Interesting observation: almost all of the blind hackers in my friend circle are bookworms, me included. I mean, some of us like audio over epub or vice versa, same with genres, but we're all bookworms. Wonder why?
@TheQuinbox interesting. I have been wanting to get into pentesting for a while now, but I do not know if I should try hack the box or try hack me or nothing at all and just go look up some cources.
Today I learned: if your WSL is ever having a problem reading/writing your Windows-mounted drives, wslhost.exe probably died. Run wsl --shutdown and then bring it back, all should work after that.
Computers are cool. I can download a random installer of a program I'm curious about, grep it for "SetupVersionData" to determine if it's InnoSetup, extract it with innounp, and boom, you have a portable version you can browse around. As long as you know what to look for, there's almost nothing that's impossible.
@TheQuinbox It's even better when an Innosetup / NSIS / whatever script is the only copy protection on the software. I've seen this once, there was a binary that a verified whether the provided key was valid and the installation wouldn't proceed otherwise, but you could just extract the program and run it.
I wish we could find a way to do this for English "haunted Factory", which nobody seems to have a key for.
My laptop's sound driver, among many others, has this absolutely infuriating behavior where it puts the sound card to sleep after a particular amount of silence (mine's seemingly after 5 seconds), causing a screen reader user to miss the beginning of speech, an audio file, a notification, or anything else they may be trying to listen to. To solve this, I wrote this little program. Simply run it, and it'll start piping silent audio through your default sound card, which has fixed it on every machine I've tried. It should also respect device changes (e.g. unplugging headphones). To close it, simply click on the tray icon. It doesn't get much simpler than that. https://quinbox.xyz/files/SleepSoundly.zip
My dad's out of town at the moment on a business trip, and he sent me a checklist of things I need to do to help my mom with after her surgery. He sent it as an Apple Notes link. SO to access it from my Pixel, I had to:
Click the link and try to sign into my Apple ID.
Get a verification code, except I have no Apple devices around at the second and the text option had to be clicked like 5 times before it worked.
Verify I have... access to be invited to the note, whatever that means. SO they had to text me a link, and I had to click it.
After clicking it, I had to, you fucking guessed it, sign in again, including the same problem with sending a code, even though I hit trust this browser the first time.
Dismiss the 15 modals that popped up across the two tabs, and try to access the note. It doesn't work.
Close the entire browser and click the link again.
Finally scroll down to the notes contents, and realize that Apple really doesn't care about you, because all you can read is the first line!
Seriously, fuck, you! It feels like this entire world is now just broken, inaccessible garbage everywhere you look.
@TheQuinbox And this is why if I know someone has a google device I would use google docs or keep, which is, wait for it... readily available on apple products. Wow!
selling some stuff, DM for details if you want a particular product:
An echo dot third generation ($20.00).
Google Nest Hub First generation ($50.00).
An iPad Mini 1 ($100.00).
A Samsun Meteor USB microphone ($30).
Prices aren't set, if you're being reasonable we can talk. More to come soon.
Just saw this YouTube video title: "Best OS for programming? Mac vs Windows vs Linux debate settled".
Oh, to be a sighted person and to be able to choose an OS from a silly programming YouTuber talking about it as opposed to having to compare and contrast screen readers, "oh orca is garbage, oh Mac VO is garbage too, okay, guess it's Windows. Oh, but Windows has ads in the start menu! But, at least my screen reader works..."
It just now hit me that tomorrow is my last actual day of high school. I've got some other things I need to do, namely on Friday and Tuesday, but what... what the fuck?
@TheQuinbox@jscholes The head of security at my previous employer has started to really get involved in efforts to make cybersecurity more accessible since he started working there. They did a talk about it during Axe-Con back in February.
The best friendships are when you can say the phrase "Well I mean..." and the other person just completely and totally understands what you mean immediately.
In case you ever wondered what I do in my downtime, I just found the IP address for my cable modem's dashboard, and spent 30 minutes going through, reading all the addresses, and tweaking things like the front-panel lights or energy-efficient Ethernet. Now, back to drinking this coffee I completely forgot about while messing with this.
Wow, this sleep schedule is absolutely *amaaaaazing. Laid down at 7:30, fell asleep close to 9:00, just now woke up, at 3:00. Why do I always manage to do this to myself in finals week? Hey, at least it's my last finals week in K12 though!
@TheQuinbox Ugh for the sleep and the finals! Good luck. My finals week always, and I do mean always, all the way through university, coincided with reading a really amazing book that I didn't want to put down ...