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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I dual-booted my laptop in high school. DOS for when it mattered, Win3.1 when I wanted to have fun pretending to look cool.
Everyone who ran Windows 3.1 could just quit Windows and go back to DOS?
Dual-booting seems like unnecessary complicati... ah, how very on brand for you.
The easier method was not configuring windows to start automatically to begin with.
How complicated was that? I don't remember, but kind of assume that "booting into windows" was really nothing more than a win.exe at the end of your autoexec.bat.
That's about what I recall.
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Status: In a discussion by email between two organisations that have different URL-defanging solutions for Exchange. The URLs getting exchanged are ending up seriously mangled, which when you're trying to debug a scheme for receiving API keys is rather annoying...
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@dkf http colon slash slash api dot company dot com slash keyManagement slash ...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf http colon slash slash api dot company dot com slash keyManagement slash ...
STATUS uuuuuggghhh... I think the christmas pudd I ate at lunch is disagreeing with me.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
christmas pudd I ate at lunch is disagreeing with me.
don't worry, I disagree with it too
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I think the christmas pudd I ate at lunch is disagreeing with me.
11 months old? I'd not be surprised. Although eating a pudding that won't exist until a month in the future might have very interesting effects. Maybe The Doctor could help you with that.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
11 months old? I'd not be surprised.
I would. Christmas puddings keep extremely well if in a sealed container.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I think the christmas pudd I ate at lunch is disagreeing with me.
11 months old? I'd not be surprised. Although eating a pudding that won't exist until a month in the future might have very interesting effects. Maybe The Doctor could help you with that.
I had a second.
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Status: TIL mobile FF has an option to automatically close tabs that haven't been viewed in a certain length of time. NOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
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Status: procrastinating at work. Just one of those kneeling warthog days.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
11 months old? I'd not be surprised.
Irish rendition of the Ol' Moldy Tsaukpaetra Show?
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@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: procrastinating at work. Just one of those kneeling warthog days.
May the ground be soft so that your kneeling is comfortable.
STATUS They have a fucking team of developers and I somehow end up having to go read the documentation on software, almost as old as my drinking career, to figure out what's broken.
This entire outsourcing thing is going to fail so hard I might be able to apply and double my day rate.
*edit More ranting! I don't know how anyone can be this bad. I'm a somewhat competent hack on days I'm not hungover but these people make me look like a titan wading through a lake of minnows. If I ever make the claim I'm good at my job, consider me compromised and send me to that awful corner of hell where managers live.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
. If I ever make the claim I'm good at my job
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@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
Just one of those kneeling warthog days.
A day that ends in y.
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I managed to reduce the number of sling mappings from 385 to 22, fixing several problems in the process.
Actually proving that I haven't broken any of our tens of thousands of pages and endpoints across dozens of environments is going to be nearly impossible.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Laptops were a thing back then?
This is @Tsaukpaetra, not @HardwareGeek.
And he’s talking about DOS/Win 3.1.
My first laptop ran XP.@HardwareGeek's first laptop was an abacus
I have never used an abacus and don't even know how to use one.
OTOH, if you'd said slide rule, you'd not be wrong.
Abacus...
It was in 1992. Bernie did the adventure trip of his young life: Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia; even Estonia was planned, but not reached).
Go to a shop and buy some things. Sales girl takes an abacus and does the math with it, then shows it to me.
And an abacus analphabet as I am, I cannot read that result...
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
It was in 1992. Bernie did the adventure trip of his young life.
In 1992, I was >30. In retrospect, that was young, although it didn't seem so at the time.
Coincidentally, I too did the adventure trip of my life, my first venture outside the US (except an hour or so across the bridge into Canada when I was 4) with my then brand-new fiancee. I've been back to Europe a few times since, and it's hard to say which trip was the most adventurous, but the complete novelty of the first time is a big point in favor of that one.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Laptops were a thing back then?
This is @Tsaukpaetra, not @HardwareGeek.
And he’s talking about DOS/Win 3.1.
My first laptop ran XP.My first laptop ran Win95.
edit: It weighed a lot. Screen was 800x600. And it was about 1.5in thick. And cost over $5000.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Laptops were a thing back then?
This is @Tsaukpaetra, not @HardwareGeek.
And he’s talking about DOS/Win 3.1.
My first laptop ran XP.My first laptop ran Win95.
Every now and then I get a little disappointed modern CPUs can not handle old Windows. Or rather, Windows makes too many assumptions for modern CPUs to deal with it.
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Status: learning about the menstrual cycle of parcels.
Hope it doesn’t have PMS.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: TIL mobile FF has an option to automatically close tabs that haven't been viewed in a certain length of time.
This is the way.
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Status: Ohnoes, the tracking pixel didn't load, whatever will I do?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm a somewhat competent hack on days I'm not hungover
Few days a year then?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm a somewhat competent hack on days I'm not hungover
Few days a year then?
The record is a week!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The record is a week!
But not in a row
Nor in the same year
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I managed to reduce the number of sling mappings from 385 to 22, fixing several problems in the process.
Actually proving that I haven't broken any of our tens of thousands of pages and endpoints across dozens of environments is going to be nearly impossible.
If only someone wasted tens of thousands dev hours writing pointless tests for things we already know work fine...
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Status: My new laptop, despite being in sleep mode, goes "ding" every once in a while for no apparent reason.
Windows 11 thread may be but I am nowhere near caught up to the end
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My new laptop, despite being in sleep mode, goes "ding" every once in a while for no apparent reason.
Windows 11 thread may be but I am nowhere near caught up to the end
What kind of "ding"?
Also, welcome to "Modern Standby" where sleeping isn't actually "sleep".
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@Tsaukpaetra Default Windows ding, I think. It's probably the stupid Asus app
bitchCOMPLAINing about changing the Windows power plan (as it has been randomly doing despite my complete lack of touching the power settings), and how that could disrupt it from maintaining "Silent Mode"Whether "Silent Mode" should include the useless notification and not just the fans is a philosophical question I'm not equipped to answer at this time
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Status: I am real tired of Firefox just stopping writing wherever it stores tab addresses and browsing history. I open some LinkedIn tab that tries to gobble 3GB all by itself, it crashes, and now I find the last 20 tabs I opened are missing and some of my pinned ones have literally between none and half of their URL text saved. What the fuck.
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@Zenith I love when I type a full URL from memory and press Enter, then somehow half of the typed text is gone (I think it's after suggestions finally load), so it tries to access what isn't even a full domain name.
I also love when it decides I'm actually doing a search (despite having separate bars) so what I typed ends up in DDG. Days ago, not sure how it happened, it just wouldn't accept I was trying to call a valid local IP address no matter what I did. It kept reverting the text to
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=192.168.1.1
. I ended up closing that window and opening a new one.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I am real tired of Firefox just stopping writing wherever it stores tab addresses and browsing history. I open some LinkedIn tab that tries to gobble 3GB all by itself, it crashes, and now I find the last 20 tabs I opened are missing and some of my pinned ones have literally between none and half of their URL text saved. What the fuck.
Sounds like they're still doing all their I/O for that sort of thing manually instead of using a little DB instead like the other browser makers. Which is a because atomic file updates are fairly difficult to get right; most apps don't care about that, but most apps don't need to worry about third-party content causing them to crash at almost any time...
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@dkf I'm pretty sure Firefox does use SQLite and has done it for quite a while.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
despite having separate bars
Having a separate search bar does not turn the 'awesome' bar into an ordinary address bar. Unfortunately.
EDIT: Apparently, you need to flip
browser.urlbar.suggest.searches
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@Zecc Then how are they managing to fuck up writing the DB? The only way to get more of a gold standard for ACID commits does involve running a database on a separate machine with its own UPS, and that's totally impractical for web browsers.
Or maybe they write the DB and another file too, and it's that file which is corrupt (and they prefer that file over the DB contents...)
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@dkf I think I read once that commit barriers (which indicate all earlier data should be flushed before starting to write the later data) are not always respected on consumer softhardware in the interest of better performance.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf I think I read once that commit barriers (which indicate all earlier data should be flushed before starting to write the later data) are not always respected on consumer softhardware in the interest of better performance.
That's the Apple special "yes, I really mean you to write to that disk right now while I wait for you to do it" flag, but it only really applies as an issue if the hardware/OS dies. Otherwise the data is in the OS buffers and will get through to the SSD real soon; a crashing tab won't cause corruption in that case.
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@dkf Right, of course. I've been dealing with an unstable PoS radeon graphics driver.
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Status: finished reading the ChatGPT thread. Coincidentally, it's time to go feed my non-stochastic parrot.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Right, of course. I've been dealing with an unstable PoS radeon graphics driver.
The one that spontaneously decides to slaughter the program for shits and giggles or the one that causes a hard reboot and a boot loop?
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@dkf The one that paints the screen grey and makes the speakers go bzzzzzzz.
If the game makes it through the first 5 minutes it's not going to crash. Which makes me 99% certain it's not a power or heat problem.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf The one that paints the screen grey and makes the speakers go bzzzzzzz
Oh yes, I've seen that one too.
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Minor Status: Just seen a private Github project used purely as a dropbox for transferring files to us from a company we're buying some software and hardware from. It works (leveraging the security infrastructure) and means we're not stuck with awful things like sending ZIP files by email, but it's a bit strange.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf I think I read once that commit barriers (which indicate all earlier data should be flushed before starting to write the later data) are not always respected on consumer softhardware in the interest of better performance.
That's the Apple special "yes, I really mean you to write to that disk right now while I wait for you to do it" flag, but it only really applies as an issue if the hardware/OS dies. Otherwise the data is in the OS buffers and will get through to the SSD real soon; a crashing tab won't cause corruption in that case.
Gah, I've gotten in the habit of running the sync command in a bash window before disconnecting a drive on linux.
STATUS What fresh hell is this? I need to create a ticket on the vendor's site to get access to the documentation.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Gah, I've gotten in the habit of running the sync command in a bash window before disconnecting a drive on linux.
Unmounting should do all the needful anyway.