WTF Bites
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Sign at Walmart:
93% LEAN
73% FAT
GROUNDBEEF
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
If the Comcast techs I just unloaded on are reading this, I meant it when I apologized.
I take that back. They all fucking suck.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
If the Comcast techs I just unloaded on are reading this, I meant it when I apologized.
I take that back. They all fucking suck.
That didn't take long...
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@Tsaukpaetra today was a bad day and it is entirely Comcast's fault.
Well, one part of it was my fault, but even that wouldn't have happened if not for them.
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Bit early for ITLAPD. Still on from last year @PJH ?
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Still on from last year @PJH ?
Not a scooby. Sure you don't have
en-x-pirate
selected in settings?
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Still on from last year @PJH ?
Not a scooby. Sure you don't have
en-x-pirate
selected in settings?Negative,
en-GB
. Weird, seems to be the only place that's doing it.
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Microsoft teams is so intuitive I just had to Google for how to open the settings window
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Microsoft teams is so intuitive I just had to Google for how to open the settings window
You should have used Bing.
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In today's installment of "What can go wrong, will go wrong", I installed a MS tool to scan for rogue DHCP servers and it knocked the client's primary file server off the network.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
In reality it literally does only two things: vibrate when it gets a notification and send button presses to your phone. Wow. Such smarts.
Wow. So it can't even tell time?
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Also any program using CEF.
We had to change our default to 'do not use hardware acceleration' because so many people were seeing black screens.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
If the Comcast techs I just unloaded on are reading this, I meant it when I apologized.
I take that back. They all fucking suck.
Dammit. Too to take back that Like...
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
In reality it literally does only two things: vibrate when it gets a notification and send button presses to your phone. Wow. Such smarts.
Wow. So it can't even tell time?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/AzGePmv0GD8?start=50&end=68&version=3
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I thought someone named a topic like that on purpose, but no, it links to an error page. It's a genuine Sidebar WTF WTF.
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@Zerosquare I can't find a menu like that anywhere around here…
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>>> help(md5) Help on built-in function openssl_md5 in module _hashlib: openssl_md5(...) Returns a md5 hash object; optionally initialized with a string >>> md5('wtf') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> md5('wtf') TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing
Optionally initialising with a string yields a TypeError. It has to be
bytes
.
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If you think "meh", look at the amount it sold for (bottom of the page).
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@kazitor Apparently somebody forgot to update this occurrence of
string
when python 3 renamedstr
→bytes
andunicode
→str
. That's what they get for doing gratuitous incompatible changes.
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@r10pez10 reminds me of some sites I've seen through a proxy, where a root domain would be whitelisted but absolutely none of its images or CSS.
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Optionally initialising with a string yields a TypeError. It has to be bytes.
Yes?
Did you just assume the string's encoding? :attack_helicopter:
Edit: yeah, alright,
md5
's docstring is wrong then.
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@Zecc based on a sample size of two, all of
hashlib
is.
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The sale of malware for operational purposes is illegal in the United States. As a buyer you recognize that this work represents a potential security hazard. By submitting a bid you agree and acknowledge that you’re purchasing this work as a piece of art or for academic reasons, and have no intention of disseminating any malware. Upon the conclusion of this auction and before the artwork is shipped, the computer’s internet capabilities and available ports will be functionally disabled.
Is that even allowed? "We know it's illegal but if you pinky swear that you're buying it for art or education it's fine"
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I don't have enough free disk space to uninstall Visual Studio 2019.
Filed under: I guess I should free some up by uninst-- oh, right.
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Is that even allowed? "We know it's illegal but if you pinky swear that you're buying it for art or education it's fine"
An "educational purposes" exemption definitely is. Dunno about "art".
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@heterodox I could see it being legal for, say, a research lab selling to another research lab, and for things like software you could even broaden that to private individuals doing their own research. But selling it to the general (ish) public and acknowledging that it's illegal seems like it would carry the same legal weight as the "educational purposes only, or it's a demo, delete it after 24 hours, wink wink" disclaimer that ROM sites had years ago.
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@heterodox I could see it being legal for, say, a research lab selling to another research lab, and for things like software you could even broaden that to private individuals doing their own research. But selling it to the general (ish) public and acknowledging that it's illegal seems like it would carry the same legal weight as the "educational purposes only, or it's a demo, delete it after 24 hours, wink wink" disclaimer that ROM sites had years ago.
It's not illegal to possess malware. I have a huge malware repository. It's illegal to use it against a protected computer.
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@heterodox Right. But to my knowledge you're not selling it at an auction, with a disclaimer that starts with "Yes it's illegal"
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@hungrier It's more like "this rule is not enforced at all unless you actually cause enough damage for important people to go after you".
These are all widespread malware programs, so no one will give a shit if you get a copy. If you're selling rootkits that can remotely hijack an airplane or something, and the cops get proof, you'll end up in jail for a while (the CIA will keep a copy for their own research purposes).
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@heterodox Right. But to my knowledge you're not selling it at an auction, with a disclaimer that starts with "Yes it's illegal"
The "Yes it's illegal" disclaimer is phrased a bit oddly. No, you can't sell it with the knowledge or reasonable assumption that it's going to be used for unlawful activity. If you don't have that knowledge or assumption, sure, I could sell it.
Anyway, the answer to your question is "Yes, it's allowed." The disclaimer alone doesn't necessarily get you out of conspiracy charges, but disabling "the computer's Internet capabilities and available ports" seems to be exercising due care.
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This game looks pretty cool, but ugh, their website...
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@Gąska Linus Torvalds has been running one for years
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@hungrier yes, and it's bad.
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Representative line from documentation:
GetFilePath
example result: ".\logs\eventlog.log" - the relative URI of the file
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
In today's installment of "What can go wrong, will go wrong"
For today's installment: Win10 decided to just not work properly with any manner of mouse or keyboard. At first I thought the batteries in my mouse were bad, then I thought the mouse was having issues, then I thought maybe it was the USB hub I have them both plugged in to. None of the above were true. I had to uninstall the devices from my computer and reboot. The only way I was able to even do so was because I have our remote access software installed on it so I connected from my Mac (on the other leg of the L/Z that forms my desk and used that to control my computer, because MS decided to remove the easy ways to get to safe mode from Win10. What was wrong with just spamming the F8 key until you get the option to boot to safe mode?
This all coincided with Windows updates. Where is blakey so I can taunt him with how MS sucks?
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@Gąska he blocked me on there. Because I supposedly threatened him.
Spoiler alert: I in no way threatened him.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I in no way threatened him.
You probably threatened to burn his house, which is not a threat against him
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@TimeBandit I didn't even do that. He was on Discord lamenting about how he wished he could post here (no idea why he can't) because he wanted to help out @Captain with a coding issue he was having and blakey had an amazingly simple solution to his issue, so I took a screenshot and posted it in the relevant thread. I told blakey that I had done so, but I was not going to do it again because I am not going to be a walkie-talkie and he could just come back to the forums if he wanted to say anything else. Blakey then went off the handle and said that me saying I would not be his go between was me "threatening him".
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit I didn't even do that. He was on Discord lamenting about how he wished he could post here (no idea why he can't) because he wanted to help out @Captain with a coding issue he was having and blakey had an amazingly simple solution to his issue, so I took a screenshot and posted it in the relevant thread. I told blakey that I had done so, but I was not going to do it again because I am not going to be a walkie-talkie and he could just come back to the forums if he wanted to say anything else. Blakey then went off the handle and said that me saying I would not be his go between was me "threatening him".
It sounds like this old Polish joke:
Two friends meet for a beer.
- So, how's life and that wife of yours?
- Oh, it's not good between us lately. Not good at all.
- How so?
- All because of mispronounciation.
- Really?
- Yeah. Few days ago we were having a dinner and I wanted to say "honey, could you pass me the salt?", but I actually said "I wasted best years of my life because of you, you stupid cunt" .
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
MS decided to remove the easy ways to get to safe mode from Win10
I mean, it is easy... when you have a working mouse and keyboard. (Hold down Shift when you click Restart from the lock screen or the Start Menu.)
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
MS decided to remove the easy ways to get to safe mode from Win10
I mean, it is easy... when you have a working mouse and keyboard. (Hold down Shift when you click Restart from the lock screen or the Start Menu.)
Yeah, which is great...when you can get to said Start menu. Usually when I find myself needing safe mode the reason that I am needing it also prevents me from getting to the Start menu.
I also miss being able to do repair installs.
"You can still sort of do them, you go in to Settings, blah, blah, blah, 'Fresh Start' or you can blah, blah, blah, blah 'Reset This Pc', blah, blah, blah."
Yeah, well, when I need to do a repair install it is usually because the OS is totally fucked so I am unable to get to those options.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
MS decided to remove the easy ways to get to safe mode from Win10
I mean, it is easy... when you have a working mouse and keyboard. (Hold down Shift when you click Restart from the lock screen or the Start Menu.)
But that's while booted, not during boot. The new paradigm assumes you have a working copy of Windows in order to get into the "oh no, Windows isn't working" mode, which is astoundingly ridiculous.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Yeah, well, when I need to do a repair install it is usually because the OS is totally fucked so I am unable to get to those options.
With the strong integration they have between UEFI and the boot manager now, I wonder if there's a way to pass an argument to the boot manager through the BIOS's boot menu.
(Will investigate on a rainy day. Maybe. )
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
But that's while booted, not during boot. The new paradigm assumes you have a working copy of Windows in order to get into the "oh no, Windows isn't working" mode, which is astoundingly ridiculous.
Now, that's not quite true. When Windows fails to start up a certain number of times, it's supposed to bounce itself into Startup Repair.
Does that work 100% of the time? No. But that doesn't mean there's a new paradigm.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Yeah, well, when I need to do a repair install it is usually because the OS is totally fucked so I am unable to get to those options.
With the strong integration they have between UEFI and the boot manager now, I wonder if there's a way to pass an argument to the boot manager through the BIOS's boot menu.
(Will investigate on a rainy day. Maybe. )
That's actually how safe mode is triggered now actually: it sets a variable in UEFI.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
That's actually how safe mode is triggered now actually: it sets a variable in UEFI.
Right. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to set that variable e.g. from the BIOS's boot menu/F9 or whatever if you can't set it the normal way.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
That's actually how safe mode is triggered now actually: it sets a variable in UEFI.
Right. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to set that variable e.g. from the BIOS's boot menu/F9 or whatever if you can't set it the normal way.
Nope. Well, technically you can if you're in the EFI shell, but if you can get there you can manually boot into safe mode anyways via boot media or otherwise launching the recovery environment.