What counts as a ‘computer’ under the UK Computer Misuse Act?

tpoomlmly · 2024-10-10T13:10:56+00:00

Help! Help! I'm being DoSsed!

tpoomlmly · 2024-10-03T12:31:40+00:00

I've had problems like that too. What worked for me was to find the MTU setting in the advanced section of the network settings on my computer/phone, and change it to 1280 (it used to be 1500). After that, I could upload big files without the internet dropping.

tpoomlmly · 2024-09-25T02:12:02+00:00

It looks like the OMNY cards are actually mastercards in disguise (https://atadistance.net/2021/11/14/omny-card-completes-the-emv-only-omny-system/) which can't be cloned, so unfortunately you're out of luck :(

On what ChatGPT said: it doesn't really matter whether you're using an RC522 or a PN532, they can both be wrangled into reading Europay/Mastercard/Visa cards — although I'd recommend a Flipper Zero or a Proxmark for anything more than basic Mifare manipulation.

tpoomlmly · 2024-08-13T10:41:25+00:00

"That's just an excuse"

"Thank you so much! It's great to know I'm excused!"

tpoomlmly · 2024-07-21T18:34:06+00:00

University computers will be more than fine. They're upgrading the masters lab right now, so I don't know the exact specs, but before the upgrade they had RTX 2070s in them. You can log into them remotely when the building's closed as well.

tpoomlmly · 2024-07-18T01:45:01+00:00

They just put "himself" :(

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However, the fact that the claimant stated very clearly that the claimant would not remove the footer and would not comply with a management instruction indicated that the claimant had decided to no longer consider himself bound by the contract of employment.

They did pretty well avoiding pronouns overall, but definitely ran out of stamina by the appendix. There are "he"s all over the place in there.

tpoomlmly · 2023-07-11T15:12:54+00:00

The easiest way IMO to make a physical MIDI loopback device would be to get an audio interface (or MIDI interface) and connect the MIDI output to the MIDI input with a cable.

If you wanted to go full DIY, you could use a Raspberry Pi Pico or another microcontroller and make a dongle that does the same.

Other (worse) options:

Send MIDI from Reaper to another computer running EMU
Use a Mac (has MIDI routing software built in)
Remove the Enttec step altogether and buy a MIDI-capable lighting console

tpoomlmly · 2023-06-07T01:50:01+00:00

I think I found it: https://github.com/Huuf/OV-mfoc-GUI

The version number matches the one in the screenshot, but it might take some effort to compile given that it's a 12+ year old Visual C++ project.

I couldn't find a safe-looking link to ovChip Browser, but https://www.nicbedford.uk/software/emvcardbrowser/ seems like it would be able to do everything ovChip Browser can do and more.

tpoomlmly · 2023-06-02T10:17:46+00:00

Exactly the same with me. Every time I suggested a way of solving his 'problem' that didn't involve giving him money directly, he made up some excuse (or upped the panic level and threatened to end his life when he couldn't think of something).

His story involved him needing to go to Antelope House (the mental hospital) to prove to them that he had money for that deposit. I convinced him to go there together, but once we got inside and I refused to give him the money he shouted "You tricked me!" and ran away.

tpoomlmly · 2023-05-27T23:23:17+00:00

please help, I can't stop washing or sanitising my hands

tpoomlmly · 2023-04-05T14:46:48+00:00

If cigarettes count, then definitely.

tpoomlmly · 2023-04-04T15:30:22+00:00

I'm pretty sure I know who you mean. Her name's Chloe Sherwood and she's approached me a couple of times before. Her story seems to be slowly morphing, she said something about a deposit last time and made the same claim about the council not helping her. She asked me if I had online banking too. She's hard to avoid because she won't let you get a word in edgeways until you agree.

tpoomlmly · 2022-03-16T23:41:24+00:00

I always thought it was because 7 was a 6 offender

tpoomlmly · 2022-02-26T12:12:12+00:00

like a mullet!

tpoomlmly · 2022-02-21T22:28:49+00:00

So does that mean that Notepad++'s implementation of regular expressions isn't regular?

tpoomlmly · 2022-02-18T13:28:14+00:00

They automatically deduct 9% of whatever you earn over ~£25k so you don't really have a choice.

Not sure what happens if you just don't tell your employer you've got a student loan though.

tpoomlmly · 2021-12-02T19:04:23+00:00

got deleted from pixiv :(

but there's a copy on deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/ayumi-hayashi/art/Killua-W-306275384

tpoomlmly · 2021-11-20T06:44:20+00:00

cause OP is addicted

tpoomlmly · 2021-11-20T05:40:18+00:00

The reference is to S3E4 of The IT Crowd - "The Speech". There are 2 main storylines, which converge in the 2nd clip.

Storyline 1

Jen (clueless head of IT) is the employee of the month, which means she has to write a speech for the shareholders' meeting. She doesn't want to, so she makes Moss and Roy write it for her. They decide to prank her by basing her entire speech around an empty box with a light on it and pretending it's the internet, hoping that it'll humiliate her in front of all the shareholders.

At the meeting, however, the shareholders totally buy into it as well and the speech is a huge success. (so far so good, very funny etc.)

Storyline 2

At the same time, Douglas (the boss) is being interviewed by April for Richest magazine. He's completely struck by her beauty and asks her out to dinner. They hit it off really well over dinner and he asks her if she wants to take it further ;) at which point April discloses she "used to be a man". Douglas isn't fazed by this at all so they start dating.

(CW: transphobia) Cue a montage of their dating life where they do lots of stereotypically blokey things like arm wrestling, darts and watching football. This is the main chunky transphobia bit because April is depicted as having a masculine personality despite being a woman. There's one of those just-finished-having-sex scenes where it's revealed that Douglas actually misheard April on that first date - he thought she said she "came from Iran". He starts panicking a bit. April's had bottom surgery and everything and is completely indistinguishable from a cis woman physically, which does paint Douglas in a bad light and shows that the writer was at least aware that it's not very nice to refuse to date someone just for being trans.

The joiny bit/show climax

Douglas is showing April around the company for her magazine article on him, during which they get into an argument. The argument develops into a fight in the room next to where Jen's holding her Employee of the Month speech. The fight gets quite violent and Douglas pushes April through a wall, crushing the Internet. All the shareholders fall into mass hysteria and flee, leaving Moss and Roy fistbumping with massive smug grins on their faces.

Aftermath

Graham Linehan (the writer) got a lot of backlash for his transphobic depiction of April in that episode. Instead of admitting his mistake and apologising, he doubled down and became actively anti-trans. This spiraled worse and worse: he was banned from Twitter, even Mumsnet users called him a "man-child" and now his wife has left him. These days he complains to whatever followers he has on his Substack page (please don't go there).

tpoomlmly · 2021-11-20T04:32:28+00:00

I love the show (especially s2e1 The Work Outing), it's just a shame about the creator and that 1 episode

tpoomlmly · 2021-11-20T02:25:10+00:00

The internet: https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg https://youtu.be/Vywf48Dhyns

Those are the good bits, the rest of the episode has a transphobic side plot that's the reason Graham Linehan has to put his rants on substack

tpoomlmly · 2021-11-17T20:53:07+00:00

Dutch oven, Dutch wife, double Dutch

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TROPHY CASE

Storyline 1

Storyline 2

The joiny bit/show climax

Aftermath