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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on January 05, 2018, 02:09 PM »

https://meltdownattack.com/

Meltdown and Spectre
Bugs in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data.


Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a malicious program can exploit Meltdown and Spectre to get hold of secrets stored in the memory of other running programs. This might include your passwords stored in a password manager or browser, your personal photos, emails, instant messages and even business-critical documents.

Meltdown and Spectre work on personal computers, mobile devices, and in the cloud. Depending on the cloud provider's infrastructure, it might be possible to steal data from other customers.

Link also contains technical papers on both Meltdown and Spectre

~Stephen

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on January 01, 2018, 06:00 PM »

Mouser was super excited to have finally made the decision on which hosting company to go for XD

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Living Room / Re: Happy holidays, merry christmas, and all that junk

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 25, 2017, 03:38 PM »

go on Stephen you grumpy git you :p
have a nice day, while you're at it

I'm baking, for the first time in ten years at least, we'll see what comes out of it, but it makes for a nice festive vibe.

-tomos (December 25, 2017, 02:25 PM)

I hope you mean you're baking food...and not literally baking...

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Living Room / Re: Why doesn't DC make its own browser?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 25, 2017, 03:24 PM »

It's not a bad idea, as ideas go, but if experience has taught me anything, it would be that trying to coordinate the coders on DC to work on one big project would be as futile as trying to scoop water from a sieve :')

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Living Room / Re: Happy holidays, merry christmas, and all that junk

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 25, 2017, 07:52 AM »

"Winter Holidays"

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

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 14, 2017, 01:55 PM »

Looks handy! Especially for those who study Spanish online (on something like Duolingo) 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Vegas Pro Edit 14 $20 on Humble

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 14, 2017, 01:40 PM »

I've used Vegas in a professional setting, and I did really enjoy it, so for $20 (considering you get everything else, too), it's a fantastic deal indeed!

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Living Room / Re: DC on Discord :O

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 05, 2017, 03:19 PM »

O_O, I had no idea haha - Never saw you mention it tbh

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Living Room / DC on Discord :O

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 03, 2017, 11:26 PM »

So...after months of bugging him, I finally convinced mouser to get on Discord!!! 

If you want to come join us on the DC Discord server - the link is https://discord.gg/9J4mHfF

(Discord is a text and voice chat app, available for all platforms - it's kinda like IRC 2.0)

Lots of features - DC Forum RSS feed, and voice chats with yours truly (and whoever else wants to say hi!) are all part of this

Did I mention it's better than IRC? haha

The link again is: https://discord.gg/9J4mHfF

If you don't have discord, just quickly signup, download if for your system (or even use it in your browser), and then you should be on the server! (If not, after you register, just click the link again!)

~Stephen

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PokéWorld - Pokémon MMO...On Discord!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on November 11, 2017, 04:28 PM »

Erm, yeah, I guess essentially it is. 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / PokéWorld - Pokémon MMO...On Discord!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on November 10, 2017, 08:50 PM »

Well, Discord is aimed to be for gamers, but when it comes to the platform, there is no real way to play anything fun through it...well...that's what I thought!

Bored one night, I was googling around for Discord Bots to add to my server to give me something to do.  After a while I stumbled upon a random one  called PokéWorld.  Now, at first, I thought it was going to be something stupid like "just type a command, get a random pokemon, and go about your day"...but I was wrong...so very very wrong!

Curious..I added the bot to my server, and located the command to start it...at which point I was met with



Hmm...this is interesting...not quite what I expected!...So, l let's get on with it...I wonder where I can choose?



Holy crap...OK...I don't really know what any of these contain, so...I picked a random one!

So...clicking through some more stuff...I finally got to this:



Nice...so I have things!  Oh, and I also got my starter Pokémon too!



Now, I guess it's time to see what the hell I can do!



Hmm, ok, so, I can travel around the areas, fighting and catching pokemon, and becoming the very best, like no-one ever was!

---

I would add more screenshots into this mini-review (or whatever this just became), but...it's kinda pointless...because that bot was Alpha, and they are VERY close to releasing Beta, which, for a Discord bot, is VERY advanced.

The community they have there is fantastic, and the developer (this guy: https://github.com/Bioblaze) is brilliant at what he does!

For those curious about following the development (and maybe playing!), then join their discord here: https://discord.gg/wPxWcXc

Overall Rating: 4/5 Stars (For Alpha) - No rating on Beta due to it not being released yet!

Highly recommended for those looking for old-school text-games mixed with MMO/Modern games!

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Living Room / Hi strangers!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on October 16, 2017, 09:51 PM »

Hey strangers!

How are y'all doing?  Sorry I haven't been very active over the last few months, Uni work has basically taken over my life haha.

~Stephen

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Living Room / Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 22, 2017, 03:38 PM »

You can't just assume somebodies indentation preferences...jeez.

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Living Room / Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 18, 2017, 03:41 PM »

What about people who use auto-indentation?

Or god forbid.....those who don't indent at all *shudders*

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Living Room / Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 18, 2017, 02:07 PM »

Obligatory 'Wat?"

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Living Room / [Breaking] - AI Simulant Discovered Online

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 17, 2017, 07:15 AM »

There has been an investigation launched after detection systems recognized the signature of a rogue AI Simulant within their databanks.

The stimulant in question seems to have free-will, although not much information has been released at this time.


What we know:

The simulant's name (designation) is 'mouser'.  In 2005, after being released into the wild, the simulant in question launched a series of Software projects, seemingly designed to test it's repair and replication processes.  So far, full replication does not seem to have happened, but it could be getting close.

'Mouser' has been determined as an acronym: "Multi-Operational Universal Software Engineering & Replication".

This information came to light after automated systems picked up on a series of events, where the simulant stopped all forms of communication, mid-conversation, for seemingly no reason at all.  This phenomenon has been defined as "mousering" (or "to be mousered").

These 2 acronyms mean the following:

Mousering: Multi-Operational Universal Software Engineering & Replication Is Not Gregarious
      Meaning: "No longer the life of the party"

Mousered: Multi-Operational Universal Software Engineering & Replication - Erectile Disfunction
      Meaning: This is a play on the name of the condition.  It means mouser has/is "gone away"/"no longer active"/"no longer functioning"

Although mouser can be seen as active, randomly at any time of the day (with no discernable pattern), it seems to power down for a minimum of 60 minutes per day.  We assume that this is for self-maintenance, software updates/patches and perhaps a system reboot.

[This Story is Breaking - More Updates To Follow]

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 10, 2017, 07:55 PM »

The surprise is that mouser didn't demand we hand-code our own custom CMS from scratch 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 10, 2017, 06:30 PM »

Argh....WHY TELL PEOPLE? THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE!

Bloody lemon :')

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Living Room / Re: Please help me figure out this CD

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 07, 2017, 11:03 PM »

Have you tried to copy the files over via CLI?  If so, what happens?

-Stephen66515 (June 07, 2017, 10:43 PM)

How? What files? The computer doesn't recognize the filesystem (hence the "1.1 GB Unknown"). It can't read and display to me which files are supposedly on the CD.

-Deozaan (June 07, 2017, 10:54 PM)

sj1k said "Get on IRC" so he can help xD

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Living Room / Re: Please help me figure out this CD

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 07, 2017, 10:43 PM »

Have you tried to copy the files over via CLI?  If so, what happens?

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Living Room / Google Are Taking Up The Fight Against Disruptive Ads

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 02, 2017, 10:26 AM »

Google will introduce an ad blocker to Chrome early next year and is telling publishers to get ready.

The warning is meant to let websites assess their ads and strip any particularly disruptive ones from their pages. That’s because Chrome’s ad blocker won’t block all ads from the web. Instead, it’ll only block ads on pages that are determined to have too many annoying or intrusive advertisements, like videos that autoplay with sound or interstitials that take up the entire screen.

Sridhar Ramaswamy, the executive in charge of Google’s ads, writes in a blog post that even ads “owned or served by Google” will be blocked on pages that don’t meet Chrome’s guidelines.

Instead of an ad “blocker,” Google is referring to the feature as an ad “filter,” according to The Wall Street Journal, since it will still allow ads to be displayed on pages that meet the right requirements. The blocker will work on both desktop and mobile.

Google is providing a tool that publishers can run to find out if their sites’ ads are in violation and will be blocked in Chrome. Unacceptable ads are being determined by a group called the Coalition for Better Ads, which includes Google, Facebook, News Corp, and The Washington Post as members.

Google shows publishers which of their ads are considered disruptive. Image: Google

Read Full Story: https://www.theverge...018-announced-google

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Living Room / Win10 Creators Update breaks trackpads.

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on May 20, 2017, 04:38 PM »

Looks like I'm not the only one who has had issues with this.  Just spent the last 2-3 hours fighting with my laptop trying to get my trackpad working, and it turned out that the drivers had been completely removed from my system during the update to "Creators Update" - No clue why or how it happened, and installing the official drivers had 0 effect on anything. 

So...after 2-3 hours, I'm no longer on that update, as I have rolled back.

This post serves as a means to warn other people that this may happen, and if so, pretty much the only solution seems to be "Revert Back" to the previous update (whatever you was on before you upgraded) - The one saving grace here is that Windows 10 makes that very easy, and considering it took several hours to instal Creators Update...it took 10 minutes to revert back...so I can't moan too much about _that_ process

~Stephen

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: WHAT LICENSE KEY ? LOAD OF CRAP

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on May 19, 2017, 04:13 PM »

There is no need to reply to insults with more insults (Stephen I'm looking at you).

-mouser (May 19, 2017, 08:27 AM)

Look at me all you want...I call a spade a spade (or in this case, a jackass a jackass) 

I may have ranted more than I usually would have done (sleep deprivation and all that), but I'm also sick of self-entitled idiots who think they deserve everything.  Yeah, the license key may be slightly frustrating to find (even I couldn't remember where it was the other day)...but is there any need to come onto the forum, screaming and swearing?  In any other "Customer Service" situation, he would have been simply told to f**k off, get out of the store, and not to return.  At least I directed him to where he needed to go BEFORE my rant ^_^  I'd say that's twice the help he should have got haha

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: WHAT LICENSE KEY ? LOAD OF CRAP

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on May 19, 2017, 04:21 AM »

Hey tomos! Long time no see!!!

-Stephen66515 (May 19, 2017, 04:07 AM)

hi Stephen!
I been here the whole time :p (but not on irc...)

-tomos (May 19, 2017, 04:20 AM)

Gonna casually derail this asshats topic now


I've not been on either for ages - been mega busy with uni and general life haha - Hows things?

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: WHAT LICENSE KEY ? LOAD OF CRAP

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on May 19, 2017, 04:07 AM »

been using Screen shot capture for years & this is the thankyou I get.

-jackij (May 19, 2017, 02:34 AM)

that one made me laugh out loud, I fixed it below:

been using Screen shot capture for years [for nothing!] & this is the thankyou I get.

-jackij (May 19, 2017, 02:34 AM)

-tomos (May 19, 2017, 04:02 AM)

 

I love how entitled this guy feels hahahaha "OMFG YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING FOR FREE AND NOW I FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD GIVE ME WAY MORE EVEN IF I ABUSE YOU IN THE PROCESS OF ASKING" 

He failed to anticipate running into a heavily sleep deprived Stephen who could not give less of a f**k about his pissy ass probems 

PS:

Hey tomos! Long time no see!!!