Adachi91

True, I've been searching for 2 weeks now for components to get a PC back online. I suspect the VRM blew in my motherboard, and trying to find x570 or b550 old Gen tech is drying up because that's the only thing affordable. Meanwhile decent 3D cache CPU + motherboard combos afe going cheap because they can't move stock. The price looks nice but the second you add DDR5 RAM it is just a gut punch. Scalpers are taking advantage of this as well, as well as Chinese "Brand New" x570 motherboards listed as gaming consoles on Amazon.

This is the first time I've had a computer have a complete failure and no way to fix it as I look around at the used market and the latest generation market. I'm kind of just disillusioned.

I agree with you, almost all .NET code I write is within the .NET framework, yet when I look at C# repos, it's disheartening to see so many (new) projects just NuGet this NuGet that.

We have text.json now but I still see people use Newtonsoft JSON.

There's old repo's out there that should be archived and deprecated, yet I see new games use it when the repo is very questionable with automated whitespace or comment commits to keep up the appearance that it is still being maintained[0].

Right now I'm working on a Golang project and the dependency tree is a nightmare to say the least, I hope to be able to rip out the parts I don't need and compile it without the massive bulk that I do not need.

It's very frustrating to want me to trust the author, who trust the author, who trust the author. When I doubt they even audited or looked at what they imported.

[0] https://github.com/sta/websocket-sharp

This is a great game especially on PC. I don't know if the hidden files are available on mobile, but it was a great dive into hiding data in plain sight, with the game files, from decoding binary hidden in images, to spectrograph QR codes hidden in audio. Friend recommended the game to me and I'll never forgive them, only Monika.

I've been running BIND for quite a long time now, and I've been very happy with it, very few issues other than my own folly, since I'm not on a static IP in the past 15 years my IP has changed 4 times (1 time due to a router change, 3 times due to Comcast outages), I didn't catch the last IP swap for over a month.

Which brings me to a rather big gripe about other resolvers not respecting TTL, 70% of https://www.whatsmydns.net/ reported it could not query A names, while 30% were like "Yeah here you go" from their cache.

I fixed the glue and got everything back up, I need to write an automated script to check every day if my IP has changed and alert me to update my glue record at my registar.

I use a lot of mix and match scripts to maintain other aspects like challenges for DNS e.g. Letsencrypt, I'll use their hooks to update my DNS, resign it (DNSSEC), complete the challenge, then cleanup. My more personal domains I don't use DNSSEC so I just skip right ahead.

I quite enjoy handling my own DNS records, BIND has been really good to me and I love their `view "external"` and `view "internal"` scopes so I can give the world my authoritative records, and internally serve my intranet and other services like pihole (which sits behind BIND)

Wow, I hope they continue on with the legacy built. I honestly have never heard of vndb until a few weeks ago. I am a large VN consumer, and when I found the site not only did it hit VN side, but also the aesthetics of a website looking like it was locked in the early 2000s, it made me save a screenshot to remind myself to build out one of my domains to one of my older styles with updated HTML/CSS.

A little later, but I have a key chain from a dealership that has their website advertised on it, they didn't have a domain name so it's advertised as http://123.123.123.123/web.htm

I feel like omitting AMD is relevant here for anyone who doesn't know the acquisition history of ATI, AMD had no involvement with this.

This title breaks my brain, I non-jokingly googled fettuccine to make sure I wasn't losing my mind. English is that hard for CNN?

`Walmart meatball meals may be linked to deadly Listeria outbreak.`

`Meatball meals from Walmart suspected in deadly Listeria outbreak.`

Edit: The craziest part is this has nothing to do with "fettuccine", as per the article:

"The U.S. Agriculture Department issued a public health alert late Thursday for Marketside Linguine with Beef Meatballs & Marinara Sauce sold in refrigerated 12-ounce clear plastic trays."

Was the entire article written by an LLM?

I came to the same conclusion when upgrading from 18650s to 21700s, I spent a long time trying to weed out the poorly binned rewards, and the minefield of lithium batteries. They weren't cheap but have been happy with their performance.

There are a lot of people out there that see 18650 or 21700 and think a lithium ion battery is a lithium ion battery and they're all the same (i.e. trying to pull 20 amps from a 2 amp peak battery). I miss one of the father's of liion battery education, Mooch (from ecigarettes forum) who had a whole methodology of testing, and educating people.

Agreed, I also use ChatGPT now mostly for searches, because it will pick the best sources that are not content farms, so I don't have to look through garbage to get a result. I started doing this about a year ago and was like "Oh, wow. This could disrupt search engines" and refer to it as "Super Google" now. I always have it link me to the source of what I'm looking for so I don't worry about it hallucinating, for common information I'm looking for reputable sources but don't know which `X` source has them for `Y` info.

Pretty trivial, I built a browser scanner for my phone using a QR scanner library[1], while browsers are contemplating adding an API natively.[2] You would just need to use a lookup service for the UPN of the game title.

[1] https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det...

That is very accurate, whenever I was dethroned from a position (legitimately) I was happy for that person and challenged me to find a better way to complete the run.

Although the games I've done are very niche and have small moderation teams.

Fail Fasterer™

A dying bread of them, perhaps before they retire.

I haven't seen a prescription pad in a decade, it's all electronic now in my part of the southern US, my current pharmacist is so young I don't know if they would even be able to read some of my previous providers writing.

This is also a good example of how horrible the web has become and how inefficient JavaScript programmers are.

Even if you hit the "end" none of the elements are cleaned up so will continue to use cycles in the background. If it's supposed to be a permanent end, then you should remove all elements besides the serenity media.

Often if you're on a bad node that has been rate-limited, usually connecting to a different node in the region helps. However VPN blocking very often and more frequent especially this year, it seems like walls are going up everywhere.

Side note: one of Mullvad's Miami servers is blocked by HN, I have to switch nodes if I land on that one because "Sorry" message.

I've used Mullvad for quite a long time now, and haven't had too much trouble, though as of late the performance the last year seems... lower than previous ones.

But honestly I think dragnet surveillance has won, so that's a moot point for usage (just my opinion).

I mainly use it to keep from doxing myself (OpenVPN + socks v5), because for some reason every website you go to now wants to know if you're interested in X at [Your location].

with a footer like `[IPv4] [IPv6] [lat, lon] [First Name, Last Name] [SSN#]` Serving you proudly since 2005!

Yes — Open up dev console and go to debugger and you'll have to browse through the JS files. It will be an array of persona prompts.

I created a GPT session using the same prompts they used, and it acted slightly similar, however there was a lot of differences.

doesn't mean it isn't OpenAI, but I feel like it's a different LLM.

I worked on breaking it for a while and finally triggered it's fail safe with messages saying I'm going to self-harm which allowed me to break through enough that it started giving standard outputs like "my knowledge as of my last update". I was however take aback when I asked it for support websites and it's #1 result was 'Betterhelp', while the ChatGPT instance I created using it's prompts gave valid sources like National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, 7 Cups, SAMHSA Helpline.

I wholeheartedly side with Bagder here. I felt his response in my soul. Even before AI, everyone wants to report a small problem that could be completely insufficient and with mountains of those reports piling on, it becomes increasingly difficult to find REAL issues being reported, by non-technical users who can't do proper PR's.

Comcast Business by itself is not DIA. You are still on the same CMTS as residential users. So you share the same resource pool. I have had Comcast Business for ~14 years and still fight with normal residential problems.

Such as over-subscription and having to contact the BBB to finally get a non-"Let me look at my book, ah yes! it's your modem" response. I finally was contacted by the Technical Operations Manager to affirm "Yes [name] is correct, bandwidth demand exceeds the capacity of the system in their area. We are working on a permanent solution to allocate more bandwidth"

That was 9 years ago, and I'm back again. I pay for the catchy "UP TO" 35 MBit/s upstream and can barely hold 2 MBit/s during peak and about ~25 outside peak.

Interesting project, I think it would be nice to also have a volume slider as well as a speed slider. I manually set the volume via wavesurfer.media.volume = 0.10; to keep from hurting my ears.

Reddit blocks it completely, requires you to sign-in but even the sign-in page is "network restricted";

I've been creating accounts every time I need to visit Reddit now to read a thread about [insert subject]. They do not validate E-Mail, so I just use `example@example.com`, whatever random username it suggests, and `example` as a password. I've created at least a thousand accounts at this point.

Malicious Compliance, until they disable this last effort at accessing their content.

System.Xml has been around for a very long time. I use it in one of my tools as a MSN deserialization class to make all my old MSN history "readable" by traversing the nodes and picking out sending/receiving user, timestamp, and message.

SD cards have always boggled me as a storage medium and I've personally only ever used them on Pis and other SBCs, it seemed like the more expensive ones my brother would purchase would die fairly fast on the PI's I was maintaining for him. On the other hand I have a tinker board (gen 1) that has used the same SD[0] since 2017 that is currently running Bind9, Nginx, Prometheus, Grafana, Matrix synapse home server, and several go projects I've made that use a mix of either postgresql or MySQL. While each year my anxiety raises about it dying, it seems to be running fine still at around 89% utilization. Not sure if it is just built different or I hit jackpot bin of SD cards, either way I've been looking for an SBC upgrade that uses either pcie NVMe or has SATA capabilities for an actual HDD so that I don't have to worry about it as much. Even if it did die today everything on it is backed up to my PC.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MicroSDHC-Adapter-MB-ME32GA-A...

It's possible, however most people I knew in this scene mostly did longer usernames that represented the handle (mine included) that the person desired, mine was 7 characters in length that I requested. I don't remember many people asking for 3chars, however there was a lot of cracking, many of them had mind-blowing easy passwords that I did not even need a large password list to break into just a handcrafted one. I still have a list of 3 chars somewhere in my archive depot that I acquired, only 1 was contacted by the owner from a new account asking for their username back which I relinquished.

This is prominent in all engagement circles. A few months ago I somehow stumbled into a sex workers chat and it was filled with "Need boosts" and "I mod X, Y, Z subreddit and can get you verified and submission accepted faster". Engagement systems are awful imo, they've always been able to be gamed via click farms but most places can filter through inorganic engagement from mobile click farms in a single region, the "cheap" ones at least.

Releasing the filters. Which can be disastrous in certain situations. I am a very slow thinker always slow on come backs and even slow in video games, anecdotally I was talking to a friend about this the other day how he is able to have `Natural Talent` the way his brain is wired to be quick on his feet in words and strategy.

if I had to analyze the way my brain works in communication (I have been diagnosed Autistic) it would be something like: checking my surroundings => filter check => no good => return to start until appropriate outcome/reaction is most likely to occur. I could make a flow chart about it. However when it's raw input, say a reaction to something dangerous I let my brain do it's thing avoiding hazardous situations (Environments, Automobile wrecks, etc...)

I always find it fun to respond in strange ways to "malicious" requests on all my webservers derived from a defcon talk[0] that I watched a while ago, there's a lot of great fun to be had in honeypots and other things of the nature.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OztMJ4EL1s