The Tech Random Crap Thread
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I had much the same thought.
I considered it, but there was nothing on the list I really cared to turn back on, so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Zappit
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The family picked up a Samsung Neo QLED tv today. Hooked it up and the picture...is not what it was like on the display model. Played with all the settings. It’s very weird. A lot of channels look slightly blurred or very slightly pixelated. Some look incredible. Streamed on the Roku and that looked great. Blu-rays looked great. It’s just the cable. Frigging Comcast. I do not know how to fix it...
Mismatched content? Especially if some things look great but others don't (4k v 1080 v 720).
Also try turning off "Motion Smoothing" or whatever your set calls it.
--Patrick
I have 10,000 users, and it pisses me off that I had to learn on my own that Paint was not standard anymore.
It's possible it was just a bad unit, it does happen.
Calling it now, @GasBandit is never going to buy a BMW. Car companies are going to be just as shitty about microtransactions as video game companies aren't they?
GasBandit
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Even this won't make the turn signals work
figmentPez
Staff member
What could possibly go wrong?
It's just giant machinery running off of insecure computers that have a wireless connection. Surely everything will be fine.
It's just giant machinery running off of insecure computers that have a wireless connection. Surely everything will be fine.
GasBandit
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MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
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Def Con hacker shows John Deere’s tractors can run Doom
A hacker brings Doom straight to a John Deere display.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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I run TightVNC servers on my home machine and my server so that I can remote control them from anywhere (and keep my server not needing a monitor, mouse, or keyboard). But the thing about an internet-facing VNC server is bad actors from across the world (mostly eastern Europe and China of course) are constantly hammering at it trying to guess my passwords. And TightVNC doesn't have a built-in mechanism for blocking IP addresses after x number of failed login attempts. This has been a source of worry and consternation for me for quite a while.
I've finally found something that addresses this.
github.com
I breathe a lot easier now. It lets you do all the cool stuff: whitelist, set escalating ban times, etc etc, and it works on windows 7 and up and windows server 2012 and up. And Linux of course.
I've finally found something that addresses this.
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github.com
I breathe a lot easier now. It lets you do all the cool stuff: whitelist, set escalating ban times, etc etc, and it works on windows 7 and up and windows server 2012 and up. And Linux of course.
I remember seeing constant sets of 5 attempts and pause, 5 attempts and pause, over and over again in my logs.
They were almost always from New York or Chicago, and from IP addresses of well-established firms and businesses. Businesses who obviously need to step up their phishing training, I guess.
--Patrick
They were almost always from New York or Chicago, and from IP addresses of well-established firms and businesses. Businesses who obviously need to step up their phishing training, I guess.
--Patrick
Had sushi tonight. Posted about it on Facebook. I get a notification that someone has replied that I haven't talked to in maybe a decade.
FB is glitching weird tonight. This is the comment attached to the post I made just minutes before.
FB is glitching weird tonight. This is the comment attached to the post I made just minutes before.
Some sort of rollover error due to how dates are stored, maybe? The initial designers never expected Facebook to exist beyond a certain duration, so they stored dates in an unsuitable format?
Either that or time travel.
Way to give me a heart attack Malwarebytes
Edit: They've just pushed an update that seems to have fixed the issue.
Edit: They've just pushed an update that seems to have fixed the issue.
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figmentPez
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Boy do I have a story to tell you about the last decade or so. Come meet me over in the political thread.
—Patrick
figmentPez
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Ah, the GasBandit School of Subtlety.
GasBandit
Staff member
I've been experimenting with webhooks that let a discord bot make a post whenever something new is added to my plex server.
(Don't worry, I set it up in a private channel so as not to annoy the rest of you)
It was kind of neat getting a notification on discord when a new episode for whatever shows I'm tracking gets added. I thought, hey, this might actually be of interest to other people who use my Plex server.
Yyyyyyeah and remember then how I added 15 seasons of CSI? The download from my seedbox to my home plex server takes about 5 minutes per episode, so from 11pm sunday night through most of yesterday, every 5 minutes I got a discord notification with a nice little plot synopsis of EVERY SINGLE CSI EPISODE EVER
I'm thinking this idea has some drawbacks.
(Don't worry, I set it up in a private channel so as not to annoy the rest of you)
It was kind of neat getting a notification on discord when a new episode for whatever shows I'm tracking gets added. I thought, hey, this might actually be of interest to other people who use my Plex server.
Yyyyyyeah and remember then how I added 15 seasons of CSI? The download from my seedbox to my home plex server takes about 5 minutes per episode, so from 11pm sunday night through most of yesterday, every 5 minutes I got a discord notification with a nice little plot synopsis of EVERY SINGLE CSI EPISODE EVER
I'm thinking this idea has some drawbacks.