The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Buy" is the standard example of an irregular verb (because -ought). But I can't think of anything irregular about "guy".
"Guy" is obviously an irregular verb. "I guy, I gought."
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@dkf but also TIL.
Though to guy is a regular verb, so clearly not the one I was referring to
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But anyways, funny stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GtbY1XWGlQ
Always check and sanitize user input!
Loved the twitcheption and rainbow background bits.
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@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla my kids school is starting some UFLI program and they were telling me how "buy" and "guy" are considered heart words, aka you need to know them by heart as they are irregular.
"Buy" is the standard example of an irregular verb (because -ought). But I can't think of anything irregular about "guy". "Y" is considered a consonant in English, right?
I think it was more on spelling and pronunciation. If you didn't know English and you were asked to spell buy, you would probably go "bi".
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If you didn't know English and you were asked to spell buy, you would probably go "bi".
If you didn't know English, it would never occur to you to write down the /aɪ/ sound as "i". No other language does it.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Buy" is the standard example of an irregular verb (because -ought). But I can't think of anything irregular about "guy".
"Guy" is obviously an irregular verb. "I guy, I gought."
Every time someone raises objections to "snuck" instead of "sneaked", I ask them when was the last time they "snought" into a building.
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Sounds like magic.
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@dcon well, of course, it's covered in that well known documentary.
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@boomzilla "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
"And Mozart."
"No, that was Austria. But no kangaroos."
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We also would have accepted it in the reminds you of thread.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We also would have accepted it in the reminds you of thread.
I do not post every deranged thought I have. There are many more that I keep to myself.
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@LaoC I really do wonder if any older school tinkerers would be able and willing to create a fat client that's not web browser based. How hard could it possibly be?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC I really do wonder if any older school tinkerers would be able and willing to create a fat client that's not web browser based. How hard could it possibly be?
Knowing Microsoft, you'd probably have to reverse engineer and keep up with a protocol that sends messages in an XML-wrapped Word-6 format modified to deal with emojis, encapsulated in something resembling but not quite X.25 over TCP.
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@LaoC Actually knowing the origin of Teams it's probably a hybrid of WebDAV and weird not-really-REST API. Because it's actually using sharepoint as the server. Maybe there are some small components on top of it for notifying, or maybe that's implemented in sharepoint.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC I really do wonder if any older school tinkerers would be able and willing to create a fat client that's not web browser based. How hard could it possibly be?
Impossible. A lot of the content comes from the server as HTML+JS and can be essentially anything. Where anything includes other microsoft apps and third party apps. So it absolutely needs a webview, and then there is little reason not to use it as the UI framework as well.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Without even reading the text, this one already looks like it deserves an "ok, boomer".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC I really do wonder if any older school tinkerers would be able and willing to create a fat client that's not web browser based. How hard could it possibly be?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC I really do wonder if any older school tinkerers would be able and willing to create a fat client that's not web browser based. How hard could it possibly be?
In general, apart from the HTML+JS+CSS issue in the content, rich text renderers are complicated pieces of software.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Without even reading the text, this one already looks like it deserves an "ok, boomer".
Well it can't be "ok, zoomer" because that's an electric car joke and they're still waiting for a space at a recharge point.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Without even reading the text, this one already looks like it deserves an "ok, boomer".
Well it can't be "ok, zoomer" because that's an electric car joke and they're still waiting for a space at a recharge point.
maybe an electron thing with something like dillo would be good enough
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC I really do wonder if any older school tinkerers would be able and willing to create a fat client that's not web browser based. How hard could it possibly be?
This trickery must have been compelling to AOL’s programmers and perhaps even to some managers. But it comes with two obvious disadvantages. One is that it requires AOL to withold its knowledge of a bug in its own software. Many software manufacturers, and very notably Microsoft, seem not to regard this sort of behaviour as even mildly unethical, let alone as shameful. Customers put up with it well enough, if only because of ignorance and impotence. A second disadvantage will trouble more people. The technique of AOL’s contrivance involves getting the AIM client to execute code that the AIM server has supplied in the packet. Being able to download code to another machine and get it executed by that other machine is a hacker’s dream. Software manufacturers who play this game have no credibility if ever they talk of caring for the security of their customers’ computers.
A quarter century later, nothing has changed.
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You're being unfair. Nowadays AOL is basically dead (good riddance).
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You're being unfair. Nowadays AOL is basically dead (good riddance).
Instead we have TikTok, Twizzer, and the platform that can't do feet.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You're being unfair. Nowadays AOL is basically dead (good riddance).
But how am I going to display all the witty away messages that rely on juvenile double entendre humor and six lines of whitespace to hide the punch line with Teams/Slack/Discord?
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
six lines of whitespace
Have you tried typing
&br; &br; &br; &br; &br; &br;
? After all, all of those fancy new clients are HTML-based, aren't they?
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Without even reading the text, this one already looks like it deserves an "ok, boomer".
Well it can't be "ok, zoomer" because that's an electric car joke and they're still waiting for a space at a recharge point.
maybe an electron thing with something like dillo would be good enough
This thing is not running Dillo.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
maybe an electron thing with something like dillo would be good enough
Please tell me I'm not the only one who misread the word "dillo".
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@HardwareGeek I didn't but I remember Dillo from years back as a good lightweight browser before the Internet got stupid. (So, before Chrome.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
maybe an electron thing with something like dillo would be good enough
Please tell me I'm not the only one who misread the word "dillo".
I may have had to do a double take to see who was talking about their electron dildo.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC I really do wonder if any older school tinkerers would be able and willing to create a fat client that's not web browser based. How hard could it possibly be?
Impossible. A lot of the content comes from the server as HTML+JS and can be essentially anything. Where anything includes other microsoft apps and third party apps. So it absolutely needs a webview, and then there is little reason not to use it as the UI framework as well.
Sure for the tab pages and embeds and whatnot, but for actual chat lines and channels? I would think IRC-level functionality would be more than enough for most-of-the-time, and a click-to-enable webview for when it's not.
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@Tsaukpaetra Did we mention, it's built on fucking Sharepoint?