WTF Bites
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Best part: after closing/reloading the page to mess with tracking, screenshots, etc., it now tells me I've reached the limit of free articles and I can't even read it.
And you didn't even post a link to it.
So we could properly ignore it.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
And it's not only about old games either. One of the affected titles is Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, released two weeks ago.
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And given that Denuvo has issues on some current gen Intel CPUs, that's not doing Denuvo any favours right now.
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@Arantor they let the domain lapse. I don't think they particularly care anymore.
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@Gąska No but this is the sort of thing that the AAA companies might notice especially given that the recenly-released GOTG game got hit. If it provokes just one company to reconsider Denuvo, that can only be a good thing.
(I'm not really a fan of DRM, but I'm specifically not a fan of Denuvo.)
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
And it's not only about old games either. One of the affected titles is Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, released two weeks ago.
I know what you're thinking, and you're right! Creating artificial scarcity is necessary to ensure profits, so a little collateral damage is not too big a price to pay
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And given that Denuvo has issues on some current gen Intel CPUs, that's not doing Denuvo any favours right now.
This one?
Haha, bet you didn't know why they've still been putting thoseScrLk
keys on your keyboards decades after locking terminal scroll ceased to be a thing. Now you know, it's actually short for ScrewthisLameKopyprotection!
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@LaoC that’s the one.
That’s a point, I’m glad my laptop doesn’t have that series (I think, I’m not entirely* sure) because I don’t have a Scroll Lock key…
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WTF of my day: So, on Friday I'll visit my brother in Berlin (I'm sure you've at least heard of the city). My hotel is located on the Kurfürstendamm which is usually shortened to "Ku'damm".
It's kind of THE street in Germany - everyone knows it at least by name.
Since I'm driving an electric car, I wanted to see what route and charging station my car's navigation tool suggested in comparison to other tools. Well, this is the result:
I'll be helpful and mark the various positions on a map - my (rough) position is green, the search results are red and the actual location of the Ku'damm is marked blue:
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Went to the website for my credit card, and it's down.
"For real time updates follow @ChaseSupport on Twitter"
So I check Twitter, and @ChaseSupport has not posted anything in 3 months.
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Went to the website for my credit card, and it's down.
Either it's a localized outage, or it's back.
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@El_Heffe You will need to chase support.
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Went to the website for my credit card, and it's down.
Either it's a localized outage, or it's back.
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@Rhywden On Soviet Ku'damm, Levenshtein charges you.
Edit: wait, "23823 Berlin, Seedorf"?!
OK, they're not wrong, "Berlin" is a village that probably called that street Kurfürstendamm (they also have a Postdamer Platz, that other square that pretty much everybody in Germany knows) just to bolster their hospitality sector (AirBnB in abandoned farm houses by the looks of it) with people who relied on their navigation system.
The sorting is also not completely unreasonable, just that they didn't list the exact match that would have been the correct one …
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@LaoC Well, I also provided the street number and this particular number does not exist in the "Berlin, Seedorf" one. That should have provided the clue for the navigation system to look for alternatives.
But I discovered that there's an alternate form for searching where the system provides for dedicated entry text boxes for city, street and number. Using that it actually finds the address.
Though when I enter "Berlin" as a city into this form, it again provides me with 10 results - and only the last one is actually the capital.
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@LaoC Well, I also provided the street number and this particular number does not exist in the "Berlin, Seedorf" one. That should have provided the clue for the navigation system to look for alternatives.
But I discovered that there's an alternate form for searching where the system provides for dedicated entry text boxes for city, street and number. Using that it actually finds the address.
Though when I enter "Berlin" as a city into this form, it again provides me with 10 results - and only the last one is actually the capital.
Nevada, Chelyabinsk or El Salvador included?
Apparently the Seedorf one is older than the capital. It's also a bit of a
regionallocal, uh, capital:With 520 inhabitants in 2011, it is the most populated settlement of the municipality.
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Went to the website for my credit card, and it's down.
Either it's a localized outage, or it's back.
No,no. I saw the issue. You'll notice I didn't include that part in my reply.
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Evil haxx0rzto00lz, block all the things!!!!1
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@LaoC Why does “let's not give the secrets to the other guys who aren't supposed to have them” seem like such a difficult concept to so many?
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@LaoC ... 2... n....n+1
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@Applied-Mediocrity That's our spirit bird!
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@dkf and the e-learning people were screaming a year ago about this sort of thing for other activities where interactive quizzes had the answers directly in the form (for what was being billed as the next hot thing in e-learning) and a simple view source could view it then.
It's almost like no-one learns from the mistakes of others.
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@LaoC Why does “let's not give the secrets to the other guys who aren't supposed to have them” seem like such a difficult concept to so many?
Butbutbut they weren't visible on my browser!
See also: NFTs
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That's our spirit bird!
With the almighty warthog, this bird, ponies, several kinds of cats and one dogsb here it's really quite a zoo here
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@LaoC Somehow it happens over and over again, that Alice tries to stop Eve from listening in on her messages to Bob, when Bob and Eve are the same person, and yet Alice is confused why she can't.
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@LaoC Somehow it happens over and over again, that Alice tries to stop Eve from listening in on her messages to Bob, when Bob and Eve are the same person, and yet Alice is confused why she can't.
Best summary
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Question: Does this also prevent you from saving the page and viewing the saved html in a text editor?
Either way, this smells of the approach of "illusory security through user annoyance". That is, the convenient way of doing something is disabled because of somebody's idiotic ideas, but there are about 500 other (slightly less convenient) ways to do the same thing.
Unfortunately IT services around here are a big follower of this approach.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
That's our spirit bird!
With the almighty warthog, this bird, ponies, several kinds of cats and one dogsb here it's really quite a zoo here
And don't we also have @acrow?
And I think there wąs ąlso some other ąnimal I'm forgetting.
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This afternoon I witnessed someone doing an Austin Powers type 187 point turn so that they could drive the wrong way down a one-way street. They were going the correct direction, stopped and proceeded to take an absurd amount of time to do an absurdly awkward multi-point turn so that they could drive the wrong direction.
That's a level of stupidity and WTFery that I previously thought impossible, but you really have to admire their level of dedication towards doing the wrong thing.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
And it's not only about old games either. One of the affected titles is Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, released two weeks ago.
I know what you're thinking, and you're right! Creating artificial scarcity is necessary to ensure profits, so a little collateral damage is not too big a price to pay
What's artificial about the scarcity? Are they refusing to sell it to everyone who wants a copy?
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I could rant all about how Rockstar Games Launcher sucks donkey balls but someone already done it far better than I ever could.
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Twitter post @LaoC linked in WTF Bites said:
and the kids can see the right answers in the forms
WTF iteration of Google Forms has "answers" in the questions?
Fucking show the choices and text boxes, give them their results after submission.And it seems nobody else here seems to have noticed TRWTF ///
Edit: Sorry, missed @Arantor's mention, something something paginationated infiniscroleration.
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@Gąska So Rockstar are continuing their trend of to PC players? Seems like on par for the course. Also, I noticed that GTA:SA Definitive Edition for Xbox in included in Game Pass. Not 3 or VC, only SA.
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@Gąska So Rockstar are continuing their trend of to PC players? Seems like on par for the course. Also, I noticed that GTA:SA Definitive Edition for Xbox in included in Game Pass. Not 3 or VC, only SA.
I haven't played a GTA game since the first one. Not for any particular reason, I just didn't. Now it's slowly becoming a thing that I didn't so soon I won't be able to do it because I haven't done it.
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@Carnage GTA 1 is awesome, though. I like it more than GTA 2 of the top-down ones.
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@Carnage GTA 1 is awesome, though. I like it more than GTA 2 of the top-down ones.
24 years ago. It's been a while.
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GTA 1 is awesome, though.
Play it on a computer with a 3Dfx Voodoo card if you can afford it. It provides hardware accelerated graphics. How cool is that??!?
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Evil haxx0rzto00lz, block all the things!!!!1
Obviously nobody uses Firefox anymore
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Google service status message funtimes:
The problem with Gmail has been solved. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience and support. The affected users cannot access Gmail.
There is additional text available in English. Visit the English site if you want to read more text in English.
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There is additional text available in English.
Probably no more information though. This is Google we're talking about…
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@dkf Well, yeah. It's just the very unspecific text. Could be any text, really.
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The problem with Gmail has been solved. ... The affected users cannot access Gmail.
Well, that's an interesting way to solve the problem, I guess, although I'm not sure the affected users would agree.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
The problem with Gmail has been solved. ... The affected users cannot access Gmail.
Well, that's an interesting way to solve the problem, I guess, although I'm not sure the affected users would agree.
It would certainly be a good resolution for users of Microsoft *rolls dice* Teams.
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WTF of my day: So, on Friday I'll visit my brother in Berlin (I'm sure you've at least heard of the city). My hotel is located on the Kurfürstendamm which is usually shortened to "Ku'damm".
It's kind of THE street in Germany - everyone knows it at least by name.
Since I'm driving an electric car, I wanted to see what route and charging station my car's navigation tool suggested in comparison to other tools. Well, this is the result:
I'll be helpful and mark the various positions on a map - my (rough) position is green, the search results are red and the actual location of the Ku'damm is marked blue:
I found a thread in an OpenStreetMap forum where the low quality of OSM's search gets discussed.
A funny example there is searching for "pizza":
That's exactly what anyone would expect, isn't it?
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@BernieTheBernie I'm afraid my pizza might be cold by the time it gets delivered from Nigeria.
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Reminds me of this skit:
(the joke should be more-or-less understandable even if you don't speak French)