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Fart Sandwiches posted:it just wouldn't surprise me. my partner's books are all hosted online and they disable copy paste by some insanely obfuscated javascript that I didn't feel like reversing because, ugh javascropt, so i wrote a lil thing that will screencapture each page as you visit it and run it through ocr. I have to do a bit of manual cleanup on it because of images, so i gotta figure out a way to automatically crop out images before attempting the ocr. why dont you just disable js
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Feb 26, 2021 18:57
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Gentle Autist posted:why dont you just disable js it probably has some jacked up js to display the text.
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Feb 26, 2021 19:06
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Gentle Autist posted:why dont you just disable js
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Feb 26, 2021 19:07
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just pipe the entirety of the http stream into a txt file surely the words are in there somewhere
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Feb 26, 2021 19:10
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irpoweroutlet posted:the little remotes with like fours buttons that came with some college textbooks, so your professor could throw up a quiz on a the projector in a lecture with 200 people. gently caress, I remember those. They were used as the lazy professors' attendance taker. Fart Sandwiches posted:it just wouldn't surprise me. my partner's books are all hosted online and they disable copy paste by some insanely obfuscated javascript that I didn't feel like reversing because, ugh javascropt, so i wrote a lil thing that will screencapture each page as you visit it and run it through ocr. I have to do a bit of manual cleanup on it because of images, so i gotta figure out a way to automatically crop out images before attempting the ocr. I'm surprised it isn't simpler to run a scriptlet that finds the relevant base element in the page for you to just take from in the dev console, or copy to the clipboard.
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Feb 26, 2021 19:22
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i wanna say they programmed some obsolescence into the clickers too right? like you had to buy one each year or something
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Feb 26, 2021 19:38
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wouldnt be surprised if each textbook publisher used their own standard. like you gotta yse the pearson iclicker for chemistry but then the penguin clickmax for literature but also the mcgraw hill clickmaster pro fo
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Feb 26, 2021 19:41
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Wild EEPROM posted:wouldnt be surprised if each textbook publisher used their own standard. and they're all identical inside except for a hash key inside a 4k eprom chip
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Feb 26, 2021 19:43
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i have never used a clicker in my classes and i never will. if i ever had reason to do a real-time quiz like that i would write my own drat software before making students buy that poo poo. they definitely still exist though.
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Feb 26, 2021 19:44
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when i was in college the psyc 101 professor had a racket with his own textbook that came with a cd "study guide" program called ACE-IT. every single question on the exams was taken from the ACE-IT bank so if you just memorized everything in there you were set. to prevent students from sharing the cd it also came with a copy protection floppy disk that had to be inserted whenever the thing was running, and after installing it on one computer it wouldn't work anywhere else. well i poked at it a bit and it was the dumbest copy protection imaginable: the disk had an encrypted file on it that got written with some hardware-specific information during the install process, keying the floppy to your computer, and that was it. if you had a blank floppy and the unmodified file you could just make your own fresh copy protection disks. so i found a friend who hadn't installed it, took the encrypted file, and put it on the campus DC++ with an ISO of the cd and instructions. hell yeah
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Feb 26, 2021 19:49
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Midjack posted:it probably has some jacked up js to display the text.
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Feb 26, 2021 20:15
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Sagebrush posted:i have never used a clicker in my classes and i never will. if i ever had reason to do a real-time quiz like that i would write my own drat software before making students buy that poo poo. imagining a rig-up with some nixie tubes and a big fresnel lens for realtime leaderboard rankings during Sagebrush quizzes
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Sagebrush posted:when i was in college the psyc 101 professor had a racket with his own textbook that came with a cd "study guide" program called ACE-IT. every single question on the exams was taken from the ACE-IT bank so if you just memorized everything in there you were set. to prevent students from sharing the cd it also came with a copy protection floppy disk that had to be inserted whenever the thing was running, and after installing it on one computer it wouldn't work anywhere else. campus dc++. now there's some funny tech poo poo I remember
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Feb 26, 2021 21:06
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i heard rumors there's a yospos dc++ hub in 2021 but nothing confirmed yet. interesting.
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Feb 26, 2021 21:08
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🤔 i got a fat enough pipe and a decent amount of
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Feb 26, 2021 21:18
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Jonny 290 posted:i heard rumors there's a yospos dc++ hub in 2021 but nothing confirmed yet. interesting. 
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Feb 26, 2021 21:29
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Jonny 290 posted:i heard rumors there's a yospos dc++ hub in 2021 but nothing confirmed yet. interesting. 
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Feb 26, 2021 23:10
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Jonny 290 posted:i heard rumors there's a yospos dc++ hub in 2021 but nothing confirmed yet. interesting. thats not what they meant when they said there was a sad chub in yospos
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Feb 28, 2021 07:10
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Jonny 290 posted:i heard rumors there's a yospos dc++ hub in 2021 but nothing confirmed yet. interesting. lmao id reinstall that garbage for this
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Feb 28, 2021 08:45
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Volmarias posted:gently caress, I remember those. They were used as the lazy professors' attendance taker. LOL at the pleb school concept of “attendance”
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Raluek posted:thats not what they meant when they said there was a sad chub in yospos
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Feb 28, 2021 14:49
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I spent so much time on sadchub back in the day. we also had a campus dc++ hub but it wasn’t nearly as cool
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Feb 28, 2021 15:54
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lol. “sadchub”
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Feb 28, 2021 16:01
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lol what loving universities and books used these clickers? all the Gen Ed / large lecture hall style classes at (top 50) university didn’t have them so trying to figure out if I got lucky, timed it right, or it was especially linked to certain subject / publisher
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Feb 28, 2021 18:16
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El Mero Mero posted:lmao id reinstall that garbage for this getting kicked off DCs because I used blackclaw DC++ so I could not saturate my connection and they’d get real mad about which package version you ran. also weirdos who would question why you downloaded stuff like “why did you grab that HD ts stream? do you actually have a way to decode it?!”
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Hed posted:lol what loving universities and books used these clickers? all the Gen Ed / large lecture hall style classes at (top 50) university didn’t have them so trying to figure out if I got lucky, timed it right, or it was especially linked to certain subject / publisher in my experience it's linked to the professor's personality. some of them are just Tech Enthusiasts and like stuff like that.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I spent so much time on sadchub back in the day. we also had a campus dc++ hub but it wasn’t nearly as cool people would share their system directory on our campus dc++ hub to boost their perceived share size lol
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eschaton posted:LOL at the pleb school concept of “attendance” Sagebrush posted:in my experience it's linked to the professor's personality. some of them are just Tech Enthusiasts and like stuff like that. Mine was a large lecture hall class, with the professor using attendance as an "I'm doing this for your own good, so that you aren't tempted to just skip and then you fail a final  " explanation. I think that was the only class that actually had attendance as a concept, although there were a couple of 100 level classes where going to (I think it was called) recitation was required?
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Feb 28, 2021 19:59
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i installed dc++ and it’s “hashed” my “folders” i’m ready to go
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Feb 28, 2021 20:08
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Agile Vector posted:people would share their system directory on our campus dc++ hub to boost their perceived share size lol yeah this was definitely a thing back in the day. I also vaguely recall a program to misrepresent your file size to DC++
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Feb 28, 2021 20:32
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DC++ at my state college owned so hard. They over-built a statewide fiber net back in the 90's and had its own IPv4 space, so access was limited to that block (literally every computer on campus got its own public IP). When you went home for summer break, you just went to your local library and hopped on it. The uni IT department knew about it and was completely OK with it because it meant that people wouldn't torrent and thus they wouldn't need to waste their day pulling logs for RIAA subpoenas. Also the admins were extremely good at cracking down on file fuckery and you'd get probe'd within minutes of trying to share things out of your system32 folder.
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Mar 1, 2021 02:13
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The i2hub direct connect hub was the best.
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mystes posted:The i2hub direct connect hub was the best. it was a major inlet to the rit dc hub, which was a regional hub for a bit until people got sloppy and the school leaned on the admins to cut it off. rip u of r and rpi shares. that happened, colloquially, a few times to various hub operators speaking of, i remember walking across campus to plug into some slightly faster cat5 drops to get downloads faster. my loving 50ft cable in a backpack so i could sit anywhere
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how do i get on the yospos dc room (and don't say very carefully)
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:how do i get on the yospos dc room (and don't say very carefully) Fishmech handles these things.
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beenz. flooz.
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Mar 10, 2021 07:54
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the fact that programs used to be able to arbitrarily change your default homepage looking at you, bonzi.com
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Mar 14, 2021 05:07
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:the fact that programs used to be able to arbitrarily change your default homepage I mean they still can you just have to install some win program with your eyes closed.
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DamnGlitch posted:I mean they still can you just have to install some win program with your eyes closed. sounds more like a fail program
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