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foone, 1 month ago to random

bad idea: A mouse cursor that's not just a simple floating pointer, it's a cat/dog paw... but it stretches all the way to an edge of the screen like it's a really long leg

foone, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

The 37C3 talk on TEA1 encryption (used by police and military units in europe) is hilarious.
The hackers announced they found a vulnerability in the encryption, and one of the ways the organization that standardized TEA1 downplayed the breach was by saying that it wasn't viable, because it required "high powered GPUs".

So they ported their algorithm to a Toshiba Satellite running Windows 95, and re-cracked the encryption there.

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11761-all_cops_are_broadcasting

(or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KhbJ4pqcOY )

foone, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I've no longer got a job, and I'm also kinda completely broke.

So if anyone has a few extra dollars they can donate to help me, that'd be very appreciated.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

foone, 2 months ago to random

It's kinda depressing how tumblr is imploding now and I'm seeing half my follow list go "man, after seeing both twitter and tumblr do this, it's really showing how it's a bad idea for a social media network to be run by a company who can make arbitrary changes without user consent.

anyway, here's my bsky: ..."

foone, 6 months ago to random

The worst part about being a company that builds AI products is having to hire all the security to kill the time travelers who keep trying to stop you.

Seriously, our budget for FY 2024 is like 60% security at this point

foone, 16 days ago to random

the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

foone, 6 months ago to random

There's a special hell for sites which have password requirements that are like 16 letters, one or more numbers, upper case and lowercase, at least one special character, and we disabled pasting/password managers

foone, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

foone, 6 months ago to random

remember kids: the point of the html "class" attribute is to list out the explicit formatting of every element on your webpage.

CSS was supposed to split formatting from HTML! and it did.

now instead of horrible HTML like <font size="7" color="red">, we have CSS!
So our HTML can instead look like:
<div class="size-7 color-red">

note: you'll need to include a few hundred KB of CSS libraries to make this work properly, but that's the price we have to pay for elegance

foone, 16 days ago to random

You know, in the 80s people often said things like "in 40 years, everything will have computers in them", and while they weren't wrong, they severely underestimated the situation.
Our computers have computers in them. Those smaller computers often have even smaller computers inside them.

We didn't get a "everything is a computer" future, we got a future with fractal computers. The fuckers have metastasized

foone, 2 months ago to random

PSA: We're two days to a possible US government shutdown.

That means NOW is the best time to get out your Blonder-Tongues and other NTSC broadcasting equipment, get them connected, and ready to go.

That way you'll be able to begin broadcasting unlicensed pirate TV the very moment the FCC goes on hiatus

foone, 6 months ago to random

It seems every company I've worked at has a person who looms large in their legend.
Like, they're often the person who built the core systems, everything was originally their design, but they left recently and in their absence they've had to hire like 5 more people to try and take over all their responsibilities.

I think next time I'm gonna track down that person, find out where they moved to, and go work there instead

foone, 4 months ago to random

here's the annual update of the intro scene of the SNES game "The Firemen"

foone, 4 months ago to random

Given the justification for openai and how it "can't exist" if it had to respect copyrights, I've got a new idea for a piracy site.

Step 1: we feed every frame of the movie into an AI and ask it to describe it
Step 2: we have another AI generate new frames based on each of those descriptions
Step 3: generate a new audio track by getting AI voice impressions of each actor, using the captions
Step 4: recombine. We now have a copyright-free version of the movie!

foone, 2 months ago to random

If the web browser was invented today, Apple wouldn't let it on the app store

foone, 5 months ago to random

HDMI periscope

foone, 3 months ago to random

computers are a completely normal field where there are still existing databases built on descendants of something called PICK OS, an early database made in the 60s to organize parts for a helicopter that never existed, for a system called Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), as created by a guy named Dick Pick.

foone, 8 months ago to random

the tabbed browser is old enough to vote and yet people are still making websites where you can't mid-click navigational elements to open them in new tabs

foone, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

VGAPride says happy trans day of visibility. #tdov

foone, 6 months ago to random

My robot girlfriend walks in with the crop, I'm already tied to the bed. "what's the safeword?", she asks. I respond by saying the letter "A" for 90 seconds straight followed by a short hex string.
calc.exe opens up on her eyes. Finally, a PoC!
Shouldn't have used fixed length buffers without bounds checking, babe. This is a rookie C mistake.

foone, 3 months ago to random

What I want to see someone make: one of those Radio Shack 200-in-one electronics lab kits, but it's arduino compatible.

foone, 27 days ago to random

I'm still broke, though I've got a temp job for now: they've not yet paid me, however, and I've had to pay something like 4k$ for two medications, and another 2k$ that was supposedly going to make the 4k$ free.

So any donations would be great. https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

foone, 4 months ago to random

I'm always kinda surprised that Factorio is so popular with developers, given that it's basically "technical debt, the game!"

foone, 25 days ago to random

using a floppy disk image creating tool to create a virtual floppy disk image using a file that I had to load off a floppy disk, so I can put it in a VM and turn it into a PCX, then put that on a real pentium-60 windows 95 PC

sometimes I think I'm going backwards