The minor rants thread.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
No breath-holding is occurring, I hope?
Not at any point, on my end, because I knew they were wrong. It'd be like someone reporting that changing fonts in Word didn't work right.
Five minutes after that post, he sent me another mail saying "we know what's going on now, and don't need the meeting." I'll bet.
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
It'd be like someone reporting that changing fonts in Word didn't work right.
With or without Windows Firewall up?
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Webforms that prevent (or else somehow break) autofill so I have to fill in all my details manually. And don't manage to keep the data in session when I cancel checkout because I wanted to change one of the values, so I have to fill it all in manually again.
Also phone number was mandatory even though they have no need to know it (I 'accidentally' transposed two digits) and 'Province/State' remained a mandatory field whatever country was selected, even though the developer was capable of dynamically populating a dropdown of states depending on the country selection and inserting an extra field if the 'other' option (the only option in countries without states) was selected.
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@CarrieVS said in The minor rants thread.:
And don't manage to keep the data in session when I cancel checkout because I wanted to change one of the values, so I have to fill it all in manually again.
Sorry, it wasn't programmed by me. This is a big issue because Hotel Internet is worse than dialup. I've been meaning to fix it, but only recently been granted read-access to the git.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
Sorry, it wasn't programmed by me. This is a big issue because Hotel Internet is worse than dialup. I've been meaning to fix it, but only recently been granted read-access to the git.
What? I didn't even mention what site it was on. (Canadian Red Cross, Alberta fire appeal, if anyone cares. Worthy cause in spite of the inconvenience.)
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@CarrieVS said in The minor rants thread.:
Also phone number was mandatory even though they have no need to know it
I give them 999-999-9999.
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Not a rant, but I can't figure out why the new lock screen would suggest I ask when the next Arsenal game is on.
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@CarrieVS said in The minor rants thread.:
What? I didn't even mention what site it was on
Oh. Well, I have a site that I'm going to be... updating... that exhibits almost these exact characteristics you described.
It's also written in PHP.
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@CarrieVS said in The minor rants thread.:
Webforms that prevent (or else somehow break) autofill so I have to fill in all my details manually
Or somehow fuck with username/password autofill. I've inherited a site that does some sort of postback when you fill in the field before username. You have to lose focus on that, then click in the username field to get the saved usernames.
It also has some weird shit with passwords. They're stored in plain text in the database of course. How else would you send out the emails saying
User name: Jaloopa, password: hunter2
when people change them?
When you first set up an account, it uses your postcode as the temporary password, and makes you change it on first login. How is this stored? A databaseMustUpdatePassword
column? A check on whether the password is the same as the stored postcode? Nope, a regex to see if the password is in postcode format. If it is, it checks to see if what you've entered is the same as the stored postcode, not the stored password.Long story short, when I set the password for a test user to
Pa55W0rd
, I couldn't log in and kept getting an error about the postcode not matching. I had to go into the database and change the plain text password to something less postcode like.
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@Jaloopa That's nuts. Whoever invented that must've been so pleased with themselves, yet it's about as secure as a screen door against an axe murderer.
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@dkf said in The minor rants thread.:
about as secure as a screen door against an axe murderer.
As opposed to a wooden door?
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@FrostCat
To be fair ... with a screen door that scene wouldn't have the same appeal.
Maybe a shower curtain would have worked ... but only if you replace the axe by a knife.
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@Jaloopa Am I crazy, or does that mean you can log into anyone's account using their postcode as a password?
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@AyGeePlus that is entirely possible. I'll check it out tomorrow.
The log in system was meant to be the first part I overhaul but that project has been pushed back to next year now. If I demonstrate more glaring security holes they might bring it forward again
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So then this happened at lunchtime.
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@FrostCat your base converted to a village?
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@Tsaukpaetra The base is a village. And the first golem spawned inside a house, where it's not going to be much use as a guardian.
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@FrostCat Just knock down a wall and rebuild it after the golem walks out. Or as you appear to be open to the elements somewhat, build it som steps to get out over the wall.
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
And the first golem spawned inside a house
Serves you right for not laying down a foundation of half-slabs?
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@CarrieVS Yeah, but then I have to smelt more stone. I was actually thinking about digging a pit out under the wall. :) The roof was under construction--I hadn't thought about going over the wall. It's finished now, but I could undo part of it. Probably be easier than a pit/trench.
The point was that it was an annoyance. The next one theat spawned was outside where it belonged.
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
The roof was under construction... It's finished now, but I could undo part of it...The next one theat spawned was outside where it belonged.
Maybe because that bit of wall had no roof next to it and/or the floor is grass the program didn't count it as outside. I recall that a 'house' is determined by a door with more spaces having a block above them on one side than the other, the side with more 'roof' being inside. And I know villagers are quite happy to stand outside all night on the covered space outside a forge as though they were safe there.
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@FrostCat get a real floor!
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@CarrieVS The golem spawning area is a 16x16x6 prism at the barycenter of all the doors that start in a village. I've actually seen weird stuff like this happen before: I have a village with Orthanc (one house, for some reason, was placed about 30 cubes up from the ground, and then the world generator pillared stone down. That places the area the game uses to determine if there's too many villagers in the sky, meaning the villagers will never stop breeding. It's kind of funny at first.
In this case, the long-term solution is to balance things out by building housing elsewhere to move the village barycenter. But I'm kind of cheap when making villages--I usually create dorms. This one has 15 doors in an (IIRC) 15x12 area, meaning it is 15 houses.
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@AyGeePlus said in The minor rants thread.:
get a real floor!
Eventually. I have a 18x18 strip-mine (that's as deep as I've gotten so far) that goes from y=80 to about y=55 so far, so I have lots of cobble as well as some other stone types.
BTW, speaking of stone, if you mod, get Chisel 2. You can smelt gravel to make concrete (which I then chisel into asphalt) and use it for paths in your villages. It gives you sprint.
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@FrostCat I've seen worse.
HE GOT HIMSELF UP THERE, HE CAN DAMN WELL GET HIMSELF DOWN.
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I want to build a city in my current world. But I guess first I should get round to doing some serious mining and maybe make a little more pogress on the project I started already (collecting all the animals and breeding them up to the numbers I like). There are almost no rabbits in this world, except in deserts which are crawling with cream bunnies, but I must get all the varieties because otherwise what's the point of collecting them at all?
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Just read this here: https://www.choice.com.au/thermoburns
I have a TM31 and am frankly a bit at a loss on how you're able to burn yourself using that machine without it being your own damn fault.
Yes, there was a problem with the sealing ring. No, that did not lead to hot soup flying around all over the kitchen - it merely meant that there was an occasional dribble (and not even that much of one) down the side when using the blender at the highest setting. Due to where the sealing ring is located, it's actually physically impossible for any liquid to be flying around.
"Dangerously unsafe", my ass.
And, yes, you can in principle get scalded by hot water from the inside of the lid if you open it up immediately after finishing cooking. I've had the same problem with any other kitchen appliance using hot water.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
thermoburns
Huh. my jumble-word decoupler decided this read "the RMO burns" as the most likely interpretation. Seems like it needs some attention...
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
I have a TM31 and am frankly a bit at a loss on how you're able to burn yourself using that machine without it being your own damn fault.
I know, it's not even Fire type.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
And once again a tale from the wonderful land of "how do we fuck over teachers by using architecture".
Background: Hamburg has chosen to privatize the ownership of school buildings which means that our school does not belong to "us". I'm not sure on which level this makes sense because I myself am not seeing the big advantages.
So, it turns out that a chemistry lab needs access to a gas line. Who'd have thought?
After much complaining, they finally sent out some guys to fix it. Obviously those guys only think in binary: Gas is flowing or gas is not flowing.
Pressure is non-existant in this mythical realm of fairies. I mean, yes, the bunsen burner does provide a flame - akin to the breath of an asthmatic debile weasel. Normally, at a closed oxygen valve, this flame should be 20 cm high and bright yellow. The flame we got? 10 cm and bluish.
Not to mention that the flame extinguished itself upon opening the oxygen valve - the increased flow was too much and you got the same effect as blowing out a candle.
After explaining that minor matter to the guys in question ("We didn't know that was a problem!" - really? It's your goddamn job!), they fixed that.
Then we noticed that the gas line for the preparatory lab didn't work.
That's a new line so it'll have to be certified. We're not allowed to certify that so we'll call someone who is.
This of course means that we also can't use our chemistry dishwasher because the valve for the prep lab is located behind the place where the washer is supposed to go.
Yes. A valve you should have easy access to is located behind a quite heavy piece of equipment.
So, then another guy turned up who looked at all the gas stuff. But he wasn't the guy responsible for certification. Didn't matter because this guy noticed that the main gas valve was becoming uncomfortably hot. Which meant: a) no certification and b) some construction works because they now would have to create an air flow to cool the valve down.
To top it all off: The same guy went into our chemistry lab, took a look around and asked: "Say, don't your pupils get headaches sometimes? The ventilation in this room is a tad on the small side!"
Yes. We know (see above for a small saga on the topic of aeration).
Oh, and one more thing: I recently did an experiment in my Physics lab and noticed that the metal pin of one power connector had broken off and was now sticking out of the wall socket.
Luckily, it was the wall socket intended for Physics experiments! So I decided instead of hunting around in the cabinet for the right circuit breaker, to simply use the big red emergency off button located right next to the socket.
Pressed the button, the light above it went out and ... then I decided to test whether the other socket next to it really was without power.
Good thing I did.
As it turns out, this emergency power off button? The only thing the damn gizmo turns off is the damn status light above said button!
...
I should get hazard pay for this.
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@Yamikuronue I don't see anything up anywhere, just a garbled mass of pixels.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
The only thing the damn gizmo turns off is the damn status light above said button!
That's.... amazing.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
The only thing the damn gizmo turns off is the damn status light above said button!
That's.... amazing.
It would have earned the guy who signed off on that a charge for physical injury had it shocked me.
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That's a dude. A dude not known for his climbing abilities. Also clipping through the plants.
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@Rhywden Did they literally take the cheapest possible offer when tendering the building of the place? You know, the people who turn up in a suspicious van without numberplates and who insist that payment be made in used banknotes with non-consecutive serial numbers?
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@dkf said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden Did they literally take the cheapest possible offer when tendering the building of the place? You know, the people who turn up in a suspicious van without numberplates and who insist that payment be made in used banknotes with non-consecutive serial numbers?
I'm not even sure they know who they hired in the first place.
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@Yamikuronue I'm sticking with "mass of unrecognizable pixels". I know it has an inexplicably large number of idiot players, but I can't believe Microsoft bought that mess. Until now, all Microsoft games have been pretty damned good. (Except Fuzion Frenzy 2. Fuck that game.) The Microsoft game library: Halo 2, Crimson Skies, ... Mass Of Unrecognizable Pixels.
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@dkf They also owned FASA for awhile, so MechWarrior IV is a Microsoft game.
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@Yamikuronue said in The minor rants thread.:
That's a dude.
.... that iron golem is still getting stuck on the church tower?
damn.... he is dum
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@dkf said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden Did they literally take the cheapest possible offer when tendering the building of the place? You know, the people who turn up in a suspicious van without numberplates and who insist that payment be made in used banknotes with non-consecutive serial numbers?
Euro banknotes don't have serial numbers.
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@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
Euro banknotes don't have serial numbers.
Srsly?
(checks second paragraph of the Wikipedia article "Euro banknotes"
While euro coins have a national side indicating the country of issue (although not necessarily of minting), euro notes lack this. Instead, this information is shown by the first character of each note's serial number.
Oh good, more people spreading unfounded bullshit. The internet needs more of those.
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@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
Euro banknotes don't have serial numbers.
Srsly?
(checks second paragraph of the Wikipedia article "Euro banknotes"
ha ha ha...
They are so poor in @PleegWat country that they can't even afford ink for serials.or
@PleegWat is a very cheap counterfeiter ?
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@blakeyrat @cabrito Huh, I thought they didn't. I don't handle notes often, as I typically pay with plastic whenever possible. When impossible, the transactions are usually so small you only use coin.
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NOW YOU KNOW HOW WRONG YOU ARE.
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@blakeyrat It's been known to happen.
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@PleegWat said in The minor rants thread.:
Euro banknotes don't have serial numbers.
In what universe are you operating? The examples I've looked at do (with a prefix of
P
, so perhaps they're strictly identifiers and not serial numbers).
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@dkf The €10 note in my wallet has a long serial number starting "UC" and another number which appears to just be the last six digits of the first.
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@loopback0 said in The minor rants thread.:
@dkf The €10 note in my wallet has a long serial number starting "UC" and another number which appears to just be the last six digits of the first.
Looks like they got the "non-sequential numbers" part at least a bit wrong there.