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RE: WTF Bites
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RE: Full disk encryption
@remi said in Full disk encryption:
Ooo-kaay... I guess confidentiality and security is only an issue for managers, not for actual devs that, you know, do actual work.
Around here they occasionally bring the media into our developers' open-space office to film a news piece. They got a bit pissy when a line manager hurriedly put up some (ugly) paper to block visibility to a developer diagnosing a production problem involving sensitive customer information.
Last time I was tempted to hang up a sheet of paper with large letters:
Production password:
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@erufael So what you’re telling us is that you’re one short of a full deck?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@stillwater When I was in the Boy Scouts the thing was to send the newbies around asking for a left handed smoke shifter.
When some came around our camp we gave them an old blower motor. We were later treated to the sight of the scoutmaster two camps over scratching his head looking at what his scouts brought back.
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RE: The dots in Gmail addresses
@tsaukpaetra Heh. I did my own test with a properly quoted address. Google's server rejected it with a complaint the address "is not a valid RFC-5321".
It lies.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Atazhaia Perhaps I could suggest the anger management techniques in Daniel Tiger:
When you feel so mad
That you want to roar,
Take a deep breath
And kill a trans ...Oh, wait, that's @Lorne-Kates!
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RE: Bravery Constrained
@kt_ said in Bravery Constrained:
Yup, but that was actual shovelware, added by Samsung. I wouldn't have complained if these were Google apps.
But Samsung is the manufacturer, not the carrier. So it's not shovelware by your definition.
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RE: :baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
@polygeekery How are they to learn except by observation? This too shall pass.
So to speak.
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RE: WTF Bites
@pie_flavor Yeah, completely wrong. I can’t think of a language with && which doesn’t define it to short-circuit evaluation.
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RE: Data breach at OneLogin
And the official instructions said to change the whole password, not just the suffix used to get around the 90 day change requirement.
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RE: Citrix gutting Xenserver free edition
@jaloopa That would be also known as “bare metal.”
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I thought "open sores" was a term invented by @blakeyrat, but I found in a reddit comment that it was said by Robert Metcalfe:
I believe it was coined by Bill Amend in his Feb 7, 2000 strip:
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RE: maybe vuln in intel chipsets from 2008 to today
The Register is reporting the relevant code is:
if(strncmp(computed_response, user_response, response_length)) deny_access();
where
response_length
is computed fromuser_response
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RE: CTRL+Z/undo in composer does not undo image data paste
@anotherusername (Control-Z)
99% uploaded...(Control-Z)
98% uploaded...(Control-Z)
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RE: Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths
@hungrier said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
So one of the guys in that XAMPP thread replied and oh boy
And later he admits he isn't affiliated with the project. So effectively a troll.
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RE: DisplayPort is the world's biggest piece of shit
@sloosecannon said in DisplayPort is the world's biggest piece of shit:
Is that DVI-A, DVI-I, DVI-Ñ, or DVI-Ø?
DVI-💩
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RE: Popular Gmail-address
...aaand someone signed me up to OkCupid. What is it with sites that don't confirm email addresses?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
We took a look
We saw a Nook.
And we wondered
what was the hook?
In this hook
there was a book
and this book
was from a souk.We went to sit
our head we shook
and we thought
that some crook did a rook.But the Nook wasn't real
so the Nook wasn't took.
SO . . .
what good to a crook
is a book Nook hook?(with apologies to Theodor Geisel.)
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RE: MAKE THE MOST SHITTY WEBSITE EVER AND MAKE EVERYONE USE IT COUNTRYWIDE!!!!!
@blakeyrat said in MAKE THE MOST SHITTY WEBSITE EVER AND MAKE EVERYONE USE IT COUNTRYWIDE!!!!!:
They recently put all the State websites on a single sign-on system
Geez, I have three separate accounts with the California Employment Development Department alone. All as sole individual.
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The Official In-law Tech Support Log
Problem report:
Video does not work in Skype.
Diagnosis steps:
Requested user attempt test call to me while I was on-site. No, you do not have to wait until I go back home—I have my laptop right here. Yes, that should work.
Resolution:
Don't use the XP desktop with the 3.5 inch floppy to make Skype calls. Use the Windows 10 laptop with the 17GB SSD.
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RE: Which language is the least bad?
@pie_flavor said in Which language is the least bad?:
The key point is that the libraries that the bindings are written for behave predictably, and are generally considered to be well written.
Did I not just post a link to Rust bindings for Enlightenment?
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RE: The Ideal Software Development Environment
My ideal development environment would be the one Richard Pryor uses in Superman 3.
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RE: Contracts: Part II
@lucas1 said in Contracts: Part II:
I have to drive to Nottingham after work today, so show a man my passport that works at a recruitment company.
That's one talented passport, being able to recruit. I can see why a man wants to see it.
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RE: WTF Bites
Why does it need one?
The one it has does not match it's configured hostname, there is no reverse record for it and it is not known in advance. Most things I can think of that would ‘need’ a DNS record are broken by one of these issues.I've seen it used to identify a POD in a field that required a valid DNS name. But it would be more straightforward to use the pod name in the first component.
But it isn't used for service discovery so doesn't factor into how well Kubernetes uses DNS for service discovery.
So according to the Register, Microsoft claims the customer wasn't setting resource limits and was overloading their nodes. Seems a typical "WOMM, ship it!" type issue.
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RE: :baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
"Mommy, how is white bread different than regular bread?"
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RE: United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why
@anotherusername said in United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why:
@carnage In his "public guns = the police" system, "public healthcare" would mean that it takes a 3-month wait and a doctor's prescription to buy a bottle of Tylenol.
No, it would mean that only the police get to use Tylenol.
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RE: This is the guy we hired
Good necro.
When I interviewed with the founder for my current job I wore a suit. Got a comment "you didn't really have to bother."
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RE: WTF Bites
@dkf Except 408, which means retry immediately with no changes.
For HTTP the distinction between 4xx and 5xx doesn’t itself carry information useful to the client. The client has to do a table lookup on the entire code.
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RE: WTF Bites
@tsaukpaetra What does that have to do with anything? The two sides of && aren’t arguments into a function. Unless the && operator is syntactic sugar for a function call.
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RE: Utility company WTF
@masonwheeler The voided check thing is presumably a guard against your typoing the numbers. I've found that procedure to be reasonably common.
Online sites tend to be doing the "verify amounts of small transfers" these days.
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RE: Enlightened English Speaking Nations. Or something.
@gwowen said in Enlightened English Speaking Nations. Or something.:
Full Disclosure - I don't own a semi-automatic firearm.
Just fully-automatic then?
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RE: Microsoft switches to git
@magus said in Microsoft switches to git:
It's more a matter of breaking things into chunks and getting those small chunks correct.
I don't have time to break things into small chunks. I've got an arbitrarily imposed deadline to meet.
@thecpuwizard said in Microsoft switches to git:
all of the code has been independently validated
Luxury!
months
Luxury!
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
But I've never heard of a tax on financial sorts of assets that are just being held.
I got hit by one of those from Pennsylvania. They started cross-correlating with income tax paid on dividends and sent out a bunch of letters.
The resulting outcry got the tax repealed shortly after.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I seem to have run into my first scammer on Amazon Marketplace.
Ordered items of model X from seller claiming to be supplier V, located in Tennessee. Received box containing inferior model Y and a packing slip for a different Amazon Marketplace order for model Y, ordered the same day and shipped from V to an office in Colorado.
Items marked as "not returnable due to special packaging required".
So now I have to spend my time going through Amazon's returns/dispute procedure.
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RE: 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™
So glad Google and Microsoft are cooperating on the Yahoo Prize Award.
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RE: In which :@Greybeard: tries to access his HSA
@djls45 said in In which :@Greybeard: tries to access his HSA:
@Greybeard "Your password can be as long as you want, as long as it's 7 or 8 characters."
hunter2
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RE: All I want for Christmas is a removable battery...
@lorne-kates said in All I want for Christmas is a removable battery...:
One handed whilst shaking vigorously.
No, it's the other hand you're supposed to shake vigorously.
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RE: "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?"
@The_Quiet_One said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?":
buy this vendor out just so we can fire their IT management and replace it with someone who knows what they're doing.
Perhaps this is their investors' exit plan.
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RE: WTF Bites
@jaloopa And when going down in flames is the appropriate way to handle the error, an assertion is the perfect mechanism.