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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on May 18, 2016, 06:07 PM »

It's so cute!

From the description:

On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote Peterson gets playfully attacked by a WILD Ocelot!

In what is sure to be one of our most unlikely and unbelievable animal encounters ever THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED!

Luckily for Coyote and the crew this juvenile jungle cat was more interested in playfully romping around rather than attacking with a full out aggressive strike!

Ocelot’s have a wide range stretching from Argentina to Texas and while they have fairly healthy populations in the topics they are extremely elusive and rarely seen by humans. There has never been another video like this and we feel so extremely fortunate to have had this incredible experience…it’s one we’ll certainly never forget.

Get ready to get up close with an Ocelot!

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on May 17, 2016, 01:29 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Free Image Host - Same URL, Update File

« Last post by wraith808 on May 16, 2016, 06:36 PM »

How so?  Did you overwrite the file?  If you did, I don't get how it couldn't be.  Especially if your cat is still showing up.  Did you refresh and/or empty your cache for your browser?  I'd also suggest creating a new user in your browser, and going to the link from there.

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Living Room / Re: Free Image Host - Same URL, Update File

« Last post by wraith808 on May 16, 2016, 05:59 PM »

One other thing to be conscious of. Dropbox removed the public folder because of people's misuse, and bandwidth.  as such, I've seen it temporarily remove access.  Not sure if that's based on bandwidth or hits.  If the former, you're Ok.  If the latter...

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Living Room / Re: Free Image Host - Same URL, Update File

« Last post by wraith808 on May 16, 2016, 02:03 PM »

It works in any folder.  The public folder just lets you do it for hosting.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on May 16, 2016, 09:36 AM »

Captain America: Civil War

IMHO, the best marvel movie other than possibly Iron Man 1.  There are several good reviews, so I won't go into it again.

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Living Room / Re: Free Image Host - Same URL, Update File

« Last post by wraith808 on May 15, 2016, 10:51 PM »

Dropbox is a good idea. You could just update the file, leaving it with the same filename, and the link will remain the same.

-Deozaan (May 15, 2016, 07:32 PM)

Dropbox has been changing the way their links work, unfortunately.  So you definitely want to vet that it works if you decide to go that way.

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Living Room / Re: Free Image Host - Same URL, Update File

« Last post by wraith808 on May 15, 2016, 12:34 PM »

A little bit more on why they need them to stay the same might help in recommending.

For instance, I use bit.ly when I need a certain name, and point it to dropbox or massdrop or imgur, or whereever.  I'm not sure if that's a valid scenario for your friend.



That image is using a bit.ly URL to point to an imgur hosted image.

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Living Room / Re: Good or bad password?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 11, 2016, 11:24 PM »

Q: Is "Remember to pay gas Aug 14" a good, as in secure, password?

-tsaint (May 11, 2016, 08:17 PM)

I'd add some non-alphanumeric characters, eg. Remember! Pay gas bill, 14/08.

You could also keep it as Aug 14 in plain sight, just remembering to switch it to 14/08. for when you need to enter password.

-4wd (May 11, 2016, 10:43 PM)

Along those lines, instead of adding non-numeric, I've just replaced the spaces with another character, so that the words are delimited by that character.

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Living Room / Re: Good or bad password?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 11, 2016, 10:06 PM »

the difficulty here is that everyone remembers 'correct horse battery staple' and probably always will, but most of us still can't remember our own passwords (or where we put our car keys...)

-Target (May 11, 2016, 09:42 PM)

Since I switched to a passphrase for some things, I remember those better, and it's natural.  I usually now try to actually make a phrase instead of just stringing words together.  One that I do quite a bit is make the password a question, and the password reminder the answer.

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Living Room / Re: Good or bad password?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 11, 2016, 09:28 PM »

obligatory link to xkcd

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gitbook.io

« Last post by wraith808 on May 11, 2016, 06:49 PM »

It does have a lot of the same concepts, but they are more generic.  Notebooks contain folders which contain documents.  These documents can be PDF, Markdown, Rich Text, or Plain text.  That helps me to work in it outside of Notebooks.  It also shows other document types, though not the content- you double click on it, and it opens the default application.  And I sync via its own mechanisms, and dropbox, and haven't had any problems doing so.  There's also an iOS version of the application, so I can use my iPad.

A view of my setup expanded.



It is definitely a Mac app, and you can see in some of the aesthetics.  This is where I originally used it, on my MBP before I went back to windows.  I was glad that I could keep at least this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gitbook.io

« Last post by wraith808 on May 11, 2016, 03:17 PM »

I think that markdown is either one of those things you love or hate.  I love the fact that a enter is not considered a break, personally.  I can format my source in any manner that I fashion, and know that the final formatting of it will be based on the markup, not the actual formatting of the source.  That said, your problems are easily solved - two or more spaces at the end of the line force line breaks, which I don't personally think is too onerous.

As far as Gitbook, I found it the same as a lot of things built on Chromium- not ready for prime time.  I now use a combination of sublime text and notebooks for my writing projects.  I tried to use Scrivener, and really want to use it, but it's just not compatible enough with syncing services and plain text for me to use it.

But as a platform, I think they made the right choice in separating the publishing from the actual payments.  I really like Gumroad, and having them work more on integration made me like the platform (if not the tools) more, rather than less.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Chaturbate Game in Javascript

« Last post by wraith808 on May 11, 2016, 12:26 PM »

Not a response on your inquiry, but general food for thought on such requests.  It might be better for a more targeted inquiry, and definitely good to mark your link with NSFW.  That is just because it is a mixed audience, and it's good to be mindful of that, more than anything wrong with the fact that you're asking, or the subject matter of it.

This might also be a reason that you might not get the replies that you want, as the usual suspects might not fall into the categories of wanting the tracking on their machine as they work on such a project.

Just an FYI.  Best of luck with your efforts!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alternatives / Competition

« Last post by wraith808 on May 05, 2016, 10:51 AM »

I like the integrated plugin manager in wox, being completely keyboard driven, even though it is a bit needy with all the confirmation dialogs (do you want to install plugin xxx? will now download plugin xxx? will now install plugin? will now restart wox?)

However, I found that a number of plugins that looked interesting to me just didn't work. And I couldn't get it to target a search to a specified folder (ie. just search my folder with code for solution files or something like that).

I also like the fact that it is open source and written in c#, to which I could actually contribute something.

But I also think that FARR is a much stronger beast than wox, with powerfull aliases and plugins, and a simple but really flexible search model (with custom scoring, targeted folders etc).

-skajfes (May 05, 2016, 02:02 AM)

You can contribute to FARR, also.  You can write plugins in C#, which contribute to it as a whole.  If there are capabilities needed in the plugin that the interface does not provide, I think that mouser would be more than willing to comply, unless there are reasons that it is not feasible.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot capture region using Surface Pro4, dual monitor - extra zooming

« Last post by wraith808 on May 04, 2016, 06:47 PM »

That's some nice troubleshooting there Jesper.  I'm sure mouse will appreciate it when he sees it!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O'Reilly ebooks & video training 50% off today

« Last post by wraith808 on May 03, 2016, 03:38 PM »

packtpub also has their $10 day again.  Note it's cheaper to buy the packtpub on their site at $10 than to buy from o'reilly

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Living Room / Re: The Keybase Filesystem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 03, 2016, 02:20 PM »

They said a couple of weeks behind.  But there's no indication of date on that post.  So it's possible it is available by now?

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Living Room / Re: The Keybase Filesystem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 03, 2016, 12:56 PM »

Check out the following resources:

https://keybase.pub/
https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs

Short of it is that it's released to a limited few.

If you're a Keybase user on OSX or Debian/Ubuntu and want early access to try it, email me at [email protected]. Make sure to read all the notes below. Windows users will be a couple weeks behind.

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Living Room / Re: The Keybase Filesystem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 02, 2016, 03:10 PM »

If you need an invite, Deo, PM me.

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Living Room / Re: The Keybase Filesystem

« Last post by wraith808 on May 01, 2016, 07:50 PM »

I found this thread some times ago when I  tried looking for a Keybase invite.
Now that I got an account, I have some invites myself, so if you are interested, just let me know and I'll send one in PM.

-Mark0 (May 01, 2016, 07:37 AM)

I'll take one, if you still have any.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 30, 2016, 06:08 PM »

Electronics-all-in-one for Dummies:
http://www.amazon.co...s-Doug/dp/0470147040
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I figured it was time to learn some electronics.. Not a bad book at all.

-mouser (April 30, 2016, 10:16 AM)

I've started to get into electronics again with Mechanical Keyboards.  Might have to take a look at this.  I have purchased a few kits to help get my soldering skills back up to snuff- hadn't thought about a book.

Another resource you might want to investigate: The Living Soldering Thread

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General Software Discussion / Re: Examples of great, intuitive, clever UI design?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 30, 2016, 06:05 PM »

Basically any UI that has ever made you go "wow, I wouldn't have thought of that"

I'll try to think of some but to be honest i'm happiest when the UI is completely standard and causes me not to notice it -- a nice clean standard UI with nothing unusual.

-mouser (April 30, 2016, 04:12 PM)

Same here.  Some of the best and most innovative UX designs to me have been minimal and simplistic, finding a way to cut things down to expose the core of the application.  "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

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DC Gamer Club / Re: DC Board Game Night

« Last post by wraith808 on April 30, 2016, 06:01 PM »

I hate when companies do that- the release version is going to be free to play, but the version that you can get while it's in early access costs.

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Living Room / Re: Custom dice for board games, etc.

« Last post by wraith808 on April 29, 2016, 09:56 AM »

Could you paint the colors, and then layer the stickers?

-wraith808 (April 29, 2016, 08:43 AM)

I guess? But that would require transparent stickers or something, or else the stickers would cover the paint.

-Deozaan (April 29, 2016, 08:50 AM)

That's what I was figuring- but you can get stickers with just the cutouts, can't you?  I just figured I'd suggest as your designs don't seem to cover the whole side when the color is taken out of the equation.