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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: MobySaurus
« Last post by wraith808 on March 27, 2018, 09:59 AM »
I haven't... I'll take a look at it!
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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« Last post by wraith808 on March 27, 2018, 09:05 AM »
Heh... very nice!  Especially Grue's expressions!
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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates
« Last post by wraith808 on March 27, 2018, 09:02 AM »
The thing is, even if you don't sympathize with the guy (and I personally don't), even if he actually did wrong things (I'm still not sure), everything that has been done to strip him the means to defend himself and to deny him due process gets you cheering on him and hoping he prevails in courts. And we are talking about the problems with NZ law enforcement. When you add the US things get much uglier.

This.  So much this.  The governments try so hard to strip away our rights and protections that their power is supposed to exist upon as the foundations of our governing.  To see someone actually take them on and make progress is something that the average person concerned about their own rights has to appreciate.
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Not quite what you asked for, But... We've used this successfully on 10 for resetting passwords: Lazesoft Recover My Password (local account is assumed).

Because with MS account, you can go through the standard MS password recovery process.
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Are you logging in with MS Account?  Or local account?
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: MobySaurus
« Last post by wraith808 on March 26, 2018, 10:14 PM »
Does it work on Windows 10?
It does for me  :)
-cranioscopical (March 26, 2018, 04:38 PM)

Doesn't for me :(  Did you replace the assembly as you had to do for vista?
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: MobySaurus
« Last post by wraith808 on March 26, 2018, 03:00 PM »
Does it work on Windows 10?
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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 23, 2018, 12:32 PM »
"Thread Arise!" commands the necromancer.  ;D

Just read a troubling ruling that only one appeals judge seemed to know anything about.

Appeals Court Says It's Okay To Copyright An Entire Style Of Music

In the dissenting opinion, Judge Jacqueline Nguyen wrote the following:

The majority allows the Gayes to accomplish what no one has before: copyright a musical style. “Blurred Lines” and “Got to Give It Up” are not objectively similar. They differ in melody, harmony, and rhythm. Yet by refusing to compare the two works, the majority establishes a dangerous precedent that strikes a devastating blow to future musicians and composers everywhere.

More at the link, but I can't help but nod as she continues.  A sad, sad day.

Adding a bit about how the decision has affected musicians:

Now though, music experts have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that artists are being advised not to mention publicly who has inspired them. This is because of a high-profile copyright infringement case in which US jurors ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, on their song Blurred Lines, had copied Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up.

According to forensic musicologist Peter Oxendale "everyone's concerned that inspiration can [now be interpreted as] a catalyst for infringement.

"All of these companies are worried that if a track is referenced on another at all, there may be a claim being brought," he explains.
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2019: Clicador- A simple and fast free auto clicker
« Last post by wraith808 on March 22, 2018, 09:30 AM »
NANY 2019?
-Stephen66515 (March 22, 2018, 04:40 AM)

Yes.  Because it was made too late for NANY 2018.  There's been a change, and NANY applies to all projects created during the prior year.
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Living Room / Re: Image attachment problems
« Last post by wraith808 on March 21, 2018, 09:06 AM »
don't do "(d) host them elsewhere and use the img link instead of attaching them." because then eventually they are lost forever.

Depends on where they are hosted.  I host them on my own server in a lot of cases.
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Living Room / Re: Image attachment problems
« Last post by wraith808 on March 21, 2018, 08:47 AM »
I have tried three times to post a handful of images.  Once I accidentally attached a .psd file, another time a .tif, the last time one (or all) were too large.  Every time the editor undoes *all* of the attachments instead of just the offenders.  I've already spent 15 minutes.  I'll try again later, maybe.



I had the same problem recently.  What you want to do is either (a) reduce the resolution of the images, (b) change to jpg and reduce the quality, (c) compress the images, or (d) host them elsewhere and use the img link instead of attaching them.  There's an upper limit here (it's for the total of the images, not each one if that helps), and editing the attachments in the post is problematic at best.

hope that helps
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: blogcpp: Static blogging in C++17
« Last post by wraith808 on March 19, 2018, 07:14 AM »
Someone wrote a comment system which I haven't known before:
https://github.com/adtac/commento

BlogC++ supports it now. :)

That looks cool!  Thanks for sharing.  My only reservation is spammers.  Don't see a way to limit them as of yet.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini Review of jAlbum web site creator.
« Last post by wraith808 on March 19, 2018, 07:05 AM »
I used it years ago, (5+, when it was free), to create a simple website which I then butchered for the genealogists in the family, needed a site to display a journal transcription.

The last free version is still available here.

I'd thought it was free!  I used it years ago when creating an album for my travels.  Didn't want to host on one of the available platforms, so just did it myself.  It was really easy, and as said in the review, made a perfectly functional site.
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Living Room / Re: Booting Linux from USB thumbdrive - Linux Explorer
« Last post by wraith808 on March 17, 2018, 05:53 PM »

A few questions: If you do not use and have no use for Linux, why do you have a USB device that must be formatted for a Linux file system? 

I think that was answered in the original post...

Also I do not wish to use Linux, but  -have- to use it for 1 specific task only.

He didn't go into what it was for, but I figured that was all the specification needed...
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I'm sorry I didn't catch this earlier.. I remind you all: No political spats on this forum, from any side.

Arizona Hot, barney, Shades, Target, panzer -- you should all know better.  STOP.

I'm sorry I didn't notice the first post that started this so I could have put a stop to it earlier.  The next time someone sees a post against or for a politician or political party or political ideology, please message me.  It's just not something we do here.

Should they be removed?  Or leave them for posterity.  Started here: https://www.donation....msg417434#msg417434
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@Deozaan, your logo links to a non-https image, could that be the cause of your issue?

I think you're onto something; the security notice states that some images are not secure, and that attackers may be able to see the images you view from the site.

UPDATE: Actually, his logo seems to be hosted onsite, but the images in his .sig are not, and are not secure.
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 14, 2018, 10:27 AM »
No Ads for Bitcoin: Google joins Facebook in banning them.

https://www.engadget...tocurrency-ads-june/
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We are rushing towards AI to easy our daily work pressure. May be we should stop and ponder

Agreed ...(I'm totally with you and Steve)... Instead of continuously trying to find more and better ways of pushing the multitasking/information overload envelope, people really should just slow down a bit and breath. Otherwise we're just going to end up being a society full of heavily medicated 30 something burnouts.

There are good things and bad things about any technological advancement.  Considering the ethical ramifications just should in my opinion be part of the process, rather than an afterthought.  This wouldn't require slowing down IMO, just a different way of thinking about the design process.  I think that social media is in many ways worse than anything we could ever do with AI.  The societal ramifications weren't considered- just money and connections and information.  And now, there's a morass because of that lack.
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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2018, 11:14 PM »
Truthfully, I stopped following.  They're still going, but I just take the blog posts with a grain of salt, and promptly forget it.

They have been pushing on the legislative front, and have apparently conquered that battle or are close to it in every state.

They have been active, but there's been no "state of the Elio" in quite a while, so your assessment is quite correct.  It seems they're trying to keep momentum on the hype front, while showing little of where the finish line is.  It's not in production is all I can say.

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Oh no!  :o :(
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UrlSnooper / Re: EAccessViolation error
« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2018, 06:17 PM »
Have you unblocked the .exe?  When someone downloads a .exe that microsoft doesn't know about that contacts the internet, sometimes they block the .exe.  Also check in the event viewer to see if there is other information that might allow mouser to debug it.
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2018, 08:17 AM »
I dunno. I just think it's a common sense statement. There's not really anything else the SEC can do, due to the uncensorable nature of cryptocurrencies. Even if they try to regulate cryptocurrencies, it kind of can't be done. If someone is determined to buy or sell crypto, there's nothing a law or regulation can do to prevent that or even make it especially difficult for someone to do.

We know that.  They don't.  They think they can regulate anything.  Especially if enough FUD is generated.  And using their simple tactics of very minimal power, it's likely they could brute force it.

Relevant:

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I think the solution for ransomware is to just make regular backups of everything that's important. If you get hit by some ransomeware, just format everything and restore from backup.

There are so many free (or inexpensive) cloud services available that the only real excuse (for the average person) for not having good backups is ignorance (e.g., not knowing how, or not understanding the risks) or apathy (e.g., laziness, understanding the risks but not caring or not thinking they're probable).

As for me, I fit in the laziness category. :D

Free services?  I haven't made images and just back up my critical files (documents, code) because of the fact that I've not found one that I (a) trust to be around (b) that's reasonable.  Doing it on my own servers is a lot more work and cost because of the need for more infrastructure at home. 

That's the reason I run anti-ransomware.  I wouldn't be crippled by it long term and wouldn't lose critical files, but it would be a pain to get up and running.
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We really are getting into an era where the cure is worse that the disease more often than not.

I don't think we're there for ransomware.  Which is the reason I keep running it.  I don't really think I need it.  But my server got hit with it (through an RDP exploit) last year, and that experience is making me leery...
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2018, 01:03 AM »
Interesting...

https://www.engadget...ocurrency-investors/

So... The government wants to "protect us" from the very thing that is supposed to protect us from the (fiat currency) government. o_O

Yeah, I don't get it. The SEC is saying "buyer beware," which is a basic tenet of cryptocurrency. Crypto puts the responsibility and ownership back in your own hands. But I guess this non-news is useful for people who have no idea what cryptocurrency is or how it works, and are just jumping on the bandwagon because they keep hearing about how much Bitcoin (and others) keeps going up.

Well, I didn't know if it was a scare tactic, a note that they couldn't regulate it, or a prelude to them trying to regulate it, based on "consumers losing money".
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