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- Comment on A Former Sega Developer Has Helped Recover Games Lost for More Than 30 Years 3 hours ago:
"right now" - interesting, it hasn't happened to me yet.
Also interestingly, worked at "high security" places where IT literally was unaware that a middle manager used their work laptop to torrent bestiality porn - they only saw it once the police raided the manager and confiscated their work laptop and IT had to check wtf was going on.
Monitoring is rarely as thorough as your IT dept would have you believe.
- Comment on A Former Sega Developer Has Helped Recover Games Lost for More Than 30 Years 7 hours ago:
That's why I said SAVE the code, not USE it.
in 20-30 years that company will be dust. Or at best, trying to get that code back. In which case you can swoop in and deliver a saviour package - "hey guys I worked here some 30 years ago and kiiiiinda didn't delete the code when I left, now I know it's against my contract, but rest assured it was only used for archival purposes - anyway heard you wanted backups because you lost yours, so here it is"
- Comment on A Former Sega Developer Has Helped Recover Games Lost for More Than 30 Years 20 hours ago:
And, software devs, THIS is why you keep a copy of the code and documentation when you leave.
Not because you might want to use it for malicious reasons. That can backfire.
But, one, your local copy will always be there for your reference, so you can recall a funky solution, or a weird bug and it's workarounds.
But most importantly... who knows if in 30-50 years that code won't become something highly sought after?
- Comment on IN THE ASS YOU SAY? 21 hours ago:
With a strap, you say?
- Comment on Ubisoft has reportedly offered to buy Arkane Lyon from Xbox 21 hours ago:
Talent.
- Comment on Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again 2 days ago:
More than likely, these companies simply got rid of most of their IT/opsec teams and those savings are now biting them in the arse.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Star Gates McFadden Pays Tribute to Patrick Stewart: His Portrayal of Jean-Luc Picard Gave People Hope Around the World 2 days ago:
You're not alone, brother...
- Comment on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case 2 days ago:
For further information:
html-load(dot)com, error-report(dot)com are domains owned by Ad-Shield and similar "as recovery" services that:
- inject a script into the site from its own host
- script checks if ad blocs load content or not
- if no ad content is loaded, they phone home to html-load(dot)com or a similar address (making it appear to the average user that they're some "core internet service")
- id html-load or their other domains aren't reachable (they send a keyed request so it's not as easy as having your own server respond with an empty
{}script), the site will unload CSS and deliver a blocking view
- Comment on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case 2 days ago:
- Comment on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case 2 days ago:
No, the block is very specifically about ad recovery via html-load(dot)com...
- Comment on Two young action movie actors, Tom Holland and George Lazenby, both at 29 in their respective photos. Or: a 2020s man of action vs. a 1960s man of action. 2 days ago:
Cigarettes, and sunlight.
The amount of damage sunlight can do to your skin if you don't use appropriate protection, is astonishing.
- Comment on [Video] People Against Genocide smash military satellites bound for Israel at Ultra Technology facility 2 days ago:
Watch the government designate People Against Genocide a terrorist group within days...
- Comment on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case 2 days ago:
Interesting.
I run my own AGH gateway at home with pretty heavy filtering, plus my iDevices have a NextDNS profile installed - and now most big tech sites do this crap...
- Comment on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case 2 days ago:
Neither of which are available on iOS in non-Safari browsers
- Comment on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case 3 days ago:
can we PLEASE stop linking stuff from shit-ass sites that use quasi-malware services like Ad-Shield (the service behind the notorious html-load(dot)com, error-report(dot)com etc.)?
These sites intentionally break and block access when a DNS based ad blocker is used. Not because the site can't load - it actually loads perfectly fine behind the blockout - but because these fuckers intentionally unload CSS to break the site if ads won't load... via the same exact methods web malware loads malicious scripts.
- Comment on Move over powered milk, it onion time 4 days ago:
Literally gave you an alternative name dude. Maybug.
- Comment on Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware? 4 days ago:
Starfield could've been amazing - just like how well Cyberpunk 2077 or No Man's Sky turned out. But that would've required Bethesda committing to long term QoL updates, DLCs, etc., for little to no profit.
- Comment on why i love my country 5 days ago:
I'll have you know that queefs are wondrous, entertaining, beautiful things.
So basically everything Trump isn't.
- Comment on Move over powered milk, it onion time 5 days ago:
That's.... not a caterpillar. That's the larvae/maggot of the common cockchafer, as far as I can tell. Otherwise known as Maybug.
The black egg is century egg, a duck or chicken egg preserved in an alkaline solution (usually quicklime, ash, salt and rice hulls). It's not horrible in the way, say, surströmming is, but it an unusual taste and texture that makes most people balk at the idea. Honestly, I'd pick it over even the onion.
- Comment on why i love my country 5 days ago:
Rapist In Chief also works
- Comment on Telegram automatically modifies your text message to "debunk" whatever you are trying to send 1 week ago:
Anecdotal evidence without even a screenshot is no evidence at all.
- Comment on Why won't MPs tax the rich? 1 week ago:
Yes, but also not just corruption.
The rich can throw their economic weight around in a number of ways.
For example, an employer of 10-50-100k people could say that if certain laws get passed, they'll simply... stop operating in the country, because losing said operations isn't as much a loss than what those new laws introduce.
And politicians do have to consider the livelihood of those people. It's not like a new company will pop up and buy all the equipment, hire those people, and provide economic stability for 10-100 thousand families. The company leaving doesn't just mean a drop in tax revenue, but also now up to 500k people are destitute and require government support to survive.
- Comment on is the banana for scale? 1 week ago:
Probably not, though. The camera is head on, and the painted surface is from the angle of the camera...
Even in your video, the painted surface is clearly visible from the outside even on camera, whereas the unpainted side doesn't show the paint - logically.
But in our case the key effect is that we're looking at the PAINTED side, yet don't see the paint itself. Which is primarily because of the IR effect I described - the pigment in the paint reflects the visible range of light (so the paint is visible), but not IR, therefore the IR camera in the doorbell "sees through" the paint.
- Comment on is the banana for scale? 1 week ago:
The ink used is not really visible in IR light (aka the night vision used by doorbells among other things).
You can get these ultra thin, custom print balaclavas. They're literally just a thin pantyhose like material, and cheap textile paint.
And with much of the plastic we use today that appear to be completely opaque to our eyes, IR blocking is usually not an important aspect for these paints, so the IR floodlight of the doorbell goes right through and reflects from the mask only, making it appear as if it was just an empty mask.
- Comment on Mmm, roasted apples. 1 week ago:
I fucking love granny smith. Best apple ever.
Juicy, slightly sour, a touch tart, perfectly refreshing on a hot summer day.I've always found pink lady to be weird. It's just so flavourless, the flesh consistency is like wet, gravelly sand, and it gets mushy so fast...
- Comment on I asked for a sign, *sigh* at least I got a sign 1 week ago:
It's a sign to neuter your cat already
- Comment on Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits 1 week ago:
Yay...
And even that won't work.
Why oh why can't we have a sane government for fucks sake
- Comment on Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits 1 week ago:
So if these laws provided no benefit, we're going to roll them back, right? Right?
- Comment on NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. How does one deal with grief or loss in a safe way without turning to alcohol or drugs? 1 week ago:
As others have said, you don't deal with it.
It hurts. It is supposed to hurt. It will hurt for a while, a LONG while.
But over time it will hurt less. It will consume less of your time as days go by. And after a while it will be only the occasional flare-up.
With that said it's important not to implode. Not to let grief, the attached guilt (there's always guilt with loss - the what-ifs, the why-did-i-nots, and so on) consume you. Seek out company from family and friends. Try to occupy your free time so you're not just spinning in your own head aimlessly wallowing.
Also try to refocus things. Mourn the loss, but try to remember the good things. It is important to remember what you lost, but remember it as something you had instead.
- Comment on It's an old one but I'll just leave this here 2 weeks ago:
My bed to where?