The Official Status Thread
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@ben_lubar
Hey, M$ has stats to prove that Edge is better at not having its cache corrupted than Chrome. Statistical studies never lie, man!
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@izzion also, Microsoft apparently made a list of 3 options and "high" is the middle one.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion also, Microsoft apparently made a list of 3 options and "high" is the middle one.
Microsoft also fucked up how dropdown lists work, so I'm not surprised.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion also, Microsoft apparently made a list of 3 options and "high" is the middle one.
Well if it was a low or
0
threat they probably wouldn't even care to tell you anyways.
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Status: Weird. My computer is only 87 degrees on the exhaust. What stopped eating my CPU all of the sudden?
Edit: Nevermind, looks back to normal.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
IRC
is that like another type of slack??
:trolleybus:
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
IRC
is that like another type of slack??
:trolleybus:
No, it's a low-resource version of Discord.
Edit: Dammit, close your tags!
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Status I think the screaming stopped, which must mean the pain is reducing, right?
Last night I heard the screaming
Loud voices from behind the wall.
Another sleepless night,
It won't do no good
To call
The police
Always coming late, if they come at all.
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Status: I think I've just about finished the GUI layout for my configurable API Client!
(The red outline is hinting that the surrounded control is allowed to be the "dock" item that autosizes to the form dimensions when stretched.)
Anyone know a good simple template engines suitable for JSON?
I'm thinking of just using the "Surround it with ### to replace that with the variable name", but that sounds very hackish...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
87 degrees
87 °F - fine
87 °C - computer at peak capacity
87 K - computer literally frozen
87 R - computer even more literally frozen
87 °D - fine
87 °N - probably on fire or melted
87 Tp - let me convert that to Fahrenheit for you: roughly 19892000000000000000000000000000000 °F
87 °U - I'll convert this one too: -9890 °F
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
87 °F - fine
No, That's "It must be off or something", not fine.
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@Tsaukpaetra I dunno, my computer likes to blow cold air out of its exhaust fan.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I dunno, my computer likes to blow cold air out of its exhaust fan.
If it's cold, why is it blowing?
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Status: I would like to introduce you to the rounded Planck temperature system. All temperatures are 0 because it's nowhere near 32 digits outside (your choice of common temperature systems, apart from Planck temperature).
In fact, it is physically impossible to have a temperature above 1 in this scale without some pretty crazy quantum mechanical things happening, because that would mean whatever object is that hot is vibrating faster than the speed of light.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I think my cat is dead. Found out from a local Facebook group that there was a black cat found dead just up the road from me. Its face has been smashed up so i can't tell for sure but it looks like mine. Now I have to try to get some sleep before the Vets open and I can get a microchip reading
It was my cat. Just buried him in the back garden with his food bowl and favourite toy.
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I'm sorry to hear that. How long have you had it?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg had him since he was born. He was a couple of weeks short of his seventh birthday
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg had him since he was born. He was a couple of weeks short of his seventh birthday
Oh bummer. Way too young...
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status Trying to update a Win7 VM on a Mac. Scan for updates started at noon. Yesterday. Still scanning when I went to bed. Ready this morning - click to install - weird error that said to close control panel and reopen. Well fuck. We're back to scanning again.
Macs suck. My VM on my windows machine updated with no problem - well, other than not wanting to start because of memory - close FF and Thunderbird and all was well (shut up!!!). Yeah, I need a new kick-ass home machine - Lenovo W510 with 8G is just not enough anymore... (Only 2 months to Black Friday!)
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@Jaloopa that is really sad.
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Status: YouTube is setting itself up to turn in to Wikipedia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_1966vaIA
Currently at 658K downvotes and 16K upvotes. This is a video that YouTube Help themselves put out.
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:fa_youtube: : hey the comments on these video are so terrible that we'd rather hide all of them! also let's let these people moderate our site!
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@Polygeekery Internetpointzzz for captioning is okay and I'd be totally up for it, but moderator actions? I get that with such a large amount of content it's tempting to outsource the staff tasks, but YouTube isn't StackOverflow, and giving the inmates the keys to the asylum is crazy.
And I love how one of the rewards for being a "hero" is the ability to mass-flag videos. Judging by the animation, without even watching them. Did no one take a look at that clip and thought to themselves "wait, maybe giving the crowd known for its strong opinions the ability to run down a channel and REPORT EVERYTHING BECAUSE FEMINISM/HATE SPEECH/GUNS/ETC is a very, very bad idea?
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Status: Got my PC rebuilt with a new SSD after last week's disk failure. Reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch and specifically did a local account so I don't have to log in. Started up my PC today, and it's requiring me to sign into my Microsoft account? How the did it even know what account, and why the did it auto-link to it?
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@mott555 I believe there are some builtin apps that will do that, notably the store app will add your microsoft account to your windows account once you enter the info.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
thought to themselves "wait, maybe giving the crowd known for its strong opinions the ability to run down a channel and REPORT EVERYTHING BECAUSE FEMINISM/HATE SPEECH/GUNS/ETC is a very, very bad idea?
Some people just want to watch the
worldwebsite burn.
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Status: Trying to consume a youtube livestream to perform ocr on it. it's harder than i thought. the only way i've found to get the data is with a python lib called livestreamer.
it handles me the raw data. now i need some way to make it into frames to proccess them. but i have no idea where to start. i guess it's research time
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
now i need some way to make it into frames to process them. but i have no idea where to start. i guess it's research time
I think ffmpeg would do that sort of thing. There's a command line example of splitting a video into frames here, but I think there are also python wrappers for the underlying library.
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@japonicus ohhh, a clue! thanks.
google points to something like this:
ivestreamer -O url stream | ffmpeg -i - test.flv
now i need to work on getting this in code instead of having it in the CLI
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Status: Caught up another chapter in Haskell from First Principles for the book club (though I still have two more to read by tomorrow evening), the Cincinnati chili is simmering and the pasta should be ready in a few minutes. Pretty nice, as things go for me.
Filed Under: I'll post a bit more about the chili in the cooking thread.
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Status: This Timeleak hd72a HDMI capture card is quite buggy, but I blame the drivers more than the hardware.
It says it supports 1080p (supposedly), but attempting to actually do so just freezes it (usually) but when it almost works it's full of glitches.
Whatever, we're fine with 720p, right? Except not really, lower resolutions literally look like I'm using a camera recording a screen, with Cute Little Fuzzy Borders!
I guess you get what you pay for?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 I believe there are some builtin apps that will do that, notably the store app will add your microsoft account to your windows account once you enter the info.
I guess I did sign into Skype, but IMO signing into an application should never reconfigure your OS account...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 I believe there are some builtin apps that will do that, notably the store app will add your microsoft account to your windows account once you enter the info.
I guess I did sign into Skype, but IMO signing into an application should never reconfigure your OS account...
Google Chrome does that, IIRC. Once you sign in, Chrome will pick that up and ask you if you want to sign into Chrome the same way.
Status: Parents killed the Wifi. Somehow. Luckily I just returned before they started unplugging things.
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Status: finally have less than 99+ unread again.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 I believe there are some builtin apps that will do that, notably the store app will add your microsoft account to your windows account once you enter the info.
I guess I did sign into Skype, but IMO signing into an application should never reconfigure your OS account...
I mean, do you have a better way to implement cross-UWP-application SSO? Now, if you can't log on with your local account any more, that's a huge WTF. But if it's just associated the online and offline account, that seems perfectly cromulent to me.
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Status: Oh, thanks Edge for allowing me to ask you to stay out of my face. I can foolishly hope it will remain this way, or lie in wait for when it pops up again sometime later...
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Status: ....
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: finally have less than 99+ unread again.
It's not easy being a TDWTF completionist.
I just go bankrupt now and then.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oh, thanks Edge for allowing me to ask you to stay out of my face. I can foolishly hope it will remain this way, or lie in wait for when it pops up again sometime later...
The browser vendors are becoming more and more brazen about shilling their crap. Both Microsoft and Google are guilty of that.
Mozilla on the other hand .... poor Mozilla.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 I believe there are some builtin apps that will do that, notably the store app will add your microsoft account to your windows account once you enter the info.
I guess I did sign into Skype, but IMO signing into an application should never reconfigure your OS account...
I mean, do you have a better way to implement cross-UWP-application SSO? Now, if you can't log on with your local account any more, that's a huge WTF. But if it's just associated the online and offline account, that seems perfectly cromulent to me.
On windows, associating the local and online account means you can only log in with the online credentials from that point forward. No clue if offline (IE internet down) login still works.
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Status: According to the Harvard Business Review's “please subscribe to us” spam mailshot, I've now been promoted to CEO of the University. Unless they know something I don't, I think is the right response.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 I believe there are some builtin apps that will do that, notably the store app will add your microsoft account to your windows account once you enter the info.
I guess I did sign into Skype, but IMO signing into an application should never reconfigure your OS account...
I mean, do you have a better way to implement cross-UWP-application SSO? Now, if you can't log on with your local account any more, that's a huge WTF. But if it's just associated the online and offline account, that seems perfectly cromulent to me.
The problem is my PC is now password-protected, and that's inconvenient because my Microsoft account has some majorly-annoying password generated with KeePass. I was able to put a PIN on it so I can sign in with four characters, but I live alone....there's absolutely no reason to password-protect my gaming PC.
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Status: Despite turning off all the Cortana options I could find, when I logged into my work PC this morning Cortana was offering to suggest movies to me, from "highbrow art to mindless popcorn thrillers."
Cortana is the new Clippy.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 I believe there are some builtin apps that will do that, notably the store app will add your microsoft account to your windows account once you enter the info.
I guess I did sign into Skype, but IMO signing into an application should never reconfigure your OS account...
I mean, do you have a better way to implement cross-UWP-application SSO? Now, if you can't log on with your local account any more, that's a huge WTF. But if it's just associated the online and offline account, that seems perfectly cromulent to me.
The problem is my PC is now password-protected, and that's inconvenient because my Microsoft account has some majorly-annoying password generated with KeePass. I was able to put a PIN on it so I can sign in with four characters, but I live alone....there's absolutely no reason to password-protect my gaming PC.
Yeah. And I just realized the comment above is correct - my logon isn't changed when I associate an account only because I'm on a domain.
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Status: forums broken again @ben pls fix
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@Lorne-Kates It's ok, seems like you're being a good:
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@Jaloopa :(
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@anonymous234 zalgo got you?