The Official Status Thread
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
but any idiot can break it
And it happens from time to time, usually only locally though so it doesn't make the news. After all, who really cares if a small site is offline for a few hours? It's only when a big operation goes down that anyone really notices.
Most mischief-makers aren't too keen on messing around at this level. Directing the massive splurge that is global farceberk traffic at your own site is not a smart move unless you have approximately the resources of them to handle the firehose. There are a few players who've got that ability, but none of them have the desire. (It also wouldn't make the traffic easy to spoof even if you could capture it all. DNSSEC and HTTPS prevent that.)
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@dkf I was more concerned with the idiot engineers who push updates that break things unintentionally. Because that's a way more common cause of breakage.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf I was more concerned with the idiot engineers who push updates that break things unintentionally. Because that's
a way more common cause of breakagethe facebook way.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf but any idiot can break it. Someone I know on a different forum was using the internet as an example of how good engineering practices mean that complexity is just fine (in the context of "well, D&D could be more complex if they just wrote better rules", completely leaving out the possibility that complexity isn't a good thing) and I just went
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Forget good. The mere suggestion the internet was engineered has me rolling on the floor.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf but any idiot can break it. Someone I know on a different forum was using the internet as an example of how good engineering practices mean that complexity is just fine (in the context of "well, D&D could be more complex if they just wrote better rules", completely leaving out the possibility that complexity isn't a good thing) and I just went
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Forget good. The mere suggestion the internet was engineered has me rolling on the floor.
Yeah. My interlocutor came across as a bright-eyed, idealistic student or academic who has exactly 0 real-world experience and thinks that by waving the "engineering is magic" wand over things, he can magically get what he wants at no cost. It's the same "computers/technology is made of magic boxes that give me cat memes" thinking at the root of a lot of messed up things.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
and linking to a video about it. Taking it out of context seems fair game to me.
So I can attribute anything said in any links you may eventually post as things you yourself have said? That seems... disingenuous at best.
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Status: It's important that if you're changing a password that something automated uses, that you tell it about said change...
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I've been using a green screen for a while now.
What everybody says is that you need good illumination for it work well. Well, yes, but that involves buying additional lamps (=
).
I've now gone through the various stages of grief (denial - ignore the problem and have the green screen flicker through in the video feed; anger - pile various lamps from my home into the area with the green screen; pain - write my own "better" green screen filter etc). I think I'm at the acceptance stage now and am looking for a decent lamp/set of lamps for this purpose.
Problem is that Amazon has too much garbage to wade through. Ikea et al. don't really have anything with a convenient form factor (OK, I could probably cobble something together with their LED panels...). "Streamer/gamer" brands tend to charge a bit too much (e.g. €200 for a LED panel). Photography equipment ... well, the studio form factor is a not quite compatible with my office/work/desk space.
Really tempted to go back to denial.
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@cvi Does eposvox have a tutorial about that?
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@cvi You can probably get away with one of those ~$30 USD LED "selfie" ring light thingumabobs that you can get all over Amazon, provided your green screen isn't too far behind you.
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status: can't find the tuna.
Salmon should work, right?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Salmon should work, right?
status: Hrm. It doesn't taste too bad... Not that great either.
Edit: I think the possibly-rancid butter is probably worse.
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@Tsaukpaetra Is it a rerun I missed or a new season of your "best
beforeafter" culinary show?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Is it a rerun I missed or a new season of your "best
beforeafter" culinary show?I ran out of leftovers in the fridge so I had to make something.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
and linking to a video about it. Taking it out of context seems fair game to me.
So I can attribute anything said in any links you may eventually post as things you yourself have said? That seems... disingenuous at best.
You said “trust me, I’m an engineer”, specifically making the video about you. But you’ve been arguing about a simple joke long enough now that I guess it should’ve gone to “things that remind you of WTDWTF members” instead of QOOC.
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@cvi things like Zoom and MS Teams can cut out the background without a green screen. Not too well, but good enough depending on what you need.
If you’re really into the pain stage (that sounds like a lot of work, they probably put man years into it), maybe you can use OpenCV with face detection instead of detecting green screens?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@cvi things like Zoom and MS Teams can cut out the background without a green screen. Not too well, but good enough depending on what you need.
If you’re really into the pain stage (that sounds like a lot of work, they probably put man years into it), maybe you can use OpenCV with face detection instead of detecting green screens?I just use FaceRig.
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
I've been using a green screen for a while now.
I'm not sure I understand why, but anyways, welcome to the
club!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
All those damn annoying UAC prompts.
And, in the end, user priviledges are the cause.
It run flawlessly after installing as an administrator (I always start installations as an admin) - because, at the end of the installation process, it started the program, still as an admin.
Later on, when started as a normal user again, it just sucks away one complete CPU core.
Stop it, start it as admin again: works.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc Not quite. It's still wedged shaped and open on the sides.
The Nope You Eat It thread is not this thread.
You make me vomit.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
you have to have a negative COVID-19 test ... we're both fully vaccinated
I.e. you are required to be tested negative despite being fully vaccinated?
Well, as your friend's case shows, that's reasonable.
In contrast, here in Germany, full vaccination means no test required. And in shops/restaurants which do not allow non-vaccinated (or non-recovered) people, even mask requirement does no more apply...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Zoom and MS Teams can cut out the background without a green screen
But mind the safety belt!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
So finally I go with
asdfghjkqwertzui12345678!"§$
and voilà, it works.For fuck's sake, why can't I just leave the password blank?!
Not this shit again. Doesn't work.
Note to self: new password isasdfgqwert12345!"§$%
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@cvi things like Zoom and MS Teams can cut out the background without a green screen. Not too well, but good enough depending on what you need.
If you’re really into the pain stage (that sounds like a lot of work, they probably put man years into it), maybe you can use OpenCV with face detection instead of detecting green screens?If you have a recentish NVidia card you can use NVidia Broadcast which does a decent job.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I was more concerned with the idiot engineers who push updates that break things unintentionally.
You've not much experience with network operations then.
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Status: Won at a Star Trek quiz.
Hoe lee fuck.
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@topspin Not that I've played around with Zoom's/Teams' background removal that much, but from my observations, even a relatively shoddy green screen setup is miles ahead of those.
FWIW- I do some presentations standing, and e.g. composit myself onto the presentation material. So it's not just really that much about background removal. (I actually don't care about just background removal that much. I can keep the space space around my desk tidy enough that I don't really care if people see it. Especially with a fixed camera fov.)
As for my own green screen processing ... now that I think of it, there's a bunch of things that I could still do to improve it. But,
. Messing around with opencv or similar is definitively
. Besides, throwing machine learning at a problem requires a level of desperation that I haven't quite reached yet.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Note to self: new password is hunter2
of course it is
Unfortunately, that's not allowed under the "length, complexity, or history" requirements which Windows checks but keeps secret.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Note to self: new password is hunter2
of course it is
Unfortunately, that's not allowed under the "length, complexity, or history" requirements which Windows checks but keeps secret.
I always wondered why they don't spell it out for users. How hard could it fucking be?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I always wondered why they don't spell it out for users.
Siri, spell out my password!
H - U - N - T - E - R - 2
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I always wondered why they don't spell it out for users. How hard could it fucking be?
They're on the Microsoft website - that's where everyone looks when setting their AD password isn't it?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
They're on the Microsoft website
Luckily the URL changes every 15seconds so it is practically impossible to find it
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I always wondered why they don't spell it out for users.
Siri, spell out my password!
* - * - * - * - * - * - *
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I always wondered why they don't spell it out for users.
Siri, spell out my password!
* - * - * - * - * - * - *
"I'm sorry, but I couldn't understand asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk . Here are some search results!"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Note to self: new password is hunter2
of course it is
Unfortunately, that's not allowed under the "length, complexity, or history" requirements which Windows checks but keeps secret.
I always wondered why they don't spell it out for users. How hard could it fucking be?
Given that administrators can change the length and history requirements pretty freely, and toggle whether or not to enforce complexity rules (3 out of the 4 major categories required), I can kind of see why they go with a mushy generic message instead of trying to specify the rules.
What’s a little more frustrating for me is that the same message is also displayed if a user is trying to change their password too soon after their last change. And that the minimum granularity your can set for minimum password age is 1 day, which requires an actual full 24 hours.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I always wondered why they don't spell it out for users. How hard could it fucking be?
They're on the Microsoft website - that's where everyone looks when setting their AD password isn't it?
Are they not configurable?
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@topspin they are, although there is a standard set of rules.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I ran out of leftovers in the fridge so I had to make something.
Did you make enough to have leftovers of it?
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Status: Only slightly missed the self-imposed deadline for feature freeze. Now have the rest of the week for testing and emergency bug-fixes.
Well, I've instructed the minions to continue hammering it and will just wait for now. Feeling kind of exhausted1, 3:30pm sounds like a good time to do nothing for the rest of the day.1 Earlier this morning I had some maintenance guys do repairs on the heater. They scheduled to do it from 8am to 9am. To which I said "Yeah, sure" but thought "Ugh, that's early. Then I'll have to be out of the shower at 7:30ish."
Of course they showed up at 10.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
So finally I go with
asdfghjkqwertzui12345678!"§$
and voilà, it works.For fuck's sake, why can't I just leave the password blank?!
Not this shit again. Doesn't work.
Note to self: new password isasdfgqwert12345!"§$%
Umm. Those don't match...
Oh wait - I get it - it actually only uses the first 5 characters! (except when it doesn't)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I always wondered why they don't spell it out for users. How hard could it fucking be?
Because every time Windows updates, the requirements change?
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status POS apple
Plug ipad into computer USB3 slot. "Not charging" ($deity forbid an ipad talk to Windows!)
Plug same usb cord into power strip. "Charging"
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I ran out of leftovers in the fridge so I had to make something.
Did you make enough to have leftovers of it?
Yes, actually.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes, actually.
If you wait 2 months, it should be ripe for your consumption
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Plug ipad into computer USB3 slot. "Not charging"
Mine does that and charges anyway
($deity forbid an ipad talk to Windows!)
Also I assume you unlocked it?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status POS apple
Plug ipad into computer USB3 slot. "Not charging" ($deity forbid an ipad talk to Windows!)
Plug same usb cord into power strip. "Charging"That's because iPads don't charge over 5VDC, they use 120VAC.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
That's because iPads don't charge over 5VDC, they use 120VAC.
They use some kind of adapter that takes 120 or 240V AC and converts it to DC. Maybe it's something other than 5V/1A but it sure isn't connecting the ipad straight to mains power
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
That's because iPads don't charge over 5VDC, they use 120VAC.
They use some kind of adapter that takes 120 or 240V AC and converts it to DC. Maybe it's something other than 5V/1A but it sure isn't connecting the ipad straight to mains power
I.. know.... that was a poorly done joke....