WTF Bites
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Why is it so damn impossible to take an image with (for example) two colors, and say "See this color? Mark every piece of the picture that has this color TRANSPARENT"?
Sure, there's Magic Wands that try to intelligently select shit, but if I already know this specific color is meant to be invisible, why should I fuck around with that?
Am I missing something here?
The "Tolerance" setting mayhap?
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You didn't tell us which software you're using.
Half an hour plus of Googling failed to highlight the solution.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Why is it so damn impossible to take an image with (for example) two colors, and say "See this color? Mark every piece of the picture that has this color TRANSPARENT"?
Sure, there's Magic Wands that try to intelligently select shit, but if I already know this specific color is meant to be invisible, why should I fuck around with that?
Am I missing something here?
The "Tolerance" setting mayhap?
Nothing I have has such a setting. I suppose I just am not using the right free programs.
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As we don't have a "Software that can't handle non-ASCII letters" topic, here's todays
in having a name with a swedish letter in it.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
we don't even have proof that vaping is safer
With appropriate regulation (e.g., of composition and concentrations and so on of the liquids), it appears to be definitively safer than smoking. I make no claim that it is either actually safe — the list of things safer than smoking is a very long one! — or that anywhere in the US is necessarily applying appropriate regulation. I do note however that vaping users in the UK have significantly less lung and throat irritation than smokers, and they're a hell of a lot more pleasant to be near as a non-user of any nicotine-based product.
They may or may not be less harmful (and that’s a pretty low bar, anyway), but they’re still annoying as fuck to be near. And I can smell that shit literally across the street if the wind is right. I can do that with a cigar or weed, but not an ordinary cigarette. Also annoying is those “trendy” hookah bars that popped up everywhere like Starbucks. They’re at every fucking corner now and they smell 50m down the block.
20 years ago I might have welcomed this vaping crap over smoking, but the trend has largely been for people to stop smoking, and much fewer teens starting. Now this comes along as a “safer alternative” or a way to “ease off” and seems to reverse the general trend. Because of course Big Tabacco can’t have that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
You didn't tell us which software you're using.
Half an hour plus of Googling failed to highlight the solution.
Are you saying you tried to Google the software you're using and you couldn't find it?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Why is it so damn impossible to take an image with (for example) two colors, and say "See this color? Mark every piece of the picture that has this color TRANSPARENT"?
Sure, there's Magic Wands that try to intelligently select shit, but if I already know this specific color is meant to be invisible, why should I fuck around with that?
Am I missing something here?
If you just want one exact colour to be transparent, without any anti-aliasing (= not that exact colour) then it's trivial and just about any image software should let you specify a transparent colour when you save PNG or GIF. If it's already a GIF you can use ezgif.com to set the transparent colour.
For something more complicated, like including anti-aliasing, there are softwares and plugins. Alphalizer plugin for Paint.net kinda-sorta does that. I'm sure there's some chromakey plugin purpose built for that.
e: re-read your entire post more carefully. Paint.net with Alphalizer is perfect for a two-colour (anti-aliased) image such as black and white line-art
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
You didn't tell us which software you're using.
Half an hour plus of Googling failed to highlight the solution.
Are you saying you tried to Google the software you're using and you couldn't find it?
Oh, I found many a program that could cut out pieces and leave the rest transparent, but not what I said above.
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If you just want one exact colour to be transparent, without any anti-aliasing (= not that exact colour) then it's trivial and just about any image software should let you specify a transparent colour when you save PNG or GIF.
This is what I was looking for. The following software does not do this:
- paint
- paint 3d
- Pictures
- online image editor
- (insert seven other online image editors found using the search terms "edit image online")
Paint.net with Alphalizer
Oh, right, that Photoshop wannabe that I couldn't figure out how to get it to let me draw on a picture.
I wanted something simple FFS!
My desired steps:
- Open image
- Select the tool "make this color transparent"
- Click on color
- Save the picture
From what I can recall being paint.net this would be:
- Wait for paint.net to open
- Open image
- Look for anything in all the tools hinting at "transparent"
- Fail.
- Find tutorial online about the lasso
- Get lost in the weeds with Layers
- Give up because I already spent an hour fucking around with an image I tried to do a simple manipulation on and couldn't because apparently simple things just can't be fucking simple!
I think i posted before how I wanted to extract the red green and blue portions of an image to make a mask, yeah? Same fucking thing...
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they’re still annoying as fuck to be near. And I can smell that shit literally across the street if the wind is right. I can do that with a cigar or weed, but not an ordinary cigarette
What annoys me is that generally smokers make at least some effort to not blow the smoke in a non-smokers face but the douche canoes that are exhaling thick clouds of fruity steam do no such thing.
I used to smoke and tried vaping for a few months but didn't get on with it. Everything about it is a palaver and not only do you get associated with aforementioned douche canoes but there's a real risk of bumping into another vaper who wants to discuss vaping and how they've got some expensive 14 mega-amp-hour battery with a tank the size of a house brick and buy artisanal liquid that smells like raspberry sorbet combined with that coffee that's made from beans shat out of cats.
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And now the actual reason I entered this topic...
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Just fired up Pillars of Eternity II again (never finished it when it first came out, stuff came up, forgot about it, etc etc.).
It has this funny bug where it causes the mouse to get trapped in a different unrelated window (like, for instance the firefox window that I'm posting this from) when starting the game.
Not quite sure what triggers it, but I'm guessing it's related to having a window focused on a monitor different from the one that the game is trying to launch in. The game stays minimized too.
I'm wondering what kind of horrors are going on under the hood to make that happen.
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"How are you today? Fine? Now tell me, how am I?"
It's of course less ridiculous than Microsoft's "Would you recommend X to a friend?" as if Microsoft X is such a great conversation starter, but it's still... weird.
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Visual Studio has several dozen kinds of "panels" to manage various stuff. At least five of them are various kinds of command lines. But somehow none of them are an actual cmd/PowerShell command line.
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@Tsaukpaetra Irfanview will do what you need. The steps are a little different:
- Open image
- File -> Save As
- Select PNG and check "save transparent color" and make sure "use main window color" is unchecked. I think the alpha channel one will work either way
- It'll pop up a window where you can click on the area with the colour you want transparent.
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How hard would it be to take this working code and add to it so you can "upload" an image to the open page and pick a color via mousedown events?
In my browser at least, right-clicking the canvas and saving as image will save a PNG with transparency.
HTML5: Green screen effect on JPGs
Since JPGs don't support transparency and in my case, PNGs are far too large, I'm trying to replace a colour (my example is white) by setting the alpha colour. My code is roughly based on this: htt...
I might give it a shot tomorrow if no one gets there first.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Visual Studio has several dozen kinds of "panels" to manage various stuff. At least five of them are various kinds of command lines. But somehow none of them are an actual cmd/PowerShell command line.
The "Package Manager Console" is the closest thing to a PowerShell command line that I know of (it exists in VS Enterprise, no idea if it also exists in the Community Edition).
Also, I can't say if you can somehow get Ctrl + C working as "stop whatever you're doing" without losing the "Copy" shortcut for the rest of VS so instead you might need to click the "Stop" button.
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Status: Thanks, VirtualBox. Much describe. So helpy.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Visual Studio has several dozen kinds of "panels" to manage various stuff. At least five of them are various kinds of command lines. But somehow none of them are an actual cmd/PowerShell command line.
The "Package Manager Console" is the closest thing to a PowerShell command line that I know of (it exists in VS Enterprise, no idea if it also exists in the Community Edition).
Also, I can't say if you can somehow get Ctrl + C working as "stop whatever you're doing" without losing the "Copy" shortcut for the rest of VS so instead you might need to click the "Stop" button.Whack Whack Terminal - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio - Terminal emulator for Visual Studio. Allows you to run command prompt, powershell, WSL bash. All including interactive mode.
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Status: I have to believe this is an implementation failure, but this VNC client apparently is incapable of middle-clicking... I blame Chrome for this.
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I can do that with a cigar or weed, but not an ordinary cigarette.
Not my fault your sense of smell is bad. Or is it my fault that I've actually got a functioning nose (when not full of a headcold)?
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I can't possibly be the only person who doesn't find the smell of smoke (tobacco, weed, wood or otherwise) unpleasant
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I can't possibly be the only person who doesn't find the smell of smoke (tobacco, weed, wood or otherwise) unpleasant
Presumably not. That doesn't mean those who do should have to endure it.
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And don't forget "to Edge": "to start with a program of one's own, only to suddenly replace it with a copy of a competitor's while still claiming it was the original one and totally different".
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek I tried to recover files using live Linux (Debian).
burning_car.jpg
Main WTF Is that Windows has better data recovery tool for a Linux only filesystem than Linux itself!
Linux comes with zero data recovery tools. If you're looking for a distribution that has these tools, plain old Debian is not it. Trinity Rescue Kit or Knoppix are better choices.
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I can't possibly be the only person who doesn't find the smell of smoke (tobacco, weed, wood or otherwise) unpleasant
tobacco:
weed:
wood:
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
I don't even...
This sounds like the plot of a bad movie, but Trump may have had his DNA stolen
A few days from now, at a still-to-be-announced venue in New York City, a strange auction from a mysterious group called the Earnest Project is …
There’s a dollar amount next to each item, such as the strand of hair listed for between $1,200 and $3,000 (none of the items, by the way, have a name attached to them — you’re just supposed to assume they came from one of the celebs in attendance).
That makes it all pretty useless.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Linux comes with zero data recovery tools.
Found a
Scratch that... a real WTF is that a live linux distro which is something you can use to try Linux, and something you are even encouraged to use to install Linux on your PC, doesn't support MD/RAID and LVM2 out of the box.
If you're just trying it out from CD, you don't need those. If you're installing it, it's sufficient if the installer supports and installs them.
Why not is really beyond me, those should be essential packages because they require kernel modules loaded to work.
The logic of this statement is also beyond me. If they didn't require kernel modules loaded to work they wouldn't be essential packages?
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If you're just trying it out from CD, you don't need those. If you're installing it, it's sufficient if the installer supports and installs them.
The installer can install packages which aren't part of the live CD, but to partition the disk it's going to need to have access to the tools in running form. And just including them in the live CD in the first place seems like the easiest way to accommodate that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
WTF Bite: Why do I need to sign in and go through 2-factor authentication crap with my smartphone just to use the free Community edition of Visual Studio???
You don't sign in with a toss away account?
2FA ⇒ Toss-away phone numbers are somewhat harder to come by. IIRC we still have these pre-paid SIM cards that are anonymous, but not every country has that. And even that can be located by the police, though I doubt Micro$oft would bother going that far.
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With appropriate regulation (e.g., of composition and concentrations and so on of the liquids), it appears to be definitively safer than smoking.
Not until the cause of the Vaping Disease is found and eliminated. The disease has been curiously reported only from the USA, but the reason appears to be that they just don't track whether the patient was vaping in the other places.
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Not until the cause of the Vaping Disease is found and eliminated. The disease has been curiously reported only from the USA, but the reason appears to be that they just don't track whether the patient was vaping in the other places.
There's circumstantial evidence to suggest that it relates to mixing vaping and marijuana. Apparently, that's not safe to consume that way and this is well known to long-term potheads. (Another possible problem is super-strength liquids; the US doesn't regulate composition much whereas other places are much stricter.)
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I can't possibly be the only person who doesn't find the smell of smoke (tobacco, weed, wood or otherwise) unpleasant
You're not.
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Not until the cause of the Vaping Disease is found and eliminated. The disease has been curiously reported only from the USA, but the reason appears to be that they just don't track whether the patient was vaping in the other places.
There's circumstantial evidence to suggest that it relates to mixing vaping and marijuana. Apparently, that's not safe to consume that way and this is well known to long-term potheads. (Another possible problem is super-strength liquids; the US doesn't regulate composition much whereas other places are much stricter.)
From what I've read they suspected some fatty substance used as solvent or something that is also present in the vitamin fluids though most of the cases are indeed linked to fluids containing THC.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
It was vitamin E acetate which caused it.
Was that already proven? I thought they had a candidate (this one), but were not sure yet.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Regulation is not a problem, sure you can regulate it (though enforcement is a whole different story), but the damage is already done, and there is another generation of nicotine addicts on the way who are wasting their money on destroying their health and we are going to be wasting tax payer's money to heal them.
Drug prohibition thread is
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I can't possibly be the only person who doesn't find the smell of smoke (tobacco, weed, wood or otherwise) unpleasant
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With appropriate regulation (e.g., of composition and concentrations and so on of the liquids), it appears to be definitively safer than smoking.
Not until the cause of the Vaping Disease is found and eliminated. The disease has been curiously reported only from the USA, but the reason appears to be that they just don't track whether the patient was vaping in the other places.
CDC Confirms A THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is The Culprit In Most Vaping Deaths
The spate of more than 2,500 acute vaping-related lung injuries tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on the decline, epidemiologists say, and the number of deaths has slowed.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Drug prohibition thread is
I am not in favor of prohibition.
Perhaps not total. But same difference.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Perhaps not total. But same difference.
What do you mean?
I mean you're talking about how much to prohibit drugs. Or not. That's what the topic discusses. Not sure what's so difficult here.
Are you saying you are in favor of letting everyone do whatever they want because "it's their body"?
Are you making shit up that I never said or in any way implied?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I mean you're talking about how much to prohibit drugs. Or not.
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Are you making shit up that I never said or in any way implied?
So how much would you prohibit (or not)?
I just wanted to hear your position, it was a simple question.
And his answer already given was: there's a dedicated thread for that, and this one is not it.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I mean you're talking about how much to prohibit drugs. Or not.
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Are you making shit up that I never said or in any way implied?
So how much would you prohibit (or not)?
I just wanted to hear your position, it was a simple question.
That's not how it came across. Go see what I've said in the prohibition thread.
By saying that I am still in favor of prohibition even though I listed pretty reasonable conditions, implies you are against any form of prohibition.
Not in any way, actually.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
And his answer already given was: there's a dedicated thread for that, and this one is not it.
"The X thread is
" is often used jokingly around here.I didn't understand it as him wanting me to stop discussing vaping here, just as a statement that I am in favor of full prohibition which I am not.
It kind of was a joke. To start with. Then you got defensive and started imagining that I said stuff I obviously didn't say.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Well without knowing your opinion I am going to assume the worst so next time provide link or quote yourself.
Oh, goody!
That happens when you make a vague statement without providing context.
You shouldn't talk about your mom like that. Look, I can pretend you said something you didn't, too!
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
but for schedule 1 drugs only under the following conditions
The DEA list cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug
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Microsoft shares a roadmap for the new Microsoft Edge
Microsoft gives a clear path for the development of its new browser with an updated roadmap.
"Microsoft published a roadmap for the new Microsoft Edge. The roadmap includes features that are currently planned, in discussion, under review, and not planned.
In addition to confirmed features and potential features, the roadmap lists a couple of features that are not planned, including allowing people to sign-in with a Google account and support for mouse gestures.
Dear Edge users,
Want to sign in with a Google account or use mouse gestures? Kindly FOAD.
Sincerely,
Microsoft
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@El_Heffe Which is odd because mouse gestures are currently supported through an official add-on:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/mouse-gestures/9nblggh4nkf9?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
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@anonymous234 Maybe that's why they have no plans to add support to Edge itself, because it's already supported through an add-on.
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