The Official Status Thread
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The laptop currently assigned to me: FN, ctrl, alt, windows, spacebar.
Lenovo? They've had the Fn key in the wrong Fn place for a long time
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The laptop currently assigned to me: FN, ctrl, alt, windows, spacebar.
Interesting. My Lenovo is Fn Ctrl Windows Alt. Now I'm not sure but I'm going to put down Acer.
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Status: The cloud is too cloudy.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS Inspired by @Arantor
Most keyboards: ctrl, fn, windows, alt, spacebar.
The laptop currently assigned to me: FN, ctrl, alt, windows, spacebar.
Someone is definitely out to get me.
Check the BIOS, some laptops that pull that shit also let you switch Ctrl and Fn.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The laptop currently assigned to me: FN, ctrl, alt, windows, spacebar.
Lenovo? They've had the Fn key in the wrong Fn place for a long time
Yeah, I’m not a fan. Thinkpads were great though. Fairly well specced and you could break someone's foot by dropping it on one.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Thinkpads were great though.
That word is lifting pretty heavily.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The laptop currently assigned to me: FN, ctrl, alt, windows, spacebar.
Lenovo? They've had the Fn key in the wrong Fn place for a long time
Yeah, I’m not a fan. Thinkpads were great though. Fairly well specced and you could break someone's foot by dropping it on one.
I still have my 2012 17” MacBook Pro somewhere. That’s definitely in the category of “will break your foot if it lands on it” territory.
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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.
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@DogsB with or without an editor that would highlight that for you?
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@Arantor it was a single line textbox on a swagger ui page. To take the sheen off, I’ve been hacking this into curls for a few weeks now.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Interesting. My Lenovo is Fn Ctrl Windows Alt.
Older Lenovos had the Fn/Ctrl keys swapped.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Interesting. My Lenovo is Fn Ctrl Windows Alt.
Older Lenovos had the Fn/Ctrl keys swapped.
This Lenovo I found is only pretending to have function keys.
But I suppose it's not a laptop keyboard...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not a laptop keyboard...
Status: What I find a bit odd is the special keys don't seem to function. I could have swore Mirashaft had defaults for the Calculator button for example. but they're completely inert. I could excuse the ThinkTool think not doing anything, but Calculator?
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Went looking for AcDc tickets. They’ve lost their edge but they’re still a large chunk of my playlist so I should come pay my respects. £174 a ticket! Bite my ass!
There’s padding the pension fund but this is just a middle finger to your fans.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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Went looking for AcDc tickets. They’ve lost their edge but they’re still a large chunk of my playlist so I should come pay my respects. £174 a ticket! Bite my ass!
There’s padding the pension fund but this is just a middle finger to your fans.
But anyways, come to BABSCon!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not a laptop keyboard...
Status: What I find a bit odd is the special keys don't seem to function. I could have swore Mirashaft had defaults for the Calculator button for example. but they're completely inert. I could excuse the ThinkTool think not doing anything, but Calculator?
A good linux distribution has defaults for such keys.
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Status: Here's another weird one. Actually, three for the price of one.
First, after rejecting my chargeback to the Chinese store that never sent me the promised replacement parts, suddenly Citibank decided to...rule in my favor? And tell me twice in two different e-mails. The same Citibank wouldn't tell me they'd ruled against me over e-mail. No, I had to wait for a fucking letter to find that out. WTF.
Second, I can't buy anything at a different Chinese store that made me get a new Discover card. They moved from the embedded Stripe for to the Stripe-hosted form for checkout. Right before Chinese New Year, because who doesn't push to production on the Friday before a two week long weekend? Stupid form has three captchas and then says "couldn't authenticate your payment." What the hell?
Third, about two years ago, I had a bout where I wasn't receiving order notifications from a different toy store in Wisconsin that I'd been ordering from for like 20 years. Went through the usual steps of talking to a dozen bobbleheads at Comcast that didn't understand how e-mail worked. Finally found Comcast's support forum and got an American to fix the problem. He claimed I was removed from the mailing list because I marked their e-mail as spam . Not only untrue, but funny how marking a shit ton of other garbage as spam never seems to stop that avalanche of shitmail.
Well, now it's happening again. I put in an order last night and no notification arrived. So, rather than go through the bobbleheads, I went right to MailChimp. Except they've been bought by Intuit, so all the links that should go to a support form or e-mail circle back around, leaving the Intuit phone number as the only option.
Well, Intuit puts this phone number right over logos for four big products, one of which is MailChimp. And it;s nowhere in the phone tree. Ye olde "press 0 for operator" trick just hangs up on you. So the closest thing I could pick was merchant services. There you get a retarded AI that asks multiple stupid questions and doesn't understand anything. After four or five dumb questions, it says to call back during business hours and hangs up.
Wait. What are their business hours? Why do I have to call during US business hours to get "support" from an Indian robot? And why couldn't it tell me any of this before the stupid questions?
I hate the world. Nothing works right.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, I’m not a fan. Thinkpads were great though. Fairly well specced and you could break someone's foot by dropping it on one.
There are far better things to drop people on than Thinkpads though.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not a laptop keyboard...
Status: What I find a bit odd is the special keys don't seem to function. I could have swore Mirashaft had defaults for the Calculator button for example. but they're completely inert. I could excuse the ThinkTool think not doing anything, but Calculator?
A good linux distribution has defaults for such keys.
Suggest one for me and I'll try it when I'm on that keyboard again in a week. 😜
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status: suspicious!
Looked at the activity history and the only thing I see is the normal pop3 email sync logins
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@Tsaukpaetra knowing your history, the only surprising thing about this is that they haven't blocked you earlier.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra knowing your history, the only surprising thing about this is that they haven't blocked you earlier.
The most secure computer is one that’s
turned off not connected to the internetnot connected to @Tsaukpaetra.
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@Zenith LOL. Comcast support forum didn't like this:
"I didn't get anywhere with customer support in India but I lucked into a guy here that was able to fix the problem."
Changed it to:
"I didn't get anywhere with customer support in [removed hateful speech] but I lucked into a guy here that was able to fix the problem."
Oh and hid the post. But without responding or solving my problem. That definitely made me like customer support in India.
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Status: And on the hosted e-mail...
Indian IT says they don't support DKIM on shared hosting, have set my SPF records on all domains (up to 48 hours), and I don't need reverse DNS (PTR). Then, even though I said "I do not receive any bounceback information," they ask for bounceback information.
Now I'm in cPanel's "email deliverability" area 24 hours later and I see the SPF records are still showing broken on all domains. Yeah, yeah, 48 hours, BUT when I manually fixed one through the UI, it was immediately no longer flagged. Why is this taking longer? Did they not actually do it or is cPanel stupid? Who the hell knows. E-mail still isn't working. My expectation is that 24 more hours will make no difference.
I just...why me? I don't have weird characters in my name or change my account info every other day. It's all just the most basic and simple use case out there. What did I do in a past life to bring down the collective passive aggressive rage of a country on the other side of the world?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
What did I do in a past life to bring down the collective passive aggressive rage of a country on the other side of the world?
Maybe you're the reincarnation of a Wipro or Infosys manager?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
What did I do in a past life to bring down the collective passive aggressive rage of a country on the other side of the world?
Maybe you're the reincarnation of a Wipro or Infosys manager?
I don't know but I could very well decide to do even worse to them this time around if they keep this up.
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@Zenith You do need reverse DNS. Like, that's the very first thing I (and practically everyone else) check: if you can't even get your hosting company to say your server is named what it says it is, that server's not trustworthy.
That said, if the e-mail server claims to be
mail.trashhosting.it
, and the PTR for its IP ismail.trashhosting.it
, then reverse DNS is already set up properly, even though it's sending mail that claims to be fromsales@wingtiptoys.com
. The other stuff that's broken is supposed to make up for the difference.As for that other stuff... I don't know. PM me for a mailbox on my server, send me an e-mail there, and bug me about it. Or use a tool.
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@TwelveBaud when did Microsoft buy wingtiptoys.com?
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status: the long dark slightly later than teatime of the soul...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status: the long dark slightly later than teatime of the soul...
Well, it was Sunday, it was after 4pm and after you’d had all the baths you could usefully have had that day…
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status: the long dark slightly later than teatime of the soul...
*reboots @Benjamin-Hall*
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status beaten Tales of Iron. Cutest frog killing simulator I’ve ever played. What to play next?
Also need to learn python.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Cutest frog killing simulator I’ve ever played.
The WW1/2 games thread belongs in another category
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud when did Microsoft buy wingtiptoys.com?
May 11, 1998. Access 97 had a bunch of demo files, and one of them was managing Wing Tip Toys' inventory and sales.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud when did Microsoft buy wingtiptoys.com?
May 11, 1998. Access 97 had a bunch of demo files, and one of them was managing Wing Tip Toys' inventory and sales.
That's actually a good idea. For a startup I worked, we learned after the third demo that the .com for the made up company in the demo pointed at an asian porn star’s site.
I think it was the only time I laughed at that company.
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@TwelveBaud The Indians are trying to upsell me on a separate e-mail plan or dedicated hosting (as opposed to shared hosting). I copied the exact instructions that cPanel gave me and hope their tiny microbrains will just follow them like the script readers they are.
According to cPanel, the shared host I'm on somehow also got a PTR record for "avonda.com" which is some ancient looking web design page.
And a
tracert
against "avonda.com" sort of confirms it.They've moved my domains around a few times over the years but the last server I was on was
hammond.asoshared.com
and now cPanel is saying it'ssh046.asoshared.com
. I've forwarded this and the solution to them so let's see if they can swallow their egos and do it so all of the other clients on that box can also have their mail fixed.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status beaten Tales of Iron. Cutest frog killing simulator I’ve ever played. What to play next?
Also need to learn python.
On his early morning stroll by the river Java Master Banzen saw a monk by the name Dogasibu staring into the I/O stream disquiet and agitated. This troubled him in turn, so he slowed his step to inquire:
- What ills have befallen you, young one?
The monk replied:
- I need to learn Python.
The Java Master felt aggrieved for a moment, but then reconsidered. The young monk's predicament was indeed serious.
- And how long have you been pondering the problem?
- I have been playing Tales of Iron all week.
- Have you not seen the answer, then?
- I beg your forgiveness, Master, but I have not.
- Come with me back to the temple.
And so they went back up the mountain in complete silence.
At the temple Banzen called for the abbot and two monks to help him with the lesson. He then described Dogasibu's problem to the youngest monk and asked what he should do. The youngest monk promptly answered:
- He should learn Python, Master, for it is a great language, greater than Rust and Javascript combined.
Banzen then turned to the abbot and ordered:
- Take this monk away and beat his bare feet twelve times for three mornings with bamboo sticks, for his answer is correct, but also naive.
Then he looked towards the older monk, who hearing the younger monk being punished, pondered upon the problem for a while, and then said:
- He should not learn Python, Master, for it is burdensome and perilous language, another in the pile of many unneeded ones.
Banzen then turned to the abbot again and ordered:
- Take this monk away and beat his bare feet twelve times for three mornings with bamboo sticks, for his answer is correct, but also insolent.
And Dogasibu was enlightened.
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Status: Now that seemingly every Nitter instance is either rate limited or not found, I'm considering setting this up:
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@Applied-Mediocrity very good. I need to reread the Codeless Code again.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Now that seemingly every Nitter instance is either rate limited or not found, I'm considering setting this up:
The one at twitter.com seems to mostly work
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status beaten Tales of Iron. Cutest frog killing simulator I’ve ever played. What to play next?
Also need to learn python.
On his early morning stroll by the river Java Master Banzen saw a monk by the name Dogasibu staring into the I/O stream disquiet and agitated. This troubled him in turn, so he slowed his step to inquire:
- What ills have befallen you, young one?
The monk replied:
- I need to learn Python.
The Java Master felt aggrieved for a moment, but then reconsidered. The young monk's predicament was indeed serious.
- And how long have you been pondering the problem?
- I have been playing Tales of Iron all week.
- Have you not seen the answer, then?
- I beg your forgiveness, Master, but I have not.
- Come with me back to the temple.
And so they went back up the mountain in complete silence.
At the temple Banzen called for the abbot and two monks to help him with the lesson. He then described Dogasibu's problem to the youngest monk and asked what he should do. The youngest monk promptly answered:
- He should learn Python, Master, for it is a great language, greater than Rust and Javascript combined.
Banzen then turned to the abbot and ordered:
- Take this monk away and beat his bare feet twelve times for three mornings with bamboo sticks, for his answer is correct, but also naive.
Then he looked towards the older monk, who hearing the younger monk being punished, pondered upon the problem for a while, and then said:
- He should not learn Python, Master, for it is burdensome and perilous language, another in the pile of many unneeded ones.
Banzen then turned to the abbot again and ordered:
- Take this monk away and beat his bare feet twelve times for three mornings with bamboo sticks, for his answer is correct, but also insolent.
And Dogasibu was enlightened.If serenadation was the objective.
I thought accomplished had two Cs.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
According to cPanel, the shared host I'm on somehow also got a PTR record for "avonda.com" which is some ancient looking web design page.
Looks like a site that doesn't use CSS. You're in good company.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
According to cPanel, the shared host I'm on somehow also got a PTR record for "avonda.com" which is some ancient looking web design page.
Looks like a site that doesn't use CSS. You're in good company.
Most of it is a table too. Are we sure it isn't @Zenith?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I thought accomplished had two Cs.
Sigh. Someone should add the same image (where the spelling does have two Cs) as :mission-accomplished: while possibly still leaving :mission-acomplished: as an alias.
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What kind of emoji should we have for :mission-acccomplished:?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
What kind of emoji should we have for :mission-acccomplished:?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
What kind of emoji should we have for :mission-acccomplished:?
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@Zenith At this point you do need a separate e-mail plan, preferably not with these cowboys. Any local mail sending agent is going to connect to the destination and say
EHLO sh046.asoshared.com
; the destination is going to see the name for that IP is reallyavonda.com
, and laugh at the attempted impersonation while closing the connection. And I absolutely don't trust them to set up SPF correctly if it somehow manages to survive that.Edit: Huh. "A Small Orange has partnered with Web.com" Notwork Solutions. I can definitely see why you're having trouble.