The Official Status Thread
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@Magus fair enough. I think it's a rather stupid hack as well, but the proxy is no better for fucking with the headers instead of just returning a 404 or 403 for stuff from Wikipedia if they wanted to block it.
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Status: It's a good thing I didn't just use buttons to navigate, I might have made a mistake getting to this slide!
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@Tsaukpaetra nice icons, though a bit unclear... I mean "Back"? I think an arrow leaning left like a drunken sailor would convey the concept better...
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@Onyx Well, they don't actually block it. That's the odd part. Any non-chrome browser can get there.
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@Magus said:
@Onyx No. I blame Chrome. Downloading things is among the least secure functions a browser can do, and so it should always be user-initiated. Always.
It is user initiated... You clicked on a link to a file.
Granted it wasn't actually a link to a file, but that's what the proxy made it into...
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@sloosecannon said:
You
clicked onscrolled and triggered an event which loaded a link to a fileFTFP
Edit: When are we getting our composer tools back again? Typing these html markups is hard...
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@sloosecannon said:
Granted it wasn't actually a link to a file, but that's what the proxy made it into...
If you can test it with Firefox, IE, and Chrome, which implement this thing differently, and two thirds of them don't think wikipedia is a file, the one who thinks it is is wrong.
Chrome is wrong.
Chrome is wrong.
Chrome is wrong.
Chrome is wrong.
Chrome is wrong.
Chrome is wrong.
Chrome is wrong.But you guys like it, so the problem is just me, right?
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@HardwareGeek It's pretty hard. You'd have to not enter any caves, mines, cities, etc. Basically not travel through any doorways whatsoever.
For HOURS?
... either that or you were an idiot and turned off auto-save.
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@Magus Ah, see, you didn't say that initially. That's different then.
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@ChaosTheEternal said:
I only picked 15 minutes because he wanted it to "never go away". It's also only supposed to be a workaround.
15 minutes is pretty far away from infinite time. It's infinitely far away actually.
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Status: Most times customer service for companies is utter shit. Today I received amazing customer support. Quick, responsive and a conversational style that was not at all stuffy and corporate.
So I get one of those surveys about the support experience and rate her highly, and due to her name being similar to that of a superhero's alter ego I end my comment with, "Plus, I always read her name first as $SUPER_HERO when I see it pop up in my email, and that makes me smile."
15 minutes later I get an email from her:
"Sorry to bug you, but I just wanted to let you know that you just made my day. Thank you."
...with a gif of the superhero in the email. :)
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@blakeyrat said:
15 minutes is pretty far away from infinite time. It's infinitely far away actually.
A quadrillion minutes would also be infinitely far away from infinite time.
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@Polygeekery said:
A quadrillion minutes would also be infinitely far away from infinite time.
And, pendantically, it would also be a smaller infinity.
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@blakeyrat said:
@HardwareGeek It's pretty hard. You'd have to not enter any caves, mines, cities, etc. Basically not travel through any doorways whatsoever.
For HOURS?
... either that or you were an idiot and turned off auto-save.
There's also an option to auto-save at specific time intervals, too, which I always run at 5 minutes whenever I play Skyrim.
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@Onyx said:
@Tsaukpaetra nice icons, though a bit unclear... I mean "Back"? I think an arrow leaning left like a drunken sailor would convey the concept better...
That's a matter of perspectve. For us normally aligned people it would be pointing straight leftwards.
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TIL: if you give your users a new WiFi password without sufficient special characters, they will try to type it by hand. And the fact that Outlook 2010's default font lacks serifs means that upper case i and lower case L will bite you in the ass...
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@Polygeekery said:
@Polygeekery said:
A quadrillion minutes would also be infinitely far away from infinite time.
And, pendantically, it would also be a smaller infinity.
Err. No? Not unless you go from non-enumerable infinite to enumerable, which I don't see how you can do using the same scale of measurement. If you went from fractions of an hour to minutes, it would be a different matter.
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@smallshellscript said:
if you give your users a new WiFi password without sufficient special characters, they will try to type it by hand
Really? People would really try to type out something like
afebb01aa3
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Filed under: Full disclosure: That is the actual WEP password on the AP I keep for my legacy Nintendo DS systems
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@smallshellscript said:
And the fact that Outlook 2010's default font lacks serifs means that upper case i and lower case L will bite you in the ass...
That's why I always force a monospace font for any credentials I send to people. Also, I can align them like this:
user: admin password: hunter2
which satisfies my ODC.
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@Tsaukpaetra said:
@smallshellscript said:
if you give your users a new WiFi password without sufficient special characters, they will try to type it by hand
Really? People would really try to type out something like
afebb01aa3
?
Filed under: Full disclosure: That is the actual WEP password on the AP I keep for my legacy Nintendo DS systems
I favour sentence'y passwords with possible strategic replacement of characters if you need more apparent entropy (see XKCD about "Horse Battery Staple" that I'm too lazy to look for). I watched one manager pull up the email with it in and then try to type it into the password dialog (making that very mistake). Just need to watch out for Il in future.
PS - if you're using WEP, your AP is open anyway. Might as well turn it off.
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@Tsaukpaetra said:
Really? People would really try to type out something like afebb01aa3?
They'd HAVE to on their tiny-ass touch-screen cellphones and tablets, or using the D-pad of an Xbox One controller, and hate and curse your shitty password with every character.
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Meet U+200B, the zero-width space.
:-)
:-D
:smile:
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@blakeyrat said:
@Tsaukpaetra said:
Really? People would really try to type out something like afebb01aa3?
They'd HAVE to on their tiny-ass touch-screen cellphones and tablets, or using the D-pad of an Xbox One controller, and hate and curse your shitty password with every character.
Particularly iOS devices. Fucking . Let's nest the numbers down a level and the common symbols down 2...
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Status: Sure, I'd love to answer your question…
…if you actually asked me one!
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@blakeyrat said:
turned off auto-save
Not unless I somehow did it accidentally and temporarily; it definitely auto-saved at other times.
@blakeyrat said:
not enter any caves
I can't quite remember the order I did things last night. It auto-saved when I finished the quest I was on when I loaded the game. But then I had definitely gone into at least one cave and cleared it before respawning back at Windhelm.
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@HardwareGeek said:
I can't quite remember the order I did things last night. It auto-saved when I finished the quest I was on when I loaded the game. But then I had definitely gone into at least one cave and cleared it before respawning back at Windhelm.
Unless you were a moron who turned off auto-save, it saves every time it loads a new worldspace. (Meaning: you enter a city, building, cave, dungeon, whatever. Any time you exit the overworld and there's a loading screen.)
It also saves on a timer. By default, 15 minutes I believe.
So check your settings before you play next time, because I bet you turned it off. A lot of people do because they have a weird superstition that Gamebryo/Creation Engine is going to "corrupt their game". (Which is possible; I've seen it. But the solution is to just NEVER REUSE THE SAME SAVE FILE. Not to turn off auto-save.)
I've been playing buggy RPGs long enough to just save by number. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. As Skyrim saves fill-up my drive, I delete all but the multiples of 50. (I have a character whose saves are up to... I think 830ish?) Common knowledge back in the '90s where every RPG either corrupted your save, or could easily put you in a "walking dead" state. Kids these days don't know any better.
Remember Morrowind? It was smart enough to know when your character was in a "walking dead" state, but it didn't tell you until after you were already in it. What a dick. Still a step forward from older games that didn't detect/tell you about it at all.
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Status Tearing hair out because I apparently can't read (or type)
<uap:Extension Category="windows.protocol"> <uap:Protocol Name="xyzzy"/> <uap:/Extension>
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@smallshellscript said:
if you're using WEP, your AP is open anyway. Might as well turn it off.
It's walled in to only allow communications to nintendo-related servers. I only put a password on to stop people joining arbitrarily. ;)
@blakeyrat said:
They'd HAVE to on their tiny-ass touch-screen cellphones and tablets, or using the D-pad of an Xbox One controller, and hate and curse your shitty password with every character.
Well damn well and good! I don't want them to connect with cell phones, xboxes, or any of that crap!
If they want to use those things, connect to the real wifi with the passwordnothinghereyouguys
!
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@Onyx said:
@smallshellscript said:
And the fact that Outlook 2010's default font lacks serifs means that upper case i and lower case L will bite you in the ass...
That's why I always force a monospace font for any credentials I send to people. Also, I can align them like this:
user: admin password: hunter2
which satisfies my ODC.
FTFYCDO
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Status:
- Trying to find credentials for the shared hosting account used for this system that is Priority One down, check.
- Looking into a few things while waiting for the code to download... oh, hosting provider upgraded to PHP 5.6 recently, interesting...
mysql_connect(...)
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@izzion said:
Status:
- Trying to find credentials for the shared hosting account used for this system that is Priority One down, check.
- Looking into a few things while waiting for the code to download... oh, hosting provider upgraded to PHP 5.6 recently, interesting...
mysql_connect(...)
I don't PHP, I don't see the problem here. Is it supposed to be real_mysql_connect? connect_mysql?
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@AyGeePlus
mysql_connect(...)
is (rightfully) removed in PHP 5.6It's been entirely replaced, but given PHP and old codebases...
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@AyGeePlus From https://dev.mysql.com/doc/apis-php/en/apis-php-function.mysql-connect.html:
This extension was deprecated in PHP 5.5.0, and it was removed in PHP 7.0.0. Instead, the MySQLi or PDO_MySQL extension should be used.
Edit: 'd… just!
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@RaceProUK I'd ask what was wrong with mysql_connect but perhaps it would be better if I didn't know.
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@AyGeePlus but perhaps it would be better if I didn't know.
This
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@AyGeePlus Anything from
mysql_
family should've been burned with fire a long time ago, IMHO. Unfortunately,mysqli
(same shit, just in OOP form) is still alive and kicking.Look, the library has a function called
mysql_real_escape_string
. If that doesn't scare you...
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STATUS:
[insert rant about slow internet here]
[insert rant about 62.9GB game here]
[insert GTA sucks rant here]
$placeholder$
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@Onyx said:
Look, the library has a function called mysql_real_escape_string. If that doesn't scare you...
Which got succeeded by
mysqli_real_escape_string
, right?
Filed under: [WhyTF can't I select text inside the preview](#tag), [hr still breaks links](#tag)
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@aliceif "i" stands for "(very) incremental improvement".
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@aliceif I added a function to WtfWebApp named HtmlRealEscapeString today.
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@sloosecannon said:
[insert rant about 62.9GB game here]
It's not like you can fit 49 square miles onto a 3.5" floppy :P
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@aliceif Yes. Yes it did. And yes, I will strangle anyone using it in new code on the spot.
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@AyGeePlus Basically, mysql_connect and the related functions didn't do anything at all to provide ways to avoid SQL injection. So, naturally, code written using them was extremely vulnerable, and is the underpinning of a lot of PHP's "bad language" / "walking security nightmare" reputation.
mysqli_connect made some strides to making things safer, and by PHP 5.0, they had a proper OOP "PHP Data Object" (PDO) layer that was fairly platform agnostic and made it relatively easy to write safe database access code. Except nobody EVER transitioned their old code. Over like 10 years. And mysql_connect kept zombieing along, until PHP finally put their foot down last year and broke backwards compat.
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