WTF Bites
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If you've ever used the YouTube app with a Chromecast or smart TV or device which can act as a cast target, you'll know that to remove a video from the cast queue, you have to tap the triple dots menu and choose 'remove from queue'. Well, apparently, as my mom discovered, if you own the video, it will add an extra option that simply says 'delete'. She wanted it out of the queue, and deleting it from the queue made sense at first thought. So, now that video has been permanently deleted from her account. Thankfully she still has another copy, but why is that option in that menu!?
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Beware the Ides of M03!
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laptop immediatley goes into sleep mode
Insider fast ring? I had that happen too. Wait, it's not waking up now (and I have sleep turned off when not on battery). Fuck, hard reset. Again.
edit: aw shit. I think the laptop died. It simply won't power on.
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aw shit. I think the laptop died. It simply won't power on.
Another victim of Win10
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@dcon No insider on my work laptop, it's running regular Win10. I guess it's another "feature".
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Since I don't know of a "possibly wtf bites" thread, I'll stick this here:
Every single "verified purchase" review has been posted in just the last three (2 ½?) days:
For some reason, I don't think I trust them
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Every single "verified purchase" review has been posted in just the last three (2 ½?) days:
For some reason, I don't think I trust them
Why ? they're telling the truth...
Read the first book, so far the second one has not disappointed since I didn't read it yet
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
Every single "verified purchase" review has been posted in just the last three (2 ½?) days:
For some reason, I don't think I trust them
Why ? they're telling the truth...
Read the first book, so far the second one has not disappointed since I didn't read it yet
Oh yeah, there's more of that:
I have been following John Somez for a while, this book will be a good follow up to the great content he always delivers. Thank You.
Every student software developer like myself should read this book.
This is a good book that covers a lot of topics. My initial read I jumped around to the topics that most interest me, but I will eventually read all the chapters for reinforcement and potential new insights.
I only finished one third of Johns newest books
There are also a lot of openers like
I have been following John Somnez for a while.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
Every single "verified purchase" review has been posted in just the last three (2 ½?) days:
For some reason, I don't think I trust them
Why ? they're telling the truth...
Read the first book, so far the second one has not disappointed since I didn't read it yet
Oh yeah, there's more of that:
I have been following John
SomnezCena for a while, this book will be a good follow up to the great content he always delivers. Thank You.Every student software developer like myself should read this book.
This is a good book that covers a lot of topics. My initial read I jumped around to the topics that most interest me, but I will eventually read all the chapters for reinforcement and potential new insights.
I only finished one third of Johns newest books
There are also a lot of openers like
I have been following John
SomnezCena for a while.FTFR
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Since I don't know of a "possibly wtf bites" thread, I'll stick this here:
Every single "verified purchase" review has been posted in just the last three (2 ½?) days:
For some reason, I don't think I trust them
Oh, did I forget to mention this guy likes to put out what look to be obscenely overpriced accessory materials (based on their descriptions)?
Because he does:
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
I find it amusing they didn't label the little velcro cable tie keeping his right pantleg from getting caught in the chain.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
I guess it's another "feature".
Windows 10 improves battery life
That would be nice on my SP4. Like every second time I take it out of my bag after a few days and want to turn it on it just gives me the "no battery"-icon. Somehow Microsoft hasn't figured out the main point of a sleep mode after 4 generations: Save battery :|
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
I find it amusing they didn't label the little velcro cable tie keeping his right pantleg from getting caught in the chain.
Velcro is for hipsters! Use a rubber band!
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
I find it amusing they didn't label the little velcro cable tie keeping his right pantleg from getting caught in the chain.
Velcro is for hipsters! Use a rubber band!
What in that image makes you think that guy is not a hipster?
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
I find it amusing they didn't label the little velcro cable tie keeping his right pantleg from getting caught in the chain.
Velcro is for hipsters! Use a rubber band!
What in that image makes you think that guy is not a hipster?
.... I may currently be using a corrupted definition of hipster.
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How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly
Does it teach HTML?
Not that I can tell. It mentions it under the Web Development chapter, but the book doesn't actually teach languages; "How to" is an important qualifier on that sentence.
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How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly
Does it teach HTML?
Not that I can tell. It mentions it under the Web Development chapter, but the book doesn't actually teach languages; "How to" is an important qualifier on that sentence.
Oh that reminds me: So if you've read ebooks before, you know the Table of Contents usually links to the specific chapter if you click on it. But not the Kindle online reader! No, instead it tries to be helpful and shows you the definition of the word you clicked on:
You might think "Try clicking on a blank space!". I did. It just selects the nearest word or non-whitespace symbol and tries defining that. "Tries":
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
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@raceprouk my co workers have been heard to announce that they've never worked with anyone as hairy as me
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Basically, FileZilla defaults to treating files without extension as ASCII files, therefore it strips CR, therefore it corrupts binary files.
FileZilla?
But it gets better. There's an 8-year old bug report for this:
https://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/4235
Withy the first comment being "hurr durr, works for me, E_WONT_FIX".
Then the guy reporting responded and the dev replied against "hurr durr, files in /bin are managed by package manager, User shouldn't copy them, hurr durr, I only transfer text files, E_FUCK_YOU_WONT_FIX".
FUCK YOU TOO, FILEZILLA!
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@kt_ Huh...
FileZilla just lost another user: me.
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Basically, FileZilla defaults to treating files without extension as ASCII files, therefore it strips CR, therefore it corrupts binary files.
Apparently this guy is too young to have his FTP . Everyone knows the first thing you do when opening up an FTP client is to set to binary. I laugh at his youthful naivete.
Also, use
sftp
, dipshit.EDIT: Oh, shit, just noticed it's Scott Hanselman. man, there's no excuse.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Basically, FileZilla defaults to treating files without extension as ASCII files, therefore it strips CR, therefore it corrupts binary files.
Apparently this guy is too young to have his FTP . Everyone knows the first thing you do when opening up an FTP client is to set to binary. I laugh at his youthful naivete.
Also, use
sftp
, dipshit.Apparently, being young is now .
Apparently, corrupting user's data is a good thing.
Apparently, every POC should use SFTP.
Apparently, SFTP would help here somehow?
Apparently, someone stepped on @boomzilla's lawn. Apparently.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Basically, FileZilla defaults to treating files without extension as ASCII files, therefore it strips CR, therefore it corrupts binary files.
Apparently this guy is too young to have his FTP . Everyone knows the first thing you do when opening up an FTP client is to set to binary. I laugh at his youthful naivete.
Also, use
sftp
, dipshit.Apparently, being young is now .
Apparently, corrupting user's data is a good thing.
Apparently, every POC should use SFTP.
Apparently, SFTP would help here somehow?
Apparently, someone stepped on @boomzilla's lawn. Apparently.
No, it's not a good thing, just one of many reasons to not use ftp, ever. Yes, sftp would help because it doesn't have a concept of ASCII vs binary.
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Oh, God...got a ticket to update a part of the system that hasn't had a significant change in a decade. It's a remnant of horrible copy pasta abuse. Instead of using JSF gridPanels, the tables are hand coded.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Oh, God...got a ticket to update a part of the system that hasn't had a significant change in a decade. It's a remnant of horrible copy pasta abuse. Instead of using JSF gridPanels, the tables are hand coded.
You should switch to Kotlin. Quick, it's the next hot new thing!
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Apparently, every POC should use SFTP.
LOL, the comments all agree with me. I like this one:
Robert Salita Tuesday, July 18, 2017 8:25:42 AM UTC
Fake blog post. There's no way the Real Scott Hanselman would have gotten stuck on ascii vs binary transfers.
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@kt_ Huh...
FileZilla just lost another user: me.
Fun fact, SMF learned of this a long time ago. When files were uploaded as attachments, the extension was stripped and the file given a largely unobvious filenane to prevent guessing-type attacks.
Then we learned about FileZilla's proclivities, and subsequently added a generic extension. I forget whether we used
.dat
or even.123
but something to avoid this ridiculous default.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
LOL, the comments all agree with me. I like this one:
Heh:
Wasn't there some guy on dailywtf that said his company had been doing backups over FTP for years and years and when they finally needed a restore, they discovered they were all transferred with ASCII mode? ... None of them worked. So close, and yet so far away.
Which is why I always insist on doing a full restore every six months to make sure it works.
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@arantor
.dat
I can understand, but.123
is the Lotus spreadsheet format, I believe
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
LOL, the comments all agree with me. I like this one:
Heh:
Wasn't there some guy on dailywtf that said his company had been doing backups over FTP for years and years and when they finally needed a restore, they discovered they were all transferred with ASCII mode? ... None of them worked. So close, and yet so far away.
Which is why I always insist on doing a full restore every six months to make sure it works.@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
LOL, the comments all agree with me. I like this one:
Heh:
Wasn't there some guy on dailywtf that said his company had been doing backups over FTP for years and years and when they finally needed a restore, they discovered they were all transferred with ASCII mode? ... None of them worked. So close, and yet so far away.
Which is why I always insist on doing a full restore every six months to make sure it works.Doesn't change the fact that it's a stupid default. And that the developer defending it by saying "I don't transfer binaries" is just silly. ;)
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And that the developer defending it by saying "I don't transfer binaries" is just silly.
Yeah, who would think a developer of a software would ever dare tell users how his software should be used and refuse to acknowledge that not everyone use it like he does himself? That would definitely be... Doing It Wrong!
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And that the developer defending it by saying "I don't transfer binaries" is just silly.
Yeah, who would think a developer of a software would ever dare tell users how his software should be used and refuse to acknowledge that not everyone use it like he does himself? That would definitely be... Doing It Wrong!
Setting potentially harmful defaults is definitely . Doing this with the sole reason of "I don't do anything that could make me suffer from this, so fuck you" is just plain stupid.
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Doesn't change the fact that it's a stupid default.
A stupid default for a stupid protocol.
And that the developer defending it by saying "I don't transfer binaries" is just silly.
He should also feel bad for making an ftp client in the first place.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Doesn't change the fact that it's a stupid default.
A stupid default for a stupid protocol.
And that the developer defending it by saying "I don't transfer binaries" is just silly.
He should also feel bad for making an ftp client in the first place.
Do you hate your users, too?
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@arantor
.dat
I can understand, but.123
is the Lotus spreadsheet format, I believeIt is, but it's also definitely not transferred as text ;)
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@kt_ we're talking about "Fuck Them Protocol", seems like FileZilla implemented that correctly...
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@arantor
.dat
I can understand, but.123
is the Lotus spreadsheet format, I believeIs it limited to 3 characters, or could you use
.fuckfilezilla
?
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Basically, FileZilla defaults to treating files without extension as ASCII files, therefore it strips CR, therefore it corrupts binary files.
FileZilla?
But it gets better. There's an 8-year old bug report for this:
https://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/4235
Withy the first comment being "hurr durr, works for me, E_WONT_FIX".
Then the guy reporting responded and the dev replied against "hurr durr, files in /bin are managed by package manager, User shouldn't copy them, hurr durr, I only transfer text files, E_FUCK_YOU_WONT_FIX".
FUCK YOU TOO, FILEZILLA!
The best part of that is that it's remarkably easy to detect binary files. Like, just look for
NUL
s in the file, you'll get 99% of them! Then it doesn't matter how it's configured.Like this!
Of course, this sounds pretty normal for FileZilla's "Fuck You" user support policy.
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@sloosecannon Any control character (except
\r\n
and\t
) indicates a binary file.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
The best part of that is that it's remarkably easy to detect binary files. Like, just look for
NUL
s in the file, you'll get 99% of them! Then it doesn't matter how it's configured.I have a better way. Is it stored on a binary-based storage device? Yes? It's a binary file. There is literally no justification, ever, for modifying the contents of a file, because you ass-umpted that it was an ASCII file and it contained characters that you thought ASCII files shouldn't have. Unless you created the file, you don't know shit about it. Every file is a binary file. Done.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
The best part of that is that it's remarkably easy to detect binary files. Like, just look for
NUL
s in the file, you'll get 99% of them! Then it doesn't matter how it's configured.I have a better way. Is it stored on a binary-based storage device? Yes? It's a binary file. There is literally no justification, ever, for modifying the contents of a file, because you ass-umpted that it was an ASCII file and it contained characters that you thought ASCII files shouldn't have. Unless you created the file, you don't know shit about it. Every file is a binary file. Done.
That's also true - what even are the benefits of text vs binary transfer modes? Is there any reason to transfer as text?
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Basically, FileZilla defaults to treating files without extension as ASCII files, therefore it strips CR, therefore it corrupts binary files.
FileZilla?
But it gets better. There's an 8-year old bug report for this:
https://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/4235
Withy the first comment being "hurr durr, works for me, E_WONT_FIX".
Then the guy reporting responded and the dev replied against "hurr durr, files in /bin are managed by package manager, User shouldn't copy them, hurr durr, I only transfer text files, E_FUCK_YOU_WONT_FIX".
FUCK YOU TOO, FILEZILLA!
Fucking sigh now I'm going to have to get my corner of WtfCorp to change FTP clients.