WTF Bites
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I just googled "what's upwork" and NONE of the results said "not much, what's up with you?"
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Speaking of: ever tried changing the Windows 10 startup sound?
Does it have one?
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@Tsaukpaetra , @hungrier
Yeah, it was news to me too. I found out when I was asked if I could change it.
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Speaking of: ever tried changing the Windows 10 startup sound?
Does it have one?
One as if millions of PCs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
My Documents
Is where they're supposed to be, per Windows conventions. Anywhere else is Wrong (although everyone puts stuff in the wrong place so
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Turned on Netflix and just clicked on the new season of AHS. I prefer watching it in the English original even though there’s German dubs. Since I’m an ESL speaker and might miss the occasional word, I also turn on subtitles.
So what options does Netflix show? Audio: German or English. Subtitles: German or off.What. The. Fuck?! Why??
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Subtitles are also subject to copyright, like everything else related to film industry. In each country, Netflix has to get the license separately, often because the main copyright holder is a different entity in every country. They want to spend the minimum money possible, so they only license the movie, the original voices, voices in the local language, and subtitles in the local language - and ignore everything else.
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@Gąska that’s fucked up. If they have a license for the show, they should have one for the subtitles. I mean, I kind of understand other languages (even though that’s stupid, too), but not having the subs for a language you have the audio for?
Also, it worked on early seasons.I’m sure some smart bean counter got a raise for this. There is exactly nobody profiting from me not having those subs available.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Strange, it just flat-out broke when I tried...
Maybe try it on Earth-73.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
No automatic transcription/captioning tools including Youtube would ever be legal if that was the case. Ditto for subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing. I'd bet it just didn't occur to them someone might want to have English subtitles with English audio.
It does seem hard to believe that if they have a license to the movie but not to the subs, they couldn’t just create them themselves by having some cheap intern write down the dialog. After all, they have a license for that.
But then, copyright is fucked up, so being hard to believe means it’s almost certainly true.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Subtitles are also subject to copyright
Are you sure? No automatic transcription/captioning tools including Youtube would ever be legal if that was the case.
No, since those would be automatic conversions of the sound track and not copies of the other subtitles even if they're word for word identical (which they probably aren't; auto-subtitling sometimes makes huge errors). Copyright absolutely depends on provenance.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
How are you supposed to know which drive to pick? Just by size? Or by drive letter?
Is drive letter somehow useless? No, of course it's not.
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
How about showing a fucking label
None of those drives have labels anyway.
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
I bet it also shows removable or network mapped drives there. Stupid shit.
It does not.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Subtitles are also subject to copyright
Are you sure? No automatic transcription/captioning tools including Youtube would ever be legal if that was the case. Ditto for subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing.
To clarify: it's illegal to distribute/publish/etc. subtitles made by someone else - it's legal to make your own. Of course the details will vary by country, but you can be pretty sure that if you can copyright an ebook, you can copyright subtitles as well, and the same rules will apply.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
No automatic transcription/captioning tools including Youtube would ever be legal if that was the case. Ditto for subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing. I'd bet it just didn't occur to them someone might want to have English subtitles with English audio.
It does seem hard to believe that if they have a license to the movie but not to the subs, they couldn’t just create them themselves by having some cheap intern write down the dialog. After all, they have a license for that.
But then, copyright is fucked up, so being hard to believe means it’s almost certainly true.It has nothing to do with copyright, and everything to do with not wanting to hire one more person just to appease 0.1% of users.
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@Gąska just get some broke student to transcribe it for you for like
20 bucksa few months of free Netflix, if the idiotic licensors wont let you use the existing subs you already have for other regions.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@levicki Have you tried reporting these to Microsoft? I'm sure they would love to hear your feedback.
Why would Microsoft care about gangbang BDSM incest?
I don't know about you but if I was a MS supporter I'd take great care to study the customer complaint in depth (and girth) to deliver a satisfying outcum.
Description: please fix your video driver
Steps To Reproduce: play the attached video files I obtained from BitTorrent
Observed behavior: video plays from start to end
Expected behavior: a UAC dialog should warn me that this content can harm my moral feelings. After I enter my password, the content should be replaced by an image saying "you pervert!!!!1"
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There's a categorical ban on wearing face coverings
I'm really not sure that the person doing those tweets is the sharpest tool in the shed. You couldn't contradict yourself more if you tried.
Also, remember when the Chinese banned face masks in HK a few weeks back and everybody was like, look at those repressive Sino-shitheads and their crackdown!? Been federal law in Germany for what, 25 years or so?
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There's a categorical ban on wearing face coverings
I'm really not sure that the person doing those tweets is the sharpest tool in the shed. You couldn't contradict yourself more if you tried.
Also, remember when the Chinese banned face masks in HK a few weeks back and everybody was like, look at those repressive Sino-shitheads and their crackdown!? Been federal law in Germany for what, 25 years or so?
Well, it's not quite the same if you get Soylent Green'd for it.
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@LaoC to be fair, to me it was more of a "oh, right, like that's gonna do any good" reaction. Your city is literally burning and you.. ban.. face masks. Right...
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Reading this:
We already have the problem in the standard library right now that std::basic_string is our only de-facto SBO container, and some people have already noticed that they can cheat and do std::basic_string<double> and get a mostly-working Small Buffer Optimized container. (That is not standards-mandated to work, but it sure as hell compiles on a lot of platforms).
std::basic_string<double>?
.I occasionally wondered if writing a SBO vector was a waste of time, but at least I never even considered using
basic_stringfor that.
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Reading this:
We already have the problem in the standard library right now that std::basic_string is our only de-facto SBO container, and some people have already noticed that they can cheat and do std::basic_string<double> and get a mostly-working Small Buffer Optimized container. (That is not standards-mandated to work, but it sure as hell compiles on a lot of platforms).
std::basic_string<double>?.I occasionally wondered if writing a SBO vector was a waste of time, but at least I never even considered using
basic_stringfor that.I've seen that before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJImePyftY
Clever. And no, but thanks no! There's
boost::container::small_vectorif you need SBO.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
No automatic transcription/captioning tools including Youtube would ever be legal if that was the case.
I think you're misunderstanding. It's the specific text of the subtitles in a particular language which is a "creative work" and thus protected by copyright. AFAIK it is legal to make subtitles yourself. So auto-captioning etc would be legal; but last I checked there was still a major quality difference between automatically generated and hand-crafted subtitles.
It does seem hard to believe that if they have a license to the movie but not to the subs, they couldn’t just create them themselves by having some cheap intern write down the dialog.
Have you ever done your own subtitles for a movie? Depending on the amount of dialogue, it can take a surprising amount of work to get something decent.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
It does seem hard to believe that if they have a license to the movie but not to the subs, they couldn’t just create them themselves by having some cheap intern write down the dialog.
Have you ever done your own subtitles for a movie? Depending on the amount of dialogue, it can take a surprising amount of work to get something decent.
I'd be happy with something that even has the right words, which is not a given with Netflix (or DVD, ...) subtitles.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 The BDSM is essentially power play so at least to me it's not normal that someone wants to dominate others and someone to want to be dominated even if it is consensual. People have free will, nobody should get turned on by taking it away from others or worse yet, giving it away.
As for gangbang, today's sluts don't seem happy unless their every hole has at least 3 dicks in it, plus at least one in each hand, and a bonus if they can wank another one with their feet. Maybe the society should promote that into olympic sport, or at least into a circus act because that's what it ultimately is.
Oh, don't stop now, it was just getting good. Where's the part about homosexuality? That's, like, the bread and butter of 'I am judgmental of what people do in the bedroom' rants.HELLO FELLOW ROBOT. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE AN OPINION. BEEP BOOP
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subtitle licensing
I'm sure if they cared (or even if that was the issue) they could at worst work something out with OpenSubtitles or something.
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WhyTF is printing disabled in protected view in Excel? What fucked up "features" does it support that makes printing an untrusted document potentially dangerous?
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@ixvedeusi It's been brought up as a WTF several times. The good news is that it's not just Excel, but Word and maybe all the Office apps as well.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
malicious Postscript which executes code on the printer CPU and turns it into a zombie
I've heard that Postscript is too touring complete for its own good, but I wouldn't have expected it to have access to the kinds of system functionality needed to do such a thing (in particular network I/O and write access to non-volatile memory). Worst case should be that it can hang the printer to the point were you have to Turn it Off and On Again, no?
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
malicious Postscript which executes code on the printer CPU and turns it into a zombie
I've heard that Postscript is too touring complete for its own good, but I wouldn't have expected it to have access to the kinds of system functionality needed to do such a thing (in particular network I/O and write access to non-volatile memory). Worst case should be that it can hang the printer to the point were you have to Turn it Off and On Again, no?
I have far less trust in printer manufacturers than you do. It may very well be that PS lacks the ability, but there is certain to be security vulnerabilities that enable such shenanigans.
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@levicki So why not have "Protected Print" which just prints what gets displayed in Protected View?
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@djls45 That's crazy talk...
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
I've heard that Postscript is too touring complete for its own good, but I wouldn't have expected it to have access to the kinds of system functionality needed to do such a thing (in particular network I/O and write access to non-volatile memory).
PostScript was created in 1982. Back then all file formats and APIs had an explicit PermanentlyTakeOverComputer() command for extensibility reasons.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
PostScript was created in 1982. Back then all file formats and APIs had an explicit PermanentlyTakeOverComputer() command for extensibility reasons.
... whereas today they all have that command for backwards compatibility reasons.
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: Hmm, this "Select Certificate" dialog is way too small, I can't even read the "Intended Purposes". Oh, look, it can be resized, how convenient! Let's try that...
... um well, thanks Visual Studio, good try.
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@ixvedeusi It looks like the "Existing Certificates" tab's containing box wasn't flagged resizable, so it won't stretch to fill the containing dialog window. Maybe so that the three buttons at the bottom would stay in the right position, which implies that the programmer didn't know about flex components or resizability settings. Or maybe they thought that just marking the dialog itself as resizable would make everything else stretch to fill the content space. Or maybe they had tried setting everything resizable, but then couldn't keep them from getting too small or overlapping if the user shrank the dialog too much.
Yes, I have written dialogs and know the various ways that resizability can break them. And yes, there is a way to do it right. But different libraries do it different ways, with little consistency between them.
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@levicki So why not have "Protected Print" which just prints what gets displayed in Protected View?
Or, how about this, why is what you suggested not the only print mode at all?!
Printing should not need any macros.
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Goddammit Internet Explorer!
If you have an SSL certificate with IP addresses in the SAN field, and you connect to that server using the IP address, IE goes NOPE and shows the "There is a problem with this website's security certificate" error.
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@djls45 it’s Microsoft. Chances are it’s just been ported for 25ish years all the way from at least a Win95 code base where almost all dialogs were fixed size with no layout manager. Just like the environment variables dialog in system settings they didn’t manage to make resizable.
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@ixvedeusi Those tiny, unresizable dialogs (this one is technically resizable, but you know) that have somehow remained this way for decades are very high in the Windows WTF list.
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@levicki So why not have "Protected Print" which just prints what gets displayed in Protected View?
Or, how about this, why is what you suggested not the only print mode at all?!
Printing should not need any macros.But then someone with 35 year old special-
mission critical printing processes would have to update their shit and there's no way we can have that.
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It's actually worse than that.
it is common for printers to deploy firmware updates as ordinary print jobs
If you can print to it and you can guess what kind of printer it is, it's yours now. (
some manufacturers sign (some of) their shit. Some manufacturers CRC32 their shit and pretend that's a signature.) Nobody does this because now you have to write printer firmware, and nobody wants to do that.
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@AyGeePlus said in WTF Bites:
Nobody does this because now you have to write printer firmware, and nobody wants to do that.
Yeah. If you're a nefarious hacker, you've got the problem of wanting to get into a secure system. But if you hack a printer, you've now pwned a printer, which means you have another problem.
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@AyGeePlus said in WTF Bites:
Nobody does this because now you have to write printer firmware, and nobody wants to do that.
Yeah. If you're a nefarious hacker, you've got the problem of wanting to get into a secure system. But if you hack a printer, you've now pwned a printer, which means you have another problem.
Well, you could deny printing, or make it jam by messing with some of the paper-grabbing rollers...
Wait, that's indistinguishable from an untouched printer...
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subtitle licensing
I'm sure if they cared (or even if that was the issue) they could at worst work something out with OpenSubtitles or something.
Film industry hates free culture.
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@AyGeePlus said in WTF Bites:
Nobody does this because now you have to write printer firmware, and nobody wants to do that.
Yeah. If you're a nefarious hacker, you've got the problem of wanting to get into a secure system. But if you hack a printer, you've now pwned a printer, which means you have another problem.
Well, you could deny printing, or make it jam by messing with some of the paper-grabbing rollers...
Wait, that's indistinguishable from an untouched printer...
The biggest troll would be hacking it to work perfectly for like a month and then just removing the hack and moving onto another printer.
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@loopback0 Then bosses will hear about it, and soon enough
Days without incident: 37
SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING
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@AyGeePlus said in WTF Bites:
It's actually worse than that.
it is common for printers to deploy firmware updates as ordinary print jobs
If you can print to it and you can guess what kind of printer it is, it's yours now. (
some manufacturers sign (some of) their shit. Some manufacturers CRC32 their shit and pretend that's a signature.) Nobody does this because now you have to write printer firmware, and nobody wants to do that.Hilarious. Security by Ewwe-I’m-not-touching-that-
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