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@acrow said in In other news today...:
ebola [a disease for which the most common infection vector is licking a dead person, as I understand]
How? How did get transmitted far enough for it to even have a name?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
ebola [a disease for which the most common infection vector is licking a dead person, as I understand]
How? How did get transmitted far enough for it to even have a name?
Because in african culture, you spend quite some time cleaning the corpse of a loved one, and then everyone hangs out with it for a day or so in a "feast" in their honor. Lots of contact with the dead happens there.
You don't really have to lick them. Handling the corpse and then picking your teeth with your nails is plenty enough.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
ebola [a disease for which the most common infection vector is licking a dead person, as I understand]
How? How did get transmitted far enough for it to even have a name?
Ancient African burial customs.
...Assuming that my understanding on the matter is correct, of course. It might not. But digging through the scare-news to good sources vs.
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Edit:
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Is that thermometer backwards?
How do you tell a rectal thermometer from an under-the-arm one?
By taste?
they pitched a slow ball straight over the plate, was i not supposed to swing for the fences?
Speaking of taste: someone is salty.
meh. fuckem.
:-D
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
How do you tell a rectal thermometer from an under-the-arm one?
By taste?
Expected hidden snark inside an HTML comment. Was disappointed.
HTML comments work here?
oh...... they do seem to work here?
this opens up much opportunity for shenanigans!
mu hu huhuhuhuhu!
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
this opens up much opportunity for shenanigans!
Not nearly as much as when we were on
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
this opens up much opportunity for shenanigans!
Not nearly as much as when we were on
I mean a horse dancing at the disco would require some really impressive shenanigans.....
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@Vixen Well, there was the time that the renderer allowed you to add arbitrary CSS classes to elements. Which was fine… except that one of the classes that we found was
fa-spin
, and the resulting CSS orrery was simultaneously amazing and awful.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Vixen Well, there was the time that the renderer allowed you to add arbitrary CSS classes to elements. Which was fine… except that one of the classes that we found was
fa-spin
, and the resulting CSS orrery was simultaneously amazing and awful.that sounds simultaneously hilariously fun and horrible to experience.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Nice onebox
I like the fact that they even put targets on the picture
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Vixen Well, there was the time that the renderer allowed you to add arbitrary CSS classes to elements. Which was fine… except that one of the classes that we found was
fa-spin
, and the resulting CSS orrery was simultaneously amazing and awful.that sounds simultaneously hilariously fun and horrible to experience.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/287342
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@Zecc If you want a live demo then you can still go to http://thereal.wtf:8888/ and click the button at the bottom of the page...
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@JBert You could even open the javascript console and type something like
document.querySelectorAll("p").forEach(e=>e.classList.toggle("fa-spin"));
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
document.querySelectorAll("p").forEach(e=>e.classList.toggle("fa-spin"));
Well that was fun!
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Another
failedattempt
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@TimeBandit you beat me to it, but we’ll see who first posts it in the “killed by google” thread in about 3 months.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit you beat me to it, but we’ll see who first posts it in the “killed by google” thread in about 3 months.
status: caching a template post...
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https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/uk-banning-default-passwords
These measures will mean all the passwords pre-programmed in internet-connected devices must be unique and not resettable to any universal factory setting.
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@TimeBandit "I threw away my manual and reset the router. How can I login?" Oh, this should be good...
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@dcon usually they are printed on a label on the bottom of the router and obviously randomized.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
obviously randomized.
Guaranteed by GCHQ approved fair dice roll.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
with a new 'unified' communication app
They mean ANOTHER "unified" communication app. They have gone through around 4 unified communication apps already. What do they think will change this time?
(insert xkcd about standards)
(insert "the definition of insanity" quote)
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@dcon usually they are printed on a label on the bottom of the router and obviously
randomizedbased on the serial number on the silicon, derived from xy-position on the wafer.FTFY
It's easy to query the SoC's wafer-coordinates during flashing and testing, generate the "random" key from that via the same algorithm as the IoS gadget does, and print it in the next step. Why people assume that the sticker came before the device, I'll never understand.
Edit:
abbr -> ins-del
I slept way too little.
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The Unicode 13 Emoji set is out! Finally we can use the intuitive sequence
U+1f3f3_fe0f_200d_26a7_fe0f
the UTF-8 encoding of which is exactly as long as its description.Also, the confusion with
and
and all is over now and a proper renderer should get you something NSFW from
U+1F9AB_034D
.
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@LaoC This combining the symbols with zero-width-joiners and variation selectors is even stupider than adding the symbols would be. Because while they are not allocating a new codepoint, they are creating a new glyph that needs a place in fonts and processing tables anyway. So,
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@LaoC This combining the symbols with zero-width-joiners and variation selectors is even stupider than adding the symbols would be. Because while they are not allocating a new codepoint, they are creating a new glyph that needs a place in fonts and processing tables anyway. So,
They are probably afraid that without this they'd be running out of code points that don't break UTF-16 in the foreseeable future.
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@LaoC Also they added a :screwdriver:, but there is still no :screw: to screw with it. Not that there was a :nail: to hammer with the
either. There is only the
, but that's screwed with the
. Lucky
…
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@LaoC Also they added a :screwdriver:, but there is still no :screw: to screw with it. Not that there was a :nail: to hammer with the
either.
The :screwdriver: emoji is just a combination of the :orange: and :vodka: symbols.
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@da-Doctah (my)
IG.
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@Bulb There is no codepoint for an orange (fruit), although there is one for tangerine (fruit): 🍊. Nor for vodka, though some other drinks have their own: 🍾 🍷. But a screwdriver (drink mix) is made from orange juice and vodka, and is now available: 🪛 (though apparently not implemented in Firefox).
Did that make it any clearer?
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@boomzilla Russian artist was working with SCP Russia to commission an art book, and possibly other media in the future. So far, so good. Then he files a trademark in Russia on the SCP Foundation name and logo, and starts using it, in violation of the CC BY-SA license, to extort people selling SCP-themed merchandise in Russia and to try and establish SCP as a brand with himself in control of it. SCP Foundation is (successfully) raising money for a legal defense fund, with the intention to sue this guy to shut down his trollery and invalidate the trademark.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
the :orange: and :vodka: symbols.
Mmmm, orange juice and vodka...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Russian artist was working with SCP Russia to commission an art book, and possibly other media in the future. So far, so good. Then he files a trademark in Russia on the SCP Foundation name and logo, and starts using it, in violation of the CC BY-SA license, to extort people selling SCP-themed merchandise in Russia and to try and establish SCP as a brand with himself in control of it. SCP Foundation is (successfully) raising money for a legal defense fund, with the intention to sue this guy to shut down his trollery and invalidate the trademark.
SCP...brand?! Huh...this doesn't appear to be the
scp
that I'm familiar with. No clue what this is all about now.
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@boomzilla Secure Containment Protocol. It's a shared-universe writing project that's been going on since about 2008, about a secretive agency working to contain the paranormal, keep it out of the public view, and prevent it from causing harm. Think Men In Black, but with less comedy and more cosmic horror.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@LaoC Also they added a :screwdriver:, but there is still no :screw: to screw with it. Not that there was a :nail: to hammer with the
either. There is only the
, but that's screwed with the
. Lucky
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If all you have is a
, every problem looks like a �
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
And then there's the drink made with vodka, orange juice, and milk of magnesia.
It's called a Phillips screwdriver.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
well...... shitballs....
okay.... imma go donate to their legal defense fund thingie. then see if i can find a genie or djinn and wish for the asshole to get a rare and previously undiscovered medical condition that causes fecal matter to collect in his scrotum.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
Think Men In Black, but with less comedy and more cosmic horror
But also with more comedy
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@Applied-Mediocrity
Username: admin
Password: 4
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Russian artist was working with SCP Russia to commission an art book, and possibly other media in the future. So far, so good. Then he files a trademark in Russia on the SCP Foundation name and logo, and starts using it, in violation of the CC BY-SA license, to extort people selling SCP-themed merchandise in Russia and to try and establish SCP as a brand with himself in control of it. SCP Foundation is (successfully) raising money for a legal defense fund, with the intention to sue this guy to shut down his trollery and invalidate the trademark.
There must be something about the initial letters "SC" in a three letter acronym that inspire this kind of thing. Linux geeks will recall the "SCO" fiasco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group I guess the next one will involve SCQ.
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In case you ever wanted to express ideas like
:bubble_tea:
,:lungs:
and:moustache_man_in_bridal_veil:
, but were missing the emojis to do so, Unicode has heard your cry for help:
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@LaoC Also they added a :screwdriver:, but there is still no :screw: to screw with it. Not that there was a :nail: to hammer with the
either. There is only the
, but that's screwed with the
. Lucky
…
If all you have is a
, every problem looks like a �
Nailed it!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
In case you ever wanted to express ideas like
:bubble_tea:
,:lungs:
and:moustache_man_in_bridal_veil:
, but were missing the emojis to do so, Unicode has heard your cry for help:8 hours ago: https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1644526
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
In case you ever wanted to express ideas like
:bubble_tea:
,:lungs:
and:moustache_man_in_bridal_veil:
, but were missing the emojis to do so, Unicode has heard your cry for help:That's included too!
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@hungrier Here is my proposal: make emojis AI-generated. Modern AI algorithms should have no problem generating combinations of popular concepts, assigning a name and number to them, determining if they are "NSFW" or not, and yes, even generating drawings of them.
Generate 65,536 of them so they fit neatly in a single plane. We'll finally will be able to type something like :eggplant_with_fake_mustache_drinking_beer: and get a result.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Here is my proposal: make emojis AI-generated. Modern AI algorithms should have no problem generating combinations of popular concepts, assigning a name and number to them, determining if they are "NSFW" or not, and yes, even generating drawings of them.
Generate 65,536 of them so they fit neatly in a single plane. We'll finally will be able to type something like :eggplant_with_fake_mustache_drinking_beer: and get a result.
We've all seen the AI generated colors. Be afraid. Be very afraid!
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Maybe, but their dreams are pretty.