Paul Canfield, a physicist at Iowa State University in Ames, says: “There should be a good German word that’s 50 letters long and is simultaneously ‘impressive’ and ‘depressing’” to describe the report.

@Zerosquare I read chapter 1. I'll go back and read the rest of it at some point — if I remember, so probably not.

@LaoC said in Hacking News: I see no reason to switch. Supposedly the algorithm is faster (which doesn't matter at all in SSH), but DJB & Tanja Lange say it's crap and quite a few things coming out of NIST turned out to be smelly so I would prefer not to. The https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ (by DJB & Lange) lists the NIST P-256 and P-384 as manipulatable, because they include an unexplained pseudo-random constant, but it does not list the P-521. It does list “E-521”, which someone said is the same curve here, but https://neuromancer.sk/ doesn't seem to agree (P-521, E-521).

@boomzilla said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!: @Gern_Blaanston said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!: The other part of this meme that isn’t obvious is how it demonstrates Microsoft’s ongoing campaign of aligning interface consistency.

@Arantor said in Shipping Antipatterns: Snarry I can only guess, but yuck.

@Steve_The_Cynic I guess you like your instructional videos to be younger.

Apr 11 We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit

Look, there is a Boeing flying. How can you identify it?

@Steve_The_Cynic said in I Hate Jira Because ...: @dkf said in I Hate Jira Because ...: And yes, JIRA encourages this by its design. I wouldn't necessarily say, "encourages this," but "facilitates this" or "makes this too easy" are definitely on the cards. Atlassian absolutely encourages you to use JIRA in these ways if you can stomach any of the marketing shite they serve up.

@Zerosquare said in United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why: Apr 8  /  lifestyle Flight diverted after dog poops on board: 'Smell never quite went... "First class toilet declared unusable as the dog mess was apparently unresolved in there. Food went bad while on the ground so very few snacks left,” a Reddit post read. See? This time it's not our fault! I mean, sure, but I'm a gun nut and if 999 times in a row I handle a firearm and it is my fault when it discharges and blows someone's head off, but on time number 1,000 it isn't, I am still going to be blamed. We as humans follow trends.

@Parody said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space: Meanwhile, I still shut my computers down when I'm done using them... My wife's father does that. He turns on his computer long enough to check/send e-mail and do whatever he needs to do right at that minute. Then shuts it down.

@cvi said in "I swear to you, I did exactly as you told me......": @TwelveBaud said in "I swear to you, I did exactly as you told me......": Free beats 0.3¢ every day. Further costs savings: measure voltage over the speaker, so it can act as a (terrible) microphone. Remove one of the buttons in favour of the user screaming at the device. I feel like I would be willing to pay more for this feature.

@dkf said in The abhorrent 🔥 rites of C: a great many application developers (especially game devs) are doing it wrong.

@LaoC DisARMed thread coming soon?

@Bulb Also A Function Äpp can use a container (have never done so). Anyways, this is just for playing around, and collecting some experience. And the experience is ... um ... you know the title of this web site...

@topspin said in Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!): @Atazhaia said in Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!): Called it. @topspin said in Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!): @boomzilla said in Abode unCreative Suite (includes hoodie!): Minus the cost of the hoodies! From the screenshot: "I have concerns at this point".

@joshmid747 said in Super Cow Powers: Only just rediscovered this on my computer, been ages since I have done this one. Well, well, well .... if it isn't Jo Shmid.

@Steve_The_Cynic said in Glassdoor to un-anonymise accounts (at least internally) if they can...: Ignore me. Absolutely!

@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @DogsB looks around the room I count two penguinsdesktop Linux users in this group of 20. I could bring it to 20 by force, but I am evilkind. For now. Forgive them for they know not what they do.

@dcon In 15 years they could go for Over 9000! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik

@dkf said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?: @Benjamin-Hall said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?: @dkf said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?: @Benjamin-Hall Can we defend the kittens and puppies anyway? Asking for a pyromaniac friend. I mean, I'm fine with them as long as they're not near me OR (not XOR) hypoallergenic. And not noisy, filthy, or otherwise unpleasant. I hold no ill-will towards even the ones I'm not fine with, just can't defend them while they're like that. You find yourself able to defend them in the abstract, but the realities of fur allergies are unfortunate. Particularly as kittens tend to go 110% into purring... Purring I'm fine with. It's dogs barking or howling that I dislike, at least if it's constant. I've got neighbors whose dog will sometimes bark like it's being murdered for an hour straight.

@JBert said in Conversations overheard: @Yamikuronue said:"We started running a promotion on X/XX, which has now ended. We did not set it up using the Promotion Tracker. However, we now want the data. Is there some way to get the data that would have been collected by the Promotion Tracker tool had we elected to use it?" Hmmm, there was some old quote about this. I think it went something like this: On two occasions have I been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you fail to put any figures into the machine, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. I don't think it's quite as bad as that. The former was due to not having a clear understanding of how the Promotion Tracker works. (URL's with a marker, etc.) The questioner may have wondered if it was just a data analysis tool. The Babbage one seemed to have no understanding of the most fundamental grasp of how a computer works. What makes it most amusing is that the questioner thought it was a gotcha. The modern equivalent would be, "Then why are apes still around?"

Eric Berger  /  Mar 7  /  Space After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private First you burn the cash, then comes the crash. If only the people getting soaked by this were venture capitalists...

@PleegWat said in WTF Spam!: we tend to be too hostile to them. For a good reason

@Atazhaia said in Willy's Chocolate Experience: It is indeed amazing stuff, and meme-worthy. Feb 27 What Was The Sad Glasgow 'Willy Wonka Experience' And Who's 'Billy Coull'? The Disastrous Event Explained Scottish children were anticipating a world of pure imagination, and got a world of disappointment instead. In the wake of the disastrous event, a ... group of angry Glaswegians, currently 1,200 strong, ...Now things are gonna get interesting! In the wake of the disastrous event, a Facebook group of angry Glaswegians, currently 1,200 strong,

@Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread: The galul of those fainting people. *TFY ** ** Asterix’d that for you

@sockpuppet7 said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?: in my locality it was unfair laws, with most cab licenses owned by city lawmakers, and cabs being priced as a luxury, with old cars and rude drivers the owner of the license would hire a driver to work for him, and the profit, doing nothing, was better than the average pay of an engineer like us That's the sort of situation where I'd expect Uber to do well, cracking a market where prices were massively out of line with service levels. It is the differential between prices and service levels that provides the opportunity, the competitive edge. Markets where there isn't that dysfunction will be harder (that's why they've found the UK mostly hard going, especially outside London; not impossible but very little to gain advantage with).

Status: I'm really confused. For some reason uBlock is not keeping YouTube on the whitelist. I click the button, it adds www.youtube.com to the whitelist (verified in settings) all is good. Open a new tab, it's gone again. Good. I feel my hate growing.

@Bulb said in Art Wars: The AI Menace: The muscles that do most of the work are the back ones as the arches spreads out their arms. That's certainly how Japanese archery (Kyūdō) does it. Most western archers don't use their backs so much (though they probably should be).

@dcon said in What's an image file?: @Arantor said in What's an image file?: Mine says F12 Prt Scr and in a fancy edgy tech font because it's an MSI laptop. And naturally it has the LED lightup thing, so when I press FN, the text goes orange. Well, actually, my MS keyboard is PrtScr SysRq The Lenovo has a snipping image under the PrtSc. Standards. Yup. One for every manufacturercomputer and keyboard model! My Logitech keyboard dumbed it down even more: (with wooden table for extra pointz)

@Steve_The_Cynic I can’t even claim that, since I had a break of breaking it around 2008-2010, but the underlying point is +3 Immunity to Bad Headlines.

@dkf said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers: @robo2 said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers: I'm allowed to WFH half the time, but I'm not allowed to do that from a different country (for tax reasons). If you're in another country temporarily but still resident in then I'd expect the tax authorities to be relaxed about where you're physically located. I actually had the need to check the laws due to my cross-country situation, and the answer is that it all depends on the specific tax treaty between the countries involved. The usual - but not universal - rule is that your tax residency is the country you spent more than half of a year (183 days), and if there wasn't one, then your home country. In particular, this rule applies across all of EU. So it would be fine for @robo2 to work abroad, as long as they don't do it too much. Please don't tell anyone I only spend 165 days in USA in 2020.

@Tsaukpaetra It's the needful-don't-doers. There's going to be someone in a small group insulated from all users who has the power to press the Button and make everything work... but they don't want to (and definitely don't want anyone who might qualify as a user near them!) and nobody outside their coterie really knows who to pester in person to make it happen despite their passive-aggressive resistance.

@Mason_Wheeler said in Oh, the stupidity of Firefox: @Gern_Blaanston Serious question. If you're going to use ambiguous acronyms, you need to explain them, because that's the only ESR I know of, so I have no idea what you're talking about here. This is perhaps the funniest thing you've ever posted after getting upset that people don't know obscure shit you post about.

@dkf said in Guy brings down thousands of npm builds: @Tsaukpaetra said in Guy brings down thousands of npm builds: I'm amazed that there was a systemically enforced policy to disallow deletion of a package if it so happens that some other package happens to reference it. I'm more surprised that there isn't a check to see whether the dependency graph is a DAG. There probably is at the point of resolution in npm itself. But note that “everything” is really a meta package that points to half a dozen other packages that just hard-list everything else, built by scraping the npm registry. Which means it must be doing something DAG like somewhere because everything-registry/everything -> everything-registry/chunk0 -> list of dependencies, such that everything itself only has 5 dependencies (chunk0 through chunk4) and those individually have all the dependencies.

@loopback0 said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it: Who the fuck is buying this? Like with most of the other IoT garbage, idiots. Idiots are buying it.

Also, that if day > 20 && month > 10? It's false now. The train that broke on December 21 is fine now. Noworoczny cud. Zepsuty Impuls sam się naprawił 1 stycznia Należący do województwa lubuskiego pociąg Impuls, który przestał się uruchamiać 21 grudnia, od 1 stycznia ponownie działa bez żadnej zewnętrznej ingerencji. Dokładnie taki przebieg wydarzeń przewidzieli hakerzy z Dragon Sector, którzy analizowali jego oprogramowanie.

@Watson there was a time when IBM set actual standards for quality that didn’t mean dogshit. I feel like DB2 is a relic of that era.

I like that one of the theories about why some setups were still working and others were not is that the related spec says you need to check the certificate's validity relative to a date. What date? The spec doesn't specify, so some systems might check that it was valid when everything was generated (still works) and others check vs. the current date (fails).

@Gern_Blaanston Almost 20 years back? Not everything was remote accessible, or accessible remotely for external consultants. The software required dedicated hardware cards. This often resulted in different servers being used and general hands off from IT. Sometimes because they where marked simply as Telco. The times I walked around with a borrowed IT badge, got left in a room I didn't have access to or IT blocked a door from shutting are countless. Sometimes, in small companies, they didn't give a flying fuck. Other times, in banks or international institutions, it was lawful good rule breaking. Like, here have my badge because we are still battling internal why my colleagues don't have access.

@GuyWhoKilledBear said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!: @hungrier said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!: @dkf said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!: @MrL said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!: Disgusting Makes you wonder if Pantone are based in Boston. New Jersey, the Boston of states Posted from Boston, the New Jersey of cities.

@Bulb said in DEAR FIREFOX: your wibbly Puppet script It isn't my Puppet script.

@BernieTheBernie said in Visual Studio WTF: @Tsaukpaetra said in Visual Studio WTF: Status: I am in magical unicorn land again... In such cases, I look at the output from Build, and search for the first (!) error there. No, not the second, third or what ever. Frist. Resolve that, and the rest will follow quickly. It's not getting far enough for the first error to make sense, but I'll see if I still have it up on Monday to check for your benefit.

@Steve_The_Cynic Note We recommend that you do not attempt to manually update to Windows 11, version 23H2 using the Update now button or the Media Creation Tool until this issue has been resolved and the safeguard removed. Good job I manually updated by directly downloading the .msu file and installing it then! I have Copilot disabled though so it's not going to be an issue either way.

@Tsaukpaetra said in Antigrammatical gif: I am extremely disappointed they did not provide the jip that causes this when Grammarly is installed. Pics or it didn't happen.

I appreciate the ones that require a password unlock to unpack the codes for this reason. Even though I have copies of my vaults in various places, still need to know Standard Secure local static 2019 password to unlock it.

@HardwareGeek That works as a reason. (I'm not a big fan of git, but I use it at $JOB because that's what $JOB uses. Sigh. At least I know how to make it behave itself without it totally fucking up in all directions.)

@DogsB eh, I think it’s all good personally.