@Luhmann Are you sure they're not underwater? They're clearly under a lot of watermarks...
Medinoc
@Medinoc
Best posts made by Medinoc
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RE: Internet of shit
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RE: Microsoft debuts Bosque – a yet another pointless programming language
(sees functions applied directly to collections)
So it's not a language without loops, it's just a language where the loops are hidden. Today's journalism in a nutshell.
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Microsoft's Cl---ic mistake
The comments in Microsoft's "reference source" mention a
I wrote to them some time ago about it, but have so far noticed no change.---- condition
in some multithread libraries.
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RE: WTF Bites
This reminds me of the Apple WTF which led my company to decide "Nope, we won't guarantee compatibility with Safari":
- Apple stopped making Safari for Windows in what seems to be 2015
- Apple's TOS forbid having, or even emulating, macOS on non-Apple hardware.
Needless to say, no one in their right mind wants to shell out for Apple hardware just for the sake of Safari users, so screw 'em.
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RE: Mouse and Keyboard: And never the twain shall meet (aka: fuck you Microsoft's UX team)
It's that goddamned option invented to avoid scaring computer-illiterate people with underlined letters.
It was born either in Windows 95 OSR2, or Windows 98, and at the time it was called something like "Hide underlined letters until I press ALT". And initially, I think it defaulted to unchecked.
Then, in later windows versions such as Windows XP, it defaulted to checked (for the same principle as hiding file extensions: The kind of people who want them are the kind of people who are capable of finding out how to enable them, but those who DON'T want them will never find the option to disable them -- and whether they should be trusted with a computer in the first place is still up in the air)
And in Windows Vista and above, the option was inverted and moved to the Keyboard section of the Ease-Of-Access center: It's now the checkbox "Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys", which defaults unchecked.
These two options are among the first I change whenever I land on a new computer.
Edited to add: Implementation-wise, I guess menus and controls call
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETKEYBOARDCUES)
and if set, they pass theDT_HIDEPREFIX
flag to theDrawText()
function. Well, except when some keyboard navigation is taking place. I wonder how they determine that, though... (Edit2: I found how. Thanks Raymond!)PS: Oh, and additional WTF: The documentation of DrawText does not underline the "normal" text properly in its examples.
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RE: Youtube vs ad blockers
@jinpa "Contest losers will be robbed of their intellectual property. Contest winner will get a small cash prize... and be robbed of their intellectual property."
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
I have been sent an image through Teams (here, it's the "old" Teams).
- I right-click the image, and select "Copy Image".
- Then I open Paint, and... Paste is grayed out.
- Uh? DId it copy the image as a file instead? I open Explorer, and... Paste is still grayed out.
- Then I open a clipboard viewer program, and it turns out... the contents is text.
<img src="data:image/png;base64,(anonymized;base 64 goes here)" alt="image" iscopyblocked="false">
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That thrice-damned "Schemas are users" nonsense
This horror is causing no shortage of problems on our application, because it uses multiple schemas to get some semblance of order in our databases. Works fine on SQL Server, but on Oracle, we get this absurdity:
>CREATE TABLE SOME_SCHEMA_NAME.someTable AS SELECT (stuff) --Result: OK dude no prob, your table is created. >SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SOME_SCHEMA_NAME.someTable --Result: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
I just created the table! Why have I no right on something whose creator I am? And if you tell me "that's because you created it in someone else's pocket", then why did you let me create it in the first place?
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RE: UI Bites
Just a little shout-out to Microsoft for deciding that most people don't actually want to easily know where a window ends and the neighboring one begins, a making that an optional feature disabled by default.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
It seems the most cryptocurrencies I learn the existence of, I only learn of when they crash and burn.
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And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Latest posts made by Medinoc
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
Yesterday my remoting VM's "NEW Microsoft Teams" listed everyone as "Unknown User", had to revert to "Old" to get a working Teams.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the Win11 stuff
Windows 11 is just Windows 10 without the ability to put the taskbar in weird places
Which is exactly the part of Windows 11 that will significantly hamper my ability to do remote work.
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RE: Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!)
@Atazhaia Wait, so this kickstarter is from the Black 2.0 guy? Interesting (but not in an "interested in the product" way).
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RE: Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!)
Did the installer delete itself after use?
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RE: Hacking News
@cvi Yeah, seeing the same thing in my own logs taught me that there is no such thing as "too obscure to be targeted"; because bots don't care, they simply target everyone.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Zecc I've never seen nodejs code before. Just what does
require
return?
And how can aconst
ant be computed (when?) from its return? -
RE: Hacking News
@izzion said in Hacking News:
@Medinoc said in Hacking News:
I heard Apex Legends players were hacked through a vulnerability in the game's kernel-mode anti-cheat program (which makes their entire Windows install thoroughly compromised).
This kind of shit is (part of) why I don't play MMORPGs. If your game needs to run a Big Brother with admin access or worse, that's vulnerabilities waiting to happen.It’s mostly shooters and MOBAs that run anti-cheats. The two biggest MMOs either have extensive mod support (WOW) or mostly have a don’t ask don’t tell implementation of their no third party programs rule (FFXIV)
AFAIK Star Wars The Old Republic uses an anti-cheat. I know it at least runs something that demands administrative privileges.
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RE: Hacking News
I heard Apex Legends players were hacked through a vulnerability in the game's kernel-mode anti-cheat program (which makes their entire Windows install thoroughly compromised).
This kind of shit is (part of) why I don't play MMORPGs. If your game needs to run a Big Brother with admin access or worse, that's vulnerabilities waiting to happen.