@cvi said in Help Bites: Ethernet has an MTU of ~1.5kB Exactly 1500 bytes, ignoring things like the Ethernet frame header, but including the IP and TCP or UDP headers (20 + (20 or 8) bytes). IOW, you have 1472 bytes of UDP payload, and TCP usually moves in chunks of 1460 bytes unless your throughput is low enough.

@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark. Later this month, Microsoft will showcase new AI features for Windows 11, which could become the first solid reason to leave Windows 10 behind. Nope Even more reason to avoid Windows 11.

@nerd4sale said in Nope, you eat it: they are very difficult to chew. That's what surprised me the most. For shits and squigles I tried again mixing it in with normal ramen. Now, I know I usually overcook noodles, but even after boiling for about half an hour they stayed the same rubberyness and indeed when eating I found myself swallowing the noodles themselves last (thy having separated from the rest of the things I added to the noodles). Bizarre.

@DogsB This is the nicest thing anybody has said to me all week. I quite like it when people don't desire to kill me.

 

@error said in WTF Bites: @boomzilla said in WTF Bites: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/04/29/pb/ Hitting every branch on the way down A fun story of build WTFs. Most of us have been there. is that Git allows you to sneak unrelated code changes into a merge commit. I've noticed this before but never thought someone would actually do it. I've rejected a PR because of it.

@izzion said in The Official Status Thread: @HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread: @Zecc said in The Official Status Thread: Bonus: Firefox wants to update too. I've been ignoring Firefox's requests for months. I don't remember what changed in the update, but I remember it was a change for the worse (), and I have avoided it so far. Welcome back, @Lorne-Kates! My version of Firefox isn't that old, only 3 or 4 months, maybe. to go into the other room to check the version number on my computer, and the version on my phone is up to date, because I don't get a choice on the phone.

@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: Off to update the blacklist.... Updated. Floof:

@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...: May 1 Surgeons operated for hours to reattach hand of female officer injured in sword attack Sir Mark Rowley says officer’s arm ‘very badly damaged’ in Hainault rampage and praises bravery of officers who ‘ran towards danger’ Probably a bit too soon but was it reattached or did they give up and attach something else? Probably was the hand. The NHS doesn’t offer cybernetic upgrades as far as I know, so no cool arm cannon or anything like that.

@Arantor said in In other news today...: @topspin said in In other news today...: @cvi did Slashdot get sold to The Onion? No, but apparently the Onion changed handsbelts recently.

takes out lede shovel tens of thousands of honeybees The beekeeper has removed between 55,000 and 65,000 bees and 100lb (45kg) of honeycomb.

$ mtr bad.horse¹ ¹ Substitute traceroute, tracert or whatever you have

@PotatoEngineer said in Drug prohibition: @boomzilla about fucking time! Almost every state had some flavor of pot-permission laws, and it's a crying shame that marijuana remained on the "there is no possible medical benefit" list in the DEA. I'd be interested in watching a documentary of why it remained Schedule I for so long. Was some specific leader an anti-pot person? Was it bureaucratic inertia? DEA putting pressure on the FDA so it could keep doing civil forfeiture? Also, yes. It's generally good business, keeps pesky minorities in jail, profits go right back to the arms industry and bribes, what's not to like?

Wordle 1,047 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Duotrigordle #791 Guesses: 34/37 1️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ Duotrigordle BUILD/GRAPH

@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread: I was listening to a podcast about what kind of animals think they could beat in a fistfight. A shocking number of people think they could beat a bear but it reminded me of this. That's always the fun part about how predators react to aggression: it's not about whether the bear could take the cat, but how much damage the cat is doing to do on the way down. And it's why wolverines are still around: sure, they're edible, but do you really want to mess with 30 pounds of batshit insanity?

@boomzilla I've heard of the Soundless Sound and the Codeless Code.

@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google: There are a number of chemicals that could be added to the Googleplex water supply that would tend to inhibit that, although none of them are entirely reliable. However, I wouldn't worry about it too much; I think your presence would also have an inhibitory effect. His presence would probably just break the water supply.

@PotatoEngineer said in Economics of technical debt: you just refinance it all onto the new framework! All the make-work to move over to the new framework gives you a very good reason to not spend time fixing your own bugs. Why pay down the principal when there's an introductory offer to take advantage of?

On a tangent, I did play Stardock's Star Control: Origins, and it was all right; it kept the space combat pretty much as-is, I enjoyed learning the new ships, and they didn't have that godawful Ethics Committee from Star Control 3 to limit my choices. (Granted, I usually play a good guy, but there was a moment in SC3 where you had to not shoot an actively hostile alien, because it was possible to talk them down.) There was a good variety of aliens, too: the final enemies-from-another-dimension, and the enslaved-by-software guys you eventually ally with were creative. I didn't like the planet exploration; I get that doing a 3d exploration of a planet is what you've got to do in a modern game, but the limited view meant that it would take a while to finish getting the loot from a planet. SC2's exploration, while slightly dull, was at least quick and didn't overstay its welcome. I also didn't like the fetch-quests in Origins; there were thankfully few in the base game, but the idea of "gather X resource which you may or may not have harvested and sold already" doesn't work well in Star Control. And I didn't end up getting the DLC; the base game was all right, but I was ready to be done with it when I finished the game. (And honestly, I don't remember it that well anymore; I played it a few years ago.) I expect Free Stars to be a much better game, but at least I'm not expecting it to be Best Of All Time or anything.

300 reasons to hate Southwest: Wheelchair basketball players say Southwest left a '300-piece jigsaw puzzle' after flight Teams of wheelchair basketball players say their devices were dismantled on Southwest Airlines flight ahead of championship tournament. TL;DR: Southwest baggage handlers disassembled the wheelchairs to put them on the plane but had no personnel available to reassemble them at the destination. Bonus: They left some normal baggage off the plane to accommodate the wheelchairs, so some able-bodied passengers were angry at the basketball players when they didn't have their luggage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lfb-280MhU

@remi My brother in laws mom is 70 (I think, might be 71 now) and takes care of her mom, turns 93 in May.

Moved it to microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b, and no censorship, can finally give people that put pineapple on a pizza what they deserve An Unorthodox Duel: Inigo Montoya vs. Pineapple on Pizza - Wibble News A whimsical satire wherein the honorable Inigo Montoya takes mortal offense to the most controversial of toppings: pineapple on his beloved pizza.

Bonus: got to NodeBB's disconsistency None of the threads lower down each list were in common.

$deity damnit, really?

@Bulb said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: But you generally don't care about colour of the light. you care about the colour of the illuminated things. Which is why the colour perception is adjusted for the estimated colour of the light. So you see the white thing as white in direct sunlight, when its overcast and even when illuminated by even more reddish light of a lightbulb. Which with photos and images on screen leads to the above effect. Which now makes me wonder if the room's ambient lighting where the image is being viewed can play a role in how striking the effect is.

Depends where you are. In some jurisdictions, the machines are programmed/manufactured such that each spin is (for all practical purposes) independent of previous ones, so there’s no such thing as a streak. If a streak happens, technically you’re either very lucky or the machine is faulty and should be removed from service and corrected. Others, on the other hand (especially here in the UK) have thresholds for taking in and paying out, such that several marks can put money in and at some point the machine will go “shit I haven’t paid out in too long” and will pay out quite a bit in a hurry to get back to its current thresholds.

@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club: @topspin said in The Belt Onion club: @loopback0 view raw. Also,

Apr 26 Florida Man Arrested While 'Dressed as a Woman In Attempt to Disguise Himself' In Wig and Dress: Sheriff In addition to Joshua Kolotka's mugshot, the Glades County Sheriff's Office also released a photo of the man as he was arrested -- showing his failed attempt at going incognito.

@Arantor said in UI Bites: It's also moving the entire fucking sidebar up and down +/- 5 pixels. Obviously a bug. It should be

@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day: @izzion said in Random thought of the day: I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Tuping competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger” The spelling event can be a follow-up

@Arantor yeah...was just reading this bit, which hits those points: Rust is the type of language where wanting to do a new type of upgrade might lead you down a path of refactoring all of the systems, and many would even say "that's great, now my code is much better and can accommodate so many more things!!!". It sounds like a very convincing argument, one that I've heard many times, and one that has also caused me to waste a lot of time chasing down solutions to the wrong problems. A more flexible language would allow the game developer to immediately implement the new feature in a hacky way, and then play the game, test it and see if the feature is actually fun, and potentially do a bunch of these iterations in a short amount of time. By the time the Rust developer is finished with their refactoring, the C++/C#/Java/JavaScript developer has implemented many different gameplay features, played the game a bunch and tried them all out, and has a better understanding of which direction should their game be taking. And I can definitely see his point. I often do that sort of thing, even in not-game-development. Then throw some things away and maybe start over if it was actually too ugly and the Final Solution actually sparks some ideas about how to do it better.

"Keep it up and next time we have disemboweled matriarch pie."

Alternatively could have been a candidate for 'things that remind you of WDTWTF members'.

Yesterday was a good day to be somewhere other than Nebraska and Iowa: This tornado outbreak in the Midwest on Friday is legit like nothing we've ever seen This is an unfortunately all-too-familiar news report in the U.S. during the spring and summer:

@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...: I bought myself a thing: 1,187.00 USD 3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router for High Precision Metalworking, with Linear Guide & Ball Screw Motion Elevate your metalworking game with the Genmitsu 3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router, a cutting-edge precision tool engineered for unrivaled accuracy and power. This is a machine that gives you an opportunity for heavy-duty, long-term, and high-intensity work, right from your desktop. ... Ball Screw Motion

TIL Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia Edit: partially, anyway. I'm not reading all that.

@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...: they're really more involved in Twitter than their profile suggests. Is that supposed to be in indication of legitimacy or a red flag? Filed under: Yes

DeAngelo Marquise Vaxter  /  Apr 24 Video released: Assault on Embark bus driver leads to crash into Oklahoma City business Video has been released from inside of the bus that crashed over the weekend in Oklahoma City, causing damages to a business and injuries.On Saturday, police ar

@BernieTheBernie said in Azure bites: @Bulb Interesting idea, I might try it somewhen. Depends on 's preferences. But I see a catch: my home IP address is dynamic, and I get a fresh address every night from the vast range of t-online ip addresses. That would mean that I'd have to open the firewall for every address or do a lot of rules. Since it's “serverless”, you are sharing the server with a lot of people that access it from all over the place, so protection against DDoS is Microsoft's problem, and they already have some in place, so is addressing the server vulnerabilities, and you are only concerned with someone guessing your credentials. The last point I'd address by using the Entra authentication. In Azure, you create a security group, set it as admin and disable non-entra login. In the .нет library you replace the credentials with Authentication=Active Directory Default[1] in the connection string and it will pick the login from anywhere it can—environment, managed identity, visual studio or az, so it basically just works. And the management studio supports the interactive login, so that works too. Only if you also need the sqlcmd tool, you need magic incantation: token_file=$(mktemp) az account get-access-token --resource https://database.windows.net --query accessToken --output tsv | tr -d '\r\n' | iconv -f ascii -t utf-16le > "$token_file" sqlcmd -G -P "$token_file" …# the other options… (for Linux shell or Git Bash; I don't know powershell well enough to remember how to get the token in UTF-16 off the top of my head) And then I wouldn't worry about just setting the firewall to the whole range or even just leaving it open altogether.

@izzion said in Commuting WTF Thread: @Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread: @Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread: got off on his own accord. Wait. If he owned a car, why did he want to take the bus? What, you're not going to ask about his fetish for relieving himself in public on his car? Bonk! Go to Honda Jail.

Traditional wisdom didn't include LIES it took the written word to do that! @sockpuppet7 Give 'em shit Swampie... I'll make sure to post videos elsewhere even youtube again... I hope I don't have to Do A Dance... I found 1 reddit post that got through... https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/x7e7lj/the_best_starter_program_ever/ With the best from this thread and swampie stuff our AISwampies will be all right... ***i just asked this question... Which do you trust Traditional healers & helpers teachings or the Written word? ***and got this answer As an AI language model, I don't have personal beliefs or preferences. However, I can provide you with information to help you make an informed decision. The trustworthiness of traditional healers and the written word depends on various factors, including cultural context, personal beliefs, and the specific situation at hand. Here are some points to consider: Traditional Healers & Helpers: Cultural Significance: Traditional healers and helpers often hold significant roles within their communities, and their knowledge is based on centuries of cultural practices and beliefs. Holistic Approach: Traditional healers may offer holistic approaches to healing that encompass physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of well-being. Local Knowledge: They may have deep knowledge of local plants, herbs, and remedies that have been passed down through generations. Written Word: Scientific Basis: The written word, especially in the form of scientific literature, is often based on rigorous research, evidence, and peer review processes. Access to Information: Written sources provide access to a vast amount of information, including medical research, historical records, and diverse perspectives. Critical Analysis: Written sources allow for critical evaluation, fact-checking, and verification of information. It's important to note that both traditional healers and written sources can have their limitations. Traditional practices may not always align with scientifically validated methods, and written sources can contain inaccuracies or be influenced by biases. Ultimately, the trust you place in either traditional healers or the written word may depend on your personal beliefs, the specific situation, and the availability of credible information. It is advisable to seek a balanced approach by considering various perspectives, consulting experts, and making informed decisions based on the best available evidence.

@Zerosquare should there be some magenta though?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hFoMkQCuqw Today, we will take a look at the SM6337.02 – a vintage Soviet dot matrix printer made in Russia in the late 1980s. In my life, I've seen a lot of computers and devices manufactured in the USSR, but this one features an unbelievably low quality level. Technically, it is an Epson-compatible peripheral device with RS-232 and Centronics interfaces, and it comes with a few built-in fonts. However, from what I see, it is unlikely that it was functional even when it just came out of the factory. Even more bizarre it becomes when we take a short look at its military/KGB counterpart.