The Official Status Thread
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Is that like an invisible button I can't see or are you just me?
Shit, I don't know, I don't comment on YT videos just because of that. I assumed there'd be some kind of unsubscribe button like (say) Wordpress blogs have, because Shirley Google isn't that incomp--ahhahahahaha, sorry, I almost made it.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Is that like an invisible button I can't see or are you just me?
Shit, I don't know, I don't comment on YT videos just because of that. I assumed there'd be some kind of unsubscribe button like (say) Wordpress blogs have, because Shirley Google isn't that incomp--ahhahahahaha, sorry, I almost made it.
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That doesn't look like the YouTube App. And I don't get emails, I get notifications.
Status: I can't log in to my 💻...
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Status: Okay, Japan has even gotten me this time. is all I can say.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Error in the DLL
You know, the DLL.
Actually, I kinda do. It's the one that handles multiple logons (because I have two sessions, yet for some reason my build of Windows 10 doesn't like that)..
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Status: Welcome back, @atimson!
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Status: I really need to organize my downloads folder...
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Seriously, why does this exist!?
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
What's so funny about fire?
His Kindle Fire. Which is not noted for being very powerful.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
The statue right by the lobby of my building is a pokespot.
It turns out the strip mall next to my office building has about 9. And at least 3 gyms.
good thing there were no cops there.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
The statue right by the lobby of my building is a pokespot.
It turns out the strip mall next to my office building has about 9. And at least 3 gyms.
good thing there were no cops there.
Y'all are lucky, I'd have to walk a good block or so just to get to a stupid poke spot!
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
Though given what we know about @HardwareGeek, maybe one of these is in order?
Seriously, what price are we talking about for an Android phone with decent performance? I kinda like the idea of a WinPhone, but a bunch of the apps I'd want are only available for Apple and Android. Besides calling and texting, web browsing would be the main application (mostly when WiFi is available, with an occasional quick check of Google Maps or Wikipedia or such when out and about). TDWTF is about the most stressful thing I'd do with it, but I doubt anything is beefy enough to handle :nod: gracefully.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously, what price are we talking about for an Android phone with decent performance?
Definitely should be able to get something nice for less than $200. Maybe quite a bit less. (Depends on taxes and BS like that.) You can spend a lot more, too.
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Status: Spent two hours last night trying to talk someone through dealing with a bizarre problem with http compression and a satellite internet provider, where the whole problem was only observable at several stages removed. Naturally I couldn't reproduce any of the problem at all, since the real trouble trigger was at the satellite ISP's cache server. And I think it was all fixed by just updating the libraries powering the client-side software to the current release version anyway. Hey guys, that's the first thing to try when dealing with a problem, since if it does fix stuff then you aren't going to get support for fixing it any other way from anyone at all.
Debugging stuff at third hand removed is hard and I want my Friday night back.
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Status: ugh feeding all the dinos took way more time than anticipated. Time to sleep!
Goodnight everypony! 🌛🌜😴
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Status:
Got a call from one of those Indian "your Windows is having problems, let me fix it by installing malware" scammers. I wasn't ready for it so couldn't do anything that fun, but managed to keep him on the line for 10 minutes with an apparently slow booting machine, then a lot of "Oh, windows + R? I thought you said 9" stuff. Eventually I asked what should be coming up, he asked if I could see the Windows icon in the corner of my screen and I said no, it just says Ubuntu 14.04.
Any ideas for next time? I'm tempted to get a VM running with Windows ME or something so I have a sandbox I can screw them with. I expect there will be another one, since this is the second we've had (last time I was busy so just told them I don't have a computer)
Also, the number wasn't blocked but I assume they're spoofing it somehow. Is it worth reporting the number or calling it back to let whoever actually has it know their number is being used for this stuff, in case it's a legitimate business or something?
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@FrostCat The statue is one of a set scattered around midtown, all of which are pokespots, so on a lunch break I could probably hit 6-7. Realistically i'll just hit that one every day :)
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Status: Welcome to Saturday, Your Day Off(tm)!
First on the agenda: your cat had a disgusting diarrhea attack sometime overnight and her hindquarters are positively covered in her own rotten fish-smelling shit. She can't clean herself because if you remove her cat-cone for even a nanosecond, she'll immediately start biting at her sutures. Grab a washcloth and clean it up! This'll take about an hour and your blakeycat will hate it so much she'll literally hiss at you for the first time ever in your relationship with her.
Second, find every floor she walked on (a.k.a. the entire house) and pull out the mop. Clean it all. Better refill the mop water and clean it a second time, because that rotten fish smell is nasty and it's wafting from the mop bucket.
Now grab the disinfectant the vet gave you and carefully run it over her sutures to ensure she has no shit-fluid actually leaking into her bloodstream. You're almost out of the disinfectant so try to save some for tomorrow's shit-cleaning you know will come.
Done? Congratulations! Make some coffee and eat and orange and start your lovely Saturday! ... oh wait the litterbox, fuck it I'll do that later.
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Status: trying the Visual Studio preview, with a modular installer (fucking finally, it took them 20 years)
...nope, doesn't go past that.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, the number wasn't blocked but I assume they're spoofing it somehow. Is it worth reporting the number or calling it back to let whoever actually has it know their number is being used for this stuff, in case it's a legitimate business or something?
Yeah no. It's highly likely to be spoofed. That's why they want your number to call you back instead of the other way around.
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Status: After making much progress on my project last night, I'm torn between continuing in that vein, continuing a Doom II playthrough I started a few days ago at random, or maybe doing something outside if it isn't going to piss down rain today.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's highly likely to be spoofed.
Ugh, looks like the regulators are going to have to take steps to stamp out the providers who are letting the spoofing happen. The regulatory action taken will probably be overkill, but if the telcos won't clean their act up by themselves then government will end up forcing it upon them. Perhaps the right thing would be to make the telcos liable for harm enabled by the spoofing? That would wreck their finances quickly, and get a clampdown going post haste…
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Status: Holy crap I just slept 1/3 of my day. Biological necessities are 🐴 💩!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
take steps to stamp out the providers who are letting the spoofing happen. The regulatory action taken will probably be overkill, but if the telcos won't clean their act up by themselves then government will end up forcing it upon them
Yeah that's not gonna happen. Sorry.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah no. It's highly likely to be spoofed
So no way of tracing anything? My grandma's had her computer ruined by these dicks, so I would like to be able to do more than waste their time when they call me
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah no. It's highly likely to be spoofed
So no way of tracing anything? My grandma's had her computer ruined by these dicks, so I would like to be able to do more than waste their time when they call me
Not unless you have the proper setup to do so . Not only that, but since they're out of the States the law is rather unsympathetic to people who follow mysterious voices that they were not expecting and have no reason to believe.
Not only that, but nearly all of the software they use for remote control (because that software at least is legitimate) will pop up big warning messages about how Microsoft doesn't cold call people about their viruses (truly they couldn't care less, but I digress).
It looks like this:
So unfortunately it grandma is a good little 🐏 and even that doesn't tip her off (full disclosure: at least mine stopped at this point and she doesn't know the difference between left and right click) then.... Sorry?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I just slept 1/3 of my day.
That's, like... eight hours. It's not an awful lot...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
since they're out of the States the law is rather unsympathetic
So am I. I doubt uk law can do much more though.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I just slept 1/3 of my day.
That's, like... eight hours. It's not an awful lot...
It's a lot to me...
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Status: playing Hadean Lands. Been meaning to play this ever since it landed, finally got around to it. It's... actually harder than I expected in some ways though fortunately the guess-the-verb is minimal thus far.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
your cat had a disgusting diarrhea attack
Not that this is advice for you, because I know how much you like that, but for anyone else in this situation, this is where a showerhead on a hose is great. Scruff the cat, hose the affected area off. Done in a couple of minutes.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Ugh, looks like the regulators are going to have to take steps to stamp out the providers who are letting the spoofing happen. The regulatory action taken will probably be overkill
Probably.
The problem in the US is they've been called before Congress before, although I think that was about autodialers, and they simply lied and said they weren't doing it.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
waste their time when they call me
Wasting their time, as with any telemarketers, costs them money.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@dse Wonder if they will do cross-fork PRs
Is it something like they fork each other's repo with dongle?
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@FrostCat Well I don't have a shower head on a hose.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Well I don't have a shower head on a hose
It's a good thing that wasn't advice aimed at you then, right? I mean, if I thought my cat might puke again, and I didn't have one of those after reading someone mention them, I might try going out and getting one, but you do what you want.
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@Jaloopa numbers won't be blocked, and good luck getting the overseas telcos to give a shit. here's some inspiration. be as infuriatingly dense as you can, but make sure that they think you're going to pay them.
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Status: You can see six stone chips (obsidian, granite, sandstone, flint, marble, and basalt), five metal rods (platinum, nickel, moon-metal, lead, and phlogisticated gold), two chimes (glass H and glass G-flat), nine chymic flasks (sand, vinegar, muriatic acid, mineral oil, saline, rubbing alcohol, lubanja, vitriolic acid, and alum), four impets of essential oil (peppermint, ginger, citronelle, and kelp (open)), a steel bolt, a sprig of rosemary, a pair of tarnished calipers, a brass pin, a brass coin, a pinch of zafranum, a dried mushroom, a sprig of honeysuckle, an iron bead, a lump of rock salt, a broad quartz prism, a long quartz prism, a fluorspar crystal, a rutilum Alchemy File seal, a rough diamond, a length of silk cord, a length of silver chain, a silver coin, a white feather, a thick key, a measuring block, a torch-lighter, a Chinese amulet, a labyrinth tile, an ivory bead, a resonant oculus, a planetary lens, a rotor card, a porcelain paten, and six wooden splints (swamp pith, green linden, blackwood, winter-oak, maple, and elemental wood) here.
I think I r doing this wrong.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: You can see six stone chips (obsidian, granite, sandstone, flint, marble, and basalt), five metal rods (platinum, nickel, moon-metal, lead, and phlogisticated gold), two chimes (glass H and glass G-flat), nine chymic flasks (sand, vinegar, muriatic acid, mineral oil, saline, rubbing alcohol, lubanja, vitriolic acid, and alum), four impets of essential oil (peppermint, ginger, citronelle, and kelp (open)), a steel bolt, a sprig of rosemary, a pair of tarnished calipers, a brass pin, a brass coin, a pinch of zafranum, a dried mushroom, a sprig of honeysuckle, an iron bead, a lump of rock salt, a broad quartz prism, a long quartz prism, a fluorspar crystal, a rutilum Alchemy File seal, a rough diamond, a length of silk cord, a length of silver chain, a silver coin, a white feather, a thick key, a measuring block, a torch-lighter, a Chinese amulet, a labyrinth tile, an ivory bead, a resonant oculus, a planetary lens, a rotor card, a porcelain paten, and six wooden splints (swamp pith, green linden, blackwood, winter-oak, maple, and elemental wood) here.
I think I r doing this wrong.
someone rolled a 20 on their perception check........
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@accalia more accurately someone doesn't have an inventory limit and collected ALL THE THINGS IN ALL THE PLACES before dropping them all in one location because walking through a blazing inferno has a habit of damaging inventory.
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@Arantor Find the person and return all the items to him stat. He is devastated and crying right now.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus ..... what the flip is up with the annotations on that video?
seriously....... wtf?!
Way back when, YouTube had a feature where a video owner could share a link that let anyone with the link add annotations to the video. What you are seeing is the result of that link being handed out in public. I used to see dozens of videos like that, mainly on videos of music uploaded by not-the-copyright-holder - they'd just paste the link in the video description and eventually the video would just be flooded with annotations all trying to out-do each other. The feature was eventually removed but the annotations remain, ever a reminder of the days before YouTube would break two old features while adding an unwanted new feature.
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Way back when, YouTube had a feature where a video owner could share a link that let anyone with the link add annotations to the video
Representative screenshot
![0_1468104744328_upload-2a098a5b-e7f1-4197-88be-420276b95cf1](/uploads/files/1468104752429-upload-2a098a5b-e7f1-4197-88be-420276b95cf1.png)Wow. One a blue moon, I'm glad to be on mobile.
Then I'm reminded that mobile sux. ;P
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
waste their time when they call me
Wasting their time, as with any telemarketers, costs them money.
That's the idea, as well as reducing the time they have to call gullible people.
Also, it's fun
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@blakeyrat time for blakeycat to learn the wonders of being an outdoors cat?
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Status: Installed pokemon go. Caught the two pokemon I could reach without getting out of my bed. Hmm... What now?
Well, I'm certainly not going out to find more (there might be people outside!) And those pokeballs sure look expensive.
I think I'll just shut down the game and never play it again.
Hey, I tried, alright?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Installed pokemon go. Caught the two pokemon I could reach without getting out of my bed. Hmm... What now?
Well, I'm certainly not going out to find more (there might be people outside!) And those pokeballs sure look expensive.
I think I'll just shut down the game and never play it again.
Hey, I tried, alright?
I've been fairly idle, pulling it out at gas stations or whatever, and I'm doing ok so far...
Edit: And wow, just leveled up to 7 just by "walking" around (actually, just drifting because poor GPS lock indoors).
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Status: Just found out that Android supports floppy disk drives, and will even format them for you!
FWP: I can't even fit a single song on it!
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@Magus Because some Anglophile Otaku thought Thunderbirds was pretty awesome? Looks cool to me, but I also like Thunderbirds...
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
time for blakeycat to learn the wonders of being an outdoors cat?
Probably not while she's wearing a cone.