Xttweaponttx

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[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 2 points 21 hours ago
[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...in 2003, [bismuth] was discovered to be extremely weakly radioactive. The metal's only primordial isotope, bismuth-209, undergoes alpha decay with a half-life about a billion times the estimated age of the universe.

Jesus crust!

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[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not even the best one, though. For a brief window I tried my best to create a little portable Ubuntu environment on a USB drive so I could just bring all my software with me, games and all, and just boot into it when I got to school!

Well, eventually I had the thought that I could potentially install it on a second hidden partition, and select it from boot time... But I guess in the heat of the moment (I had a little group of friends standing behind me blocking the librarians' view, all cheering me on), I ended up misclicking and overwriting the OS, wiping the hard drive in the process ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…

Needless to say, they were not thrilled. Unfortunately, believe it or not, a group of kids crowded around one guy at a computer is a fucking beacon when you're searching video feeds for suspects ๐Ÿ˜… they had found me out by the next day and banned me from the computers for a year. (My friends just gave me their logins anyways ๐Ÿค˜)

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah man I have so many stories about my high school schenanigains.

Every student had a folder named as their student ID on the smb network, all in one big folder. I created a folder there with a fake student ID just 1 above mine, so all I had to do was change my path from /students/1234 to 1235 and bam - I'm in my alt account. I had cracked copies of halo, starbound, gmod, powder toy, Terraria, Minecraft... all sorts of goodies!

Eventually I found that since this phony user folder 1235 wasn't tied to a domain user, its read/write permissions weren't locked down - so anybody on the network could access or add to the folder, so I shared it around with friends and it grew quickly! Didn't realize that meant deleting stuff, too; some kids just had chaos in mind, and would randomly delete shit because hAHa I DelEted the FolDer!!1! Ah, high school.

So eventually I got a system down where I'd keep backups elsewhere, and I'd refresh the war-torn main folder every so often, or switch to a new bogus ID to keep it among my friends - but better yet, if I was lucky enough to catch it disappearing in realtime, I'd often throw it right back up with something flashy and new in there, like a new CoD game or something, with surface level 'shortcut' links to the game executable right at the top of the directory, complete with a convincing custom icon. Instead of running a game or something, though, it instead ran scripts that either identified the leak (CD tray eject in a library computer bay? Immediate audio queue locating the assholes), or in later stages when patching the leak still failed, I'd bait them into a script that'd nuke their PC somehow ๐Ÿ˜‚

my personal favorite, I built what I called the 'tree bomb' - a recursive .batch file that launches itself in another window, then runs "tree C:". Within around a second you'd go from a functional PC to a screen filled with terminals spitting out a representation of your hard drive's contents ๐Ÿคฃ in retrospect, I made a malware! ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 3 points 1 day ago

Read into his Wikipedia a bit, never heard of the guy. Seems he's a cofounder of Netscape? And ning.com, which I'd never heard of. Its wiki page describes it as

a free-form platform for the development and hosting of open-source "social applications"

Sounds cool at a surface level, kinda like what we have here! But then I read on...

February 2018, Ning launched a monetization platform, enabling users to earn an income from their social websites

Oh... And sure enough, I load up ning.com itself and behold= 1000012049

"Money, money, money!"

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 1 points 2 days ago

Ah shit this rules! Cheers, yo!

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah same here! I had a brief moment where I thought the audio coming out of my remote desktop on my phone was the headset... Dreams shattered ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 8 points 2 days ago

+1 for kdenlive!! Kickass software

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 2 points 2 days ago

For real?? ๐Ÿ˜“ I was rockin a 3080ti on a 4k panel for a bit there and Wayland was impossible to run on Debian-KDE. Like as soon as I got to desktop everything stuttered in slow motion, dpi was janky as hell, and wouldn't respond to DPI config changes... And that was on a fresh install from Debian's KDE installation media! ๐Ÿค” did ya'll have to do any tinkering or was Wayland cruising for ya outta the box?

Had to sell that card as I got tf outta the US anyways (been maining my steam Deck on a dock, which has been fun!), but I'm thinking I'll go AMD for my next build. VR & Wayland are way better on an AMD GPU, from what I hear!

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 3 points 2 days ago

Fuckin gottem ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ bullseye!

[โ€“] Xttweaponttx 2 points 1 week ago
 

The whole article's a great read, but here's a fun excerpt=

To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.โ€ --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included

 

I'm taking a class on data privacy at the moment, and it made me think it would be interesting to see exactly what kind of advertising data has been generated by services like Google \ YouTube \ Etc. Is there somewhere online that's easy to punch in an advertising ID & find that sort of data, or is that something you'd have to request from advertisers themselves? (AdSense etc?) Or maybe do the service providers (mentioned before) store that data?

Forgive my ignorance - still learning about this stuff!

 

I'm a big fan of Brittle Hollow! The dynamic plates falling into the black hole, & the huge amount of lore on the planet... Not to mention the amazing Lantern raining down hell all the time!

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Not sure if this will help anyone else, but I couldn't find anything online about this and thought I'd share this with online just in case!

I just started playing Outer Wilds on the steam deck for a week or so, and was immediately in love with it. I decided to install it on my PC (popOS) to see how it looks with cranked graphics, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to sync my cloud saves! For some reason the deck kept saying the saves were syncing fine up to the cloud, but my pc kept sticking at 'checking....' when I asked it to sync...

In the end, I ended up finding a setting in the steam client that enables compatibility for every title in steam that isn't Linux native... when I flipped it on, Outer Wilds (along with like 4 other games in my library) all immediately resolved their bugged cloud sync!

So, I guess, steam will complain that it can't get your cloud saves to download, when really it doesn't have a compatdata folder for the saves to download to. Kinda jank!

 
 

Damn this is a fkn cool platform amiright

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