Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) @63, I have no friends in China at this time, unfortunately. I appologise for my racism; that was not my intent. I've re-read the offending post and retract post 60. I'm not going to delete it though for obvious reasons. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488372/#p488372 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) @61, I was specifically talking about the government, not the rest of China. I had no intention of being racist. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488369/#p488369 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) The below post is from an American point of view. I cannot speak for other countries.I think the term "racist" is being thrown around here without the users of the word actually knowing what that means. The term Racist is defined as "a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another." That's not what's happening here. It is understandable for us to be wary of Chinese software, not because the developers are Chinese, or that we hate/discriminate against the Chinese, but because the Chinese government is known for sticking their noses into things that do not concern them and doing their best to implant harmful or malicious code into the software for their own purposes. Its not racism, per see, at all; rather, its fear that the Chinese government will decide to try to spy on the users of the software by forcing the company/developers to implant malicious code into it. It may be unlikely, but it is an understandable reservation, given the control that the Chinese government has. There would be a similar reservation if the software came from Russia, for example. So no, this is not racism, and calling it that is incorrect.Now, do I think that it is likely that the developers will implant the code themselves or that the government will force them to do so? No; I doubt they'd do that. But we don't know if the Chinese government is capable of inserting malicious code into downloads during transit, which is definitely possible with the right infrastructure. Is it likely that the government would take any interest in a screen reader for blind and visually impaired individuals? Probably unlikely, but I cannot say that for certain. I do, however, believe that it is very unlikely, just as it is very unlikely that Huawei is working with the Chinese government and spying on their customers. However, the reservations and concerns are very valid and understandable. Do I think they're a bit ridiculous given that there isn't any evidence to prove that such a reservation is correct? Yes, but anticipating what an opponent will do is always a part of the game when preparing a proper defense. Won't stop me from trying commentary out sometime though. I did try ZDSR and though I thought it was a bit primitive here and there, it was pretty cool all things considered. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488361/#p488361 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) I think the term "racist" is being thrown around here without the users of the word actually knowing what that means. The term Racist is defined as "a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another." That's not what's happening here. It is understandable for us to be wary of Chinese software, not because the developers are Chinese, or that we hate/discriminate against the Chinese, but because the Chinese government is known for sticking their noses into things that do not concern them and doing their best to implant harmful or malicious code into the software for their own purposes. Its not racism, per see, at all; rather, its fear that the Chinese government will decide to try to spy on the users of the software by forcing the company/developers to implant malicious code into it. It may be unlikely, but it is an understandable reservation, given the control that the Chinese government has. There would be a similar reservation if the software came from Russia, for example. So no, this is not racism, and calling it that is incorrect.Now, do I think that it is likely that the developers will implant the code themselves or that the government will force them to do so? No; I doubt they'd do that. But we don't know if the Chinese government is capable of inserting malicious code into downloads during transit, which is definitely possible with the right infrastructure. Is it likely that the government would take any interest in a screen reader for blind and visually impaired individuals? Probably unlikely, but I cannot say that for certain. I do, however, believe that it is very unlikely, just as it is very unlikely that Huawei is working with the Chinese government and spying on their customers. However, the reservations and concerns are very valid and understandable. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488361/#p488361 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) I think the term "racist" is being thrown around here without the users of the word actually knowing what that means. The term Racist is defined as "a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another." That's not what's happening here. It is understandable for us to be wary of Chinese software, not because the developers are Chinese, or that we hate/discriminate against the Chinese, but because the Chinese government is known for sticking their noses into things that do not concern them and doing their best to implant harmful or malicious code into the software for their own purposes. Its not racism, per see, at all; rather, its fear that the Chinese government will decide to try to spy on the users of the software by forcing the company/developers to implant malicious code into it. It may be unlikely, but it is an understandable reservation, given the control that the Chinese government has. There would be a similar reservation if the software came from Russia, for example. So no, this is not racism, and calling it that is incorrect.Now, do I think that it is likely that the developers will implant the code themselves or that the government will force them to do so? No; I doubt they'd do that. But we don't know if the Chinese government is capable of inserting malicious code into downloads during transit, which is definitely possible with the right infrastructure. Is it likely that the government would take any interest in a screen reader for blind and visually impaired individuals? Probably unlikely, but I cannot say that for certain. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/488361/#p488361 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) I've still got a Pixel 3A, that phone is actually decent. Generally phone technology just keeps getting worse; people are more interested in providing people with higher-resolution cameras and all that jaz instead of improving the device overall. There are a few open-source phones out there, like the Pinebook, but whether that will go anywhere or not is up in the air at the moment. Its definitely not a competitor to any of the major phones out there though. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487914/#p487914 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) @36, I am not "judging" what features are and aren't important. Android has language switching, iOS has language switching. Is Android's method inefficient? Sure, but there are always alternative screen readers. Again, don't judge a platform based on the screen reader on it. Android is far more popular than iOS -- Google must be doing something right. As for the luxuries comment, no, I consider those important (that's one of the reasons why I switched after all). That was entirely unrelated to the screen reader debate anyway.Finally, I am curious as to which "accessibility" team you and others have contacted. Was it any of the ones over here (https://www.google.com/accessibility/get-in-touch), specifically email, communitis or feedback? Or was it something else? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487889/#p487889 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) @36, I am not "judging" what features are and aren't important. Android has language switching, iOS has language switching. Is Android's method inefficient? Sure, but there are always alternative screen readers. Again, don't judge a platform based on the screen reader on it. Android is far more popular than iOS -- Google must be doing something right. As for the luxuries comment, no, I consider those important (that's one of the reasons why I switched after all). That was entirely unrelated to the screen reader debate anyway. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487889/#p487889 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) @36, I am not "judging" what features are and aren't important. Android has language switching, iOS has language switching. Is Android's method inefficient? Sure, but there are always alternative screen readers. Again, don't judge a platform based on the screen reader on it. Android is far more popular than iOS -- Google must be doing something right. At this point its down to one side pointing out advantages and trying to discredit and misrepresent the other. Do you think its really productive to continue this discussion? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487889/#p487889 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
@30, my point is that it shouldn't be dependent on whether one screen reader on one platform is better than another on another platform to determine that platforms "value", which is literally the basis of every supposed complaint about Android (bar a few app inefficiencies, which are apparently not universal). You *do not* need every single feature that voice over has to use iOS, do you? No, you don't. Those "extras" are luxuries -- enhancements to make the user experience a bit better. But not all of them are necessities. Perhaps if we didn't come in, guns blazing, towards accessibility teams like Googles accessibility team, we'd actually make some progress. But pro-iOS fans, with their hostile nature towards everything Google, doesn't help anything either.The reason I switched to Android several years ago was not just the temptations it offered: openness, full flexability to customize whatever I wanted, The other reason was that I had had enough of Apples walled garden approach ("You are forbidden from using apps we say that you can't use") and the control they take away from the user. Though Google doesn't give you all the control you could ever want, they give you a lot more than Apple does. Does Google's app store plagued with viruses once and a while? Sure, but that's why Adroid has alternative app stores. Plus, Android has its own advantages; for example, people say that they can send iMesages on other Mac devices. I can send text messages from any device that has the ability to access the internet, interpret _javascript_ and execute web pages. I don't need to spend an extra thousand dollars just to be able to do that. And I can install apps that way too. But I digress.This hole battle between screen readers needs to end. A book shouldn't be judged on its cover, as they say, and a similar concept applies here.
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Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
@30, my point is that it shouldn't be dependent on whether one screen reader on one platform is better than another on another platform to determine that platforms "value", which is literally the basis of every supposed complaint about Android. You *do not* need every single feature that voice over has to use iOS, do you? No, you don't. Those "extras" are luxuries -- enhancements to make the user experience a bit better. But not all of them are necessities. Perhaps if we didn't come in, guns blazing, towards accessibility teams like Googles accessibility team, we'd actually make some progress. But pro-iOS fans, with their hostile nature towards everything Google, doesn't help anything either.The reason I switched to Android several years ago was not just the temptations it offered: openness, full flexability to customize whatever I wanted, The other reason was that I had had enough of Apples walled garden approach ("You are forbidden from using apps we say that you can't use") and the control they take away from the user. Though Google doesn't give you all the control you could ever want, they give you a lot more than Apple does. Does Google's app store plagued with viruses once and a while? Sure, but that's why Adroid has alternative app stores. Plus, Android has its own advantages; for example, people say that they can send iMesages on other Mac devices. I can send text messages from any device that has the ability to access the internet, interpret _javascript_ and execute web pages. I don't need to spend an extra thousand dollars just to be able to do that. And I can install apps that way too. But I digress.This hole battle between screen readers needs to end. A book shouldn't be judged on its cover, as they say, and a similar concept applies here.
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Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) @30, my point is that it shouldn't be dependent on whether one screen reader on one platform is better than another on another platform, which is literally the basis of every supposed complaint about Android. You *donot* need every single featurethat voice over has to use iOS, do you? No, you don't. Those "extras" are luxuries -- enhancements to make the user experience a bit better. But not all of them are necessitieis. Perhaps if we didn't come in, guns blazing, towards accessibility teams like Googles accessibility team, we'd actually make some progress. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487707/#p487707 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) @22, that doesn't make TB unworthy/worse than VO. Does it lack some features that VO has? Certainly. Does that make it somehow inferior? Nope. Apples to oranges, NVDA/JAWS to Orca. Completely different screen readers, completely different architectures and maintainers. This little war of screen readers won't help anyone. (Also, Microsoft cares about accessibility yet they've set no "accessibility standard" for apps to be approvedin the app store; why should Google? If memory serves Apple hasn't either.) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487667/#p487667 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) The problem here I think is that *every* issue people attribute to android is a massive generalization. That's because Android is open and allows any vendor to do pretty much whatever they like with it. Android is not iOS, so I think pro-iOS fans should probably not think of it like that. That's like an NVDA user applying the same expectations to Orca on Linux -- it just won't work. Apple to Oranges, forgive the pun. You cannot say that Talkback has so and so issues when that version of Talkback, plus modifications (if any) applied by the manufacturer, is probably not the same one that someone else is using. Same goes for apps and pretty much everything else. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487437/#p487437 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) The problem here I think is that *every* issue people attribute to android is a massive generalization. That's because Android is open and allows any vendor to do pretty much whatever they like with it. Android is not iOS, so I think pro-iOS fans should probably not think of it like that. That's like an NVDA user applying the same expectations to Orca on Linux -- it just won't work. Apple to Oranges, forgive the pun. You cannot say that Talkback has so and so issues when that version of Talkback, plus modifications (if any) applied by the manufacturer, is probably not the same one that someone else is using. Same goes for apps and pretty much everything else. That may also be why people claim that the accessibility team at Google is horrible (without any evidence, mind). Hmmm, could that be the attitude of the not-posted emails, maybe? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487437/#p487437 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4)
Re: Suggestions for Switching from iOS to Android (Pixel 4) The problem here I think is that *every* issue people attribute to android is a massive generalization. That's because Android is open and allows any vendor to do pretty much whatever they like with it. Android is not iOS, so I think pro-iOS fans should probably not think of it like that. That's like an NVDA user applying the same expectations to Orca on Linux -- it just won't work. Apple to Oranges, forgive the pun. You cannot say that Talkback has so and so issues when that version of Talkback, plus modifications (if any) applied by the manufacturer, is probably not the same one that someone else is using. Same goes for apps and pretty much everything else. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487437/#p487437 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life...
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life... The question "why did we switch from the command line to the GUI" was asked. Simple answer: we didn't. Sure,its what you see on all Windows computers, but the command line is not gone. It still exists and there is a very low probability that it will ever go away. (You can also set it as your default shell in Windows too.) On Linux this is even more true: the Command Line is actually the default operating mode for Linux; the GUI is just a layer on top of the (ultimately more powerful) command line interface. So no, we never "switched" to the GUI; the CLI is still there and will always be there. The GUI is just an interface using graphics and programmatic ways of executing CLI commands. (On Windows, for example, the GUI executes no commands at all, but under the hood, either the CLI -- or the knowledge we gained when creating it as well as other interfaces for program execution -- is what runs everything. And the CLI is still the most powerful interface of an operating system because a lot more can be expressed in that interface than can be expressed in a GUI.)Simpter, please, actually go learn how to modify Windows to your liking. There are tools like Winero Tweaker, DNSpi, and NTLite that allow you to pretty much become god over your operating system. If you want to be able to customize a computer to precisely how you like it, you'll have to get your hands dirty. There is no other way. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487411/#p487411 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Research Into Altered States In The Blind: Invitation for participants
Re: Research Into Altered States In The Blind: Invitation for participants It might qualify, though I doubt it. Sleep paralysis is a necessary protection mechanism to prevent you from acting out your dreams and unconsciously harming yourself. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487117/#p487117 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Research Into Altered States In The Blind: Invitation for participants
Re: Research Into Altered States In The Blind: Invitation for participants It might qualify, though I doubt it. Sleep paralysis is a necessary protection mechanism necessary to prevent you from acting out your dreams. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/487117/#p487117 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life...
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life... @36, I've got a master password plus U2F authentication for my password manager. I don't think Btwarden allows U2F-only auth, though I wish it did. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/486963/#p486963 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life...
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life... @32, Again, common sense does protect you from some things, but not everything.@31, the setting the slider to zero method does not completely disable UAC. UAC is still active. It just gets rid of prompts (which really aren't as annoying as people make them out to be). There is a way to (completely) disable UAC but itis not a recommend practice, is unsupported on Windows 8 and later, and causes problems with UWP apps, windows firewall and so on. Setting the slider to never notify is a bad idea on its own (I'll let you figure that out for yourselves, its not that hard). URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/486892/#p486892 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life...
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life... @32, Again, common sense does protect you from some things, but not everything. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/486892/#p486892 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life...
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life... Disabling UAC is precisely the wrong thing to do. Common sense is not a cure to prevent all software vulnerabilities, and just because you use "a little common sense" does in no way make you invulnerable. Most games save their save data outside the installation directory; a user should never have to write to program files/program files (x86) ever unless they're running an installer/uninstaller/whatever. Program files/program files (x86) is a protected directory. Never disable UAC. Ever.UAC does not "complain" when its notification setting is higher than zero. It prevents tools from performing possibly malicious actions and gives you a chance to intervene if necessary. Setting the notification slider to zero just turns that off, meaning that any application can gain elevated privileges and you'd never know it. Turning off UAC means that an application can write to pretty much anywhere on your system and you'd never know it.As for the last point in 29, someone who does not have any knowledge about the internals of a computer should still have an administrative account if they're IT or if its a consumer device. But never, ever turn off UAC. Just don't. If you do, your opening yourself up to maliciouscode that can bypass your "common sense". "Common sense", as I said, is definitely not a cure. In fact, in 2017 CCleaner's website was hacked and CCleaner was replaced with a CCleaner that behaved almost exactly the same as the original tool. Even if you closed the application, it wouldn't actually terminate. After 10 minutes of using it would connect to its command and control server and await orders. If you didn't know this information and happened to download the malicious CCleaner binary, what would your "common sense" tell you? How exactly would it protect you from a threat you can't even see?Yes, there's antimalware/antivirus software. But antimalware/antivirus software is not perfect. A bit of human oversite is also required.. The kind of reasoning for disabling UAC that I've seen in this topic is the exactly same (and misguided) reasoning for not using encryption: "Why should I use it if I have nothing to hide?" Both sets of reasons are incredibly naive viewpoints and are only going to cause you harm in the end. After all, Icould ask you a nice counterquestion: why do you lock the door of your house before you leave if you have nothing to hide? Why do you have a security alarm system if you've got nothing to hide? If you really have nothing to hide then you won't mind leaving all your entryways unlocked so I can prance in and look around when your away, right?Of course, that's flawed. You'd have a huge problem with leaving your house unlocked and vulnerable. Every computer system should be made with security in mind. It doesn't matter if your not storing any supposedly sensitive information on that system at the time of its creation. You'd still want to protect it and the data on it because if you didn't, people could just hack it and modify that data. And, of course, you can't ignore the possibility that you may store sensitive information in the future on it. Its much better to secure a system from the start instead of securing it "after the fact". URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/486885/#p486885 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life...
Re: Let's talk about windows seven end of life... Disabling UAC is precisely the wrong thing to do. Common sense is not a cure to prevent all software vulnerabilities, and just because you use "a little common sense" does in no way make you invulnerable. Most games save their save data outside the installation directory; a user should never have to write to program files/program files (x86) ever unless they're running an installer/uninstaller/whatever. Program files/program files (x86) is a protected directory. Never disable UAC. Ever.UAC does not "complain" when its notification setting is higher than zero. It prevents tools from performing possibly malicious actions and gives you a chance to intervene if necessary. Setting the notification slider to zero just turns that off, meaning that any application can gain elevated privileges and you'd never know it. Turning off UAC means that an application can write to pretty much anywhere on your system and you'd never know it.As for the last point in 29, someone who does not have any knowledge about the internals of a computer should still have an administrative account if they're IT or if its a consumer device. But never, ever turn off UAC. Just don't. If you do, your opening yourself up to maliciouscode that can bypass your "common sense". "Common sense", as I said, is definitely not a cure. In fact, in 2017 CCleaner's website was hacked and CCleaner was replaced with a CCleaner that behaved almost exactly the same as the original tool. Even if you closed the application, it wouldn't actually terminate. After 10 minutes of using it would connect to its command and control server and await orders. If you didn't know this information and happened to download the malicious CCleaner binary, what would your "common sense" tell you? How exactly would it proect you from a threat you can't even see? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/486885/#p486885 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Code Factory voices
Re: Code Factory voices I baught Voxin and the installer is broken. Ug. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/486351/#p486351 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I'm a little on edge, looking for advice
Re: I'm a little on edge, looking for advice @12, the ring hacks weren't just because people reused passwords. It was also because Ring is the furthest company who would care about your privacy. It also was because Ring devces come with default usernames and passwords. Most people don't change them (either because Ring doesn't ask them too or because they just don't want too) and Hackers use that information to their advantage. This is another case where IoT devices are terribly manufacturered because most companies (Amazon much) could care less about securing the physcal devices and the software running on them. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/486025/#p486025 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Opinions on the victer reader stream
Re: Opinions on the victer reader stream I don't like how the trek will randomly crash for no apparent reason on me whne I'm reading some books. Also, its internal RAM is shit. It can't read a 12-14 MB text file but it can read a 200 MB ebook? OK then... and all the text file is is text. No structure at all. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/486016/#p486016 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Code Factory voices
Re: Code Factory voices @8, Windows already runs on ARM. I think that now itsup to the users who want to switch to ARM. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/485787/#p485787 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Fellow Chrome users: Anyone else experiencing this?
Re: Fellow Chrome users: Anyone else experiencing this? This was a problem I had (now I'm on Linux but I still have Windows on this thing so I can play games LOL) and I've experienced this before. I read a lot of specifications and other large documents, and NVDA (and evenOrca at times) freezes up on large documents. Side note: chrome on Linux is slow as all hell on Linux, and I haven't found a way to make it faster. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/485776/#p485776 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Research Into Altered States In The Blind: Invitation for participants
Re: Research Into Altered States In The Blind: Invitation for participants I'm quite curious how skype or phone calls are a good medium for this kind of thing. How do you know that the participant isn't lying to you or giving you half-truths when your talking to someone who may not have video on or talking to someone through a medium that does not have video functionality? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/485604/#p485604 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: the brailleRap low-cost embosser
Re: the brailleRap low-cost embosser @4, it definitely is illegal. From title 15, U.S. code:Section 1:Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.Section 2:Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony [...]Section 3:(a) Every contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce in any Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or in restraint of trade or commerce between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory or Territories and any State or States or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia and any State or States or foreign nations, is declared illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy, shall be deemed guilty of a felony[...](b) Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce in any Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory or Territories and any State or States or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia, and any State or States or foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony[...]This means that (1) if your a corporation, you can be fined up to $100,000,000, or f an individual, up to $1,000,000; and/or (2) at the courts discretion, imprisoned for up to 10 years. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484681/#p484681 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: the brailleRap low-cost embosser
Re: the brailleRap low-cost embosser @4, it definitely is illegal. From title 15, U.S. code:Section 1:Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.Section 2:Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony [...]Section 3:(a) Every contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce in any Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or in restraint of trade or commerce between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory or Territories and any State or States or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia and any State or States or foreign nations, is declared illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy, shall be deemed guilty of a felony[...](b) Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce in any Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory or Territories and any State or States or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia, and any State or States or foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony[...] URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484681/#p484681 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My problem with the Blindy handbook
Re: My problem with the Blindy handbook @55, Amazon can remove books from your Amazon library even if you've baught them. Of course, its illegal, since a digital good is still a good, and removal by a corporation from your library is an act of theft. You could easily sue them on that alone. After all, you paid for it; no license terms or other agreements bind you. Yuo can do with it what you like because you *own* it.Companies like to throw around phraes like "This software is licensed, not sold," as if they're giving you a revocable license to you that you've purchased from them and they actually haven't sold it to you. That however is not how the world works and is far more of an ideological concept than anything else. If I buy Windows 10, I own that copy of Windows 10. MS can deactivate my license, but since its a copy of Windows 10 that I *own*, I am free to crack the software to bypass software protection mechanisms at that point because (1) it is *my copy* and it is *privately owned* by me, and (2) the company has stolen *my privately owned copy* of Windows 10 from me; therefore, I have every right to take it back using whatever means are necessary.That's why I always convert my books to Epub as soon as I buy them from Kindle -- it prevents Amazon from forcefully erasing my content illegally. They can erase it all they like; I'll still have it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484345/#p484345 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My problem with the Blindy handbook
Re: My problem with the Blindy handbook @55, Amazon can remove books from your Amazon library even if you've baught them. Of course, its illegal, since a digital good is still a good, and removal by a corporation from your library is an act of theft. You could easily sue them on that alone. After all, you paid for it; no license terms or other agreements bind you. Yuo can do with it what you like because you *own* it.Companies like to throw around phraes like "This software is licensed, not sold," as if they're giving you a revocable license to you that you've purchased from them and they actually haven't sold it to you. That however is not how the world works and is far more of an ideological concept than anything else. If I buy Windows 10, I own that copy of Windows 10. MS can deactivate my license, but since its a copy of Windows 10 that I *own*, I am free to crack the software to bypass software protection mecanisms at that point because (1) it is *my copy* and it is *privately owned* by me, and (2) the company has stolen *my privately owned copy* of Windows 10 from me; therefore, I have every right to take it back using whatever means are necessary. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/484345/#p484345 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: is my dad's will unbalanced?
Re: is my dad's will unbalanced? Dude, don't you have any kind of tact? This is not something you discuss online with strangers. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483435/#p483435 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My problem with the Blindy handbook
Re: My problem with the Blindy handbook @13, can you provide a lst of sited people and organizations/companeis that use TeamTalk over all other solutions? I significantly doubt TeamTalk is used in the workplace or by sited individuals; there are far, far better platforms that they can use. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483306/#p483306 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My problem with the Blindy handbook
Re: My problem with the Blindy handbook Allow me to tell you something very, very ironic: nowhere did I ever see my name in there. Nowhere. Yet they happily included others... makes me wonder. I mean, I read it and found it quite holarious, but it definitely was not the right way to go about things. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483014/#p483014 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy @23, if I'm interpreting the note from the MSDN correctly then hooks against 64-bit process from 32-bit processes could cause this kind of issue. I'm not a professional windows programmer though. Still doesn't excuse NVAccess from releasing a 64-bit build of NVDA -- all I've heard from them are excuses. They haven't even tried it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/483013/#p483013 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy @19, I honestly have no idea why it would be giving you that error. I don't know NVDA so unfortunately can't give much info. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482920/#p482920 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: In which country is better to live?
Re: In which country is better to live? @48, and you don't think that multinational and international companies earn millions from millions of customers either? Seriously dude? You know Huawei? Yeah, the tech giant in China? Less than 30 seconds of research gives me the following details about them, as of 2018:Revenue is $105.191 billionOperating income is $73.287 billionNet income is $8.656 billionTotal assets are worth $97.109 billionTotal equity is worth $33.994 billionAlso, their customer base is worldwide. If you'd like sources, you needn't go any further than both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei and https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/ … eport/2018 for evidence. Also, for the various companies that use their products (and said companies have customers of their own, which, I posit, would very indirectly and distantly make them customers of Huawei, even if they don't go to Huawei for support), look no further than https://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendo … /customers URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482891/#p482891 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: In which country is better to live?
Re: In which country is better to live? @48, and you don't think that multinational and international companies earn millions from millions of customers either? Seriously dude? You know Huawei? Yeah, the tech giant in China? Less than 30 seconds of research gives me the following details about them, as of 2018:Revenue is $105.191 billionOperating income is $73.287 billionNet income is $8.656 billionTotal assets are worth $97.109 billionTotal equity is worth $33.994 billionAlso, their customer base is worldwide. If you'd like sources, you needn't go any further than both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei and https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/ … eport/2018 for evidence. Also, for the various companies that use their products (and said companies have customers of their own, which, I posit, would very indirectly and distantly make them customers of Huawei), look no further than https://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendo … /customers URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482891/#p482891 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy @4, if your theory is correct, this is probably a very good explanation, and even more reason to make a 64-bit version of NVDA: "Because hooks run in the context of an application, they must match the "bitness" of the application. If a 32-bit application installs a global hook on 64-bit Windows, the 32-bit hook is injected into each 32-bit process (the usual security boundaries apply). In a 64-bit process, the threads are still marked as "hooked." However, because a 32-bit application must run the hook code, the system executes the hook in the hooking app's context; specifically, on the thread that called SetWindowsHookEx. This means that the hooking application must continue to pump messages or it might block the normal functioning of the 64-bit processes." (Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window … owshookexa.) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482885/#p482885 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy @4, if your theory is correct, this is probably a very good explanation, and even more reason to make a 64-bit version of NVDA: "Because hooks run in the context of an application, they must match the "bitness" of the application. If a 32-bit application installs a global hook on 64-bit Windows, the 32-bit hook is injected into each 32-bit process (the usual security boundaries apply). In a 64-bit process, the threads are still marked as "hooked." However, because a 32-bit application must run the hook code, the system executes the hook in the hooking app's context; specifically, on the thread that called SetWindowsHookEx. This means that the hooking application must continue to pump messages or it might block the normal functioning of the 64-bit processes." (Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window … owshookexa.) Also, NVAccess may wish to investigate IsWinEventHookInstalled. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482885/#p482885 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy
Re: An inexplicable NVDA issue that is starting to drive me crazy @4, if your theory is correct, this is probably a very good explanation, and even more reason to make a 64-bit version of NVDA: "Because hooks run in the context of an application, they must match the "bitness" of the application. If a 32-bit application installs a global hook on 64-bit Windows, the 32-bit hook is injected into each 32-bit process (the usual security boundaries apply). In a 64-bit process, the threads are still marked as "hooked." However, because a 32-bit application must run the hook code, the system executes the hook in the hooking app's context; specifically, on the thread that called SetWindowsHookEx. This means that the hooking application must continue to pump messages or it might block the normal functioning of the 64-bit processes." (Source: https/docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win … owshookexa.) Also, NVAccess may wish to investigate IsWinEventHookInstalled. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482885/#p482885 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why I prefer NVDA over JAWS
Re: Why I prefer NVDA over JAWS @28, I must disagree on JAWS's supposedly great OCR features. JAWS and NVDA are pretty much equal on that front, though I don't know if JAWS has windows 10 OCR. (Sde note: if you go check out https://support.freedomscientific.com/d … WSWhatsNew, you'll notice that most of the "new features" that JAWS 2020 has accumulated are ones that either NVDA never had in the first place because they were entirely unnecessary (i.e. the off-screen model), or things that NVDA has had for years). If that document is accurate, then JAWS currently (and still) does not use the Window 10 OCR feature and still instead relies on a proprietary technology. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482449/#p482449 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why I prefer NVDA over JAWS
Re: Why I prefer NVDA over JAWS See, the issue is that FS/VFO/whatever know that should companies and orgs wise up to the fact that the price model they use is unrealistic and never works in reality without what they have in place, they'll collapse and cease to exist. So they do their best to blind companies into thinking that JAWS is the best screen reader in existence when it really isn't. Hell, now its just copying from NVDA and narrator because FS/VFO/... don't have any kind of originality to add save a few things here and there. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482035/#p482035 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why I prefer NVDA over JAWS
Re: Why I prefer NVDA over JAWS See, the issue is that FS/VFO/whatever know that should companies and orgs wise up to the fact that the price model they use is unrealistic and never works in reality without what they have in place, they'll collapse and cease to exist. So they do their best to blind companies into thinking that JAWS is the best screen reader in existence when it really isn't. Hell, now its just copying from NVDA and narrator now. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/482035/#p482035 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My New Forum
Re: My New Forum @51, first, there are no "mirrors" of this forum other than what the wayback machine has managed to capture. FYI, the last capture was on September 27, 2019 (https://web.archive.org/web/20190927110 … ogames.net). The one before that was July 31 (https://web.archive.org/web/20190731/ht … ogames.net). Considering that those captures are few and far between, it is unlikely that there will be very many captures over there of sediments activities. The only other way to immortalize them is to save local copies of them... which makes me wonder why you'd want to do that. And yes, whether you care for it or not... reputation is important on the internet. If you shatter your reputation no one ever will listen to you unless you can aptly demonstrate that you have changed and are willing to work to rebuild it. Enough times though and people just will ignore you entirely no matter what you do. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/481836/#p481836 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I have a multiple account
Re: I have a multiple account Lol, I was 10 when I registered here. OK, actually, I had just turned 11 on the same day I registered. @54, seriously dude, really? Come on, that's not any kind of response that makes any sense. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/481563/#p481563 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I have a multiple account
Re: I have a multiple account @17, fair enough. But banning individual accounts when they're using the Tor network is probably a better idea than banning that exit node entirely, especially when you don't know who else could be routed through that same node. (Sde note: I think that tracerouting a tor node IP address will fail to resolve to the origin IP, which is a good indicator that they're either using a VPN or tor.) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/481254/#p481254 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I have a multiple account
Re: I have a multiple account The issue with banning people who are using Tor is that your banning legitimate people who may just want to use Tor to remain anonymous. That's the huge issue with this; its no longer about using a VPN, but about banning possible future innocent users who happen to be directed through the same Tor exit node you just banned. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/481097/#p481097 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: YouTube - Content Creators: What's new?
Re: YouTube - Content Creators: What's new? Google banning someone over ad blockers is as likely as the entire US constitution being revoked by a single person. In other words - not gonna happen. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/481021/#p481021 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: My New Forum
Re: My New Forum @12, considering you know nothing about the guy, stay out of that area.@11, some forum software that is accessible include:* SMF* MyBB (I think)* PHPBB* Discourse* VBulletin URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480744/#p480744 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Kaspersky's secure screen became accessible
Re: Kaspersky's secure screen became accessible Its probably one of the best AV/AM companies around. They're software used to be accessible and now its not... perhaps I should approach them about it, considering I'm subscribed to their blog. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480646/#p480646 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Pirated sound effects in this community.
Re: Pirated sound effects in this community. Here's what I'm wondering. I'd like to make this move as well for anything that uses sounds that I end up making, but have a bit of a problem. Considering that everything is moving to a subscription-based model, what is the site that hs the highest-quality sounds with the best prices? I don't want to have 1 subscriptions to various sound library sites just to get HQ sounds -- I did that once before and ended up having so many subscriptions I had to cancel that debit card because I couldn't keep track of them all.As for ambiances, I have more than enough and can use MyNoise; the sites I'm talking about are the places I can get other things than just 'ambiances'. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480634/#p480634 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Introducing the just crap page!
Re: Introducing the just crap page! @6 ,MB doesn't even let me go to it, says its fraudulent. 'll trust my AV program over this guy any day. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480632/#p480632 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Kaspersky's secure screen became accessible
Re: Kaspersky's secure screen became accessible I wish Sophos had kept their old interface for their AV/AM products. Sophos was really, really good. Hell, it still is, just not with accessibility. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480600/#p480600 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Introducing the just crap page!
Re: Introducing the just crap page! Wow, I'm not surprised Malwarebytes believes this website to be fraudulent... URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480462/#p480462 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let us search for people on Facebook again
Re: Let us search for people on Facebook again Lol it took this guy 5 minths toget 2000 supporters. Um wow. That's sad. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480224/#p480224 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @55, I don't mind and from your point of view I can understand your point and normally would gladly acknowledge it as valid. In this instance, I did not consider it so and explained my reasoning. You didn't do anything wrong -- you did what anyone else would do. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480021/#p480021 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let us search for people on Facebook again
Re: Let us search for people on Facebook again @18, lol, going through his topics for my daily chuckles. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/480014/#p480014 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let us search for people on Facebook again
Re: Let us search for people on Facebook again @15, word. This is literally an opening for even more stalkerware. We don't need more of that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479992/#p479992 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Let us search for people on Facebook again
Re: Let us search for people on Facebook again Typical jonikster up to their old ways. "Let us search through everyone's information (whether they know or appreciate us digging through that or not, and whether they consent to it or not)! Even if it violates the GDPR and various other privacy laws (because, you know, its PII), let us search through it anyway!" "Lets form a virtual nation on the internet that's as medieval as ancient Greece and Rome!" URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479990/#p479990 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Kaspersky's secure screen became accessible
Re: Kaspersky's secure screen became accessible Same URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479908/#p479908 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: is vertual box accessible?
Re: is vertual box accessible? Please, enough with the "VMware Player" vs. "VirtualBox" nonsense. Both are good. VBox has definitely superior to VMware Player (you can, after all, get everything for free in VBox, whereas you have to pay to get everything in VMware player). VBox is definitely accessible on recent versions of Linux. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479902/#p479902 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @48, the chance of a new programmer writing this kind of code is very low (at least, from what I've seen). No Pyton book ever talks about exec(), from what I've seen, and I've never seen a newbie (on any forum I know of) program the way he does without getting harshly reprimanded in some way for it.@49, I'm sorry but you completely missed my entire point. First, yes, download managers (and DSpeech) allow you to shutdown yoru computer after they have finished downloading something. However, I significantly doubt the yhave to launch a process to do it -- they just call the ExitWindowsEx/InitiateSystemShutdown/InitiateSystemShutdownEx functions. It is ridiculously rare when a program needs to call an external program for anything they need to do because there is nearly always a programmatic way of doing the same thing which is usually far more streamlined than the process version is. (The above-listed functions can be called from Python too.)My entire point was not that he is running processes, however. My entire point is that the code that I know runs right now could be replaced trivially with something malicious without the user ever knowing about it because what will happen is always undefined. As I said: nothing has happened yet, but considering the guys reputation, I wouldn't be surprised if he did do something like that for some reason. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479899/#p479899 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I must disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .py file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this the way he did it is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*.There are varying uses of exec() in the wild; one of them is config file code execution. But this is usually handled very carefully (considering the sheer level of danger you introduce). Careful steps have to be taken when implementing something like this. The author of multi-extra did not do any of these things. And the way the code is written, coupled with the fishy things he's done in the passed, makes this look very suspicious and deliberate. (Config file code execution is usually done locally, not remotely, too, so the user knows what will happen before it actually happens. Doing it remotely introduces a very large risk factor because now the user doesn't have control over what happens unless the user operates the remote server or possesses the code that will be executed, which is not the case in this instance. Some configuration files and programming languages have a "remote include" function but most people disable it precisely for this reason.)Edit: the link in the code ironically still works (I'd think he'd take it down...). Looking at the latest code (if its even been updated) t seems like he checks for lots of errors but just ignores most of them or just repeats the same thing. As an example, in one of the lines of code, he tries reading a file in %appdata%\MultiExtra\MultiExtra.ini; if that fails he tries creating it. But above that, he tries creating that directory and ignores the error that might happen (which could happen for a number of reasons i.e.: no more space left on the disk). He does that for various other errors, too. He also starts a ton of processes unnecessarily when Python has better and more integrated alternatives, suggesting to me that he either doesn't know of these alternatives (unlikely) or that he's choosing to ignore them for some reason.But I digress. The only time where code that just executes things without any kind of input validation is even remotely acceptable are in applications like command-line shells like BASH and cmd.exe. 99.99 percent of the time this is entirely unnecessary and only causes users to get highly suspicious of your application and your motives for writing that code. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I must disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .py file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this the way he did it is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*.There are varying uses of exec() in the wild; one of them is config file code execution. But this is usually handled very carefully (considering the sheer level of danger you introduce). Careful steps have to be taken when implementing something like this. The author of multi-extra did not do any of these things. And the way the code is written, coupled with the fishy things he's done in the passed, makes this look very suspicious and deliberate. (Config file code execution is usually done locally, not remotely, too, so the user knows what will happen before it actually happens. Doing it remotely introduces a very large risk factor because now the user doesn't have control over what happens unless the user operates the remote server or possesses the code that will be executed, which is not the case in this instance. Some configuration files and programming languages have a "remote include" function but most people disable it precisely for this reason.)Edit: the link in the code ironically still works (I'd think he'd take it down...). Looking at the latest code (if its even been updated) t seems like he checks for lots of errors but just ignores most of them or just repeats the same thing. As an example, in one of the lines of code, he tries reading a file in %appdata%\MultiExtra\MultiExtra.ini; if that fails he tries creating it. But above that, he tries creating that directory and ignores the error that might happen (which could happen for a number of reasons i.e.: no more space left on the disk). He does that for various other errors, too. He also starts a ton of processes unnecessarily when Python has better and more integrated alternatives, suggesting to me that he either doesn't know of these alternatives (unlikely) or that he's choosing to ignore them for some reason.But I digress. The only time where code that just executes things without any kind of input validation or security is even remotely acceptable are in applications like command-line shells like BASH and cmd.exe. 99.99 percent of the time this is entirely unnecessary and only causes users to get highly suspicious of your application and your motives for writing that code. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I must disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .py file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this the way he did it is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*.There are varying uses of exec() in the wild; one of them is config file code execution. But this is usually handled very carefully (considering the sheer level of danger you introduce). Careful steps have to be taken when implementing something like this. The author of multi-extra did not do any of these things. And the way the code is written, coupled with the fishy things he's done in the passed, makes this look very suspicious and deliberate. (Config file code execution is usually done locally, not remotely, too, so the user knows what will happen before it actually happens. Doing it remotely introduces a very large risk factor because now the user doesn't have control over what happens unless the user operates the remote server or possesses the code that will be executed, which is not the case in this instance. Some configuration files and programming languages have a "remote include" function but most people disable it precisely for this reason.)Edit: the link in the code ironically still works (I'd think he'd take it down...). Looking at the latest code (if its even been updated) t seems like he checks for lots of errors but just ignores most of them or just repeats the same thing. As an example, in one of the lines of code, he tries reading a file in %appdata%\MultiExtra\MultiExtra.ini; if that fails he tries creating it. But above that, he tries creating that directory and ignores the error that might happen (which could happen for a number of reasons i.e.: no more space left on the disk). He does that for various other errors, too. He also starts a ton of processes unnecessarily when Python has better and more integrated alternatives, suggesting to me that he either doesn't know of these alternatives (unlikely) or that he's choosing to ignore themfor some reason. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I must disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .py file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this the way he did it is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*.There are varying uses of exec() in the wild; one of them is config file code execution. But this is usually handled very carefully (considering the sheer level of danger you introduce). Careful steps have to be taken when implementing something like this. The author of multi-extra did not do any of these things. And the way the code is written, coupled with the fishy things he's done in the passed, makes this look very suspicious and deliberate. (Config file code execution is usually done locally, not remotely, too, so the user knows what will happen before it actually happens. Doing it remotely introduces a very large risk factor because now the user doesn't have control over what happens unless the user operates the remote server or possesses the code that will be executed, which is not the case in this instance. Some configuration files and programming languages have a "remote include" function but most people disable it precisely for this reason.)Edit: the link in the code ironically still works (I'd think he'd take it down...). Looking at the latest code (if its even been updated) t seems like he checks for lots of errors but just ignores most of them or just repeats the same thing. As an example, in one of the lines of code, he tries reading a file in %appdata%\MultiExtra\MultiExtra.ini; if that fails he tries creating it. But above that, he tries creating that directory and ignores the error that might happen (which could happen for a number of reasons i.e.: no more space left on the disk). He does that for various other errors, too. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I must disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .py file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this the way he did it is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*.There are varying uses of exec() in the wild; one of them is config file code execution. But this is usually handled very carefully (considering the sheer level of danger you introduce). Careful steps have to be taken when implementing something like this. The author of multi-extra did not do any of these things. And the way the code is written, coupled with the fishy things he's done in the passed, makes this look very suspicious and deliberate. (Config file code execution is usually done locally, not remotely, too, so the user knows what will happen before it actually happens. Doing it remotely introduces a very large risk factor because now the user doesn't have control over what happens unless the user operates the remote server or possesses the code that will be executed, which is not the case in this instance. Some configuration files and programming languages have a "remote include" function but most people disable it precisely for this reason.) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I must disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .py file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this the way he did it is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*.There are varying uses of exec() in the wild; one of them is config file code execution. But this is usually handled very carefully (considering the sheer level of danger you introduce). Careful steps have to be taken when implementing something like this. The author of multi-extra did not do any of these things. And the way the code is written, coupled with the fishy things he's done in the passed, makes this look very suspicious and deliberate. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I must disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .py file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this at all is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*. He could write code to delete everything in your documents folder -- or even everything in your user account folder (c:\users\usrname), for example. You would never know this, though, until you executed it and started noticing things disappearing. Some malicious software does this exact thing because it lets attackers alter the applications behavior by small amounts to make it hard to detect by AV programs.Yes, nothing truly bad has happened yet but he has quite happily set up the perfect situation for such bad things to occur. What he's doing is just something you never do. I significantly doubt he doesn't know what he was doing at the time -- he deliberately wrote that code, knowing exactly what it would do. Go read through the code for the main executable I re-posted in this topic earlier; do you really believe that he didn't know what he was doing? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I msut disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .py file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this at all is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*. (Malicious software also does this kind of thing too.) Yes, nothing truly bad has happened yet but he has quite happily set up the perfect situation for such bad things to occur. What he's doing is just something you never do. I significantly doubt he doesn't know what he was doing at the time -- he deliberately wrote that code, knowing exactly what it would do. Go read through the code for the main executable I re-posted in this topic earlier; do you really believe that he didn't know what he was doing? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @46, I msut disagree on "crap logic". Why would someone download a .txt file (containing whatever they like) and call Python's exec() function on it? Why would a hobbyist project even want to do such a thing when the alternative, doing auto-updates the normal way, is better?Doing this at all is incredibly fishy, Defender. This is not mob mentality -- its downright dangerous programming. By using such a coding methodology, he is creating a shell, for lack of a better word, that downloads something (over an insecure connection, no less) and immediately executes it. That allows him to do whatever he pleases, and the user won't even know what happens because the applications behavior is now unpredictable. He literally could do anything so long as it doesn't require administrative rights, and that is * a lot*. (Malicious software also does this kind of thing too.) Yes, nothing truly bad has happened yet but he has quite happily set up the perfect situation for such bad things to occur. What he's doing is just something you never do. I significantly doubt he doesn't know what he was doing at the time -- he deliberately wrote that code, knowing exactly what it would do. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479779/#p479779 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Linux discussion, tips and hints
Re: Linux discussion, tips and hints @20, certainly:1) A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, 3rd Edition (9780133085082)2) Linux Phrasebook, 2nd Edition (9780133038590)I'd also recommend:1) The Debian Administrator's Handbook (this is available for free online)2) The Official Ubuntu Book, Ninth Edition (9780134512495) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479735/#p479735 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Linux discussion, tips and hints
Re: Linux discussion, tips and hints @20, certainly:1) A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, 3rd Edition (9780133085082)2) Linux Phrasebook, 2nd Edition (9780133038590)I'd also recommend:1) The Debian Administrator's Handbook (this is available for free online)2) The Official Ubuntu Book, Ninth Edition (9780134512495)And, if you want a bit of in-depth technical knowledge of FreeBSD (only for those who are interested):3) The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, Second Edition (9780133761832)HTH URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479735/#p479735 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I've never felt so angry!
Re: I've never felt so angry! @44, its not bias. There is evidence to suggest that a virus could easily be injected into the code because the program does nothing to even verify that the code came from the site in question. So its just as bad as a virus, with the only difference that it indirectly can acquire it instead. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479703/#p479703 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Going Linux
Re: Going Linux @97, I haven't tested Kali in a while, and I've never tred Tails (primarily because I haven't had a need for that yet). URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479660/#p479660 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Going Linux
Re: Going Linux @93, Tails is the kind of distro you boot and use, then unplug it and go on yoru way. Its a live-only dstro -- you don't install it, because that defeats the purpose of it. Kali is explicitly designed for penetration testing/security analysis. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479419/#p479419 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Going Linux
Re: Going Linux Also. Trying out NixOS as a server-based Linux OS. Its worked pretty amazingly thus far with a few minor issues i.e. cargo can't find openssl for Rust). Should try it as a desktop version... URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479406/#p479406 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Going Linux
Re: Going Linux The fact that Brad deleted the topic is just ridiculous. I thought we actually might have some new converts, then he did that. How selfish. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479389/#p479389 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. I don't think it is, though there might be some hacky workarounds to make it accessible. Debian's installer is though (just go into the Debian bootloader and press S and enter to start the text-based accessible installer). URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479286/#p479286 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. @27, I don't know of a generic "Linux Wiki". I know there's wikis like the Arch Wki -- which is really good. While it is primarily aimed at Arch Linux, its an incredibly good resources for learning how to configure various packages if your willing to adjust it to the distribution you've chosen. Ubuntu and Debian have their own wikis (though I don't know how well-off they are n terms of maintenance). In terms of books for learing practical LInux commands, go for "A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, 3rd Edition" (or any late edition) (ISBN 9780133085082) or Linux Phrasebook, 2nd Edition, ISBN 9780133038590 (or any later edition). Again though, the most helpful resources are the documentation for the programs your using as well as man pages. Thoughs can be viewed with man (i.e. man mv). Though its not meant for "newcomers," its a valuable resource for quickly reminding yourself of how a command works and the syntax of them. Info pages contain full documentation fro commands, i.e.: the coreutils info pages contain excellent documentation on every single command coreutils contains.The differences between the books I listed is that A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming lists documentation for Unix commands in general (includingMacOS and Linux), whereas the Linux Phrasebook is a nice little pocket book that supplements man pages by easily categorizing tasks into chapters and commands. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479198/#p479198 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. @25, yes, you were stating your personal views. I never said you weren't. I was responding to your criticism -- which is a part of your personal opinion -- that LInux has lots of commands you need to remember and lots of options, and pointing you to extremely valuable sources to help you out with that problem.You also don't need to reference manual pages or documentation every time you want to do something. As someone who has worked with Linux for at least a decade, I can assure you of this. Moving, copying, deleting, editing, and creating files are the most common operations a user of a computer will need to do; hence, the commands are trivial to remember: mv to move files, cp to copy them, rm to delete them, and so on. (Editing a file tends to be a difficult choice depending on you ask, but there are always trivial editors likeNano, which I prefer.)You don't need to have a superiority complex to use Linux either. That may result after a time, but that mainly arises, I think, because when you ask questions people believe that the answer is obvious enough to them. But nto eveyone is like that (see stack overflow/stack exchange). There are innumerable resources for learning Linux and how it works, and many people, including myself, who would be happy to help. (Side note: people who get extremely good at things, including Linux and Piano, or anything else, tend to naturally develop superiority complexes. This applies to literally everything.)I'm not "automatically" assuming anything. I am simply trying to help, so there's no need to explode at me.P.S.: Windows has far more undocumented commands than Linux does, I think. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479189/#p479189 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. @25, yes, you were stating your personal views. I never said you weren't. I was responding to your criticism -- which is a part of your personal opinion -- that LInux has lots of commands you need to remember and lots of options, and pointing you to extremely valuable sources to help you out with that problem.You also don't need to reference manual pages or documentation every time you want to do something. As someone who has worked with Linux for at least a decade, I can assure you of this. Moving, copying, deleting, editing, and creating files are the most common operations a user of a computer will need to do; hence, the commands are trivial to remember: mv to move files, cp to copy them, rm to delete them, and so on. (Editing a file tends to be a difficult choice depending on you ask, but there are always trivial editors likeNano, which I prefer.)You don't need to have a superiority complex to use Linux either. That may result after a time, but that mainly arises, I think, because when you ask questions people believe that the answer is obvious enough to them. But nto eveyone is like that (see stack overflow/stack exchange). There are innumerable resources for learning Linux and how it works, and many people, including myself, who would be happy to help. (Side note: people who get extremely good at things, including Linux and Piano, or anything else, tend to naturally develop superiority complexes. This applies to literally everything.)I'm not "automatically" assuming anything. I am simply trying to help, so there's no need to explode at me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479189/#p479189 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. @25, yes, you were stating your personal views. I never said you weren't. I was responding to your criticism -- which is a part of your personal opinion -- that LInux has lots of commands you need to remember and lots of options, and pointing you to extremely valuable sources to help you out with that problem.You also don't need to reference manual pages or documentation every time you want to do something. As someone who has worked with Linux for at least a decade, I can assure you of this. Moving, copying, deleting, editing, and creating files are the most common operations a user of a computer will need to do; hence, the commands are trivial to remember: mv to move files, cp to copy them, rm to delete them, and so on.You don't need to have a superiority complex to use Linux either. That may result after a time, but that mainly arises, I think, because when you ask questions people believe that the answer is obvious enough to them. But nto eveyone is like that (see stack overflow/stack exchange). There are innumerable resources for learning Linux and how it works, and many people, including myself, who would be happy to help. (Side note: people who get extremely good at things, including Linux and Piano, or anything else, tend to naturally develop superiority complexes. This applies to literally everything.)I'm not "automatically" assuming anything. I am simply trying to help, so there's no need to explode at me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479189/#p479189 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. @20-21, you should ask yourself then why Linux powers the entire world (and even the ISS). It becomes cmprehensible if yuor willing to try it and learn what each command does (you have manual and info pages, you know).@19, no, its not. Tails is not designed for that. Go research it and you'll know why. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479181/#p479181 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. @16, Tails s not a system that you install. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479161/#p479161 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. I've tried it before, could never get a system going with it. And don't get me started on updating it either -- that's a nightmare. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479152/#p479152 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Trying out Linux.
Re: Trying out Linux. Stay away from Arch Linux and other advanced distros like that until you've got a good grasp on how Lnux works, partition management and such. Arch Linux is not newbie friendly, no matter what "arch installer" you mentioned. At Queens, there's FreeOS as well, though we've had some build problems for that right now. Still, stay away from that; Debian and Ubuntu Mate are very good choices.If your on a constrained system, go for Ubuntu with LXDE. Its ridiculously lightweight and is very accessible. (Side note: Orca and QT5 play nice now.) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/479142/#p479142 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sound gator image code, what is this thing and how can I get past it.
Re: Sound gator image code, what is this thing and how can I get past it. @5, I know! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478903/#p478903 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Sound gator image code, what is this thing and how can I get past it.
Re: Sound gator image code, what is this thing and how can I get past it. This reminds me of the CAPTCHA of AWS. I tried resetting my password and it still won't let me even though I contacted them about that. And OCR doesn't help at all. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478863/#p478863 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I Have a Favor to Ask of the Community
Re: I Have a Favor to Ask of the Community It is currently 15:33 hours CDT. Today, alone, I have received a total of 30 emails in my personal account. Yesterday I received a total of 41 emails. I have a total of 29,744 (and counting) unread emails. In my inbox, mind.So, I get quite a lot of emails every day over the span of 24 hours. When I was subscribed to far more active lists like the EDK2 development mailing list I got over 80 a day. Did I go and rage about it on here? Did I rage at the mailing list because I had requested non-batched emails and wanted them to pipe it down in there? Nope, I simply unsubscribed and resubscribed to the list I actually wanted to subscribe to (the EDK2-RFC mailing list).Now, your not being subscribed to a mailing list. Your not subscribing to one to get all of these "bothersome" emails. But the same concept applies: your going to get far more emails in your inbox than you know what to do with. Selectively disregard those that you could care less about and read the ones you believe are important. If its happening on another platform, either (kindly!) inform the offenders that you'd like them to stop pestering you, or ignore them. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478862/#p478862 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: YouTube - Content Creators: What's new?
Re: YouTube - Content Creators: What's new? @33, what do you mean by "you were banned"? From what and for what reason and on what platform? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478659/#p478659 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: can someone host my team talk server
Re: can someone host my team talk server I don't know why a current business would ever use TT in the first place when we have Zoom (which I've seen more and more companies use). A new business might but current ones? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478563/#p478563 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: youtube alternatives
Re: youtube alternatives @29, agreed again. If I'd ever done anything like theft, my parents would've grounded me for a month if not longer (which has never happened, ever). And unlike some parents, my parents actually know my way of disobeying their groundings, so they're quite capable of mitigating those (yes, I did do that, multiple times). URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478558/#p478558 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: youtube alternatives
Re: youtube alternatives @27, word. I completely disapprove of giving children access to (any) kind of technology under the age of at minimum 6 that is as powerful as an iPhone or iPad. Kids always, always find ways around parental controls and other defensive mechanisms that are designed to stop them. It doesn't help that parents don't moderate what their kids do, and instead let them do whatever they please. If your a parent, you now are pretty much self-employed: your job? To watch over that kid and raise them. Your job does in fact include parental responsibilities. Moving it off to technology is a shirking of your parental duties. Parents who do that kind of thing should be ashamed of themselves. When I was younger, my family did let me use technology a lot (far more than they probably should have). However, they still took the time to raise and educate me and do everything else a parent should do. (Also, lets not forget the parents who act plain stupid and claim, in court no less, that games like GTA V create mass-shootings. How the hell could a computer program do that without the child believing it? Its not the computer programs fault for causing that, its the child's fault for actually thinking its possible despite everything pointing to the opposite. Is it really that hard to notice that kind of thing from a parents point of view?)I'd love people who are parents or who know parents on here to try to answer that question; I don't know you guys but would love an answer to that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478542/#p478542 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: youtube alternatives
Re: youtube alternatives @27, word. I completely disapprove of giving children access to (any) kind of technology under the age of at minimum 6 that is as powerful as an iPhone or iPad. Kids always, always find ways around parental controls and other defensive mechanisms that are designed to stop them. It doesn't help that parents don't moderate what their kids do, and instead let them do whatever they please. If your a parent, you now are pretty much self-employed: your job? To watch over that kid and raise them. Your job does in fact include parental responsibilities. Moving it off to technology is a shirking of your parental duties. Parents who do that kind of thing should be ashamed of themselves. When I was younger, my family did let me use technology a lot (far more than they probably should have). However, they still took the time to raise and educate me and do everything else a parent should do. (Also, lets not forget the parents who act plain stupid and claim, in court no less, that games like GTA V create mass-shootings. How the hell could a computer program do that without the child believing it? ts not the computer programs fault for causing that, its the child's fault for actually thinking its possible despite everything pointing to the opposite. Is it really that hard to notice that kind of thing from a parents point of view?)I'd love people who are parents or who know parents on here to try to answer tat question; I don't know you guys but would love an answer to that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478542/#p478542 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: youtube alternatives
Re: youtube alternatives @27, word. I completely disapprove of giving children access to (any) kind of technology under the age of at minimum 6 that is as powerful as an iPhone or iPad. Kids always, always find ways around parental controls and other defensive mechanisms that are designed to stop them. It doesn't help that parents don't moderate what their kids do, and instead let them do whatever they please. If your a parent, you now are pretty much self-employed: your job? To watch over that kid and raise them. Your job does in fact include parental responsibilities. Moving it off to technology is a shirking of your parental duties. Parents who do that kind of thing should be ashamed of themselves. When I was younger, my family did let me use technology a lot (far more than they probably should have). However, they still took the time to raise and educate me and do everything else a parent should do. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/478542/#p478542 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
