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00:39.59findlayhello legioneer
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00:41.00findlaygoozbach: tell legioneer about something awesome
00:41.27findlaywhere's sjansen when you need him
00:41.35legioneerhi, this is my first timeusing irc. It's hazing time
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01:14.45Q_CONTINUUMGET THE WHIPS, THE GIMP, 3 STONES, A ROPE, AND THE GOAT
01:15.13Q_CONTINUUMAww he left.
01:15.20Q_CONTINUUMdoesn't watch /join /parts anymore
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01:33.10findlayyeah, sorry
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03:48.47jimaQ is sad that he doesn't get to realize his ultimate fantasy.
03:55.30Q_CONTINUUM...
03:55.36Q_CONTINUUMNo.
03:55.57Q_CONTINUUMI just need to pay better attention to timestamps since ignoring /joins & /parts
03:58.25jimas/ to t.*$//
03:58.52jimawins at regexps
03:59.07jimahis brain is still parsing it! \o/
03:59.10jima;-)
03:59.18Q_CONTINUUMadds another thing to the list of 'shit to learn tomorrow'
03:59.20Q_CONTINUUMsighs
03:59.32jimano, do actual work instead :-D
03:59.40Q_CONTINUUMlol
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04:23.41Q_CONTINUUMOkay okay...
04:23.59Q_CONTINUUMmoves it from 'shit to learn tomorrow' to 'shit to learn soon-ish'
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16:27.04youtahApparently Anon has taken over NK's twitter/flickr/websites/etc
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16:27.21youtahhttp://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/04/04/anonymous-takes-control-of-north-koreas-twitter-and-flickr-accounts-defaces-websites/
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16:56.43youtahJayce^ just broke Google
17:25.26spangbornyoutah: Your Pebble arrive yet?
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17:29.29sjansenhttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6e0cd7b76c04acc8c8f868a3bcd0f9ff13e16c8
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17:39.24youtahspangborn no
17:39.34youtahI am afraid you had them flag my account or something like that
17:39.38spangbornyoutah: LOL.
17:39.41spangbornNaw.
17:39.50spangbornI'm losing interest in it, honestly.
17:39.56spangbornI'll probably just sell it when it arrives.
17:40.48findlaythere are some junky tablets out there
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17:41.58spangbornfindlay: No need to bash Android like that. ;p
17:42.48findlaymaybe samsung and apple tablets aren't junky hardware-wise, but their software is defective
17:43.07leviPretty much all software is defective. It's only a matter of degree.
17:43.17findlayif I can't install gentoo on my phone, then it's not worth owning
17:44.02joshhnexus 10 looks pretty alright imo
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17:48.58youtahMRW someone shares the "Bill Gates will give you $5000 if you share this post" http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0g0rqqP3G1roec53o1_250.gif
17:52.55leviWe've got a Nexus 7 for testing at work. The latest OS screwed up some bluetooth stuff, but otherwise it's really nice hardware.
17:53.17leviI like it better than the 7" Galaxy Tab we have.
17:53.58joshhya
17:54.08joshhthere aren't a lot of viable tablets out there, but the nice ones are nice
17:54.49leviI love my 3rd-gen iPad, mainly for its screen.
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17:56.29leviPDFs and web pages render beautifully!
17:56.44youtahI want that Fire HD
17:57.23joshhi'd get a retina ipad or nexus 10 only, but even as nice as they are, i don't like the idea of a tablet being 500 bucks
17:57.39youtahI have a retina display Android phone
17:57.53joshha nexus 7 is nice for the price, but the size isn't what i want in a tablet
17:57.55youtahall I have to do is hold the phone 3 inches further back than the iPhone and walla!
17:57.55leviI didn't like the idea of spending that much, but I have definitely got that much value out of it.
17:58.08joshhya
17:58.21joshhim just waiting until there are plenty of decent android tablets on the market instead of 2
17:58.45leviI use it *all* the time, I have a huge pdf reference library on it and I do all my casual web browsing on it.
18:00.00joshhmy wife has an ipad 2 and it's nicer than a laptop for netflix while laying in bed
18:00.05joshhbut i hate reading text on it
18:01.17leviI prefer reading novels on a kindle, but most PDFs suck on kindles.
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18:01.52leviAnd by 'kindle' I mean a standard-sized eInk tablet.
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18:03.26joshhi can handle technical books on mobile devices, but im totally a paper guy when it comes to novels
18:03.30ldav15_The "Kindle Keyboard". They are quite nice.  Their best feature... is the lack of features.
18:04.14leviMy kindle is from just before they came out with non-keyboard models.
18:04.36leviI want to get one with the built-in lighting, though.
18:06.46nesytI have one, and like it
18:12.59Q_ContinuumI would like a tablet device with two screens.  normal on one face, and e-ink on the opposite side.  Flipping cover protects the side you're not using (maybe it hinges out to cover both) - then I don't need a tablet AND ebook reader as discrete devices
18:13.07Q_Continuumand could say, take notes on the e-ink screen
18:13.20Q_Continuuminstead of the battery-hungry color LCD
18:14.08nesytthe paperwhite kindle is "touch" but i wouldn't take notes on it
18:15.57findlayoh yeah, well my tablet has stereo sound
18:21.22nesytmy tablet has a full keyboard and trackpad, and the keyboard folds up to protect the screen, and the screen is not touch sensitive at all.
18:22.13Q_ContinuumWell its the two screens or they figure out how to make them part of the same display and 'flip' them in some fashion.
18:23.07leviThe Galaxy Tab 10s are supposed to have a wacom-style digitizing touchscreen that works really well for drawing/note-taking with a stylus.
18:23.16spangbornThe Surface Pro has that.
18:23.23spangbornI played with it yesterday, pretty nifty.
18:23.35spangbornEven used the proximity stuff like Wacom does.
18:23.50spangbornYou can cursor by holding the stylus close to the screen without clicking.
18:23.51leviIs the Pro one of their ARM devices or x86?
18:23.57spangbornPro is X86
18:24.03Q_Continuum^
18:24.06spangbornI'm not sure if the RT has the wacom-type support
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19:49.08harleypigI wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. -Rita Rudner
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20:28.09youtahSuddenly I feel so small http://i.imgur.com/WdV2q.gif
20:31.40cwji feel like that is a made up definition
20:31.50cwjeven though i often enjoy the concept
20:33.16cwjhttp://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder vs https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/fr/sonder
20:35.20Q_Continuum(Before) Facebook: "No, we're not developing a Facebook Smartphone." (Now) Facebook: "We're releasing a home-screen/app-update that centers your Android experience around Facebook and its apps, and will come preinstalled on some phones."
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20:44.31youtahcwj I actually didn't even realize that's what they were trying to do. I was distracted by the pretty lights below
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21:15.55fadeinso, with Facebook Home, my Android phone becomes a value-stream for TWO privacy-hating companies instead of one?  SIGN ME UP!!!1
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21:18.45TeneI disagree that Google is privacy-hating.  Since I've been here, I've seen a huge amount of concern shown to user privacy.
21:19.47fadeinbut you gotta admit that the premise behind Glass is antagonistic to privacy
21:20.04TeneNo, not at all.
21:20.36TeneIf I want to record you without your consent, there are much easier, sneakier, and cheaper ways to do it for years.
21:22.31TeneNot sure what you're talking about here at all, fadein.
21:22.53fadeinso Glass will go to sleep when you, for example, walk into a public restroom?
21:23.22fadeinif I saw you walk into the restroom, holding up your smartphone as though you were recording the trip, i'd be creeped out
21:23.31fadeinand most folks would agree that the recorder was in the wrong
21:23.50TeneIf I wanted to record you without your consent in a public restroo, I'd just use a pinhole camera of the type that's been available for years.
21:24.02fadeinsure, that's possible and it happens
21:24.10fadeinbut people also accept that as wrong
21:24.39fadeinwhat happens when you do the same thing with Glass?  is it cool because it's not sneaky?
21:25.04TeneI must be missing something here.  What's different with Glass?
21:25.23fadeinwith the pinhole cam, at least the perptrator understands that he/she is violating peoples expectations of privacy
21:25.30fadeinGlass assumes that privacy does not exist
21:25.34fadeinthat's my problem
21:25.49Q_ContinuumSign you're gonna get scurred, when digging through scripts: '# need to permanently fix this someday and remove this from here...'
21:26.00TeneI don't see how that's the case at all.
21:26.16TeneHow does glass imply that assumption?
21:26.29fadeindoes it have a little red light on it that indicates that it is recording?
21:26.38TeneYeah.
21:26.45fadeinthat's good
21:27.04Q_ContinuumUntil 5 minutes after they hit public availability and that gets hacked out.
21:27.11Q_ContinuumSoftware or hardware, that shit's getting disabled.
21:27.25Q_ContinuumSomeone'll do it.
21:27.31Q_ContinuumNow how do you know?
21:27.39fadeinnevermind, then.  my fears are unfounded.  when I see the red lights I can just turn around and walk the other way
21:28.12fadeinafter all, my expectations of privacy are my own luddite problem
21:28.17fadeinthey don't belong in the brave new world
21:28.31Q_ContinuumFuck the brave new world.
21:28.33Q_ContinuumI want my privacy
21:28.42fadeinQ_Continuum: can't
21:28.46fadeinit's not monetizeable
21:28.55TeneQ_Continuum: people who want to privately record without consent have been able to do it for years; how is glass any different?  If I were the kind of person that would do that, I'd just buy a pinhole camera instead of buying and hacking glass.  Cheaper and less obvious.
21:29.25Q_ContinuumBecause now for $500 or $1000 it'll be automated
21:29.38Q_Continuumand Google'll be tracking faces and locations before long
21:30.42fadeinare Glass's recordings for private consumption?
21:30.51Q_ContinuumI've no idea.
21:30.52fadeinis anything that google touches for private consumption?
21:31.02TeneThey're only public if you make them public.
21:31.19fadeindo the videos stay on the headset until you publish them?
21:31.34fadeinsitting on a server somewhere != private
21:31.45fadeinunless it's a server I physically control
21:31.52TeneQ_Continuum: what kind of automation are you thinking of there that's worth $1k more than http://www.amazon.com/Original-Sphere-Pen-Camera-Silver-trimmed/dp/B004I5OWDE ?
21:31.58Q_ContinuumI'll be interested in a Linux-based variant built/programmed by a company whose goal ISN'T profiling us for marketing data.
21:32.10fadeinare the images/sounds processed in any way in the "cloud"?
21:32.23Q_ContinuumThe screen + overlay + camera + network stuff all in one.
21:32.32fadeinMy android phone has a voice-search feature that only works when I have WiFi
21:32.33Q_ContinuumBut I expect some of that to be off-glasses
21:32.45fadeinthat wouldn't be a problem if I wanted to do a web search,
21:32.50fadeinas a web search without WiFi is mmot
21:32.52fadeinmoot
21:32.53TeneSome of it's probably remote.  I don't know how much or which parts.
21:33.11smcquayQ_Continuum: how intrested are you? do you need some pull requests?
21:33.19fadeinbut when I want to find a location on the GPS map THAT IS SAVED ON MY SD CARD why can't I do that without WiFi?
21:33.19Q_ContinuumWell just chips and batteries take space, so I'm thinking a pocket or belt-mounted 'box' that wired or wirelessly runs to the glasses.
21:34.05Q_Continuumsmcquay: No, but when the $FED is leaning on everyone for backdoors and you're uploading serious video, some backend uploading faces and a little GeoLocation data and a timestamp is nothin'
21:34.32Q_ContinuumI just see the long-tail of Big Brother abusing it.
21:35.06Q_ContinuumVery cool functionality, but it'd be so easy for it to be mandated, or secretly requested and added.
21:35.13fadeinTene: if you, as a Google employee can't tell me which or how much of Glass-captured data is processed on the very device, what chance does a n00b stand of knowing what his cool new Glass is doing?
21:35.17Q_ContinuumOr even just on a per-users-device status
21:35.17fadeindoes he care?
21:35.38Q_Continuumsmcquay: I don't know enough to read the code, much less have the time to do it.
21:35.56Tenefadein: I can't tell you because I haven't done any research into it at all.
21:35.58fadeinCenturies-old expectations of privacy are overturned in the name of "it's fun"
21:36.06smcquayQ_Continuum: I agree; I'm startled that the community hasn't cobbled together something that's simple to use/install/hack on to replace traditional, centralized social media.
21:36.28Q_ContinuumGoogle does great things - I grant them that - but everyone forgets where they make their money.  They've (traditionally) been one of the better keepers of 'privacy' but sooner or later $$$ will (if it hasn't already) take over.
21:37.06Q_Continuumsmcquay: There's about 4, the main one IIRC looks similar to Google+ and was in dev before that came out.  (The one that was on kickstarter, umm...Diaspora)
21:37.34Q_ContinuumThere were a few rumblings I ran across of Google leapfrogging them and (maybe) stealing some ideas/layout off that and beating them to the punch
21:37.48Q_Continuum4-man dev team vs Google, see which one releases first ;-P
21:38.20smcquayQ_Continuum: heh, I forgot about them, and apparently I have an account there; who knew!
21:38.22Q_Continuum4 fresh college grads with no mind for security.
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21:39.35Q_ContinuumThen one of them offed himself >.< and now they opened up the code and handed it to the community so they could move onto "better things" - another image sharing site :-/
21:39.38Q_ContinuumJust what we need!
21:39.52Q_Continuumgrumbles
21:39.55Tenefadein: My main concerns about a panopticon are when it's controlled by a government or other single entity.  I'd be very unhappy with government-run private cameras everywhere, but I'm quite happy with the trend towards individual and personal video recording in public.
21:39.59Q_ContinuumWhy can't Stack B reach Stack A's repo?
21:40.20Q_Continuum>.< It broke the kickstart.
21:40.28Q_ContinuumExplains why no puppet.
21:41.10fadeinI disagree that recording onto a cloud-backed device is "personal"
21:41.22fadeinI agree that government-run surveilance is balls
21:41.54fadeinand I appreciate that your employer releases reports about government requests for data
21:42.52fadeinbut I find that Google's business model is fundamentally at odds with what I consider to be "user privacy"
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21:43.18Tenefadein: I wasn't referring only to Glass there, but the broader picture.  Phone videos and such.
21:43.45Q_ContinuumI agree with fadein
21:44.08Q_ContinuumNow, if I could buy/license/install my own copy of some of those services, I'd be all over that.
21:44.31Q_ContinuumOr like business/govt services, pay for it and be exempt from the profiling.
21:44.37Q_ContinuumGive me the option.
21:44.50TeneI think I'd have to hear a more-specific explanation of what you mean by "user privacy" there to have an opinion on it.
21:45.24Q_ContinuumNot building a profile of everything we look at, like, and talk about.
21:45.34fadeincan I request to have my profile deleted?
21:45.42fadeinis there an email address for that?
21:45.47Q_ContinuumI'd rather pay for things up front than wonder how sites fund themselves.  (Or, be more upfront about how they're funded)
21:48.04Q_ContinuumInstead of just "here, free!" and buried in the fine-print you have to figure out how they're funding all of this.
21:48.48Q_ContinuumMaybe I would find it a worthwhile service to pay up-front for, then (optionally) opt-in to extras - like relevant ads next to my email.
21:48.54fadeinI dislike how most sites/services default settings are as public as possible, and that you must take the initiative to opt-out
21:49.00Q_Continuum^
21:49.17fadein(disclaimer: my primary email account is @gmail.com)
21:49.29Q_ContinuumThose growing up today don't understand the concept of privacy - at least in any fashion those of us in previous generations view it.
21:49.35Q_ContinuumAnd 'Free' needs to be explained better.
21:49.45fadeinQ_Continuum: ++
21:49.55Q_ContinuumToo many folks don't question it.  If you're not paying $$$ for it, you're paying in some other medium of value.
21:50.01fadeinif you aren't paying for it, you are the product, not the customer
21:50.04Q_ContinuumOR you're not the customer - but the product.
21:50.13Tenefadein: it's right there on the main page when you click 'account' on a google page: https://www.google.com/settings/account?ref=home
21:50.17cwjactually codifying the concept of privacy seems pretty difficult to me
21:50.45Tene'close account and delete all services and information associated with it'
21:51.00cwjpanopticism is only one aspect
21:51.02fadeinTene: thanks
21:51.43Q_ContinuumI also heavily use gmail, but now that I have an internet connection at home that can actually host stuffs, working towards migrating to more self-hosted things in the long-term.
21:52.19Q_ContinuumAlso the push on Google-branded devices for Cloud-Only-Storage is more than annoying.
21:53.46Tenedisclaimer: I personally don't care about my own privacy at all, and I host my own mail.
21:54.10joshhi used to host all my own stuff and think it was fun, but these days im too lazy and busy
21:54.15joshhplus geeks don't even appreciate it anymore
21:55.36joshhlazy isn't the right word, i guess i don't want to spend my little free time messing around with computers for my own stuff, when hosting is so easy, cheap, reliable, etc
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23:44.52mheathHas anyone else had problems with Comcast/XFinity's new 'security/bot monitoring' thing?
23:45.36fadeinmheath: I had it tell me that I had a malware a week or so ago
23:46.03mheathMy dad has xfinity, and keeps getting this. Initially it was a "we suggest you take action now" warning he could close
23:46.15fadeinhttps://amibotted.comcast.net/
23:46.19mheathNow it's a "Fix this now!" thing you can't get rid of
23:46.41mheathfadein: wow, thank you
23:46.44mheathExactly what I needed
23:46.55fadeinI think they just want you to sign up for McAfee or Norton or whatever they're pushing this quarter
23:47.05mheathMy dad (though he's not super technical) spent like 3 hours on the phone with Comcast, and was never given that
23:47.08mheathYeah
23:47.34mheathThat was what they kept telling him. He woud tell them he had ran a thorough virus scan, with a competent virus scan program from a major company..
23:47.51mheathThey would respond and tell him that must just mean that program sucks
23:48.02mheathand the only support they can provide is to charge him for their program, if he wants his internet connection back
23:48.15fadeinwait, what?
23:48.24fadeinthey disconnected him?
23:48.30mheathKind of.
23:48.45mheathIt hijacks non-secure HTTP connections, and covers up the webpage with a message from Comcast.
23:48.54mheathInitially it had an "X" you could click on to close it
23:49.23mheathNow, it basically says that sine he hasn't fixed the problem after previous warnings, he can't close it until the problem is resolved
23:49.48mheathHe's not 'disconnected'....It doesn't effect HTTPs, obviously, and theres other ways around it. It even seems to show up and effect different computers/OSs/Operating Systems differently
23:51.03fadeinthat would be a solution to botnets ... if it was more helpful in assisting you to fix the problem
23:51.19mheathYeah, no kidding
23:51.41mheathThat website isn't much more helpful, either. It gives a name of the 'bot'...
23:51.48mheathBut its a name that has 0 results on a google search
23:51.57fadeinthat's what I got
23:52.02mheathAnd it has no other details
23:52.02fadeinwhich one was it...
23:52.20mheath"Adware_CriminalFinancial_SProtector"
23:52.21fadeinumbraloader_generic
23:52.50mheathI would have thought if this was a legitimate, accepted security threat, someone on the entire internet other than Comcast would know about it.
23:53.15fadeinI was hoping for a malware encyclopedia - I remember a virus scanner from the 90's that had a description for each virus it recognized
23:53.28fadeinmaybe that's too much work for people to keep up with
23:53.34mheathTheres entire sites that are dedicated to that now
23:53.43fadeinbut I wanted to know what sorts of things I could to do look for it other than "install a virus scanner"
23:53.59mheathSeveral of the big Virus scanner and Virus-interested companies dedicate huge resources to publishing thorough details about all the known threats in the wild
23:54.01fadeinthere may be entire sites, but none that I could find that could tell me much about what umbraloader does
23:54.23fadeinfrom what I gathered, it is some scriptkiddie tool that you use to build a malware package
23:54.35mheathWell, thats my point. If the name Comcast gives literally doesn't show up ANYWHERE on the internet....
23:55.02mheathChances are it's either a wrong/made up/etc name, or its status as a 'virus' is not accepted by the entire industry

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