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@pie_flavor Somehow it seems unlikely that my non-admin-rights Debian 7 machine will ever get PowerShell...
You could always download the binaries directly.
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@Zecc Hah. On discord you can just use regular Enter if you're inside a triple backtick block.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@Zecc Hah. On discord you can just use regular Enter if you're inside a triple backtick block.
Same in slack, which can throw you off if you don't expect it.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@pie_flavor Somehow it seems unlikely that my non-admin-rights Debian 7 machine will ever get PowerShell...
You could always download the binaries directly.
Maybe after upgrading to Debian 8/9
Or, just use
grep, which is already installed
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@TimeBandit said in UI Bites:
Maybe after upgrading to Debian 8/9
I already tried a couple of times to install in my $HOME a package designed for a more recent system. I very quickly get to the point where I have to install a newer libc, and ld.so, and while it seems that in theory this could work, in practice I never managed to do anything but loose hours of my time.
So, yeah:
Or, just use
grep, which is already installed
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@remi what's preventing you from upgrading to Debian 8 or 9?
It's easy to do.
Of course, you need root for that.
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@TimeBandit I see that you are a fervent practitioner of
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@remi I mean, why the fuck are you still on Debian 7, which is unsupported.
Beside the fact that YOU don't have root.
Somebody must have root access.
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@TimeBandit said in UI Bites:
@remi I mean, why the fuck are you still on Debian 7, which is unsupported.
Uh, I don't know, maybe...
Beside the fact that YOU don't have root.
Right, exactly that.
Somebody must have root access.
Yes. Somebody I don't know (well, not quite, but the guy I know doesn't have the authority to change things like that), somewhere up in corporate IT.
If they cannot get their act together and manage to keep up with Debian versions, I'm not going to do their job. If the company gets hacked or whatever because of their uselessness, well, not my problem. About 99% of what I need works equally well in whatever version, so yeah, once in a while it doesn't, but that doesn't happen often enough to really rile me up.
(also, whenever they get around to updating stuff, instead of sensibly warning people ahead, in particular the dev teams who might maaaaaybe have a little vested interest of knowing ahead how versions of libraries etc. are changing, they just suddenly change everything without notice and leave people deal with the aftermath the day after, so all in all, I'm not that eager for them to update!)
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I need to send something to the US, I sent half a ton of aircraft parts a decade or so ago and that was easy, but things have changed now.
I need to register for the Prior Notice system, things were going well until it wanted a phone number:
The 'area' part of my phone number is
54 digits if you specify a country code, that box only accepts 3. You can't put the whole phone number in just the 'Phone Number' box either
Edit: Also UI Bites; trying to post on mobile is infuriating!
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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
5 digits if you specify a country code
to look up specifics: how is that? If I were to specify a country code for a local number, then I wouldn't need the leading zero of the area code.Also, I can very clearly see what's under "Phone Number". There really is no alternative to just blanking out the whole thing.
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how is that?
UK area codes are variable length, and are basically not meaningful for mobile numbers anyway (any “area code” starting with
7). Unless the page author wants to spend a stupid amount of effort on validation, the basically-right approach (for UK numbers) is to use a single undifferentiated field and check that the number is 10 digits long.
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@dkf How does specifying a country code make the area code suddenly 5 digits? Or am I interpreting something incorrectly?
I too have been guilty trying to split entries into as many sub-fields as possible. It's not like anyone would really want just a small part of the number, so you have to wonder why it's such an appealing thing to do.
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to look up specifics: how is that? If I were to specify a country code for a local number, then I wouldn't need the leading zero of the area code.
I mistyped, it's 4. That's right, you don't need the leading zero which normally makes mine 5.
Also, I can very clearly see what's under "Phone Number". There really is no alternative to just blanking out the whole thing.
Best I could do on mobile with snapseed, doesn't seem have anything like a shape function.Witness the power of this armed and fully operational Paint.net!
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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
The 'area' part of my phone number is 54 digits if you specify a country code, that box only accepts 3.
You still have those? Our phone numbers are just 3 digit country prefix and 9 digits the number now (and have been so for around 25 years). Since they are fully transferable both to any place and to any network now, any kind of area code no longer makes any sense.
Since the number will be, if ever, dialed from abroad, it will have to be dialed whole anyway, so the distinction does not matter and you can split it whatever way it gets accepted... Does not make it any less
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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
The 'area' part of my phone number is 54 digits if you specify a country code, that box only accepts 3.
You still have those? Our phone numbers are just 3 digit country prefix and 9 digits the number now (and have been so for around 25 years). Since they are fully transferable both to any place and to any network now, any kind of area code no longer makes any sense.
Since the number will be, if ever, dialed from abroad, it will have to be dialed whole anyway, so the distinction does not matter and you can split it whatever way it gets accepted... Does not make it any less
, of course.Yeah, although they are of dubious utility these days with all the non-geographic ones thrown around, and mobiles. I remember my Grandfather always answering the phone with 'Richmond-824916' (Richmond's area code being 01748 and the rest was the local-number bit), on a rotary-dial phone too. When I had a landline I think the only area codes I knew off the top of my head were my own and London (020x) .
I don't think I've ever in my life made a local call within an area-code and been able to utilise the feature of being able to dial just the local number bit.
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@Cursorkeys I actually do remember making local calls without the area code (and they were cheaper, too). However about the time mobile phones were starting the regulator requested that people should be able to keep their landline number when they move, even to the other end of the country, and the local call distinction and area codes were dropped.
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@Cursorkeys Oh, I think for some reason I got the impression you were saying the country code made the area code longer. Like, it went from 3 to 5. But you didn't actually say that, so…
Filed under: clearly I should've saved a copy of the phone number before you enhanced your redaction
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Filed under: clearly I should've saved a copy of the phone number before you enhanced your redaction
Just ask @anotherusername, although I'm not sure if his script saves images too or just text.
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@Cursorkeys The original image might even still exist if you haven't deleted it, but your edit history isn't public.
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I didn't update. It auto-updated. WordPress is so WTF it will auto-update from Version 4 to Version 5.
There's a setting for that-- "don't auto update major versions" or something.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Kannada (also spelt Karnataka)
Canada is not amused.
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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
I don't think I've ever in my life made a local call within an area-code and been able to utilise the feature of being able to dial just the local number bit.
I did many years ago, but haven't for a long time and TBH forgot that even existed.
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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Filed under: clearly I should've saved a copy of the phone number before you enhanced your redaction
Just ask @anotherusername, although I'm not sure if his script saves images too or just text.
The text would include the URL. Unless you also deleted the uploaded image (via your profile) it'll still be there.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Filed under: clearly I should've saved a copy of the phone number before you enhanced your redaction
Just ask @anotherusername, although I'm not sure if his script saves images too or just text.
The text would include the URL. Unless you also deleted the uploaded image (via your profile) it'll still be there.
TIL, thanks!
In spite of the 'Uploads are public, all visitors can see them.' message it doesn't look like you can browse another user's upload list. Thankfully.
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I love toolbar menus that disappear every time you toggle a checkbox in them. Especially when that toggle is beyond the first layer.
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I love toolbar menus that disappear every time you toggle a checkbox in them. Especially when that toggle is beyond the first layer.
Are you interesting in trading? I can offer you some menus that appear every time your mouse pointer spends more than a few microseconds above their title, and obscure a significant part of the screen.
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@Zerosquare please stop reminding me of how godawful SyFy's website is.
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Status: FedEx "Advanced tracking" site is shit.
I got a tonne of screen estate. USE IT, FUCKERS!
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@Tsaukpaetra The virtual assistant is feeling so, so lonely down there.
It's all simulated of course, but that'll teach 'm.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I got a tonne of screen estate. USE IT, FUCKERS!
But it won't fit on a phone then!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I got a tonne of screen estate. USE IT, FUCKERS!
But it won't fit on a phone then!
I have yet to see proof that the website doesn't look like that on mobile, maybe it's just the same layout with tiny text.
Filed under: why fail once if you can fail twice?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: FedEx "Advanced tracking" site is shit.
I got a tonne of screen estate. USE IT, FUCKERS!
My bet: they're using browser agent sniffing (badly)
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@Lorne-Kates said in UI Bites:
My bet: they're using browser agent sniffing (badly)
Is there any other way to use it?
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My banking app has this lovely feature where I have to sign in each time I open it, for Security. However, it quite literally is when I open it, as that's when it checks whether I should be signed out by then and, if so, animates flipping to the login screen. Someone who knew exactly what they were looking for and where to find it would be able to pick it out during that animation. Security.
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The bank I have my main credit card through has an online banking system that they seem to have done very little bar updating the graphics since 2002. Some months I don't get the "your statement is ready" email or it arrives days late and some days it forgets what kind of card I have, the limit, the balance and the transactions and simply says "Visa". Their app also has various graphical glitches that I've observed on two different phones (Xperia XZ Premium and Galaxy Note 9) which doesn't speak well about the effort they're willing to put into these things.
Annoyingly, their login form is apparently so broken that Lastpass' brain breaks when it tries to fill it. I suspect that they're doing something intentionally to break it.
Also, for "security" I imagine, you need a customer number (fine), a security PIN (a fixed six digit code you pick) and a password (12 characters, can't remember the symbol allowances but I think it's "none"). Not exactly sure what they're trying to achieve there requiring what is essentially two passwords.
At least with HSBC's bizzaro two password login it required you to have one that was eight characters long and it would ask for three different characters from it (e.g. 2, 3, and 8) which made at least a little sense.
In saying that, it is churning time now so I will be rid of their awful online banking experience in due course.
At least apart from the stupid four digit PIN scramble pad style entry that ING here have, their online banking is at least not annoying to use.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@Lorne-Kates said in UI Bites:
My bet: they're using browser agent sniffing (badly)
Is there any other way to use it?
Only legit way:
- Server-side code checks the useragent
- If it claims to be a bot, do a reverse DNS lookup of the incoming IP
- Does that IP belong to the correct entity (GoogleBot resolves to a Google IP?)
- If no, nuke the connection and permaban the IP.
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@Douglasac said in UI Bites:
Annoyingly, their login form is apparently so broken that Lastpass' brain breaks when it tries to fill it. I suspect that they're doing something intentionally to break it.
Patreon can choke on a detachable dick for this offense, too. They have (had?) it so that the "Login" button wouldn't enable until it detected at least one keystroke inside the username or password textboxes. Autofill would fill in username/password, but that didn't raise any keystroke events. AND THEN-- even if you do enter a character, then delete it-- the LOGIN button disables itself again because current_value == initial_value. So you had to instead hit backspace, then retype the last character of your password, which then wouldn't trigger the "initial_value" check.
Then again, this is from the Brillant programmers who still haven't added a "mark all as read" button in the PM/Notification section. So I perpetually have 99+ unread.
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@Lorne-Kates said in UI Bites:
Patreon can choke on a detachable dick for this offense, too. They have (had?) it so that the "Login" button wouldn't enable until it detected at least one keystroke inside the username or password textboxes
They seem to have fixed that one, it behaves as expected when I tried it then.
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@Lorne-Kates Or you could serve the same stuff to google than you do to people like you should.
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@Lorne-Kates said in UI Bites:
Patreon can choke on a detachable dick
@Douglasac said in UI Bites:
They seem to have fixed that one
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GitHub places the "clear" button in the position and colouration typically reserved for "Cancel"
I almost lost my unique and original insight there.
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When closing a tab of xml…
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When closing a tab of xml…
Sounds like you've got the versions of various modules out of synch;
AbstractMethodError(= “this class doesn't provide concrete methods for all abstract methods defined by superclasses”, possibly with a bonus of “and I need to call it right now”) is supposed to not happen (the compiler won't deliberately generate it), but can happen when code is loaded against methods that it wasn't compiled against.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
My banking app has this lovely feature where I have to sign in each time I open it, for Security. However, it quite literally is when I open it, as that's when it checks whether I should be signed out by then and, if so, animates flipping to the login screen. Someone who knew exactly what they were looking for and where to find it would be able to pick it out during that animation. Security.
Mine seems to Do It Right™, surprisingly enough. Whenever I'm signed in, there's a non-dismissable notification saying so, and otherwise it's signed out.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
My banking app has this lovely feature where I have to sign in each time I open it, for Security. However, it quite literally is when I open it
I cannot parse this sentence.
It quite literally is what when you open it?
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@dkf Yeah; I've installed some ancient version of eclipse because that's standard on the project and then I installed some plugins that it should have downloaded from the matching repository but hell knows what it actually did. I don't like eclipse, but on this project the other guys wrote a bunch of scripts and added them as external tools into eclipse and calling them in any other way is pain in the arse. But working with eclipse is pain in the arse too, so I have the great choice between pain in the arse and pain in the arse.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
My banking app has this lovely feature where I have to sign in each time I open it, for Security. However, it quite literally is when I open it
I cannot parse this sentence.
It quite literally is what when you open it?Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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@pie_flavor Exactly!
You a verb there.
