The Official Status Thread
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm glad I'm white.
You look rather blue to me.
That's because you're looking at him while inside, the colour changes when outside.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS In a change of pace... I will endeavor to write 20 unit tests today.
Also forgot to drink half a litre of milk before bed and everything is sore and tired. Bloody skipping rope!
I got to 12 and about 600 lines of code. Better than expected to be honest.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm glad I'm white.
You look rather blue to me.
Blue lives matter.
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Status: Trying to use LibreOffice
I have an existing .doc file open in Libreoffice Writer, and a new spreadsheet in Calc. I enter a handful of column headings in the spreadsheet, and tab over to the document to start copy/pasting some things over. The document is unresponsive. The spreadsheet is unresponsive. Both crash.
I reopen the doc and it helpfully offers to recover my crashed files. Great, lets go. Doc reopens fine, spreadsheet is blank. I enter a column heading, Tab and enter the next heading, Tab and start typing. The spreadsheet is unresponsive. After a few seconds, both windows crash again.
I've now "recovered" (doc unmodified, spreadsheet blank) again. Will it let me enter more than two column headings? Will I be able to transfer some text from one place to another? :who_nose:
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@hungrier Column headings, yes. Switching windows, no. What a world class office suite, ready for prime time and a worthy rival to Popular Paid Product
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Will it let me
You need to migrate off the
SYLK
file format.
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Status: Had to re-apply a bunch of edits to a big block of text in HTML that was revised out from under me by the original author.
Problem: Beyond Compare is not very good at handling large blocks of text with the paragraph break changed or a bunch of text added in the middle of a paragraph.
Solution: Replace all the spaces in both files with
~\r\n
,~
being a character not in the source. Beyond Compare is very good at aligning lines with a single word or two, making it much easier to spot the things I needed to fix again. Reverse the search-and-replace and we once again have a web page with less typos and messed-up smart quotes.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Column headings, yes. Switching windows, no.
Here's a nickel, Kid. Go buy yourself a real OS.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
What a world class office suite, ready for prime time and a worthy rival to Popular Paid Product
I use Libre Office frequently, with maybe 5–10 documents open — mostly spreadsheets, sometimes 1 or 2 Writer documents — and I don't have that problem. However, mine are all native Libre documents, not MS .doc or .xls; maybe that's the difference.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I think I’ve hit peak autism for today. I just spotted a missing curly brace in just over 1kb of json on one line.
I can't get this query to return anything.
Let me hav... that uppercase I should be a lowercase l.
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status: listening to little brother blow through his homework before school
"Alexa who is the actor that plays Catniss?" "in the Hunger Games why do they fire cannons when you die?"
😒
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@Tsaukpaetra at least he’s not asking ChatGPT to write it for him?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra at least he’s not asking ChatGPT to write it for him?
Ran out of tokens.
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Status: Got a bunch of bash code from a different project and trimmed it down by ~50%. Next up the less fun job of writing a windows equivalent of what's left over.
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Status: more security theatre
God damn, even toy collecting forums are getting in on the password scam where every X days you have to scramble the hell out of your passwords because somebody might post as you...after they empty your bank, transfer your car titles, steal your house deed, take your 401K, rent a bunch of tapes from Blockbuster, order dozens of sardine pizzas, impersonate you at the local chapter of Oprah's book club, and...
And they wonder why people keep passwords on a post-it note if not in a notebook. Don't they realize everybody's pulling this scam? How many fucking combinations of app/site-username-password are we supposed to remember when they change as often as every 30 days?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I think I’ve hit peak autism for today. I just spotted a missing curly brace in just over 1kb of json on one line.
I can't get this query to return anything.
Let me hav... that uppercase I should be a lowercase l.I find it somewhat amusing that in this modern world, attention to detail is associated with mental illness.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
How many fucking combinations of app/site-username-password are we supposed to remember
I love this survey app the study drug people use. I use it to tell them what my weight is every week.
But oh no, someone might log in as me and say I'm more morbidly obese than I am already! Danger HIPAA!
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I think I’ve hit peak autism for today. I just spotted a missing curly brace in just over 1kb of json on one line.
I can't get this query to return anything.
Let me hav... that uppercase I should be a lowercase l.I find it somewhat amusing that in this modern world, attention to detail is associated with mental illness.
Isn't the cure for that formerly-illegal-mostly drugs?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: more security theatre
God damn, even toy collecting forums are getting in on the password scam where every X days you have to scramble the hell out of your passwords because somebody might post as you...after they empty your bank, transfer your car titles, steal your house deed, take your 401K, rent a bunch of tapes from Blockbuster, order dozens of sardine pizzas, impersonate you at the local chapter of Oprah's book club, and...
And they wonder why people keep a passwords on a post-it note if not a notebook. Don't they realize everybody's pulling this scam? How many fucking combinations of app/site-username-password are we supposed to remember when they change as often as every 30 days?
Don't worry, I'm sure everyone will adopt NIST's recommendations for WIWTFA and super long passwords and all the other annoying restrictions without adopting the "and no longer make passwords expire on a schedule" part of it, any day now.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: listening to little brother blow through his homework before school
"Alexa who is the actor that plays Catniss?" "in the Hunger Games why do they fire cannons when you die?"
😒
Why does he have Hunger Games homework?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: listening to little brother blow through his homework before school
"Alexa who is the actor that plays Catniss?" "in the Hunger Games why do they fire cannons when you die?"
😒
Why does he have Hunger Games homework?
The fuck should I know? I'm assuming you're looking for something more philosophical than "because his teacher assigned him homework that has such questions on it."
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: listening to little brother blow through his homework before school
"Alexa who is the actor that plays Catniss?" "in the Hunger Games why do they fire cannons when you die?"
😒
Why does he have Hunger Games homework?
Gotta prepare the next batch of tributes.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: more security theatre
God damn, even toy collecting forums are getting in on the password scam where every X days you have to scramble the hell out of your passwords because somebody might post as you...after they empty your bank, transfer your car titles, steal your house deed, take your 401K, rent a bunch of tapes from Blockbuster, order dozens of sardine pizzas, impersonate you at the local chapter of Oprah's book club, and...
And they wonder why people keep a passwords on a post-it note if not a notebook. Don't they realize everybody's pulling this scam? How many fucking combinations of app/site-username-password are we supposed to remember when they change as often as every 30 days?
Don't worry, I'm sure everyone will adopt NIST's recommendations for WIWTFA and super long passwords and all the other annoying restrictions without adopting the "and no longer make passwords expire on a schedule" part of it, any day now.
My work password will be expiring soon. I keep getting reminders — why not change it now, so you don't get locked out — so I looked up the new requirements. They're encouraging people to switch from passwords to pass phrases, so the minimum length is increasing, but spaces now count for the "special character" requirement. Yes, they still require mixed case, digits, and special characters. And no dictionary words. Their recommendation is to do letter-digit swaps on words in your chosen phrase; thus defeating what XKCD will tell you is one of the big advantages over the traditional way of creating non-dictionary passwords. These recommendations are Fub4r. And don't write them down, so you can forget which letters you changed to digits.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: more security theatre
God damn, even toy collecting forums are getting in on the password scam where every X days you have to scramble the hell out of your passwords because somebody might post as you...after they empty your bank, transfer your car titles, steal your house deed, take your 401K, rent a bunch of tapes from Blockbuster, order dozens of sardine pizzas, impersonate you at the local chapter of Oprah's book club, and...
And they wonder why people keep a passwords on a post-it note if not a notebook. Don't they realize everybody's pulling this scam? How many fucking combinations of app/site-username-password are we supposed to remember when they change as often as every 30 days?
Don't worry, I'm sure everyone will adopt NIST's recommendations for WIWTFA and super long passwords and all the other annoying restrictions without adopting the "and no longer make passwords expire on a schedule" part of it, any day now.
My work password will be expiring soon. I keep getting reminders — why not change it now, so you don't get locked out — so I looked up the new requirements. They're encouraging people to switch from passwords to pass phrases, so the minimum length is increasing, but spaces now count for the "special character" requirement. Yes, they still require mixed case, digits, and special characters. And no dictionary words. Their recommendation is to do letter-digit swaps on words in your chosen phrase; thus defeating what XKCD will tell you is one of the big advantages over the traditional way of creating non-dictionary passwords. These recommendations are Fub4r. And don't write them down, so you can forget which letters you changed to digits.
hunt3r2 1s b3tt3r th4n p4$$word1
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
so you can forget which letters you changed to digits.
Well, duh. All
e
s are3
, alli
s are1
, and allo
s are0
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
hunt3r2 1s b3tt3r th4n p4$$word1
That can be simplified with my rule.
hunt3r2 1s B3TT3R3R than passw0rd1
(you forgot the upper case requirement)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
so you can forget which letters you changed to digits.
Well, duh. All
e
s are3
, alli
s are1
, and allo
s are0
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
hunt3r2 1s b3tt3r th4n p4$$word1
That can be simplified with my rule.
hunt3r2 1s B3TT3R3R than passw0rd1
(you forgot the upper case requirement)
I WASNT TRYING TO BE HELPFUL
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
so you can forget which letters you changed to digits.
Well, duh. All
e
s are3
, alli
s are1
, and allo
s are0
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
hunt3r2 1s b3tt3r th4n p4$$word1
That can be simplified with my rule.
hunt3r2 1s B3TT3R3R than passw0rd1
(you forgot the upper case requirement)
I always chuckle when I get a service request from a particular department. We'll call them "The security guys". Amidst the outdated (since 2018) instructions (that come in the form of an Excel doc), one of the instructions is to "set the
security account
password to the one found in the vault" (implying it changes and thus has need of being secured stored).The password in question?
P@ssw0rd!
So secure, much adjust.
I can only hope it's just the de-facto temporary password and they update it to the real one after delivery. Haven't checked but I have my doubts.
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Status: I have a video interview in 5 minutes and I just realized I don't have pants.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I can only hope it's just the de-facto temporary password and they update it to the real one after delivery. Haven't checked but I have my doubts.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
I just realized I don't have pants.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a video interview in 5 minutes and I just realized I don't have pants.
Did you ship your pants?
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a video interview in 5 minutes and I just realized I don't have pants.
Edit: (would that emoji be :thsi-is-th-ewya: )
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a video interview in 5 minutes and I just realized I don't have pants.
Just don't stand up.
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Status: Well. It's certainly been a while since I experienced a hard reset due to unexpected static discharge.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, duh. All
e
s are3
, alli
s are1
, and allo
s are0
Change all
i
to!
to fit the special character requirement
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@Tsaukpaetra you should be grounded
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra you should be grounded
What are you going to do, cut his salary in half?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, duh. All
e
s are3
, alli
s are1
, and allo
s are0
Change all
i
to!
to fit the special character requirementNo need
but spaces now count for the "special character" requirement.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra you should be grounded
I was! During the event.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: more security theatre
God damn, even toy collecting forums are getting in on the password scam where every X days you have to scramble the hell out of your passwords because somebody might post as you...after they empty your bank, transfer your car titles, steal your house deed, take your 401K, rent a bunch of tapes from Blockbuster, order dozens of sardine pizzas, impersonate you at the local chapter of Oprah's book club, and...
And they wonder why people keep a passwords on a post-it note if not a notebook. Don't they realize everybody's pulling this scam? How many fucking combinations of app/site-username-password are we supposed to remember when they change as often as every 30 days?
Don't worry, I'm sure everyone will adopt NIST's recommendations for WIWTFA and super long passwords and all the other annoying restrictions without adopting the "and no longer make passwords expire on a schedule" part of it, any day now.
My work password will be expiring soon. I keep getting reminders — why not change it now, so you don't get locked out — so I looked up the new requirements. They're encouraging people to switch from passwords to pass phrases, so the minimum length is increasing, but spaces now count for the "special character" requirement. Yes, they still require mixed case, digits, and special characters. And no dictionary words. Their recommendation is to do letter-digit swaps on words in your chosen phrase; thus defeating what XKCD will tell you is one of the big advantages over the traditional way of creating non-dictionary passwords. These recommendations are Fub4r. And don't write them down, so you can forget which letters you changed to digits.
At least you get to make your password. I get a list of random sequences of characters to pick from.
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Status: I probably should have had that habanero chili con carne for lunch instead of late dinner.
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Status: Awesome, Comcast deleted all of my mail filtering rules sometime this month.
I started seeing political spam for the first time in years yesterday. Somehow, the RNC got ahold of my e-mail after my brother donated to Romneybot's campaign and they have been sending me garbage ever since. For a few years they kept calling me too. But, not to be left out, the Democrats got ahold of my e-mail somehow too.
Now the filter's gone and it's all flooding back into my inbox.
I had also just set up some filters to stop all of those "your Netflux/Hooloo/Sorny/Magnetbox subscription is being teh expired!1one" e-mails. What a waste of three hours that was. Assholes.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Comcast ... Assholes.
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@HardwareGeek You just cannot let anything out of your immediate control these days. Dollars to donuts the "diagnostic" that Indian support said they were running was what fucked this up.
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Status: Bonus double fuckup.
Seems that Firefox on Android and Windows both have the same bug. I mentioned once or twice that Firefox just stops writing to disk at a certain point. When it crashes, I lose the last couple hours worth of tabs. People laughed because I was using an older version.
Well, today a much newer version on Android started doing it too. I noticed at some point it just can't read or write from disk. Can't display a list of add-ons or favorites, can't auto-complete URLs from history or favorites, can't actually save downloaded files, and, when you force quit to fix that, it starts back up with your tabs as they were arranged hours ago.
Where are they finding their developers, the Home Depot parking lot?
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status: Microsoft Money does not allow the main window to be resized. What a shame.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I think I’ve hit peak autism for today. I just spotted a missing curly brace in just over 1kb of json on one line.
I can't get this query to return anything.
Let me hav... that uppercase I should be a lowercase l.I find it somewhat amusing that in this modern world, attention to detail is associated with mental illness.
Isn't the cure for that formerly-illegal-mostly drugs?
And in case you can't read the shirt:
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@Zenith That sounds like a synch problem. The remote state isn't being updated and yet is being treated as definitive. There's a few reasons it could happen, such as an expired session key or a local disk failure that's being hidden by the OS (I've only ever seen Windows pull that particular trick) so fixes are all over the place. A reboot and install of any pending updates might help? No guarantee, but if it doesn't then you've got a device that's beginning to slip free of the panopticon...