Posts by bombastic bob 10840 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2015
Hiow about something a) open source and runs on Linux/FreeBSD, b) *NOT* written in C-pound, c) does *NOT* have a boatload of unique dependencies (which is why I don't want something written in C-pound).
keepassXC comes to mind - which is the MAINTAINED open source version of keepassX that builds on Linux and FreeBSD.
OAuth itself breaks the whole open source concept. You have to register a particular service to access it, and in theory this could be abused in the current model without some level of secrecy. And those keys "and stuff" you need for OAuth are normally embedded within the application, but you CAN NOT DO THIS FOR OPEN SOURCE without unzipping your pants and letting people see your most private secrets, and maybe abusing them, and getting the service shut down, and breaking EVERYTHING.
This means:
a) you're stuck with "CRapps" to access your mail (which effectively breaks under Linux and FreeBSD)
-or-
b) you use web-mail (which stinks on ice and often requires script to work)
-or-
c) you GO ELSEWHERE <-- my choice
'c' is almost as good as a clue-bat.
"A bunch of inbred data CONTROL-fetishists."
Fixed it for ya. but they need the data to get to the "control" part.
(1984 is a typo)
There's something _really_ disturbing about using your MEDICAL records for this sort of thing...
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I bought a 'droid slab for around $50 a few years ago, made by RCA. It's crippled in a few features, like only one camera and it FACES YOU, but otherwise it is pretty good for doing dev work which is what I wanted it for, mostly to learn 'droid dev and not yet do anything serious. In the mean time I've also worked on 'droid applications for clients, so it all paid off.
$50 droid slab vs $xxx iPad. eenie, meenie, miney, DROID! [I don't live on my phone so I don't even use the slab as a phone, just as a convenient portable computer to remotely read e-mail and do dev work].
It's my understanding that 'Red Hat' got its name because in certain countries (like maybe China) the 'Red Hat' is the good guy, and the 'White Hat' is the bad guy. Or something like that. And KKK members wear white hats. And I own a black hat (I'll be wearing it with my recently obtained Guy Fawkes mask).
So next is what, traffic lights? Can't use 'Red' for 'Stop' because it offends "Red People" ? Or 'Yellow' for "Caution" because it offends "Yellow People" ? Or maybe 'Green List' vs 'Red List' because they're already used for traffic lights? Except in some places they use Cyan rather than Green.
Oh hell let's just use the ENTIRE RAINBOW. for EVERYTHING and just CONFUSE EVERYBODY! And then we'll offend the LGBTQ{rest of the alphabet} people because they use rainbows to represent their "community"... [seriously dividing ourselves up like this using 'identity' is completely _BOGUS_, and then people get to pretend they care about PETTY CRAP like 'offensive' color-related terms]
I have a better idea: STOP caring about PETTY CRAP like this, and care about things that MATTER instead. [yeah nothing BLATANTLY OBVIOUS comes to mind at the moment...]
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regarding non-profits...
You might want to study "fund accounting", specifically how it works and why it's done "that way", and you'll see how non-profits do their thing (from an accounting perspective).
It just means they don't pay out dividends or increase stock value or anything like that. "Fund" accounts are depleted via expenses, and added to by contributions. It's not quite the same as debits and credits with a profit/loss statement at the end. It's more like buckets into which money is poured, and then taken out to fund things [like expenses, charity, etc.]. A school (or the school store) might use fund accounting, which is where my experience with it was [writing an accounting package for school stores back in the 90's]. Also your average non-profit could do things that way. So it's a little different than normal accounting, but not THAT different.
I would expect everyone in I.T. has had to do a LOT of accountant support, so this shouldn't be too difficult for people who visit this web site. heh.
there was once an alt-hacker.org that was owned by a guy who was a frequent poster to the alt.hacker newsgroup (unfortunately he died a few years ago and the domain expired). But that is one example of an individual who had a '.org' address related to a USENET newsgroup, and I'm pretty sure others also exist.
"non-commercial" use is probably the criteria for '.org', as I understand it anyway.
Perhaps the REAL question is whether selling '.org' makes it beneficial to the owners of domain names or not. At this point it doesn't make a difference to me either way, but if the first thing that happened after "someone" buying the domain registry is an INCREASE IN PRICE, that question would be quickly answered.
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if the U.S. government is spying _WITHOUT_ some kind of due process (even FISA) then they can be held accountable for THAT much at least. But do we know it's the U.S. gummint behind this?
FB (and subsidiaries) needs to close their security holes, at the very least, if they do not want to be a vehicle by which such malware can be spread to targeted individuals.
(I hate to root for FB though in winning this lawsuit, but the alternative [them losing] is WORSE)
"Work at home" is awesome for those who can do it. I normally do this, lately about 50/50 on site or at home when I can bring the equipment home, etc.. - except when my CUSTOMERS can't work because THEIR customers can't work, etc. etc. so we're all furloughed until "those exercising their newly found power" STOP the nonsense.
In any case, the 'work from home' thing is GREAT and if cloudy services can make it happen BETTER, then everyone who currently switched to a work-from-home status and got used to it is PROBABLY NOT going to want to go back [unless there's some compelling need]. Not everyone CAN do this, but in the IT world, it seems very likely.
And I'd guess that cloudy-things would make this easier. I've been doing github for a while now, so that I can make source consistent in multiple places via private repos. [in theory it would help with collabs but as things turn out I'm often the only one doing the actual work at this level, but I still make heavy use of it, go fig]. Some people ALSO like google docs in addition to things like github [though editing these docs over the internet STINKS for performance].
And as WAY more people try to make use of these 'cloudy' things to facilitate work-from-home, the complaints about sucky performance will [hopefully] drive innovation and competition and so on.
So yeah, it COULD become the new "virtual workspace" we'd all (most likely) like to see. Commute from bedroom to office every day. Walk the dog for exercise during lunch or while you're "thinking about it". That kind of thing. My normal day, most of the time.
And we'll get to teach small children what "Daddy's working" means.
thinking of "scale" in general, I wonder how it does in THAT department... as in could these things be "scaled up" into a full data center in order to get better performance for, say, an SQL database with a web interface, something practical for a medium company that is on its way to becoming a LARGE company, and will need to "scale up" at some point?
My guess is it'll scale, because, VMWare.
(I don't do mega-IT so maybe this stuff is more obvious to others, though I'm still curious)
Interesting. I always knew ".Not" had some serious performance bottlenecks [primarily due to the OBVIOUS performance differences between Win2k server and Win2k3 server on the SAME HARDWARE] but it's nice to get some confirmation as to WHY.
So here's a question: WHY must the fundamental design of these libraries require RUN-TIME DISCOVERY of ANY kind? This "collection" and "arbitrary data type" and "arbitrary property" kind of mentality is BEYOND SILLY and crosses into LUDICROUS. It is THIS FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN FLAW that _IS_ the problem!
These are the kinds of "features" you expect to find in INTERPRETED languages, and NOT a COMPILED one for 21st century programming!!! For someone like me who does stuff for device control and kernel modules and microcontrollers and things like that, it's OBVIOUSLY THE WRONG WAY TO DO THINGS.
Like the Mythbusters used to say when looking at a catastrophic failure: "Well, THERE's your problem!"
"did you switch to Visual Studio Code yet?"
assuming it's a GENERAL question to all...
Hell has NOT frozen over. So, no.
I'm still using pluma and the command line [and working on my OWN IDE when I'm doing nothing else and NOT so STINKING ANGRY like I am right now because of the shutdowns]. And, for 'droid things, I use 'droid studio which is based (unfortunately) on IntelliJ. I sometimes use Arduino's IDE [did more of that a while ago], and it's "livable". I also tried Eclipse for C/C++ at one time but wasn't impressed, and WAS disappointed with performance. There's just something generally _wrong_ about using Java for an IDE with performance/memory/etc. and *WORSE* if it uses NodeJS and JAVA SCRIPT (like VS Code - who's the <snark> MENSA CANDIDATE </snark> that came up with THAT idea???)
There hasn't been a decent IDE for C/C++ Windows development since DevStudio '97 (the hot keys allowed me to rapidly edit dialog boxes and assign callbacks, for example, WITHOUT lifting my fingers from the keyboard - NOT possible since 2k with the CONSTANT mousie-clickie). After the ".NOT" crap and focus on VB and C-POUND, it *ALL* *SUCKED*. [I only use 2010 when I have to, and nothing after that, it's all 2D FLATTY FLATSO McFLATFACE like Win-10-nic. There, have some more tirades against M.S., you're welcome, Their "developers" couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, even after somehow managing to find their own asses with both hands, a map, an electric ass-finder, and a GPS-powered navigation device ]
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" I really hope that they can slow down the inevitable headlong rush to open up again ASAP."
NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! DAMMIT NO!! THIS SHUTDOWN CRAP HAS TO *STOP* *RIGHT* *FEELING* *NOW* *DAMMIT* !!!!
AND if YOU ****FEEL**** (the 'F' word) IT SHOULD *NOT* *OPEN* ***YESTERDAY*** THEN *YOU* *ARE* *A* *FLAMING* *SOCIALIST* *NUTBAG* !!!
Or do YOU WANT TO PAY ME FOR LOST WAGES??? My first invoice: $15,000
Now add the 30 MILLION UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN THE USA TO THAT LIST.
This virus is NO MORE THAN 50% WORSE THAN INFLUENZA as the death tolls *WILL* *REVEAL*. The original TWO WEEK shutdown *MIGHT* have kept hospitals from overflowing but NOW THAT WE HAVE SUPPLIES, EXTRA BEDS, AND HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE THERE IS NO DAMN NEED FOR ANY OF IT!!!
The ONLY WAY TO STOP A VIRUS is HERD IMMUNITY. Either you have a vaccine already (none exists) or YOU JUST LET IT RUN ITS COURSE AND PROTECT THE VULNERABLE!!!
SWEDEN GOT THIS RIGHT. NO MORE @#$@%%*()!&@_&* SHUTDOWNS!!!!!
*** E V A R *** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've always preferred PG simply because there's no *NONSENSE* in setting it up - although some Linux distros put files in odd places [it seems], once you find them, it's not hard to configure.
(actualy did this recently, set up PG databases for testing on several machines, one running Raspbian on an RPi, another using FreeBSD on an RPi - FreeBSD was easier)
I've never really liked MySQL since it has non-standard "features" (read: bugs) with things like embedded quote mark handling, and I don't like the overly complicated setup process. OK matybe it got fixed within the 15+ years since I last looked at it but PG always seems superior to me, seems to be THE most standards compliant, is easy to back up and restore, and so on.
There's also something to be said about WRITING EFFICIENT QUERIES. There. I said it.
ftp and sftp give you a 'sort of' shell access, but you have to make sure you lock out ssh (for sftp) when setting up unless you WANT the user to have full shell access...
You'd also want it to use a chroot'd environment to prevent access to the ENTIRE system. Last I checked, setting up FTP did this by default, i.e. no access above the FTP root. SFTP on the other hand is a bit more complicated from what I've seen (and gives you access to the entire file system by default).
More information on this will be needed to go beyond simple snark and into the realm of an outright conspiracy...
But until then, yeah: We know Communism violates civil rights, particularly privacy, to maintain control. Why would they NOT do this (i.e. surveil and control)???
Or has everyone forgotten the Chinese government's poor record on individual rights and privacy... "Great Firewall" anyone?
AC you are perfectly justified to snark in such a manner. I would.
"Anyone have footage of real aircraft being tracked by these systems?"
I understand that footage from 'Top Gun' is pretty good at portraying it
but yeah most military avionics displays should be classified.
I don't think the military is out to prove the existence of UFOs. This is just the result of a 'Freedom of Information' request. I'd guess the requestors need to cough up the proof.
or my favorite - "In the words of my generation... UP! YOURS!!!" (ok that was from ID4 but still...)
Seriously, though, UFOs have been around for centuries. Nowadays, however, many have been _OURS_. Things like stealth bomber and stealth fighter and Aurora may have been observed and mistaken for UFOs.
Disclosing the UFO videos is a good step forward though.
Not saying if _I_ was ever "taken for a ride" or had ever seen a REAL one in the spring of 1971 in the middle of a Silicon Valley city school near (what was then) Agnew's State Hospital (which now is an Oracle campus as I recall), or have had "missing time", or anything like that... yeah NOT saying this.
"General Fusion's small form-factor Sonofusion/Bubble Fusion-like power production systems"
why spend zillions on Tokomak when we (allegedly) have *THESE* ??? And WHY are we using coal/oil/nuclear for electricity when we (allegedly) have *THESE* ???
There is no doubt that some of these things may be *possible*, but claiming they're actually being used for secret aircraft would imply that "SOMEONE" "SOMEWHERE" is *LITERALLY* holding back progress!!! Fusion-like energy? The 'greenies' would LOVE to have that, or you'd think so, carbon footprints etc. and no nuclear fission waste. I'd like to have it because I'd expect cheap and plentiful electricity to come from such things.
To deny ALL of society a power production technique that's "fusion-like" would be BEYOND irresponsible... [heading into elitist "deny the plebes" territory].
(Somehow I think your sources are a *bit* inaccurate...)
Maybe it is time for "the entire industry" to look at "other than China" for manufacturing. SERIOUSLY look. And Mexico looks pretty good. "Hecho en Mexico" - sounds good to me!
When you look at how they treated the rest of the world with respect to masks and gloves, i.e. "we're keeping them here, you can't have them" at a time when it MATTERED, you can't trust them NOT to do this AGAIN with ANYTHING from rare earths and raw materials to specific finished goods that _SOMEHOW_ ended up "all being made in China" [by dssign? corner the market so you can CONTROL?]
They have betrayed our trust, outstayed their welcome, and demonstrated that they can't be trusted to stop a virus that started spreading inside THEIR country, from going international: While they were simultaneously restricting travel WITHIN THEIR COUNTRY in the early stages of the viral breakout, international travel to/from Wuhan was "business as usual" for around 2 months without a WORD of caution.
"Cheap Labor" - with extra hidden costs thrown in, not so "cheap" any more...
yeah AC post can have any icon if you register, but then check the 'post anonymous' box when you post, which is useful if you want the "anonymous Guy Fawkes mask" icon that shows up for an unregistered AC
Worth pointing out, I purchased one of those masks on amazon recently. Some idiot in San Diego County *FELT* that after May 1 we all have to wear them (long after it might have actually mattered, I might add). Fine, I'll play along if it shuts them up and gets us all back to work faster. But I'll wear Guy Fawkes' face above my bandana... out of REBELLION!!! "I got yer mask, RIGHT HERE!"
I've had a couple of Ford cars (though my Mustang is 20 years old now) with both metric AND imperial sized bolts/nuts on it. Depending on what system you work on, you grab the appropriate sized tool and pretty much everything on THAT system will be of the same standard. But yeah, brake system metric, engine imperial - kinda like that. Have both sets of tools handy. Not that expensive, though.
I'd expect even MORE metric stuff on newer American cars. But, as mentioned before, not ALL...
As I recall, 13mm is 9/16" - comes in handy sometimes. I haven't done mechanic work in some time, though. Decided a while back that getting greasy and knucklebusters for 8 hours was worth 3 or 4 times the cost of 'my time' than the local specialty auto place for 'whatever repair' getting the thing done while I lazily wander around the local Walmart or Target... or in some cases, get a free ride back home, do work for money, then they pick me up when its done and I drive home.
Doing a project car for fun would be different, but maintaining "transportation car" not so much...
(still have a pretty good set of tools, though, imperial AND metric, not being used)
related, when I hear the word "modern" I prepare for the *cringe*...
And if arbitrarily creating some "new way" to do things BREAKS EXISTING THINGS... the resulting chaos won't be worth it [except to the eggheads who came up with 'yet another "modern" to foist upon us']
whenever governments grab MORE control, such as due to COVID-19 responses by these governments, the RICH get RICHER, and the POOR get POORER.
The only time the lower and middle class benefit is when government LOSES a chunk of that power... i.e. lower taxes, less regulation, and so forth.
Just sayin'. It is SO predictable by those who understand what I just said. And so is the SOLUTION!!!
SO - ask yourself THIS question: WHO is benefiting from these shutdowns??? WHO is being hurt by them???
Answer: hedge funders and politicians and governments (in general) benefit. THE REST OF US are hurt.
there was an old shockwave game I downloaded years ago that I thought was pretty fun. Obviously won't run NOW. Has anyone considered an application to EXPORT THESE INTO A BETTER FORMAT?
last I checked certain movie players could play flash videos. so maybe use ffmpeg to convert them? I think it'll work...
"But why does that have to reflect itself back into something like the C programming language, which is intended for general-purpose programming?"
It is highly likely, especially in the world of IoT, that an FPGA or microcontroller could define structures and/or data with custom bit sized integers that were defined that way to function with limited RAM or limited NVRAM or EEPROM on the target device.
So the IoT device needs to have its data interpreted or 'firmly packed' before being sent to the device. It's much better if you can define the data structures and other things using the same C code for the FPGA or microcontroller *AND* the thing controlling it. Yeah, been there, done that. See my earlier post.
And, yeah, IoT makes this even more important to consider.
If LLVM implements it, gcc will no doubt follow. I use llvm with FreeBSD already, so good news for me if it gets in there this time. If it can be made a standard for the C language, that'd be awesome! [but yeah I'd expect some changes before that happens - committees need to "do things" after all]
C already has bit-size designators within a structure, like
struct thingy
{
unsigned int nine_bit:9;
};
etc. - it'll get padded out to a power of 2 [probably native word size] but you can modify that with packing and so on.
Thing is, as I understand this can cause a bit of trouble with endian-ness so it's almost a YMMV kind of thing. As a result I end up hard-implementing the non-standard integer types with macros so that it's consistent regardless of integer size or endian-ness. [portable structure definitions that compile on x86, amd64, ARM, _and_ an Arduino, using those binary structures to transfer data back/forth between all of those]
having the designated _ExtInt support would probably help a LOT.
Unless I totally misinterpreted what you wrote...
Please do NOT encourage Android to LOCK DOWN like Apple, unlesse it's just for the use of google ad services. One of the BIGGEST advantages of Android development is the ability to load YOUR APK on ANY Android device, if the end-user jumps through a couple of minor hoops, WITHOUT their "store" in between - that and FREE DEV TOOLS.
But yeah - locking down the AD NETWORK, which goes through google's ad services as I understand it, THIS would probably be a GOOD thing.
"I doubt that I could prove it with a DNA test as Warren did."
Uhh... you think Warren *PROVED* Native American heritage? Her DNA test was STATISTICALLY ZERO, less than 0.1% as I recall. That would be at LEAST 10 generations of separation, if I do my math correctly (if it's actually _THAT_ _HIGH_). That as opposed to *me* who DOES have Native American ancestry [Taos tribe from New Mexico, as well as others], and my late uncle once did a geneology study and traced the family tree back to the REAL Pocahontas. yeah no kidding!
Warren is NOT a Native American. It was a LIE, and she did it to get into Harvard. You cannot trust ANYTHING she says. You know she's LYING when her mouth opens.
A quick search led to this:
https://corp.delaware.gov/agents/
So a Delaware corporation needs to have a "registered agent" for service of subpoenas, etc. If this is NOT being properly enforced, then a U.S. Federal lawsuit needs to be filed to change this...
In any case if this pertains to the "payer of the ads", and Delaware corporations _ARE_ that shady by definition, you could simply reject doing business with ANY entity incorporated there. [and if that becomes a widespread response, Delaware will have to modify their policies]
However, because I know that many people have opinions about corporations being inherently evil, etc. and aren't familiar with setting one up and what the legal requirements are [in the USA anyway], I'd just like to say that it's probably NOT as bad as you might think.
(IANAL but I've had to deal with them from time to time)
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