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Posted on 19-06-25, 07:02 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Posted by Nicholas Steel
It's still open for appeal, but a judge has ruled companies are responsible for public comments made on a social media platform that they are using: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/media-companies-liable-for-facebook-comments-made-by-others-court-finds-20190624-p520rf.html

DAMMIT, AUSTRALIA!

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Posted on 19-06-25, 09:01 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO!
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Posted by funkyass
i doubt those protections would be enabled on 20+ y/o cpus, cause performance?
Are they as devastating to older processors as they are to newer ones? I mean, a Pentium 2 has fewer out-of-order optimizations than a Skylake Core, or whatever cute JRPG nickname Intel's given to their current processors. It stands to reason that it would lose less, assuming the vulnerabilities are implementable in the first place(it's become obvious that the recent Core processors have made some questionable decisions on their out-of-order and branch-prediction segments to gain speed, and it is the only reason the Intel-only exploits work).

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Posted on 19-06-26, 13:35 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Thank you for fixing the microscopic thread icons.

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Posted on 19-06-26, 21:43 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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"Oh god, Chrome haas cookies, we are all doomed!"

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Posted on 19-06-27, 01:44 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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"Tech Expert" my ass. "I use Firefox like the 1337 haxors now because I'm in the know, so I'm cool beans."


well ok, but google's track record regarding privacy hasn't exactly been stellar either. though it seems like it's a function of their size more than other companies being "nicer". any company this big is likely to be involved in some rather shady stuff like working with the NSA and "PRISM" and things like that

Perhaps, but this article isn't even remotely about anything shady Google is doing. It is literally just "Oh god, Chrome has cookies!"
Now, granted, Chrome has extremely limited cookie controls(extremely limited anything controls), but that isn't the same thing as being spyware. And the author foists the blame upon Google instead of the bajillions of sites using cookies to spy on people.

(Ironically, I remember back when Firefox stripped out cookie controls because only nerds cared about cookies. That decision probably did more than anything else to make browser extensions a mainstream feature, since only nerds used anything but Internet Explorer and there was an extension to restore the cookie controls.)

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Posted on 19-07-02, 06:11 in Something about cheese!
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Posted on 19-07-03, 11:30 in Cartoons, imported (revision 1)
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It has been brought to my attention that seminal japanese adventure game Yu-No: Blahblah Long Name has an anime.
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I mean a modern one that tries to adapt the entire game instead of throwing almost every story scene into the trash can in an attempt to do as much disservice to the relatively complex story as possible. (I watched that one, and it made me very upset. And not just because it was trying to be straight-up porn and wasn't sexy in the least.)


Watchin' episode one now.

OH GOD, YOU CAN SEE MAIN CHARACTER'S EYES! WHAT HAS GONE WRONG HERE?!?!?!
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Seriously, the character designs are kinda soft for my tastes. And character animation is pretty dodgy. I see hints of better(I think someone on staff is a Mio fan, her first appearance seems markedly higher-quality than everyone around her), and hope it pulls up. It would be totally on-brand for them to be intentionally flaky in episode one and then shift things later(the original game did a bait&switch in presentation, initially presenting as a visual novel-type game before exploding out into a point&click adventure at the end of the prologue). It doesn't seem like it will, though.

They've resisted the urge to shift the setting out of 1995. Takuya's home still has a big television with a deep video tube, and his home phone is early-90s as hell.
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And then they drop the ball in the video arcade. Their close-up of Totally-Not-Raiden has an LCD screendoor effect.


I'm in. I reserve the right to complain later, but I am in.




Edit: And after episode 2, I LOVE how they're writing Toyotomi. The man shifts personas rapidly from in-charge badass to powerless underling as circumstance dictates. The show has picked up on this trait and his general unreliable buffoon aura and is playing him for laughs. This is FANTASTIC.


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Posted on 19-07-03, 11:52 in Blackouts
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^-- what he said.



Seriously, man. I worry about you.

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Posted on 19-07-04, 21:53 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsdlNrLPxQ
Guy gets an old Macintosh 512 that doesn't work. Goes to open it for repair, notices it is strangely heavy. Opens it up and a bigass full-height 5.25" hard drive is staring him in the face from behind the case of this "unexpandable" "floppy-only" system.

Turns out the company that made this hard disk controller(called a Hyperdrive board, and I love the name) decided to give Steve Jobs the finger in the most blatant way possible(other than actually etching an illustration of the bird onto the board).
"You say your computer is unexpandable and unmodifiable? There's no expansion bus and it shall be thrown away when it ceases to meet our needs? Well, all the address and data lines end at the CPU, so we're just gonna clip a ribbon cable on top of it and MAKE an expansion bus for our hard disk controller. We think Wozniak would approve. Also, we're taping a fan into this air vent. It isn't even fanless anymore. "

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Posted on 19-07-07, 04:46 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 1)
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Posted by tomman

Also, this:
2.2.12. Merged /usr on fresh installs

On fresh installs, the content of /bin, /sbin and /lib will be installed into their /usr counterpart by default. /bin, /sbin and /lib will be soft-links pointing at their directory counterpart under /usr/. In graphical form:

/bin → /usr/bin
/sbin → /usr/sbin
/lib → /usr/lib


When upgrading to buster, systems are left as they are, although the usrmerge package exists to do the conversion if desired.

This change shouldn't impact normal users that only run packages provided by Debian, but it may be something that people that use or build third party software want to be aware of. The freedesktop.org project hosts a Wiki with most of the rationale.

I can hear the furious laments of pain of Troo UNIX® Way sysadmins as they lose another of their cherished '70s traditions. The rest of the world just says "meh".
The more important thing here is that in trying to figure out what this is about, I found out one of the great mysteries of the Lunix file system: WHY DON'T USER FILES GO IN THE DIRECTORY NAMED USR?

The answer, sadly, is "forty years of backwards-compatibility with an ugly hack" that no one dares change(ironic, really). But at least I understand now.

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Posted on 19-07-07, 08:11 in Cool to see the shaders back in bsnes
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Or a filter that makes it break into static when a car drives by as the RF cable picks up the spark from the ignition coil!

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Posted by Screwtape

Or maybe we should burn it all to the ground and switch to a distro that tries to solve the problem Once And For All, like Windows does.


Fixed it!

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Posted by tomman
Will I still able to browse websites, watch porn, play my Steam videogames, and rant about shit that bugs me once X is dead?

As long as you're using Gnome. Everything else will break regularly as Team Gnome takes over Wayland, declares it a part of the Gnome API, and starts changing major things at random..

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"Windows does actually have a sensible approach to software. Each program gets its own directory and contains whatever DLL files it needs."
That's... not actually true.

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Posted on 19-07-08, 05:09 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 1)
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" Well, sure, there are some kludges, but in essence that's how it works, isn't it? Each program has some .dll files shipped with it and it has a folder in the Program Files/ hierarchy."


That's the kludge to avoid an express trip to DLL Hell. Shared libraries used to be the standard. They also broke the hell out of everything because different versions of the same libraries were incompatible due to the DLL format. Windows 98 finally put this issue (mostly) to rest with SxS, which allows the OS to host multiple versions of the same DLL and serve different ones to different programs running at the same time(and now you know what WinSxS is when you stumble across it in your system)

That said, you don't SEE the dynamically-linked libraries the program DOESN'T carry in its install directory, which is decidedly non-zero.



"I can't ever remember Firefox or whatever hassling me about dependencies on Windows, except for .NET and friends, but those are practically part of the system anyway. "

So... common libraries don't count as libraries?

And the installer will get most of the libraries it needs to install installed silently. It is only the collections with separate installers(DirectX, Dot Net) that you ever see. And, well, that's most of the responsibility of an installer. They aren't just a self-extracting ZIP file. (Similarly, that's why you've long been encouraged to use the uninstaller instead of just deleting the directory, it lets the system know the program is no longer using those DLLs and gives it the option of deleting them if no one uses them)


" I can't remember once having had to reason about the dependencies of an application, or have an application require 200 MB of mystery meat libraries with scary-sounding names to run. "

When is the last time an installer actually told you what it was doing in any detail?



Certainly, the more robust Lunix package management system leads itself to elaborately tangled webs of dependencies, whereby installing a Super Nintendo emulator will bring in printer support as a dependency(because of some of the fonts used, if I recall), or byuu's old goto example of a graphical front-end for command-line CD burner software changing his init system.
But that doesn't mean the Windows situation is actually any better, or that Windows has no dependency situations. They just trade depth for width in Redmond's hole.

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Posted on 19-07-08, 23:41 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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I thought you were supposed to put new politics discussions in the TAS thread.

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Posted on 19-07-09, 04:14 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Posted by Broseph

Startropics - NES

One of the better NES game imo. Often overlooked.

HAX!
I just clicked page 1 accidentally, and noticed this isn't authentic Startropics. You don't get the radio frequency in a cutscene in the original game.

You take an actual letter printed on an actual piece of paper out of your game box and run actual water over it. It is awesome, and a shame it doesn't translate to the modern world well.

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Posted on 19-07-09, 09:09 in Something about cheese! (revision 2)
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You're missing the most important detail, though. Women are genetically inferior to men, and thus inherently worse at chess.
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Posted on 19-07-10, 11:02 in Help finding the best PS/2 to USB converter
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There's a difference? I thought they were all the same boring OEM part, rebranded.

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Posted on 19-07-11, 22:57 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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My mistake. Been some time since I played that one.

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