| brobostigon | morning boys nd girls. | 10:16 |
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| foobarry | having terrible time with talktalk | 14:17 |
| diddledan | :-( | 14:17 |
| foobarry | anyone know more about this router hack problem? i have a huawi hg523a i think | 14:18 |
| diddledan | I don't know any more than the article I shared with you yesterday, unfortunately | 14:18 |
| foobarry | TalkTalk and other internet providers stopped providing connections to users after they were hit by a huge cyber attack. | 14:18 |
| foobarry | under my wan settings i see 2 connections and 2 public IPs | 14:21 |
| foobarry | thought that was weird | 14:21 |
| zmoylan-pi | can you not just replace the supplied router with another one? | 14:21 |
| diddledan | "Most cyber crime is about money. But every now and then there are bad guys who just want to watch the world burn." | 14:22 |
| diddledan | seems if you're hit then your connection is cut completely by the worm | 14:23 |
| zmoylan-pi | like the early virus writers in the 80s... | 14:23 |
| diddledan | yup | 14:23 |
| diddledan | and the guy that bruce's willi went after who attempted a fire sale. | 14:24 |
| diddledan | oh, no, that was about money, too. | 14:24 |
| zmoylan-pi | but lots of hacks like this gets people nicely wound up and more accepting of the spys charter | 14:25 |
| diddledan | yup | 14:26 |
| diddledan | that's why terrorism wins | 14:26 |
| zmoylan-pi | oh noes, protect us from the evil haxors with legal ones!! | 14:27 |
| zmoylan-pi | meh, i remember bomb scares in dublin in 1970s. my father told me something very wise as i tried to pull him out of shop that was been cleared... 'you're far more likely to be hurt in a panic than an actual attack' | 14:28 |
| diddledan | apparently new legislation in the US allows the agencies to "hack" anyone who has fallen victim to a virus or worm because the malware does bad things | 14:28 |
| zmoylan-pi | break out your commodores and spectrums... it's time to go old school :-D | 14:29 |
| diddledan | zmoylan-pi: I'm so glad the troubles are less prevalent now | 14:29 |
| diddledan | the good friday agreement ftw | 14:29 |
| zmoylan-pi | which may be killed by brexit... | 14:29 |
| diddledan | yeah I heard about that - it's based on the EU human rights thingy isn't it? | 14:30 |
| diddledan | so not being a party to the charter means the agreement gets nullified afair | 14:30 |
| zmoylan-pi | the agreement affects a lot of things and took years to finalise and negotiate... now it'll have to be done all over again... | 14:31 |
| diddledan | of course the idiots that voted for brexit didn't even consider the impact on things like that | 14:32 |
| zmoylan-pi | well they were lied to good and proper... and the liars can now sit back and say it has nothing to do with them | 14:32 |
| diddledan | well the pro-brexit liers aren't part of government so in effect it is nothing to do with them now | 14:33 |
| zmoylan-pi | boris did well out of it | 14:33 |
| diddledan | and then there's complaints over the government not having a plan for the thing they didn't want to happen | 14:33 |
| diddledan | yeah, Boris is doing well | 14:34 |
| diddledan | Trump 2.0 | 14:34 |
| zmoylan-pi | another buffoon with weird hair | 14:34 |
| diddledan | +1 | 14:34 |
| ali1234 | boris is nothing at all like trump | 14:35 |
| ali1234 | except for they both have stupid hair | 14:35 |
| zmoylan-pi | he is intelligent, i'll give him that... | 14:35 |
| zmoylan-pi | he got into quoting poetry at our president who finished every poem he started | 14:36 |
| ali1234 | he also has a functioning sense of humour | 14:36 |
| diddledan | yeah I like Boris for the fun factor | 14:36 |
| zmoylan-pi | kinda makes him more dangerous | 14:36 |
| daftykins | hmm seems Guernsey has decided to abolish the 11+ system at long last, at age 11 kids do a test and are sent to a school based on their ability, it's caused massive labellings of "you're a failure" vs. "you passed" for years | 21:34 |
| daftykins | lazily just repeated that here, the explanation part was to americans in other channels :) | 21:34 |
| * penguin42 failed that, didn't get into grammar school (and still came out with a PhD in the end) | 21:34 | |
| daftykins | i suspect most will have heard of it | 21:34 |
| zmoylan-pi | i got exactly on the cusp for the irish variant in early 80s... i got to pick what school i wanted... | 21:37 |
| daftykins | my my | 21:58 |
| daftykins | what were the choices? | 21:58 |
| zmoylan-pi | secondry schools state or religious. the religious ones have better reputation | 22:11 |
| daftykins | are they mixed gender? | 22:11 |
| zmoylan-pi | a better class of beatings... :-P | 22:11 |
| zmoylan-pi | back then all single sex schools, became mixed gender as i was leaving | 22:12 |
| daftykins | almost finished Voyager season 1, ah | 22:17 |
| zmoylan-pi | it was a short season | 22:18 |
| zmoylan-pi | i currently have 6 on my media player... | 22:18 |
| daftykins | ah har | 22:18 |
| zmoylan-pi | when the borg start showing up it got interesting | 22:18 |
| daftykins | hrmm | 22:23 |
| penguin42 | ok, who broke libavcodec? | 22:48 |
| daftykins | it was like that when i got here, i swear! | 22:48 |
| zmoylan-pi | on the plus side all those feckin gifs stopped playing in the browser... | 22:49 |
| daftykins | o0 | 22:49 |
| zmoylan-pi | works in some tabs, not others... | 22:50 |
| zmoylan-pi | i'd look at fixing it but then there would just be more animated gifs... so you can see why i'm not in a hurry | 22:50 |
| penguin42 | now I need to go and figure out how to get my parents machines to watch h264 cctv cam again | 22:51 |
| zmoylan-pi | try a different browser? | 22:51 |
| daftykins | kodi \o/ | 22:52 |
| daftykins | bed for me, ta-ra \o | 22:56 |
| penguin42 | zmoylan-pi: I don't actually think it's ff's fault; it looks like there's a real libav bug and it's not been updated in the (non-free?) packages | 22:59 |
| penguin42 | hmm, although it's working on my 16.10 box | 23:00 |
| penguin42 | what I'm a bit surprised about is that it's moaning about it for an h264 which is probably using ff's inbuilt decoder | 23:08 |
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