WTF Bites
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
User says: "I can't send any emails. It just stays stuck on sending, and I cannot receive any email either."
Diagnosis: Their internet connection is currently down.
This exact same user created a ticket on Friday morning because she could not scan to her computer.
Diagnosis: She uses a laptop, had just come in for the day and had not turned it on yet. That the computer needed to be on to be able to use it as a scan destination had escaped them.
Taking these in combination, the latter almost makes a sort of sense: if she could send an email and it would wait in the inbox until the computer is able to send it, then why couldn't the scanner scan the document and then hold it until the computer is available to receive it?
Our scanners (which are also the copiers and printers) just do scan to pdf and email. So I'd have found nothing wrong with scanning something and sending it to myself without having turned on the computer. After all, email is asynchronous.
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Things like the data itself becoming sentient and attacking the system.
Figure that's a future AV software. It evolved to make sure you can't eradicate it from your system.
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What do you mean, "future"? You're describing McAffee AV.
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Didn't you Europs abolish daylight saving time anyway? When would he ever need to reset the clock?
That's been postponed by a year. Quite possible that'll happen a few more times.
Saving Daylight Saving Time for later time.
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Of course he insisted that I show it to him a second time because you never know when you might have to set it again. Or something.
When you take it in for maintenance and they disconnect the battery and lose all the settings? Because saving to non-volatile storage would cost too much...
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@boomzilla "directions from the galactic core to sol" thread is .
Filed under: bookmarked for reading
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@topspin Oh yes. Yesterday I had to show my father how to set the car's clock so that it used the time provided by the GPS module instead of having to set it manually.
Was a simple: "Go to settings and select 'Use GPS' instead of 'Set Manually'". Of course there's the of why on Earth this wasn't already set in the beginning but, oh well...
Of course he insisted that I show it to him a second time because you never know when you might have to set it again. Or something.
That the whole point of this endeavour was to never having to set the clock again somehow eluded him.
Didn't you Europs abolish daylight saving time anyway? When would he ever need to reset the clock?
Let's just say that I'm driving a similar brand and the clock skew is noticable over the course of half a year, And getting rid of DST hasn't been fully processed yet.
If the clock becomes slow, obviously it just freezes briefly when starting the engine
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Filed under: bookmarked for reading
Well worth it, especially for anyone who remembers what USENET was like.
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Filed under: bookmarked for reading
Well worth it, especially for anyone who remembers what USENET was like.
Like Facebook without the stupid people?!
Filed under: Eternal September
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Dreamweaver had been complaining about not having write access to a file. I looked it up and the file didn't actually exist at all, but it kept nagging me on every boot about it. Then I shuffled some files about and removed the folder the file was supposedly in. After asking me if I wanted to remove the "write-protected file" it seems to have disappeared from Dreamweaver's imagination finally.
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I think our good friend Jeff hired as a member of the Fitbit forum.
: Hi, can I use my Fitbit device without creating an account? I want to sync my device to my phone only, not to your web service. I've had to use a fake email account because there is no "I don't want an account" option.
: That's not the way Fitbit works. Your tracker is an online connected device, if you don't sync it it'll lose the information after one day. You can't analyze your activities like that. Why do you even want that? Your data is absolutely safe. Also, I'm going to berate you about the difference between a "fake email" and a "valid but throwaway" email, while using horrible grammar myself.
2: is right, you obviously couldn't do things like synchronizing the correct time when only using your phone without an account.
: And what if your phone storage runs out with all that data?!
: Did you even read all the legalese your lawyers make people agree to?Fuck you, you moron, there is zero technical reason for this to exist.
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@topspin Later in the thread:
Hello, here's our privacy policy, please let us know if you have any more questions
I read it and I don't like the part where you share with third parties
Thank you for reading it, for coming back, and for posting on our forum. If there's anything else just ask
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I like that part:
Why buy a connected device if one does not want it to be connected?
Oh, you thought "connected" meant "connected to your phone"?
Nah, that's a common mistake. It means "connected to third-parties for monetization".
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
I like that part:
Why buy a connected device if one does not want it to be connected?
Oh, you thought "connected" meant "connected to your phone"?
Nah, that's a common mistake. It means "connected to third-parties for monetization".Fitbit privacy policy said:
Some information is required to create an account on our Services, such as your name, email address, password, date of birth, gender, height, weight, and in some cases your mobile telephone number.
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Hey, at least they don't ask about your sexual preferences.
...because they can infer them from the data they collect, probably.
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WTF of my day: So much for Apple knowing what they're doing. I present Exhibit A which I got after Xcode told me that there's an update available which it was unable to install due to a lack of space (said "lack of space" means that it needs more than the currently 15 GB of free space - who here was griping about Windows doing silly updating space shenanigans again?)
But, sure, MacOS has this "show me where my space has gone!" tool. Which results in a gem like this:
You'll note that all those files don't quite add up to 18.83 GB.
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@Rhywden It's the hidden
Pron
folder, isn't it?
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@Rhywden It's the hidden
Pron
folder, isn't it?It's actually Xcode (who'da thunk it?) which seems to keep everything around up to and including the kitchen sink they used in Ancient Egypt.
Of course they're putting that stuff in hidden folders.
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Fuck you, you moron, there is zero technical reason for this to exist.
I could imagine that some amount of post processing might possibly be done in the cloud (I don't receive the "this is how you slept last night" report until several sync trial trips later). But that's a stretch...
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Date and time keeping strikes again!
(note that my phone is indeed in local time because cell towers, and I'm checking out of the local hotel I was currently in one of their rooms).
Edit: spontaneous picture of Louis Rossman not intended, but a nice touch.
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Dear
diaryDHS ESTA website,what do you need my mother's phone number and email address for? If you absolutely do need my mother's phone number, then don't tell me her phone number is an invalid number. It is not!
Thanks Obama.
EDIT: Oh, that's the one I've been waiting for.
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@topspin: I love this kind of questions.
Do they really expect anyone to answer "yes"? That would be ridiculous.
Or is it a legal trick?
I.e. "You're being charged for terrorism, espionage, sabotage, genocide and lying on the DHS website"?
That's only slightly less ridiculous.My theory is that's plain old (literal) box-ticking.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Hey, at least they don't ask about your sexual preferences.
...because they can infer them from the data they collect, probably.
Quick back-and-forth motions are certainly a dead giveaway.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Hey, at least they don't ask about your sexual preferences.
...because they can infer them from the data they collect, probably.
Quick back-and-forth motions are certainly a dead giveaway.
Not necessarily...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Quick back-and-forth motions are certainly a dead giveaway.
Not necessarily...
I don't think I want an explanation
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Quick back-and-forth motions are certainly a dead giveaway.
Not necessarily...
I don't think I want an explanation
What's there to explain?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Hey, at least they don't ask about your sexual preferences.
...because they can infer them from the data they collect, probably.
Quick back-and-forth motions are certainly a dead giveaway.
Relevant (reasonably SFW until you open the article behind the onebox)
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Grisly accident:
I've worked on what were called "rescue" projects in previous lives, where pretty much this had happened with some other consulting firm - I blame AEM as the common element.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@topspin: I love this kind of questions.
Do they really expect anyone to answer "yes"? That would be ridiculous.
Or is it a legal trick?
I.e. "You're being charged for terrorism, espionage, sabotage, genocide and lying on the DHS website"?
That's only slightly less ridiculous.My theory is that's plain old (literal) box-ticking.
It's jurisdiction twiddling. It's a crime to lie on that form, so they guarantee that anything incredibly serious will be tried on our soil. Or something like that. I think there's also an element of federal jurisdiction vs state jurisdiction too, although that wouldn't be amazingly relevant for high crimes like those.
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And what, might you be asking, was so interactive that it absolutely needed to be done in Flash?
https://i.imgur.com/3F6RH1C.png
A static image of a number line.
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@pie_flavor SVG images must have been novel technology when the webapp was designed...
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Maybe some questions involve interacting with the graphics, and they use the same solution even for questions who don't?
...yes, I'm playing devil's advocate ; why do you ask?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I wait for the day that we get an angry call from someone who wonders why something like that is not fixed and it is the first we have heard of it because they tried to email to report the issue.
While we know how these things are built on top of each other, to a BFU it works by magic. They may not necessarily be idiots (though of course some are), they may just have their brains filled with other stuff.
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@Zerosquare No, that's not the case.
It is the case that questions have specific numbers which can be changed to create several different versions of the same question, so (a) student's can't cheat and (b) they can provide you with sample problems with corresponding solutions. But hell if I know why they can't just dynamically generate the image, or for that matter just do it in HTML and CSS. FFS they've got an entire rich math editor, nearly as good as Desmos's, even working on mobile, and yet they can't do a number line?
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Didn't you Europs abolish daylight saving time anyway? When would he ever need to reset the clock?
That's been postponed by a year. Quite possible that'll happen a few more times.
I don't think it's been postponed. It's been simply approved with effective date set two years in future. Which is for two reasons: the reasonable one is that there is a lot of systems that use tables of timezone transitions that need to be updated, the not reasonable is that they didn't also agree on what the timezones will end up looking like after that date yet.
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Didn't you Europs abolish daylight saving time anyway? When would he ever need to reset the clock?
That's been postponed by a year. Quite possible that'll happen a few more times.
I don't think it's been postponed. It's been simply approved with effective date set two years in future. Which is for two reasons: the reasonable one is that there is a lot of systems that use tables of timezone transitions that need to be updated, the not reasonable is that they didn't also agree on what the timezones will end up looking like after that date yet.
No, they really did postpone the date it would take effect by a year.
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@Rhywden It's the hidden
Pron
folder, isn't it?It's actually Xcode (who'da thunk it?) which seems to keep everything around up to and including the kitchen sink they used in Ancient Egypt.
Of course they're putting that stuff in hidden folders.
Old habits from when it used to be called XXXcode
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I blame AEM as the common element.
Seems cromulent.
I was wondering about that abbreviation as well.
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I was wondering about that abbreviation as well.
I thought
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Wait for it...
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I was wondering about that abbreviation as well.
Where I work it means “all employee meeting”, but that does not fit either.
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@Rhywden It's the hidden
Pron
folder, isn't it?It's actually Xcode (who'da thunk it?) which seems to keep everything around up to and including the kitchen sink they used in Ancient Egypt.
Of course they're putting that stuff in hidden folders.
Old habits from when it used to be called XXXcode
Well, we tend to use the easier-to-pronounce version of that: FuckCode
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Wait for it...
Oh! I remember this in close-up from.... erm... nevermind...
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It's a chat client! What the hell is in there.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
It's a chat client! What the hell is in there.