WTF Bites
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@Polygeekery
Or, as I put it to our DOO the other day...Well, people find this new teleconferencing solution, and it works great, no lag, high quality audio, so they switch all their meetings to it. And then as word of mouth spreads, more and more people start using it, and one day the service gets a little overloaded, call quality drops, you get some random disconnects. So people go looking for a new teleconferencing solution, and it works great...
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@izzion lather, rinse, repeat.
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source: I filter douchebags I meet that way, having a name that spawns similar jokes
Are you related to the Michael Bolton?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
dumbest fucking names
Why? Wanna join me in my bluejeans is a perfect normal way to invite someone, no?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
dumbest fucking names
Why? Wanna join me in my bluejeans is a perfect normal way to invite someone, no?
I'm being denied access. Can you help me get into your bluejeans?
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I'm being denied access. Can you help me get into your bluejeans?
I have the impression you don't fit into my bluejeans. Can we try yours?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
dumbest fucking names
Why? Wanna join me in my bluejeans is a perfect normal way to invite someone, no?
I'm being denied access. Can you help me get into your bluejeans?
Did you unzip?
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My bluejeans keeps dropping every time you enter my room.
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I would have expected it to be written ‘Buesingen’ in pure ASCII if the correct form is ‘Büsingen’ as per the usual German convention of adding extra ‘e’ when writing in media that don't support umlauts.
Right, but if the gringos cared about other people's orthography, the taxi company should be called Ueber, too.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I met a really awesome Comcast rep who has been amazing and helpful.
I'd bet there's exactly one such Comcast rep in the entire multiverse. Assuming your description is accurate, about which I'm skeptical, because "awesome, amazing and helpful" and "Comcast" are mutually exclusive.
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@Polygeekery
I stand by my theory. There are a lot of douchebags out there that jump straight to the "oh you have a name that has this common famous equivalent" jokes on meeting someone (source: I filter douchebags I meet that way, having a name that spawns similar jokes)"oh! Do you go by Tony?" fuck off, I said what I go by! If I went by any other name I would have given it!
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legacy functionality that allowed customer Domain Admins to view passwords
Why was that ever, legacy or otherwise, a thing?
stored in our encrypted systems in an unhashed format
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@HardwareGeek
It’s been a windows thing for forever too.There are some systems where password security isn’t mission critical (kiosks for lobby displays) or you wind up with “service” accounts used by multiple people (terminal services accounts to bypass per-user licensing costs for some LOB system) and you wind up with the system admin keeping a big spreadsheet file with the account info anyway. Reversible encryption for the passwords at least makes it easier to manage those cases, even if the security aspect still sucks.
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WTF Chrome
An ad (or something close enough to it) from another tab that I had left open for a few minutes just started playing seemingly at random, with sound, while I was using another tab. In contrast, when I switched tabs from a Twitter video, it silenced the sound from that (which I actually wanted to listen to) so I had to pull it out into its own window.
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@hungrier that's not Chrome's fault, that's the websites' fault. Especially the Twitter auto-pause-when-inactive thing I find very annoying.
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@hungrier I agree with whatever @Gąska has said above, and I add that that would also have happened if you had scrolled down enough on the Twitter tab.
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I like when it's correct to repeat a word, like in that 'that' that's in the post above.
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@hungrier that's not Chrome's fault, that's the websites' fault. Especially the Twitter auto-pause-when-inactive thing I find very annoying.
It's annoying, but the opposite (sites that start playing videos with sound after a delay, even when they're not the active tab) is a lot worse.
The people who make such things deserve to have their connected TV infected by some malware. Malware which would turn it on at 3 AM at 100% volume.
Status: coding said malware.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier that's not Chrome's fault, that's the websites' fault. Especially the Twitter auto-pause-when-inactive thing I find very annoying.
It's annoying, but the opposite (sites that start playing videos with sound after a delay, even when they're not the active tab) is a lot worse.
Up until you encounter your first long video on Twitter that you want to listen to but not necessarily watch. Then, Twitter's annoyingness shoots through the roof.
And the problem of autoplaying videos with sound is easily solvable on user's side. Twitter's twittery - not so much. (You could theoretically work around it by opening the page you're reading right a second time but in a new window this time, but .)
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Up until you encounter your first long video on Twitter that you want to listen to but not necessarily watch.
There are long funny cat videos too?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Why was that ever, legacy or otherwise, a thing?
AIUI, it happened when you set a password manually when creating a user (as opposed to creating a temporary one at random). Presumably, the manually set password was stored somewhere, and I guess it was visible (although I don't ever recall that being a thing you could do in my Apps domain, but )
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And the problem of autoplaying videos with sound is easily solvable on user's side.
Does Chrome actually allow audio by default? A feature Firefox didn't copy from them?
It's probably because Google's business is advertising, because I can't see how that wouldn't be a desirable feature. Using is .
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@kazitor mind you, Firefox only started blocking autoplay sound this March.
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My father got a "hybrid smartwatch" as a gift. What's that, you say? Well, let's find out:
In reality it literally does only two things: vibrate when it gets a notification and send button presses to your phone. Wow. Such smarts.
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Today in WordPress is amazing:
Full file path in error message which is displayed for any visitor. (Inb4 using WordPress for your news site is .)
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
In reality it literally does only two things: vibrate when it gets a notification and send button presses to your phone. Wow. Such smarts.
Calling it "smart" is sure a stretch, but you could say the same thing for "real" smartwatches, which have to be recharged all the time, and will probably stop working sooner or later because they're no longer supported
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I like when it's correct to repeat a word, like in that 'that' that's in the post above.
Not quite as satisfying as a word with double contractions in a context that wasn't artificially constructed I'd've thought...
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Gigaset wireless phones have a "Radiation-free ECO Mode Plus". I checked the website:
When I activate ECO Mode Plus the stand-by time for my phone is cut in half. This means I have to charge the handset more often, which means I use more energy. Why is this the case?
The base station only transmits a signal when a call comes in or when an internal connection is established. To ensure that there are no delays in establishing a connection, the handset has to „listen“ in regular intervals for a connection is being established from the base station. This is referred to as scanning.
When using ECO Modus Plus, the handset has to scan more frequently than handsets requiring a constant connection. This causes the handset to consume more energy, which in turn reduces it‘s stand-by time.So this "ECO Mode Plus" makes the phone use twice the power .
I guess if the base uses more power than the phone it could still balance out? If you don't consider the fact that "battery energy" is much more expensive than "wall energy" both in terms of environment and money.
(Yes, I know the energy use of a phone is negligible anyway)
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@pie_flavor fyi your real name is shown here. dunno if you care
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@bb36e I've stopped caring by now, since if you google my username you get my GitHub which also has it.
e: dang, still only on the second page if the underscore is removed.
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@kazitor mind you, Firefox only started blocking autoplay sound this March.
Firefox also only got around to per-tab mute controls ~10 years after I suggested it to them just when they copied it from Chrome.
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Full file path in error message which is displayed for any visitor.
Printing PHP warnings is not the fault of WordPress, but the idiot who configured PHP on the server
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Checking out a software for a client. The demo instance is loaded with example data. All of the example data is pretty old, the newest records are dated ~2015, and they go back to 2012. All of the example reports default to current month, last month, last 90 days, etc. As a result the example reports and such all come up blank.
I click on the dropdown to select a data range, I clear the year for the start range and enter 2000. I hit enter.
Now the demo instance is down, no response. I seem to have crashed it. Perhaps by tomorrow it may be done with its queries. Maybe I fucked it up properly.
I am thinking our client needs to look for other options if that can crash the instance.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Today in "Chrome thinks it's funny":
For the love of god, clean your fucking computer.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Checking out a software for a client. The demo instance is loaded with example data. All of the example data is pretty old, the newest records are dated ~2015, and they go back to 2012. All of the example reports default to current month, last month, last 90 days, etc. As a result the example reports and such all come up blank.
I click on the dropdown to select a data range, I clear the year for the start range and enter 2000. I hit enter.
Now the demo instance is down, no response. I seem to have crashed it. Perhaps by tomorrow it may be done with its queries. Maybe I fucked it up properly.
I am thinking our client needs to look for other options if that can crash the instance.
Even more amusing, I tried loading their mobile app to see if it killed all the endpoints. Yep. But the funny part is that their app is telling me that my internet is down and that I have to connect to WiFi.
Uhmmm, no. My connection is fine. Your shit is broken.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Now the demo instance is down, no response. I seem to have crashed it. Perhaps by tomorrow it may be done with its queries. Maybe I fucked it up properly.
I am thinking our client needs to look for other options if that can crash the instance.That reminds me a lot of the state of software for supporting microbiology labs. How so many places made a mess of a bunch of forms wrapped around a database with a wiki off the side, I'll never know…
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"Niche" software is a wonderful source of all kinds of WTFs.
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- OneDrive: Could not combine changes in folder "Backup", rename or delete either the online or local folder to synchronize
OK, whatever. I click and rename "Backup" to "asdfasdf" so it will download the other version and I can fix it...
- OneDrive: Could not combine changes in folder "asdfasdf", rename or delete either the online or local folder to synchronize
God damn it!
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
- OneDrive: Could not combine changes in folder "Backup", rename or delete either the online or local folder to synchronize
OK, whatever. I click and rename "Backup" to "asdfasdf" so it will download the other version and I can fix it...
- OneDrive: Could not combine changes in folder "asdfasdf", rename or delete either the online or local folder to synchronize
God damn it!
Fucked up file in the folder. Should be named in logs.
OneDrive's error reporting is shit.
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Lots of images
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https://i.imgur.com/DTv1wkR.pngrepresentative quote:
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@pie_flavor Many people that run Minecraft servers.... Shouldn't. I hate dealing with those idiots.
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@Erufael I charge for it. Makes it easier.
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Things that do not break when I update my graphics driver while running them: every video game I've tried it with.
Things that do break when I update my graphics driver while running them: Chrome
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@pie_flavor Answer "Yes" to receive Ben L. style screenshot.
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@topspin UNK
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Things that do not break when I update my graphics driver while running them: every video game I've tried it with.
Things that do break when I update my graphics driver while running them: ChromeAlso any program using CEF. Looking at you, Battle.net client...
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@Atazhaia and yet overwatch works.
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If the Comcast techs I just unloaded on are reading this, I meant it when I apologized.