The Official Status Thread
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion I'm not getting auto logged out of (at the moment):
NetSuite, ZohoVault, DevArt, or MSDN...Is this a @ben_lubar thing??
here's a really stupid idea that probably won't work
try closing the forum tab right after you log in
maybe that'll tell chrome that you actually want it to store the cookie
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin not that I could find. And it's all one big multi layer image with terrain, political, and climate maps as separate layers over the same background, so exporting it to a separate image would mess everything up.
Is the incorrect alpha info on one of the layers, or all of them? Each layer has its own alpha channel.
There are a couple of ways to edit the alpha without touching the RGB. One is to use the channel pallette to disable the R, G and B channels; then any painting or other editing will only affect the A without changing the RGB.
The other way, and the one I usually use, is to convert the alpha channel into a layer mask. The layer's thumbnail changes to two thumbnails, one RGB and one grayscale for the mask. You can paint on the mask with black for transparent, white for opaque, and gray for partial transparency, and most of the other tools work on the mask just like they do normally. The only tricky thing is moving; by default, the layer and mask move independently, which is probably not what you want (but it doesn't sound like you want to do that sort of manipulation, anyway, so it doesn't really matter). The final result is the and of the layer's alpha channel and the mask — opaque where both are opaque, transparent where either is transparent (and partially transparent where either is partially transparent, unless one is fully transparent).
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
We have probably a full day drive yet to go before we're home — Google says about 7.5 hours, but the truck won't manage the full highway speed limit most of the time, and I'm planning to stay on the interstate instead of shortcutting through some lesser rural roads that Google is directing me to, so probably about 9 hours, I'd guess
I underestimated that rather badly. It was more like 12 hours, including rest and fuel breaks and crossing a time zone boundary. Also, I'm not sure staying on the interstate was such a great idea. We ran into fog and a lot of construction zones with narrow lanes, no shoulder, no room for steering error, and a lot of white knuckles.
But we made it. We're spending the first night in our new home, with mattresses on the floor and makeshift pillows, because everything else is still somewhere in the back of the truck.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
We're spending the first night in our new home, with mattresses on the floor and makeshift pillows, because everything else is still somewhere in the back of the truck.
Good times...
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Status: Department wide video conference.
Me:
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@topspin was it a catnip salad?
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@Benjamin-Hall May be too late for this, but before nuking alpha entirely (Layer => Transparency => Remove Alpha Channel) you can try forcing it to 255 (Colors => Levels) like so:
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall May be too late for this, but before nuking alpha entirely (Layer => Transparency => Remove Alpha Channel) you can try forcing it to 255 (Colors => Levels) like so:
Tried that. No effect. Something was seriously screwed up. I ended up having to repaint it in solid colors after nuking the alpha channel. Still not quite done, but I think I did a better job this time.
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Status: Delivering packets is obviously a very hard thing to do. I've got this DHL app which notifies me about everything: "Package has been received" - "Package is underway" - "Package is out for delivery".
Well, almost everything. You see, the app asked me: "So, about this Corona thing - we can deliver the package to a nearby automated station. This reduces contact and you can get the package whenever you like! And the nearby station is at low capacity!" Well, okay, it's not far (500 m walking distance) so I agree.
So I get the usual messages. Until a certain point. Notably, I was not actively informed about the "Couldn't deliver the package. Will try again tomorrow!" status, no, that one I had to look up myself. Phone support said that's because the station was at "high capacity" (which it wasn't this morning - it's obviously hard to estimate the amount of packages to a destination! And how many packets there already are!). If tomorrow fails again then they'll try my home address. Which in essence makes the whole thing take two times the amount of time it usually takes - and for no gain.
I also received a package today which kind of surprised me because I also got a notification an hour later that this same package had just been received for shipping - I guess someone invented time travel.
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@Rhywden Time travel's nothing new for them. UPS has consistently delivered int. shipments one or two days ahead while their system shows it still out there until the expected date passes, DHL is not that popular here, dunno. My latest time travel was with DPD. Two weeks ago I had a package coming. Shop offered me Saturday delivery. So Friday evening I got a message "Tomorrow from 10:00 to 11:00 we will be delivering you a package. Track it here <link>".
On the tracking page there were two package numbers. Clicking on either of them showed they're due next Monday. Normally I'd be somewhat pissed, because Saturday delivery costs the shop - I know the guys - more and I'd not even be at home (changing the delivery address strangely incurs +1 day "penalty"). But with this thing going on I thought okay, I'm home anyway, whatevs.
Of course, one of the packages got delivered Saturday morning after all. The other one? The glorious shipment tracking page showed it's still due next Monday, but also somehow already delivered. So I thought I'll check the old tracking page where you simply enter the number. Lo, that one showed it's not even picked up yet (shipment details transmitted). The shop I got it from is not open on weekend, so I wasn't sure anymore when I'll actually get it. And yet it somehow ended up delivered to me Monday morning.
I mean, I'm glad everything worked out this time, but how many systems (that apparently don't talk to each other until some intern presses "Run Query" button) do they have?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall maybe I’m misunderstanding, but I seem to remember that you can directly paint on the alpha channel in GIMP. Or, alternatively, you could just load the image using your favorite programming language / framework and set the alpha value to 1 for each pixel.
Or load/save in MS Paint? I seem to remember it likes to wipe out alpha channels... (maybe they changed that - but I do remember always having issues with alpha - hence my move to paint.net)
edit: Oh - missed that you had multiple layers. Pretty sure Paint would merge those...
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Status: May or may not have caught a slight cold. If so, will probably be panicking as if it’s covid.
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Status: Only had to move things around twice, but my honey farm is fully operational at last!
Gallery
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin was it a catnip salad?
Looks more like a catnap salad.
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Status: Truck is maybe 2/3 unloaded. Tired, but not really exhausted, but my ankle hurts a little, so calling it a night. My bed is assembled, and I have real pillows.
Internet still doesn't work at the house, so AT&T is sending a technician tomorrow morning. I need to go into the office to get keyboard, docking station and monitors so I can work from home. I also need to assemble a desk on which to put said computer stuff in order to be able to work; sitting on the floor with my laptop would be terribly unergonomic.
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status: fuck, inducing orgasm is now completely ineffective at triggering sleep.
What the shit am I supposed to do now?!?!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: fuck, inducing orgasm is now completely ineffective at triggering sleep.
What the shit am I supposed to do now?!?!
Stop worrying.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: fuck, inducing orgasm is now completely ineffective at triggering sleep.
What the shit am I supposed to do now?!?!
Stop worrying.
Not worried. Pissed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Stop worrying.
Not worried. Pissed.
Stop
pissingbeing pissed.
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Status: setting up my workstation, including KVM switch, for the upcoming meetings. That way I can get work done while ostensibly watching training about stuff I already know. Hopefully.
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Status: So, we've got this Nextcloud-instance I've already asked a question about. Turns out that our IT support doesn't feel comfortable with setting up a dedicated server for that service because that would remove Nextcloud from the support of our 3rd party software vendor (i.e. "If something breaks down the line due to us changing something in our software we're not obliged to help you!")
However, I'm asking myself, what is "support" like this actually supposed to do when we're having massive performance problems now? Because currently this is more like a lead anchor at our feet and not helping in the slightest.
Also, as it turns out, while their Nextcloud instance is deployable by a simple selection in their management console, it's not containerized or in a VM or anything. Thus you cannot move it easily (or, at all, for that matter) to a different server - it all lives on the master server.
Docker support is planned - but for some unspecified date down the line. Given their current speed, I'm not optimistic.
So, under the assumption that the file server is not the biggest bottleneck, I'll have a look at going parallel - i.e. a dedicated server which accesses the file server and authorizes in the same way as the current Nextcloud instance but otherwise is running independently. As long as we're only talking about file access (and not the chat features or similar) this shouldn't pose any more than the usual problems. Will have to try it out in private and see if there are any obvious problems.
If it works then we'd be able to switch over to the officially supported solution any time something breaks due to changes on their end (or if they get around to officially support dedicated servers).
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Status: Bought a new router last week. It turned out to be the shittiest router ever (TP-Link WR841N v. 14). Like, really - I can't get more than one device on Wi-Fi at the same time without connectivity problems (I pinged the router and the latency was over 3000ms!) Today I'm going to return that piece of shit and get something better. Something that has more than 32MB RAM and 4MB Flash so I can install OpenWRT on it in case there will be further problems.
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Status: The worst part of the epidemic is that most computer hardware stores are closed and you can't buy a decent router anywhere. Will have to order one online and hope for speedy delivery (up to a week). Goddamn I miss Amazon Prime.
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LinkedIn: "You're in the top 10% of applicants for this position!"
The position: [requires 50 technologies I've never touched]
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't get more than one device on Wi-Fi at the same time without connectivity problems
If you want good WiFi, just buy a Unify access point
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@TimeBandit it's not about good Wi-Fi. I don't need good Wi-Fi, I have 350sqft studio apartment. It's about the absolute bare minimum that makes it technically legal to sell. TP-Link can't even manage that.
Oh, and I believe you mean UniFi? 'Cuz that Unify company sounds like custom-tailored B2B solutions that are way over my budget, and I'm not even sure they're talking about the same kind of communication.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
The worst part of the epidemic is that most computer hardware stores are closed and you can't buy a decent router anywhere
Yup. That's definitely worse than thousands of deaths, people not being able to see their families for mother's Day, job losses and the tanking of the worldwide economy. Router availability tops all of that
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
The worst part of the epidemic is that most computer hardware stores are closed and you can't buy a decent router anywhere
Yup. That's definitely worse than thousands of deaths, people not being able to see their families for mother's Day, job losses and the tanking of the worldwide economy. Router availability tops all of that
FOR ME. The worst FOR ME. I'm not dead, I'm not seeing my mother anyway, I'm working remotely since last year, and I have zero stocks. For me, lack of internet is the worst thing that happened so far.
I'll make sure to explicitly state in all my future posts that I'm only talking about myself and that it most likely doesn't apply to other people.
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@Gąska yeah, fuck all those dead people
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska yeah, fuck all those dead people
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
-1 warnings
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Status Day 1 complete. Ugh. Video conferences suck.
In other news, my same mouse/keyboard (shared via KVM) act pretty differently between mac and windows. Mostly things like cursor speed/smoothness, etc. Which is obnoxious.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
LinkedIn: "You're in the top 10% of applicants for this position!"
The position: [requires 50 technologies I've never touched]It's like Bingo. No one's going to fill the whole card.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
-1 warnings
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@Applied-Mediocrity Oh, I completely tl;dr that. I did what I always do with status printouts and just read the bottom line. Assumed above was some actual compiler spew.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Mostly things like cursor speed/smoothness, etc. Which is obnoxious.
Disable "acceleration" when possible. That only helps with trackpad and thumb ball devices.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
LinkedIn: "You're in the top 10% of applicants for this position!"
The position: [requires 50 technologies I've never touched]It's like Bingo. No one's going to fill the whole card.
And if they do they're lying or too good to be true!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
TP-Link can't even manage that.
Of course it can't, there's no more TP anywhere
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@error I wonder whether it's possible to find a project large enough (preferably in a language whose syntax check time doesn't exceed heat death of the universe) so that removing a definition used all over the place would have the warning counter suffer integer overflow. And whether it would crash the compiler, the IDE or both, or would just stop counting or go on its merry way.
2 billion might seem like a lot, but I think I once got almost 10k in mine somehow, with SonarLint
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Status: My Postman issues () are mostly fixed, now I have actual issues with the API I'm working on. GET requests to various endpoints work, including the file upload controller (view file method, except I have no files), but POSTing to the file upload endpoint doesn't even hit the controller, just gives 403
e: I just realized, it's probably csrf
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
TP-Link can't even manage that.
Of course it can't, there's no more TP anywhere
I'm obviously missing a joke, but yes, TP hasn't been around for over a decade. Not that I miss them - their landline phone plans were horrible, and as ISP they were even worse.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Not that I miss them - their landline phone plans were horrible, and as ISP they were even worse.
Would you say you could wipe your ass with their service?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I wonder whether it's possible to find a project large enough (preferably in a language whose syntax check time doesn't exceed heat death of the universe) so that removing a definition used all over the place would have the warning counter suffer integer overflow. And whether it would crash the compiler, the IDE or both, or would just stop counting or go on its merry way.
2 billion might seem like a lot, but I think I once got almost 10k in mine somehow, with SonarLint
I bet it'd be easy with nested preprocessor macros.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
My Postman issues () are mostly fixed,
My postman delivers me my neighbors mail (and vice versa) frequently.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I bet it'd be easy with nested preprocessor macros.
Okay, new rule: C derivatives don't count, because they've already got unlimited supply of nasal demons built in
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@error Write "CSRF" on your mailbox. It'll either make sure only the right POST gets through, or more likely no POST at all
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Not that I miss them - their landline phone plans were horrible, and as ISP they were even worse.
Would you say you could wipe your ass with their service?
I don't think I'd dare to. They were using pay-by-minute model up to the very end, and my toilet sessions can get pretty long.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm obviously missing a joke
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@loopback0 ...oh.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status Day 1 complete. Ugh. Video conferences suck.
In other news, my same mouse/keyboard (shared via KVM) act pretty differently between mac and windows. Mostly things like cursor speed/smoothness, etc. Which is obnoxious.
I wish there was an option to set the "native scrolling direction" differently for internal trackpad and external mouse. But of course, according to Apple, that's not possible "by design."