TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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TIL Bing has... this
And the URLs are base64 encoded for some weird reason.
"Matching cards" is "https://www.bing.com/fun/?p=L2Z1bi9nL21hdGNoaW5nY2FyZHM=", where the string decodes to "/fun/g/matchingcards".
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@anonymous234 did you try abusing
..
yet to see whether they bother sanitizing the encoded paths?
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Nobody uses Bing, we have to do something
I know, let's put some stupid free games in Bing. People still won't use it for search, but at least it will improve our traffic stats.
BRILLIANT !!!
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@timebandit Bing is quite good at image searches.
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@bb36e said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
In Song Dynasty China, oxen carrying large explosive charges were used as self-propelled explosive missiles.
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@timebandit You did indeed retrieve a bunch of etched, vaguely cylindrical things after giving it one. But no, that wasn't the one I meant.
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@bb36e said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
In Song Dynasty China, oxen carrying large explosive charges were used as self-propelled explosive missiles.
Rocket Cow – 00:40
— Lindsay Burkey
Just Cause 3 - Flying Cow – 00:43
— IceBox
JUST CAUSE 3 - BOOSTER EXPLOSIVES / BEST COW ROCKET / FUNNY MOMENTS!!! – [09:00..10:23] 10:23
— Neebs Gaming
Karma Cow (Just Cause 3) – 00:32
— MoreGameSprout
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Had to test a few things in Wireshark today and I learnt a bunch of new things about iTunes and Spotify, because getting sidetracked is fun.
Both are pretty much web browsers. Both download the music over HTTP. iTunes does this by fetching the MP4 audio files. Spotify downloads the music in 512kB chunks.
iTunes also uses Apache Traffic Server v 7.1.3. The latest release is 7.1.2. Also, it runs on IIS. Spotify uses nginx.
iTunes also likes sending out a large amount of duplicate ACKs for some reason, which is how I got sidetracked in the first place, seeing all those black and red blocks of messages.
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@atazhaia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
iTunes also likes sending out a large amount of duplicate ACKs
I send out a large number of ACKs whenever I have to use iTunes.
Also EUGHs, WTFs and FUCKING HELL WHY DOES IT DELETE TWO IPHONES WHEN I PRESS BACKUP ONCEs
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@atazhaia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
iTunes also likes sending out a large amount of duplicate ACKs for some reason
Probably some hacky attempt to "optimize" the TCP protocol.
"Hey guys I just discovered that if we remove the whole "error detection" and "congestion control" stuff, the files get sent 15% faster! I'm putting that in the next release"
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@anonymous234 I did actually see a few receiver TCP stack full messages too in relation to iTunes traffic. Somehow, all those messages did not crop up when using Spotify. Strange...
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@atazhaia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
iTunes also likes sending out a large amount of duplicate ACKs for some reason
Because it's made by Martians?
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TIL about the "Account Manager" job description.
Apparently it's very common. I swear I had never once in my life heard it before.
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TIL Excel 2016 has an option to import data directly from the Facebook graph. You specify an object identifier (e.g. a user profile), and a related object ("friends", "likes", etc).
It asks you to sign in so I don't actually know if it works.
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TIL that Viz Media, the manga and anime importer, is streaming an old favorite of mine, Ranma 1/2, for free on their website. If you aren't familiar with the series, well, it's a bit.... odd, even for anime.
Mind you, I am mentioning it here mainly to see @blakeyrat throw a fit.
While the target audience in Japan was 13-15 year-olds, it is a safe bet that no television channel in the US would show it in a block aimed at that age group, even with heavy censorship. Too much exposed underaged boy-girl boobage...
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I was on a wiki-walk and got to the article of a (ghost) town called Canyon Diablo, Arizona.
Canyon Diablo [..] is a ghost town on the Navajo Reservation in Coconino County, Arizona, United States on the edge of the arroyo Canyon Diablo.
Originally a small mobile business community catering to the needs of railroad men, once the railroad stopped at the edge of the canyon this community quickly produced numerous saloons, brothels, dance halls, and gambling houses, all of which remained open 24 hours a day. No lawmen were employed by the community initially, so it quickly became a very dangerous place. [....] The center street, however, was not named Main Street, but "Hell Street".
[...] A regular stagecoach route from Flagstaff to Canyon Diablo began running and was often the victim of robberies. Within its first year, the town received its first marshal. He was sworn in at 3:00pm, and was being buried at 8:00pm that same night. Five more town marshals would follow, the longest lasting one month, and all were killed in the line of duty.
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TIL what a negative limit does in
String#split(String, int)
. I am simultaneously befuddled by 0 being used as the default inString#split(String)
rather than -1, and angry at how many times I've pasted in my complex workaround for empty strings at the end being purged.
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For those who don't innately have the entirety of the Java documentation memorized, it's this:
The limit parameter controls the number of times the pattern is applied and therefore affects the length of the resulting array. If the limit n is greater than zero then the pattern will be applied at most n - 1 times, the array's length will be no greater than n, and the array's last entry will contain all input beyond the last matched delimiter. If n is non-positive then the pattern will be applied as many times as possible and the array can have any length. If n is zero then the pattern will be applied as many times as possible, the array can have any length, and trailing empty strings will be discarded.
So less than zero will leave empty strings in it, while zero will exclude them, but only the ones at the end.
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@hungrier Right. It is fucking moronic for
" a".split(" ")
to be[,a]
but"a ".split(" ")
to be[a]
. I know now that there is a way to specify, but what the fuck is the sense in making this the default?
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TIL that you can connect to a Lync server with pidgin (on Linux), and that not only it's fairly easy (just need one magic environment variable, that's under par for Linux!), but it does actually kind-of work. Well, for basic chat at least, I haven't tried anything fancy (screen sharing etc.). :not_bad:
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that you can connect to a Lync server with pidgin (on Linux), and that not only it's fairly easy (just need one magic environment variable, that's under par for Linux!), but it does actually kind-of work. Well, for basic chat at least, I haven't tried anything fancy (screen sharing etc.). :not_bad:
I have done it without (AFAIK) any magic environment variables.
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@boomzilla Didn't work for me unless I set, uh, let me check... NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV to 0. You can find many references about that on the web, most of them just say "that's magic!"...
I also changed the user-agent because I saw many people recommending it, but I don't know if that was actually necessary or not. It works like that. Who cares?
My main gripe so far is that it apparently can't search the address book, so to contact someone who isn't in my frequent contacts I have to type their exact email address, which is less user-friendly than just typing part of their name and letting Lync suggest matches.
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@remi I just checked and that's not set but I can connect.
Yes, the lack of LDAP integration is annoying.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I just checked and that's not set but I can connect.
Maybe the same option can be set by enabling this plugin
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@timebandit I don't appear to have that enabled. I'm currently on Pidgin 2.12.0, BTW.
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@timebandit Is that a plugin in pidgin? If so, I'm pretty sure that won't work for me, because chances are it is not installed (and I probably cannot install it), or not even exists for whatever antediluvian version we have, or is too old and wouldn't work.
Also, @boomzilla, the main reason is probably that my version of pidgin is old enough to start middle-school soon (I guess, I haven't actually checked).
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Also, @boomzilla, the main reason is probably that my version of pidgin is old enough to start middle-school soon (I guess, I haven't actually checked).
That could be it, then. I'm currently on Kubuntu 17.04 but I know I had it working when I was on 14.04 (which is still newer than what you're talking about).
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Is that a plugin in pidgin?
I didn't install it separately. If you go to Tools->Plugins, you'll have a list of plugins that can be enabled/configured.
On the other hand...
@boomzilla said :
@timebandit I don't appear to have that enabled. I'm currently on Pidgin 2.12.0, BTW.
So, my theory is officially dead
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@boomzilla Yeah... We've got 2.7.something on some computers, which apparently dates back to 2010 or so.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yeah... We've got 2.7.something on some computers, which apparently dates back to 2010 or so.
I'm on Debian Stable and I have 2.12.0 also.
Do you still use WinXP at your work place
You REALLY need to upgrade your OS
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@timebandit We are on a mix of Debian 6 (Squeeze, slowly going out) and Debian 7 (Wheezy, the up-and-coming version for new systems). Respectively released in 2011 and 2013. I think that oldstable (currently 8, Jessie) looks a bit too cutting-edge for our IT guys.
Do you still use WinXP at your work place
Oh come on, we are not that out-of-date! We finished our roll out of the brand new latest version of Windows about 1 year ago, now everyone uses Windows 7.
You REALLY need to upgrade your OS
Do you think so? I don't see what could give you this idea...
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
We finished our roll out of the
brand new latestbest version of Windows about 1 year ago, now everyone uses Windows 7.FTFY
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@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
More people live in the yellow area than in the red one:
Why would so many people choose to live within a long 20-mile-wide strip that bends around Montana?
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Hippopotamuses are mean monsters. More people are killed by hippos in Africa than by any other dangerous creature (besides humans).
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@djls45 Are you implying there are non-dangerous creatures that have more kills? Must be an interesting definition of dangerous you're using.
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@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Hippopotamuses are mean monsters. More people are killed by hippos in Africa than by any other dangerous creature (besides humans).
Except for Jessica:
Hippo Is Raised By Humans | The World's Oddest Animal Couples – 04:13
— Animal Planet
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@djls45 An animal yawning isn't like a human yawning or smiling. An animal yawning is like a human visibly indicating that that's a real sword/firearm they're wearing.
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@karla
why is mummy hippo striped like a zebra?
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@luhmann said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@karla
why is mummy hippo striped like a zebra?LOL
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Huh, apparently I wasn't the first one here to mention the fucked up way SnailFarts mis-implements TDD, and the way some Nadir coders get around it.
That someone else saw this ery in the wild is no surprise, as I gather it is SOP for ShillFarce insultants, but I am a little puzzled that @blakeyrat didn't point out the previous mentions of it before now, since he posting in that thread. I expect it just slipped his mind, but still.
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I thought "open sores" was a term invented by @blakeyrat, but I found in a reddit comment that it was said by Robert Metcalfe:
The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash [... that] reminds me of communism. [...] Linux [is like] organic software grown in utopia by spiritualists [...] When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores – the Open Sores Movement. When [Windows 2000] gets here, goodbye Linux.
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@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I thought "open sores" was a term invented by @blakeyrat
Pretty sure it was used by @morbiuswilters before Blakey
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@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
When [Windows 2000] gets here, goodbye Linux.
We hardly knew ye.
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There is a freedoms in Norway:
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@sockpuppet7 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I thought "open sores" was a term invented by @blakeyrat, but I found in a reddit comment that it was said by Robert Metcalfe:
I believe it was coined by Bill Amend in his Feb 7, 2000 strip:
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@sockpuppet7 It was around a good deal earlier than that; I am pretty sure I had heard it on USENET as early as 1994. I do know that User Friendly used it six months before that Metcalfe article (06 February 1999 vs. 21 June 1999), and Illiad, while occasionally funny in a topical way, wasn't exactly know for his originality.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990206
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99feb/uf000309.gifHe even recycled the joke two years later, as a swipe at Microsoft's "Shared Source Initiative" fiasco:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010610
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/01jun/uf003130.gif