WTF Bites
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@PleegWat I don't really remember. I think it was just local stuff, not national like President, but it was too long ago be sure. I remember it happened, but not any details.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I remember it happened, but not any details.
This is very similar, coincidentally, to how things that did not actually happen are remembered.
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I don't remember if it was already the case back then, but AdBlock Plus lets ads thru if the advertiser pays them.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier At one time, in the lead-up to an election (2012?), ABP was blocking normal ads, but some political ads were getting through. How?
It maybe just wasn't triggering the heuristics. Since you say that they were local political ads, it's possible that the number of people that the ad was being served to was just too small to trigger detection (and other tripwires weren't being hit).
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
I don't remember if it was already the case back then, but AdBlock Plus lets ads thru if the advertiser pays them.
not.. entirely true (only applies to users with 10 million+ "impressions"), and there are requirements beyond just paying them, but that program started in 2011
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
there are requirements beyond just paying them
Yeah, they claim to only allow "acceptable ads", yada yada.
That's still a massive conflict of interests.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
All Linux
updating operationsterminal sessions should automatically execute under screen.I really don't know why it's not set as a default thing. Like, I get multiple sessions could potentially get screwy but in the long run more bacon might be saved...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
All Linux
updating operationsterminal sessions should automatically execute under screen.I really don't know why it's not set as a default thing. Like, I get multiple sessions could potentially get screwy but in the long run more bacon might be saved...
Mmm, bacon :homer_drooling:
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@izzion We need an alias for
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@dkf so I see they've gotten to you too
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
All Linux
updating operationsterminal sessions should automatically execute under screen.I really don't know why it's not set as a default thing. Like, I get multiple sessions could potentially get screwy but in the long run more bacon might be saved...
cat >>~/.profile <<EOF command -v tmux &> /dev/null && [ -z "\$TMUX" ] && exec tmux new-session -A -s main EOF
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
All Linux
updating operationsterminal sessions should automatically execute under screen.I really don't know why it's not set as a default thing. Like, I get multiple sessions could potentially get screwy but in the long run more bacon might be saved...
cat >>~/.profile <<EOF command -v tmux &> /dev/null && [ -z "\$TMUX" ] && exec tmux new-session -A -s main EOF
Bookmarked!
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@Tsaukpaetra probably more efficient without the check
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My friend works at this company.. they wen full scrum not long ago. Now they are renaming their grooming meetings because "the name is connected to child abuse"
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@MrL think of the children! No wait, don't!
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Now they are renaming their grooming meetings because "the name is connected to child abuse"
TBF that meaning does come up first when I tried to enter just “grooming” into the going ducks, and I suppose your friend's company would be mostly ESL and therefore may not be familiar with the more benign meanings of the word.
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Now they are renaming their grooming meetings because "the name is connected to child abuse"
TBF that meaning does come up first when I tried to enter just “grooming” into the going ducks, and I suppose your friend's company would be mostly ESL and therefore may not be familiar with the more benign meanings of the word.
Ease them into the practice by devoting the first 5 minutes to actual child predation, then.
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@Tsaukpaetra probably more efficient without the check
I'll turn it into a tick instead.
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their grooming meetings
What the fuck is a grooming meeting? Do they sit in a circle and braid hair or someshit?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
their grooming meetings
What the fuck is a grooming meeting? Do they sit in a circle and braid hair or someshit?
That would probably be more productive.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
their grooming meetings
What the fuck is a grooming meeting? Do they sit in a circle and braid hair or someshit?
That would probably be more productive.
I mean, not saying it wouldn't be totally Sweet to do, but... Something something words and meanings....
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@Tsaukpaetra The word is almost, but not completely not appropriate. They groom the backlog to get some polished ideas worthy and possible to be implemented and discard the shouts into the dark nobody expects to have time to do in a foreseeable future or even does not really know how to do.
Filed under: , I know, I know
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@Tsaukpaetra The word is almost, but not completely not appropriate. They groom the backlog to get some polished ideas worthy and possible to be implemented and discard the shouts into the dark nobody expects to have time to do in a foreseeable future or even does not really know how to do.
Filed under: , I know, I know
Or in short: huge waste of time. Also known as everything in scrum.
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@Tsaukpaetra The word is almost, but not completely not appropriate. They groom the backlog to get some polished ideas worthy and possible to be implemented and discard the shouts into the dark nobody expects to have time to do in a foreseeable future or even does not really know how to do.
Filed under: , I know, I know
In other words, triage?
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@Tsaukpaetra No. Triage is for bugs, grooming is for fe(eping cre)atures.
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In my experience, grooming is where all the actually-good ideas - that the customer doesn't want to pay for - go to die, and what's left on the backlog are all the pointless add-ons that will cost even more but will never recoup any actual value.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
their grooming meetings
What the fuck is a grooming meeting? Do they sit in a circle and braid hair or someshit?
I'm hoping as my daughter gets older she'll want to braid my hair.
When I was in the group home there was always at least one girl who liked to braid my hair.
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@Tsaukpaetra probably more efficient without the check
You need at least the test for
$TMUX
, otherwise you'll always get an error in a new session because tmux will start a login shell and execute the whole thing again. That is, you get an error without theexec
—I think with it, it may just blow up completely without the check.
You could save a few milliseconds for thecommand
if you're sure you have tmux installed of course. Just makes it easier to share the .profile among many machines.
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@Tsaukpaetra The word is almost, but not completely not appropriate. They groom the backlog to get some polished ideas
In @MrL's orkplace they're all polished but ungroomed.
Someone should infiltrate a bunch of pedo forums and social engineer them into using "scrum" for gang rape.
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Someone should infiltrate a bunch of pedo forums
The Really, Really Bad Ideas Thread is
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@Zerosquare Scrum isn't worthy enough target for that idea. It will just continue under any other name. But perhaps if applied to some of the latest ‘politically correct’ newspeak…
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This discussion is reminding me of how over the course of a decade, the term used for a disabled person within the care industry changed like 4 times. Because the old one got "negative connotations" I guess. Probably by the people in charge, because they were the only ones using the terms in question. I don't even know what the current one is, something like "customer" or "client" I think.
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something like "customer" or "client" I think.
Reminds me of the time when state hospitals went from being subsidiaries of the Ministry of Health to gubmint-owned companies. A paper-shuffling reorg, more or less, but people joked that you won't be a "patient" anymore, but a "client" instead, here having the Russian underworld meaning of клиент - someone who's about to be scammed or wasted.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I just received a "ticket closed" notification from a company that we have not done anything with for at least 5 years. Someone is really getting caught up on their backlog.
(picking this up late, which is quite fitting given what it's about...)
I had a letter recently from the tax office. Referring to a previous letter they sent us two years ago. Which itself would have been the same as another letter we got four years ago. Which itself was about work we did in our home six years ago, and they wanted us to fill some form following the completion of the work.
Except that we actually never did that work (and, from the tax office own admission, don't need to fill the form), since the permission to do so was officially refused. By a letter that the tax office is already aware of, because all three letters explicitly mention this refusal.
This time, we got an answer to our email (which explained all that) to the tax office telling us that this would be the end of the story. Further updates in two years, I guess?
(for the curious, we wanted to build some sort of extension/large shed close to our home but we forgot that the land we own is actually across two zones, one of which is "protected woodlands" -- the very reason we bought the house was that there is this big woodland right behind it! -- and we messed up the application and said the extension would be in that woodland area, so it was unsurprisingly rejected)
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@Applied-Mediocrity Fun fact: "client" is also used to refer to inmates at prisons by those working in "criminal care". The prison "business" is becoming a major work sector in my town, with both a maximum security and soon also a medium security prison open.
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This discussion is reminding me of how over the course of a decade, the term used for a disabled person within the care industry changed like 4 times. Because the old one got "negative connotations" I guess. Probably by the people in charge, because they were the only ones using the terms in question. I don't even know what the current one is, something like "customer" or "client" I think.
A lecturer from college worked for a dating site back in the early naughties. There were daily reminders to call the customers: clients.
Speaking of scrum. I wonder how many people know about that bit of the sport it was derived from. It's like the most homoerotic and un-it thing you ever see.
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@Tsaukpaetra probably more efficient without the check
You need at least the test for
$TMUX
, otherwise you'll always get an error in a new session because tmux will start a login shell and execute the whole thing again. That is, you get an error without theexec
—I think with it, it may just blow up completely without the check.
You could save a few milliseconds for thecommand
if you're sure you have tmux installed of course. Just makes it easier to share the .profile among many machines.How about opening two sessions on the same machine?
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@Tsaukpaetra No. Triage is for bugs, grooming is for fe(eping cre)atures.
However, users are drunken monkeys and therefore in any meeting triage of relevance, irrelevance, and burp must be present
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
their grooming meetings
What the fuck is a grooming meeting? Do they sit in a circle and braid hair or someshit?
I'm hoping as my daughter gets older she'll want to braid my hair.
When I was in the group home there was always at least one girl who liked to braid my hair.
You're only severe brain damage away from being able to return to that happiness, y'know. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Fun fact: "client" is also used to refer to inmates at prisons
I guess that's the best example of "captive customers".
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@Bulb Not quite as bad as one I remember from a month or two ago. ATC (I think it was somewhere in the US) apparently had a stroke or something while on duty and was giving conflicting instructions. Eventually, her supervisor noticed and relieved her, but not before the pilots noticed and basically coordinated among themselves, rather than following her instructions, which could have gotten somebody killed.
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@HardwareGeek The difference is that a stroke is a medical condition that can happen without the person doing anything wrong, while in this case it was clearly all the controller's fault.
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@Bulb These conditions seem not to cover the space completely, allowing room for subtle ambiguity. Well done.
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it was clearly all the controller's fault.
We don't know what was wrong with this controller. The controller who had the stroke also sounded possibly intoxicated. Drunk is perhaps more likely than a medical condition, but I'm not going to draw a conclusion from insufficient facts.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I'm not going to draw a conclusion from insufficient facts.
Then how do you plan to draw conclusions at all?
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@boomzilla I'm not much of an artist, so I prefer to jump to conclusions.