[RANT] GitHub Censoring TOR & General GitHub Stupidity

GitHub "brogrammers" censoring TOR. 

GitHub stupidity. Surprisingly "Create repository" still worked.

[RANT] More Notepad++ Stupidity ("Word Wrap" and "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" Shortcuts)

Notepad++ Shortcut Mapper.

No default shortcut for "Word Wrap". No search in "Shortcut Mapper". WTF!

Default shortcuts for "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" are using numpad. To unfuck this, one has to rebind Ctrl+NumPad+ and Ctrl+Numpad- to more reasonable Ctrl+= and Ctrl+-.

Also see:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/04/rant-notepad-bugs-perfect-text-editor.html
and
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/06/rant-textadept-vs-notepad-textadept.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/noted-textadept-portable.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2012/04/notes-notepad-shortcuts.html

[RANT] Chromium (Chrome) Pop Up Exploit

TLDR: Google Chrome is vulnerable. This shit never happened in FireFox.

Fuck Google.

What happend?

INSMODSCUM turned off ScriptSafe, a Chrome JavaScript blocker and went surfing the seedy, shady, dark waves of the World Wide Web. 

A pop up (above) appeared, that basically froze Chrome. The only solution was to Ctrl-Shift-Esc and kill chrome.exe in Windows Task Manager. 

All the tabs (INSMODSCUM likes to have a lot of tabs open) were lost. Fuck you Google brogrammers and brosigners, who instead of securing your fucking browser, are pumping out GUI changes every fucking six weeks.

INSMODSCUM restarted Chrome, checked History, copied offending URL. IANAE but it seems the exploit code was in the URL.

INSMODSCUM then realized that Google doesn't give a fuck about this, and will reply with "update to the latest version, that we just released 2 hours ago, further dumbing down the already retarded user interface", so submitting anything to Google is useless.

Please see this: http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/06/protip-ban-block-kill-nuke-google.html

ALSO SEE:

http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/05/rant-google-deleted-my-gmail-address.html

http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/rant-brogrammers-and-brosigners-dumbing.html

[RANT][PROTIP] uBlock Origin vs uBlock

TLDR: use uBlock Origin

If you gonna fork something, pick a new fucking name. This whole renaming shit only causes confusion.

If you need to make a decision which Chrome ad blocking extensions to use compare the two programmers:

Raymond Hill AKA "gorhill", "uBlock Origin", original uBlock
https://github.com/gorhill?tab=repositories

Chris Aljoudi, new uBlock
https://github.com/chrisaljoudi?tab=repositories

Clearly gorhill has more applicable programming experience compared to Chris (who doesn't even have a cool name :) )

Bonus: Aljoudi's website (https://chrismatic.io/) has the hipster-brogrammer-brosigner feel. Gorhill's website (http://www.raymondhill.net/) doesn't even work (at least on my computer). A broken website is better than a working hipster-brogrammer-brosigner website IMHO.

https://twitter.com/gorhill
One tweet, because real men don't tweet.

Also see:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/04/protip-what-happed-to-ublock-aka.html

[RANT] TextAdept vs Notepad++ (TextAdept CAPS LOCK & Notepad++ "Regressions")

INSMODSCUM hates Notepad++ and has tried very hard  to adapt to TextAdept, but it has been hard. The following are some of my problems with TextAdept.

Always show tab bar.
Highlight current tab.
Awkward naming.

The above are not really "problems", but here's one: CAPS LOCK. Notepad++,  happily ignores CAPS LOCK, TextAdept on the other hand, refuses to do anything if your CAPS LOCK is keyed.

Maybe this is some design decision, but it is infuriating.

TextAdept is programmed by *one* guy, "Mitchell" (it was not easy finding this guy's full name BTW), and apart from the design choices  and the CAPS LOCK issue INSMODSCUM hasn't experienced any bugs. Notepad++ on the other hand seems to be programmed by the same guys who programmed Adobe Reader and Flash.

Source:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/

12 Jun 2015 01:27:00

In 6.7.9 release, 2 context menus are added on status bar, sort lines features are enhanced, copy (to clipboard) in found results panel and find in files modal dialog are improved, and the new feature launch a new Notepad++ instance with administrator privilege to save the system protection file is added.

21 Jun 2015 11:18:00

A critical issue (hanging on exit) and a [IMS: begin strikethrough text] regression (JavaScript is not recognized in HTML document) [IMS: end strikethrough text] have has been fixed in 6.7.9.1 release.

23 Jun 2015 00:31:43

A regression (JavaScript is not recognized in HTML document) has been fixed in 6.7.9.2 release.

This is the second "regression" that INSMODSCUM have noticed. The guys behind Notepad++ are the most incompetent programmers on Earth. People have been editing text for forty fucking years, just how hard is it not to fuck up your software with every needless update?

ALSO SEE:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.de/2015/04/rant-notepad-bugs-perfect-text-editor.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.de/2015/03/noted-textadept-portable.html

[RANT] Google Chrome Portable IS NOT TRULY PORTABLE!!! Portable Apps LIES! & Right Click To Play Flash

"Portable Chrome" from PortableApps.com

INSMODSCUM has used Iron Portable (which is just a Chrome clone with ads built in), Chrome Portable (which is just Chromium with PDF and Flash plugin and h264 proprietary codec) and Chromium Portable.

For the uninitiated, the idea behind "portable" software is that you settings-preferences-options-configuration is saved in current directory, so e.g. you can move software between different computers and keep all your shit.

Well, I'll just TLDR this for you now: DO NOT USE "Portable Chrome" from "portableapps.com". It is not portable. When you start "Portable Chrome" on another computer you WILL LOSE your data. All of your extensions, your Chrome config will be gone. Only bookmarks survive.

Chrome detected that some of your settings were corrupted by another program and reset them to their original defaults.

Yes, it seems "portableapps.com" is quick to put copyrights and trade marks all over their shit, but when it comes to delivering, they fall spectacularly short.

Click-To-Play should be enabled by default, but Google is an advertisement company, so why would they enable Click-To-Play thus disabling Flash ads?

Solution: Portable Chromium before ~ 42.0.2311.22. Why that number? Because brogrammers at Google decided to dumb down the click-to-play plugin interaction. Instead of a quick mouse click, one now has to right click and select from a menu. Two actions instead of one, another unnecessary change for change's sake from the dumbfucks at Google.

Portable Chromium 42 ("Google Chrome" is based on "Chromium")
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/05/protip-noted-100-portable-chromium-with.html

[Closed] Google Chrome Portable (and Local) resets extensions and settings when profile moved between machines
http://portableapps.com/node/42637
Google Chrome - deleted profile
http://portableapps.com/node/42591

Also see:

http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/05/protip-noted-100-portable-chromium-with.html

and

http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/05/rant-google-deleted-my-gmail-address.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/05/protip-do-not-update-to-chrome-42.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/04/pro-tip-anti-html5-greasemonkey.html

[PROTIP] DO NOT UPDATE TO Chrome 42 (Google Nerfed Bookmarks)

Brogrammers at Google fucked up Chrome once again. This time they fucked with the bookmarks and managed to make them more cumbersome and slower to use. Nice "flowy" "user experience" AKA needless animation, straight from the Jonny Ives Playbook.

INSMODSCUM learned the hard way to always backup Chrome Portable before testing the new version.

Also see:

http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/05/rant-google-deleted-my-gmail-address.html

http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/rant-brogrammers-and-brosigners-dumbing.html

[RANT] Google Deleted My Gmail Address & Google Sucks

Fucking Google.

Fuck.

INSMODSCUM recently lost a 10 year old Gmail address. Let's see...

Google fuckups:

Logo. Recent logo redesign was done by a kindergartner. The design process probably included vomiting or defecating, probably both.

Blogger. The redesign a couple of years ago is shit. Productivity decrease.

Gmail. Gmail had an almost perfect user interface about 10 years ago,  WHY THE FUCK do I have to click "More". I have a 42 inch monitor. One now needs a mobile phone to get an email. And they stole my fucking email.

YouTube. Google redesigns YouTube every year, and every year the usability stays the same, i.e. shitty.

Chrome. No vertical style tabs, forty-fucking-*checks-wikipedia*-three versions later. http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/rant-brogrammers-and-brosigners-dumbing.html
I don't know if it's appropriate to blame Google for Firefox slowly becoming Chrome, but I will.

Google Chrome Config Screen

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of idiotic design decisions taken by Google on Chrome. Consider the location of "Download Location". In FireFox (IIRC) Tools->Options will show you the download location. In Chrome, one has to click "Show advanced settings..." AKA "I'm not an idiot" and scroll three fucking pages to do the same. All this while half of your fucking screen is occupied by whitespace instead of config categories, like every other software e.g. VLC.

VLC config screen.

Search. Google's bread and butter has been raped by SEO and spam for the last five years. Google *is* losing the battle.

TLDR: thank you Google brosigners and brogrammers for fucking my shit up. Get off my lawn.

Also see:

http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/04/pro-tip-anti-html5-greasemonkey.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/rant-brogrammers-and-brosigners-dumbing.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/slashdot-firefox-sucks-slashdot-quotes.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2012/11/pro-tip-rogue-browser-extensions.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2013/03/pro-tip-firefox-adblock-without.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2012/08/verticaltree-style-tabs-and-other-must.html

and

Jony Ive is a Senior Vice President, Design, Apple
http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com/

Related:

http://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7439051&cid=49735255Tweets To Appear In Google Search Results

Re:OK, but seriously... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @10:02AM (#49735255)

Google has been shooting themselves in the foot for years. Google search is already crap compared to how it used to be. The same for Gmail, YouTube, Sites and Groups.

I switched to Bing a couple of years ago and never looked back. Bing search results are better than Google, with *no advertising* and I get credit for every search I perform which I can later exchange for a reward, such as a gift card, or I can have Microsoft donate the money to a charity. I also switched to Outlook a while back and it's much faster, cleaner and better than Gmail.

Now if only Microsoft would hurry up and create their own video sharing service, I can finally dump YouTube.

[FILM] Chappie (2015), Ex Machina (2015), Black Mirror (2011), Her (2013)

Ex Machina (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752
8.0, 41,000

INSMODSCUM is puzzled by this movie. It is either very good or very bad. IMHO this isn't really SCI FI, but more of a mix of everything.

Black Mirror (2011)

Thanks Charlie Brooker! I'm gonna have to sit on my hands!

One of the actors (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1727304) played a robot in an episode of Black Mirror, a brilliant show written by Charlie Brooker. Black Mirror is on the same level as The Wire and Breaking Bad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/
8.8, 31,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)

Her (2013)

FUCKING WINDOWS! Fucked up MBR (Master Boot Record) probably.

Another recent technology film that is an overrated, hipster,  shite is Her (2013). Her (2013) is also about machines, but it is written by and for idiots.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

Chappie (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1823672/
7.2, 48,000
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chappie/
30%, 2015.05.19

Yes, there are problems with Chappie, but why do 70% of critics hate it?. INSMODSCUM likes Blomkamp, District 9 and Elysium were both entertaining and had a message.

Recall Matt Damon programming in assembly in Elysium; Blomkamp is very good at combining realism and sometimes over-the-top action.

Rotten Tomatoes gives Furious 7 (2015) an 82% and Avengers: Another Fucking Superhero Movie (2015) a 74%.

There's something wrong with these numbers. INSMODSCUM never cared for Rotten Tomatoes, and after this SNAFU you should not either.

TLDR: Black Mirror is like The Wire, see it; you may like Ex Machine (2015), you *should* like Chappie (2015), ignore Rotten Tomatoes .

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Chappie

Also see:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.de/2015/05/film-shaun-sheep-movie-2015.html
RT gives this 100%, WTF!

[RANT] EZTV Is Dead

EZTV was run by Nazis, so INSMODSCUM is happy EZTV is dead, but to be honest, EZTV did have a nice interface and it will be missed.

Seems the only alternatives are ETTV (ExtraTorrent) and RARBG. In terms of quality they are probably about the same, but RARBG has a website that actually works (ExtraTorrent does not allow sorting!), so it seems the only good alternative.

http://torrentfreak.com/eztv-shuts-down-after-hostile-takeover-150518/

Also see:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2014/12/pro-tip-best-alternative-to-piratebay.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/protip-kickass-torrents-scam-three.html

[RANT][LINKS] Seniority Mafia, MilitaryPhotos.net & NightWatch Death

http://www.militaryphotos.net/

Recently MilitaryPhotos.net, a forum with a self-explanotry name, died after about 10 years of operation.

Less recently INSMODSCUM registered an account there and very soon was offered the following unsolicited advice: something like "lurk on the forum before posting".

INSMODSCUM has been lurking on that forum since 2003 or 2004, and has an account from that time to prove it.

So fuck you, all the "Senior Members" who give unsolicited advice consisting of "lurking". INSMODSCUM call this "Seniority Mafia". It seems every large forum has one, even WikiPedia, although in case of WikiPedia it's usually called a "cabal" rather than "mafia".

Insurgency Mod Scum readers will recall that "seniority" is a frequent tactic of cheaters. Once these cheaters are accepted into a group, one can literally describe it as a "mafia". The group will stand by its own, even with VAC bans and other obvious evidence. They will protect and defend their collective reputation.

It is the same thing with trolls, low information and noise generators on Internet forums. Once the rats get in on the ground floor, they are very hard to kill.

Another information source that recently died is NightWatch.

http://www.kforcegov.com/Solutions/IAO/NightWatch.aspx

[BOOK] [RANT] [LINK] WTF Gawker! - The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014 2E

Everybody is getting into national security blogging these days, even Gawker. Gawker is usually blocked both mentally and electronically in INSMODSCUM's house, so INSMODSCUM was surprised when "Phase Zero" (one must have a cool sounding name if one writes about national or cyber security) got through.

http://phasezero.gawker.com/

An Intelligence Vet Explains ISIS, Yemen, and "the Dick Cheney of Iraq"
http://phasezero.gawker.com/an-intelligence-vet-explains-isis-yemen-and-the-dick-1699407909


The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014 2E

ISBN 978-1498706896

http://93.114.44.238/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=1003810

http://ul.to/s2ft6ttm/1498706894.rar
http://rapidgator.net/file/eae349e95a5079441172757310332083/1498706894.rar.html
http://uploadrocket.net/o542abkm5zcp/1498706894.rar.html

http://bookgiga.com/?p=463978

http://avxhome.se/ebooks/Politics_Sociology/1498706894.html

Also see:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/05/notedlinks-killing-of-osama-bin-laden.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2013/02/zero-dark-thirty-torture-new-xxx.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2013/04/auto-erotic-asphyxiation-michael-bay.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2013/04/ghost-wars-miami-vice-as-definitive.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2013/02/dear-michael-mann-i-want-my-gunfight.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2012/11/noted-how-single-spy-helped-turn.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2012/11/noted-rise-of-drones-or-bruce-schneier.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2011/10/cias-pussy-galore-flying-circus-secrey.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2011/05/two-minutes-hate.html

[RANT] Notepad++ Bugs & Perfect Text Editor

Text editors have been around for a while now, e.g. vi, emacs. Question: How fucking hard is it to not fuck on up? Answer: Apparently very fucking hard.

Apart from introducing new bugs (infuriating!), Notepad++ went full retard...:

"Notepad++ 6.7.4   Je suis Charlie edition"
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.7.4-je-suis-charlie-edition.html

FFS, no wonder there's so much bugs in Notepad++. It is run by French.

Hacking of Notepad++ site
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hacking-npp-site.html

15 Jan 2015 01:49:00

The Notepad++ official site was hacked on 12th January 2015, due to its controversial new version 6.7.4 "Je suis Charlie" edition, released on 10th January 2015. The site was restored on the same day.
The binaries of this edition are on another server and they are not compromised (the SHA1 published on 11th January 2015 is always available on SF). The automatic typing in Notepad++ "Je suis Charlie" edition after installation is a feature. Sorry for the panic.

The message of the defacement accused Notepad++ of inciting hatred towards Islam and accusing Islam of supporting terrorism. The statements of Notepad++ "Je suis Charlie" edition support nothing but the freedom of expression and only that. The fact of Notepad++ supporting the "Je suis Charlie" movement has nothing to do with any accusation towards a specific community. In fact the "Je suis Charlie" movement in France, as far as I can tell, deserves no label of racism or of Islamophobia. I have many Muslim friends who are for "Je suis Charlie". And sincerely, I don't think that two extremist fools can stand for all Muslims or Islam itself.

Regarding the "freedom of expression", I have read (from the social networks and your emails) that your most important argument is for "respect" and I'm all for respectful speech. The point of the message in the "Je suis Charlie" edition is that no one should be killed for any speech, even if disrespectful. This is the core concept of the Freedom of Speech. I believe everyone should agree with it.

If you don't like "Je suis Charlie" edition, that's fine. You can still use Notepad++ v6.7.3 - they are the same in terms of features and bug fixes.
notepad-plus-plus.org could be hacked over and over again, but I will always find a way to distribute Notepad++ "Je suis Charlie" edition - that's my freedom of expression which I claim as my right.

How can you hack a website consisting mostly of HTML pages (http://notepad-plus-plus.org)? Well, ask the French.

April Fools' Day Prank: Site hacked by CLF
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/april-fools-day-prank-2015.html
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/aprilFoolsDay2015/prank.html [DO NOT CLICK]

Yes, yes, very clever.

The Perfect Text Editor:

Free (or easily cracked ;) ).
Open-source.
Portable.
Cross-platform.
Customizable GUI (like Foobar2000).
Split views (if your text editor doesn't have split views, it is not a proper text editor)
Modules (like Notepad++)
Pretty icons.
Pretty text styles.

Notepad++ possible alternative:
TextAdept (not portable)
http://foicica.com/textadept/

Also see:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.nl/2012/04/notes-notepad-shortcuts.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/noted-textadept-portable.html

[MOVIES] [PICS] Recent Trend Towards Firearm Realism and Information Technology Realism in Hollywood Movies & TV

John Wick (2014)

It seems that lately big budget Hollywood movies are increasingly depicting "tactical" or "tacticool" firearm handling skills. Same goes for computer technologies, although there is still a long way to go (CSI Cyber is probably not helping).

Firearm Realism

John Wick (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2911666/)
Taken 3 (shitty movie, but for an example of realism - notice the trigger discipline when Liam is carjacking a passerby) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2446042/)

Information Technology Realism

Horrible Bosses 2 (mention of NSA, BitCoins, jailbreaking) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2170439/)
House of Cards S02 (hit-and-miss, some episodes are excellent such as the one explaining TOR, others are laughable) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/)

[RANTS] Twitter Spam: "Your twitter password has been changed"

Every month, Twitter spams me with their "Your twitter password has been changed" spam. I'll make this short.

Fuck you Twitter and all the brogrammers and brosigners that you employ.

Twitter Spam.

[RANT] Brogrammers and Brosigners: Dumbing Down the UI (User Interface) for the InstaFaceTwit Generation & Brosigners

INSMODSCUM is slowing becoming an angry "get-off-my-lawn" luddite-misanthrope.

Frequent update cycles.
Non portable software.
Software bloat. (e.g. "Whonix")
And even more infuriating: software bloat whle removing features (vertical tabs in Chrome)

FOR FUCK'S SAKE! If it's not broken, don't fucking break it!

Chrome 25. Last good version of Google Chrome before it all went to shit.

Can not use old Chrome version since Google blacklists them. 

VLC 2.2.0 "Default audio volume" missing. Fucking brogrammers!

VLC 2.0.8 "Default audio volume" works.

"Brosigners" Shitlist.

Stephen Horlander (Firefox "Australis")

http://www.stephenhorlander.com/

Sir Jony Ive (Apple) (belongs on this shitlist on principal)

"Sir jony Ive Redesigns Things": http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com/

Also see:
Whonix (software bloat)
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2014/09/noted-whonix-virtualbox-tor-virtual.html
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2013/03/pro-tip-tor-through-virtualboxvirtualbo.html

Quotes: Anti Web Brosign Manifesto

Source: http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2013-03-10-Anti-web-design-Manifesto.html

Anti-Web-Design Manifesto

The modern web is abusive. Browsing a succession of sites is, on the surface, a visual assault hoisted on us by designers with goals often counter to our own interests; under the hood, it is a vector for behavioral tracking in the name of commerce or, worse, for untold nefarious deeds. The proliferation of tools that transform web pages for readability, on the one hand, and ad- and javascript-blockers on the other point to a general dissatisfaction with the status quo.

We face jarring and questionable changes in layout and color schemes. Fonts change from page to page and introduce custom, one-off glyphs. The text we read is sandwiched by menus, ads and links to more "content." We suffer audio and video that start on their own. We are required to use proprietary, security-hole-ridden plugins. Meanwhile, in the background, countless scripts fetched from countless unrelated domains waste CPU cycles.

The more action one takes against these problems, the more broken the web becomes. Unfortunately, web designers have grown dependent on such behavior, while site owners are concerned more about their site's advertising revenue than their visitors' desires. With regards to visual design, the fact is that any individual has a far better idea of what constitutes comfortable-to-read text for them than a designer could. A designer either designing for his or her own tastes or trying to find some best-of-all-worlds design will ultimately fail to satisfy the vast majority of visitors to the site. Instead, we have begrudgingly grown accustomed to a completely heterogeneous web. As for advertising and behavioral tracking, no one should have to suffer that.

Here are ten maxims to which to adhere when building a new web site. Sticking to all ten of these will help restore some sanity to the world. As a quick and easy test to see how badly your site is broken, load it in a minimal web browser, such as Dillo with both remote CSS and embedded CSS disabled. Prepare to cringe.

1) Completely override-able CSS If your website cannot be viewed properly with a custom user CSS file, it is broken. Over-dependence on div tags to get the site to look exactly the way you want it is guaranteed to make it difficult to read for some of your visitors. Designers, it may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone loves your work. Many people use custom CSS files to force a style that is easy on their eyes. Yet, a surprising number of sites fail to render properly if their CSS is overridden. In my perfect world, no websites would provide CSS files; all styling would be done by the user. Of course, since most people do not use their own stylesheets, everyone would complain about how horrible all these plain black-and-white sites look. So at a minimum, your CSS should be minimal, such that overriding it causes little disruption to the flow of your site.

2) No client-side scripts If your website cannot be viewed properly with Javascript disabled, it is broken. There is absolutely no reason that your website should run a script on the visitor's computer, especially if the user cannot view the full source somewhere. No one is to be trusted online, not even you. For a normal, text-displaying website, using scripts is completely unnecessary since you can just store the text in an HTML document. That's what HTML is for. If you are trying to make a web application, just stop. Build a native application. It's nicer for everyone.

3) No proprietary plugins If your website requires the installation of a proprietary plugin, it is broken. The endless stream of news about security holes found in proprietary plugins like Java and Flash should be an immediate hint to you that you shouldn't be using them. The fact that they're proprietary means that we cannot benefit from the careful eye of other developers who can spot such flaws. Not only that but support for such software is limited only to what the company that produces it chooses to support, potentially leaving many visitors out. It is not safe to assume that everyone who visits your site can even run such plugins, due to said lack of support or due to lack of computing resources (not everyone in the world can afford a fast computer).

4) No advertising This is a touchy point but words will not be minced. Advertising is manipulative and obtrusive. Most people do not need to buy anything in particular at any given moment and they even less likely need to buy whatever is being advertised to them at that time. Further damning is that advertising is a common source of malicious content on the web, in the form of tracking cookies and cross-site scripting. Cramming advertising into your site in order to generate some kind of income is lazy at best. Some will argue that, since sites depend on advertising revenue to survive, then somehow blocking ads is immoral. It is simple: if your business model is simply to attach some "content" to advertising space, your business deserves to fail. Honestly, it will be no big loss to have such sites go out of business. The world does not need so many vapid link aggregating sites, press-release-rehashing review sites, or echo-chamber journalism sites. If you really must host advertisements, be respectful of your visitors. Host the ads on your own server; do not fetch them remotely. Do not use moving images, pop-ups, audio, video, "click-through" links, or anything else that serves to distract the visitor from what they actually came to your site to see.

5) No frames, multi-columns or other visual clutter If your main text is drowned out by the surrounding content, your site is broken. Trying to read an article when the text is crammed between navigation menus, advertisements, links to more articles, link-sharing widgets, blogrolls, and whatever other things you squeeze into your site to try to keep the visitors attention is an absolute pain. If your site were well-organized to begin with, none of these would be necessary. In fact, such layouts are absurd in that your site is competing with itself for the reader's attention! One single column of text is the most comfortable reading experience you can give your visitor. As for all that other junk, simply make your site well-organized enough for it to be easily discoverable without having to shove it in the visitor's face.

6) No non-standard fonts If your website absolutely depends on a particular font, it is broken. Fonts are subtle, in that most people probably do not pay much attention to which one is in use. That said, some people are absolute fanatics about fonts. Most web browsers allow the user to force the usage of their favorite one. Normally this is not a problem. However, increasingly websites are starting to use custom fonts with special glyphs that serve as icons on the site, presumably for bandwidth reasons (see Github project pages, for example). This completely subverts the user's right to select his or her own, preferred font. As in the above case of CSS, never presume that you have a better idea of what your visitor wants to see. If they do have a better idea, then you should not thwart their ability to implement it for themselves.

7) No tracking If your website leaks private information of your visitors to anyone, it is broken. This should go without question. You have no right to perform any behavioral metrics on your visitors. Their right to privacy should be paramount. Your revenue streams are irrelevant to them. Even more egregious is to allow third parties to do the tracking on your site and worse yet if it is done without any notification to the user. Nobody wants their every move tracked, be it in the web or in the real world. Respect your visitors' privacy and do not do any form of tracking. A word about cookies: unless you are providing a service that requires user log-in, you do not need to send them. Period.

8) No unnecessary pagination If your website cannot fit a normal-length article on one page, it is broken. Web browsers, unlike books, have this amazing ability to scroll. Unless you are presenting a genuinely long document, you should not need pagination (though, clearly for very long documents, some pagination is desirable to easily mark one's place). Nevertheless, these days many sites unnecessarily break relatively short articles into several pages. This is tightly coupled to advertising: the more pages the visitor has to visit to read the article, the more ads can be presented. With no advertising, as suggested above, this problem would disappear.

9) No abusive account requirements Many websites require accounts these days, for example to participate in some social aspect like a forum or comments, or to accommodate paying subscriber fees. This is fine. What is not fine is how much information is often required to subscribe. Under very few circumstances do you actually need the visitor's email address. Real names and mailing addresses are likely only necessary for online payment, which should be held quite separately from normal user information. In any case, if a login is required, take the absolute minimum of necessary information, ideally only a login name and a password.

10) No new annoyances The web is a swiftly changing thing and there is no way this paltry list can cover all the corner cases or future annoyances. Before you implement anything, know that we probably neither need it nor want it. Please spare us from having yet another thing to curse about. Remember, all we want to do is read what you have to say. Anything else is just in the way.

Also see:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/02/rants-clever-malware.html

[TV] 2015 Best & Worst TV Show Realism

Good Realism:

The Knick (with Clive Owen) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2937900/)

The Americans (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149175/)

"The Americans" is awesome.  The following acronyms are mentioned (with no explanation) withing the first couple of minutes of S03E01: SAD (every self-respecting gamer should know this), NE (even INSMODSCUM had to look this up, they later explain that this is short for Near East Division (Afghanistan-Pakistan). And as a bonus, there's a lot of amusing sex scenes in the show.

Shitty Realism

Fargo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/)

TBD Realism

Better Call Saul (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032476/)

[RANTS] Clever Malware

http://www.vlcapp.com/ [MALWARE!]

Insurgency Mod Scum believes in Information Technology meritocracy, i.e. if you are stupid, you deserve all the malware and scams that you will surely get. Having said that, the level of exploitation on the internet is sickening.

Also see:
http://insurgencymod.blogspot.com/2015/03/quotes-anti-web-brosign-manifesto.html

[PICS] 720p High Definition The Wire & Breaking Bad HK Mark 23

The Wire Season 01.

The.Wire.S01.720p.HDTV.x264-BATV

Excellent. This will do until the BluRay is released in 2015.The Wire was something special.

Breaking Bad S03E13. HK Mark 23.

A wee bit higher Mike.

The.Wire.S01.720p.HDTV.x264-BATV
http://rarbg.com/torrent/elpq1v3

The.Wire.S02.720p.HDTV.x264-BATV
http://rarbg.com/torrent/kjmp8od

The.Wire.S03.720p.HDTV.x264-BATV
http://rarbg.com/torrent/ge31hns

The.Wire.S05.720p.HDTV.x264-BATV
http://rarbg.com/torrent/e97a4wf

Magnet links:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=i9tE3aJT
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/5d234e2b1ed35912e412/raw/2fb1d563952dfd3ef49537e109a4831cce6d043a/gistfile1.txt