WTF Bites
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Fun talk. After talking to some gamedevs, it seemed like the PS4 was the less fucked-up alternative in this generation, but maybe that's not the case. (In the PS3 era, the SPUs seemed to be really widely loved.)
The PS3 was such a piece of weird garbage, it took Bethesda something like 9 months just do port Gamebryo to it. And then they had to do another long delay before they could put the Dragonborn Skyrim DLC on it, because it pushed the limits just far enough that the PS3 could no longer handle it.
It might have been some super whiz-bang mega-computer once you wrote software for it from scratch, but if you can't port existing games, what the fuck's the point? Also the Xbox 360, which was not some super whiz-bang mega-computer, pumped out graphics just as good as the PS3 and was a joy to work with.
The PS4 might be more powerful than the Xbox One, but it's still shit. Do you know Microsoft, game publishers, game developers, basically the entire industry wants to do cross-platform console play? Who know who's preventing it? Sony. You know what's preventing Bethesda from putting mods in their console games? Sony.
Sony's being a complete dick about everything right now, even though it would help their business! WTF.
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The bigger question is: why would they have?
Reverse headline: "Las Vegas Police Department won't investigate NFL's contract with EA Games."
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@blakeyrat
Well, given that the NFL's Personal Conduct Policy mandates suspensions for falling afoul of the law, I assume the basic presumption would be that if Mr. Bennett was in a position where a cop almost shot him, then there's the possibility he was on the wrong side of the policy and thus might be due for a suspension.Though I haven't really been following the story and I didn't read the article, sooooo....
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@blakeyrat
Well, given that the NFL's Personal Conduct Policy mandates suspensions for falling afoul of the law, I assume the basic presumption would be that if Mr. Bennett was in a position where a cop almost shot him, then there's the possibility he was on the wrong side of the policy and thus might be due for a suspension.Though I haven't really been
followinginvestiaging the story and I didn't read the article, sooooo....
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Mr. Bennett was in a position where a cop almost shot him
If he's black in America, that position is "hands up saying 'please don't shoot'" isn't it?
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Mr. Bennett was in a position where a cop almost shot him
If he's black in America, that position is "hands up saying 'please don't shoot'" isn't it?
If it's true, how did he managed to not be shot ?
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
The PS4 might be more powerful than the Xbox One, but it's still shit. Do you know Microsoft, game publishers, game developers, basically the entire industry wants to do cross-platform console play? Who know who's preventing it? Sony. You know what's preventing Bethesda from putting mods in their console games? Sony.
They could always put mods in the games on the XBox series, and just not turn that off on the PS[n]. Then it becomes a USP, and Sony can go suck it.
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If he's black in America, that position is "hands up saying 'please don't shoot'" isn't it?
That's pretty much it.
There was a panic in a casino, some small percentage of casino patrons was black, those are the ones who got tackled to the floor and handcuffed because all cops are racist thugs.
Meanwhile the entire panic was caused by one of those metal posts that holds up ropes (for making lines) falling onto a stone floor and a dozen morons thinking it was gunfire.
(The biggest disservice the film/video game industry has done to US safety is they've made it so the average Joe has no idea what a gun actually sounds like.)
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They could always put mods in the games on the XBox series, and just not turn that off on the PS[n]. Then it becomes a USP, and Sony can go suck it.
I believe that is what's happening right now this instant.
The cross-play thing is more damning, because if Sony doesn't turn it on the feature's useless. Also because Sony devoted a lot of balloon juice to how excited they were about it, how much they wanted to support, etc... with the first game requests they turn it on? Suddenly they clam up.
Fuck Sony.
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@bb36e Coming soon: Secure USB dongles for Equifax
I'm sure we'll see something like that even though it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference.
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the current practice of installing unsigned drivers downloaded over unsecured connection directly into the system.
TIL it's still current practice to run computers operating systems under 32-bit mode...
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Copy-editing is hard, let's go shopping!
So... they outsourced it to Eutechnyx and Deep Silver?
https://youtu.be/j2bB4aAQS-o?t=34m52s
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
The PS4 might be more powerful than the Xbox One,
One of the main points against Microsoft was that they, at the time, downplayed the difference in power and instead suggested that difference be offset by offloading to their cloud. That was met with very little enthusiasm from the people I talked to (which, admittedly were mostly graphics programmers, so YMMV). IIRC there were also some complaints about the 32MB ESRAM not being quite enough and requiring "interesting" workarounds.
But, yeah, meither comes close to the horror stories I heard about the PS3 and their weirdo architecture based on the Cell.
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@cvi It also didn't help that the initial release of the Xbox One dedicated a full core to running nothing but the OS and the Kinect support code.
99% of games don't use Kinect, and the OS doesn't need more than 0.5% CPU power while a game's being played (yes, even with all the "Xbox record that" voice commands. CPUs are fast, and the background mp4 compression is all in hardware.) Once they undid that stupid engineering decision, Xbox One games gained 10% or more in FPS overnight.
That aside, I think the PS4 probably still has the edge in this generation, although the new "4k-capable" Xbone is supposed to close or eliminate the gap. I don't own one so I can't say.
But, yeah, meither comes close to the horror stories I heard about the PS3 and their weirdo architecture based on the Cell.
Remember too that the Xbox 360 preceded the PS3 by a full year, and even when developers mastered the weird-ass Cell architecture, the two consoles were at best on par with each other. Sony spent an extra year making a console totally unfriendly to developers, and didn't even get increased performance from it.
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@blakeyrat But if Sony would have built their console with a sane choice of hardware they wouldn't have been able to say the PS3 had a supercomputer CPU! (Even if Sony only got the B-grade batch of them.)
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Youtube Gaming detection of games is... not quite working.
1: Video published in 2012. The auto-detected game was released in 2014. Some nice time-travel shenanigans there!
2: The video itself does not feature any specific game. Or any game footage at all. It's just a showcase of various collector's editions on top of a brown sofa.
3: None of the games are actually related to golf in any way as far as I can tell.All in all, Youtube gets a
from me.
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@atazhaia @ben_lubar it auto-detects based on the title. Sometimes. If it gets it wrong, you can change it in the advanced settings, but not if the game isn't in their list of all games.
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Infosec drama of the day (before Equifax, anyway): A SEO expert pretends to be a security expert, demonstrates utter incompetence, proceeds to accuse an actual security expert of DDOSing her to "silence the truth":
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJHX6jzW0AAaRIB.jpg:large
(Image from @troyhunt)
The link at the bottom of that screed is https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/research/ssltls-based-malware-attacks, which basically says "more and more malware is using TLS", which does not mean TLS itself is evil.
Bonus: "proof" that TLS is bad. Wat.
[Calling someone "pajama boy" and making fun of them] is not called criticism, it is libel and impersonation.
Also tries to be a lawyer. Fails just as hard.
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@atazhaia @ben_lubar it auto-detects based on the title. Sometimes. If it gets it wrong, you can change it in the advanced settings, but not if the game isn't in their list of all games.
Well, it's never auto-detected that my videos with "Guild Wars 2" in the title are from Guild Wars 2 or that my Dwarf Fortress videos are from Dwarf Fortress, despite both of those games being in their database.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
Bonus: "proof" that TLS is bad. Wat.
I swear I'm trying to understand how the diagram is being (mis) interpreted to demonstrate a vulnerability and I simply can't; it must just be an illustration of what/where TLS is in the stack.
YOU'RE ON THE INTERNET !!! YOU COULD BE HACKED !!! !!! !!!
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
The auto-detected game
GAMES ON YOUTUBE ARE NOT AUTO-DETECTED
So some human, instead of reviewing a "manual review" copyright strike, went and inputted a completely wrong game for an unrelated video?
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This is in the C standard:
so... does this mean that all function names beginning with is or to, or macros that begin with E and a digit or uppercase letter, etc. are reserved? And therefore, any program that declares a function named
isvalidthingieis technically invalid and could stop working with newer C libraries?
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e: nvm
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A bot correcting a bot correcting a correction
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
so... does this mean that all function names beginning with is or to, or macros that begin with E and a digit or uppercase letter, etc. are reserved? And therefore, any program that declares a function named
isvalidthingieis technically invalid and could stop working with newer C libraries?Yes. Unlikely, but yes.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
so... does this mean that all function names beginning with is or to, or macros that begin with E and a digit or uppercase letter, etc. are reserved? And therefore, any program that declares a function named
isvalidthingieis technically invalid and could stop working with newer C libraries?Yes. Unlikely, but yes.
And this is why namespaces are a really nice thing.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
the current practice of installing unsigned drivers downloaded over unsecured connection directly into the system.
TIL it's still current practice to run computers operating systems under 32-bit mode...
You didn't try to attach a Google Pixel C over ADB to Windows lately, did you? It requires editing the
.inffile and then clicking through that broken find driver thing concluding with accepting the unsigned driver (64-bit Windows 7). Google driver for Google Pixel, for fucks sake. And not that it was much different for half of the Samsung tablets we have here, just they are already listed in the.inf.And the installer for that USB JTag adapter didn't exactly inspire much confidence either.
Of course, since local applications need access to both these things, WebUSB is not going to help with them.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
the current practice of installing unsigned drivers downloaded over unsecured connection directly into the system.
TIL it's still current practice to run computers operating systems under 32-bit mode...
You didn't try to attach a Google Pixel C over ADB to Windows lately, did you? It requires editing the
.inffile and then clicking through that broken find driver thing concluding with accepting the unsigned driver (64-bit Windows 7). Google driver for Google Pixel, for fucks sake. And not that it was much different for half of the Samsung tablets we have here, just they are already listed in the.inf.And the installer for that USB JTag adapter didn't exactly inspire much confidence either.
Of course, since local applications need access to both these things, WebUSB is not going to help with them.
Problem: I don't own a Pixel. Also, every time I had to install an "unsigned driver", the only actual solution was to use Windows 7 32-bit, because there are so many security hoops you must jump through to allow Windows to load unsigned drivers that it's faster, easier, and less problem-prone to just use 32-bit than it is to stay riding the high-and-mighty 64-bit horse.
Yes, technically I can flip a bit in two different places (and they must both be flipped!) to enable unsigned driver loading (with a beautiful watermark on the desktop. oooh, scary!), but it's not worth my hassle.
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@tsaukpaetra I didn't have to jump through any hoops about the unsigned part. I had to point Windows explicitly at the driver, because they don't find it with the scan (they never do; the scan seems generally broken) and then I had to accept that it is not signed. And there is essentially no way for that driver to be signed, because I've just edited it's
.inffile—this is due to shortcoming of how Windows can define matching devices and Google just not giving enough damn to keep the list up-to-date.
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@tsaukpaetra I didn't have to jump through any hoops about the unsigned part. I had to point Windows explicitly at the driver, because they don't find it with the scan (they never do; the scan seems generally broken) and then I had to accept that it is not signed. And there is essentially no way for that driver to be signed, because I've just edited it's
.inffile—this is due to shortcoming of how Windows can define matching devices and Google just not giving enough damn to keep the list up-to-date. Somehow your experience was much better than mine. For me, it seems MS goes out of their way WRT to drivers now to ensure unsigned drivers don't get installed.
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@tsaukpaetra … it's of course possible that our IT department presumed this will be needed—because almost everybody in the company needs it—and prepared the installation image with appropriate registry settings. I simply didn't need to look up any.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
so... does this mean that all function names beginning with is or to, or macros that begin with E and a digit or uppercase letter, etc. are reserved? And therefore, any program that declares a function named
isvalidthingieis technically invalid and could stop working with newer C libraries?On the other hand,
isValidThingieis good.
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A bot correcting a bot correcting a correction
That said, I find this mistake irksome enough to be worth correcting thrice.
Edit: Also, it fills my heart with warm and fuzzy feelings to learn that there are not just one, but several bots dedicated to (goose) stomping this single mistake out of existence.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
5000 files
If it were me, I would assume I hadn't gitignored node_modules.
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An article explaining how easy it is to change a MAC address, and then immediately recommending using MAC address filtering.
- Bonus WTF #1: apparently my network adapter's model is "This Atheros network Controller connects you to the network"
- Bonus WTF #2: changing the MAC to "11:22:33:44:55:66" fails, but changing it to "12:34:56:78:9a:bc" through the exact same prcedure succeeds.
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@anonymous234 The "2" in "12" sets the Locally Administered Address bit, which allows the change to go through.
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@twelvebaud Oooh. I thought there might have been an hidden reason for that, but I couldn't figure it out.
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Ah, it's missing an
n. Obviously they won't invest in age. Old people can't play anymore because they've been to badly brain damaged.
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@blek I am ashamed on behalf of the city I call home.
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@blek
HO
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FUK
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@blek someone needs to check if the designers were either named Rube Goldberg or were close family of the council that approved this.
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@benjamin-hall
Definitely reeks of an easy programming job that was done by an uncle's nephew.
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@izzion or a council getting kickbacks. Or intentional sabotage...
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I have a consistent problem in Edge. If I right click -> inspect element, the tab crashes and it reloads the page, but it's like a cached copy or something, so I have to manually refresh again anyway. Then inspect element works fine for the rest of my session, no issues at all. Next day I've restarted my computer, same problem happens again. Glad I can still use Chrome for everything else but this...
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Bought the Galaxy S8 and saw that it can be unlocked with iris recognition. Neat! Then I see this warning:
http://i.imgur.com/XrVZUU3.png
Ummm .... no thanks.
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@mzh I never got a warning like that when setting up Windows Hello, and that's iris recognition tech too
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I thought part of the point of Office 365 was supposed to be the frequent updates. Why is it telling me that I'm on the newest version, when the "update history" page it links to tells me that I'm six months out of date?
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
Why is there even a limit?
Presumably to preemptively stop the potential abuse for 'extending' your family by adding your friends onto it?
Would you stand to gain anything by doing that? Why's it even a problem?
