The Official Status Thread
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@dkf No, it's all on the same on-premise server.
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@Rhywden It's still possible to do that sort of firewall idiocy with VMs on that server, but it does push the likelihood of the bad-regexps issue up.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden It's still possible to do that sort of firewall idiocy with VMs on that server, but it does push the likelihood of the bad-regexps issue up.
There are also no VMs - our vendor currently does not have much in the way of enabling services to be spread over several machines.
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I just used Grub to log in as root and add myself to sudoers.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, fuck. My email account is compromised. And it had a fairly secure randomly generated password. So maybe everything is compromised.
Most likely someone got hands on the email provider's database and nothing else. So your other randomly generated passwords should be safe.
Out of curiosity, what's your email provider? So I know which one to avoid...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, fuck. My email account is compromised. And it had a fairly secure randomly generated password. So maybe everything is compromised.
Most likely someone got hands on the email provider's database and nothing else. So your other randomly generated passwords should be safe.
Out of curiosity, what's your email provider? So I know which one to avoid...
Just the one included in my web hosting package.
And I ended up realizing that there are TWO routes to log in to my email. The one I use, uses the admin account with the secure password (gives me access to all email boxes on my domain). But apparently the email address has its own account, which had a shit password. I just disabled login for that account.
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status Dual boot encrypted systems are a PIA. Over on Ubuntu, "Hey, there's updates!". Ok. Install reboot, BIOS update. Ubuntu is happy. Boot into Window. FUCK YOU! SOMETHING REALLY BAD HAPPENED AND HARDWARE IS CHANGED. I DON'T KNOW YOU - PROVE IT! (types in the frickin 48 digit recovery key to unlock bitlocker. again.) Now, both sides are happy.
edit: And TIL. Evidently the time service the Windows side syncs to is not accessible from home. So now when I switch boots, my Windows time is ahead by 7 hours. Ah, Unix and Windows are having a fight over the meaning of the RTC. (googles) Ok, unix now thinks the RTC is in local time.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
edit: And TIL. Evidently the time service the Windows side syncs to is not accessible from home. So now when I switch boots, my Windows time is ahead by 7 hours. Ah, Unix and Windows are having a fight over the meaning of the RTC. (googles) Ok, unix now thinks the RTC is in local time.
This can be fixed on both sides. Making the windows side treat the RTC as UTC may be more reliable around DST switch time.
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@error No
su?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error No
su?Now that I am in sudoers, I can
sudo su -l.
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Status: Gee, thanks, Twitter.
Apparently still trying to make more money...
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@error One day I resumed a really old laptop from hibernation. I managed to remember the HDD password but not the user/screensaver password, and also didn't want to reboot and perform the
init=/bin/bashtrick: the old kernel included the time spent in hibernation in calculated uptime, so the system was convinced it had years of it.As it turned out, I had left multitail running on
tty12asroot. I switched to that, convinced it to run a shell for me, changed the user password and unlocked the screensaver as if nothing had happened. The new password got saved into the password manager, of course.That laptop is still hibernated.
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Status: It's a weird weather day. It'll be all blue sky and sunny for a bit, then dark clouds and snow for a while, then back to blue skies. Right now it's somewhere in-between with blowing snow and some clouds.
I don't think I'm getting my walk in today.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It's a weird weather day. It'll be all blue sky and sunny for a bit, then dark clouds and snow for a while, then back to blue skies. Right now it's somewhere in-between with blowing snow and some clouds.
I don't think I'm getting my walk in today.
Throw in heavy rain and some hail storms and you have a perfectly normal April.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
edit: And TIL. Evidently the time service the Windows side syncs to is not accessible from home. So now when I switch boots, my Windows time is ahead by 7 hours. Ah, Unix and Windows are having a fight over the meaning of the RTC. (googles) Ok, unix now thinks the RTC is in local time.
This can be fixed on both sides. Making the windows side treat the RTC as UTC may be more reliable around DST switch time.
What I read was doing that was less reliable than making the unix side treat it as local.
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Status: Took a "talent assessment" from Highmark that was just a mislabeled personality test. The worst part about these, besides the sheer stupidity of pretending they're something they're not, is that you never know what answer they want because you don't get any feedback besides a ghosting or, if you're super lucky, a form letter rejection three months later.
Seriously, if they ask a question like:
"What is the main purpose of any business? Make money, produce products, help people, or profit shareholders?"What's the "right" answer here? Am I too red-pilled if I say to profit shareholders? Am I too blue-pilled if I say to help people? Am I too naive if I say to produce products? The only safe answer is "make money" unless they really did want one of the other three.
It goes on like this for two dozen questions. Since I don't remember what I answered last time that didn't work, I highly doubt my answers this time will fare any better. For fuck's sake, the lengths companies will go to to avoid engaging or rating technical people on technical merits...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Took a "talent assessment" from Highmark that was just a mislabeled personality test. The worst part about these, besides the sheer stupidity of pretending they're something they're not, is that you never know what answer they want because you don't get any feedback besides a ghosting or, if you're super lucky, a form letter rejection three months later.
Seriously, if they ask a question like:
"What is the main purpose of any business? Make money, produce products, help people, or profit shareholders?"What's the "right" answer here? Am I too red-pilled if I say to profit shareholders? Am I too blue-pilled if I say to help people? Am I too naive if I say to produce products? The only safe answer is "make money" unless they really did want one of the other three.
It goes on like this for two dozen questions. Since I don't remember what I answered last time that didn't work, I highly doubt my answers this time will fare any better. For fuck's sake, the lengths companies will go to to avoid engaging or rating technical people on technical merits...
Theoretically, if your answers were 'wrong' this mainly means you wouldn't have fit in anyway. I suspect different companies will be looking for different answers.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Took a "talent assessment" from Highmark that was just a mislabeled personality test. The worst part about these, besides the sheer stupidity of pretending they're something they're not, is that you never know what answer they want because you don't get any feedback besides a ghosting or, if you're super lucky, a form letter rejection three months later.
Seriously, if they ask a question like:
"What is the main purpose of any business? Make money, produce products, help people, or profit shareholders?"What's the "right" answer here? Am I too red-pilled if I say to profit shareholders? Am I too blue-pilled if I say to help people? Am I too naive if I say to produce products? The only safe answer is "make money" unless they really did want one of the other three.
It goes on like this for two dozen questions. Since I don't remember what I answered last time that didn't work, I highly doubt my answers this time will fare any better. For fuck's sake, the lengths companies will go to to avoid engaging or rating technical people on technical merits...
What I would say as the “right” answer would be “all of them“. But of course I’m not sure if that’s even possible or what they want to hear, either.
Those are really stupid questions if you’re not applying to be a decision maker.
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complains (rightfully) how terrible Uwe Boll movies are, posts clip of an Uwe Boll movie...Also, I see Louis Litt, I think of:
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
complains (rightfully) how terrible Uwe Boll movies are, posts clip of an Uwe Boll movie...Also, I see Louis Litt, I think of:
...mud baths.
Maybe you didn't before, but now you do
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Status: so bored I'm working on a company holiday
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
complains (rightfully) how terrible Uwe Boll movies are, posts clip of an Uwe Boll movie...Also, I see Louis Litt, I think of:
...mud baths.
Maybe you didn't before, but now you do
:goddamnright.mp4:
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status
- Piss
- Push
- Poop
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status: what weird dream. Do I have an irrational fear of towels getting stuck down a drain they can't possibly fit in?
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Status: My mouth hurts in a really weird way. Googling the symptoms suggests it might be wisdom teeth growing. So that's how it feels like.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
it might be wisdom teeth growing.
This late? Huh, who'da thunk it...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
it might be wisdom teeth growing.
This late? Huh, who'da thunk it...
Considering he’s like 4 or 5 years older than
, that’d be 16. 
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Theoretically, if your answers were 'wrong' this mainly means you wouldn't have fit in anyway. I suspect different companies will be looking for different answers.
If I "fit in," why would I have gotten into computers?
There are days that I feel like the demand is for me to be the smartest person in the room and know everything but always agree with and take blame for stuff that I know is objectively wrong.
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Guess how many LEDs in this pack I bought years ago and hadn't opened until today work:
100
Hahahaha
1-99
Hahahaha
0
Haha ha
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Status: RFID module half implemented. It can check the UID of the card, but needs to get the actual data too. Seems that functionality is not as simple as "Ask for a block and get it back", but instead data is mixed in with flags and configuration details.
Maybe next week.
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status: spent two hours trying to figure out how to override the grey-ish background for GoToMeeting so I can swap it for something more chroma-key friendly.
I was unsuccessful, but a lot of the UI is now magenta rectangles!
Just not the background.
So damn close, and yet so far...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
it might be wisdom teeth growing.
This late? Huh, who'da thunk it...
What's more, I don't see any wisdom happening to him either
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Status: Paragliding down from Death Mountain to a nearby camp of unsuspecting Moblins feels like “I am silent death from above.”
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@topspin Context-dependent grammar thread is... oh, you mean those aren't C++ terms?
Well, not yet anyway
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AEM smells like Sitecore done in Java by mashing together a bunch of FOSS projects. (Felix, Oak, Sling, Jetty...)
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Status: Christ some people are blind.
We're talking about the USPS being in trouble and I was explaining why at a high level followed by how badly they've screwed small businesses in the last decade or so. The ePacket handout to China subsequently caused all sorts of ratejacking for US customers. Priorty went variable rate, then zone rates happened, then commercial base rate was yanked (you can still get it, for a subscription fee, from middlemen that in turn get cheaper commercial plus rates from the same USPS that cut commercial base rate), then dimensional weighting, and 7% YOY hikes on top of that for the last few years. Dimensional weight was a real gut punch because the difference between a 12x12x12 box and a 12x12x13 box is almost 200%.
Of course, some asshole says USPS isn't fucking him because A) it's cheaper than FedEx/UPS and B) his average charge is $3.65.
You know why? He ships first class. With a weight restriction of 13 God-damned ounces. My garden variety cardboard boxes weigh 8 ounces! I can barely squeeze a small import figure and a handful of starch peanuts under 16 ounces (for which USPS charges a minimum of $7.50 thanks to this year's ratejack back in January).
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Status: Binge watching Community on Netflix. I just got to the scene at the end of S2 E17 where Joe Biden says "I just had a dream that I was a regular president". I'm now shocked that I couldn't find that sound bite on YouTube. Sometimes, the internet disappoints.
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@dfdub
Someone get this man a
badge for his admirable resistance to fixing the shortage himself!
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@izzion
I spent approximately 3.8 seconds contemplating the idea of making a YouTube account. That was more than enough effort for an Easter Sunday.
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@dfdub said in The Official Status Thread:
I spent approximately 3.8 seconds contemplating the idea of making a YouTube account.
I technically have one. I use it to remember which music I like (thanks to discoveries from the Song of the Day thread). I don't upload anything because
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@dfdub said in The Official Status Thread:
I spent approximately 3.8 seconds contemplating the idea of making a YouTube account.
I technically have one. I use it to remember which music I like (thanks to discoveries from the Song of the Day thread). I don't upload anything because
I have 2. One from my personal Google account (very longstanding at this point, from back when Gmail was invitation only); the other is my school G-Apps account. Only the latter has anything posted to it. And those are just boring "voiceover as I work through lecture notes" videos. Oh, and all are unlisted.
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Why, Google? Steam lets me change my profile name. You already have my email address which I also can't change. How many primary keys do you need?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Why, Google? Steam lets me change my profile name. You already have my email address which I also can't change. How many primary keys do you need?
As I understand it, those sorts of restrictions (which are common among console-type game platforms) aren't about having a primary key. They're about having a stable identifier that is not PII itself, so that you can identify problem players by their (cross-game) visible tag rather than having to use account ids (dangerous) or having them be able to be mutated (because that makes harassment easier). Dunno about Steam, but the Xbox GamerTag is (mostly) fixed and used to be randomly generated. Same with the Google Play (mobile) tag.
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@Benjamin-Hall I don't think XBox Live gamertags were randomly generated. At least as far back as the launch of the Xbox 360 you could pick them, but they were indeed (mostly) permanent. Google Play did let me pick, although I don't recall if it's restricted to their suggestions, or a completely free choice. I just went with one of the [adjective][animal][numbers] suggestions for mine.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I don't think XBox Live gamertags were randomly generated. At least as far back as the launch of the Xbox 360 you could pick them, but they were indeed (mostly) permanent. Google Play did let me pick, although I don't recall if it's restricted to their suggestions, or a completely free choice. I just went with one of the [adjective][animal][numbers] suggestions for mine.
I ended up with an original XBox Live (technically Games for Windows Live at that point) tag of AvengingArdvark (with some numbers). No, I didn't actually choose that. It may have been me just blindly hitting "OK", however (which I then later remembered as being random).
Edit--I remembered wrong. It was AvengingTick, not aardvark.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
They're about having a stable identifier that is not PII itself, so that you can identify problem players by their (cross-game) visible tag rather than having to use account ids (dangerous) or having them be able to be mutated (because that makes harassment easier). Dunno about Steam, but the Xbox GamerTag is (mostly) fixed and used to be randomly generated. Same with the Google Play (mobile) tag.
Your Steam account name cannot be changed but the public display name can be changed. Xbox can be changed but costs, Battle.net gives you the first time free but it costs after that. Epic lets you only change it for free but only once per X days (it used to need a support ticket but doesn't now) which seems the best compromise.
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Status: Being bored, I measured all my furniture and boxes and calculated the volume required for shipping. Turns out I have less, in 1400 sq ft of space, than most shipping companies consider normal for 1 room. I have roughly (giving a margin) 300 ft^3 of stuff, which would theoretically fit in a single small cube storage thing. And some of that can be discarded, and that's an over-estimate since not all objects are solid rectangular prisms. In fact, I could probably fit most of the boxes inside the cubbies of the shelf units.
I hadn't thought I was that austere of a person, furniture wise.
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@Benjamin-Hall Someone cue up a "This is Sparta!" joke, quick!
