Root Access

allquixotic

04:07

@Bob RyanRies added a new feature all on his own O_O github.com/ryanries/PassFiltEx/commits/master

Bob

04:43

o_O

bwDraco

04:54

See Matrix - need hard drive buying advice.

Journeyman Geek

06:24

@allquixotic someone asked iirc

Random internet person emailed me and asked me to add a feature to require special chars in passwords, so I did. Yes, I realize the more onerous a password becomes, the more likely a user is to write the password down on a sticky note, but I don't care it's fun don't judge me.

Tweeted by JosephRyanRies on February 9, 2019 at 2:03 AM

rahuldottech

@allquixotic ...this is a project you and Bob work on?

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech it's a project he uses and one of the serverfault diaspora writes and maintains

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek ahh ok

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek ah :P

Canadian Luke

07:11

So I got my Cisco Meraki gear at home setup... I gotta say, I'm impressed so far

rahuldottech

07:56

Journeyman Geek

08:31

@CanadianLuke ooh. Those are subscription based no?

@rahuldottech booooooooooo

djsmiley2k

12:52

@CanadianLuke Tis nice

CowperKettle

13:17

I want to replace decimal commas with decimal dots

I place (?<=[\d]{1})\,(?=[\d]{1}) in the Find field and . in the Replace field. It finds all instances finely, but does not replace.

djsmiley2k

14:25

in what tho?

djsmiley2k

14:38

k, so i might snipe harry

2

as his answer is terrible anyhow

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A: Touch screen is dead and inputs are dead: How to access my damaged tablet data?

I'm going to presume it's booting even if you can't see it is, and that it's connected on your wireless network, hopefully with network shares enabled. From another machine on the same network, you want to: Find out the IP the tablet is picking up, you maybe able to do this via your routers ad...

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k please do

djsmiley2k

Just saying 'access it via the network' isn't pertciularly helpful.

eeeh is this legit?

download82.com/download/windows/dameware-mini-remote-control

i mean, dameware isn't usually free i thought

maybe there is a shareware version tho?

allquixotic

@CowperKettle may have to escape the \.

CowperKettle

14:55

@allquixotic I tried that, but strangely it did not work. My software is SDL Trados Studio 2017

Maybe there's a glitch in the software.

djsmiley2k

15:06

Ok so, with 'unidenfied' cctv camera

which feeds into (i can get the model in a mo) pvr

what's it likely using, PoE I'm guessing....?

/me goes to get the model

/me twiddles

Journeyman Geek

15:30

Some have a separate 12v battery

Er.. power supply

rahuldottech

15:51

Ok, plz tell me how this is worthy of downvotes: stackoverflow.com/a/53978563/4037639

Q: how do I do this

Bob

@JourneymanGeek which might be sent on one pair of an ethernet cable (like old "poe"), as a bonus :P

rahuldottech

A: You can't with built-in functions but I wrote something that might help here's an example of how you can use it

SO: *downvotes anyway*

Bob

@rahuldottech so. yea. treating questions, especially old questions, as a place to advertise your own project is bad form.

Whether it gets a positive reaction is therefore very hit or miss

allquixotic

@Bob it's a 100 line script; how is that any different than pasting the content of the script into an answer?

I mean he could do both, would that make it less bad form?

but yeah I agree SO is extremely finnicky with what is worthy of an upvote and extremely heavy on the downvotes

Bob

@allquixotic It's whether it comes across as kinda spammy (if it looks like you're searching for questions that fit your project) or if you happened to create a project as a response to the question.

Journeyman Geek

15:57

@Bob yup

allquixotic

I'm just lucky I have Bob, so I only really have to ask on SO about Lua

Bob

@allquixotic At the end of the day it boils down to which category it's in and who sees it first. e.g. PHP is very different from Java, which is again very different from C.

But generally I see "use X library" answers less-liked, I think.

And in the rare event of it being the answerer's own library... well... either it's loved or hated. Rarely a middle ground...

@allquixotic @_@ I'm just a googlebot

@Bob C: it better be just a short snippet, Java: it better be in maven/gradle, PHP: ???

rahuldottech

@Bob yeah, I figured. The question didn't have many valid answers tho...

Bob

@rahuldottech "If you want to share between multiple users, you probably want some sort of shared persistence, either short term in a cache (eg. memcached) or more robust like a database."

From the voted/accepted answer.

rahuldottech

16:13

@Bob yeah, but that's not a solution, it's telling you what a solution might be. Mine is a copy-paste answer (which let's be real is what most people browsing SO want) specifically written for this purpose

Bob

Browsing, perhaps. But voters like to know why something works, not a "here's the code" answer.

rahuldottech

I'd still argue it's completely valid. But I get your point

Bob

@rahuldottech It's valid enough that it isn't deleted.

rahuldottech

@Bob this statement is conflicting. Do I take that as a... Compliment? Or an insult? ;P

Bob

@rahuldottech It's a "your answer probably does answer the question enough to not be NAA'd, but people don't like it for reasons"

That said, sidetracking a little, there's a number of caveats that a more fleshed out answer might mention: this is an implementation of persistence to disk, this will leave the persistence file around forever (no cleanup, e.g. when server is shut down -- so a restart won't lose/cleanup state), this doesn't scale at all so use sparingly, ... etc

rahuldottech

16:16

@Bob ah yes. I should add. Thanks.

Bob

That won't necessarily move it from "downvoted" to "upvoted", idk what the voters actually thought.

But if I were to see that answer in the wild and actually look into it more, that might be what I'd comment on it.

rahuldottech

@Bob yeah, I know. I'm probably going to leave it up tho cuz why not

Bob

I'd maybe say "As <other answer> mentioned, you need to persist to an external store. For simpler applications that don't need much performance/storage to justify a database, I've written a simple helper for a key-value store in a flat file on disk..."

(Though. Personally I'd just use a JSON lib these days if I wanted a flat file store. There's usually a solid one available in most languages.)

rahuldottech

17:20

To be frank, I'd have to change my name.

rahuldottech

17:47

This is... me

I know CSS, I occasionally do CSS, but I HATE CSS

bwDraco

fierydragonlord.com/styles.css

(if you're wondering, the CC BY-SA license on my website extends to this file)

A few things there for responsive Web design (e.g. images limited to viewport width), but nothing too complicated.

Gotta go. Photo assignment time.

DavidPostill

@rahuldottech Don't tempt me :) As a mod I could change your name to Frank

😈

rahuldottech

18:05

@bwDraco don't use CC for code.

Use Apache or MIT

@DavidPostill lol. I could change it back? Also, just my username. Not my Real Name™

DavidPostill

18:24

@rahuldottech I'm sure your real name could be changed as well. I'm not black hat enough to do it, but I'm sure the right people could hack the appropriate government databases :)

bertieb

Now now

Think of all the domains he'd have to re-register

Does North Korea have a registrar?

for fra.nk

Canadian Luke

18:49

@rahuldottech Why not use CC, as opposed to MIT or Apache if you're offering code for others to use?

bwDraco

@rahuldottech I'll change that to Apache 2.0 when I get a chance.

(as a comment block)

...done.

Canadian Luke

My question still stands though, why not use CC?

Canadian Luke

19:29

@JourneymanGeek They are, but it sped up my network, and I can have multiple HD streams going on different devices now. I think it's a lot more efficient than the router that my ISP gave me... Plus I set it up from work so that when I got home, I just plugged stuff in and it worked

djsmiley2k

19:44

@DavidPostill lol I recall watching the 'Now you're dead' video from defcon, that's a good one

Guy showed how he could file for anyone to be claimed dead in the USA.

rahuldottech

20:27

> Unlike software-specific licenses, CC licenses do not contain specific terms about the distribution of source code, which is often important to ensuring the free reuse and modifiability of software. Many software licenses also address patent rights, which are important to software but may not be applicable to other copyrightable works.

Additionally, our licenses are currently not compatible with the major software licenses, so it would be difficult to integrate CC-licensed work with other free software. Existing software licenses were designed specifically for use with software and offer…

creativecommons.org/faq/…

Canadian Luke

OK, I'm still not understanding why I wouldn't want CC licensing on coding I offer on my site?

allquixotic

@CanadianLuke CC is a really shitty copyright license for software basically

rahuldottech

@CanadianLuke it's better for art and creative works.

Canadian Luke

So if something breaks cause someone uses my code, would I be liable at all? That's all I care about

That, and saying I wrote that portion

rahuldottech

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Q: Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?

Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any information explaining this. I contribute as both an asker and answerer on Code Review Stack Exchange. Si...

@CanadianLuke then it's ok. But if you care about sharing, reproduction and patents, you should use either MIT or Apache - two of the simplest licenses out there

DavidPostill

20:30

@CanadianLuke If that's all you care about why are you bothering with a licence? If you publish code and someone copies it you are not liable for anything ...

bertieb

cough GPL

rahuldottech

See what I use: rahul.tech/about

> All content (excluding code, icons and logos) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

All code and open source projects are licensed under the MIT License:

allquixotic

creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/…

> Your contributions to adaptations of BY-SA 4.0 materials may only be licensed under:

BY-SA 4.0, or a later version of the BY-SA license.
Ported versions of the BY-SA license (if any), version 4.0 or later
A license designated as a “BY-SA Compatible License” as defined in BY-SA 4.0.

Canadian Luke

OK, thanks

rahuldottech

This is so cool: instant.page

allquixotic

20:32

so if you license your code under CC-BY-SA and someone wants to incorporate it into a codebase that's MIT, or Apache, or GPL, they can't, unless it's specifically mentioned there

DavidPostill

blog.codinghorror.com/pick-a-license-any-license

allquixotic

like GPLv3 is mentioned, but Apache isn't

rahuldottech

@Bob @allquixotic thoughts?

DavidPostill

MIT licence:

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

No liabilities of any kind :)

MIT License

The MIT License is a permissive free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a permissive license, it puts only very limited restriction on reuse and has, therefore, an excellent license compatibility. The MIT license permits reuse within proprietary software provided that all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms and the copyright notice. The MIT license is also compatible with many copyleft licenses, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL); MIT licensed software can be integrated into GPL software, but not the...

And there is the wtfpl.net/ licence. Which I won't post here as someone may flag the content :/

djsmiley2k

20:48

it's lol tho

DavidPostill

😂

bertieb

Thinking out loud before I post a silly question...

Is there a way to scale a single (game) window?

Like "please render this at 800x600, but scale to 1600x1200"

Trouble Maker Chat Broom

21:09

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Q: Remote Desktop Software [Windows<->Linux]

I'm looking for remote desktop to be able to connect (primarily) from Linux PC (Debian, regular X and no display manager such as gnome/xfce etc) to Windows 7. I can't use Teamviewer (version 13/14 - they've deprecated <12) since it won't start GUI on Linux without display manager. Another softwar...

linux windows remote-desktop

Vote already!!!

Canadian Luke

21:39

I'm not going to vote to open it :P

djsmiley2k

errr no?

Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic

Canadian Luke

22:08

(We know... That's why the sarcastic comment so long after it'd been posted :P )

djsmiley2k

22:21

some reason the broom can't read? :D

bwDraco

roar

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/…

It was only a matter of time.

djsmiley2k

22:51

I thought someone was already suing them but anyway, telco's and businesses in america are far too powerful, legal wise.

Canadian Luke

23:10

I thought so too!

bwDraco

23:24

.@ATT: If you're promising more than 1,000 times the capacity of 4G LTE, you don't get to call your network 5G until me and tens of thousands of other commuters can simultaneously stream 4K video during rush hour at Grand Central Terminal. #5GEvolution is nonsense. #Fake5G

Tweeted by bwDraco on December 22, 2018 at 5:27 PM

LTE Advanced Pro != 5G.

You can call it 4.5G. Calling it "5G Evolution" is deceptive.

Real 5G is when I can actually stream 4K video or play an online game without interruption in a jam-packed transit terminal at the absolute peak of rush hour.

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