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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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Got to inbox zero yesterday and it's still empty…
I noticed my Outlook was transparently not syncing despite telling me all folders were up to date. A relaunch fixed 'er right up!
Same thing apparently happened to OneDrive.
Microsoft is Shirley Trying.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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Got to inbox zero yesterday and it's still empty…
I noticed my Outlook was transparently not syncing despite telling me all folders were up to date. A relaunch fixed 'er right up!
Same thing apparently happened to OneDrive.
Microsoft is Shirley Trying.
It’s Shirley Trying my patience.
Writing 4 rows into a spreadsheet in OneDrive takes 30 seconds and nearly 40 HTTP calls.
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You guys often complain about Delivery Distortion Fields.
Pah, beginners!
I experienced a veritable Time Distortion Field. That's similar to Time Travel.
Yesterday afternoon, I arrived at the train station at 16:35. Bought my ticket, went to the platform, and waited some 10 minutes for my train. Then I took the 16:27 train which brought me to my home town.
Travelling by in can offer you unbelievable experiences!
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Status: It's obviously never occurred to any browser developer since IE was current to make it easy to embed a browser control in an application.
I can't get NuGet to work to save my life. Home and work Visual Studio versions are too old and the command line version is just baffling shit. And of course nobody wants to just make a plain old DLL available.
So I'm trying to compile a 2021 version of GeckoFX from source. You'd think maybe it would be a smallish shim to load the existing app into memory but no. Hundreds of files redefining hundreds of classes and interfaces. Plus all sorts of weird syntax because that's all successive versions of C# do - invent new syntax for stuff you could already do that just makes using an older compiler harder.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It's obviously never occurred to any browser developer since IE was current to make it easy to embed a browser control in an application.
Why do you think the likes of CEF, Electron, etc exist?
Also, did none of these work out for you?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
And of course nobody wants to just make a plain old DLL available.
Download the nuget, open it as a ZIP file and look for the right version folder in
lib
. It's all there.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
And of course nobody wants to just make a plain old DLL available.
Download the nuget, open it as a ZIP file and look for the right version folder in
lib
. It's all there.I don't .NET, so I don't really care, just asking out of curiosity: what exactly would you download?
When I google "nuget browser" or "nuget firefox" I get results that would be too old for .
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
And of course nobody wants to just make a plain old DLL available.
Download the nuget, open it as a ZIP file and look for the right version folder in
lib
. It's all there.I don't .NET, so I don't really care, just asking out of curiosity: what exactly would you download?
If, for some mystery Zenith reason, you needed GeckoFX from 2021 then you could download the package from the website.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Download the nuget, open it as a ZIP file and look for the right version folder in lib. It's all there.
They usually don't provide a way to even get it without Nuget.
I did eventually find how to get a nupkg somehow but it only has some of the DLLs. When I grabbed the missing ones from my local Firefox folder, it barked it couldn't find them at runtime. I even followed instructions and it still didn't work.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
If, for some mystery Zenith reason, you needed GeckoFX from 2021 then you could download the package from the website.
You pointed me to the source code. That's what I'm having trouble compiling because of all of the weird C# 6.0 it's stuffed with.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why do you think the likes of CEF, Electron, etc exist?
Also, did none of these work out for you?I didn't try CEF because it didn't work the last five times I decided I needed a browser control. I don't know about the others you linked yet.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
And of course nobody wants to just make a plain old DLL available.
On the NuGet website, find the package you want and click "Download Package" in the list on the right. It's a zip file () with -- among other things -- DLLs for every version of .NET that package supports, each in its own folder (usually). However, you'll have to manage project file modifications (some are fancier than just Add Reference to DLL) and dependencies yourself.
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
When I grabbed the missing ones from my local Firefox folder, it barked it couldn't find them at runtime.
Most embedded Firefoxes are 32-bit, from before Firefox embedding went completely to hell in 2014. Retail Firefox installations are probably 64-bit. .NET apps can be either; which one you get depends on project settings and some lazy heuristics, but probably isn't the one you want. Windows doesn't support mixed-bittedness, and that's the error message it gives you when that happens.
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@TwelveBaud Believe me, trying to force 32-bit is the first thing I tried.
There's also an issue with later versions of GeckoFX where the package only includes the GeckoFX DLLs. The other DLLs it barks about are in your Firefox folder or another Nuget package called
GeckoFX.Windows
. I tried pulling them one by one as it barked but couldn't get pastxul
(refused to see it). Pulling them all out of the package now makes it exit immediately. Apparently it's hitting a breakpoint in unmanaged code.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
You guys often complain about Delivery Distortion Fields.
Pah, beginners!
I experienced a veritable Time Distortion Field. That's similar to Time Travel.
Yesterday afternoon, I arrived at the train station at 16:35. Bought my ticket, went to the platform, and waited some 10 minutes for my train. Then I took the 16:27 train which brought me to my home town.
Travelling by in can offer you unbelievable experiences!Did the train look like this?
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Eh, it's a fool's errand anyway. The Firefox I embed today won't work in two weeks anyway. I just wanted a way to load and save a predetermined list of pages to process without me manually clicking everything for days. Oh well. Manual automation wins again.
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@Zenith So in the end, dowloading plus web scraping only?
No need for a browser plugin. HtmlClient can do the download, HtmlAgilityPack does the scraping (or if you prefer, REGEX ).
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@BernieTheBernie I wanted to do a full download with graphics before parsing out the details. Basically I want to download all of my orders, shipments, payments, etc.
I got a presumably 2016 version of geckofx to run only because xulrunner DLLs were packed with it (in a folder called "output" even though all the "easy" how-tos say to point to a "Firefox" which for whatever reason has to sit a folder down from the GeckoFX DLLs. Of course, I can't tell what version of Firefox it actually is. My browser detection gives up and says IE8.
whatismybrowser.org
says Default, which I can't tell if it gave up or the control somehow pulled in Edge because that's the default on this other machine (I can't get .NET 4 to work on my main PC). It seems to load Target's site, the most finicky one I could think of short of LinkedIn, but it's dog slow loading even my dumb-but-super-fast tables site.Edit: Just bizarre. I got GeckoFX60 working but had to pull its XulRunner DLLs from a different folder. Except instead of the super basic context menu in 45 (apparently what v1.0.5 actually is), with no picture save options and a broken View Source link, I get no context menus at all.
And if I guess the guy gave up so there's no version after that. I'm not inclined to pull the source and spend days replacing syntax shortcuts in 200 files only to find out it didn't work anyway.
Really fucking dumb compared to the IE ActiveX control.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Eh, it's a fool's errand anyway. The Firefox I embed today won't work in two weeks anyway. I just wanted a way to load and save a predetermined list of pages to process without me manually clicking everything for days. Oh well. Manual automation wins again.
Sounds like a perfect use-case for...
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Status: watching mobile livestream of a korean(?) furry convention.
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The "Things I Didn't Want to Know About @Tsaukpaetra" thread is .
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The "Things I Didn't Want to Know About @Tsaukpaetra" thread is .
It's pretty boring so far, they're just kinda chilling and standing around.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Things I REALLY Don't Want to Know" is ... um ... somewhere, I guess.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Things I REALLY Don't Want to Know" is ... um ... somewhere, I guess.
Why would someone else's livestream say anything at all about desirability-of-knowledge regarding to myself?
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@Tsaukpaetra I do not want to know the URL of a furry livestream. I do not even want to know of the existence of such a livestream.
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Status: TIL this rando-brand monitor claims it supports HDR.
I enabled it in Windows (and frobnicated the related setting on the monitor itself) and... .
I'm not impressed or amused.
Apparently, (to Windows) HDR means "make everything look washed out and gray, and the monitor thinks it means "Turn the brightness to MULTISUPERULTRAKILL!!!"
Ugly as fuck.
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Status: Chrome is Error.
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Status: Kinda wish she had actually died instead of had a two-second "Oh nevermind" right at the end.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently, (to Windows) HDR means "make everything look washed out and gray, and the monitor thinks it means "Turn the brightness to MULTISUPERULTRAKILL!!!"
I believe you tune what part of the gamut is used for the non-HDR parts of Windows from within Windows ( prevents me from checking right now, but I think it is in the Settings panel where you turn on HDR support for the screen) instead of with the monitor's own controls. Also, I've noticed that dark mode is a lot nicer to use on HDR screens; on non-HDR, light mode works a bit better.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently, (to Windows) HDR means "make everything look washed out and gray, and the monitor thinks it means "Turn the brightness to MULTISUPERULTRAKILL!!!"
I believe you tune what part of the gamut is used for the non-HDR parts of Windows from within Windows ( prevents me from checking right now, but I think it is in the Settings panel where you turn on HDR support for the screen) instead of with the monitor's own controls. Also, I've noticed that dark mode is a lot nicer to use on HDR screens; on non-HDR, light mode works a bit better.
Yeah, turning on HDR on the monitor disabled the brightness controls, which was very surprising in the darker environment I was in, let me tell you! The bitterness control below the toggle kinda helped, but not really because that just made the panel try to put out darker pixels while still blasting on full from the backlight, not a good combo if you ask me.
I'm pretty convinced that the monitor is just lying.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The bitterness control
You really shouldn't be gnawing on the video cable.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty convinced that the monitor is just lying.
My HDR monitor definitely goes both lighter and darker in HDR mode. That's great for gaming, but not so much for coding.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty convinced that the monitor is just lying.
My HDR monitor definitely goes both lighter and darker in HDR mode. That's great for gaming, but not so much for coding.
But imagine the colour gamut for all that syntax highlighting in HDR. Crisply separating the syntax from the other syntax in ever more tightly defined shades of colour.
Next you could even delineate, say, ints from floats in different shades of the same colour because of that much definition.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The bitterness control below the toggle kinda helped
That defaults to full on TDWTF.
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WEEBS!!!
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Status: No, IEEE, that's not how the "Unsubscribe me" link works.
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Status: Added a feature to my hobby project the extremely quick and dirty way, was noting to a friend about how slow that approach was but laughing about it as eh it's a private project only so much time worth spending on this and then immediately realized I was dumb and there was a much more efficient way to do what I did, using data I was already retrieving and ignoring instead of quadrupling my number of API calls.
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Status: Hating
csh
. Mostly for existing.
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Status: 12:30. 28°C with 52% humidity, headed for a forecast high of 32°C. In February.
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@HardwareGeek Meanwhile, my forecast has:
Tuesday: high of 12°C
Wednesday: 12°C with high probability of lots of rain
Wednesday evening to overnight: -14°C
Thursday:
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@hungrier We definitely want to see video of your ice breakdancing on Thursday.
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Status: Muscle tremors. Interesting...
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@Tsaukpaetra
@Zerosquare needed, strange behavior detected again
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
strange behavior detected again
That's the normal state. I only reboot him when it escalates to "gibberish" state.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 12:30. 28°C with 52% humidity, headed for a forecast high of 32°C. In February.
I didn't know you also had a Weather Distortion Field.
Filed under: WTDWTF Extended Universe
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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!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I will endeavor to write 20 unit tests today.
Writing tests for getters/setters is cheating.
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Status: Why have so many of my polo shirts shrunk over the past couple years? modCheck
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I will endeavor to write 20 unit tests today.
Writing tests for getters/setters is cheating.
shhhhhh!!!!! That's the fall back!
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Got caught running a red light on my way to work today.
I got off with a warning.
I'm glad I'm white.