The Official Status Thread
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@magus Apparently they're right. TIL.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
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Bugger.
Mine are currently held together with locking wire, since about a year ago. I should really go get them fixed but I need a checkup anyway and it'sEdit: and i'll know they use that thing that squirts air in your eye. Fluck that thing.
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The bane of my existence.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: and i'll know they use that thing that squirts air in your eye. Fluck that thing.
Supposedly it's some kind of disease indicator. I think they're just trying to spread the disease.
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Status: Back, but only briefly (I hope).
Oh, and I got notificationalized that I have an appointment in December to try to convince a judge that I am such a worthless shell of a sub-human wretch that I should get money from the government to not work, rather than having to sponge off of family and not work. Draw your own conclusions about my state of mind from this.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the handyfox's secret weapon.
Well, if that's really the way you want it...
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the handyfox's secret weapon.
Well, if that's really the way you want it...
that vet isn't a handy man or a handy fox. duct tape is not their secret weapon. medicine is.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the handyfox's secret weapon.
Well, if that's really the way you want it...
that vet isn't a handy man or a handy fox. duct tape is not their secret weapon. medicine is.
No, but fixed is fixed, eh?
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Hello Dreikin,
Thank you for contacting us here at Humble Support.
Sadly, we do not allow third party access to our APIs, nor do we allow third party OAuth access that would allow the creation of such an app. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to reach out!
-Jason
Humble Bundle
http://support.humblebundle.com/Welp, there goes that idea. It shall remain a gigantic PITA to manage your humble library purchases and downloads.
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the handyfox's secret weapon.
Well, if that's really the way you want it...
that vet isn't a handy man or a handy fox. duct tape is not their secret weapon. medicine is.
No, but fixed is fixed, eh?
NOT THAT KIND OF FIXED! I WANT PUPS EVENTUALLY!
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the handyfox's secret weapon.
Well, if that's really the way you want it...
that vet isn't a handy man or a handy fox. duct tape is not their secret weapon. medicine is.
No, but fixed is fixed, eh?
NOT THAT KIND OF FIXED! I WANT PUPS EVENTUALLY!
I'm sure @Perverted_Vixen is very pleased to hear that.
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@dreikin probably, but she does lack the necessary hardware to make that actually happen without massive (and expensive) scientific intervention.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin probably, but she does lack the necessary hardware to make that actually happen without massive (and expensive) scientific intervention.
I'm pretty sure artificial insemination (possibly with a few of her favorite toys) doesn't count as "massive (and expensive) scientific intervention" anymore.
Although "massive" might remain depending on her tool of choice.
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Although "massive" might remain depending on her tool of choice.
You know it is.
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Status: Last day of work before vacation
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Status: a coworker fixed the problem from yesterday. Conclusion: fuck networking. We removed a factor out of the equation by just connecting them over VPN directly, rather than running the OpenVPN server on a separate machine.
I don't even want to know at this point. It works, fuck it, next!
cc: @izzion (thanks for all the suggestions none the less though)
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: "Where the fuck is my second card reader? Did I leave it at home? FUCK!"
Colleague: "It's right there on your desk. You pulled it out of your bag five seconds ago."
: "Ah. It's going to be one of those kinds of days."
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@heterodox Welcome to my life. I say that I have juvenile onset Alzheimer's.
I've also come to the conclusion that things that are in plain sight are more invisible than things that are hidden. Because perversity is the operating principle of the universe.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
duct tape is not their secret weapon. medicine is.
Not that big of a secret tbh
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
duct tape is not their secret weapon. medicine is.
Not that big of a secret tbh
about as secret as the handyman's secret weapon.
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: "Our PKI SME says in order to configure your Web server to use this certificate you only need the public certificate and not the private key."
: "... well, your PKI SME is dead wrong."Starting to think they're talking about client authentication, which already will accept the certificate they're using. But they keep telling me the Web server should use the load balancer's certificate itself. Obviously some form of miscommunication here.
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@heterodox For some reason, whenever we renew a certificate, we have to have the server generate a new certificate for us instead of just submitting a CSR :/
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox For some reason, whenever we renew a certificate, we have to have the server generate a new certificate for us instead of just submitting a CSR :/
Some CAs do that so they can escrow the private key in case you lose it.
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@heterodox Fair enough.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
duct tape is not their secret weapon. medicine is.
Not that big of a secret tbh
about as secret as the handyman's secret weapon.
:gig... /me double checks to which vulpine he is replying oh. Carry on.
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@r10pez10 Thanks! Ill try myself first, but I'll be in touch if I get stuck...
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@mikael_svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
:gig... /me double checks to which vulpine he is replying oh. Carry on.
I'm sure both have a use for it
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status: last day at work. whoooo
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Back, but only briefly (I hope).
Welcome back!
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@scholrlea hullo! How's the work on your OS coming along? Anywhere where I can find out about progress? :D
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
She resorted to filling a teapot with milk and inserting it in the afflicted area
The whole teapot? Is she Thai?
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Status: Currently watching this Amazon show "Preacher".
Dear Lord, that show is weird.
I mean one of the major characters is called Arseface. And actually looks the part...
... and a quote without context from an episode:
Stab her gently!
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Status: Hm, I should have stripped this speaker wire before putting it in the overhead track...
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@rhywden Okay, that show took a very dark turn. Still weird, but damn, that's dark.
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Reading about the "new" UHD 4K blu-ray stuff, because I just bought a movie with and wanted to watch it.
If you’ve followed our coverage of Netflix streaming requirements for 4K video and the significant hardware upgrades most systems would require, you know that content creators have gone out of their way to make 4K streaming as difficult as possible. Only seventh-generation Intel Kaby Lake hardware is 4K streaming capable, and it looks like a similar set of requirements are in place for UHD Blu-ray support.
In order to play UHD Blu-rays, your system must support AACS 2.0 and Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX). You’ll need software to play the disc itself (CyberLink has an updated software solution set to ship in the near future), and a GPU with HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2 support. AACS 2.0 also has to be implemented within the GPU driver, and no current stand-alone GPU drivers have this functionality. Finally, you need a 4K TV with both HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2 support as well.
This is a tall order. No Intel chips before Skylake support SGX, and just owning a Skylake board isn’t enough — many desktop boards never implemented the feature and don’t support it in UEFI. The HDCP 2.2 support requirement is also dodgy, since not every Intel board supports that standard, either.
In theory, the UHD Blu-ray playback situation should be better than the 4K streaming situation, since at least 6th and 7th-generation Core chips are both supported. In practice, it seems to be every bit as much of a muddle and a problem. Support is limited to specific SKUs and motherboards with particular features, and the dependence on integrated graphics for decode support means that you can’t use UHD Blu-ray with any Intel HEDT system (HEDT refers to Intel’s E-class chips — Sandy Bridge-E, Ivy Bridge-E, Haswell-E, etc).
For years, there’s been a push-pull between content pirates and the content production industry, with law-abiding fans generally caught in the middle. For years, the content consumption side of the business has warned that if technology became too draconian, people simply wouldn’t use it. That seems to be the point at which we’ve arrived. Given the snail-like speed of PC refresh cycles these days, 4K streaming support will take 3-5 years to establish itself in the market, while UHD Blu-ray playback may never happen at all, thanks to ridiculously strict requirements that block out entire swathes of the hardware market.
I really, truly, sincerely wish there were a way to punish the assholes who create and promulgate these DRM schemes beyond simply not buying the shit they produce. I want it to hurt them any time someone tries to use this stuff, whether or not they succeed.
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Status: Finished casually reading an ongoing fic totalling a bit more than 970,000 words in 38-ish (non continuous) days.
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Status: Updating GPU drivers on my laptop. Can't use GeForce Experience anymore since it wants me to log in to an account I don't want and in general be annoying. Went to nVidia's website and asked it to autodetect my GPU.
What is wrong with this screenshot? I'll give you a hint: it's not green.
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Updating GPU drivers on my laptop. Can't use GeForce Experience anymore since it wants me to log in to an account I don't want and in general be annoying. Went to nVidia's website and asked it to autodetect my GPU.
What is wrong with this screenshot? I'll give you a hint: it's not green.
AFAICT it always ALWAYS just downloads the unified driver unless you select a no-longer-supported card from the lists.
Typically this means I just take the first off each list and make sure the correct bitness is selected.
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Status: Ugh, I hate how bad performance is...
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@r10pez10 said in The Official Status Thread:
Hey! That's two pictures... are you allowed to do that?
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Status: The kiddo and I decided to camp out in the backyard tonight. We had a fire and cooked sausages and hot dogs and baked beans. We had Smores for dessert. Now we are watching "Boss Baby" on a laptop with a Bluetooth speaker for good sound in the tent...because why not? We have power. Might as well.
@boomzilla is likely mortified at this level of glamping.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Ugh, I hate how bad performance is...
What the shit is that? Are you using a phonograph?
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@polygeekery In my day we ran extensions cords from the house out to the tent to power the 12 inch TV and the portable lamp like real city slickers! I'll be damned if we were gonna watch
Without a night light! On land. Away from the ocean.
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@mathnerdcnu last year I ran extension cords out for the laptop, a set of spare 2.1 computer speakers and some oscillating fans.
It is supposed to be 65F tonight so no fans needed this round. Also the Anker Soundcore has pretty reasonable sound. If I felt like being a dick to the neighbors I could run the sound over Airplay to the outdoor speakers. :) But no.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Ugh, I hate how bad performance is...
What the shit is that? Are you using a phonograph?
No, probably just a highly fragmented disk (of which the automated maintenance defragments likely made it worse) on a ZFS ZVol.
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@dreikin Meanwhile, here are the requirements to play pirated 4K content:
- a high res video file
- a screen that can fit all the pixels
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12:10am and the dogs heard something and wanted out of the tent. They never came back. Either they got eaten by a monster or are fucking pansies and went to sleep in the house.
If we get attacked by racoons, the dogs are getting dropped off on a country road.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Supposedly it's some kind of disease indicator. I think they're just trying to spread the disease.
It's measuring the pressure in the eye, and the disease is glaucoma.