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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SourceForge Deals

« Last post by Deozaan on April 07, 2016, 11:54 PM »

I initially had some trouble when I tried to purchase a deal by logging into my SourceForge account. I was perturbed at the idea of needing a second/separate SourceForge account to make the purchase.

Then app103 pointed out to me that it's a StackSocial store, and all the deals found there can be found at any site that has a StackSocial storefront. Suddenly things are making a lot more sense.

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Living Room / Re: anyone else getting DNS error for easeus.com?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 07, 2016, 02:45 PM »

https://isitup.org/easeus.com

It's working for me.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 07, 2016, 02:05 AM »

Someone has issued a challenge worth 1 BTC: Simply crack/bruteforce his 6-character wallet password to claim the bitcoin within.

Details here: No one cracked 0.5BTC PaperWallet with easy password in a year.

One year ago i tried a little experiment with BIP38 paper wallets. [...]

I am quite surprised that "6 character" wallet is still loaded with bitcoin. Looks like encrypted paper wallets give you quite high level of security even with very modest passwords. Lets not forget that hacker has to first get his hands on physical BIP38 wallet before he can even start cracking...

I decided to keep this experiment going for another year. I've also added extra 0.5BTC - so happy cracking!


Details:

pub: 1J5cjne6YVkgRTMTjqnaJVk1CWEEr3CcdX
b38: 6PfRB98F9vZLhSpqY5URas5vYUU3qYQrpkJFTLuCg1FvDni6LwT3qAirkp
pwd: 6 characters (only upper and lower case US alphabet letters)

Here is a small hint for you: If you divide the number of UPPERCASE letters by the number of lowercase letters you get an integer.

-https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4dkw1q/no_one_cracked_05btc_paperwallet_with_easy/

According to my calculations, this means the password has either 3, 4, or 5 uppercase letters (I'm ruling out the possibility of 0 uppercase letters since it says it has upper AND lower case letters). I'm a bit rusty in the discrete mathematics department, but I think that means there are (52*52*52*52*52*52) - (52*52*52*52) possible combinations. Which totals 19,763,298,048 combinations.

I'm running a brute-force script in a linux VM which takes ~7 seconds to try 25 passwords. Unless I really messed up my math somewhere, it will take over 175 years for me to try them all at this rate.

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Living Room / Re: OpenBazaar

« Last post by Deozaan on April 05, 2016, 07:05 PM »

OpenBazaar has officially released.

OpenBazaar is now released on the mainnet and is ready for real transactions. You can download the program on the OpenBazaar website.

You can read our user tutorial explaining how to use OpenBazaar for the first time. If you need help, join our Slack or visit our help center.

If you’re not familiar with OpenBazaar, it’s a decentralized peer-to-peer network for trade that uses Bitcoin. That trade happens directly between buyers and sellers with no one in the middle – and no fees or restrictions on trade.

-https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-is-open-for-business/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Beating Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with assembly code

« Last post by Deozaan on April 04, 2016, 04:04 PM »

This guy also injected the Flappy Bird game code into Super Mario World:

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Developer's Corner / Re: Neat little video on how youtube generates video ids and why

« Last post by Deozaan on April 04, 2016, 01:49 PM »

Interesting video. Thanks.

I never realized it was essentially base-64 with the "/" changed to a "_"

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Living Room / Re: Did my Android tablet unencrypt itself?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 03, 2016, 02:55 PM »

Make and model, Android version?

-Ath (April 02, 2016, 02:52 PM)

Asus Nexus 7 2013 (flo/razor) running the latest vanilla Android 6.0.1 with March 1, 2016 security patch (which may have been when the "unencryption" occurred).

Checking the security section in the settings says that my device is encrypted.

So, to clarify, I used to have to enter my pattern just to boot the device, then enter it (my pattern) again to login to the OS. Now it boots to the OS login screen without requiring my pattern, but still requires my pattern to login to the OS (which is how it worked before I encrypted the device).

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Living Room / Did my Android tablet unencrypt itself?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 02, 2016, 02:12 PM »

I enabled full, system-wide encryption on my tablet about a year ago in an attempt to keep my data more secure. This has the side-effect of requiring me to enter my pattern before the device will even boot up. I don't often restart my tablet, so that never really bothered me.

But the past few times I have restarted my tablet I noticed that it didn't prompt me to enter my pattern before booting up into the OS. I dismissed it as me doing things by muscle memory and just not remembering having entered my pattern at the prompt. But after having that feeling like it wasn't asking me for the past several times, I finally decided to conscientiously restart it to find out if it was in fact asking me for my pattern to unlock the device.

It is no longer asking me for my pattern to unlock the device before it will boot into the OS. The question now is, why not? And the follow up questions: What does this mean about the device's encryption? Did it unencrypt itself? Did it just stop asking to unlock at boot because it asks again at the OS login screen?

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General Software Discussion / Run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

« Last post by Deozaan on April 01, 2016, 03:52 PM »

You can now run Bash scripts, Linux command-line tools like sed, awk, grep, and you can even try Linux-first tools like Ruby, Git, Python, etc. directly on Windows. You can also access your Windows filesystem from within Bash allowing you to work on the same set of files using your preferred Windows tools or Linux command-line tools

-https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/

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Living Room / Re: Wireless mice are hackable up to a city block away

« Last post by Deozaan on March 29, 2016, 06:55 PM »

Example:
If the hacker could find out at any given moment which page you have opened in a browser...all he/she needs to do is load up that page and literally retrace your steps with the data retrieved from your unencrypted mouse movements. That would give the hacker a very good idea of what you were doing and how to proceed on 'pawn'-ing your account(s).

-Shades (March 29, 2016, 11:57 AM)

Not quite. Again, there are subtle differences that could affect the results. What if the browser was in a tiny window, so the content didn't all fit on the screen at once? What if you were viewing your browser fullscreen on a 4K (or 8K!) monitor? What if you had vision troubles so you had the text at 200% font size?

There are lots of little reasons like this why having the mouse data would be practically worthless.

That said, I agree that it would be better for the hacker to not have the mouse data in the first place! But again, if a hacker can know what website you have opened at any given moment, you probably have other security problems to be worried about.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by Deozaan on March 29, 2016, 06:46 PM »

Review: Odroid C2, Raspberry Pi 3, and Orange Pi+ compared

tl;dr: The ODROID-C2 is a very solid competitor to the Raspberry Pi model 3 B, and is anywhere from 2-10x faster than the Pi 3, depending on the operation. The software and community support is nowhere near what you get with the Raspberry Pi, but it's the best I've seen of all the Raspberry Pi clones I've tried

-http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/review-odroid-c2-compared-raspberry-pi-3-and-orange-pi-plus

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Developer's Corner / Re: Beating Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with assembly code

« Last post by Deozaan on March 29, 2016, 06:42 PM »

Someone did something similar in Super Mario World to "beat" the game in ~6 minutes:

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Developer's Corner / Re: Artificial intelligence bests humans at classic arcade games

« Last post by Deozaan on March 29, 2016, 04:45 PM »

NECRO-THREAD ARISE!

Someone wrote and explains a bit about a neural network made for Super Mario World.

MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games



EDIT:

And the follow up:

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Living Room / Re: Wireless mice are hackable up to a city block away

« Last post by Deozaan on March 28, 2016, 11:57 PM »

It wouldn't shock me too much if someone eventually finds that such mouse information can be used to figure out something they shouldn't be able to.   It seems unlikely, but people have been surprised before by leaks of information from unusual areas (like timing or power usage). One possible situation where capturing mouse information might be an attractive target that comes to mind is that some programs use a virtual on-screen keyboard specifically to foil keyloggers. Not a common scenario, but if you're one of those people, don't use a wireless mouse...

-mwb1100 (March 28, 2016, 11:52 PM)

But even that might not be very useful. As far as I understand, mice don't give precise information as far as movement/position. It's all relative. Something like +5 pixels in the X coordinate, -6 pixels in the Y coordinate. Click here, release there. Etc.

Even if you had an on-screen keyboard, the hackers might not know that, or how big it is, or where on the screen it's located. They'd probably have to know exactly what you're doing (i.e., have physical or at least visual access to your system) to get useful information from the movement and clicks of your mouse. In which case you probably already have other security problems to be worried about.

All that said, I am no security expert. There very well may be something I'm not considering.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by Deozaan on March 25, 2016, 02:01 AM »

Perhaps that claim is based on the idea that QEMU has 5-10 times the overhead as compared to ExaGear, which uses binary translation? Honestly I'm not sure what these terms mean exactly. I'm just going by what I read out of the March 2016 Odroid Magazine article on ExaGear.

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Living Room / Re: Samarost 3 - Beautiful charming computer game - is out today

« Last post by Deozaan on March 25, 2016, 01:54 AM »

That certainly does look nice. It's so alien and imaginative and creepy and beautiful all at once.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: A bunch of games for $1 each at ShinyLoot.com

« Last post by Deozaan on March 24, 2016, 01:49 PM »

Good offer. Why such a price? Is this not cheating?

-Jonatan13 (March 24, 2016, 08:43 AM)

Hi Jonatan13,

It's not uncommon for the past few years now for there to be special sales/promotions of a bundle of games for $1 or so.

In fact, the post you responded to was made over two years ago about a sale that has long ended. I recommend looking at the dates of threads you're replying to. It's usually best to leave old, dead forum threads alone to rest in peace.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Spring & Easter Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on March 23, 2016, 05:31 PM »

Translation: This is not a giveaway but simply a six-month trialware version beyond the normal 14-day trial version always available.  Rather sneaky.  Or am I being too critical?

-Midnight Rambler (March 22, 2016, 10:30 AM)

I agree with this interpretation. I think it's a 6-month license. (aka 6 month trial)


That said, I find AdGuard worth the money, and have paid for a lifetime license for my devices when it was mentioned here last year.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by Deozaan on March 23, 2016, 05:24 PM »

One thing I've been very foggy about for years is software compatibility between Unix-type systems. I guess drivers will certainly differ, but given a common CPU architecture (e.g., ARM processors), will software like RetroPie run on something like an ODROID?

-CWuestefeld (March 22, 2016, 12:49 PM)

I just learned about ExaGear which allows you to run x86 applications on ARM devices. It's kind of like qemu but supposedly has much better performance.

Combined with WINE, you may even be able to run some Windows applications on your little ARM device.

https://eltechs.com/...uct/exagear-desktop/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Affinity (Serif) goes head to head with Photoshop & (maybe) Illustrator

« Last post by Deozaan on March 21, 2016, 12:06 AM »

But who really needs all that, especially now: I suspect people that might have bought before think would twice about a subscription. Or they subscribe and realise they're not using it enough to justify the cost and cancel.

-tomos (March 19, 2016, 04:37 PM)

Actually, I think it's the opposite. Before, Photoshop or the Creative Suite was something like $600. Now it's "only" $10 a month. That seems much more affordable to me, and I think many people agree with that and are actually paying for Photoshop now instead of just downloading a pirated version of it.

But that's just a hunch. I have no evidence to back that thought up with.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by Deozaan on March 21, 2016, 12:01 AM »

Would anyone here want a $79 computer?

-Arizona Hot (March 19, 2016, 10:06 PM)

Sure! But not that one. I'd much prefer a $74 computer with 8 cores, 2GB RAM, gigabit ethernet.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by Deozaan on March 17, 2016, 07:26 PM »

just disable horizontal minibar and reenable it.

-DeVamp (March 17, 2016, 06:49 PM)

I tried that multiple times and could never spot it.

If it would be offscreen, you can simply edit the ini file. Place it on 50,50 or something like that.

-DeVamp (March 17, 2016, 06:49 PM)

That worked. Thanks!

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by Deozaan on March 17, 2016, 06:03 PM »

It's been forever since I last ran Trout. I just opened it up and I can't find the horizontal minibar. The vertical one shows up, but I'm thinking maybe the horizontal one is off screen somewhere?

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Deozaan on March 17, 2016, 05:11 PM »

After watching a few videos of them, I almost wonder if it's because she can't look at him without laughing.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Deozaan on March 17, 2016, 12:33 AM »

Thanks for sharing that. I liked it.

I thought she had her eyes closed because she was supposed to be sleepy/sleeping in that song (no idea what the song is about, except pupils (as in eyeballs)). But it seems she always just sings with her eyes closed:

And this one is in English! (She opens her eyes when she's not singing, then closes them as soon as she starts singing again.)