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GnomeToys

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  1. You can also edit /etc/hosts to include entries for sites that don't like being blocked. Or, add ones you do like to prevent DNS lookup from happening so any tracking at the DNS lookup level doesn't occur and you route directly to the site you want (and are then only tracked by all the routers in between. ? ). This requires that the site has a stable IP address that can be used for access or you being willing to keep it updated if it doesn't. It speeds initial connections up a tiny amount since no lookup occurs if used this way. Pop open a shell and # sudo nano /etc/hosts Basically you add entries like: 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com ::1 www.facebook.com 66.228.55.176 forum.12ozprophet.com The first is an IPv4, second is IPv6. The first two lines redirect www.facebook.com requests to your local machine which just causes them to timeout if you don't have a webserver running; downside is you have to add all subdomains manually. If you set up a local server that doesn't accept connections from outside hosts and just replies with 404 or similar you can speed up that kind of blocking. The last line resolves the forum address locally, assuming the address remains constant. These types are more of a pain to use since things aren't necessarily constant with target IP. The 127.0.0.1 blocking relies on the TCP/IP stack on the OS not being messed up. I've read vague reports of both mac & windows 10 ignoring blocks of apple.com & microsoft.com respectively, so setting up blocking in a firewall is preferable. An older machine that can run some minimal linux or BSD and a spare network card can handle filtering things for you at a much more configurable level than a consumer router, which is a good reason to keep an old computer around. There are lots of tutorials on setting this kind of thing up on the web and it has become much easier in more recent *nix.
  2. I saw the reddit breach and wasn't too concerned. Github was also breached though, which may have more implications for (mostly) small time software companies who used private repositories there as a free versioning system, which like most cloud storage is a bad idea unless you're running an online service in the first place. In that case you're better off with a paid service which offers some kind of insurance / support for hacks like this. It won't prevent them but you'll get better response and notification. I logged into github and was greeted with "your password was leaked in a recent data breach. you should change it"... but the account itself was still active and the same password still worked, so exactly what help is that message? Whatever small town shit is going on there is just a symptom of the problem. Stuff like this, regardless of who was caught and what the results were, is downright terrifying: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/27/golden-state-killer-dna-website-gedmatch-was-used-to-identify-joseph-deangelo-as-suspect-police-say/?utm_term=.999ca8e33ce9 Keep in mind this is someone who was identified by a familial genetic match rather than their own DNA actually being in a database, and since DNA is left damn near everywhere just by the act of walking around, this is alarming as fuck. Yeah, they caught a serial rapist with this technique. It also messes up and leads to invasive searches on people who have fuckall to do with anything, which that article also covers: Fucking lovely...
  3. Meh, I've gotten a bunch of interviews through there (when I wasn't in a good state to be interviewing) and a lot more requests that I ignored because I wasn't looking. Very little spam, but I still don't like the place much and pseudo-randomize the work history and profile every once in a while to see what kind of hilarity it produces.
  4. @fat ralphyis still into the tame shit I see. ?
  5. Elysian Dayglow (animated for hologram)
  6. It has a heart rate sensor too. Samsung's website says they just use an LED emitter & detector to measure slight changes in skin movement during heartbeats, so if they use 700-800nm IR for that they can probably pull a halfway accurate pulse ox reading based on how much light is absorbed vs. what was put out. It wouldn't be as accurate because you'd need a sensor on the other side of the finger or whatever for that part, but you get some kind of baseline reading. The iris scanner / face recognition in those is kind of funny. This thread on Samsung's site is hilarious and says something about how much crap is being tied into the limited near IR spectrum: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S8-Questions-and-Answers/S8-IR-Emission/td-p/161240 ?
  7. Android is a fragmented mess, for sure. A large part of this has to do with how ARM licenses their processor IP and what their specifications were... some quick / annoying examples of this: In the ancient ARMv5 era, there was a feature level of processor that supported a mode called Jazelle, which was intended to be a hardware Java VM and would have sped up that language quite a bit. ARM's "minimal implementation" was just a slow-ish trap into a software Java VM, though, so almost nobody implemented it in hardware because it would have been more expensive. ARMv7 has a set of vector floating point instructions called VFP and another integer set called NEON. VFP could be optionally implemented with 16 registers instead of 32, which meant that a bunch of phones couldn't run code built for the same processor level if they used the full register set. In addition, there were 4 feature levels of VFP and NEON was optional. Maybe the least annoying, but there are also three instruction sets depending on processor version / feature level. ARM instructions are all the same length, Thumb1 instructions were 2 bytes instead of 4, and Thumb2 instructions are variable-width 2 or 4 byte. Switching between the modes and being compatible requires special branch instructions that rely on the lowest bit of the address being set. This isn't a problem if you just build everything to be aware of the interop between modes and use what you feel like, unless whoever wrote the OS didn't do that. ARMv8 has deprecated a couple of things which were later removed (the IT instruction) but has been generally better at warning people about it in advance. Another issue on the native code side of things for Android is that google didn't include a commercially usable C++ standard library that actually supported all C++ features for a very long time. The one that supported everything properly was GPL'd so couldn't be used in anything anyone wanted to sell without them releasing source. Apple got around almost all of these things by being the only hardware manufacturer, and eventually making their own processors, but there were still quite a few times where backwards compatibility was broken with apps. This would have been fine, but their new XCode releases would often stop supporting compilation for older modes so it made things more difficult on developers wanting to support old phones at the expense of the current stuff being guaranteed to run. Have you tried Adobe's phone / tablet apps? I've been messing around with Adobe Sketch (I think, they have a few) and although it's no Illustrator it's all vector-based and supports most of what you want. They're all free on Android, I doubt it's different on iOS, and perform amazingly well for adobe software. It will export to .png for emails and has an "export to illustrator" which appears to send a .ai file to Creative Cloud storage, but since I haven't had a creative cloud subscription in several years I have no idea what it thinks it's sending to in that case. I think this is mainly a reflection of what most people were actually using their computers for in the first place. Tons of people had computers for the sole purpose of email, web, and simple word processing. Although I'm not good at it some can type very fast on their phones thanks to adaptive text entry / swipe keys. Many people don't even need the set of features something like LibreOffice / MS Office contains, and most don't do image editing on a level that requires Photoshop. I still think the prices on new carrier unlocked phones (esp. Apple's) are stretching credibility pretty heavily, though. I forget what the actual fabrication costs of the processors / etc they're using are, but I remember a breakdown of iPhone 4 that indicated the phone was well under $100 in parts and that was in the listed bulk prices which weren't anywhere near the quantity apple buys. Gotta love their marketing, too. Take creepy tech and make it a desired feature. Ok... this is about half of what Apple's page on the phone talks about along with the neural net hardware. I didn't realize typing a password was that difficult, but whatever. My concerns with this are both their willingness to share the data with 3rd party devs, who are more or less a crapshoot on mobile, and the scattered infrared laser the thing is shooting straight at your face. It's scattered into ~30,000 points, but AFAIK nobody has done long term studies on low intensity direct laser radiation like this (which will be used more often than anyone would normally be getting direct-beam laser exposure), and I can't find anywhere that Apple has listed the output power of the laser module. IR lasers don't generally cause the same type of immediate retinal damage a visible laser would, but have other issues and even relatively weak (10mW) DPSS green lasers from chinese manufacturers are considered fairly dangerous by laser enthusiasts because of the IR leakage. Discussions on Apple forums just consist of the usual group of people defending the company and denying that anything dangerous would ever happen, but I'll buy that when I find actual numbers. Here's a fun video of the laser in action. MS Kinect uses a similar system to map rooms (meaning this ought to be able to do a limited level of the same in low light), and a couple of old Sony digicams used a visible light version to provide accurate low-light autofocus, so it isn't anything too new, it's just much closer to your eyes than either of those.
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane ? ? ?
  9. Pretty much that. Meanwhile cops in 10 years are going to be asking why his generation doesn't respect or trust them...
  10. Fuck that shit. I'm all for making the cops carry nothing but a nightstick and optionally some weak mace, UK style. I bet they'd be amazed at how many people don't shoot at them when they're not pulling out their service pistols at random traffic stops and shit. Yeah, he probably had a not insignificant amount of hearing issues from discharging a fucking 9mm indoors repeatedly, too. Stack on the whole part where the cops dress like something out of a weird German bondage porn from the 80s these days and the naked dude who had run in just ahead of them and I wouldn't have obeyed anything they said if I could hear it very clearly and it was the Buddha and the second coming of Christ at the door. Oh lawd, not visible light! No wonder the cop shot at him, you can get vision damage from looking at a flashlight for several weeks straight. Presumably he fired 4 shots because the first three missed. Well, at least they gave him more shooting lessons and he had the entire 15 days it takes a total sociopath to mentally recover after shooting a human. If the guy who survived Vietnam and just got done dropping a crazed naked man had decided to shoot first and ask questions later, there'd be a lot more bodies but more decent people left alive. ? RIP Gary Black
  11. I found 1 weird trick to instantly make you show up on all the searches. I got this popup immediately: "WOW HOW DO I DO THIS MAGICAL PROFILE FUCKERY AND GET RECRUITERS SLURPING MY NUTS?", you scream incoherently. I added work experience. ? ? ?
  12. I'm getting some laughs from him, will watch moar.
  13. I can't comment on what's going on in this one because I'm lacking background on it but it sounds dodgy as fuck: http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/kankakee-chief-investigates-critics/article_c77bf066-910d-11e8-a37e-cbe13f4cf7fd.html Internet readers question ability of Kankakee, Il. police chief to point correct side of gun away from himself,
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