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Fucking Google Maps:
In 2 miles, go straight.
In 25 feet, make a right turn.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Guess what? It is part of Windows Deployment Kit. Like, Microsoft? Why would you do that?
Because they have no quality control of any kind.
OR: as workaround for some program that crashes when there is no such folder.
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Fucking Google Maps:
In 2 miles, go straight.
In 25 feet, make a right turn.My truck's nav is amazing. Some of the voice prompts last upwards of 20 seconds!
"Continue on... A, Z, 1.. oh 1, North, for three miles"
"In 2 miles.... Exit 43, A, 43, B, U, S, Sixty East, U S, Sixty, West... is on the right"
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I run across an oddity in Program Files x86. There is a folder named "Fake Product".
The existence of "Program Files x86" is a all its own.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXYFJmvIvk
Disliked by 67 people.
Til Til
8 months ago
This must have been the most tedious and mind-numbing ten hours of my whole life - I really want them back!Especially the bit from 2:15:22 until 9:58:16 seemed like an eternity to me.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@El_Heffe I have a theory about Youtube downvotes -- the stuff that nobody should dislike is actually downvoted by accident by clumsy people or those holding their phone or tablet upside-down.
I think a lot of people are just assholes.
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OK, so I had a password leaked in a data breach. I need to go in and reset it. Only it's with WTFCU.
Please enter your username and phone number and we'll send you a temporary password.
@error 867-5309
Your temporary password is A6H9F5. *click*
We don't recognize this device, we'll call you and give you a temporary PIN.
you just verified my phone number.
Your temporary password is 123456. *click*
That's the same password I have on my luggage.
123456
[remember this device]Please enter your temporary password and your new password.
I don't remember the temporary password. You read it to me over the phone, I typed it straight into the web form, and then you made me remember a DIFFERENT number.
GOTO 10
Edit: it took seven total verifications of the same god damn phone number
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My new password is too long for the login form.
I guess this new "password" technology is too bleeding edge. I just need to wait for it to mature a bit.
Maybe I shouldn't worry. They're just the people with all my money.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXYFJmvIvk
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Til Til
8 months ago
This must have been the most tedious and mind-numbing ten hours of my whole life - I really want them back!Especially the bit from 2:15:22 until 9:58:16 seemed like an eternity to me.
Instructions at 8:51:27 to kill my wife were unclear. Mission compromised. They're in my teeth.
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OK, so I had a password leaked in a data breach. I need to go in and reset it. Only it's with WTFCU.
Please enter your username and phone number and we'll send you a temporary password.
@error 867-5309
Your temporary password is A6H9F5. *click*
We don't recognize this device, we'll call you and give you a temporary PIN.
you just verified my phone number.
Your temporary password is 123456. *click*
That's the same password I have on my luggage.
123456
[remember this device]Please enter your temporary password and your new password.
I don't remember the temporary password. You read it to me over the phone, I typed it straight into the web form, and then you made me remember a DIFFERENT number.
GOTO 10
Edit: it took seven total verifications of the same god damn phone number
I've just opened a new savings account and set up internet banking. Set a pin and password because wish-it-was-two-factor. They didn't explain that the pin was about online banking so I used my ATM PIN. Password was generated in keepass.
I already had my phone number registered with them but it asked me to enter it as the final step in activating online banking so I did. I got two texts confirming that I'd changed my phone number, because they send it to the old and new number.
Then it came time to sign into the app. Retrieve customer number (username) from keepass. Next page asks for selected digits from my PIN. Fine, I know that so easy enough.
Next page asks for selected characters from the password. FFS, that means I need to open the keepass app to uncover the password rather than just copying. Switch to app, uncover password, switch back to the bank app to see which characters I need, and it's gone back to the log in/ sign up page. Security, to. Definitely much more secure than just letting me paste in an entire password and check the hash. I don't even want to know what that means about their password storage.
Fine, whatever. I'll reduce security by typing out the password on my pc so I can count through characters. Jump through the hoops again, get password characters entered.
You appear to have recently changed your phone number. For security reasons, you can't use the phone app for three days after changing phone number.
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I don't even want to know what that means about their password storage.
Obviously it's stored in the clear, because
asks for selected characters from the password.
Because, unless you're sending the whole password, you can't pick and choose characters from it (but you know that).
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@Tsaukpaetra I SAID I DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW!!!
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@Tsaukpaetra I SAID I DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW!!!
No. You don't want to know. But you need to know!
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I think a lot of people are just assholes.
@El_Heffe's signature said:
That's just my opinion. But it is the correct opinion.
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My new password is too long for the login form.
I guess this new "password" technology is too bleeding edge. I just need to wait for it to mature a bit.
Maybe I shouldn't worry. They're just the people with all my money.
Security by frustration! Brillant.
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@boomzilla
After all, script kiddies will give up after the second attempt to get at the monies.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I don't even want to know what that means about their password storage.
Obviously it's stored in the clear, because
asks for selected characters from the password.
Because, unless you're sending the whole password, you can't pick and choose characters from it (but you know that).
Let's not get carried away, I'm sure every letter is hashed individually.
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Or whole password is stored ecrypted with secure reversible cryptography. Like ROT13.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I don't even want to know what that means about their password storage.
Obviously it's stored in the clear, because
asks for selected characters from the password.
Because, unless you're sending the whole password, you can't pick and choose characters from it (but you know that).
Let's not get carried away, I'm sure every letter is hashed individually.
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Or whole password is stored ecrypted with secure reversible cryptography. Like ROT13.So old school, it's hashed 2048 times with ROT13, military-grade demands no less!
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
TIL that you can paste an URL into the filename box in Windows file open dialog in (almost) any program, and it will happily download the file and let the program open it.
I could have sworn you learned that two months ago.... Or some other Boomzilla Alt did....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
TIL that you can paste an URL into the filename box in Windows file open dialog in (almost) any program, and it will happily download the file and let the program open it.
I could have sworn you learned that two months ago.... Or some other Boomzilla Alt did....
You're thinking of @iKnowItsLame's Linux whargarbling:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26928/so-this-might-happen-if-one-dares-to-use-linux
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
TIL that you can paste an URL into the filename box in Windows file open dialog in (almost) any program, and it will happily download the file and let the program open it.
I could have sworn you learned that two months ago.... Or some other Boomzilla Alt did....
You're thinking of @iKnowItsLame's Linux whargarbling:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26928/so-this-might-happen-if-one-dares-to-use-linux
Thanks, fixing up redirectors....
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@El_Heffe I have a theory about Youtube downvotes -- the stuff that nobody should dislike is actually downvoted by accident by clumsy people or those holding their phone or tablet upside-down.
I know I have accidentally downvoted stuff here just trying to scroll on mobile.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
TIL that you can paste an URL into the filename box in Windows file open dialog in (almost) any program, and it will happily download the file and let the program open it.
Would pasting a magnet or data URI work?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
TIL that you can paste an URL into the filename box in Windows file open dialog in (almost) any program, and it will happily download the file and let the program open it.
Would pasting a magnet or data URI work?
Magnets don't, Windows doesn't support that protocol. I'm willing to bet data uris don't work either for the same reason.
Wondering if a supported protocol would though, and what it would take to register it in a way for it to work.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Magnets don't, Windows doesn't support that protocol.
I don't think windows has to support it directly..... i think you can register a handler to handle the download and then the protocol will work. After all windows isn't the app doing the downloading, it fobbs that job off onto Internet Explorer. It should in principle be possible to register another protocol and have a handler do the bittorrenting or the daturl un globifying, or well whatever you want really....
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@error Have I told the story of the time when I put "\" into my bank password and broke it completely and had to go to their office to get a new password?
Well, I just did anyway.
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@Vixen All Windows features are implemented in 3 to 5 different places. One when they first introduced it around the Windows 98 era, one that adds more functionality when they realized 3 years later their first implementation sucked, one that supposedly superseded the other two that was added in Windows Vista but actually missed a critical 10% of functions so you still have to use the two previous interfaces, and is way too complex so no one actually uses it anyway, and then one that was added in Windows 8/RT and backported to "desktop apps" three years ago.
And of course, one is a plain library, the other uses COM+, the other uses DCOM and the other uses .NET. You better learn how to interact with all of those.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
You better learn how to interact with all of those.
i'll just steal the work of someone who managed to kludge together something that "works well enough"
it's easier, and has at worst exactly the same chance of success as if I actually spent the effort, and at best works way way way better than it would have if I'd spent the effort.
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@error It's Community Server, what did you expect?
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@error It's Community Server, what did you expect?
Not much, and yet, it continues to disappoint.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@error It's Community Server, what did you expect?
Not much, and yet, it continues to disappoint.
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Happy new year!
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@Zerosquare Not included in the onebox:
Telemarketing company tells employees to seek new employment after suspending all operations right before Christmas.
A major theme in the comments is "the people behind the ransomware actually did some good in the world this time."
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare Not included in the onebox:
Telemarketing company tells employees to seek new employment after suspending all operations right before Christmas.
A major theme in the comments is "the people behind the ransomware actually did some good in the world this time."
which is sad.... not because a telemarketing company is out of business, but becasue instead of an orderly closing 300+ people are just out on their ears wether or not they have a safety net or savings to cover the gap..,.
that sucks for them......
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@Vixen On the one hand, yeah, it sucks that they lost their jobs. On the other hand, their job was to harass me, waste my time, and cause general misery, so... yeah. Hard to sympathize all that much.
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Yup. I hope they can find jobs at a fast food joint or something like that. They'd still be poorly treated by their manager and selling crap, but at least it'd be crap that people actually asked for.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
@Vixen On the one hand, yeah, it sucks that they lost their jobs. On the other hand, their job was to harass me, waste my time, and cause general misery, so... yeah. Hard to sympathize all that much.
i sympathize because their job sucks. is horrible job, but they did it because they needed money and couldn't get another job.... their managers fan take a flying leap off a short pier to fuck the blowhole of an orca (and then get eaten) but the front line people who got shat on by the people they called day after day, and then were shat on by their bosses by hiding the ransomware from them and dropping the "surprise! you don't have a job anymore!" news on them out of the blue....
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The "Visual Studio Installer" window that's "Checking for updates" was opened as a result of clicking View Details on the update notification telling me it was downloaded and ready to install. (spoiler: it had to do a 1.8 GB download after checking)
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare Not included in the onebox:
Telemarketing company tells employees to seek new employment after suspending all operations right before Christmas.
A major theme in the comments is "the people behind the ransomware actually did some good in the world this time."
which is sad.... not because a telemarketing company is out of business, but becasue instead of an orderly closing 300+ people are just out on their ears wether or not they have a safety net or savings to cover the gap..,.
that sucks for them......
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is horrible job, but they did it because they needed money and couldn't get another job...
Moral high ground: It's better to starve with integrity than to be well-fed telemarketing scum. 0.5*
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@Vixen @Tsaukpaetra In Windows associations, you can connect a URL scheme to either an application or a Component Object Model component. If it's a COM component, the machinery Windows uses for opening files will activate that component and tell it to download to a temporary file, which gets passed to whatever's doing the opening, unless that application indicates in its APPPATH (deprecated) or app user model (new hotness) registration that it handles URLs just fine, and only if oxidization valves A, C, F and H1 but NOT H3 are asymmetric to turbopump exhaust manifold C's spill duct. If it's an application, Windows pretends the registration doesn't exist for the purposes of common file dialogs.
@anonymous234 Don't forget about how half of what you need uses
2
(or some higher number) and the other half of what you need usesEx
and the other other half gets routed throughCreateFile
somehow.
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
the other other half gets routed through
CreateFile
somehow.Fucking Linux.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Yup. I hope they can find jobs at a fast food joint or something like that. They'd still be poorly treated by their manager and selling crap, but at least it'd be crap that people actually asked for.
Don’t you have a Do Not Call list?
Why is there anybody left that’s not on that list?
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@error I don’t remember that. Is that Secret of Mana?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
0.5*
@hungrier made something for you:
(Seeing it highlighted with blue background I just realized how it works with light and dark theme. Nice work!)
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Don’t you have a Do Not Call list?
Doesn't do any good when the bad guys simply ignore the list. And supply fake caller id so complaining does no good.