Posts by DropBear

Re: I spit on your socialist paradise...

...as if there was more proof needed that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Re: No Steam? No Thanks.

Stopped reading immediately at "Epic game". Sorry, don't care. I can just about get drunk enough occasionally to tolerate Steam, otherwise it's either on GOG (or equivalent) or I'm not interested.

Re: Wonderful comment, well written!

Relative rarity of the requisite skills aside, the thing is that type of insult is meant for the benefit of others of comparable stature who witness it, while being completely lost on the target. It only works when those who see it are the majority, by lowering their esteem of the victim if the scorn is deserved. When those who see it are in the minority or completely absent however, wits are supremely ineffective and do none of what an insult is supposed to achieve. So it's hardly surprising it's not a popular pastime these days, and that whole "never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance" thing...

There, there... it's easy to forget some people still need an "app" for that.

Re: Who is telling the truth ?

There are no "good" countries left. I could literally not name a single country I would be happy to move to given the chance; there used to be a few not-so-bad ones but in time they all revealed sharp teeth one way or another - mostly against their own citizens. Sanity has left the building - all the buildings - long ago...

Re: Apple's design is slipping

Sorry, Dave from eevblog says no; the macbook backlight design may not have been impossible to improve a bit more (or indeed slightly less ideal than older versions), but it was by no means unreasonable - actually, it was perfectly within spec.

Not exactly. Apparently all they said is that they'll do what they can to keep the (Steam / Wine / 32-bit) lights on, but in effect it would be a band-aid: no 32-bit Ubuntu -> no 32-bit Mint either...

Re: Popup says: "Turn off your adblocker to visit our site!"

My response: *starts HackTheWeb* *moves mouse over opaque popup which highlights with red frame* *presses R for "remove"* *presses Q for "quit HackTheWeb"*

Or, if they remove the content server side then yeah, your plan B.

Re: I knew I had seen something like this before!

...reference aside, one does wonder - relative to what? The Luminiferous Aether perhaps...?

Re: Try this the other way around

Although now I'm wondering if one could legitimately upload one's own, clearly original, you-own-the-copyright content, get it content id protected, then try attacking it by uploading alternate versions that hopefully don't trigger the protection - this way, the whole thing (both original and alternate versions) should be freely presentable at the end. Then again, I have no idea how hard is it to become "content id protected", so that could be unrealistic for research...

Re: Why is this still a thing?

Regarding that last part, I'm a bit puzzled here - I assume it's not actual dollaroos being asked for by the extortionists, those should be much too traceable, but maybe bitcoin. Which raises the question what exactly can they do with the two billion's worth of bitcoin they're sitting on - because if anyone tried to cash out any significant fraction of that, I'm fairly sure we'd have heard about it...

Re: Data Spoof

Unfortunately, I have long given up trying to understand the byzantine way exposed offers to deny/spoof/allow stuff to various apps by profiles or individual settings. And there's not a lot of tech I can say that about. No idea which position of which toggle hides or shows something. Nice tech, but the UI is incompatible with my brain on some fundamental level...

When one says "oy, you have no consent for that!" people hear "we want you to stop doing it while continuing to provide the service" but corps hear "we need to add an appropriate roadblock (that counts as consent) before letting anyone use the service so we can continue to do exactly what we did before". And yes, even though GDPR explicitly forbids doing the latter, that didn't seem to have stopped anybody from doing it nonetheless. Yet...

I have zero need to look at any list of vulnerabilities no matter how long or scary: yes, it absolutely IS more important than security. The one thing security, uh, "enthusiasts" never fail to fail to understand is that security is never more than second - first and foremost any tool has to WORK, and it only needs to be as secure as possible after that. A browser must first accommodate my workflow and all the deal-breaker extensions integral to it, anything else can only ever matter once that is satisfied first.

What I want to to know is how do you convince them to do that...

Re: A pair of asteroids just whizzed past Earth

Guess again. Currently Apophis seems to be predicted to pass closer than one-tenth of that to Earth in 2029, at 31000 Km - no millions there.

Re: Is this why every match I get wants me to buy them an amazon gift card?

I don't doubt scammers having an interest of getting off the website into a parallel channel as soon as possible - the problem is I have never ever seen any account on any site that wasn't keen on doing exactly the same just as quickly. And while I certainly didn't pursue all of them far enough to know how many may have been fakes, I know for certain that at least some of them definitely were real...