So a while ago, SmithJrBlaquaLuigi tried to bargain for an unban. As you guess, he went nowhere, but his attempt is still worth mentioning.

The gist of it was "I know your address, if you don't unban me I will tell you and you will be shocked to death". In itself, it was pretty ridiculous, as pretty much anything he says, but he actually had something. The attack was incredibly clever given his intelligence (or lack thereof).

He took one of my pictures, grabbed the EXIF metadata, and from there, got a guessed address that he thought was mine. The address was relatively close, but not even in the same street. My phone is always in imprecise power-saving GPS mode, so the coordinates aren't precise enough to find the address.


Regardless, this is a very important point, especially within today's increasing culture of making everything public and transmitting all sorts of data behind users' backs.

When you take a picture with your phone, a bunch of data are embedded in it (the EXIF metadata), among which are GPS coordinates.

It's a good idea to strip EXIF metadata from JPEGs as much as possible. It's also a good idea to disable the GPS on your phone entirely, if you don't care about things like weather forecasts.


So, the uploader update.

When you upload a JPEG, the uploader now automatically strips EXIF metadata. Similarly, all the existing JPEG files have been stripped.

Let me know if this goes wrong somehow.

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and the possibility that the data are sold to advertisers for the sake of "intelligent" targeted advertising is, sadly, the best one

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Thanks


Speaking of which, let me tell you peeps how that shit went.

The training took place in a vacation center with about a dozen people, it was fairly cool. I thought it would be the usual shit about why being a good citizen and voting is important and democracy blahblahblah, but it was actually fun, with little games we played together.

Second day was about improving our resumes, motivational letters etc... to get more chances at job interviews. And an evening stroll on the beach.

Third day was about how to rescue people who are choking or inconscious or shitting themselves in whatever way. Always useful.

All was good! Except heating I'd say, was a bit cold.


The next week I began the actual job. It's fairly cool too! There's a good ambiance. I like it.


Moving out of the shithole is one of the things I regret the least.

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Atleast you have a convenient weather app. The one on my phone refuses to display anything when the GPS is disabled. It seems I can make it use a set location instead of using the GPS, but (of course) no way to enter anything besides a few presets.

I hate this kind of blackmailing from a program. No GPS tracking? You ain't getting no weather info, sucker! I damn well could give you info for a given town, but I won't, because fuck you!

And who knows if disabling the GPS actually does that and doesn't just "pretend it's disabled"?

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hello doctor, something on my body hurts. please heal me.

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and I reply to his lies with the following IRC query log, pulled straight from my client

read it, it's a fun ride

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We had a thread for happy birthdays. I don't quite remember why it was closed, but eh, we can always try again.

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you can see the positive side of it: it does leave you a lot of room for improvement

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welcome aboard, sir

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yeah, was something like that, there were people always posting the same canned message and sometimes going as far as checking the calendar to never miss an opportunity to post, even though there's no real point to posting for someone who's gone

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what

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can you please stop making a billion threads

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Posted by Hiccup

When you are working on graphics, could you add a "Free Look" feature - like in dolphin? It'd also be good if it worked with 2D graphics as well as 3D.

free look could be fun to add yeah, but not on the super-priority list atm


regardless, we're getting ready for a release. the main TODO items left are:
* maybe make timers suck less.
* make a UI.

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Posted by LeftyGreenMario

I remember when Baby Luigi made a thread on storms back at RVL days.

wasn't that me?


hey, thunderstorms can have pretty bad effects on servers

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siiiiiiiiigh

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the header is added before your post, the signature is added after.

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