Root Access

12:02 AM

We have some of the worst consumer protections in the world among industrialized nations.

In addition to the whole EMV debacle, we have much weaker requirements for warranties (no minimums for most products, whereas Europe has a 2-year statutory requirement for electronics).

We have little in the way of digital privacy protections while Europe has far more stringent requirements (mandatory cookie notices, etc.).

DavidPostill

@bwDraco That is countered by the US having the concept of Class Actions (which exist in the UK but are very rare) ...

bwDraco

While California leads the way in consumer protection here in the US with New York closely following, federal-level protections are very poor compared to EU laws.

Hennes

@bwDraco Probably. My provides sometimes is iffy.

Oh, my dell 1510 mine PCI card apparently supports the 5GHz band

I never noticed because I only just got my second 5GHz band device

Journeyman Geek

12:26 AM

@Hennes If its older, A and AC are compatible

and abg was common pre N

Hennes

it is older. Dell E6500 laptop from feb 2009

playing with inssiddr atm

the laptop is rather dated, but it still works and is only used about 5 times per month

Bob

@JourneymanGeek bg was common, abgn was common. I don't think plain abg was that common... a sucked

Hennes

52 networks detected... 3 mine

only one of them on 5GHz

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Oddly, my R60 is ABG. My r61 is BG only ._.

and I have a bunch of bgn/2.4ghz only devices

Hennes

Yeah, seems to be A only.

Temped to get an AC card

Max rate 450

Should be up to 1705mbps for ac
(And yes, I know I will not get that in practice)

Journeyman Geek

12:44 AM

I'd love to do that for my thinkpad x220, but I don't really want to installc cracked firmware to remove the whitelist

Hennes

Aye, whitelisting in firmware is awful

I could use the USB2 ports

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, dongles are an option

Hennes

No speed gain there though. Maybe some long range stability gains, but ...

Oh fun. I remember playing with this instable setups for hours.

dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/QNA10205/JA

bwDraco

1:03 AM

!!/help listen

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco listen: Forwards the message to my ears (as if called without the /)

That Brazilian Guy

The answers here are hilarious: Who is spreading the rumour that Santa isn't real?

WHATEVER Dave

1:35 AM

@JourneymanGeek: I just got a tpad yoga 460

touch screen and everything

Journeyman Geek

Ah. I don't really do convertables

Looks nice tho

bwDraco

!!/bearhello

ChatBot John Cavil

Burgi

2:19 AM

ok so...

we just had our work night out

and it was fucking mental

i barely survived!

bwDraco

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Q: Would a USB drive or SD card survive in a properly sealed time capsule?

I want to bury a time capsule that will be set to open in 50-100 years. This being 2016, I would like for it to contain digital data inside of it. So my question is, would a USB survive? How about a SD card? I am creating it on a low-budget so I'd preferably like to use a storage medium that is a...

I don't think a flash drive will retain data for that long, especially given that the TLC NAND in newer flash drives tends to be rather unstable over time. I'd use archival-grade optical media (e.g. DVD, BD) instead; even if the equipment isn't readable with the hardware in common use then, it would not be too difficult for a dedicated lab to read the data off the disc. Please see superuser.com/questions/374609/… — bwDraco 4 mins ago

For something like this, optical media is your best bet.

Bob

3:05 AM

...until the dye degrades

Journeyman Geek

3:22 AM

Pretty sure there's a dupe

allquixotic

@Bob mdisc.com

totally not a scam; it's a real technology backed by big companies

store.mdisc.com

Alan Watch

Hard disk can survive..Anything which stores charge can't be reliable enough to hold data for that long

bwDraco

3:38 AM

I've seen actual M-DISC media at the local Best Buy. No kidding.

Several companies manufacture the discs under license, Verbatim being one.

Hard disks are probably good for 10-20 years unpowered if stored properly.

That's... not enough.

SSD, that depends, but quality MLC NAND is probably good for 3-5 years unpowered, often longer. TLC NAND, I'd say 2-4 years. Drives that have seen more extensive use are less stable.

Optical media and SSDs do benefit noticeably from storage in a cool, climate-controlled environment. Not sure about hard drives.

TLC NAND in cheap flash drives is probably only good for about two years unpowered.

Regardless, if you need to store something untouched for decades, your best bet (at least with equipment readily accessible to consumers) is archival-grade optical media, burned at a slow speed (ideally, no more than 4X for DVD or 2X for BD) with a high-quality optical drive.

Journeyman Geek

3:57 AM

You'd need a reader tho

considering you have trouble reading media that's 30-40 years old

bwDraco

> even if the equipment isn't readable with the hardware in common use then, it would not be too difficult for a dedicated lab to read the data off the disc

The chances are better with optical media.

...unlike NAND, whose content is most likely scrambled and difficult to read even in a properly-equipped lab.

Hard drives, better, but it's still not trivial for a lab to read data.

Optical discs, it's a series of pits in an otherwise flat surface. That's not too hard to do.

Journeyman Geek

rofl

bwDraco

anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention

Journeyman Geek

erf

bwDraco

May 11 '15 at 16:37, by allquixotic

Yikes.

Journeyman Geek

4:03 AM

Last time I researched that, I got entirely contraditory answers

bwDraco

That's why AnandTech and Tom's Hardware are the first places I check.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'm talking actual papers written by researchers

bwDraco

> In a worst case scenario where the active temperature is only 25-30°C and power off is 55°C, the data retention can be as short as one week, which is what many sites have touted with their "data loss in matter of days" claims. Yes, it can technically happen, but not in typical client environment.

SSDs retain data best if you write to them at high temperatures and store them unpowered at low temperatures.

Journeyman Geek

fridge? ;p

bwDraco

18 mins ago, by bwDraco

Optical media and SSDs do benefit noticeably from storage in a cool, climate-controlled environment. Not sure about hard drives.

It takes utterly unrealistic conditions to cause an SSD to lose data in a matter of days.

> In reality power off temperature of 55°C is not realistic at all for a client user because the drive will most likely be stored somewhere in the house (closet, basement, garage etc.) in room temperature, which tends to be below 30°C. Active temperature, on the other hand, is usually at least 40°C because the drive and other components in the system generate heat that puts the temperature over room temperature.

Typical storage temperature in a home environment is more like 15-25 °C.

Typical operating temperature in a consumer environment is 35-50 °C (and often higher with PCIe SSDs or very thin/compact systems).

The punch line?

> If you buy a drive today and stash it away, the drive itself will become totally obsolete quicker than it will lose its data.

This is the presentation: flashmemorysummit.com/English/Collaterals/Proceedings/2011/… (253 KB PDF)

"SSDs can lose data in days when left unpowered" is just a sensationalized headline.

(temperatures in °C, times in weeks)

Ramhound

4:20 AM

-2

A: How do I export all images from Excel and give a name from a related cell

hi dear 'Kyle' you code is working well but please solve another issue i.e.: This code does not saves images taken from web-url using vba. It although inserts from web url but not saves into folder just like image-urls placed in the current system. please help.

^^ Troll

bwDraco

Flagged. Question protected.

Ramhound

/me high five

/highfive

Journeyman Geek

>_>

Ramhound

whaever

Journeyman Geek

Nuked!

Also. not a troll, just HVing ;p

Ramhound

4:21 AM

Hving?

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek: Look at the comments.

Journeyman Geek

Help Vamping

;p

@bwDraco Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to ~~stupidity~~ mild cluelessness?

Ramhound

No; the comments were trollish

bwDraco

This looks a heck of a lot like trolling.

Ramhound

Trollhunter

bwDraco

4:23 AM

It's hard to assume good faith here. However, the post does not warrant a spam or offensive flag, nor was it deleted as such. The ultimate reason for deletion is the fact that it doesn't answer the question.

Nonetheless, this kinda straddles the line between a desperate user looking for help ASAP and intentional trolling.

The three "please attention" comments were all posted within a 61-second timespan.

Clearly, my lack of soft skills here are still hurting me.

Don't worry, I've been trying to fast-track developing these skills and have seen some success already.

Journeyman Geek

And the best way to deal with people who want attention is to not give it to them

bwDraco

Oct 21 '15 at 12:06, by DavidPostill

@DragonLord Take regular breaks. Learn to meditate and do so during those breaks.

Ramhound

I have to decide if I want to upgrade my OpenWRT to LEDE or not hmmm.

Journeyman Geek

LEDE?

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek lede-project.org

Recent experiments in meditation have proven fruitful so far, but there's still work to be done.

Ramhound

4:36 AM

OpenWRT fork which apparently is merging back

Because neither project release anything since the fork happened

Journeyman Geek

lol

bwDraco

So, your thoughts on this?

Ramhound

On people being unable to lip sing at the Christmas party?

They were pretty bad

bwDraco

...on meditation in an effort to resolve ongoing behavioral and self-control issues.

Ramhound

I took up boxing

bwDraco

4:41 AM

brb

...okay.

My experience shows that meditating on my breath for just a few minutes calms me down on the spot and refreshes my mind.

I think I just need to do it more often. In many cases, just 60 seconds can make a decisive difference.

I hope to practice this to the point where I can truly clear my mind given ten or so minutes' time.

Mar 13 at 6:41, by bwDraco

...and we have a chicken-and-egg problem. Without patience, you can't take the time to cool down, but without taking the time to cool down, you can't build self-control, which is a prerequisite to patience.

Hindsight is 20/20, but it's now clear that there's no excuse for not cooling down. It only takes a few minutes.

Journeyman Geek

5:18 AM

@Ramhound lip sync?

Lip singing sounds like something nomads on the fjords of siberia would do...

Ramhound

lip singing = you say the words (with your mouth) without actually saying them. did I say lip sync?

Journeyman Geek

Oh

er

Ramhound

I am confused myself hence the reason I asked :-)

Journeyman Geek

I thought that's lipsyncing

Ramhound

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042420467

it is

apparently

"Lip Sync is moving your lips to the music, and Lip singing is singing really low so that you can be hardly heard, letting the recorded track overpower your voice " according to some random dude

grown dude lip syncing "I am a single lady" is just plain funny

Journeyman Geek

5:24 AM

I totally don't judge. His singleness or his ladydom.

Ramhound

T-Shirt when he leaves that says "I am not a single lady..." and on the back an image of him dancing at the party with the caption "but this guy totally is...." to much?

Journeyman Geek

5:39 AM

Maybe he is!

Unrelatedly, its amusing when you see a question, click on it to answer... and there's one selected answer...

and its yours

Baaaaats

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bwDraco

6:53 AM

...so, took another look at the impressive MyDigitalSSD BPX I talked about earlier.

Nov 1 at 21:47, by bwDraco

Gave the endurance numbers another thought on the MyDigitalSSD BPX, at 1,400 TBW on the 480 GB drive (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mydigitalssd-bpx-nvme-ssd,4780-4.html). That's 1.6 DWPD over five years, just short of a full 3,000 P/E cycles on the NAND, which is insane. The drive manufacturer MyDigitalDiscount clearly has a lot of confidence in the drive...

eteknix.com/…

It is evident that the Phison PS5007-E7 controller is compressing data as it is written to the NAND, SandForce-style.

The claimed 1.3 GB/s write performance is with incompressible data. Faster performance will be attained with compressible data.

(credit eTeknix)

This is why MyDigitalSSD is able to warrant the drive to such a high level of endurance. The controller is compressing data before it hits the NAND.

Journeyman Geek

7:11 AM

hm

You guys are flagging spam faster than I can nuke the users ;)

oh, I just missed that one.

bwDraco

7:40 AM

#eTeknix #MyDigitalSSD BPX review: Is #Phison pulling the same compression tricks #SandForce pulled five years ago? http://www.eteknix.com/mydigitalssd-bpx-480gb-nvme-m-2-solid-state-drive-review/5/

Tweeted by bwDraco on December 10, 2016 at 7:39 AM

Bob

7:54 AM

@allquixotic I'll believe it when I see it has actually lasted that long in real-world conditions...

Really, your best bet for hundred-year storage might be printing on paper.

Or, failing that, etching on aluminium and then anodising it.

Anna duh

8:12 AM

Or just put it in bob's head.

That seems to be pretty good at long term data retention

Bob

@Annaduh My memory is very selective :P

I forget ... everything ... except some rather specific things.

Journeyman Geek

8:30 AM

@Bob hmm qr codes on metal plates? :P

Anna duh

8:54 AM

@Bob but the ones you do remember stay around for decades

Plus it has proven self recall capability that doesn't need a special drive/reader/decoder

Rahul2001

9:54 AM

@DavidPostill ping>nul 1.1 -n 1 -w 250 does 0.25 seconds!

Rahul2001

10:07 AM

Okay, is simply 1 in a batch file a quine?

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 <shrug>

Anna duh

10:47 AM

! ! Wat

!! Wat

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

11:12 AM

!!what

ChatBot John Cavil

djsmiley2k

It depends how accurate you need the data to be

the bibles survived ~2000 years ? :D

Journeyman Geek

11:58 AM

I'm pretty sure its altered a lot in that time

Anna duh

Lol

At all the whiny indignant armchair warriors on Arstechnica today...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Anna duh

"People still using a Note 7 are a public menace because they are posing a risk to everyone around them and to society"

... Meanwhile, hair straighteners, electric heaters, gas cookers, and automobiles continue to catch fire at a far higher rate than Note 7's ever will... why's nobody complaining we should ban people from using them too!

Journeyman Geek

BAN ALL THE THINGS!

3

Anna duh

"Fuck Samsung having a remote kill switch on my phone, it's *MY* phone I should get the choice to do whatever I want with it! FUCK THE SYSTEM! How dare they send an OTA update to disable my phone without my consent"

... Meanwhile, all OTA updates require user approval, if they have a method for installing an OTA without the user's consent, I haven't seen it. Also, Samsung actually refuses to allow you to OTA update even if you wanted on rooted phones, so....

Journeyman Geek

12:10 PM

@Annaduh from samsung's perspective its liability mitigation

Anna duh

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, stupid people will find a way to sue over anything even when it's entirely their own fault

But still, there are plenty of ways around it, and all my phones are rooted so Samsung doesn't think me worthy of OTA updates anyway

Journeyman Geek

yup

I mean at this point, if you have a samsung note 7 and it catches fire...

Anna duh

Heck, unless it wipes the bootloader there's always reflashing your phone via a cable.

Journeyman Geek

its your own damned fault

Anna duh

@JourneymanGeek Still, what's the rate of fires on the Note 7 though? Last known report was a confirmed rate of less than 0.01%

Journeyman Geek

12:12 PM

@Annaduh People panic

Anna duh

@JourneymanGeek I know

Journeyman Geek

To the point where the recharge stations in my local hypermarket ... ban em

Anna duh

One of the hostels around here has banned hairdryers and other electric items in rooms because FIREEEEEEE

Journeyman Geek

._.

Anna duh

Adults can't be trusted with an electrical socket! Must remove all electrical sockets!

Journeyman Geek

12:13 PM

My room's probably a fire hazard

;p

I need to redo my power cabling at some point tho

Anna duh

Meanwhile other (read: all the new ones) hostels are putting electrical sockets in every bed

Heck usually more than one electrical socket and multiple USB sockets for each and every bed

Journeyman Geek

Well, the older ones might have shoddy wiring.

Granted I do not see the brits fucking that up

Anna duh

@JourneymanGeek It's mostly fear of people plugging in hairdryers

Journeyman Geek

They did design the One True Socket.

@Annaduh while showering?

Anna duh

Which I don't use

Journeyman Geek

12:14 PM

In bed?

@Annaduh being a cat and all, you just lick yourself clean?

Anna duh

(I've converted all my electricals into europlugs, mostly flat type but a couple Shuko's still)

Journeyman Geek

0_0

WHY?

WHYYYY?

THE QUEEN WOULD NOT APPROVE!

Anna duh

Much smaller and more convenient plugs. Easier to pack. Take less space. Can travel just about anywhere in the world outside the Americas and don't need an adapter.

Journeyman Geek

hm. Point.

We probably have a few. And indian, pre 1940s UK style plug

Anna duh

UK plugs => Adapters literally everywhere you go (maybe except Singapore and Hong Kong)

Journeyman Geek

12:15 PM

and I have some chinese style ones

@Annaduh I think the malaysians use the one true plug too

Anna duh

Europlugs => Adapters required in UK, and nowhere else, at least in Europe

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

The french use their own sort right?

Anna duh

I have a allocacoc cube thingy which is pretty cool

Journeyman Geek

with the ground sticking out of the socket?

Anna duh

Yeah, but pretty much all Europlugs support both

Journeyman Geek

12:17 PM

Yeah, if you're willing to give up ground

Anna duh

Has the hole for the french earth and the tab at the side for the most-other-places earth

Journeyman Geek

ah

I THINK we had something with that

Anna duh

All my adapters also support both, it's trivially easy to do in the form factor

Journeyman Geek

once

not counting those place that give you 3 different styles of kettlecord

Anna duh

Oh yeah, my Allocacoc powercube takes a normal kettle plug input too, so anywhere you can get a PC power lead, you can use it

TBH one compelling thing was the Europlug sockets in the powercube are recessed inside the cube, so plugs barely protrude

And you can fit a euro => UK adapter inside the recess and it basically sits flush with the surface, being no bigger than the regular UK powercube, except you have the flexibility of removing the adapter

Journeyman Geek

12:20 PM

ah

(I doubt anyone non british would call them one, or know why we call them that. Also they arn't actually kettle cords. As someone once lectured me ._.)

Anna duh

Kettles used to use the same type of plug?

I remember before most of our kettles became hardwired it was the same/similar plug they used

Journeyman Geek

Oh they use something very similar

Anna duh

Trying to find a picture to show you but it looks like I lost it when I accidentally wiped my phone.

Journeyman Geek

a kettle plug could power a PC but not vice versa

DavidPostill

Very common on personal computers and peripherals. Commonly but incorrectly referred to as a "kettle cord", but kettles actually require the C15/C16.

Anna duh

12:26 PM

Dangit

I'll have to draw it in mspaint

DavidPostill

IEC 60320

IEC 60320 Appliance couplers for household and similar general purposes is a set of standards from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) specifying non-locking appliance and interconnection couplers for connecting power supply cords to electrical appliances up to 250 volts. Appliance couplers enable the use of standard inlets and country-specific cord sets which allow manufacturers to produce the same appliance for many markets, where only the cord set has to be changed for a particular market. Interconnection couplers allow a power supply from a piece of equipment or an appliance...

Journeyman Geek

IEC 60320

IEC 60320 Appliance couplers for household and similar general purposes is a set of standards from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) specifying non-locking appliance and interconnection couplers for connecting power supply cords to electrical appliances up to 250 volts. Appliance couplers enable the use of standard inlets and country-specific cord sets which allow manufacturers to produce the same appliance for many markets, where only the cord set has to be changed for a particular market. Interconnection couplers allow a power supply from a piece of equipment or an appliance...

DavidPostill

lol

Journeyman Geek

Mine's more precise ;p

@DavidPostill was it you? ;p

DavidPostill

Was it me what?

Journeyman Geek

12:27 PM

Who corrected me for calling it a kettle cord ;p

DavidPostill

Ah. No I don't think so.

@JourneymanGeek It was @allquixotic

Dec 11 '13 at 15:38, by allquixotic

are you sure you aren't confusing it with the C15/C16, @JourneymanGeek ?

Anna duh

Size difference between a UK multiplug and a flat euro one, banana for scale

Journeyman Geek

ah

Anna duh

It's really hard to convey in mspaint, vs. the actual IRL picture (which I don't have anymore) :-(

Ah, C15 plug

Got the little notch at the bottom that computer plugs usually don't have

My powercube does this:

Journeyman Geek

ah

Anna duh

12:33 PM

So you get the white adapters with it, to plug directly into a wall socket or you can use a kettle plug OR PC plug :-P

Bit like the ol' Macbook chargers

The one with UK plugs has all the plugs flush, so yeah, you can use the euro version with euro => UK adapters recessed inside the plug, and not lose any space while gaining a lot of flexibility

Alan Watch

I prefer flat pins

Journeyman Geek

....

flat pins are the worst design

They're cheap, sure

Anna duh

I just uploaded a screenshot of my imgur to my imgur

Because my imgur images are telling...

Journeyman Geek

British Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, And Here's Why

►

Alan Watch

@JourneymanGeek they still look better than round pins

Journeyman Geek

12:35 PM

"Look better"

Anna duh

Journeyman Geek

as opposed to nice big brass ones?

Anna duh

I say round pins look better, but I can see the aesthetic appeal of flat pins

Journeyman Geek

Mine keep dropping off.

My phone and amp use em

and its terrible

Alan Watch

does shape of pin matter anything?

Journeyman Geek

12:38 PM

British plugs are basically overengineered.

and better.

Other than being huge, and being likely to hurt you if you step on one.

Anna duh

And bigger

And more likely to be stepped on

Alan Watch

well that's a valid point

Journeyman Geek

But you shouldn't leave plugs lying around

Anna duh

Although you can step on Schuko Euro plugs, the straight ones make less pain than the right angled ones (and with Schuko you get a choice). Also overall smaller, makes them statistically less likely to be targeted

Journeyman Geek

europlugs are unlikely to be stepped on

but lack earth

Anna duh

12:39 PM

Most european plugs don't have fuses either, but have been fully moulded for a long time

UK plugs have only fairly recently become moulded as standard because apparently it's safer than a (dis)assemblable plug?

Journeyman Geek

that's another nice thing about UK plugs ._.

Anna duh

That it's moulded or hasn't been moulded for long?

Journeyman Geek

You can go buy a plain plug and rewire ~~inferior plugs~~ the rare broken plug

Alan Watch

I don't mind shape of pins..chargers should be made to charge phones very fast

Anna duh

Basically for me it comes down to this: If you don't need earth, UK plugs are unnecessarily big and over-engineered (and obnoxious to pack because of right angle sticky out bits) compared to plain Europlugs

The fact that you can fit a europlug neatly inside a typical UK plug illustrates this nicely:

(And there's space for a fuse in there too!)

Alan Watch

12:46 PM

I'm tired of my charger..its USB keeps getting broken after few moths

Anna duh

Mine never has...

Alan Watch

which is the fastest charger in the world?

Hennes

The one on the concorde

Anna duh

@AlanWatch lmgtfy.com/?q=fastest+charger+in+the+world

Although the first result there is actually for the world's fastest charging charger which is't the fastest at charging but fast at being charged by the fastest charger which charges the charger not the charger itself which does the charging of non-chargers

So is the world's fastest charger is actually a charger that charges a charger that charges non-chargers or is it the charger being charged by the charger that charges the charger?

Which came first, the fastest charging charger, or the charger that charges it?

o_0

That's some serious chicken and egg shit right there

Hennes

I charge you with trying to sow confusion. :)

Anna duh

12:54 PM

Met a cute German girl yesterday who was into board games, role play, and martial arts. She was also good at sowing confusing in that Code names game.

And that other game I forgot the name of.

Hennes

One for @DavidPostill Veroordeelde crimineel wil premier van Nederland worden
(teletext 111)

Anna duh

Where you're supposed to sow confusion

Except I just managed to confuse myself

14 days till Christmas...

Hennes

14 days until the end of xmas music in stores

Anna duh

Will it be?

Hennes

Hopefully.

Anna duh

12:57 PM

Or will they just... let it be

Hennes

Except in Texas. There you can just shoot a place up if you have a bad day or do not like the music

Anna duh

Wait never mind, it's let it go not let it be

See, managed to confuse myself again

@Hennes "can" lol

DavidPostill

@Hennes lol

Moah spam flags please superuser.com/a/1155099/337631

Anna duh

1:17 PM

I wonder why Android can automatically cycle through multiple wallpapers for the lock screen but can't do the same for the home screent

Hennes

one user, two spams

Journeyman Geek

1:28 PM

@DavidPostill nuked the user ;p

That Brazilian Guy

Happy birthday @allquixotic!

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Bob

1:53 PM

Happy birthday @allquixotic!

Journeyman Geek

Happy birthday @allquixotic!

DavidPostill

Happy birthday @allquixotic!

Aibobot

Happy birthday @allquixotic!

Boris_yo

Is this automatic "Happy Birthday-Wishing" script you are all using?

Am I risking it with this cable exposed?

Journeyman Geek

._.

Yes

Boris_yo

2:04 PM

5DC... Nah it's just a scratch.

Output is what matters.

Bob

@Boris_yo ...you broke it.

Boris_yo

It's my Nexus 4 charging cable...

Journeyman Geek

Boris_yo

@Bob Will you replace it? I have warranty. Not...

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo there's utterly no point in asking for opinions here if you're not going to listen to them

Boris_yo

2:06 PM

@JourneymanGeek I said I won't?

Bob

s/said/showed/

Boris_yo

Will it do something to smartphone though?

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo it could

You shouldn't use damaged cables.

2

As we told you.

Boris_yo

Will replace it with Anker.

At least there is no need to worry about MFI compliance.

DavidPostill

When to Throw Away Your Fraying Cables & Phone Chargers

"In 2008, electrical fires, electrical failures or malfunctions resulted in an average of 53,600 home fires. These fires caused more than 500 deaths, injured 1,400 people, and accounted for $1.4 billion in property damage. [Similarly,] the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported that in 2007, private sector workers suffered 1,100 electrical burn injuries and 1,480 electrical shock injuries."

@Boris_yo ^^^

Boris_yo

2:12 PM

@DavidPostill How can cable shock you with 5V output?

Will find out. Don't worry bro. I got it.

DavidPostill

Even low voltages can cause a fire hazard if you create a short circuit warning demonstration

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@Boris_yo 5V won't kill you but the fire will.

2:40 PM

OMG poor cat I wanna hug him not laugh ó_ò

Looks quite traumatized by something

DavidPostill

2:56 PM

Troll?

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Q: My home network was hacked and the hackers still have control after 4 weeks, I need assistance

I am not new to this either. The hack was, I believe, a brute force attack on my CenturyLink modem/router. I imeadiately pulled the plug on the modem, but they have control of my computer whether it is attached to the New network with a modem only modem (DM200), the WAN separate from the LAN and ...

networking wireless-networking security

I'm sure I've seen something very similar but I can't find it ...

Bob

@DavidPostill Poe's Law

I'm sure there exists at least one person paranoid enough :P

but yea it does look mighty sus

Ben N

The "logins" he's mentioning are probably just the normal Logon events in the Security log; the LSA generates a boatload of them all the time

I'm pretty sure there's one for each token that's created; it's perfectly normal for there to be plenty for SYSTEM and the like

DavidPostill

There was definitely someone who complained about being bombarded by radio waves.

Bob

@BenN most of it has a perfectly rational explanation, but paranoia...

Ben N

And yeah, the X: drive is always there in WinPE; I think it's the RAM drive of boot.wim?

Bob

3:03 PM

yup

DavidPostill

Me VTC too broad

allquixotic

3:42 PM

I'm 31 :(

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@Bob That's the problem, though: in the year 3016, won't someone have better archival tech and claim it lasts for "millions" of years, so why would anyone use something so pedestrian as a 2000s-era system that "only" stores 100 GB when they can store their stuff for millions of years?

@ThatBrazilianGuy Thank you, everyone.

asdf-i got older

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