-knocks-out-mac-pro-workstations-across-hollywood Apparently some Avid users (mainly at Hollywood) have had their macOS setups turned unbootable, because of a combination of incredibly dumb decisions: - Avid tools can use the power of your expensive video cards for doing video stuff - Expensive video cards use GPUs made by a few OEMs in the world, among those being nVidia - nVidia drivers do support the latest expensive cards under Mac, except that for whatever reason, Apple is not willing to sign their newest drivers - This is not a problem, except that recent macOS versions ship with System Integrity Protection (SIP), a feature meant to make your computer safe from poorly coded software that could break it by performing really dumb operations, and as a side effect, it disallows the use of unsigned drivers (in other words, exactly what Windows does nowadays) - Those Avid users have paid $$$MUCHODINERO$$$ for both their Avid tools and the companion nVidia cards that are required to render their fancy Big Cinema blockbuster vomits, but since Apple is being Apple, they can't install the device drivers that would allov said expensive cards to actually work - In order to Get Shit Done™, you have to shoot yourself in the foot and go through security theatre to disable SIP, a core OS security feature (seriously, it requires booting to a separate partition or something just to uncheck that flag) so you can install the nVidia drivers - And this is where things get weird: the Mac version of Chrome just had a Steam "rm -rf ." brainfart on their latest version, by trying to remove the /var directory (which on the Unixoid macOS is actually a symlink to somewhere else). Normally this is the class of "system-breaking dumb" that SIP is meant to block (and the class of bugs that you simply don't get make into production unless you're actively trying to do evil)... except that thanks to Avid, Apple and nVidia, you've just fell into a booby trap. Oops. Enjoy your unbootable Mac! - Yes, you can actually boot from rescue media and re-add the broken symlink, restoring bootability. But those post-production shops are full of creative video wizards, not computer nerds! (Don't ask me how pros are wiring modern GPUs to their trashcan Mac Pros, as AFAIK noone is making videocards in whatever highly custom socket they're using) So much for It Just Works™, except that this is compounded by the fact that noone test their shit anymore before shipping to production :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-26, 10:50 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #555 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Some new findings on this case: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/09/25/2152236/mysterious-mac-pro-shutdowns-likely-caused-by-chrome-update - Chrome itself it's not wrecking macOS, it's actually its autoupdater component, Keystone. Google is still to blame anyway. - Avid is also guilty on the "unsinged kernel-mode driver" fuckery, not only nVidia: their Very Expensive software seems to require USB dongles (yay DRM), for which special hardware-specific drivers are used. Drivers that are not signed, and therefore require to intentionally disable SIP. The joys of DRM, people, endangering your jobs since forever! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-26, 21:22 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #556 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
GOD DAMN IT KOISHI! (also doubles as a creepy LCD test image) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-28, 22:14 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #557 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
How to make a bootleg Palm, Lunatic Mode: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm (AKA "emulating your emulated emulators, YO DAWG!") ...from the same guy that brought to you abominations like an ARM emulator for the Dreamcast VMU, so you can actually write games for it in a real programming language, instead of interacting with Yet Another Horrible Japanese MCU Architecture: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=25.%20VMU%20Hacking Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-29, 12:14 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #558 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce I tried opening the image on several applications. Only Mozilla browsers display the dark alternate image. Everything else I tried on this Debian box (GIMP, gpicview, Eye of MATE, KolourPaint, ImageMagick... even tried with FFmpeg-based video players like VLC, ffplay, and Xine) depicts the couple holding sword, even at 100% zoom. On an older WinXP laptop, the default Windows image viewer displays almost nothing but darkness at default zoom levels, and the dark alternate image at 100% zoom. An ancient copy of Paint Shop Pro 7 renders the light image. Results DO get slightly more interesting at 25%/50% zoom levels: on KoulourPaint and PSP you see a very faint dark alternate image over a plain white canvas, but not on GIMP: at 50% you still see the same image as in the Pixiv/imgur thumbnails (that is, "couple holding sword"), just brighter. And speaking about thumbnails, that's what MATE and WinXP thumbnailers do render too. The Satori/Koishi image gets even creepier when zoomed in/out on, say, gpicview: at first it renders a low-quality version, where you see Koishi briefly flashing for a split second, then a "second pass" higher quality rendering shows nothing but either a checkerboard pattern or a flat gray background (and a annoyed-for-no-reason Satori). At 100%, Koishi may go away (or not!) if you look at your LCD panel from a different angle, depending on how cheap was your OEM the day your monitor was built... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-29, 12:48 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #559 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Apparently I'm not the only one against D'OH!: the (soon to be the former?) Kingdom of Great Britain really hates it, to the point of nominating Mozilla as a "Internet Villain" (whatever that means): https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/07/05/1438257/internet-group-brands-mozilla-internet-villain-for-supporting-dns-privacy-feature Well, it's actually some of their ISPs which believe that they have the sacred right to Mozilla finally caved in, by "promising" that D'OH! will not be the default for England and its territories: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/29/0434233/firefox-promises-uk-government-dns-over-https-wont-be-default-in-uk D'OH! is a bad idea, but governments spying on you and censoring your porn are a absolutely terrible idea. Fuck, everybody is evil, let's go shopping~ (also: tinfoil hat nerds complaining that UK/US are authoritarian states, without knowing exactly what the fuck is an authoritarian state, and I certainly speak as a citizen from one of said authoritarian hellholes. Someone should forcefully pull those nerds out of their mothers' basements and send them to my shithole for a year, so they can actually learn how it's living in a true authoritarian hell!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-09-29, 18:26 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #560 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Any government trying to censor you is beyond evil, and that has no excuse. Mozilla (or anyone else) conceding to the censors' requests is another way to say "fuck you" to your userbase. Having said that, I still insist that D'OH! is NOT the solution. You're trading enemies (your ISP/government -> Cloudflare & co.), plus layering more shit on top of HTTPS because that for the web frat boys all problems look like nails when all you have is a hammer is not the way to go. TLS on top of system-wide DNS? Cool, bring it on. HTTP + client-side DNS? Oh hell no. There are no winners here, I'm sad to say. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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