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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game
« Last post by wraith808 on November 25, 2021, 08:02 PM »
Interesting, obviously not the same word for everyone since the word I just got doesn't have repeated letters.
That's what I was thinking.
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Are you doing a 'Save As'? It does that by default with the save as option.
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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game
« Last post by wraith808 on November 24, 2021, 11:53 AM »
It definitely gets worse...

wordle.jpg

Almost didn't make todays... from guess 3 I had four out of 5 correct. I just flailed at that first letter...
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More apps that I don't think anyone has listed here yet:

https://www.amplenote.com/--
https://get.mem.ai/waiting list-
https://cloverapp.co/--
https://acreom.com/trialing-
https://www.craft.do/-(mac/appleOS centric)
https://www.taskade.comtrialing-
https://reflect.app/-After getting the invite, it's also mac/appleOS centric, and $160/year after a 14 day free trial
https://app.milanote.com/trialingReferral Link: https://www.milanote...r/rcDhIUymJWgrLzFgNc
https://app.kahana.co/trialing-
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC
« Last post by wraith808 on November 11, 2021, 08:07 AM »
"Your expected order availability: After Q2 2022"

It looks like I'm back to where I started. I'm pretty sure that when I placed my pre-order, it told me "after Q2" or maybe it just said Q3. But then after things settled it told me the ETA was Q2. So I'm still not really disappointed.

After Q2 could just mean that they haven't settled on scheduling that far out. That's how I took it. Originally mine told me that it was Q2 2022- not after.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC
« Last post by wraith808 on November 10, 2021, 09:03 PM »
Well, so much for my optimism! I got an email saying Deck is delayed by 2 months, and they expect it will start shipping in February.

Yeah, got the same message. So they push the entire queue back, so we'll likely be Q3-Q4.
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Guys, update on all this:
I'm still using that web portal neuron for reading my notes....it is now called emanote, and even better.
For writing and editing, I use Obsidian.

emanote is awesome.


https://github.com/srid/emanote
https://note.ema.srid.ca/
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Developer's Corner / Re: 'Trojan Source' bug
« Last post by wraith808 on November 03, 2021, 09:05 AM »
The fact that it's on Krebs made me take a look even though I didn't totally understand how it would be implemented. He's not one to cry the sky is falling without reason.
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Developer's Corner / 'Trojan Source' bug
« Last post by wraith808 on November 02, 2021, 10:52 AM »
From Krebs on Security (https://krebsonsecur...ecurity-of-all-code/)

Researchers with the University of Cambridge discovered a bug that affects most computer code compilers and many software development environments. At issue is a component of the digital text encoding standard Unicode, which allows computers to exchange information regardless of the language used. Unicode currently defines more than 143,000 characters across 154 different language scripts (in addition to many non-script character sets, such as emojis).

Specifically, the weakness involves Unicode’s bi-directional or “Bidi” algorithm, which handles displaying text that includes mixed scripts with different display orders, such as Arabic — which is read right to left — and English (left to right).

But computer systems need to have a deterministic way of resolving conflicting directionality in text. Enter the “Bidi override,” which can be used to make left-to-right text read right-to-left, and vice versa.

“In some scenarios, the default ordering set by the Bidi Algorithm may not be sufficient,” the Cambridge researchers wrote. “For these cases, Bidi override control characters enable switching the display ordering of groups of characters.”

Bidi overrides enable even single-script characters to be displayed in an order different from their logical encoding. As the researchers point out, this fact has previously been exploited to disguise the file extensions of malware disseminated via email.

Here’s the problem: Most programming languages let you put these Bidi overrides in comments and strings. This is bad because most programming languages allow comments within which all text — including control characters — is ignored by compilers and interpreters. Also, it’s bad because most programming languages allow string literals that may contain arbitrary characters, including control characters.

“So you can use them in source code that appears innocuous to a human reviewer [that] can actually do something nasty,” said Ross Anderson, a professor of computer security at Cambridge and co-author of the research. “That’s bad news for projects like Linux and Webkit that accept contributions from random people, subject them to manual review, then incorporate them into critical code. This vulnerability is, as far as I know, the first one to affect almost everything.

The research paper, which dubbed the vulnerability “Trojan Source,” notes that while both comments and strings will have syntax-specific semantics indicating their start and end, these bounds are not respected by Bidi overrides.

Emphasis mine. More at link.

Has anyone heard of it? It's been many years since I've worked with anything at this low a level, so I can't really comment on how serious it is.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: 403 trying to access "Mini-Reviews by Members"
« Last post by wraith808 on October 31, 2021, 11:42 PM »
Not sure why it doesn't work for you. It works for me. Perhaps it was an intermittent blip?
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Yeah, I've given up on the idea of publishing anything on Google Play. It's just too annoying having to constantly update and configure things to keep up with their ever-changing requirements.

Good luck on the re-approval process!

And it's pretty sad that Apple is even worse.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Book Catalog
« Last post by wraith808 on October 26, 2021, 08:01 PM »
If you don't want a web based catalog, Readerware (not free)

"Not free" is putting it mildly!  :o

$50 isn't as much as I'd expected from that response.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC
« Last post by wraith808 on October 26, 2021, 05:22 AM »
Mine isn't until Q2 2022

Ditto.

But that could be as soon as April, which doesn't seem very far away to me.

I was thinking December and planning for it as my Christmas gift. And given the logistics nightmare we're in the middle of right now, I think April is optimistic if they have enough to scheudle it out until then. At least it will give an adequate time to see what kind of reviews it garners.
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If you are able to search with google, then why haven't you to get the results and tried them? Then you could report back with any problems you have. You come to us with just a problem statement (and sometimes not that much of one) and then are dissatisfied with what that bare question gets you.
mmmm
It's a method, but not the only one. Many times we ask to a person who knows more than ours to obtain an answer. Not in mode experiment and obtain then advice.


That would be fine if you were thankful for the information. But it doesn't seem that you are above. That's what set me off.
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If you are able to search with google, then why haven't you to get the results and tried them? Then you could report back with any problems you have. You come to us with just a problem statement (and sometimes not that much of one) and then are dissatisfied with what that bare question gets you.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC
« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2021, 09:53 AM »
PSA: You can now see when you are queued to have the Steam Deck available for purchase. Mine isn't until Q2 2022 :(

Steam_Deck_Reservation.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: Croc: Command-line secure file transfer tool
« Last post by wraith808 on October 20, 2021, 10:21 AM »
As I was in need of transferring a rather large file (about 400 GByte) from a remote location a problem was encountered. None of the computers I normally use for file transfer is able to cope with such a large file. So, I was tempted to try out croc to transfer the file directly to my workstation.

The remote computer is not a "weakling" by any stretch of imagination (16 GByte RAM, 3 year old Intel Xeon CPU, fast drive), but waiting 7+ hours now for a code to be generated by croc (to actually start the transfer) is rather long. Even when the file is about 400 GByte.

And installing Python on both the remote PC and my workstation just to make Magic WormHole work, seems less than ideal as well. 


I didn't have to install Python to get Magic Wormhole to work. There's a self contained exe.

https://magic-wormho.../latest/welcome.html

Or install Wormhole William - https://github.com/p.../releases/tag/v1.0.5

Or Wormhole Gui - https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui
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General Software Discussion / Re: Croc: Command-line secure file transfer tool
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2021, 11:57 AM »
Thanks for the info on Magic Wormhole. Love the fact that it has a gui and a mobile client!
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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« Last post by wraith808 on October 07, 2021, 09:49 PM »
 ;D :Thmbsup:
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC
« Last post by wraith808 on October 06, 2021, 05:54 PM »
I like the non-subtle emphasis on the negative words.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on October 06, 2021, 08:52 AM »
At the last minute, Microsoft provides a path to upgrading unsupported hardware to Windows 11 (via codeproject -> onmsft.com)

First off, we want to talk about some support pages. On the new "Ways to install Windows 11" support page, Microsoft mentions installing Windows 11 on a device that does not meet the minimum system requirements. It highlights how you can use a registry hack (and actually provides the registry settings) to bypass the TPM and CPU checks in the Windows 11 Installation Assistant:

w11-registry-hack-768x519.png

Are they already feeling the pressure? I guess the answer is "sort of"...

This makes it clear that it is, in fact, possible to run Windows 11 on any hardware. Yet, a second support page also explains what might happen if you do so. It explains that it is not recommended, and the device might malfunction. Microsoft also makes it clear that "devices that do not meet these system requirements will no longer be guaranteed to receive updates," So there it is.

Not really sure what they're thinking or why not just back off these inane requirements and make them optional.

There's more on the page confirming that it does indeed work. Unfortunately, I can't leave MS behind. And even when I tried just for home, I found the experience "less than" for both Linux and Mac.
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Probably a pipe dream...
Probably?
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I;m at Gencon 2021 again this weekend.  Let me know if you're here too!

I'll be there virtually. Still a bit too dodgy to travel for me, especially to a con. Hope you have fun!
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