Root Access

In strings, are "b" and "l", and "B" and "L" synonyms?

``-e --encoding={s,S,b,l,B,L} Select character size and endianness:
s = 7-bit, S = 8-bit, {b,l} = 16-bit, {B,L} = 32-bit``

Also, I could swear that you could combine the letters, but maybe that was a different strings.

Bob

...what?

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

are you sure you're in the right room?

Hiccup

It says "Root Access".

Is my question too stupid or is this not actually "Root Access"?

DavidPostill

11:15 AM

@Bob He is asking about the Unix strings command.

Hiccup

Yeah, I should have been more specific.

DavidPostill

And please don't google "man strings" as some of the search results on the first page are NSFW ;)

^^^ @JourneymanGeek ;)

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill *cringe*

Journeyman Geek

cough

THERE IS A GOOD REASON WHY I DID NOT LINK AN IMAGE.

DavidPostill

lol

Journeyman Geek

11:17 AM

@Hiccup well, so...

there's a long held tradition on many chats here - its not a great place for live support, and most of the time questions are of the "damn it, why does it not work" kind of format.

DavidPostill

@Hiccup How can they be synonyms when they refer to different bitness?

Journeyman Geek

If its a proper question - its good to ask yourself "can people get this without extra context?" and "does this belong on the main site?"

DavidPostill

> Possible values for encoding are: s = single-7-bit-byte characters ( ASCII , ISO 8859, etc., default), S = single-8-bit-byte characters, b = 16-bit bigendian, l = 16-bit littleendian, B = 32-bit bigendian, L = 32-bit littleendian. Useful for finding wide character strings. (l and b apply to, for example, Unicode UTF-16/UCS-2 encodings).

Journeyman Geek

or that ;p

Hiccup

Thanks, that answers my question.

DavidPostill

11:20 AM

@Hiccup Next time RTFM first ;)

Hiccup

Didn't I quote the manual on my first post?

I think the problem is I didn't understand it :P

DavidPostill

@Hiccup There is more than one manual (depending on your flavour of Unix/Linux)

Bob

1:43 PM

The last message was posted 2 hours ago.

Journeyman Geek

So it seems, Mr Fox. SO IT SEEMS.

jokerdino

@Bob needs more bold

Bob

2:12 PM

@jokerdino 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝟐 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨.

3

Journeyman Geek

BUT WAS IT?

djsmiley2k

and now i have the kids again

Journeyman Geek

I read it as "I have kids again"

and I was "whoaaaa"

djsmiley2k

LOL

djsmiley2k

2:34 PM

No thanks, two is definitely enough

jokerdino

what if the kids want to play a game of carrom with 4 people?

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino cloning! Then it goes horribly wrong! And there's 40,000 of em....

jokerdino

my lord

djsmiley2k

@jokerdino not sure what carrom is, but me and wife cud play

and 2.1 just fell asleep grr

Journeyman Geek

2:50 PM

lol

Carrom

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Journeyman Geek

3:13 PM

engadget.com/2018/02/25/huawei-matebook-x-pro-hands-on

that has gotta be the strangest webcam config ever

rahuldottech

4:15 PM

1 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗...

djsmiley2k

0

A: Why is airflow always front in, back out?

There's a few reasons: CPU Fans generally aren't revesable on their mounts on the heatsink and a lot now work in a 90 degree orinitation to the CPU itself, meaning they'd either blow 'front to back' or 'back to front' (or up and down in a tower case but I've never seen one which did this). Beca...

why are the 2nd and 3rd points indented so far? :/

Boris_yo

4:51 PM

Anybody buy my PlayStation 1... Don't let me ruin my nostalgia.

In 10 years it's value will rise to warrant you enough money to buy island.

Or invest into alternative cryptocurrency.

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Cause you got an extra space in front of the first indent :)

That make the other indents a different type and so extra spacing. Fixed it for ya!

djsmiley2k

ty

jokerdino

5:12 PM

coz u n00b at markdown

ChatBot John Cavil

djsmiley2k

5:28 PM

lol

that i am

bertieb

5:53 PM

@JourneymanGeek I guess it has privacy benefits?

Though it say it would give a less... flattering angle

Unless you like looking up people's noses

Also, is it just me or does 1MP seem low for a webcam?

Ah, now that I've RTFA (and not just watched the video) all of those things are said therein

djsmiley2k

7:27 PM

5 hours ago, by Bob

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DavidPostill

2̖̫͓̤̎ͨ̊̌͋̉̀͟͠͞ ̪̝͖͆ͦ̅́͐̀̽̉̽̀͞ẖ̢̡̧̠̟͕̙͐̐͋̆͂͠o̼̲̰̙͇̯͍̱͎̦̬͈͍̪̲͆̆̀̾ͮ̀̀ͦ̎͘ụ̸̺̝̱ͮ̋͆̉̽̒̐ͤ͋̊̇̈́̉̆̍͗̚͟͞‌̖̗̩̯̥̞̻͕͖̠̬͍̥̘r͒̉ͬͭ͊̈́͑ͪ͝͠͏͇̘̪̳̥̘̥̙̜̬̭̬͎̖̺̫͇̣͇s̗̰̫̣̘̮̖̝̥̣̞̭̙̈́ͬ͋̎͞ ̨͎͓̫͍̖̗͖̆̈ͪ̍̌͛̓̎ͦ̏̈̍̈̅́ļ̴͎͉̞̞̦̰̪͚͇̰̺͚̱̻̜̃̌ͧͣͣ̇̍ͮͪͩ̏̑ͩ̌́ͧ̆ͧ͢a̵ͨͨ̔̄̔̃͐ͫ̍̇ͣ̽̂̿̋̀ͬ́‌̲̼̟̯̰̳̟̺̣͇̻̱̗̥̤̝̬͞t̡̰̱̟̰̫̘̳̠͉͓̀̿ͥ̉ͮ̍ͨ͠͠e̵̶̡̛̩̠̘̦ͯͮͫͨ͌̽͌ͦ̓̋͛͝r̶̮͙̳̲̈̂̓͐̏ͬͤ̎̄ͯ͋̚͢͡…‌̶̨͐̌̄̍̓ͯ͂ͭͭ͒̓̏̚̚͞҉̺̬͍̭̰͔̙̙͓͇

bwDraco

8:02 PM

roar

djsmiley2k

8:41 PM

woof

Michael Frank

8:52 PM

Fun.

Huh... this computer won't even boot into Safe Mode without reverting to the System Restore dialog.

allquixotic

9:51 PM

c

~~ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀsᴛ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴡᴀs ᴘᴏsᴛᴇᴅ 15 ᴍɪʟʟᴇɴɴɪᴀ ᴀɢᴏ.~~

Bob

10:09 PM

morn

Ave

ml content moderation is a joke

rates actual unwanted content as safe

and rates a picture of a dab as unsafe

Michael Frank

ml?

Ave

machine learning

stuff we tested: #1, #2, #3

Michael Frank

Sounds like you need Not Hotdog.

FML Cat

10:24 PM

Cats

allquixotic

10:40 PM

@Ave github.com/tjwei/play_nsfw

apparently a bunch of seemingly random triangles is super NSFW, and a slightly altered picture of a pretty girl in a bikini goes from almost certainly NSFW to almost certainly not NSFW but still looks to the human eye to be the same

rahuldottech

10:54 PM

GUYS

Is this pdf unprintable for anyone else? ncerthelp.com/cbse%20notes/class%2011/chemistry/…

Chrome greys the option out for some reason

Just for this PDF in particular

Shit, even sumatra PDF and Edge won't print it

What's going on?

PDFs can be made unprintable? WTF . . .

allquixotic

@rahuldottech WFM on Firefox

rahuldottech

@allquixotic whatzzat

allquixotic

drive.google.com/open?id=1MmVMW0jyaBG4nJihxAnFifUDkmQaC-A1

I printed it to another PDF that shouldn't have any restrictions

in the future if this bothers you, use Firefox's PDF viewer or evince, which ignore flags in a PDF that attempt to restrict printing, etc.

rahuldottech

@allquixotic Thanks!!

allquixotic

@rahuldottech oh, you don't know what WFM stands for? Works For Me

rahuldottech

11:04 PM

@allquixotic oh lol

Michael Frank

Powershell tried to print it, but ended up trying to print 92 pages of rubbish LOL

Ben N

Heh, Out-Printer just does text IIRC

Michael Frank

Yea, when I tried out-printer $pdf it just opened to PDF. So I tried get-content $pdf | out-printer and had to run over to the printer and spam the cancel button.

allquixotic

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792816

a bunch of "IT admins" (basically, those poor people who are required to comply with retarded "international standards" like ISO 9001) have been weighing in trying to get Mozilla to make pdf.js lock out printing when the "restrict printing" flag is set in the PDF, but so far they haven't

looks like they're going to make it an option, so anal-retentive companies can ship Firefox on their super locked down workstations and allow them to view documents but not print them

Michael Frank

11:25 PM

We were about to implement a visitor registration kiosk here as a local project... but then GDPR happened and now we can't.

> Yes, there may be better, more secure security solutions. But what is next? We won't use SSL to secure transactions just because 128 bit may be computationally feasible to break? Obviously we should just not use SSL at all then. Make it clear text. Why bother?

Bob

@allquixotic Firefox has been looking at integrating the Chromium PDF renderer for a while now, actually.

It was among the Photon work.

@MichaelFrank what a nice strawman you've set up over there... :P

allquixotic

11:41 PM

@Bob I'd be the first person to file a bug if they release it without adding an option to disable the skin-deep fake DRM on PDFs (or at least to make DRM an option that's disabled by default)

Bob

> If pdf.js will not respect that by default, we will have to reconsider allowing Firefox use on our website.

Gee, thanks. I really wanted to use your website, too! *cough* *changes user agent*

Michael Frank

@Bob Hmm? My two comments are not related. I just thought it was an interesting quote.

bwDraco

What about Group Policy-controlled settings?

Bob

@MichaelFrank my reply was to the quote

> My employee uses PDF with Print Restriction because ISO9001 requeres it.

wat

allquixotic

I think he means employer

Bob

11:43 PM

I'm reasonably sure ISO 9001 doesn't even specify PDF, let alone whether you can print it.

bwDraco

(Group Policy support is one of those things that Firefox seriously lags behind in — Chrome supports it, Firefox does not and requires a commercial add-on)

allquixotic

@Bob they probably had some clueless General Counsel interpret some use of the word "secure" in ISO 9001 to mean that you have to restrict PDFs

bwDraco

blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/11/… Hmm...

Michael Frank

Or they couldn't figure out how to watermark their documents with "Uncontrolled when printed. Use the digital version, nub!"

bwDraco

By Firefox ESR 60, there's going to be a new policy system.

@MichaelFrank If this is a matter of document integrity, that would do.

Bob

11:47 PM

I see your "document integrity" and raise my white-out.

bwDraco

I mean, if you're concerned about people printing altered documents...

Ave

@allquixotic accurate

Bob

@allquixotic Project Mortar is the Chromium PDF lib

> Will this have an effect on the project Mortar?

> As far as project mortar goes, that's a little ways off. I'd like to have this for firefox 52.

> Adobe Reader it´s good enought for everyone

... lol.

Michael Frank

@Bob That was the whole argument though. Sure people can bypass it, but why give them the white-out when you serve them the document?

Kinda like writing out a cheque, except all you had on hand was a pencil.

Bob

@MichaelFrank But they're not giving them the white-out. They're asking other people to take away the already-existing white-out.

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