UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...
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@ben_lubar said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Community Server (community edition) had no development team.
Discourse's development team banned us from their support forum for using it to report bugs like they told us to.
NodeBB's devs exist and are willing to talk to us.I also liked the Flarum devs when we invaded their support forum and they pointed out their software probably wasn't ready for us.
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@loopback0 said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@ben_lubar said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Community Server (community edition) had no development team.
Discourse's development team banned us from their support forum for using it to report bugs like they told us to.
NodeBB's devs exist and are willing to talk to us.I also liked the Flarum devs when we invaded their support forum and they pointed out their software probably wasn't ready for us.
Artist's depiction of Flarum devs encountering TDWTF:
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@loopback0 said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
[...] and they pointed out their software probably wasn't ready for us.
When is any software ever ready for us?
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@Rhywden said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@loopback0 said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
[...] and they pointed out their software probably wasn't ready for us.
When is any software ever ready for us?
737 MAX?
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@ben_lubar said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
NodeBB's devs exist and are willing to talk to us.
They also have military-grade thick skin, and some of them can even make a decent joke, unlike @end.
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@JBert There was the one about the development process being driven by coke. Wait, that wasn't a joke, was it? Funny but true.
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@PleegWat said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@loopback0 said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
proceeds to re-submit the exact same changeset to the automated test system
I have accepted the fact that the first build of the day will always have over 100k warnings. For no reason. Second build onwards is mostly fine, maybe only 85k warnings. If enough builds get run, eventually only the actual warnings remain....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
I have accepted the fact that the first build of the day will always have over 100k warnings. For no reason. Second build onwards is mostly fine, maybe only 85k warnings. If enough builds get run, eventually only the actual warnings remain....
Can't you get some of that Fortnite money for all your nerve-wrecking? I mean, specifically Unreal Engine being such a brainfsck?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
I have accepted the fact that the first build of the day will always have over 100k warnings. For no reason. Second build onwards is mostly fine, maybe only 85k warnings. If enough builds get run, eventually only the actual warnings remain....
Can't you get some of that Fortnite money for all your nerve-wrecking? I mean, specifically Unreal Engine being such a brainfsck?
Nope!
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@dkf said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
when we had Dicksauce, we were comparing it to PHPBB and other forum software of the last decade
I seriously question whether Community Server counts as anything of the last decade. The decade before would be more accurate. It made sites that you'd expect to see badges declaring that they “work best with Netscape Navigator 4” on. It was seriously awful in a great many ways.
But tag cloud aside that was only because we abused the fuck out of it. At least it had pagination.
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@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Flarum devs
googles... Hey, at least the lead dev looks cute. ducks, runs...
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@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Because by the time you've had first contact with Dicksauce, they've fixed most of the issues it had. We used it from day 1 after release. (By day 1.5, we discovered two different script injection methods.)
ISTR we had an 'alpha' foisted upon us, not a release.
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@PJH it didn't get much better on release. Okay, it was much better, but still shit.
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@dkf said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
It was seriously awful in many great ways.
FTFY
Filed under: I miss Signature Guy, We need a new tag cloud attack
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@ixvedeusi said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
I miss Signature Guy
It just gets old, you know.
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@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@ixvedeusi said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
I miss Signature Guy
It just gets old, you know.
Parp!
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@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@ixvedeusi said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
I miss Signature Guy
It just gets old, you know.
Parp!
Fucking hell why does it delete one character when I hit backspace once.
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I agree with whatever @PleegWat just said.
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@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Because by the time you've had first contact with Dicksauce, they've fixed most of the issues it had. We used it from day 1 after release. (By day 1.5, we discovered two different script injection methods.)
ISTR we had an 'alpha' foisted upon us, not a release.
I thought it was called a beta, but whatever; it was version 0.9, or something like that. 1.0 wasn't ready for release, either.
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@HardwareGeek said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
I thought it was called a beta, but whatever; it was version 0.9, or something like that. 1.0 wasn't ready for release, either.
DiscoReady™.
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@HardwareGeek said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Because by the time you've had first contact with Dicksauce, they've fixed most of the issues it had. We used it from day 1 after release. (By day 1.5, we discovered two different script injection methods.)
ISTR we had an 'alpha' foisted upon us, not a release.
I thought it was called a beta, but whatever; it was version 0.9, or something like that. 1.0 wasn't ready for release, either.
Yeah, I think it might have been beta by then but their code was always at least a greek letter behind their releases.
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@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
at least a greek letter behind their releases.
What's that letter before alpha?
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@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
"The legislation can be used to compel ISPs to block access to non-compliant websites," added Mr Brown.
And there goes net neutrality.
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@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
at least a greek letter behind their releases.
What's that letter before alpha?
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@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
at least a greek letter behind their releases.
What's that letter before alpha?
ΰ.
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@topspin that's Unicode for you.
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@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
at least a greek letter behind their releases.
What's that letter before alpha?
ΰ.
TIL that the greek alphabet has a burrito symbol...
ΰ
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@Gąska
That's the gayest metal umlaut I gave ever seen
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@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
at least a greek letter behind their releases.
What's that letter before alpha?
ℵ0
It underflows.
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@xaade said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
"The legislation can be used to compel ISPs to block access to non-compliant websites," added Mr Brown.
And there goes net neutrality.
More seriously, that's got nothing to do with net neutrality, and is more akin to censorship and the interference in the private life of citizens. Or subjects, in this case.
'Net neutrality' is generally a concept worried more about in Left-Pondia. It's not really much discussed over here, since what it represents isn't really an issue to begin with.
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@Luhmann It's neither a metal umlaut nor a burrito symbol. Technically, it's a "Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dialytika and Tonos".
Upsilon is the letter usually transliterated as y in English.
Dialytika is the Greek name for diaeresis, ̈ , the familiar two dots over a letter to indicate the phonological phenomenon of diaeresis, or separate pronunciation of that letter from a previous letter, rather than as part of a diphthong or digraph. English examples of phonological diaeresis (in which the diaeresis is often not written): coöperate, Noël. (The same glyph is called an umlaut when it indicates a sound shift, as in German u (/u/) → ü (/y/).) In Greek, υ forms a digraph with a preceding α, ε, η or ο. The digraph αυ is pronounced /ɑv/ or /ɑf/, depending on whether the following sound is voiced (vowel or voiced consonant) or unvoiced. Similarly, the ευ and ηυ digraphs are pronounced /ev/ or /ef/ and /iv/ or /if/. The ου digraph is a diphthong pronounced /u/ (and is the only source of the u sound in Greek; there is no single vowel that produces this sound). With the dialytika over the υ, the vowels are pronounced separately, /ai/, /ei/, /ii/, /oi/. I'm not sure how common any of these are; ϊ is far more common than ϋ in my admittedly limited experience.
The tonos indicates the stressed syllable of a word, similar to acute accent in Spanish. Unlike Spanish, in which the accent is written only when the word violates the default stress rules (or to distinguish between similar words, e.g., que and qué, si and sí), the tonos is always written (for which I'm glad; the rules are complex and I don't understand them).
This concludes your Greek lesson for today.
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@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Flarum devs
googles... Hey, at least the lead dev looks cute. ducks, runs...
Eh, not my type. Too generic looking.
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@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
'Net neutrality' is generally a concept worried more about in Left-Pondia.
We live in strange times. Just a few years ago, it was a staple of tinfoil hatters fighting against the globalist conspiracy.
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@Atazhaia said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Flarum devs
googles... Hey, at least the lead dev looks cute. ducks, runs...
Eh, not my type. Too generic looking.
The tattoos and piercings thread is... somewhere, probably.
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@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Atazhaia said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Flarum devs
googles... Hey, at least the lead dev looks cute. ducks, runs...
Eh, not my type. Too generic looking.
The tattoos and piercings thread is... somewhere, probably.
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@topspin said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@boomzilla said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Flarum devs
googles... Hey, at least the lead dev looks cute. ducks, runs...
googles... ßut zei're Germans! ducks, runs, somewhere MG42 goes ratata-ta...
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@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
More seriously, that's got nothing to do with net neutrality,
That's what net neutrality fans always say. Or is it opponents? Probably both.
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@HardwareGeek said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Dialytika is the Greek name for diaeresis
Those of us with stronger stomachs don't have that problem with burritos
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@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
that's got nothing to do with net neutrality, and is more akin to censorship and the interference in the private life of citizens.
Net neutrality was to prevent ISPs from locking portions of the internet behind a pay wall.
Then the government comes in saying we should all lock portions of the internet behind an age wall.That's the irony.
I mean, I don't think kids should be looking at porn, but that's my responsibility in the privacy of my home as an adult. I don't want to prove to nanny government that I'm old enough to watch rated R movies on Amazon Prime.
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@xaade said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
I mean, I don't think kids should be looking at porn, but that's my responsibility in the privacy of my home as an adult.
No, it's the responsibility of the parents of the aforementioned crotchfruit.
Parents shouldn't be farming off their responsibilities to government, government shouldn't be presuming to act as loco parentis in this, and people without kids shouldn't be affected by any of his bollocks.
Yet here we are with the opposites of all three of those happening.
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@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
No, it's the responsibility of the parents of the aforementioned crotchfruit.
That's what I said.
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@xaade said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@PJH said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
No, it's the responsibility of the parents of the aforementioned crotchfruit.
That's what I said.
That is, really, how it didn't come across, hence the reply.
But I can deal with violent agreement!
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@levicki said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@ben_lubar Which comic is that? Asking for a friend, of course...
I thought everyone had heard of Oglaf by now.
It's linked from this page: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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@ben_lubar And also from every other XKCD, but yes.
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@Polygeekery said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@kt_ said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@kt_ said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@kt_ said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Kian said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Being IT professionals most lack social skills and don't know how to relate to others without being offensive.
And others are just assholes.
That emoji's even better!
Hey, hey, hey, I'm just ordering 5 beers!
Just 2? You're not gonna get even remotely appropriately wasted!
Filed under: Flagged for lame.
Two in the pink, one in the stink?
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@HardwareGeek said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Dialytika is the Greek name for diaeresis, ̈ , the familiar two dots over a letter to indicate the phonological phenomenon of diaeresis, or separate pronunciation of that letter from a previous letter, rather than as part of a diphthong or digraph. English examples of phonological diaeresis (in which the diaeresis is often not written): coöperate, Noël.
TIL. I wondered about that a few times, but not enough to google for it.
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@Jaloopa said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Polygeekery said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@kt_ said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@kt_ said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@kt_ said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Gąska said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@Kian said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
Being IT professionals most lack social skills and don't know how to relate to others without being offensive.
And others are just assholes.
That emoji's even better!
Hey, hey, hey, I'm just ordering 5 beers!
Just 2? You're not gonna get even remotely appropriately wasted!
Filed under: Flagged for lame.
Two in the pink, one in the stink?
Amatuer. Only two?
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@pie_flavor said in UK `Tossing Tax` to be a surprise to most of the UK in two weeks...:
@ben_lubar And also from every other XKCD, but yes.
I had ulterior motives for posting that specific one.