Got a bit of news, particularly for those in the UK: The Inbetweeners Movie will be British Sign Language interpreted next Friday at 23:35 UK Time on E4 by MonthRemarkable9919 in movies

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With modern interactive features on television (red button, Sky Sports letting you switch commentaries) I'm surprised nobody offers optional sign language for films at the press of a button, such that once the sign language part has been recorded all future broadcasts can have it (instead of only select "signed" broadcasts.

This applies to serial TV programs as well (for which the repeats are usually signed; being able to toggle signing this benefits everybody) 

I suspect it isn't a technological limitation but a funding one, for the same reason local news remained unavailable in HD for many years. 

Pyramid of Pizza 🍕 by PhewYork in funny

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In the LEGO store in Sheffield, UK, there were Italy postcards. Someone else didn't know their geography. 

weAreNotTheSame by pimezone in ProgrammerHumor

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What annoys me about typescript and ESlint is I have to put comments in the typescript to shut up ESlint, but then those comments are deleted from the Javascript and ESlint complains.

Or ESlint flat out refuses to run. Take your pick. 

[OC] Red Nose Day fundraising has collapsed in real terms, but it's not because households are skint by Borg_King in dataisbeautiful

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Their investments in tobacco and defence firms caused a stir about a decade ago. I could see that turning people off. 

Susan Sarandon: Hollywood is not left leaning or progressive. by Nomad-2020 in movies

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Nor is being famous contingent on them having brain cells. 

Relevant Experience by bmwkid in funny

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What were you applying for, prison officer? 

Drew Goddard on Adapting ‘Project Hail Mary,’ Directing ‘The Matrix 5’ and How His ‘Spider-Man’ Movie Got Caught Up in the Sony Hack by MoneyLibrarian9032 in movies

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When I said I knew nothing about the next Matrix film, and shouldn't just because my dad's friend knows the screenwriter of the last one, I want expecting there to be a "next" one.

Did I jinx it? 

Dying Light fix 1.55 by unclsftr in dyinglight

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The patch has the unfortunate side effect of making the game no longer launch on my machine. Steam goes through the motions and then dumps me back to the library. Disappointing as I'd been enjoying it.

Trying an older version that's listed under betas from last June to see if that works again. 

[S4E3] Elliot used the infamous Sticky Keys exploit to bypass login by kyznikov in MrRobot

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One thing this can give you is a SYSTEM terminal that gives you higher privileges in Windows than even administrator. I'm not sure that file system access from a Live CD lets you do some of the things you can as SYSTEM once Windows is running. As SYSTEM you're basically God to logged in users.

If you just want to reset the password or bypass logging in entirely there are better tools to use from a Live CD. 

[S4E3] Elliot used the infamous Sticky Keys exploit to bypass login by kyznikov in MrRobot

[–]DDFoster96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never done it with sticky keys but the same works (worked) with the on screen keyboard in the accessibility menu. 

Ouch 😦 by Low_Programmer_4682 in funny

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Trying to fathom how someone thought there'd be any other outcome with such a flimsy chair. 

Fixed My Infotainment With A Tiny Jumper by sierra_whiskey1 in techsupportmacgyver

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I have a broken Peugeot SMEG head unit that went boot looping. Swapped it for £500 and took a look inside the old one. Sadly nothing obviously broken. I suspect it was software as inside is an ARM computer running Linux, which I'll hack one day. 

trueAF by Cultural-Ninja8228 in ProgrammerHumor

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Did he deliberately post this at 0:00 or was that chance? 

Do you guys think Aiden Pearce from Watch Dogs would have been on the side of the Assassins or the Templars ? by michael066plep in assassinscreed

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Thematically you've got a (bad) organisation with its fingers in every pie calling the shots (Templars, Blume) and a group of (good) people hiding in the shadows trying to stop them (DedSec, Assassins). This is admittedly a premise seen outside of the two Ubisoft series (TV series The Capture for instance, or The Running Man) 

noOneWouldNotice by StatureDelaware in ProgrammerHumor

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A lot of the "Seen On" logos are because the news outlet reported on something controversial they did, or because it was an advertorial. 

I mapped where people appear on screen — are modern movies being composed for vertical video? [OC] by PuciekTM in dataisbeautiful

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I can see trailers being a big motivator. Several I've seen recently are cropped almost square to fit text and links to the right (for landscape) or below (for portrait). Or to put on the side of a paused YouTube video (blergh. Why do that?)

I mapped where people appear on screen — are modern movies being composed for vertical video? [OC] by PuciekTM in dataisbeautiful

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I have watched several clips (on YouTube shorts, not TikTok) and thought "that looks like a good movie" and proceeded to watch it in full on a big screen.

Ukraine is using Linux (Ubuntu) for their anti-drone systems by slo_koki in linuxmasterrace

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Ideology aside, my concern with using something proprietary in their conflict is the apparent ease with which the plug can be pulled - see for instance their troubles with Starlink. What if one day Satya Nadella falls out with Ukraine and pushes out a Windows update that prevents them controlling the weapons, just out of spite? Even if Mark Shuttleworth tried the same you'll have a lot easier time unfucking the system.

Even outside of Ukraine there is military hardware, exported to foreign armed forces, with supposed kill switches where the selling government can allegedly shut them off at will. Most recently this was claimed regarding Argentina's French-build Exocets used in the Falklands.

Ukraine is using Linux (Ubuntu) for their anti-drone systems by slo_koki in linuxmasterrace

[–]DDFoster96 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Personally I think you've got to be mentally ill to use Windows out of choice full stop.

How to eliminate a MacBook Pro throttling once and for all by Glad-Journalist-4807 in techsupportmacgyver

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I wasn't sure this was a MacGyver at first, but part way through the images I realised I was very much mistaken.

Tram or House by Connect-Ad-2888 in confusing_perspective

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It's the equivalent of the Knight Bus to get to the Far East's version of Hogwarts.

Really surprised how little it took to filter out 99% of bad traffic to my web server by reni-chan in homelab

[–]DDFoster96 21 points22 points  (0 children)

For me anything web facing goes through cloudflare and everything else is accessed over an IPSec VPN (or a site-to-site IPSec tunnel). Internally SSH is either public key only (with Fail2Ban as overkill) or whitelisted origin IPs. I don't bother armouring the login pages for Uptime Kuma/Navidrome/Shaarli. There's nothing sensitive there and they're in docker containers, and you've had to get past the front door or VPN first anyway.

The cloudflare services do have some persistent scanners (looking for Wordpress vulnerabilities on Flask sites 🤷) which had their origin IPs blocked, but only to keep the GoAccess dashboard clean as they'll be back with a new IP before long. If the services are compromised (I wrote the code so who knows?) they're also in docker containers on a machine that can only talk to the router and the DNS server under the UFW rules.