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| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-24, 00:47 in FUCK hsts
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Dinosaur
 Post: #621 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Screwtape Your mom, naturally. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-24, 16:59 in FUCK hsts
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Dinosaur
Post: #622 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Is there a difference if you delete stuff from the shell (Explorer), or from a (elevated) command prompt? Also, there are ways to run stuff as users higher than TrustedInstaller - IIRC Sysinternals has a tool for that. As for files coming back after deletion on Win2K, that's System File Protection kicking in to protect your OS from yourself, which was introduced on that release (and backported somehow to WinME). If only somehow I could delete NetMeeting from WinXP - it has no use nowadays, I have small HDDs/disk images for my XP boxes/VMs, and yet there is no official way to get rid of NetMeeting and friends: SFP will get in the way, restoring shit as soon as you delete it. But malware has no problems rendering your shit unbootable (hi Sality!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-25, 01:30 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #623 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
This is what happens when Epic Games buy your studio: a big FUCK YOU to all non-Windows gamers, particularly Linux ones: https://www.rocketleague.com/news/ending-support-for-mac-and-linux/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133431 This is sad and yet outrageous, considering that it comes from the same game company whose asshole CEO is willing to buy exclusives with his allmighty checkbook, and who compares Linux gamers to people opposing certain controversial politicians. Fuck Tim Sweeney, this guy deserves nothing but shit on his face for what he is doing with Epic Games Store. No, you don't buy goodwill with libraries full of free games noone is going to play anyway. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-25, 13:15 in Misc. software
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Dinosaur
Post: #624 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Steam/GOG/whatever sells games. Of course the only ads you're going to see are for the games they sell (even ones you don't want to play ever, like bloody FPS and MMO stuff). You're not going to get an ad on Steam for, say, "join Farcebook", "enjoy Coca-Cola", "VOTE $PRESIDENTIAL_CANDIDATE OR ELSE!", or "drive a Mazda now!". I'm just fine with that. I only wish they customized even more their ads (that's with you, Steam: I'm letting you spy on my gaming habits since I kept feeding cash in the past, so it's time for you lazy bums to learn that I AM NOT GOING TO PLAY AAAAAA+++ GAMES LIKE, EVAR!) Modern cellphone gaming is cancer with all that pay2win crapware, there is no hope for salvation there. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-25, 17:53 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #625 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
So the future of Linux gaming is compatibility layers and emulation, instead of native binaries taking full advantage of the host platform? That's horrible, to say it politely - sounds a lot like the "let's write everything in Javascript because native is TOO EXPENSIVE!!!" we get on desktop/mobile nowadays. ...guess it's time to give up gaming for good :/ To be fair: I do understand the small market share, developer resources, the fact Linux is a very heterogeneous/fragmented platform, and ROI considerations, but still I really hate being swept under the rug because it happens that I'm a rounding error since I chose to "think different" - it's a matter of principle. Posted by Lurking Star Sorry but Tim already burned that bridge with his prior remarks on the Linux gaming public (seriously, mixing POLITICS with videogames?!?!?!), badly. No free game will ever convince me to give it a chance to EGS. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-01-29, 17:00 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #626 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
So, it seems Mozilla has been very busy lately making the transition from "developer of web browsers and related Internet applications" to "Silly Valley startup" (they're not yet at the "unicorn" stage): they've pulled a Microsoft and sacked some of their QA/engineering staff, because they must figure out how to be "on the road to profitability". The Highly Paid Art School Dropout UXtards™ and marketdroids are still safe, free to keep fucking over their ever shrinking userbase. They also booted Thunderbird to a newly founded subsidiary (yes, Mozilla now has those, aside of Pocket), "MZLA Technologies Corporation". I guess they make life easier for the mothership to keep ignoring decade-old bugreports on a formerly great product that it's now languishing like that old beaten up junker rusting under the arid desert sun. UPDATE: "monetize Thunderbird"... wait, what?! The only monetizable Thunderbirds I want are the Ford ones, thanks. But everything is great on the corporation that encourages people to consider ethical concerns before In more positive news from Team Seamonkey, the release train gears just got a new coating of grease and a bunch of fixes: the first beta release for SM2.53.1 (yes, the next major release is already at a point release because reasons) is now available for your testing pleasure. BACKUP YOUR PROFILE! Yes, they're being serious this time: 2.53 brings some important changes that will migrate/irreversibly change some stuff under your profile, making downgrades impossible unless you've got backups. There is still hope... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-02-02, 15:41 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #627 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Today is 02/02/2020 -- the First Global Palindrome Day in 909 Years 202002022002 is a sexy timestamp for your backups, just sayin' (Next one will be on 2121/12/12, just over 101 years in the future. Half of the planet should be gone for that date) And it also just happens that "20200202" is a pretty fancy serial number for a banknote: - Radar (the term collectors use for palindromic serials) - Binary (only two unique digits!) - 3-digit bookend ("202" is both at the beginning and end) - And the kicker: birthdate! My handy catalog says any piece with this serial is UNIQUE AS HELL, aka "serious money". Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-02-04, 19:46 in Youtube
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Dinosaur
Post: #628 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Please tell me you people why do you insist in watching videos ON A WEB BROWSER, instead of a media player, as $DEITY intended... So, in a scale of "0 to Javascript", how terrible is it? (can't review it myself for rather obvious reasons) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-02-19, 12:02 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #629 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Kawa > proprietary Javascript bloat WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS!?!??!?! I guess gotta get used to isolation, between my limited connectivity nowadays AND the fact people is migrating to really awful platforms. Whatsapp, Discord, other proprietary "I AM A CELLPHONE" messaging shits... this is a sad decade for the Internet (and for my personal sanity). ... Anyway, enjoy an error replacement banknote - in other words, an unicorn. You have to really screw it up when you error out a piece meant to replace another error. Dear Thomas de la Rue, you're drunk, stay at the pub! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-02-20, 19:31 in RIP Larry Tesler, father of copy/paste
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Dinosaur
Post: #630 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
And nowadays, corporations are trying to take away from us a core feature of computers (Have you tried to copy&paste recently on your cellphone?) Too bad his name will fade to nothingness outside nerd circles :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-02-21, 10:48 in RIP Larry Tesler, father of copy/paste (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #631 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Bing?! Copy&share!? What the hell is wrong with you guys!??!?! Anyway, apparently someone mentioned Tesler on a national radio show last night over here, so apparently even normies can bow down and pay their respects to people that done actual things other than selling stuff. The host explicitly mentioned Xerox PARC, which was awesome (FFS, we need PARC to come back from the dead and give a couple lessons of sanity and actual innovation to UXtarded phone frat boys!). ...then moved to complain that copy&paste has done far too much harm, like those anti-knife numbnuts! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-02-22, 23:48 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #632 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
https://games.slashdot.org/story/20/02/15/2229226/sonic-the-hedgehog-has-biggest-ever-opening-for-a-video-game-adaptation Remember that ill-fated Sonic movie that had to go back to the drawing board after Paramount released that vomit-inducing trailer? Apparently they've hit the right key with its revised version, and just got their License To Print Money™! A sequel is already in the works?! People also liked Jim Carey as Eggman - I'm still not convinced but, eh, I'm no cinema guy. In the meanwhile, Sega just won this round in the eternal Sega vs. Nintendo console wars that never really ended :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-02-26, 12:31 in higan v107 released
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Dinosaur
Post: #633 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Nicholas Steel Care to point me to that v1.2? Anyway, I decided to give it a spin last night, as I don't own higan-spec hardware, and I'm liking current bsnes versions for my (admittedly limited) SNES emulation needs. So I went and tried the Genesis core, as I'm always eager for new Sega emulators (that aren't MAME or require me to install RetroArch!). Demoscene stuff naturally hates higan/byuu at this stage (Overdrive 1 hangs, Overdrive 2 is severely glitched, most Titan/RSE demos hang or refuse to boot), but for the average Sonic ROM hack, it's good enough (as long as you don't mind glitched audio every now and then). But it's still a young core with a metric ton of potential, so I'll be looking on this forward - BlastEm is in need of some serious competition for the accuracy crown ;) Too bad I'm on a rather rough spot to give feedback to Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-02-29, 18:39 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #634 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Please, tag that shit as "Not Safe For People That Love Paper Money"!!! Seriously, people that litter piss me off. People that litter with OUR currency ticks all the wrong boxes in me. But then I live in the land of primitive savages fighting for their own survival... Whenever I find discarded bills on the street, I pick and carry them home (if they're still in one piece). My biggest "rescue" so far is roughly a brick and a half (~1500 notes) of VEF 1000 notes. I spent the next THREE DAYS cleaning moldy notes (fungus is really nasty to whatever cotton-based fibers they use to make money), just because some moron that doesn't trust our banking system prefers to hoard cash in hyperinflation, just to figure out that this is an extremely dumb idea. Still, I managed to find a lone replacement note on the lot (mold-free, even!) :D I have a separate chapter on my collection for such salvages, if only because I believe no banknote belongs to dumpsters, sewers, or shredders. Also, it's no fun to find rare bills in piss-poor collections, so I found myself lately giving numismatics lessons whenever I go to the bank - it's fun when I convince people to take a look at the serial numbers in their pockets. --- In other paper printing related news: printers are still evil, but somehow the corpse of Xerox is trying to take over the corpse of HP: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/02/28/1649238/printings-not-dead-the-35-billion-fight-over-ink-cartridges I root for total annihilation of inkjets here :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-03-01, 18:42 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #635 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
https://slashdot.org/story/20/03/01/0513254/a-japanese-smartphone-uses-ai-to-keep-users-from-taking-nude-photos Japan pls. Although this would be more interesting if the AI would add real-time mosaics, rather than going "I can't let you do that, Dave". Also, I guess someone finally invented a camera that refuses to work at museums, where artistic nude exhibits are placed routinely. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-03-07, 16:49 in Computer Security news
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Dinosaur
Post: #636 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Nicholas Steel Is it time to short AMD stock again!? Can we just assume that each and every piece of silicon ever designed is flawed and not bother looking for logo-and-name™ vulnerabilities anymore!? This is getting boring, like Boeing planes and coronavirus. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-03-11, 18:04 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #637 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Ah, good ole' COVID-19. Yeah, when that shit hits us here over Soviet Venezuela, we're fucking dead. We don't even have a health system anymore! Today I saw a maintenance worker at a local bank branch scrubbing the doors. With gloves. And I heard some places started offering free hand sanitizer for their visitors. Of course our dear commie leaders will follow by example, by denying we're contaminated to hell and back until people start dying and they can't silence the doctors anymore, a-la-China. No, I'm not using the jest tag this time. Every single government in the world (including the WHO) has seriously fucked it up with this nasty virus, and we're going to pay it dearly, in one form or another. Brace yourselves, as the train has no brakes, and YOU are going get the corona... and no, not the fancy Mexican beer one! ... In other news, sadly related with COVID-19, the E3 has been cancelled for this year. And SXSW. And other high-profile conventions around the world. The Tokyo 2020 Olympics? Consider them cancelled (or at least severely delayed) for now. Even a scientific convention about coronavirus has been cancelled... due to coronavirus. Oh the irony~! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-03-13, 16:11 in Computer Security news
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Dinosaur
Post: #638 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
I'll keep disabling ALL and ANY mitigations on each and every computer I got under my responsibility, thanks. Can't afford buying the hottest new broken piece of shiny CPU just because. On the flip side, maybe all those vulnerabilities and mitigations will finally force the entire IT industry to solve the endless software bloat pandemic... who am I kidding!? Bring on teh Javascripts! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-03-13, 16:58 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #639 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
And now, officially Soviet Venezuela has We're officially FUCKED. School has been cancelled, same as public gatherings, etc. The commies are taking advantage of this golden chance to be bastards, rather than actually doing the right things to give us a chance of hope to survive this mess nearly unscratched. They're now trying to force people to wear facemasks (which we already know they're completely useless except for those already infected, and only to stop spreading the virus) Yet... pharmacies have run out of alcohol, because Venezuelans are silly enough to believe that alcohol and soap (which the average Venezuelan can't afford anymore) are enough to counter the epidemic. Yes, they DO greatly help... on a country with a somewhat working health system and access to clean tap water. Not on this one, where you can easily go up to years without running water on your pipes (and when you get some, it's contaminated to hell and back, and you can't go to the nearest supermarket and buy water-purifying tablets or whatever). Yes, I'm fucking scared. Maybe I'm not going to die, but certainly my family (mom, uncles, anyone in the previous generation) is on the high-risk population, and I don't want to be the one to deliver the kiss of death. And pretty much nobody can afford medical care of any kind (provided you can find some half-working clinic which will gladly demand all the $$$$/€€€€, because public hospitals are out of the equation) over here, so you should be able to figure out that it's not going to be pretty. ... OK, we MIGHT have a glimmer of hope: the virus really dislike hot climates, and we're entering into one particularly hot summer. This is what's saving South America so far from an even larger spread of the pandemic. I guess the CANTV technicians will take this as a neat excuse to keep refusing to fix my phone line, that has been broken for 13 months and counting. Unless if I pay "rescue", naturally. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-03-15, 00:34 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #640 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Naturally, the people is reacting in very silly and stupid ways over here: - Facemasks became popular, despite being fucking USELESS for preventing infections. - There is now a black market for rubbing alcohol (IPA) and facemasks. Today I went to a local pharmacy to buy alcohol (which I use for completely unrelated reasons to the epidemic: my computer gear and dirty banknotes need cleanup, yo.) - prices skyrocketed overnight, and retailers claim that "these are the prices we received from our suppliers". FUCKING BULLSHIT, I say! The reality is that retailers are scumbags and try to profit from panic. - Most retailers are now wearing facemasks (again: useless) and/or gloves. Guess we now have a legit excuse to read out loud our debit card PINs at the PoS terminals (something I absolutely hate to do because that's unsafe as fuck despite everybody and his dog having a total and complete disrespect for privacy and personal safety in the last 3 years because I am with stupids... but I'm not touching those suspect keypads! Getting robbed OR getting COVID-19, not a hard choice to make). On the flip side, some shops reminded that bleach and disinfectant are useful not only as articles you can sell, but also work to clean their filthy and smelly places! - There is a bank branch near home, the only one in this city that open on Saturdays and other holidays. They no longer allow over 20 clients inside the premises at a time, tellers refuse to touch our ID cards, and they now drop our cash withdrawals over the counter. But... the bank forgot to issue them with disposable gloves (cash is dirty as fuck - did you forgot that banks also take deposits?) and rubbing alcohol (to clean up those dangerous fingerprint scanners which we have to use for those "faster-than-ATMs" withdrawals), rendering all their safety efforts completely moot. Oh, forget about using ATMs too (if you can find one that still works!) - Pedestrian traffic dropped considerably (now that everything from schools to cinemas have been shuttered), but in exchange, car traffic is experimenting a renaissance in the city of frequent gas shortages. Looks like people now believes that public transportation is a dangerous focus for infections (true), so they're reviving their old junkers to drive like crazy rabid animals. Speaking about gas stations: does those coronaviruses survive in gasoline? Because noone is wearing gloves at the pumps :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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