The Official Status Thread
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
It would've been unfair, because it's not at all what I challenged, but I decided that it's time to replace my hunter2 password for WTDWTF with something sensible.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie I don't believe that's a problem. They are geolimiting registration & admin access (but not POP/IMAP, presumably) to IPs from Germany, because the free service is for
those with correct ancenstrythose who reside in Germany. I know a bunch of hosting and similar services who do the same.No. That is rather the "Impossible Travel" issue. It is not possible to get from Frankfurt to Stockholm within just 3 minutes, so something is foul - at least that's the reasoning behind. Of course, with modern IT and remote access...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I almost wish I could actually read a log or two telling me which part of the Rube Goldberg machine is falling flat..
Now you know how I feel when I have to reboot you.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I almost wish I could actually read a log or two telling me which part of the Rube Goldberg machine is falling flat..
Now you know how I feel when I have to reboot you.
Hey, y'all are free to ask for anything and if possible I will provide. I just don't have the kind of debug interfaces that would produce anything useful to the Tribble shooting.
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@BernieTheBernie You've been taking too many Azure bites. Try aiming for a lower-paying job
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Status: Speaking of troubleshooting, I hate how squashing one bug exposes why using a side effect for message passing is a very bad idea...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie You've been taking too many Azure bites. Try aiming for a lower-paying job
AWS Bites then?
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@BernieTheBernie Damned if I know. I've been happily avoiding all that crap. I will probably have 0 career opportunities if the current gig ends, but for now is pleased, and so am I.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I am 100% convinced none of the assholes who develop this ever actually ate their own dog-food and used this crap.
They use a different bank. Because they know the code at this one.
Same with the devs at the other bank, but the other way around!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
when someone casually uses my computer
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie Damned if I know. I've been happily avoiding all that crap. I will probably have 0 career opportunities if the current gig ends, but for now is pleased, and so am I.
Don't worry. There is a movement away from the cloudz already - we have threads for that. And some companies also give up microservices and build monoliths (as suggested by Consulting Ltd). And GUI frameworks will change every couple of
yearsmonthsdays too, currently everyone wants web style äpps running in a browser instead of native GUI, and what ever you'd learn now will be outdated before this evening anyways.
So just please .
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@BernieTheBernie what is old is new again, and thus it was ever so.
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@Arantor
before you know it we'll be back to mainframes.
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@Luhmann Microsoft has made noises about having thin clients that just effectively are RDP to Azure Windows which is half way there as far as I’m concerned…
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor
before you know it we'll be back to mainframes.renting resources in another location?
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann Microsoft has made noises about having thin clients that just effectively are RDP to Azure Windows which is half way there as far as I’m concerned…
It's actually not a terrible concept. The implementation is that corporate will rent you a Raspberry Pi on the Indian sub-continent, because IT support is there , and then complain you're not productive.
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@DogsB with one caveat, the initial rollout MS tried with this Azure Windows required you to have a Windows PC locally to initiate the connection…
But more broadly, VDI is not a new concept even in the post-mainframe world, just trust MS to royally fuck it up.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
the initial rollout MS tried with this Azure Windows required you to have a Windows PC locally to initiate the connection…
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB with one caveat, the initial rollout MS tried with this Azure Windows required you to have a Windows PC locally to initiate the connection…
But more broadly, VDI is not a new concept even in the post-mainframe world, just trust MS to royally fuck it up.
probably tied to windows 11 corporate edition too. Idiots. The idea should be that someone with a chromebook or low tier android phone should be able to connect to it. Christ, what a fuckup.
The first time I encountered this we were given laptops that were more powerful than the vms they provided. Dev ended up migrating back to the laptops. Some of us still used the vms though. If I had a heavy meeting day I could connect to the vm from my personal desktop and we would play on the team minecraft server.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann Microsoft has made noises about having thin clients that just effectively are RDP to Azure Windows which is half way there as far as I’m concerned…
Hey! That's how I use Windows 11 currently.
(well, the "thin client" is a full notebook from19772013)
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@BernieTheBernie MS has implied that in a near future this will be the norm.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie MS has implied that in a near future this will be the norm.
But do their corporate customers agree? They are what MS pays attention to.
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@dkf some do, actually, because it means they can buy a load of cheap laptops for office drones, and not have any of the usual “but I put my files in the recycle bin for safe keeping” stuff because they shouldn’t be using the local machine. It can also simplify the security boundaries if they otherwise allow some variation of BYOD, because some people like that.
It also changes the opex vs capex budgeting thing, which some will like more than others.
But there is also the general feeling that MS is going to go subscription across the board and they’ll just have to suck it up anyway.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
But there is also the general feeling that MS is going to go subscription across the board and they’ll just have to suck it up anyway.
The one thing corporate truly utterly hates is changing anything quickly.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The idea should be that someone with a chromebook or low tier android phone should be able to connect to it. Christ, what a fuckup.
That doesn't solve the problem of "how do we sell two Windows licenses + Azure compute instead of just a Windows license".
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@dkf sure, and this is probably going to be rolled out more thoroughly over the next couple of years, let Windows 12 come out, get everyone onto Win11+ hardware then go subscription only - having it on cloud just locks you into the sub, as opposed to desktops that… just won’t upgrade instead. No recurrent per-user spend that way.
But the clouds are gathering for MS to make money out of everything, it’s no longer enough to make it and ship it with OEM licences and retail licences. Why else would there be things like OneDrive ads in Explorer (even in Win10, even with an active MS sub, it’s now “you’re not using your subscription to back up your files”… no because I want to keep them)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The idea should be that someone with a chromebook or low tier android phone should be able to connect to it. Christ, what a fuckup.
That doesn't solve the problem of "how de we sell two Windows licenses + Azure compute instead of just a Windows license".
That just occurred to me but you !
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Status: I finally managed to fix the ventillation. The inspection didn't reveal any unofficial modifications, nothing was clogged, but there was a strong backdraft in all kitchens above and below. This may be due to the fact that there are no longer radiators there, while there is one in every bathroom, or due to prevailing winds, or slightly shorter chimney (which, unlike others, doesn't go through the elevator engine room - who the hell designed it like that?). The source of the smell is also unknown, perhaps it just sucked something back from an adjacent chimney or sewer vent. The administrator says they may install a longer pipe or a rotary cowl at some point, but that's gonna take time (and money, and a vote), so I decided to install a one-way valve and a big 240m3/h fan.
https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-gobnp3073t/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/3645/17066/awenta-100125150mm-wall-mounted-flange-anti-backdraft-damper-white-pvc-round-grille__66860.1674644104.jpg?c=2
I also glued two little magnets to the valve to keep it from flip-floping due to wind changes and only open when a window is wide open or the fan is running. Of course I had to borrow a bigger hammer drill for this job, because the shape and dimensions of the duct (made from sloppily stacked bricks) were, to say the least, slightly off. After 2 hours of hammering and destroying one shirt with polyurethane foam spray (nasty substance, I strongly recommend hiding any valuable textiles when using it), the contraption seems to work fine so far, only sometimes I can hear the valve clapping.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
(nasty substance, I strongly recommend hiding any valuable textiles when using it)
I recommend not wearing valuable clothing when doing construction work of any kind period.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I recommend not wearing valuable clothing when doing construction work of any kind period.
It wasnt' the shirt I was wearing, it was just hanging close to the sink when I desperately tried to get this shit off my hands.
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Status: Just got this for the first time ever
Is ublock origin on my
client
laptop somehow different from my normal work one or any of my personal devices? Maybe their IT policy silently blocked something.
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@hungrier I've never noticed a pattern between the times it sneaks through uBlock and the times it doesn't.
I'd say purge the cache and update the lists, but uBlock seems to have removed the button to purge the cache so
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@loopback0 For now I'll just try to stay off Youtube on this machine
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie what is old is new again, and thus it was ever so.
Sadly, this is not true of people.
Filed under: Club is
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just got this for the first time ever
Is ublock origin on my
client
laptop somehow different from my normal work one or any of my personal devices? Maybe their IT policy silently blocked something.Last time I got that (with ublock also), I just clicked the 'X' and continued merrily...
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Microsoft has made noises about having thin clients that just effectively are RDP to Azure Windows which is half way there as far as I’m concerned…
The missing half is stability
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd say purge the cache and update the lists, but uBlock seems to have removed the button to purge the cache so
The specific list to "purge" should just be the "uBlock filters – Quick fixes" one, which you can mark as needing to update by clicking the clock icon, then clicking "Update Now" (assuming it doesn't auto update by clicking on the clock).
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just got this for the first time ever
Is ublock origin on my
client
laptop somehow different from my normal work one or any of my personal devices? Maybe their IT policy silently blocked something.Last time I got that (with ublock also), I just clicked the 'X' and continued merrily...
Eventually one appears without the X.
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status Current PR up for review: Files: 1, Changes: -5 lines
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Goddamn cabinet maker. While making the hole for the sink in the tabletop, he created an opening between the garbage cabinet and the food cabinet. This is bad, and it smells bad, so I called him and requested a fix. He promised to deliver a piece of particle board that would specifically fit in that hole, I would just need to screw it on. "I'll give you the dimensions..." "Dimensions? Don't worry, I still have the plans. I'll call you back when it's ready".
As you probably guessed, the dimensions were slightly wrong, so I had to use the saw. Bothering the guy again would mean an additional month of stink (that's how long it took him to produce that one piece of particle board).
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@sebastian-galczynski At least it was too large, so you could cut it down. Too small is much more of a pain to fix.
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Status: I love engrish sometimes.
🤷‍♂️ : This time also we have done such way that account is expected to be never expired. however we will do a testing exactly after 3 months in order to avoid the issue.
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@Tsaukpaetra could be Germlish, I almost, but not quite, understood something.
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@Tsaukpaetra you’re hanging something off a user account in Entra?
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@Gustav pretty much.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra you’re hanging something off a user account in Entra?
I'm not. Apparently in order to synchronize Cisco Unity Connection voicemails shit to the email it has to go through a connector thing that also connects to the Cloud.
For the last year whatever account credentials are being used have consistently expired and not auto-renewed.
Let's see if this time it sticks. Golly but ticking a box is hard nowadays.
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Status: Spent all day trying to figure out why I first wasn't able to run my tests (C++/CMake/Qt/Windows/some custom stuff) and then why the tests weren't telling me what was failing. I now know exactly what was wrong (mixture of missing PATH shenanigans and terrible detection of a terminal by Qt) but it took far far longer than it should have.
And CMake is just the worst thing ever. It seems to be designed to sabotage every platform somehow...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
And CMake is just the worst thing ever. It seems to be designed to sabotage every platform somehow
From my very limited interactions with it, I completely concur. Although the race for "worst thing ever" is really heavily over-subscribed with contestants these days...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
And CMake is just the worst thing ever.
Cmake is just gross. I’ve often contemplated switching to it, because it’s kind of the de facto standard with the most tooling support, etc., but I just can bring myself to learn this abomination.
Anyway,
It seems to be designed
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd say purge the cache and update the lists, but uBlock seems to have removed the button to purge the cache so
Yes, removing the "Purge All Caches" button was done in a recent update of uBlock.
gorhill
Dec 15, 2023
MaintainerFilter lists should never need to be updated manually for the vast majority. The issue here is that "Purge all cache"-"Update now" is a meme but nobody is willing to foot the server bills should we be kicked out of one or more of those CDNs uBO uses.
This is the reality:
No, you do not need to update lists all the time without actual valid reasons
Differential updates ensure people will be very close to up to date lists at all time without burdening servers
In the event a specific fix has been added and a user want to get it immediately, we give them a crafted link to make it easy for themThere is no need to update all lists to absolute latest versions, this is wasted bandwidth and kills differential update cycles, which will takes days to come back, i.e. the user is worse off doing so.
The ability to press the shift button is not mentioned anywhere, and even if you use it, you still need to do this for each filter separately.
In what reality-based scenario does one need to do this for every lists? People report filter issues, they are fixed, we give them a link to update only the one list which has changed. If I put pack another way to do the same as "Purge all cache"-"Update now", it will be abused the same way because people out there are not concerned with CDN costs.
The changes here ensure that the action of updating lists is driven by actual filter issues, not by how user feels when their lists is not perfectly up to date to the minute even when there are no filter issues.