WTF Bites
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If you live an apartment then you probably know that turning your radio to news at max volume at 0230 is going to wake up other people right?
Did I somehow piss off my upstairs neighbour??
Naw, that's just the usual antisocial "Me, me, me!" attitude. Experienced that today when the local city cleaners parked their car in a crossing in such a way that they blocked half of the crossing (i.e. making a turn impossible unless you mounted the curb).
Why? Because if they'd have parked one meter further (so as not to be a massive hindrance) they'd have had to walk said meter. Judging from the guy's walking speed he should be in a wheel chair, the poor guy...
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Turns out this program exposed hardware I/O ports to user programs, allowing full escalation of privileges. Brilliant.
Whoa. Those bugs are a really efficient way of nullifying almost all security systems on a modern system. Well done.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Download size: 132.89 MBytes
Tell me it's not an Electron app
Worse: It's not.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Turns out this program exposed hardware I/O ports to user programs, allowing full escalation of privileges.
Brilliant.FTFY
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Ex-YouTube developer reveals how he 'conspired to kill IE6'
Unendorsed YouTube web banner may have helped obliterate Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 usage.
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@Zerosquare from the source blog post:
…Frustrated, one of the lawyers asked “Why did you have to put Chrome first?” Confused, I explained that we did not give any priority to Chrome. Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended that we randomize the order of the browsers listed and then cookie the random seed for each visitor so that the UI would not jump around between pages, which we had done. As luck would have it, these two lawyers still used IE6 to access certain legacy systems and had both ended up with random seeds that placed Chrome in the first position. Their fear was that by showing preferential treatment to Chrome, we might prick the ears of European regulators already on the lookout for any anti-competitive behavior…
how things have changed
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@Zerosquare from the source blog post:
…Frustrated, one of the lawyers asked “Why did you have to put Chrome first?” Confused, I explained that we did not give any priority to Chrome. Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended that we randomize the order of the browsers listed and then cookie the random seed for each visitor so that the UI would not jump around between pages, which we had done. As luck would have it, these two lawyers still used IE6 to access certain legacy systems and had both ended up with random seeds that placed Chrome in the first position. Their fear was that by showing preferential treatment to Chrome, we might prick the ears of European regulators already on the lookout for any anti-competitive behavior…
how things have changed
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beye is an obscure TUI hex editor. I considered using it to look at binary files possibly containing CP1251-encoded text, then had a look at SVN commit logs and, well, reconsidered:
It seems that ::backtrace() extension on my development system was hacked.
Malefactor(s) seriously attacked this project.
Their illegal-patch makes output of backtrace broken to hide itself.
Their patch doesn't work under gdb+breakoints but works without gdbI've found out that gcc hacked by malefactors substitute inline functions too.
- illegal-patch exists and still occupies beye (that was proven in previous logs).
(For example, illegal-patch hides many internal errors of beye - it means that
illegal-patch substitutes such places of project and control never transfered
into original beye's code (log.127). For more example, illegal-patch makes beye
much slower. Evenmore, illegal-patch gives memory leaks because beye has no
memory leaks without illegal-patch (log.130))
<...>
- formating HDD with arch-linux and re-install arch don't help me rid from
illegal-patch.
more accurate proof of hacked std::string by hacked-gcc for illegal-patch!
malefactors hacked my 'tee' command
this dump shows as gdb was hacked ny malefactors on the fly (most probably through modifing of .so files)
sometime i'm suspecting that malefactors have hacked glibc too, due multiple messages of gdb <...> but hacked tee (and/or gdb + tee) hide them.
this log shows that hacked-gcc converted
std::vector into something flat (same as std::string -> char*). That means also that gcc hacked
by malefactors converted references(&) into pointers(*) tooalso i need to tell that gcc was hacked for wchar_t too:
std::string koi8r = "...";
std::wstring wutf8 = L"...";
// ...
wutf8.assign(koi8r.begin(),koi8r.end());
// ...
if(wutf8.size() && wutf8.size()==wutf8.length()) {
std::wcout<<"your compiler was hacked by malefactors"<<std::endl;
} else {
std::wcout<<"your compiler supports wstrings"<<std::endl;
}i dunno which version of gcc was forked by malefactors but it
can't compile even this source:----------------- 8< ------------------ 8< ------------------------
class A {
public:
A(int val) { a=val; }
~A() {}
int a;
};int func(int aa) {
if(aa>0) goto exit;
A* a = new A(aa);
int rc=a->a;
delete a;
return rc;
exit:
return 0;
}
----------------- 8< ------------------ 8< ------------------------It seems that malefactors hacked licensed Windows-7 on my notebook which was
purchased by me.Mingw doesn't contain ldd utility because it's something ELF-specific.
But, there configure script worked fine (what was proved in r51). Therefore
malefactors located ldd.exe in secret catalogue which hides hacked Windows-kernel.After previous commit (r222) my internet-cable was physically unplugged from outdoor's ISP-box
and was little damaged my healthit seems that unicast took heavy control over my internet-conection
it seems that unicast actively uses my internet-connection from all computer
which i have, even from commercial Windows 7 which was purchased by me for money
and later hacked by unicast.Considering that this World has > 3 dimensions of space we need take into account that unicazd works
through other dimensions than ordinal people can watch.
<...>- we must refuse dynamic linkage of programs because unicazd use symbolic information to
determine how to control programs.
<...> - we should to block main control entry of unicazd: /dev/pts/0.
<...> - unicazd has big conceit and acts through '0.0.0.0' address.
Poor developer has been apparently driven to paranoia around 2012 by undefined behaviour and optimization in his C++ code. The first such commit message I found in the author's other project, mplayerxp.
At least, I hope it's paranoia.
- illegal-patch exists and still occupies beye (that was proven in previous logs).
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Bilingual
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@TimeBandit it's funny to see Americans' reaction to what the rest of the world had to deal with forever.
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@TimeBandit it's funny to see Americans' reaction to what the rest of the world had to deal with forever.
What?
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@TimeBandit I tried to be nice, because you Canadians always whine how you're being excluded from that term.
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@GÄ…ska A good way to insult a Canadian is to call him American
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@TimeBandit oh well.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
A good way to insult a Canadian is to call him American
you prefer to go by the more neutral 'deep freezer inhabitant'?
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@Luhmann Personnaly, I prefer Canadian
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Moved a client to a e-faxing service. The number was supposed to be ported this morning, but due to all sorts of reasons the porting request that I submitted was all kinds of fucked up. We recently migrated them to Comcast phone service and when I filled out all the information I put ATT on all of it, with the ATT account number, which was all wrong. That was my fault. Due to all of this, I never sent them the LOA giving them the authority to do the port.
So I tried to get all of that straightened out. It was a fiasco. So yesterday I call the client and let them know not to expect to use the new fax service so they never bothered telling their employees about it. They had a temporary fax number they could have used, but did not want their customers and clients to get that number, update their records and then send a fax to a number that was getting ready to go away. Make sense? Following with me so far?
11AM I get an email telling me that the number had been ported successfully. So then it was a mad rush to get the last configuration done, get a how-to put together and sent out to all of their fax users, make sure that people knew what to expect so they did not delete the emails containing faxes because they thought they were spam, etc.
All a big pain in the ass, that never should have occurred because they did not even have the LOA they needed in order to do the port.
Fuckers.
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And of course in all the chaos and due to porting happening when I did not think it would we forgot to order a replacement phone number for the analog line that got ported, so their check scanner went down.
I am glad I finally found a good Comcast rep.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
faxing [...] fax service [...] fax number [...] fax users
Found
s.The 12th century is
callingfaxing and want their technology back.
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@cvi you get no disagreement from me. I fucking hate fax services. Every single option out there. But efaxing services are the least bad option. Even MS seems to have completely stopped supporting the fax server built in to Windows Server. ISTR having to copy a file from a Windows 7 machine in order to get it working on 2012R2, and this being a bug that MS was aware of and the solution of copying a file from a Win7 machine was reported by them.
My memory is likely a little foggy on that, seeing as it would have been 6-7 years ago. But that is the gist of it.
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The 12th century is callingfaxing and want their technology back.
We still have a fax machine because of one customer, who refuses to switch to email. Unfortunately they are a MM customer, so we have to keep the fax machine. It's amusing because they frequently call to check if we got the order and basically no-one checks the machine until they call.
Edit: They're also costing us money per month because we wouldn't have an analogue line except for them. We provide IP services to customers, so we have two 1gig fibre lines into the business.
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@Cursorkeys switch to any of the efaxing services. You can have their faxes delivered to the email inbox of the person who handles the orders. You will also have the order in PDF format for easy storage without having to scan it in.
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@aitap: it's always sad to witness someone losing their sanity like that. I can understand how something like undefined behaviour could drive someone who's already borderline over the edge, and I'm not even kidding.
Security researchers (the ones working on malware, state-level surveillance tools, etc.) have it even worse, because there's a real and constant risk someone/something is actually trying to hurt them. I don't think I could do that job without turning completely paranoid.
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I need to request local admin access to my Windows desktop.
Apparently this comes with a $66 charge for licensing.
I haven't found out what this is for yet.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
You will also have the order in PDF format for easy storage without having to scan it in.
Does it come with the proper wooden table background?
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: The USC Alumni Association has, for some inexplicable reason, added me to their email distribution list. I am not an USC alumnus. I have never attended USC. My only connection whatsoever with USC is that, almost 40 years ago, I was a supporter of and sometime volunteer for the university-owned public radio station (KUSC) that had formerly been the campus station.This is not stale data, left over from my days as a KUSC supporter, that somehow got erroneously transferred to the alumni list. I didn't have this email address then; I'd never even heard of email, much less had my own domain at which to receive it. It's not current information, either; the physical address they have for me is in Washington and hasn't been valid for about 3 years.
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@Cursorkeys When I was working for an EDI shop way back, the ability to handle fax was a major selling point because no other electronic data pathway was deemed "reliable" by the law. As such, the electronic transmission of invoices or orders by other means always involved a lot of paperwork to make it watertight. With fax it was considerably less.
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That's the usual explanation for companies that still use fax, yeah. It's too bad that the "reliability" of fax is pretty laughable in reality (not to mention that nowadays, it's probably handled by a fax-to-email gateway anyways).
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@Zerosquare I still remember that one project where my company had landed a major contract for a major wholesaler who wanted to do all invoices by EDI (there were already other wholesaler who mandated that to their clients - it's understandable that you don't want to deal with paper invoices anymore when the serial numbers for one year regularly reach 7+ figures).
However, this wholesaler also had a number of smallish suppliers where a fullblown EDI converter simply didn't make sense (even our smallest solution for that cost 2,000€ - a one-time flat fee, but still). So we (I was part of the sales team) were supposed to offer them an Excel-plugin (or a similar abomination) for 100€ which could only be exclusively used for that wholesaler however. We were handed a list of 15,000 companies and promised a 5€ bonus for each company that signed up (said bonus increased to 50€ if they took our full-blown implementation and 100€ if they wanted our solution to talk to other companies as well).We positively salivated over this opportunity (us being lowly students in university). I mean, 15,000 clients who need this software if they don't want to lose the wholesaler as their customer?
Yeah.
Turned out that 90% of those guys made one, maybe two sales a year to this wholesaler and their profit margins usually made even the 100€ fee a no-go. The other 10% were already large enough that they had deployed an EDI solution on their own initiative.
I think I maybe made four sales (the other guys didn't fare much better). Plus, since I was literally the only one who was moderately fluent in speaking English, I was the designated guy for talking to those bloody foreigners.
Even when said foreigners lived in the French part of Switzerland where seemingly fucking no one speaks either German or English (my French only suffices to survive ... barely and my Italian is non-existant). That was fun. Nearly as fun as trying to reach someone on bloody Australia. And don't get me started on Hong Kong.
Funnily enough, whenever I called someone in Ireland and had just introduced myself, they'd go: "Oh, you're from Germany? Dann können wir doch auch Deutsch sprechen!" Every. Single. Time.
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A few days ago I heard a man order a Whopper at Burger King. The employee asked him if he wanted a single, double or triple whopper. The man said "just a normal one". The employee repeated that it could be single, double or triple. This went on for about a minute as the man refused to say "single" and the woman refused to accept "normal". She had to call her superior to settle the situation.
Not sure why I remembered it now.
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@anonymous234 That could be me when I order “ice cream” instead of their retarded brand “X-cream sundae fuck-me-sideways-icle”.
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@topspin You mean Bruger King partially gelatinated nondairy gum-based beverages™?
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@topspin And Starbucks with their sizing.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I need to request local admin access to my Windows desktop.
Apparently this comes with a $66 charge for licensing.
I haven't found out what this is for yet.I am going to take a WAG that the admin who has to handle the request drinks booze that is roughly $66 in cost.
Adjust that to $33, $22 or $16.50 a bottle depending on how much of a drunk he is.
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Oh, you're from Germany?
One of the reasons I stopped saying I'm half-Japanese...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I stopped saying I'm half-Japanese...
AH! Too late. Now we know why...
...huh...
...you have that cat thingy on your smartphone!!
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I need to request local admin access to my Windows desktop.
Apparently this comes with a $66 charge for licensing.
I haven't found out what this is for yet.Licensing? Support cost would be rather usual—the administrator billing more for a computer where the principal user has administrator permissions, so he's not in complete control of it, makes sense.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I need to request local admin access to my Windows desktop.
Apparently this comes with a $66 charge for licensing.
I haven't found out what this is for yet.Is the price in Bitcoin?
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: Oh you're from {Country}! {City} is so beautiful!
And I'm tempted to go with -
: I've seen it. It's rubbish.
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@Zerosquare, I hope the guy got his treatment. The fact that there was only one rant about non-3D world could indicate that his relatives noticed and took action.
@topspin, yes, that's the one.
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@Zerosquare from the source blog post:
…Frustrated, one of the lawyers asked “Why did you have to put Chrome first?” Confused, I explained that we did not give any priority to Chrome. Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended that we randomize the order of the browsers listed and then cookie the random seed for each visitor so that the UI would not jump around between pages, which we had done. As luck would have it, these two lawyers still used IE6 to access certain legacy systems and had both ended up with random seeds that placed Chrome in the first position. Their fear was that by showing preferential treatment to Chrome, we might prick the ears of European regulators already on the lookout for any anti-competitive behavior…
how things have changed
YouTube's homepage seems to be very self-conscious:
Interesting choice of "options".
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@Zerosquare from the source blog post:
…Frustrated, one of the lawyers asked “Why did you have to put Chrome first?” Confused, I explained that we did not give any priority to Chrome. Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended that we randomize the order of the browsers listed and then cookie the random seed for each visitor so that the UI would not jump around between pages, which we had done. As luck would have it, these two lawyers still used IE6 to access certain legacy systems and had both ended up with random seeds that placed Chrome in the first position. Their fear was that by showing preferential treatment to Chrome, we might prick the ears of European regulators already on the lookout for any anti-competitive behavior…
how things have changed
[Chrome is the best]
hey, I found the original without having to resort to reading an entire year's worth of archives!
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@kazitor
This was unexpected .... the original joke is even more unfunny
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hey, I found the original without having to resort to reading an entire year's worth of archives!
Coincidentally, that was exactly my face back at my last place where, in summer with the windows open, I got woken up by crows instead of singing birds.
Filed under: CAW!
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
A few days ago I heard a man order a Whopper at Burger King. The employee asked him if he wanted a single, double or triple whopper. The man said "just a normal one". The employee repeated that it could be single, double or triple. This went on for about a minute as the man refused to say "single" and the woman refused to accept "normal". She had to call her superior to settle the situation.
It's entirely possible she had other clients in the past that also were ordering "normal", but some actually meant single and others actually meant double, and were seriously pissed when they found out the cashier didn't read their mind properly.
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Today in "Chrome thinks it's funny":
Brought to you by shitty phone cam because it doesn't even show up on screen-record.
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@pie_flavor Damn, and I think my screen is dirty.
Filed under: aware I'm still watching the recording through my screen
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