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General Software Discussion / Re: having some issue with cc cleaner

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2017, 08:48 PM »

I'm with ConstanceJill on this one. Looks like a spammer. Registered, posted this thread for no apparent reason, then left the site. All within 5 minutes. And hasn't been back here since.

I "googled" this French woman before I posted my answer. She is using the name alice131 in other fora/forums as well, and she is okay.

-Curt (September 21, 2017, 01:16 PM)

How do you know she is French? And how do you know that the alice131 you found on other forums is the same person and not just a generic spammer username?

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DC Gamer Club / Outlast + Whistleblower DLC free on Humble Store

« Last post by Deozaan 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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Living Room / World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2017, 08:36 PM »

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

-https://boingboing.net/2017/09/18/antifeatures-for-all.html

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

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Windscribe - Get 50GB free VPN bandwidth every month for life

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2017, 03:41 AM »

Maxed out I'm getting 37 hashes/s ... this could take some time 

-4wd (September 21, 2017, 01:57 AM)

37 hashes/s? Is that correct? Not kHashes (1,000 hashes) per second? Or MHashes (1,000,000 hashes) per second? Just regular hashes?

That's definitely going to be worthless for something like Bitcoin mining.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Windscribe - Get 50GB free VPN bandwidth every month for life

« Last post by Deozaan on September 21, 2017, 01:43 AM »

I just got an email from Windscribe saying you can now upgrade to Pro for "free" by letting your CPU mine cryptocurrency for them on their website. They don't say that's what they're doing, but it's pretty obvious from the context:

Basically, the process involves you opening a special web-page on our website, which will use your CPU to solve complex math puzzles. Don't worry if you're bad at math, you don't have to do anything as your CPU is exceptionally good at that kind of stuff. Each solution gives credit to your account. Once you get enough credits you can redeem them for things like resetting your usage on demand, permanently increasing your free bandwidth allowance, or even earning a free Pro account!

And the email links to a URL which contains the word "miner" in it.

But I'm kind of curious which cryptocurrency they're mining, since CPU mining is basically a fool's errand on the most popular cryptocurrencies, due to GPU or ASIC mining rigs.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2017, 10:33 PM »

Scifi short about VR with a premise seen before. Still has nice visuals and a pretty good sound direction

-p3lb0x (September 20, 2017, 10:17 PM)

Pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 - 6 Command line Database utilities

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2017, 08:54 PM »

I took the liberty to download the file and submit it to Jotti's malware scanner. 1 AV returned a result, which is likely a false-positive.

https://virusscan.jo...lescanjob/2q535hrt21

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DC Gamer Club / Re: [Android] Three Tower Defence games for free

« Last post by Deozaan on September 20, 2017, 08:29 PM »

Thanks for the heads up. I grabbed them all. I saw there were two versions of DZ3. One was Defense Zone 3 HD and the other was Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD. They both seem to be the same game, but Ultra supports 4K and also seems to be completely ad free, whereas 3 HD has a big button on the main menu to "remove ads."

So I'd say pick up the Ultra version if that's an option.

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General Software Discussion / Re: No video after resuming from sleep - Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 19, 2017, 02:46 PM »

But as of about mid-December, my other monitor has started having issues when I turn on my PC, though I'm fairly confident it's unrelated. My screen is a pale grey, then looks like "clouds" form on it, then there are either some bright or dark lines of pixels that show up at the top, soon replaced by several lines of glitchy pixels at the top of the screen which gradually expand down toward the bottom until finally the picture comes back, but the colors are messed up. Once it reaches that point, I can shut the monitor off and turn it on again and the colors are all good. But if I try to restart the monitor earlier in the process, it continues about from where it left off. It's like it needs to "warm up" a bit first. It has happened both when resuming from sleep and also when powering on from an off state.

I took a video of it using my tablet. It seems to be worse and last longer since I took this video:

-Deozaan (January 31, 2017, 02:53 AM)

This problem went away once the weather warmed up. And suddenly this past week when it finally cooled down again the problem has returned. So it does seem to be related to the monitor's temperature.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee free for the next ~48 hours (Sept. 19, 2017)

« Last post by Deozaan on September 19, 2017, 12:53 PM »

This game is now free for the next ~48 hours on GOG during their "Big Deal" Sale: https://www.gog.com/

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Living Room / Re: The Keybase Filesystem

« Last post by Deozaan on September 19, 2017, 12:24 PM »

Keybase launches fully encrypted Slack-like communication tool--and it's free

I've reserved the DonationCoder team name. Not that I expect anyone to use it . But if there's some interest from others here let me know and I'll invite you to join. Or you can request access yourself using the command line:

[Select]

keybase team request-access donationcoder

More info can be found from the Keybase blog, including this teaser:

This is only the beginning; the GUI is evolving fast and we'll have another announcement in ~2 weeks about encrypted git for teams. (Spoiler: truly private repos.)

-https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams

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General Software Discussion / CCleaner contained malware for one month

« Last post by Deozaan 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.

-http://www.pcgamer.com/hackers-use-ccleaner-as-malware-host-affects-227-million-users/

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 / Re: ytsearch - A command line youtube searcher / streamer / downloader

« Last post by Deozaan on September 16, 2017, 01:18 PM »

Looks useful.

Is this like a 2.0 of your last year's NANY release? What's the difference between the two?

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 15, 2017, 01:49 AM »

Thanks. I modified the original post to have more details about the image dimensions.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 13, 2017, 08:33 PM »

I'm looking for image/s that show a bunch of the different designs over the years.
Someone uploaded a picture at some stage of all their mugs over the years -- skwire maybe?

-tomos (September 13, 2017, 07:11 AM)

Skwire always goes with the standard design each year, so his impressive collection of mugs will not show off the alternate designs we've had over the years.

I've scoured the forum for all the mug designs from over the years, and here's what I've found:


NANY 2007:
Mug Thread: Cody Mug for NANY Participants
Alternate Design(s): None

NANY 2008:
Mug Thread: It's time for NANY and GOE mug pictures!
Alternate Design(s): None

NANY 2009:
Mug Thread: Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..
Alternate Design(s): Pirate Cody or Peg People




NANY 2010:
Mug Thread: NANY 2010 - POST YOUR MUG PHOTOS HERE
Alternate Design(s): Franken Cody



NANY 2011:
Mug Thread: NANY MUGs
Alternate Design(s): DoCoTo Defense (Mission Impossible)



NANY 2012:
Mug Thread: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in
Alternate Design(s): Cody Statue



NANY 2013:
Mug Thread: None found. But see --> DonationCoder.com NANY 2013 Roundup Summary or also Re: N.A.N.Y. - New Apps for the New Year - 2013 for design images.
Alternate Design(s): Gangsta Cody



NANY 2014:
Mug Thread: NANY 2014: Mug-shots here
Alternate Design(s): None... Kind of. I delayed ordering my mug because I was unhappy that there wasn't an alternate design, so I complained privately to mouser until he found one for me with ninjas.



NANY 2015:
Mug Thread: None found. But see NANY 2015 Mugs designs? and NANY 2015 - NEW APPS FOR THE NEW YEAR 2015 - START YOUR ENGINES! for some discussion.
Alternate Design(s): None.

NANY 2016:
Mug Thread: None found. But a couple mug photos (with the standard design) were posted in N.A.N.Y. 2016 Announcement
Alternate Design(s): None.

NANY 2017:
Mug Thread: NANY 2017 post your mug photos here
Alternate Design(s): Contruction or Keyboard Keys




NANY 2018:
Mug Thread: NANY 2018 Mug Show Off
Alternate Design(s): Snowflake




If anyone has any mugs with alternate designs that I didn't list in this thread, please point me to a post with a photo of it, or take a new photo of it and upload it to this thread.

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Living Room / Re: The Keybase Filesystem

« Last post by Deozaan on September 13, 2017, 12:51 AM »

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Hash: SHA512

So, has anyone here have any stories of how they've used Keybase for anything other than just playing around with it for a bit until the novelty wore off?

There are things about Keybase that I like, but so far I haven't found myself having much real-world application for it.

I'd love to hear from anyone else here what their use-cases have been with Keybase.

Also, I have many invites remaining, so if someone here doesn't have a Keybase account and needs/wants an invite, I'd be happy to send you one.
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Version: Keybase OpenPGP v2.0.73
Comment: https://keybase.io/crypto

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To verify that it was actually me who wrote the above ( ), you can copy and paste it onto https://keybase.io/verify

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Living Room / Re: Jumpy: Animated videogame short

« Last post by Deozaan on September 13, 2017, 12:14 AM »

Nice. Good music, too.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by Deozaan 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:


(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:

• Previous alternate NANY designs.
• DonationCoder & Cody themed art compilation thread

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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Living Room / Re: Jumpy: Animated videogame short

« Last post by Deozaan on September 12, 2017, 03:24 PM »

I hadn't gotten to viewing this thread yet and now that I have time the video is not available.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative for wallet.

« Last post by Deozaan on September 10, 2017, 09:50 PM »

Then, I bought a Dango wallet during the kickstarter.  And nothing else will do now.

-wraith808 (September 10, 2017, 04:07 PM)

Good luck getting through any kind of security with that.

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Living Room / Re: Irma's Coming...

« Last post by Deozaan on September 08, 2017, 06:07 PM »

It has been a few days since he was last here. Hopefully it's because he's gotten himself somewhere safe.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Reading a book and learning vocabulary

« Last post by Deozaan on September 08, 2017, 12:43 AM »

This does not match what you are looking for, but it may help you in many other ways.

It's a Chrome extension that allows you to double-click any word in your browser and it will show a definition. It also places an extension icon near your address bar which allows you to type in a word to find the definition. The downsides are that it doesn't work offline and obviously won't help you with text outside of your browser (which probably includes the book you're reading).

https://chrome.googl...beboacabfgobmjgjcoja

I've used it for years and really like it.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Free Game on Humble Store - The Walking Dead: Season 1

« Last post by Deozaan on September 07, 2017, 08:27 PM »

Keep in mind that, as has become the norm, there is a limited amount of time after "purchasing" the free game where you must redeem it on Steam.

The redemption deadline is September 23rd, 2017 at 10:00 AM Pacific. You have 15 days left!

Immediately after 10AM Pacific on September 23rd, the Steam key will magically vanish as if it were just a figment of your imagination, leaving this cryptic message behind in its wake.

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DC Gamer Club / Free Game on Humble Store - The Walking Dead: Season 1

« Last post by Deozaan 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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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement

« Last post by Deozaan on September 07, 2017, 02:49 AM »

I guess it's time for my annual request for you to update the preset text to say NANY 2018, and also for you to please make a placeholder page for NANY 2018 (like this one for NANY 2017) so apps can include links to what will be the official NANY 2018 webpage.

Thanks mouser!

EDIT: Also, it looks like https://donationcoder.com/nany/ hasn't been updated for a couple of years.