Posts by bombastic bob

DeepNude deep-nuked: AI photo app stripped clothes from women to render them naked. Now, it's stripped from web

Re: "chiefly women, it doesn't work properly on men"

or worse, BOTH

Re: Benny Hill

"The article tells us that the software is misogynistic"

yeah, the 'm' word. about that... whenever I see it I scream "*BIAS*!!!"

Re: Time passes...

'The same people, now: "SHAME ON EVERYONE!"'

yeah, no hypocrisy to see here, move along...

It's amazing how much "moral outrage" you see from the P.C. crowd. It's worse than a TV preacher...

Re: "chiefly women, it doesn't work properly on men"

I have to wonder what would happen if I used a picture of an animal in their software...

"cat porn" - heh heh heh

Re: release it for the world's weirdos to use

"It's because the world is run by men. A superwoman beating males to a pulp is just something you only see on a screen whereas you don't have to look far to see men beating women in real life."

you forgot to say "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" or some other such feminist propaganda nonsense.

"Hope that helps!!"

not in the least.

(and is ANYONE surprised that the BIRTH RATE IS DROPPING? For when men can't be men, women can't be women, and normal male/female relationship behavior is DISCOURAGED at every turn, people withdraw into their cell phones and online life and don't marry nor have kids because they have been CONDITIONED - So as far as _I_ am concerned, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS can KISS MY HAIRY NAKED ASS)

Re: has been torn offline by its makers

maybe still in the internet archive...?

Re: Admit it

well seeing Mrs. Clinton naked [even if faked] *WOULD* be a crime against humanity!

this reminds me of a Beavis and Butthead parody done by Imus...

"Beavis: Which would you rather do - slide down a razor blade bannister into tub of alcohol, or kiss [insert unattractive and/or ball-busting female politician and/or activist name here] on the mouth, with tongue?"

"Butthead: How long is the bannister?"

(best of my recollection anyway)

"This software was almost certainly written by people who have never had a FEMINIST girlfriend"

Fixed it for ya!!! Though I suppose 'westernized' or 'feminized' might have worked as well...

when I saw the 'm' word (misogynist) in the article, I knew it had been written from the wrong perspective.

COME ON, people, THIS IS FUNNY STUFF! Fake 'nude' photos of ANYBODY? What, nobody's seen heads glued onto existing porn before? Only NOW it's even FUNNIER!!!

And yeah a few people out there might get their jollies with it but who cares. People do what they do, and being PRUDISH and UNNECESSARILY JUDGING about it just makes you out to being some kind of NINNY NANNY that wants to CONTROL people or something.

And you wonder why the birth rate is dropping...

Re: You Can't Buy That

this reminds me of a line from a TV show that was part of a movie...

"I'll buy THAT for a dollar!"

(from the original Robocop if nobody remembered - and the context is spot on)

Re: Benny Hill

if there are ANY MEN who are PROTESTING this, then you DESERVE to have your MAN CARD REVOKED!!! (what nobody ELSE had the GONADS to say this?)

Benny Hill indeed!

/me plays 'Yackity Sax' in his honor while reading porno mags

Just to make a point - being a GENETIC HYPER MALE [as evidenced by my ring finger being longer than my 1st finger] I'd just like to point out that *MY* *LIFESTYLE* *MUST* *BE* *EMBRACED* because I have a GENETIC PRE-DISPOSITION to wanting to SEE NAKED WOMEN [particularly younger than 25] and I just can NOT help myself, for _I_ have a GENETICALLY PRE-DISPOSED CONDITION.

And because I was BORN THAT WAY, *THE* *WORLD* *MUST* *ACCEPT* *MY* *BEHAVIOR*!

[after all _I_ must accept/embrace OTHER people's behavior when it's pre-disposed and 'born that way', right???]

heh heh heh

2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?

Re: From within....

MS is probably getting on board the same kind of train they always have, only this time they're 20 years late.

So now they want on board with a 1st class seating arrangement, when all of the 1st class tickets have been sold and there's nothing available seating, but they want in anyway.

But given time and the influx of unlimited money, MS *could* buy themselves an entirely NEW TRAIN, and have probably already planned on this...

Fortunately there's *STILL* FreeBSD

Re: The public good

"in terms of the greater good."

While those who think of themselves as 'Nobles' may *FEEL* (not think) in these kinds of terms, those of us who recognize the GREAT NUMBER OF EVILS that have been done with this particular phrase [or an equivalent] justifying it, *IMMEDIATELY* pucker up our anuses in anticipation of the SCREWING that will soon follow...

"greater good" huh? That's sorta like "the ends justify the means" without it being as obvious...

Re: They are now the Voyager Borg

"They are more likely to get assimilated by Linux than the other way around at this point."

Never underestimate the power of the SWARTZ! er, Borg. er, Microshaft...

Re: I am getting worried

yeah, do you have ANY idea how long it takes to get the pilot light lit???

(from an 'Animaniacs' episode where they literally caused hell to freeze over)

Sneaky fingerprinting script in Microsoft ad slips onto StackOverflow, against site policy

1. it justifies the existence of web "developers"

2. it allows them to do nefarious things to track you

3. it offloads THEIR processing onto YOUR computer

this is just the beginning of a nefarious plot to STEAL from you, your privacy, your CPU cycles, your bandwidth, yotta yotta yotta.

Re: Noscript to the rescue

'si:' on xhost means 'server interpreted' according to the man page

it's apparently for a network interpreted name, and the final ':firefox' is a specific user name

it's not a syntax i was familiar with, so i was curious and looked it up

Re: Noscript to the rescue

true - and if you need NoScript _OFF_ for some reason, like testing your OWN web pages [don't get me started on web devs and glass houses] you can do what _I_ do, at least on Linux or FreeBSD with Xorg [not Wayland]:

a) enable the '-listen_tcp' option (or similar, whichever one)

b) enter 'xhost +localhost' in a console with X running

c) 'su - guestuser' [or whatever] in an X bash session console

d) export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 in the 'guestuser' session

e) run your browser

this will sandbox the browser with 'guestuser'. just configure the browser (firefox) to DESTROY ALL HISTORY AND CACHES on the way out. No cookies, no fingerprints, no nothing.

then if you need a scripty-site loaded, you can have this nice sandbox to play with it in. And you exit the browser, and it flushes EVERYTHING, and you have a nice clean loo... er, BROWSER the next time you load up some CRAPPY script-ridden web site.

Please stop regulating the dumb tubes, says Internet Society boss

Re: DNS isn't needed if you already have the IP address

hell we can just get '.onion' addresses and be done with it

Re: Public blacklist...

non-commercial entities

I spend 5 minutes listening to N.P.R. or any 'public broadcast' news and suddenly realize why I do not want NON-PROFIT CORPORATIONS determining what kind of intarweb access I have...

(ok if I have to explain it, these guys are SO LEFT OF CENTER in their politics and their TRANSPARENTLY OBVIOUS news filtering that it's pathetic, worse than CNN, worse than [P]MSNBS <-- not a typo - 'BS' - and the LAST thing I want is some left-wing-activist-driven "non profit" filtering my DNS instead...)

*ahem* - the browsers are OPEN SOURCE. Edit the source if you must. Or fork it.

I want to write a web browser that intercepts all DNS requests and RDNSs all IP address equivalents, using a regex filter and a blacklist, re-directing them to 'localhost' that serves up a 1 pixel GIF file in response to all requests

that'll teach 'em!

re: VPNs - "If they could, they'd ban that as well."

good point, and then we'd need a different workaround

like gun control - ban normal law abiding citizens from owning guns, and ONLY criminals will have them.

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

Re: Eh?

DEC - yeah, reminds me of this:

HAL is to IBM as VMS is to WNT

Re: Eh?

XP and 7 were decent enough, though there are some aspects of 7 I dislike [I think they BROKE the task launcher in 7 compared to XP's more sane way of doing it] and I really liked the stability of XP after it had been there for a few years.

They should've stuck with that. But I guess some arrogant 4-incher millenial types *FELT* that "it was their turn now" so everything HAD to be re-invented except it was retro back to Windows 1.0 (2D FLATSO FLATTY McFLATFACE "the Metro" CRAPPY look, bright blue on blinding white, destroying the macula of everyone who looks at it for any length of time and being UNREADABLE and EYE PAINFUL to pretty much everyone over 40) and they took away customization and added in SPYWARE and ADWARE. Booooooooooo.

more than a bit revisionist.

to be honest, my first exposure to the internet was through MSN, during the beta test. Compuserve and AOL and others didn't have internet gateways. MSN had it right. And early on IE2 was pretty good. It didn't go bad until ActiveX was added along with VBScript [which only IE supported]

Re: Yet another....

I'd rather have Windows ME than Win-10-nic!!! [I could always code m own device drivers for ME if I wanted to... no special super-secret signing algorithm to distribute them either]

Micro-shaft's *BIGGEST* mistake took place when they abandoned the

P U R E _ S U C C E S S

of XP and 7, and

S C R E W E D _ T H E _ P O O C H

with 'windows Ape' (8.x) and the Sinofsky/Larson-Greene *ABORTION* known as "The Metro". And then, they DOUBLED DOWN ON POOCH SCREW with Win-10-nic.

However, what comes in 2nd place wiould be the ".Net Initiative" from the early 'noughties', which was the BEGINNING of Micro-shafts downfall... the '.Net' framework, C-pound, yotta yotta.

(they focused SO MUCH EFFORT into THE WRONG THINGS, and NONE OF IT into THE RIGHT THINGS, whcih would've included phones and slabs, but mostly would have IMPROVED WINDOWS 7 instead of RE-INVENTING A PILE OF EXCREMENT to REPLACE IT)

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up!

Wouldn't it have been BETTER to *NOT* screw over new computer sales, by continuing to support XP with service pack 10, as well as 7, instead of ABANDONING 7 THIS YEAR... NEW PRODUCT SALES with Windows 7 would be like a TOTAL REBOUND, but NNOOooo... they have to CONTROL THE CUSTOMER CHOICES INSTEAD.

That's right, the attitude that THEY must 'control the customers'... I would say *THAT* *ATTITUDE*, that "take over the world" mentality, to control the markets and CRUSH the competition while simultaneously releasing INFERIOR products because they essentially become a monopoly... THAT is what will ultimately bring them down!

It's official. You can get FUCT, US Supremes tell scandalized bureaucrats in rude trademark spat

Re: Who will buy this clothing?

havingt a T shirt that says 'FUCT' on it would get enough laughs, so sure (I might buy it). If it's not too expensive...

oh, and well done to the Supreme Court "getting it right". More of same, please.

The Windows Terminal turns up in the Microsoft Store

Re: The Store - really?

"Much better than letting users try and install apps from websites... Or spending the time doing it for them"

you have *GOT* to be *KIDDING*...

thumbs down for the bad attempt at humor, or maybe you weren't joking...

[I cannot believe that SOME people actually THINK THIS WAY, or perhaps it's actually *FEEL* because no LOGIC could EVAR justify this kind of patronizing arrogance... so it MUST be emotions or evil motives or something worse]

Re: The Store - really?

The reason they're using "The Store" is to LOCK! EVERYONE! IN! to the following:

a) Win-10-nic *ONLY*

b) UWP

c) "Microshaft Logon" (with it's tracking and HORRIBLE EULA privacy violations built-in)

and of course, "The Store" in general, which _HAS_ been a pretty DISMAL FAILURE as I understand it...

[so one or two 'sorta ok things' make "The Store" a worth-while place to look for schtuff? yeah, right...]

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

Re: Never trust software of which you cannot see the source

"Never trust software"

even when you can read the source. [for the truly paranoid]

From the article;

"this website uses cookies, please click ACCEPT"

one of my favorite FF plugins is "cookie white list with buttons" which lets you whitelist certain cookies as being persistent (or mark them 'session only') and [best of all] optionally store the rest of the cookies IN MEMORY ONLY so you can dump them ALL whenever you want to, especially when closing the browser.

[I'm considering my own webkit browser, and this feature SHOULD be a built-in]

Shameless Facebook treats its poor human moderators like absolute dirt. But y'know what it does treat right? Robots

meatbags don't get no respect (from FB)

what it says in the title

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

Re: Just as smart as their nuclear reactors

I call B.S. on this, having worked in the nuclear industry...

"a Chernoble's worth of radiation" - no. just no.

fake news, FUD, and hysteria, all rolled into one. No.

strobe light

just sayin'

Kids can be so crurl: Lead dev unchuffed with Google's plan to remake curl in its own image

shhh... don't give them ideas.

Re: Black Choppers overhead.

maybe they're afraid someone will use curl as a back-end for a simple web browser... yeah it could be done.

Re: Black Choppers overhead.

ack on the ad tracker. or more like:

"Implementing libcurl using Cronet would allow developers to take advantage of the utility of the Chrome Network Stack" WHICH WOULD THEN TRACK EVERYTHING YOU WERE DOING OUTSIDE OF THE BROWSER'S CONTEXT

OK I added that last part, but still...

should I include AD INJECTION too? well, hard to do if it's just 'surfing' indirectly from an application running on Android, maybe FILTERING THE ADS OUT and presenting the CONTENT WITHOUT THE ADS...

Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it

Re: Ok, so it's useful and dangerous at the same time

"Wouldn't this solve the problem?"

kinda like noscript, but managing script blocking on a per-site basis when too many ABusers of the web (known as "developers") *FEEL* as if it's ok for a web page to LOAD CANNED 'CONTENT' AND MASSIVE SCRIPTS FROM EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE just to "view content" on that ONE site, such that it's hard to find the right magic to block them when 'temporarily allow' must be hit SEVERAL TIMES to get it to work [because each script brings THAT MUCH MORE CRAP in with it, requiring EVEN MORE 'allows', yotta yotta yotta].

it's why I've resorted to using a sanitized browser environment for those "special" sites [meant pejoratively] that for some reason I must use, such as ordering electronic parts for business reasons, or looking at someone's cat video link pasted into an IRC channel so I can flame them for posting stupid crap that required ENABLING JAVASCRIPT to view...

grump grump grump javascript grump grump - I can go on all day on this

and what's WORSE, is that, for a contract, I had to UN-JAVASCRIPT a couple of important pages because "web developer" (who should be shown the window by the BOFH) *FELT* (again with the FEEL 4-letter F word) that client-side scripting was needed, except it took over a second to total up a bunch of numbers and display the results, even noticeably flashing the occasional 'NAN' in the total (much to the irritation of boss and supervisor), even after FIRST rendering the entire page with zero values, making the system look SLOW and CLUNKY and UNPROFESSIONAL. My re-factor (now that 'web developer' is out of the way) used PHP to do all of that server-side, by embedding things like <?php print $var; ?> where he had '0' stuck in there (and then dynamically changed that by assigning DHTML with JQUERY of all things) and amazingly, it is so blisteringly fast [compared to that javascript abortion on the client] that you don't notice ANY delay at all, on an embedded device even. [and I had written all of the back-end, mostly in C, and hand-held him with super-simple php 'glue' pages to cough up the data values in his desired format, go fig, while he took 4 times longer than he should have to create the things, though we all admit they have a nice overall 'pretty' appearance...]

Anyway, javascript is *SO* overrated. Its inventor needs a session with me, a cluebat, and a cat-5-o-nine-tails. Or the BOFH, accompanied by "It's over here, by the window..."

Re: The title is no longer required.

"If you don't like it, don't use it. Simple."

"So says someone who has no idea to what extent Google extracts information."

or no concept as to what effect a MONOPOLY has on the free market. In short, "go elsewhere" is no longer an option, and the existence of the monopoly PREVENTS competition from providing alternatives.

If it were gasoline, he'd be screaming a lot louder. "Don't use it" he says? Or maybe buy something OTHER than gasoline or diesel fuel or whatever your car runs on? Good luck doing THAT... Or what about FOOD? If it were FOOD and we were told "if you don't like it don't eat it"... yeah right.

And now we come to 'Teh Intarwebs' which pretty much everyone needs to be on these days, for many reasons from employment to paying taxes. NOT being on the internet is like NOT having a telephone.

"Go elsewhere" and "don't use it" just don't apply.

Re: The title is no longer required.

firefox with noscript on all of the time works for blocking nearly all of the ad/tracker crap. And in those rare cases where I _MUST_ do something "scripty" I do the following (on a FreeBSD or Linux machine).

1. make sure I've run Xorg with the -listen_tcp option [or some equivalent thereof]. This is sort of required for me, because I like to do embedded dev across a network, and not even try to use a tiny screen like for an RPi as a development platform...

2. xhost +localhost (naturally) - this lets you connect from localhost.

3. from a terminal on the desktop, 'su - otheruser' where 'otheruser' is as guest level as you can make it

4. in the shell as 'otheruser' export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

5. then 'firefox http://whatever/ &' as 'otheruser'

7. make sure the browser DESTROYS ALL HISTORY ON EXIT, from cookies to cache, and especially passwords

this has no obvious performance (or other) issues when playing videos, or doing anything ELSE the browser needs to do, in order to properly display any content, access any web service, etc.

Yeah, FreeBSD and Linux (with Xorg, *NOT* Wayland) are AWESOME in being able to share the desktop like this and run in the context of a user that doesn't have any cached info on what you've been doing...

Re: Simply my ass

"What is your "simple" method going to do when they use IP addresses instead of hostnames to reference the ads?"

a not-so-simple method involving:

* RDNS and regex filters

* content scanning (somewhat smart-filter type scanning, "looks like an ad" or "has tracking in it")

* blacklists (including nation boundaries for entire IP address ranges)

but yeah, simple methods only work until the bad guys decide they'll stop using simple methods, and then the spy-vs-spy cold war begins

Re: Or, simply...

"Ever heard of Google Analytics?"

yeah they're permanently banned in my NoScript config

Re: Or, simply...

"move ad-blocking outside the browser to the DNS level."

year ago, before I had a NAT setup, I had written an HTTP proxy server. It included some simple DNS filtering, such as anything with "ads.x.x" got immediately re-directed to localhost

It makes me want to write my own browser, with a regex DNS pre-processor to bypass DNS entirely (for everything that is caught by the blacklist or "not on the white list", whichever). And if I wanted to be really slick, I'd RDNS every direct IP address request, too, and filter THOSE with the regex as well...

but anyway - none of this is all that hard to do, assuming that the web browsers and their plugin APIs have NOT been deliberately designed and/or obfuscated to PREVENT it...

Re: Dumbing down

wait until the browsers are NO LONGER OPEN SOURCE, for a fork of what they're up to that reverts it back to the way it was (for the convenience of the end-users) is likely to trigger some kind of knee-jerk control-freak response on SOMEONE's watch...

it makes me want to write my own browser. something webkit based. Midori was ok until it became as 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE as Chrome and Firefucox...

'AI is not the cause, it’s an accelerant. The pace of change is challenging' Experts give Congress deepfakes straight dope

"I am of course speaking about the orange-haired CIC Speaker of the House of Representatives of the USA."

Fixed it for ya. I think Pelosi was drunk at the time... [that's her new excuse]

Re: Missing the point

"even before the 90s we learned at school how to find and trust primary sources before jumping to 'OMG THEY SAID THIS'."

Fixed it for ya. I think that pretty much explains it. 4-inchers (people who view everything through a 4-inch screen) under the age of 40 may be driving all of this... and the "lack of education" system set them up.

All their base are belong to fake news. They have been set up the bomb. etc.

/me has a nice faked-up photo that I did with Obama's face as 'Cats' and the 'All your base are belong to us' as a demotivational... [it was fun]. It wasn't purely my idea, but I ran with it and made it better.

plastic pollution in the oceans? ugh, I hate environmentalist wackos using these kinds of premises as "examples" because we can EASILY forget to QUESTION THE @#$%-DAMNED PREMISE IN THE FIRST PLACE!

oh, and thanks for the subtle 'fake news' embedded in there. Nice. Job.

this could easily become like YOU BEATING YOUR WIFE because that is JUST AS FAKE as you asserting the 'plastic pollution in the oceans' thing.... [yes it's a reference to that classic leading question of 'how long have you been beating your wife' to which there is NO possible answer that comes WITHOUT the un-due criticism].

Such tactics are transparent. Your 'tricks' are for CHILDREN. <-- that was a reference to a breakfast cereal commercial

Re: Fakes versus bias

"So we all take our news with a grain of salt, which is probably a good thing."

The BEST thing that can come out of a ship-load of convincing 'fake news' is that people actually DO this, start thinking instead of feeling/reacting, and recognize that there is way too much B.S. out there to leave your skeptic hat on the hat rack while viewing it.

Hell, let's just call B.S. and 'fake news' on EVERYTHING, and wait for the dust to settle.

Re: OpenAI?

"OpenAI is a deep, well thought out and prepared deception, provocation and diversion."

without actually researching whether or not I'm right [and I most likely am, instinctively] I would venture to guess that Open AI covers a broader spectrum of what A.I. _could_ be, sort of like what the STL libraries have tried to do with all of their implementations for various collections of things, in a GENERIC sense, which tends to be inefficient [but covers a wide spectrum of possibilities].

So yeah there's an example or two of "that" out there, which also suggests that using OpenAI [like using STL] is not necessarily a bad choice except (possibly) for certain exceptions.

And if I bothered to research this, which I probably won't, I'd probably just confirm what my instincts and experience are telling me.

Re: News and my patented blockchain AI technology

I'm too lazy to do a patent search, but if you were to give us the patent number we could all look at it ourselves to see what it's all about... and THEN snark all over it!

heh heh heh heh

/me recognizes a few patents out there for things like perpetual motion devices, microwave based star drive systems, and other crackpot ideas. If you want to shell out the $ and file the thing, you too can have one o' those!!!! might be fun at parties

my own name is on a provisional patent (among many other names, department boss, supervisor, a couple of other engineers) having to do with a wireless network reliability method for wifi streaming audio/video content, as I'm the guy that did the prototype for it. never went anyplace as a product though. the latter part is what REALLY matters.

Re: a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

what about all of those photos etc. of drunken Mrs. Clinton?

(One in particular made a funny demotivational)