The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I could also pull the self scroll lock and insert keys
I can't do that on this keyboard. It doesn't have 'em and I don't miss 'em.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor: why not remap it to something more useful? You never have too many keys.
Long live wincompose.
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Status: The suspension of disbelief in Star Trek really breaks down for me when they talk about computers. One, it seems like LCARS is an awful UI for anybody that would have to type, like a programmer. Two, they've all got Modern Tony Stark Syndrome where they just wave their hands around for 8 seconds and create a multi-linear phase-extrapolated triple-helix algorithm to track down pre-owned left socks in the delta quadrant.
Edit: Almost forgot my other complaint besides that old draft above. Stock market goes up, stocks I want to sell go down. I hate that. Can Biden just announce some sort of infrastructure bill already to pump my steel stocks so I can dump them?
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status Finally anti-ed. Googled how to change ubuntu's mouse size since it wasn't in the obvious place with mouse settings (like Windows). Maybe if I'd thought about it, Accessibility would have made sense... anyways: status: I can finally find my mouse on the 27" 4K screen running at 100%.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The suspension of disbelief in Star Trek really breaks down for me when they talk about computers. One, it seems like LCARS is an awful UI for anybody that would have to type, like a programmer. Two, they've all got Modern Tony Stark Syndrome where they just wave their hands around for 8 seconds and create a multi-linear phase-extrapolated triple-helix algorithm to track down pre-owned left socks in the delta quadrant.
Edit: Almost forgot my other complaint besides that old draft above. Stock market goes up, stocks I want to sell go down. I hate that. Can Biden just announce some sort of infrastructure bill already to pump my steel stocks so I can dump them?
I've got it. We arrange to be embargoed on steel imports. Then domestic producers will skyrocket! This will give us the kind of dramatic industrial growth we saw some nations achieve in 1940-1944.
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The thing on my side is getting bigger. But to strike down new life, I now see, is immoral.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
The thing on my side is getting bigger. But to strike down new life, I now see, is immoral.
You need to release it from the nest. Let it free! If it returns, it really does belong to you. Or something...
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Well, back to it!
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Yesterday's computer hardware project: add an internal hard drive and plug in the Bluetooth adapter part of the wireless combo card I bought ages ago but didn't bother with using because I didn't have a use for it and I was out of internal USB spots.
Between cleaning out the dust, rearranging the internal drives so they could all work at the same time with the case sides on, taking out the card reader/extra USB plugs thing that I ended up never using, and solving all the little problems I caused doing all that meant this little one hour project only took upwards of four hours.
My computer still runs well for its age, but I'd love to build a new one. Parts are expensive, though.. :(
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Status: Turns out the day I let the water overflow in the kitchen sink did more damage than I thought. I already knew it ruined the countertop (it's something cheap that soaked up the water...) and that's on the list of house repairs for fall. Well I went downstairs to take care of a longer-term dampness issues and found it also ruined parts of the drop ceiling. So in between wiping down walls with a mold/mildew chemical, I'm scraping soggy pieces of what feels like paper mache off the floor too. The upside is that it's forcing me to trash a ton of crap in the basement that had previously fallen under "out of sight, out of mind..."
Edit: Although another downside is I'm looking up at what's under the part of the house I live in and thinking "I could probably replace all these pipes/wires if I wanted to" when it's not entirely certain that I really could...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The upside is that it's forcing me to trash a ton of crap in the basement that had previously fallen under "out of sight, out of mind..."
ARGH! Stop reminding me that I need to do that too!
Edit: Tho a couple years ago I did take care of a bunch of that when the water heater in the basement decided to die. And the original builder opted not to install a sump pit (that was back in 1941). I think my Fitbit that counted stairs said I climbed 80 flights that day.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
The upside is that it's forcing me to trash a ton of crap in the basement that had previously fallen under "out of sight, out of mind..."
ARGH! Stop reminding me that I need to do that too!
Oh, wow. I thought they were talking about all the crap that falls inside a keyboard. Only just now parsed it down to basements.
You should probably deal with both, actually.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, wow. I thought they were talking about all the crap that falls inside a keyboard.
That's easy. At least once a week, I flip the keyboard over and tap it on the desk. That really annoys my dog...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, wow. I thought they were talking about all the crap that falls inside a keyboard.
That's easy. At least once a week, I flip the keyboard over and tap it on the desk. That really annoys my dog...
This means there are crap particles in the regime of 'fell out' and 'caught by keycap' in each cycle. Therefore there are still original crap particles in your keyboard.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It shipped yesterday. Arrives Thursday.
Do they have a souped-up model yet? Waiting for the Pro equivalent.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Do they have a souped-up model yet?
It's called "PC"
Oh, I meant for AAA games.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Do they have a souped-up model yet?
It's called "PC"
Oh, I meant for AAA games.
I don't think the American Automobile Association make games.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Do they have a souped-up model yet?
It's called "PC"
Oh, I meant for AAA games.
I don't think the American Automobile Association make games.
Not very good ones, but, they do: https://www.ace.aaa.com/travel/advocacy/keep-kids-entertained-road-trip-mini-maps.html. Supposedly. Maybe. Also trying to reach that link counts as a kind of a game.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
At least once a week, I flip the keyboard over and tap it on the desk. That really annoys my dog...
Good thing you don't have a cat. It would be really annoyed by you flipping it upside down while it was napping.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
At least once a week, I flip the keyboard over and tap it on the desk. That really annoys my dog...
Good thing you don't have a cat. It would be really annoyed by you flipping it upside down while it was napping.
I find they never stop liking being petted, even when you move the point where the petting is slowly but surely out from over their base of support.
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Status: Security theater funtimes at work with the first of the two yearly mandatory password changes. Unfortunately the system does not allow changing to the same password, older password, or too similar passwords. Because of course.
Also, having an annoying piece of dust or similar stuck in my throat in a way it makes me likely to end up in coughing fits, which of course is the best during these times.
Also, from today we're having regionally updated guidelines from "wear facemask in public" to "wear your fucking facemask in public, idiots" which of course has had zero effect on the number of facemasks worn in public.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Security theater funtimes at work with the first of the two yearly mandatory password changes. Unfortunately the system does not allow changing to the same password, older password, or too similar passwords. Because of course.
Also, having an annoying piece of dust or similar stuck in my throat in a way it makes me likely to end up in coughing fits, which of course is the best during these times.
Just be thankful that your passwords are not voice-based
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Bright and shining morning FACES are hidden right under your waking up face, just peel until the bright and shining morning face emerges.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Security theater funtimes at work with the first of the two yearly mandatory password changes. Unfortunately the system does not allow changing to the same password, older password, or too similar passwords. Because of course.
With our new corporate overlords, I can rotate pws. Well, after 6. The old aquired company? Don't know - I was up to 9.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Security theater funtimes at work with the first of the two yearly mandatory password changes. Unfortunately the system does not allow changing to the same password, older password, or too similar passwords. Because of course.
With our new corporate overlords, I can rotate pws. Well, after 6. The old aquired company? Don't know - I was up to 9.
Sigh. Rotating passwords is about as bad as the security theater itself. Until they let you keep a strong password until you decide to revoke it, which is
sane
, just keep making new ones. It's more fun that way anyway.
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Status: I posted a URL in a Slack conversation such that it triggered its long URL ellipsization like this:
https://example.net/this/api/has?a=long&annoying=list&of=arguments
â
https://example.net/this/api/has?a=long&annoying=list&of=argum[...]ents
ie the URL looks exactly the same except it gained a
[...]
near the end.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I posted a URL in a Slack conversation such that it triggered its long URL ellipsization like this:
https://example.net/this/api/has?a=long&annoying=list&of=arguments
â
https://example.net/this/api/has?a=long&annoying=list&of=argum[...]ents
ie the URL looks exactly the same except it gained a
[...]
near the end.wow. that is honestly not that hard to get right, even. stunning.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Security theater funtimes at work with the first of the two yearly mandatory password changes. Unfortunately the system does not allow changing to the same password, older password, or too similar passwords. Because of course.
With our new corporate overlords, I can rotate pws. Well, after 6. The old aquired company? Don't know - I was up to 9.
Sigh. Rotating passwords is about as bad as the security theater itself. Until they let you keep a strong password until you decide to revoke it, which is
sane
, just keep making new ones. It's more fun that way anyway.Our password policy recently changed from:
- changed twice a year
- special characters, hieroglyphs and blood of a virgin
- not the same as last x and not too similar to last (I had to change my password adaption policy from appending numbers to rotating and appending numbers)
to:
- can keep one forever (unless suspected compromised)
- at least as long as War and Peace.
Now I don't have to worry about idiotic password changes anymore but have to type a 25 character passphrase.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Security theater funtimes at work with the first of the two yearly mandatory password changes. Unfortunately the system does not allow changing to the same password, older password, or too similar passwords. Because of course.
With our new corporate overlords, I can rotate pws. Well, after 6. The old aquired company? Don't know - I was up to 9.
Sigh. Rotating passwords is about as bad as the security theater itself. Until they let you keep a strong password until you decide to revoke it, which is
sane
, just keep making new ones. It's more fun that way anyway.Our password policy recently changed from:
- changed twice a year
- special characters, hieroglyphs and blood of a virgin
- not the same as last x and not too similar to last (I had to change my password adaption policy from appending numbers to rotating and appending numbers)
to:
- can keep one forever (unless suspected compromised)
- at least as long as War and Peace.
Now I don't have to worry about idiotic password changes anymore but have to type a 25 character passphrase.
Good. This is as it should be. You can go shorter if you have weirder people.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Security theater funtimes at work with the first of the two yearly mandatory password changes. Unfortunately the system does not allow changing to the same password, older password, or too similar passwords. Because of course.
With our new corporate overlords, I can rotate pws. Well, after 6. The old aquired company? Don't know - I was up to 9.
Sigh. Rotating passwords is about as bad as the security theater itself. Until they let you keep a strong password until you decide to revoke it, which is
sane
, just keep making new ones. It's more fun that way anyway.Our password policy recently changed from:
- changed twice a year
- special characters, hieroglyphs and blood of a virgin
- not the same as last x and not too similar to last (I had to change my password adaption policy from appending numbers to rotating and appending numbers)
to:
- can keep one forever (unless suspected compromised)
- at least as long as War and Peace.
Now I don't have to worry about idiotic password changes anymore but have to type a 25 character passphrase.
Sounds like @accalia is your new Director of IT Security
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@TwelveBaud That'll be fun. When Discover switched over to a voice-only phone system, which I hate on principle, it could never seem to figure out what I was saying. So I just started rotating different voices because I could. Some of them are fairly consistent but the robot might wonder how many Ms Zeniths are living here...
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status it seems the universe hates me today. Except the weather was nice, I guess.
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@Benjamin-Hall Such is the cost of nice weather. Regret your weather-related wishes...?! Bahaha...? hahaha!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status it seems the universe hates me today.
Just today? You lucky one.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status it seems the universe hates me today. Except the weather was nice, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoaUcr7xzYk
Admittedly, this is one of my favorite scenes ever.
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A wild Gyarados has appeared.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
A wild Gyarados has appeared.
@Tsaukpaetra , please evaluate Gyarados.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
A wild Gyarados has appeared.
@Tsaukpaetra , please evaluate Gyarados.
I think youâre looking for @error_bot
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I think youâre looking for @error_bot
@Tsaukpaetra, please evaluate Gyarados vs @error_bot.
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Stop it, will you? You're not the one who has to reboot him when his parser crashes.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Stop it, will you? You're not the one who has to reboot him when his parser crashes.
You say this as though it's not a reason not to stop.
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SUPER HYPER EMERGENCY STATUS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER: Coffee has ran out at the office. I fear for the coming days until supplies are replenished.
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Status: Another day, another new
git
branch created called "list".
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Another day, another new
git
branch created called "list".Amateurs, you call branches temp, tmp, tmp2 and temp-final.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Another day, another new
git
branch created called "list".Amateurs, you call branches temp, tmp, tmp2 and temp-final.
Oh, I guess it wasn't clear.
git stash list
lists your stash,git branch list
does not, in fact, list your branches but creates a branch. I always get them mixed up, but at leastgit stash --list
only gives you an error message.