Random Thoughts II

[crocos]

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by fixed_truth

his name is robert paulson

He's with the ghosts now.

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Randomly I just recalled that Quake 4 existed and I did play it and the Enemy Territory was a thing. Before now I completely blanked.

[MadMax]

Headphones are binaural not stereo.

[DrTiTus]

I made a 6510/C64 CPU simulator over the weekend, just by looking at the opcode descriptions in the Commodore Programmers Reference Manual and implementing their behaviour running ROMs from the internet. It acts on each opcode in 1 "tick", because I'm not actually an 8 bit machine that needs to set address lines and clock data out of a chip etc, I just have a 64k array of RAM bytes that I map the BASIC + KERNAL ROM over at the relevant addresses and read/write as appropriate.

I coded the behaviour for each opcode as it appeared at my program counter, and because there's 151 out of 256 "legal" codes, whenever I ended up at an address with an illegal opcode or if I ended up jumping to memory $0000 it meant I had a bug. It definitely did not run properly first time :P Now it actually runs the initialization routine and gets right into the BASIC loader and continually scans for a keypress [there is no keyboard input or screen output being displayed yet]. I can even map a cartridge ROM into $8000 and the KERNAL detects it and runs that code instead.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by fixed_truth

his name is robert paulson

He would do anything for love, but he won't get vaxxed

[Ab]

Happy colonisation day from straya

[MadMax]

If you’re chatting with a Roger and you wanted to acknowledge something, would you say wilco?

[xor]

Originally Posted by Ab

Happy colonisation day from straya

So, are you a coloniser?

[Ab]

Man, I live in the whitest city in Australia in a state in which, if one were to put up a map and throw a dart at it, one would probably hit the location of a massacre of Aboriginal people, so it's hard not to feel like it. I'm an immigrant and I live and work on land that was stolen from its original owners and they didn't even get a Treaty to bring up after they got fucked.

[StN]

Originally Posted by Ab

Man, I live in the whitest city in Australia in a state in which, if one were to put up a map and throw a dart at it, one would probably hit the location of a massacre of Aboriginal people, so it's hard not to feel like it. I'm an immigrant and I live and work on land that was stolen from its original owners and they didn't even get a Treaty to bring up after they got fucked.

Add to that the perineal statement of "Let's send all the violent crims to an island* and let them sort themselves out!"



*Island/Cuntenant

[Ab]

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/perineal

[Ab]

The collapse of the /r/antiwork subreddit is the most internet thing this week.

[StN]

Originally Posted by Ab

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/perineal

I contend that its still a valid statement Most proponents would be talking out of their arse!

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by Ab

The collapse of the /r/antiwork subreddit is the most internet thing this week.

Someone hoping for their /r/wallstreetbets moment.

[Ab]

I think it was a perfectly sensible idea to have as the movement's representative on the most-watched cable news show in the world an (checks notes) unprepared self-absorbed transgender sex offender.

[xor]

Originally Posted by Ab

Man, I live in the whitest city in Australia in a state in which, if one were to put up a map and throw a dart at it, one would probably hit the location of a massacre of Aboriginal people, so it's hard not to feel like it. I'm an immigrant and I live and work on land that was stolen from its original owners and they didn't even get a Treaty to bring up after they got fucked.

Welcome to planet earth, where the ground is soaked in blood :/

[blynk]

Originally Posted by xor

Welcome to planet earth, where the ground is soaked in blood :/

Probably more blood on the ground than oil now.

[xor]

Learning how to perform Buffer overflow attacks is bringing back traumatic memories of polytech from a million years ago. I hated programming because I couldn't do the shit back then, therefore i hated it. But now, it's pretty rad.

[DrTiTus]

Originally Posted by xor

Learning how to perform Buffer overflow attacks is bringing back traumatic memories of polytech from a million years ago. I hated programming because I couldn't do the shit back then, therefore i hated it. But now, it's pretty rad.

Nice one bruv

I completed my [original method] factoring algorithm over the weekend - 22 years in the making (since I was 18) - it has a 100% pass rate, although there are still some optimizations to make before it's full speed (ie not single threaded Python, probably NodeJS so I can make it distributed). Watch this space

Number of moves: 106
Result: 162259276829213363391578010288127 x 170141183460469231731687303715884105727

real 0m0.310s

[xor]

I remember you talking about this when i was a 16 year old maggot, that's pretty awesome!

What are the use cases with this knowledge? Some juicy cryptographic ting?

[DrTiTus]

Best case, it breaks RSA encryption (or other schemes based on the assumption that factoring large integers is computationally difficult).

Worst case, it's a bunch of ideas that are worthy of being published as an original contribution to mathematics, and could potentially be developed further.

Either way, it's a lifelong goal out of the way.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by DrTiTus

Best case, it breaks RSA encryption (or other schemes based on the assumption that factoring large integers is computationally difficult).

Worst case, it's a bunch of ideas that are worthy of being published as an original contribution to mathematics, and could potentially be developed further.

Either way, it's a lifelong goal out of the way.

Like xor, I'm pretty sure you were already working on this (or contemplating it) when we met - good on you bro, that's bloody impressive.

[wazza]

GG

[DrTiTus]

So I got a 4K monitor, because the numbers were bigger.

Not gonna say I have buyer's remorse necessarily, but it's certainly not an all round upgrade. It's a bit of a trade-off. More resolution = more real estate? Well yes, but you have to scale everything at 150% to read it, so you don't get the effective real estate you expected - or you do at 100% but you have to get right up close to use it. There's also an issue with things scaling and not working "nicely", such as:



If anyone knows a Windows/OS level fix for this, with scaling still enabled, I'd appreciate hearing it. If it's just an application level (VLC in this case) problem, I guess I just have to wait for them to get around to fixing it. I've only had the monitor since this morning, so I'm sure there'll be other apps with graphic incompatibilities - I'm aware that some music software struggles with scaling the GUI, so I'm expecting to see some of that. Weirdly the "Always on top" doesn't work in VLC with scaling either. I might just turn off scaling and push my head forward.

Similarly, web pages with GIF buttons are all scaled up and pixelated, and the rendered fonts are very noticeable next to the smooth "native" fonts.

Also, if you have a second monitor attached which is not scaled, then there is funky window behaviour as you move one from scaled to non-scaled - it arrives huge as it crosses the border then jumps to become small as it makes its way onto the screen. Kinda strange, and not ideal. I might get rid of my vertical monitor so I don't need to be reminded of this problem.

Conclusion: If you don't have 4K, don't stress, and check out someone else's before you buy one. It's not perfect, at least not on Windows 11 with scaling. It's probably better with Apple computers (like a Mac Mini), since Retina is a native part of their product lineup, so apps will be aware of high resolutions/scaling and I assume work more consistently. I think my old setup with two 1080p monitors, one landscape, one portrait is a better display config, but I'll give it time.

[Ab]

in conclusion, Windows

[wazza]

just checked two windows 11 pc's, each with 4k @ 150% scaling



no issue on either. i don't actually use VLC outside of streaming IPTV. i use PotPlayer for local content, usually.

[DrTiTus]

Thanks man, at least it gives me hope that that particular issue is solvable. I've resorted to Windows @ 100%, and browser zoom instead. I'll try updating VLC, or check out this potplayer.

[DrTiTus]

Ah choice, it only happens when you change the scaling while it's running. If you reopen it, it figures out the scaling properly.

[Ab]

Whoopi Goldberg: "The Holocaust wasn't about race"

[MadMax]

These people complaining about banks taking money from the sale of one house for payment on a mortgage of another - are they really so surprised and have they not got an agreed Section 92 priority amount?

[wazza]

Week view

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[Savage]

RIP Ivan Reitman

[Ab]

Thousands of people who thought they were good Christians are going to hell.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-...-ine/100830676

[Ab]

RIP Vai'iga Tuigamala.

[DrTiTus]

Council pulls livestream after offensive subtitle blunder

The staff member has just made comments that people could "check in with a RAT test", but this was translated in a subtitle as "chicken rape". The words RAT test were also misconstrued as "rape kit".

[Ab]

how is that a) offensive or b) a blunder?

[fixed_truth]

Originally Posted by Ab

RIP Vai'iga Tuigamala.

And Joeli Vidiri on the same day, crazy

[Ab]

Wtf, really?

RIP.

[Lightspeed]

These NSW floods are looking dramatic.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/...28-p5a06h.html