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| tomman |
Posted on 21-03-25, 01:08 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #921 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Touhou 18 demo rollcall In order: - Another catgirl, yay~! (can't wait for Mike x [Chen/Orin/Shou] - Yorihime copypasta, but she smokes (literally, not figuratively). - Another kappa, but wearing camo (so expect her to be a hit on the 'murican fandom like a certain 'murican hell fairy) Compared with the TH15/16/17 demogirls, this initial lineup looks kinda weak... and certainly less original (it will be hard to beat TH17's Cow & Chicken) And yes, apparently ZUN finally learned to draw boobs after all those years, so busty Sakuya is now canon. The pad jokes can finally be put to rest HAHAHAHAHAnop--- *KNIFED* Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-03-27, 17:17 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #922 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
> tonsky.me Ah, I remember that hideous Caterpillar-yellow color scheme. I have read other of his posts being somewhat regularly linked from Hackernews. Can't expect better from a Mac fanboy, I guess: they love UX, minimalist designs, emojis, and of course, Apple hardware. (I still insist: emojis are a mistake that should have never left Japan, and colored emojis are a punishable war crime) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-03-29, 12:24 in Instant messaging (cr)apps (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #923 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
The tl;dr version for that is "I don't want to talk to nobody that cares", and "I want to get added into a list". No, see, the goal is to talk to REAL PEOPLE, not other paranoid nutters and explicit criminals! Yes, I'm aware that Telegram is "not secure", but if Durov is on Putin's kill list, that's an issue that he and his team will eventually have to address, given the competition. In the meanwhile, no decision has been made, and I continue to be a social outcast :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-03-30, 15:34 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #924 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Seamonkey 2.53.7 is shipping NOW, go go go~! (My MercadoLibre CPU hog was finally fixed... for 2.53.8 - it was real tough to debug, but it all boils down to some legacy code involving the throbber among other things, that gets heavily triggered by MercadoLibre's very broken Javascript shitsalad) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-03-31, 16:20 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #925 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
In another episode of "the DMCA is a shitty law": Sega pulls a Nintendo over SteamDB for... mirroring metadata from Steam!? https://torrentfreak.com/sega-lawyers-demand-immediate-suspension-of-steam-database-over-alleged-piracy-210330/ https://steamdb.info/app/1235140/ Cloudflare got a (clearly bogus) DMCA takedown notice over the Yakuza: Like a Dragon page on SteamDB, claiming that they were distributing pirate copies of the game (WTF!?). The SteamDB guys demanded an explanation from Sega, but their lawyers haven't learned yet how to use a computer to engage in communications with other parties, so instead they hit SteamDB's actual hosting provider with yet another bogus DMCA. Since this quickly became another David-vs-Goliath case, the couple dudes behind SteamDB had no option but to take down the Yakuza: Like a Dragon page to not jeopardize the site. A tweet shitstorm ensued, and finally someone at SoA (that actually is computer-literate) had to defuse this bomb for good: After initially being taken down by a DMCA, this page is now back up as the DMCA has been retracted. I hope that for "fine-tuning their systems" they mean "actually hire lawyers that know how computers work"! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-01, 02:14 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
Post: #926 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
MonkeyFix got badly borked under SM2.53.7: https://pastebin.com/r6hD5Bud The first one we're getting is due to deprecated Javascript for-each loop syntax that was supposed to be removed long time ago, but somehow it had survived all these years on Seamonkey. The fix is very simple: unpack the addon, edit chrome/mfix/content/modules/miscUtils.jsm to drop the now-useless "each" (there are two instances on that file), repack, reinstall addon, go. But... this only hides the fact quite some UI functionality provided by the addon is now broken: the addon silently complains about being unable to apply some very important UI tweaks: https://pastebin.com/iQPt1rSQ For those... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-01, 14:44 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #927 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
"That's the most used keyboard shortcut, therefore our users HAVE to be morons so it has to be removed!" Flawless logic! That's Moz://a hard at work, they know better than you on how to use your own devices. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-02, 01:59 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #928 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Did Aurora Store just became assholeware too?! Apparently it seems so: https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/556 Ugh. New fancy redesign in whatever is the latest Android hipster fad. Of course, the guy killed half of the configurable settings "for your own good/your privacy" BS, and as a bonus, the "token dispensers" (the API key server stuff that takes all those throwaway Google accounts) for v3 are now deprecated (in fact, I tried downgrading: the older version can't logon anymore). The suggested workaround? Use your own throwaway Google account. Yes, I have one. I also forgot the password. And I don't want to use it anyway. In the meanwhile, don't use v4 if you can to update locale-specific split APK apps (split APKs are still a good idea badly executed!) GAAAAAAAAH! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-03, 22:42 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #929 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
A Hackernews suggested another music player that doesn't (apparently) suck: Musicolet https://krosbits.in/musicolet/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26679009 Proprietary software, but it proudly announces that it doesn't even have the Internet permission declared, so this is strictly a local media player (yes, not everybody is willing to embrace The Clown™ instead of, y'know, And more importantly: it correctly tells that a good deal of my music albums are from "Various Artists", instead of having 9 entries for Hardcore Syndrome 8. GOOD. I can't believe I'm following a recommendation from a place where most of the topics are around "how great are the latest Apple devices", buttcoins, hipster Javascript abominations, or "see my latest horrible VC-funded startup in action!", but even a broken clock is right twice a day. Nitpicks: - The color scheme is le suck, as expected from most recent cellphone apps: you only get light and dark mode (and "follow the system/clock"), and that's it. I miss skinnable players :/ - Lacks visualizations. I guess nobody cares these days (and you definitely don't care when your phone is playing music inside your pocket/bag), but I miss them from my 2009-vintage RAZR VE20 :/ - Not on Arkamys whitelist (and I haven't fully killed it yet), so audio quality might suffer under such devices (but then, you've got an equalizer so you can work around it!) - If you chose to download the APK from their official site rather than installing from Google Play, you may be punished with ReCaptcha hell. Not cool, man, not cool. I guess all this remains is to give the player the good ol' Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-05, 03:31 in Looking for a python script in the now defunct archives
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Dinosaur
Post: #930 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Posted by MysticLord Dude, please don't be a JWZ. If you want a solution, you need to fully understand the problem, and for that you need to RESEARCH, want it or not. I've been there, and the answer is not to be an asshole. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-06, 22:55 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #931 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Lenovo is using AMD PSB to vendoer lock AMD CPUs WTF AMD, this is a new low for you guys. This is some Apple-tier bullshit, and not even Intel would fall THAT low. Vendor locked HDDs are very common on the server arena, but vendor-locked x86 CPUs too?! As in "won't even boot if not mated to the vendor-approved motherboard", and "efuse-protected, so no BIOS/firmware hacks will work around"?! Ugh... computers SUCK. Lenovo, welcome to the shitlist! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-08, 20:45 in Instant messaging (cr)apps (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
Post: #932 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Nice list of apps you've got there. Now get my mom, my cousins, uncles, friends, random strangers selling totally not fake hard currency, the guy from that catalog website, and the shops where I buy my food to switch to those completely unknown, extremely paranoid-nutter-friendly apps that nobody but a couple nerds (and not even endangered journalists!) use. In other news, Signal is pivoting from assholeware factory to buttcoin scam startup ("scamtup"?): https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messaging-cryptocurrency/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827 https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26724237 What Could Go Wrong?™ Uh, everything? But the reactions on it are funny as hell: - Half of the nerds are pissed that their Snowden-approved, quasi-proprietary, shit UX, beloved secure chat app of choice is deviating from the Troo UNIX® Way™, that is, "do one thing and do it well" (which is an arguable fact in the case of Signal, where backups are still seen as a bug and not as an feature) - The other half are pissed because Moxie went with some random guy and its shady buttcoin, instead of picking whatever popular shady buttcoin these specific nerds are vested into. You can even see how these nerds try to roast alive Moxie's partner-in-crime when the guy himself shows up on the HN's discussion threads, which is somewhat atypical for the place. - Oh, this is initially available on the UK (a country that has much better payment methods available), and it's specifically geoblocked in USA, because obvious buttcoin scams are, y'know, very illegal there... not to mention that they would have the SEC/IRS/FBI on their asses in no time. - But hey, the popular consensus among deranged nerds is that "we still need buttcoins to ensure freedom of speech", or some similar BS! - "What this chat app needs is a built-in way to send money to In the meanwhile, Telegram remains as a serious contender (it's gaining a bit of popularity over here among news places, now that WhatsFuckingApp is quite crowded - the most popular local radio station now runs a Telegram group for news side by side with their Zuckerborg Networks groups). And Matrix will remain as a non-option for the People You Know for as long as it remains a nerd-friendly network, which is a sad fact of life, and one that feels like a rusty dagger through your hearth :/ UPDATE: Oooooh, so Durov tried to pull the same shit with Telegram, just to get cockblocked by the SEC/IRS/FBI too! Man, what the hell is wrong with chat applications developers!? Users will NOT pay for chat apps, it's that simple. Either you give up and start asking for donations instead (where the same 3 nerds will pitch a few bucks a month), or you become Fuckbook and start milking your users' personal data, ensuring an eventual (if very delayed) death. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-11, 22:31 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #933 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Is it Pokemon Or Big Data? Spoilers: I did 70%, and that's because I'm not familiar with many of those startups/products whose names REALLY sound like Pokemon ripoffs. Disclaimer: I don't do Big Data, and last time I touched a Pokemon game, it was in the 3rd generation era (GBA), in 2006. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-14, 08:42 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #934 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Posted by creaothceann Remember: the browser is the new OS. Native development has been dubbed "too hard, too convoluted, too restricted, too difficult, too unfeasible". Electron was just a matter of convenience. Sooner, that HTML Accelerator card will stop being a meme and became real. That day, it will be a very sad day for computing in general. It will come, mark my words :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-21, 11:44 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #935 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Your monthly news recap from Planet Mozilla: - Seamonkey 2.53.7 shipped not long ago... and broke some old addons due to long-deprecated Javascript junk. Since getting upstream to fix their shit is simply not happening (as said addons have been largely abandoned and nobody is willing to fork them, at least), the SM team had to release 2.53.7.1, reverting said removals (actually these were hidden behind a compile-time flag). - Still with Seamonkey, random CPU hogs out of the blue are still a PITA. This time I've got a new one, and we can blame GiggityHub for that: remember we now need an stupid addon just to unfuck GH on our non-Google WebComponents®-enabled browsers? Unfortunately using said addon can lead to singlecore CPU hogs on both SM and AssholeMoon, and the cause is not clear yet. This is yet another difficult issue to debug, as I've failed to recreate it on a clean profile, but on a exact clone on another, older PC, it happens reliably when you unplug the network cable (!!!), or otherwise disable the network connection! (Socket Thread goes berserk, and users end with toasty laptops and sluggish performance). If you disable the addon, none of this happens... and GH remains unusable because they don't give a fuck, even if you host your non-Chromified browser sourcecode there. Sadly, getting devs to stop using GiggityHub is like getting people IRL to respect social distancing to not die of the China Pest, in other words, it's not happening anytime soon :/ - Google Drive is now unusable on SM, if you want to actually share the stuff you upload there with others: the "get link" dialog now comes up invisible, due to some CSS fuckery I can't figure out yet. - Back to The Chromification of Moz://a, the UXtarded art school dropouts continue doing pointless tweaks to wreck whatever remains from the Firefox UI. Firefox 89 will suck harder, yay! - As for AssholeMoon, it's still run by very toxic assholes (that would prefer that nobody ever played with its sourcecode), and it's still a thing. Unless you're on Mac, where it's no longer an option. There is now an active fork for keeping the Mac version alive, despite the wishes of Manchild and Matthole Tobin to "not waste time on a mostly dead platform". I must give credit when due, even if it is to self-evident morons: Macs are about to become more irrelevant than ever (outside the SV techbro bubble which still orgasms every time the M1 is mentioned in the news) since the transition to ARMacs - the day Apple sells the last x86 Mac, it's over for most FOSS enthusiasts - remember, Apple machines are now appliances, not PCs! - Oh, but at least their Supreme Leader and Asshole-in-Chief are letting a new FreeBSD port survive... for now. There is still some friction between both sides, but it seems Manchild needs to gain back the users he is about to lose due to the death of the Mac version. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-25, 15:20 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #936 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Want to start your own money printing business? Well, go cash your buttcoins and take a chance on this one-of-a-kind auction of used equipment for security printing: https://www.troostwijkauctions.com/uk/security-paper/01-36149/ Online closed tender sale of banknote, security paper printing machinery (Sale 36149) So, what's a "closed tender sale"? Tender sale In other words, " And even if you win the bid for a particular piece of equipment, it won't be easy to follow on with the sale: - There are "dismantling, packing and loading" fees, usually in the vicinity of dozens of thousands of Euros, on top on how much would cost to get those machines out of Sweden. - Some of the equipment can only be disassembled by the OEM, which adds to the costs. - Expect to find some toxic goo on some of the machines! - Spare parts sold on separate lots. But even if you can't afford to print fake money on your color laserjet, at least this auction gets us a rare glimpse into the weird and wonderful industry of security printing. It's waaaaaaay more complex than printing the Sunday newspapers or shopping catalogs, all with a bunch of secrecy on top due to the everlasting threat of counterfeiters. And yup, that plant most likely was the one that printed some of the late issues of the long-defunct Strong Bolivar, among other less-terrible currencies. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-26, 22:12 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #937 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
...is there anything buttcoin "miners" aren't ruining these days? I don't get this insane and unhealthy obsession with fake money, to put it frankly. All in the middle of supply shortages for pretty much everything, from resistors to vaccines :/ --- Forget mememoneys, let's remind why the Internet is for: Cats anywhere near airplanes mean cat-astrophes: https://avherald.com/h?article=48833089 https://avherald.com/h?article=4e2ae1fa It should be mandatory for cats to wear those REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT red tags :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-05-03, 22:46 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #938 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
From the guy that risked his manhood for putting RGBs in your microwave oven, here comes again, this time... defeating DRM on a dishwasher?! https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013880 Let me understand this: some French entrepreneur deeply into IoT shit came with the brilliant idea of pulling an Fret no more, as our intrepid hacker quickly cracked the DRM (a lame XOR'd single-byte counter, no bounds checking, no checksums!), and also the PROPRIETARY DISHWASHING FLUID SEKRET FORMULA (turns out that it's nothing but commercial-grade stuff you can buy for larger machines for dirt cheap), so all you need is a syringe... and a "chip reset" contraption. Because we're totally living in the future, where our appliances believe they're inkjet printers :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-05-05, 11:10 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #939 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
After several gigabytes (!!!) of debug traces and logfiles, and managing other impacted users to find reliable ways to trigger the hog, the "Giggityhub unfucker addon" hog has been finally found and fixed on Seamonkey (and incidentally, Pale Moon too): https://github.com/JustOff/github-wc-polyfill/issues/10#issuecomment-826152684 Turns out the extension has been innocent all these months, and the real cause was that anything using WebSockets could trigger the hog, due to some code that Mozilla never bothered testing with e10s off (as it happens on Gecko forks/derivatives like SM/PM). Hell, even unplugging/replugging the network cable would cause Socket Thread to go into brain-eating zombie mode! Anyway, now the cause is understood, patches are available and are already merged on the relevant upstream projects, and there is a workaround you can use if you can't wait for the patch ("network.notify.changed" = false). NEXT! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-05-05, 11:25 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #940 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 7 hours |
Relevant Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633339 If you need to trace annoying CPU hogs on Seamonkey, buc is your man. He will make you do BORING tests (including completely irrelevant stuff... or is it?), until eventually figuring out the root of the problem! (I even got mentioned on a recent Status Meeting for helping, yay~! - turns that it does pay out to get involved, even if you can't C++. Once again, Team Seamonkey needs your help~!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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