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TwilightKiddy ,

It’s just a domain name, it has nothing to do with sites being safe. Just as any other site, they may be malicious, may be not, depends on who runs the site.

TwilightKiddy ,

Arch with extra steps, AKA CachyOS.

TwilightKiddy ,

paru -Syu, you don’t want to forget your AUR packages, right?

TwilightKiddy ,

I like to be a bit more explicit than necessary.

TwilightKiddy ,

Well, it’s easy enough if you only use precompiled packages. Beyond that you should probably have a better understanding of what you are doing.

TwilightKiddy ,

Nah, Georgian is arcs and circles everywhere, like this: ეს ქართული დამწერლობაა.

TwilightKiddy ,

It’s a dead script that was not that common in the first place, in Kievan Rus’ it was even used as a form of encryption in XI—XVI centuries for how little spread it was. It is also very different from modern Cyrillic. So, saying “most Slavs don’t know how to read it” is a bit of an understatement. Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.

TwilightKiddy ,

There is no single person responsible for Cyrillic script. It is mostly believed to be created by mixing and changing Greek and Glagolic scripts by the scholars of Preslav Literary School, which was indeed in Bulgaria. After a while, Peter the Great changed it a lot. And then Stalin stomped out almost all the deviations in the usage of the script.

The last part is mostly why it is considered Russian. A lot of languages suffered because of Moscow just forcing them to use the version of Cyrillic that Russians were using.

TwilightKiddy , (edited )

Yea, Croatia is the only place it got widely used. Is it some kind of historical elective course in Croatian schools? Been a coupe of times in Croatia, never seen Glagolitic in the wild, though. Maybe wasn’t looking good enough.

TwilightKiddy ,

I guess I’ll just add you guys to the “overzealous Witcher fans” and consider my point valid.

Any way to download a whole playlist as mp4 or opus in newpipe ?

Does such a feature even exist ? If not damn I have never found newpipe lacking features but that seems too big a one for them to not consider or I’m being dumb and don’t know how to do it . Any other sites that can do it ? and there is no option to back up only playlists in new pipe so the site must have to be compatible...

TwilightKiddy ,

Why not use a proper downloader for that sort of stuff like yt-dlp? You can get it running on Android via Termux.

TwilightKiddy ,

You misspelled “StarCraft 1” so bad.

TwilightKiddy ,

You can play HotS without Battle.net, you’ll just have to input your credentials manually whenever you start the game. Alternatively, contrary to Steam, you can just kill Battle.net after it has updated and launched the game.

TwilightKiddy ,

Not to invalidate the point made, but…

While Japanese indeed uses question marks, you can get screwed if you think that every sentence without a question mark at the end is not a question. For example, this is a grammatically correct question:

それは質問ですか。

TwilightKiddy ,

I’ve used VLC for an incredibly long time, until I found about mpv about two weeks ago. It’s both a lot lighter and packs a lot more utility. I can finally frame step backwards and see millisecond timestamps! The only downside is that you have to do a bit of tinkering with all the configs and plugins, but it’s so worth it.

TwilightKiddy ,

rand() generates a number from 0 to a constant defined in stdlib, which usually corresponds to the architechture of your compiler. So, for 32 bit systems (assuming all the software in the line is 32 bit, too) it will be 2^31-1 = 2 147 483 647, as 1 bit in integers is reserved for negative numbers and 1 number is 0.

Though, by design it is guaranteed to be at least 32767, which is a value for 16 bit integers.

Is it possible to get a virtual credit card for a different country?

I wanted to get my mom YouTube Premium for her birthday but don’t want to pay the ridiculous annual price for my country (especially since she mostly just watches YouTube shorts). She uses an iPhone so trying to get adblocker would be too much of a hassle, especially if it stops working. She won’t be able to figure out how...

TwilightKiddy ,

Skill issue.

TwilightKiddy ,

Apple products are usually easy to use and hellishly restrictive, preventing the dum-dum user from breaking it. Phones that run under Android allow for much more customization and utility, to the point you can “soft lock” your OS.

Apple is less functional, easy to use, hard to break (software-wise, at least). Android is more functional, though requires skills to get to the functionality and not break anything.

Meaning those with the skills use Android. Thus, skill issue.

TwilightKiddy ,

Except rethrowing an exception in C# is just throw;, anything else is a crime against the person who reads your stacktraces.

looking for a specific downloader website

hi all, i saw a post (or perhaps it was in the comments) about 1-2 weeks ago of a website to download any youtube/vimeo/instagram/tiktok/whatever video/audio in many different formats. it was a FOSS website. dark background, with maybe red text in places? on mobile, it had tabs on the bottom for video/audio/other....

TwilightKiddy ,

Or you can just use it via Termux.

TwilightKiddy ,

MOBA as a genre didn’t come from WC3. There were quite a lot of predecessors to DotA, both in WC3 itself and in first StarCraft, namely Aeon of Strife is believed to be the first popular MOBA custom map out there.

Blizzard didn’t decide that quirks of WC3 engine are dumb. Yes, they wanted to make a simpler MOBA, but the main reason for lack of funny stuff from WC3 is that they used Galaxy engine for the game, the same one StarCraft 2 was built upon.

And HotS feels less complex not because of Galaxy’s vs WC3’s quirks (the former has plenty, too), but because of lack of gold and shop, shared experience and an actual tutorial at the beginning of the game.

TwilightKiddy ,

If you want to try a simpler MOBA, try Heroes of the Storm. The game does not get any love from Blizzard anymore, but out of all the MOBA’s I know, it has the least minimal knowledge required to play.

TwilightKiddy ,

Bigot.

TwilightKiddy ,

No shit, they said “hidden”.

TwilightKiddy ,

Even with disabled autoupdates, the launcher itself still tries to update on my end. Fixed it the barbaric way, by clearing the contents of that pesky folder and doing

sudo chmod a-rwx Battle.net.14542

TwilightKiddy ,

Well, if you stop listening to people who think it’s a way to get really rich really fast (which it obviously isn’t), cryptocurrencies are quite useful. International transfers are so much cheaper and easier with them.

What is something (feature, modes, settings...) you would like to see become a standard in video games?

I’ve been thinking about making this thread for a few days. Sometimes, I play a game and it has some very basic features that are just not in every other game and I think to myself: Why is this not standard?! and I wanted to know what were yours....

TwilightKiddy ,

Laughs in WarCraft III: Reforged

Where to get Minecraft for Arch Linux from?

Arrrr my fellow pirates. Since I’m very unexperienced with the seas I ask for you guys, where can I get Minecraft from for Arch Linux. It’s not because I’m not willing to pay 20€ but because Microsoft is a giant bitch and I’m not willing to put money in their mouth(especially after they changed their privacy policy).

TwilightKiddy ,

As far as I know, Minecraft itself is avaliable for download publicly, you don’t even need to patch it to play. You just need to supply it some fake account data and tell it to work offline.

No official servers support, of course, but that’s about it.

The funny thing is, this mechanism came from Mojang, and at this point they can’t even do anything about it. If they stop providing downloads without an account or implement some anti-piracy features, people will just use the latest official version and mod it. And it may be not even the latest one, there are tons of players on 1.7.10 and 1.12.2, just because modders love them.

Sure, they can try and push their Bedrock version… But nobody is playing on that piece of crap.

TwilightKiddy ,

I believe you can remove (default) with -disposition:stream 0 so, if you have three subtitle tracks, all marked as default, and you want only second with that mark, you’d do something like this:

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy -disposition:s:0 0 -disposition:s:2 0 output.mkv

And if you want to mark a stream as default, you do -disposition:stream default.

EMPRESS.bin

I recently installed Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Dodi repack in SSD. After modifying the game settings and playing it for a bit, there’s a file named EMPRESS.bin next to its shortcut in my desktop. Can I delete this shortcut or move it to the game’s folder in Dodi Repack folder? Edit: I renamed the .bin file. Apparently, it...

TwilightKiddy , (edited )

I assume it creates some sort of save file in the current working directory?

You may try changing the working directory via batch script, if you’re on Windows.

Make a text file, name it something like launch.bat (the actual name may be whatever you want, just make sure you leave the extention .bat) Paste this there:


<span style="color:#323232;">@echo off
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cd /d "%~dp0"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">start "" "game.exe"
</span>

Be sure to replace game.exe with your game’s .exe filename. Don’t delete any double quotes, they are important.

Put this text file near .exe file of your game, and make a shortcut of it to your desktop. You may rename a shortcut and choose an icon from your game’s .exe file to make it pretty.

After that just launch the shortcut as you normally would. If I’m correct, the game should create it’s .bin file in the script directory and not in your desktop.

TwilightKiddy ,

Did they play through genocide? If not, then you can play it yourself for an extra bit of content and the banger music it provides.

TwilightKiddy ,

I doubt yt-dlp supports Soundcloud metadata. One possible solution is just running your music through MusicBrainz Picard to restore the metadata.

TwilightKiddy ,

Probably not, if we’re speaking about the next adapter in the line. They both use 4 pins, and there are no active conversion in the adapter itself, it just connects the pins like this:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">USB ↔ PS/2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+5V ↔ +5V
</span><span style="color:#323232;">D-  ↔ D
</span><span style="color:#323232;">D+  ↔ CLK
</span><span style="color:#323232;">GND ↔ GND
</span>

So, as long as next adapter is not doing something funny with PS/2 signals, it should be ok for bare USB 2.0 connection.

TwilightKiddy ,

You are missing 24 GB for your TB.

TwilightKiddy , (edited )

Ah, sadness…

But behold, cramped area!

TwilightKiddy ,

Sometimes inline stuff is more readable.

TwilightKiddy ,

Except it’s a proprietary piece of junk stuck on USB 3.1 (and I love my thunderbolt connectors too much to let it slide), that can’t offer proper power delivery because of power pin literally burning out.

The only thing they did good is fixing the need to check cable orientation before inserting it (yes, you don’t have to try three times, you can just actually use your eyes, USB-A connector’s orientations can easily be told apart just by two square thingies on each of it’s sides).

But as USB-C came out two years later, it wiped the floor with lightning. Anyone saying otherwise is either insane, didn’t read the specs or purposefully misleading you. And only now Apple is switching over. Freaking 7 years later. Though, not because they realize how inferior their connector is, but because they were made to.

TwilightKiddy ,

You don’t need to check female port orientation, it’s always the same, pins inside the port are looking at the board the connector is soldered to. Of course, unless manufacturer decided to do something funny, but no standard is protected from that.

TwilightKiddy ,

Sure.

TwilightKiddy , (edited )

The point is that manufacturers can screw up standards and being a symmetrical connector does not cure idiocy in the heads if some people. Yes, the standard explicitly says you have to short opposing data lines for 2.0, but that does not mean everybody will comply with it. (The author of the video is not an idiot, they just demonstrated that it’s possible)

The most common example of this I can think of right away is male-male connectors with type A USB. They are explicitly prohibited, yet many manufacturers create them and use in their products.

That’s why I said that no standard can protect you, you’re just relying on people not being dumb and actually reading the paper you published.

TwilightKiddy , (edited )

If you have two devices with female USB A ports that both provide power via said ports, connecting them with male-male cable will create a short circut. Best case scenario: a current protecting fuse breaks the circuit. Worst case: both processors on both motherboards are dead. Better not think you can connect two computers with that evil thing. That’s why type B connector exists, it’s about the same size, but it never connects to a port that provides power.

TwilightKiddy ,

A slight word of correction, looked at the pinning again, it won’t short circuit them, but one will try to charge the other. It will still be a fire hazard, just not as violent.

TwilightKiddy ,

You can’t fix stupid.

TwilightKiddy ,

Don’t worry, I’m quite sure your kind will find something to trip over eventually. No thing can be fully dumb-proof.

TwilightKiddy ,

If I ever have to write some kind of huge load balancer, I’ll do my best to call it “The Queen Bitch of the Universe”.

TwilightKiddy ,

Because math works with Y up. Physics steal from math, engeneering steals from physics, so, here you are.

What I can’t get is imperial measurement system. Apparently, nobody but americans can. And that stuff is far worse than Y and Z switching places.

TwilightKiddy ,

Might depend on where you were learning.

On paper, when I was learning Descartes’ coordibate system, we used Y as up and X as left-right. And when it was time to plot in 3D, we used Z to “extend” the plane into yourself and away from yourself.

You just hold your sheet of paper perpendicular to the ground (or just use a whiteboard) and it all makes sense.

TwilightKiddy ,

This one is one of my favourite JS quirks:

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