WTF Bites
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@remi To be honest, moving a full bookcase and then having Gaston help is asking for trouble.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Well, we don't really have energy projection weapons that are all that useful yet, so ones that propel a chunk of matter downrange remain popular.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Greybeard said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra My wife likes to make apple pie. The bald eagles I usually see are in Canada.
I like to eat apple pie. When I lived in Washington, I occasionally saw a bald eagle flying around. Baseball is my favorite spectator team sport, and the only one where I consistently root for a specific team.
I like apple pie, too. I've never been to Washington. I've seen bald eagles a number of times, mostly in Colorado. If I were forced to pick a favorite spectator sport, I'd have to say gridiron football, and the team I generally root for is the Denver Broncos, though I haven't really followed it much since the time of John Elway, except for the time that Tim Tebow was there.
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@greybeard said in WTF Bites:
The bald eagles I usually see are in Canada.
STOP SENDING US YOUR REFUGEES
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.NET 4.7.2 is getting an open beta.
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Microsoft has apparently finally given up on ever getting rid of Web Forms; .NET 4.7.2 adds Dependency Injection (I assume this means Constructor Injection) support for them.
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Wonderful Twitch software, living up to its brand name.
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@greybeard said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra My wife likes to make apple pie. The bald eagles I usually see are in Canada.
They probably go there for the health care.
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We now have an internal project named "WTF". Yes, they know (at least I'm pretty sure they do) what it really means. Odds that the project are doomed? (But then we also have a mumble mumble McFace project too.)
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@pie_flavor Ugh. The Twitch launcher. Yes, it is very aptly named.
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We now have an internal project named "WTF". Yes, they know (at least I'm pretty sure they do) what it really means. Odds that the project are doomed? (But then we also have a mumble mumble McFace project too.)
We had a project 'Titanic'. There are absolutely no prizes for guessing what happened to it.
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
We had a project 'Titanic'. There are absolutely no prizes for guessing what happened to it.
It never made it to New York
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Sprint wireless
My wife's company changed which wireless provider gives employees a discount. It is now Sprint, which I go check and it appears to be a lot cheaper than what we are paying with Verizon, and should give us better coverage at our house (Verizon has great coverage in the middle of BFE, but has become really shit here at our home in the middle of a metropolitan area).
I attempt to do it through their website. It will not accept employee promo codes. No big deal, get it all done and then I can call them and have them apply it.
I get to the credit check and it says I have to call them because raisins. I half expected that as I have no credit score.
I call. The problem is not my lack of credit score. It is because ~18 years ago I had a Sprint account. They need to know the PIN for that account before they can make any changes to it. Back them I had a 4 digit PIN I used for lots of things. Nope, it should be 6-8 digits. I have no fucking clue what it might be.
I get handed off to multiple departments. None of which seems to be able to handle this issue that seems like it should be somewhat common. I mean, not an everyday sort of thing. More like a "Yeah, I have had to handle that before, let me call X department" sort of thing. Half hour on the phone and I get through so someone who does not know how to handle such a thing, but can make my old account go away. Alrighty then...
"As the final part of the process I am going to need you to take two forms of ID to your nearest Sprint store to verify your identity before we can continue further."
"Huh? That would have been a nice thing to know 45 minutes ago, I would have just went to the store to begin with. Why do you even have an option to do it on the website if I have to go to a store regardless??"
"Sir, I apologize, but part of the process in the application is to verify your identity which can only be done in a store. Please go now and I will wait on the line."
"I don't have time to do it right now. I can probably go on Friday."
"That will not work for me, I need you to go now."
"I don't really care what will work for you, I cannot go right now so it has to work for you. You have no other choice in this matter."Then she keeps on, in extremely broken English, trying to pressure me in to dropping what I am doing and going to a Sprint store because of the great deals she has for me that will be expiring soon. Typical high pressure sales stuff, that I am pretty much immune to, because she knows that as soon as I get off the phone she has lost the sale. At least for her.
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
We now have an internal project named "WTF". Yes, they know (at least I'm pretty sure they do) what it really means. Odds that the project are doomed? (But then we also have a mumble mumble McFace project too.)
We had a project 'Titanic'. There are absolutely no prizes for guessing what happened to it.
It threw a necklace in the ocean?
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
dropping what I am doing and going to a Sprint store
Should have told her you're on a landline and that going to the store while staying connected will be a bigger challenge.
Why are they trying to resurrect your old account anyways? Are they running out of account numbers or something?
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Should have told her you're on a landline and that going to the store while staying connected will be a bigger challenge.
I actually was.
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Needed to find out my National Insurance number (for already WTF reasons) so I contacted the government through the webchat.
First WTF: I explained that I haven't lived in the UK for almost two decades but I now find myself in need of this number. I'm asked to provide my last three addresses. These are all in Warsaw.
Eventually I manage to remember enough of an address I had in England and a place I worked for a few months which probably closed down last millennium and the guy is satisfied I am me and he has found my NI number.
Great! So I open a. txt file to jot* it down whereupon the guy tells me he can't just read it to me - he has to post it to me. I reminded him I don't live in the UK, and no-one in my family lives at the UK address I half-remembered. That's no problem. He can send it to Poland if I give him my current address and it will only take three weeks.
So the UK practises security by inconvenience.
* I wasn't sure if this can be used with a keyboard so I looked it up. There was a note at the bottom saying 'jot is sometimes confused with jat.' I've never heard of this word and it gets a red line here, but apparently it means 'a member of a people widely scattered throughout the north-west of India and Pakistan'. So I assume they mean that one person once confused the two words.
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My wife was browsing Facebook yesterday and noticed that the edit history of comments and posts in a group are visible to anyone in that group.
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Choice quote:
Ableton’s new Drum Buss plug-in has a kick devolve into a mess of convoluted echo and reverb that will make you say, “what a lovely way for things to end” right before the aneurysm bursts. Naturally, there are cowbells.
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is this about?
Is it because 420 is weed and 69 is a sex position? or am I missing something?
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@marczellm
Got it in one.
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@timebandit Sounds uncomfortable for both partners. I mean hot smoke really isn't supposed to go there (nor are high temperature objects in general).
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@benjamin-hall Why does the name Monica Lewinsky comes to mind suddenly ?
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@timebandit I don't think that cigar was lit at the time (I hope not anyway)
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@benjamin-hall Yeah, I think it's something else that was "lit"
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@marczellm nice
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Wonderful Twitch software, living up to its brand name.
Yup, ran into that yesterday. You need to click refresh.
No, I have no idea why or who thought that was a good idea.
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@sloosecannon Yeah, the flickering stops if I push refresh.
The actual pack list, though, that doesn't appear unless I reselect Mods > Minecraft.
10/10 software.
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When you run across a vendor, especially a software vendor, that has a completely shit knowledgebase, you can bet your ass that you can view source and find that it is powered by NetSuite.
I need to download a software update for a client's accounting software. I go their support site and of course you cannot just download it. It is behind a login. I go to reset password and it leads me to some shit site that does not recognize my email address. I go and verify that is the address they send their marketing wank emails to and it is correct. I go back to their support site and try to login again, reset password...which takes me to a completely different site. Nope, that site does not recognize me either. (Yes, I was keeping an eye on the address bar the whole time. Not phishing, just a shit support site.) Third time is the charm, on the third different looking site.
Reset password email received, password reset, go back to their knowledgebase and click on the login link for the software update that I need, login and...it takes me in to some Geocities looking bullshit and not back to the landing page of the download that I wanted. Go back in the browser and of course that logs me out.
I had to trick the fucking thing in to letting me in. Open two knowledgebase windows. Get one to the step before the software update I need, go to the other and login which takes me to Geocities, then click through in window #1. Viola.
I just love it when I have to trick software used by a software company in to doing what I want it to do.
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My wife was browsing Facebook yesterday and noticed that the edit history of comments and posts in a group are visible to anyone in that group.
The edit history on posts and comments on Facebook is always visible to anyone who can see the post or comment, if I'm not mistaken.
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@anotherusername Doesn't that defeat the purpose of being able to edit? I mean, if everyone's able to see what you wrote initially, why not just require a new post, like twitter?
(Yeah, I like keeping all the relevant comments together, but I'm being slightly hyperbolic. But only slightly.)
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Doesn't that defeat the purpose of being able to edit? I mean, if everyone's able to see what you wrote initially, why not just require a new post, like twitter?
No? If you don't want them to be able to see what you wrote initially, you just have to delete the comment and post a new one.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
delete the comment and post a new one.
Do you know how that affects existing comments on that post/comment? I don't think I've ever deleted one.
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@djls45 If they're replies nested underneath it, I'd expect they would be gone. If they are just "@" replies at the same nesting level, I think they'd stil be there, but there'd be no context of what they were actually replying to.
If people have already replied, it's kind of late to want to take back what you said, anyway.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
If they're replies nested underneath it, I'd expect they would be gone
On Twitter, it does a stupid thing where if someone deletes a comment in a conversation it just puts the message before and the message after it together and pretends there was never anything in the middle. Which is pretty annoying when there's an argument and someone deletes all their posts.
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Doesn't that defeat the purpose of being able to edit? I mean, if everyone's able to see what you wrote initially, why not just require a new post, like twitter?
I think the point is to prevent people doing something like "say 'I agree' if you think puppies should be allowed to live", getting a load of posts in agreement and then editing it to "Hitler did nothing wrong"
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@marczellm said in WTF Bites:
420 is weed
That explains a lot.
I can't wait until $322 becomes a thing people other than me and @JazzyJosh understand as a reference.
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@heterodox I did that knowing it would annoy someone. Congratulations. You are the wiener.
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URL of the day: the yearly company survey. Presented as-is, with some obfuscation of details. Copied mid-survey, the URL I got only contained the survey ID, respondent ID and password.
https://survey.example.com/scripts/questionnaire.dll/Page?Quest=47&Resp=6969&redirected=1&Password=wtf47wtf&device=PC&plugin=FLASH,SILVERLIGHT&html5=CANVAS,AUDIO,AUDIO_OGG,AUDIO_MP3,AUDIO_WAV,AUDIO_M4A,VIDEO,VIDEO_OGG,VIDEO_WEBM,VIDEO_H264,LOCALSTORAGE,WEBWORKERS,OFFLINEAPP,GEOLOCATION,INPUT_SEARCH,INPUT_NUMBER,INPUT_RANGE,INPUT_COLOR,INPUT_TEL,INPUT_URL,INPUT_EMAIL,INPUT_DATE,INPUT_TIME,PLACEHOLDER,AUTOFOCUS,HISTORY&QW470=474747
What are all those options even for? The survey was just a bunch of "grade on a scale from 1 to 10" questions!
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@atazhaia The PLACEHOLDER plugin. Gotta watch out for that one!
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URL of the day: the yearly company survey. Presented as-is, with some obfuscation of details. Copied mid-survey, the URL I got only contained the survey ID, respondent ID and password.
https://survey.example.com/scripts/questionnaire.dll/Page?Quest=47&Resp=6969&redirected=1&Password=wtf47wtf&device=PC&plugin=FLASH,SILVERLIGHT&html5=CANVAS,AUDIO,AUDIO_OGG,AUDIO_MP3,AUDIO_WAV,AUDIO_M4A,VIDEO,VIDEO_OGG,VIDEO_WEBM,VIDEO_H264,LOCALSTORAGE,WEBWORKERS,OFFLINEAPP,GEOLOCATION,INPUT_SEARCH,INPUT_NUMBER,INPUT_RANGE,INPUT_COLOR,INPUT_TEL,INPUT_URL,INPUT_EMAIL,INPUT_DATE,INPUT_TIME,PLACEHOLDER,AUTOFOCUS,HISTORY&QW470=474747
What are all those options even for? The survey was just a bunch of "grade on a scale from 1 to 10" questions!
They're fingerprinting your browser.
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You know, I was really hoping that Randall was pulling our legs about this:
Sadly, he wasn't.
Filed Under: You can emoji lobster over the Internet.
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My wife was browsing Facebook yesterday and noticed that the edit history of comments and posts in a group are visible to anyone in that group.
That doesn't seem like a WTF?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@marczellm said in WTF Bites:
420 is weed
That explains a lot.
I can't wait until $322 becomes a thing people other than me and @JazzyJosh understand as a reference.
Meh, it probably won't eclipse Five Hundred and Ninety-Nine U S Dollars
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
My wife was browsing Facebook yesterday and noticed that the edit history of comments and posts in a group are visible to anyone in that group.
That doesn't seem like a WTF?
I thought it seemed to match some of the discussion happening recently in the Discopocalypse thread concerning the extent of privacy. I mean, here we have an option to hide or show our edits. I considered putting it in that thread, but I figured that since it wasn't actually directly related to , I'd post it in this thread instead.
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@pie_flavor I contacted Twitch about this, and they are looking into the issue (they have apparently seen it before, but haven't figured out the root cause).
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When a vfat thumbdrive which contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged and mounted trough the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leaving a possibility of arbitrary commands execution. an example of offending volume label is "$(touch b)" which will create a file called b in the home folder.