What just happened? Sam did something about an update and then the site went down for 5 hours and now it's down again?
Posts made by Ben L.
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RE: She's dead, Jim
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RE: Wow, this place is still going?
what the daily wtf is down, so here's a screenshot of an email I just got:
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RE: Why is there a TV icon in Microsoft Word?
@Seahen said:
@robbak said:
Interestingly, OpenOffice, and many Open Source packages, use the 'arrow-into-folder' icon instead.
Any bets on how long it'll take before desktop apps start switching to an "arrow-into-cloud" like Android uses?
Did you just wake up after your 5 year nap?
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RE: Copyright notices in code files
@bgodot said:
My favorite is that in the footer of all our sites says something like this:
© <%= DateTime.Now.Year.ToString() %>
And I always wonder: does that actually do anything? I'm not sure it does...
(quote fuction dosn't work...)
Automating it invalidates it. Someone has to manually put in a fixed year number when they update for the copyright message to be valid.
Otherwise, someone just has to run it on a machine set to they year 1901, print the page, and claim 'The Copyright expired, since this website was made over 100 years ago."
Also, you end up with FireFox claiming your page was written in 19114. (script saying (19 + currentyear) gets interpreted as a string concatination...)
If you can change the server's clock, you can probably also just delete all the content and say "copyrighted content? what content?"
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RE: Image fail
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RE: Blobs, BlobServers and URLs (and Santander)
@dkf said:
Hmm,
blobheadervalue1=inline%3Bfilename%3DPDF-BANK0479.pdf
andblobheadername1=Content-Disposition
would appear to be an interesting combination. What could possibly go wrong?blobheadername1=Location&blobheadervalue1=http://what.thedailywtf.com/
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RE: No paste for you... but drag is OK
@flabdablet said:
But the award for Absolutely Most Stupidest Hack Evar goes to Yahoo, whose password change box validator insists that a pasted password is too short until you append and erase an additional character after pasting.
Actually, that one makes sense. Pasting text happens after the keydown/keypress/keyup events for ctrl+v, so the box assumes that you typed a 0 character password because it can't see the text until after the event is done. -
RE: What.TheDailyWTF.com -- Discourse site
@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
Well, we're getting close to the 51 post mark where CS would normally say "I am going to ignore the previous 50 posts and put your post on a separate page with no context"
Are you serious? You find pagination confusing? Endless scrolling is a hundred times worse. This is so broken. Every time I scroll back down it thinks it's the first time I've seen the bottom post. And there's no way to jump to the top or bottom directly.
Yes there is. Look in the lower right. There's a box that has up and down arrows. Try clicking on them. We've been over this several times.
Oh good, they created their own hack to workaround the mess of endless scrolling. Because why should the web work the way it's supposed to?
If you hover over the arrows, it tells you the keyboard shortcuts, which are "home" and "end".
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RE: What.TheDailyWTF.com -- Discourse site
@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
Well, we're getting close to the 51 post mark where CS would normally say "I am going to ignore the previous 50 posts and put your post on a separate page with no context"
Are you serious? You find pagination confusing? Endless scrolling is a hundred times worse. This is so broken. Every time I scroll back down it thinks it's the first time I've seen the bottom post. And there's no way to jump to the top or bottom directly.
Yes there is. Look in the lower right. There's a box that has up and down arrows. Try clicking on them. We've been over this several times.
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RE: CSOD: return and throw
@HardwareGeek said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@Lorne Kates said:
So far, that's making you look like a genius.@morbiuswilters said:
Quick, somebody do something stupid so I look less stupid by comparison!
Whew, that was a close one! wipes sweat from brow
That thing makes Nagesh seem smart.
That thing makes me seem smart.
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RE: Changes at TDWTF: Goodbye Community Server
@HardwareGeek said:
@morbiuswilters said:
You only have two posts left for today over there, so make 'em count.
Yeah, the count of number of posts. As long as I stay tied for first place in the post count, who cares about quality.I wonder if the limit is temporary.
It is.
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RE: What.TheDailyWTF.com -- Discourse site
@RTapeLoadingError said:
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
It does send me a password reset.... has ANYONE gotten a pw reset email?
My password didn't work and no reset mail for me yet either. And I looked in spam but there's a chance that I am TRWTF and I'm looking in the worng mailbox(es)...
Go edit your profile on TDWTF and check what address you have set here.
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RE: What.TheDailyWTF.com -- Discourse site
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
Weird, ok, i wonder why the email isn't working?
It does send me a password reset.... has ANYONE gotten a pw reset email?
We just imported the usernames direclty in the database... anyone have any idea what we might be missing?
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RE: What.TheDailyWTF.com -- Discourse site
No Google/Yahoo one-click login? You manually disabled it. Why?
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RE: How is morbs getting this floating stuff on my photo?
@joe.edwards said:
@Ben L. said:
@boomzilla said:
Fuck. Ben L. is learning another incomprehensible language that no one uses.@Nagesh said:
A.P - Andhra Pradesh.
I that Hindi for Associated Press?
एसोसिएटेड प्रेस
सुअर जाओ. जाओ सोता है. सुअर पैर रखा. ग्रन्ट. फुट क्या है? केचप. कबूतर उड़. फ्लाई आसमान में है. कबूतर कुछ ड्रॉप. सुअर पर कुछ. घृणित सुअर. सुअर खड़खड़. कबूतर के साथ खड़खड़. नाराज कबूतर. सुअर छुट्टी. कबूतर का उत्पादन. निर्माण चिकन विंग है. विंग छाल के साथ. नीम हकीम नहीं.
Это нейронная сеть!
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RE: Changes at TDWTF: Goodbye Community Server
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
As they say, all things are possible...
Unfortunately our lack of skill in Linux/postgres/etc this makes it non-trivial, and we don't have the time to do this, then test it, etc... on top of doing a site redesign.
if anyone wants to take a stab at it, the discourse stuff is open source and I can get an export of the tdwtf cs sql database.
Could you send me the structure for the users table in CS (and any other table that contains info you want as part of the user)?
The discourse one is fairly straightforward:
Table "public.users" Column | Type | Modifiers -------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------- id | integer | not null default nextval('users_id_seq'::regclass) username | character varying(60) | not null created_at | timestamp without time zone | updated_at | timestamp without time zone | name | character varying(255) | bio_raw | text | seen_notification_id | integer | not null default 0 last_posted_at | timestamp without time zone | email | character varying(256) | not null password_hash | character varying(64) | salt | character varying(32) | active | boolean | username_lower | character varying(60) | not null auth_token | character varying(32) | last_seen_at | timestamp without time zone | website | character varying(255) | admin | boolean | not null default false last_emailed_at | timestamp without time zone | email_digests | boolean | not null trust_level | integer | not null bio_cooked | text | email_private_messages | boolean | default true email_direct | boolean | not null default true approved | boolean | not null default false approved_by_id | integer | approved_at | timestamp without time zone | digest_after_days | integer | previous_visit_at | timestamp without time zone | suspended_at | timestamp without time zone | suspended_till | timestamp without time zone | date_of_birth | date | auto_track_topics_after_msecs | integer | views | integer | not null default 0 flag_level | integer | not null default 0 ip_address | inet | new_topic_duration_minutes | integer | external_links_in_new_tab | boolean | not null enable_quoting | boolean | not null default true moderator | boolean | default false blocked | boolean | default false dynamic_favicon | boolean | not null default false title | character varying(255) | use_uploaded_avatar | boolean | default false uploaded_avatar_template | character varying(255) | uploaded_avatar_id | integer | email_always | boolean | not null default false mailing_list_mode | boolean | not null default false primary_group_id | integer | locale | character varying(10) | profile_background | character varying(255) | registration_ip_address | inet | last_redirected_to_top_at | timestamp without time zone | Indexes: "users_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) "index_users_on_email" UNIQUE, btree (email) "index_users_on_username" UNIQUE, btree (username) "index_users_on_username_lower" UNIQUE, btree (username_lower) "index_users_on_auth_token" btree (auth_token) "index_users_on_last_posted_at" btree (last_posted_at)
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RE: Changes at TDWTF: Goodbye Community Server
@morbiuswilters said:
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
Unfortunately our lack of skill in Linux/postgres/etc this makes it non-trivial, and we don't have the time to do this, then test it, etc... on top of doing a site redesign.
if anyone wants to take a stab at it, the discourse stuff is open source and I can get an export of the tdwtf cs sql database.
I have a lot of Linux/Postgres experience, but I don't know about Intercourse.. :(
Knowing a lot about Linux can do that.
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RE: How is morbs getting this floating stuff on my photo?
@boomzilla said:
@Nagesh said:
A.P - Andhra Pradesh.
I that Hindi for Associated Press?
एसोसिएटेड प्रेस
सुअर जाओ. जाओ सोता है. सुअर पैर रखा. ग्रन्ट. फुट क्या है? केचप. कबूतर उड़. फ्लाई आसमान में है. कबूतर कुछ ड्रॉप. सुअर पर कुछ. घृणित सुअर. सुअर खड़खड़. कबूतर के साथ खड़खड़. नाराज कबूतर. सुअर छुट्टी. कबूतर का उत्पादन. निर्माण चिकन विंग है. विंग छाल के साथ. नीम हकीम नहीं.
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RE: Adventures of Sharky! - Cheaper is not always better or cheaper.
@Rhywden said:
[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="Rhywden"]
Um, your link leads me to Wikipedia which in turn leads to this site: http://www.renaissancecapital.com/zendesk/ipo-zen.html
Which actually uses "mm" (notice the small letters?). Makes much more sense since capital M is usually reserved for the prefix Mega.
I'm also not quite sure that this site is such a great source for defining prefixes. Are they an international body like the CIPM? I'm also not quite sure why somebody insists on inventing new prefixes when SI works just fine and keeps the confusion factor low.
It's usually capital M, not lower-case, and it's been used in finance since before SI existed. You need to educate yourself, son. I'm sure your local community college has night classes you can take to expand your horizons.
Education isn't just for getting a better job: it can be fun, too!![/quote]
Oh, is that the reason why the Wiki article is absolutely unable to link to anything resembling a proper standard giver or at least a proper reference, instead being forced to link to a page which doesn't even support the claims it's making? Not to mention the fact that you seem to be utterly unable to read: I myself noted that it's supposed to be Capital M and yet this poor excuse for a reference uses lower case m. So, maybe you should turn your condescension at yourself and look up the terms "reading comprehension" since you seem to be utterly lacking them.
Additionally, my dear, extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. So, put up or shut up. Your local farmer's college obviously neglected teaching you something about making broad claims and failing to support them, in this particular the claim that this notation was a standard before SI.
[/quote]Who's making claims about standards?
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RE: Amazingly screwed-up installation experience
Since all the other points blakeyrat made have already been refuted:
@blakeyrat said:
@Ben L. said:
Linux doesn't need to fix software they broke because they don't break the software in the first place.
If and only if you have the source code to the application. It also helps that Linux's shitty-ass API is like 17 commands instead of 1700, like Windows'.
Since Linux is just the kernel, you can do that tongue-twisting logic Linux users do where the meaning of the word "Linux" changes ten times in a single paragraph-- I'm assuming you're pulling that bullshit and when you say "Linux" in that sentence you mean the kernel specifically. Which is great, the kernel has a compatible API, the problem is nobody can do anything with only the kernel.
Well, if you can declare Linux to be "The Linux Kernel" then I can declare Windows to be "The Windows Kernel". But nobody uses the Windows kernel without using Windows, just like nobody uses the Linux kernel without using a Linux. Which is why your entire defense of "Linux only has 17 functions in its standard library but Windows has eleventy billion" makes no sense.
This page lists 1281 functions in glibc, but I can't find a list of the functions defined in the Windows C standard library.
And no, you don't need to recompile your program to use a different version of glibc. Unless you change the code of your program, obviously.
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RE: Bad casting choice
MSVC 2013:
1>bad_casting_choice.c(7): warning C4047: 'return' : 'char *' differs in levels of indirection from 'int' ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
GCC 4.8.2:
bad_casting_choice.c: In function ‘foo_get_name’: bad_casting_choice.c:7:9: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast] return (int) fp->name; ^ bad_casting_choice.c:7:2: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default] return (int) fp->name; ^
I will admit that I don't know how to use MSVC, so it may have a switch somewhere that enables nicer error messages (or a switch somewhere that I inadvertently disabled while trying to get it to compile a .c file without a precompiled header.)
But either way, both of the compilers I tried with default options noticed that something is wrong. Actually, MSVC noticed a problem before I even compiled the code (while I was trying to paste it in):
So, gvh, how many warnings does the project spit out when you compile it?
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RE: How is morbs getting this floating stuff on my photo?
@morbiuswilters said:
@dhromed said:
@Ben L. said:
Sometimes I post something and only part of the page updates until I go back to it five minutes later when it randomly thinks there's a new post that I haven't read that I wrote.
Reminds me of twitter where it shows OAHH YUO HAV NEW ITEM IN TIEMLINE and it's the one I wrote five seconds ago.
Will the signature guy hack be migrated to Intercourse? I sure hope so.. :(
Well, if you can do it in markdown on a forum without signatures, go ahead.
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RE: Amazingly screwed-up installation experience
@blakeyrat said:
@flabdablet said:
The whole arrangement is exactly the kind of fragile and farcical link-spaghetti kludge that Morbs seems to think could only possibly occur under Unix, made necessary by the kind of nothing-has-changed-for-two-decades backward compatibility that Blakey seem to think could only possibly occur under Unix.
Bullshit. The worst crime would be the OS changing something to break the user's applications. Like Linux and OS X do all the fucking time.
And virtually none of those kludges exist to help applications written to follow the OS contract. Microsoft's only "problem" is that third-party developers never followed the goddamned API contract. Even though those applications just happened to work by accident before.
You know a software company is good when they spent thousands of man-hours repairing other people's shitty broken software just so their users aren't subjected to the breakage. The problem with Linux is nobody does the boring work-- guess what, Microsoft does nothing but the boring work.
Bullshit. Linux doesn't need to fix software they broke because they don't break the software in the first place. For example, any program compiled with glibc 1.93 (from 17 years ago) will run exactly the same with glibc 2.19 (the current version). Linuxes don't randomly move the /home, /usr, /usr/bin, etc. directories on a whim.
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RE: US Military WTF
@Weng said:
We have an Access 'application' named Tracker. Just tracker.
My skazillion dollar system has to interface with it, naturally.
AccessApplicationTrackerTrackerTracker
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RE: C:\PROGRAM
@boomzilla said:
You and the rest of the Aussie lefties seem to be as fascinated with Rupert Murdoch as ours are with the Koch brothers.
I can confirm that Rupert Murdoch is a cartoon villain.
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RE: Australia's National Broadband
@joe.edwards said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Filed under: Is there some kind of web site that only has incorrect information that you all read?
YesThat is what I immediately thought of as well.
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RE: The hell did I do to my career?
@morbiuswilters said:
@dhromed said:
Boners are silent, like a ninja in the night.
You should really see a doctor. They have a pill for that now.
I wonder if there's an app for that...
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RE: GODZILLA!!!!!
@blakeyrat said:
@morbiuswilters said:
So it was good?
It is a pretty solid Godzilla movie!
Oh and the bridge thing: Muto breaks one of the big cables of the Golden Gate, and the bridge roadway stays 100% level. So I guess maybe it's science fiction and they installed anti-gravity disks or something.
You have to give them some credit. At least they had a bridge. I mean, it's not like any computers can model collapsing bridges graphically.
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RE: Spam emails
@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
@TGV said:
You've got to admit there won't be many people called L. where Ben lives.
4/4 of the people who live in this house have the letter L in their name.
Do any of them have a sense of humour?
No.
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RE: Spam emails
@TGV said:
You've got to admit there won't be many people called L. where Ben lives.
4/4 of the people who live in this house have the letter L in their name.
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RE: EU court ruling WTF
@morbiuswilters said:
@boomzilla said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
Try telling that to the folks in New York, who got innundated by the tail end of a storm season that went al the way up to S. How many years in the past did it reach that far up the alphabet?
So, a government contractor blabs to the world about foreign intelligence gathering, and you deny this happened. Other government contractors, paid to find teh evil climate happenings say that we won't be able to detect a signal in EXTREME WEATHER for decades, and you're sure it's already happening and that anyone who can't see the signs like you do is crazy.
You're being a bigot. Sure it's not our cup of tea, but you can't attack a man's faith.
I'm not racist but I do rather like to eat food.
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RE: The hell did I do to my career?
@dhromed said:
@morbiuswilters said:
boner noise
Boners are silent, like a ninja in the night.
I'm going to trust dhromed on this one because he collects them.
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RE: How is morbs getting this floating stuff on my photo?
@dhromed said:
They're off now, and I didn't do anything.
There's something odd about the forum's setting that they don't always stick. Caching or whatever.
Sometimes I post something and only part of the page updates until I go back to it five minutes later when it randomly thinks there's a new post that I haven't read that I wrote.
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Spam emails
What was going through the head of the person who wrote that first sentence?
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RE: C:\PROGRAM
@joe.edwards said:
@HardwareGeek said:
@flabdablet said:
3. I was viewing the site on my phone and it either a) misinterpreted my swipe as a click, b) had a 800x300 ad next to a 40x12 link and I missed, or c) it decided randomly to open the App Store with no apparent interaction whatsoever. Seriously, browsing on my phone is a constant reminder just how infuriating advertising can make the web.@HardwareGeek said:
Genuine answer: I don't know. It's not the sort of thing I keep track of, but I would be rather surprised if I had intentionally clicked more than one or two ads in the last year. Most likely reason for having done so: Curiosity, "WTF is that weird stuff they're advertising?" Least likely reason for having done so: Wanting to actually buy something that was advertised.In fact, I make it a point never to click a sponsored link in Google results, even if it is the actual site I was looking for; I scroll down to the "organic" search result.
Genuine question: when was the last time you were actually interested in a web ad enough to click through it, and after having done so did you end up better off?I probably clicked more ads accidentally. Likely reasons for having done that: 1) It was masquerading as a content link, 2) A pop-up ad had a fake "dismiss" X that really clicked-through.
Speaking of infuriating UX on the web, this post took nearly 20 minutes to compose due to what seems to be a new XBox One bug: space, caps, and backspace now have a 2-5 second variable delay and if you just keep typing the space/capital/deletion goes in the wrong place.There's this amazing new technology called a "computer" which does not have that problem.
There's an even newer technology called a "
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RE: The Yearning
@morbiuswilters said:
@boomzilla said:
I object: that photo is wildly inaccurate!
Our fuhrer of health has unconstitutionally delayed the law a few more times since then.
I'm sorry? Why would Barack Obama delay Obamacare? It has Obama right in the name!
Oh, right, you were referring to the republican party.
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RE: Wanted: Real software review website
@PJH said:
@Ben L. said:
@dhromed said:
Revokes their login rights I believe. I cant find 'revoke posting rights' in the options myself; the closest I can find is 'Hide this user's posts from regular members', or 'moderate posts', the latter of which didn't appear to do anything when I played with it last.@bstorer said:
And post, usually. Such is the power of Community Server.
My habit is to revoke posting rights in addition to banning.
What exactly does banning do?
This is now the Community Server slogan thread.
I'll start
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RE: Australia's National Broadband
@morbiuswilters said:
@Douglasac said:
You'd think so but because they're subsidized and capped it means that poor people can become doctors or lawyers and we can't have that now can't we.
Yeah, just what the world needs, more lawyers. (Anyway, most lawyers make shit money.) And Oliver Twist as a doctor! Hope he cleans the feces off his hands before operating on you.
Actually, no, I hope your sub-par medical system leaves you dying of an infection, you fucking parasitic piece of shit.
Did someone say sub-par medical system with death and infections?
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RE: Wanted: Real software review website
@dhromed said:
@bstorer said:
And post, usually. Such is the power of Community Server.
My habit is to revoke posting rights in addition to banning.
What exactly does banning do?
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RE: Quick, get the patent lawyers on the phone!
@morbiuswilters said:
And, before someone starts bitching, no, I don't think racism is "gone"*.
*Unless you are Donald Sterling and have no idea that the concept of racism exists.
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RE: C:\PROGRAM
@morbiuswilters said:
@Captain Oblivious said:
Wanting is literally the opposite of the mental development.
This is probably the stupidest thing any person has ever written here. Congrats!
Damnit, now I have to win my title back.
Here goes
Black people are made of toaster water!
No, it's just not the same :(
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RE: THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@boomzilla said:
@locallunatic said:
@boomzilla said:
@locallunatic said:
Court saying that search engines need to remove results because a notice about someone infringed their privacy
I wonder how the people who came up with this law view this decision. It would be interesting to see how many other news article are taken down as a result of this.
Technically the notice wasn't taken down, so it would just be that search engines couldn't point to an article not that it couldn't be hosted.Oh, you're right, I hadn't looked carefully enough at the court's press release. From reading it, google isn't allowed to link to the article if you search on the guy's name. But it doesn't seem like they would have to remove the link if you searched for something else that linked to the article. What a nightmare. It seems to hinge on the existence of Google Spain, located in Spain. This sounds like a good reason for them to get out of the EU, if this sort of request gets big.
Yet another case of a government not knowing how links work on the internet.
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RE: Wanted: Real software review website
@morbiuswilters said:
@asdf234 said:
Are you people so harassed and so dubvious...
Yes.
@asdf234 said:
...that actual good software exists that anyone making a statement that something is somewhere about the complete shit mark that it becomes a suspicious statement?
Are you sure you were banned and didn't just forget your password? Because I think even people who are banned can still login.
Cool.
USER WAS HELLBANNED FOR THIS POST
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RE: Goggle Translate
@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
Actually, I'm running Dwarf Fortress over SSH on a headless VM...
Personally, I find that using a graphics pack is less fun for me. I prefer the text-based UI (but that's just personal preference).
Seriously, you are seeing a doctor for your Asperger's, right? Please don't leave that shit untreated.
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RE: Screwed-up installation
@morbiuswilters said:
@FrostCat said:
Fine-mesh grille covering.
We're talking about PSUs, not your oiled-up, tanned, magnificently-hirsute chest.
Ew! Get those NSFW ads off of this completely SFW site!
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RE: C:\PROGRAM
@morbiuswilters said:
@flabdablet said:
This reply is proof of Rape Culture.It makes sense in the bizarro moral universe occupied by people who make a living out of monetizing lies on an industrial scale. Occupational hazard, really; work in that space for long enough, and ordinary empathy and basic human decency just wither and die (our own Morbius is a crystal clear example of the kind of twisted moral wreckage that results). The entire advertising industry is so fundamentally parasitic that finding its practitioners riddled with brain worms should not be a surprise.
You sound a lot like a rapist trying to justify his crime. "She was begging for it!!!"
Filed under: This post is proof of the Rape Culture., Today is "Make A Joke About Rape Day"
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RE: Goggle Translate
@HardwareGeek said:
@blakeyrat said:
@dhromed said:
The phrase "lipstick on a pig" comes to mind.@blakeyrat said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@RTapeLoadingError said:
And the TVs only show live Dwarf Fortress games
Dwarf Fortress is a game??? I thought it was some kind of novelty terminal emulator..
The most hilarious part is that they don't even USE a terminal. They're actually drawing graphics there, the graphics just happen to look identical to a vt-100 screen circa 1987. There it literally no reason they couldn't draw a little icon of a goblin.
It's got icon packs/skins etc, so with a proper client you actually get icons; and those are as pretty as you can make sprites.
So if they have a version that looks non-ass, why don't they ship that version by default!!!!!!!!!! A question asked by all consumers of truly terrible software.
Actually, I'm running Dwarf Fortress over SSH on a headless VM, so there is quite a good reason they can't draw a little icon of a goblin.
And if you're running it on Windows or your render mode is something other than TEXT, you can go ahead and use graphics packs all you want. None of them are official, though. Basically they replace the font with something where characters that are generally used with plants look like plants (etc.) and then they add specific sprites for NPCs.
Personally, I find that using a graphics pack is less fun for me. I prefer the text-based UI (but that's just personal preference).
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In any case, unless AdBlock Plus changes their default settings, you'd only use it if you were a sociopathic asshole anyway.
Sorry, I tried using the web without adblocker last week or so. Simply, it just didn't work. I sooner ragequit than get anything done.
I'm always kind of amazed when people make comments like this. Sure, ads can sometimes irritate me, but "I just can't use the web if there are ads" sounds like something a crazy person would say.
I'm not trying to be a dick here, but it sounds like you suffer from crippling OCD. Can you also not eat blueberries that have skin on them or leave a room without flipping the light switch on and off exactly 17 times?
I'm fine with text ads and unobtrusive image ads (that is, not the flashing "YOU WINNED A CAR" ones) but anything that either looks like content (download buttons styled to look like the site you're downloading things from) or distracts from content shouldn't be an ad.
Similarly, if I'm watching a video on a website and before I can watch the 1 minute video clip I need to watch a 30 second ad (or worse, multiple 30 second ads (or worse, the same 30 second ad multiple times)) I'm either going to go somewhere else to watch it or block ads.