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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 46: April 17th-20th, 2020
« on: April 20, 2020, 02:54 PM »
The theme is Keep It Alive.

Soooooo.... Tamagotchi?   :D

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Living Room / How COVID-19 made computing history
« on: April 16, 2020, 04:34 PM »
The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer
Folding@Home had settled into a low-profile niche. Then came COVID-19.

https://arstechnica....ct-and-made-history/





from Ars Technica, by way of CodeProject News

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Living Room / Re: Looking for audio merger Y-cable
« on: April 02, 2020, 05:52 PM »
Deo, I've been doing DIY electronics for a while now.  A Y-cable may work, but is risky, for reasons I probably don't have space to explain adequately, but basically it's possible to accidentally fry the output of one output by combining it with another output, without isolating each from the other.  Ask me how I know  :(
The next best solution would be to find or build a Y-cable that has resistors on the junctions to act as a static passive mixer, but even better would be a simple stereo mixer.  These are the best I could find on Amazon for as cheap as possible.  You may be able to search around and find them cheaper on the eBay or other site.  They have input jacks for stereo 3.5mm plugs, two adjustable inputs and one "straight through" main input so you can mix together 3 different devices.  USB output also  8).  Listed in order of price from ~$33.00 to ~$50.00:
Maker Hart "Just Mixer" Portable
https://www.amazon.c...rtable/dp/B0824Q3WY8
Maker Hart "Just Mixer" Desktop
https://www.amazon.c...table/dp/B01LPT8JY8/
Maker Hart "Just Mixer 2" Desktop
https://www.amazon.c...sktop/dp/B071RZSGFR/

This one is ~$26.00, but you'll need 1/4" adapters for all the inputs and outputs
https://www.amazon.c...dapter/dp/B01F6PTA04

The perfect thing may be a standalone DJ cross-fader.  It'll mix two sources in stereo with isolating electronics so you don't accidentally fry anything, and provide a convenient method to balance the volumes of each in one handy control, rather than trying to match the volumes at each device.  The most inexpensive I could find is this:
https://www.amazon.c...Black/dp/B01JARADVO/ ~$50.00
It's passive, so no USB output, but also doesn't require batteries or power, and just the fader; no extra controls to complicate things.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: I just re-read your original post, and I missed a few things.  You said you wanted no external power required; the first 2 "Maker Hart" devices can run on batteries, so that's an option.  The Stokyo Kutter is passive, therefore needing no power, but is the most expensive at $50.00.  Maybe not as helpful as I'd hoped :(

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Living Room / Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Paranoid does!
« on: April 02, 2020, 04:15 PM »
I have no words... This is funny/awesome/crazy.

66% of internet users are increasingly concerned about their online privacy due to their own government
45% are more worried about their online privacy than they were one year ago
75% of U.S. households are estimated to be equipped with a smart speaker by 2025

PARANOID
Uniting Tech and Privacy. Get Paranoid.




from thuh innernurt

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My son had his Zelle hacked and apparently it's easy to do. See here: https://bobsullivan....i-wrote-to-the-bank/ and other articles about Zelle hacking on that site.
The thing not mentioned in the article is that once the hacker has added a phone number and raided your bank account, they delete the number and Zelle keeps no record of it, so there's no way to even try to track down the thief via phone number.  This my have changed since it happened to our son, I don't know, and yes this can be minimized if only people would use more secure passwords and keep a closer eye on their account activity, but there it is.

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I'm getting Brave ads like clockwork.  Some I click on, some I don't.  I've earned $0.10 already!  :-*

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OK, I just turned on Brave rewards.  I was skeptical about activating it, but it looks like it's just as easy to turn off if it annoys me.  Let's see what happens next... :tellme:

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Living Room / COVID-19 might have just killed ISP data caps
« on: March 22, 2020, 01:27 PM »
Raise your hand if you knew data caps were a hoax all along...

As COVID-19 leaves people working from home, ISPs are lifting limitations on data consumption. That’s good—and it might turn out to be permanent.


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Living Room / AI Dungeon - A text adventure of infinite possibilities
« on: December 10, 2019, 08:48 PM »
Imagine an infinitely generated world that you could explore endlessly, continually finding entirely new content and adventures. What if you could also choose any action you can think of instead of being limited by the imagination of the developers who created the game?
Welcome to AI Dungeon 2


It's hilarious reading other people's adventures.  This is like having Cleverbot as your DM, which is profound and hysterical at the same time.


UPDATE: Downloads are temporarily down, so the devs are asking people to torrent the files (6.25 Gigs worth of files EEP!).
Follow the instructions on the Colab page.  It'll take a bit of git gymnastics, but it will eventually work.


from CodeProject News

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Non-Windows Software / MacOS Catalina switches to Z Shell
« on: October 28, 2019, 02:36 AM »
My son, who is an Apple enthusiast, told me a surprising bit of news that was recently handed down in the MacOS universe.  Apparently the newest iteration of the Mac OS, Catalina, is switching to the venerable Zsh (Z Shell) as its default command line shell:
https://www.theverge...replacement-features
Apple unveiled macOS Catalina yesterday with support for iPad apps and lots of new features, but a big change for developers and power users was missing from the on stage presentation. Starting with macOS Catalina, Macs will now use zsh as the default login shell and interactive shell across the operating system. All newly created user accounts in macOS Catalina will use zsh by default. Bash will still be available, but Apple is signaling that developers should start moving to zsh on macOS Mojave or earlier in anticipation of bash eventually going away in macOS.

Most internet news sources have started asking "Why?", and come up with pretty much the same answer: That pesky GPLv3 license:
https://thenextweb.c...d-of-bash-licensing/
So, why the sudden change?
In a word: licensing.
For well over a decade, Apple has shipped macOS with a horrendously outdated version of GNU Bash. The default version on the last version of macOS, codenamed Mojave, is Bash 3.2. That dates back to 2007. For context, that’s the same year Apple unveiled the first iPhone.
...
Newer versions of Bash are licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 – or GPLv3 for short. This comes with several restrictions which could potentially have caused a few headaches for Apple further down the line.

While that may be a *correct* answer, a few people have seen another answer that fleshes out a possibility beyond 'Muh License': the mighty 'Oh My ZSH' community.
https://sunlightmedia.org/bash-vs-zsh/
For one, zsh has the leverage of a powerful online community called Oh My ZSH. Oh My ZSH is one of the oldest and most popular options for managing zsh configurations. Offering over 250 plugins and 140 different themes supplied by the community, Oh My ZSH is a great place to start in customizing the z shell that even comes with an auto-update function that keeps your shell updated. This allows users to work in a shell with a more personalized interface, amp up their workspace with a diverse array of tools, and have access to a convenient out-of-the-box support system. For instance, a highly favorable option for the interface is a right-handed side prompt or a side prompt that auto-hides when typing in long file paths or commands. Even this minute level of flexibility turns developers’ heads towards zsh.

You might say "Ok, so it has a few themes and whatnot, but Bash also supports colorizing and you can write scripts, change configs and set aliases without needing 'plugins', so what gives?", and you'd be right.  Take a look at Bash-It, a self-confessed OMZ "rip-off" and you'll see it offers a similar experience, with nothing more than the afore-mentioned scripts, configs, and aliases.
But then I noticed something peculiar:  Most of the theme screenshots at the Themes page showed Zsh being used inside a Git session.  As in, instead of the prompt simply showing you what directory you're currently in, these custom prompts will show you what Git branch/node you're working in, and some of them do some downright snazzy things. 



There are plugins and themes that go beyond Git, adding autocompletion, aliases and functions for working with Mercurial, Docker sessions, and many others. So it seems Zsh (coupled with the OMZ framework) allows you to go beyond simple colorization, and into useful visual feedback while doing work in the clean environment of a shell.
That's some downright Star Trek bizniss right there.  Nice.  :Thmbsup:

So, will I be installing Zsh and OMZ on my Linux box?  I just might at that, and I'll report back my experience.

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A policeman pulls over Dr. Heisenberg;
Policeman: "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
Dr. Heisenberg: "No, but I know EXACTLY where I am"
Policeman: "You were driving exactly 85 MPH."
Dr. Heisenberg: "Great! Now, I'm lost!"

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« on: October 20, 2019, 05:24 PM »
Q: Why do socialist software developers like programming in C?

A:
It has unions and no classes.


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Living Room / Re: CafePress security incident 2019-02-19
« on: October 20, 2019, 05:21 PM »
5.  Your password is only as secure as the computer it's sitting on.  "Password123" is functionally the same as a 256-bit SHA1 hash of Calvin Coolidge's autobiography; Chapter 7, if the service in question stores it in a plain text file. (Yes, this does happen)  :-\

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Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.

https://brave.com/go...gle-gdpr-workaround/

brave.jpg



from https://brave.com/ via CodeProject News: https://www.codeproj...cript/News/List.aspx

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:55 PM »
Sing along! You know the words!


(original here -> https://youtu.be/vTIIMJ9tUc8)

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« on: July 14, 2019, 04:19 PM »
Very early film usually plays at a very high speed (I'm not sure why) and is silent...
Here, the uploader corrected the speed and added sound to 1890's footage from Paris, France.
Makes it much more real for me:


Late 1890s - A Trip Through Paris, France (speed corrected w/ added sound)

Very enjoyable, and testimony to the effect that a good Foley artistw can have on an otherwise boring scene, sound-wise.  I have a few critiques about how it could have been filled-out a bit better, but I'll keep those to myself.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« on: May 07, 2019, 09:05 PM »
 :'(


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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« on: May 03, 2019, 09:09 PM »
Q: What is the most used language when coding?

A:
Spoiler
Profanity


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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: May 03, 2019, 08:34 PM »
Alright stop... Collaborate and listen..



 ;D

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In the meantime, I found out about another option that I think I'll have to give a try: Woof.

$ sudo apt install woof
$ woof ./somefile.txt
Now serving on http://192.168.0.117:8080/

Hey, that's a nice one!  I usually end up using Civetweb to share things locally, but it's more of a generic web or folder content server, not a single file.  Being able to serve just a single file would make things a few keystrokes easier on the getter side. Thanks! :Thmbsup:

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Having lived downstairs from some alleged lunatics, this hits me *right there*

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: March 03, 2019, 02:54 PM »
Frickin' goosebumps... EVERYWHERE...

What happens when you put 2,000 choir teachers in the same room?  Watch...


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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« on: January 28, 2019, 12:21 AM »
Maybe not THE worst, but pretty close...



Spoiler
It's an advertisement, by the way


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