The Official Status Thread
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Yeah but Microsoft has been infected with the open source-y disease.
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Thank you for that worthwhile contribution.
There's still a difference between what they called a preview and their general release.
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You're welcome.
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Status: A friend I don't like that much sent me a question about Windows 10 and now he's telling me all about his stupid greasy family and how he got a 3% raise at work but he's working less hours and basically I hate this.
Thanks, Obama!
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the @accalia's are spreading!
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A friend I don't like that much sent me a question about Windows 10 and now he's telling me all about his stupid greasy family and how he got a 3% raise at work but he's working less hours and basically I hate this.
People suck.
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Status: Moderately disappointed that pikachu doesn't mean thunder mouse.
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Having a monthly all-office catch up meeting at 4:30pm on a Friday: Fair enough or dick move?
Dick move.
Ours is 3:30 on Th. And beer o'clock is Fri. at 4.
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But this one wasn't an ad. It was a full tutorial on some kind of niche software, unprofessional and sounding like it was a live presentation. It's 2:50:00 long.
I've seen that once or twice, but I got a "skip in 5 seconds" thing.
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Yeah, I get that, but still. Most videos on youtube are nowhere near 3 hours long, and these ads are preferably short enough that you just ignore them, and generally for products that might be vaguely interesting.
This is 3 hours of 'um, um, um'. And it says you can get instant access to more of it!
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but still.
Well, now we know automated software can fuck up in ways humans might, too, and let weird shit through.
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It's more that, yes, it is technically an ad. But you'd think that google would at least have, say, some kind of process that emails someone to review ads that are over half an hour long.
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But you'd think that google would at least have, say, some kind of process that emails someone to review ads that are over half an hour long.
I would have thought that ten years ago, yeah. But they're one of the first of the big Internet companies that seem to automate so much, I am willing to believe that nobody's involved in vetting ads, you know?
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I guess here they must rely on companies having good marketing departments who want to get their ads viewed without making people mad. Maybe India just doesn't care.
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I've seen that once or twice, but I got a "skip in 5 seconds" thing.
I accidentally ran a 1 hour long let's play as an ad once, after YouTube foolishly gave the RITN channel $100 in free ad placements.
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Status: Crowd funding annoys me so much that I am pretty sure I will have a rule now where I will not purchase anything that has been crowd funded.
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I haven't gotten an actual offer, yet, but I got a phone call this morning trying to shave $2 or $3 off a rate that I'm already not sure I can afford to live on.
1650 Friday, and I still haven't gotten the offer (nor word that they've decided I'm too expensive). Had a phone interview for another job this afternoon. Job is in Minneapolis area. Brr! Not my first choice of places to live, but it's better than Milwaukee. :P Biggest problem seems to be that the boss's boss really only wants to consider local candidates. I might have to relocate at my own expense to be considered. (The offer I'm expecting and, probably, the other one I'm hoping for would also mean relocating at my own expense, so it's not a huge strike against taking this job, if they were to offer it.)
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Crowd funding annoys me so much that I am pretty sure I will have a rule now where I will not purchase anything that has been crowd funded.
What, not even things that went successfully, like the books of a number of webcomics, or that movie Penny Arcade is trying to do?
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What, not even things that went successfully, like the books of a number of webcomics, or that movie Penny Arcade is trying to do?
I am not familiar with those, and I am not particularly interested in those things, so I guess not?
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Status: Unlocked an achievement that requires double clicking 75 times as one of the steps that I have to do for each of the 19 items it requires crafting.
The reward? A box containing a recipe for a nontradable consumable item and enough ingredients for me to craft one. Oh, and three achievement points.
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I am not familiar with those, and I am not particularly interested in those things, so I guess not?
Sure, because those are the only two(ish) things successfully crowdfunded.
So let's say someone brings something to market that originated via KS, that works well and is something you'd actually like to have. Would you refuse to buy one out of spite?
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yeah, but that guy wasn't selling the salad. As far as I care.
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STATUS: People who sit in front of their building all day long and watch everything that's going on freak me out.
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People who sit in front of their building all day long and watch everything that's going on freak me out.
What about people who sit inside their living rooms and watch everything that's going on through the window?
Filed under: Just askin'
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Status: My bank made an online account for me. They gave me a post-it note with this on it:
Username: BenLubar Password: summer15
I logged in and the system required me to put in my username and password on separate pages, then immediately forced me to change the password (yay) to something with a maximum of 10 characters (boo) and then added some other things it called "security features ".
The "security features " consist of a picture that I had to choose from a list of generic scenery pictures resized to 64x64 which they will show me after I enter my username to verify that I am either on the correct site or on a site that has the ability to enter a username into the box in the background and also 3 "security questions " that I had to choose from lists of 8 possible questions. The options were things like this:
- What is the nickname of your youngest daughter? [spoiler]Right, I'm a 21 year old autistic nerd. Of course I have been married long enough to have multiple daughters who have nicknames that will never change.[/spoiler]
- What is your grandmother's middle name? [spoiler]Neither one had one. Also, they're both dead. Thanks for reminding me.[/spoiler]
- How many characters are there in your password? [spoiler]That wasn't a real one, but there are only three possible answers to that question, so it's a good candidate.[/spoiler]
So we have the mystical "five-no-wait-it's-actually-just-one-factor authentication" with the added bonus of one of the "security features " being broken by using the process that the person stealing my account would need to use to log in.
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Status: the DailyWTF Archive is down.
Why?
Still no clue. It's like they stuck a time-bomb in CS so when August 1st, 2015 rolled-around, it'd simply stop serving up pages. I assume it's trying to perform some sort of cleanup or admin task, but failing because its DB connection is read-only...?
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What about people who sit inside their living rooms and watch everything that's going on through the window?
THE window? What millennium do you come from? It's rather like having 15 browser windows open with a webcam page each.
Filed under Just wonderin'
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My bank made an online account for me.
I'd say BofA, except they just eliminated the picture thing (and their passwords can be 20 characters, IIRC). They replaced it with a nonce sent by either email or text message (good), but signing up to get the nonces is a separate, optional step; the default is only username and password to sign in.
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So, nVidia recalls pretty much all their SHIELD tablets due to a potential battery-related fire hazard.
Does that mean they'll put the Portable back in store? (probably not, but a man can hope...)
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The "security features " consist of a picture that I had to choose from a list of generic scenery pictures resized to 64x64 which they will show me after I enter my username to verify that I am either on the correct site or on a site that has the ability to enter a username into the box in the background and also 3 "security questions " that I had to choose from lists of 8 possible questions.
I assume that that's a feature to force the scammers to use some sort of mechanism that still requires contacting the real site in the login process, presumably because large numbers of logins from one IP address can then act as a red-flag of shenanigans.
Just in case scammers don't know how to use a botnet of proxies.
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Status: Flight now 1.5 hours delayed because the toilet won't flush. :/
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Status: Repairing a corrupted Windows install. My wife said she shut it off Thursday night and it started having issues yesterday. We had plans last night, so I couldn't look at it until now.
It's so bad that the original install disk doesn't even recognize it as a valid version of Windows. Ouch.
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Status: Pleasantly surprised by the King's Quest episodic-sequel-thing
It's almost like a real point & click adventure game.Refreshing after Telltale's insistent QTE games
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So we have the mystical "five-no-wait-it's-actually-just-one-factor authentication"
I actually just changed online banks a couple weeks ago because the old one doesn't offer two-factor auth and I decided that's no longer acceptable.(Technically the account still has little bit in it, so I didn't change. But I moved almost all of it to the new place.)
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Status: Imagining a compression format that represents a file as an integer and subtracts 1. You can compress a file repeatedly to make it smaller, and eventually you'll get a zero-byte file.
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Status: I finally gave up on fixing the Archive server, and restored it from the saved AMI. Which works fine.
Now the problem is I apparently made the backup AMI before I finished all the configuration, so I lost the logo. Alas. Also it has no log rotation.
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Do you even need logs on a read-only site?
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I thought about turning them off entirely, but I want them in case the bandwidth costs go through the roof or something. Who knows. Better to have and not need than to need and not have, yada yada.
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Status: the DailyWTF Archive is down.
Why?
Still no clue. It's like they stuck a time-bomb in CS so when August 1st, 2015 rolled-around, it'd simply stop serving up pages. I assume it's trying to perform some sort of cleanup or admin task, but failing because its DB connection is read-only...?
Don't worry. That will all be fixed once it is migrated to Discourse.
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So you just invented data transfers?
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Status: Fixing some evil bugs with what happens when you throw certain types of exceptions in places where exceptions are not expected to be thrown. Stopped the crashes, but one case still is behaving wrongly…
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Status: Playing Elite: Dangerous, and found this interesting star system. The game claims to be accurately-scaled and accurate using current astrophysics theories, and I'm not sure if this arrangement is really possible.
Hmm, then I turned a bit and found a third star.
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Does "strong signal source" mean "single cannister of human waste"?
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This far in the boondocks, probably. And I bet it drifted from lightyears away.
It has something to do with the science/exploration role you can play but I haven't gotten into that part of the game yet.
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"single cannister of human waste"?
It's the Quagaars!
<It's a smegging garbage pod!>
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