I like the base64-encoded JSON link hidden in that link. Also some potentially personally-identifying information?
Posts made by Zemm
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RE: Because link tracking is so important
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RE: Cubing the Sphere
@Lorne-Kates said in Cubing the Sphere:
shortened links?
That was the link that came out of the YouTube app and I CBF massaging it.
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RE: Cubing the Sphere
@PleegWat said in Cubing the Sphere:
Dutch is much better. We call them 'ijsblokjes' (ice blocks).
Around here an "ice block" is a frozen confection. Sugary flavoured water frozen onto a wooden stick. Like a paddlepop but not milky.
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RE: Cubing the Sphere
@Lorne-Kates said in Cubing the Sphere:
@Zemm said in Cubing the Sphere:
According to Wikipedia, ice cubes are "a small, roughly cube-shaped piece of ice (frozen water), conventionally used to cool beverages." I would call this cylinderoid "roughly" cube shaped. Most party ice is cylindrical and these would still be called "ice cubes".
Everything is "roughly cube shaped" if you assume it's a perfectly spherical, frictionless object...
Then there's this https://youtu.be/cwWBpjeyRS0
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RE: Cubing the Sphere
According to Wikipedia, ice cubes are "a small, roughly cube-shaped piece of ice (frozen water), conventionally used to cool beverages." I would call this cylinderoid "roughly" cube shaped. Most party ice is cylindrical and these would still be called "ice cubes".
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RE: :beers: The Beer Topic
@MathNerdCNU said in The Beer Topic:
I know it isn't good but I like it.
I've only had Foster's twice and both times because someone bought a carton as a joke ("LOL Fosters" I believe was the literal exclamation upon seeing it in the bottle shop) and then didn't like it and gave it away! And I've been drinking beer in Australia for 18 years. I actually prefer XXXX out of the cheap mainstream beers. Fosters is not mainstream.
But this is the beer I've had a bit of lately:
If you want a really "non-mainstream beer", there's a DIY brewery near me that lets you come in, make a batch of beer yourself, tweaking the recipe to your own tastes - and then they brew and bottle/can your unique creation. Come back a few weeks later and it's all done for you. At least one restaurant I know does this as "their" beer.
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RE: What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?
@Onyx said in What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?:
In the same vein, this just popped up:
Changes? What changes? I did nothing! What do you want? WHY?
Windows has detected that you have moved your mouse. Please restart your computer for these changes to be applied.
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RE: Warning: Contains nuts*
@dcon said in Warning: Contains nuts*:
Since they're Brussels sprouts.
TIL.
I once lived in a suburb named Kearneys Spring even if most people called it Kearny Springs. (Pronounced like the first part of carnival)
Those sneaky "s"es.
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RE: Warning: Contains nuts*
@Karla said in Warning: Contains nuts*:
Likes, as in gets the pickle juice and spits out the rest and gives it to me.
She drinks and spits the brine and gives you the pickles, or you have a Texas sized tub of pickles she goes for a bath in?
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RE: Warning: Contains nuts*
Am I weird because I don't really hate on any food and I have no allergies? The only times I've vomited from food has been when I've eaten too much or it was tainted! (Sizzler, I'm looking at you) My favourite lunch is salami and cucumber sandwiches if leftovers are not available.
I know my 6yo son is weird because he actually likes brussel sprouts!
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RE: Warning: Contains nuts*
@sh_code said in Warning: Contains nuts*:
Step 1: Make a company named "Warning, contains:"
Step 2: Start producing foods, specialise on the allergen ones.
Step 3: Package front and center will be "Warning, contains: Peanuts", "Warning, contains: Honey", etc...
Step 4: $$$, primarily those you'll save on lawsuits with american stupidity.You can hire my company "Nine of out ten experts" to recommend your product.
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RE: Migrating the Forum to phpBB
@Lorne-Kates said in Migrating the Forum to phpBB:
I've found a ton of "we'll print a t-shirt" sites, but does anyone have a "we'll print a baby Onsie" site?
Is this a joke I don't understand or serious? There's photos of me as a baby with a onsie custom printed by my parents. I got the same words recreated for my babies!
The actual words contain our family name used it an ambiguous context.
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RE: Migrating the Forum to phpBB
@Arantor said in Migrating the Forum to phpBB:
But my continued flirting with PHP does suggest something awry...
How would you diagnose a love for Perl?
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RE: Windows 10 can't make up its mind
@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows 10 can't make up its mind:
Essentially, while you're in range of the cell towers, your phone will try to connect to the one with the best signal, and when you're near the ground lighting up the towers in sequence this can cause... problems, especially when the tower starts dropping connections to existing users to handshake with the 200+ new devices that just appeared in range (and then were not heard of again after a second).
What about other forms of mass transportation? I'm currently sharing a train with 600+ people and there would be dozens of towers on this route. Granted, we are traveling at around 80-100km/hr instead of a plane's hundreds, but there are black spots and handovers.
Edit: I typed that this morning (9 hours ago) but had went into a tunnel so my connection had dropped and couldn't reconnect before I got off the train.
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RE: What Mobile-Games do you guys play / enjoy?
@Zecc said in What Mobile-Games do you guys play / enjoy?:
Although I'm ad-free too.
If you have any clothes with visible logos this is not true!
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RE: Windows 10 can't make up its mind
@bb36e said in Windows 10 can't make up its mind:
@RaceProUK maybe that's an en-CA vs en-GB thing.
Because en-US can't spell aeroplane?
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RE: What Mobile-Games do you guys play / enjoy?
I've been playing Pokémon Go the last two days :) Got onto the private beta.
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RE: Popular Gmail-address
I created a new Gmail last week for testing something. Already there's a Twitter signup with it.
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RE: A minor hiccup from a Samsung DVD player and, err, Netflix
@blakeyrat said in A minor hiccup from a Samsung DVD player and, err, Netflix:
@skotl I've love to be a rich motherfuck who'd just casually drop the term "company house" as if everybody has 4 of them. "What? You don't know that term? It's all over the Robb Report!" Fuck rich people.
How is the company paying for accommodation when working away from home make him "rich people"? If anything it's the opposite because they are saving money.
Growing up I lived in "bank houses" - my Dad was an accountant and later manager of a bank. Effectively all it meant was cheap rent to us, someone else in this thread mentioned the advantages to the company. It also meant it was easier to entice employees out to towns in the middle of nowhere, though in the 1990s they stopped having that problem!
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RE: Joking about ISIS can get expensive
What about legit it uses of "Isis"? Thinking Archer. Or even https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_of_Isis
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RE: I cannot wait until movie theaters go out of business...
@dkf said in I cannot wait until movie theaters go out of business...:
I have got motion sickness from an imax movie.
I saw Cloverfield on a screen that was IMAX in a former life. Quite a few guests had to leave!
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RE: Never not listen to your RAM
@anotherusername said in Never not listen to your RAM:
@Zemm you probably would've had exactly the same result if you'd just upgraded the RAM and left the swap alone, except that when you finally did run out of memory, instead of applications crashing with out of memory errors it'd just start swapping and get slower.
The problem was that Quake 2 explicitly requested swap space instead of some memory. Since its requirement was on the order of 16MB or so: having 512 was a huge amount in those days. Heck, only a few years earlier I was still rocking a 386 with 8MB RAM and 120MB HDD space.
I remember it swapping even though there was a large percentage free, which is why I turned off swap in the first place. I mean, minimised windows, etc.
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RE: You must use at least two forbidden characters
@Ancient__Hacker said in You must use at least two forbidden characters:
@Zemm : Its "perfectly clear". The only allowed "symbols" are the ones they list.
Uh, all the characters where on the list. I even copied the list and pasted on the end of a password without other special characters.
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RE: You must use at least two forbidden characters
@Tsaukpaetra said in You must use at least two forbidden characters:
select that zwnjs!
In the documentation for our API there's that character in the example JSON which is easy to copypasta. Postman does flag it (since it is invalid whitespace) but our API completely barfs on it with a nonsensical error. Haven't had an opportunity to fix it yet.
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RE: You must use at least two forbidden characters
@Onyx said in You must use at least two forbidden characters:
not balancing your curly braces.
More secure this way!
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RE: You must use at least two forbidden characters
I never found out which character was forbidden. I generated a new password without specials and added
!!
to the end, which worked. That must have been the only character they tested with!? -
You must use at least two forbidden characters
I needed to change the password to a certain hosting provider.
I tried changing my password to
g.QN}2kJtZ^?.dMt
Where are the forbidden characters?
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RE: Never not listen to your RAM
@Weng said in Never not listen to your RAM:
@anotherusername Functionally no different than turning off swap.
I remember trying that circa 2000 on a win98 machine. I had just upgraded it to an outrageous 512 MB or something. Everything ran so fast. Until I tried to start Quake 2, which wouldn't start due to insufficient swap. I had to turn on 32MB (iirc) swap just for that game.
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RE: FTP is just as good
@RaceProUK said in FTP is just as good:
@Medinoc said:
The real WTF is that some hosting services only allow plain FTP unless you pay them more to enable more secure protocols.
SSL certificates aren't free
letsencrypt.org ...?
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RE: NodeBB misfeatures (BIG PICTURE STUFF ONLY)
@loopback0 and @ChaosTheEternal said:
iOS
Sorry, I can't help you with your poor life choices.
Seriously, I also have an iPad 2 and on it Chrome and Safari render pages pretty much the same, but as far as I can tell they have different JavaScript engines.
There's a web application we are building at work that is JavaScript heavy, using local storage for offline use etc. It officially supports retina iPad and above. For shits and giggles I thought I'd try it on my iPad. Chrome did not work at all (errors syncing); Safari had the same rendering issues but I could see the sync process working and I could use the app albeit with features missing due to overlapping divs etc.
I haven't yet tried wtdwtf.bb on it yet...
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RE: NodeBB misfeatures (BIG PICTURE STUFF ONLY)
@cartman82 said:
One of the best decisions Jeff made with Discourse was getting rid of [signatures]
I haven't noticed how much I hated them until they returned. So annoying, especially when the signature is longer than the post sometimes.
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RE: Misimported OPs
Heh, I even quoted that OP and didn't notice it was "aliceif" and not me. Because I "quoted" the quote it should have been blakey but... Eh.
I was on mobile and getting distracted by the fact that pressing backspace would shift the view to the top.
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RE: Look, blakey!
@BaconBits said:
@tufty said:
Can we assume 992% of
open sourcedevelopers have no fucking clue about usability, at least?FTFY
Back button? Who uses that?
Browser zoom? Who uses that?
Multiple browser windows? Who uses that?
The past 20 years has seen repeated and emphatic attempts by developers to make a web browser stop being a web browser in spite of the fact that all users everywhere expect it to act like a web browser.
Had one terrible client that wanted lots of features in their "web app" including windows (inside the browser) and features which weren't well supported in IE 6. We had to tell them to install Chrome Frame or IE 8 or it would double the cost, since it had to support later browsers too. (This project circa 2011)
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RE: :mouse2: Children are a barrier to using WebKit browsers on a Mac
@aliceif said:
Xfer Records' Serum
Guess what! I could Google this from the convenience of the context menu obtained from Control-Click, without also losing the ability to quote selected text.
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RE: Bots be bottin'
Expected? When I get home I might try playing with user agent string to see if that does anything.
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RE: Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.
Last week my 8.1 work PC popped up a dialogue something about thanking me for choosing to install windows 10. I had done no such thing because workmates were having all kinds of issues with it so I am delaying as long as possible.
I had already tried removing the task that steals focus every time I unlock it. This was successful until another auto update reinstalled the focus stealing pop-up.
Interestingly my home windows 7 PC has been silent about the subject of windows 10, except when I have to go into Internet Explorer.
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RE: URI #fragment sent to server
Poke around with inspector and you'll probably find some JavaScript attached to onhashchange event or similar.
I couldn't get Chrome to do it. That isn't to say that some other browser does something dodgy.
or the # character was actually sent as %23 and then turned back into # when he read them / they were written?
I thought of that but my logs on dev boxes have encoded
%23
in them. But there are so many layers of load balancing between the browser and web servers who TF knows where those logs even came from! I don't have access to production apache access logs (but I do the error log) and no access to any of the load balancers.It's never supposed to be sent to the server as per HTTP spec.
Exactly my assertion, but there was still his argument.
Anyway, this tracking code thing is so unreliable. JS creates a hidden iframe which sets a cookie on the tracker servers, then the "success" page does the same with a different iframe URL for linking referrals. One of our small clients have apparently referred over half the signups! No idea how that happens. In our testing results have varied dramatically from not sending tracking to being correct to applying to the wrong tracking account.
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RE: :fa_apple: Apple is an excellent example of a company that publishes forward looking roadmaps
Am I being TRWTF here? Apple should be presented as the anti-roadmap company. right?
That's exactly the thought I had reading the topic title! I'm sure there is an internal roadmap but it sure isn't public!
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RE: URI #fragment sent to server
What kind of issues?
There's a tracking script which uses #something=code and apparently the sysadmins had to make a change to the load-balancer to make it work, even though it still doesn't. He send through a part of the log to "prove" that fragments get sent. Maybe he is logging the referrer or something...
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URI #fragment sent to server
Am I going crazy? I always assumed that anything after the hash symbol in a URL is not sent to the server, but apparently is blocking it is causing issues?
I can't find any evidence in my own logs but apparently production logs have them coming into the server. Googling suggests no browser send it so WTF!?
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RE: YouTube belatedly promises to have a couple human beings involved with ContentID
There was an incident a few years back where a 15 year old claiming to be from the "Australian Broddcasting Corperation" managed to get 200+ videos from The Chaser's War On Everything removed simply by filling in a DMCA form. Even provided a Hotmail address as the business contact.
It's the kind of thing the Chaser guys would have done themselves to prove the point. They did mention it on the show and thought it was pretty funny!
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RE: The black hole recruitment
Similar thing happened to me. Applying for several jobs through the biggest job site in Australia (seek.com.au) and got a few interviews. It'd been some years since I had to go job searching so want really prepared for recruiters' tactics.
One seemed really interesting but recruiter went silent after interview with them. Eventually got a similar-sounding position through a different kind of recruiter. Turned out the first recruiter was acting without permission and was trying for the commission. It was for a start-up before there even was a HR department. CEO thought he had heard my name before: it was in a subject line of an unread email from the first recruiter.
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RE: The Apple (formerly Mighty) Mouse
My old work replaced all those mice with standard Logitech mice. We called them "bar of soap" mice.
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RE: :mouse2: Children are a barrier to using WebKit browsers on a Mac
one on the left and one on the right.
Unless you swap them (refer to your own screenshot above) then "left click" would bring up the context menu.