WTF Bites
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What the fuck, HP.
I remember installing that printer for a friend. You plug it in, a CD mounts, you install the drivers from that. Magic happens. (Oh, and you now have an HP printer - so sorry...)
I'm pretty sure I remember the CD vanishing after you install those drivers.
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@dcon it's been pretty standard way of distributing drivers for weird devices for quite some time now. I think I first saw it in USB GSM modem, where it was pretty neat, considering that if you've just bought a modem, you presumably don't have internet access yet. But for printer, in 2018 - that's ot being helpful as much as usual printer fuckery where they want to coerce you into installing gigabytes of bloatware by any means necessary.
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@dcon it's been pretty standard way of distributing drivers for weird devices for quite some time now. I think I first saw it in USB GSM modem, where it was pretty neat, considering that if you've just bought a modem, you presumably don't have internet access yet. But for printer, in 2018 - that's ot being helpful as much as usual printer fuckery where they want to coerce you into installing gigabytes of bloatware by any means necessary.
The first time I saw that I went "that's a really good way to shipping the drivers!" (we were connecting the printer (old) to a laptop (new) with minimal internet access at a remote site - and any out-of-the-box materials were LONG gone.
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@dcon it's been pretty standard way of distributing drivers for weird devices for quite some time now. I think I first saw it in USB GSM modem, where it was pretty neat, considering that if you've just bought a modem, you presumably don't have internet access yet. But for printer, in 2018 - that's ot being helpful as much as usual printer fuckery where they want to coerce you into installing gigabytes of bloatware by any means necessary.
The first time I saw that I went "that's a really good way to shipping the drivers!" (we were connecting the printer (old) to a laptop (new) with minimal internet access at a remote site - and any out-of-the-box materials were LONG gone.
It is a really handy way of shipping drivers -- what isn't nice is that the drivers that they require are horribly overcomplicated, and they aren't available on Windows Update and/or the ones that are available on Windows Update are generic and don't work.
A while back I spent the better part of a day trying to get an HP "all-in-one" printer/scanner to install drivers, because the ones that were on the disk and available from the HP site refused to work because of some kind of digital signature problem, and none of the generic drivers would work. I couldn't even get HP's generic PCL6 driver to work. I finally just gave up.
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It's that time of the year, and I ended up with a fitbit. Quick setup (and agreeing to having all my data sent to the mothership in the US) later ... I find myself with a 12h clock on the display.
The fix would be to fire up their
spywareapp and change it in the options, right? Except that I can't find that option anywhere. A quick search reveals (a) that I'm not the only one with that problem, and (b) that the setting is apparently only in:That's in your profile settings at https://www.fitbit.com/settings/profile
Once changed the next time you sync your fitbit will be updated
The hell? Why isn't this in the app? I can change about everything else... but for a 24h clock, I have to log in to a remote webpage, update it, have the app on my phone sync with that remote service, and then push out the new settings to the device. Great.
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@cvi
C'mon, it's not like any reasonable person uses anything other than unqualified 12h time anyway. After all, their focus group of 6 individuals all couldn't even figure out what 13:00 even meant, so obviously 24h time is just some curiosity to satisfy some mystical ISO standards board somewhere, do the minimum to ship it and get back toreal featuresplaying Fortnite!
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@Gąska In Germany there are two significant age groups: Children below 7 years of age and children between 7 and 18 years.
Children under 7 years are legally considered "unable to sign contracts". And as buying a loaf of bread is legally considered signing a contract, they may not buy anything (if a problem arises from this legal context it's usually a problem for the seller on the other end - because he now may be both out of the bread he sold and the money he received).
Older children are considered "able to sign restricted contracts". This means that they are allowed to buy things if their parents allowed it. They may also obtain the consent of their parents after they bought something - but until the parents agreed, the contract is not fully binding and may be reversed if consent is not obtained.
However, they can spend their allowance however they see fit if they can buy it completely with their own money.
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In Germany there are two significant age groups: Children below 7 years of age and children between 7 and 18 years.
Holy shit RUN, Logann, RUN!
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Children under 7 years are legally considered "unable to sign contracts". And as buying a loaf of bread is legally considered signing a contract, they may not buy anything (if a problem arises from this legal context it's usually a problem for the seller on the other end - because he now may be both out of the bread he sold and the money he received).
And does it cause shopkeepers to refuse to sell anything to small children?
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OpenCL library functions can now take advantage of the C++ language to provide increased safety and reduced undefined behavior
WTF was the older version using, that C++ is safer and better defined?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
OpenCL library functions can now take advantage of the C++ language to provide increased safety and reduced undefined behavior
WTF was the older version using, that C++ is safer and better defined?
OpenCL's GLSL-y C-like language. It used to be compiled online (as in, you hand your source to the CL api at runtime), so development/debugging sucked a lot.
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unqualified 12h time
Also, that. Albeit I assumed that I was missing some subtle indicator that a 12h-clock barbarian would immediately recognize.
(But what's the problem? You see the time, like 11:30, look at the sky and check whether or not the sun's up. Problem solved. ... What? Why would that not work? Can't hear you all the way from northern Scandinavia!)
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From a cloud gaming service:
Gee, if only there were companies with hundreds of thousands of servers ready to be rented at any time to cover demand spikes.
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@anonymous234 We’ve put your cloud in the cloud so you can cloud while you cloud.
Filed under: Yo Dawg
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@anonymous234 yeah, trouble is they decided to use a strictly ascending integer index for the activations.
Filed under: is good distributed computing joke
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@anonymous234 We’ve put your cloud in the cloud so you can cloud while you cloud.
Filed under: Yo Dawg
Obligatory xkcd.
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@topspin I was wondering why oneboxing didn't work for this comic. Turns out it's because you haven't closed the hyperlink tag. Asshole.
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Asshole.
I aim to please
For the sake of your housemates and neighbors, I hope your aim when pissing isn't as bad as when posting.
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@Gąska We‘re not talking about your kinks here.
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@topspin Hey. No kink-shaming.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
From a cloud gaming service:
Gee, if only there were companies with hundreds of thousands of servers ready to be rented at any time to cover demand spikes.
Ethel must be very busy typing in those forms. She has to keep changing the ink ribbon.
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bite
Family Member
Goddamn friend-of-family.Someone I know, their kid has a genetic disease, and they're in the hospital. Doctors are coming up with treatment.
The kid shouldn't be in a hospital. Doctors can get things wrong, you know.
Um, I think the specialists know what they're doing.
No, all he needs is a treatment with the right essential oils. They will cure him.
It's a genetic disease!
Oh, that isn't a problem. Essential oils can change our DNA.!!!
Are those oils radioactive? Or are you implying they create your most-hated "GMOs" ?!?!
I think I'll have some more eggnog.
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
Oh, that isn't a problem. Essential oils can change our DNA.
I think I'll have some more eggnog.
Good plan…
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
No, all he needs is a treatment with the right essential oils. They will cure him.
Well duh, people are complex, like cars. Unless you change the oil regularly things break and top quality essential is obviously better and more oily than regular fat.
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@japonicus said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
No, all he needs is a treatment with the right essential oils. They will cure him.
Well duh, people are complex, like cars. Unless you change the oil regularly things break and top quality essential is obviously better and more oily than regular fat.
The only essential oils I need are those used for frying food.
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@japonicus said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
No, all he needs is a treatment with the right essential oils. They will cure him.
Well duh, people are complex, like cars. Unless you change the oil regularly things break and top quality essential is obviously better and more oily than regular fat.
The only essential oils I need are those used for frying food.
You really don't want to fry food with those. They're actually closer related to turpentine than fatty oils.
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@japonicus said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
No, all he needs is a treatment with the right essential oils. They will cure him.
Well duh, people are complex, like cars. Unless you change the oil regularly things break and top quality essential is obviously better and more oily than regular fat.
The only essential oils I need are those used for frying food.
You really don't want to fry food with those. They're actually closer related to turpentine than fatty oils.
Thankfully, "those" aren't essential for my use!
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
A while back I spent the better part of a day trying to get an HP "all-in-one" printer/scanner to install drivers, because the ones that were on the disk and available from the HP site refused to work because of some kind of digital signature problem, and none of the generic drivers would work. I couldn't even get HP's generic PCL6 driver to work. I finally just gave up.
Could have installed Linux instead.
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Pretty much business-as-usual for Google, but still a WTF-bite to me.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Pretty much business-as-usual for Google, but still a WTF-bite to me.
I wonder if you can take them to court over this. As the guy is a EU resident he first should do a GDPR request. And based on that information then sue for damages.
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@Rhywden: someone in the comments did suggest doing that, yup.
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Been randomly browsing YouTube and stumbled upon an old talk at Chaos Communication Congress. Now, the following isn't a "bite" but rather a cow-sized chunk, but it's not exactly news so I'll post it here. Apparently it made the news big time in 2013 but I must have missed it, or forgot. It hit reddit and slashdot and what not, so maybe we have a thread about it too:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-12/xeroxs-scanner-problem-just-got-bigger
Some Xerox Scanners Can Alter Documents by Accident
On the scale of things too horrible to contemplate, “document-altering scanner” is right up there with “flesh-eating bacteria.”
Apparently if you scanned something with that, you could get documents with randomly swapped numbers. So not your usual compression artefacts that you'd actually see, but something you'd miss completely. And this had been a firmware bug for 8 years, in machines used by thousands of corporations around the globe. The amount of documents which might be affected is unfathomable.
Blog article of the guy who originally discovered it:
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@topspin I remember reading it when it was new. Super duper dangerous..
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so maybe we have a thread about it too
The title is very misleading, I know.
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Why you should read the documentation in English: Microsoft's documentation translator apparently decided to translate "is" as "is not".
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Well, are you?
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Apparently, the funny thread is now the shit-posting thread...
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WhatsApp web appears to convert any entered "™" into the crappy emoji counterpart which is about three times the size and not even superscript.
I don't know
- why it does this
- why everything renders it weirdly
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Dunno what you think qualifies as an 'emoji representation'. It's just the TM character, the font's what determines whether it looks like an emoji.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Dunno what you think qualifies as an 'emoji representation'. It's just the TM character, the font's what determines whether it looks like an emoji.
- That doesn't look like WhatsApp
- I think he means that WhatsApp turns ™ into for no apparent reason.
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You know you can upload videos straight to , right?
But judging by the still provided before I press play, @Tsaukpaetra is correct that it doesn't look at all like WhatsApp web.
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@Tsaukpaetra Right. WhatsApp has its own emoji rendering, like Twitter. The ™ character is simply treated as an emoji for purposes of 'what do we change the rendering of'.
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@kazitor Do you have GDrive blocked or something? What's the console say?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
From that thread:
Georgie @georgiefromsai said:
Do you want Skinet? Because that's how we get Skinet😂😂😂
Ben S. @HunterZ0 said:
No, it's like Skynet except that the Terminators are on skis.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Right. WhatsApp has its own emoji rendering, like Twitter. The ™ character is simply treated as an emoji for purposes of 'what do we change the rendering of'.
No, WhatsApp replaces it with an image. A section of this one.
must be a fun world where you assume everyone's utterly incompetent