a1studmuffin

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[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 18 points 8 months ago

I remember installing a keylogger on the school library computers, then "accidentally" disconnecting the dialup internet and asking the teacher to type the login credentials again. I bet the ISP was confused when they saw so many concurrent logins after hours, all playing Quake and downloading huge files.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Windows App Series X Ultimate Pro for Enterprise Edition Service Pack 2

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm not against these changes, but aren't physical footy cards and other types of trading cards the original loot box aimed at kids? Or have companies successfully argued that they're selling chewing gum and the cards are just freebies in the pack?

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This reminds me of the low-background steel problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It truly made no sense to me when they started the process of migrating stuff from control panel to the "new" Metro-style Settings, then just kind of... gave up and left everything as a spread-out mess. I can't believe they've left it this long to address, it's an awful user experience.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 176 points 10 months ago (1 children)

robots.txt is the perfect summary of the web era. A plain text file that politely asked web crawlers not to do certain things. Such an innocent time.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Another vote for Mikrotik, but only if you're technical-minded and want to learn how routers work. One of the things I like the most about it is the ability to import/export the router config as plain text. That makes it very easy to do things like bulk-editing (I have a lot of IOT devices I need to configure), storing your config in version control for safe-keeping etc.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 15 points 11 months ago

God, even if they didn't have QA test it, they should have had continuous integration running to test all new channel updates against all versions of their program, considering the update will affect all of them. What an epic process failure.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The older I get, the more I question the value of public companies vs the damage they do. As soon as you've got shareholders at large to please, you're incentivized to keep your share price going up above all else, especially in the short term. Global stock markets seemed like a great idea at the time, but I feel they're doing more damage than good at this end of capitalism.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Is it? I skimmed the GitHub source code and couldn't see anything involving encryption, but it's totally possible I missed something. Perhaps just accessing the database from python is enough to decrypt it.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 110 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wow, it's pretty wild they didn't even attempt to encrypt or protect this data, even if it is local to your machine. What a treasure trove for malware to sift through.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The author had so many things to highlight that they didn't even mention "as of August 2024" being in the future, haha.

What a trainwreck. The fact it's giving anonymous Reddit comments and The Onion articles equal consideration with other sites is hilarious. If they're going to keep this, they need it to cite its sources at a bare minimum. Can't wait for this AI investor hype to die down.

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