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@r10pez10 see....... shit like that is why i refuse to use my real name for online activities and if work asks what my facebook/twitter/other social media username is the answer will (truthfully) be "The entity known as [legal name] does not have one of those.
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@Vixen I need to download one of those history deleter scripts and run it on my Reddit account one day.
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if work asks what my facebook/twitter/other social media username is
Then the interview is over because I don't bring personal things into work.
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@Vixen I need to download one of those history deleter scripts and run it on my Reddit account one day.
at this point these companies have so much data accumulated.... or steal it from the TLAs, that i think the execution of a deleter script would just draw attention to the "deleted" content in a digital Streisand Effect.....
/me wears a tinfoil hat, not to block the mid reading rays, but to keep her leftovers warm
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@Vixen I need to download one of those history deleter scripts and run it on my Reddit account one day.
at this point these companies have so much data accumulated.... or steal it from the TLAs, that i think the execution of a deleter script would just draw attention to the "deleted" content in a digital Streisand Effect.....
Streisand Effect is about behavior of the masses. These reports are one time things sold as a service to individual companies for individual people. You've already drawn attention to yourself by applying to the job that requires this kind of background check - nothing you do can make it any worse. And while it is possible they'd keep a live database of everything ever like @anotherusername does for this forum, it wouldn't be cost-effective - it's much cheaper to just scrape the single user's profile when you're asked for a report for that user.
This is very different from protecting yourself against totalitarian government, of course - when dealing with that, deleting really is a bad move, for the reasons you mentioned.
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@levicki is µTorrent still a thing? Back when I used it over a decade ago it was tiny (~ 1MB) and fast. No idea about running it as a service though.
Since then they've added ads, toolbar installers, coin miners, and similar malware for your convenience.
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@levicki is µTorrent still a thing? Back when I used it over a decade ago it was tiny (~ 1MB) and fast. No idea about running it as a service though.
Since then they've added ads, toolbar installers, coin miners, and similar malware for your convenience.
saving you the trouble of acquiring it manually by downloading dodgy torrents......
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@levicki is µTorrent still a thing? Back when I used it over a decade ago it was tiny (~ 1MB) and fast. No idea about running it as a service though.
Since then they've added ads, toolbar installers, coin miners, and similar malware for your convenience.
Well crap, so all software does go to shit at some point.
Old versions (before coin mining was even a thing) might still be available somewhere.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
It does take some effort to measure them. For example, this cat is about 9.2 liters:
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@JBert I've heard of a 10-gallon hat, but never a 2-gallon cat!
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
it will be behind NAT and allowed only from my work IP address
Then what's all this bullshit about nginx and reverse proxy and https?nowyou're just making shit hard for no reason!
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@Tsaukpaetra He's behind seven proxies!
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@Mason_Wheeler fuck that shit, just switch to the onion router!
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@Tsaukpaetra ...huh. Now that I think about it, TOR kinda is like that old meme.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra He's behind seven proxies!
So? write a UI in visual basic to track him through the database.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra He's behind seven proxies!
So? write a UI in visual basic to track him through the database.
... using two keyboards...
... and/or seven displays.
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seven displays
What you use when you don't have a good, big display.
What's Batman's excuse?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Then what's all this bullshit about nginx and reverse proxy and https?nowyou're just making shit hard for no reason!
Because plain HTTP requests could be intercepted on my work network by anyone capable of running Wireshark?
.....and?
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Is there any case where exporting a SVG file to a PNG could alter the original? At least with sane software? Because Inkscape's habit of marking the files as changed when all you've done is export them is rather odd to me.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Is there any case where exporting a SVG file to a PNG could alter the original?
Yes.
Next question.
Oh you want to know what case that would be? You should have said!
I dunno..... embedding "last exported" metadata into the source? or other what the fuckery... that would also work.
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@Vixen But are there sane reasons? Because the vast majority of other programs don't do this, at least as far as I can tell. Printing a Word document (or exporting it to a PDF) doesn't make it "unsaved". Although I do remember having a program that would mark printing a document (to a real printer) as a change requiring re-saving. Don't remember which one, but I remember being annoyed by it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
But are there sane reasons?
possibly, but i doubt it for SVG.
some formats like CAD files or other design files might update a "hidden" thumbnail on render to save time and effort generating one from the raw file, but SVG kind of IS the thumbnail so that reason don't fly.
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Buy It Now price should be at least 40% more than your starting price.
Why, eBay?
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Ebay instituted it to stop people, as Norse said, that would put an auction start and a Buy It Now at the same price. This was manipulating the system so that they appeared in the list of results no matter whether the person looking chose "Auctions Only" or "Buy It Now Only". But these weren't true auctions and so it was annoying for buyers.
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@Gąska Huh. TIL. Fuckers.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
.....and?
And it's bad to send usernames and passwords over plain HTTP to say the least? Also, someone could see the list of files and learn about all the midget porn I am downloading?
I'm still struggling to determine or conceive in what possible scenario you would need instant urgent access to your downloads status at any time from work.
Like, do you get off on seeing that progress bar finally reaching 100 percent? I don't get it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@Vixen But are there sane reasons? Because the vast majority of other programs don't do this, at least as far as I can tell.
Tried it out. The version-after-export included the additional attributes:
inkscape:export-filename="C:\tmp\drawing-2.png" inkscape:export-xdpi="200" inkscape:export-ydpi="200"
In other words, until the drawing was exported to a bitmap format, didn't have a defined resolution.
Inkscape also records DPI on individual elements when you export them by selection.
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@Watson That must be it. If I export it, save it, and then re-export it. It doesn't mark it as changed. If I move the
png
and re-export, it does mark it as changed. Still annoying, but less of a than I expected.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
.....and?
And it's bad to send usernames and passwords over plain HTTP to say the least? Also, someone could see the list of files and learn about all the midget porn I am downloading?
A common setup is to use nginx to run https and auth, and rewrap everything else running locally behind a single service. The other services then don't have to deal with all that stuff, and run quite a bit more lightweight as a result (and can also be integrated in other ways). Also, if someone is running wireshark against the loopback device, they're already local and you have many other problems too.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Yeah, you can run transmission but good luck setting reverse proxy for HTTPS using nginx or apache.
Are you... are you exposing the web interface publicly on the Internet?!?!?!
Just look for people seeding
something-something-prettysofi-something.mkv
and you have your nmap targets
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
.....and?
And it's bad to send usernames and passwords over plain HTTP to say the least? Also, someone could see the list of files and learn about all the midget porn I am downloading?
A common setup is to use nginx to run https and auth, and rewrap everything else running locally behind a single service. The other services then don't have to deal with all that stuff, and run quite a bit more lightweight as a result (and can also be integrated in other ways). Also, if someone is running wireshark against the loopback device, they're already local and you have many other problems too.
He seems to think this is impossible to do though:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
but good luck setting reverse proxy for HTTPS using nginx or apache.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
What's Batman's excuse?
They clearly are only used to illuminate the cave
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Printing a Word document
does this. I remember a few versions back you had to go from the view-this-random-document to the real edit mode just to print.
I frequently make a report that is send of external as pdf. After exporting the pdf it used to ask to save the document even if the export was the only non-saved change. This one is solved with the auto save feature but Word very much does exactly this.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
it's the ability to add downloads so they finish by the time you are home.
This boggles the mind. What could you possibly need so urgently but not so urgently that accessing it by work is so damn important? This is making no sense to me.
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
just that it is not easy to setup if you haven't done it before and if you don't deal with setting up of web servers on a regular basis.
You didn't say this either, so
People don't remote access their fucking torrent box on the daily either, yet here we are splitting hairs because "ooh so difficult for the pleb yet I'm doing things no pleb does!".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
This boggles the mind. What could you possibly need so urgently but not so urgently that accessing it by work is so damn important? This is making no sense to me.
If he's got a slowish connection, he might want to trigger it while he's at work so it's done when he's home.
I used to remotely control uTorrent years ago for the same reason.It's not an unreasonable thing to want to do.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
This boggles the mind. What could you possibly need so urgently but not so urgently that accessing it by work is so damn important? This is making no sense to me.
If he's got a slowish connection, he might want to trigger it while he's at work so it's done when he's home.
I used to remotely control uTorrent years ago for the same reason.It's not an unreasonable thing to want to do.
Sure, but you can just as easily trigger it when you're at home, go to work, come back in the knowledge that you required no fuckery to download shit when you were away...
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@Tsaukpaetra I assume he's not thinking of something to download and then deliberately waiting until he gets to work to trigger it. He's likely thought of it at work.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra I assume he's not thinking of something to download and then deliberately waiting until he gets to work to trigger it. He's likely thought of it at work.
Sure, sure. But, how often is this a problem that it needs to be solved, really? If you're constantly "discovering" things to download while at work... Well, I'll not continue that train of thought.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Sure, but you can just as easily trigger it when you're at home, go to work, come back in the knowledge that you required no fuckery to download shit when you were away...
Things must be complicated. Leave your IT professional badge at the door...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Sure, but you can just as easily trigger it when you're at home, go to work, come back in the knowledge that you required no fuckery to download shit when you were away...
Things must be complicated. Leave your IT professional badge at the door...
See, and I thought my solution of setting up an Outlook rule to wait for messages with a .torrent file or magnet: uri in them, which would trigger a batch script to start a SSH shell to launch a python script to talk to the deluge API to add the torrent was complicated.
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Status: attempting to troubleshoot why this Unity WebGL thing is drinking memory like it's going out of style. Got the OOM error, check out the stack to try figuring out what it's doing and...
Am I missing something or is this apparently an infinite-recursion pretending to be a game loop?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
it's the ability to add downloads so they finish by the time you are home.
This boggles the mind. What could you possibly need so urgently but not so urgently that accessing it by work is so damn important? This is making no sense to me.
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
just that it is not easy to setup if you haven't done it before and if you don't deal with setting up of web servers on a regular basis.
You didn't say this either, so
People don't remote access their fucking torrent box on the daily either, yet here we are splitting hairs because "ooh so difficult for the pleb yet I'm doing things no pleb does!".
Please turn your "but why would you need X" mode off, your Jeff impersonation isn't that funny...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
it's the ability to add downloads so they finish by the time you are home.
This boggles the mind. What could you possibly need so urgently but not so urgently that accessing it by work is so damn important? This is making no sense to me.
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
just that it is not easy to setup if you haven't done it before and if you don't deal with setting up of web servers on a regular basis.
You didn't say this either, so
People don't remote access their fucking torrent box on the daily either, yet here we are splitting hairs because "ooh so difficult for the pleb yet I'm doing things no pleb does!".
Please turn your "but why would you need X" mode off, your Jeff impersonation isn't that funny...
Okay...
I'll just go to bed I suppose...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
But, how often is this a problem that it needs to be solved, really?
And can't be solved by remoting into a home machine.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
But, how often is this a problem that it needs to be solved, really?
And can't be solved by remoting into a home machine.
But then he'd have to keep a machine running all the time at home!
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@Tsaukpaetra
I guess I missed what is downloading his porn then
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
But then he'd have to keep a machine running all the time at home!
Unlike the Web UI which runs when the machine is shut down?