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2:57 AM
Turns out Xiaomi also sells insanely cheap routers - only thing is they have an older model that should, but dosen't act as a repeater and... shock, only has fast ethernet inputs despite having dual band wifi....
so more or less it has faster potential wireless than wired connections
hm
Turns out my phone is happy with tethering to my old router. My router's stock firmware won't work without specific USB sticks and assumes it needs to connect out.
I can't rememeber who asked
@deostroll Looks like android phones are ok with switching to teathering mod on a router.
The router on the other hand dosen't seem to recognise it, but it might be drivers or model specific.
Sorry for the delay, been busy
 
3:57 AM
> teathering to my old router
It takes your old router to the theater? How nice of your phone!
 
blah.
ENGLAND! VEDDY POWDERFUL!
 
;P
@JourneymanGeek Any cool plans for it?
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Kinda
want to try turning it into a BT beacon amongst other things.
and play with gadget mode
 
Writing this answer made me feel evil:
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A: Why would an attacker ever want to sit on a zero-day exploit?

bwDracoFrom the standpoint of the attacker, a zero-day exploit is a valuable resource because it is not publicly known. This gives the attacker the element of surprise when it is actually deployed, as the target will not be able to proactively defend against it. Each time a zero-day is used, there's a ...

 
Time to bed. G'nigth'yall
 
4:07 AM
> e.g. by stealing personal information from the target and using it to commit identity fraud
A better way is to steal IP from a company and sell or trade it. :P
(+1 anyway since it's a good answer)
 
 
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5:28 AM
...welp, trying to reproduce a bug in Task Manager.
The app crashes under some very specific conditions, but is consistently reproducible.
aka.ms/AA3dvq2 (opens in Feedback Hub)
I recorded the steps and submitted them along with the bug report.
 
5:53 AM
Anyone?
 
@bwDraco - How do I open the feedback/bug you reported, all it does for me, is give me a chance to provide feedback
 
Odd. It should just open the relevant feedback item directly in Feedback Hub.
 
lol, 'my account does not have access to this feedback"
 
Wat.
Are you running 1809?
To be clear, I'm not a Windows Insider.
 
I am not running 1809 on my physical machine
 
6:01 AM
That may be why.
 
Do they really lock down the feedback to specific builds, lol
You know Microsoft has always struggled with feedback/bug reporting
Has never been easy, I mean I feel for them, how do collect feedback from millions of users in a productive manner but still
They are not Steve Jobs so they can't simply say we are holding our phones wrong :-)
 
Yup
 
6:24 AM
@Ramhound Hmm... Feedback Hub seems to be having trouble and may be down.
...welp, a bug in Feedback Hub itself!
 
bugs all the way down?
 
> With Task Manager in detailed view, if I click on the Performance tab within about one second of opening it, the app will crash. Any customizations to the view, such as the columns selected for the Details tab, may be lost afterwards.

This only occurs if the graph in the CPU view in the Performance tab is set to Logical processors and the last selected view in the Performance tab is not CPU. Despite the highly specific conditions, the crash is reproducible
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp.
Title: Under certain conditions, Task Manager crashes if I click on the Performance tab immediately after opening it
@Ramhound Open Feedback Hub first, then click on the link.
 
6:45 AM
I don't like having to file bug reports, but it's happened enough times to annoy the hell out of me.
 
 
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8:53 AM
morning
 
9:21 AM
mornin @Burgi
> IE8 or Firefox 3 and up are recommended.
wow cisco, good job.
 
Bob
@djsmiley2k I mean, "and up", can't argue with that :P
 
Actually if it's a webui...
 
10:15 AM
burning batteries 0_0
 
10:37 AM
has DO dropped their prices?
 
 
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12:01 PM
@bwDraco "THERE'S A HELL IN YOUUU!!!! A DEVIL IN YOUUUU!!!! OH YEAH!!!"
 
So that one drive deleting files thing?
I've just had a play with it, as our Desktop is hosted on our network drive here
sure enough, after rebooting, most of my desktop files were gone
They're still in C:\users\<username>\Desktop, but don't show up
 
> > < > < >
< > < > <
 
12:20 PM
So last night there was an explosion of sorts in the city
the sort.... which no one knows wht caused it
 
12:35 PM
o.O
weren't they beating syrians to death in coventry last week?
 
not that I know of? XD
 
I hate life
Studies suck
School is ridiculous
OH HEY LET'S MAKE THESE KIDS MUG UP ALL THIS CRAP WHICH THEY WON'T REMEMBER FOR EVEN THREE DAYS AFTER THE EXAM HURRRRR CUZ WHY THE *******HELL NOT HURR
Oh since I'm ranting anyway
I very strongly suspect that there's a resident flagger somewhere in this room who flags messages each time someone cusses even when it's not directed at a person and without taking into account context and the mods probably know who they are but can't tell us but dude:
And yes, that's directed at you
 
lmfao what
 
oh god the do flags make you active thing
 
12:58 PM
@djsmiley2k ??
 
@djsmiley2k that makes no sense what so ever
 
1:11 PM
sigh
@rahuldottech I know it sucks but... should you be giving them a chance to flag and get you suspended again?
or take away their fun ;p
by not cussing.
I'm sure there's people who search for cuss words and flag em
but we shouldn't be using them on chat anyway
 
@JourneymanGeek why man do they not have lives
:47871821 flagged
 
@rahuldottech we shouldn't be anyway
 
@JourneymanGeek mhm, true
 
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Q: Are expletives (cursing, swear words or vulgar language) allowed on SE sites?

Jeff AtwoodCan I use salty, expletive-laden language on Stack Exchange sites, like Q*Bert? For more information, see "What kind of behavior is expected of users?" in the Help Center. Return to FAQ index

now, I'm going to actually take away them swear words
 
Welp, ok then
 
1:14 PM
we wouldn't want our neat freak friend finding stuff to flag ;)
 
@JourneymanGeek tofucook
snafucork
 
@rahuldottech lol. or just replace that decibelic screech with polysyllabillic speech
 
@JourneymanGeek Babassucarcass
 
now you're just making things up
 
(This is a good one. Only people who were here when I first joined the chat room will know why)
 
1:36 PM
I ave no idea what that is
and very few have been here longer than I
 
1:53 PM
@JourneymanGeek see ^
Also see 1 2
 
more confused
 
argh
@α”•α–Ία˜Žα•Š
Does this still work?
 
no, it dosen't ping everyone anymore
 
 
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3:44 PM
@rahuldottech I realize the last few weeks have been very stressful, but if you genuinely need to vent, I'd take it to Matrix and make it clear that you're not feeling well.
Here on SE chat, we tend to have folks flagging over the smallest things, so I wouldn't risk it.
 
eh
fear of flagging (or anything else) shouldn't really be our primary motivator IMO
 
I mean, we have our own "semi-private" space so there's no need to disrupt the main public chat.
Dec 1 '17 at 12:36, by allquixotic
@JourneymanGeek It's cathartic. If you're trapped in a situation, at least being able to tell other people about it is better than having to bottle it up.
 
well
that's why rahul gets an explaination and cleanup
 
he is still a fluffy baby n00b too
 
well also that's how we do things
and that's important
 
4:05 PM
@Burgi lol
 
4:23 PM
TITAN RTX. It's real. And it's yours for $2,500.
(4608 CUDA cores in 72 of 72 SMs (fully enabled) on Turing TU102 @ 1350-1770 MHz. 24 GB GDDR6 @ 14 Gbps, 384-bit bus; TSMC 12FFN, 280W TBP.)
The price is actually down from that of the TITAN V earlier this year (which ran $3,000), but NVIDIA continues to charge insane prices on their high-end GPUs.
(partly because it doesn't have the expensive-to-manufacture HBM2 the TITAN V had)
 
 
I'm hoping prices will come under control once 7nm parts hit the market.
I get the feeling that while AMD will briefly gain a process advantage over NVIDIA in 2019, NVIDIA will catch up later in the year when 7nm RTX parts are released.
And that's when I'll upgrade my graphics card.
In 2020, when 7nm EUV is in production, AMD will have their hardware-accelerated ray-tracing solution.
I don't expect AMD to actually take the absolute performance lead. But I sure hope there'll be renewed competition.
Right now, the processor is the main limiting factor on Astaroth, so I'm replacing it when third-generation Ryzen comes out.
 
5:34 PM
AMD would be a fool to decrease their prices if they have a process advantage over Nvidia.
 
 
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7:30 PM
I don't expect them to drop their prices. But current rumors point to a mainstream part as their first 7nm part, and you're probably looking at a $300-350 GPU to compete with the likes of the GTX 1070. Although efficiency will undoubtedly improve, NVIDIA's advantage is currently so large that I'm not sure whether being a full node ahead will completely close the gap.
(the 12nm RX 590, essentially a die-shrunk Polaris, is $280)
The rumored Navi 12 will most likely outperform the RX 590 with less power, but it isn't going to break any performance records.
Consider that the RX 590 is really pushing the limits of Polaris, with significantly higher clock frequencies and a 225W TDP. They used the GlobalFoundries 12LP process to maximize performance, rather than efficiency.
AMD is aiming for the mainstream sector first, because that's where most sales are. NVIDIA currently has no new midrange solution.
 
 
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10:11 PM
So AMD is going to release a brand new product to compete with a 2-year-old product that has already been superseded by a new product?
 
awww :(
the new expansion to ETS2 only lets you drive as far as east as saint petersburg
 
Erm.... we just had a power dip and now my laptop doesn't display anything out of the DisplayPort :|
 
10:46 PM
Okay, so it's not the ports... Seems to be the cable for some reason...
Oooookay, so it was the TV. A hard power reset has recovered it. Time to go out and get a new surge protector I think.
 

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