Best posts made by LaoC
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RE: In other news today...
Den Surgeøn Generål wårns: Windows Update is known in the state of Norway to cause prolonged unconsciousness.
Of course TRWTF is having a permanently online Windows in this setting in the first place.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've always wanted to take some chalk to a crime scene after the cops have all left and edit the body outline into da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
You're gonna have to create the first outline too, since that's a hollywood creation.
No way
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@Zerosquare Not to be garagey here, I s'pose no matter your opinion on masks in general this is completely idiotic.
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RE: "When people pass away they use a search engine..."
@blek said in "When people pass away they use a search engine...":
@blakeyrat I know, right? It's about as silly as measuring length with the size of your foot or thumb.
Actually it's not your foot but the alleged foot size of a long dead ruler.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
"Frisöhrsalong" iz hart tu rite, lets tray zomesing in Inglisch!!1
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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:
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Given the way stocks are priced these days, they’re basically Diet Crypto, right?
Buy violins!
I'm against violins but I hear that sax sells.
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RE: WTF Bites
Today I discovered that someone at MS had a brainfart and decided to rebase the whole thing. I mean, new UI, okay, I could live with that. But, no, they released a version with a massively reduced list of features.
GNOME syndrome
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
Axios reported that four separate crypto marketplaces will stop honouring artist royalties, a worrying trend that impacts those who first introduced blockchain into the cultural consciousness.
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Even though NFT creator fees are contracts, blockchain code cannot actually enforce token transfer stipulations, rendering those contracts essentially voluntary by design. From an operational perspective, royalties were never guaranteed on the blockchain; instead, the documentation of each NFT only requests a royalty, a procedure that platforms have previously honoured in more favourable market conditions.It's immutable blockchain, they said!
Pacta servanda sunt, they said!
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RE: WTF Bites
I'd like to hire a buttbuttin to deal with people who plagiarize websites by replacing random words using a thesaurus:
The part of the digesting system motion comes to mind several times (5-8 times). During the controlling organization of the still in the same way answer.
However, stop drinking when the backless seat with three legs changes into water-like (colorless or yellow-colored)
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RE: In other news today...
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Great, looks like I'll have to start microwaving everything.
It works with blockchain
I hear it's also got ELECTROLYTES!!!11
It can also do basic AI tasks, such as sorting the data it's given.
Yeah, with that definition of "intelligence", it definitely has electrolytes.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
He came
That's a lot of cum.
Cthulhukkake
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RE: Solar Roadways?
@Rhywden said in Solar Roadways?:
and finally them needing a metric ton of copper wire
The appropriate SI unit is the "fuckton"
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RE: WTF Bites
@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
Poor girl was just trying to write a paper.
@Book{trollope, author = "Alice {Trollope} and Eve {Haxx0r}", title = "The Illustrated Guide to Electronic Snake Oil", publisher = "X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*", year = 2019 }
cite me
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RE: Parallel computing with Cron and PHP
@gleemonk said in Parallel computing with Cron and PHP:
all.php
runs in a loop doing essentially this (pseudocode, I spare you the PHP):for category in sample_categories do curl("https://airhead.io/process/process.php?category=" + category)
fork()
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RE: WTF Bites
That Twitch leak is the gift that will keep on giving for a while, it seems. Someone found the user name filter in SQL
Is MySQL's optimizer is prepared for this kind of morons? I'm not sure whether to hope or to fear that it is.
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RE: RGB LED EVERYTHING!!
@HardwareGeek said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
No worries; my case doesn't have any openings through which the lights are visible. I think my graphics card has lights, but since I can't see them, who cares?
If an LED shines in a case and no one is around to see it, does it emit any light?
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RE: Microsoft is limited to receiving 100 emails per day?
@japonicus said in Microsoft is limited to receiving 100 emails per day?:
I would like to know why mail is being blocked, I am signed up to SNDS, but it has never given me any information about delivery problems - it always reports that everything is fine.
Yeah, MS is fucking awful
with their email. I worked for abuse@ at one of Europe's largest ISPs shortly after most big ISPs introduced Feedback Loops—when one of their users marked something as spam that they had originally gotten from you, it would promptly be returned to a special email account so you could dissect the header and LART the sender. Really effective concept and quite popular, only MS didn't participate because they're special. And they tried the same shit with their templated standard mails on us until our mail admins started bouncing their customers' mails for a couple of hours with a message saying something like "sorry, mail from Hotmail to this account is currently not deliverable, please contact MS customer service".
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RE: WTF Bites
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek I like how they try to rationalize literally hosting the Minecraft source by 'it's been done before'.
I suppose they didn't read the license, so that's fine.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
"SNMP" is just pure sarcasm.
As someone currently working on a project that's based on it, I wish someone had told me that a few months ago. ("SNMP? Let's see... Okay, it's just a tree of values and three basic commands. Can't be that hard to get working. Two weeks should be enough to get the software part done." )
It's a pretty good example of what happens when a simple idea meets design-by-committee. The fact that it uses ASN-1 should have been an immediate red flag.
My first project in my current job involved collecting SNMP stats from dozens of switches. In the end (before it was abandoned) about half of the code dealt with isolating various collector processes and restarting them periodically because somewhere in the jungle of components was a heisenbuggyan memory leak.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@Medinoc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@DogsB Not something I'd laugh at. People losing everything to the point of suicide is not funny if they don't deserve it, and no amount of "gullible" will make them deserve it.
Show me one crypto bro whining now who wasn't a massive asshole when his speculation seemed to be working and I'll think about sparing some compassion. This Shippy dude is out already.
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RE: Fun with maps
@Luhmann said in Fun with maps:
Reminds me of an angry delivery that somehow ended up on my extension.
Hey, I'm standing at X street at Y but I can't find you guys.
Uh, there should be a big building right in front of you with "COMPANY NAME" on the side.
No, there is no big building here.
Sure you are in X street, SmallTown?
Definitly! I'm in BigTown!
I had this with an AirBnB lady in Sri Lanka once. I'd picked her for being nicely on our planned bike tour route (and because it was my birthday so I was looking for something different from the usual fleabags we'd stayed in the other days), then called her on the day that we'd be coming after dark because we had to wait out a thunderstorm. "Yeah, no problem, when you arrive, just look for the police station, there's a temple nearby, I can meet you there". Arrived 20:30, went to the police station, couldn't find the temple. Spent another 10 minutes on the phone with her before asking someone from the neighborhood to let her describe the way because it didn't make any sense to me. They talked another 5 minutes in Sinhala before it turned out that her place was in a completely different town 20km away (all uphill of course) because she'd been too thick to click on the correct location when listing her place on AirBnB
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RE: WTF Bites
Well, yes. This allows signalling one kind of success and 255 kinds of failure.
And some of those failures may actually be success. Then we have COM/OLE's
SUCCEEDED
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RE: WTF Bites
I hope the pinouts.ru guys are better at counting pins than the are at counting reports.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 my mom works at glass walls manufacturing company. In their office, all the internal walls are glass. Every single one. Everyone sees everyone else at all times. It's dumb, it's costly, it's unsettling, but at least there's no question they can do it.
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Bathrooms?
Those use a special glass that digitally "fogs" up on demand.
Let's just hope the fogged state is the passive one, i.e. they need power to become clear. Otherwise "brown-out" could take on a whole new meaning.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla Hitman comes to mind.
Or Pacman for that matter. Run around dark rooms munching pills and listening to electronic music.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Benjamin-Hall Real ad from the German crafts association or something. Text says "We're craftsmen. We know our stuff".
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RE: Web scale breaches! This time the president's daughter might be affected!
The president's daughter has web-scale breeches?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Oof...terrrible stuff.
I'm just thinking... Shirley someone has tried urinating in one of those at some point, no?
Given that early morning drinking is normal at airports...I wouldn't be surprised.
A few years ago I was in the queue behind a dude who was completely exasperated that security wouldn't let him pass with a big bottle of vodka, and in spite of his girlfriend's complaints tried to chug it on the spot. Too bad I had to move on, the aftermath would have been quite entertaining.
Edit: drinking at airports would also be an explanation for this one I saw the other day.
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RE: Internet of shit
We sure hope you haven't tried turning it off an on again?!
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It looks like mayors can have some fun with picking twin cities:
I briefly went to school in a town that had Condom, France, as a twin. The PA announcements calling "participants in the condom exchange program" to this or that meeting were hilarious.
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RE: Internet of shit
@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
This is a bit of telephone game. Aargauer Zeitung
They just corrected it:
There's some weapons grade bullshit typical of AV vendors in the original already, which I hadn't even read because I went right to the linked source.
Like "upgrade your firmware". The problem is not "hackers scanning devices". If a hacker scans your toothbrush in your firewalled home network, it's via another infected device you have already, and then the toothbrush doesn't even matter any more. If you want to hack not just the handful of toothbrushes owned by people whose networks you have infiltrated already but 3 million at once, the only practical way is a supply chain attack—infect the firmware or their update server and wait for the dental-security-conscious user to update. -
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Found this guy on my morning run. The plot thickens.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Germans are not known for their subtlety but someone's fat shaming game here is both surprisingly subtle and extra German.
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RE: WTF Bites
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
It would be mildly shocking of it were a regular photo, but if your know how panorama photos work, meh. Here's a photo of my son caught in the Matrix:
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RE: Internet of shit
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Though, in fairness to Verizon, they're doing this pretty wide recall and replacement over 15 reports of overheating
They're called hotspots, duh.
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RE: Hacking News
@BernieTheBernie said in Hacking News:
Some news from a Hacking Contest. Have fun with it!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-11-tesla-ubuntu-and-macos-hacked-at-pwn2own-2023/The first to fall was Adobe Reader in the enterprise applications category