The Official Status Thread
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia That's... just...
in case.
yes it is a physical dad joke.
no i'm not sorry. :D
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Next up, someone needs to design a vaguely circular tuit.
that's been done already. there's quite the variety to choose from
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Next up, someone needs to design a vaguely circular tuit.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare An Azeron Cyborg, which I'm going to be spending the rest of the evening adjusting.
Getting handsy with your new toy, eh?
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Status Woke up at 6:05 am (for a 6:30 alarm...) And discovered that I'd missed a priority call about an outage in my product. Yay for mondays.
It was a one character fix--the operations team had updated the base image for our custom NGINX images to use the renewed ssl cert...but hadn't updated all the consumers. And the cert expired yesterday. But still a 1.5 hour fix, because docker was being utterly stupid (refusing to use the new image despite it being there for known only to itself).
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How often do I have to delete this damn U2 album nobody asked for?!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
How often do I have to delete this damn U2 album nobody asked for?!
I'm breathing in, I'm breathing out...
So slip inside this funky house...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare An Azeron Cyborg, which I'm going to be spending the rest of the evening adjusting.
And after almost 2 hours, I'm still unsure where my palm wants to sit...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare An Azeron Cyborg, which I'm going to be spending the rest of the evening adjusting.
And after almost 2 hours, I'm still unsure where my palm wants to sit...
It took me about 4 hours to get mine adjusted for first test. And then I promptly had to start adjusting again once I set it down in the production location.
Also, mine had a âstickyâ/mushy button out of the box, it sounds like there is an additional small screw next to each of the buttons that can be loosened / tightened for controlling how springy the buttons are.
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@izzion I'm not surprised. I've already found it's definitely important to keep your hand in the right position, since that affects where your fingers want to go a lot.
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Status: I am in a maze of twisty little XML files, all alike.
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@error is it dark?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@error is it dark?
He canât admit that itâs not, or heâd lose his nerd cred as a result of using something other than the darkest of dark themes.
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Status: Did anyone else ever notice how characters on Deep Space Nine often express shock and disbelief that members of a species would attack others of the same species? Like they're floored that a Cardassian ship would fire on another Cardassian ship. But the same sentiment is never expressed regarding humans. Was it a deliberate attempt to shame people by inferring that not only are we unique on our own planet but the galaxy as well in our capacity to inflict violence upon each other?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Did anyone else ever notice how characters on Deep Space Nine often express shock and disbelief that members of a species would attack others of the same species? Like they're floored that a Cardassian ship would fire on another Cardassian ship. But the same sentiment is never expressed regarding humans. Was it a deliberate attempt to shame people by inferring that not only are we unique on our own planet but the galaxy as well in our capacity to inflict violence upon each other?
Or it just proves that even in space utopia, everyone's still racist
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It turns out the answer to "why isn't log4j reading my configuration?" is "you're not using log4j."
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I am in a maze of twisty little XML files, all alike.
You might be eaten by an unclosed tag. (Lighting doesn't matter for those.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
that you can fool the BIOS into enabling
Not on this consumer laptop piece of shart.
Maybe you could trade it for a netbook from that era. I doubt an Atom processor would perform much worse.
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@Zenith they all know humans are the fucking worst and somehow assume all the other races are better than they are.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Was it a deliberate attempt to shame people by inferring that not only are we unique on our own planet but the galaxy as well in our capacity to inflict violence upon each other?
Inferring? No. But perhaps implying.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
yes it is a physical dad joke.
My son was not happy about the book I bought (used, cheap) yesterday:
(Also, the title is wrong. Some of them are just not funny.)
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Status: Can someone remind me what the point of encrypting empty space was? Like, are there really folks out there who would be really benefitted by not being able to decrypt the nothing for a bit longer?
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@Tsaukpaetra plausible deniability.
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@topspin See also
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Did anyone else ever notice how characters on Deep Space Nine often express shock and disbelief that members of a species would attack others of the same species? Like they're floored that a Cardassian ship would fire on another Cardassian ship. But the same sentiment is never expressed regarding humans. Was it a deliberate attempt to shame people by inferring that not only are we unique on our own planet but the galaxy as well in our capacity to inflict violence upon each other?
It's a consequence of the Planet/Race of Hats design of Star Trek (and way too much fiction, both sci-fi and fantasy generally). Only humans are allowed to have actual different cultures that matter except as set-pieces for today's story. And those other races with different cultures must be analogies for <garage topic of CURRENT_YEAR>.
It's all crappy design/worldbuilding/writing.
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Status: Can't stand modern technology. Why can't Target just load my cart so I can check out? Search engine suddenly won't return any results either. Why? Because India obviously. Always because India.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can't stand modern technology. Why can't Target just load my cart so I can check out? Search engine suddenly won't return any results either. Why? Because India obviously. Always because India.
Was India the code name of the obsolete browser / OS / etc thatâs running on your computer? Iâd forgotten over so many years
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can someone remind me what the point of encrypting empty space was? Like, are there really folks out there who would be really benefitted by not being able to decrypt the nothing for a bit longer?
It more thoroughly protects the knowledge of how much disk space you are (or aren't) using.
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Status: Technology backsliding...
The CGA, or Collectors Grading Authority, sells acrylic cases for collectibles. They also used to have a custom case builder form, where you put in dimensions, selected options, and got a price quote in realtime. Then it went away because nobody actually maintained the site for years and it eventually broke and nobody on their end noticed for years. But now custom quotes are back!
Sort of. Eventually, if you click around in the right order, you get that message and a solicitation to e-mail them to find out more. So I did on Thursday. I heard back this morning and it's now a manual process. You e-mail them what used to be on the form and eventually they'll get around to providing a quote.
They used to be pretty pricey. I can only imagine they've gotten even pricier. Otherwise why hide the builder tool?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise why hide the builder tool?
General incompetence and lack of care.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise why hide the builder tool?
Keeping the builder tool working technically is not that much work. Keeping its pricing up-to-date is both more work and more of a pitfall if you forget, since apparently they don't get that many orders from it.
Chances are the guy who provides quotes manually is also the guy who knows the acrylic prices went up, and we got a lot of orders last month so anything ordered now will get delayed.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion I'm not surprised. I've already found it's definitely important to keep your hand in the right position, since that affects where your fingers want to go a lot.
So I've been tuning all evening yesterday and off and on today during gaps in work (blessing/curse of working at home) and I'm still not happy. Homing in though.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
since apparently they don't get that many orders from it.
I wonder if there's a reason for that.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can someone remind me what the point of encrypting empty space was? Like, are there really folks out there who would be really benefitted by not being able to decrypt the nothing for a bit longer?
It more thoroughly protects the knowledge of how much disk space you are (or aren't) using.
Which in theory does... not much. The amount of data isn't always an indicator of value.
Filed under: Encrypts B-roll of the backyard security video
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise why hide the builder tool?
General incompetence and lack of care.
So business as usual.
@Zecc The high prices would do it. Paying $50 for a case for a $20 figure is a tough proposition.
The site's design is just really poor overall too. They have pre-made cases that used to be able to be filtered by what product/brand they were designed for. Now that's gone and replaced with useless options that barely reduce the list. You can sort on equally useless options like price and best selling. So the only way I can see if a pre-made case would fit is to go through 20 pages and click on each item that looks like roughly the right size/proportions.
Really the only reason I checked here first was the custom form. Alot of other acrylic case sites are too stupid to even list dimensions. That's a sort of important detail to have.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Which in theory does... not much. The amount of data isn't always an indicator of value.
With empty space encryption, there's no way to tell the difference between a single encrypted partition that doesn't completely fill the empty space, and two or more encrypted partitions.
The trick is keeping slightly sensitive (but not actually important) stuff in the first encrypted partition, and the actual stuff you don't want to be revealed in the other encrypted partition(s). If you're being questioned, and coerced into giving a password, give the password for the first partition only, and deny the existence of other partitions.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
There is no "No and fucking stop asking" option.
You could just uninstall Edge.
Oh, wait... nevermind
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@Tsaukpaetra If it's not a brand-new drive, the "empty space" may actually contain sensitive data as well.
If it's a brand-new computer and you haven't used it yet and don't care about plausible deniability, feel free to encrypt data only. Future data will be written encypted and deleted data will remain encrypted.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I prefer Kazaar.
It was ok, but only because Napster was defunct by that time
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@SirTwist said in The Official Status Thread:
you
Yeah, it's not me that's made the policy. I'm just supposed to follow it. And wait several hours. For raisins.
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Status: Got an Oculus Quest 2 headset off auction, primarily for the controllers to be spares for the inevitable.
Controllers work great!
Sadly, the headset appears to have suffered some kind of screen failure. I can hear it making sounds and it definitely detects presence using the infrared face-sensor, but no backlight at all.
Tempted to open it up and see what kid that owned this thing smashed...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Tempted to open it up
Future status: now it no longer makes sounds, nor detects presence.
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status at some stage it became acceptable to deliever code that did something as opposed to doing what was expected of it. Some brainlet marked a feature as working. Swears blind that it works but the config for it isnât even right. When I fixed the config it transferred the file. java.io.File. Not the actual bytes.
I think I might give up and romance Judy in cyberpunk.
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Caffeine Status: Tea, Earl Grey, (used to be) hot.
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Status: @Tsaukpaetra must have visited my AMD PC. It loses BIOS settings, but where in the ass does it save the setting profiles then? Because those still work! I mean, if they now come with flash memory, why not go with flash all the way (except for time, ofc)?
I so don't want to bother myself with the battery, which for this model is buried so far that I must take most of it apart. But I suppose I'll have to...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
It loses BIOS settings
Check if there's a setting that "resets if failed to boot". Mine was apparently enabled by default, which is nice if you tinker, but not so nice if unexpected happens.
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I'm in the mood for re-watching the presentations on the Mill CPU architecture. Maybe this time I'll watch all of them.
The first video was uploaded to YT 10 years ago.
Our own thread about it was created about 5 years ago.
Time flies
when you're having fun.
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@Zecc that reads pretty cranky, and a decade later I haven't heard about it, so it probably is.