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>> No. 28422 Anonymous
12th May 2023
Friday 1:42 am
28422 RISC CPU Prediction From 1995
In the 1995 movie "Hackers", Angelina Jolie predicted the truth. RISC CPUs are used in every modern mobile phone and tablet.
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>> No. 28424 Anonymous
12th May 2023
Friday 2:07 am
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>>28423

RIP ANGELINA JOLIE'S BIG TITS

>>28422

They're used in practically everything. Your car has several dozen RISC-based processors - in the ECU, the ABS controller, the airbag controller, the in-car entertainment etc etc. The modern world rests on the backs of Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber.
>> No. 28425 Anonymous
12th May 2023
Friday 12:18 pm
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>>28424

https://www.unilad.com/gaming/female-gamers-call-out-sexist-tomb-raider-ad-from-1999

>Female Gamers Call Out Sexist Tomb Raider Ad From 1999


tl;dr: One single rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk user doesn't like obscure advert from before she was born. Wokeness ensues.
>> No. 28426 Anonymous
12th May 2023
Friday 1:25 pm
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>>28425
It's a two year old article about a quarter-of-a-century advert on Unilad.
>> No. 28427 Anonymous
12th May 2023
Friday 1:46 pm
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>>28425
>I saw ads like these, and the booth babes from E3 articles, and it honestly made me feel like an alien. As a child I didn’t fully understand why it made me uncomfortable, but I do remember internalising this idea that “if this is what women are, then what am I? I don’t want to be like this when I grow up!”

I have seen mountains of material depicting sexuality, men, and masculinity that I've found alienating, especially when I was younger and didn't fully understand it. It doesn't mean I'd want to preclude a community of people from enjoying it, as an adult. I can vocally criticise it, if I choose to. I also try to allow for the scope that I've misinterpreted it, that I was exposed to it too early, or that I've missed something that others see in it. I don't think we should be labelling any bit of media or art or expression as categorically "unacceptable", whether it's formally banned or not.

Not exactly a novel debate to be having nowadays, I know.
>> No. 28428 Anonymous
12th May 2023
Friday 2:57 pm
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>>28424

>They're used in practically everything.

I took apart my dishwasher's circuit board unit the other day to fix a broken push button, and it turned out the dishwasher is powered by a ST Microelectronics STM32F101. That's a 32-bit ARM Cortex M3-based RISC MCU with 36 MHz. Which all seems a bit overkill just to control a dishwasher with a few buttons and a seven-segment LED display.

Then again, they seem to be going for six quid a piece these days, probably half that if you buy in bulk. And I've built loads of Arduino-based ATmega and ESP32 circuits myself, so I know it's nice to be free of the constraints of less powerful MCUs.

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>> No. 28380 Anonymous
17th April 2023
Monday 4:00 pm
28380 I need a new laptop
Where's the best place to get cheaper laptops these days? And what specs are sensible?

I'm hoping for something to do word processing on that I can normally have plugged into a big monitor (so it needs to run higher resolutions smoothly) but take into other rooms when necessary. Weight, battery life and graphics not all that important. Nor is memory, really.
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>> No. 28384 Anonymous
17th April 2023
Monday 7:05 pm
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>>28381

Chromebooks usually have very low specs compared to a Windows laptop, which is why they're so cheap. You actually don't need more than they come with to run Chrome OS, so it won't really feel slow as such, but just as a reminder that you get what you pay for.

Chrome OS is also still heavily dependent on an active Internet connection for much of the more Windows-like stuff. If you're on the go a lot with patchy wi-fi, you could run into some of the system's inherent limitations.

Personally, I'd always spend 100 quid more on a Windows 11 capable laptop. Brands like Lenovo offer decent enough laptops in that kind of price range. Your minimum should be 4GB to run Windows 11 Home, but if they've got a reduced one with 8GB, that's your better option. Also make sure it has a removable SSD with at least 128GB. eMMC memory tends to be quite puny on budget laptops, and you can't swap it out for higher capacity.

Interestingly, I went to an eye doctor the other week, and he had a Chromebook laptop sitting on his desk in his room with which he appeared to be doing all his everyday office stuff. Not sure if they're really suitable for that by now, but I thought that was interesting.
>> No. 28385 Anonymous
18th April 2023
Tuesday 12:59 am
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>an eye doctor the other week, and he had a Chromebook laptop sitting on his desk in his room

Chromebooks are deep deep into schools/education and starting to appear in the NHS - Microsoft is getting kicked out.
>> No. 28386 Anonymous
18th April 2023
Tuesday 6:16 am
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>>28385

>Chromebooks are deep deep into schools/education and starting to appear in the NHS - Microsoft is getting kicked out.

It's as much that Microsoft have adapted to a post-desktop world. The whole Microsoft 365 suite (Office, Teams, a million other things) works in the browser, with cloud-based storage and sync. Microsoft care about Windows, but it's not the core of their business and they'd be fine if it died.

ChromeOS is basically the rebirth of the thin client, with everything being managed remotely. If Gemma in HR loses her Chromebook, you just de-activate it, hand her a new one and tell her to log in as usual. For Gemma, it's as if nothing has happened, because all her files and settings are still there; for the IT team, there are no worries about data protection or data loss.
>> No. 28396 Anonymous
27th April 2023
Thursday 9:39 am
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It arrived, Lenovo ThinkPad T470S but cheaper due to having Windows 10 Education edition on it. I don't know what that is. Is it going to be a pain in the arse to use or shall I just stick some sort of linux and WINE on there?
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27th April 2023
Thursday 10:46 am
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>>28396

>Is it going to be a pain in the arse to use

No, it's fine. Education edition is between Pro and Enterprise on the pecking order. The differences are all weird features that are useful for IT departments but irrelevant to normal users.

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>> No. 28267 Anonymous
6th March 2023
Monday 12:07 pm
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>What if an AI could interpret your imagination, turning images in your mind's eye into reality? While that sounds like a detail in a cyberpunk novel, researchers have now accomplished exactly this, according to a recently-published paper.

>Researchers found that they could reconstruct high-resolution and highly accurate images from brain activity by using the popular Stable Diffusion image generation model, as outlined in a paper published in December. The authors wrote that unlike previous studies, they didn’t need to train or fine-tune the AI models to create these images. The researchers—from the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences at Osaka University—said that they first predicted a latent representation, which is a model of the image’s data, from fMRI signals. Then, the model was processed and noise was added to it through the diffusion process. Finally, the researchers decoded text representations from fMRI signals within the higher visual cortex and used them as input to produce a final constructed image.

>In the past, we’ve seen other examples of how brainwaves and brain functions can create images. In 2014, a Shanghai-based artist Jody Xiong used EEG biosensors to connect sixteen people with disabilities to balloons of paint. The people would then use their thoughts to burst specific balloons and create their own paintings. In another EEG example, artist Lia Chavez created an installation that allowed the electrical impulses in the brain to create sounds and light works. Audiences would wear EEG headsets, which would transfer the signals to an A/V system, where the brainwaves would be reflected through color and sound.

>With the advancement of generative AI, more and more researchers have been testing the ways AI models can work with the human brain. In a January 2022 study, researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands trained a generative AI network, a predecessor of Stable Diffusion, on fMRI data from 1,050 unique faces and convert the brain imaging results into actual images. The study found that the AI was able to perform unparalleled stimulus reconstruction. In the latest study released in December, the researchers revealed that current diffusion models can now achieve high-resolution visual reconstruction.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxje8n/researchers-use-ai-to-generate-images-based-on-peoples-brain-activity

How will society function once we reach the ability to read each others thoughts? Everything you can imagine on a page for all to see. Everything. The socialisation of the mind.
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>> No. 28375 Anonymous
5th April 2023
Wednesday 6:49 pm
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>Which is the best image generation AI to use right now lads?

Midjourney gets the best results with the least amount of hassle, but it's only available through a $10/mo subscription. Playground AI and Mage Space aren't as good, but they have free tiers. If you're serious (and you have a decent-ish graphics card), you'll probably want to learn how to use Stable Diffusion with the Automatic1111 GUI. There are loads of tutorials on YouTube and it isn't massively difficult, but you do need to set aside a couple of hours to figure it out.

I totally agree with your position. The way that generative AI models learn to create images is fundamentally no different than how humans learn by example. The trained model doesn't contain a copy of anything. There will be bickering in court, but ultimately the argument that AI is copyright infringement is doomed to fail.

A lot of middle-class people with arts degrees thought that, even though they didn't earn as much as their peers who went into computing or finance or whatever, they were essentially part of a privileged and permanent elite because "computers can never replace human creativity". They might be struggling to pay the bills now, but they'll be laughing when all of the people who do lucrative but boring jobs are replaced by an algorithm. Unfortunately, this world view is contradicted by Moravec's paradox.

Now we've discovered that painting or journalism is actually much easier for a computer to figure out than, say, cleaning toilets or laying bricks; they're doing their nut, because their world view has been shattered and they're facing a profound threat to their status.

As a skilled manual worker, I have very little sympathy. I don't want to get all "learn to code" or anything, but skilled manual workers have faced continual erosion of their working status for centuries. Some of us have adapted and found ways of successfully working in collaboration with the machines, but plenty of others ended up on the scrapheap. Losing your job to a machine was just the natural order of things when it only happened to blokes with calloused hands, but now that people with degrees are facing the same fate we're supposed to believe that it's the greatest crisis facing humanity. These people are going to learn the hard way that their supposedly privileged status was simply a fiction that capitalism doesn't recognise.
>> No. 28376 Anonymous
5th April 2023
Wednesday 11:47 pm
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>>28375

> I don't want to get all "learn to code" or anything


And please don't. One reason why there's so much shit code out there nowadays is that plenty of people who are obsolete in their line of work get sent to do some half arsed job centre course scheme for a few weeks where they learn to code just enough so that they'll be able to slap together some third-party libraries while truly understanding fuck all about them.

There's a difference between coding literacy and software engineering. You don't always need the latter, far from it, but it's much easier for somebody who spent years becoming qualified in software engineering to throw down a few lines of efficient code that does what it's supposed to do, than it is for somebody with a passing grasp of programming languages to understand the ramifications of what they're doing.
>> No. 28377 Anonymous
6th April 2023
Thursday 12:08 am
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>>28376

I was referring more to the culture war trope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn_to_Code
>> No. 28378 Anonymous
6th April 2023
Thursday 12:34 am
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>>28374

Cunts.
Just use midjourney if you want the pretty pictures, pay the devs for their great job monetising other people's digital imagery output.
That's the real indignation around it, of course the software is just learning the patterns in a way that's similar to a person, but like a person it needs training data and it's basically just stolen all that for the profit of the fucks that wrote it.
That and it can do what takes a person years of reflection, expertise and skill to learn and just imitates it in seconds.

Whatever. I work in a factory so fuck off with your idiot middle class labour wank fantasy.
>> No. 28379 Anonymous
6th April 2023
Thursday 2:14 am
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>>28378
If you think Amazon workers pissing in bottles is ok, then welcome to your new overlords.

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>> No. 28125 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 1:31 am
28125 Keyboard thread
I'm in the market for a backlit keyboard.
Are there any cheap/mid-range ones that are actually decent? Everything I've looked at seems to be either dodgy looking unbranded Chinese Amazon/Ebay junk, overpriced "ULTIMATE XTREEME GAMER" stuff or high end £100+ mechanical keyboards. I just want something basic and reliable I can use at night with the lights off which won't fail after a couple of years. My only requirements are:

- Wired (usb)
- Adjustable brightness (preferably without needing configuration software on the PC)
- Backlight which isn't blue or white.
- Reasonable key travel distance (not flat/laptop style keys)

I'm not too bothered about premium mechanical switches and whatnot, I've never broken a keyboard by using it and I'm happily typing this on an ancient "free with every dell optiplex" PS/2 keyboard my Dad grabbed out of the office e-waste bin when I was a teenlad.
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>> No. 28129 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 1:54 pm
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>>28128

>So. What brand is the absolute most reliable, lads?

Any mechanical keyboard is going to be extremely reliable due to the design of the switches - even cheap generic mechanical switches have a realistic lifespan of 50 million keystrokes.

As regards mice, your best option is to install Kailh GM switches in your Logitech mouse of choice; if you can't solder, I'd probably go with a Zowie ZA version A.

https://zowie.benq.com/en-ap/mouse/za12.html
>> No. 28130 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 7:07 pm
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>>28128
This is my main concern with "gaming" keyboards, it's hard to tell if they're actually worth the money or if you're just paying gamer tax on cheap junk even with supposedly legit brands.

Where I work we use copious amounts of cheap office keyboards and mice from Dell etc. which see more use and abuse than the average home setup and I've never seen one fail from mechanical wear. Yet when I look at reviews for gaming stuff even from supposedly reputable brands like Logitech people are always complaining about the switches being unreliable or breaking too easily.
>> No. 28131 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 9:48 pm
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>>28130

Gaming mice have a very specific failure mode. When you click your mouse button, the electrical connection is rarely a clean on/off - the electrical contacts physically bounce around at the precise moment the contacts open or close, which causes a very brief on-off-on-off-on-off oscillation.

On a standard mouse, a simple circuit smooths out that oscillation ("debouncing"), but that causes a few milliseconds of delay between pressing the button and your computer registering the click. For a competitive gamer, that slight delay is genuinely noticeable and has a meaningful impact on performance, so gaming mice use just barely enough debouncing to minimise the delay. That's fine when the mouse is brand new, but over time the switch contacts start to corrode and deform, the bouncing gets worse and you start getting double clicks when you only clicked once. The problem is compounded by the fact that gamers wear out switches much faster, because many games require very rapid clicking.

Logitech are notorious for making excellent mice with shitty switches, but the double-click issue is far from unique to them.

>Where I work we use copious amounts of cheap office keyboards and mice from Dell etc. which see more use and abuse than the average home setup and I've never seen one fail from mechanical wear.

Gaming puts some really weird and extreme demands on your equipment. You know the little slippery plastic feet on the underside of your mouse? Mine are glass, because I wear through the standard teflon ones in about six months. The keycaps on my keyboard are made of a high-hardness plastic called PBT, because I will wear deep dents in standard ABS keycaps in a matter of months. Office keyboards might get bashed about, but they're barely used by our standards.


>> No. 28132 Anonymous
29th July 2022
Friday 10:43 pm
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>>28128
I'm not sure hat happened to Logitech but they used to be great. I stopped using my MX518 when after a decade of use the rubber started turning into a sticky mess (currently I use an MM711 which works but I hate the feel), and for normal use I swear by my K310 which is several years old. Sure, it's a rubber dome keyboard, but the feel is honestly not that bad and being able to stick it under the tap to rinse it off is a killer feature. I have a Filco Majestouch which I adore, a couple of Cherry based keyboards (brown and blue), but I keep coming back to the K310. They used to cost under £30 and I have a couple of spares, I wouldn't spend the near £70 that's being asked for them now, but I have no expectation that this thing is going to die before me so fingers crossed...

Instead of a backlit keyboard, I'd get a keyboard that suits you and a decent USB LED light. Most of the RGB backlit blah blah is expensive garbage, get the keyboard you want and just ensure you have the sufficiently minmal lighting needed to use it.
>> No. 28371 Anonymous
2nd April 2023
Sunday 10:57 am
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>>28128

I just relented and bought another one of these mice. It's only 25 quid but it's sill basically the best mouse I've ever used, I have tried but I just can't get comfortable with different ones. I might have to stockpile a few in case they ever get discontinued.

I also ditched my fancy schmancy mechanical keyboard a bit ago because it was registering double key presses all the fucking time, it got to be absolutely unbearable. Got a relatively cheap Razer Ornata V3X instead, which is just rubber dome, but nice low profile keys with a backlight and no other nonsense. Lesson learned about following the trends I suppose, but there again, you never know until you try something out do you.

I've always had better experiences just buying relatively cheap peripherals, because in the end expensive ones still break just as often. From now on I'm going to stick to that principle.

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>> No. 28361 Anonymous
27th March 2023
Monday 11:45 am
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Here's the issue: through various data recovery processes I've ended up with a collection of photos that have had all the metadata stripped so the Gallery app on my phone recognises them as all having been taken on the same day.

However they all still have filenames like 202003041532_etc. Is there some software that could convert all the filenames to dates and overwrite the metadata - and without having to do it manually one by one of course?
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>> No. 28362 Anonymous
27th March 2023
Monday 1:34 pm
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Are you technologically inclined? You could edit the image metadata with the Python image library. and some clever RegEx. You could knock up a script yourself or ask one of these newfangled AI things to do it for you.
>> No. 28363 Anonymous
27th March 2023
Monday 2:36 pm
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>>28362
Yes, I did surmise it is something a little coding trick could easily solve. But no, I've never done anything like that before outside of editing the HTML on my blog and the like. Surely there's a software solution, isn't this a common issue in this day and age?
>> No. 28368 Anonymous
28th March 2023
Tuesday 2:17 am
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Exiftool should be able to do that as long as the filenames are consistent.
>> No. 28369 Anonymous
28th March 2023
Tuesday 8:47 am
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>>28368
Thanks, I will check that out.

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>> No. 28266 Anonymous
6th March 2023
Monday 11:15 am
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The internet is ephemeral. With that in mind, there's many YouTube videos I'd like to keep on my own storage, especially of mechanics/repair guides and workout routines.

What's the cleverest way of downloading all of the videos on a YouTube channel in one go?
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>> No. 28268 Anonymous
6th March 2023
Monday 5:47 pm
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If you know how to run a Python script:

https://github.com/Accords-Library/YouTube-Archiver

If you don't, one of these options:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-videos-youtube-playlist/

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>> No. 28258 Anonymous
17th February 2023
Friday 10:25 pm
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Websites that use Cloudflare security protection have been very slow to load recently - some even asking for confirmation that the user is human (with a simple button click, strangely).
Is it simply paranoia or is something going on?

Comon /g/ what's going on in the cyber security world?
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>> No. 28261 Anonymous
18th February 2023
Saturday 2:32 am
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>confirmation that the user is human (with a simple button click, strangely).

reCaptca v3 no longer needs you clicking through pictures of bicycles, traffic lights and mountains. It quietly observes your interaction with a given web site and then determines automatically if you are a bot or a human.
>> No. 28262 Anonymous
18th February 2023
Saturday 12:26 pm
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>>28260
When I've had the Cloudflare Captcha, it was for 4chan and I had to do an hCaptcha, which is a different company. I despise Google's Captcha because it's obscene to make me work for free to train the AI for one of the world's largest and most sinister corporations in order to visit websites that aren't even owned by Google, but I didn't mind hCaptcha because at least I'm being enslaved by a plucky upstart company.
>> No. 28263 Anonymous
18th February 2023
Saturday 2:05 pm
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On the Playstation support website, to speak to a customer service person, the verification method you get given a number, and then a series of pictures of dice. You have to pick the picture in which the dice add up to the given number. Some dice have normal numbers on, others have the dots. You have to do 5 of these to get through. I hate them. I struggle to process dice dots so it takes me longer than it should.
>> No. 28264 Anonymous
18th February 2023
Saturday 2:21 pm
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>>28260
>Something is probably going on with your IP address, or addresses in the same block
>A device on your network might have been hacked
I'm leaning toward these being that I regularly reset my router, but again it might be paranoia. I've considered using wireshark to monitor traffic but i doubt I need any more flags on my system. Besides, if something can be hidden from the task manager it can be obscured in network traffic - especially to someone who doesn't know what they're looking for.

>>28261
>It quietly observes your interaction with a given web site and then determines automatically if you are a bot or a human.
Oh, interesting. I've been right to consciously pilot my mouse pointer around the questionable material of the web, then.
>> No. 28265 Anonymous
18th February 2023
Saturday 3:25 pm
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>>28264

>Oh, interesting. I've been right to consciously pilot my mouse pointer around the questionable material of the web, then


The exact algorithm of how it works isn't known, for obvious reasons, but there are ways in which a human user behaves both consciously and subconsciously that are apparently a lot different from a bot. But in essence, it's all done in the background without you actively having to solve a captcha.


https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3?hl=en

>reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score for each request without user friction.

>reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score (1.0 is very likely a good interaction, 0.0 is very likely a bot).

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>> No. 28255 Anonymous
5th February 2023
Sunday 3:14 am
28255 decoding train tickets
Completely pwned. Someone has decoded how paper and electronic train tickets work.

https://eta.st/2023/01/31/rail-tickets.html
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>> No. 28256 Anonymous
5th February 2023
Sunday 7:56 am
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If your source knows how to correctly format Wikipedia tables and uses Anglizismen like Barcode. Then run. That way madness lies.
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5th February 2023
Sunday 1:45 pm
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It's fascinating, but you can't print your own train tickets or defraud the train companies in any way, which I must confess is disappointing.

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>> No. 28249 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 7:51 pm
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I busted the screen on my old Lenovo IdeaPad this morning (pictured). I had every setting just the way I liked it, too.

Presuming I want a laptop with a non-busted screen and all my programs in tact, what's the route of minimum ballache here, gents?
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>> No. 28250 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 8:03 pm
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>>28249

If you're at all good with repairs, try to find somewhere online that sells displays for your model number of laptop. They tend to be somewhere in the price range of £50 to £100. The swap is usually pretty straightforward, you will probably just have to unscrew the display bezel and the bottom of your laptop and then take it from there.

Depending on your eyesight, this might be a good time to also invest in a magnifying lamp, because all the components and connectors inside a recent laptop are often very tiny and delicate.
>> No. 28251 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 8:42 pm
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>>28250

For less expensive laptops that don't have super high resolution displays, you're looking at more like £30-£40. You don't need any special tools, just some small screwdrivers, although a couple of spudgers and a guitar plectrum will come in handy.

It's a very easy job on most recent-ish Lenovo laptops. There are connectors on both ends of the LCD cable, so you don't need to go digging about in the guts of the machine. It's a ten minute job tops, even if you've never done it before - you just need to be patient and gentle like making love to a beautiful woman


>> No. 28252 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 8:50 pm
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>>28249
It looks old. Consider upgrading to a newer, but still old, refurbished thinkpad and swapping the hard disk in.
>> No. 28372 Anonymous
2nd April 2023
Sunday 4:01 pm
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Surprisingly easy. Plastic was disappointingly flimsy on the hinge of the laptop itself, so the plastic hinge cover got a bit chipped. Otherwise, just needed a small screwdriver and a thin plastic object. Worth the money and 30 minutes of time.

I will still probably purchase a new laptop within the next year or two, but very happy. Thanks lads.
>> No. 28373 Anonymous
4th April 2023
Tuesday 8:47 pm
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>>28372

Thads.

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>> No. 28224 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 4:48 pm
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Britain's Labour Party is proposing a ban upon VPNs in the wake of concerns over their use by minors.

What do you lads think of this?

Also how do minors pay for VPNs without a bank card?
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>> No. 28225 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 5:21 pm
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You can get free VPNs. The Opera browser comes with one that you can toggle on and off almost effortlessly, although it's practically useless for any usual VPN purposes.

Why are Labour picking such terrible policies lately? I don't agree with abolishing the House of Lords either.
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7th December 2022
Wednesday 5:21 pm
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Why? What are kids doing with VPNs? Porn? Or are they cool enough to be torrenting stuff again? Whatever, I'm entirely convinced Keir Starmer will spend the whole of his first parliament telling people "now is not the time" while MI5 plot to have him killed anyway.
>> No. 28227 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 6:36 pm
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>What do you lads think of this?

If true, then it's completely laughable.

VPNs were originally designed for secure business communications, to allow people to remotely access a private work network over an unsecure public internet connection. They're still essential for that application and are essentially mandatory in a lot of industries for data protection reasons.

In their role as a means of evading censorship or monitoring, VPNs have managed to confound even the most repressive regimes with incredibly sophisticated and well-funded surveillance infrastructure. It's quite straightforward for anyone with a modicum of tech savvy to use a VPN in a country like China or Iran. Our civil service simply doesn't have the competence to implement a ban that would be anything more than a minor inconvenience.

The Tories were pressuring Meta to remove the end-to-end encryption on Whatsapp, until Meta explained to them in very simple terms that they use Whatsapp all the time for their own private communications. They're dimwits, but they did eventually twig when someone basically said "Remember the phone hacking scandal? Remember when all the tabloids were running front page stories based on the contents of Hugh Grant's voicemail? If we remove the encryption on Whatsapp, we can't guarantee that those front pages won't be filled with stories based on the contents of your Whatsapp messages".

https://www.zdnet.com/article/labour-party-secures-vpn-from-hackers/
>> No. 28228 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 6:52 pm
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>>28225
>Why are Labour picking such terrible policies lately?
Because Starmer is trying so so so hard to be a centrist, and appeal to both guardian and daily mail readers at the same time.
>> No. 28229 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 11:42 am
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I obviously oppose it, but I also wouldn't really worry at all if they did.

I mean what are they gonna do? I use a VPN to access the torrent sites that are already banned to download the media I'm already not allowed to. Do they think there won't be another way around it?

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>> No. 28220 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 7:04 pm
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I have a bunch of .uk domains with 123-reg. The cunts want £15pa to renew them for a year. I don't really fancy paying that much, especially when a couple of years ago I renewed them at closer to £5pa. That's a significant hike when in that time the wholesale price Nominet charges its members has gone up by all of about 30p.

Which other registrars are out there can handle .uk domains, are cheaper, and also not shit? (GoDaddy need not apply.)
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>> No. 28221 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 10:55 pm
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>>28220
>and also not shit

This is the difficult part. Most of mine are with Network Solutions, who are expensive and shit. I believe AWS can do them now too, and their prices for .uk domains seem reasonable - $9 per year.

https://d32ze2gidvkk54.cloudfront.net/Amazon_Route_53_Domain_Registration_Pricing_20140731.pdf
>> No. 28222 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 11:21 pm
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I have a .org domain, which I've owned since 2004. It doesn't host much, but it matters to a few people.

You now found yourself in the same trouble, I guess. I have no fucking clue how .uk domains are handled, but you can shop around, yet find that every other offer just resells what you already have.

What you also need to be clear of:
Do they take care of mail (I'm careful to say not MAIL or MAILX)
Do they control your, A, AAAA records?
Do some weird fucking redirect on your hosting where it's an iframe (HAS HAPPENED, never use 1&1)
Mostly , just learn that owning an domain gives you a bit of power, and where you host some basic HTML is a just a few quids away.

Even if you need to learn apache or nginx.
>> No. 28223 Anonymous
25th November 2022
Friday 11:47 pm
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>>28220
I think namesilo are the cheapest for transfers at 6.50 USD
I've had a few domains with them for years now without an issue, no price hikes and free whois privacy. wholeheartedly recommend.

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>> No. 28205 Anonymous
23rd November 2022
Wednesday 1:43 pm
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My friend wants to back up his WordPress blog somewhere other than wordpress servers. He got some software called duplicator pro which doesn't seem to be compatible from the wordpress side. Wordpress themselves advise us to get a business account with them to use something called jetpack but it's not clear what that would achieve other than giving them money. I've uploaded the XML files that wordpress let's you download to an FTP server he has on 123reg, but I don't know how to turn that into a browsable page. Ideally it would be something he could update too, but is it possible to at least make it publicly readable somehow? What would you suggest?
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>> No. 28215 Anonymous
23rd November 2022
Wednesday 8:29 pm
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>is it possible to at least make it publicly readable somehow? What would you suggest?

Any web hosting provider offers Wordpress hosting for a couple of quid a month, including 123reg.

https://www.123-reg.co.uk/web-hosting/wordpress/
>> No. 28216 Anonymous
23rd November 2022
Wednesday 8:34 pm
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>>28215
Thanks. That's where we uploaded the scrape but I don't know how to make it a website and not just a handful of files in an FTP. So the next step is to phone up 123reg and ask them to talk us through it?
>> No. 28217 Anonymous
23rd November 2022
Wednesday 9:03 pm
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>>28213
You need a dump of the SQL database, not a scrape. There really isn't much you're going to be doing with scraped html.
>> No. 28218 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 5:45 am
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>>28216

There's a tool in the 123 control panel to automatically migrate an existing Wordpress site.

https://www.123-reg.co.uk/support/hosting/how-do-i-move-my-existing-wordpress-site-over/
>> No. 28219 Anonymous
24th November 2022
Thursday 8:27 am
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>>28218
Cheers

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>> No. 28160 Anonymous
28th September 2022
Wednesday 11:18 am
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Techlads, I need your help. I highly value my independence from big tech stupdity and would love to make my own laptop that actually can be used on the go in the way I want. Is it possible to assemble and arrange desktop components in such a fashion that they could be around the same thickness as a laptop? I am capable of making my own case for it.
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>> No. 28196 Anonymous
15th October 2022
Saturday 1:00 pm
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>>28195

Get yourself a NAS, it's a game changer.
>> No. 28197 Anonymous
15th October 2022
Saturday 1:51 pm
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>>28196

I've been meaning to, but they're not cheap by the looks of it, and I'd want to hard-wire it all rather than rely on wifi. When I move into my new place and I can run ethernet cables wherever the fuck I like, I'll definitely have one on the list.
>> No. 28201 Anonymous
24th October 2022
Monday 4:48 pm
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I'd have that in my bag and I can put a disc in as and when I like. The point is it's easier than an external DVD drive and I shouldn't have to faff around with bittorrent. Obviously I can just rip them from the disk the day before, but if you're in a rush it's nice to have that shit integrated.
>> No. 28202 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 12:12 pm
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Desktop components are built to be in a desktrop case in terms of cooling requirements (those fin towers aren't just for fun) and power requirements. Build on the shoulders of giants (who might be dwarfs standing on giant's shoulders).

If the batteries for them weren't dead or stupid expensive I'd recommend an Eee 900. They were truly great machines with excellent Linux and BSD compatibility and a very capable wifi chip/antenna (nudge nudge, wink wink).

There's any number of SBCs capable of running a decent desktop and running on a few 18650 batteries, Pinebooks are the most prominent example and should serve as a good inspiration if you really do want to make your own.
>> No. 28203 Anonymous
25th October 2022
Tuesday 12:22 pm
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>>28202
The ASUS EEE series were excellent laptops - I liked the trend of small / cheap laptop devices, it seems to have disappeared in favour of Chromebooks.

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>> No. 28198 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 11:41 pm
28198 MASSIVE HACKING TOOLS COLLECTION DOWNLOAD 799MB
MASSIVE HACKING TOOLS COLLECTION DOWNLOAD 799MB

https://archive.org/details/tools_202210
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>> No. 28199 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 11:51 pm
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>>28198
I approve of this.

Although some of those things in the ZIP are commercial.
>> No. 28200 Anonymous
21st October 2022
Friday 11:52 pm
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>>28199
And some of them might be exploited.

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