THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@Gąska Pretty much what happens when you yank out a USB thumb drive without soft-ejecting it first.
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@da-Doctah said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Gąska Pretty much what happens when you yank out a USB thumb drive without soft-ejecting it first.
Well, it depends. My school had some Apple IIs lying around (mid 90-s) and gave those to the pupil's IT club. A friend of mine was introducing interested pupils to the club and showed them what the inside of those computers looked like. He proceeded to pull out one card in order to give them a better look - only then did he notice that the Apple was running at that time.
With a look of horror, he immediately pushed the card back in.
And that's when the magic smoke was released.
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@Gąska The background image goes black when removing the storage device.
Is the OS monitoring the image file live?
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@Zecc I wouldn't be surprised. There must've been plenty of people in the last 30 years who tried changing their wallpaper by replacing the file, and at least one of them must've been important enough to spawn a feature request.
Or it may be a side effect of something completely different that by a total coincidence also makes the background black (note that it's the same behavior as safe mode and unactivated license). When you disconnect the system drive, you're tits deep in the nasal demon territory so nothing should surprise you.
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@Gąska said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
you're tits deep in the nasal demon territory
Wish it were the other way around, ie nasal deep in tits demon territory.
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@Zecc summoned in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
tits demon
(self-
E_NOT_ACTUALLY_A_DEMON
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@Applied-Mediocrity That's definitely not what I had envisioned.
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Thanks to this contraption, you cannot play just one violin badly, you can also abuse a viola and a cello!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ggSQyIN78
Note that the video was published in 2013, so maybe we have seen this one before... Also, no excuse that it was made during quarantine.
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I make no such promise.
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@boomzilla What if your decision is what prevents time travel from being invented, huh? Have you thought of that?
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@Zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
What if you're decision
Well, if you're a decision, you should take care to be a good one.
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@HardwareGeek Welp. This one's on me.
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If somebody comes from the future to stop you from making a certain decision ... that's a solid indication that you're making impactful decisions.
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@cvi said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
If somebody comes from the future to stop you from making a certain decision ... that's a solid indication that you're making impactful decisions.
...that's depressing....
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@Tsaukpaetra As they say - a pinch of depression a day keeps the hubris at bay.
Just make sure to not overdose on the depression. Not good for the general well-being.
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@boomzilla Some high-voltage equipment is missing there ...
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@boomzilla What was he thinking?...Ok, I take that back. He wasn't thinking, obviously.
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@Benjamin-Hall unless it was, “I did turn the power off before cutting this, didn’t I?”
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@boomzilla That's... that's not what "cut the power" means.
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@Zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla That's... that's not what "cut the power" means.
It does have the effect of cutting the power, though.
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@Zecc Well,
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Hey everyone, I know that people are worried about these vaccination certificates, that they could be fake or easily cloned, which is a problem, and I've just read about these non-fungible tokens or something, and the best thing about those is that they are non-fungible and therefore constitute both certificate of authenticity and proof of ownership, right? So, let's all put our vaccination certificates on a blockchain and mint them as NFTs! It's gonna be great. No more forged certificates.
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@aitap And you can sell them for $$$$!
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@aitap said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
they are non-fungible and therefore constitute both certificate of authenticity and proof of ownership
They might constitute proof of authenticity, but proving ownership is something they're actually terrible at.
Digital signatures are a reasonable thing to use with vaccination certificates. Probably with some sort of notarization; you care that the signatory agent's credentials were valid at the time it signed (which should be reasonably contemporaneous to the vaccination if you're not going the highly centralized route) and not so much whether they are valid right now. NFTs add nothing to that except a few buzzwords and a lot of needless expense with processing the distributed transaction.
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@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
They might constitute proof of authenticity, but proving ownership is something they're actually terrible at.
Ownership is probably the hardest part of all this. Given a vaccination certificate, I can easily check whether it's signed by the right key, but does it actually belong to the person showing it to me? A code saying "the bearer of this is vaccinated" is trivial to copy, but make it reference a government ID, and suddenly all the randos who only need to know whether I'm vaccinated want to see that ID and possibly process and record it for their commercial purposes: otherwise my certificate is unverifiable.
I don't have a good solution to this problem.
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@aitap said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
all the randos who only need to know whether I'm vaccinated want to see that ID
I have to show my certificate along with my ID wherever the certificate validation occurs. I don't have a different solution in mind but then again I'm not a who is afraid to show my ID.
Is that (certificate + ID) not the case pretty much everywhere?
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@obeselymorbid said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Is that (certificate + ID) not the case pretty much everywhere?
Officially, that's the case more or less everywhere. Unofficially, I've seen people just skim the PDF with the naked eye (or do they have QR parsers implanted in the eyeballs?) and decide that it's valid. Or even accept a certificate that's not formally valid in the country, out of their goodwill and my trustworthy looks, also without checking the ID.
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@aitap said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
suddenly all the randos who only need to know whether I'm vaccinated want to see that ID and possibly process and record it for their commercial purposes: otherwise my certificate is unverifiable.
Yeah, imagine if this happened every time you went out to get a drink.
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@Zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Yeah, imagine if this happened every time you went out to get a drink.
That's right, I forgot it's a thing that happens.
New bad idea: zero-knowledge proof of age! Though it's probably too late to design it on tapes and pencils.
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@Zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
imagine if this happened every time you went out to get a drink
So… never at the moment?
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@obeselymorbid said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@aitap said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
all the randos who only need to know whether I'm vaccinated want to see that ID
I have to show my certificate along with my ID wherever the certificate validation occurs. I don't have a different solution in mind but then again I'm not a who is afraid to show my ID.
Is that (certificate + ID) not the case pretty much everywhere?In NL, there are two QR codes. The 'international' one contains full name, date of birth, and information on the jabs you've had. The 'Dutch' one just has first letter of first name, first letter of last name, month of birth, and presumably a date of expiry. And then they're supposed to check it against your ID manually.
I still don't quite get why they couldn't automate the ID check. Guess 'someone looking at your ID' is less invasive to your privacy than 'a device scanning your ID'?
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@PleegWat The person looking at your ID has about the same data storage capacity as a floppy disk and (in the context of the typical happy path ID checking operation) operates entirely disconnected with no meaningful retention.
The device scanning your ID can retain those scans indefinitely and may or may not be doing so, may or may not also be associating your location with those scans, may or may not be connected to other systems (probably is, for an online revocation/tampering check) who may or may not be retaining the scan and associated metadata indefinitely...
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@TwelveBaud said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@PleegWat The person looking at your ID has about the same data storage capacity as a floppy disk
Nope. Even less. You can retain only a low single-digit number of pieces of information on your stack. Unless you're actively trying to move those pieces to long-term storage they'll be gone very soon.
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@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Unless you're actively trying to move those pieces to long-term storage
Wait, I'm supposed to have long-term storage?
they'll be gone very soon.
Except for the things I'd really like to forget. (Such as that really embarrassing event in high school.)
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@HardwareGeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Unless you're actively trying to move those pieces to long-term storage
Wait, I'm supposed to have long-term storage?
they'll be gone very soon.
Except for the things I'd really like to forget. (Such at that really embarrassing event in high school.)
My mental garbage collector similarly has serious issues with its algorithm to decide what's still needed. I joke (but only barely a joke) that I'd forget my own name if they let me.
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@HardwareGeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Such as that really embarrassing event in high school.)
I say it loud and proud, how I was kicked out of typing class because I had a hidden folder on the public student drive.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@HardwareGeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Rhywden said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Unless you're actively trying to move those pieces to long-term storage
Wait, I'm supposed to have long-term storage?
they'll be gone very soon.
Except for the things I'd really like to forget. (Such at that really embarrassing event in high school.)
My mental garbage collector similarly has serious issues with its algorithm to decide what's still needed. I joke (but only barely a joke) that I'd forget my own name if they let me.
I have more than once started typing my daughter's name with a C rather than K. I notice it right away, but still.
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@HardwareGeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Except for the things I'd really like to forget. (Such as that really embarrassing event in high school.)
Or several. Hundred.
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The Protocol Is Not Really Good, Actually
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Not the weirdest sex toy...
A pounding bassline?
Two words: Bass Rocket
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@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Two words: Bass Rocket
You're probably thinking of some other jazz, but I'm not going to pipe up as long as you're not pulling the plug and keep playing along.