IRC logs for #openttd on OFTC at 2007-09-16
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03:36:01 <syn> ok I got a question i edited my config file for my dedicated openttd so that i have no vehicle breakdowns but i still have reduced and it changed the config on me how do i fix this
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10:51:57 <TrueBrain> NO! Someone is alive!
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11:03:49 <Eddi|zuHause3> you guys scare me...
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11:14:16 <mcbane> gero dont know what he want aye? leaving ad returning.
11:15:39 <thgergo> I wont do rejoining more...
11:15:54 <thgergo> Im just installed my new irc client
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14:08:11 <TrueBrain> @kick thgergo wrong channel
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14:47:13 <tokai|noir> TrueBrain: what was that? :)
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15:18:45 <Eddi|zuHause3> his one good deed per day ;)
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15:50:34 <TrueBrain> oh boy, we need to rewrite some books now...
15:52:41 <ln-> funny that they only talk about lower domestic heating costs, while a device producing energy from nothing would have a bit more range possible uses.
15:53:13 <TrueBrain> ln-: indeed, so most likely there is some really big catch for this to work, which makes it impossible to use in other things
15:53:15 <Rubidium> sounds a little like cold fusion happening
15:53:45 <TrueBrain> Rubidium: for me it reads more that the catalyst breaks the H2O bridge, producing heat
15:54:26 <TrueBrain> either way, I truely wonder how long such 'device' will last...
15:54:28 <Rubidium> from a black-box point of view it's the same: you put some energy in it and you get more energy out of it
15:54:42 <TrueBrain> Rubidium: depends on what you define as 'energy in'
15:54:49 <TrueBrain> Water has also energy
15:55:29 <TrueBrain> as in all other cases you could wire up the end of the tube to the begin of the tube
15:55:33 <Eddi|zuHause3> err... but breaking the H2O molecules consumes energy
15:55:33 <TrueBrain> and have infinite energy
15:55:50 <TrueBrain> Eddi|zuHause3: some catalyst are known to do something 'for free' wher enormally it would take energy to do so
15:56:19 <Eddi|zuHause3> no, they usually only reduce the activation energy, before the reaction starts at all
15:56:28 <TrueBrain> anyway, for the reason ln- says, and for the reason you can't make infinite energy, there is something they are not telling
15:56:46 <TrueBrain> Eddi|zuHause3: one type of catalyst, yes, and even that type can work in this case
15:57:25 <Eddi|zuHause3> yeah, that's my thought, too...
15:57:27 <Rubidium> I suspect that there is coming less water out than there goes in
15:57:41 <TrueBrain> Rubidium: it wouldn't suprise me
15:57:58 <Eddi|zuHause3> but i really have to keep on reading papers on model checking of component systems
15:58:11 <TrueBrain> Eddi|zuHause3: enjoy :p I am going to make myself some food
15:58:20 <TrueBrain> by putting fire under an iron piece
15:58:28 <TrueBrain> nothing fancy about that ;)
15:58:47 <Eddi|zuHause3> i have this exercise for 2 weeks, and 1.5 weeks of that are over :p
15:59:10 <Eddi|zuHause3> fire? in what kind of cave do you live?
15:59:17 <Rubidium> so you still have 84 hours left ;)
15:59:49 <TrueBrain> ask Rubidium, he has been here
15:59:50 <Eddi|zuHause3> a little less i think
16:00:24 <Eddi|zuHause3> the meeting is wednesday at 11, and i have to post my results a day before
16:02:17 <TrueBrain> wait, let me help you
16:02:19 <TrueBrain> @kick Eddi|zuHause3 go study
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16:02:23 <TrueBrain> I love doing that :)
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16:02:32 <TrueBrain> he now, don't come back, that aint fair! :p
16:02:54 <Eddi|zuHause3> you need some kind of anger management? :p
16:03:57 <ln-> we do need a replacement for Tron.
16:04:19 <Rubidium> _minime_: do I read the newgrf specs correctly when I read them as: the only information you have during an engine callback is the part index?
16:04:20 <Eddi|zuHause3> i can do that ;)
16:04:35 <Rubidium> *articulated engine callback
16:04:38 <TrueBrain> Eddi|zuHause3: finally someone who steps up!
16:04:44 * TrueBrain prepares his @kick commands
16:04:48 <TrueBrain> this is going to be so much fun :)
16:05:23 <Eddi|zuHause3> well, i do can bitch about any kind of style misusage in every commit :p
16:07:06 <ln-> heeeey, how do i test force feedback on linux?
16:07:59 <Eddi|zuHause3> there must be a libforcefeedback somewhere :p
16:08:20 <Eddi|zuHause3> there's a lib<whatever> for <whatever>
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17:52:19 <DaleStan> Rubidium: You've got all the other defined global variables too (in the range 00..3F)
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17:54:06 <TrueBrain> thgergN: for the love of God, get a stable connection
17:54:19 <TrueBrain> it is like watching a tennis match you are loosing
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17:56:53 <_minime_> Rubidium: sorry, I wasn't paying attention
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18:08:04 <DaleStan> Rubidium: Since you're playing with callbacks, it looks like there's still a bug in Open's callback handling. In 8 bit callbacks, the high 7 bits of 15-bit return values are discarded. (80FF, 81FF, 82FF, 83FF, ..., FCFF, FEFF, FFFF) are all equivalent for 8-bit callbacks.
18:09:22 <DaleStan> The 8-bit callbacks are all callbacks not documented as being 15-bit.
18:09:41 <Rubidium> DaleStan: I've got very little knowledge about the whole callback stuff, especially those "cornercases"
18:11:27 <CIA-1> OpenTTD: truelight * r11119 /trunk/src/ (fileio.cpp fileio.h gfxinit.cpp newgrf_config.cpp):
18:11:27 <CIA-1> OpenTTD: -Codechange: analyze .tar files upon loading, remembering their files and offsets, which speeds up .tar handling with a big factor
18:11:27 <CIA-1> OpenTTD: -Fix: several win32 .tar support problems
18:11:27 <CIA-1> OpenTTD: -Fix: better checking of .tar versions and other minor things
18:11:27 <CIA-1> OpenTTD: -Codechange: don't call fclose() but FioFClose to close a file
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18:13:48 <Rubidium> and I've slapped peter1138 quite a few times about that issue as it is on the tracker and needs to be fixed, but without a real knowledge of NewGRFs and especially the actual workings of the callbacks I don't think it's very wise to tinker with them.
18:14:36 <DaleStan> Would it help if I updated the patch to something more recent?
18:14:41 <Rubidium> furthermore I can't really compare TTDP with OTTD because I fail to get TTDPW working under Wine and TTDPD works way too slow under dosbox on my computer to be anywhere near useable
18:14:43 <_minime_> Rubidium: hmm, that should work, since the num_vehicles should be based on results of that callback anyway, right?
18:15:13 <Rubidium> _minime_: it first performs the callback cycle to get the length and then it does it again to actually create the vehicles
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18:17:26 <_minime_> yep, that's better that what i've done
18:17:26 <TrueBrain> finally he leaves himself..
18:17:29 <TrueBrain> I was about to ban the IP..
18:17:47 <DaleStan> Does Open support the GRF registers (vars 7C and 7D) yet? If/when it does, there may be some subtle differences between calling a callback once and calling it twice. Especially with 7C, though that doesn't apply to vehicles.
18:18:26 <Rubidium> DaleStan: you mean the 0x110 register thingy?
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18:20:14 <_minime_> nope, those are in the 60+x range (parametrized variables) in varaction2
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18:20:44 <Noldo> Rubidium: I managed to make the OverflowSafeInt template compile yesterday
18:20:47 <DaleStan> Well, there are 110h GRF registers.
18:21:22 <Rubidium> hmm, 7C+7D are persistent? If so, then it isn't implemented
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18:23:08 <Rubidium> oh, 7D is to the temp 110h long register (of which you can't use the last 16)
18:23:37 <DaleStan> 7D is guaranteed persistent through the end of the callback or sprite lookup. (So, it should probably be memset(0)'d regularly.) 7C is initialized to 0 on a new game, and then guaranteed persistent through the entire game.
18:24:16 <DaleStan> Can't *read* the last 16. You can still pass additional data back to the host in them.
18:24:18 <Rubidium> 7D is implemented, 7C isn't
18:26:01 <Rubidium> operator 10h-13h aren't implemented either
18:26:21 <DaleStan> So if 7D is cleared on a regular basis (before every callback or sprite lookup) everything should be OK. Otherwise, it could cause desyncs or different returns for two should-be-identical callback calls.
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18:30:14 <Rubidium> how long should the temporary store be available?
18:30:31 <Rubidium> between callbacks, or only during a single callback?
18:31:35 <DaleStan> AIUI, it's only guaranteed to be persistent for the duration of a single callback or sprite lookup.
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19:27:05 <Eddi|zuHause3> hm, i used to have a pencil in my room... where is it?
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20:09:34 <Bjarni> <Eddi|zuHause3> hm, i used to have a pencil in my room... where is it? <-- it's to the left
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20:29:30 <Bjarni> why are you all idling?
20:29:54 <Bjarni> either you have a really good explanation or I will kick the next person doing it :P
20:31:31 <Eddi|zuHause3> you kick the next person idling?
20:33:52 <SmatZ> I think people idling here just want to express their support for openttd
20:34:04 <Prof_Frink> Bjarni: 'cause I've just got back from the Lakes and am knackered.
20:34:50 <SmatZ> maybe some idlers just forgot they have their BNC still running, and they do not use it anymore...
20:35:28 <SmatZ> they may be in prison, hospital, ...
20:36:17 <Bjarni> it's also possible that they are in bed
20:36:24 <Bjarni> might even be their own bed
20:36:39 <valhalla1w> they might be in there with their girlfriend
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20:36:45 <SmatZ> but still, there are people who never said a word
20:36:48 <valhallasw> although this *is* openttd
20:37:20 <Bjarni> <valhalla1w> they might be in there with their girlfriend <--- now that's unlikely
20:37:21 <valhallasw> do quit messages count as saying anything?
20:37:45 <_42_> SmatZ, if you can't see mikk36 here right now, you probably need new glasses. ^_^
20:38:02 <DorpsGek> SmatZ: mikk36 was last seen in #openttd 1 week, 5 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes, and 13 seconds ago: <mikk36> it's like listening the startup of 5 little jet engines :P
20:38:07 <Eddi|zuHause3> !seen random_highlight
20:38:07 <_42_> Eddi|zuHause3, you know that the length of nicks is limited, don't you?
20:38:21 <DorpsGek> SmatZ: izhirahider was last seen in #openttd 3 weeks, 0 days, 8 hours, 27 minutes, and 27 seconds ago: <izhirahider> Eddi|zuHause2, it's ok. I was actually just looking for someone who told me "yes, this works in soundcard X for me"; thanks anyway
20:38:52 <SmatZ> mikk36: just testing how long have you been idling here
20:39:13 <Eddi|zuHause3> hm, in another channel this worked :p
20:39:27 <SmatZ> because I don't remember you saying something :-p
20:39:35 <Bjarni> because you should ruin your idle :P
20:40:13 <Bjarni> wow... you have a great idle. Reply: what?.... oh shit
20:40:20 <mcbane> hes only poking random ppls.
20:40:24 <SmatZ> last time we did this test, there were people who never said anything
20:40:46 <Eddi|zuHause3> in the other channel it looked like this:
20:40:48 <Eddi|zuHause3> [Sa Sep 15 2007] [23:42:17] <dfi> !idle
20:40:48 <Eddi|zuHause3> [Sa Sep 15 2007] [23:42:18] <[Bonnie]> Top10 IDLE Users: 1.) dakItt_ (120959 min) 2.) sl4mdunk (120959 min) 3.) ___DCSMW (89344 min) 4.) Gicht^BNC (62318 min) 5.) parciphal (51762 min) 6.) pierrew (38038 min) 7.) yamen (19834 min) 8.) optodoxie (9067 min) 9.) KoenigArtus (5630 min) 10.) BanginMan (3943 min)
20:41:42 <Bjarni> sounds like a waste of resources
20:42:13 <SmatZ> maybe they read everything we type here
20:42:15 <Eddi|zuHause3> but at least 3 of those people responded then
20:42:16 <Bjarni> unless it's some channel like #openttd.notice
20:42:42 <Eddi|zuHause3> one went like "only 7th?!?"
20:43:39 <SmatZ> I had a record in one channel - I left when the bot was not working, and it counted me as if I was still there
20:43:46 <Eddi|zuHause3> damn, i'm running out of disk space...
20:43:48 <SmatZ> so I had idle time like one year
20:43:56 <mikk36> well, for those guys, there is a game called idlerpg :P
20:44:00 <Eddi|zuHause3> i recorded like 5 movies today, and don't have time to cut them...
20:44:30 <Eddi|zuHause3> commercials are like 30% of the filesize...
20:45:04 <Eddi|zuHause3> meaning in 20GB of recordings, over 7GB are waste...
20:45:18 <SmatZ> I have recorder 16 series of The Simpsons and I am still waiting to have time to convert them from MPEG2 to MPEG4... they are now ~400GB in size, one episode ~700MB
20:45:33 <Bjarni> only 20 GB recordings?
20:46:25 <Rubidium> SmatZ: haha (the one by Nelson)
20:46:33 <Bjarni> then you don't want to know how much I recorded :/
20:47:15 <Eddi|zuHause3> 700MB? mine (from today) are only like 550MB
20:47:38 <Eddi|zuHause3> Bjarni: 20GB from today...
20:48:28 <CIA-1> OpenTTD: rubidium * r11120 /trunk/src/ (articulated_vehicles.cpp roadveh_cmd.cpp train_cmd.cpp): -Codechange: remove the arbitrary limit of 10 articulated parts for a vehicle.
20:48:50 <Bjarni> 20 GB during one day.... that usually indicate that you recorded too much
20:50:28 <Eddi|zuHause3> i currently have 140GB in uncut recordings
20:51:35 <Eddi|zuHause3> well, i recorded movies from yesterday again, in the hope to cut out all remnants of commercial breaks and other stuff (program announcements in the middle of the movie)
20:51:53 <Eddi|zuHause3> sometimes they put the commercials in other places
20:52:13 <Eddi|zuHause3> so i can remove any signs of a cut by interleaving both recordings
20:52:28 <Bjarni> I like the Danish law that bans interrupting programs for telling about other programs or commercials
20:52:54 <Eddi|zuHause3> so you only have pay-tv?
20:53:11 <Bjarni> but they are not allowed to interrupt a program
20:53:21 <Bjarni> they can send commercials between programs
20:53:32 <Eddi|zuHause3> so you then have 30 minutes commercials between movies?
20:54:02 <Bjarni> a commercial block is 8 minutes... max
20:54:44 <glx> then they put program annoucement between commercials :)
20:54:45 <Eddi|zuHause3> every 30 minutes there are around 5 minutes commercials and 3 minutes program announcements here, over a 120 minute movie that is at least 4 commercial blocks
20:54:47 <Bjarni> in fact there is a limit on how many % of the total broastcast time that's allowed to use for commercials
20:55:31 <Rubidium> DaleStan: are there more 15 bit or 8 bit callbacks?
20:58:09 <mcbane> why rubiduim has no @ hes also dev?
20:58:34 <Rubidium> cause I don't like @s
20:58:41 <Eddi|zuHause3> also, at least once per hour there are overlay-announcements that either tell about The Big Movie today, or tell you to download the title music as ringtone or buy the DVDs or stuff
20:58:47 <Rubidium> and why do I need to have @?
20:59:12 <mcbane> you dont. i wonderd they you dont have it.
20:59:21 <SmatZ> to show you are more important that other users here...
21:00:03 <SmatZ> maybe this is the reason why so many people want @
21:00:09 <SmatZ> and to have control over others...
21:00:34 <SmatZ> well... those are not nice reasons to have @, but many people just want it
21:00:44 <glx> he can use DorpsGek to control others
21:01:34 <SmatZ> but nobody sees it - but @ sees everyone
21:02:02 <Rubidium> undercover police ;)
21:07:35 <Eddi|zuHause3> anyway, the things i recorded today were: Star Trek VIII (2h), Star Trek (2h), Märchenstunde 4x03 (1h), Simpsons 13x16+18x05 (2*30m), Men in Black II (2h), Criminal Minds 2x01 (1h), Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2h30m) [still running], The Shield 1x06 (1h) [about to start]
21:08:09 <Eddi|zuHause3> that's 12h30m (uncut)
21:08:41 <glx> do you have time to watch them?
21:08:55 <Eddi|zuHause3> s/k \(/k IX \(/
21:09:10 <Eddi|zuHause3> not today, but probably next weekend ;)
21:10:02 <Eddi|zuHause3> e.g. when Star Trek X is running, which is completely boring
21:10:27 <Eddi|zuHause3> mcbane: yeah, rerun from monday
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21:12:40 <Eddi|zuHause3> but like i said, 30% of the 12h30m are commercials
21:14:54 <ln-> yeah, stupid germans, they may even have a commercial break only two minutes before the end of an episode of a series.
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21:21:46 <Eddi|zuHause3> i have not encountered 2 minutes yet... usually you have around 10m-[8m]-20m-[8m]-10-[1 spot] blocks
21:23:39 <Eddi|zuHause3> while the 1 spot probably does not legally count as commercial break, because it is actually a program announcement with a picture-in-picture commercial
21:24:05 <SmatZ> they know how to force commercials everywhere
21:24:06 <Eddi|zuHause3> the program announcement then looks like "22s until [next show]"
21:25:41 <Eddi|zuHause3> afaik EU regulations say that you cannot have more than 2 commercial breaks per hour
21:26:03 <Eddi|zuHause3> so it's not like in the USA, where you have up to 6 breaks per show...
21:26:50 <Eddi|zuHause3> there you probably get 2 minute sections often...
21:31:59 <ln-> Eddi|zuHause3: btw, how often do you see the end credist of an episode or movie in fullscreen, without any textual or spoken spam on top of it?
21:33:53 <glx> depends on the channel here
21:36:19 <ln-> end credits used to be shown spamless on every channel on finland until about the 2000's. nowadays some channels often advertise following programmes during end credits, which is somewhat annoying.
21:38:06 <CIA-1> OpenTTD: rubidium * r11121 /trunk/src/ (newgrf_spritegroup.cpp newgrf_spritegroup.h): -Fix: clear the temporary NewGRF storage every time we perform a callback so it cannot cause desyncs.
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21:46:22 <Bjarni> <ln-> end credits used to be shown spamless on every channel on finland until about the 2000's. nowadays some channels often advertise following programmes during end credits, which is somewhat annoying. <--- it's the same here
21:47:40 <Bjarni> they even decided that Danish movies older than some magic number (I have yet to figure it out) has no credits anymore... they just display a standard screen saying the end for a few sec and then they fate out the screen and music
21:48:06 <Bjarni> but they never spam that the end sign
21:49:19 <SmatZ> new technology in video editing software and hardware brought the ability to spam TV everywhere :-p
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21:53:04 <Bjarni> reminds me of a radio show where you could request music. One request was a certain song and they were not allowed to speak while it was on. They didn't say a word and once it was over, they transmitted like 3 sec of dead air and then the speaker said "am I allowed to talk now?" :D
21:55:20 <TrueBrain> wow Rubidium, that is a much shorter patch ;)
21:55:53 <Rubidium> okay... what to do with NewGRFs that do not conform to the specs?
21:57:33 <TrueBrain> or we can do like Microsoft does: make all kind of hacks and stuff to keep things loadable, even if that application hacked and shit
21:58:58 <Rubidium> DaleStan: can you answer the above question?
21:58:59 <TrueBrain> I wish I knew what you were talking about
21:59:09 <Rubidium> TrueBrain: so do I ;)
22:00:06 <Eddi|zuHause3> <ln-> Eddi|zuHause3: btw, how often do you see the end credist of an episode or movie in fullscreen, without any textual or spoken spam on top of it? <- if you are lucky after the night rerun
22:00:09 <Rubidium> *or* somebody has messed up the specs a lot
22:03:07 <Eddi|zuHause3> between 3:30 and 5:30 they often do not even show commercials
22:03:42 <TrueBrain> We have 3 channels here that NEVER show commercials while a show is busy (or a movie)
22:03:57 <Eddi|zuHause3> yeah, we also have those
22:04:06 <Rubidium> TrueBrain: then you haven't looked at Studio Sport lately...
22:04:22 <TrueBrain> Rubidium: does it still exists?
22:04:41 <Rubidium> yes, when they have their sunday afternoon edition there are commercial breaks
22:05:08 <Eddi|zuHause3> they are government owned channels
22:05:18 <Eddi|zuHause3> but their programs are bad...
22:05:56 <Rubidium> Eddi|zuHause3: true, though less bad that the commercial ones
22:06:12 <ln-> was it the netherlands where all digital cable channels are encrypted and can only be received by one brand of operator-approved receivers?
22:06:18 <Eddi|zuHause3> well, they show almost nothing of interes
22:06:38 <Eddi|zuHause3> and if they try to get "youths" to watch their programs, it always fails
22:07:07 <Vikthor> Here the goverment owned channel is only one so far that aired Red Dwarf and probaly also the Simpsons
22:07:15 <TrueBrain> ln-: for sure not on all cables
22:07:17 <Eddi|zuHause3> like the ZDF ('2nd programme') bought the rights to 'Veronica Mars'
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22:07:48 <Eddi|zuHause3> they placed that at a totally ugly time (like saturday at lunchtime)
22:07:53 <Eddi|zuHause3> and nobody watched
22:08:10 <Eddi|zuHause3> then they moved it to somewhere around midnight...
22:08:23 <Eddi|zuHause3> where still nobody watches, but they get better rating ;)
22:08:39 <Eddi|zuHause3> because nobody watches elsewhere either ;)
22:09:11 <Eddi|zuHause3> happened similarly to 'The Sopranos' (same channel)
22:09:30 <TrueBrain> "In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed and arrested him in front of his wife and seized his equipment. In a display of both bitter irony and incompetence, the police did not take or shut-down the Tor server responsible for the traffic they were interested in, which was
22:09:30 <TrueBrain> located in a data center, over 500km away. In the last year, Germany has passed a draconian new anti-security research law and raided seven different data centers to seize Tor servers."
22:09:34 <TrueBrain> I love good stories :)
22:10:51 <Eddi|zuHause3> that is totally stupid... since we are BRD, they are making things worse than the GDR ever was...
22:11:09 <Eddi|zuHause3> it's 1984 all over again
22:12:05 <ln-> is it legal to use a Macintosh in germany?
22:12:07 <Eddi|zuHause3> next year, they are making ssh and https connections illegal
22:12:19 <TrueBrain> and I was thinking USA was worst in this
22:12:22 <TrueBrain> but Germany is winning
22:12:33 <TrueBrain> I wonder if Windows is legal
22:12:37 <TrueBrain> OpenTTD for sure isn't
22:12:55 <Eddi|zuHause3> ln-: i made that one up :p
22:13:16 <Eddi|zuHause3> but it is already shocking that people would actually believe that
22:13:29 <TrueBrain> Eddi|zuHause3: and you might be correct...
22:14:20 <Eddi|zuHause3> currently they are working on a government financed trojan virus
22:14:26 <Eddi|zuHause3> (and that is for real)
22:14:53 <TrueBrain> what was it... AVs were asked to not detect it?
22:14:59 <TrueBrain> or was it that AVs don't detect some NSA trojans?
22:15:28 <Eddi|zuHause3> i have no idea... they are (officially) not even developing it
22:16:00 <TrueBrain> I tihnk it is better to move out of Germany
22:16:13 <TrueBrain> or make your computer a remote desktop of some non-German-based server
22:16:24 <Eddi|zuHause3> and (officially) it should only be used in very rare cases, each one implemented and placed individually
22:17:28 <Eddi|zuHause3> yeah, i should probably do such a thing, but my bandwidth is not big enough...
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22:53:36 <_minime_> Rubidium: thanks for taking care of that patch :)
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23:14:23 <DaleStan> <Rubidium> http://rubidium.student.utwente.nl/openttd/15vs8bits_callbacks.diff <-- Assuming those are the (supported) 15-bit callbacks, then yes, it looks good for now. However, requiring that developers make a conscious decision between Get8BitCallback and Get15BitCallback means that new 15-bit callbacks won't get accidentally truncated because someone forgot to add another case to that switch.
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23:23:05 <DaleStan> <Rubidium> only varaction vars < 40 or (> 70 and < 80) are available during {artic vehicles) callback? <-- Close, but not quite. The conditions should be the same as for the purchase list: All global vars (00..3F) and all calculated vars (40..7F) with the corresponding bit set in varavailability (patches/newsprit.asm:2067) are available. For vehicles, that's 43, 48, 7D, 7E, 7F.
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