The Official Status Thread
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@loopback0 They want this machine so locked down that it interferes with me doing my actual job, and I waste time trying to find ways to continue to do my job.
Filed under: Like that Lighthouse extension? It collects performance profiling information that I'm required to collect.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Stupid group policy...
I keep removing the blacklist entry from the registry, they keep putting it back.
Have you tried using ACL to deny access to those folders from everyone but you? The next step is writing a service that deletes that part of the registry every few minutes. If you can't install a service, then a standard executable in your startup folder works too.
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@error I'd just let it not be collected and wait until someone questions why it hasn't been. NMFP.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Have you tried using ACL to deny access to those folders from everyone but you?
I did but I forgot to take ownership. Apparently the owner can bypass or change the rules.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I wish @pie_flavor was still around so he could read @Zenith's rants.
Did he rage quit during the Benpocalypse or just fade away like in BTTF?
He returned to his home
planetuniverse number.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Did he rage quit during the Benpocalype or just fade away like in BTTF?
He got older
We all do.
Too bad we don't necessarily get wiser.
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Commercial for an electric razor. Guy with an unkempt beard demos the product. It shows him shaving with the product, then it cuts to a shot with him with a perfectly clean face.
Um, the camera cut away. You could have done anything in that cut time. Obviously you at least cleaned away the whiskers from your face.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Did he rage quit during the Benpocalype or just fade away like in BTTF?
He got older
We all do.
Too bad we don't necessarily get wiser.Speak for yourself!
(Yes, that's a dementia joke.)
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
You could have done anything in that cut time
I'm gonna guess about 2 beats
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Commercial for an electric razor. Guy with an unkempt beard demos the product. It shows him shaving with the product, then it cuts to a shot with him with a perfectly clean face.
Um, the camera cut away. You could have done anything in that cut time. Obviously you at least cleaned away the whiskers from your face.
Over here, the razor advertisements usually show someone like a 20 year old twink from the national soccer team shaving down to perfectly smooth skin, except that he had literally no beard to begin with.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Commercial for an electric razor. Guy with an unkempt beard demos the product. It shows him shaving with the product, then it cuts to a shot with him with a perfectly clean face.
Um, the camera cut away. You could have done anything in that cut time. Obviously you at least cleaned away the whiskers from your face.
Over here, the razor advertisements usually show someone like a 20 year old twink from the national soccer team shaving down to perfectly smooth skin, except that he had literally no beard to begin with.
I don't mean they like showed some stock footage of a man shaving though. He was like "let me prove to you how great this thing is!" He didn't really prove anything.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
twink
I'm aware of the term because I'm immersed in a sexually deviant subculture; I'm not sure about vanilla folks.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
twink
I thought it was a generic no-no word like the f-slur, but I'm not surprised if it's got some specific meaning
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@hungrier Boyish, slender, usually a cyclist or track star or soccer player, minimal body hair if any.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
twink
I thought it was a generic no-no word like the f-slur, but I'm not surprised if it's got some specific meaning
It basically means vanilla, thin, young-looking male (implied homosexual, that's why I asked for the straight variant of it). In this case the "young-looking" included "has very little body hair / beard", so the whole "look how smooth he shaved" ad is pretty ridiculous.
It's not much of a slur, only if you prefer more "masculine".
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@topspin I thought twink was basically "could be a trap if they wanted to."
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin I thought twink was basically "could be a trap if they wanted to."
Kind of.
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Status: Must be in the early stages of dementia.
I opened a new bank account three weeks ago. I also set up online access for a payroll debit card a few weeks earlier. Do you think I can find the bank forms or anything related to the debit card? Even though I know where both should be? And practically shoveled out the entire room and put it back together one piece at a time?
Edit: Along the same lines, found my PayPal Business card. Not with any of my business stuff where I know I put it right after it came in the mail years ago. Purple monkey dishwater...
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@Zenith can't even spell "dementia"
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Let's try something.
*reboots @Zenith*
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Status: I hate IVR phone systems. Especially if there is no way to get to a human. If the thing you are calling about isn't one of the things in the menu, you're SOL.
USPS delivered two packages to the wrong address. Can I tell the USPS I have somebody else's packages? No. If select the option for "package", the only further input accepted is a tracking number (or asking for help finding the tracking number). When you input the tracking number, it says it was delivered. No shit; I know it was delivered, but it was delivered to me, not to the correct recipient. No option to complain or dispute the tracking info. Even the "other" option just leads to a limited set of further options, with nothing relevant.
Also status: I have a sore throat from screaming irrationally at an IVR system.
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I recall reading that some of those systems have "cheat codes": if you press * (or maybe #, or 0) repeatedly, it's supposed to eventually connect you to a real person.
Regarding the package, I'd just put a "delivered to wrong address" sticker on it and drop it off in a USPS box.
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@HardwareGeek Can you not mash 0 until you get a live person?
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For Priority Mail Express® items only, you can obtain the number of the Priority Mail Express Reporting Unit by calling:
1-800-ASK-USPS (1-800-275-8777)For other misdelivered mail items (such as letters):
- If the mailpiece is delivered to the wrong location:
- Don't erase or mark over the information, or write any type of endorsement on the mailpiece.
- Place the item back in the mailbox or hand the item back to your mailperson.
- If the mailpiece is delivered to the wrong location:
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
For Priority Mail Express® items only
Not Priority Mail Express®.
Place the item back in the mailbox
Insecure. The carrier puts packages in a shared parcel locker (co-located with the mailboxes). Carrier locks the locker and puts the key in the recipients mailbox. Recipient removes the key from his/her mailbox, unlocks the appropriate parcel locker, and retrieves his/her packages. Once the recipient unlocks the locker, the key is held captive and cannot be removed except by the carrier; further, the locker cannot be locked again except by the carrier. Thus, putting a package back in the parcel locker leaves it vulnerable to theft by any passerby.
hand the item back to your mailperson.
If I happen to see the mailperson delivering mail tomorrow (which I usually do), and if I happen to be dressed to go out in public when he/she is delivering the mail (which I'm usually not).
However, the correct delivery address is just a block away (same house number, next street over), so my son will mask-up and walk over there this evening, when they're likely to be home from work. Pre-COVID, I'd have just done that in the first place, but I have recurring respiratory symptoms that are probably an allergy, maybe a cold, probably not COVID, but I'm avoiding any contact with any other human whatsoever (except my son, who lives with me, so contact with him is unavoidable), just in case. And I don't want to just leave the packages on their doorstep any more than I want to leave them in the parcel locker.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
my son will mask-up and walk over there this evening
Packages delivered to their rightful recipient. Edit: And probably sooner than if I had been able to notify USPS of their error.
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Status: Replacing laptop's dock at work. Again.
We make the same (industrial) products in both AC and DC versions. I got a prototype on my desk that was configured as DC, but still had the "MAINS IN - L - N - PE" markings on it.
The different transformer package should have been a rather big hint, but I somehow managed to miss it. Cue 30 minutes of testing laptop, dock and display to see what's broken.
And resetting the fuse, re-enabling RCDs, etc..
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And refilling the magic smoke tank?
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@Zerosquare The prototype unit also got replaced, yes. Lucky for me that we made a whole batch of them, so it wasn't a one-of-a-kind hand-built example. ...We do have those, too. But I like to think I'm more careful when handling one.
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@TwelveBaud Probably because I pronounce it with a soft "i" like "dimension."]
Edit: And here's why I like paper statements. Turns out I was 7 days too late to export some of my PayPal records from a few years back. If a statement had been delivered to me, this wouldn't be an issue. So it's not really paper vs digital but automatic delivery vs manual pickup.
Edit More: Nope, still no way to send monthly statements/reports in either eBay or PayPal. A billion other noise interruptions that I don't care about, sure, but the one I actually want, of course not.
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Got to stop compulsively refreshing this site (because socket.io is a joke) and actually do work.
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My new fidget is twisting my COVID goatee/moustache like an old timey villain about to tie a girl to the train tracks.
Filed under: Which is actually a really kinky thing to do, in retrospect.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Somebody that doesn't know shit is insisting on PutridShell.
Start PS.
Invoke favorite editor.
<do the needful>
Compile (in PS)
Run (from PS)
: Hey bossman, I did it all in PutridShell!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Did he rage quit during the Benpocalype or just fade away like in BTTF?
He got older
A few more years, he'll be old enough to come back...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
A few more years, he'll be old enough to come back...
No one comes back from having encountered Raku. Not the same as they were.
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Status: Unnotified. I was about to click on a notification to see what post somebody had upvoted or replied to or whatever, but removed the notification.
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@HardwareGeek Your notifications are right where you left them.
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@loopback0 They're only guaranteed to be right where you left them if you want them to disappear. (Maybe. Have they ever fixed the bug where "Mark all notifications read" doesn't really mean all of them?)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Have they ever fixed the bug where "Mark all notifications read" doesn't really mean all of them?
Even if they have, we won't have it due to our timely update schedule so
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@loopback0 It's only been 2 years, so probably not. Edit: Or maybe 3 years; I don't remember.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Somebody that doesn't know shit is insisting on PutridShell.
Start PS.
Invoke favorite editor.
<do the needful>
Compile (in PS)
Run (from PS)
: Hey bossman, I did it all in PutridShell!Doing that last time is why they insisted harder on PutridShell this time around.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Somebody that doesn't know shit is insisting on PutridShell.
Start PS.
Invoke favorite editor.
<do the needful>
Compile (in PS)
Run (from PS)
: Hey bossman, I did it all in PutridShell!Doing that last time is why they insisted harder on PutridShell this time around.
Just thought of a variant on that. Write an actual PS script - it just writes a cs file, compiles it, runs it, deletes it. (Ignore that man behind the curtain!)
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status intermittent api failures. Getting "connection refused" from your DNS name provider is likely a bad thing. But only sometimes.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Getting "connection refused" from your DNS name provider is likely a bad thing. But only sometimes.
Pretty sure that's always a bad thing.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Getting "connection refused" from your DNS name provider is likely a bad thing. But only sometimes.
Pretty sure that's always a bad thing.
Yup. I phrased it that way so someone could make the obvious joke.
But really, I'm using my provider's API (which has been used multiple times per day, but not enough to hit the rate limit, for weeks now without issue), and sometimes getting that error when I try to hit their endpoint. It didn't work this morning, then it worked in the early afternoon, then it didn't work again a few hours later. Which really makes it hard to do my work, since I have to build out sandboxes and insert DNS records for them (and delete those records when I'm done). No DNS == no working software.
Doesn't help that I'm exhausted. Note to self--I'm not young enough to spend 6 hours in a chair not moving anything other than my hands, especially with my horrible posture. I really got to stop taking the Civilization approach to development.
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Status: I decided to take two of my old phones and see if I could reuse them as
distraction devicesvideo viewers for my little nieces. (They love getting to pick videos, even when restricted to YouTube Kids.)Something went weird, however, and neither of them would take their PINs...nor would my actual phone when I went to check things with it. Ended up wiping them all and spent most of the evening reconfiguring my phone because you can't install the backup without the PIN it thinks is correct.
I'll probably have most of it up and running properly by tomorrow afternoon.
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status: Chrome Mobile has started crashing if I open the New Tab page for some reason.
I don't like this a/b test.
Edit: and thanks to the session restore, it crashes on relaunch as well. Which is impossibly fun to recover from!
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Status: Got a radio/alarm clock with a projector thingy for showing the time on the ceiling. It's dumb as fuck but I like it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't like this a/b test.
I'm pretty sure you are the only "b" in this test.