WTF Bites
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Commercial: "It's a hearing-aid, not an amplifier!"
Um... someone smack me if I'm wrong... but.... is this distinction without a difference?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Commercial: "It's a hearing-aid, not an amplifier!"
Um... someone smack me if I'm wrong... but.... is this distinction without a difference?
I would ass-u-me this means it 1) selectively amplifies only some sounds/frequencies, and 2) only amplifies up to a certain maximum instead of amplifying things that are already loud. However, I would also assume all hearing aids do that so there really is no diference.
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Shipping WTF
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I didn't take a picture, but last night at the baggage claim carousel, the monitor had a floating warning "Check machine temperature". (or something close)
Guess it was lucky these were the last flights in for the night - San Jose has an 11pm curfew (with some exceptions)
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A few weird ones. Didn't know of `the grand error explosion competition', but can see where it's coming from. (Winning entry is amazing.)
(From /r/cpp.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Commercial: "It's a hearing-aid, not an amplifier!"
Um... someone smack me if I'm wrong... but.... is this distinction without a difference?
I would ass-u-me this means it 1) selectively amplifies only some sounds/frequencies, and 2) only amplifies up to a certain maximum instead of amplifying things that are already loud. However, I would also assume all hearing aids do that so there really is no difference.
Yup. It used to be that they were basically two kinds of devices:
- simple amplifiers that just made everything louder. Cheap, simple, could be bought without a medical prescription, but not very well-suited to real-life hearing loss.
- actual hearing aids, with frequency-selective dynamics compression at a minimum, and more fancy stuff if you could afford it. Expensive to very expensive, required a hearing aid specialist to tweak the settings to match the patient's particular hearing loss.
Things have changed recently, and the difference is no longer so clear. Some of the over-the-counter stuff now includes features that used to be reserved to hearing aids, at affordable prices. And from what I've read, some of them are not half-bad when compared to high-end stuff.
(I briefly worked on a project in this field, but it didn't pan out. Let's say that the economics of that industry are... interesting, to put it politely.)
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Chromium :-(
Microsoft Teams :-(FWIW- clearing the cookies did nothing.
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Chromium :-(
Microsoft Teams :-(FWIW- clearing the cookies did nothing.
I had to use Chrome the other day to use Teams on Linux (there’s a Teams client apparently but our IT support wiki says that’s just some website wrapper and they’re not installing it).
They insisted that I enable third party cookies for it to stop redirecting infinitely.I thought every browser other than chrome blocks these now. Why would any halfway sane (INB4 there’s your problem) site require third party cookies?!?
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I had to use Chrome the other day to use Teams on Linux (there’s a Teams client apparently but our IT support wiki says that’s just some website wrapper and they’re not installing it).
Isn't that what the Windows version is?
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@boomzilla probably the same everywhere. Some parts of Microsoft gave up on using Windows as a lock-in mechanism and jumped on Google’s the browser is the platform bandwagon. Which does have some advantages, even if it’s consistently horrible everywhere.
But don’t expect our IT’s reasoning to make any kind of sense.
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@topspin yeah, I was just under the impression that they're all Electron apps. Ditto for VS Code.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@topspin yeah, I was just under the impression that they're all Electron apps. Ditto for VS Code.
They are. But still they mange to subtly fuck it up in different ways, like that audio is more likely to somewhat work in the Flatpak version than in the RPM, even if it's nominally the same release.
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there’s a Teams client apparently but our IT support wiki says that’s just some website wrapper and they’re not installing it
Every Teams client is just wrapper of the Teams website – with working sound and video. Maybe they fixed it in the standard browser by now, but it worked in the client well before it worked in the browser.
Why would any halfway sane (INB4 there’s your problem)
Yeah, Teams didn't see sanity even from an express train.
site require third party cookies?!?
Something to do with the federation mess I suppose. See, ¾ of Teams is just a facet on top of Sharepoint, so it is probably passing authentication tokens by setting cookies for the underlying apps or something like that.
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Some parts of Microsoft gave up on using Windows
as a lock-in mechanism and jumped on Google’s the browser is the platform bandwagon.From what colleagues said, Teams seem to currently work better on Linux than on Windows.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@topspin yeah, I was just under the impression that they're all Electron apps. Ditto for VS Code.
They are. But still they mange to subtly fuck it up in different ways, like that audio is more likely to somewhat work in the Flatpak version than in the RPM, even if it's nominally the same release.
Teams audio seems to be colossally eFfed up, which means everything that restricts Teams' access to it improves things. So on Windows, where they can handle the devices switching themselves, it is the worst, and in Flatpak, which restricts their access to one option (pulseaudio, presumably) only, it works best.
I am in the process of switching notebooks, and I decided I'll try—to get properly working disk encryption—to switch from the dual-boot (where I actually booted the Windows as VM) to WSL2. And because of all what colleagues said about Teams effing up the audio, I am thinking about trying to install them as snap into the WSL2.
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Some parts of Microsoft gave up on using Windows
as a lock-in mechanism and jumped on Google’s the browser is the platform bandwagon.From what colleagues said, Teams seem to currently work better on Linux than on Windows.
Scary thought.
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@Bulb when I was using it last year, this was a hell-no-repro from me. I had a 2020 era Thinkpad running Ubuntu and Teams for Linux was a super buggy piece of shit around audio.
However we weren’t a Teams org, this was just for joining client meetings. Which was also a as we had an Azure account for hosting stuff but no Teams licence so we couldn’t join client meetings with work email.
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Teams audio seems to be colossally eFfed up, which means everything that restricts Teams' access to it improves things.
That's part of the reason why I'm running it in Chromium. Not that Chromium does a great job at that either, but the potentially to screw up colossally is diminished a bit, and mostly sandboxed into the browser.
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I thought every browser other than chrome blocks these now. Why would any halfway sane (INB4 there’s your problem) site require third party cookies?!?
Because the sites are built
and testedfirst with Chrome, and then they are done.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Commercial: "It's a hearing-aid, not an amplifier!"
Um... someone smack me if I'm wrong... but.... is this distinction without a difference?
My suspicion is that the target audience for the ad is people with age-related hearing loss who don't want to admit that they're old enough to need hearing aids.
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Our dear friends at l'Académie Française has decided that the new wave of gaming-related terms coming from across the pond are not fit for official use. Therefore, starting this week, all official government material must use the following:
- rétrojeu
- joueur professionnel
- jeu video de competition
- joueur-animateur en direct
- jeu video en nuage
I am sure all these new terms will quickly replace the english ones in the french vocabulary, along their other related terms like "l'access sans fil à internet" and "adjustement automatique d'intonation".
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- rétrojeu
google translate says it's "backgammon"
very retro, indeed.- joueur professionnel
Isn't it just the term used for other players (ie footballers, hockey players)?
I am sure all these new terms will quickly replace the english ones in the french vocabulary, along their other related terms like "l'access sans fil à internet" and "adjustement automatique d'intonation".
Or maybe they will go the way "magnétoscope" went. How many french kids know this word?
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"l'access sans fil à internet [wifi]"
WiFi is already an entirely made up word, and not really anything English. But I guess they need something unwieldy instead.
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@Carnage Not just unwieldy, but also technically incorrect. Not all Wi-Fi networks have internet access. So would such a network be a "l'access sans fil à internet sans accès internet"?
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WiFi is already an entirely made up word, and not really anything English.
What are the English words for “wireless” and “fidelity”?
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WiFi is already an entirely made up word, and not really anything English.
What are the English words for “wireless” and “fidelity”?
You'd think that's the origin of WiFi. And you'd be incorrect.
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@kazitor Wi-Fi does not stand for anything. The name itself is just a pun on Hi-Fi, and the "wireless fidelity" was only part of an early marketing slogan.
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@Atazhaia Once again they come in a decade after the English words have entered common parlance to impose inferior, unpronounceable-in-any-reasonable-time replacements.
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"l'access sans fil à internet [wifi]"
WiFi is already an entirely made up word, and not really anything English. But I guess they need something unwieldy instead.
Meanwhile, in Germany: let's call it WLAN instead!
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
"l'access sans fil à internet [wifi]"
WiFi is already an entirely made up word, and not really anything English. But I guess they need something unwieldy instead.
Meanwhile, in Germany: let's call it WLAN instead!
That's given that WiFi is one type of WLAN.
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@Kamil-Podlesak Over here it's either wifi or the generic "trådlöst nätverk" from my experience. With a few sprinkles of WLAN (which ends up confusing for network techs, being pronounced the same way as VLAN).
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"wireless fidelity" was only part of an early marketing slogan.
It sounds better than “whiffy,” the typical response to witnessing the spec
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@Kamil-Podlesak Over here it's either wifi or the generic "trådlöst nätverk" from my experience. With a few sprinkles of WLAN (which ends up confusing for network techs, being pronounced the same way as VLAN).
You need to encourage them to start using Wireless Area Network, or WAN, just to really make the network techs unhappy.
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@Kamil-Podlesak Over here it's either wifi or the generic "trådlöst nätverk" from my experience. With a few sprinkles of WLAN (which ends up confusing for network techs, being pronounced the same way as VLAN).
You need to encourage them to start using Wireless Area Network, or WAN, just to really make the network techs unhappy.
I had a colleague that used that. And network techs got a stabby look in their eyes whenever he was using it near them.
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network techs got a stabby look in their eyes whenever he was using it near them.
Maybe try WiAN.
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Go home xCode, you're drunk. Now it's down to under 4 minutes...and finished while I was typing this (about 1 minute after screen-shotting things).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Go home xCode, you're drunk.
From what I read about it, xCode is a not-very-functional alcoholic.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Go home xCode, you're drunk.
From what I read about it, xCode is a not-very-functional alcoholic.
Yeah. And now, 10 minutes later, it turns out it lied about being done. It's gone down to zero, then back up to 20 minutes, then back down. And is now slowly making progress at 99% of the progress bar, with about 2 minutes remaining.
Oh, and you have to install xcode and keep it up to date in order to have the command line tools to do things like use Homebrew (to install completely different language environments and tooling).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Oh, and you have to install xcode and keep it up to date in order to have the command line tools to do things like use Homebrew (to install completely different language environments and tooling).
You don't need to keep it totally up to date for those tools to work.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Oh, and you have to install xcode and keep it up to date in order to have the command line tools to do things like use Homebrew (to install completely different language environments and tooling).
You don't need to keep it totally up to date for those tools to work.
I had my brew update fail with "your command line tools are out of date". Despite being up to date (according to xcode). Had to purge and re-download (hence the screenshot).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Oh, and you have to install xcode and keep it up to date in order to have the command line tools to do things like use Homebrew (to install completely different language environments and tooling).
You don't need to keep it totally up to date for those tools to work.
Indeed. And if you're only using Homebrew you just need the Xcode command line tools and not full Xcode.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
I had my brew update fail with "your command line tools are out of date". Despite being up to date (according to xcode).
My work laptop has the Xcode 11.3.1 command line tools from 2020, and brew works fine
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
It's gone down to zero, then back up to 20 minutes, then back down. And is now slowly making progress at 99% of the progress bar, with about 2 minutes remaining.
Apple likes claiming Microsoft steals everything from them, but it looks like they've stolen Windows' copy dialog progress bar.
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
brew works fine
The Beer thread is
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@Atazhaia "Réseau sans fil" is already the correct term. You can add internet access over it.
L'Académie Française should look outside France to find the proper French terms
Edit: even Cisco uses it
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
L'Académie Française should look outside France to find the proper French terms
Fat chance. They're the (barely)-living incarnation of NIH syndrome.
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Not just unwieldy, but also technically incorrect. Not all Wi-Fi networks have internet access. So would such a network be a "l'access sans fil à internet sans accès internet"?
Worse, the WIFI usually doesn't work, so it could be "le déni sans fil à internet sans accès internet".