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General Software Discussion / Re: AV testing: Is your antivirus app doing its job?
« Last post by Tuxman on July 23, 2015, 04:31 AM »
Is it:
Anti-virus = Malware
-tomos (July 23, 2015, 04:20 AM)

True.

Is that because you're expert enough to cope with anything that happens?
or you think they wont stop anything?
or your system is really secure anyway?
-tomos (July 23, 2015, 04:20 AM)

Depending on my machine, all of that.

I'm "expert enough" to avoid lame malware by not clicking on suspicious links, also I use NoScript to block the vast majority of current malware infections.

Also, AV software does not stop anything. According to a 2012 Symantec paper, malware is around for about one year before it's actually found. I guess this has not changed much by now.

Finally, I avoid using insecure operating systems (Linux, OSX) wherever I can.
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General Software Discussion / Re: AV testing: Is your antivirus app doing its job?
« Last post by Tuxman on July 23, 2015, 03:29 AM »
Is your antivirus app doing its job?

Hint: No.

And there's close to no reason to reconsider not using snake-oil malware.
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Living Room / Re: Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”
« Last post by Tuxman on July 22, 2015, 08:33 AM »
Well, here's obfuscated Python instead.
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Living Room / Re: Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”
« Last post by Tuxman on July 22, 2015, 07:48 AM »
Makes me think of those old "obfuscated C" contests.  The challenge with C was to make it readable.  :)
-MilesAhead (July 22, 2015, 06:47 AM)

You meant Perl, right?

("Readable Perl". Actually, one could make good money with that.)
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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread
« Last post by Tuxman on July 22, 2015, 05:24 AM »
well done :Thmbsup:
-tomos (July 22, 2015, 05:20 AM)

Too early!
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Living Room / Re: Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”
« Last post by Tuxman on July 21, 2015, 03:48 AM »
That actually makes me rather sad. But then again, it mirrors this Java-driven world where your IDE magically creates half of your code for you. You don't have to understand what it actually does. Java "developers" around me called that an "advantage".
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Thoughts on "next generation" forum systems? (Discourse, nodeBB, etc.)
« Last post by Tuxman on July 21, 2015, 01:14 AM »
I don't need them making a gallery, blog, or whatever else. Similar concern with Woltlab (BurningBoard).
-JavaJones (July 20, 2015, 10:09 PM)

You're not required to buy a license for all the products, but you can if you wish. :)
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Thoughts on "next generation" forum systems? (Discourse, nodeBB, etc.)
« Last post by Tuxman on July 20, 2015, 07:04 PM »
When you say "pointless technical restrictions of usability", are you just referring to needing Javascript, or more than that? Because I think it's a very conscious and - to some people, including myself - worthwhile choice that Discourse, nodeBB, and others are making to use modern web development technologies and methods to enable the best "normal" interaction and responsiveness. Without Javascript or some equivalent, many of the valuable (IMO) features of Discourse simply wouldn't work. It's clearly not a forum designed for those who fear Javascript, nor is it one designed for accessibility, but those two problem cases remove only a relatively small minority of the potential user base.
-JavaJones (July 20, 2015, 12:10 PM)


Why do you assume "modern" means "inadvertently requiring you to make your browser insecure"? A web forums is not much more than a text area with a Submit button, this is the fallback behavior for sanely developed AJAX things AFAICS. So it basically is a pointless restriction.

Hell, at least it's not Flash. ;)]
-JavaJones (July 20, 2015, 12:10 PM)


Oh, well... :) Javascript is still really, really bad. In 2015 it's known as the most common security hole for browsers.

As for using Docker, it's not actually a *requirement* of using Discourse as far as I know, it's just the easiest way to deploy. For me use of Linux for hosting is *the* right way to do it anyway, so it's not a concern.
-JavaJones (July 20, 2015, 12:10 PM)


Docker is the only supported installation method though, and there won't be a Docker on OpenBSD anytime soon. That said, Docker basically mimics old BSD features anyway.

Curious to hear more from those who may have tested any of these systems. But recommendations for more up-to-date and well maintained "traditional" forums (like IPB) are welcome too. :)
-JavaJones (July 20, 2015, 12:10 PM)

I tested quite a lot of board systems recently. IPB, to stick with that example, has grown into a full-featured suite by now, including galleries and blogs (similar to Woltlab). Things are moving.
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Thoughts on "next generation" forum systems? (Discourse, nodeBB, etc.)
« Last post by Tuxman on July 20, 2015, 03:47 AM »
Oops, I missed this thread. To quote myself:

Discourse is an annoying try to do everything differently even if there was no actual need for that before. The UI requires Javascript which sucks for  security reasons; but, even worse, the whole thing grew so fat that the only supported installation method is a pre-configured Docker container (!) which limits Discourse to Linux although it does not require any other Linux-only package.

Their so-called community does not seem to care about people doing things in a different way.

Pointless technical restrictions of usability just because it's more modern is not something anyone should want to achieve; although I must admit that I really like the Misago board because it's outstanding in some ways.

The Usenet and mailing lists (mentioned above) are different things than web forums, they also target a different audience. I use newsgroups on my Android device, so I'm probably out of the picture. -- That said, today's board systems make it easier to stay trendy. I fell in love with the Invision Power Board a while ago because its user interface is one of the greatest I've ever seen - even on my smartphone.  :-* (A pity that DonationCoder doesn't have a responsive UI yet; but maybe mouser will use the new opportunity...)

Board systems like Discourse and Vanilla have a different target audience again. The first time I've read about Discourse was when I set up my first Pelican blog, it seems to be a nice Disqus replacement. Such boards may work nicely for commenting stuff or as software support forums, but the lack of structure (like immediately visible subforums/categories) makes it really hard to think of them as viable replacements for real forums™.

The world's biggest (regular) board (ConceptArt.org) uses the "classic" vBulletin software, its inofficial "successor" (after vBulletin 5 was FUBAR) XenForo already gained much traction and market share. Don't even dare to assume forums are dying. They're consolidating.
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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread
« Last post by Tuxman on July 20, 2015, 02:05 AM »
Discourse is an annoying try to do everything differently even if there was no actual need for that before. The UI requires Javascript which sucks for  security reasons; but, even worse, the whole thing grew so fat that the only supported installation method is a pre-configured Docker container (!) which limits Discourse to Linux although it does not require any other Linux-only package.

Their so-called community does not seem to care about people doing things in a different way.
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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread
« Last post by Tuxman on July 17, 2015, 03:51 AM »
I'm not really deep into SMF (currently I'm working on some ElkArte modding though), but I keep at least three eyes on board systems.

You got mail.  :)
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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread
« Last post by Tuxman on July 17, 2015, 03:40 AM »
Drupal sucks. From a security perspective as well as from a UX perspective. But that might be just me.

Regarding the choice of the "new" forum system: I - as a user - am glad that DC sticks to the "old" Curved theme and SMF. There's not much that sucks more with forum upgrades than having a completely different system afterwards. I am afraid that SMF2 (I hope the final relaunch will use the much improved v2.1 which is about to leave the beta phase soon) is - more or less - a dead cow, with the initial release of version 2.0 facing many forks like ElkArte (they even provide a SMF fallback theme) and the heavily customized Wedge and many original developers parting their ways.

Admittedly, it could be worse. Discourse or NodeBB, for example, have really awful user interfaces. Or just another XenForo.  :sick:
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born
« Last post by Tuxman on June 25, 2015, 11:59 AM »
Hooray.

It's out after it was in. :D
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Living Room / Re: Ahem . . . has your antivirus program been compromised by GCHQ and NSA?
« Last post by Tuxman on June 25, 2015, 03:08 AM »
Just another reason to stop using snake oil software.
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General Software Discussion / The Bat! 7
« Last post by Tuxman on June 18, 2015, 04:53 AM »
Now featuring CardDAV support:

http://article.gmane...l.the-bat.beta/78181
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Quick Fuck Off - FOAAS for Thunderbird & SeaMonkey
« Last post by Tuxman on June 06, 2015, 08:55 AM »
This extension serves the purpose of providing instant access to the FOAAS web service. FOAAS (Fuck Off As A Service) provides a modern, RESTful, scalable solution to the common problem of telling people to fuck off.



SeaMonkey version
Thunderbird version

 :P
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Living Room / Re: The End of my Macbook Pro Experiment
« Last post by Tuxman on June 06, 2015, 06:56 AM »
OS X is the living proof that it is possible to create a UNIX which sucks even more than Linux. (Although, technically, "MacOS is based on BSD" is not as true as it sounds, given that there was NeXT before and Darwin is more like a Frankenstein's Monster made of SysV and BSD/4.3 ingredients with an awfully fucked up kernel.)

I welcome your decision, anyway.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AdGuard: the better Ad Muncher?
« Last post by Tuxman on May 24, 2015, 05:00 AM »
Jeff has mentioned it in their forums too.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AdGuard: the better Ad Muncher?
« Last post by Tuxman on May 23, 2015, 06:31 PM »
Interesting things (actually, those are 2 devs AFAIK) happen when you decide to give away your things for free.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AdGuard Premium Lifetime on sale at StackSocial.com
« Last post by Tuxman on May 05, 2015, 03:21 AM »
Hmm, my beta period will last some more days. Guess they'll just extend beta subscriptions for regular testers for free.
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Developer's Corner / libcheck.py: Check JS library updates in Python
« Last post by Tuxman on April 29, 2015, 05:17 AM »
This is a project by me. It's not "requested" by anyone but me, it's not a project large enough for the showroom, but maybe someone can use it.

I work in a small IT company, currently being involved in finishing a better Transifex alternative. As I make use of a number of JavaScript libraries, I regularly lose track of updated versions. So I made this script which does it for me.

libcheck.py on GitHub

This is my first Python script, I have a couple of things on my personal TODO list. While I work on it, I gladly accept new definition files. Mine are not perfect.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office: **90%+** Discount!!!! Offer Expires Feb5 6pm(?) EST
« Last post by Tuxman on April 22, 2015, 07:01 PM »
If their refreshed Thunderbird stops crashing if you do weird things with it (like actually using it...), it might be an improvement. "Free" and good Windows IMAP clients are rare. (But then again, my €30 are already reserved for the next The Bat! upgrade.)
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Softmaker Office: **90%+** Discount!!!! Offer Expires Feb5 6pm(?) EST
« Last post by Tuxman on April 22, 2015, 06:19 PM »
Hmm, 2016 looks not very different from 2012 and somewhat "uncatchy" (by means of boring). I like that the beta ends soon, this could mean that the release will follow quickly. I pity the loss of eM Client though. Thunderbird is bugware.
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Pale Moon browser now available on Android
« Last post by Tuxman on April 21, 2015, 03:05 AM »
Most mobile Android browsers lack a compression proxy feature. Opera, Chrome, that's it. :(
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer lifetime license PRO 50% off
« Last post by Tuxman on April 21, 2015, 03:04 AM »
He really needs new customers, hm?
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