WTF Bites
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We have an external graphics designer who is in progress of creating new graphic design. The design isn't complete yet, but logos are, so I asked for them in a form suitable for icon. The graphic designer sent three JPEGs.
Thank $deity our designers use Figma. We can download them in any format we want.
I think this one actually uses Figma as well, but it's not shared with us until the job is done.
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The graphic designer sent three JPEGs.
With minimal quantisation and no chroma subsampling?
There’s no visible quantisation or subsampling, right?
It's somewhat hard to tell in the tiny icon whether there is a bit of it or not.
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@Tsaukpaetra I thought you were going to link to this one
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Status: Outlook web just forgot my email signature.
I was about to compose a mail, then realized it was missing. First thought it was just a fluke, discarded the email, and clicked "new mail" again. No signature.
I go to settings to check, and there are no signatures available. The big text field to add a new signature is empty, both selection fields to choose a sig for "new mail" and "reply" are empty. Like it's never existed in the first placeWait, I still have an OWA tab open on a different machine, let's check there. Sure enough, that one still has my signature in the settings.
I know Microsoft are a small company and trying their best, but they sure pack a huge amount of WTF into a simple task.
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@topspin That reminds me … a bit over month ago our marketing said they did some changes to the standard signature, and that they'll configure them for everybody. So I checked and … no. So recently I needed it, so I went to the config, deleted the two local ones, updated the two account ones … and sure enough, next time I looked the centrally-provisioned ones appeared too.
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We have an external graphics designer who is in progress of creating new graphic design. The design isn't complete yet, but logos are, so I asked for them in a form suitable for icon. The graphic designer sent three JPEGs.
Thank $deity our designers use Figma. We can download them in any format we want.
I think this one actually uses Figma as well, but it's not shared with us until the job is done.
Our fun is when they change files and don't tell us. So I continue working off an outdated layout. sigh. (It's gotten better - we now have links in the Jira ticket to the working file)
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So the designer uses Figma, but I never did, so I wanted to look it up and
¿Que, kurwa? Why is it specific to California?
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Why is it specific to California?
California has a state law that gives residents additional privacy protections. "Do not sell my information." Naturally, many companies will only comply with that where they absolutely must, and will continue to sell everyone else's info.
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@dkf There's a link to it but it's not found
How about “we moved your cheese”?
I will fucking burn your house down.
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@Bulb also note that Figma is in the process of being acquired by Adobe (if it hasn’t already closed as a deal), so enshittification will ensue.
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We have an external graphics designer who is in progress of creating new graphic design. The design isn't complete yet, but logos are, so I asked for them in a form suitable for icon. The graphic designer sent three JPEGs.
Thank $deity our designers use Figma. We can download them in any format we want.
Take care: it's only a typo away from highly infectious
Ligma
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Status: Outlook web just forgot my email signature.
I was about to compose a mail, then realized it was missing. First thought it was just a fluke, discarded the email, and clicked "new mail" again. No signature.
I go to settings to check, and there are no signatures available. The big text field to add a new signature is empty, both selection fields to choose a sig for "new mail" and "reply" are empty. Like it's never existed in the first placeIt did that to me too.
Now I have a set of "local" signatures and a set of "online" signatures.
None of which are used by Outlook Mobile btw.
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I guess the code is the documentation now?
Thanks, that really cleared things up.
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@error Now? We've said “use the source, Luke!” since I can remember.
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@Bulb also note that Figma is in the process of being acquired by Adobe (if it hasn’t already closed as a deal), so enshittification will ensue.
Shirley there will be Abode Feigna that fixes the problem?
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I guess the code is the documentation now?
Thanks, that really cleared things up.
Fuck me. Are you hacking together your own dependencies?
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I guess the code is the documentation now?
Thanks, that really cleared things up.
Fuck me. Are you hacking together your own dependencies?
Oh dear, it's there on a public site.
For the record, bnd is one of those tools that's so mightily powerful that it triggers the "too much complexity == scary" instinct. I've been happily not needing it for about a decade...
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I guess the code is the documentation now?
Thanks, that really cleared things up.
Fuck me. Are you hacking together your own dependencies?
It was that or roll my own HTML parser. I chose the lesser of two s.
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For the record, bnd is one of those tools that's so mightily powerful that it triggers the "too much complexity == scary" instinct.
Oh it's definitely black magic.
I've been happily not needing it for about a decade...
Lucky you.
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I guess the code is the documentation now?
Thanks, that really cleared things up.
Fuck me. Are you hacking together your own dependencies?
Oh dear, it's there on a public site.
For the record, bnd is one of those tools that's so mightily powerful that it triggers the "too much complexity == scary" instinct. I've been happily not needing it for about a decade...
Oh, I see what the problem is. That bit just doesn't have any documentation of its own. It's supposed to look more like:
That clears everything up.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Bulb also note that Figma is in the process of being acquired by Adobe (if it hasn’t already closed as a deal), so enshittification will ensue.
Shirley there will be Abode Feigna that fixes the problem?
I don’t think that was in scope for the Kickstarter? That reminds me, I should go find out for shits and giggles if they’ve been sued yet.
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@Arantor suing vaporware isn’t profitable, unless you do it just
for the trademarkto send a message.
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@topspin Adobe has enough money and I'm sure they'll only be too happy to 'send a message'.
Though interestingly it doesn't seem like there's been any updates since the end of August which bodes about as well as expected.
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If I thought the Visual Studio devs had a sense of humour, I'd assume this was like the "reticulating splines" phrases from SimCity load screens:
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@hungrier I'm assuming it's attempting to determine what to populate in the "Locals" window?
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@Tsaukpaetra If it is, it worked perfectly fine without it. When I hit F10, that thing appeared and kept spinning indefinitely until I cancelled it, and after that I was able to debug normally
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Status: Encountered a custom USB gadget that's effectively a Windows Hello camera with a turntable built into it (EinScan SP 3d scanner tool).
Apparently, it's licensed. Fine. Whatever. But it's licensed to the user and not the device. Which of course means a sign-in.
Guess what happens when their sign-in servers are fucked?
But anyways, that's not the WTF I'm here to talk about, no.
See, this is a USB-based camera. Which is totally fine and not WTF. The devil is in the details.
See, the camera has a "auto-sleep" feature, such that after inactivity the device will turn off the lamp and in theory sleep the processor and whatsuch to save power.
Sounds great, right? Well, kinda.
See, going to "sleep" also means timing out and disconnecting from USB, as the client is apparently designed to stop communicating if it's asleep, and thus the computer (when pinging it) will see it "disconnect". Cue dedonk noise from the PC.
Of course, since it's USB, and it really is still connected, the camera will detect that there's signal on the comms and happily wake up! Cue dedonk noise.
Continue ad-nauseum every 10 seconds or so.
Fucking retards, did not one single developer test this before shipping? No of course not, ha ha, I made a funny.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
a Windows Hello camera with a turntable built into it
kinda combination device is that?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
a Windows Hello camera with a turntable built into it
kinda combination device is that?
It's like an even creepier version of Hello Kitty.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
a Windows Hello camera with a turntable built into it
kinda combination device is that?
Well it's not technically a Hello camera. But that's basically what it is.
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@Tsaukpaetra I was thinking turntable as in phonograph and was very confused.
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kinda combination device is that?
The kind you find connected to @Tsaukpaetra's machine.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
a Windows Hello camera with a turntable built into it
kinda combination device is that?
Instead of sliding up to unlock your device, you lay down some sweet beats.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
a Windows Hello camera with a turntable built into it
kinda combination device is that?
Instead of sliding up to unlock your device, you lay down some sweet beats.
Filed under: Other beats
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@Zerosquare Maybe he can exorcise the demon that is GNOME 3.
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OWA
We have retarded quota policies (definitely of this post) meaning I don't have much space in my home dir1.
So I just checked my disk usage and see that Firefox uses 600 MB of local storage crap for outlook.office.com!
1 Per policy that's not where programs are supposed be installed and also not where project work is supposed to be done, so you don't need much space in home, but it really messes with you because nowadays every program you ever start, and every different version of it, craps about a GB of dot files in your home.
After a while, that adds up if you don't manually clean everything yourself.
992M ./.PyCharmCE2019.1 476M ./.PyCharmCE2019.2 473M ./.PyCharmCE2019.3 ... 271M ./.matlab/R2016b ... 272M ./.matlab/R2023a ... 1.2G ./.config/google-chrome
I don't even use Chrome. I've probably opened it once or twice to run Teams or something.
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We have retarded quota policies
Does that regulate the minimum, or the maximum of retardedness?
(inb4 "yes")
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@Zecc Obviously minimum. Regulating maximum of retardedness would be and that wouldn't warrant a post in this thread.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare Maybe he can exorcise the demon that is GNOME 3.
I have to concede the newer ones are pretty spiffy and aren’t terrible at the touch/laptop ui halfway house they’ve taken up. Maybe someone in tech learned from their mistakes for once.
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@Bulb also note that Figma is in the process of being acquired by Adobe (if it hasn’t already closed as a deal), so enshittification will ensue.
It is already owned and integrated with the rest of Adobe "Creative Cloud" (do we have a topic for "word combinations to run away from"?).
I've just had a support ticket last week asking about it... apparently Figma cannot use images bigger than 4096x4096 pixels (so I was asked if we could automatically scale the image down for Figma, but not for Photoshop). I have, however, no idea if this is already part of Adobe improvements of it was always like this.
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Today's Flagle spoiler I guess (not that I think anyone else here plays it)
Find Turkey's neighbour, and make it telephatically the one we thought of.
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I have to concede the newer ones are pretty spiffy
Unpopular opinions thread is .
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I have to concede the newer ones are pretty spiffy and aren’t terrible at the touch/laptop ui halfway house they’ve taken up. Maybe someone in tech learned from their mistakes for once.
Don't worry. Any lessons learned will be instantly forgotten when they start developing the next major version.
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and make it telephatically the one we thought of.
You need to be telepathic to understand what they're saying.