@boomzilla imagine opening the advanced settings menu and then getting angry that the settings it presents are advanced
Posts made by ben_lubar
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RE: Althouse finds her inner blakeyrat
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RE: Pi Hole Not Doing Its Thing for Linux Clients (Solved)
@mott555 "more privacy" except from the company that's currently sponsoring Mozilla
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RE: Pi Hole Not Doing Its Thing for Linux Clients (Solved)
@mott555 firefox has a thing where it asks you if you want all your DNS queries to go through Cloudflare now
it's weird
you can disable it in some advanced setting, probably
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You're want to get out of lockdown and travel so badly that you didn't even realize it was a cheesecake, did you?
I thought it was a close-up of a barrel of tar, so I guess not?
yeah who puts tar on top of a cheesecake
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RE: COVID-19 CovidSim Model
@topspin said in COVID-19 CovidSim Model:
@ben_lubar said in COVID-19 CovidSim Model:
@topspin two runs of the same compiled executable should not return vastly different results for the same user-provided seed
in fact, they should not return different results for the same seed at all
And I said that where?
Note that “compiled on g++/libstdc++” vs “compiled on msvc/msvcrt” is not the same executable.If your simulation depends on quantum mechanics, it's not a simulation, it's just a random number generator
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RE: Official forum improvement requests thread
@HardwareGeek said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@antiquarian said in Official Funny Stuff Thread - Trolleybus Edition:
I'm sure we could make him an honorary Texan.
Request: Create area_usa_tx group. And maybe area_usa_tx_honorary.
are you sure you meant to post that in this thread
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RE: Obfuscated Object Oriented Programming
@hungrier how do you
Thread.sleep
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RE: The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®
@pie_flavor said in The Unofficial Funny Comic Strips Thread®:
@Rhywden The title suggests they're talking about Donald Trump, but then they proceed to give a whole bunch of adjectives that don't describe him at all.
Which adjective are you having trouble with specifically?
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RE: Obfuscated Object Oriented Programming
@Kamil-Podlesak I feel like this strategy would be effective for getting yesterday's date, but not tomorrow's
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Turns out "there was internet service from our company previously at this address" means "the junction box has been ripped of the wall and we have to install a new one, we have no idea where this dangling cable goes or if it's any good to start with, we need to consult wiring maps in our office, we might get this done, but we're definitely not going to do this today".
Fucking 12-month contract.
Status: The next day I called them and they told me that they're absolutely, definitely going to do it by the end of the week. The day after that they called me to tell me that it turned out they can't do this after all. I mean, yeah, it happens. But if they've just SAID IT TWO MONTHS AGO WHEN I FIRST ASKED!!!
At least they're not making any problems terminating the contract. They even waived early termination fee! Now, to find another provider...
wait, a 12 month contract and they've been violating their end for 2 months and all they did was waive the early termination fee?
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RE: COVID-19 CovidSim Model
@topspin two runs of the same compiled executable should not return vastly different results for the same user-provided seed
in fact, they should not return different results for the same seed at all
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RE: COVID-19 CovidSim Model
It's pretty scary to know that the world's medical systems run on something far less powerful at simulating illness than Dwarf Fortress
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RE: COVID-19 CovidSim Model
If GitHub was trying to federate with lubar.me, I would have completely banned it by now for lack of moderation. Three days for a form letter response and no action?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Is it worse than on a dark background?
It works better on Mastodon where it's higher resolution and displayed even smaller
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: coming to terms with the fact that this avatar really doesn't work on a light background at all
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have bacon. I have brown sugar.
Strongly considering making candied bacon tomorrow.unh, sugar bacon!FTFY
I have a pen
I have pineapple
unh
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RE: WTF Bites
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar I almost didn't recognize you
E: Wrong topic, of course
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RE: systemd implements ransomware for your own home directory
What does this actually do, though, apart from reinventing a wheel?
If the home directory is encrypted using a key that's available to the system, isn't that the exact same thing as just setting permissions?
systemd doesn't even handle auth right now - PAM does that as far as I know.
Are they saying that they want to put the home directory somewhere else? That's what /etc/passwd is for, one of the files they say they want to get rid of.
How does digitally signing the auth file help do anything other than provide another point for the system to break? If someone has the ability to modify the file, surely they also have access to the key, right?
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RE: systemd implements ransomware for your own home directory
So, for the simple act of logging in, three mechanisms are required (systemd, /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd). This is inefficient,
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RE: systemd implements ransomware for your own home directory
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Do you use Linux?
Did you likepulseaudio
andsystemd
?
Then you'll love Lennart Poettering's new groundbreaking idea:
Two immediate thoughts, not entirely mutually exclusive:
- this was posted there 29 days too late.
- this deserves it's own thread, not a post in
Bites
Once that user logs out, the home directory is automatically encrypted.
Oh dear - if you want some -xxxxxxr-- files in there, you need to be logged in 24x7. What do you mean multi-user systems don't exist, with http://example.com/~user not being a personal webpage from the '80's... (or other more cromulent reasons for wanting read-only stuff in ~, that other people should be able to read.)
I presume he's doing something weird and wonderful with
~/.ssh
.In fact I presume he's thought about it to begin with.
Yes?
<finishes reading the article..>
Oh - seriously, and honestly, I hadn't got this far in the article until I typed that aside:
The big problem with that is the .ssh directory (where SSH stores known_hosts and authorized_keys) would be inaccessible while the user's home directory is encrypted. Of course Poettering knows of this shortcoming. To date, all of the work done with systemd-homed has been with the standard authentication process. You can be sure that Poettering will come up with a solution that takes SSH into consideration.
Should Poettering not be able to develop a solution for the SSH conundrum, systemd-homed will have to be relegated to desktops and laptop distributions, leaving servers out of the mix. I cannot imagine that will fly with the systemd team.
Excited for this to be enabled by default on Ubuntu or whatever and have this brick a bunch of servers
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RE: WTF Bites
I want to export a slide from Powerpoint as an image. There's a handy feature where you can export one or multiple slides to PNG (or JPEG if you prefer having your content low-pass filtered). Default resolution is 1280x720. So far so good.
I would like to get 1920x1080 resolution images though. Quick search on Google, and there's this relevant looking article in Microsoft's documentation. Sweet.
Step one even seems relevant, "Step 1: Change the export resolution setting". But things go downhill from there:
Important
Follow the steps in this section carefully. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you modify it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur.
Oh. Wait. We're going to mess with the registry settings? For changing the export resolution of PowerPoint slides?
- Exit all Windows-based programs.
ok gonna have to stop you right there completely impossible instruction list
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RE: COVID-19 CovidSim Model
full of responses from someone I can only assume (based on time zones) is a Russian troll
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RE: In other news today...
Zoom acquires keybase, successfully losing the tiny amount of trust keybase had and not affecting the opinions of people who don't know what keybase is at all.
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RE: [bash] mlength=('xx' '31' '28' '31' '30' '31' '30' '31' '31' '30' '31' '30' '31')
@cvi said in [bash] mlength=('xx' '31' '28' '31' '30' '31' '30' '31' '31' '30' '31' '30' '31'):
@PJH said in [bash] mlength=('xx' '31' '28' '31' '30' '31' '30' '31' '31' '30' '31' '30' '31'):
Just imagine the following line, but for this function written in Javascript:
# @deps: (none)
*shudder*
depends on the none package
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RE: [bash] mlength=('xx' '31' '28' '31' '30' '31' '30' '31' '31' '30' '31' '30' '31')
@PJH your suggested implementation gets february wrong, which is what two of the four lines of that function handle
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Choose Adorpion
I'm sure the adoption agencies will love all the 3 week old embryos
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat
Bornem Fire department apparently (trains where blocked because of the fire next to the railway)if the trains weren't going there anyway, that seems like a good way to prevent the hose from getting sliced in half by the tracks
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RE: WTF Bites
@hungrier Unrelated:
$ whereis docker-compose docker-compose: /usr/local/bin/docker-compose $ docker-compose up -d [service] bash: /usr/bin/docker-compose: No such file or directory
Also : in another terminal tab, it works no problem. A couple hours ago, it was working everywhere.
hash -r
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RE: Tell Me a Secret
@error_bot said in Tell Me a Secret:
Somebody told me:
There should be a post limit on this bot. @BenLubar Please fix.
I think you mean @error
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RE: Request to confirm email, some lost settings
@cabrito said in Request to confirm email, some lost settings:
@boomzilla said in Request to confirm email, some lost settings:
I blame @ben_lubar.
Meanwhile, in Lubar's
basementLair ...@brie said in Request to confirm email, some lost settings:
@HardwareGeek said in Request to confirm email, some lost settings:
@boomzilla said in Request to confirm email, some lost settings:
@Captain said in Request to confirm email, some lost settings:
@boomzilla said in Request to confirm email, some lost settings:
I don't see your account in the logs and I certainly didn't do anything to your account.
Yeah, it wasn't an accusation, just saying it was a coincidence so I didn't mind/note/report it at the time.
I blame @ben_lubar.
A rather minor Lubar FUBAR.
If you liked his Lubar FUBAR, just wait till you hear about his logjam shadowban.
wait can I shadowban people who mispronounce lojban?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error, I'd like to file a bug.
@bug, I'd like to report an error.
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RE: DEAR FIREFOX
my favorite new feature of the new URL bar:
they couldn't decide whether to put the search results before or after the URL you're actually trying to get to, so they put it equally on both sides because they're Stan Kelly-Bootle or something
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
which of these three houses that are currently on fire do you want to go live in right now
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier I'm a simple man. If it's bars,
what if it's hens
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RE: Killed by Google
@dcon said in Killed by Google:
@Zecc said in Killed by Google:
Whatever Neighbourly was.
But the app hasn't grown like we had hoped.
In other words, "NextDoor trounced us."
It might have helped its growth if anyone had heard of it at all
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RE: Do you understand ping?
@TheCPUWizard why would someone name a video series for children "read to me daddy"
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RE: WTF Bites
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Status: Wondering if there is a C++ way of writing this type of casts:
uint8_t Buffer[20]; int a = *(int*)&Buffer[8];
reinterpret_cast
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: First time I got a legit 403...
that's a 502
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RE: THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@Tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ben_lubar those are incredibly weird boss fight names...
you should play Deltarune
it's my favorite boss fight ever in every part of its delivery
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden weird, it didn't ask me anything.
the onebox somehow opened a tab asking me to register
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"...and in the morning, I'm makin' waffles!"
ok but hear me out here
Blergo did three, possibly four of these things