WTF Bites
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
STAAAAHP
Time for a dictionary reset? You can do that on iOS, right?
Since I don't remember consciously misspelling shit like that, I'm not sure why that would be needed.
I'd prefer if it stopped "correcting" things once I've undone it and typed the exact same thing.Just click on the X and it should stop suggesting this.
I usually do that unless I'm typing too fast and don't see the wrong correction.
Unfortunately, that only works if it's doing the "normal" dictionary autocorrect and not the new context-aware or whatever bullshit where it wrongly "corrects" what I wrote two words ago, sometimes even replacing it's own previous suggestions.
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sometimes even replacing it's own previous suggestions
The auto-corrector trying to auto-correct itself. Just doing its job
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Does nobody know how to use the rectangle tool in their image editor?!?
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
Does nobody know how to use the rectangle tool in their image editor?!?
Does everybody have to use the rectangle tool in their image editor?!?
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I was going to reply to the rectangle post saying Snipping Tool only has pens and a highlighter, but then I noticed this other WTF:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Oh good, I haven't tried any programs that look for version 9 or better for compatibility in a while.
Because you know you'll get Win95 programs?
I mean, it's been more than two decades at this point, right?
I remember something about Oracle JRE 8 having some code that literally said "if OS full name starts with 'Windows 9' then..."
That sort of code is probably more common than you'd think. Why do you think they jumped directly from Windows 8 to Windows 10?
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Why do you think they jumped directly from Windows 8 to Windows 10?
To avoid Windows Nein
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
Does nobody know how to use the rectangle tool in their image editor?!?
Does everybody have to use the rectangle tool in their image editor?!?
If you want your information properly redacted, then yes.
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
If you want your information properly redacted, then yes.
It's good enough
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@loopback0 Thatâs some sloppy editing right there.
Do you want us to go to the effort of recovering that?! Because you know we certainly donât want to.
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No effort.
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I was curious about the "RandomGenerator" which generates IV. That's when I vomited. The first comments say "This is not very good random number generator. Please use it only for salt." It is not used only for salt.
Yes, it uses PID and time(null) as seed. Yes, this is 7zip's random generation code running on your computers in 2019.
I thought about reporting this at 7zip Sourceforge forums but then I vomited again when I saw a long thread of largely incoherent exchanges on how 7z should be using Twofish instead of AES-256 because obviously NSA backdoored AES back in 2001 didn't you hear
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Double-clicking a word in a page open in Firefox does not reliably select just the word. Usually it selects the word and the space that follows if there is one. Sometimes it adds a space before the word. In this case the "word" as a serial number at the beginning of a paragraph and it was copied with a space preceding it.
I spent a couple of minutes trying to find it in some logs, only to find out I couldn't find it because I had been searching with an added space.
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only to find out I couldn't find it because I had been searching with an added space.
Moodle does that. When searching for a user, I have to make sure the username I copied doesn't contain a space before or after it, or it will not find it.
Why the fuck doesn't it trim it
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@Zecc Many programs do that. They try to âDWYMâ to keep words separated with spaces when you cut&paste them around, but at least for me they fail miserably, because I almost never mean that.
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Idiots. Even considering that angle, DWYM is context-sensitive and so it should be done when pasting, not when copying.
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So where to begin on this one?
#1, I am not logged in, so I have no idea where this username is coming from.
#2, why the fuck would you block "Food & Dining" on guest wifi? Why would you block it at all?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
#2, why the fuck would you block "Food & Dining" on guest wifi? Why would you block it at all?
A restaurant offering free WiFi probably wouldn't want you to look for somewhere else to go eat
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
#2, why the fuck would you block "Food & Dining" on guest wifi? Why would you block it at all?
A restaurant offering free WiFi probably wouldn't want you to look for somewhere else to go eat
This is a medical clinic, with no cafeteria.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
This is a medical clinic, with no cafeteria.
This was not in the original specs
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I am not logged in, so I have no idea where this username is coming from.
Anyone want to wager that if we dug 3-4 kludges deep on this one that somewhere there is a user account with an access profile applied to it and all unauthenticated users (why would you be authenticated on guest wifi at all? But that is another question entirely.) are by default dumped in to a default account instead of just having a default access profile until they actually are authenticated.
I would also be willing to wager that this kludge is entirely unnecessary if the person who setup the wifi knew what the hell they were doing. But, based on my experience with Barracuda's shitty products it may be necessary.
There is a here. It is only a matter of whether it is a sysadmin or a Barracuda .
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
No effort.
As I understand it, the IV (initialization vector) is only needed to ensure that two identical files encrypted with the same exact password don't encrypt to the same exact cyphertext. That makes it roughly analogous to a salt.
Unless AES is fundamentally unstable when it's initialized with a partially-known (half zeroes) IV, then the encryption should still be at least as secure as the password that you used, right?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
#1, I am not logged in, so I have no idea where this username is coming from.
I think you just doxed your IT department's Barracuda username.
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I think you just doxed your IT department's Barracuda username.
I do not use Barracuda.Mulligan.
Yeah, well, our head sysadmin is an incompetent asshole.
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@Polygeekery No... whoever is operating that guest wi-fi apparently does.
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Found another one!
Ten seconds of logo! What the shit?!?!?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
There is a here. It is only a matter of whether it is a sysadmin or a Barracuda .
As people say around here:
Why not both?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
There is a here. It is only a matter of whether it is a sysadmin or a Barracuda .
As people say around here:
Why not both?
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
Does nobody know how to use the rectangle tool in their image editor?!?
Does everybody have to use the rectangle tool in their image editor?!?
If you want your information properly redacted, then yes.
I thought you had to make a dick shape to do it right.
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@boomzilla This is the Internet. Dick shapes make everything better.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Yeah, well, our head sysadmin is an incompetent asshole.
"Hi, I have a delivery of 527 pizzas for a Mr. K Wooooooooooooooooooooooooolly Stan?"
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Yeah, well, our head sysadmin is an incompetent asshole.
"Hi, I have a delivery of 527 pizzas for a Mr. K Wooooooooooooooooooooooooolly Stan?"
Note to self:
Never piss off @Polygeekery and @Lorne-Kates at the same time.
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@LaoC Looked at the first video. Stuck on "OMFG. Those cables. KILLKILLKILL"
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
This is a medical clinic, with no cafeteria.
Obviously, you're supposed to be fasting.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Found another one!
Ten seconds of logo! What the shit?!?!?
Checks out, to an extent.
(1920 * 1080)px/frame * 4 bytes/px * 60 frames/second * 10 seconds ~= 4.63 GB.
I'm sure I don't need to specify the here.
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Even though it became useless over two years ago, it'll stay in my list forever.
Also, a truckload of "Amnesia Fortnight Daily Wrap Up ..." videos that I don't recall ever buying, caring about in the slightest, or knowing WTF they are.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Found another one!
Ten seconds of logo! What the shit?!?!?
Checks out, to an extent.
(1920 * 1080)px/frame * 4 bytes/px * 60 frames/second * 10 seconds ~= 4.63 GB.
I'm sure I don't need to specify the here.
Close.
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@Tsaukpaetra Now it works with 3 bytes/pixel, which makes more sense. Though still can't explain uncompressed 4K video in the first place.
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explain uncompressed 4K video
Fucking videographers.
Because, you know, we're publishing 4K content, dontcha know?
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Though still can't explain uncompressed 4K video in the first place.
You don't want to lose any quality until the final render, so everything is kept uncompressed or as close to it as possible until then. It may be possible to do some kind of lossless compression, but I think the hit in processing performance costs more than additional disk space.
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Also, a truckload of "Amnesia Fortnight Daily Wrap Up ..." videos that I don't recall
@ben_lubar, could we whitelist the <mark> tag? <ins> and <del> can be used for the job, but semantics?
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@hungrier I suspect "Time_Fire_Animated_Logo_01" was originally rendered anyway, so why not appropriate the source into other things?
And unless you're fiddling with it afterwards, I don't see the harm in doing some compression now rather than later.
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@hungrier I suspect "Time_Fire_Animated_Logo_01" was originally rendered anyway, so why not appropriate the source into other things?
And unless you're fiddling with it afterwards, I don't see the harm in doing some compression now rather than later.
I don't mean rendered like the footage was created using CGI, but in the sense of outputting the final video. If you start with a compressed version of the logo animation when you insert it into whatever video it's used in, the quality will degrade when the final video is compressed again for Youtube, cable, OTA broadcast, or whatever.
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Are TeamViewer's servers down? Because
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Though still can't explain uncompressed 4K video in the first place.
You don't want to lose any quality until the final render, so everything is kept uncompressed or as close to it as possible until then. It may be possible to do some kind of lossless compression, but I think the hit in processing performance costs more than additional disk space.
Even lossless compression would beat the daylights out of this. And decompressing is faster than disk access, anyway.