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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
- Head of IT for... I forget. I set up the mail system and a shared network drive.
- Hometown.
- Unknown.
- Owned vs "was let drive by parents"? That would be my '96 Nissan Sentra. Got 33 proud MPG, something none of my vehicles since have come even close to reproducing.
You give "real" answers?
- Meboomeboo
- Think I'm telling?
- Look! It's a bird!
- Mooooo!
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Where was your first job?
Earth
In which city were you first kissed?
The whole "security questions" thing is bad, but as such questions go, that's actually not such a terrible one (at least for me; it might not work so well for the antisocial basement dweller). It has a specific answer that I remember and that won't change.
What is your best friend's name?
Hmm, never mind which friend is "best" right now, which of the various best friends I've had over the years was my best friend when I answered this question five years ago?
What was the first care you owned?
How did I answer that? Make? Model? Make and model?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
You give "real" answers?
Sometimes. Not so much any more, now that I understand how stupid these are, and after having failed to remember what my "favorite X" was at the time I originally answered the question. I let KeePass answer them for me.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
You give "real" answers?
Real is entirely subjective. I give answers that are likely to be repeated back when asked the same question Undefined time from now that are not easily guessed. Otherwise I might as well not answer them at all.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
How did I answer that? Make? Model? Make and model?
The same way you always answer it. So long as it's consistent it doesn't matter pedantics.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The same way you always answer it. So long as it's consistent it doesn't matter pedantics.
But if I have to remember off the top of my head, when I just want to check my %!)@*$ bank balance, I may not answer consistently. Assuming I even gave a real answer the first time.
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and I saw a gust of wind
I just watched the Smithsonian channel's program on the Oklahoma City tornado from 1999 (the new "I survived" series). Pah. That's not wind. That tornado had the highest winds ever recorded - anywhere.
Wikipedia's being doubly annoying this time around. First, a multipage beggar overlay:
Then a pop-up beggar banner after dismissing the first one and scrolling a small amount:
I have the humble store set to use Wikipedia as my default donation target. I'm going to turn that off now.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The same way you always answer it. So long as it's consistent it doesn't matter pedantics.
But if I have to remember off the top of my head, when I just want to check my %!)@*$ bank balance, I may not answer consistently. Assuming I even gave a real answer the first time.
Ah, that's why you have a consistent method of generating the answers. This is an algorithm. If you're answers change based on external factors (ie the real world) you're doing it wrong.
I don't have to remember hardly anything when it comes to these questions, and the algorithm takes from immutable data pools only if necessary.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.Flip Flip Flip?!
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.Flip Flip Flip?!
It's slang for "fuck".
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.Flip Flip Flip?!
Yeah, I guess you younguns don't know what a rolodex is... (or her password keeper makes funny noises while searching...)
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@dcon Rolodexes are still used in two thousand seventeen the year of our Lord?
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.Error: 'Capital' unrecognized. Did you mean 'Charlie'?
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Error: 'Capital' unrecognized. Did you mean 'Charlie'?
That was my initial reaction as well but no, she doesn't. Capital Echo = "E" vs. "e".
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Error: 'Capital' unrecognized. Did you mean 'Charlie'?
That was my initial reaction as well but no, she doesn't. Capital Echo = "E" vs. "e".
Ohhhh, case-sensitive, got it.
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All ya'll motherfuckers who laughed at me when I said I don't trust Google:
One of their malfunctioning content bots is, right now, deleting tons of documents off Google Drive for some made-up violation of the ToS.
Google put the entire running of their company in the hands of buggy, shitty bots based on unreliable neural nets. They've hired ZERO customer service to vet these judgements, or to help users when the judgements are ridiculously wrong.
You're a fucking idiot if you trust Google with any of your data.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Google put the entire running of their company in the hands of buggy, shitty bots based on unreliable neural nets. They've hired ZERO customer service to vet these judgements, or to help users when the judgements are ridiculously wrong.
To be fair, we saw it coming from their alpha testing it in YouTube, and they promptly ignored the outcry that happened there too.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
To be fair,
Huh? Fair to who?
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
we saw it coming from their alpha testing it in YouTube, and they promptly ignored the outcry that happened there too.
Of course, duh. That's one of the (many) reasons I have my distrust of Google in the first place.
This is just yet another example, and I'm sharing it because when I said I didn't trust Google not to fuck shit up in the Android phone thread, people were like "Blakeyrat Google is the perfect pearl of a company and never do any wrong ever."
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
To be fair,
Huh? Fair to who?
You, for assuming
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
All ya'll motherfuckers who laughed at me when I said I don't trust Google:
or maybe
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You're a fucking idiot if you trust Google with any of your data.
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.Flip Flip Flip?!
i have a notebook!
with a PDA in a hidden cutout inside it...
with Lastpass on it.....
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Cool. Hope it whacks my "here are well the vital WtfCorp passwords" doc.
Because that's where we keep those.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.Been there, done that (well, something close), that's why I now use a series of 3-5 random words from the dictionary. I can pronounce them without having to spell them out one character at a time.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Cool. Hope it whacks my "here are well the vital WtfCorp passwords" doc.
Because that's where we keep those.
*stares, unblinking*
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.Flip Flip Flip?!
It's slang for "fuck".
I liked it better when I imagined it was her passing through a dead tree version of a passwords ledger.
Unless it's literal, in which case... I approve, but still I'm impressed that @Perverted_Vixen has that good of a memory.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You're a fucking idiot if you trust Google with any of your data.
i don't trust anyone with my data.
not even myself.
my data lives on my NAS, which is st up with two drive redundancy RAID for data resiliency.
that's one copy.
I sync my data go Gsuite for a second copy.
I sync all of my truly irreplaceable data (as well as most of the technically-replaceable-but-annoying-to-get data) to Glacier for a third copy.
I also periodically sync that data to a harddrive that i take offline and store in my fireproof safe for a fourth copy.
At the same time i sync that data to a second ahrddrive that i take offline and store in a safety deposit box at my bank for a fifth copy
And finally I sync all of my data to Mega for a sixth copy.
i test irretrievably of files from all online backup solutions monthly and for the offline ones i test quarterly when i update the backup sets i stored there.
Gdrive and Box are there for my convenience, and for data resiliency, they are not my sole storage location of my data
/me puts on a tinfoil hat
and of course all the data is encrypted both at rest and in motion between systems. because SECURITY!
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ha ha :(
: Before we continue i need to verify your identity using your security question. Please answer the following question: "What is your best friend..." What the?! That's can't be right.
: (flip flip flip) Using the Nato Phonetic alphabet the answer is: Sierra X-ray Niner Niner Capital Echo India Capital Golf Four Two Papa Capital Tango
: Yes, well I think I can safely say it's you.
: are you sure? i can keep going. it's only eighty eight more characters....
: Yes.... I'm sure.Flip Flip Flip?!
It's slang for "fuck".
I liked it better when I imagined it was her passing through a dead tree version of a passwords ledger.
Unless it's literal, in which case... I approve, but still I'm impressed that @Perverted_Vixen has that good of a memory.
Well they do say that a relaxed mind is the best mindset to be in to remember things, and it's hard to get more relaxed than that happy glow after you've had your brains fucked out by your lover.......
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
This is just yet another example, and I'm sharing it because when I said I didn't trust Google not to fuck shit up in the Android phone thread, people were like "Blakeyrat Google is the perfect pearl of a company and never do any wrong ever."
That's a horrendous strawman. You were saying you didn't trust Google to not change how your browser works by putting you on a different site because you downloaded and used some app, and I pointed out that Google has literally never done that with anything so I don't know where you would even come up with that.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You were saying you didn't trust Google to not change how your browser works by putting you on a different site because you downloaded and used some app,
Recently, Google has been filtering literally every hyperlink you click on in the Gmail app through www.google.com .
Which was highly amusing when my router "forgot" where that was, and so links to my local server (which did still resolve) stopped working.
Because, really, why wouldn't google need to know every thing you clicked on?
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
And finally I sync all of my data to Mega for a sixth copy.
I like Mega. Their download thing is always much faster than normal browser downloads. I could probably download a compressed ISO of my drive from Mega about as fast as I can download a cat video from a YouTube downloading site.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a horrendous strawman
you're talking to blakeyrat.
. https://smile.amazon.com/Did-You-Expect-Something-Different/dp/1615192255
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You're a fucking idiot if you trust Google with any of your data.
i don't trust anyone with my data.
not even myself.
my data lives on my NAS, which is st up with two drive redundancy RAID for data resiliency.
that's one copy.
I sync my data go Gsuite for a second copy.
I sync all of my truly irreplaceable data (as well as most of the technically-replaceable-but-annoying-to-get data) to Glacier for a third copy.
I also periodically sync that data to a harddrive that i take offline and store in my fireproof safe for a fourth copy.
At the same time i sync that data to a second ahrddrive that i take offline and store in a safety deposit box at my bank for a fifth copy
And finally I sync all of my data to Mega for a sixth copy.
i test irretrievably of files from all online backup solutions monthly and for the offline ones i test quarterly when i update the backup sets i stored there.
Gdrive and Box are there for my convenience, and for data resiliency, they are not my sole storage location of my data
/me puts on a tinfoil hat
and of course all the data is encrypted both at rest and in motion between systems. because SECURITY!
But @Perverted_Vixen has all your passwords and will give them up in exchange for a good fuck?
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@tsaukpaetra It's a phishing protection measure; it does some scans on the URLs. Remember, most users are not tech people, but morons who don't know how computers work. TR is your router 'forgetting' where that is.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra It's a phishing protection measure; it does some scans on the URLs. Remember, most users are not tech people, but morons who don't know how computers work. TR is your router 'forgetting' where that is.
Yeah, stupid dnsmasq doesn't seem to like running out of... something. And just silently forgets things until I restart the service.
It's probably my fault somewhere, but it doesn't happen very often so an occasional
kill
every few months isn't annoying enough to solve for.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
But @Perverted_Vixen has all your passwords and will give them up in exchange for a good fuck?
that is a flaw in my plan, yes.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Because, really, why wouldn't google need to know every thing you clicked on?
You're forgetting, you're not the customer. The people paying for the ads are.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Because, really, why wouldn't google need to know every thing you clicked on?
You're forgetting, you're not the customer. The people paying for the ads are.
You consider them people? Now that's courage...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Because, really, why wouldn't google need to know every thing you clicked on?
You're forgetting, you're not the customer. The people paying for the ads are.
Really?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You consider them people? Now that's courage...
I'm eating lunch right now. So I'm in a happy/generous mood!
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
But @Perverted_Vixen has all your passwords and will give them up in exchange for a good fuck?
that is a flaw in my plan, yes.
Not sure why you consider this a flaw
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Status: trying to decide on the best course of action for creating a network log stream for UE4. There's gotta be some way built-in to do this, but for the life of me nobody else has apparently thought to do this and no hints among the almost-comment-less base code...
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
But @Perverted_Vixen has all your passwords and will give them up in exchange for a good fuck?
that is a flaw in my plan, yes.
Not sure why you consider this a flaw
it's a glorious flaw.....
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a horrendous strawman.
No it's not.
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You were saying you didn't trust Google to not change how your browser works by putting you on a different site because you downloaded and used some app, and I pointed out that Google has literally never done that with anything so I don't know where you would even come up with that.
Trust is trust. I either trust Google or I don't. I don't.
If I don't trust a guy to borrow my car, I also don't trust that same guy to take care of my cat for a week. That's how it works.
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@dcon OH NOES you lost an imaginary fantasy internetpointzzz! Report to the vaporization chamber, your life is no longer worth living.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
If I don't trust a guy to borrow my car, I also don't trust that same guy to take care of my cat for a week.
Some people are bad drivers but can take care of a cat properly.
That's how it works.
No it's not
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Trust is trust. I either trust Google or I don't. I don't.
If I don't trust a guy to borrow my car, I also don't trust that same guy to take care of my cat for a week. That's how it works.Ah, classic "You're either with me or against me" logic. Have fun in your black-and-white world.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a horrendous strawman.
No it's not.
Yes it is.
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You were saying you didn't trust Google to not change how your browser works by putting you on a different site because you downloaded and used some app, and I pointed out that Google has literally never done that with anything so I don't know where you would even come up with that.
Trust is trust. I either trust Google or I don't. I don't.
If I don't trust a guy to borrow my car, I also don't trust that same guy to take care of my cat for a week. That's how it works.
Are you listening to yourself? You're literally making shit up that you're afraid of them potentially doing despite them, again, never doing this with anything ever. Do you trust the same guy to not abduct you into an alien ship? Not to mention, you still use Google products every day willingly, like Chrome and Google Search.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
JetBrains
Now I see the problem.
Yeah, I was really surprised when I saw that. I just know the name from ReSharper which I liked
I managed to fix it just before I left work. By uninstalling both Android Studio and everything that said 'Java' and then aggressively purging all the directories and registry entries I could find for both. After a reinstall it now works again...