Magnetic_dud

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[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 months ago

European here, stopped seeing them at the end of 90s, before they were so common, even in city

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 4 months ago

elon musk should make autonomous weapons. Don't need to test, move fast and break things, will work fine:

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

eh, can see how those are working great for the powerful people (examples: putin, bibi, the libya guy)

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Screenshot is from Windows where dotfiles aren't hidden by default. And all the lazy developers that created those directories, didn't bother to set the hidden attribute (See appdata is greyed, because it has the hidden attribute set)

 

AppData folder: am I a joke to you?

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why a real person would star a project? When I star a project then my GitHub home is littered with activity from that project. I hate that, so I never star anything

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I also did the same as you but because they discontinued the official syncthing app on Android I skipped the "sync to PC first step. Now I directly go to Borg from phone night time only when charging, the automate app is able to invoke termux and run the backup script

Many times it happened the syncthing app crashed in background and I didn't notice before after several days, now if the Borg repository server (borgwarehouse, it's a must have) doesn't see activity after some user specified time sends me a warning email

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's also incredibly useful to backup /sdcard via rsync or Borg every night automatically

Or access the contents of your phone via SFTP

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago

Especially when there's a chance that the bios update resets the tpm and if the user has enabled bitlocker (automatically done in background without user consent on windows 11 if using a Microsoft account) then they need to type the decryption key to boot again.

Happened twice on my laptop

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 6 months ago

The manager who approved this need to be fired. Programs need to ask permission to the user before installing, especially when they're not device drivers.

This is literal malware and there's also a chance that it might be exploited (example: a mitm Attack exchanges the file that armory crate is downloading)

This kind of Easter egg is not funny at all, developers must avoid undocumented time bombs. I still remember that day 15 years ago when I turned on my Wii and it said that the system files were corrupted. After hours of reverting a full nand backup via bootmii (and losing 2 years of game saves) it turned out that it was a funny April's fool by crediar, which put a fake system corruption message when you run his program on April 1st. Problem is that his program was a loader for the system menu so it was unavoidable if you didn't know that.

Like me, there must be someone paranoid that saw that black bar on the screen, saw a weird Christmas.exe running on their system, and starting wiping or restoring old images to "clean" that.

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Aren't Nissan and Mitsubishi almost part of Renault?

The Mitsubishi Colt is now a rebadged Renault Clio and the Mitsubishi ASX is a Renault Captur

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Most keyboard shortcuts are illogical (=differ too much from Linux/Windows) and too often require 3+ keys

Of course if you're used to "Ctrl+shift+command+3" to do a screenshot instead of just pressing the dedicated button on the keyboard and feel it natural, this doesn't apply to you

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

You can even pay to subscribe to the richest asshole in the world, too and there's a shockingly high numbers of idiots that did so

 
 

Yes, believable, from all the payment methods available, Greenpeace would choose the most fucking inefficient one, that wastes 700 kWh for a single transaction, that's 100 households!

 

It was a video of someone pretending to tell you a secret: thanks to a new israeli app based on ai, it's possible to make 8000 euro per month with trading by just opening an account with their referral and depositing 500 euro. 100% safe and definitely not a scam.

Maybe not a literal scam but imho deceiving people just because they're going to give you $100 in referral money is a scam

 

I have an old mac with a dying hfs hdd with failing SMART. I copied 2tb of data on an exfat drive but windows only sees only 3 directories and 80gb. Where's my other stuff? Now after I did that long copy session that lasted a whole day, the disk died from stress and the mac doesn't boot anymore. Even if it boots, i don't think the disk can last another full copy session...

Testdisk can show the data, there's a way to tell windows that the files are there?

 

Also: FUCK SCRIBD AND EVERYONE THAT UPLOADS STUFF THERE!

 

I got a new Mobo. Windows installer doesn't see the nvme drive. For some reason the bios has a million settings and are all alien to me.

I took a lot of photos of all the settings, so many unknown entries

The motherboard is from an unknown Chinese OEM and it's using a laptop core i7 but in a itx form factor. I have no idea of the brand, really. The box just says "motherboard" and there's no silkscreen on the PCB (it was very fun guessing which pins were for the front panel). No user manual was included. The bios it says "version: default string"

I hate when OEMs lock down bios settings but here is the opposite, they enabled everything

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