offtopic_software

[vocal skiff]

I'd never used that before

Not a folder, but a taskbar within a task bar

[boreal urchin]

Wat?!

What's that?!

[boreal urchin]

Not sure if I'd seen that before...

How?!

[vocal skiff]

Right click → Symbolleisten →

I am not really sure it's useful but at least I now know what it is 😄

They dropped that in win 11 though. Would have actually been nice to expand it with cmd or windows terminal etc

[open hedge]

Last I used that was in windows XP 😄

It was a cool thing when I was like.. 12

[vocal skiff]

Yeah, I don't think it's useful

going WIN + E → quick access is faster

or directly pinning the folder

Perhaps it's good they dropped it 😄

btw. I just discovered recently that "Opening Files with one click" is actually much nicer than double clicking 😄

[warped spire]

mmm, i just pin applications to taskbar and favorite files i often access, or pin the files on file explorer on the task bar

i really like that feature

im excited to test out w11

[vocal skiff]

Same.

I recently tried to add .sqf and .ext to the context menu → new, but it seems that windows doesn't like that =/

[warped spire]

the greatest downfall of current windows, don't have full control :(

all I want is the access to break all the things accidentally

[vocal skiff]

Just wipe all entries with regEdit 😄

[tribal mesa]

nope, windows will not give away their privilege to break your things without asking 🙂

[white knot]

I wonder whether UE5 and such technologies will be so much more advanced at some point that Enfusion too becomes essentially deprecated before it has reached even v1.0

If I had more resources, I'd seriously consider making an Arma-like game on UE5 with its new streaming system (--> huge maps) and other cool stuff

[tribal mesa]

it would be "the next Arma killer" number 73156 that never sees light of day 😄 If it was so easy, someone would have already done it.

[white knot]

You can't predict the future by just looking at the past.

What I was referring to is that technologies like UE5 seem to be developing at much, much faster rate than e.g. Enfusion. Then we do the math and come to conclusion that the extra possibilities offered by UE5 might pass its limitations in terms of technical value at some point, making UE5/UEX better option for even an exceptional game like Arma

I consider the new map/terrain streaming system of UE5 to basically destroy one of the last lines of defense that Arma series has had against possible competitors

Squad already does infantry fighting hugely better than Arma, but the vehicles and the maps aren't on equal level in quality - yet. The performance is also generally excellent

Just need to perfect the vehicle gameplay and add those huge maps achieved with the new streaming technology. And boom, there we have our Arma killer

E.g. even I - despite of being a hardcore Arma fan - don't really play Arma anymore. If I want to play FPS, I always open Squad

[nimble knot]

And play limited mods/missions types.
In Arma when you're bored, you simply switch to another server with another game mod.
In other games, you have to switch to another game

And there us no editor in other games to invent to infinite new game mods and do whaever you want - you have to stick to few game mods available and to few maps and factions and armament available, unlike in Arma, where you can make new maps, factions, armaments YOURSELF

[white knot]

Yes, that wasn't my point though

[nimble knot]

I know

[supple nymph]

ahem

You guys do know that you can both be correct, right? 😉

[nimble knot]

But this is what still compensates for outdated graphics and shitty netcode, hits registration and physics and sound

If it wasn't for the editor and mods, Arma would already have lost to some other games

Considering all the problems Arma has

[white knot]

And what happens when those other games add an editor and proper scripting language? 😛

[nimble knot]

Lets see this being done

[regal crypt]

Everything I've seen of Squad is it's full of elitist knobs, way way more than Arma. It's most likely one of the reasons it has low player numbers

[open hedge]

https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/threads
Discord is adding "Threads" feature... oof

I suppose this is gonna work like in slack

[opal niche]

well thats gonna be annoying

inb4 threads are discord nitro only

[tribal mesa]

looks at channel list... imagine each channel had threads too... oh dear god...

[opal niche]

yeah its gonna suck

[tribal mesa]

discord: you know what would be a great idea? Giving spam bots more real estate to spam in 🙂

[open hedge]

But it looks like server owners can give people permission to create threads. So we just won't

[opal niche]

Ooh thats good

[tribal mesa]

if there was a personal sticky board in discord with usefull messages that you could drag and drop for personal safe keeping - that i would find neat. But threads in public spaces? hm... eh... Its hard enough to demand disciplined use of the channels xD

[opal niche]

Ye

and from my experience with slack, it just turns into a mess of people both using threads and not using them

and usually threads also suck to navigate a lot more than a normal chat

[tribal mesa]

Want to become an environment artistè , but you only have paint.exe skills?
Nvidia has you covered
https://youtu.be/mlZYRwJ2oJg

[opal niche]

huh, fancy

[tribal mesa]

only on RTX GPU ... :[

[vocal skiff]

Insane

[boreal urchin]

omg windows 10 is so retarded
it uses a locked CPU frequency when I log on
even tho my power plan specifically says use variable frequency

the only way to fix it is to change plans

I made a task to change the power plan to a temp one at log on, and then another task to switch to the main one 30s after log on.

Is that bad? does anyone know a better way?

wait nvm. it still gets bugged after a while and doesn't change the frequency. wtf

[vocal skiff]

Never had any issues with that.

[boreal urchin]

https://www.windowscentral.com/yes-sideload-android-apk-windows-11
wait really?!

[vocal skiff]

yes

[blissful pewter]

Note that if you plug in a laptop to an ac power source it might do this

Based on how the manufacturer switches the powerplans

Ive seen lots of laptops do this

Dell specifically, its how dell or any other manufacturer has it setup with their own way of powerplan switching in windows

[boreal urchin]

My problem is that the frequency is not the max (turbo) frequency. It's not even the base frequency
It just gets locked on some frequency (probably the last frequency) after a while

I'll investigate this later.

[blissful pewter]

Yeah we had this at work as well

i know what you mean

At work it was because of using ac adapters that were not suited for the power draw by the laptop

then it just locks the frequency

[boreal urchin]

nope that's not it.

1. I use the original adapter
2. It can draw enough power to reach the turbo frequency if I change the power plan and put it on Best Performance
   but I don't want it to use the max frequency all the time. only when I need it. but after a while something goes wrong and the frequency stops updating.
   so it's either a driver bug or windows bug

[formal needle]

I'd probably use Intel XTU to monitor what's up with the CPU

if you have an intel device of course

[tribal mesa]

i would go for a hardware solution...
solder potentiometer to cpu power supply, turn down the voltage if you want quiet, turn to eleven if you want power!11

[boreal urchin]

I don't see my CPU on its list

[formal needle]

Me too although I am totally sure it worked for my CPU previously.

anyway you can use it for monitoring temperature and cpu frequency

[boreal urchin]

wait speaking of intel...I just thought of something...

[formal needle]

ah crap, now I can't undervolt my CPU any more:
https://securityboulevard.com/2019/12/plundervolt-a-new-intel-processor-undervolting-vulnerability/
what a stupidity 🤦‍♂️

[boreal urchin]

huh. looks like intel CPPC was on when it was plugged in

I disabled it

let's see if it stops updating again after a few minutes.

[formal needle]

I am going through a windows reinstall. I wonder in what year we will have windows automatically install correct drivers for hardware

[formal needle]

A nice addon for Firefox:
Tree Style Tab
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
Lists your tabs in a side bar in a tree view, so links opened from a page are listed as under that page.

[open hedge]

omg that would be such a mess 😄
I gotta try that

[viral mango]

That is magestic! Not sure how many times I moved from page to page and lost where I started

[vocal skiff]

Got Vertical Tabs in Edge for some time now. Pretty useful

[tribal mesa]

i need to make a habit of just having less tabs open... putting tabs im more containes wont help me there

[viral mango]

Kinda dislike the lack of horizontal screen real-estate tho...

[vocal skiff]

Buy a bigger screen🤣

[viral mango]

Same issue different aspect ratio
💩

[vocal skiff]

But a wider screen then 😛

[tribal mesa]

i extended my space for tabs by putting a monitor left and right of the current... now of course i wont find a tab easily between all the browser window, so instead of looking for the tab among 3 windows and hundreds of tabs, i google for the page...

[formal needle]

Hmm that's a good idea for a browser addon, search bar for the tab list

[tribal mesa]

just having less tabs seems like a more practical way... it just requires one to be .. tidy. Not my strong suit

[open hedge]

Who needs tidy if you can also just master the chaos

[vocal skiff]

Less tabs means there is no satisfaction when cleaning it all up by clicking "Close all Tabs to the right" 😄

[tribal mesa]

oh no, but there could be one treasure you might lose

[tribal mesa]

... i started chrome on a blank tab and it immediately starts using 40-100% of my CPU (i7 - 9700K)... and not just for a few seconds, it keeps going. wtf is it doing?

apparently a so called "software reporting tool" started investigating my PC ... despicable

[formal needle]

haha yes

I deinstalled chrome when I figured same thing

It was even worse, I had a pretty slow SSD and chrome was using all SSD's bandwidth to scan my whole C drive

so my whole PC was totally ded

Google must know that no software interrupts the surfing experience

ironically it interrupts the surfing experience itself

[tribal mesa]

needed chrome for a netflix group watch plugin... only exception i have to use chrome for

[faint notch]

Thats chrome scanning every file on your pc for maliciousness,. the only way around it is to disable the program from running completely,. if you delete it, chrome will reinstall it.

that maliciousness, is software that may not work properly with chrome itself

this guide will completely nuke it from functioning - https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/disable-software-reporter-tool.html

[serene sorrel]

I suggest dumping chrome anyay, because of their upcoming tracking updates which you can not even opt out. I think Edge is the better option atm of you want basically the same browser but not as greedy

[tribal mesa]

yeah i nuked chrome now. Whats that about the tracking?

[vocal skiff]

Using Edge ever since it has been released. Super satisfied with it!

[faint notch]

Microsoft curates the trackers / 3rd party cookies they allow in Edge, while its better than Chrome, they aren't an innocent party either.

[serene sorrel]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/07/03/stop-using-google-chrome-on-your-iphone-android-mac-and-pc-after-privacy-backlash/

I wanted to switch to Brave a while ago, but they did an Oopsie with injecting brave tracking and referrals without telling the users

[faint notch]

I'll stick with Firefox 🙂

[open hedge]

because of their upcoming tracking updates which you can not even opt out.
I read nothing about any sort of new tracking updates that you cannot opt out and that would make the browser so much worse that you want to switch away from it?

All google said is that what they planned to do, they couldn't manage in time and are now delaying onto a new date.

Forbes talks about a idea that google has, being bad for other advertisers while not harming google.

Yes business wise thats shit, but I don't see why a user would care that facebook now cannot track them anymore, but google still can

the same google who already has all your emails and phone tracking data and youtube history anyway... so why care that they can also show you targeted ads which you ad-block anyway

The problem that chrome allows third party cookies is not new.
Safari blocked it in 2017, Firefox in 2019, Chrome delayed it to 2022.
But thats not really anything new

And if you want them off, you can just turn them off in the options. Don't see an issue with that

[serene sorrel]

Oh I understood that the tracking ID was forced onto me.

[regal crypt]

I've been using FF for so long I can't even remember what version I started with lol. Think it might have been v1.0... solved so many issues at the time as IE was awful

[serene sorrel]

I don't really understand why FF has such a low marketshare. If something did not work in other browsers, FF always did the trick for me. But I don't like its current design and layouting. I am glad Edge is doing fine . Finally a pre-installed piece of software that I don't have to replace.

[tribal mesa]

firefox became aweful/suspect the moment it tried to become chrome... imo. Switched to a fork

[nocturne frigate]

You could also try chromium instead of chrome

[tribal mesa]

too much Cr in it

[nocturne frigate]

If you're able to, you could convince your colleagues to use metastream instead of the chrome only Netflix watching extension

it is cross compatible, open source, but buggy when changing videos

[faint notch]

Chrome delayed it to 2022
They actually delayed it till at least 2022, setting no firm deadline for having 3rd party cookies blocked, by which time google will have invented another method they can force upon users to sustain their main stream of revenue, advertising.

[open hedge]

I use TONS of google services, and if they make the money with Ads that I don't care about and don't look at, instead of billing me. Then I'm more than happy with that

[boreal urchin]

Doesn't change the fact that chrome is trash

[opal niche]

tbh with some extra extensions, chrome works pretty well for me

and the majority of extensions is to cover edge cases

like something being super quiet, or chrome crashing without being able to save the open tabs

[nimble knot]

Using Firefox since 2004-2005 )

[open hedge]

I think its that firefox tree tabs extension thing.
When I open link in new tab with middle click, it doesn't open in next tab, it jumps like 10 tabs to the right and opens it there

Yes its that tab thing.

If you open new tab, it puts it at the end of the current tree item.
So if you already opened 3 tabs from current tab, and open a new one it doesn't go into the next slot but the last slot instead.
Absolute showstopper

AH! fixable!
Dang that thing has lots of options

[formal needle]

Oh that's nice, it annoyed me a bit as well

More the fact that it jumped around visually that it got opened at an unusual place

[cosmic monolith]

seems another OSS bites the dust https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/04/open-source-audacity-deemed-spyware-over-data-collection-changes

[faint notch]

it's a shame whats happening to Audacity, as a FOSS project it should never be used to harvest user data for any reason, this is under the guise of Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any) and is baseless, I'd hedge a bet on them wanting to track that data for monetisation or future asset sale in regard to Audacity itself, user-data harvesting is a revenue stream these days after all.

[cosmic monolith]

ain't first ain't last, let's hope someone fork it and name that LibreAudio and get some new dev team together la LibreOffice

[rustic shale]

or use Reaper...

[cosmic monolith]

another cloud service to trust , right ? https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/214781504184778752/861993834506092554/Screenshot_20210706-113410_Outlook.jpg , https://www.itnews.com.au/news/linkedin-denies-data-breach-with-700-million-records-566707

[vocal skiff]

Question is, were these public information?

Because other than "Social media usernames" (which are probably not the ones you use to log in) these information are probably set to public for most ppl.

[cosmic monolith]

no as that would be no news

[white knot]

Installing Windows 11 now

[unkempt spoke]

well everything leaked were info visible to anybody registered in LinkedIn. People tend to set their data visibility to contacts of your contacts so it's basically public

[viral mango]

Firefox did so many things wrong over time including but not limited to closing their threat management team

Literally the best thing one can do is just switch to a chromium based browser security wise

[surreal topaz]

Do you guys have any idea how I can make a batch file run a .exe on multiple files?

[boreal urchin]

you can use the for loop in CMD. for example:

FOR /F "tokens=1* delims=. " %%A in ('dir /b *.png') do (

if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto err
)

this is an example of what I use to batch convert pngs to paas:

@echo off
MD converted
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims=. " %%A in ('dir /b *.png') do (
"E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3 Tools\ImageToPAA\ImageToPAA" %%A.png converted\%%A.paa
 if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto err
)

[surreal topaz]

Hmmm, alrighty thank you

For example how does bankrev extract these mass amounts of pbos?

Like what would a bat look like for that?

[boreal urchin]

I haven't used bankrev, but you can try:

@echo off
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims=. " %%A in ('dir /b *.pbo') do (
"E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3 Tools\bankrev\bankrev" %%A.pbo
 if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto err
)

change E:\Steam to your own steam path
I don't know if it works at all, because I'm not familiar with bankrev command line params

ok figured it out

fixed

[surreal topaz]

Hm, just puts my cursor into the windows loading symbol, nothing in CMD though

[boreal urchin]

did you use your own Arma 3 Tools path?

[surreal topaz]

Yeah I did

[boreal urchin]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I've tested it and it works

have you run Arma 3 Tools and accepted the EULA?

[surreal topaz]

Hmmm, strange alrighty Ill see what I can do and yes I have

[boreal urchin]

@surreal topaz are you using it in a protected folder?

like C:\program files?

[surreal topaz]

Ah I got it, just mixed my typing up 🤦‍♂️

Thank you aha

[open hedge]

https://twitter.com/_markel___/status/1412812696278417412?s=19

Mark Ermolov (@_markel___)

Here're all the technical details of the undocumented x86 instructions which we (+@h0t_max and @_Dmit) found:
https://t.co/qtXtwenJxP

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[cosmic monolith]

oh the undocumented x86 strikes again 😁 trip down memory lane to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajccZ7LdvoQ

[warped spire]

his is my absolute favorite defcon/blackhat presentation. he speaks clearly, had great examples, and covers a really interesting thing.

has some excellent points

[opal niche]

👀
https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1412852260908974080?s=19

Pavel Djundik ( @thexpaw)
Valve is adding some new hardware reservation options, wonder if that's for new hardware.
They will be able to do reservation deposits and limit reservations to accounts in good standing and accounts that aren't too new.

[tribal mesa]

Yesterday one of our IT guys at the company misclicked one checkbox when working on windows policies. And it caused every user of the company world wide to be locked out of every application. If you restarted your PC too soon after rights had been removed, the PC couldnt even boot to logon screen (because the required rights wheren't given...
4h company wide downtime (and everyone in home office had to come in to get the laptops fixed)
😄

[vocal skiff]

uhhh

That's what I call having a bad day

[tribal mesa]

seems they also have did some work on making it function with 3D world inputs (mine craft style input -> much more realistically looking but somehow really weird 3d landscape)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl0XCslxwB0

[opal niche]

man that guy talks a lot

[tribal mesa]

?

[opal niche]

I watched the start a bit and looked to me like a lot of technical talking

[tribal mesa]

there is this one trick... volume 0%

[opal niche]

fair

[tribal mesa]

and how do you explain a research paper in 2min without talking?

[opal niche]

no links without descriptions please

[atomic loom]

ah sorry

it's about someone being banned due to a report I filed

[nimble knot]

Your report from CS GO has nothing to do in this section and in this Discord

[cosmic monolith]

NortonLifeLock (former Symantec) is attempting to buy Avast! again ... (this is really irony, as Avast! became number #2 (behind Symantec) by buying out AVG) https://www.wsj.com/articles/nortonlifelock-in-talks-to-buy-avast-11626287085?page=1

[nimble knot]

https://www.thegamer.com/tencent-might-buy-crytek/

[boreal urchin]

Tencent just wants to buy everyone! 😄

[nimble knot]

Chinese are smart - they invest

[vocal skiff]

They better bring another Crysis. I wanna bash some aliens with my super suit 😄

[faint notch]

AMD released the FSR source code under their GPUOpen initiative - https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR

[boreal urchin]

for Arma wen?!

[nimble knot]

#hardware_vs_arma message

[faint notch]

it's a little late for Arma 3 I'd say, but for any future engines/titles it has very little drawbacks from my pov.

[boreal urchin]

#hardware_vs_arma message

possibly also useful for people that have 4k monitors but reduce the rendering resolution to 50%

[vocal skiff]

Just make a ticket I'll assign dedmen to it 😛

[tribal mesa]

if you have 4k monitor, how have you not a GPU that can run arma at 4k? That also means you likely cant run most other 3D games at 4k either

[vocal skiff]

Perhaps you want it for work but can't afford decent gpu 😄

[boreal urchin]

maybe they just got it for watching movies! 😄

[serene sorrel]

Even 3090 SLI would be unable to run 4k arma with a playable framerate in a real game scenario and not empty editor

[tribal mesa]

then just move the screen further away, and you wont see the difference 😛

[vocal skiff]

Can you even run Arma with playable framerate at any resolution 🤣

[tribal mesa]

really? o0 what games can you even play in 4K at playable framerate without spending a cars worth on graphical accelerators

also, is that an assumption or do you know? Because Arma is mostly cpu bound.

[vocal skiff]

Minesweeper 💥

[tribal mesa]

^only the 95 version though. 98 is too advanced

[vocal skiff]

If they really wanted to sell Win11 they would have brought back minesweeper and pinball

Anyway I am getting off topic 😄

[serene sorrel]

That is why ... you need the fastest singlecore cpu you can get ... anything else is irrelevant

[tribal mesa]

well that to me seems like a flawed assumption. More Resolution doesnt mean more CPU demand

[serene sorrel]

4k is quite demanding by itself to be driven with 144hz. i doubt any cpu would be up to the task atm. i have a 3080ti and 2k monitor and i am not seeing the results i would want ... even though its not the latest one a 8700k@5.2 ghz should be able to do better - and it does in any other game that is not arma

starts embracing dayz and its better renderer again

[tribal mesa]

144hz and 4k... who says 144hz...

[serene sorrel]

anything under 120hz is giving me a bad time ngl ... once you are beyond 60hz for a while you do not go back

As in I refuse to play games that limit me to 60fps that are not story tellers

[tribal mesa]

so, i guess, you dont play arma then?

the point is - 4k and 144Hz is not a problem in Arma I THINK (with the right GPU), IF you already can get 144Hz at 2K or 1K with the same processor and a worse GPU.

[serene sorrel]

I have not played arma in years, i only use it as my sandbox for modding.

I don't think that is so simple, because the game has to push bigger framebuffers which takes quite a bit of processing power

hence i said, no matter how much gpu you have arma 3 at 4k with "playable" framerates is a myth imo

which is why i went for 2k monitor. that is the sweetspot for crisp imagine and playable frames

[tribal mesa]

run at 1k resolution for test and see what the framerate is vs. 2k. If you dont get much difference -> you can run at 4k with same cpu i recon

[vocal skiff]

https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1415400146452553734 🤣

Microsoft (@Microsoft)

@tomwarren Wait and find out.

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Twitter · Jul 14, 2021, 7:57 PM

They are bringing back that paperclip thing to office

[river pollen]

the new Windows 365 is kinda neat, I've used similar setups a lot either by other vendors or self hosted

[cosmic monolith]

well, LibreOffice is good enough so unless you need some edge case features ...

[river pollen]

Visual Studio dev environment 😄

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365

only have Windows ARM64 dev environment on my Apple M1 laptop and sometimes the remote desktop at home isn't available

[warped spire]

arma 3 plays fine on 4k with decent gpu

cpu is still ur bottleneck

i've been doing 4k for a few years now

and if u dont like playing under 120hz, don't know how you'd play arma3 at all lol

[uneven iron]

What is everyone favorite opensource or free software?
I'm want to expand my knowledge.

[tribal mesa]

7zip. Not sure if you know it yet, but i heard good things about discord - might be worth checking out 😋

but seriously... if you want to expand your knowledge... blender.

[formal needle]

GCC?

also Linux

OpenOffice

[tribal mesa]

🇳 🅾️
LibreOffice... or whatever other fork is the 'thing' now

[formal needle]

why?

[tribal mesa]

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/

[formal needle]

Nice, thanks for info

I remembered that they were branches of same thing but didn't know the diff exactly 🙂

[tribal mesa]

If you are an engineer, or want to do physics simulations by graphical modelling (circuits, logic networks, mechanics, ...), OpenModelica is an extremely powerful tool that is not really widely known. It takes some time getting used to and there are not many tutorials for it though.
The only commercial competitor (Simscape from Mathworks) stole the ideas and sells you a license for a mere 3k € / year (cause you need Matlab + Simulink + Simscape), previously it was even 6k

[vocal skiff]

Gimp, Files, Inkscape to just name a few

[formal needle]

Regarding CAD, FreeCAD is nice for mechanical engineering introduction, it's like a basic version of SolidWorks

[vocal skiff]

I'd recommend Fusion360 which is free if you earn less than 100k a year

[formal needle]

KiCad is open source PCB design software

[cosmic monolith]

SketchFab was acquired by Epic Games https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/sketchfab-is-joining-the-epic-games-family
(accompanied with draconian changes to Terms of Service https://forum.sketchfab.com/t/terms-of-use-changes/18680/12 )

[tribal mesa]

its kind of scary... To me it just looks like they lure people to their eco system with aggressive marketing and free stuff and (admittedly very good) "free" engine, cheap licenses etc. When they continue that for another 5 years until most people adopted their ecosystem, and competition no longer exists. And then they tighten the thumb screws... increased royalty % etc.

they mentioned they plan on building full 3d modelling capabilities into unreal engine in the near future

[vocal skiff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfWWLyGDRU Time to cut some limbs (Dead Space Remake Trailer)

[frank galleon]

while cool! its quite alarming that we get so much remakes of old titles instead of new games

[white knot]

It's because of the entry barrier to the industry that has massively increased (and keeps increasing), though the advancing of the available tools has compensated it quite a lot too

There's even a book that reveals the sad math behind the ever increasing percentage of remakes and sequels in the film (and game) industry

[frank galleon]

something along "original designs are too expensive to come up with and market" ?

[white knot]

(Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian – btw, highly recommend the book)

[white knot]

Basically the AAA games are so expensive to make that studios don't want to risk their existence by innovating too much and producing a possible flop with a budget that would basically kill the studio in case of the game actually did flop

And it's a perfectly rational decision. A very unpleasant one for us gamers, but rational from the perspective of the game/film studios

[frank galleon]

indeed

[white knot]

But the book goes deeper into the subject, highly recommend

I'm starting to sound like a commercial but you can even save huge amounts of money with the book, as it covers eg. the math of real estate stuff. You can calculate the best timing and price pair (?) to buy or sell a house with the algorithms that the book reveals

Or rather, maximize your chances to make an optimal decision as it's about probability

[opal niche]

Also as a sidenote, as someone that hasnt played dead space I'd personally quite like remakes of the games

so I can experience the game and story but in an 'upgraded' format

although that applies more to older games, as afaik the existing ds games are still very well playable

[unkempt spoke]

fortunately when a gamedev studio wants to resurrect it's IP at least they tend to do remakes instead of remasters, the latter are usually... bad

[vocal skiff]

Can't say that about the Resident Evil ones

RE 3 Remake is just bad, Remaster of the first one is nice and the remake of the 2nd part is awesome as well.

[low prism]

sad Warcraft 3: Reforged noises

[opal niche]

although the ds1 of remake has at least a bit of remaster n it too, with the 'improved story' and all

[nimble knot]

Interesting podcast
Check timestamps in the description
https://youtu.be/239ntwGzg7c

[wind field]

did someone of you ever experience windows just using 100% of a disk? because that is happening to me now and I don't see any program that could be at fault

[boreal urchin]

yes.

is it System that's causing that?

[wind field]

most likekly

[boreal urchin]

I've had it happening to me in these cases (iirc)

1. windows update
2. disk cleanup/maintenance stuff
3. running nearly out of disk space
4. prefetch/superfetch

[wind field]

oh I think it just finished what it was doing for hours

[boreal urchin]

do you have HDD?

might've been disk defrag too

[wind field]

yes the drive that is at 100% active time is an hdd but my windows drive is an pcie 4.0 m2 ssd

running chkdsk now

[boreal urchin]

if you have a maintenance task or have disk defrag run on schedule it's very likely

[wind field]

my other guess was OneDrive but that should show as its own process

[boreal urchin]

depends. if it uses the system copy function it won't

afaik

[wind field]

or my drive was just encrypted and after the next restart I'll be asked for bitcoin ¯_(ツ)_/¯

restarted the computer and it's at it again...

[boreal urchin]

you might be able to see what's going on using procmon

[wind field]

already using it but can't quite figure out how to use it

[boreal urchin]

set it to only show file activity

and enable auto scroll

also filter out programs that you think are not the culprit

[open hedge]

check in resource monitor? that tells you which program accesses which file

[boreal urchin]

yeah that too

[wind field]

oh it looks like it is fighting with a onedrive file

okay that was the problem. For some reason onedrive wanted to create copy of a file that already existed and the system just choked on it

[boreal urchin]

I always disable/uninstall all those stupid stuff...

even windows update

[white knot]

?

[boreal urchin]

I only update every few months

[wind field]

I use OneDrive to backup my important files

[white knot]

Well I kind of get your point but I think that installing updates is really important regarding security

I stopped having constant crashes in apps and games after I started taking care of security

[wind field]

if windows lets you update 😩 I had to reinstall Windows for the latest one because it just failed everytime I restarted the PC

[white knot]

Mmm

I tried Windows 11, it got me stuck in a restart loop and had to reinstall Win10 again. But it's understandable since it's still in beta

[boreal urchin]

yeah it kinda happened to me too one time. thankfully I managed to save it.
but since then I never let windows update by itself

at one point it updated one of my drivers without my consent and broke many things...

[wind field]

be careful with indev versions. I read one report where a user lost all his data

[white knot]

I did as well, cba to save the data that I had since it wasn't that important (the important stuff had backups ofc) 😛

[wind field]

oh no it's at 100% again and no OneDrive active

also no file accessed according to resmon

oh boy just 100% active time but no reads or writes

[tribal mesa]

sorry, i'm just browsing your hdd... dont mind me

[boreal urchin]

maybe your drive is malfunctioning?

[boreal urchin]

1.8 s response time?!

seems like something's wrong

[wind field]

it's switching between that and 0

[boreal urchin]

can you even open the drive?

[wind field]

yep

it's just really slow

now it's normal again??

[wind field]

finally solved it. there were more broken files. also moved onedrive to an ssd

and it only took 2 hours 😐

thanks for the help @boreal urchin and @open hedge

[lunar nimbus]

Okay so I stream our units Ops on a regular basis and i just started using OBS (i was using my GPUs built in thing to stream to twitch). I see this option to switch to a hardware encoder. Is that recommended or should i stick with the software option?

[rustic shale]

hardware encoder is recommended for sure (nvidia). for AMD you have to test what has less impact / best results
@lunar nimbus

[lunar nimbus]

good to know. I feel like with Arma it will get iffy.

i have AMD

[rustic shale]

me too, this is why i have a second PC for stream encoding using my old NVIDIA 🤣

[lunar nimbus]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1087136668 I mean this is the software encoding on my rig rn. i'm far away from anything actually happening

not plugging my twitch, just providing context 😄

[rustic shale]

and what's the load on your CPU?

[lunar nimbus]

yknow i've haven't checked in a while. i'd say 25%?

[rustic shale]

oof

[lunar nimbus]

max 40% depending whats going on

yeah

well its arma so

but i haven't checked in a while. i'm streaming tonight so i'll have task manager open and look

[rustic shale]

i mean what's the load of OBS when streaming and software encoding

[lunar nimbus]

oh. that i don't know. i will look tonight 🙂

[rustic shale]

what are your settings in OBS?

[lunar nimbus]

which ones?

[rustic shale]

gimme a sec

video: resolution, filter, FPS
output (stream): CBR or VBR, bitrate, profile
output (audio): audio bitrate

[lunar nimbus]

Video
Resolution: (Base Canvas, Output Scaled) 1920x1080
Filter: Bicubic (sharpened Scaling, 16 samples
Common FPS Value: 60

Output (Stream:)
Video Bit Rate: 6000 kpbs
Encoder: (Software x264)
Audio Bitrate: 160

wait hold on it was on simple mode. lemme know if you need more numbers lol

[rustic shale]

simple mode is fine

for twitch (and if your connection allows it) you can push 6500k, maybe even 7000k bitrate

you can lower audio to 128

[lunar nimbus]

1200mpbs dn/ 30 (sometimes 40) up

[rustic shale]

👍

[lunar nimbus]

i've had issues where too high doesn't provide a picture or something

it's weird.

oh because twitch only allows 6k

[rustic shale]

twitch usually caps between 6000k and 7000k. if you push above that, they simply deny it all together

unless you'Re a partner 😄

[lunar nimbus]

which naw

[lunar nimbus]

~11%

thats what it said at the bottom of OBS while streaming

[rustic shale]

software or hardware encoded?

[lunar nimbus]

software

[wind field]

is there anyone using vim for sqf development?

[cosmic monolith]

it's game over for AVG and Avast! (which merged to fight vs Symantec) as NortonLifeLock (ex-Symantec) buys them out https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/11/22619667/nortonlifelock-avast-merger-deal-anti-virus-cyber-security-software

[tribal mesa]

brilliant, one team can manufacture the virus, the other can provide the solutions

[formal needle]

Might sound stupid, but how do I permanently disable windows defender on latest windows 10 pro? All the previous regedit tricks no longer work... :/

[boreal urchin]

install a new antivirus! 😛

they usually do it themselves

[formal needle]

maybe someone has invented a dummy program which registers as an antivirus and just does nothing? 🤔

[white knot]

Why would you want to disable it though?

[regal crypt]

avast? 😄

[formal needle]

I like my fans quiet

[regal crypt]

lool you should here my pc, it groans like mad 😄

[lunar nimbus]

antivirus software are viruses

seriously as long as you stay off shady websites and not download anything illegally, windows defender is legit good enough

[white knot]

Windows Defender is the best AV there is currently

[formal needle]

I don't mind it completely, I'm fine to run it when I need it, and not when it intrusively runs wherever it decides it's a good time to scan my whole PC, or slows down my PC start up

[crude iron]

try making a powershell script
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true

and put it in your startup folder.

generally i find the best way to disable windows 10 garbage "features" with PS scripts i find on github

[formal needle]

thanks! does it still work?

I mean, are you sure that recent updates didn't break this way of disabling it?

[white knot]

My guess is that the malware that'd get into your PC will cause more spinning of fans than the AV itself

But well, who knows

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[formal needle]

Don't remember when I had it last time

when safety measures cause too much annoyance VS the chance of the event they are supposed to prevent they make no sense

like, would you like to unlock 6 locks instead of one before entering your apartment

and put on a bulletproof vest before leaving home?

[white knot]

Nope, but I prefer to have a lock in my door 😛

[crude iron]

he can get a normal AV that dosnt hold your system hostage. or just not download malware. Whichever is more preferable to him. and thats implying windows defender does anything to protect his computer against malware in the first place

[crude iron]

Dont know about latest version of win 10. I always stay back a few versions that i consider most stable

But simple to test

[formal needle]

WD feels like six locks to me

[alpine kelp]

What's going on official Warlords EU#03? Why server is closed?

[crude iron]

@alpine kelp ask warlords questions here bratan #warlords_discussion

[alpine kelp]

nyet

[cosmic monolith]

usually the server is slated for update, also we got #arma3_official_servers for those questions

[strong pelican]

So I'm setting up a small Discord server for my friends and me to play Arma III we're going for a RP Server based around the CIA Special Activities Center. Anyway my one friend told me about this bot called Libertas. It's amazing it does everything that DynoBot and CarlBot does but even better. It even beats MEE6. They have this new thing call Button Roles that revolutionizes my Welcome Messages, Custom Commands for issuing missions, and it has 29+ Moderation Commands.

Not trying to advertise but I thought I'd spread this bot.- Web Dashboard/Site for the Bot

[open hedge]

very much sounds like advertising

[cosmic monolith]

totally agree, joined and instantly advertising as first post ... explain yourself @strong pelican

[supple thunder]

By definition, it is very literally advertising

[surreal pilot]

🙏 I'm looking for older NVIDIA shader compiler (NVAsm.exe or nvasm.zip). By any chance, isn't here anyone able to share this file? It was part of DX8 NVIDIA devkit, but all links are dead now. 😦 It was released in public by NVIDIA, there is no problem regarding sharing this file.

[muted pebble]

Try on ReShade discord... crosire work for nV @surreal pilot

[surreal pilot]

@muted pebble Thanks for the tip. I was lucky to find it on github in some non-related project using filename search. 🙏

[crude iron]

Question for The Software developers here, Is there a notable difference of any kind when developing in Windows vs Linux.

[river pollen]

Yes

[river pollen]

Some common examples would be quite different filesystem, Linux file systems are more than often case sensitive and does not have any notion of drives, everything is just one tree. The tooling and toolchains can differ quite a bit depending on programming language. OS abstractions can be different as well.

[crude iron]

Lets say you are developing in C# which operating system would you prefer and for which reason.

[white knot]

I'd use Visual Studio (not Code but actual Visual Studio) for that, so Windows

[nocturne frigate]

I'd prefer Linux using Visual Studio Code's C# extension. But that's because I switch between different languages in VSC and I like using Linux's package managers to manage my projects. I'd also use Visual Studio if I was already on Windows and only aimed to do C# work.

[crude iron]

Interesting responses thx

[viral mango]

Personally I use jetbrains rider for development with c# since recently and am pretty damn happy with it
Also obviously features pretty much all of ReSharper

[opal niche]

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22712250/twitch-hack-leak-data-streamer-revenue-steam-competitor

Twitch source code and creator payouts part of massive leak
The leaked data also includes a Steam competitor

leak post: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438#p83691438

We bring to you today an extremely poggers leak:

Twitch is an American video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.

Their community is also a disgusting toxic cesspool, so to foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space, we have completely pwned them, and in part one, are releasing the source code from almost 6,000 internal Git repositories, including:

Entirety of twitch.tv, with commit history going back to its early beginnings
Mobile, desktop and video game console Twitch clients
Various proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used by Twitch
Every other property that Twitch owns including IGDB and CurseForge
An unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios
Twitch SOC internal red teaming tools (lol)

AND: Creator payout reports from 2019 until now. Find out how much your favorite streamer is really making!

Torrent (128GB):
Repository listing:

Jeff Bezos paid $970 million for this, we're giving it away FOR FREE.

#DoBetterTwitch

[cosmic monolith]

W11 on unsupported hardware https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ways-to-install-windows-11-e0edbbfb-cfc5-4011-868b-2ce77ac7c70e

[cosmic monolith]

so, for Windows 10, you can get community made drivers for legacy AMD gpus based off newest drivers https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/driver-mod-nimez-radeon-software-21-10-1-whql-gcn-legacy-pack-released.436611/

[river pollen]

https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/1201/2021/2021_Section_1201_Registers_Recommendation.pdf

multiple new exempts for software (security) is being suggested for DMCA

including repairing your devices

[faint notch]

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/trojan-source-bug-threatens-the-security-of-all-code/

[boreal urchin]

is notepad++ the only editor that has this option?

in VSCode I check render control chars but it doesn't show them to me

like this: (NPP)

just wanted to review some of my source codes after reading the above article! 😅

[warped spire]

the answer, as always with vscode, is install more extensions!

I see 3 extensions that do

if you want just like that, line-endings by Stefan Neubert
otherwise there are a few that have the various symbols instead @boreal urchin

[viral mango]

This is the reason why imo all compilers must always in all circumstances reject any non ASCII char (with the sole exception of strings and character literals)

[river pollen]

but but emoji operators??

[viral mango]

No
Just no 🤫

[gaunt rapids]

Hello, I have a problem with Win 10, the problems are: 1. Windows always refreshing itself, whenever I do doesn't matter if I playing games/watching, 2. The same but it close apps such as windows explorer, making data transfer annoying and hard. What's the solution to this?

[rustic shale]

first of all, do a virus scan 😄

[gaunt rapids]

full/quick?

[white knot]

@gaunt rapids Full

As usual, I'd recommend a full reinstall anyways

[boreal urchin]

does anyone know how to make Windows 10's touch keyboard not close when I press a key on physical keyboard?

[nocturne frigate]

It should not close or minimize if your press a keyboard button. Just tested that now.

[boreal urchin]

it closes for me

I mean this keyboard btw:

the on-screen keyboard doesn't hide, but it looks fugly

[shrewd oasis]

The drive to Steam Deck continues: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/valve-adds-support-for-games-using-ceg-drm-through-steam-play-proton

[open hedge]

German: https://zerforschung.org/posts/meinschnelltest/

Corona tests are available to a online API where you have to login, but what happens when instead of going to
/persons/owner/612341213acab23425251e21 (your userID)
you go to
/persons
?

Well. Simple. You get a list of EVERY person who did a corona test, address, full name, email, birthdate (with timezone even), gender, phone number, even ID card numbers if provided.
And on top of that, you can create your own test results and get a valid "your test was negative" QR code without ever getting tested 😄

Ah Germany never disappoints 😄

[rough wolf]

peter griffin, covid positive

[vocal skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/panda-facepalm-oh-no-worried-anxious-gif-17616305

[gaunt rapids]

my ace mod no longer works it said ace ballistics x64.dll not found or something

[vocal skiff]

@gaunt rapids #arma3_troubleshooting

[gaunt rapids]

ok

[white knot]

Lol

When I try to cancel some ancient Malwarebytes subscription (and expensive as well), the form gives an error. Continuing the auto-renewal (the button next to it) works normally, of course. I'm pretty sure that's intentional. Well, it just shows how a trash business they're nowadays

[regal crypt]

these companies always go that way, same happened with avast etc, they all just keep getting more and more bloated

[cosmic monolith]

e.g. NTP was maintained by single person https://www.informationweek.com/security-and-risk-strategy/harlan-stenn-tackles-ntp-security-issues-as-big-move-looms

most of large corporations refuse to spend even dime to improve OSS, while racking milllions or billions when using it (or let say saving hundreds k or more each year)

[viral mango]

Or refuse to disclose changes/fixes made

[faint notch]

Norton 360 anti-virus is literally a crypto-virus now.
https://community.norton.com/en/forums/faq-norton-crypto

The coin mining fee is currently 15% of the crypto allocated to the miner.

Transfers of cryptocurrencies may result in transaction fees (also known as "gas" fees) paid to the users of the cryptocurrency blockchain network who process the transaction. In addition, if you choose to exchange crypto for another currency, you may be required to pay fees to an exchange facilitating the transaction. Transaction fees fluctuate due to cryptocurrency market conditions and other factors. These fees are not set by Norton.

For users of Norton 360, not only will they be installing a crypto miner on your system by stealth, they'll charge you a 15% "mining fee" for any crypto mined on your own computer using it.

[warped spire]

I mean it was already ransomware and a rootkit

nortons goal is to fight fire with fire, other virus's don't stand a chance against their own

[vocal skiff]

WTH. Why would anyone use that?

[faint notch]

No clue, regarding the crypto part - I saw a few other posts on social media about this, in one they claimed the crypto transfer fees were in the upper 40%s, that is on top of Symantec's mining fee of 15%.

It's a total scam, social engineering et al - using deception and peoples self-belief that they'll strike it rich in crypto, when the only people getting rich are the people tricking you into letting them use your hardware, electricity, etc to generate them crypto, aka Symantec/Norton.

[muted pebble]

And Avira have crypto-miner https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/daughter-company-norton-(avira-antivirus)-also-contains-cryptominer,2.html

[tribal mesa]

the amount of time my laptop has 40% CPU utilization when the screen is locked (logon screen) due to windows defender activity isnt particularly reassuring either...

[long pebble]

guy's? I'm quite new to Mikero tools and was wondering, After setup my .bisigns are different? "no issue there" it's tidy. but are the .bikey supposed to match too as mine don't and I keep getting a PBO error when loading into the server after packing. I have tested another mod that I have uploaded and it's done the same after repacking but the version I had uploaded before works fine, can anyone help out a little please and ty

[faint notch]

this is the offtopic section, you will likely receive a response if you post in a more correct channel, such as #arma3_tools where Mikero pays attention.

[white knot]

Firefox exploded globally today 😄

[boreal elbow]

Firefox is on fire, I guess?

[regal crypt]

What happened to FF?

[river pollen]

some new fancy tech not working as it should

load balancer issue with HTTP/3

so not a bug in firefox, they just suffer from bugs with the newer protocols in services such as google cloud load balancer and cloudflare

[regal crypt]

That would be why my wife has had issues all day! Mine's been ok, but I only really go on reddit / news

[rough wolf]

haha pathetic

im using opera

[river pollen]

apparently firefox had a bug as well, https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D135871

[warped spire]

FF still better than using chrome/chromium

[shrewd lynx]

Anyone have any recommendations for 3rd party fan control software?
I have been using Argus Monitor as it allows quite nice combinations of component temperatures to define fan speed from. (E.g. a combination of GPU, CPU and RAM).
However, the more recent releases (possibly combined with AMD Chipset updates) have resulted in a significant hit to memory latency when it's running. (E.g. nearly 3ns) So definitely not ideal to run while ARMA-ing...

[vocal skiff]

https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

@shrewd lynx I use this on on my work PC. Has been working very nicely since I am using it. Got a nice UI as well.

[shrewd lynx]

Don't suppose you've run an Aida64 memory benchmark to see how it affects latency, have you?
All other controllers I've tried so far have actually been quite similar to Argus. But was just wondering if you had any further info before I install it and give it a go!

[vocal skiff]

No I didn't. You don't need to install it. It's just an executable, so just try it

[shrewd lynx]

Minimal (if any) effect on memory performance when running which is really good.
Love the configurability.
But haven't yet managed to get it to detect my RAM temps which is one of my key inputs to my cooling strategy.
Will keep playing but have run out of time to explore for the time being.
Thanks so much for pointing me in this direction.

[vocal skiff]

https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PGCV4V3BK4W Open Source Dev tools. Very handy, might be helpful to some of you.

[wind field]

that's pretty cool

[river pollen]

this might be relevant as well, https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

[slate tapir]

hi, can anyone help me with my pc i cant update windows and im not very good with my pc at the best of times any help would be greatly appreciated

[wind field]

why cant you update? are you getting error messages?

[slate tapir]

kind of yes

am i okay to post it here?

oh i cant

it says... we couldn't update the system reserved portion

ive check the requirements and to my understanding i have all of them#]

[regal crypt]

You might want to ask on buildapc discord or techsupport on reddit. Most likely get help quicker on there

[slate tapir]

thanks dude will do that

[wind field]

yeah last time windows didnt let me update i reinstalled it

[slate tapir]

if i do that and it then doesnt reinstall will i be f**ked

[gaunt rapids]

I mean a reinstall would mean u lose everything on ya machine anyways unless u save it on a separate drive. I’ve ran into that so many times that I just bought a 500gb ssd to ONLY PUT windows and games on so if I had to reinstall I wouldn’t be too mad ab it

[wind field]

the windows license is coupled with your hardware id

(in case of an OEM license, not a microsoft account license)

[slate tapir]

yeah most of my to all of my games are on my 1tb D drive and my c drive still has 100gb left of freee space. even the guys on this help server im on cant make sense of it

[faint notch]

You can do an "Upgrade in place" with Windows, which will reinstall the OS without affecting files within your user folders (documents etc).

I had to do this previously after MS broke Windows Update a few years ago and to fix that issue, outside of a full reinstall, an upgrade in place was the easiest & least disruptive option available.

There's a guide on how to do it - https://www.thewindowsclub.com/perform-windows-10-in-place-upgrade

[silent spire]

the windows generic audio driver vs Realtek audio driver
which one is of higher quality, and has more features?

Im thinking of reverting to the windows driver

since realtek runs like ass

[ripe dragon]

what is it with chrome using 80% of CPU for no reason
(im using Opera GX now)

[tribal sandal]

probably something on the website you're on. I've moved on to Vivaldi since firefox has gone to shit. It's got an integrated adblocker that works perfectly!

[tribal mesa]

chrome goes through your files... "virus check" they claim , cough cough stealing your information cough cough. The reason i banned it from my PC

[brisk inlet]

Opera is one of the best or even the best in that regard, easy to use and its design allows to function on low-end gear too. Lowest rss usage out of all browsers I tested.
Chrome eats up a lot of performance the more tabs and stuff you have open. To my own experience, this usually goes worse if filled with too many active extensions and stuff running in background regardless of whether Chrome was open or not (close window = not always same like terminate app from running)

[brisk inlet]

🤣 Well, Google offers free services in exchange of your data and some of them make you very addicted. Never heard Chrome offers virus check but would make sense since even old blockhead MS started to offer internet security free of charge and without any ad-spam together with Windows from start (which makes sense too since lot of people still "believe" they can run a system connected to inet without any security). And the surprising part: MS already dominates the free version market and their anti virus is not bad at all compared to other freewares. I think they are experimenting because HP earns shitload of money with their new cybersecurity solution for business customers

[faint notch]

Opera is built on top of the same browser engine as Chrome, Chromium.
Any differences in user experience are just ux/ui differences.

[ripe dragon]

it's like this, i just restart. connected to wifi and check taskmgr
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835854573766836244/946600378605129809/unknown.png

[brisk inlet]

Never checked that deep but Opera manages to run with far lower usage of rss and I think this would matter a lot if people knew how to use google search to find non-google products 🤣

[ripe dragon]

no wonder im having lag issue in arma for no reason

[brisk inlet]

Oh wtf, that is really high

Just checked how Netflix on Chrome responds to CPU, jumps from 0-0,6% to 5%

I have very few extensions too:
Ghostery, Kaspersky, Adobe and thats it

[ripe dragon]

chrome not even turn on it literally autorun whenever my laptop starts

sooner or later i will uninstall chrome

[faint notch]

Googles Chrome installs extra software that scans your files, you can move it to a restricted group that effectively blocks it accessing anything, since if you delete the scanner it will just download it again.
Thats what you get when you trust an ad company and huge data-hoarder to provide you with a browser

[brisk inlet]

If you like, we may try one last thing:

• switch off background running; chrome settings => advanced => system => toggle off "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed"
• switch off autorun on win10; task manager now offers autorun list over there, either remove or disable it (no more need to go through cmd or windows configs)

[ripe dragon]

i just kill the chrome in taskmgr, my cpu usage is normal now

[faint notch]

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/20/how-to-block-the-chrome-software-reporter-tool-software_reporter_tool-exe/

There's a few ways, I just blocked it via permissions,. I only have chrome installed to test websites across browser versions, outside of that I dont use it.

[brisk inlet]

That guide is speaking one of the same advice I just gave to Hazer but the regedit one is a mess. Chrome is not listed under policies. (Well, no wonder speaking of guide release 2018 and Google ain't sleeping, they either removed it voluntarily or replaced it with more creative solutions 🤣 )

[tribal sandal]

Vivaldi has pretty good performance now. I remember when it was really slow with tabs but now it's much more responsive. Handles big sessions really well. Vivaldi Vivaldi Vivaldi :D

[brisk inlet]

Brainwashing 🤣

They should update their own ad lol
I stopped looking at Vivaldi because they were heavily focused on macOS, Linux and Android but if they approach Windows, I have to compare this with Opera ofc

If you think of people just looking at Chrome, Edge or Firefox (more and more gargabe, sorry but Firefox messed up big time), it is no wonder Opera is considered underrated over years. Vilvaldi seems to get closer to Opera's best argument of lowest workload too.

[tribal sandal]

Two rows of tabs (as in, tab groups and tabs under the selected group), and you can select how to organize them, and whether you want them to scroll or compress when there's too many to fit!

[brisk inlet]

That feature would help certain people cheating their own web traffic 🤣 sorry, I meant pushing ofc.
I remember one guy opening browser with more than 20 tabs preset just to trick traffic research tools. If a bunch of reviewers, bloggers and influencers open tab of each other, it generates fake traffic that apparently even helps with... Alexa was it? (Amazon is funny using same name for their Echo system and market research company...)

[cosmic monolith]

preemptive warning: Some news of a cyber attack on Nvidia that may have a risk of malware or other harmful software getting pushed through updates. Until there is news from Nvidia that the issue has been sorted, try avoid updating Nvidia drivers.

[boreal urchin]

Does anyone know what the "Created by" list order is on Steam Workshop items?
Every item I see seems to have a random creator list

[rustic shale]

The German department for internet security warns of Kaspersky anti virus
https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-Navi/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2022/220315_Kaspersky-Warnung.html

[brisk inlet]

Just funny they forgot to mention the obvious backdooring issues years ago when it was lucrative to use it but now talking about security concerns with top timing lol

[rustic shale]

Like if I care. Never used it anyway

[brisk inlet]

I once usem them but they were better in the past, Bitdefender gained grounds

[warped spire]

Used to use Kaspersky, it was pretty good product. Got rid of it sometime after crimea invasion, windows defender had become legit and russia relationship with US was getting pretty sketchy "again"

[brisk inlet]

Windows defender was one of the very good ideas MS ever had, no ads, just kill the freeware market 😆

[ripe dragon]

Kapersky still in use on local school

[brisk inlet]

Yes, even vital parts of US Gov except military used Kaspersky a lot and they had lot of extra expenses just to change out of the blue.

I normally don't expect anything revolutionary from Windows but with the new head Nadella, quiet a few changed for the better or worse. Windows Defender was a game changer forcing all lazy paid providers to improve faster. I wouldn't be surprised if I end up with a paid solution from HP or Microsoft one day soon. Both of them show very interesting solutions which are sadly exclusive for business customers atm

[white knot]

Would be interesting to know how they ever ended up doing that 😄

I have interesting story about Kaspersky too

[white knot]

So back in the Arma 2 days I was working on on game design document for a RP gamemode. I had Kaspersky installed as AV because I didn't understand the risks and it was an effective one back then. Eventually, I downloaded the GDD from cloud on my desktop. Because the RPG was intended to take place on Chernarus, it contained a lot of potentially interesting keywords regarding Russia and inside jokes/memes about assassinating Putin etc. Right after downloading the GDD my PC went nuts. Kaspersky started to use 100 % of available CPU resources (which continued for about four days), and I noticed that something sent huge amounts of data (several hundreds of GBs) from my PC over the next few days too. I admit that I did a little test; I copied the GDD to an USB stick and attached to my friends' old PC (yeah, I was a jerk lol). Same result: firewall logged several hundred of GBs of data transmission over their network for the next couple of days 😄

It was about a year after that or so when it was confirmed (by Israel I think) that Kaspersky was cooperating with Russian intelligence services, possibly being forced to do that. I don't know whether it relates at all to what happened with that GDD, but I found it interesting

[brisk inlet]

I really wonder about that too lol
Either they received free service to lure them or Russian vodka did the job 🤣

[brisk inlet]

I just remember USA pushed lot of IT companies to create backdoors in name of the patriot act. The first to fall was Facebook (Meta) but that doesn't surprise anyone because Zuckerberg shits his pants everytime Gov kicks him. Later Google and others followed after resisting a while because they are big but not as deeply connected as others. At the end just Microsoft refused till the end and even dared to threaten to sue them (If I learned one thing, even if you can sue MS, buy their shares instead lol). They show many times how stubborn and how powerful they are.

What China and Russia are doing... well we know already, they give a shit about anything except its their own rules and as long as these rules suit them. Israel is no different but Germany was a surprise. They just purchased the companies they need (cybersecurity, etc) with fake company names to hide their true identity until a whistleblower fucked them (sadly Switzerland was heavily involved in this too). Even though the whole case smelled fishy, there was nothing we could do. All relevant official papers recorded in the archive related to that incident suddenly disappeared. All former gov representatives insist they do not remember anything. How convenient to forget specific things at your will, I wanna have that ability too 🤣

[dusk loom]

I hope this is the right place to ask, i've been trying to set up a server through a hosting company, but i can't get it to work, i feel like i have tried everything that my knowledge extends to, and read all the guides and what not that i can find. It's hosted through Nitrado, so if somebody has experience with setting up modded servers by them, please do contact me.

[brisk inlet]

Sorry man, I have little experience with hosting Arma servers (to be precise, zero experience lol)

[brisk inlet]

@river pollen Is that how you tag all moderators at once? Would be useful to know for such incidents.

[elder storm]

yep, recommended in case one of us is offline 🙂

dealt with - thanks @river pollen 👍

[brisk inlet]

ok, thanks 😆

[tired stag]

Technically, we'll be able to make games on enfusion, but BI doesn't yet know if they'll give players a full engine (not open source), and something kind of unrealistic, but maybe paid, although maybe after the release of some game on enfusion, we will be able to get a full-fledged enfusion engine, and not just its Workbench tools, do you think?

Do you think we will get the engine and not just its tools?

[tribal mesa]

if you are a studio and make a license deal with them, you will probably get the engine... at some point

[frank galleon]

It is very very very unlikely the engine is released to be toyed with.

Mod making is pretty much said to be a thing since the toolset has been talked about. But don't think there will be more than that. What purpose would that even serve?

[gaunt rapids]

Anyone know how I can fix this shitty issue. I reset my Pc, but when I tried to log in it said make a new pin, but then gives me an error of “the user profile service service failed the sign-in user profile cannot be loaded”

I’ve tried to log in through safe mode but it says “the pin is no longer available due to a change to the security settings on this device. Restart your device to see if it fixes the problem” and obviously it DOES NOT!

[jolly anchor]

Anyone run Arma3 successfully on MacBook Pro? Or with boot camp?

[frank galleon]

Check #linux_mac_branch for clues

May be quite problematic though

[strong gull]

Community in VR: https://veryrealhelp.com/help-club/

Help Club

[tulip bay]

Yo so

Since you guys are really good with computers idk do you know wtf is happening here

My screen says out of timing and it’s all black

My pc is on so idk what the problem is

[open hedge]

"out of timing" is that the actual full message?

[karmic merlin]

Is there anyone amd rx480 4gb / cpu 2200g vega8
I have a problem with drivers.

[nimble knot]

https://youtu.be/7MjtsiATEGQ

[jolly gate]

This is not relacioneted to arma, but when I tried to log in into my pc my account is gone, I can’t see it, even if I tried to put the password and username is not working, and I’m a bit lost, anybody knows what to do?.

[jolly gate]

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[dense yacht]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63799576/is-there-a-way-to-log-who-removed-reactions-using-discord-js-v12
Anybody think it would be possible to write a bot, that shows you with what someone reacted to your messages?

Theres some guy going around on this server reacting with Swastikas and quickly removing them

[open hedge]

Yeah, I guess that might be possible, but luckily we already have one

[dense yacht]

Ah nice, that seems like a grueling task😂

[jolly gate]

.

[ruby raptor]

Can anyone help me get a Teamspeak server set up for my unit?

[brisk inlet]

If you rent a hosted server for TS, you don‘t have to setup anything except the channels and rights

[patent bough]

hay question for anyon here im looking for a cheap ssd drive or how to transfur all my storge to my 5tb hardrive on my computer I cant even play arma 3 anymore if anyon has a sugestion pleas let me know

[brisk inlet]

You may specify where your data is right now and someone will answer your question about transfer. SSD became a lot cheaper over the last years but if you still need one cheap for good money, Crucial will be your answer. If you wanna keep them for long time, you won't find any better than Samsung right now.

And for hardware: https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/266225019204403200
Or specifically hardware for Arma: https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/107058606205067264

[tardy geyser]

Highly off-topic but is anyone here good at sql? i have a quick question

[open hedge]

I know SQL, but I cannot say if I'm good enough to answer your question without knowing your question

[tardy geyser]

Fair enough.

from table1, table2, table3
where table1.something = table2.somethingdifferent
and table2.anotherthing = table3.somethingelse
... lots more like this
and table1.id = table2.id```

i want results that 
**1.** fulfill all conditions
**2.** fulfill all conditions EXCEPT table1.id = table2.id 

How?

[open hedge]

thats a pretty abstract example.
Doesn't your example already do that besides table1.id <> table2.id for not equal

[tardy geyser]

well if table1.id = table2.id isn't met then it returns nothing, i dont follow

basically if the conditions are letters, i want A+B+C+D or A+B+C

its abstract because the real query would be more confusing 😦

could just type a massive or clause but that would be stupid i think

[faint notch]

sounds like this would be a good question for stackoverflow where you could present your question, query and sample tables for people to answer.

[tardy geyser]

would be massive effort to anonymize the data im working with, but yeah obviously this isnt the place

[faint notch]

just make small sample tables with a few rows of dummy-data, you can make the columns named anything you want for the purposes of asking for help 🙂

[tardy geyser]

i dont think it would be easier to answer if i posted the full tables, it can be condensed to this: if the conditions are letters, i want A+B+C+D and A+B+C. But you are correct otherwise. (Also has to be a single query and not two separate ones)

[faint notch]

probably some combination of unions and joins in your select statements then, need to work on your sql-kung-fu 😅

[meager swallow]

is Bankrev open source?

[brisk inlet]

no it's not

here you go: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/End_User_License_Agreement_for_BI's_Tools

You are "allowed" to use it but strictly forbidden for commercial use without permission

[empty stream]

Is this the place where I can ask stupid computer questions

[brisk inlet]

software related? yes

[empty stream]

Okay, first stupid question

wtf is the difference between software and hardware

[faint notch]

discord is software, the electronics that is running it is hardware.
for more stupid questions use your favourite search engine, they are bound to have been asked a thousand times already.

[empty stream]

I was gonna ask actual questions but customer support finally picked up the damn phone so I forgot about being in here

[faint notch]

lol

[dire bronze]

anyone got any recommendations for a good engineering sketching app/software?
Currently using Catchbook from Siemens but its lacking.

[brisk inlet]

I have experience with 3D CAD but Catchbook is based on 2D if I remember correctly. Their solution has been presented as gap-filler between concept sketch and cad but I never tried this. Maybe Corel (MS sub) or Inkscape (opensource) have something up their sleeves for 2D but I can't tell what is better in terms of 2D CAD

[dire bronze]

Yeah that's why I asked for technical sketching software and not 3D CAD :D there's plenty for that (or even 2D cad). But early sketching software seems to be lacking.

[gaunt rapids]

Use Autodesk.

It's the gold standard

Actually wait.

@brisk inlet FreeCAD?

Has all the capabilities you are looking for and some.

[brisk inlet]

That‘s a good question. Early sketching is certainly not a common demand in our workplace, will check features tonight

[tribal mesa]

what kind of features do you think the software should have? And what is catchbook lacking in your opinion?

[brisk inlet]

We should have asked that from start 💯

I will ask some engineering project buddies what they use these days

[brisk inlet]

Oh btw I have to add something to my previous reply… I forsake FreeCAD after getting used to AutoCAD 😅

Cant tell anything useful about the free one

[tribal mesa]

if simple hand sketches are not enough, i transition to parametric sketching in CAD, because i can't think of a way that would make it possible to be "better than catchbook", but more free and faster than CAD.
With hotkeys for sketching (in parametric CAD), sketching is very fast, way faster than you can paint squiggly lines on an ipad, that some pitiful ML gnome has to massage into sensible lines.

an exception is complex 3dimensional shapes with interior, where 2D just isnt viable. E.g. for design of complex multi-level 3D environments (game level) and other stuff. Thats the one place where you just got to have a VR headset with a 3d painting app, there's just no other way i found.

[gaunt rapids]

AutoCAD but depends on what they do.

Some use Inventor, some use Fusion 360

FreeCAD does support Paramedic sketches and 3D models.

It also can do FEM - Finite Element Analysis.

[brisk inlet]

I failed to find any further advice for 2dcad with focus on early sketching. I‘m afraid they are still oldschool and going for paper 🤣

[dire bronze]

For "proper" CADing (parametric and multi parts assemblies working on with with multiple people) we use CREO and Windchill as PDM which does it job fine.

But right now for early prototyping where most parts are made by hand and dimensioning is done on a whiteboard without any tolerances CAD is overkill and costs to much time. The system is somewhat complex so drawing the whole thing on paper without the ability to zoom in or shift groups around is annoying.

[dire bronze]

Excellent question, should have made that clearer myself.
Main gripes are:

• only works on my tablet, can't download it on my main computer
• fixed paper size
• app gets real sluggish with big drawings (probably due to my surface books lacking performance)
  Why am I using it:
• Auto straightening lines works great, detection of shapes and intersections works okayish
• Easier to generate good looking pictures out of it with minimal effort (gotta have your presentations)
• Mirror axis works great

Alternatives I've considered:

• Just onenote (lacks auto straightening, other relative position detection like orthogonal, parallel etc.)
• Sketch by Creo (looks like paint from 2005, I don't think it even has stylus support and isn't included in our current license)

[brisk inlet]

I totally agree, tools like AutoCAD are usually overkill and expensive on top. Have you ever heard of Ares Commander, NanoCAD, Draftsight or Sketchup? My buddies were mentioning these but I have zero experience with them. (Some of them specifically focus on 2D CAD only)

[dire bronze]

Thanks for the names, I've looked at them (and tried out sketchup before) but don't think they quite are what I'm looking for. If I'm in technical drawing territory I might as well do it in CREO 😅

It's a weird edge case I admit

[brisk inlet]

Sorry we couldn‘t help, looks like Siemens was the only large player who spotted a specific demand which others ignored.

[calm ginkgo]

what cloud storage with 1 TB+ is recommended for a big mod team to store Blender, SP, etc source?

good software integration for up-/download and reliable backup would be important

[raw elbow]

Git LFS is something I've used in the past for professional reasons, which allows files beyond the 50MB limit

[white knot]

I was going to suggest it too but wasn't confident enough about my knowledge 😄

[raw elbow]

Alternatively a dedicated (S)FTP server with a custom backup script could work.
Haven't seen any cloud solutions which offer non-specific files (eg. I believe Adobe offers something for .PSD files, but nothing else)

[tribal mesa]

it seems large studios often use perforce (which also has cloud hosting i think) for art asset version control, but i'm not sure if that is actually any more sophisticated than , say, a svn repository

[raw elbow]

The downside of SVN/Git with LFS is the fact that you can't have 2 people work on the same file (when bigger than 50MB), since merge conflicts won't be possible to be resolved.
Looking at Perforce it seems they solved that by adding file locking, or running a custom merge tool for flat files. But it comes at a price, especially for larger groups.

[river pollen]

Simple cloud storage, https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

Cloud Network drive, https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

Dedicated servers, https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx

You can pair them with https://rclone.org/

Allows for scheduled backups or just plain network drive

[faint notch]

Most of those file-types would benefit a lot from compression, they all compress really well, even PSD files compress a load compared to real texture filetypes, and if your thinking of using Git it compresses files when they are saved to blobs automatically - no clue how perforce works in this regard, and I dont use svn either. 😄

Git with LFS enabled for your binary files (textures etc) will keep your repo speed up by keeping the main git to code only and storing those binary files separately in the LFS.

As for backing up a git, everyone with the latest repo pull already has that data on their computer, essentially all your project members could be considered backups provided they have the latest pull, and companies like Github.com/Gitlab.com/others have regularly scheduled backups even for free tiers (usually once a week iirc) - if you are really worried about that you could export your entire git to somewhere else/download it.

Additionally with Substance Painter project files if you use Save & Compact instead of using the regular Save function as it cleans the project file of redundant data & redundant meta-data which can reduce the file-size of SP projects considerably, this method of saving does take marginally longer due to the compression pass, (with fast NAND drives and a modern cpu it's barely noticeable tbh).

The mileage on SP project file-size reduction will vary as it depends on how much activity/changes the project has seen as to how much redundant/garbage data it stores in the project file, for example I have squeezed projects of 2-3Gb+ down to 400-500mb just by using Save & Compact instead of the regular Save function.

[river pollen]

I’ve used storage box and rclone for 10+ TB storage solutions

[faint notch]

I looked at those storage boxes from hetzner when my backblaze was due for renewal, they're a pretty sweet deal tbh.
I'm not quite there where I would need something like that for my uses 😅

[calm ginkgo]

thanks a lot to all of you 🙇‍♂️

[crystal lodge]

hello, i want to see what mods are loaded in a server using steam api, im using the steam library for python, and when i ask what rules are ( where mods are i think), i have this 😅 :

Base Addons v3.15.7\x03��T\x04�%�\x1b"Advanced Combat Environment 3.15.0w\x07\x08�\x04��\x14.', '\x05\x05': '\n@773125288��w�\x04�\x0b\x15.\n@773131200�fٚ\x047��4\n@
8849667119\x1f\x1ds\x04o��\x1f\x1eFAA Fuerzas Armadas Argentinas\x01\x02'}```

how i decode this

what is "\x01\x05"

[raw elbow]

92

[crystal lodge]

its binary, hex... what is that?

this is what arma launcher uses... i expected some list of ids lol, no this

[raw elbow]

it's packed hex, so in Python you should be able to use str.decode() (Python2) or bytes.fromhex() (Python3)

[crystal lodge]

ill try with that, thank you

[raw elbow]

my Python is a bit rusty though 😉

[crystal lodge]

at least now i know its a packed hex lol

[river pollen]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_ServerBrowserProtocol3