The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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http://www.jspowerhour.com/comics/202
Make sure you visit the link so you can see "Bandsaw Hill"
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Make sure you visit the link so you can see "Bandsaw Hill"
bloody web filters
So many helpful blog posts are on hosted personal pages. Also webcomics
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inb4 jpeg whining.
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@DoctorJones Wow, I actually like that.
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Warsaw shopping centre tries to bring back slavery:
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@Boner Blood loss appears minimal.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Make sure you visit the link so you can see "Bandsaw Hill"
"B+"? Come on, only survivor! That ought to be worth an "A" at least.
Chiseler!
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@anotherusername That's cool, though I wonder how you get it started and finished. I suspect that's all done manually, and all the links I followed just had about the same information on that, which is to say: none.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I wonder how you get it started and finished. I suspect that's all done manually
I suspect it is. A very minimal amount of work, though.
I'm more curious about how fast it is. In the top-view it looks extremely slow, but then in the other clip you can see it growing... I have a feeling that was sped up somehow.
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@Onyx
But if we take a step back ... will this scale?
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@Luhmann Could you go to the previous post? There's clearly a link to a book at the bottom, so yes, it...
Oh, sorry, I gotta click this notification.
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@Onyx nods. Yeah. Post. Link. Click.
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@Jaloopa Let me just repeat that a moment:
Post.
Link.
Click.
nods profoundly
The synergy is astounding.
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I believe the left circle should be larger. Also, green.
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@Onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I believe the left circle should be larger.
How much bigger should it be 25% or 1/4?
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@Onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I believe the left circle should be larger. Also, green.
It is green. Green in red ink.
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@loopback0 It's also in the shape of a kitten.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's also in the shape of a kitten.
Only if your kitten is dildo shaped and purple
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JWZ got tired of Linux distros keeping ancient versions of xscreensaver for years. He considers it security software because you can use it to lock your terminal, for one thing, and he's tired of getting endless bug reports on old versions. So a while ago he added code that on startup checks how old the build is, and if it's over 18 months old, pop a message box asking you to upgrade. He put a comment in the source asking maintainers to take xscreensaver out of their distro rather than disable the warning.
Fast forward to last week, when the first people using an 18-month-or-so old build of Debian stable started hitting the message, and filed a bug report (using a ridiculous definition of "bug," namely "behavior I don't like", that someone on this site uses too.) JWZ showed up in the comments of the bugrep thread complaining, and was accused of being a jerk (true) and one hothead claimed he was like a terrorist. You can start here: "I would like Debian to stop shipping XScreenSaver" and continue on to the bugrep via a link there, if you want.
In the dozen or more years he's run his blog, this post roughly ties with one other post from years ago about bicycles for the sheer number of comments.
The funniest bit is the people calling him ignorant of Open Source, unaware that he was one of the main developers of Netscape.
One if the interesting things is debian stable isn't supposed to have updates except security updates. Oh, except there was a security update to xscreensaver about 6 months ago: some enterprising individual discovered that hot-swapping monitors at just the right moment could break the screen lock. So the Debian maintainers, who, assholishly are just going to dike out the warning, don't even have real justification for not updating (or at least backporting the fix if they feel their users can't handle possible changes to their fucking screensaver.)
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@FrostCat The bugrep convo and comments on JWZ's site are actually--mostly--worth reading for some philosophical/ethical conversations, too, even if you don't know or care about the specific fight.
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@FrostCat I see an alarming amount of "I don't want security fixes because I don't want the software to change" in the comments…
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@RaceProUK yes, that was a source of much facepalming for me. It's like, "Seriously? Are you stupid?"
I actually have a client who had the whole "we don't apply any updates to our payroll application database server because it might break something" thing going on--which is basically the same argument, only not stupid, because IIRC they would install some critical patches. I remember that they decided to upgrade their payroll app and discovered the new version required an OS patch. The sysadmin was not happy, but he liked getting paid, so he applied the update.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The sysadmin was not happy, but he liked getting paid
That sounds like Situation Normal for sysadmins…
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The UK is building a new ship for Arctic explorarion and asked the public to submit ideas to name the ship.
The leading name is: Boaty McBoatface.
I approve this message.
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The UK
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
asked the public
And is anyone surprised that the leading name is
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Boaty McBoatface
Lesson: Never ask the UK public to name things.
And I mean never.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Lesson: Never ask the UK public to name things.
And I mean never.Unless you want the possibility of an amusing name, which may well have been the case.
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@loopback0 TBH, it's a non-issue anyway; they'll just do what they did with that shark or whale (I forget which) that was in the Thames where the public wanted to name it Mr Splashy Pants or something, and ignore the popular vote and go with a name they picked out months ago
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Never ask the UK public to name things
Yeah ... before you know it you've got silly names like RaceProUK and stuff like that
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@Luhmann Rather have a silly name than be from Belgium :P
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Filed under: Fowl ball
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a silly name that be from Belgium
:why_not_both?:
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@Luhmann you already have both Beatrice, what are you complaining about?
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The funniest bit is the people calling him ignorant of Open Source, unaware that he was one of the main developers of Netscape.
Was Netscape open source when he worked there? I don't get how this logic works. He left long before it became Mozilla and and all open-source-y.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The funniest bit is the people calling him ignorant of Open Source, unaware that he was one of the main developers of Netscape.
Was Netscape open source when he worked there? I don't get how this logic works. He left long before it became Mozilla and and all open-source-y.
I was the accidental impetus for Netscape's decision to release the browser source code, and I was one of the creators and curators of the Mozilla Organization during the first year of its life. We coordinated the open source development of the browser, which eventually became Firefox.
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@FrostCat so your options if you want xscreensaver are 1) compile from source or 2) use whatever shitty, ancient version your shitty distro gives you?
Seriously, "well then, just compile it from source" is never something you should have to tell an average user. Shouldn't there be a
sudo apt-get ...
for this? Hell, really the warning message should contain a button to install the newest version, not a link to the website which says "sorry, unless you want to try to compile from source then you're basically just fucked".There is another issue here, though. People on a "stable" release should not be whining about bugs, period. Stable releases appear to be primarily intended for people who don't want their software to change, ever... including for bugfixes.
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@El_Heffe Roboute Guilliman?
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