WTF Bites
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Swipe right 200+ times to get to my birth year
This was my complaint on Google Calendar up until yesterday, when I looked at the keyboard shortcuts (which I never use) and saw that pushing g brings up a box to type an arbitrary date. I'm still annoyed there's no way to do this in the page GUI.
Well... if you click prev/next month once, you can edit the URL to go directly to the date you want. But yeah, not having any way to "go to date" from the GUI is stupid, especially since it could be linked to the text of the month it's displaying.
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Translation: the new password is too simple.
And nowhere at all does it specify any requirements (lengths, characters, whatsoever) of the password. Ugh, WTF, I just banged the keyboard at some point and it never changed to acceptable.
But hey, this is acceptable:
Educated guess: they have a list of bad passwords and do substring matching. So
qetu2468
would be fine butpasswordWnciorZbsp47cSnegkt1oNLsWwn6djgtiy93
is too simple.More likely, it can't be longer than 8 (or some other low number) chars long.
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Sixteen hours on 33% battery life? That's not quite what I'd call a conservative estimate.
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@dcon Nice guess, but no, I would have noticed that.
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This is why you don't try to do these clever tricks, OneNote.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
This is why you don't try to do these clever tricks, OneNote.
No. I don't wanna know.
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
No. I don't wanna know.
I'm more concerned about "How to take a screenshot" and "VB 6 tutorial"
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@pjh I'm not sure about more concerned, but you do have a good point.
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
@pjh I'm not sure about more concerned,
I thought equine erotica was de rigueur for a not insubstantial number of members here .
Not knowing how to take a screenshot without the aid of a table OTOH...
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It's an old 4chan meme where you leave intentionally embarrassing details in screenshots for the lulz and to show people that you were actually careful. Usually they're slightly subtler, but whatever.Also horses are sexy.
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Exploring apps on Office 365
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In a group chat over SMS, I am talking to two people, both with names that begin with C. I am moderately annoyed that Google has chosen the exact same color to represent their messages and pictures, since there is no way at all to tell them apart without looking for the tiny name below the message.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
In a group chat over SMS, I am talking to two people, both with names that begin with C. I am moderately annoyed that Google has chosen the exact same color to represent their messages and pictures, since there is no way at all to tell them apart without looking for the tiny name below the message.
... Assign a photo to them?
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@tsaukpaetra Effort.
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@pie_flavor More effort than repeatedly having to look for the tiny name below the message?
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@scarlet_manuka I figured out how to set the color. Still stupid that they used the same color for both.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@scarlet_manuka I figured out how to set the color. Still stupid that they used the same color for both.
Randomly generated profile data sometimes has patterns?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Still stupid that they used the same color for both.
With 24-bit colors, if you know at least 16777217 people with names beginning with a C, at least two will have the same color.
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@cvi And that's assuming you only look at the unique hex values. If it's open to interpretation though...
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: Trying to upgrade our build from 4.4.13 to 4.4.14, and suddenly our build is failing with a bunch of errors like this: [snip] Is there some change between 4.4.13 and 4.4.14 that might have caused this?
: Yes, dialogues were deprecated and removed.
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@gąska Deprecated and removed in a patch release?!
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deprecated and removed
We call that sort of behaviour obsolescence, not deprecation; when we deprecate something, it's left in there a while longer. At least for one patch number...
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At least for one patch number...
Workaround: increment patch number by two before releasing.
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Filed for an extension to file my tax return. So many WTFs.
Password expiry on a payroll site I log into once or twice a year to get tax forms. Bonus WTFs:
Passwords cannot contain<>\"'`
. (Anyone wanna try some SQL injection?)
Generate a new password in KeePass. Password change form fails, so I have to open another copy of the password database from my USB stick to get the original password to try again.
(In)security question if your IP address is one you haven't used in the last 30 days. (Ever hear of dynamic IP addresses?)The free online filing site I used last year is still online, accepting and filing returns, dispite not being listed on the IRS site this year.
Pick a new free online filing site from the IRS list. Create an account. Log in. The page it displays has a blank form, and all the buttons take me back to the login page.
Screw it. Use the website I used last year. Create an account (because of course they completely purge their database every year). Fill in the identification side of the form. Calculate the estimated tax owed (because the extension just allows you to file later; you still have to pay the tax now). This is as much work as just filing the actual return. At this point, it's after midnight, but fortunately, I have another (almost) 24 hours due to WTF local (to the Washington, D.C., bureaucrats) government holiday. (As expected, unless I screwed up rather badly, I should be getting a nice refund of some of the money my employer already took out of my paychecks, so the deadline doesn't really matter all that much in the first place.) Submit the form from WTFonlinefiling.com and hope the IRS accepts it, because it's not on their list this year. If not, I have tonight to try again from WTF1040online.com, but at least I already have the number it took an hour to calculate last night; the only time-consuming part will be finding a filing website that actually works.
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
finding a filing website that actually works.
Great punchline, 8/10, would joke again!
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
Screw it. Use the website I used last year. Create an account (because of course they completely purge their database every year).
I used that site last year and this year. Seems to work for me.
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Nuget is down for euroweenies
NO WORRIES, IT'S NOT LIKE I MISSED MY LAUNCH WINDOW BECAUSE OF THIS
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NO WORRIES, IT'S NOT LIKE I MISSED MY LAUNCH WINDOW BECAUSE OF THIS
Why did you develop your product in such a way that some random-ass server you have no control over can cause you to miss a launch window?
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
NO WORRIES, IT'S NOT LIKE I MISSED MY LAUNCH WINDOW BECAUSE OF THIS
Why did you develop your product in such a way that some random-ass server you have no control over can cause you to miss a launch window?
Of course I did. Nuget is never down. Until...
I've advocated for an internal nuget server, the pointy haired people disagrees.
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Of course I did. Nuget is never down. Until...
My shit doesn't rely on NPM or Nuget. I test it occasionally to make sure it builds with no internet access. Its a lot easier with Nuget than NPM; Nuget seemed to be designed with the assumption you'll want to keep a copy, while NPM is more "NEVER CHECK THIS IN TO SOURCE CONTROL EVIL EVIIIL". But either way, both work.
Ironically, other than the TypeScript compiler, every single NPM package I'm using is a build tool. Stuff like Gulp, Uglify, Strip-Debug, etc. So I'd be in pretty decent shape even if I didn't store those. (I guess you could argue the TypeScript compiler is a build tool too, just more necessary to the process than the others...)
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
I test it occasionally to make sure it builds with no internet access.
It infuriates me when developers don't test this. Your shit should be able to build and deploy without outbound Internet access. Having to pull down libraries, XML schemas, etc. myself and having to modify build scripts and XML documents doesn't scream "professional" to me.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
Your shit should be able to build and deploy without outbound Internet access
Deploying to a server on the internet?
@blakeyrat any good guides to setting one up? How much storage space does it use? My local solution seems to have ~1g of packages folder.
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Deploying to a server on the internet?
Ok; build then, not deploy.
@blakeyrat any good guides to setting one up?
One what?
How much storage space does it use?
Assuming "it" means the NPM and Nuget cache, it's about 450 MB for Nuget and 54 MB for NPM on my current project.
Unfortunately, a co-worker decided we needed to be using MVC5 for the management site, and that bloats up the Nuget cache beyond all reason. Fucking huge ass bloated libraries.
He included all of MVC5 on another project which literally is just one URL which does URL redirect (like bit.ly). I was like "you added hundreds of megabytes of bloat for a project you could have just written a single .ashx handler for?" Some people just love bloat. To this day, I have no idea what feature of MVC5 he possibly thought would make a URL redirector easier to write.
EDIT: this conversation made me check my build again and it's a good thing, turns out it wasn't working-- NPM relies on a package named "debug" which wasn't being put in source control because of an unrelated .gitignore instruction for the C# debug folders.
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Deploying to a server on the internet?
Yes? What’s your point? My production servers are not allowed to initiate outbound Internet connections; why would they be?
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
My production servers are not allowed to initiate outbound Internet connections; why would they be?
Many production servers do have to initiate outbound connections to function correctly. Why would we assume that that is not true for yours?
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
One what?
I thought you ran your own nuget mirror/cache.
I hadn't considered just including the packages folder in source control.
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Microsoft Teams has a rather confusing way of doing oneboxes:
By the way, here neither really one-boxes, both just display appropriate favicon next to them.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
I test it occasionally to make sure it builds with no internet access.
Our build server does not have internet access at all (well, for one project; the one for the other project does), so that takes care of it.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
Nuget seemed to be designed with the assumption you'll want to keep a copy, while NPM is more "NEVER CHECK THIS IN TO SOURCE CONTROL EVIL EVIIIL".
Gradle almost works except the local cache has loooooong paths that break half of Windows tooling, so it has to be placed in the build directory and then cleared again by
robocopy
(which is a pile of of its own, but it's the only tool that handles long paths and does not occasionally fail just for the lulz).
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loooooong paths that break half of Windows tooling
Not on Windows Server 2016, so that may be worth looking into. :)
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I thought this was a joke at first, but horrifyingly it seems to be real!
Well, that sounds like a great idea...oh wait, it's already been a security disaster:
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I thought this was a joke at first, but horrifyingly it seems to be real!
Really, they're just working in conjunction with Microsoft and Windows Hello to make password phishing an even more seamless experience...
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
[Web USB]
Yeah, had a thread for that a while ago:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/21559/web-usb
Happy to see it's already lived up to my expectations...
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I thought this was a joke at first, but horrifyingly it seems to be real!
Well, that sounds like a great idea...oh wait, it's already been a security disaster:
Whaaat?
Any developer who has this ideaBut most importantly this will make USB safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.
needs to be forbidden to use electric devices. Nothing was ever made more secured by putting it on "the Web".
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I thought this was a joke at first, but horrifyingly it seems to be real!
Well, that sounds like a great idea...oh wait, it's already been a security disaster:
Whaaat?
Any developer who has this ideaBut most importantly this will make USB safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.
needs to be forbidden to use electric devices. Nothing was ever made more secured by putting it on "the Web".
The WebHarmUserWithShrapnelByDetonatingHardDrive API makes harming users with shrapnel by detonating hard drives safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web.