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| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-19, 20:04 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #841 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
IMHO, the biggest problems with Pale Moon are: - Total, abysmal, complete failure at PR, exemplified by Matt Tobin, and in a slightly distant second place, Moonchild himself. Arrogance everywhere does not help "onboarding" (oh god, how I hate that hipster term) new users. At least when you get insulted by Moonchild, he (often) does it politely (as ironic as it sounds). But Tobin... oh man, that guy seriously needs to get away from the keyboard, pronto! Here is a fresh gem: once the user exposed his/her specific request, he/she got answers (useful, even!)... and a gratuitous abuse by Tobin as the very last post, because this guy is a plain and simple asshole. FWIW, he is not even an active Pale Moon developer anymore, but he focus more on UXP (their specific fork of XUL) instead, so he should not even be giving Pale Moon support! - The project has become Mozilla-lite, with its "you're the user and you're always wrong" attitude. Here is another fresh one from the leader himself. They should get rid of their "Your browser your way" motto, as it clearly stopped applying to their product a long time ago. I get that dealing with countless help petitions from normies and downstream forks force people to grow a thick skin, but come on, that's no excuse to disregard that your product is supposedly aimed at the former Mozilla power user! - They don't even want outsiders touching their code base. Thinking on a port for your favorite non-mainstream platform? Better forget about it, or you'll get Tobin F-bombing and looking for the banhammers as soon as you post your .mozconfig. Any deviation of their holy and sacred standards, no matter how much justified is it (say: you have to use a system-supplied library instead of whatever version is shipped with Pale Moon for $PLATFORM_SPECIFIC_REASON[n]) is not to be tolerated by the top two dogs. So much for Free and Open Source Software™ :/ Every time I try to give the benefit of the doubt to Pale Moon, I end running away in a split second and ensuring the project will never leave my personal shitlist, like anyone that dares selling their soul to the CCP or Silly Valley. --- As for Seamonkey, I'm now lurking on their IRC channel (apparently I'm not the last dinosaur standing on earth, yay~!). It's heartbreaking to see how most broken websites often have its roots onto heavily obfuscated Javascript, often abusing Google-isms because people forgot the sins of our past (*cough*Trident*cough*). Oh, and I managed to see a Status Meeting live and in color (the last of the year, in fact). Here are the latest notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2020-12-13 Of interest: - 2.53.6 beta 1 should be shipping in the upcoming days. I suspect the stable release would be for early January at best. - NPAPI is (finally!) going away. It only survives because of Flash (and indeed, it's the only whitelisted plugin - nothing else will work!). But the clock is about to run out, as the Flash EOL date approaches. On this December 31st, Adobe will remove the installers from their site, and the most recent player plugins are timebombed to stop working on January 12th, 2021. After that? it's dead, Jim. Sure, there are plenty of projects trying to keep Flash alive on the browser, bug oh man, can't just let the thing die for good and stay dead!? Like Yuyuko, the Dreamcast, democracy in Venezuela, [jest]or the 737 MAX[jest]. The standalone projector is not timebombed (AFAIK), so your precious Newgrounds (or for us Touhou fans, IOSYS) .SWFs will stay alive, but far away from our web browsers! - The 32-bit builds are on the chopping board - no date is set yet for their dismissal, but upstream Mozilla is no longer testing 32-bit Linux builds. I'm not feeling sad or angry for this, as the web stopped being useful on anything under 4GB RAM due to the insistence of transforming web browsers into fully virtualized operating systems :/ - Also on the chopping board: DOM Inspector. It will be gone for 2.57 as it is currently FUBAR. - The Rust bits are a PITA due to frequent compiler breakages introduced on later versions, so they're stuck on an rather old version of the compiler thanks to Mozilla total and complete disregard to stability of languages? - Manpower as usual is severely lacking, hampering further progress... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-20, 03:55 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Dinosaur
Post: #842 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Name me a major game store that hasn't yet bent over Xinnie the Pooh yet: - Steam: Their second largest userbase comes from China, and Devotion is not the first victim of the 50 Cent Army shills downvoting burials. Plus, the large number of Chinese-only games on a store traditionally catering to Western players (who expect all and any game to be available in English at the very least - someone selling a Spanish-only game won't fly too far). We can safely assume Valve already has their very own CCP officers on board. - Epic Games Store: 40% ownership belonging to Tencent. Yes, Sweeney has already told to not pay attention to the CCP officers on board, but we all know that he is another sellout. (Plus, there are many other non-China/politics-related reasons to NOT give a single cent to Epic on their lackluster shop) - GOG: we already know the history. Most likely CDPR is going to let this slide, taking advantage of their biggest shitstorm with the botched Cyberpunk 2077 launch. - Blizzard: Did we already forgot the Blitzchung controversy!? The biggest problem with all this junk is that for the average gamer it's just "noise", and they don't give a damn - they will forget this in a few weeks, just in time for the next random controversy. But unfortunately China is now using their poisonous tentacles to mess not only with our freedom (god damn it, I fucking hate getting politics involved with ANYTHING, but as a Soviet Venezuelan citizen, I have my axe to grind over the CCP and friends for obvious reasons), but also with our pastimes! This has to stop, people. This is dangerously reaching the point of no return. No, I still don't care about Devotion (I don't like terror games), but when the CCP gets involved, it gets personal. tl;dr: Fuck China, fuck the CCP, fuck Xinnie the Pooh, and go buy all your games from itch.io or Playism before they become China sellouts too! --- To rinse the bad taste from the CCP cock from our mouths, I'll leave this marvel of technology here: https://freds72.itch.io/poom It's good ol' DOOM, but in 8 bits of glory! Apparently it's a port for a Lua-based homebrew platform (PICO-8) which can supposedly run on nearly every device under the sun, provided someone writes an implementation for it (hardware implementations DO exist). Think on it like a This thing leaves nearly every official console DOOM port in shame (that's with you, SNES, 32X and 3DO!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-20, 15:15 in Nintendo Switch emulation is now among us (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #843 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Oh, good ol' NO$ hate mail (I am also guilty of this, a spectre that will never stop haunting me) Now that I've been at both sides of the airtight hatchway, I can tell you that it has gone downhill since then. ...maybe someday I'll do my Hall of Shame with all those emails I got from my years doing emulator localizations and anime encodes, as I have some gems deeply buried in nearly 20 years of emails ("torrents are obsolete, please upload to $DEAD_FILELOCKER pretty pls", "can you send all the pokeymans in spanish"). Fortunately nobody asks for support via email nowadays (email is for dinosaurs, remember?). Instead, lamers go to forums (which are on its way out, sadly), social networks, and Discord "servers" (yuck!), where it's easier to deal with stupid. Or you can ask for help the classy asshole way, like the guy that helped gave birth to Mozilla does routinely: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/retropie-questions/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/retropie-and-mame/ BTW: Martin Korth should consider reviving NO$GMB (turning it donationware like he did with all his other emulators), if only for reviving the good ol' times. Not that x86-only emulators have a clear future in a world threatened by ARMs, or that I'm too fond of closed-source blobs, but man, this guy comes from a long lost breed of developers who can squeeze up to the last drop of performance of any hardware you put in his hands! Oh, and his tech docs are delightful reads for anyone remotely interested into emulation or console development. The PokèRAWMz 13yo of me didn't appreciated that back then, but my current "I'm sick of computers" 35yo does, as small and efficient software has become an endangered species in this era of Javascript Everywhere™ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-20, 16:06 in Computer Hardware News (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #844 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Wintendo Diez is eating your files. AGAIN. https://borncity.com/win/2020/12/18/windows-10-20h2-chkdsk-damages-file-system-on-ssds-with-update-kb4592438-installed/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25482883 Apparently CHKDSK trashes your filesystem if you choose to run it after installing a specific update, but so far the issue has been reported to happen on SSDs only. Supposedly the damage can be fixed if you run CHKDSK offline (from recovery media, perharps?). Assume that if your computer runs W10, your files are already lost. BACKUP YO' SHIT, PEOPLE! In other news, shingled HDDs are absolutely terrible for running VMs. I had to setup a minimal Debian VM over here (no X, no nada - just something that boots to a console), and oh boy... I/O performance tanked HARD during the package install phase which breezes over on any non-SMR drive (we're talking about sub-megabyte speeds!). Either my WD Palmer firmware I/O strategies are terrible (that 128MB cache is certainly not helping that much), VirtualBox is playing stupid and its specific disk I/O patterns are ill suited for shingles (not that unlikely), or shingled drives on consumer hardware is something that should never have happened in first place (likely!). I also deleted my W10 insider VM that loved to thrash HDD every time it gets booted on an standard non-SMR drive, as if I even dared to boot it on this WD, it would quickly render my machine unusable. No tears were shed during the process, and it was nice to claim those 40GB back~ Also: don't neglect your weekly TRIMs - for dual boot users this can become a hassle as if you miss your weekly scheduled fstrim because you were running Wintendo, your next boot will be infuriatingly SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-21, 01:49 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #845 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Windows still survives on my PCs due to games... I no longer play. For me, it's very slowly becoming a thing of the past, like television (I'm glad I gave up with TV for life). As for NTFS reliability... maybe I'm weird, but I've yet to lose a single file on any filesystem due to OS bugs. Except maybe on cellphones using FAT, because older dumbphones rarely (if ever) got any kind of QC on their firmwares, and filesystem-murdering glitches happened on every blue moon (I did recovered from mild filesystem corruption on my old RAZRs about once every few years or so, but I had to bring the heavy weapons to do so) However, I've lost files on NTFS/FAT/EXT/UDF due to good ol' hardware failures. The entire Western Digital Blue line and anything ever made by Suckgate after they switched from their highly reliable ST-10 architecture to their Ez-Break™ F3 arch of doom (or in laymen terms: anything up to 7200.10 on desktop drives was rock solid - starting with 7200.11, they switched to butter platters and firmware made out of pixie dust and broken Maxtor drives) are excellent for causing massive filesystem damage out of the blue (no pun intended, WD). And then, when my 1TB laptop Toshiba failed, I had to get used to repair considerable EXT4 FS damage every month, until I could replace the drive :/ Protip: on a failing drive, never ever ever ever EVAR EVUR! run CHKDSK/fsck unless you want to lose your stuff forever! CLONE THAT SHIT ASAP, then clone the clone, and work on the clone's clone. This ensures you not only a safety net, but also maximizes your chances for a successful recovery. Oh, I can't say this enough: BACKUP YO' SHIT, PEOPLE! No matter the filesystem, OS, storage media, application, cloud, or phase of the moon, data loss is ALWAYS a possibility if you aren't careful! Note to myself: do my final round of HDD images for 2020 sometime before New Year's Eve. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-22, 00:38 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #846 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
PostgreSQL is the only database for me. It's the only DB that has survived failures on Western Digital Bleugh and Suckgates gone wild :P But at least we're still on the league of SQL (in)sanity, compared to webshit hipsters that hate relational databases with a passion, maybe because a MySQL or Jet-dressed bozo touched them in places that shall not be named when they were pre-iPhone kids. Seriously, if I'm forced to pick at gunpoint between a product by Orrible® and some NoSQL™ madness, I'll gladly suck Ellison's dick*, but only because the other option is literal inmediate death. *(then chop it when he is asleep) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-22, 00:41 in Happy birthday tomman!
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Dinosaur
Post: #847 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Nice, thanks~ Yeah, this has been a shitty year in particular (thanks China!) for me in all fronts, and to be fair, my expectations for 2021 are... uh, null. But I guess I'll still survive another year of suck to tell that I'm still alive. Broken, but alive :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-22, 01:11 in Computer Hardware News (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #848 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Speaking of computer stuff still not corrupted by China: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1340794861050605568 Carmack: "There is no DOOM port yet for the Cray-1, and it would be a PITA to do it because it's weird hardware" The Internet: "Hold my beer" Another Internet: "The next corner pizzeria has Crays as their seats" This has to be done, people - it's the final frontier for all things DOOM. Just found the last working Cray-1, a beefy power line (it can draw up to 115 kilowatts at full blast!), and some way to plug a VGA monitor to it (plenty of bored hardware engineers are willing to do that). All for... what, a machine with performance equivalent to a P5@90MHz? Good enough for me~ Posted by Mei Koyoki Careful, that topic is known to have caused Holy Wars in the past. Right now there is one ongoing because EXT4 is ooooold (brtfs vs. XFS vs. ZFS vs. something that runs on the cloudy clouded clouds). Also, jokes about Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-22, 02:31 in Nintendo Switch emulation is now among us (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #849 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Nicholas Steel For the context of this very specific case, I got said email shortly after the Feds seized the original Megaupload and the whole file locker industry was in chaos. Plus, IIRC none of the fileservers that were named there survive as of today. But then, Latin American pirates hated P2P with a special passion, mainly because they were lazy to leave their torrent clients seeding after the downloads were done, just for them to wonder why there are no seeds on their next download, hence the stupid, baseless, inane "torrents are obsolete" remark :/ Don't make me open that Pandora's box, folks :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-22, 14:05 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #850 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Mei Koyoki Given the current SJW snowflakes / "someone could get offended" climate that is getting managements around the world to rename everything and/or rewrite the dictionary too, I would prefer for ReiserFS to keep its goddamned name, just on moral grounds. The only one that could get offended by its current name is Hans Reiser... and he is currently rotting in jail anyway. I'm still surprised ReiserFS still has users considering that better filesystems have been developed (and reached production quality) since then... but I would not get surprised if somewhere, some graybeard Unixoid sysadmin is still using EXT2 because he can't trust those newfangled "transaction journals". Don't be a Mozilla, people. Or a Red Hat, as Fedora is the latest on the "PC IT language" bandwagon: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Git-Branch-Names-Main Seriously, you're not allowed anymore to have "master" branches on your Git repos anymore!? Some snowflakes are also proposing to rename "Rawhide" to something else as it could offend Hindi people with their "cows are sacred" stuff. I wish I were making this shit up, but nope, it sadly has become a pest all around computers :/ By that logic, IBM should have been renamed decades ago (remember who helped A Certain Bloody Dictator to gas all those innocents...), and don't get me started with Microsoft... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-22, 16:25 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #851 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
It also implies: - IT admins and computerizer assemblers won't be able to have "master system images" anymore. - Oh, speaking of Master System, the venerable 8-bit Sega console has suddenly become "not-PC"! - PATA drives are now to be purged from existence, due to its master/slave architecture. - Phone centrals also have plenty of cleansing to do ("master line number" is still a commonplace term on banks, for example) - Master Lock, need I to say more? - Plenty of videogames will suddenly get deplatformed if SJWs go full China over them (a quick search on Steam yields "Digimon Masters Online" as the very first match, so this also means anime is non-compliant too!) - Golf and tennis tournaments also have to be rebranded, as "Masters" is a pretty commonplace name there. But then, some out there would think these two sports are already exclusionary ("white rich people"). But then, Tiger Woods was black... - Master Minimum Equipment List, which also means our airplanes not only are potential death traps, but also full of derogatory expressions! (I suggest to also blacklist "Boeing" and "McDonnell-Douglas" while we're at there, as people get offended every time the 737 MAX is mentioned on the news) - I could go on and on and on and on... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-22, 22:39 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #852 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
The KFConsole No, it's not April Fools. Also, it's still 6 days for our local equivalent of that (December 28), so... is this for real?! Too bad they had to ruin it by going with Suckgate for the storage - it's like using moldy melted butter (the same they use for their shittyass HDD platters) instead of real, sweet, golden palm oil for your KFC. Why there is no Mountain Dew-cooled gaming rig yet!? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-24, 14:35 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #853 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Well, apparently either it's real, or a very elaborate advertising stunt. Or both. And it's not new. KFC is walking into the next level of what General Mills did with Chex Quest in the '90s: selling (not necessarily healthy) food to nerds through videogames. This is their second "ad" in less than a year - their first is a... frickin' visual novel!? Well, at least the KFConsole™ now has a suitable pack-in game. And I thought this or this were weird. I think I now need an adult... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-24, 15:27 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Dinosaur
Post: #854 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
And now, better late than never, iFixit's official PS5 teardown - Texas called, they want their truck back! Oh man, this thing is HUGE, basically, the biggest videogame console ever. - The fan is BIG, but very user serviceable, as long as you don't mind the security Torx screw heads. Still, I'm not feeling comfortable getting a vacuum cleaner near this thing (static electricity and all), but you're supposed to dust off the exhausts every now and then. - The massive fan obviously cools down an equally hefty heatsink. - The user-accessible M.2 NVMe slot supports all form factors between 30mm and 110mm, which are basically every commercially available M.2 stick, as long as it complies with Sony performance specs (the standard does allow for 16mm and 26mm cards, but apparently nobody is making SSDs that small yet). For reference, the PCIe 4.0 SSD from the Xbox Sex is a 2230, so 30mm. Now the sicko in me wants to see someone "shucking" a Xbox for its SSD, and then installing it on a PS5. Oh wait, the slot is right now useless as Sony has yet to release the required firmware update for enabling its use! - Liquid metal is no joke. You definitely don't want to mess with it as it can quickly kill your console if you splash it carelessly. - Unlike the XSX, the PS5 comes with a CR2032 3V battery holder installed. - It also has a tiny speaker inside, most likely for screaming at you when your console dies. - The onboard (soldered) SSD has its own dedicated 512MB RAM cache. - The disc drive (if your console ships with one) is still married to the motherboard, sadly. No surprises there. So basically this round of the console wars boils down to: Liquid Metal vs. Vapor Chamber. FIGHT! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-25, 17:18 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
Post: #855 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
So, it seems Let's Encrypt has its own SSL/CA shitfest going on right now, thanks to cellphones: https://letsencrypt.org/2020/12/21/extending-android-compatibility.html https://letsencrypt.org/2020/11/06/own-two-feet.html https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/lets-encrypt-comes-up-with-workaround-for-abandonware-android-devices/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515703 The leading SSL cert issuer (because it's free AND well integrated with most servers out there) is now pivoting to be their own CA, instead of relying on 3rd-party CAs. Adding a root CA cert to popular OS/browsers is no small feat, as it involves all sorts of audits, politics, and other crazy protocols, but if you The "install a update" path for most phones simply doesn't exist, and instead it becomes "buy a new device". If you're extremely lucky and your device is VERY popular, someone might have already cooked a custom ROM for it with the required root CA updates. To be fair, Let's Encrypt managed to get their new shiny root cert included in Android 7.1.1, released in December 2016... 4 years ago*. But for device OEMs, they couldn't care less and instead they keep releasing new phones with outdated software out of the door. This includes, among others, my shitty AT&T-branded Alcatel OT-5044R which despite being assembled and sold sometime during 2018, still shipped with Android 7.0 (the security revision level says February 5, 2018). Even worse: unlike my now-gone ZTE, this phone has yet to get any OEM update at all, so starting in September 2021, anything using the OS cert storage for doing SSL with certs from Let's Encrypt will die a painful death when the DST Root X3 (Let's Encrypt now-former CA) cert expires. Or not. This is Android, where security is an afterthought after all. Apparently some manager / hipster cowboy on Android's security team decided to simply ignore expiration dates on root CAs (or "trust anchors" as they call them), and keep trusting any and all CA 'till the cold death of the universe, even if revoked upstream, and this is by design. How many facepalms are worth that!? And this is where Let's Encrypt folks are making their move. Since they can't just go and buy new phones for every Android user on Earth, they reached an agreement with IdenTrust (the CA behind DST Root X3) to cross-sign Let's Encrypt shiny new CA cert (ISRG Root X1) with the soon-to-expire DST Root X3 CA until 2024, completely defeating the purpose of having expiration dates on certificates in first place (thanks Google), in order to not break the Internet for people like me that are stuck with shitphones already abandoned by their OEMs/carriers because we can't afford * I'm aware that Android at least does let users install custom root certs from elsewhere** (I can see the option on my phone), so in theory, this is a non-issue with anyone still rocking OOOOOOOOOOOOLD Android phones. But expecting normal users to futz with .PEM files, deeply buried options, and alien language is the reason of why CACert died and Let's Encrypt strives. Also: this is a long shot, but some devices might have that option crippled/locked/surgically castrated by its OEM! ** Firefox thankfully ships with its own cert store and routinely ignores the OS-specific one. Except that Mozilla never bothered porting the cert manager UI to Android, which leaves us with no options to manage certs on our goddamned cellphones! --- Speaking about my shitty Alcatel, did I've mentioned that this thing is no fun? - No way to root: Apparently my long-lost Z835 was quite popular both in 'murica and here at Soviet Venezuela, so both root and experimental TWRP builds eventually surfaced, but for the 5044R I got absolutely nothing, except of the usual Chinaware™ one-click - No updates at all (the Z835 got at least 3 updates, including one in early 2019) - No leaked factory ROMs I can download for the day when this phone inevitably gets its firmware corrupted. For the Z835, all full firmwares are available, even the original ancient build from "launch day". All I could find for the 5044R is this seemingly legit ~800MiB file (it does have a file structure similar to other Qualcomm-powered Alcatel phones) hosted at a shady firmware repository who wants money (at least $3 for 3GiB, which is their cheapest package) since my ROM is a "featured" file (and free accounts can't download "featured" files, whatever that means) :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-26, 13:11 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #856 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Mei Koyoki The same way they do it on every supported iProduct: through OS updates: https://support.apple.com/en-bh/HT209143 And since the previous *OS release, every Apple OS shares the same root cert database, so your Apple-branded computerizer will trust the same roots as your cellphone, tablet, watch and set-top-box. Really, the only one that screwed it here are Google and their affiliates, but that's because their business model is not only spying on you while serving ads you don't want, but also (in the case of telcos and OEMs) to force you to buy a new cellphone every year, which clearly is not a model that works with sensible users, poor people, and most citizens from communist shitholes who can barely afford to be connected to the world (even if you're starving, a cellphone has became mandatory for existing in this society). Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-27, 05:25 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.
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Dinosaur
Post: #857 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
A '''progressive web application''' ('''PWA''') is a type of [[application software]] delivered through the [[World Wide Web|web]], built using common web technologies including [[HTML]], [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] and [[JavaScript]]. It is intended to work on any platform that uses a [[standards-compliant]] [[web browser|browser]] (usually with an emphasis on testing only in [[Google Chrome]]), including both [[Desktop computer|desktop]] and [[mobile device]]s. Pretty lame, but kinda on topic. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-27, 05:43 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #858 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
Posted by Mei Koyoki Commie shitholes are not there yet - we're currently at the "you must own a phone that can send and receive SMS" tier, fortunately for my sanity. Unfortunately, the whole "mobile payments" stuff is forcing everybody to move onto smartdevices (although banks have half-assed it over here, as expected: the largest, government-owned bank who caters to the "barely phone-ized plebs" currently don't offer cellphone apps for this specific feature, while another bank I know only offers a mobile website that, starting two weeks ago, only works in fucking Chrome and force-logouts you if you dare use Mozilla on either desktop or phone). But at the end of the day it's all moot, because when you try to pay, either the SMS fail to arrive, mobile data goes down, or your bank goes catatonic. Soviet Venezuela: the only country in the world where we have so many ways to pay... and to fail. And to lose your money while we're at there: - Cards? "Host not responsive", "Transaction failed", "Card issuer not available", "Connection failed", "Timeout expired", and my personal favorite: "System error". - Mobile payments? "Transaction failed", never-arriving SMS (on both ends), "Receiving bank unavailable", or the typical "can you hear me now" 3G/4G woes. - Bank transfers? Great, now we get to invoke the bank insecurity theatre at full throttle! And it only really works on Real Computers™, which you are not likely to carry around when shopping outside your home. Same-bank transfers are OK, while inter-bank transfers are a game of Russian Roulette. If you're lucky, funds will arrive 2 days late, but if not... Yay~. - Cash? Nope, not only you don't have enough banknotes for that, the seller most likely don't want them anyway because they're worthless and nobody wants to spend their time counting money. - Hard currency? Hope you don't want change - if you want to buy something that costs $2 but only have a $20 bill, your typical options are "buy nothing" or "buy 10x" because nobody has enough greenbacks to give change. Old/dirty/worn bills need not apply. - Buttcoins? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--- too bad sureanem is still banned ---HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-12-27, 15:55 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Dinosaur
Post: #859 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
10 days have elapsed since GOG No official answer so far, their lips remain tightly shut during this controversy, hoping it gets drowned during its even bigger drama with Cyberbugged 2077 (which despite the angry complaints, game-breaking bugs, refunds, console delistings and lawsuits, it has become CD Projekt's very own License to Print Money™, which shows once again that gamers are willing to eat shit through a tube by accepting to purchase unfinished works, while making me to lose whatever trace of faith I still had on mankind). And it seems to be working OUTSIDE GOG, as no media has talked about this specific issue. They... just pretended it never happened! In the meanwhile, the revolt across GOG official channels (boards, wishlists, social networks) has barely cooled down, with dozens of messages every day threatening with boycotts over the platform. Unfortunately most gamers don't give a fuck, either because they don't care at all about the game, or because they're happy playing their China-friendly games. Even worse, the threats of defecting to Steam/ The world is doomed, maybe COVID-19 is our punishment for being such entitled assholes? Even if I lived on a sane country with access to real money and non-broken/banned payment methods, I wouldn't be buying videogames this season, not at the usual channels. Why bother anyway when I lost where my backlog begins AND ends? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-01, 04:03 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Dinosaur
Post: #860 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 22 days Last view: 1 day |
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-12-31/type-moon-tsukihime-visual-novel-remake-reveals-new-cast-summer-launch-on-ps4-switch-in-video/.168035 > Tsukihime remake is real > no Sacchin route ...and Nasu just ruined 2021 for all of us :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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