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[–] 83 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

I once threw away sink full of dirty dishes rather than hand wash them. They had been there for like two weeks and were really nasty. I think that was at the height of my depression.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Been there as well

    And I tried to save a pan, but the fat and dust would never get of it, and I needed to throw it away anyway...

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    That's why I like stainless steel cookware. If there's a tough mess stuck to them, I just switch from my usual sponge to the stainless steel scouring pad and wear it back down to the metal.

    Can do similar with cast iron, but it can turn into more work if you need to reseason it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Since some months now we have a carbon steel pan and I absolutely love it, because it's also very thin and adapts quickly to temperature changes

    And also has the advantage to clean it quite roughly

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That quick temperature change sounds like a double edged sword to me, as a thicker base means it can hold its temperature as you add cold/wet food, which might result in steaming food instead of frying/sautΓ©ing.

    On that note, temperature control also helps making cleaning easier. If your oil is heated before you add the food, the food will tend to not stick as much (though there's a bunch of other factors at play, so I still get use out of my scouring pad).

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    [–] 69 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I made an script in Python to batch rename like 10 images in a folder.

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    [–] 46 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I got a pair of slippers with brushes on for when you clean the floor, I put it on a remote controlled car so I didn't have to get off the couch.

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago (18 children)

    I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.

    I pirated a game I legit bought. This was way back in the days when some games had this annoying copy protection where you had to look up words from the manual before you could play. Enter the 3rd word on line 7 of page 28. This sort of thing.

    It got old really fast, so I disassembled the binary and saw where it was calling on a random number generator to select the page. I changed just 1 assembly instruction so that the generator would always return 0. Then it said look up so-and-so and the word turned out to be "time". After that, all I had to do was enter "time" at launch and I tossed out the manual.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    You can disassemble programs like that? and see what's inside? can you explain like I'm four and three quarters?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yes. Assembly is barely abstracted from the actual machine instructions, to the point where the process of translating it is easily reversible. Reading assembly code is a thing all on it's own, though.

    There's specialised software available for this kind of reverse-engineering now, too, if you're doing something more complicated than just looking for and cutting out a system call.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. At the lowest level, the CPU reads a program as a bunch of numbers, where each number is a very simple instruction such as "add 2 values together". Assembly language is a more human-readable version of machine code, where you can see something more like add r1,r2 instead of 35397176 or whatever numeric code means "add the value in register 1 to 2" for some hypothetical processor. (Registers are where the processor keeps values loaded in from the RAM.)

    So in my case, if I saw that the program was making some system call to the random number generator and the calling conventions used by the operating system always put the return value in register 0, I could replace the call with something like clr r0 (clear the value in register 0). It's a pretty simple hack. So the "generator" now always generates zero.

    These days, programs are often code-signed and if you start messing around like that, they'll get flagged as malware. But it worked fine back in those open and trusting days.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Isn't there a way to manually whitelist modified software on your AV, if it's your own machine?

    With modern software, there's also the problem of just learning whatever weird stack the game is running on, to know where to look.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    That's a good question. It may depend on the platform?

    Right now, I'm doing most of my coding on a Mac. I noticed I get into trouble when trying to move the program to another machine. The OS seems to tag the executable with some metadata that runs afoul of Gatekeeper. Removing said metadata seems to get you past that. But that's for in-house software that has never been registered with Apple or anything. I've never actually tried modifying a program that has been registered, so I'm not sure if there are any extra levels to this?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    I pirated a game I legit bought.

    I would argue that this is not possible.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    It definitely is, and I've done it several times.

    One example is Minecraft, which I legit bought but no longer legitimately own, because when Microsoft took over they forced people to make Microsoft accounts and no longer allow Mojang accounts to be used to authenticate. Because I didn't make a Microsoft account, I no longer own the game, so now I play a pirated copy because I can no longer legitimately play it.

    Another example is some games made by studios that went bust and there's no longer any legit distributor of the game, so the only copy you can download is a pirated copy.

    It's still piracy if it circumvents the intended method of distribution and validation that you own a licence.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (9 children)

    Piracy cannot happen if it's fair use. And this is fair use (I'm referring to downloading a game you already own, not the thing about dead studios).

    Piracy is the intention/result, not the method. If you bought a video game, you own it and are allowed to own a backup of it. How you get that backup is irrelevant

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (8 children)

    In the first example, it is not fair use, because you don't buy digital copies of gamesβ€”you buy a licence to play the game. My Minecraft licence would have been revoked when I didn't create a Microsoft account. Game companies can impose whatever conditions on a game licence they like (so long as the condition is not otherwise illegal).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (7 children)

    And you have case law to back this up?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (6 children)

    Case law is specific to jurisdiction. I don't know where you live, and I've not said where I live. The way buying and selling most digital copies of games is through buying and selling licences, though some software you do pay for the download itself rather than paying for a licence. That doesn't require case law; that's literally just what it is, like how if I sign a contract I don't need case law to demonstrate that what I've signed is a contract, it just is. Case law adjudicates matters of law which are in dispute, not figuring out whether a spade is a spade.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Yeah just because you say "this is not in dispute," doesn't make it true. The reason there appears to be no dispute is because video game companies haven't brought a suit against anyone for this specific thing. Until then, it's nebulous and completely up for debate.

    Video game manufacturers have lost several emulation suits in the past, and I would not be one bit surprised if that's the reason why they never tried to go after this in courts.

    Bleem! successfully won their countersuit against Sony because of fair use.

    It doesn't hurt that there is this precedent regarding VHS:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios%2C_Inc.

    Until Nintendo or Sony, etc actually tries to sue someone for doing it, then it's up for dispute.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    What I'm saying is not in dispute is the fact that you buy licences to play games and that licences can be revoked. Both of those are objective fact. It's a separate question as to whether or not a given state wants to enact punishment against a former licence holder.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's not objective fact unless it's been tested in court. And this has not.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    That's an insane litmus test of objective fact. I'd say a significant amount of court rulings go blatantly against reality lmfao.

    You can't test things in court that aren't disputed because someone has to dispute it... Who's gonna dispute that a contract is a contract? Read the text it says when you buy a game. It says what it says. No court can say a document doesn't say the words it literally explicitly says.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Well I'm sorry that you don't understand case law, but that's exactly how it works in situations like this.

    Who's gonna dispute that a contract is a contract?

    Nobody now, because that's a precedent that's already been set. In a court.

    Something that has not happened for the situation we're talking about.

    Edit: to be clear, it's not necessarily true that nobody would dispute that actually. There are likely numerous cases regarding identifying the validity of a contract on the books, which is how we know exactly what one is.

    If someone were to come up with an interesting enough situation that warrants a new case, then that outcome would be added to the list of cases that define what a contract is (do a Google search, there are already a whole bunch like that).

    That's literally how the court system works.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    So what are you suggesting is in question then? The licences sold for games will differ from game to game; if one of then were legally unsound, that wouldn't automatically make all of them legally unsound, and obviously that's local to the legal system in which that finding was made. That selling licences to play games is categorically unlawful? I think that's not a particularly plausible outcome, and is unlikely to propagate beyond the given jurisdiction the finding happens in if such a ruling were to happen.

    the court system

    There's no "the court system". There are court systems. You've only linked to US case law, which, for instance, doesn't apply to me. This does just seem to be a legal fetish (in the anthropological sense, not the sexual sense). A court ruling something or other doesn't even have worldwide legal implications, let alone worldwide epistemological implications.

    As for what counts as piracy (a separate matter to the rabbit hole we've gone down), something being a legal term does not mean that the definition of the word matches 1:1 with its legal description. I'm sure we can both think of examples of murder which is not criminalised as murder by a given government, for example. Words are defined by their use, and people use piracy to refer to a method of obtainment.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Ordered delivery from across the street because it was raining and I didn't want to…

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    I did that with a pizzeria that was in my building.

    Instructions for delivery : Go upstairs.

    I wasn't depressed or anything it was more a little bit of a joke to the delivery man.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    We rented an apartment for 5 months after listing our house for sale because we didn’t want to have to clean it and leave the house fora few hours every time someone wanted to come do a viewing.

    In our defense… we had a 3yr old, a hairy dog, and were preparing to leave the country permanently, which took 10 months of nonstop preparation on top of working full time, so I still think it was worth the money to save us the extra work. But yeah, probably the laziest thing I’ve done.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    I dunno if laziest but my landlord certainly thought so. I had bedbugs and there's so much crap you have to do prep for the extermination like remove all your clothes and wash them three times on hot, flip through all your books to check for them, the list was ridiculous. I'm way too lazy for that so I paid the extra $600 out of pocket for the "good" treatment where they just super heat your entire home to kill them and all you have to do is remove things that might melt or explode.

    Thankfully the exterminators found the illegal fireworks I had hidden and forgotten about, removed them, and didn't say anything to the landlord.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The heat treatment was the only thing that worked when I had to deal with those little fuckers. I'm sorry you had to deal with them, but I'm glad they're gone now. Those things aren't just physically irritating, they fuck with your head.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Last part of last sentence absolutely. Reminded me of when I moved to sleeping on the couch while waiting for the extermination day. While doing couch life I read that bed bugs are attracted to carbon dioxide so breathing will pull them toward you anyway. There is no escape.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    How hot does your room get in such a process?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    55 C or thereabouts. I was at work when they did it. When I came home it felt like I'd left the heat on full blast all day

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Yea that's what we did at a public library I worked at whenever a bed bug or signs of it were spotted. All the books in the same space were considered contaminated and we put them all in a special heater.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Illegal fireworks? is that code for explosives?

    I did a quick check and looks like there are two categories of fireworks above what regular people can freely buy in a store...

    https://eclatsetincelants.fr/blog/reglementation-feux-artifice-france

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I've found alternate means of watching a show because I couldn't be assed to open my authenticator app more than once.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Pissed out of a window rather than walk ten feet to the bathroom.

    In fairness, I had the flu, and was a teenager. Feeling like hammered vulture shit, with a window right there and open anyway? No way was I getting out of bed. The window was just barely above the top of the mattress, so all I had to do was roll over, kinda prop up, and let 'er rip.

    Surprisingly, not only did it not go horribly wrong, but the little forethought I had with a fever that high managed to prevent any drips from being a problem. Well, a problem then. Still had to wash the towel later, and that left me without a clean towel for fever sweats, but I had bandanas I could use for that.

    Look, I was creeping into dangerous fever levels lol. Not the best set of decisions, but it worried out in the end

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Where was the pee falling to? Any neighbor that could have seen?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Out into the yard. It had plenty of arc what with being backed up a good bit lol.

    Our yard had plenty of trees and shrubberies even back then (now, it's essentially a meadow), so for someone to have seen anything at all they would have had to be in the yard itself, and thus deserved to see a dick hanging out a window and pissing on them :)

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    I put off procrastinating.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Checked my phone to get the current weather. The alternative was walking a meter and opening the curtains. But then I had to get up.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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    Instead of history | grep whatever

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    You can just do CTRL+R (in bash at least)

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Back in my teenage years, when you used to change TV channel by walking over to the TV and physically pressing a button, myself and two friends (likely all a bit stoned), sat on a sofa opposite the TV, invented a ~3 metre long "TV prodding device" from gaffer tape and "anything we could find within arm's reach".

    I think we spent about half an hour building this device, rather than any of us standing up, taking a few steps forward and physically pressing the button.

    The device succeeded.

    It fell apart after a few uses.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I SSHed my laptop to turn it off, even though my laptop is not that far away from my bed

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    I didn’t read a book because it was in the other room.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    when my apartment gets too messy i just move

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Your mom. Sorry if this had been mentioned already, it's a long line.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    I buy new socks instead of washing them.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago*

    I remember when my grandfather died, we were going through his belongings and found a drawer full of electric razors. Why did he have so many?!? Then we noticed every one was full of hair, and concluded that he bought a new one every time it filled up rather than emptying it.

    Then years later, my parents became snowbirds who went to Mexico every winter, and they stayed with this other family who were locals. They got good at Spanish and one day I guess, my dad was talking to the other dad and they burst out laughing. I asked what that was all about, and he said the Mexican dad's father also had a drawer full of electric razors, and he never understood why?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Pro tip: If you buy tons of the same type of socks such as 20 pairs of black you can wash and dry them and they pair easily. It's less effort than going to buy new ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Gosh I've been trying to force myself to do that for like 5 years already. I'm just too lazy to spend some time and choose a good fit (instead of just buying random socks every once in a while). What brand and type of socks would you recommend??

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Buy one pack of 5, if good go back and buy 3+ more packs leaving some unopened and throw out old if not find better. Look at what sock you like currently and try finding similar. I like thin/semi thin. I don't do brands, just feel with the hands.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    This is exactly what I do. I have like 30 identical pairs of socks. They just get dumped in a pile in my sock drawer, and I grab two off the top of the pile every day.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I do this, except for the part where they're all identical.

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  • I dated a girl who did this. I asked why her socks were always mismatched. She looked at me like it should be obvious, and said β€œI pull two out of the drawer. If they match, I know I’m going to have a good day.” I said she could just match her socks, and then she’d have a good day every day. But apparently that was missing the point.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    I literally spit coffee reading this lol

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    I'm too lazy to keep track of all the lazy shit I do

    I have no way to gauge it

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    I was watching "In Bruges" on TV, and couldn't understand the version of English they spoke, so I downloaded it with subtitles and watched that.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I did the same. I wanted to watch a TV series of which I own the box set but I was too lazy to get the box, put the disc in and go through the menu for every three episodes or so. So I pirated it.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    go through the menu for every three episodes

    So many providers these days STILL don't get that the more control you take away the less incentive people have to buy their product. Oh I have to see a mandatory FBI piracy warning splash screen and the speed control is locked at 1.5x max? Jeez it's a shame you can't compete with the pirated file that has no nag screens and I can blow through at fucking 20x if I want.

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