The Official Status Thread
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Status: WTF is an "Emergency Download Driver"???
Why is it so hard to have descriptive names? Oh well...
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Status: doing whole disk backup. Due to lack of resources (no spare disks, only one USB stick), I've had to get creative. I made some spare room on my desktop so laptop backup would fit. Then I tried to to fit laptop's disk to desktop, which failed because the disk is M.2 which my desktop's mobo doesn't have. Then I tried to fit my desktop's 3.5" disk into laptop - which requires male-to-female SATA3 cable, and I only have male-to-male. Then I tried to use Clonezilla's client-server mode, but I only have a single USB stick, so I had to use "copy to RAM" mode, which panicked on boot. Which I fixed by downloading older version, which doesn't have client-server mode. So I decided to use SSH. After failing to setup SSH server on Windows (I don't know how to create new users on Windows 10 without Microsoft accounts), I finally settled on adding Arch Linux to USB drive, booting Clonezilla on laptop, moving stick to desktop, booting Arch, enabling sshd on it, connecting the computers via Ethernet (Clonezilla has no Wi-Fi drivers), manually setting IPs, and doing backup over SSH. It seems to work; it's at 99%.
On a side note, TIL modern computers can be connected with non-crossover Ethernet cable and run at 100Mbps.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't know how to create new users on Windows 10 without Microsoft accounts
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That was a weird hiccup:
Edit:
@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:Yeah, sorry about that. We're on MongoDB 3.6.2 now, at least.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
That was a weird hiccup:
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@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:Yeah, sorry about that. We're on MongoDB 3.6.2 now, at least.
I forgot to
echo true > /proc/sys/amendment/13
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Status: Is it just me or do other people also mainly transfer files over SSH using HTTP?
It's just so much easier to open files in a web browser or use wget or curl or Invoke-WebRequest or whatever than it is to transfer files any other way.
SSH allows multiple channels per connection, so I wonder why I've never seen an SSH client that allows opening multiple terminals at the same time or has a built-in SFTP file browser in the same connection as the terminal.
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Me: "I've been using the PS3 as a media player for years now. Like, 10 years. It's been doing it's job abso-perfectly fine. I find my files on the media server, I say 'copy to PS3', and it copies. I can watch the file with no lag, not worried about network connectivity, and so forth. Though recently, the media server has had to transcode more and more often-- not too bad, it just takes some time to convert to a format PS3 recognizes.. I guess media files are getting too 'new' for the PS3 to handle. I wonder if I should upgrade to a PS4?"
{looks up info about PS4 and media playing}
Me: "Uhh-- so the PS4 adds a few media formats, but not many, and not some of the more popular ones. And also it doesn't let you copy files to the local hard drive. The #1 feature I'd want, and the 10-year newer upgraded system can't do it. It can't copy a fucking file. So I either need to keep an external hard drive plugged into the PS3 (destroying the point of having a network-attached media server)... or I have to stream every time I want to watch a file. Which, of course, will kill my network. And of double-of course, a huge benefit of copying files to the local hard drive is to re-watch the same file multiple times without streaming over and over-- you know, like the tons of Sesame Street episodes that Molly will watch a hundred billion times over the next month. So-- why the fuck should I shell out $599 for a system that doesn't do what I want and is worse than the 'lesser' version I'm using now?"
Fucking Sony.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
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I assume you'll get used to this forum you've been using for years one of these days.
And yeah, Sony beat Microsoft this generation because the Xbone had weird game policies, but the PS4 cannot hope to compete with the Xbone's media center functionality. I don't know what the fuck they were thinking.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I assume you'll get used to this forum you've been using for years one of these days.
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Status: Why does Google Hangouts have a
/ponystream
command
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Why does Google Hangouts have a
/ponystream
commandStatus: Holy shit Google Hangouts supports
/bikeshed
technology
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
other people also mainly transfer files over SSH using HTTP?
Yeah, because SCP is frickin' slow. No idea why, it should be a solved problem by now, but
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Status:
Why does reading a <1Mb log file have a progress delay that lasted a whole minute???!?!? I can open it in Notepad (not ++) faster than that!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Why does Google Hangouts have a
/ponystream
commandStatus: Holy shit Google Hangouts supports
/bikeshed
technology/tableflip
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
SSH allows multiple channels per connection, so I wonder why I've never seen an SSH client that allows opening multiple terminals at the same time
Because SSH client is usually opened from a terminal. The usual workflow is to separately launch multiple instances from multiple terminals with "share connection" option.
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Status: Highly annoyed with our legislative/executive here in Hamburg.
Basically, it's a twofer, somewhat related but not identical incidents.
First the minor one. I live in a cul-de-sac where it has been strictly forbidden to park on one side the street on Wednesday mornings, as that's the time when the garbage collectors try to maneuver their truck through the street to get at the garbage bins. Worked reasonably well, save for the occasional moron.
Now they changed it from the time-limited stopping restriction to a permanent stopping restriction. Why? I have no clue. Do they actually check if the restriction is followed? Of course not.
Hence the question: Why change the sign to a more restrictive one when you don't follow up with more controls? I don't care either way as I've always parked outside said zone but still...
Now the second one: At my school, when you miss class often enough you'll be required to always bring a doctor's certificate that you were ill (opposed to something from you parents or yourself if the pupil is old enough).
Three of our pupils were caught falsifying such a certificate. They also admitted to doing so.Now, that is actually a crime and not just a misdemeanor.
As a result we basically (after hours of deliberations, conferences and what-have-you) told them to move their ass to another school as a punishment. We did not ban them from school completely (because that would've meant that they wouldn't have gotten their Abitur and also meant that Hamburg wouldn't let them into an apprenticeship anywhere (for reasons)).
We also told them that we wouldn't go to the police if they submitted to this punishment.
They first said they would and then they lawyered up. So we went to the police.
Which is where it went wrong completely.
Because the police basically said: "Hell if we care. We can write it down but the state attorney will throw it out without looking at it anyway."
Then our school district's lawyers said: "Naw, we can't be bothered to fight this. We don't know if we win and that's exhausting."
And since we (naively) only tried to punish them with transfer to a new school, we didn't setup alternative punishments.
As a result, all three pupils got away scotfree.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
other people also mainly transfer files over SSH using HTTP?
Yeah, because SCP is frickin' slow. No idea why, it should be a solved problem by now, but
I've only had speed problems with scp for many small files, large files are fine.
I'd use HTTP more often to spare our office connection, but run into policy-related problems.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise, I'll owe nearly $1k income taxes.
In the US? That's a good amount.
If the IRS owes you a refund, that means you gave them a free 0% interest loan. Any more than $1k and you have to (in theory-- not sure IRS ever enforces this rule) pay a penalty for not making quarterly payments. You're basically hitting the sweet spot.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Is sleeping without the upper sheet weird?
In January in the northern hemisphere it is. You don't get cold? Or you waste tons of energy turning up the house thermostat to compensate?
EDIT: oh I misunderstood. You skip from the fitted sheet to the blanket or duvet without an upper sheet? That's fine as long as you wash the blanket as often as you'd wash the upper sheet.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise, I'll owe nearly $1k income taxes.
In the US? That's a good amount.
If the IRS owes you a refund, that means you have them a free 0% interest loan. Any more than $1k and you have to (in theory-- not sure IRS ever enforces this rule) pay a penalty for not making quarterly payments. You're basically hitting the sweet spot.
That's funny - in Germany it's partially the other way around. If you're an employee you don't have to do taxes immediately (or at all!) but can postpone them for up to four years. If it then turns out that the state owes you money you'll get roughly 5% interest on that amount per year. Of course it works the other way around, too, so you should only do this if you're certain that you're owed money.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Now the second one: At my school, when you miss class often enough you'll be required to always bring a doctor's certificate that you were ill (opposed to something from you parents or yourself if the pupil is old enough).
I've heard about this law. So if you're sick and contagious, you're required by law to go wait in a doctor's office and spread it around. It's actually literally illegal to stay at home and not spread your illness.
Someone in your law-making bodies should at some point read about germ theory.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Now the second one: At my school, when you miss class often enough you'll be required to always bring a doctor's certificate that you were ill (opposed to something from you parents or yourself if the pupil is old enough).
I've heard about this law. So if you're sick and contagious, you're required by law to go wait in a doctor's office and spread it around.
Someone in your law-making bodies should at some point read about germ theory.
You kind of missed the requirement: "ONLY if they are 'sick' on a regular basis."
Those pupils usually become almost magically healthy.
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@rhywden That's doesn't at all change how stupid it is.
If you think they're faking the illness, why not volunteer to catch the illness yourself and go to their house and check for yourself. Forcing the kid to go to a doctor's office is moronic.
A country that went though a couple of Black Death's ought to know better.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden That's doesn't at all change how stupid it is.
If you think they're faking the illness, why not volunteer to catch the illness and go to their house and check for yourself. Forcing the kid to go to a doctor's office is moronic.
Yes, dude. Go preach your moronic ideas somewhere else, will you?
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@rhywden Oh no I made the Germans mad, here come the panzers!
Look, I'm sorry some snotty kids schooled you like a dumbass, but don't take it out on me. Frankly I agree with your police department and lawyers: what a fucking waste of time; there's real crime in the world.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
I've only had speed problems with scp for many small files, large files are fine.
If you're moving lots of files, use rsync (over ssh). Or, failing that, send a tar archive through a pipe (so it doesn't need to hit disk as an actual archive on either end), but rsync is definitely better.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden Oh no I made the Germans mad, here come the panzers!
You're talking about something you have no clue about. If you ran your business this way you'd go under after one month. Tops.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
If you ran your business this way you'd go under after one month. Tops.
If I let my employees call in sick without a doctor's note I'd go out of business?
No; here in the US, people are generally pretty ok and not constantly trying to weasel out of things by pretending to be sick like they are, apparently, over there in the old world. I've worked for plenty of companies with completely unrestricted sick leave (one of them made the OS you're probably using right now) and somehow they all seem reasonably successful.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
If you ran your business this way you'd go under after one month. Tops.
If I let my employees call in sick without a doctor's note I'd go out of business?
No; here in the US, people are generally pretty ok and not constantly trying to weasel out of things by pretending to be sick like they are, apparently, over there in the old world.
Riiiiight.
Meanwhile, I'll be over here laughing my ass off about your naiveté.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Meanwhile, I'll be over here laughing my ass off about your naiveté.
Right; I'll be over here still laughing my ass off at those kids making you look like a total idiot in front of everybody.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Meanwhile, I'll be over here laughing my ass off about your naiveté.
Right; I'll be over here still laughing my ass off at those kids making you look like a total idiot in front of everybody.
Let's just say you wouldn't last an hour in front of a school class.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's just say you wouldn't last an hour in front of a school class.
Right I guess you teach in South Central Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA-5nLQCmW8
BTW your spittle-flecked rage at this attendance rule is reinforcing every single stereotype I have about both teachers and Germany.
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In other news: Blakey has never ever run across a slacker before and doesn't have a clue on how to deal with them.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
In other news: Blakey has never ever run across a slacker before
No; I have a mirror.
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
and doesn't have a clue on how to deal with them.
I don't believe they have to be "dealed with". Either the work gets done or it doesn't. If it does, fine. If not, well treat it the same way you'd treat a non-slacker not getting the work done.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
other people also mainly transfer files over SSH using HTTP?
Yeah, because SCP is frickin' slow. No idea why, it should be a solved problem by now, but
I've only had speed problems with scp for many small files, large files are fine.
I'd use HTTP more often to spare our office connection, but run into policy-related problems.
K don't know. Unless I basically disable encryption, I usually get a max of 10 mbit/s.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
In other news: Blakey has never ever run across a slacker before and doesn't have a clue on how to deal with them.
It's not your job to ensure your students succeed! Or has the "no child left behind" brainsock covered your hands too?
If they're not willing to improve themselves send them back their mommy's gushing tits and focus on the ones that will make something of themselves.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
not sure IRS ever enforces this rule
They do. There’s a “safe harbor” provision where if you withheld 100% or 110% (depending on income) of the previous year’s tax then you’re golden.
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Status: good morning @Tsaukpaetra
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
A country that went though a couple of Black Death's ought to know better
There are loads of black deaths in the US. Every time a black person has a run in with the police
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's just say you wouldn't last an hour in front of a school class
I never did in my teacher training. Because the lessons were all 50 minutes
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
here in the US, people are generally pretty ok and not constantly trying to weasel out of things by pretending to be sick
You're full of shit.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
A country that went though a couple of Black Death's ought to know better
There are loads of black deaths in the US. Every time a black person has a run in with the police
I realize you're trolling, but white people who have run-ins with the police are statistically more likely to die than black people who have run-ins with the police.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
here in the US, people are generally pretty ok and not constantly trying to weasel out of things by pretending to be sick
You're full of shit.
In the US, it's been perfected to an artform so ingrained that most no longer see it for what it is.
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Status: Today I tasted sour milk for the first time. Despite the generally palate-destroying simultaneous consumption of Takis and Coke, I still haven't stopped tasting it.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Today I tasted sour milk for the first time. Despite the generally palate-destroying simultaneous consumption of Takis and Coke, I still haven't stopped tasting it.
Might I recommend rotten cockroach to to along with it? It almost makes it taste like blood if you don't pay attention...
Filed under: not that I've ever done such a thing...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I assume you'll get used to this forum you've been using for years one of these days.
I am veryitalicised text** aware of what I'm doing.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I realize you're trolling, but white people who have run-ins with the police are statistically more likely to die than black people who have run-ins with the police.
Good job echoing white supremacist talking points, fuckhead.
Any “analysis” of police killings will of course show that in absolute numbers, more white people are killed in police shootings than black people, because (non-Hispanic) whites comprise a roughly five times greater share of the U.S. population (62% vs. 13%). So any “analysis” that is based on nothing more than absolute numbers and does not take demographics into account is inaccurate and misleading
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According to those statistics (adjusted for racial demographics), black people had a 2.7 higher likelihood of being killed by police than whites.
The grim trend has carried over into 2016. Of the 1,034 people killed and tracked by Burghart’s Fatal Encounters database so far this year, 215 were black while 338 were white, so thus far in 2016 black Americans have been three times more likely than white people to die in interactions with police.
e: fucking markdown piece of useless fucking shit.
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Status: I can get 100 FPS! In the loading screen.
Otherwise it's 8 FPS...