hm, installing centos for lfs 101 (I want a refresher. Tip? Skip the first two chapters at least, and the first video of each subsequent chapter. In fact, if its under 3 minutes, forget it)
@ewwhite I was thinking about trying to write something that would allow photographers to upload a link to their work, and proceed to reverse image search everything
Basically, it would show the photographer where their stuff is being used so they could check it for permission
And once that initial pass was done, it could revisit the search once in a while and report on new usages
There are some things I haven't thought of an answer to yet- like how to deal with cropped images
watermarks and format changes too
I'm imagining something that people could also use to keep track of their facebook photos- you always hear stories about FB photos that end up on dating sites
@ewwhite this would be a way for photographers or people with a lot of personal photos on social media to know when it's been used
For big sites that wouldn't be directly responsible (like if someone used a photo of @pauska for their linkedin profile), I could even write something that would allow them to send the appropriate complaint with one click
In any case, there are tons of cases where a magazine will use an independent photographer's photos without credit, and then tell them that it's good for their exposure
Problem is that unless these independents have time to trawl the barely-read back-alleys of the internet, they may not even know
So my site would let them provide a link to a master-gallery, google reverse image search all their images, and at least tell them who used it without cropping
I might even be able to figure out a way to check the exif data for comparison
a lot of photo-thieves are really stupid and lazy (which is why they steal instead of asking permission)
@Basil: I wonder if tin eye has an api - they're another great reverse search tool. Though I'd suggest exif data is often useless, cause it might get mangled up. There's a excellent perl based tool for reading it though
@JourneymanGeek I wouldn't count on it, but if I found an exact match among images that google claim "look like" the one I upload, it's probably a crop
@JourneymanGeek that said, I'll look up tineye- never heard of it until now
(so you wouldn't need to retrieve stuff off sources each time, keep a local set of hashes, run a hash against an uploaded file, and if it dosen't match, hit it across google image search or tin eye)
@JourneymanGeek I'm thinking of a bunch of problems, and I'll bet most of them are solvable. My main one, though, is whether google minds if a program keeps track of the results of a lot of searches
@JourneymanGeek I suppose google image search wasn't live at the time that post was written?
Somebody please kill me now. I just helped my 90 year old grandfather through signing out of the wrong gmail account and into the right gmail account and resetting the password. On the phone,when he's on a computer I can't see and he can't comprehend the difference between all the little url/search boxes and has a blind spot for that upper right corner that shows what account he's logged into.
All because his ISP changed to comcast and sent a frightening notice about changes to the email account he's never used and because "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" are very easy to confuse when you don't actually read what's on the screen.
I think after that 84 minute phone call, if I die tonight I should be a shoe-in for sainthood.
@MichaelHampton Next time I fly up to visit them, i need to make sure to go to their place for a few hours and set up some kind of something that will let me remote in to be able to actually see the desktop...
@MichaelHampton Oh, I've done a bit of dialup tech support before... I guess not enough to end up trying to help a 90-year old that's unclear on the difference between their desktop and a browser window,though...
> Ok, what, exactly does it say on the screen? Are you sure it doesn't say anything else underneath that? No, wait, go back. Okay, please read exactly what it actually says and not your interpretation of what it means.
@freiheit: been mostly using it on windows and android. advantage is very little config. If I wanted something a bit more universal (and you'd need to set it up first), I'd go with nomachine
I statically compiled the latest rsync (3.1.1) & can successfully execute the command on my ESXI server. I am getting the following error from rsync however:
ERROR: out of memory in receive_sums [sender]
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util2.c(102) [sender=3.1.1]
r...
Ok I hear you. So how about I use ghettoVCB to store the backups on a btrfs client which dedupes on completion & then sends the fs differences to the backup server? Crazy or reasonable? — tozjerimiah2 mins ago
I've got an Amazon EC2 instance with a keypair, and I want to setup shellinabox so I can ssh from any web browser. However, shellinabox only seems to allow password logins and I wasn't able to find any way to enable logins with a keypair.
Does shellinabox allow login with a keypair?
I run Vista Ultimate 64 bit Windows. My computer has two 4TB dynamic disks, that was set up with a 2x 500GB partition in spanned mode, and another 2x 3500GB partition in stripe mode. I have a total of 5 disks connected to the computer; I use 2 disks in MBR mode for booting.
I prefer stripe disks...
oh wow, Google just sent us a mail that one of our largest site allegedly spreads malware. They now display a warning and block Chrome users from going there unless they click through a warning. wtf
the singleton pattern it constantly forces is anathema to OOP
classes as containers for static methods and static properties (which are really just global functions and global variables in namespaces) are anathema to OOP
Conventions like .run() to run timers instead of using function references are just strange
and they force you to do absurd things like subclass your class just so the method will be named run()
and god forbid you want to register a timer that calls a couple methods on a class
you have to subclass it multiple times
and then create an instance of each subtype, each having a run() method that calls the method you really wanted to call, or you can use a function reference I guess and subclass it once
but either way you're instantiating a class (which is a data object!) just to register a callback
and then there is the need to write everything five times
> public class Fuck { private int a; private int b; public Fuck(int A, int B) { a = A; b = B; } public Fuck(int A) { a = A; b = 0; } public Fuck() { a = 0; b = 0; } public int getA() { return a; } public int getB() { return b; } public void setA(int A) { a = A; } public void setB(int B) { b = B; } }
and if I want to put that into a STL data structure with comparison only on B, I don't need to make a comparator class... I just need to write a method like this...
@Nick Crazy suggestion here: try learning joe (initially via it's nano-like "jpico" mode) instead of nano. Hard to find things people actually want to do in an editor that joe can't do.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not a big fan of "overly clever" code. It tends to confuse the junior developers who invariably get the assignments to maintain it.
but I also prefer that a language that does not bog down people who are good at it, over a language that forces people to do things just so that stuff is more explicit.
like, to write java, people tend to use IDEs that have macros to write required boilerplate for them
that's absurd, because someone will have to read through it all
and then people begin to skim over it, and miss small changes if small changes are made
I dont really mind since I put all the stuff that is repeating code (getters, setters) at the bottom with a 10 line gap so I know that theres nothing interesting bellow that point
God. Every time I have to get near someone's Java code, it's usually a wild goose chase through 15 different files before I find what I was looking for.
I've been getting used to Iterm2, and have a very specific profile configuration requirement for a legacy business application. The configuration for the profile requires a special font as well as numerous keybinding and color changes.
I've been able to encapsulate all of these changes into a d...
@MarkHenderson You can blame IT guys for this, we've successfully taught people to not read installation prompts and just nextnextnext the software onto their computer.
@BigHomie What pissed me off even more about this one is that I declined their stupid crap bloatware but it still added a shortcut to download it onto my desktop
I've got an Amazon EC2 instance with a keypair, and I want to setup shellinabox so I can ssh from any web browser. However, shellinabox only seems to allow password logins and I wasn't able to find any way to enable logins with a keypair.
Does shellinabox allow login with a keypair?
I've been getting used to Iterm2, and have a very specific profile configuration requirement for a legacy business application. The configuration for the profile requires a special font as well as numerous keybinding and color changes.
I've been able to encapsulate all of these changes into a d...
