r00ty Admin

r00ty Admin , 1 day ago

EA Ads, they're in the game!

r00ty Admin , 2 days ago

Not sure how it is now. But I was working in Seoul around 25 years ago. The hotel I was working at had afno and there were always these really patronising public service pieces in between the old (yes in 2000 there were still old simpsons episodes). I'd be amazed something about this wasn't one of them.

r00ty Admin , 4 days ago

This would only happen if you tried to delid the quantum CPU. So, not only is it bricked, but you also voided the warranty!

r00ty Admin , 4 days ago

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/496be8dc-fb62-4965-ba27-30335cfbb0ee.jpeg

Can't trust curses these days. If you want something done, you gotta do it yourself.

r00ty Admin , 4 days ago

I would say no-one is sending troops yet. I really dislike any country ruling it out entirely, better to just say nothing. If the conditions change, we (NATO/Europe) will need to act. Otherwise, our leaders may well be judged by the same yardstick as the leaders keen to appease a certain country in the late 30s.

r00ty Admin , 4 days ago

I would tend to agree. But I think we definitely need to define a line in the sand now, not declare there is no line. Which seems to me to be what such statements say about us.

r00ty Admin , 4 days ago

My point is, someone has to say where the line is (or indeed was). I don't think any western government wants to be on record saying where it is (or should have been). Some are saying there isn't a line regardless of what happens, and that's the problem I'm talking about. It's worse than not defining the line.

r00ty Admin , 5 days ago

Yes, I don't agree with the no way to mitigate statement.

I suspect on windows the only real defence is something like.

• Check if the network has suspicious multiple routes setup from the DHCP
• If so, either use the IP/Mask/Gateway with manual IP config (to not receive the CIDR routes) or steer clear of an at best questionable network entirely.
• Maybe use the windows firewall to block all traffic outbound EXCEPT from the firewall program (with perhaps exceptions for local networks as per below linux example). For whatever reason the windows firewall doesn't seem to have a way to specify an interface. But you can specify a program.

I did look for some way to control Window's handling of DHCP options. But it seems there isn't anything obvious to limit this otherwise. I do not know if the windows firewall has this kind of fine-grained control with its own fire

For linux, I used to have my own blackout firewall rules. That only allowed the specific LAN range (for mobile use you could include all RFC1918 ranges) and the specific VPN IP out of the internet facing interface. Only the VPN interface could otherwise access the internet.

r00ty Admin , 5 days ago

If no-one pirated any Sony game do you think they would.

A) Lower the price of the game to maintain their existing profit margin.
B) Set a lower price that increases their margin.
C) Keep the higher price and just make a fuck ton more money.

r00ty Admin , 5 days ago

When Hexbear federated, its users were "excited to dunk" on people again. Their copious use of visual memes, including a picture of pig testicles covered in excrement, stretched threads. They are also a big community, which means when they pile into a thread it looks like brigading.

I don't think it looks like brigading. It is brigading.

I defederated from them for a while, when they were really just jumping into everything and brigading anything that didn't meet their (quite extreme tbh) views.

But I removed them from the defed list and haven't seen anything so bad in a while. So, I think they've calmed a bit.

r00ty Admin , 5 days ago

I think (6 months+) ago, it used to be a lot worse. Where they would jump on and brigade pretty innocuous stuff. But now, actually this thread is the first time I've seen more than 1 or 2 hexbears in the same thread. I've not seen (so far) anything I'd call bad yet, either.

r00ty Admin , 5 days ago

I think that's entirely fair and similar to store loyalty cards. You get something in exchange for your datas at least.

r00ty Admin , 5 days ago

I really don't see the problem, provided it is cosmetic. If you don't want to link, you don't get a glittering, whatever in game. If you don't mind sharing your datas, then you get the shiny thing (and everyone knows you don't mind sharing your datas).

r00ty Admin , 5 days ago

So if you mind sharing your data, don't get the shiny. You know it will become like that shiny pony back in wow's wrath expansion. It told you more about the person than anything else.

r00ty Admin , 7 days ago

Just vpn to your house that has ipv6. Simples.

r00ty Admin , 8 days ago

I'm not American and I'll never understand your fascination with guns.

But to me the important aspect is the driver was already moving away when shot at, or immediately did so once shooting began.

Surely this invalidates any self defense claim? If you shoot and they retreat, you stop shooting, right?

r00ty Admin , 8 days ago

Here's the problem. So many legitimate things need elevation, and often multiple times in a single install. Guess what most Windows users do, when they see an elevation prompt. What do you reckon?

r00ty Admin , 8 days ago

Sudo is very different. You need to explicity enter your password. It may be cached for a short time and I'd argue that's actually better.

If I'm installing something, it asks for my password once but can then raise to root multiple times that's fine.

If I'm installing something and it asks for elevation three times, for example it needs to Install multiple drivers. It generates an automatic click when installing for many unexperienced users. It's dangerous imo.

It can't really be compared to Sudo.

r00ty Admin , 7 days ago

I feel like there's a lot of misunderstanding about what I'm trying to say.

I'm saying the average windows user will begin to get fatigue when some installers ask for elevation 3 times (maybe more). They'll end up just pavlovian clicking OK whenever that prompt appears. Which ends up circumventing the whole reason the prompt exists.

r00ty Admin , 9 days ago

I would agree. It's useful to know all the parts of a GNU/Linux system fit together. But the maintenance can be quite heavy in terms of security updates. So I'd advise to do it as a project, but not to actually make real use of unless you want to dedicate time going forwards to it.

For a compiled useful experience gentoo handles updates and doing all the work for you.

r00ty Admin , 12 days ago

Phone: it looked like https://www.sparkshire.co.uk/cdn/shop/products/CREAM8746TELEPHONE_1512x.png?v=1627985748

Computer: ZX spectrum

r00ty Admin , 12 days ago

Meh. So my point of view is that qos for Internet is better done at layer 3. Layer 2 qos has its place, but layer 3 is going to let you prioritise services better.

Moreso, if you do it at layer 3 you don't need to worry about people using ethernet. Every person using ethernet is one less using the extremely finite resources WiFi has. Every active station puts a load on WiFi, less so with the latest versions but they still exhibit a lot of the same problems that mean many workstations can kill WiFi performance.

If you setup your network right (you can actually, although I've not seen it too often, setup guests networks on ethernet before WiFi, such that stations cannot see eachother directly) there's no reason at all to fear ethernet.

r00ty Admin , 11 days ago

I would have expected a public library, run by the city to either use the existing Internet infrastructure from the city (e.g security already is handled) or be installed and maintained by some common city IT team.

Independent libraries sure can have a basic setup, but I'd still say one guy setting up the security outside of WiFi security would mean there's no reason to fear ethernet connections, as they would provide the same level of security to their network, and likely more to the user (assuming it's an insecure AP with portal).

In the case of the OP, I would find it far more likely that the actions of the staff member was more down to (understandable) ignorance of what they were doing and assuming connecting a wire means they're trying to do something nefarious, just because noone else is, and/or hacking in all the movies looks just like that.

r00ty Admin , 14 days ago

Pretty sure I read this book a few years ago. It was called Jennifer government.

r00ty Admin , 14 days ago

You could just go to avherald and pick a line of what level of incident you want to include and then work it out yourself.

r00ty Admin , 14 days ago

Personally I think it's a bit of both. There's definitely issues with Boeing build quality and maintenance right now. But also, of course any incident involving Boeing is more newsworthy for that reason.

r00ty Admin , 15 days ago

I want to see the first DMCA takedown for a comment "pirating" another user's comment.

r00ty Admin , 15 days ago

Release the hounds. I mean lawyers.

r00ty Admin , 16 days ago

You have to pay 5€ to visit

You only have to pay that if you're a day visitor. If you're staying on one of the main islands, you don't need to pay. The place you're staying should have a tourism site ID code, which you can enter on the site to get exemption.

a giant sewer city

I never get why this image is so prevalent. Just visit a month or two before or after the main summer months. May or September perhaps, it's usually still warm, and I've visited many times now and only had a few days when in a few select areas it was a bit smelly. The idea it's common is just plain wrong based on all of my visits.

with no trees

There are trees quite literally everywhere. Maybe not on Rialto bridge, though. Even next to San Marco, there are some nice gardens. Further along at the Biennale, you will see many more gardens. There's also a garden right by Piazzale Roma and the train station. Once you leave the main tourist areas, you'll see plenty of trees pretty much everywhere.

two people per every square meter

Go slightly off season, and actually leave Rialto and San Marco alone once you've seen them. You can walk for literally 2 minutes and go from serious crowds to totally alone from either of those locations.

r00ty Admin , 15 days ago

But if you’re staying on one of the main islands, instead of paying the 5 euro entry ticket you pay the (up to) 5 euro hotel tax

City tax is a thing in pretty much every Italian tourist city. We've done the stay in Mestre thing, and it is indeed cheaper (the train ticket is really cheap). But, you have to be clear of the main islands before the last train/bus and it's much better to not have to worry about such things.

There's some decent priced places to stay on the island. I mean not compared to a hostel for sure, but still reasonable overall compared to a hotel.

r00ty Admin , 16 days ago

I mix and match. I used to have an Amiga back in the day, and they were called directories there. As such, most of my parlance is from those days. But most of my work life has been on Windows. So, folder has sneaked into everyday usage.

r00ty Admin , 16 days ago

Wait wait. Do you seriously believe most men actually think Trump respects women? Do you honestly really believe that? Because that is precisely what this thread is all about.

r00ty Admin , 16 days ago

I don't know. I'm suspecting the question was asked in some very weird way. I refuse to believe this is true. Maybe I'm out of touch, not being from America. But this just seems so unlikely to me.

Even people that like the guy, must have heard his opinion on women many times before now.

r00ty Admin , 17 days ago

Do not boot that on Friday!

r00ty Admin , 17 days ago

I've not found many instances where performance in terms of frames per second is worse. If anything on linux it's more stable with less dropouts.

But, for whatever reason there's definitely more latency (NVidia 3080 here) when playing for example CS:GO (not tried since CS2 though) on Linux compared to Windows. Not sure where it is being added (possibly the compositor?) but it is definitely noticeable. If I move from playing on Linux to windows I'll overshoot when aiming for example.

r00ty Admin , 18 days ago

Nah, the heuristics shit picks up a shedload of nothing as dodgy sometimes. No-one submits work in progress stuff to be accepted with the antivirus providers to bypass that. Only final versions.

Don't have a problem where I work. Likely the choice of antivirus, or they're whitelisting our development folders automatically.

r00ty Admin , 18 days ago

So, first off. There is no reason for GPS jamming to cause a crash. Modern airliners have other ways to navigate.

Now it is possible to target a single aircraft with GPS "spoofing" potentially, but both GPS and Galileo have ways round this (Navigation Message Authentication). I would like to think aircraft navigation systems should be using this system. But, even if not, I'd bet it's still quite hard to reliably spoof a specific location to a moving aircraft.

r00ty Admin , 17 days ago

Yes, and also they have VOR/DME and ADF.

With the inertial reference navigation, they're not accurate enough for approaches like RNAV aren't really viable.

Some airports only have this as the instrument approach option with complex way points without radio navaids, and as such the flight may need to perform a visual approach or divert if jammed during the approach phase.

In short, it's not as bad as people might think, but can cause some problems.

r00ty Admin , 18 days ago

Make one :P

Then I suspect you'll find the answer is money. The ones for women simply just make more money.

r00ty Admin , 19 days ago

Scotland was full of Labour safe seats, so they did make up a big contingent of the Labour party. But Labour has lost all talent in Scotland. The SNPs success has caused Scottish Labour to churn through leaders till they accepted their fate of 2nd place - currently 3rd.

That used to be the case. But currently GE predictions (yougov poll 4th April) show that SNP would only hold 19 parliamentary seats. Now, these polls can change a lot when you get to the actual election. But, it's the best info we have to predict the next election.

That poll has some interesting results though. If it turns out to be accurate, it's going to flip an English constituency that has been Tory since its inception in 1880 to Lib Dem. That's messing up on a huge scale for the Tory party.

r00ty Admin , 24 days ago

This is, I think his train of thought. He thinks Twitter is a utility that people need. Meanwhile, many of us never had an account and moves like this will just move people away. Before twitter there was other social media, and before social media we also got on fine.

There are literal alternatives to this service, I cannot believe people are still using it now. But surely this kills it?

r00ty Admin , 25 days ago

Kinda the same, and it's almost an irony since I'm on my own instance. I must have manually subscribed to this community myself, and I think this is the first post I've ever seen on my front page from it.

r00ty Admin , 25 days ago

I am not sure activity has changed much. I'm getting around 8 messages on my instance (that's not actual posts or comments, just inter-instance messages about any form of activity) per second and this has been the case that it ranges between 5-12m/s depending on time of day and day of week. This is not too different to when I started this around a year ago.

r00ty Admin , 25 days ago

People work from home in their bed? I've been doing this for a decade and a half now. I don't think I've worked from my bed once. Now I have a dedicated office but when I didn't I, you know, made a small surface my desk area and brought in a chair.

Regardless, it's propaganda of a sort. For sure.

r00ty Admin , 25 days ago

But I don’t get how this is propaganda. It’s not suggesting that people RTO, it’s saying they should not work in bed because it will hurt their sleep. The whole “RTO” part of this was spin put on it by the submitter. So, I guess, on second thought, maybe you are right.

Why I think it probably is a form of propaganda, is purely because the headline says Working from home is causing it. If they didn't want to front-load a negative view of WFH the headline would be "Working from bed unhealthy" or similar.

r00ty Admin , 25 days ago

I'll have you know, I avoid the world just fine from both in and out of my bed!

r00ty Admin , 25 days ago

Yeah, even the subtitle clarifies things. So I'm not going to suggest the article is propaganda itself. But, they know what they're doing when they put it in the main title. Maybe it's just to grab attention. But, people that just read the title are going to walk away with a certain impression, I'd bet.

r00ty Admin , 26 days ago

You can already "tip" aspiring developers, it's called kickstarter, or just buying their games.

If by developer they mean employee of a game studio, that's called a salary and it's the job of the studio to pay. If they mean studio as developer then. Just a second let me get my reply just right. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no.