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Living Room / How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2018, 03:37 AM »

A serious and hard-to-fix bug was recently found on most instal cpu chips manufactured since 1995.  It's causing a huge disruption on the web affecting most of the servers running the internet..

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daniel Gruss didn’t sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp (INTC.O)...
The flaw, now named Meltdown, was revealed on Wednesday and affects most processors manufactured by Intel since 1995.

Separately, a second defect called Spectre has been found that also exposes core memory in most computers and mobile devices running on chips made by Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (AMD.O) and ARM Holdings, a unit of Japan’s Softbank (9984.T).

Both would enable a hacker to access secret passwords or photos from desktops, laptops, cloud servers or smartphones. It’s not known whether criminals have been able to carry out such attacks as neither Meltdown nor Spectre leave any traces in log files.

https://www.reuters....p-flaw-idUSKBN1ET1ZR

See:

• https://www.reuters....p-flaw-idUSKBN1ET1ZR
• https://it.slashdot....-cpu-bugs-ever-found

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

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2018, 12:20 PM »

I can't decide which one I like best -- but I really do like this alternative mug design.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2018, 11:42 AM »

bullets added in New Apps etc <-- i like this change.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2018, 10:21 AM »

I did take a moment to process it given the wording is different, but I can see getting all of the text to fit is an issue, and having it just say "NEW APPS NEW YEAR" does not bother me personally.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2018, 09:39 AM »

When its printed on a white mug, it might look nicer with a thin border around the whole thing --just my guess.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2018, 09:36 AM »

I LIKE IT!!!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2018, 07:06 AM »

I apologize for the delay in posting the roundup -- I've been working hard on the new DC servers..  I will post it in the next day or two.. Standby!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2018, 08:50 AM »

I have uploaded a "translator pack" here:
https://www.donation...y_translatorpack.zip

It has instructions and all the files that need translating to create a full new language version.

I have also added the translator pack files under the documentation/ subdirectory in the github repository.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2018, 08:40 AM »

Welcome, thosch! And thank you for the german wordlist

I'm happy to make some german books.
Do you think you might be willing to translate the instruction text as well?

By the way, we have a larger wordlist now.. If you feel like translating the extra words..

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2018, 06:03 AM »

You guys who aren't playing this are missing out -- it's a ton of fun.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2018, 05:51 AM »

Updated with new scoring rules, as follows:
"+2 point per target found, +10 per unused turn, -5 per mistake, -10 if sudden death.  Games ended by a black word score differently: -10 points for each unused turn, mistake, and unfound target.  Penalize illegal clues by ticking an extra turn and mistake checkbox."

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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 10:10 PM »

Just saw season 4 ep 1 (star trek episode).  AMAZING.  Best episode of all 4 years by far.

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Living Room / Re: Happy New Year 2018 - Share new years resolutions or best practices?

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 08:02 PM »

It seems to me there is a mind virus on this thread..

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Living Room / Fascinating interview with director Ridley Scott about an emergency reshoot

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 06:16 PM »

This is a fascinating (though short) interview with famous director Ridley Scott on how he decided to reshoot a huge part of his latest film in a very short amount of time, to get rid of an actor with a major part in the film.

http://www.vulture.c...-world-reshoots.html

The real-life narrative depicted in All the Money in the World is quite the yarn — after his grandson is kidnapped... Director Ridley Scott originally cast Kevin Spacey as the 80-year-old Getty and covered him in prosthetics, but after the actor was the subject of numerous sexual-assault allegations in October, Sony pulled All the Money in the World from its planned premiere at AFI Fest. A wide release seemed untenable, and a delay of the film could have meant that Trust, an FX mini-series covering the same story, would come out first...

That’s when Scott settled on an unprecedented gambit: He would cast 88-year-old Oscar winner Christopher Plummer to take over the Getty role, convince Williams and Wahlberg to come back for reshoots over the Thanksgiving holiday, and quickly integrate the new footage into the movie so it could still hit a 2017 release date. Astonishingly, the results are seamless.

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 06:01 PM »

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 05:37 PM »

As is traditional, we will let people keep submitting until the end of new year's day, server time.. so about 7 hours left from the time I post this (midnight central standard time USA).

I will create the NANY 2018 roundup post after that and contact all participants..  If you have any instructions for me about your NANY -- what to mention in the roundup and what not to -- send me a message.
And please do update your threads now with any relevant info, screenshots, links to youtube videos, etc.

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 05:26 PM »

I'm propagating nameservers to cloudflare in preparation for the server changeover -- let me know if you have any trouble connecting to donationcoder.com..

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Living Room / Re: Happy New Year 2018 - Share new years resolutions or best practices?

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 11:26 AM »

Just scroll up to see the look on my face.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 10:51 AM »

For those interested in translating, look at the japanese subfolder -- that shows you a fully translated game (words, templates, etc.).  But when you translate you can leave out certain files and they will resort to default english.

Note also that you don't have to strictly translated the word list -- it will simply use whatever words are there.  In that way you could also make alternate themed versions of the game that used subsets of words (like a halloween book that only had scary words, etc.).

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Problem with Sizing of Font

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 09:49 AM »

Is there a reason it defaults to red when you click the font size button?

the only reason is that there is no separate color button (because i don't want to encourage coloring!), so i thought i would just have the font size button insert a sample color code to remind you how to set colors.  but i guess i could remove that -- it doesn't sound like a very convincing reason when i say it out loud

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 09:12 AM »

By the way, the easiest way to play with new word lists is probably to create a new "language" subdirectory and then put your wordfile_default.txt in that subdirectory, and invoke from source/ directory like "cnduet.py --language MYSUBDIRNAME".

Although you are only replacing the wordlist and not creating new language translations, this is the easiest and most flexible solution for testing.
Alternatively you can put the wordfile_default.txt in the main data directory and specify it on the commandline with --wordfile argument.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 08:19 AM »

The repository that I have open sourced, as well as the zip file download in the first link has pre-built english pdfs you can just printout and play with.

The source code repository also includes the python utilities that will let you generate new gamebook pdfs, using the included or your own custom word lists, and will let you translate the words and instructions into other languages (japanese is included).  If you can run python and you are on windows or linux x86 you should be able to use these utilities.

If you do make new translations and/or wordfiles, either merge them or send them to me and I can merge them into the official repository.

Note I went to the linked github page and dont see anything accessible (well, not to me at any rate).

It should be live and fully there.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: PlainTasks

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 07:32 AM »

Nice work

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 06:04 AM »

Nice podcast explaining what bitcoin is, for beginners and experts:
https://after-on.com/episodes/017

Recommended by http://kk.org/coolto...bitcoin-podcasteasy/

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Living Room / Re: Happy New Year 2018 - Share new years resolutions or best practices?

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2018, 03:09 AM »

For the new year I like to clean up my PC a bit.  I created some new full drive image backups, and now I'm doing some folder and file organization.  Nice to start the new year clean and organized.

One of my new year's resolutions is to finally use my table saw.