NTAuthority
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a whole lotta nothing, only $5
I guess Activision has a reputation for milking consumers, but asking them to pay $5 for nothing?
(also related: there's a bunch of people who left this place when moving to Discourse, I left when you moved to this pile of rubble)
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RE: What favorite UI element will we lose next? Everything?
worse: 'hey we fixed it for one browser. let's close the bug report topic!'
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RE: a whole lotta nothing, only $5
@Lorne-Kates said in a whole lotta nothing, only $5:
@NTAuthority said in a whole lotta nothing, only $5:
$5 for nothing?
Fuck you, give me money.
I guess the crowdfunding campaign failed, but you can always sell your 'fuck-you's on Steam it seems... ;)
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'today' in discourse
representative comment: 'did you forget the migration'
also related: CIRCULAR AVATARS and what they do to my non-symmetric avatar image (i.e. make it look horrible, as the midpoint of the circle clashes with the edge of the [url=http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory/]glyph[/url] not being at the midpoint)
- and then to think that I considered discourse as one of the less bad choices
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RE: Which language is the least bad?
and a type system that actually does something useful (unlike say PHP's or JS's)
i.e. ending up with every implicit type conversion being a runtime error
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
The Start menu is now an application using the whole complexity of the AppX/Immersive application framework, embedded using the same (crashy) ApplicationFrameHost that now houses the 'modern' Alt-Tab and other Immersive applications, minus the additional complexity of app containers (which would make the entire shell not work with UAC disabled at all, even though lots of settings moved to the Immersive Control Panel which won't run with UAC fully off anyway), however including the shell itself being an AppX package which fails to be registered half the time, Start Menu shortcut search currently being broken since fixing my profile on the upgrade from 10122 -> 10130 (as something broke with the Microsoft Account sign-in service that broke UAC completely causing any application elevating to hang indefinitely waiting for a RPC call, including the 'Settings' app, and disabling UAC from a secondary admin account obviously breaking the Settings app so I couldn't 'natively' switch back to a non-Microsoft account, so I had to change the ProfileList and get myself a new SID while trying to change the existing SID in the ACLs neatly, which apparently broke the ShellExperience AppX package...)
The rest of the shell is fine though, outside of this AppX Start menu mess; it felt better in the first previews when it used the internal-usage-only DirectUI framework the 8.x Start screen used... definitely more reliable.
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RE: Chrome ignores keyboard locales
If the 'Alt-Shift' suggestion fixed it, that's an OS-wide thing that changed per-application until Windows 8, where it's disabled by default in favor of Win-Space.
Not everything in newer Windows versions is worse.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
Wow, filenames so long the server itself has to ellipsis-ize them before sending it out...
... the actual on-disk files have these ellipses too - this is to prevent hitting the Win32 MAX_PATH limit and breaking a bunch of stuff in the process.
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Steam's LINK REMOVED madness, redux
my party:
other party:
Same seems to go for .pw domains, like what just happens to be this person's TLD of choice for image hosting. Still not as bad as the 'selective whitelisting' approach from earlier this year, however with requiring a $5 entry fee to add contacts I really don't think they should still be censoring...
Latest posts made by NTAuthority
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RE: So Microsoft broke my phone
@bb36e said in So Microsoft broke my phone:
Tbh the most fun I've had in the game has been seeing that bug where tanks sometimes flip over and rocket towards the sky, one time I was ready to hit one with an RPG and it just up and did a triple backflip
that's literally what you have half over Métro when using the RAWR.
of course, that is mainly abuse of Origin Access trial accounts, given how even if you just pick up the RAWR from an actual hack user's dropped kit (oh, yes, that's actually a thing :p ) people will still hate on you and the 'free' trial doesn't come with DLC.
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RE: a whole lotta nothing, only $5
@groo said in a whole lotta nothing, only $5:
@NTAuthority horizontal scroll suck on mobile, I give up trying to read your rant about infiniscroll
scrolling and scrolling still are pretty much covariant
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RE: So Microsoft broke my phone
@bb36e said in So Microsoft broke my phone:
@NTAuthority like invulnerable EOD bots? Or like the floating future drone thing in the final stand maps?
RAWR, this flying whatever thing (which actually can't fly as the default height ceiling is 0m, so it's just floating above ground level, advantage is it's still invulnerable outside of its natural habitat), various other battle pickups from DLC (railgun sniping seems a particular favorite of some contacts of mine) and some classics such as double jet miniguns and triple tank shells.
they got a lot more popular lately as someone released an easily reusable public precompiled hack for this, prior to that you needed to actually match up various structure definitions and write your own plugin to replace the assets...
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RE: So Microsoft broke my phone
@ben_lubar said in So Microsoft broke my phone:
@NTAuthority VAC
classical anti-cheating measures are a classical example of client trust. VAC merely relies on the classical concept of patterns and boobytraps, actual game data analysis is a better solution for whatever (which in CS nowadays seems implemented by, uh, peer review of automatically-recorded game demos?).
of course, if it's Battlefield 4 which you can get for free infinitely due to a flawed trial system, no banning methods are viable at all.
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RE: So Microsoft broke my phone
@bb36e said in So Microsoft broke my phone:
Are you Russian?
that's Counter-Strike game enhancers. Battlefield titles actually have real enhancements outside of artificial aiming and viewing player positions, like, uh, lots of client trust by servers compounding game bugs so you end up with, say, invulnerable remote-controlled miniature tanks (they're not meant to be invulnerable nor loaded on those levels, but apparently they're loaded and invulnerable on levels they do not belong to) by replacing an asset pointer in your soldier loadout.
the main purpose of this is social experimentation, people love to get irrational when someone's abusing game features in their game session.
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RE: :flame: Windows' newest security vulnerability is called Linux :flame:
@cartman82 said in Windows' newest security vulnerability is called Linux :
The should have added a few linux compatibility features (eg. linux-like file permissions) and co-opted msys2/cygwin.
That's pretty much every past attempt at POSIX support on NT since, like, 1992. Clearly, that didn't work out well enough.
WSL, on the other hand, is just repurposing the scraps of ADSS ('Android Subsystem', Astoria) to appeal to the modern tech crowd who hates NT OS and loves everything POSIX and overhypes completely broken shit. MSFT's own marketing for WSL also involves a lot of... doing stuff that already worked with every past user-mode POSIX emulation library, except those could actually interoperate with the Win32 world a lot better than this mess.
Also, if you've ever tried to run any complex application over VirtualBox' shared folders with a NT host (or apparently any other host, as well), you'd know that's a real performance hell.
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RE: So Microsoft broke my phone
mildly related: rs1 seems to have broken some window system behavior, like how EA DICE titles' 'borderless window' functionality (which I need in order to run undisclosed game enhancement software) which sets WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW causes the game window to not enumerate in any window list so I have to have another external utility to remove WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW to even be able to, like, focus the game window as it somehow is even lower in the Z stack than the desktop window by default.
of course, the combination of rs1, NVIDIA drivers and BF4 also broke transparent layered windows as long as they're hosted within BF4's game process (by removing all semblance of transparency), which caused me to have to cease being lazy and implement IPC for my game enhancer's enhancement overlay...
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RE: a whole lotta nothing, only $5
awesome, I return here, post a topic and this place has run out of topics to derail so my topic ends up being one of the largest and weirdest derails in a while.
have a random rant to interrupt your derail:
- 05:37 - NTAuthority - ... and nodebb's infiniscroll mode is actually broken! do none of you even keep it set to this so you can rant about it being broken? - 05:37 - NTAuthority - that was one advantage discourse had
(also wtf is up with this shit's parser, discodown was weird but this is literally broken, like every other 'pure' markdown impl)
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RE: a whole lotta nothing, only $5
@Lorne-Kates said in a whole lotta nothing, only $5:
@NTAuthority said in a whole lotta nothing, only $5:
$5 for nothing?
Fuck you, give me money.
I guess the crowdfunding campaign failed, but you can always sell your 'fuck-you's on Steam it seems... ;)
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RE: In which @Captain is confused by Windows
... what is DirectAccess and what is wrong with good old-fashioned RRAS SSTP VPNs (outside of the Error'd-worthy writing in some of the error messages that sound like they've been written by a typical Indian and not gone through quality control)?
(... oh, DirectAccess is just a lazy variant of the inherently broken 'site-side' VPN client in RRAS that actually sets up client-to-site connectivity rather than an attempt at site-to-site? cute.)