@FMLCat are you still around?

@bwDraco sort this out first. The internet will always be here

Thanks.

I really hope this does not escalate again.

Just keep calm and use your judgement.

@Biswapriyo research os - inferno is a newer alternative. Basically turns the Unix everything is a file metaphor up to 11

@FMLCat So I'm screwing around with AT modem commands on an AC800s... trying to lock out the crappy B3

at!gband=0000000000000000,0000008008000000 seems to do the trick

Oo

gcemetery.co

wait, goo.gl is gone?!

@Bob IIRC Google took it down because of abuse by spammers and scammers.

Hmm... Google didn't cite abuse, but I'm pretty sure that was a factor in this decision...

Goo.gl would still work until April, if you created short links before. New people can't use it though

Lots of old memories on that cemetery page....

@Bob yep, has been for a while

@CanadianLuke International?

> Register with a shipping address (a post office box is not sufficient) in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, or Thailand. At this time, we cannot ship free switches outside of these regions, and cannot ship to post office boxes.

So... almost everyone in this room except me.

Great.

@rahuldottech Free switches?

@rahuldottech That's actually really cool! How did you do it?

@MichaelFrank imgur.com/gallery/GcDsaxe

@MichaelFrank Yep, see @CanadianLuke's blog post above

Is there an easy way to understand all options of iptables commands? Or man page is the only way?

That man pages will be the most comprehensive list of options. Might not be the easiest though.

morning

Yo

@Bob Whit? Maps still hands out goo.gl shortened URLs when you 'share' a link to a place

@bertieb Probably just the public creation of short links is shutting down?

Ah yes, could well be

all picasa's functionality was merged into google photos

its just the brand that was killed off

a lot of these products were merged into other products

@Burgi Not all.

The desktop version would do Face ID

@djsmiley2k Google photos does that

But there's no desktop version, yeah

that cemetery should have a family tree to show where functionality was migrated to

@rahuldottech that I can customise?

@djsmiley2k I think so. What do you mean by that?

well in picassa it'd let me choose a person and see all the photos they're in

I can say 'That's not them' on it, if it's wrong.

i'll admit i haven't seen that functionality

@Burgi It has that, I've used it

where?

i'm in the photos app on my phone...

@Burgi albums > people and pets

i don't have that album

Don't have phone right now, but on PC^

slightly nsfw: i.sstatic.net/vh3LI.png

I hate these sort of ads

I see enough malnourished kids irl without having to see them on the web too

!!s/these sort of//

@bertieb I hate ads (source)

I actually don't mind all ads

But definitely all Google ads

nope i don't have the people album at all

i have all the others

@Burgi weird

Harrumph

Very tempted to write a car hunting script

One that parses classifieds and pulls out the details

I've done it before for flat-hunting, because that is just as tedious

python and BeautifulSoup makes it relatively straightforward

just employ my girlfriend

she spent two weeks researching cars

D:

> two weeks

D: D:

I spent a long time looking over cars last time around (2016?)

Don't quite have the same luxury pof time these days

@JourneymanGeek this is tempting ozbargain.com.au/node/438044

@Bob Trawling classifieds does take up a fair chunk of time

But more importantly it might make it more tolerable :P

@Bob I have the LU32J590UQUXEN

@bertieb Bless you.

i forgot how badass the expanse was

Not sure how it differs from the LU32H850U

absolutely loving the fact its all on prime now

@bertieb It's a worl^WQUXEN of difference!

@Bob True, the QUXEN is what I really like about it

Is one OLED and the other is... QLED?

Given Samsung's naming conventions elsewhere :P

Hmph, the QUXEN has dropped seventy quid since I got it

Ah well

@bertieb Specs are fairly close samsung.com/uk/monitors/uhd-u32j590, samsung.com/au/monitors/u32h85

brightness difference

one doesn't claim 125% sRGB coverage

etc

I want to put my phones on my PC but Spotify won't stop playing songs I like! #firstworldproblems

The H85 also has charging ports and such?

DIE CLIPPY DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

flagged for hate speech

@ThatBrazilianGuy That's Brazilian German for "The Clippy, the"

!!flagged

@Bob Since they're similar I can give the one I have a solid 👍

I just wish more things had UI scaling for my blind eyes

@bertieb Ich nein Hammstein Sauerkrautz!

@bertieb lol, I'm not really looking for a replacement right now but I'll keep that in mind

got one P2715Q and one CB280HK (which is pretty shit but rarely turned on)

if I get a new monitor (in... 3 years maybe?) it'll probably be high-refresh-rate (120+) w/ g-sync

Ah yeah

Problem with 4k (or high refresh I guess) is getting the cards that can drive that

@rahuldottech I don't get that...

What I think that actually is

is a few suggestions for albums

it's almost like you don't actually use google photos?

Mwahaha Australia watch out!

@Bob 😁

@djsmiley2k some weird UK thing maybe?

@FMLCat :O

@FMLCat don't end up working at one of the dodgy places!

@rahuldottech do you use it tho?

because that just looks like the blank page you get when you've never made an album

I had to look twice

@bertieb Maybe we will no longer have that problem in 3 years.

@Hennes Probably; on-card RAM seems to be going up!

Vega'7 7 16 seems a lot yeah

As some DC cards

but 8GB seems plenty just to drive a display and current games

And I guess it depends on games. All bar 1 game had no problem with my 4k display

But I play mostly turn based stuff

I've seem to drop a lot of frames streaming/recording EUIV, which I wouldn't expect to from a grand strategy game

I had problems with Warlock, master of the arcane. Upgrading from a GTX760 to a 1080 helped

But this months most played game is still a DOS based game

Which is a small square on my screen with lots of black surrounding it

Check out these sweet Ethernet breakouts I just made in under five minutes

Turns out modifying these coupler thingies is wayyy easier than soldering female ports to a circuit board and then wiring

Also prevents signal deflection on the lines I intend to retain for regular Ethernet functionality

@djsmiley2k that was a screenshot from my less used account

I actually use Google photos regularly. The only Google product besides Chrome and Docs that I use. And I intend on switching away from all of them soon.

Hm. I think I'm confusing the terminology. Signal deflection is something else

OK no it's the correct term

@Bob Wait what's a dodgy places?

@FMLCat erm... abc.net.au/news/2015-05-05/…, abc.net.au/news/2017-07-17/…

!!/oh

why

y

YYYY

lol

First draft for a potential future article: rahul.tech*/privacy.html

thoughts?

Argh why chat gotta be so broke

link

lol

Apple don't respect peoples privacy

anyway the google photos thing

In Picassa I could say show me photos of 'Tim' and it'd show me

and it'd show photos it thought were me

how do i identify 'tim' on google photos?

get lost clippy

@djsmiley2k What makes you say that?

@rahuldottech Major security vulnerability in runc.

I think he means about apple

@bwDraco I'm talking about Apple here

Whoops, misread your reply.

@bwDraco Your thoughts on the draft?

Um, military conscription?

Wait i'm confused

@bwDraco no the link

Whoops.

Lol.

Apple's really the only one of the major tech companies whose business is not utterly reliant on user data because their focus is on selling hardware, not software or Internet services.

@bwDraco Yep. time.com/4998189/iphone-x-privacy-apple

Anything you'd like to add to the article?

(Mine, not the Time one)

As a result, Apple can afford to improve user privacy because they don't stand to lose anywhere near as much as Google, Facebook, or Microsoft if they lose access to user data.

@bwDraco Microsoft would probably survive just fine too.

Google and Facebook are economically unsustainable with strong user privacy (e.g. their business models are totally infeasible without access to user data). Microsoft's business would be weakened (because they do use telemetry as key inputs for improving their products) but can live with less access to user data.

@bwDraco They didn't use telemetry till relatively recently

Amazon can survive but their business would be similarly weakened, and to a greater degree than Microsoft because they rely heavily on user data to drive repeat sales and customer loyalty.

@bwDraco That's just their marketplace tho. They have other services and products too

Apple is really the only one of the Big Five tech companies that is in a position to push privacy without damaging its business.

Google and Facebook can't function at all without access to user data, while Amazon and Microsoft would suffer noticeably.

And this fact is very important.

As much as I'm not a fan of Apple's sometimes user-hostile practices and closed ecosystem, this is one thing I can get behind.

@djsmiley2k Was this meme indeed about the runc vulnerability?

Today's Patch Tuesday. I'll be right back.

Speaking of runc... gotta get to launching that Docker VM, updating it, and getting back to studying Docker.

yus

@djsmiley2k Albums > People & Pets

They do a really really good job at identifying you as well.

It's kinda creepy.

They can even pick out people in FB Messenger Chatheads from screenshots.

@MichaelFrank Yeah, it's weird man

Instagram DPs too

The best ones I find are random faces where I have to look at the whole image to figure out. Then I realise it's picked out the face of someone way in the background of a photo I took in a public place.

!!caaaaat

roar

how'd the updating go, @bwDraco

Did my Patch Tuesday updates on both Stolas and Astaroth but haven't gotten to launching the Docker VM yet. I'll run sudo zypper up first thing.

Have... have Gumtree REMOVED THE ABILITY TO FILTER BY PRICE ??

...and done.

GUTENBERG

We meet again

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