Posts by Gene Cash

Re: Unlikely, because....

Bush? It went back to Reagan, and really started with Nixon. Hoover & Coolidge were just clueless, Johnson didn't give enough of a shit to lie and he had plenty to bitch about. "It's unfortunate, but the way the American people are, now that they have developed all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away." - Lyndon Johnson, on the Apollo program

> as a US voter I'm not aware of being swayed

Eh, I remember idiots convinced they'd voted through Twitter for Hillary. And that's not a joke or hyperbole. That's people I thought were smart enough to know better.

There's lots of ways to keep someone's vote from counting. I'm assuming China, Russia, and everyone else are trying them all. I'm not going to faff about with mail-in shit. I'm going to walk into the local library, put my marks on the voting sheet and watch them stick it in the counter. That's the best I can do.

Re: How to unhide something/anything/everything ... with cracks rather than hacks

> stop using an LLM

You're new here, aren't ya...

Speaking as a Linux guy, forced to use Windows at work, Teams seems to be the least shite.

Most everything freezes your machine (especially Skype) when you share your screen. Teams doesn't. Skype has the extra feature of freezing EVERYBODY'S machine.

As a lot of my day is "ok, share the screen and show me how it shit the bed" this makes a difference.

Teams also seems to be the only one where remote-controlling the other guy's PC actually works.

The only really decent chat UI I've ever used was Pidgin. But it never did screen-sharing.

Re: I call bullshit

Not really. I smell a convenient excuse to raise prices, and they're going to stay there.

Re: Well, he would, wouldn’t he?

That doesn't sound like a personal attack, that sounds like a recognition of what's likely to be a huge bias.

In the early '60s Goodyear made multicolor glowing tires out of translucent "Neothane" with light bulbs inside:

https://www.classiccarcollection.org/goodyears-glowing-tires/

Re: Monochrome World

Yep, I remember my Palm devices being SIGNIFICANTLY more readable in the sun than a modern smartphone.

However... you can't display different map colors, and the map is actually what I use most, when I'm out in the big room.

Re: I like the question

All three of them should be cut off from my personal info... but TikTok is a start.

Don't forget Twitter or whatever the hell it's called.

They used to have a corrections link. I used it several times. I don't know why they got rid of it.

Re: SO much or Oracle dos not work as you expect

> We only kept about a month's worth of backup because tapes were expensive

I guess tapes don't seem quite so expensive now.

I've seen people reuse tapes until you could see through them, despite warnings that they didn't have good backups. "What? We're not getting any errors in our backup process"

Re: Data is money

> in case the cards get switched off which has happened before while I was on a trip

Yeah, JP Morgan Chase did this to me when I visited my parents. Twice in a month. They also did it to me when I changed jobs to a neighboring city. After they did it 3 times in 2 weeks, despite me calling about it, I'm no longer a Chase account holder.

Also, a lot of restaurants and other places here are cash-only, because they're small businesses and the credit card companies have started to gouge the hell out of them.

Re: "Stop putting cabling in easy to reach, easy to breach ducting"

I find the lawn service's lawnmowers are a great fix for that.

It's not on my premises until it hits the demarc. That's why it's called the "demarc" because the demarcation point determines if the customer or the telecommunications provider is responsible for maintenance, and that's not at the street corner, that's the box there on my wall with the FCC stamps on it.

It's fun to see the sudden realization on the tech's face when he realizes you know what you're talking about and he can't half-ass it.

It's going to keep getting run over by a lawnmower until you bury it, buckwheat.

Re: To Quote Futurama

Yep. Nobody gave a shit about deepfakes until it was TAYLOR SWIFT! OMG!

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/nudes_taylor_swift_action/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/05/deepfakes_taylor_swift_4chan_competition/

Re: Blending

When I saw posters being banned for being on-topic (e.g. posting interesting historical pictures to the interesting historical pictures subreddit as an actual example) is when I left.

Re: No way-land

There are unofficial Devuan images. That's what I'm running. I switched to that when I couldn't get USB webcams working with RPi OS.

Edit: there was a review here a while back that said it was a good non-systemd distro for RPis, but damned if I can't find it.

Re: I'll wait for it

> You forget the distances involved with living in America

That is absolutely no excuse. There are things known as repeaters. And technical knowledge, which it seems your ISP is sadly lacking.

I'm switching to Starlink because neither of my local ISPs (AT&T/Spectrum) can keep a link up. And boy, did they sh*t their pants when I called to cancel.

They offered free TV, a cheaper rate, a hike in speed, and it always came back to "what good is it if it doesn't go 2 weeks without breaking?"

The salesperson was apparently peeved that I was insisting on actual working service.

Re: Another evil doer escapes with paltry fine and "admits no wrongdoing".

> but I can definitely understand our FTC deciding it wasn't worth the even longer-term effort of fighting for extradition, trial, etc

I can't. I'm paying taxes for them to enforce the laws. And they really aren't. No one's in jail for this and no one has been deterred from breaking the law in the future.

Re: Capabilities.

Yep, if there was no intention to reuse it, it would be able to put 1,000 metric tons into orbit.

That's as much as ISS weighs. The second stage was bigger than even Skylab.

The video of the reentry plasma around the fin was one of the most amazing things I've seen.

Re: Lynx, woohoo!

Lynx has too much of an attack surface for me... I use telnet to port 80.

Re: Device names

> ls -l /dev/disk/by-label

Holy cow. I do everything by partition label but I had never seen that snippet. THANKS.

Also, GRUB does not "do" partition labels. I edited /etc/grub.d/10_linux and where it sets LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE, I added

LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE=LABEL="`e2label ${GRUB_DEVICE_BOOT}`"

(YMMV for non-Debian-derived distros)

Re: A sample of what now?

The Apollo nuclear fuel was in a re-entry capsule on the outside of the Lunar Module. It was designed to withstand an escape-velocity re-entry without a problem.

It was also supposed to withstand the Saturn V having an Earth-shattering kaboom.

One consideration when Apollo 13 came back was pointing the LM to land in the deepest water possible.

To use it, the astronaut hinged it down, unscrewed the top and used a special tool to extract the fuel from the re-entry capsule and place it in the thermoelectric generator.

Re: Maybe not as easy as it seems

> rule having opt-outs

Fuck that... otherwise it'll be "too expensive" everywhere. The thing American telcos & ISPs do best is exploit loopholes.

Re: terminator lives

I think I saw that movie? I think it was called Active Terminator: Revenge of the SCSI Bus?

You missed the part where people are going 60mph+ in opposite directions, separated by only a thin painted line.

(edit: that's the part that gobsmacked my great-grandmother)

Well, we did already have the stupidity test with people believing they could vote via Twitter.

Re: Less code, fewer bugs?

Or at least a hell of a lot smaller attack surface.

"using it to squirrel money about"

Why? What are they doing that can't be done by regular means? So they're concealing the movement of money from regulators? It may be legal but it sure doesn't sound like it.

Re: Well USA, you learned an important lesson didn't you?

Hm. Let's see.

Who managed to finally reuse boosters? An American company.

Who manged to land boosters on a ship at sea? An American company.

Who's launched more orbital rockets (98) in 2023 than China (67) & Russia (19) & India (7) combined? An American company.

Who upended the status quo by launching at half the price of everyone else? An American company.

Now, I'm not a big fan of Space Karen, and I think SpaceX has succeeded in spite of him, but they've undoubtedly succeeded.

Edit: and it's good to see China trying to copy SpaceX's reusability, like they copy everything else.

Re: Attack Vector/Scope of the attack

There's also "attacks add hundreds of whitespace characters (521 of them) to push the exec function offscreen"

What? Your editor/IDE doesn't do line wrapping? You deserve what you get, then... pick better tools or configure what you have properly.

Re: a forever unchanging UI

Me too. So highly customized, no one else can use my machine... which is not something I consider a problem!

Re: So maybe...

It's still "bullshit numbers from the manufacturer" whether it's power or emissions. That's cheating in my book.

Yeah, I searched for a question on US Southern restaurant chains yesterday, and it was 17 (I counted) pages past ads, "Results For [location]", "Places", "More Places", "People Also Ask", "Nearby Events And Deals", "People Also Search For", "Order Food", a SECOND "People Also Search For", "Best Fried Chicken", "Soul Food Restaurants", "Best Southern Food", "Best Chicken Chains In The South", "South Carolina Fast Food Chains", Canadian (WHAT?) Chicken Restaurants", "Things In the South That Aren't In The North", "Burger Place West Coast"...

OK, I give up typing, there was tons more shit that wasn't results.

I never found a relevant result and never got my question answered.

Fuck Google.