Personal WTF Act: Successfully reinvented the wheel on processing incoming XML. No, not the XML parser itself, the step after that.

@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread: Supposedly there's going to be a visible aurora tonightat this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely within the far north but visible from the Northern US and Canada Naked eye or long-exposure photograph? They repeatedly tried to trick us with that last winter. This is practically guaranteed to not be visible here because we're too far north and it's mid may so it doesn't get dark enough.

@Tsaukpaetra said in I, ChatGPT: @Arantor said in I, ChatGPT: But the site I’m building right now has zero cookie banners, it literally doesn’t need any because the only cookies it has are strictly necessary. The site I'm building doesn't use cookies at all, because I don't need them for literally every request to the server. There's lots of other ways to handle local state anyway.

@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else: So that program just sounds like some UI fluff on top of that... Regedit already is a GUI

A computer blog since 2009 will put them to sleep. https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/6458/nobody-shares-knowledge-better-than-this/5511

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Police found a woman living inside of this supermarket sign on top of a store in Michigan What might look like an everyday Family Fare Supermarket sign is actually a luxury apartment that's within walking distance of the nearest grocery store.

Daily Duotrigordle #799 Guesses: 34/37 Time: 07:10.59 3️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ Daily Duotrigordle #800 Guesses: 37/37 Time: 06:31.05 2️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣7️⃣

@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...: @Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...: I just couldn’t think of a limerick That wouldn’t sound like a gimmick Rhyming Aldi is hard DogsB will be scarred By my attempts in meter to mimic If that doesn’t promote you to aran1 on @DogsB’s list then I’ll riot on your behalf. I almost replied to one of my posts yesterday. This won't end well.

@hungrier As this is a lock the LPL could probably pick at 4AM, blindfolded, with a BAC of 0.3%, I think it's fair to up the ante a bit. In each AC cycle you have almost a millisecond where the pick would be safe to touch, so … gotta be fast or hand over to your YT colleague!

@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...: I've mostly used plant-based resin, which (allegedly) smells less bad than ordinary resin. Introducing the "plant-based" label was one of the best marketing ideas of the last decade. Imagine the acceptance if they still called it "vegan"

@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread: Yeah, it never tasted as good...

 

@Tsaukpaetra Thanks, I needed that. I had unexpected visitors and I did not break down.

@Accalia What are your experiences with nose diving into snow? Some scientist have looked at the skull shapes of foxes to find out how they do it without injuries. A short info is available at Nature: Abraham, Mary  /  May 3 Streamlined skull helps foxes take a nosedive Nature - Skull evolution to aid a predatory behaviour. and a paywalled article at PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2321179121

@Gurth That's why they went to France without you...

@Luhmann said in The Beer Topic: what chemicals should be present in food to improve it's perceived taste quality. Did we already talk about their use of Spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtqbk9pgPXw

@Zecc said in Quotes Out of Context: so others can help

@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else: @dcon is Vivaldi above their threshold, or is it too small to even make the “we care so little about it, we don’t even care to tell you that we don’t care about it” cut? Too small. Supported Browsers

Wow I love this link.... Me me me.. https://what.thedailywtf.com/user/spectateswamp I asked quora Is pot the best with a link to the wibble thread... here is the reply I apologize, but I am unable to access or browse external websites, including the URL you provided. However, based on the information you've given, the article on Wibble News seems to discuss the role of cannabis in the context of the Modern Shaman's approach to helping people through computers and cannabis. It emphasizes the positive effects of cannabis as a medicinal remedy for ailments such as pain, anxiety, and stress. It suggests that the Modern Shaman views cannabis as an essential tool in his healing sessions, where individuals gather with computers and cannabis to find relief and reconnect with their humanity in a digitized world. However, it's important to note that the efficacy and effects of cannabis can vary depending on individual circumstances, and it's always advisable to consult with medical professionals or experts in the field for personalized advice.

@topspin You don't own the printer, the cartridges are a license to print a few pages on it. It just happens to carry the ink inside.

@Gurth I hear it's a pretty cool place to be this time of the year.

https://youtu.be/qk09LhZvZjs PS: this guy makes all sort of crazy experiments with guitars, like removing the neck, removing the body or substituting it with LEGO, playing with a balloon inside it, or with rubber bands for strings, etc. So his channel is worth a peek.

@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge now doomed: ChakraCore now OpenSource, will be ported to Linux. Everybody knows that OpenSource software is crap, and everything on Linux is junk, so Edge is doomed. Better keep using IE 11 I was thinking wait, doesn't Edge already runs on Linux? took me a while to see how old this thread is

My aunt is coming to visit me in a few weeks, and she's voluntarily taking the train, because the train is the point for this vacation. She's taking the Empire Builder, and wanted to stop by my place to say hi. Now that she's retired, she's finally able to indulge her travel bug. (I talked her into staying a couple of nights, and I'm mildly kicking myself for not insisting on 3-4 nights. She has a horrible fear of inconveniencing anyone, so she kept trying to argue down to one night.) But yes, I've looked at trains for travel, and they're a terrible idea for me. And I have a 2-year-old; if she can't handle the train after 10 hours, then I get to suffer a long time before it's over. Even if my daughter screams for the entire 3-hour flight, it's better than being locked on a train with her for 30 hours. (Okay, you get more freedom of movement on a train than on a plane, but it's still pretty limiting.)

@lolwhat said in Mobile for CH and DE?: @loopback0 said in Mobile for CH and DE?: I assume you're looking at getting an eSIM rather than a physical SIM? I'm good with either. A physical SIM from Three would need activating in the UK. An eSIM should activate outside of the UK but it might be worth checking with Three.

@Carnage said in Hacking News: Yes. TOR exit nodes are mainly controlled by state actors, and have been for at least about a decade now. Isn't TOR design supposed to be somewhat resistant to the effects of that? (At least if you're not foolish enough to use unencrypted data)

@Tsaukpaetra Maybe it just uses Chrome?

@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF: Slightly OT: Sport, but not involving balls (at least the sport is not played with balls; no speculation with the competitors). Aneesh  /  May 5 “F1 is a little more expensive than NASCAR”: Ryan Ellis takes a savage jibe at Miami GP food prices  Xfinity Series driver Ryan Ellis has taken a dig at the exorbitant food prices set by the Hard Rock Stadium Cafe as the Miami Grand Prix returned to its third edition at the Miami International Autodr The cheapest item on the F1 menu: $120. Something to get @Polygeekery riled up: $560 for a bottle of Jack. On one hand, those prices are stupid. On the other hand, the Hard Rock Beach Club is listed as a "Premium Experience" on the F1 event's website. While I wouldn't expect a NASCAR VIP suite's menu to have prices that sky-high, I wouldn't expect them to have $2 beers either. (I also doubt very many NASCAR tracks have a nightclub with pool and whatnot.)

@dkf In my case the enterprise and organization are already set up (and I believe there is a self-service for setting up an enterprise now). And I have an Entra/M364 account that is supposed to go with it. So I created an account with that e-mail and accepted the invitation to the organization, but the account didn't connect. And I don't know whether I should have done something else, or whether I was sent the wrong type of invitation or whether it simply doesn't work because glucose.

@dkf said in Commuting WTF Thread: keeps you from unexpectedly converting right. Better than converting left.

@Carnage said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: @Tsaukpaetra said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: @error said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: There's no red Thanks for explaining, I was wondering if there was a statement about dithering or something. Have one based on a related (not not the same) phenomena. Am I supposed to see red in that picture? I think you have to stare at this one for a while then look away

@Gąska said in Help Bites: Edit: as for stripping, I don't know the .Net toolchain very well, but considering that you can call object's private method through reflection, it's possible nothing ever gets stripped from classes so the ugly hacks like that don't randomly break down based on dead code analysis. Fun times with Android, when people insist in using the damn obfuscator that strip things that are used only with reflection, so you have to remember to put them manually in a exclusion list. Combine this with folks that think OMG that's hardcoded, so they put the classname in a xml file that is totally different from hardcoding for reasons

@topspin said in Scientific Science: Was there an inexplicable and unexplained uptick in penguin maulings in the data?

@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF: @HardwareGeek what happens if his replacement, when he eventually retires, is not 6’? Is being precisely 6’ one of the job requirements? Standard issue Prussian.

@Gurth Careful though! "An increasing number of senior citizens have been disappearing online without a trace because they accidentally pressed the Alt and Del keys."

We're totes not AI generated, and here's why - Wibble News An opinion piece serving as a satirical defense of the allegations suggesting Wibble News is AI generated, framed in the style of the Totally Not Robots subreddit.

@Parody said in Killed by Google: I don't think this article aged well. In less than 4 months. No, it did not.

Also voice calls stopped working in both the browser version and the Facebook mobile app. Either we can't hear each other, or we can but the ringtone is still going infinitely. Although maybe it is related to the fact that I stopped using Messenger apps when this EU requirement happened.

@boomzilla the Religious Challenges thread is ! hoc est corpus meum

During my lunch break, I switched the machine off an deallocated it. Afterwards, it was lightning fast. Eventual Consistency.

@topspin said in In other news today...: @Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...: What did all the dumb fucks involved - on both sides! - thought was going to happen?