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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.

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?

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.

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...)

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.

notebooks_screen.png

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).


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

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.

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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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.


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?

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

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.
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Living Room / Re: Custom dice for board games, etc.
« Last post by wraith808 on April 29, 2016, 08:43 AM »
I've got the PDF all ready to go for the printer:

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That's at 12.5% zoom (when you click it to view it "full-size"). I've got enough for 3 sets of 13 different dice in that image, with spare room for more. I'm really going to hate myself when I have to cut all these out and apply them one by one. :'(


Paint.

That would be a decent suggestion if not for the fact that I'm not very artistic and as you can see above, the designs are a bit more complex than a simple sharpie can handle. Or at least more complex than what I can pull off with sharpies. :D

Could you paint the colors, and then layer the stickers?
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DC Gamer Club / Re: DC Board Game Night
« Last post by wraith808 on April 27, 2016, 11:26 PM »
There is also: https://tabletopia.com/

Steam link here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/402560

The front page seems very confusing.  Is it subscription-based?  I can't find the terms or what the subscription gives you, and what's the difference between gold and silver.  Am I just missing it?
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DC Gamer Club / DC Board Game Night
« Last post by wraith808 on April 27, 2016, 09:50 PM »
So, mouser talks about board games a lot, and other people do too.  So I figured why not try to organize a DC Boardgame night?  Especially as Tabletop Simulator is on sale again.  For like the 100th time in the last few months.

https://www.bundlest...e/tabletop-simulator

Some easy to follow rules I cribbed from somewhere else.

Find board games you are interested in playing here: https://boardgamegeek.com/
Then look them up here: http://steamcommunit...app/286160/workshop/
And finally add them here!: https://goo.gl/kppGnj

We'll prioritize them by order in the doc- or by some other method we decide.  All we need to do is decide on a date and time to start...

Anyone game for this?  Want to find out how many we have before we start organizing...
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by wraith808 on April 26, 2016, 05:16 PM »
^ the difference is in panzer's embedded quote

Ah... Ok.  I didn't get that from the quoting in the post.  Thanks for clarifying!
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by wraith808 on April 26, 2016, 04:27 PM »
Own Your Self: Master Your Character, Rise To Any Challenge, Find True Inner Peace (free until April 28th)

The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown (free until the end of the week)

Car Buying on a shoestring budget: for college kids and single parents who need reliable transportation (Auto Tips Book 1)

It would be really helpful if you'd include the titles of the books at the very least, if not a short description of what they're about so we can tell if we're interested or not. Just because a book is free doesn't mean we're interested.

And clicking links can be "dangerous" due to trackers. I don't want to click a mystery link to a product and then start seeing ads or other "you might be interested in this" links everywhere on the internet related to a product/subject that I have no interest in.

Very much this.  Which in turn leads to me ignoring the post, which might actually be a good recommendation.

Fixed it for you...  :)

Fixed what?  There doesn't seem to be any difference?
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by wraith808 on April 25, 2016, 05:58 PM »
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EKNN4LE (free until April 28th)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C2334GO (free until the end of the week)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X2G2JCQ

It would be really helpful if you'd include the titles of the books at the very least, if not a short description of what they're about so we can tell if we're interested or not. Just because a book is free doesn't mean we're interested.

And clicking links can be "dangerous" due to trackers. I don't want to click a mystery link to a product and then start seeing ads or other "you might be interested in this" links everywhere on the internet related to a product/subject that I have no interest in.

Very much this.  Which in turn leads to me ignoring the post, which might actually be a good recommendation.
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