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| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-13, 18:40 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
 Post: #81 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by jjndig No, this is even worse. This time, Mozilla is on a suckyness tier of its own. Dude, if I ever wanted ideas about addons for enhancing my web browsing experience, I would talk to other humans using ordinary communication channels (message boards, instant messaging, or even face to face). LIKE AN ANIMAL. Today, when the Chrome team is out of bad ideas, they look for inspiration in Mozilla. We've come full circle, the ouroboros of obnoxious UX design is here, and we call it "the Internet". Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-17, 10:20 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Dinosaur
Post: #82 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Aaaand... my CANTV-tier CANTV has been down since last Friday, starting at 2:30 PM. Phone is dead (no dial tone), DSL is dead too (modem synchronizes, but no DHCP server will ever respond). Apparently this is a city-wide outage, which sadly is too common. Trying to report the case to CANTV is useless: their call center is pretty well shielded these days (try to report the voice service -> "Your phone line is already reported!"; try to report the DSL service -> a endless automated menu that always leads to a brick wall - it's impossible to talk to an human nowadays). I'm posting this fron shittyass craptacular Movistar 3G, which surprisingly works at useable speeds at early mornings, but forget about using it during the rest of the day. I would post a speedtest, but since this thing is a dumbphone, all I have for now are the 25MB (!!!) of my service plan, something completely incompatible with the Javashitfest of the Modern Internets. Estimated time to repair: E_NOT_A_NUMBER Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-18, 14:50 in Internet numbers bragging thread (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
Post: #83 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
...aaaand the outage seems to be city wide indeed, as there are quite a lot of closed businesses (including banks) due to no phone/DSL service available. Borrowed a Movilnet 3G stick (Movilnet is CANTV's mobile arm), and while it was unusable two hours ago (2G was completely dead, 3G was almost gone), it's surprisingly useable now. UPDATE: CANTV is back to its usual suckitude, yay? UPDATE2: ...and on a new IP range, previously used on their dial-up connections. WTF... UPDATE3:  ...so far they haven't fucked with my service specs (it has already happened in the past to countless people) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-18, 15:48 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #84 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Do people still watch videos on a web browser instead of in a media player, like God intended!? I could care less about YouTube hipster redesigns, as I don't even watch videos these days. But as long as things like youtube-dl work, I consider myself well served. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-18, 15:49 in Terminal colour schemes
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Dinosaur
Post: #85 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
All I want is a native xterm port for Windows, preferably as a cmd.exe (or whatever MS uses nowadays to render console apps) replacement. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-18, 17:52 in Sales and giveaways
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Dinosaur
Post: #86 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
The yearly Steam Winter Sale/Trading Card Extravaganza is near... 48 hours from now on. You can monitor Steam sales on this handy SteamDB page: https://steamdb.info/sales/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-18, 18:20 in NFS auto mountpoints magic?
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Dinosaur
Post: #87 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
After having migrated from SMB/CIFS to NFS for my Linux-to-Linux network file sharing needs, now I'm in the need to making my life easier. See, currently I have to mount my partitions the way greybearded change-hating sysadmins do: using mount commands from a terminal. This requires me to create mountpoints on my filesystem manually (for example /media/nethd which is the one I usually use). This works fine for as long as I need to mount a single network share (which is basically 80% of my use cases). But sometimes I need to have several network shares mounted at the same time, and having my /media directory polluted with mostly useless nethd0/1/2/infinity mountpoints is UGLY. Surely we have the tech to do it better, right? At least we've had it for years if you're dealing with locally attached block devices: udisks2 is as easy at it gets, it does the required Magic™ (create mountpoints when attaching device, deleting them when unmounting/removing), but a quick 60-second Google search has been useless so far (maybe The Googles aren't tracking me hard enough to actually use their AI for good, I guess). Here is what I'm looking for: - Automatically manage mount points (create them on mount, delete them after unmounting) - DE-specific stuff (like GNOME VFS) is completely useless to me, as I do actually care about app compatibility (a terminal or a media player can't do anything with those fake mounts) - Should allow for non-root users to do their own mounts - Should allow for customizing mountpoint options (root dir, naming, etc.) - Bonus points if it can also do CIFS - It's fine if it's a console application, I'm not specifically looking for a GUI solution this time (and in fact, some of my hosts are headless at times) - Must work with Debian 8 and 9! - systemd-specific solutions are perfectly acceptable, although if they actually built in that functionality in later versions, sadly I'm not upgrading my old Debian hosts for it, sorry. Before you ask: I AM NOT LOOKING for /etc/fstab hard mountpoints, or mounting things at boot! I'm willing to rely on 3rd-party software for this, obviously. Any options? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-19, 18:20 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #88 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Covarr Get with the times, grandpa. .NET is no longer trendy, the new sexyness is JavaScript (no, I'm not interested into looking if JS can be run inside the CLR) So... how long until we have true browserception? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-20, 19:51 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #89 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Aside of the fact that it chokes to death my Seamonkey on my old C2D laptop, all I have to say is: HOLY SHIT! Also, I wouldn't bother tampering with it using devtools, if only to keep my sanity intact :O In other news: Forget the dotcom bubble, 2019 will finally be the year of when Internet stupidity reaches a new rock bottom https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/12/20/191219/forget-dot-com-2019-will-finally-be-the-year-of-weird-domain-names Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-20, 21:05 in Cartoons, imported (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #90 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Today I learned about two shit anime productions that I wish I should have never learned about: 1) Back Street Girls: Gokudols, a Netflix Original™. Sadly it's not the revival of the Backstreet Boys, although as the name implies, the main theme of this show is genderbend: yakuza people who were given two choices: genderbend idols or death. They... didn't picked death, and as result, we got 10 episodes of pure WTFest. And yes, Netflix spent good cash dubbing this to several languages, including my glorious Latin American Spanish. Why Netflix, why, why, WHY?!?!?! 2) The Leader, an upcoming Chinese animation based on the works by the father of Communism itself, the one and only Karl Marx. Just what we needed, more politics propaganda targeting the weak minds of our young population. Or good source material for the weirdest porn doujinshi ever. Whatever, where is my Mein Kampf anime by ufotable!??!?! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-21, 01:19 in Sales and giveaways (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #91 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
So, I've had this shit gathering electronic dust on my Steam inventory for over four years: No, I don't play Kojima games... or anything ever published by Konami. Turns out that the friend that got me involved with Steam years ago had bought a new videocard and it came with a coupon for MGSV... which at some point came bundled with a extra copy of "THE techdemo" (his words, not mine). He's the Kojimafanboy, so he had already bought that the moment Konami released it, and instead of trading that thing with other Kojimafanboys, he ended dumping it at my inventory, thinking that I could ever become a Kojimafanboy myself (spoilers: This is it - if anyone still wants that $3.99 techdemo, I'm all ears. But here is the catch: this gift copy was from the era Konami started giving ideas to Steam to regionlock gifts (how those Soviet commies even dared buying cheap games with their toy currency for their 'murican comrades!), and therefore it can be only activated in Latin America. If you want to help me find a good home for it, here are some ideas about games I would actually play. PM or ping me on Steam if you have a deal. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-22, 20:15 in Internet numbers bragging thread (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #92 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Here is your Xmas present from CANTV: another city-wide outage, for the second time in this week. Back to ye olde shite Telefonica Movistar "3"G (for values of 3 < 2), but this time with a 2-day 120MB data pack, so I can actually browse ONE modern-Internet website. UPDATE (16:15 VET): DSL is back, voice is still "mostly dead" (can get dialtone, but can't place nor receive calls). COMMUNISM HO~! At least I took the chance to finetune my 3G modem PPP scripts (Huawei sticks work flawlessly with NetworkManager/ModemManager, but they still involve arcane voodoo with good ol' pppd! Oh, and nobody gives a damn anymore about 3G featurephones: I'm still unable to connect with my V9x from NM because MM still crashes when trying to read the APNs from the phone!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-22, 20:28 in What are you listening to right now? (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #93 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
This: http://www.komatsuna-ya.com/~nekonomikan/dmc/cheetah.html Yes, you're reading it right: Someone made an arrangement album about Cheetahmen. YES, THE CHEETAHMEN, as seen in "Active Enterprises' Most Epic Fails" and in a couple of reviews by the AVGN. And it had to be a doujin circle, of all things! Normally I don't give a damn about Dangerous Mezashi Cat works, as they're not usually my cup of tea. Except that they managed to get Ayumi Nomiya to do the vocals for the first track. If you don't know her, I highgly suggest listening to the entire ALiCE'S EMOTiON library, as she is usually there doing delicious vocals for awesome Touhou arranges there. In fact, it's extremely unusual to find her performing vocals for works outside that circle (I'm aware that she has her own circle for her original works, but I've been unable to find more information, xfades, or even an actual rip), much less non-Touhou works! For that very reason alone I ended searching fucking everywhere for that goddamned album... just to met with dead links, unseeded torrents, and Chinese paywalls. Joy. Finally, after losing all hopes, some random anon at a (now defunct) message board brought the real deal. On lossless, no less! Go listen the album, it kicks your ass. And the cheetah's ass too. If you excuse me, I'll be busy trying to find which dicks I have to suck in Japan so I can get any CrazyBus arranges out there for the next Comiket. Or the M3, I'm not picky. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-22, 20:35 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #94 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Thanks for reminding me that the Korra game has been unpurchasable for at least a couple years on Steam, thanks to copyright being a total bitch :/ Here is your daily reminder about not using meme hipster "not-databases" on production websites: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres Welcome back to the light, The Guardian! Who said PostgreSQL wasn't webscale!? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-22, 20:38 in Higan decided to not work ever again
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Dinosaur
Post: #95 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Hmmm... It would be worth a shot to rename your settings directory, rather than outright deleting it. This is so you can zip them, and post them online to see what could have gone wrong there (maybe some corrupted setting?). Silent crashes are never acceptable, so you might have found a subtle bug, or an edge case. ... although I suspect not many users would want to share their settings files, due to "privacy" concerns :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-22, 21:00 in NFS auto mountpoints magic?
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Dinosaur
Post: #96 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Hmmm... it could be. The autodiscovery part sounds exactly like what I'm looking for, although the documentation is kinda confusing at points (the samples I find usually focus on "let's do things the fstab way!"). I can give it a try. But... since autofs also targets removable media, wouldn't it conflict with udisks2? Or can both be setup in a way so autofs can deal with the network shares only, while leaving udisks2 untouched? I don't mind having both working at the same time, and I don't want to switch away from udisks2. Gotta read more, so thanks for the suggestion! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-23, 00:46 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #97 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
I am a Java developer. I write web apps that run on a server. I still worry about resource usage, to the point that, while not exactly know about how the internals of a certain component work (and on J2EE there are plenty of those!), I've rewritten large parts of code solely for improving performance, and shaving a few MBs from the final RAM usage charts. And I still refrain from using 3rd-party client-side JS junk whenever possible. As for server-side 3rd-party code, all I can do is to report bugs when I notice that something is draining resources like mad. Sometimes that's all what you need to slim the fat fast (well, that and a good testcase). Yeah, that specific 5000+ page PDF still requires a couple of gigabytes of RAM... but at least it can now run well within those 2GB RAM with reasonable performance instead of dying with a OutOfMemoryException after 10 minutes of painful CPU grinding on code that it is not mine :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-23, 14:43 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #98 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
In the meanwhile, some news from the Planet Seamonkey: https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2018/12/19/updating-everyone/ Basically: yes, they're still alive, progress has been difficult to say the least (thanks Mozilla), and the future is grim due to the official death of XUL. A ESR60-based release is simply not happening anytime soon (that would be 2.57, which is pretty much unusable at this stage). The only safe bet right now would be switching to the last XUL-based FF base (FF56/SM2.53), for which there are rather stable unofficial builds available that you can help testing right now (unfortunately I can't use them because 1- there are no langpacks available -I refuse to use a browser not on my language-, and 2- the Linux builds are not suitable for my particular setups due to glibc/stdcxx versions too new for some of my Debian boxes, and no 32-bit binaries available). Anyway, I won't even consider a Quantum-based Seamonkey - I prefer to see the project die for good rather than committing such an act of treason (not to mention that they simply don't have the manpower to try to undo the deliberate wrecking ball acts of Mozilla on the Gecko codebase). I guess SM2.49 is my new FF28 at this stage, so I'll be there for a long while... Too bad that a cooperation with Pale Moon seems to be unlikely to happen like, ever, for oh so many reasons :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-23, 16:16 in Sales and giveaways
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Dinosaur
Post: #99 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Nicholas Steel And in some marginal cases, it's the only way for you to play the games you've paid for on your platform of choice. Case in point: the original BIT.TRIP RUNNER. There has been a Linux version since it got featured on one of the earliest Humble Indie Bundles, but that happened well before Steam opened shop for us Linux users. For whatever reason, the publisher/devs never bothered releasing this port on Steam, so if you didn't got your copy through said HIB, you were barred from playing the game on Linux despite the existence of an actual official port! Some rumoured that they never published the game to Steam due to the Linux port lacking Steamworks integration (no achievements, etc.), but there never was an official word on the matter. Furthermore, the sequel (RUNNER2) did got a native Linux port from Day 1 (and it works beautifully, too bad that was when my Steamlaptop died, so I didn't managed to fully enjoy the game...). Enter GOG Connect. Unfortunately, the number of available games from my library is still on the single digits (visual novels being the main offenders), but RUNNER is one of those wonderful exceptions. And even better, GOG has the DRM-free, native Linux port, complete with a Windows-esque installer! At 51MB the download, it's somewhat playable on my 2006-vintage Inspiron 6400 laptop with its unlovely ATi X1400 GPU (but that's not surprising considering the game had a Wii port, a platform with far less resources than my mainstream-class laptop). Oh, there is a RUNNER3 now available. It's made in Unity, and its devs didn't even bothered building a Linux port, using the classic "if there is demand, we will do it" lameass excuse :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-23, 16:41 in Nintendo Switch emulation is now among us (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #100 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 1 day |
For most people out there (particularly back when the GB was still "hot"), their needs basically boil down to a single franchise: POKéMON. Back in the era, most bugreports received by emu authors were from ROM kiddies claiming that "HALP i can't pokeymanz/I can haz the RAWMz?" (this DID extended sometime after the GBA era, as -until a couple years ago- I still received from time to time those lovely messages in my condition of the LA Spanish localization author for VBA). Most of those people never had any prior experience with the real hardware, they just wanted to play with Pikachu on their econoboxes. ...and to be fair, I'm not excluding myself - while I never pestered any emudev about Pokemoning my 'mons ('cause I never had any trouble with the games), roughly half of my (tiny) GB(C) ROM collection are nothing but Pokemon titles (I dropped Blue/Red after 6 badges or so, and never went very far with either Yellow, Crystal or Gold/Silver). With the GBA, my story turned up radically after playing with the Real Hardware (once again, thanks to my Nintendo-brand cousin), I learned that there was life beyond Pokeymanz, and the rest writes by itself: hundreds of hours glued to my computer monitor (and eventually to my makeshift Gameboy Player, as soon as I got my first laptop with a legit TV output and a cheap USB gamepad: it took me 167 hours on that setup to beat Pokemon Emerald, just to drop that shit after wasting some time at the Battle Frontier) ...damn, I'm now in the mood for some Warioworld 4 :D In other news, Post 100 GET~! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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