The Official Status Thread
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
So, still under warranty ?
Since it was purchased from some weird Hong Kong seller online… maybe? Fuck knows really, as it was a gift to me too. But going that route would probably involve an RTM and losing access to the device for a month or two. That would be “inconvenient”. Like utterly fucking impossible style inconvenient. Buying a new one is much simpler.
I've checked with others in my family who have the same phone and they don't have a battery problem; looks like I was just unlucky.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
One incident is coincidence. Two make a pattern. And three definitely point to malicious intent.
Not sure why it'd be malicious intent. I've been noticing some Bluetooth issues with the Pixel as well (appears to remain connected to car stereo but isn't routing audio correctly through it).
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I believe Outlook rules run on the local machine not the Exchange server, if that's right it wouldn't be acceptable as it requires a machine to be on and Outlook open.
I'll double check that though.
Some rules do run on the Exchange server; it depends on what actions are taken when the rule is triggered. If it's something like an auto-forward, the Exchange server can do it; if it involves an Outlook paradigm like categories, Outlook has to be open to do it. Just try creating the rule and it'll tell you whether it's a client-only rule (requiring Outlook to do it) or not.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
One incident is coincidence. Two make a pattern. And three definitely point to malicious intent.
Not sure why it'd be malicious intent. I've been noticing some Bluetooth issues with the Pixel as well (appears to remain connected to car stereo but isn't routing audio correctly through it).
I wasn't completely serious. But shit like this makes me seriously consider an iPhone currently.
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Why did LinkedIn remove the option to put connections in groups like Classmates, Colleagues, etc.? That helped me prune out recruiters that I accidentally added at some point since I wouldn't have added them to a group without checking education and/or work history.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
it's only 13 months old
So, still under warranty ?
That would surprise me... Unless it's an extended warranty that you paid for.
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
"The phone maker's name is “Doogee”
Howser?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
That would surprise me... Unless it's an extended warranty that you paid for.
He's in the UK, so the law says 2 year warranty.
Even Apple now respect thatBut he didn't bought it locally so
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Status: People. Are dumb.
That is all.
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I wonder if it indicates an unhealthy level of paranoia that I would audit a VM image provided by a professor for backdoors/reconfiguration from OS baseline/vulnerabilities. Being in an information security program, an image including any of those would be a pretty good object lesson.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder ifit indicates anunhealthy level of paranoia that I would audit a VM image provided by a professor for backdoors/reconfiguration from OS baseline/vulnerabilities. Being in an information security program, an image including any of those would be a pretty good object lesson....after hanging around here.
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@dkf Do you not have those "device repair" shops? Fuck we have one that's literally a kiosk in the mall.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Approximately in the neighborhood of 2300-2400 kcal total.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
VS 2015
Just opened mine. What are the odds I'll have to use taskmgr to kill it before the end of day? Based on past experience, I'll go with 100%. Or is that 200% because I'm sure I'll have to do it more than once...
There we go. Knew I could trust you devenv.
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Leila and I just left an end of season pool party.
Why did we leave at fucking 930? Because everyone is leaving at 930.
Why is everyone leaving? Because the pool and deck were swarmed by hundreds of 2 inch long cunts with wings.
The hornets now own: several phone chargers, several towels and changes of clothes, a pair of shoes, two wallets and an iPhone. And a metric fuckload of beer. And the entire back half of this dude's property.
No stings, fortunately.
Not for lack of trying.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
reconfiguration from OS baseline/vulnerabilities
Speaking of, do you know of a good automated way to do that?
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@sloosecannon Luck, apparently. They landed on a couple of us but I guess they decided the chlorinated water wasn't a good time and fucked off for a second. They seemed to think the main threat was the overhead light.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Speaking of, do you know of a good automated way to do that?
Well, for configuration you can do
rpm -Va
on RHEL derivatives to see what files across the system differ from the package-installed versions and I'm sure other package managers have similar. Much harder on Windows systems obviously.For vulnerabilities, Nessus scan with local credentials should suffice. If you don't have a Nessus license, I understand OpenVAS is good.
Obviously you can go a lot further down the rabbit hole but I don't actually expect it to be a compromised system. (And it pretty manifestly wasn't from my results. I see the instructor installed httpd and sshd and pre-poked holes in the firewall; he didn't mention that to us but it'll probably come up in a later exercise. He installed a user for himself that he later removed and he installed a "class" user that can sudo; pretty standard stuff. Also all of the system packages were old but it's just an old VM. Last semester same instructor had us using a fifteen year old operating system so this is progress.)
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Status: Can't sleep and have the Alan Parsons Project song Eye In The Sky on repeat in my head. There is no god and he hates me.
Time to fire up the VPN and get working on that email printer service I guess. Just found out about the Exchange Managed API, I've used IMAP before so it might be fun to try that instead.
Edit: I am the eye in the sky, Looking at you-ooo-ooo, I can read your mind
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Speaking of, do you know of a good automated way to do that?
Well, for configuration you can do
rpm -Va
on RHEL derivatives to see what files across the system differ from the package-installed versions and I'm sure other package managers have similar. Much harder on Windows systems obviously.For vulnerabilities, Nessus scan with local credentials should suffice. If you don't have a Nessus license, I understand OpenVAS is good.
Obviously you can go a lot further down the rabbit hole but I don't actually expect it to be a compromised system. (And it pretty manifestly wasn't from my results. I see the instructor installed httpd and sshd and pre-poked holes in the firewall; he didn't mention that to us but it'll probably come up in a later exercise. He installed a user for himself that he later removed and he installed a "class" user that can sudo; pretty standard stuff. Also all of the system packages were old but it's just an old VM. Last semester same instructor had us using a fifteen year old operating system so this is progress.)
Gotcha - good to know. Any Windows tips?
I do have a reason for this, and it's not even paranoia!
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Gotcha - good to know. Any Windows tips?
I do have a reason for this, and it's not even paranoia!For a Windows box, if I wasn't sure if it was compromised, I'd just wipe it. If wiping it isn't an option for some reason, I'd use Autoruns to make sure that at least if there's something bad on the system it isn't running, much like checking init.d or systemd on Linux. Maybe run System File Checker.
With either OS you have to be really familiar with the baseline. It doesn't help to look at a services list if you're unsure whether something like "Network Location Awareness" is a real OS service or something masquerading as one. If in doubt, wipe or at least isolate it.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you not have those "device repair" shops?
Yes, but I'm pretty constrained for time (for all sorts of reasons; the big ones are that I've got workshops and conferences filling almost all my time for the next month or so) and the part concerned isn't one of the most common ones according to my searches online. I might get lucky, or I might have to order the battery (several weeks' lead time according to eBay) and only then take it to one of those shops.
Paying for a more certain fix that happens faster seems an acceptable tradeoff to me given my constraints.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon Luck, apparently. They landed on a couple of us but I guess they decided the chlorinated water wasn't a good time and fucked off for a second. They seemed to think the main threat was the overhead light.
Actually, no luck.
It would appear that these are European Hornets. The males are attracted to lights at night, and lack stingers.
They are also a protected species in Germany. Fuuuuuuuuck that shit. They eat honey bees.
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Instructions I have to change my headlights involve an "automotive panel removal tool". No such thing on AutoZone's site; I guess a "Molding and Trim Remover Tool" is the same thing even though the panel in question is under the hood.
(Inb4 I break my car.)
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@heterodox you are correct.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Today is the first day I've ever actually seen "Please do the needful." in an e-mail, not being used as a meme.
Feels like a turning point in my career (possibly not in a good way).
Just remember that they're actually trying to be polite by not explicitly saying what needs to be done.
In other news, The Culture Map is a good read.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
They are also a protected species in Germany
What are you supposed to do? Deal with it? You really can't move a paper nest easily without breaking it (and of course pissing off all of the inhabitants either way).
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox you are correct.
Is that just a tool to remove those plastic clips?
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Instructions I have to change my headlights involve an "automotive panel removal tool". No such thing...
Speaking of car repairs, my 16 year-old minivan is suffering from intermittent, wildly erratic readings on the tachometer, temperature gauge, and fuel gauge; the tach slammed back and forth so violently the pointer snapped. (Why a car with an automatic transmission has a tach in the first place is an unanswered question.) The interwebzz tell me this is most likely due to cracked solder joints on a connector for a ribbon cable that connects two circuit boards in the instrument cluster. I could fix this in about 30 seconds with a soldering iron (if mine weren't hiding somewhere in a 10'x20'x10' (call it 3x6x3 meters) storage unit). However, the interwebzz also tell me it takes about 2 hours to remove and replace the instrument cluster; I assume this is for someone who knows just what they're doing and has all the right tools at hand, and it will take me twice as long. (Where's my 11mm socket? I have the 10 and 12, but where'd the 11 go? Torx screws? All my Torx screwdrivers are in storage along with my soldering iron. (Note: I have not yet attempted disassembly, so I don't know what specific tools I'll need, but I'm certain there will be something I either don't have or, worse, have but I don't know where; Murphy loves car repair.))
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@jazzyjosh I suppose ze Germans just deal with it.
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Status: Please, someone, just write boring code. Please, look at your problem space, pick the tools you need, and then just write something boring to solve the problem.
You don't have 2 billion users. You'll probably never have 100k users. You don't need web-scale adaptive-load actor clouds.
Just make it boring! Please!
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@magus BUT I DON'T WANNA CRUD. WHO WANTS TO CRUD? CRUD SOUNDS CRUDDY.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
They eat honey bees.
Not usually to a problematic extent though. For bee predation, the issue (at least in Europe) is the non-native Asian Hornet.
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
What are you supposed to do? Deal with it?
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@japonicus We don't have those. Yet.
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Is that just a tool to remove those plastic clips?
As far as I can tell there's a different tool for that.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Is that just a tool to remove those plastic clips?
As far as I can tell there's a different tool for that.
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Create, Read, Update, Defecate
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Status: Trying to figure out why Master Server failed to delete a level that never started and never got destroyed...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
VS 2015
Just opened mine. What are the odds I'll have to use taskmgr to kill it before the end of day? Based on past experience, I'll go with 100%. Or is that 200% because I'm sure I'll have to do it more than once...
There we go. Knew I could trust you devenv.
I'm convinced it's IntelliSence.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: I am the eye in the sky, Looking at you-ooo-ooo, I can read your mind
You're EVIL. EVIL, I say.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
CRUD
Create Redundant Universal Defecation?
Consistent Regurgitation Under Duress
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Something strange in the front page: today article gives 500 Internal server error, the next two articles don't show problems (except a bit slow)
paging @ben_lubar
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@magus Hi.
Funny thing is, we do scale. Easily. With extremely simple, boring, straightforward code.
The simpler, boringer, and more straightforward, the easier it scales.
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@weng It takes an insane userbase to not scale with boring code.
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@magus Most of the code we write is in service of removing previous layers of architecture astronaut code.
Right now, we're working on replacing a thing that does something utterly incomprehensible with threads that boils down to "spawn n threads. Each thread executes a SQL procedure to get some data - each thread getting ALL the data - and outputs a range of it to a file. Those thread output files are then merged."
Since the only expensive part of that entire process is waiting on SQL, for higher n's performance decreases linearly. The opposite of what threads are supposed to do...
The new code just streams the SQL result straight into a file.
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@cabrito said in The Official Status Thread:
Something strange in the front page: today article gives 500 Internal server error, the next two articles don't show problems (except a bit slow)
paging @ben_lubar
Ok, I restarted the SQL server process, and now I'm looking around for what might be causing the slo--
Holy shit, 83% fragmented?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@cabrito said in The Official Status Thread:
Something strange in the front page: today article gives 500 Internal server error, the next two articles don't show problems (except a bit slow)
paging @ben_lubar
Ok, I restarted the SQL server process, and now I'm looking around for what might be causing the slo--
Holy shit, 83% fragmented?
92%??????
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Status: Started up an archived VM because ${customer} needs it or something.
Huh. Didn't know it got the update from that, especially since it's yelling that Automatic Updates is off....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Started up an archived VM
I have a bad feeling about this...