TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
recovering to an earlier point in time. Cost (IIRC) $10000 and had a leadtime of 6-8 weeks.
The lead-time is to let it mature from a ransom to a service fee
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@boomzilla I know why places do - because it’s convenient.
For example, I am at a dev studio with 5 people. We host everything in the cloud (whether that’s GitHub, Notion, Google Workspace) because at our scale it’s simply not worth my time to bother running and managing any of it locally.
But larger places with dedicated IT people… have limited excuse.
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Atlassian has had a major outage for several days. I couldn’t imagine it happening to a nicer service.
Apparently it might have one for another two weeks
W-T-M-F-F does it take two eFfing weeks to restore backups‽
They're still going to be at least a week ahead of RuneScape with that timeline.
https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/login-lockout-daily-updates (from last year, they broke the bejeezus out of the servers with a regular update on March 4, didn't start testing account recoveries until March 23, and delayed several major scheduled events and comp'd a month of sub time to most effected accounts, though some were down for 2+ months and got comp'd accordingly)
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@Bulb said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that Atlassian has had a major outage for several days. I couldn’t imagine it happening to a nicer service.
Apparently it might have one for another two weeks
W-T-M-F-F does it take two eFfing weeks to restore backups‽
I'm putting money on ransomware. If anyone knows who did it put them in touch. I'll act as the entry point into our organsation.
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@DogsB said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm putting money on ransomware.
Weird investment strategy, but okay.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@DogsB said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm putting money on ransomware.
Weird investment strategy, but okay.
Probably more profitable than Dogecoin
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@loopback0 Well, Elon is working on creating a new market by trying to convince his new pet project to accept Dogecoin as a currency.
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@loopback0 Well, Elon is working on creating a new market by trying to convince his new pet project to accept Dogecoin as a currency.
Ah, clever, then he'll get all the Dogecoin.
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
But larger places with dedicated IT people… have limited excuse.
We have dedicated IT people, though notoriously understaffed¹, and the CEO still demands that source code be hosted on internal system, but we also have a newish (~2 years) architect who managed to get some trust of the CEO and persuaded him to do put some things in Azure. After all we already had mail there (Office 365) there and management uses the Power BI, so the data went there already anyway. So we now have a hybrid environment, and I am directly involved in setting up some of those things.
… I should probably write up some Sidebar posts about this latest project, there is a couple of s in there.
¹ Common, but nevertheless, our management struggles to understand the value of “backoffice” departments and always gives them lower budget than would be needed.
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@Bulb I have different feelings about putting code into, say, GitLab “self-hosted on Azure” as compared to “putting it on GitLab Cloud”. I feel the former is a better balance of responsibility and trust than the latter.
Even if it’s all someone else’s servers in the end.
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@Arantor Well, the Office is cloud, so is Power BI. GitLab is on premises (there is a couple of fairly beefy servers with VMWare and some huge disk array in there). And what we started using is some own apps deployed in Azure and using their hosted databases.
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
But larger places with dedicated IT people… have limited excuse.
What about larger places with dedicated IT people and multiple datacentres full of servers and that have multiple instances of on-premises Jira and still for reasons have an instance of cloud Jira?
Asking for a friend.
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
for reasons have an instance of cloud Jira
one of the reasons probably being that on-prem is being slowly killed off
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@loopback0 there’s no helping some people. all the way down.
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@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Even if it’s all someone else’s servers in the end.
As long as you take (working!) backups that you store on systems that you control, where you host the services isn't too big a deal.
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@loopback0 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Arantor said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
But larger places with dedicated IT people… have limited excuse.
What about larger places with dedicated IT people and multiple datacentres full of servers and that have multiple instances of on-premises Jira and still for reasons have an instance of cloud Jira?
Asking for a friend.… we have on-prem Jira and Confluence and general rule that documentation should go in the Confluence. But when this newish architect started writing everything in OneNote instead, there was one good reason not to force him to move it to the Confluence – the project had an external consultant and it would be difficult to give him access to the intranet, but OneNote living in the hosted Sharepoint could be shared trivially.
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Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Is this your first encounter with the English language?
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@topspin said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
'flaʊə
I expect there are accents where they are pronounced differently...?
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@boomzilla oneboxed in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
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So compelling!
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@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@boomzilla oneboxed in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
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So compelling!
iFramely is like a horny teenager groping about in the dark
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TIL about "the most silent album ever recorded":
EDIT: And for the John Cage fans, the likeness to one of his famous works has been noted in the 'Reception' section.
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The difference is that those guys obviously didn't take the concept seriously.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
The difference is that those guys obviously didn't take the concept seriously.
Pistols, sir. Pistols at dawn.
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A strong fuck lessens pain.
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@izzion said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TFA is actually interesting but the headline is dumb.
So U-Haul, which has been based in Phoenix since 1967...
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Sleepify
"[the] opening track 'Z' certainly sets the tone, a subtle, intriguing work that teases the listener as to what may come next. It's followed by 'Zz' and 'Zzz' which continue along similar lyrical themes while staying true to Sleepify's overriding minimalist aesthetic. By the midpoint, you realise Vulfpeck are aiming to pull off the same trick as the Ramones: they may only have one song, but it's an effective one."
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@izzion said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TFA is actually interesting but the headline is dumb.
So U-Haul, which has been based in Phoenix since 1967...
Hence why I posted it here and not in a garage thread where I could mock it incessantly
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@Atazhaia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
A strong fuck lessens pain.
This phenomenon is particularly strong in people who do not use such words on a regular basis.
Sorry, folks.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Atazhaia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
A strong fuck lessens pain.
This phenomenon is particularly strong in people who do not use such words on a regular basis.
Sorry, folks.
Aaw fucking shit.
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@Zerosquare said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Atazhaia said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
A strong fuck lessens pain.
This phenomenon is particularly strong in people who do not use such words on a regular basis.
I remember a TV show who did that experiment for real, some years ago. They had people dunk their hand in icy water and see how long they could stand it, then a few minutes later redo it but they could swear as loudly and as much as they wanted.
The first result was that, indeed, swearing allowed people to stand it for longer. Then they did the experiment again with Brian Blessed (who swears a lot, if you've never heard
ofhim), and for him the improvement was much less than for other people!
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@Zecc it wouldn’t be the same if he yelled… I dunno… “IMMERSE! … Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!”
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Bonus Einstein content:
One of the experts that they called in to help study the problem was one of the world’s leading authorities on river sediment transport: UC-Berkeley hydraulic engineer Dr. Hans Albert Einstein, son of the famous Albert Einstein. With Hans Albert Einstein’s help, the Corps drew up the design for the Old River Control Structure, and construction began in the late 1950s.
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@boomzilla said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Einstein
"Bach"
wunderground
It was funny as hell when the notion of wiring up Weather Underground as the weather report widget for NFCU came up, I tell ye.
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@boomzilla I remember reading about it around 2005.
I'm not sure how long human engineering can hope to keep the river from doing what it has always done (i.e. meandering and changing course)...
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
I'm not sure how long human engineering can hope to keep the river from doing what it has always done
Forever. It's lucky we don't make it run backwards.
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TIL the English word (dental) enamel, which I just looked up to post this, as I also learned that the French word is émail.
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@topspin Not only are half the letters silent, in this case they don't even bother writing them.
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TIL: I can go back in time and upvote something before I upvote it. Once again, Meatwad has shown me the way.
This doesn't do anything useful, such as result in two upvotes being recorded, mind.
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@HardwareGeek said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@topspin Not only are half the letters silent, in this case they don't even bother writing them.
no letter in émail is silent.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
no letter in émail is silent.
The actual word is probably émailleaux
:tgv:
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The plural of émail is émaux. So, you get one half-point.
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@Zerosquare Mon email émaillé d'émeus a ému Émile.
inb4: something something Académie something something courriel.
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
inb4: something something Académie something something courriel.
Mais allez, rabat-joie, quoi!
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@ixvedeusi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
rabat-joie
Pop-quiz: without looking it up, what is the plural of that word?
(which would be a good collective noun for TDers, I guess)
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Ha, , that's the one I needed since we don't have any suitable hat (*) (though we have ).
Also, yes, they are.
(*) that one:
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
1990 reform
You had one of those too? Did yours also take 18 to 25 years to become official? (and unofficially still ignored by a lot of people)
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@remi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@ixvedeusi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
rabat-joie
Pop-quiz: without looking it up, what is the plural of that word?
rabats-joie?
Edit: On second thought,
rabats-joies
?