The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements
... The what?
I had it on a credit card for a while. At some merchants, after you submitted an online transaction, the merchant site would send you to a non-merchant site (Visa or your bank or something) to enter another password linked to your specific card.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements
... The what?
I had it on a credit card for a while. At some merchants, after you submitted an online transaction, the merchant site would send you to a non-merchant site (Visa or your bank or something) to enter another password linked to your specific card.
When NewEgg started using it several years ago, I started using a MasterCard there. I can only guess enough other people raised a fuss or quit shopping that they discontinued it some time later.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
The verified by retards visa. It's crap. His incompetent bank implements it.
Filed under: HTH HAND
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements
... The what?
Exactly how bad it is depends on the exact competence of the card issuer. VISA themselves pass the verification process over to the issuer, and that's just a pig in a poke. Some just fuck it up. Some use device binding (so things are easy if you always use the same system for purchases). Some insist on complex multi-step processes by users every time for Max Pain
Relief.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements
... The what?
Exactly how bad it is depends on the exact competence of the card issuer. VISA themselves pass the verification process over to the issuer, and that's just a pig in a poke. Some just fuck it up. Some use device binding (so things are easy if you always use the same system for purchases). Some insist on complex multi-step processes by users every time for Max Pain
Relief.Yeah, despite how simple OTP is a lot of time and effort has been put into over complicating it and fucking it up.
I've got a giant spoiler alert for these companies. No matter how idiot proof you try to make it nature will create a bigger idiot. I think about the best you can do is send an sms and tell the user not to respond to unsolicited requests or share the codes with other people. The rest is in the hands of the user.
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Status I've upgraded arachibutyrophobia from something I laugh at to an active hostile threat.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
arachibutyrophobia
Just eat some tasty sipders on peanut butter, and then have that mass stick to the top of your mouth!
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@dkf What really pissed me off was being expected to keep track of yet another arbitrary user name and password, as if I don't already have too many of those, for what is effectively security theatre to shield themselves from responsibility for their own stupidity.
Edit: It's obviously another untested update from the bank's Indian duhvelopers. Edge and the latest FireFox show the same option
sas Brave. The latest Chrome won't even let me log in, demanding I return a code that I can't get without a phone call (because it's the same broken logic at work).There are reasons besides fear of a bank run that people pull all of their money out of the bank and stuff it in a mattress.
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Wishing I had a good open source repo of a finished game that I could reverse-engineer for educational purposes. But how do I find "good code"? Damn Sturgeon's law.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements
... The what?
I had it on a credit card for a while. At some merchants, after you submitted an online transaction, the merchant site would send you to a non-merchant site (Visa or your bank or something) to enter another password linked to your specific card.
And it's an amazing idea, if it was mandatory. But it's not. Malicious merchants can just not use it.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Wishing I had a good open source repo of a finished game that I could reverse-engineer for educational purposes. But how do I find "good code"? Damn Sturgeon's law.
What kind of game? Any language(s) in particular? Toolkits? Environments?
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@BernieTheBernie you have amazingly dark thoughts. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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@DogsB That was simple. I had to google your funny word.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Wishing I had a good open source repo of a finished game that I could reverse-engineer for educational purposes. But how do I find "good code"? Damn Sturgeon's law.
What kind of game? Any language(s) in particular? Toolkits? Environments?
Most of my hobby projects are TypeScript but I can read mostly anything. I don't really care, I'm more interested in pulling it apart and seeing how it works.
Don't Starve came with a modding kit that had some example Lua code that I found fascinating. Finite state machines for AI!
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@error If you don't mind C/C++ from the 1990s, id software has open source repos for a bunch of their old games:
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Status I've upgraded arachibutyrophobia from something I laugh at to an active hostile threat.
goes to look that up
On the scale of pleasant deaths, I rate that
- Death by Snu Snu
- arachibutyro[phobia]
- anything else
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
it needs the retarded verified by VISA crap that my bank so incompetently implements
... The what?
I had it on a credit card for a while. At some merchants, after you submitted an online transaction, the merchant site would send you to a non-merchant site (Visa or your bank or something) to enter another password linked to your specific card.
And it's an amazing idea, if it was mandatory. But it's not. Malicious merchants can just not use it.
It might be a good idea if it wasn't implemented in a retarded way in every single aspect possible. I can usually order a 500€ flight ticket without it, but then spend 30 minutes jumping through hoops for a 10€ train ticket. I've already mentioned the security questions. And then the intermediate website that pops up in between... well, that just looks like 90s malware. It looks exactly like the kind of things you train users not to trust. And that's just from the top of my head.
You're probably not interested in reading the last two years' worth of status thread / wtf bites, but I complained about that shite several times before and it's always rage inducingly stupid.
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@hungrier since you d me on replying Doom, I'll suggest Command and Conquer:
Bonus WTF: it's got everyone's favorite commit message:
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@error If you don't mind C/C++ from the 1990s, id software has open source repos for a bunch of their old games:
Status: porting DOOM to HTML5 (which I'm sure has already been done a thousand times, but NIH I haven't done it)
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
which I'm sure has already been done a thousand times
There's even a Github topic on the subject
Here are 43 public repositories matching this topic...
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@error Hold tight, this might sting a little:
I've written code that made it into four of these. If you want engines, we've got those too:
EDIT: Just saw the part about wanting released games. 7KAA and Progress Quest were both commercially released before their open-sourcing, and Endless Sky, OpenTTD, Zero-K, Mindustry, and HACK*MATCH are all feature-complete and all on Steam. Also, Project OutFox was used in the In the Groove 1, 2, and 3 arcade cabinets.
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Status: It's this time of year again. Negotiating next year's internet deal.
I can stay with ATT with 300Mbps for $60. Or I can switch to Xfinity 400Mbps for $55. Or I can switch to Xfinity 75Mbps for $30 and lose unlimited data (inb4 Europeans: data limit on wired internet? ). The choice is obvious, except ATT rep offered me 300Mbps for $30 for the next month only to make me reconsider, and maybe some new promo will show up in the meantime. I wonder if I can convince them to do that every month. Would be annoying as hell, but $30 is $30.
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WHY DOES IT GO BACK TWICE WHEN I PRESS BACKSPACE ONCE
This bug I just found at work brings back memories.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
WHY DOES IT GO BACK TWICE WHEN I PRESS BACKSPACE ONCE
This bug I just found at work brings back memories.
Psst, you're pretending to be new here.
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@error I'm pretending to be long time lurker, first time poster.
On and off reading this site since forever. Didn't bother to register until recently.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I'm pretending to be long time lurker, first time poster.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
Didn't bother to register until recently.
That's the exact moment whatever sanity you had left just vanished
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@TimeBandit I admit, it was only because unregistered users can't block certain someone who definitely lost sanity.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit I admit, it was only because unregistered users can't block certain someone who definitely lost sanity.
This place is pretty quiet if you block all of them
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@loopback0 I only hear distant voices, I’m not sure where they’re coming from.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
unregistered users can't block certain someone who definitely lost sanity.
But they've gone.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit I admit, it was only because unregistered users can't block certain someone who definitely lost sanity.
Only one?
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@Zenith you wanna be second?
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Status: Oh goody, I get to spend money on a new DSL modem.
I spent most of the day trying to get some needful doer at Brightspeed to fix a problem created by a needful doer at Brightspeed with about as much success as you'd expect. Even though the transition was announced several months ago, they've done virtually fuck all to actually effect it. Everything online bounces you between the CenturyLink and Brightspeed portals, often the only difference being that one is themed in green and the other in orange. Half the time it can't even find my account (and half the time it can) because lol cloud microservice HipsterScript boyeee.
Anyway, since all of the chat links seemed to be broken (in reality, hosted on spam hosts blocked by adblock), I decided to call. The first time it tricked me into going to text messages, where I got put in a queue where somebody would totally get to me in a few minutes and then didn't in six hours. About two hours into that, I tried the chat option again.
Why do they hire Indians when they can't even read? If I tell you "I did X (reboot modem) and Y (reset modem) and Z (run wizard), " I don't want to hear:
: I am being understanding perfectly you. Now
10 goto X; 20 goto Y; 30 goto Z; 40 hang up and go fuck yourself San Diego;
Thank you, come again!Went through this about half a dozen times. At some point the wizard tells you to set up PPPoE but doesn't give you the credentials for it. One needful doer said I didn't have credentials. Really? Am I on a phone? Another needful doer said I didn't need to set up PPPoE. Really? Then why is the wizard telling me to? Another needful doer transferred me over to sales where they tried to sell me a second line. The next needful doer said to buy a new modem at BestBuy because they can't send me one (even though I got this modem and the last from the ISP).
So I have my current modem that clearly has an active DSL connection but the Internet light is blinking. Sometimes, if I log directly into the modem and futz with the settings, I can get it to tell me both DSL and Internet are connected. But the blinking red light never goes away, nor does my internet work. And, folks, I tried this on four browsers across two PCs, so it's not my old software to blame. This modem is only 3-4 years old; everything hooked up to it is older than it and, in some cases, the previous modem too. It's absolutely their dingbattery at work and not the hardware.
Love when Indians create problems that I have to pay to fix because they're sub-NPC intelligence level. At least when you bark keywords at an actual NPC they show a working dialog. I have to keep calling until I can talk to an American, don't I?
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@Zenith the smart thing to do would be to order on Amazon then return it as soon as they tell you how to connect.
No, wait. The actual smart thing to do would be to change ISP.
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@Gustav That's my plan as soon as I can find one. Buying a DSL modem seems like trying to buy Beta tapes in 1992 though.
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
No, wait. The actual smart thing to do would be to change ISP.
To Comcast? You're kidding. This is America, remember. That I have a second option at all is a minor miracle.
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What kind of Hindu dindus write these search engines. "DSL modem" is bringing up cable modems everywhere.
Edit: And looking on eBay, what kind of retard seller takes pictures of every side of a modem, sometimes twice, except the one with the ports?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav That's my plan as soon as I can find one. Buying a DSL modem seems like trying to buy Beta tapes in 1992 though.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=DSL+modem for fuck's sake.
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
No, wait. The actual smart thing to do would be to change ISP.
To Comcast?
Yes, to Comcast. They suck, but they don't suck as much. And they have a decent $30 deal right now.
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@Gustav I suspect you are Gribnit but I've had enough of Comcast's tomfoolery as well. Last year they pretended I filed a spam report against a longtime vendor and got my address blacklisted from their mailing list so I stopped receiving invoices and notifications from them. It only took dozens of calls and ultimately posting to a support forum that I accidentally found to find out what the fuck happened. Because none of the needful doers had any idea, that's for sure.
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@Zenith wait you use ISP provided mailbox?
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@Gustav Yes. Shame on me for setting up the e-mail account wrongly when I was in highschool. What alternative would you suggest? GMail? A hosting provider that can disappear? I've mitigated as much as I can by downloading my mail locally now. The world has more clowns and retards than one person can guard against.
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@Zenith the best would be your own server up there in the clouds. But Gmail is a decent alternative. As long as you don't need to send any photos to your child's doctor, it's as reliable as it gets for free.
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@Gustav No, the best would be if somebody would sell, and not fuck up, a static IP and I could run a domain with e-mail locally. But "do X and not fuck up" seems like a taller and taller order every day.
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@Zenith hence cloud. Microsoft/Google/Amazon are their own ISPs so there's less friction, and their IT staff are generally better than Brightcove/Comcast staff at configuring computers. And you get georedundancy and other cool features for dirt cheap.
The only question is how much you'd be paying for spam/DDOS traffic. I never ran email myself, I have no clue whatsoever how those things measure. But I know Gmail is free and 90% as good.
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@Gustav Besides creeping on you, it's that other 10% that worries me. Have you ever been locked out of anything Google? A billion employees and absolutely nobody in a support capacity. If you find a phone number, it literally sings the goodbye song from The Sound of Music at you.
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@Zenith I lost my first Gmail account because they didn't believe me I moved across the ocean. All that tracking, and for what!?
As I said. If you're that worried, then go cloud. There's virtually nothing bad that could happen with lasting consequences. And if it does, you switch to another cloud provider. There's three of them - you can't be THAT unlucky.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Besides creeping on you,
I really with the Googles would creep better. Most times I feel it hardly knows me at all...