Posts made by Carnage
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I decided to test it
Oh please. It couldn't possibly be that bad. So I tried it and . . . .
The most interesting bit was how some confidential documents seem accessible to the google web crawler, but not to browsers.
Of course, UserAgent "hacking" could not possibly circumvent this!I must say that back in the nineties when I may, or may not, have been doing black hat things, getting access to systems was as easy as knowing an IP address and having telnet. I'd say we're swinging back to the easy days of being black hat again through sheer stupidity.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Oh lord. Me being curious and already on every watchlist I decided to test it, but I couldn't be arsed to type out the site/document part and just put "not for public release" into google.
And... Welp. Seems Amazon is just following the business standard operating procedure. -
RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage Keep her away from the means of production!
Oh she was pretty hardcore capitalist, just very paranoid. She was convinced that Russia was out to get her, for instance. Get her as in capture her and torture her for information. Why? What information?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status if I have kids, I think i’m getting a glimpse of my future. I spent twenty minutes asking my mother what she will eat for dinner. She settled on a particular brand of oven chips done in an air fryer and fried eggs. I didn’t have the energy to ask for vegetables.
She somehow has butter in her hair now. What the devil is going on?
One of my exes used eggs and olive oil instead of shampoo, because evil shampoo conglomerates. I think she tried butter once too.
And that wasn't the most "interesting" crazy idea she had. -
RE: The Official Status Thread
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The best of the Far Cry series (apart from the original) was Blood Dragon
The best was Far Cry 5
I played Far Cry New Dawn instead.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@cabrito I've gotten away with an address mismatch before but 99.99% of the time know to use the same for both.
I think it's a problem with those stupid multi-factor authentication schemes they've all pushed where it's supposed to sometimes text you to make sure you really initiated the charge. But it never sends the text, times out, and puts up a garbage error instead of any clue as to what failed.
That is not how to do MFA. In we've had online purchase MFA for a decade by now, and on the very few places it doesn't work I just don't shop.
And it's VISA and MasterCard, so they can do it correctly. -
RE: Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?
@Zenith said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
@cvi Vetting dependencies?
I've worked at two places that actually did. One of them did it fo reals, and the other one was "Did you vet this lib you want to use!?" checkbox for getting it imported into the local maven/node mirror. And I'm willing to bet that not a single library in the node side was ever vetted there. The maven ones, I know at least one was, since I did it.
At the other place, there as a proper process to vet things, and it was pretty thorough. You also needed to show that what you wanted was worth the money spent on the vetting. Most libraries are not.
Two places in decades of work, one of which was the nudge-nudge-wink-wink type of vetting. -
RE: Nope, you eat it
@remi said in Nope, you eat it:
@Carnage and chase it down with a shot of flavourless alcohol.
Preferrably dill flavored white spirits.
I greatly prefer vodka or brännvin that are unflavored. And not eating the fish.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@remi said in Nope, you eat it:
@Carnage said in Nope, you eat it:
And for the topic, here's a picture of lutfisk:
I actually tried that once. It was exactly like you describe it, and very much "meh" and not "nope" at all.
At least its (lack of) flavour didn't spoil the (lack of) flavour of the accompaniment (boiled potatoes).
In you eat it with a basically flavorless sauce as well. And it's supposedly the flavorless sauce that makes it really great.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@remi said in Nope, you eat it:
@Zerosquare said in Nope, you eat it:
This weekend's mystery was "how a nail longer than my hand ended up in my tyre, with just the head still visible?"
It was longer than the height of the tyre so it necessarily had to be at an angle. But who the hell uses nails that long, how did one end up on the road and then in my tyre?
Thankfully the hole was neat enough that it could be patched easily (and cheaply!).
I'm pretty sure 9" nails are used in log frames and such. I know we have them in the barn at my parents farm at least. As for how it ends up in the tire, it's bouncing or movingw hen your tire hits it, point towards tire and hey presto, instant nail in tire. If it's in the rear tire, then it was the front wheel that disturbed it, and if it's in the front tire it was disturbed by a vehicle in front of you. Or it could have been sitting in a hole, in gravel or whatever else that lets it not lie flat on the ground. Where it comes from?
Garbage trucks, craftsmens trucks and such are popular road debris sources.And for the topic, here's a picture of lutfisk:
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@Atazhaia said in Nope, you eat it:
@PleegWat Over here we call it "Hamburger meat", at least when smoked and used on sandwiches. It has no relation to hamburgers, though.
I tried finding some nice smoked leg of horse, but seems google failed me. Again.
So have a picture of a lovely piece of horse instead:
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RE: Hacking News
@Zerosquare said in Hacking News:
An additional factor in this mess is that apparently, some Linux distros aren't built from Git repos ; they use tarballs provided by developers instead, and it's not unusual for those tarballs' contents to differ from what's in Git repos, because they include such things as already auto-generated files and test stuff. The rationale appears to be "it's easier for distro maintainers not to have to run the whole build process from scratch".
In xz's case, the code in Git was clean, the backdoor was only present in the tarballs.
My opinion is:
- needing such workarounds is a good sign that your build process is too convoluted (Pikachu is unavailable for comment)
- even without foul play, distributing software that isn't guaranteed to match what's in source control is a bad practice, and can create hard-to-find bugs
Oh yes, any project whose build requires anything beyond the compiler and build toolchain installed and then running a single command is by my definition broken. If I have to spend time to fiddle with knobs and dig through years old forum threads to find out how to make the fucking thing build, then it's broken.
If it's a project that is also deployed in some cloud or some such shit, the deploy should also be a single command or a single button press.
Not reading miles of readmes to do the standard thing.
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RE: Hacking News
@topspin said in Hacking News:
@dkf a sane build system would make it
- extremely simple and declarative for your 99% of normal projects
- stick out like a sore thumb - and cause extra scrutiny - for the few exceptions
If your bog standard normal project looks insane, nobody blinks if you add stuff like this.
And then you have the sane looking build systems that support plugins in the build system. Your build specification can look entirely sane and be completely declarative, it can still inject stuff that shouldn't be in there.
One of the reasons to do a check of the generated deliverable every once in a while. You can't trust your build system any more than you can trust your least skilled cow-orker. -
RE: Hacking News
@Arantor said in Hacking News:
@Carnage poor sod has passed away now, though, and I fear we shall not see his like again. (Terry Davis had a very long, very complex battle with mental health issues, and that is in no small part why his death was ruled suicide rather than accident at the time. Nonetheless, he represents a mindset and an age of development that are fading quite fast.)
Yep.
We need a bunch of crazies that are the right kind of crazies to build what he did, but with less insanity. -
RE: Hacking News
@Arantor said in Hacking News:
The weirdest hot take I’ve seen from this is “and this is why you should use SaaS”.
As in, it’s their problem to worry about, not yours, that this is a thing. On one level I guess that’s true but on the other you have no way of knowing what backdoors exist on such systems that will exfiltrate god-knows-what.
TempleOS.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Czech Republic represeeeeeeeeent!
That was impressive.
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RE: Nope
@boomzilla My first though is "That's gonna be a bitch to bring down in a controlled manner."
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Ststus: Agreed with a post by Mason, and I only had two beers.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
way due to harddrive fullness
But.... Butt..... The Cloud! ☁
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
(But do read the whole article. There is context that... could be argued to justify the replacement.)
“The BBC has always stood for quality in its factual and drama broadcasting."
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@DogsB said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@DogsB said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
It's illegal here. Sharp pokey things aren't allowed on vehicles. Though in this case, if you are close enough to the wheels for spikes like that to be dangerous, you are probably fucked either way, since wheels rolling over you are pretty bad for your general health status.
Sweden is a no fun zone. I’m surprised your bikes aren’t mandated to have training wheels on at all times.
Sweden also has one of the most open rules for legally modifying or building cars in the EU. In most of the EU you're not allowed to put anything on a car that's not certified to be OK by the manufacturer.
What’s Sweden’s attitude towards drinking in the middle of the morning?
Depends on where you're at, Stockholm it's kinda ok all the week as long as you're not getting too hammered. In the rest of the country, you need to keep your alcoholism to Wednesdays and Friday through Sunday. And those days, too hammered is somewhere when you're starting to go blind from alcohol poisoning. Blacking out is fine as long as you do so in a fun way. Throwing up is best done in hedges or alleyways. In the middle of a sidewalk is OK if you can't make it to an alley or a hedge.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@DogsB said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
It's illegal here. Sharp pokey things aren't allowed on vehicles. Though in this case, if you are close enough to the wheels for spikes like that to be dangerous, you are probably fucked either way, since wheels rolling over you are pretty bad for your general health status.
Sweden is a no fun zone. I’m surprised your bikes aren’t mandated to have training wheels on at all times.
Sweden also has one of the most open rules for legally modifying or building cars in the EU. In most of the EU you're not allowed to put anything on a car that's not certified to be OK by the manufacturer.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How the fuck is that even legal (or maybe it isn't, just no policeman noticed it yet)?
Why would they be illegal?
It's illegal here. Sharp pokey things aren't allowed on vehicles. Though in this case, if you are close enough to the wheels for spikes like that to be dangerous, you are probably fucked either way, since wheels rolling over you are pretty bad for your general health status.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
As one of those writing people types, I’ve had a look at various of the tools on the market over the years, mostly because it’s quite effective procrastination.
Anyway, one of the tools that’s not quite my cup of tea is a piece of software called DramaQueen. (No, it genuinely is.)
It is also German-first, which is an interesting decision commercially.
The announcement - in German - https://dramaqueen.info/dramaqueen-3-5-ai-offiziell-releast/ talks about how they’re integrating GPT-4 and 3.5-turbo into their product.
Some of it seems fairly obvious - prompting, “sparring conversations”, editing, rewording.
But the bit that I’m intrigued by is this (translated from the original):
- Your texts and ideas will not be used to train the AI
- AI does not strike when it comes to “immoral” content such as sex, crime or coarse language
Are either of these true for GPT-3.5 turbo or GPT-4?
But also the wisdom of integrating AI in this fashion into a tool for (aspiring) writers seems… questionable to me.
You can probably pay to have a GPT-whatever without the guard rails. I tried a different LLM without them and it was kinda fun how it would respond to anything without any moral judgement. They really are a mirror held up to humanity.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage Bas 90 is a bit different from road bases, though. Bas 60 and Bas 90 are purpose-built airfields which may or may not include roads for some runways. Road bases can however also be built on their own, without any accompanying airfield to them. Just a long straight strip of road with some facilities for preparing airplanes hidden nearby.
Sweden's largest airport (by size) is a (former) Bas 90, which has a main runway and 3 small runways (the usual configuration) all purpose-built out in the middle of nowhere. I have also visited a Bas 90 where just the main runway was fully purpose-built with the 3 small runways being parts of the road running next to the base.
Bas 60 on the other hand is the older standard which just used the one runway (typically) and like half of them are civilian airports nowadays. Can be recognized by having a particular layout to them, as they were all built after the same blueprint.
Yeah, it's better if you don't have specific spots that the enemy can bomb, but instead can just use any old strip of straight piece of asphalt that's at least 800 meters long.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Here's some more information about it:
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Us Scandinavians do it all the time. The Finns with their F-18s, the Norwegians with their F-35s and us Swedes with our JAS-39s. Since us Swedes always need to we do it on snowy roads in winter.
I vaguely recall you do specifically design your highways for it.
Well, we make sure to have long straights with no or easily removable obstructions on them when we have nice big flats, that's about it.
Instead, we designed JAS 39, and the AJS 37 to be readily capable to do so, along with everything to support the aircraft. -
RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Mason_Wheeler yeah, it's obviously an even number.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Why are they driving fighter aircrafts on the highw...
Oh, it's a pick-up truck. Never mind.
Us Scandinavians do it all the time. The Finns with their F-18s, the Norwegians with their F-35s and us Swedes with our JAS-39s. Since us Swedes always need to we do it on snowy roads in winter. -
RE: Quotes Out of Context
@Atazhaia said in Quotes Out of Context:
@Carnage has schizophrenia-on-demand:
I can summon voices in my head
It was worse when I was a teen, back then i had voices pop into my head saying random shit out of nowhere.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Am I the only one with very bad memory for voices? I don't read anything thinking on anyone's voice cause I remember none of them
I can summon voices in my head, but I never read in any voice.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I thought we had a "Fun with maps" thread where this could reasonably go, but I can't find it, so I'm putting it here. If it's out there some place, you're welcome to jeff it to that thread instead:
Finnmark is real; this is its flag:
This is the flag of Norrland:
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I thought we had a "Fun with maps" thread where this could reasonably go, but I can't find it, so I'm putting it here. If it's out there some place, you're welcome to jeff it to that thread instead:
Why are all the first halves misspelled so badly in the last column?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Taco truck may be appropriate for a friend with benefits.
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RE: In other news today...
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Cows are magical.Soon!FTFY
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT:
@Carnage said in I, ChatGPT:
As I've said before, NNs and by extension LLMs will not sock gnome into AGIs. No matter how many steps of ? you add.
gpt-4 is supposed to have a trillion parameters, some emergent behaviors are very "smart"
I can agree on not calling it AGI, but it's something interesting, token completion doesn't make it justice. If you can predict tokens in a form indistinguishable from intelligence that would be intelligence.
It's not there, but the simple fact people need to point that is a bigger accomplishment that I expected to see on my lifetime and I'm excited with the possibility of seeing more stuff happening
I think it's a local maxima optimization for AI, and it's gonna get slightly better and then hit a ceiling. It'll keep being a statistical word analysis, no matter how much input they can take. It's a very good fake. There is also the problem of AIs being fed the products of AI, which will cause it to regress to a mean according to whatever statistical djinn is running things.
It's an interesting toy, and in some cases a pretty nice tool, but it's basically maybe the next step in "search" for information. I'm still waiting for the same mountain of hardware and attention being applied to genetic programs instead. I believe that there is more interesting possibilities there than in NNs.
Or some entirely new thing that hasn't been thought of yet that's gonna be developed in someones garage and just take the world by storm, as is the common way to do further things in IT.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@cvi said in I, ChatGPT:
@Carnage said in I, ChatGPT:
Gpt isn't doing the playing, it's just analysing images.
No - there seems to be a second GPT that does the playing. E.g., first GPT (-4V) analyzes images and turns them into text. Text goes into the 'manager' that adds history to the text and the whole thing goes into another GPT (4 notV). That one outputs actions of some kind which control the player.
The author mentions a third GPT for good measure (the planner), because clearly the whole setup wasn't enough of a waste of electricity. That one helps providing a plan based on walkthroughs(?) which apparently helps the second GPT staying on track.
When i made my nn bot, i had a perceptron for aiming, a nn for navigating and a decision tree for deciding what to do. And for funnies a small nn for saying things, and a perceptron for emulating moods. So you could make it "angry" and that would affect how it was interacting with the world.
I don't quite remember if or how I dealt with permanence, that may have been one more specialist ai (genetic program maybe) that feed the dt.My project was about ai. So throw all the golden hammers at the problem!
As I've said before, NNs and by extension LLMs will not sock gnome into AGIs. No matter how many steps of ? you add.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@topspin said in I, ChatGPT:
@Carnage said in I, ChatGPT:
So the failure of object permanence is in the shim not gpt.
I wouldn’t say that, the gpt is still failing at it. But without reading the article (), this does sound more like playing doom by telephone than playing doom.
Gpt isn't doing the playing, it's just analysing images. That is also something that has specific ai implementations that do a lot better job if it than statistical word generators.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla I've made NN bots that can play games. In fact that was my final project in university. It worked well enough that people had a hard time telling them from real players, except their tendency to get stuck in rooms that had a lie ledge at the exit.
This seems a lot like someone is golden hammering the shit out of llms. Most of the actual playing the game is not done by gpt, but whatever shim they cooked up. So the failure of object permanence is in the shim not gpt. -
RE: You won't agree with me. And that's normal.
@Gurth said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
@Carnage said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
Fordon is a ground based mode of transport that does not run on rail. So, anything water, air or train does not count.
So … as this is a thread about rules-lawyering, I guess this isn’t a fordon, then:
But like this it is:
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Yep. Good choice of example. I like the way that tank was prone to internal fuel leaks so much so that after a day the crew was in 1-2 dm of gasoline.
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RE: You won't agree with me. And that's normal.
Also, if you use the strict interpretation of "fordon" you get something like 52%.
Fordon is a ground based mode of transport that does not run on rail. So, anything water, air or train does not count. Nor does toys that don't transport things (or people)... -
RE: You won't agree with me. And that's normal.
I had some pretty not agreeing views on what constitutes "in" and "vechicle"...
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RE: Where has all the backward compatibility gone?
@Bulb said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?:
@Carnage said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?:
Java occasionally break backward compatibility, for instance in 17 the removal of RMI.
… that's just a library, isn't it? So if someone still needs it that bad, they should be able to install it … though I don't know Java well enough to be sure it won't crash into something somewhere.
That said, Android dev is a whole different bundle of wtf, most of which is not the fault of Java.
Gradle is a generic Java tool not tied to Android though.
Otherwise, well, the point of this exercise I'm doing it for is to explore the Android … it's not so much development as platform fragmentation … and possible workarounds.
Well, Android is stuck on a really old java definition, so it gets a nice compound backward compatibility breakage suite when you use modern javas. I haven't used gradle in almost a decade now, so don't know why it's breaking. Maven seems to work no matter what I versions throw at it. I also haven't poked the ugly stick at Android in about as long, so there may be some compatibility mode flag you can throw at things to make them not break.
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RE: Where has all the backward compatibility gone?
@Bulb said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?:
So I checked out this, somewhat outdated, Android project, to look how complicated it is, because we are planning some tech spikes that could reuse parts of it. So I set up a sandbox, based on Debian Bookworm (stable), install default-jdk in it, try to run
gradlew
in the project and …Get
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Could not determine java version from '17.0.10'.
🥃🌮🦊? So I 🦆🦆 it and find
which points to
Apparently, Gradle can use
javac
newer than itself to build the sources, but it refuses to run in such java itself. Warum, kurwa? Just warum? Is the Java runtime not backward compatible‽Ock fourse, Debian currently does not have java 8 in stable. It was removed on 06 Apr 2019. Because “Package not in unstable”, which is weird, because it is in unstable.
And not long ago I had similar run-in with dotнет. Colleague upgraded the container for one dotнет-based service from 6 to 8, but forgot to also update the target in the project file. And the dotнет 8 SDK happily compiled the code targeting dotнет 6, but … the resulting binary flat out refused to run without dotнет 6 runtime being installed. 🥃🌮🦊?
Java occasionally break backward compatibility, for instance in 17 the removal of RMI.
That said, Android dev is a whole different bundle of wtf, most of which is not the fault of Java.