The Official Status Thread
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
Did the engine get the 'speeding in Virginia' topic mixed up with 'alcohol vs. salad' topic?
I never use that faulty piece of software. I prefer my own custom neural network for that sort of thing, which has some interesting features.
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Status: I think maybe @end plays PoE:
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Status: The tawny owls are loud this year.
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Status: TGI Friday's bar at DFW Terminal A.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
No, I didn't; I already had all the ingredients. Both he and I tried making it, not buying some overpriced branded stuff; give us a little credit.
Um, actually, you DIDN'T have the ingredients, you lying thieving shit weasel... because Bullet Proof Coffee requires specific exact types of coffee and butter from SPECIAL regions to have it's magical Tibetan Monk Yellow Fever effect!
I mean, if you just mixed coffee and butter together, well then you'd just be drinking shitty coffee ruined with an oil slick of fetid yak-flavored butter. It just be a slab of fat melted in coffee, and you'd be drinking it like a fucking duped sucker.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: @pie_flavor seems to really love me all the sudden...
You must have said something nice about and he wants to give you oral sex.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: @pie_flavor seems to really love me all the sudden...
You must have said something nice about and he wants to give you oral sex.
Ah, in that case...
@pie_flavor I regret to inform you, I don't swallow, and I prefer not to spit. Be careful, it might be a trap!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Be careful, it might be a trap!
/me confused but I'm not even dressed that way right now... oh, my bad, carry on.
Filed Under: Clothes? What clothes?
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
Filed Under: Clothes? What clothes?
Oh! That reminds me! Nobody's home until tomorrow afternoon, so....
sounds of shuffling are heard
Ah! That's better!
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@raceprouk yet another case where your posts and your signature go together all too creepily well.
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Status: Dammit, looks like I need a null modem.
I really need to inventory my crap so I know where to find this stuff....
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Status: Watching
Somewhat confused, it's kinda familiar but in many ways so different...
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Spent the morning harassing parrots. Worth it if you happen to be in the area (but go early!)
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
The only place that rivals it for legal hostility is Virginia, where they'll toss you in jail for 80 in a 75 because anything 80 and up is automatically felony reckless driving, but Virginia is at least mildly interesting to look at.
Misdemeanor* reckless driving. So no, they won't toss you in jail.
Maybe it's 90 that's felony. There sure as fuck is a sign shouting "FELONY SPEEDING!" on I-81, and I know a couple people who have spent weekends in the can there.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe it's 90 that's felony. There sure as fuck is a sign shouting "FELONY SPEEDING!" on I-81, and I know a couple people who have spent weekends in the can there.
Reckless driving is a Class 6 misdemeanor. I misspoke; you can absolutely spend a weekend in jail (without it being a felony) if you were going so fast that the cop thinks he shouldn't let you back on the road (most counties, that judgment would be ~100). And a second reckless driving charge is a felony. But AFAIK there's no other way to get a felony by speeding unless you kill someone.
Which those people you know may do unless they chill out. I've seen highways (including I-81) go from even just 80 to 0 in an instant. At that speed it takes one moment of distraction to end up sitting inside someone else's trunk. And boy won't that be embarrassing; you're not supposed to sit in other people's trunks without permission.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
But AFAIK there's no other way to get a felony by speeding unless you kill someone.
Hit someone at high speed yet they survive might still get you in deep trouble. But that's at the point where you'll be up before a judge and jury, and they really do try to take into account the full circumstances (provided the prosecution and the defence are up to scratch).
I've seen highways (including I-81) go from even just 80 to 0 in an instant.
Adaptive cruise control is a wonderful thing. AIUI, it uses radar to detect slower or stopped traffic ahead and will reduce your speed (all the way down to zero if necessary) to prevent trouble. It usually brakes pretty gently as it doesn't get bored watching the road ahead, but an unexpected stop would still be handled. Or at least mine does. (I've tested it.) OTOH, the actual best thing is that you can just have it set to the current speed limit for the highway and know that it'll use a reasonable speed up to that amount. It's a lot better than ordinary CC…
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@dkf The prosecution will be; the Commonwealth's Attorneys are vicious. For defense to be, one will be spending out the ass for a good lawyer ($5k+, on top of insurance deductibles, premium increases, and the criminal record); hope those ten minutes they were trying to save on the road were worth it.
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STATUS: Fuck marketing with a rusty spork. We spend friday setting up our booth, had it all fully done and finished. Then the marketing executive shows up, tell us that we're and need to move everything around. Then after we've rearranged according to his wishes he promptly fucks off, because he's spending the weekend with a friend rather than actually overseeing our marketing efforts.
Other than that, our booth at $sports_event was a success! Plenty visitors during saturday, despite being off in the far end of the area outside the arena. We also had access to a skybox rented by our company, so we could watch the matches from an elevated position. Although I took one for the team by driving the equipment and the tired staff back to the hotel during the final so I'm missing out on that one. We're also invited to the afterparty but I may just stay at the hotel and rest up due to the long drive back tomorrow, even though hanging out with bigwigs and sports stars could be tempting.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
"Aha!" thought of the day:
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe it's 90 that's felony. There sure as fuck is a sign shouting "FELONY SPEEDING!" on I-81, and I know a couple people who have spent weekends in the can there.
Reckless driving is a Class 6 misdemeanor. I misspoke; you can absolutely spend a weekend in jail (without it being a felony) if you were going so fast that the cop thinks he shouldn't let you back on the road (most counties, that judgment would be ~100). And a second reckless driving charge is a felony. But AFAIK there's no other way to get a felony by speeding unless you kill someone.
Which those people you know may do unless they chill out. I've seen highways (including I-81) go from even just 80 to 0 in an instant. At that speed it takes one moment of distraction to end up sitting inside someone else's trunk. And boy won't that be embarrassing; you're not supposed to sit in other people's trunks without permission.
Especially if they have a lot of junk in their trunk.
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Especially if they have a lot of junk in their trunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijmWBZXtnOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdDFgJkU68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXUTJ2Az1AWhat, you were expecting "Anaconda", perhaps?
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@ben_lubar Marzipan? flrrd
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Status: trying to debug an impossible bug.
Navigating an XML tree, loop through child nodes. For a particular type of child, loop through its child nodes. For one of those, loop through its children. For one of those children, get its parent's parent: i.e. the original node I was looping through. Try to set a field and the node is null.
It must be a multi threading issue, right?
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
It must be a multi threading issue, right?
Or API misuse. But let's see if you can exclude the threading problem as a leading theory: does it work in a single-threaded context?
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@dkf It's complicated by the fact that I'm not meant to have access to the code, so I'm going through a decompiler.
I think I've figured it out though. The inner loop involves setting the InnerXml of the parent. That's going to orphan the child that's being iterated through if it's got multiple children . I suspect that there was an assumption that that loop would only actually run once.
Now to work out why this only happens on my local environment and not on the test server
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Status: Curious what webcrawler is being a nuisance today
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New phone was supposed to arrive on Saturday, but FedEx attempted to deliver only one hour after the post office closed so now apparently I have to wait until Wednesday.
You'd think they could deliver on Tuesday. I WANT MY NEW TOY! D:
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
The inner loop involves setting the InnerXml of the parent.
Ah yes, I think I'll put that in the pile marked “API misuse”. ;)
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Quality content from YouTube™.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: Fuck marketing with a rusty spork.
I like you.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Marzipan? flrrd
FUCK YOU JOKE STEALING FUCK FUCKER!
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
New phone was supposed to arrive on Saturday
Don't forget to root it to enable mobile hotspot/tethering.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: Fuck marketing with a rusty spork.
I like you.
Danger, @Atazhaia. If he says you simply must see his backyard, take a rain check.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Don't forget to root it to enable mobile hotspot/tethering.
It's a Pixel; I don't even need to. (But of course I will at some point, mainly for backups.)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
The inner loop involves setting the InnerXml of the parent.
Ah yes, I think I'll put that in the pile marked “API misuse”. ;)
That's why I'm rewriting this shit. Found this bug when re enabling the old behaviour so both can be tested side by side. The reason it was working on the test system and not locally was because of some database changes to support the new system that feed the XML in non obvious ways
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: TGI Friday's bar at DFW Terminal A.
Status: Chili's Too at DFW Terminal C.
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Status: Back from camping in
outer spaceLong Valley. Tired as junk. Sleeping on the ground isn't very pleasant.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: trying to debug an impossible bug.
Navigating an XML tree, loop through child nodes. For a particular type of child, loop through its child nodes. For one of those, loop through its children. For one of those children, get its parent's parent: i.e. the original node I was looping through. Try to set a field and the node is null.
It must be a multi threading issue, right?
Or something that you're doing is removing the node's parent from the XML document's hierarchy, so that it doesn't have a parent's parent.
edit: just saw this:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I've figured it out though. The inner loop involves setting the InnerXml of the parent. That's going to orphan the child that's being iterated through if it's got multiple children .
Yeah, that sounds like it'd do it.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: trying to debug an impossible bug.
Navigating an XML tree, loop through child nodes. For a particular type of child, loop through its child nodes. For one of those, loop through its children. For one of those children, get its parent's parent: i.e. the original node I was looping through. Try to set a field and the node is null.
It must be a multi threading issue, right?
Or something that you're doing is removing the node's parent from the XML document's hierarchy, so that it doesn't have a parent's parent.
Man all this talk about parent-less orphaned children is making me kinda sad...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So far so good.
Here's to hoping those memory glitches the kernel was reporting were just a fluke...
After 18 cycles, no issues detected so I guess...
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Status: Back at home after 16 hours at work. A staff-member managed to get a brand-new version of the Locky cryptovirus and royally rogered our network. I found out within
10 minuteslogs say it was actually 40 mins of ground-zero but it still managed to bugger just about every single thing he had access to. And some things he shouldn't...Backups eventually did what they should but still more than 11 hours of staring at progress bars.
We have multiple layers of defense too, email filtering, ingress filtering, IDS, anti-virus, and cryptovirus specific protection. I guess this is brand-new.
I have a very, very large glass of Whiskey and I will enjoy it before the adrenaline wears off enough to sleep.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
a brand-new version of the Locky cryptovirus
I've always wanted to try it, but not too sure my shit's safe enough to actually go through with it...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
a brand-new version of the Locky cryptovirus
I've always wanted to try it, but not too sure my shit's safe enough to actually go through with it...
This new variant has a 'Lukitus' extension and went straight through MailSentry, Snort, Vipre, Windows Server File Auditing (custom rules for known ransomware extensions) and CryptoPrevent.
I'd be impressed, kinda.
I have a sample but I don't even want to IDA it in a VM. Amazing the speed it got. 300GB of data trashed just about as fast as it would be possible to do so. Some things it must have done a IP sweep for too. Nasty bugger.
So, so glad I have backups upon backups upon....
Edit: It got one of the backups too, a redundant local copy that was in a folder with 'everyone' permissions. I need to write a script to seek these out. Nice of them to do a network audit for me.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
The only place that rivals it for legal hostility is Virginia
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Status: TIL Google has a "Family Library" feature for their store.