I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.
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Laziest thing I’ve done is nothing. Much lazier than doing something.
I don’t wash dishes I use paper plates and forks.
We can’t get a dishwasher. The pipes to the house are too messed up. The sink was designed for someone way taller than me so I have to lean forward and get soaked on the cabinet that tilts forwards towards me instead of back towards the sink.
I put clothes on hangers and hung them in the doorway between the kitchen and the rest of the house to take with me when I eventually head in that direction. I left the clothes there for over a week while I had to twist to get around them, and only took them to my room to put away when I did laundry the next week…and ran out of space to hang the clean shirts.
I have remoted in to my desktop from my laptop or vice versa many times to close a video that either I left playing or the cats have unpaused by walking on the keyboard
Called someone in the next room to bring me something.
Adhd?
yo pass me some adhd
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Instead of
history | grep whateverYou can just do CTRL+R (in bash at least)
and with zsh and fzf you get a nice fuzzy search window: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins%2Ffzf%2FREADME.md
I never remember this when it’d actually be useful
I got on Fediverse bc I was too lazy to consume what the algorithm fed me
when my apartment gets too messy i just move
I don’t wash stains on walls from dogs or kids. I just paint every few years
maybe we’re related
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I SSHed my laptop to turn it off, even though my laptop is not that far away from my bed
I WoL my second computer to turn it on, even though it’s at an arm’s reach (but I’d have to stretch a bit to reach it)
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.
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.
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.
How hot does your room get in such a process?
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
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.
Damn, that’s enough to deform PLA 3d prints
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
Fireworks are explosives by definition so yes
Pretty much everything is illegal here except maybe like sparklers and snakes. I only had pretty tame stuff like Roman candles I bought a county over from mine. Lotta wildfires here.
Depending on location they can all be illegal. Firecrackers specifically are illegal in my region, IIRC.
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.
Depression is expensive. I lost a couple crock pots that way. Finally found disposable liners!
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…
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.
As someone who has spent their fair share of time deep-cleaning greasy commercial kitchens, I believe the stainless steel scrubby is one of humankind’s greatest creations.
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
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/sautéing.
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).
I usually account for that, by starting to heat up before that
Maybe a thing of preference :-)
Fr so liberating
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.
I pirated a game I legit bought.
I would argue that this is not possible.
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.
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
In the first example, it is not fair use, because you don’t buy digital copies of games—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).
And you have case law to back this up?
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.
That’s a lot of work in the short term to be lazy in the long, and I am impressed
You can disassemble programs like that? and see what’s inside? can you explain like I’m four and three quarters?
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.
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,r2instead of35397176or 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.
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.
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?
I made an script in Python to batch rename like 10 images in a folder.
What’s the point of automation if not to save seconds by wasting hours?
This immediately came to mind
That’s valid
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.
A fing-longerer
