The Official Status Thread
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Not John Thomas, but this one was funny
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Look at what I can watch with my Prime subscription!
I honestly just can't watch that... It's like nails on a chalkboard to my eyes...
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Status: ruminating upon just how ironically appropriate that my oldest friend's birthday is both Hitler's b
risirthday and Cannabis Legalization Day...Filed Under: some tyops just call out to be shared...
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Status: Doing a big sweep to replace
snprintf
-based query formatting with parameter binding. Won't be able to do everything, there's a lot of building from query fragments or configuration templates, but that's not a reason to not even try.
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Status: Writing C# code without compiling a single line (at least, not complete compilation. Intellisense of course does mini-compiles in order to check the code) until I'm satisfied that "It Should Work".
This should be fun...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
So you realize that you and your idiot co-worker are sitting there sniggering about a bit of slang that, maybe 5% of the English-speaking population has even heard before in their lifetimes.
Maybe, but I've heard all that before. It doesn't surprise me that you haven't, but I have no way to know how many people are familiar with any of it.
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STATUS
slash.
no not that one!
Where the fuck is that on the keyboard.
it's... not there...fucking hate using macs without mac keyboard or mouse. I suspect we just have to find the keyboard layout...
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking hate using macs without mac keyboard or mouse. I suspect we just have to find the keyboard layout...
Agreed. I booted a Mac Mini but didn't have a keyboard available at the time, so I had to figure out how (on OS X 10.5 whatever-cat) to get an On Screen Keyboard popped up.
What was worse, is that apparently the virtual keyboard's Caps Lock (hell, all the meta keys) don't stick, so I literally couldn't type my password. Instead, I found a text document that had the appropriate capital letters and Special Symbols (a caret), copied them into the clipboard, and pasted it into the password field. Luckily password fields accept pastes...
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Status:
Just got locked out of a government website because it pulled questions from my credit history and asked me to select details about them to confirm my identity. The site rejected me and locked my account when I told them "No, I don't have a mortgage." That had me thinking identity theft of some kind, so I just pulled one of my free credit reports for the year, but it confirmed that I don't have a mortgage.
Yay government efficiency and reliability.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Just got locked out of a government website because it pulled questions from my credit history and asked me to select details about them to confirm my identity.
To date I have NFC what answers they were expecting.
Then again, also having issues getting access to the Skype-name side of Skype because apparently the information on my profile isn't the information they expect (Since it's linked to a MS account I can get in, but I want to take back the other half of the account that was slagged because it had an insecure password).
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Back to the Future explicitly shows the band member jimmy-ing the trunk with a screwdriver.
Doesn't the bandmember then stab his hand with the screwdriver, so he can't play guitar, which is why Marty plays? Like, isn't that explicitly shown on screen as a major plot point?
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@Lorne-Kates Yep
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
OMG, they're arguing about fixing an internal site
What shade of blue will the logo have?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I found my inspiration. BABYMETAL!!!!
Welcome to the wonderful world of pedophillia. Please pick up your unmarked white van, pencil mustache and SnapChat account.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
wat
huh.... just for S&Gs has he tried logging in from incognito mode? maybe a stray cookie confused the server?
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@accalia I just logged in from Incognito while still logged in normally, so… /shrug
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia I just logged in from Incognito while still logged in normally, so… /shrug
i tried it to, just to see if it was a global thing....
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
huh.... just for S&Gs has he tried logging in from incognito mode? maybe a stray cookie confused the server?
If NodeBB can't handle people coming in from incognito mode confuses nodeBB, that's a wtf of Discoportions.
If NodeBB can't handle only part of it's cookies being present (ie: malformed input), that's also a wtf of Disoportions.
I is discopointed.
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@Lorne-Kates Investigating.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
If NodeBB can't handle only part of it's cookies being present (ie: malformed input), that's also a wtf of Disoportions.
well yes it would be a WTF.
still it's the first step i would have taken in troubleshooting the issue. it's always possible something weird happened, probabl maybe bnot, but possible
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@Lorne-Kates Drama queen fat fingers password. Film at 11.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
What shade of blue will the logo have?
Actually, wait, no actually I have the answer to that! Let me dig up their Logo Governance pdf...
We'll be using that dark blue one.
@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Drama queen fat fingers password. Film at 11.
Wait, people still MANUALLY TYPE their passwords? Like, with HANDS?!?
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@Lorne-Kates Far as I can see he's not banned at all
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@Yamikuronue I don't know if this view is admin only or if mods can see it, but these are our banned users:
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@boomzilla Banned status isn't secret, at least not from members:
Edit: Banned status is public; even when logged out, you can see it
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@RaceProUK Maybe you just have to be logged in? I didn't see "Banned" when looking incognito.
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@boomzilla Nope:
Not sure why the redirect, but
What you can see though is BANNED on the profile page, and that is truly public
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@RaceProUK Yeah, but you have to know to go look at that user.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Doesn't the bandmember then stab his hand with the screwdriver, so he can't play guitar, which is why Marty plays?
Right.
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@boomzilla Ah, found it! Thanks, I can see that
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Drama queen fat fingers password. Film at 11.
IT DOESN'T 403 YOU THEN
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Also, why would
- a 403 ever happen when trying to log in
- it be displayed as "Forbidden" when it happens? That's dangerously misleading.
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@boomzilla That's nothing compared to the list of banned users on discourse.org
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Doesn't the bandmember then stab his hand with the screwdriver, so he can't play guitar, which is why Marty plays?
Right.
:/
And Marty being locked in a trunk isn't even major pop-culture knowledge. It isn't in the trailers, or an iconic scene. This isn't someone asking "How did Indiana Jones escape the rolling rock" or "How did they kill Jaws".
So not only are they asking a question that's answered in the movie, but they wouldn't even know what the question was unless they watched the movie?
:/ :/ :/
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@aliceif Looking in the source, there are several 403s sent in
src/controllers/authentication.js
if authentication fails. There may be a clue in some logs somewhere that @ben_lubar has access to.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Just got locked out of a government website because it pulled questions from my credit history and asked me to select details about them to confirm my identity.
What government does this? That's awful.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Drama queen fat fingers password. Film at 11.
The password was typed by a robot.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
The password was typed by a robot.
Running on Linux hardware ?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Drama queen fat fingers password. Film at 11.
The password was typed by a robot.
Also, displaying "Forbidden" when entering a wrong password would be SHIT UX.
NodeBB says "Invalid Password" when mistyping your password.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
"How did they kill Jaws".
Remember Jaws 3D when Jaws swallows that dude with the hand grenade on his belt and they kill him (her I guess?) by reaching into her mouth where the diver guy was still crammed with a metal stick and yanking the pin on the grenade and then she blows up?
Goddamned that movie was awful.
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Status: Happy to discover that in 2016 a well-designed compute shader is still capable of bringing down a machine completely.
And by bringing down I mean: start program, go to break point just before the shader is invoked, take an additional step, mouse freezes, and a few seconds later you're greeted by a BIOS boot-up screen.
At least Windows boots fairly quickly these days.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Just got locked out of a government website because it pulled questions from my credit history and asked me to select details about them to confirm my identity.
What government does this? That's awful.
The US Government, specifically Social Security. My SS card was lost when I was an infant and just never got replaced. Apparently it's about a five minute process to request a replacement over the Internet, but despite me providing my SSN it apparently can't tell me apart from other people. This is terrifying since Social Security mutated into the primary form of identification!
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@aliceif @Lorne-Kates @blakeyrat @boomzilla
Here's what the "Forbidden" error looks like in the logs:
For comparison, here's a 403 caused by a bot trying to log in every few minutes with no idea what it's doing:
There's no stack trace on the 403 that affected @blakeyrat and @aliceif, so I have no idea what caused it. All I know is that it's not an invalid password, it's not a ban, and it's not a missing CSRF token.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
This is terrifying since Social Security mutated into the primary form of identification!
Nobody's supposed to be using it that say, so says the SS agency itself. And it's printed on the card, IIRC.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Writing C# code without compiling a single line (at least, not complete compilation. Intellisense of course does mini-compiles in order to check the code) until I'm satisfied that "It Should Work".
This should be fun...I'm rather surprised, most of the code worked splendidly. Needs a bit of adjustment on the Regex, but it almost works!
BTW, apparently an (almost) good way to detect tables and their aliases (at least in MSSQL queries) RegEx is like so, written by yours truly:
/\s(?:from|join)\s+\[?([\w]+)\]?(?:\s?)(?:(?:as)?\s?)(?!(join|where|from|left|right|outer|inner|on))(\w*)/ig
Filed under: Don't hate me, I have NFC what I'm doing when it comes to RegEx!
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@ben_lubar @aliceif @Lorne-Kates @blakeyrat @boomzilla
So no, "Forbidden" does not mean you are banned.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
detect tables and their aliases
Except when you're using a subquery as a table FML.
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@Tsaukpaetra I did that on oracle using EXPLAIN PLAN then querying PLAN_TABLE. Has the benefit of also piercing (non-materialized) views.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
So no, "Forbidden" does not mean you are banned.
Without using telepathy, how am I expected to know that?