The Official Status Thread
-
Status: The Brave browser choking on its own dick is really starting to get old. Is it asking too much to be able to browse eBay without it locking up?
-
status: uh, what is being asked?
-
@Zenith It is not the same, but...
-
@Zenith FWIW I got a Logitech G502 a while ago, and other than a gamer-y aesthetic and crappy software (for tuning the sensor, mapping buttons, setting up light colours etc) it's quite nice
-
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
Real men don't blame their emissions on the dogMy granddad used to blame mice
-
finally signed up for an email service with unlimted aliases however this means changing my email everywhere which few places support. >_< Maybe I'll just let them all die off one by one. Is it possible to do it here?
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: smelling smoke but can't see the fire. 🤔
That's probably our smoke...
-
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith bought a random cheapo Kensington mouse on Amazon recently. I didn't know it at the time but IT'S SO FUCKING HUGE. It's the first one I've ever had that doesn't fit in my hand, and I've had many before. I love it.
Edit: here's link.
Looks like the one I have. Yes, I love it! (I also like the MS Sculpt Ergo mouse)
-
@Tsaukpaetra My guess would be they're asking if they can call you as part of a confirmation process.
-
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith bought a random cheapo Kensington mouse on Amazon recently. I didn't know it at the time but IT'S SO FUCKING HUGE. It's the first one I've ever had that doesn't fit in my hand, and I've had many before. I love it.
Edit: here's link.
Looks like the one I have. Yes, I love it! (I also like the MS Sculpt Ergo mouse)
I like the Sculpt mouse as well, but I've found that the left click button wears out really fast. I've gone through two of them at work.
-
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith bought a random cheapo Kensington mouse on Amazon recently. I didn't know it at the time but IT'S SO FUCKING HUGE. It's the first one I've ever had that doesn't fit in my hand, and I've had many before. I love it.
Edit: here's link.
Looks like the one I have. Yes, I love it! (I also like the MS Sculpt Ergo mouse)
I like the Sculpt mouse as well, but I've found that the left click button wears out really fast. I've gone through two of them at work.
I'll keep on eye one that but so far (a couple years) it's held up. That said, it's not on my primary computer...
-
@dcon I had one for a few years at work, and eventually I started getting weird clicking symptoms. Sometimes it wouldn't click, sometimes it would double or triple-click, or let go while dragging. So I got another one, and found out the hard way that you couldn't pair it with the receiver from the old one (which was part of a set with the matching keyboard), and that new mouse lasted even less than the previous one. Now it's all moot since I'm working from home with my own mouse, but at work I have a basic wired mouse.
-
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a basic wired mouse.
That's the one thing I miss from the MS ergo mice now... My Kensington is wired.
-
Or ours.
-
@dcon The only Kensington mouse I've used was an old wireless one with a giant dongle, that had pretty bad wireless and tracking performance.
-
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: smelling smoke but can't see the fire. 🤔
That's probably our smoke...
@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
Or ours.
IS THE WORLD LITERALLY ON FIRE?!?!?!
-
Always is.
-
@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
Always is.
I guess I should learn to like it. I'll never get bored...
-
status: spent 50 minutes trying to reproduce a bug with sorting. Turns out the issue wasn't what we thought, and that was a red herring. The real issue? Case sensitive sorting. A one line fix.
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: smelling smoke but can't see the fire. 🤔
That's probably our smoke...
@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
Or ours.
IS THE WORLD LITERALLY ON FIRE?!?!?!
Speaking of, anyone knows how's Australia?
-
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: smelling smoke but can't see the fire. 🤔
That's probably our smoke...
@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
Or ours.
IS THE WORLD LITERALLY ON FIRE?!?!?!
Speaking of, anyone knows how's Australia?
They’re suffering from a Little Ice Age. Scientists hope it will improve next month, but caution they’re a few short months away from Global Warming.
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status: spent 50 minutes trying to reproduce a bug with sorting. Turns out the issue wasn't what we thought, and that was a red herring. The real issue? Case sensitive sorting. A one line fix.
Ahhh... you were trying to sort “Communism” ?
-
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Logitech MX Anywhere 2S
The Logitech MX mice are fantastic. The MX Master is my daily.
I'm still using an MX 518 from ~15 years ago.
-
Status: I can stay as remote employee forever!
-
Orchard Core is a mess. You can accidentally disable the admin page in the admin page and lock yourself out of the system.
-
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Orchard Core is a mess. You canStatus: I accidentally disabled the admin page in the admin page and lockedyourmyself out of the system.
-
Status: Installing the new Microsoft Flight Simulator
This isn't the simulator itself, this is the installer for the simulator when I've minimized it.
Here's a different view:
The GPU usage does scale with the size of the installer window, which means that maybe someone forgot to limit the frame rate in the window itself. Or someone compromised the servers and put in a cryptocurrency miner. I don't know. This isn't doing anything to help my confidence in the application.
-
@Gąska Next time I'll use the reliable CMS: https://www.wpdotnet.com/
-
@Placeholder Fair warnings:
- Large parts are done in WASM running in embedded Chrome. This is mainly to make thing easier on the UI developers since they can use HTML and CSS and get fancy blur effects over the simulation that way.
- The game doesn't quite handle surprises correctly yet. Expect crashes if you're using any device that might go to sleep, wake up, turn on, or turn off during gameplay.
- The content servers are overloaded and likely will be for the next week or two. When playing online, expect choppiness as it tries to populate buildings from Azure
- If you can get past all that, it's mechanically on par with Microsoft Flight, with massively more content, and a much more realistic weather model; expect to lose yourself for hours or days.
-
Status: Comcast makes me so angry. They decided to lose a dozen e-mails when I moved them from the inbox to a subfolder in my inbox. I know what the problem is. The messages were orphaned. Don't ask me how. A move operation is supposed to make sure the copy succeeded before doing anything else. They need to go into the part of the mail server where those errors end up and reassociate them with my account.
So it's later in the evening and I go around in circles with the chat box until I reach an agent. She doesn't understand the problem. She makes me check my deleted folder (no) and spam (no, WTF would an item already in my inbox be filtered on a move?). Then she has me check my spam filters (again, even if a filter would've caught these e-mails, which they wouldn't, WTF would that apply to a move?). Then she wants me to send an e-mail and see if somebody can send me one. Again, we're talking about e-mails I already received disappearing. Well, she tried everything she knew (not much) and told me to call the 800 number in the morning and that she'd note my account so I wouldn't have to repeat those steps. Waste of an hour of my time.
So I call the 800 number today and was on hold for half an hour. This woman runs through the same steps as this chat rep, even though I told her I was told it was already noted on my account. Keeps trying to get me to login with a different browser and other dopey stuff. She thinks the spam filter caught and deleted it, even though moves don't trigger the filter, the filters don't apply, and half of the e-mail is too new for the spam folder to auto-purge (side note: fucking stupid that you have a choice of "have a spam folder that auto purges" and "no spam folder at all" so now I have to give up said folder for "safety") even if it magically landed there. I asked if there was a mail server team she could escalate to? No, there's nobody. Fine, so I hang up and call again.
This time a guy answers and he runs through the "what browser" and "did you look in your deleted folder" questions. He just doesn't get it. I didn't delete the e-mails. The move operation failed. Anyway, he says the Trash folder has a Restore Deleted Items link. I look at that and nothing relevant comes up. There was another I wanted to restore but not relevant. So he's going to transfer my to Security. Instantly, the list of items I'm looking at disappears.
First person never picks up. Second person eventually does. This woman says she'll run a diagnostic. She says it'll take 2 hours and put a Restore folder in my mailbox. She can't quite understand my question of "it'll put a folder in there and spend 2 hours filling it up or it'll put a folder there in 2 hours when it's done." Then she's backtracking about not promising anything will be restore. So while that was going on, far short of 2 hours, I see a folder show up.
And...it's got the junk from that Restore Deleted Items link. The e-mails I'm missing are from the last 2 weeks. This deleted list starts 1 week ago and goes back to the middle of July. It's 95% Democrat/Republican spam I have filters for (sender domain-based, so it should never catch anything else). So crap caught by my spam filter is restorable but NOT mail I actually needed that just vanished because a hipster JavaScript AJAX drag'n'drop operation failed.
I can't even trust my fucking e-mail provider anymore.
-
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Comcast
Why the fuck are you even using your ISP-provided email anyways???
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Comcast
Why the fuck are you even using your ISP-provided email anyways???
What would you have suggested 19 years ago? Hotmail?
-
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Comcast
Why the fuck are you even using your ISP-provided email anyways???
What would you have suggested 19 years ago? Hotmail?
Yes. Or Yahoo. Or whatever else email service was available (in Poland we used wp.pl and onet.pl, two popular news sites). Never tie your email or phone to ISP (or any other service that's not a dedicated email-only or phone-only service). If only so you can terminate the other service without terminating your communication.
-
@Gąska In Poland, you also have a choice of ISPs (or so I'm told by other Europeans), so the likelihood of switching is far greater than in the United States of Monopoly. We had some competition during the dialup area but that was basically snuffed out by the time broadband was available. In fact, my house has DSL even though the company claims it's not offered in my town (I'd blame the CenturyLink buyout but Embarq didn't know where Embarq was offering service) .
I'd planned to just download a local copy if the service was to be terminated but it wasn't so I didn't.
-
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
mail I actually needed that just vanished because a hipster JavaScript AJAX drag'n'drop operation failed.
Use an IMAP client. They probably fuck that up too but at least you don’t have to worry about their webmail junk.
-
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska In Poland, you also have a choice of ISPs (or so I'm told by other Europeans), so the likelihood of switching is far greater than in the United States of Monopoly.
AFAIK US ISP landscape looks more like oligopoly than monopoly - there's only one provider in any given place, but there's many of them across the country. By tying your email to ISP, you effectively restrict your relocation options.
-
@Gąska Which was why when I started my business, I used my own domain for that e-mail, but then, practically, I'm in the same hole should that hosting provider take a dump because I don't know anywhere that allows the transfer of e-mail (such that "happy 25th birthday" shows up with a date of 2006 in both mailboxes). Sure, I can and do keep a local copy of that but it doesn't help me anywhere but from this PC should a hosting provider switch be necessary.
-
@Zenith oh, I thought you're talking about keeping your address, not the inbox. Suddenly the "19 years ago" part sounds much less relevant.
-
@Gąska I think when I find this fucking Windows CD that I've been searching for all year, I am going to a great deal of downloading and organizing and backing up.
-
@Zenith I just can't believe I can't tell them the from, to, title, and date range and have them search either a purgatory folder or the entire mail server. Even my braindead employer's slugs can do that with Exchange when people retire or a FOIA request lands on their desk. Tier 2 or 3 is supposed to call me back within 24-48 hours but I am trying really hard not to hold out hope they'll be able to find these e-mails. I asked the sender to resend them just in case but, again, something that should be so simple never is. I'm even considering sending these people (most of) the code to regenerate the e-mails.
-
@Zenith From what I'm reading, it almost looks like I might be able to regenerate these e-mails myself and with the correct(ish) sent/received dates to boot.
The only thing that I can't get right now is the exact date and time of the original mail. I can see the date on the website that generated them. That should be possible to just ask the sender, unless they did something asinine like use a date instead of a datetime for that column in their database. In that case, well, my non-32-bit-integer-using ass deserves it I guess.
-
@TwelveBaud Just finished my first cross-country flight. It was the exact same VFR flight as the first real flight that I did in XPlane, except I was actually able to recognize landmarks on the ground this time. The sim froze for a few seconds once, but other than that it behaved.
-
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
mail I actually needed that just vanished because a hipster JavaScript AJAX drag'n'drop operation failed.
Use an IMAP client. They probably fuck that up too but at least you don’t have to worry about their webmail junk.
You sure called that one. I tried Thunderbird. I got about 250MB of 3GB before it decided it was "done."
Edit: And the latest Thunderbird didn't do any better...
-
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska Which was why when I started my business, I used my own domain for that e-mail, but then, practically, I'm in the same hole should that hosting provider take a dump because I don't know anywhere that allows the transfer of e-mail (such that "happy 25th birthday" shows up with a date of 2006 in both mailboxes). Sure, I can and do keep a local copy of that but it doesn't help me anywhere but from this PC should a hosting provider switch be necessary.
I know my zombie-company's Bluehost allowed SSH access directly to (our portion of our shared) box, which included the mbox files for everyone in the host (INB4: BOFH Reads your emails...), so transferring should technically be a non-issue from that standpoint.
And even then, so long as your email provider is uber-retarded and your mailbox isn't inspired by H.R. Giger, actually transferring from a typical setup isn't all that bad (well, any more than your typical client setup routine anyways)....
-
@Zenith
Yes! Strangly still applies today becaus that is now the free outlook tier. Or was yahoo the popular choice back then?
-
DNS shenanigans? pypi not reachable, HN not reachable ...
Edit: started to normalizar.
Top thread on HN "CenturyLink Levell 3 outage" breaks DNS
edit2: stupid autocarrot
-
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith
Yes! Strangly still applies today becaus that is now the free outlook tier. Or was yahoo the popular choice back then?If he waited just a single year be could have gone Google!
-
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't even trust my fucking e-mail provider anymore.
There's a reason I take the risk on using POP and keeping my email local...
-
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska In Poland, you also have a choice of ISPs (or so I'm told by other Europeans), so the likelihood of switching is far greater than in the United States of Monopoly.
AFAIK US ISP landscape looks more like oligopoly than monopoly - there's only one provider in any given place, but there's many of them across the country. By tying your email to ISP, you effectively restrict your relocation options.
My solution to that - buy a domain and use the email with that. Now it doesn't matter who my ISP is, my address never changes.
-
@dcon my solution is Gmail.