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Living Room / Interesting, low-effort, blackmail-esque spam
« on: June 25, 2018, 12:18 AM »
I got an email today from someone named Gaye Boso (first though was literally, "Gay Bozo? Is this a prank?") with the following content:

Subject: Тiсkеt#224466327: <[email protected]> 25-06-2018 02:05:42 Your secret video here

Hi.

Hopefully you actually don't mind my english language sentence structure, considering that i am from Saudi arabia. I toxified your device with a virus and im in possession of your personal info out of your computer system.

It previously was installed on a mature internet page then you have picked the online video and clicked on it, my application quickly got into your computer.

After that, your webcamera captured you flying solo, in addition i caught a footage that you've seen.

Just after a little while it also picked up all of your device contact info. In case you need me to wipe out your all that i have - transfer me 500 eu in bitcoin it is a crypto. It is my account transfer address - 1Eqp....QuYW [edited to hide full address]

Now you have 28hours. to produce a decision As soon as i will get the transfer i am going to wipe out this footage and every thing thoroughly. Otherwise, you should be sure that this evidence would be submitted to your buddies.


This reminds me of the old "honor system virus" and I can't help but have a similar feeling of amusement plus some bewilderment about this one.

Also amusing was Gmail trying to be helpful with one-click auto-responses: "I accept the terms," "No worries, thanks for the update," and "I'm not interested."

And another interesting detail is it was sent to an email address that, if memory serves me correctly, I created specifically for a parking garage a couple years ago when traveling to Seattle. So it seems there's been a data breach of some sort, or they sold my data. I checked haveibeenpwned.com and it doesn't have any results for the address in question.

Anyway, I thought some of the rest of you here might get a kick out of this ridiculous spam. :D

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Living Room / Beware of punycode phishing attempts
« on: June 18, 2018, 05:10 PM »
This is probably considered old news, but it's some information I just discovered and haven't found any references to punycode on DC, so I thought I'd post about it here.

Punycodew was created to help protect against phishing attacks where certain unicode characters in different languages look the same as letters from the roman alphabet but are in fact different. Punycode tries to avoid this problem by converting domains with unicode characters to what might appear to the average person to be a somewhat random mishmash of ASCII letters and numbers. However, there is a flaw in its design such that it doesn't always work, leaving you vulnerable to phishing attacks after all.

Check this article for more information: https://fraudwatchin...ode-phishing-part-1/

If you click the following link and your browser shows something that looks like "apple.com" in the address bar, then your browser is vulnerable to this attack vector.

xn--80ak6aa92e.com


Here's an example of what it looks like from a vulnerable browser:

IDN Homograph Example.png

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Developer's Corner / How to get started with Python and OpenCV?
« on: April 26, 2018, 08:17 PM »
[EDIT] Originally posted in this thread: Dice analyzer machine project before being split off into its own thread. [/EDIT]

This is slightly off-topic so if you'd like me to start a new thread I'll do that, but...

I've been toying with an idea to write a little utility that would need to analyze a few words/numbers on the screen (or from a screenshot) and then make a decision and emulate some keyboard input based on that. The thing that's holding me back is that I'm concerned it will take me much more time and effort writing the utility than it would save me from just manually doing the thing I want to automate.

Do you have a recommendation or suggestion or ideas on the relative ease or difficulty it would be for someone like me who is familiar with coding but never really used Python or OpenCV before to get started on extracting data (essentially OCR with a very clear font) from an image?

I can go into more specific details if you'd like but I was attempting to keep this short to prevent myself from derailing this thread too far.

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PBOL / Docked Mode is broken, needs more love
« on: April 19, 2018, 05:04 PM »
The current docking mode is broken in v2.03.

Here's what the current floating window looks like:

PBOL - LD41.png

Here's what the docked window looks like:

PBOL - LD41 Docked.png

I have it set to automatically resize, but it obviously doesn't.

I really wanted to revive this thread requesting a 3rd docking option (always visible, don't reserve space) because I want PBOL to have the minimal docked interface without the title bar and menu bar and I also want it to remain on top of other applications (which is already an option). And ideally I want to be able to have more customization over the dock position so it isn't just snapped to the center of whatever side of the screen it's docked to.

And it would be nice if you added a docking toggle to the context menu for both the window itself and the tray icon. I forgot that docking was set to auto-hide and the app kind of got lost for a while as I tried to figure out how to get it to display again.

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Developer's Corner / Ludum Dare 41: April 20th-23rd, 2018
« on: April 06, 2018, 07:28 PM »
Ludum Dare 41 is coming up in just two weeks.

It has been three years since I last participated in any Ludum Dare event (LD32), and I'm gearing up to try my hand at it once again. But this time as a team effort!

Right now you can submit theme suggestions for the next day or so, after which the Theme Slaughter will begin. I'll likely post more details to this thread as we get closer to the start (and end) of the event.

Feel free to discuss any aspect of LD41 in this thread, including any games you might try out once the event has completed.






See previous DC posts about Ludum Dare:

Ludum Dare 2017 Thread - A thread about games from LD37 and LD38
Ludum Dare 33 - A thread about LD33 games
Ludum Dare 32 - (I made Time Bomb during LD32)
Ludum Dare 31 - (I made Worm Wars during LD31)
Ludum Dare 30 - (I made Planetary Devourers during LD30)
Ludum Dare 29 - (I made It Came From... Beneath!! during LD29)
Ludum Dare [29] topic for other games - A thread about LD29 games
Ludum Dare 23 - (I made Be Tiny, World! during LD23, and continued to work on it and improve it for years afterward!)
Ludum Dare - Game Programming Challenges

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This summer will mark the 3-year anniversary of the launch of Windows 10, and as someone who entirely skipped Windows 8, it marks 3 years since I was introduced to Windows 10's built-in Microsoft Store. And while I have used it occasionally to install a free app here and there, it was only in the past week that I actually considered buying something from it.

This got me wondering: Does anyone else here actually use and buy apps/games/books/videos from the Microsoft Store?

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1. Be on the HTTPS site.
2. Navigate to forum and begin writing a new post/reply.
3. Click Post.
4. Observe that you are now on the non-HTTPS site.
5. ...
6. Profit!

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Living Room / Need help translating old German documents
« on: March 14, 2018, 01:25 AM »
Update:

The documents have been translated. Thanks to all and especially to tomos who provided the most information. :Thmbsup:

Original message below:


Greetings to all, and especially to our German-speaking members!

I have a friend who has recently gotten copies of some genealogical documents that are written in German and since none of us know the German language, we have no idea what the documents are about or what they say. They're probably something rather mundane like birth/marriage/death certificates or something similar, but we can't know for sure until we've gotten them translated.

I'm not sure on all the details because I haven't gotten to look at the documents myself, but I think they may be from the late 1700s to the mid 1800s, so if German is anything like English, it (words, penmanship, spelling, etc.) may have changed a lot over the centuries, and may be hard to read/understand. So if anyone here feels like taking a stab at translating them for us so we can find out what kind of documents these are and what they say, please let me know and we can hash out the details via PM.

Thanks.

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Living Room / Thread on 3d Printing Cody Model
« on: February 01, 2018, 07:01 PM »
Well, I went ahead and did it, I bought a 3d printer.

Anycubic I3 Mega:
Supposed to be a good 3d printer for beginners, and nice and compact.

I'm just printing the test thing now.

What I'd really like to do is have a 3d cody -- anyone have enough 3d (and 3d printer) experience to try to make a version of Cody our mascot for 3d printing?

Awesome! I'm kind of jealous. :P

I'm pretty sure that at one point in time Gothi[c] made a 3D image of Cody in Blender. I'm not sure what it takes to convert/prepare a regular Blend file to be 3D printed, but it may be worth digging up that model. I think I may have it archived somewhere on my HDD, but I won't have access to my PC for a few days.

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I've never gotten into trading/collectible card games such as Magic: The Gathering, etc., but many of the CCG gameplay aspects have found their way into various video games over the years, so I've had some exposure to some of the concepts.

One of the concepts found in CCGs is the idea of certain cards being much more common than others. Some of the terms I'm used to seeing in the videogaming world to refer to the different tiers of rarity are Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary, etc. This is pretty easy or arbitrary in video games where there's just some RNG and other RPG-esque stats which affect your chances of getting higher rarity items, but that brings me to the next half of the relevant aspects I'm interested in.

Another concept in CCGs is that building a good deck is often a small form of gambling; you have to buy a booster pack which contains, say, 5 cards, and you won't know what they are until you buy and open the pack. (AKA Loot boxes in video games.)

So essentially you end up with a bunch of "junk" Common cards that don't do a lot on their own, and very rarely get a Legendary card that is very good/powerful in the game.

My question is, how do these CCG companies decide what the proper ratio of each tier of card is to the others when printing and selling booster packs? Or in other words, how do they balance the frequency of obtaining the common, low-utility cards with the ultra-rare, high-utility cards, (and everything in between) so that people get just enough good stuff often enough to keep wanting more booster packs?

Does anyone who has any experience with these types of system have any knowledge on the subject, or know of any resources they could point me to that will explain some of these things?

To be clear: I'm not asking because I'm interested in creating some kind of "Free to Play" (Pay to Win) game with exploitative loot crate IAPs that milk thousands of dollars from "whales" who buy into that kind of thing. But rather my intention here is that it seems that the concepts of different rarity levels/proportions and (unpaid) "booster packs" could be used as a fun way to progress in a video game. But so far the only examples of these concepts I've seen involve IAPs (because they lend themselves well to it). So I'm curious if there's something about how the rarity and booster packs are designed fundamentally that require money/IAPs or if you could strip the money away from it and still have it be a fun, rewarding experience for the players.

I also kind of feel like I'm not doing a very good job of putting these thoughts into words. I'll blame that on it being 4 AM and this whole thought process kind of being one of those late night crazy ideas that my brain just can't let go of and let me sleep until I do something about it. So feel free to ask for more clarification if you need it.

Thanks.

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I recently discovered Purism, a company that makes hardware which runs free/open software specially tuned to remove trackers and analytics and other spyware.

Right now they only sell high-end laptops (15" and 13") which run a Debian variant of Linux, called PureOS, but they recently successfully completed crowdfunding a 5" phone, and are prototyping a laptop-to-tablet convertible device as well.

They all come with hardware killswitches to disable the wifi, camera, microphone, cellular, GPS, etc.

All of the default software is open source (which isn't surprising for a Linux machine) but also privacy-centric, where applicable, which I think is cool.

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DC Gamer Club / Anyone up for a McDroid 4-pack on Steam?
« on: October 23, 2017, 08:43 PM »
McDroid looks like an interesting take on the Tower Defense genre. It's currently on sale for only $2.50, but if we organize a 4-pack it will come to about $1.88 each. Looks like it even has some form on multiplayer.



Anyone want in?

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DC Gamer Club / Latest Game Giveaway
« on: October 19, 2017, 03:03 PM »
Civilization 3: Complete is free on Humble Store for approx. the next 2 days.

https://www.humblebu...ization-iii-complete

Redeems on Steam.

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Living Room / ROCA - 5 year old vulnerability can break RSA
« on: October 17, 2017, 03:39 PM »
A crippling flaw in a widely used code library has fatally undermined the security of millions of encryption keys used in some of the highest-stakes settings, including national identity cards, software- and application-signing, and trusted platform modules protecting government and corporate computers.

The weakness allows attackers to calculate the private portion of any vulnerable key using nothing more than the corresponding public portion. Hackers can then use the private key to impersonate key owners, decrypt sensitive data, sneak malicious code into digitally signed software, and bypass protections that prevent accessing or tampering with stolen PCs. The five-year-old flaw is also troubling because it's located in code that complies with two internationally recognized security certification standards that are binding on many governments, contractors, and companies around the world. The code library was developed by German chipmaker Infineon and has been generating weak keys since 2012 at the latest.

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I just discovered pi-hole.net, which, with a single command, allows you to set up your Linux installation to block ads.

After that, you can configure your router to use Pi-hole as your DNS to block all ads on every device on your network. Combined with a VPN into your home network, this allows even your mobile device(s) to browse ad-free from anywhere.



I found it super simple to set up on my Odroid C1 (a Raspberry Pi 2-like device) and look forward to seeing it in practice more.

More details in the video above and at their website: https://pi-hole.net/

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / NANY 2018 Release: Ethereum Denomination Converter (EDC)
« on: September 23, 2017, 06:49 PM »
NANY 2018 Entry Information

Application Name Ethereum Denomination Converter
Version v0.2017.12.21
Short Description Quickly convert between Ether, Finney, Shannon, Wei, etc., using this tool.
Supported OSes Windows
Web Page You're looking at it
Download Link https://keybase.pub/...ationCoder/NANY2018/
System Requirements
  • .NET 4.6.2
Version Historyv0.2017.12.21
  • Fixed displayed results when entering too many digits after the decimal place.
  • EDC.exe MD5: 94e9a56bb50dda0ec08d6a88800769e6
  • 0/18 scanners reported malware at Jotti
  • Signed Verification
    Copy and paste the following at https://keybase.io/verify to verify the authenticity of the checksum.

    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    Hash: SHA512

    v0.2017.12.21
    - - Fixed displayed results when entering too many digits after the decimal place.
    * EDC.exe MD5: 94e9a56bb50dda0ec08d6a88800769e6
    * https://virusscan.jo...lescanjob/wqwuy811at
    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
    Version: Keybase OpenPGP v2.0.76
    Comment: https://keybase.io/crypto

    wsFcBAABCgAGBQJaPK/QAAoJEPP8TNlAue1eSEEP/i8N1psOufpmY9zpFd5ycjoR
    WJ17P3s5xgHw2IQH7GTWlqxSSd55WS3pPduKZXu8xQocFc/5iwiCubNNYWQi/40f
    agL5JIReV8dp5cSF9dfMi1prVqefIptKKUCqB6tsx+lDodBzOYr4JN6roRgNCRz0
    pWjFH/l4c8WXMGOKltpYba6Rt/Nle2QRe/WxczbutNLxr9/8hfb9ViWyPRuRUKwd
    rAApOuFrhqz5UPINz1fwlanE0ysuEaVAwNubg0evdwfE6iHXmQhuNAjUVgPzWL7j
    Zt0lUw9XjSXNpUX7087TkiYHFRdhNplecoxagVeg1tNbVTlaQ/SFcQXq++iznDv8
    J0M6K2/KjsfXk31G4NnGwZux2DQbZif6pY9lkigtRWibzC2GZUEdIuedgWHTddVJ
    y+xgXbrJcEi+JcWoA8jXc8AUBCqJQpMN9WOWCyijr0oIqJa/gCHFBweuMJCoMXrv
    IHd5PxN7adOgkQoPPC51CESmxH8dbSckwyO2x6ao96nwjBGGg0ZvrcFsXA4ul4n8
    njtv10ySqm5Pp4sRMb3OR9bWJzWeDe6db/f1YAkVIN+ID+4/8hoWJEdbOWmzQes1
    YXhytjOgnikz/wo+fT0wOF6QpCZhkvKLgTkqjQLi7z5qp8iHSZLJgSx/DL8/1f0M
    4R98d4UCJjdsubPyM27H
    =zfEk
    -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

v0.2017.09.24
  • Initial release.
  • EDC.exe MD5: 77724ed0a7064114a05b53d3dcb0e795
  • 0/18 scanners reported malware at Jotti
  • Signed Verification
    Copy and paste the following at https://keybase.io/verify to verify the authenticity of the checksum.

    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    Hash: SHA512

    v0.2017.09.24
    - - Initial release.
    * EDC.exe MD5: 77724ed0a7064114a05b53d3dcb0e795
    * https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/filescanjob/oxuzpn6gcm
    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
    Version: Keybase OpenPGP v2.0.73
    Comment: https://keybase.io/crypto

    wsFcBAABCgAGBQJZyBs5AAoJEPP8TNlAue1eqYYQAL2wULT9JuWFnl0WBK2Zm+Is
    CQbkMdl7aeYklHvIJcJlcW/GzxiCrD//3HO+0KylVAtl/Z9TGh+AlTsO5eKX8wuX
    eXrF7g7n0Iz883YeEA/FoHMU7901pIevkYA2dI6Zs+PqrJafxh7x5H2gH8eWXP1E
    GXphilm+unkDgvdoYfapyXtZKKHYOKNVr6SOhOCUfTrZqnJz9IkjL9w8CH2y0n0y
    nrJtkW3xFZ5+2En4N7j+oTUZYnXaeKdcVqHCb6ZL3c5n/RK8sBJ1UFmW1/wzVdo9
    VXQ0SojmafHm29ljuqOU3k+pnZkf3GSv3awrnnQSI8p3f84D7YRsFmUmmrEfekVt
    jUkvCXTKBpWjpax2PEmpxeXJtxcsPD73YXI+oIwmt0t9NJWlXLeIpj51lPBhMWKZ
    ArVZ+L7uq+3Abv0TMylmx+YqIqqOMuzRt5H5e8rWHR+qz7a260jrr7bSKNoKYeNV
    9z5ydKb5UzVR0nsbd2Bsig14T6j6I1jR9wEph1QOQD7zJROuSdZRBf6seFdZxewR
    iL2czQYVIcYz0oi99sVtfb6esA0L2V7yCGmeanfvu5KkQzGTVA1INn8936uj2rKv
    +TPoWVfYBtb629Wwp5Vs3M84ijLKi/ghDLodJA+Y0WfjAPTwizE5uSrJ08pdZVYI
    vy/Mxmu8/5AnnNmBg7yv
    =Ayhq
    -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Author Deozaan


Description
The "base" unit of measurement in Ethereum is called Ether, which can be broken down to the eighteenth decimal place into single units called Wei. While it is useful for machines and programs to be able to deal with such small amounts, it can be difficult for the human mind to deal with such significant differences in terms of numbers. For example, if you were to think of these values in terms of US Dollars, then a Wei is to a penny what an Ether is to 1 Quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) dollars. Not only that, but these denominations have been named in honor of people whose research and ideas cryptocurrency is built upon, so the names for the denominations are relatively obscure and unintuitive to the average person.

For example: I need to send 300 Finney to someone. The gas cost for the transaction is 2 Shannon (Gwei) (per unit of gas). It will cost 21,000 units of gas. But what does this all mean in terms of Ether?

Additionally, while we like to talk and deal with units such as Ether or Finney since they're closer in value to other currencies we're used to transacting in, Ethereum itself handles all the numbers internally in terms of Wei (as an integer). So if you start to get involved with programming smart contracts for Ethereum, you often need to enter values in Wei.

So I made this app that allows you to type in a value in any of the various Ethereum denominations and it will display the equivalent value in the other denominations.

If you use Ethereum and you find this tool useful, donations of ETH or ERC20 (or similar) Tokens are greatly appreciated: 0xDC201825Cc536b9541734eb975Cd6333840C736d

Features
Quickly see equivalent values in various Ethereum denominations.

Planned Features
No future features planned, since they don't seem needed.

Screenshots
NANY 2018 - EDC.png

Usage
Installation
No installation needed. Just run the executable.

Using the Application
Type in an amount in the appropriate denomination as desired.
Copy & paste to/from other fields if needed.

Uninstallation
No uninstallation needed. Just delete the executable.

Known Issues
None.

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DC Gamer Club / Outlast + Whistleblower DLC free on Humble Store
« on: September 21, 2017, 08:38 PM »
As the title says, Outlast plus the Whistleblower DLC are free on the Humble Store for the next day or so. And be sure to redeem your keys on Steam before October 7th, too.

https://www.humblebu...store/outlast-deluxe

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In July, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium overruled dozens of members' objections to publishing a DRM standard without a compromise to protect accessibility, security research, archiving, and competition.

EFF appealed the decision, the first-ever appeal in W3C history, which concluded last week with a deeply divided membership. 58.4% of the group voted to go on with publication, and the W3C did so today, an unprecedented move in a body that has always operated on consensus and compromise. In their public statements about the standard, the W3C executive repeatedly said that they didn't think the DRM advocates would be willing to compromise, and in the absence of such willingness, the exec have given them everything they demanded.

[...]

EFF no longer believes that the W3C process is suited to defending the open web. We have resigned from the Consortium, effective today. Below is our resignation letter

Read more here: https://boingboing.n...eatures-for-all.html

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General Software Discussion / CCleaner contained malware for one month
« on: September 19, 2017, 12:55 AM »
Around 2.27 million users of Piriform's popular CCleaner security app have been advised to update the application—a result of sophisticated hacker-hidden malware. Discovered by researchers at Cisco's Talos division, hackers are thought to have run code from a remote IP address using a backdoor.

The short of it is that v5.33 contained malware so be sure to update to v5.34 which seems to fix the problem.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition
« on: September 12, 2017, 05:53 PM »
Hello all artists and designers!

Each year, DonationCoder runs a programming challenge called New Apps for the New Year, or NANY. It's a celebration of programming and encourages coders to provide some new app, tool, utility, game, etc., to the world, free of charge. Anyone who submits an app to NANY is rewarded with a commemorative mug or t-shirt which has a fun design on it. There has always been a standard design, which looks like this:

NANY Standard Design.png
(Click to enlarge)

But there has often been an alternate design to set that NANY's event apart from the others. In addition to seeing all the new apps being released each year, one of my favorite things about NANY is seeing the fun new alternate design each year. As someone who has participated in a few of the past NANY events, I have to admit that having an alternate design I liked has often been a motivator for me to submit something. Sadly, the past couple of years there haven't been alternate designs. So after seeing mouser express his desire for an alternate design this year, I approached him with the idea of holding some kind of competition to solicit submissions. He agreed, and this is the result.

This design competition aims to make sure we have an alternate design to be offered alongside the traditional design. Some of the details are still being hashed out, but here's what we have so far:

  • We want to find one alternate design for the NANY 2018 mug and t-shirt.
  • The design must include:
    • The words "DonationCoder.com" (without quotes)
    • The words "NANY 2018" (without quotes)
    • Our mascot, Cody (the bird)
  • Artists can submit as many entries as they would like by the deadline (tentatively set for December 1, 2017). These entries can be rough drafts/sketches.
  • We will hold a forum poll, wherein previous NANY coders get to choose the winning design.
  • The winner of the design competition will receive $75, and gives us permission to use the design. (We may require the design to be licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 or similar. Exact license TBD.)
  • If the winning design was just a sketch, the winner must submit a finished design before the end of NANY 2018 (potentially to be used in apps, the website, and of course for the mugs/t-shirts), which is January 1, 2018.
  • We may award $25 as runner-up prizes for other images if they can be used for other website purposes.
  • The father of Cody, nudone, will receive $75 since we have used his images (and the likeness of Cody) for all these years without paying him anything.

The design for the mug must be 1662x600 or larger. We can use the same image for the t-shirt, or a larger, square image. Artists should feel free to make a larger image with the t-shirt in mind which can then have less important parts cropped out to fit the dimensions for the mug.

Some previous designs and other art to give artists ideas:

If you have any questions, comments, submissions, or other feedback, this is the place for it. Please let me know if I left anything out or if I can assist in any way.

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DC Gamer Club / Free Game on Humble Store - The Walking Dead: Season 1
« on: September 07, 2017, 08:11 PM »
The Walking Dead: Season 1 (by Telltale Games) is currently 100% off (redeemable on Steam) from the Humble Store for the next day or so.

https://www.humblebu...alking-dead-season-1


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This was originally a response to the Crashplan thread.



Has anyone here heard of some of the new(ish) decentralized/distributed cloud storage services, such as Storj or Sia?

They're cheaper than, e.g., Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc., and have additional features such as privacy, since your data is broken up into little chunks, encrypted, and distributed across the drives of many different "storage farmers" who rent out their disk space.

Sia seems to be a lot cheaper, but also seems a bit more convoluted to set up. Storj is more expensive (than Sia, but still cheaper than Amazon S3, etc.) but appears to be fairly simple to set up. They've even partnered with FileZilla so now Storj services are built in to the latest version of FileZilla. Storj also offers 25GB free for 12 months. They might be worth looking into if you need cheap cloud storage.




Full disclosure: I recently learned about these services and decided to allocate some of my HDD space for a Storj farm to get an idea of how it works. So I get paid a few dollars worth of the Storj cryptocurrency each month for renting out some space on my HDD. As far as I know, there's no way to choose which farmer your data gets sent to, so there's no way for me to directly benefit from referring anyone. That said, there's a chance that if you do use Storj, some of your data could end up on my HDD and I will be compensated for renting out my space to you.

I also tried to rent out some space using Sia, but as I said, it is more convoluted. It requires you (as a "farmer") to put up some collateral and I wasn't sure enough that I had things configured correctly to want to risk losing my collateral.

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