Posts made by dcon
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Books at least are conventionally stored upright and not stacked vertically,
But then, I'm not conventional...
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Severe thunderstorm warning, with possible 3 inch (75 mm) hail. Stand by for a stream of roofing contractors ringing my doorbell to tell me I need a new roof. Yippee.
Standby for power outages as all those solar panels go off-line.
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RE: In other news today...
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB pretty sure the answer is that the vast majority of people don’t actually spend £30 worth a month but try it out for a couple of weeks and forget to cancel the sub.
Also known as the
Planet Fitness Made Me Fat Conspiracygym membership modelIt's only the same model if they make you jump over tall buildings (in a single bound) in order to cancel.
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Bulb said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
Glitch is also their last product,
That seems like a really bad product name...
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RE: I Hate Jira Because ...
@Arantor said in I Hate Jira Because ...:
JIRA is absolutely misused in nearly every org than uses it
Our workflow just sucks. At one point, we had to specifically re-assign the ticket after marking "fixed" (not that that's actually a real status for us...). At least that was fixed.
Now, to work on something marked "open", I have to "investigate", "to be fixed/resolved", "in progress". And each change requires filling out 3-6 different fields (that aren't always clearly marked as required). And often repeat the same info. ("Why is this change needed" - "Because you wrote the freakin bug") Is there an "in review" status? Nope, not for a bug (there is for a Story). Yea for consistency. But that's not Jira's fault...
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra you voluntarily watched Twilight?
Seems appropriate after pulling a phone out of a porta-potty...
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston And is that midnight in summer time, winter time, or local solar time?
Local or GMT?
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@ixvedeusi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Zerosquare I'm in this post and... what was I saying again?
That's when I look at the post I'm writing, , and press Discard.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Win+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A
And they said Emacs had ridiculous shortcuts.
Emacs just strings several of those together to do "something".
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Bulb said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
the root password.
Corporate IT doesn't give that out. (It's probably what they use when she went into the office to visit IT) -
RE: The Official Status Thread
status Finally got around to setting up Time Machine on my Mac. Couldn't use my old USB drive because Apple no longer believes in USB2/3. And I don't have a spare USB-C drive. Figured out how to use my Synology NAS as the backup location.
edit: Yup, this initial backup is going to take a while... Currently at 48.9% done (27.06G copied)
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
no holiday there (at least as far as work is concerned).
: That's why you have Floating Holidays.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Speaking of which, foreigners still don't know how to drive on snow.
In post-grad, I had a friend who was on the ski team (either high school or undergrad, can't remember now). At the end of the day, they would sit on their porch at Mammoth Mtn in CA (drinking!) and watch cars fail to negotiate a stop sign at the bottom of the hill. Pretty sure he said they made a few bucks helping people out of the ditch.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
@Parody said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space:
I had a similar issue once when I was doing home tech visits. A guy's kids had gotten the boot drive of their Windows (XP or 7) computer so full that it wouldn't boot. Thankfully fixing it was as easy as booting from USB and deleting some temp files.
My co-worker's ubuntu18 machine won't boot right now because the disk is full.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Cite?
FarceBook. Of course!
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Well, that's a new one for Delivery Distortion... Instead of getting the USPS mail I was supposed to, I got a letter that was mailed from AZ and addessed to FL.
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RE: Hacking News
@cvi A reply in the comments:
Important Clarification (since I feel this isn't clarified): upstream OpenSSH doesn't use liblzma, however many distros like Debian patch OpenSSH to use SystemD Notifications through libsystemd, which in turn uses liblzma. Distros like Arch (which don't patch OpenSSH) or distros without SystemD like Void should be fine with regards to SSH (however most distros are already downgrading xz anyway for obvious security reasons)
Source: the latest Arch News post regarding this backdoor
EDIT: to quote directly from the Arch news post:
"Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma, and thus this attack vector is not possible" -
RE: The Official Status Thread
status Just clicked Send in TaxCut. My taxes are now zooming through cyberspace on their way to the feds and CA. (I wanted to use the tax return to pay the state e-file fee - basturds want an extra $39 for that. Fuck that - pay by CC it is.)
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RE: Bad choice of font
@Parody said in Bad choice of font:
Sure, my pen-and-paper signature isn't great, but at least you can make out some letters. :)
I can make out the first letter of each part. About 30% of the other make sense - but only because I know what my name is. The rest? Pure scribbles.
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RE: Programming Memes Thread
@error said in Programming Memes Thread:
Hell, I'm lucky if I can even find a match within our organization (worldwide company with hundreds of orgs).
We use Confluence too. Unless I bookmark a link, the page is lost. Of course, so many of the pages are old/outdated and have been replaced with something else (somewhere else, of course), that makes search even worse. Especially if you don't know it's been updated.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Just flip them around.
Filed under:
Just push it in all the way!
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@BernieTheBernie Ok, that pothole beats the ones in our roads...
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@da-Doctah It needs the Energizer Bunny's sunglasses.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
ReFS is Microsoft's "Resilient File System" which seems to be mostly useless except for a few very specific situations.
I've been ignoring it so far... Is it actually worth the time to set that up? (My is relying on others for this info!) I've already set exclusions on my dev directories (yeahyeah, doesn't include TEMP...).
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RE: In other news today...
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Yeah, but nobody uses MMS (thank the Omnissiah!).
Oh yeah? Any group chat I'm in warns me that it's using MMS when I send an image.
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I know I'm in some group chats with some people who have iPhones.
Yeah, it's pretty obvious. Because we get an actual message from them:
Liked "whatever the message was..."
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RE: In other news today...
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
I was struck by how quickly it all fell (the video in that article is sped up).
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RE: In other news today...
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I didn't think anyone still used SMS for communicating between people but here we are.
I do. Because it's what's behind the "Messages" button. And I'm too to go search for yet-another-messaging-app when one is right there.
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RE: UI Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Apple goes round
But does the apple still fit into the
square hole
?With a big enough hammer, anything does!
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RE: Help Bites
@PleegWat said in Help Bites:
Does anyone know if this could have been installed automatically,
You can see when it was installed in the "Installed apps" panel.