@Gąska said in SGX "safe" enclaves:
I read the title as "SEX safe enclaves".
My first impression was "SEX slaves".
@Gąska said in SGX "safe" enclaves:
I read the title as "SEX safe enclaves".
My first impression was "SEX slaves".
@pie_flavor said in JavaScript ReDoS:
And I'm still not in the table. @ben_lubar
Yeah, me neither, @ben_lubar
@Gąska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@MrL said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@Gąska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
What are the chances those people you're talking about who watch BBC, say BBC sucks only because they don't watch anything else and thus don't know how much other channels suck in comparison?
Exactly 7%.
Then I'm going to run with this hypothesis, until you get your own's p-value below 0.05.
This is social science, not economy, up to 0.20 is great.
@admiral_p said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
Why not?
It's unreliable. That's why schools and unis (sensible ones) have 'no wikipedia' rule.
Why not?
You don't choose to pay or not.
Google's employees also get paid, but g search is not a paid service, isn't it?
@Gąska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
What are the chances those people you're talking about who watch BBC, say BBC sucks only because they don't watch anything else and thus don't know how much other channels suck in comparison?
Exactly 7%.
@admiral_p said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
So? As long as it doesn't track you, it is blind advertising.
Which is invasion of my privacy.
I have no problems with that, that's how things were done up to a couple of decades ago. I have no big problems with being a product either actually.
Yeah, I know.
It depends. Wikipedia is a big mass-user service and it works very well.
No, it doesn't.
And government public service is not necessarily utter shit, also because it is essentially a paid service.
No it isn't.
The BBC is one of the best broadcasters on the planet, for sheer quality.
That's the popular belief, but not what I heard from people who actually watched BBC.
@Gąska said in What certificate(s) will help me land a decent programming job in 2021?:
@MrL said in What certificate(s) will help me land a decent programming job in 2021?:
I have no certs and non-IT diploma. Never been a problem for me.
You also live in Poland. I'd never had a problem either as long as I lived in Poland. But now I live in USA and last time I was job hunting, my interview-invitations-to-applications-submitted ratio was below 1%.
Physically in Poland, but I work remotely for companies in all of EU.
I don't know exactly how job market looks like strictly in Poland.
Also, like Gribnit said, recruiters. And intermediaries, consultant firms, 'body shops', etc. Searching for yourself sucks big time.
@GOG said in Quotes Out of Context:
Skyrim, to me, has always been mostly sandbox. These days (yes, I still play it now and again) I don't even follow the main story much.
What is there to do that is sandboxy?
Plus, the Witcher is something of an acquired taste. Took me years to actually play any of the games and I had read the books.
I never even touched the books and I think W3 is the best game I ever played.
@admiral_p said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
DuckDuckGo
is advertisement based.
@MrL donations? Simple industry interest in keeping them alive? Not everything must be for profit you know.
From my experience free services come in 3 variants:
2 and 3 don't rob me of privacy, true, but instead they waste my time and strain my nerves. Not better from my perspective.
Besides, I meant big mass-user services, like search, mobile OSes, cloud storages, etc, not some bored with life nobody releasing 100th notepad clone 'for free!!'.
@Gąska said in The A in Apple is for Affordable:
@MrL it's not like I have any privacy when using paid products either.
Bollocks.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@MrL said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I have it easy, I can't wear gloves (I get cold in them).
Are gloves the only piece of clothing with this, uh... chilling effect?
Yes
Computer name: SLAVE-VIII
Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit
CPU model: Ryzen 7 2700X
Time: 67157ms
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Killed by Google:
@topspin said in Killed by Google:
@Gąska said in Killed by Google:
One verse is about a man whose fiancee cheated on him with an entire bus of Arabs (direct quote, I kid you not).
Polish racism sure is subtle.
I might be off, but in general: in 1970s and 1980s Eastern Block, "Arabs" were the prototype of "ultra-rich foreigner". Everyone from top party/government elites down to last street... ehm... worker... were happy to get some sweet sweet petro-dollars. To the point that the government/police actually did tolerate such transactions, despite them being illegal. And organized semi-official visit en masse, hence the "bus" part. And the petro-Arabs were, generally, happy to come and spend them.
There was, actually, somewhat similar trope called "Helmut in Mercedes". The main difference being that it was more solitary thing ( Mercedes did/does manufacture buses too, but nobody knew that).
Ta pani przyszła w tym futrze i w nim wychodzi.
@Onyx said in `s/www\.//g`:
@Atazhaia said in `s/www\.//g`:
@antipattern Just wait until Chrome removes the ability to toggle that setting, because who'd want a customizable web browser?
sheds yet another tear for Opera 12
If you want customizable, your best option seems to be Vivaldi at this point. Which is an Electron based browser. Make of that what you will.
Electron and Chromium based.
@dfdub said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not even mad anymore, this shitshow is starting to be funny.
Aww, that's sad. Want me to tell you how great it is?
Oh, right. Status: playing Cyberpunk. On PC. On graphics details: Ultra.
@anotherusername said in `s/www\.//g`:
There's undoubtedly going to be an option somewhere to enable/disable that feature
Yeah, right.
@admiral_p said in EU bans content in online video streaming platforms:
Each country dubbing foreign material will say that their dubbers are the best.
Our dubbers are shit. I avoid dubbing like the plague.
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
What exactly is forcing you to do stuff in BATs?
Usually a lack of tools. In this case, I want to zip a copy of my source code on every build (excluding junk e-mail/uploaders think is malicious). So all I have is Visual Studio's post-build command line and the 7zip command line.
Edit: I have 14 tests it needs to pass and 11 do so far...
And you need to port a path library for this?!
@admiral_p said in EU bans content in online video streaming platforms:
I don't agree with all you said (I wouldn't say House of Cards is that childish), but in general these shows all have a certain element of "woah, cool!", "edgy!" and/or address "your inner child". Like, Stranger Things, it's unashamedly a very stylish kid's show and it's winking and nudging all the way through to their millennial audience who feel nostalgia for an era they may (or may not!) have lived as a child. But look at your parents or grandparents. Would your parents or grandparents actively seek such material for themselves? Would your parents and grandparents obsess over it? Or let's even extend the debate, take the obsession over the Marvel universe. Fucking comics, that you'd have been embarrassed to read in public, like, twenty or thirty years ago, as an adult (look at Comic Book Guy character from the Simpsons). The truth is that most of us are really all growing up later, and thirty is really the new twenty under certain aspects.
Exactly.
Snot-nosed European crap? I give you: Sorrentino!
This movie is absolutely brilliant. In my top 10 of all time.
@admiral_p said in EU bans content in online video streaming platforms:
@MrL said in EU bans content in online video streaming platforms:
@admiral_p said in EU bans content in online video streaming platforms:
¹ in Eastern Europe they apparently do something absolutely hilarious (paging the Polish guys here). They neither use subtitles, nor they really dub the stuff, but they have like a speaker, always the same speaker (regardless of the gender of the character who is speaking) talking over the original soundtrack.
We have all three, subtitles, dubbing and speaker. Their popularity varies and changes over time.
Speaker is a television thing, never used in cinemas. Subtitles are almost exclusively for cinemas, never on tv, apart from multiple soundtracks to choose from on some channels. Dubbing gains popularity, first it was used for children movies, now for some time it shows more and more in others.Speaker may sound hilarious for people not used to it, or when it's done badly. I like it very much - you can hear original soundtrack and you don't have to read subtitles. Actors play with their voices as well as with their bodies/faces, dubbing replaces it with some else's voice, that's awful.
I prefer subtitles. You don't have another voice over it partially obscuring the original audio anyway and it takes very little to get used to glancing at them.
Yeah, I think speaker would be pretty bad in cinemas, that's why it's never used there.
Hmm, come to think of it, I'm not sure it wasn't used in cinemas in the past, like 30 years ago and earlier.
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@djls45 said in Well, this is new, Google.:
@ben_lubar Yep. And nowhere on there does it deny the existence of a Mr. Ling. :P
Ling being her first name probably means there isn't a Mr. Ling, at least not related to her like you're implying.
Ah, but you don't know how Asian names work, do you? They put the family name first, and then the given name(s) after that. So her name in Western format would be Valentine Ling, which means she definitely could have a husband, who would be Mister Ling or Ling-shì, or perhaps Ling-xiānshēng if he helps run the shop, I think.
Ling is her first name. Surname Valentine comes from her husband.
@zerosquare said in This scrollbar makes me physically sick:
It's strange how the situation is reversed here (France).
Even though most people use their ISP-provided equipment, ADSL modems have always been easily available in computer stores.
But DOCSIS modems? Never seen them for sale anywhere. And even if you could buy one, it probably wouldn't work: cable companies don't allow devices whose MAC address doesn't match the one you should be using to authenticate on their network.
Which also means that when your connection is malfunctioning, you can't borrow a friend's modem to test whether this is a hardware problem.
Clone MAC address?
@boomzilla said in Shorting Gamestop:
@MrL said in Shorting Gamestop:
What's gamestop?
Retail video game store.
Related:
How the hell did a store like this survive till 2021?!
Only in America I guess.
@boomzilla said in Shorting Gamestop:
@MrL said in Shorting Gamestop:
How the hell did a store like this survive till 2021?!
Not sure what you mean. Don't most console games come on physical media still?
I don't know, I'm a PC Aryan. But around here game shops died a long time ago. Some multi-purpose stores have game corners, some electronics shops have game sections, but game stores - all dead.
@acrow said in Shorting Gamestop:
@blek Spreading false information is only one way to get people to buy a certain stock. You can also order your personal cult to buy stocks. Or incite a mob to buy stocks. Either way, there's a killing to be made when you know (or are reasonably certain) that a stock will go up in the near future.
Now, I'd expect this kind of activity to fall under insider trading laws, since you're basing your trading on information not publicly available. But IANAL.
Also, I'm not saying that this is definitely a scheme. I'm just extremely cynical. Check the money and the women first, and all that.
You can tell people to buy stock you invested in, nothing illegal about that. If you get a lot of people to listen, then good for you.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@MrL You're not one of them Disco Pomposium folk, are you?
I liked it, not loved maybe, but it's certainly leagues better than BG3.
@scarlet_manuka said in Android without google?:
Updates are only part of it. Regular use is another part. Whenever I turn data on on my phone, the app store and Gmail immediately hog bandwidth for a few minutes checking to see if there's anything new, while the thing that I wanted to use the data for struggles to get any. There doesn't appear to be any way to stop this happening short of force-stopping them.
Is it possible to block the store from accessing network? Take away privileges, turn off, or anything?
@pleegwat said in Android without google?:
@mrl said in Android without google?:
I have unlimited data transfer, so I don't care about that.
Even on satellite? I looked it up before my last vacation, and satellite counts as roaming in a special category where the only price plan is per megabyte, and they're €10 a piece.
My phone was on airplane mode the whole way.
I generally don't travel abroad.
@luhmann said in Android without google?:
Does that also apply to builtin google crap like gmail, calendar, etc?
@berniethebernie said in Android without google?:
@mrl Most important to me is the question if I can make sure that no stupid app - and the operating system itself - will download a few gigabytes of crap (also called "updates") while I do not have a free wifi connection. Doing that via the mobile phone connection can be very expensive.
Just remember that boy who by watching some youtube videos while on a ferry (and thus a phone connection via satellite) incurred a fee of a few thousand euros / dollars (don't find the article anywhere anymore...)
So, imagine I have to use such a connection for some purpose. How can I be sure that it will be only used for that specific purpose, and that some stupid app won't use that connection for its crappy purposes?
I have unlimited data transfer, so I don't care about that. But I do care about update downloads blocking access for other applications and doing updates 'in the background' killing device performance.
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
aquarium with trout in the control room
Hold up. Is this a real thing that exists?
Yes. I did see them in the water treatment plant here. It's been some years, but I don't think they removed that—it is a great last check.
Yep, used in water plants around here too. Not sure if trouts though.
@stillwater said in WhatsApp's illegal:
@mrl said in WhatsApp's illegal:
@stillwater said in WhatsApp's illegal:
@mrl Did you even read what I wrote?
You wrote something else from what you meant?
If you read exactly what I meant then I'm not sure where you got the idea I don't care about privacy. That is the exact opposite of what I've been saying.
Just find one of discussions I mentioned if you are curious about arguments of either side. They won't change your mind, whichever side you're on, believe me.
@stillwater said in WhatsApp's illegal:
@mrl Did you even read what I wrote?
You wrote something else from what you meant?
@HardwareGeek said in 🖎 The officious song of the day comment thread!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🎤 Song of the day 👂:
E_NOT_STRINGS
That is not the "Adagio for Strings". It is Barber's 1967 setting of the Agnus Dei section of the Latin Mass, which uses the tune of the "Adagio", which, in turn, is an arrangement for string orchestra of the second movement of his 1937 String Quartet.
Now I'm feeling like playing Homeworld.
@el-dorko said in Android without google?:
@mrl FWIW: I had a Windows phone and had the same problem, when it started to die. Went with Android, hated every minute of it and finally after 5 or so months ditches the whole "smart"phone. I'm down to a dumbphone and it's just better. I can't believe people put up with that rubbish.
It may come to that - worst case scenario. There are apps that I find useful enough to have a smartphone, but on the other hand there are not that many. I wonder how my life would look with a dumbphone, maybe it would actually be better.
@bulb said in Android without google?:
I have used a “throw-away” (random username @gmail.com) account that I didn't even remember password for for years here. The account has to exists, but if you don't want to use any of the other features, it does not need any personal info and does not need to be connected to anything else.
It really doesn't matter if you put any personal info there, it's the data gathered that's identifying you.
@gąska said in Android without google?:
@mrl said in Android without google?:
@jaloopa said in Android without google?:
If you don't mind Amazon having your info instead of Google, the Amazon Underground app store is pretty easy to sideload and is the biggest after the play store
Sadly, they don't have apps I use.
This is frustrating AF.
You're Polish, right? Can't you just pirate whatever's missing? Unlike iOS, Android allows installing any .apk file out of the box.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'pirate' in this context, but no, I don't pirate things.
Well, I'm not switching just yet, I'm gathering info for now. The switch will come in a month or so - it seems that I'm in for a world of pain, so I'll rant about it here for sure.
@twelvebaud said in Venmo social feed is dumb:
@mrl Why does only one of them have a eurion?
Other pictures show older version of banknotes. Eurion (and probably other things) was introduced in 2014 I think.
Hah, got fucked by a dictionary. Yes, I meant embossed.
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You guys have some weirdly specific views about crosswords.
We're used to ones designed by people who are… insistent on the æsthetics.
Hmm. Discussion about what makes a crossword easthetic aside, I don't think anyone cares about that around here. And crosswords are very popular in Poland.
@gąska said in Enough with the handshakes:
@mrl said in Enough with the handshakes:
@cvi said in Enough with the handshakes:
If you're grossed out by your colleagues hands (as some people indicate ... I mean, whatever, you do you), transition to something like a fist bump, where only the outer part of the hands touch briefly?
What is this obsession with touching other people? Why do people assume I want to touch them? Fucking hell.
I am a little.. socially challenged, I can easily admit that. But I'm nowhere near that level of nuttery.
@pjh said in Enough with the handshakes:
@mrl said in Enough with the handshakes:
What is this obsession with touching other people? Why do people assume I want to touch them? Fucking hell.
Be glad you're not working in the acting industry in America...
Or in sex industry anywhere...
@boomzilla said in Enough with the handshakes:
@mrl Physical contact is an important part of being social, I'm afraid. I can understand why it's such a problematic subject around here.
That's funny, because my relations with close friends involve virtually zero physical contact. Handshake once in a blue moon, pat on the back maybe once ever, and that's it. It's the work colleagues that love shaking hands every morning.
@cartman82 said in One final niggly detail:
@mrl said in One final niggly detail:
It seems to me that you are trying hard to be a decent person here, not come out as arrogant, rude, etc.
Stop that. This kind of attitude is mercilessly exploited by companies/managers. They will talk about ethics, good conduct, ask you to be thankful, whine about bad financial situation, threat with bad opinion on work market, etc. And when you cave in, they'll report savings and cash their yearly bonus.Maybe. But I'll feel better about being fair. And I am well enough off that losing those very VERY theoretical 3-4K extra is worth feeling good and guilt free.
Where is this guilt coming from? They already admitted they owe you money.
I don't know how hard you tried to see it, but:
For first time trying points 3-5 in different configurations can take some time, minutes.
Also, some pictures are easier to see than others, for first try it's better to choose a very easy one.
Also also, it's a lot easier with printed images than with ones on a screen.