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Cojawfee posted:I guess you don't work for the government then. It seems like the government learns of a word once, and then that's the word that has to be used for the next 100 years. Hold on, I need to do my cyber awareness challenge on my government information system. Financial industry too. "Cyber" has morphed itself into a synonym for "cybersecurity", which is apparently the only remaining extant term with that prefix. We just had our audit process roll through and we spent two months in dread of the Cyber Team.
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Humphreys posted:I remember hearing something crazy that it costs you money to receive SMS on your phones in the USA. Is that really a thing? Maybe about a decade ago?
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Buttcoin purse posted:Weird, I never knew those things existed. I guess none of my hardware was old enough to need it. Yeah that's the one. I use it cause it's pretty compact and i haven't got a huge amount of desk space. It's got a nice feel typing, plus the trackball is optical so it doesn't get gummed up all the time. Mouse roller gunk: now there's a tech relic nobody misses. 
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Last Chance posted:Maybe about a decade ago?
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Humphreys posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QyYaPWasos Usually data plans have unlimited talk/text included, but if you do "pay by the minute" it does.
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I wonder how long it will be before 2-factor auth systems that send you an SMS code will be able to stop saying "SMS FEES MAY APPLY, CONSULT YOUR PHONE CARRIER FOR DETAILS"
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Sam Hall posted:Yeah that's the one. I use it cause it's pretty compact and i haven't got a huge amount of desk space. It's got a nice feel typing, plus the trackball is optical so it doesn't get gummed up all the time. Mouse roller gunk: now there's a tech relic nobody misses. i don't miss it, but it was very satisfying to scrape that gunk off.
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I still use a trackball on all of my computers so I clean gunk a couple times a week.
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We still use the term bootstrap in software development land a lot. It’s become the generic term for stuff that needs to run at startup to get everything ready then handoff to the actual container that runs the app
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Buttcoin purse posted:Indie game designers still like this stuff! It's been superseded by Pixel Art. The last game I remember using Voxels is the decades old Cold War helicopter games. GZDoom does have it as part of it's feature set with a couple of abandoned samples.
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oohhboy posted:It's been superseded by Pixel Art. The last game I remember using Voxels is the decades old Cold War helicopter games. GZDoom does have it as part of it's feature set with a couple of abandoned samples. https://steamcommunity.com/games/562860/announcements/detail/1712950695586677092 quote:You wanted it, we're bringing it! 
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Scroll Lock is dead but it's on every keyboard still.
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Star Man posted:Scroll Lock is dead but it's on every keyboard still. You can still use it for command line stuff
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And Excel though with mouse scrolling it's pretty much never needed
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What about the SysRq key? Do wintel keyboards still have that?
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Yeah doesn’t have to be computer related so stuff like: Dial in Black box Tune
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I have a sudden memory of winsock32.dll or something crashing and as long as I didn't click the OK button I could still be dialed up. I would also use a piece of freeware called Lemon Dialer that would keep track of how long I was online, which not a useful feature to me, but it was a very pretty piece of software featuring a large lemon. https://web.archive.org/web/20010128211900/http://carbello.se/lemon/index.html
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Empress Brosephine posted:Yeah doesn’t have to be computer related so stuff like: All 3 of those are still used regularly, though maybe with a different meaning.
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doctorfrog posted:it was a very pretty piece of software featuring a large lemon. Ah, the good old days.
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BgRdMchne posted:NESticle Genecyst
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There's something you don't normally see, the Build Engine. The game seems interesting enough to keep an eye on but it has to top what I have played on GZDoom or GTFO.
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SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM!
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Voxels are used in almost everything these days. Fortnite and Minecraft use them to store world geometry, other games use them for light and fog volumes.
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Last Chance posted:Maybe about a decade ago? A decade ago is roughly when they starting offering unlimited texting for an extra fee. It was only around 5 years ago that the US carriers dropped all extra charges for them, probably in no small part due to the rise of IP-based messaging programs. In particular, Apple sending messages between iPhones over the internet by default was probably a real kick in the teeth to mobile providers.
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Texting as an add-on or fee is really tied to that era where anything web/internet related was concerned with OH gently caress WE USED 37 MBs OF DATA/WE HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL THAT BANDWIDTH USED. That very quickly fell out of an actual concern but the providers love having add-ons. I'm actually quite pissed at Sprint because their base plans throttle you to loving SD quality streams and poo poo. I was all set to jump ship to their service but gently caress that loving bullshit.
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FilthyImp posted:Texting as an add-on or fee is really tied to that era where anything web/internet related was concerned with OH gently caress WE USED 37 MBs OF DATA/WE HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL THAT BANDWIDTH USED. Remember paying three bucks for a "custom" (pre-made) ringtone? FilthyImp posted:I'm actually quite pissed at Sprint because their base plans throttle you to loving SD quality streams and poo poo. I was all set to jump ship to their service but gently caress that loving bullshit. Wouldn't a VPN or other tunnel take care of that? Sprint would be able to see a bunch of data going by, but they'd have no idea if it was a video stream or just a big download, since it'd be encrypted to hell and back.
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Charging for texts was stupid because it was something your phone was already doing for free.
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When the iPhone was first released, AT&T’s billing system was unprepared for the advent of unlimited data. Every time the phone opened a connection, a new line item was generated for the bill. The price for all was $0.00, but AT&T dutifully printed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdULhkh6yeA https://www.computerworld.com/article/2540432/mobile-wireless/iphone-owners-rail-at-at-t-for-wasting-paper-on-massive-bills.html
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Cojawfee posted:Charging for texts was stupid because it was something your phone was already doing for free. Yep. The whole reason for the seemingly arbitrary 160 character message length limit is because they just packed the SMS data into some unused space in the packets the phone was already receiving anyways.
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Platystemon posted:When the iPhone was first released, AT&T’s billing system was unprepared for the advent of unlimited data.
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doctorfrog posted:I have a sudden memory of winsock32.dll or something crashing and as long as I didn't click the OK button I could still be dialed up. The command line to fix a winsock crash was 'netsh winsock reset' followed by 'winipcfg' and resetting the IP address. I remember Windows 3.1 systems running Trumpet Winsock because the Microsoft TCP/IP implementation didn't natively support windows sockets until Windows 95.
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Cojawfee posted:Charging for texts was stupid because it was something your phone was already doing for free. Even stupider was charging the recipient rather than the sender. For either calls or texts.
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Data Graham posted:What about the SysRq key? Do wintel keyboards still have that? Not on a recent Dell Latitude laptop keyboard, but I haven't seen a desktop keyboard without one yet. They're used by Linux, so probably not going away on normal keyboards any time soon.
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