The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
tall poles
Ok, what are those fuckers doing there, anyway?
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Status: Exhausted.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Exhausted
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@HardwareGeek He means tyred.
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Ordered an OLED Steam Deck because I guess I just have too much money.
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Status: Home again. Yesterday was very boring, sitting around in the hotel room. Today was fun but tiring. 3.5 hour drive home was even more tiring. Zzz.
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@HardwareGeek Man, sucks that your trip seemed to be mostly bunk. Hope next one goes better.
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status: on morbid fascination binge watching farrier work.
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Status: I can't believe they brought me to counting the exact number of times my shell script requires a new process (subshell or external program) to be started.
The answer, in the common (second run) case, in just over 300 non-empy non-comment lines of script, is 9.
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Status: Nice.
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Status: Tinkering with another crappy device.
I bought a Chinese car stereo for a very low price, and am now trying to figure out if I can turn it into something other than the POS it currently is. Its front panel looks very generic, visually the same as 628376482 identical no-name Chinese POS units available for sale. The software info, external labelling and main CPU are similarly unhelpful regarding any specifics - the closest I've found is other people's unanswered posts on XDA Forums and Russian sites looking for firmware updates or any information about similar Chinese POS. But if by some miracle I can get/make custom firmware for this thing it could theoretically be good, as it seems to have decent hardware held back by absolute dogshit software. If I can get even an early version of Android on it (commonly cited limitations for similar POS seem to be Android 6) I think I could work with that.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
it seems to have decent hardware held back by absolute dogshit software.
Samsung has moved to China?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
and tall poles for the athletic competitions
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
and tall poles for the athletic competitions
Friendship is Maciej
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek Man, sucks that your trip seemed to be mostly bunk. Hope next one goes better.
Thanks, but I wouldn't say it was mostly bunk. Yeah, Saturday sucked because of the weather, but Sunday was great. Great weather — clear, warmer than forecast (at least it felt warmer, as long as you were out of the wind) — not too muddy, and a pretty good crowd at the event. We even met a family from a clan sept* that nobody in the US clan association had ever encountered before. Our association VP was very excited about this, because it puts the TX/OK branch one-up on the other branches.
* A "sept" is a family that is historically associated with a particular clan without being part of the clan family itself. Some people prefer the term "allied or dependent families". For example, Clan Buchanan (not my clan, but the first I found in an alphabetical list of clans) includes, in addition to various spellings and variations of Buchanan, Colman, Cormack, Dewar, Dove, Gibbs, and quite a few others. These might be servants, tenants, or simply neighboring families too small to form their own clans and who allied themselves with the Buchanans for any of a variety of reasons.
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status I keep thinking some new fucker is stealing my schtick.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I keep thinking some new fucker is stealing my schtick.
You should talk to @DogsB's placement agency to get him distracted and make room for your shitposting
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I keep thinking some new fucker is stealing my schtick.
You should talk to @DogsB's placement agency to get him distracted and make room for your shitposting
Fuck that guy. Probably spend most Fridays day drinking and wondering why the @ and " symbols kept switching in the vms.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Interestingly, it would be possible to link to said instructional video, since it is available in WikiMedia Commons. Said link would be something like
https :// commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:Debbie_Does_Dallas.ogv
.Given the date of production of the video, I don't believe it will show anyone wearing black crocs with white socks.
Having my curiosity piqued I decided to watch it.
There are indeed no black crocs with white socks. There aren't even crocs so far as I could tell, but I'll admit I am watching it at 4x speed because of how utterly boring it is at the moment.
My favorite line so far is at 39:05: "If I asked you to undress how much would it cost me? Hrmm.... ten dollars."
Man, inflation is a bitch!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I keep thinking some new fucker is stealing my schtick.
No idea who this guy is, but now all my posts using an alternate emoji look weird.
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Status: I fucking hate adding functionality to MediaWiki. The extensions are often out of date and more buggy than I usually care for in the open source world so I write my own, but then I have MediaWiki on me.
Maybe I should just bite the bullet and write me a wiki platform that does what I want.
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No, Adobe, when I click on Documentation I don't want video tutorials. I don't care what SpectateSwamp told you, I can't search or scan content from a video.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I fucking hate adding functionality to MediaWiki. The extensions are often out of date and more buggy than I usually care for in the open source world so I write my own, but then I have MediaWiki on me.
Maybe I should just bite the bullet and write me a wiki platform that does what I want.
I find "Text files in a folder" to be a pretty good substitute.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I find "Text files in a folder" to be a pretty good substitute.
I could've sworn there was a CMS based on text files, appropriately named CMS.txt, that generated Wiki-like content from plaintext files.
I must have hallucinated or dreamt it, because Google turns up nothing.
Filed under: Mandela effect
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
No, Adobe, when I click on Documentation I don't want video tutorials. I don't care what SpectateSwamp told you, I can't search or scan content from a video.
Welcome to the club. Kids these days do everything by watching video tutorials.
A year or two ago I was helping out a coworker who was struggling with some C++ code. While looking through it together, I told him to open the documentation for a certain class or function or whatever. I expected looking it up on cppreference, but he typed it into YouTube.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I fucking hate adding functionality to MediaWiki. The extensions are often out of date and more buggy than I usually care for in the open source world so I write my own, but then I have MediaWiki on me.
Maybe I should just bite the bullet and write me a wiki platform that does what I want.
I find "Text files in a folder" to be a pretty good substitute.
For me personally, sure, but the project isn’t just me and other people like the pretty formatting and the hypertext part of it because it actually is connected pages in honest to goodness HT fashion.
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Status: using MediaWiki. Urge to burn it to the ground and write my own rising fast.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I fucking hate adding functionality to MediaWiki. The extensions are often out of date and more buggy than I usually care for in the open source world so I write my own, but then I have MediaWiki on me.
Maybe I should just bite the bullet and write me a wiki platform that does what I want.
I find "Text files in a folder" to be a pretty good substitute.
For me personally, sure, but the project isn’t just me and other people like the pretty formatting and the hypertext part of it because it actually is connected pages in honest to goodness HT fashion.
So...HTML files in a folder? :)
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@Parody I want a CMS that makes it marginally less painful than writing things by hand. MediaWiki does that but the minute you want to go beyond that it's a clusterfuck.
I love how, for example, to properly replicate the sidebar that Wikipedia has, you need to not only enable several bundled extensions but you're writing Lua scripts to do it which get run in a PHP interpreter...
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I find "Text files in a folder" to be a pretty good substitute.
I could've sworn there was a CMS based on text files, appropriately named CMS.txt, that generated Wiki-like content from plaintext files.
I must have hallucinated or dreamt it, because Google turns up nothing.
Filed under: Mandela effect
I once set up Rejetto's HFS to do effectively that. Problem was implementing revision history if memory serves, as that's definitely not a thing in HFS...
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody I want a CMS that makes it marginally less painful than writing things by hand. MediaWiki does that but the minute you want to go beyond that it's a clusterfuck.
I love how, for example, to properly replicate the sidebar that Wikipedia has, you need to not only enable several bundled extensions but you're writing Lua scripts to do it which get run in a PHP interpreter...
I’m changing that wellness check to having you sectioned.
status
what time would suit?
I’m not doing anything so any time.I booked the flight at 8am.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I find "Text files in a folder" to be a pretty good substitute.
I could've sworn there was a CMS based on text files, appropriately named CMS.txt, that generated Wiki-like content from plaintext files.
I must have hallucinated or dreamt it, because Google turns up nothing.
That's basically what Obsidian does, taking a folder of files with Markdown markup and showing it to you with formatting and links. It also has plugins; like @Arantor's MediaWiki extensions, they're a strength and a weakness that can eat up a lot of your time while you get everything working the way you want.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody I want a CMS that makes it marginally less painful than writing things by hand. MediaWiki does that but the minute you want to go beyond that it's a clusterfuck.
I love how, for example, to properly replicate the sidebar that Wikipedia has, you need to not only enable several bundled extensions but you're writing Lua scripts to do it which get run in a PHP interpreter...
I'm glad that, in work contexts, I've only had to be a user of whatever system they've bodged together and not the one wielding the duct tape.
Personal projects get to be simpler. :)
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@Parody but this is a hobby project :sad-trombone:
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status: I think it is not unreasonable to expect that if a message directly involves your participation that you should be in the TO: line, not CC:.
Got out of a heated chat with supervisor who complained that I missed something because auto rules moved a message he says he mentioned (no not @mentioned, which would have obviated the issue as they brings whoever into the TO line) me in.
Come off it, Bro, this box gets hundreds of emails, most of it side conversation, I refuse to read each and every email like a psychopath just to know if I personally need to take action.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: I think it is not unreasonable to expect that if a message directly involves your participation that you should be in the TO: line, not CC:.
Philosophical. It is unreasonable to expect the world to work like it should work.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe I should just bite the bullet and write me a wiki platform that does what I want.
That's what I ended up doing for my own D&D setting, and I've been quite happy with the result. It's only running on localhost though so security and performance requirements are rather relaxed.
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Status: Voted 18 times against David Zaslav as if it'll make any difference.
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@Zenith stick it to the man.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith stick it to the man.
Nowadays The Man probably gets off on that kind of thing.
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Status: Well this is weird. I just got an e-mail from Hyland Software's onboarding team. Yeah...I haven't applied there for years and I certainly didn't get the job. So why the fuck are they welcoming me to #hylandlife?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I just got an e-mail from Hyland Software's onboarding team.
Might be a typo from Hyderabad Software's onboarding team.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I just got an e-mail from Hyland Software's onboarding team.
Might be a typo from Hyderabad Software's onboarding team.
Honestly, the most plausible explanation that I could come up with was that one of the many worthless recruiters that has gotten copies of my resume over the years gave it to an H1B that forgot to change the e-mail address.
Edit: For context, Hyland was bought by vulture capitalists a few years ago and has been doing alot of layoffs in Ohio that coincidentally coincide with hiring in India.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Voted 18 times
Vote early! Vote often!
The Chicago school of economics.
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Status: Goddammit, Teams! I would like to use my computer for other things within 10 minutes of finishing a call...
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status: it would be nice if you knew what you wanted before making a ticket.
It would be further nice if it was more specific than "make it like this other server".
It would be pretty great if you gave me reasonable access to the source server.
It would be fantastic if your schedule wasn't diametrically opposite of my own such that I am unavoidably stuck playing
phoneemail tag.😢
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@Tsaukpaetra would “copy deployment artifacts from sever one over to server two. Leave config alone. Restart” suffice?
I gave instructions like that once and ended up with broken config on server one.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra would “copy deployment artifacts from sever one over to server two. Leave config alone. Restart” suffice?
I gave instructions like that once and ended up with broken config on server one.
Unfortunately not, this isn't an automated deployment. I'm hand configuring a Windows RDS gateway server.