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@anonymous234 has the interacting malware achieved sentience yet?
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Why does it need one?
The one it has does not match it's configured hostname, there is no reverse record for it and it is not known in advance. Most things I can think of that would ‘need’ a DNS record are broken by one of these issues.I've seen it used to identify a POD in a field that required a valid DNS name. But it would be more straightforward to use the pod name in the first component.
But it isn't used for service discovery so doesn't factor into how well Kubernetes uses DNS for service discovery.
So according to the Register, Microsoft claims the customer wasn't setting resource limits and was overloading their nodes. Seems a typical "WOMM, ship it!" type issue.
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I downloaded the
node_modulesfolder from a remote server. IntelliJ IDEA detected filesystem changes and started doing something and burning 30% of my CPU…
40 minutes later, it's still showing 31k processes, and not telling me anything informative about them. The number of processes changes sometimes, but the UI is only responsive every 10 seconds or so.
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not telling me anything informative about them.
It's building intellisense data about them?
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@Greybeard said in WTF Bites:
But it isn't used for service discovery so doesn't factor into how well Kubernetes uses DNS for service discovery.
Well, if you use the StatefulSet, the names are deterministic, so if it used the names, it could be. Except because it isn't, the Service has a special feature where that publishes the pods again under its domain (so it is podname
.servicename.namespace.svc.cluster.local, notably not matching the pods hostname inside). But this feature only works if the service is “headless”, i.e. does not have its own IP address. So if you need the pods to refer to each other, but also want automatic redirection for requests from other components, you need two Services… Yay for consistent behaviour.(on a side-note, I'll probably have to write a bit of glue to query the endpoints API directly anyway, because the thing also turned out to need rather complex logic for startup ordering to work reliably).
@Greybeard said in WTF Bites:
Seems a typical "WOMM, ship it!" type issue.
That's how all of this Kubernetes circus is managed.
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OK, why the fuck is Google giving me targeted ads at home for things I googled at work, under a different account?
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
OK, why the fuck is Google giving me targeted ads at home for things I googled at work, under a different account?
They pretty much know everything about you.
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@swayde
They could at least pretend not to know so that those who don't know they know won't know.
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Why would they bother, when most people are indifferent to it? Remember, they dropped their "Don't be evil" motto, so they're not even pretending anymore.
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@topspin one seems to be "premium ice balls" the other just "regular" ice cubes.
meh, if people want to pay exorbitantly for frozen water, why not ?Because they are all idiots. My solution was buying a thing I can't seem to find online, presumably because I don't know the proper terminology:
They are little silicone cubes. Filled with water. You pop them in the freezer. The water inside freezes. When you want to chill your drink, you pop some in just as you would with ice. When done, just wash it and throw it back into the freezer. I never run out of ice because I just cycle them all the time, there's never a problem of the fucking ice refusing to decouple from the tray, then popping out and hitting someone (mostly me) in the head as it does so, no spills. Oh, also, doesn't water down your drink.
Technology! We have it!
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@topspin one seems to be "premium ice balls" the other just "regular" ice cubes.
meh, if people want to pay exorbitantly for frozen water, why not ?Because they are all idiots. My solution was buying a thing I can't seem to find online, presumably because I don't know the proper terminology:
They are little silicone cubes. Filled with water. You pop them in the freezer. The water inside freezes. When you want to chill your drink, you pop some in just as you would with ice. When done, just wash it and throw it back into the freezer. I never run out of ice because I just cycle them all the time, there's never a problem of the fucking ice refusing to decouple from the tray, then popping out and hitting someone (mostly me) in the head as it does so, no spills. Oh, also, doesn't water down your drink.
Technology! We have it!
These things?
https://www.amazon.com/KSEV-Reusable-Plastic-Assorted-Distilled/dp/B07DYV9WCS/ref=sr_1_5
We used to have them when I was a kid as my mum was very big on things that were resuable. IIRC the ones we had were seaside shapes.
I have some stones for my whiskey, they work really well and don't dilute your precious fluids:
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@Cursorkeys Yes, those, I guess the keyword I was missing in my searches was "reusable".
I like them.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
OK, why the fuck is Google giving me targeted ads at home for things I googled at work, under a different account?
I don't know, there must be a problem with your ad blocker.
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@Cursorkeys Not sure that those actually work that well (the stones, that is) if they're solid - after all, the biggest cooling effect comes from the phase change from solid to liquid.
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Not sure that those actually work that well (the stones, that is) if they're solid - after all, the biggest cooling effect comes from the phase change from solid to liquid.
They don't work well, and he's probably drinking some godawful American whiskey where diluting it with water (or soap, or embalming fluid...) could only improve the taste. Making things colder deadens the flavor.
If you buy quality whiskey you drink it at room temperature with just a tiny drop of water to help the flavor come out.
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@Cursorkeys Not sure that those actually work that well (the stones, that is) if they're solid - after all, the biggest cooling effect comes from the phase change from solid to liquid.
They do change phase from solid to liquid—just the liquid remains sealed in the plastic or silicone envelope.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
OK, why the fuck is Google giving me targeted ads at home for things I googled at work, under a different account?
Happens to me all the time. I have a Google account for work, my home PC is not signed into any Google account whatsoever nor has it ever been, and the two systems have never met. Yet Google still has them linked together.
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@Cursorkeys Not sure that those actually work that well (the stones, that is) if they're solid - after all, the biggest cooling effect comes from the phase change from solid to liquid.
They do change phase from solid to liquid—just the liquid remains sealed in the plastic or silicone envelope.
He was talking about the stones (emphasis mine). Those are filled with... stone.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
OK, why the fuck is Google giving me targeted ads at home for things I googled at work, under a different account?
Happens to me all the time. I have a Google account for work, my home PC is not signed into any Google account whatsoever nor has it ever been, and the two systems have never met. Yet Google still has them linked together.
My guess would be phone location and being on the same network as your pc
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He was talking about the stones (emphasis mine). Those are filled with... stone.
And BTW you don't need to BUY those you can pick them up from the ground and run them through your dishwasher. Yeah they polish them up a bit, but they ARE just stones.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
Not sure that those actually work that well (the stones, that is) if they're solid - after all, the biggest cooling effect comes from the phase change from solid to liquid.
They don't work well, and he's probably drinking some godawful American whiskey where diluting it with water (or soap, or embalming fluid...) could only improve the taste. Making things colder deadens the flavor.
If you buy quality whiskey you drink it at room temperature with just a tiny drop of water to help the flavor come out.
Currently drinking:
https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/18098/macallan-double-cask-gold
It's not very special but I really like it (and the price). If I get a fancier one I'll try it room temp with a drop of water, until then chilling it a bit with no water WOMM.
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@Cursorkeys Not sure that those actually work that well (the stones, that is) if they're solid - after all, the biggest cooling effect comes from the phase change from solid to liquid.
They do change phase from solid to liquid—just the liquid remains sealed in the plastic or silicone envelope.
He was talking about the stones (emphasis mine). Those are filled with... stone.
Oh, right, I failed to check the other link, thinking they were similar.
Those won't work, well, almost at all. Heat capacity of water is huge compared to about anything else and the freezer is not all that cold.
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@Cursorkeys Ok that's Scotch Whisky (note: no E), or what normal human beings would just call "Scotch". You shouldn't be diluting it with ice cubes, yes I concur, but you also shouldn't be chilling it at all. You're drinking wrong.
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Another day, another Google WTF.
Scene: I'm trying to view a video on my Android phone and the YouTube app opens.
The video turned out to be age-restricted, so it prompted me to sign in with my Google account. I sighed and reluctantly did so. (I really don't like personal profiles so I try to avoid this stuff.)
Finished watching the video, tried to sign out. Huh, where did that menu option go? After trying to find it for 15 minutes, I Google it and the first search result is the official FAQ. "Great", I think! Except it's everything but great:
As of today, the only way to sign out of the new YouTube app is to remove your Google account from your device.
Fuck you too, Google. In fact, die in a fire. There's only so much bullshit I can take.
Apple may be assholes to their users as well, but at least they respect their users' privacy choices. This is the last straw: My next phone will be an iPhone. I cannot believe I'm saying this, but at this point I'd rather deal with iTunes than with any more of Google's bullshit.
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Update: I found a workaround. You can pretend to try and subscribe to YouTube Premium and in that view, "Sign Out" will magically appear in the three-dot-menu.
Honestly, this somehow just makes it worse. Fuck you Google! Someday, customers will finally grow tired enough of your shit to ditch you and I cannot wait for that day to come. Also, please continue doing shit like this so that the EU will take a nice cut of your profits.
I'm starting to feel sympathetic towards Oracle for suing those assholes.
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at least they respect their users' privacy choices.
Do they? Aren't these the same folks that won't let you download free apps without an Apple ID?
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@Cursorkeys Not sure that those actually work that well (the stones, that is) if they're solid - after all, the biggest cooling effect comes from the phase change from solid to liquid.
They do change phase from solid to liquid—just the liquid remains sealed in the plastic or silicone envelope.
He was talking about the stones (emphasis mine). Those are filled with... stone.
Oh, right, I failed to check the other link, thinking they were similar.
Those won't work, well, almost at all. Heat capacity of water is huge compared to about anything else and the freezer is not all that cold.
Yeah, but you don't want your whiskey to be ice cold, either.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Do they? Aren't these the same folks that won't let you download free apps without an Apple ID?
I had to add a credit card to my Apple ID in order to use a promotional code to download a free song.
...well, I didn't, because I ended up finding a workaround, but it took some googling.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Do they? Aren't these the same folks that won't let you download free apps without an Apple ID?
Does Google let you download free apps from the Play Store without an account? That would be news to me.
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Does Google let you download free apps from the Play Store without an account?
Not to my knowledge, but you don't need a credit card
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Not to my knowledge, but you don't need a credit card
You don't to download free apps with an Apple ID either.
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@loopback0 but you do need a credit card to establish an Apple ID, unless my vague memory of there being a workaround is somehow correct.
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@loopback0 but you do need a credit card to establish an Apple ID
Wrong. No workaround required.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 but you do need a credit card to establish an Apple ID
Wrong. No workaround required.
I needed to use a workaround when I signed up for my Apple ID.
Granted, I think the workaround might actually have been to register the Apple ID by downloading a free app.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Do they? Aren't these the same folks that won't let you download free apps without an Apple ID?
Does Google let you download free apps from the Play Store without an account? That would be news to me.
You can download free apps from anywhere you want on Android. Not so on iOS.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
You can download free apps from anywhere you want
Except the play store (without an ID)
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
You can download free apps from anywhere you want
Except the play store (without an ID)
You also can't download free games on Steam without a Steam account.
Fun fact: games in https://steamdb.info/sub/0/apps/ cannot actually be added to your account - if you delete the game from your computer, you have to go find it again.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
You also can't download free games on Steam without a Steam account.
How can you use steam on Milwaukee internet?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
You also can't download free games on Steam without a Steam account.
How can you use steam on MilwaukeePC internet?
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@ben_lubar IOW, you can buy the latest games, but you can only play those from last year
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WTF of my day So, we're in need of a new messenger solution because WhatsApp is a bit problematic in a school setting. Because we're a school, some moderator tools would be nice, also a bit of control on members/groups, easy file sharing, user import from .CSV or something.
We thought we found a solution. Well, I'm not so sure now anymore - I'll share one of the
I found.So, upon user import you still have to hand out the login information to your users. Their solution is based on a single-time alphanumerical token you enter into a registration form on the webpage and then fill out the rest (like, backup email address, password, ...)
Which leaves the question: How does the user obtain said token?
Well, you can print out a single PDF for one user containing some information and the token, or select several users and then get a big PDF with one page for every user.
Now, how does this PDF arrive at the user? Easy: You send it via email. Only that there's no way to import a user's email and also there's no built-in "send email" functionality.
You have to download the PDF and then send it manually.The other possibility: Print out the PDF and pass the paper to the user. Only problem with that approach:
a) The URL for the registration form is mentioned nowhere (there's a "Click here" link on the PDF, though!)
b) The PDF is personalized in only two ways: The user's full name and their token.The latter of which is fun because we only have 1,500 pupils and 160 teachers.
I called their support today and told them that this is sub-optimal. "But you're not supposed to use the PDFs that way! You're supposed to distribute them electronically!"
"Yes. And how exactly when we probably only have 80% of the correct email addresses, I can't filter for missing email adresses and you don't have a proper tool to distribute them anyway?"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Do they? Aren't these the same folks that won't let you download free apps without an Apple ID?
Does Google let you download free apps from the Play Store without an account? That would be news to me.
Maybe. Maybe not. But there are plenty of apk mirrors to choose from.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
You also can't download free games on Steam without a Steam account.
How can you use steam on Milwaukee internet?
They pump it through his water pipes, its faster that way.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Hehe, "Emerging", get it?
Now that's a joke that doesn't require reading ancient texts or watching inane cartoons!
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meh, if people want to pay
exorbitantlyfor frozen water, why not ?Do people not have freezers where they can make their own? (Given the size of those packs, they're hardly 'big enough for a party-size')
The only time I've known people to deliberately buy ice cubes is when the local pub sent someone because their ice machine had broken down.
Clearly they're not an uncommon commodity round here however, since it seems the supermarket's while to stock them.
Then again, people buy bottled water all over this country as well.
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I can't get Windows 10 to set the local time from the network at all.
I cleared the CMOS so now my time is 6 hours off. I go to time settings and "set time automatically" is enabled. The time zone is correct. I've had the system running for hours now. I disable it and re-enable it and it shows a throbber for like 5 minutes and nothing happens.
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