The Official Status Thread
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@Zenith Quickly answering a few more I missed.
What's chaining me to .NET 2: I don't like Windows 10, can't find my Windows 7 CD, and don't want to risk fucking up a working VS 2008 installation by installing a newer version alongside it. I don't care for other IDEs either - never liked Eclipse and SharpDevelop's form builder had problems last I checked (I was doing alot of UI rebuilding at the time).
Doesn't not swiping count as keyed in and cost more? Yes, 4% instead of 3%. Learned that when Square bungled an app update right before a show and staying up to date like a good little serf bit me in the ass. Anyway, selling a $100 item, I'd rather lose the $1 in fees than the $100.
Blah blah PCI compliance. Sure thing, Bill. I'll fret about starting a business so much I never actually start a business. Anyway, you think I can't walk the DOM to steal the data in those fields? Or if I actually gave enough of a shit I couldn't disable cross site protection in an open source codebase?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
What exactly has ball-and-chained you to this?
He did, you may have missed it, but he also talked about his adventures in MySQL land.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows 7
Oh right, I'm still floored that you can even interact with the Internet at all. I have 21 EOL computers because they can't be upgraded past Windows 8.0 and Windows 7 barfs at all the hip sites.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is physically swiping cards still a big thing in the US?
Here in the UK (and IME mainland Europe too) it's basically extinct. Card-present transactions are all done via Chip & PIN or contactless.Main variable I've noticed is whether transactions above the contactless-only threshold go to contactless-and-pin or chip-and-pin.
But in the US? I wouldn't be surprised if swipe-and-signature was still common.
For me it's chip-and-nothing most of the time with the occasional chip-and-scribble or tap-and-nothing. I still see swipe-and-whatever at a few places like conventions, smaller stores, when they're having technical issues, or (seemingly) just out of habit. The only time I've seen PIN requests are when the machine can tell you're using a Debit card, and I just hit whatever button skips to running it as Credit.
My credit card company only recently sent me a replacement card with tap capability. I never got into using my phone for it, despite my last few phones having the ability.
"Loyalty" cards are also a reason to have swipe equipment in the stores. Most of the ones I have use magstripe, a couple have barcodes or both. Many let you type in your phone number instead, which may be the path forward for them.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
What exactly has ball-and-chained you to this?
He did, you may have missed it, but he also talked about his adventures in MySQL land.
I wouldn't say I am missing it, Bob.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
and bool
And I forgot to ask how you feel about Win32
BOOL
vs .NETbool
. But I think I know the answer.
"Why I have to tell the marshaller not to fuck it up! They had one job! "S_FALSE
is my friend.
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@Tsaukpaetra They can't run Firefox or Chrome?
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Nope. It's IE or nothing.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra They can't run Firefox or Chrome?
Not a recent version in any case.
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@Tsaukpaetra And why might that be?
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@Tsaukpaetra I haven't installed a recent Firefox yet, though I'm about to with being fed up with Chrome, but you should be able to get at least v101 of Chrome even without SP1. That was at least a week ago though so it's entirely possible v2685 was released since then and couldn't be installed.
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@Zenith I ditched chrome a while ago. But I'm not liking slack in a firefox window for window management reasons, and the slack electron app stopped working on the version of dogfood linux I'm using because the binary builds moved to a newer glibc version. Moving to a new major version of dogfood linux requires a nuke&pave and my boss isn't fond of the downtime required for that.
The good news is I'm up for a hardware refresh and will be looking into ordering that next month when my postal address is stable again.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
my postal address is stable again.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Not that kind of stable.
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@PleegWat I don't even know where really live. I suspect it's not a stable. But .
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra And why might that be?
Because fear, uncertainty, and doubt!
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Status: defragmentation is a lot easier when you have larger contiguous regions of space for those things that can't be further temporarily fragmented.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra And why might that be?
Because fear, uncertainty, and doubt!
Ok, that sounds perfectly reasonable. Carry on then.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra And why might that be?
Because fear, uncertainty, and doubt!
Drink in Barrels, scream, and shout.
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@Zenith I've done some hunting, and although Stripe refuses to do card-not-present on a terminal (physical or otherwise), Cybersource, Authorize.net, and Paytrace still do.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows 7 barfs at all the hip sites.
That is one (ONE, 1) point in its favour.
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@TwelveBaud I haven't had a chance to test my code for it yet but Stripe did have an endpoint that took card details in their documentation at least. It would be weird for them to not offer a card reader and not support manual entry but stranger things have happened. I'll let you know what the result is when I get around to running my tests.
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Saw an episode of Murder, She Wrote where Metallica is mentioned.
That felt weird.But according to Wikipedia Metallica is actually older that Murder, She Wrote by a few years.
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@Zenith Stripe offers two models of card reader for use with Stripe Terminal (which is different than their regular offerings). I didn't see anywhere Stripe accepted a raw PAN, just "fingerprints" generated by the reader, by one of their hosted checkout offerings, or by Stripe.js hosted on your checkout web page (which must be a web page).
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@TwelveBaud https://stripe.com/docs/api/tokens/create_card
Supposedly you post there and get a token back out that gets passed into the rest of the API. But, like I said, I haven't gotten to the point of actually trying to post there yet so I don't know if it actually works.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Saw an episode of Murder, She Wrote where Metallica is mentioned.
That felt weird.But according to Wikipedia Metallica is actually older that Murder, She Wrote by a few years.
🧵
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You know you really need caffeine when:
- You put water on to heat for
$preferred_caffeinated_beverage
, walk away to do something else while it heats, and completely forget you put water on.
- You put water on to heat for
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@HardwareGeek How can you sure it's not
ParkinsonAlzheimerTourette?
(I have all three of them, so I do not need to care witch won.)
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@HardwareGeek That sounds like the perfect use case for a keurig. Use it for the first cup since you're not awake enough to know the difference, then once the first cup kicks in, have another cup that doesn't taste like the cardboard the kcups come in.
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@antiquarian Keurig does make tea K-cups. That might be ok, as long as the machine isn't shared with someone who uses it for coffee (the tea ends up tasting like coffee), but ~60 cents/cup vs. 8 cents/cup for normal tea bags. I typically only have 2 cups/day, one morning and one afternoon, so I can't really say the flavor of the first cup doesn't matter. And also content.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
You know you really need caffeine when:
- You put water on to heat for
$preferred_caffeinated_beverage
, walk away to do something else while it heats, and completely forget you put water on.
My sister got a quooker for that reason, so the hot water is available immediately.
I got an electric kettle which makes a beeping noise when it's done.
- You put water on to heat for
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
I got an electric kettle which makes a beeping noise when it's done.
I can tell by the change in sound when the water goes from heating to simmering to boiling, and if I let it boil long enough, the click when it shuts off is reasonably loud. But I was in a different room, and from that room often I don't hear when the microwave or oven timer beeps (much white noise — A/C blower, room fan, multiple computer fans — and sometimes music) , especially if the fan is on and/or I'm wearing headphones, so the kettle beeping probably wouldn't have helped. I don't usually walk away like that, since it takes < 2 minutes, but this morning I did for some reason.
Edit:
quooker
I don't think I'd ever heard of that before. It looks convenient, but I'm not sure it would be allowed, because of US liability laws. Also, I am disincentivized from buying one, because it would belong to my landlord as soon as I installed it.
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@HardwareGeek Yeah, it remains to be seen how it will work for me after I move to a house in two weeks. With the kitchen downstairs and the office upstairs.
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status Guess that Apple bug they've been publicizing so much only applies to newer macs. My Catalina machine said "No updates for you!" (other than Safari - which failed. And then the mac said "up to date")
My Monterey machine and iPad both had OS updates.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Guess that Apple bug they've been publicizing so much only applies to newer macs. My Catalina machine said "No updates for you!" (other than Safari - which failed. And then the mac said "up to date")
My Monterey machine and iPad both had OS updates.
If you're on Catalina or Big Sur the Safari update is the update for that bug
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Guess that Apple bug they've been publicizing so much only applies to newer macs. My Catalina machine said "No updates for you!" (other than Safari - which failed. And then the mac said "up to date")
My Monterey machine and iPad both had OS updates.
If you're on Catalina or Big Sur the Safari update is the update for that bug
Oh, it's a Safari issue... I hadn't bothered reading anything other than what I heard on the radio. And we know the information content of that...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Guess that Apple bug they've been publicizing so much only applies to newer macs. My Catalina machine said "No updates for you!" (other than Safari - which failed. And then the mac said "up to date")
My Monterey machine and iPad both had OS updates.
If you're on Catalina or Big Sur the Safari update is the update for that bug
Oh, it's a Safari issue... I hadn't bothered reading anything other than what I heard on the radio. And we know the information content of that...
On Monterey and iOS there's the Safari/Webkit issue and an additional issue in the kernel. On Catalina and Big Sur it's just the Safari/Webkit issue.
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Status: Sometimes, while playing cyberpunk, my PC spontaneously reboots and the bios reports both a temperature and a low voltage error. It's always done it, and it doesn't do it with any other game. It's not the main PSU, I suspect the CPU voltage regulator. With prices going down I think I'm finally gonna bite the bullet and rebuild.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
while playing cyberpunk, my PC spontaneously reboots and the bios reports both a temperature and a low voltage error.
CHOOH2 is not even close to stable. What do you expect?
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Status: 2 GB update to Elder Scrolls Online downloading at 9 MB/s. This isn't going to be quick.
Edit: I think I misread both the size and transfer rate by an order of magnitude, because . Still not quick.
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Status: I think I broke
Filed under: How can you tell the difference?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think I broke
Sorry, I only reboot people. Ask @boomzilla.
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@Zerosquare I accidentally hit Ctrl-V instead of Ctrl-B to embolden the Status: in the previous post and pasted a picture that was irrelevant to that post, so I deleted the picture URL ... while it was still uploading. , or Firefox, or the connection between them, did not like that at all. Reloading the page a couple of times fixed it, but resulted in a double post.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
downloading at 9 MB/s
Lucky you... AT&T lets me have 2 MB/s.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think I broke
Sorry, I only reboot people. Ask @boomzilla.
Not a good idea.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I used to like Firefox because I could run a ton of tabs without it spamming too many processes.
The plus side of this is that all those Firefox windows no longer become unresponsive and/or crash as a single application.
OH WAIT!
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@Zecc mine's got 400 threads, but only 15 process. I guess that's ... better?
ETA: pretty sure the processor only has 8 cores. Couldn't they just use a thread pool?!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Couldn't they just use a thread pool?!
But their mother told them no running near the pool, so then they wouldn't be able to display any web pages at all
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Couldn't they just use a thread pool?!
No. The whole point of using processes is so that crashes only take out a small number of pages, not the whole browser. Thread pools precisely lack that advantage.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Couldn't they just use a thread pool?!
No. The whole point of using processes is so that crashes only take out a small number of pages, not the whole browser. Thread pools precisely lack that advantage.
Did you miss the part where a single process is using 94 threads?