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@CarrieVS Random stab: the date/time system isn't handling the jump from Julian to Gregorian properly. A date in the Julian calendar is currently 13 days behind, but the original difference was 10.
I wouldn't expect that to be it, but it's a neat coincidence.
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Yeah; IDEA stuffs all the crap together in .idea, but it actually makes sense to version some™ of it.
For editor config in repos I prefer an agnostic format such as https://editorconfig.org/ because everyone doesn't use the same IDE.
I use as many my-setup-specific formats and instructions as possible because everyone who doesn't do it like me is deranged or uneducated.
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@Polygeekery Lounge thread, potentially? This sounds like a goldmine.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
It is built on a CMS that they built themselves.
@Polygeekery Lounge thread, potentially? This sounds like a goldmine.
Smells more like a cesspit though.
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@Vault_Dweller said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
without doxxing myself
Wait, so you're not the guy in your avatar?
I'm not nearly that good looking. Well, unless you ask @Jaloopa.
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@Polygeekery Do you own a MAGA hat at least?
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@Parody Sounds reasonable. Julian/Gregorian was what I was thinking of but my brief google only uncovered the original 10 day change.
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@Polygeekery Do you own a MAGA hat at least?
Sadly, no. I need to rectify that situation. It would have come in handy at the birthday party this last weekend.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery Do you own a MAGA hat at least?
Sadly, no. I need to rectify that situation. It would have come in handy at the birthday party this last weekend.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF Bites:
for maximum fun with high-speed industrial-grade "strip" shredders, feed them fan-fold paper(1) that hasn't been burst...
There's a YouTube channel dedicated to crushing random things with an industrial hydraulic press.
For me, one of the most surprising results was the stack of paper, which produced a quite destructive shockwave.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I was
"reading"Reddit.I only read Reddit for the articles!
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@error Contrary to that, here is a completely unsurprising result:
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Asked to look into why the emails being sent from the China site are wrong.
Oh look,
en-USis hard-coded in the email template service.Is it bad I fear fixing this bug might reveal 6 more?
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Is it bad I fear fixing this bug might reveal 6 more?
That's just a sign you have a lot of experience in the field
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I was
"reading"Reddit.I only read Reddit for the articles!
r/badwomensanatomy
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery Do you own a MAGA hat at least?
Sadly, no. I need to rectify that situation. It would have come in handy at the birthday party this last weekend.
This party?
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Actual ticket conversation chain that just came in:
The scanner is not working, but is showing message that the internet connection is broken. Is this a glitch I can just wait out?
So, they had a major power issue last night and some HP printers have a thoroughly broken implementation of TCP/IP in that if the printer comes up and something else it depends on is not available on the network (in this case, likely the DNS server it relies on to resolve the network share it scans to), it just shits itself and does not recover.
One of my guys replies:
Could you reboot it and try again?
Problem, he was non-specific, and we have talked about that.
Rule #1 of IT support: ALL USERS ARE FUCKING RETARDED
Reply:
Nope, I rebooted but still says network connection error.
You can see why this is a rule. Vague phrasing on her part leads one to believe that she rebooted her computer......to fix a problem with the printer....that can't scan to a network share? I am sure it makes sense to her, for some reason.
Tech:
Just to clarify, did you reboot your laptop, or the printer?
User:
No, I will do so
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery Do you own a MAGA hat at least?
Sadly, no. I need to rectify that situation. It would have come in handy at the birthday party this last weekend.
This party?That got dark in a hurry.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery Do you own a MAGA hat at least?
Sadly, no. I need to rectify that situation. It would have come in handy at the birthday party this last weekend.
This party?That got dark in a hurry.
Re-take the photo in HDR, that'll help.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
User's G Suite account was deactivated yesterday. User had apparently setup their Chromecast and phone and tablet and web apps and other shit under their work email
Said user is a guy high up in management
Bad luck for you, then.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Said user is a guy high up in management
Bad luck for you, then.
Well, in this case we would still be fine. The user's account was deactivated because they were terminated. So this issue gets filed under NMFP.
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Apparently most APKs for the Oculus Go and GearVR will work on the Oculus Quest. However, for raisins, Oculus won't allow you to download them to the Quest. You have to "sideload" them. So far, this isn't a complete WTF. The actual process for circumventing it, though, is pretty fucking convoluted:
- you can't actually download the APKs unless you spoof a supported device, so
- you have to first download an Android emulator
- change the device ID so their store thinks it's an approved device
- install all the Oculus apps on the emulator
- enable root and remove the "download complete" event handler (otherwise it will just install and delete the apk)
- "install" the app (which will just download and stall because of the previous step)
- harvest the downloaded APK file from the VM filesystem
- enable developer mode on your HMD so you can
- use an unofficial app to sideload the APK to the HMD
- for many apps, you also have to sideload in a special loader program or it won't show up as a program
The fucking hoops they make you jump through, because they didn't mark most of the compatible programs as compatible in the store...
At least now I can watch Hulu in VR.
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I recently setup new accounts with my bank due to rebranding the business. You can link all of your accounts so that you can see them all under one login, transfer money between any linked accounts, etc.
Today I go to pay bills. I go to setup bill payment on the new login. There is of course a setup process for this. As part of it, you can switch all your payees and other information to your new login/account. Nifty, I don't have to re-enter all of this information. I select the bank (which is the same bank) and it asks for login information for the other account, including security questions. All three of them.
Okay, these are easy enough (which is why this form of 2FA is bullshit). Enter what I would have answered for those questions, it fails. Shit.
So I login to the other account and the security questions it lists in my security profile are not the same ones I just saw. Well, that account is linked to another account. I login to that one. It has another set of security questions, and none of those are the ones it asked for either.
Where the fuck did these security questions come from?? Is there another login that I have forgotten about??
is going on here?Also, I remember these security questions. I remember answering them. With this bank. But where are they at??
I hate online banking systems. They are all retarded.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Where the fuck did these security questions come from??
Generally when a system gives you security questions you don't recognize, it's because whatever username you put in wasn't recognized. But it makes something up so it doesn't admit nonexistence of the username (yielding a username enumeration vector).
Sounds like you're going to be making some calls.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
Generally when a system gives you security questions you don't recognize, it's because whatever username you put in wasn't recognized. But it makes something up so it doesn't admit nonexistence of the username (yielding a username enumeration vector).
It is even dumber than that. If you just hit enter and skip all of the authentication questions it continues and imports your payees. The only thing that was required was username and password.
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- Screen just got completely consumed by tiled windows saying "An error occurred in the updater."
All this while trying to uninstall and reinstall a broken application. I may have to blow away Windows and start fresh, and that's going to be a major pain in the neck on this system.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
It is even dumber than that. If you just hit enter and skip all of the authentication questions it continues and imports your payees. The only thing that was required was username and password.
... that's all kinds of special.
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- Douses desk in gasoline, tosses a match, and nonchalantly walks out of the building.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
Generally when a system gives you security questions you don't recognize, it's because whatever username you put in wasn't recognized. But it makes something up so it doesn't admit nonexistence of the username (yielding a username enumeration vector).
I tried to do some credit report a few years back; it wants my SSN and comes at me with identity verification questions. Note that I had no prior relationship with them, so I don't know where the fuck they got the data for these questions.
It asks me some relatively easy multiple choice questions, then "Which bank did you take out a loan with?" Hm, I've never taken out a loan ever, I'll say None of the Above.
Wrong...? Apparently. I fail the identity verification and it won't let me try again. Except I know all the answers I gave were correct.
I'm left wondering if my identity has been stolen (or is about to be stolen because this is a phishing site).
(Edit: some of the questions did have correct answers available, like which school I went to, so they did know who I was and apparently had at least some info about me already)
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- Douses desk in gasoline, tosses a match, and nonchalantly walks out of the building.
You forgot to do the double
on your way out, while saying "Peace out, bitches".
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I'm left wondering if my identity has been stolen (or is about to be stolen because this is a phishing site).
I have the same problem (incorrect information somewhere in their records). One of the three credit bureaus refuses to give me my credit report online each year; I have to mail in for it. Doesn't necessarily mean your identity was stolen; they could just have some information mixed up.
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Wrong...? Apparently. I fail the identity verification and it won't let me try again. Except I know all the answers I gave were correct.
I ran in to that with another site. It may have been a credit reporting site also. The question was: "Which of these streets have you lived on?" and gave four possibilities with the last being "None of the above". I had never lived on one of those streets so I selected the last option. It failed.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
Generally when a system gives you security questions you don't recognize, it's because whatever username you put in wasn't recognized. But it makes something up so it doesn't admit nonexistence of the username (yielding a username enumeration vector).
I tried to do some credit report a few years back; it wants my SSN and comes at me with identity verification questions. Note that I had no prior relationship with them, so I don't know where the fuck they got the data for these questions.
It asks me some relatively easy multiple choice questions, then "Which bank did you take out a loan with?" Hm, I've never taken out a loan ever, I'll say None of the Above.
Wrong...? Apparently. I fail the identity verification and it won't let me try again. Except I know all the answers I gave were correct.
I'm left wondering if my identity has been stolen (or is about to be stolen because this is a phishing site).
(Edit: some of the questions did have correct answers available, like which school I went to, so they did know who I was and apparently had at least some info about me already)
Whatever system backs the credit questioning verification stuff is a huge WTF. My estranged father has the same name as me, and I'm about 98% certain he's tried to steal my identity but failed because he didn't have my SSN, and something somewhere got tied up in knots by this. Nothing suspicious shows up on my credit report itself, but the system that tries to verify my identity by asking me credit questions always fails and locks me out because it mixes in questions involving his credit history which I obviously can't answer correctly.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
- Douses desk in gasoline, tosses a match, and nonchalantly walks out of the building.
You forgot to do the double
on your way out, while saying "Peace out, bitches".Of course,
nonchalantly
is incongruent with:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
double
on your way out, while saying "Peace out, bitches".But oh well. Dousing your desk in gasoline and lighting it on fire is fairly chalant.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
they could just have some information mixed up.
Somewhere I read a statistic that something like 80% of credit reports have incorrect information in them.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Somewhere I read a statistic that something like 80% of credit reports have incorrect information in them.
I don't doubt it.
My estranged father has the same name as me, and I'm about 98% certain he's tried to steal my identity but failed because he didn't have my SSN, and something somewhere got tied up in knots by this.
I've had both background checks and credit bureaus confuse me with my father regularly, and we don't have the same name (and he's never attempted to steal my identity-- that I know of, of course!).
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- Douses desk in gasoline, tosses a match, and nonchalantly walks out of the building.
Don't forget your stapler.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
- Douses desk in gasoline, tosses a match, and nonchalantly walks out of the building.
Don't forget your stapler.
Ugh. Looks like someone stole it. I still have a box of staples, but no stapler.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
- Douses desk in gasoline, tosses a match, and nonchalantly walks out of the building.
Don't forget your stapler.
Ugh. Looks like someone stole it. I still have a box of staples, but no stapler.
Time to get chalant on some fools!
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
chalant
Wiktionary says it's a humorous nonce word. That's good enough for me. Edit: Also, valid word in Latin, derived from Greek χαλάω.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
Generally when a system gives you security questions you don't recognize, it's because whatever username you put in wasn't recognized. But it makes something up so it doesn't admit nonexistence of the username (yielding a username enumeration vector).
I tried to do some credit report a few years back; it wants my SSN and comes at me with identity verification questions. Note that I had no prior relationship with them, so I don't know where the fuck they got the data for these questions.
It asks me some relatively easy multiple choice questions, then "Which bank did you take out a loan with?" Hm, I've never taken out a loan ever, I'll say None of the Above.
Wrong...? Apparently. I fail the identity verification and it won't let me try again. Except I know all the answers I gave were correct.
I'm left wondering if my identity has been stolen (or is about to be stolen because this is a phishing site).
(Edit: some of the questions did have correct answers available, like which school I went to, so they did know who I was and apparently had at least some info about me already)
Whatever system backs the credit questioning verification stuff is a huge WTF. My estranged father has the same name as me, and I'm about 98% certain he's tried to steal my identity but failed because he didn't have my SSN, and something somewhere got tied up in knots by this. Nothing suspicious shows up on my credit report itself, but the system that tries to verify my identity by asking me credit questions always fails and locks me out because it mixes in questions involving his credit history which I obviously can't answer correctly.
Once Upon A Time I was trying to get my free annual credit reports. While two of them went fine (and showed the very few items that were mine at the time) I couldn't succeed at the questions from the third. When that happens they offer to mail you your report, so I took that option. A couple days later I had some 40 pages of credit history as they had decided to merge together me, my dad, and some guy in a city where I'd never lived.
So I called them and the phone firewall routed me to someone who could "correct items on my credit report". After going through verification she asked me for the line number I wanted to dispute; I asked her if she had a piece of paper because there were many pages of numbers that were wrong because of the merging. She transferred me to someone higher up who was (thankfully) able to untangle the mess.
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My wife just sent me a message. She is finishing her enrollment for her MFA and has to list an emergency contact. One of the options for relationship to emergency contact is apparently "deceased spouse".
That might make them hard to get ahold of in case of emergency.
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@Polygeekery
At least you'll know exactly where to find them?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
which is why this form of 2FA is bullshit
I'm basically just repeating what you said, but that's not 2FA. Something that you know (password) and something that
youeverybody knows is still just one factor.Related MS FrontPage:
Wish-It-Was Two-Factor
Unless you’ve just recently signed on to this whole Internet Thing, you’ve probably noticed an increasing trend in the World of Authentication. These days, when logging on to various websites, users are asked for a name, password, and the answer to one or more “secret questions.” It’s actually a...
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Yo dawg, I heard you like updates.
