WTF Bites
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Why the hell doesn't word have a simple, minimal template for letters?
Because there isn't one universal works-in-all-countries way of writing "normal" letters. A completely blank document really is the only way to go for that.
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@hungrier Wait, you are saying
password
isn't among five most used passwords?Well, if "thousand" isn't one of the ten hundred most common words, why would "password" be one of the top five passwords?
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@hungrier Wait, you are saying
password
isn't among five most used passwords?According to wikipedia, the top password is
123456
, thoughpasssword
follows right behind.No
swordfish
on the list though.https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF Bites:
Why the hell doesn't word have a simple, minimal template for letters?
Because there isn't one universal works-in-all-countries way of writing "normal" letters. A completely blank document really is the only way to go for that.
These are already localized and contain (dumb) German text. There are a lot of them, and all are useless.
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According to wikipedia, the top password is 123456
That sounds like the password an idiot put on their luggage!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I had powerpoint calling out to SAPI on demand to speak the slides.
So you automated what terrible lecturers do?
You're... evil.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I had powerpoint calling out to SAPI on demand to speak the slides.
So you automated what terrible lecturers do?
You're... evil.But I repeat myself.
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According to wikipedia, the top password is 123456
That sounds like the password an idiot put on their luggage!
Mine's only 1234.
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According to wikipedia, the top password is 123456
That sounds like the password an idiot put on their luggage!
Mines only 1234.
Is that a new Minecraft block type?
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According to wikipedia, the top password is 123456
That sounds like the password an idiot put on their luggage!
Mines only 1234.
Is that a new Minecraft block type?
Fine. I fixed it!
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
I entered a password like
tu45uMS7cR33Lfls1qtP9rRaUehSYtCsAxK36jBa3pxeXu3kWFcMCq7lAiwbufm
somewhere recently and was told it was too weak and I needed to add symbols to it.Mind if I reuse it then? I'd hate seeing it go to waste.
https://mostsecure.pw/ still hasn't been in any breaches according to https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
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Aliexpress item description in English
The same description auto-translated to Spanish
what
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@anonymous234 It's a 5D object in Spain! Quick, someone call for the emergency topologist!
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
I entered a password like
tu45uMS7cR33Lfls1qtP9rRaUehSYtCsAxK36jBa3pxeXu3kWFcMCq7lAiwbufm
somewhere recently and was told it was too weak and I needed to add symbols to it.Mind if I reuse it then? I'd hate seeing it go to waste.
I'm quite disappointed that they don't have any snarky Remy-comments
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Apparently when I enabled developer mode on my Android phone last week, it threw my device out of MDM compliance, and rather than warning or alerting me, it silently stopped syncing with my workplace.
I didn't notice this until missing some important meetings and emails.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
I entered a password like
tu45uMS7cR33Lfls1qtP9rRaUehSYtCsAxK36jBa3pxeXu3kWFcMCq7lAiwbufm
somewhere recently and was told it was too weak and I needed to add symbols to it.Mind if I reuse it then? I'd hate seeing it go to waste.
Wow, they feature "Ambiguous Characters." That adds a whole bunch of security.
Filed under: I only see one ambiguous character.
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Quick, someone call for the emergency topologist!
The topology of the packaging is likely (hyper-)spherical. Maybe some of the physicists have use for some cheap extra dimensions, though.
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WTF of my day: So, we have this school messenger (because WhatsApp is verboten in a school setting) where the new version seems to work fine and even has a proper LDAP binding. No more user import/export and we now have central password management!
So we asked our IT support to open the firewall for one specific IP address to do port forwarding for the needed port (636 and maybe 389?) to our LDAP.
Shouldn't be too hard? Well, we're waiting for two weeks now...
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I enabled developer mode on my Android phone last week
It's too bad you don't play Pokémon go. It would have told you right away
you're a hackeryour device is not compatible.
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ORLY
Apparently a bunch of people abuse developer mode for gaining easy root access to install pirated/unapproved apps, or the debugger to reverse-engineer/crack apps.
I'm actually trying to develop an app.
Filed under: Yet another Magic: The Gathering assistant app.
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ORLY
Apparently a bunch of people abuse developer mode for gaining easy root access to install pirated/unapproved apps, or the debugger to reverse-engineer/crack apps.
I'm actually trying to develop an app.
Filed under: Yet another Magic: The Gathering assistant app.
Same difference.
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for gaining easy root access to install pirated/unapproved apps
You don't need root for that
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I enabled developer mode on my Android phone last week
It's too bad you don't play Pokémon go. It would have told you right away
you're a hackeryour device is not compatible.No, that's from the location spoofing.
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WTF of my day: So, we have this school messenger (because WhatsApp is verboten in a school setting) where the new version seems to work fine and even has a proper LDAP binding. No more user import/export and we now have central password management!
So we asked our IT support to open the firewall for one specific IP address to do port forwarding for the needed port (636 and maybe 389?) to our LDAP.
Shouldn't be too hard? Well, we're waiting for two weeks now...
School-IT related WTF: I asked my IT folks to set up a local administrator account on the 8 or so laptops I use for my programming class so I can handle things like installing the appropriate environments, doing updates, etc. without having to bug them constantly. They said OK.
Just got an email today:
I went ahead and made <local student account, shared for all 8 devices> device administrator on those laptops.
? At least I can go and use this power to add my own admin account and restrict the student accounts to something more sane...
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@Benjamin-Hall I'm currently considering unlocking the server room and then accidentally stumbling over the firewall's keyboard which will result in a completely unforeseen chain of events regarding the iptables rules.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I enabled developer mode on my Android phone last week
It's too bad you don't play Pokémon go. It would have told you right away
you're a hackeryour device is not compatible.No, that's from the location spoofing.
Kinda need to, seeing as it doesn't like people from other Earths...
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@Tsaukpaetra what? Anyway, developer mode has nothing to do with it. If you turned off location faking, it'd work fine again.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
what?
Earth-73 vs. Earth-47. You, of all people, should have gotten that.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
If you turned off location faking, it'd work fine again.
False. I've never "turned on location faking", nor have I needed to.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
I'm surprised there hasn't been a Kickfarter for "universal" RFID chips for all the RFID things.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
? At least I can go and use this power to add my own admin account and restrict the student accounts to something more sane...
Unless they did it through GPO, which is the sensible way to do it.
Wait, why would they... Right. Forgot the subject of the conversation for a moment.
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@TimeBandit Does it automatically call 911?
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Shouldn't be too hard? Well, we're waiting for two weeks now...
Come back when you have been waiting half a year.
Exposing port is a relatively big deal. We are regularly waiting for week or more for just permissions to systems we need to do our jobs. And that takes a lot of reminders, otherwise you may end up never getting the access at all and just working around it. We still have that ticket for a colleague who did some smaller tasks to get some access in Jira, after a couple of month, and when his work is finished already. And it does not matter whether it is the customer in Minnesota, the one in Lower Austria, or the one in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, they are all the same (and our own ICT is sometimes not that much better).
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
? At least I can go and use this power to add my own admin account and restrict the student accounts to something more sane...
Unless they did it through GPO, which is the sensible way to do it.
Wait, why would they... Right. Forgot the subject of the conversation for a moment.
These are Macs, so no. We don't have any central admin package. They're each configured manually.
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Pet peeve of mine, all over the windows developer docs:
@Microsoft said in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/general-guidelines-for-inf-files:
If your INF contains non-ASCII characters, save the file as a Unicode file.
Thanks, Microsoft, so what encoding should that "Unicode" file be using? UTF-8 ? UTF-16 with / without BOM? WTF-16 ? WhoTF knows?
Just like that VS project setting about "character set" with options "Unicode" and "Multi-Byte". Took me ages to remember which one of these is which, because
- "Unicode" is not an encoding and in my experience most of the time it means UTF-8, and
- 2 bytes per character does count as "multi-byte" in my book while (extended) ASCII doesn't.
ETA: And finding the answer with google is surprisingly difficult, because MS seems to think that these terms are perfectly clear to everyone and thus are used everywhere and never defined.
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Exposing port is a relatively big deal.
Exposing a port to the whole world, yes, certainly so. Exposing it to a specific IP address? Much less so, especially when the protocol on the port requires a complex handshake to do anything (e.g.,
SSLTLS).
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
Thanks, Microsoft, so what encoding should that "Unicode" file be using?
WTF-16 little endian, with BOM. And don't use any non-BMP characters if you want to remain approximately sane. You know, what MS always means by “Unicode file”.
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Shouldn't be too hard? Well, we're waiting for two weeks now...
Come back when you have been waiting half a year.
Exposing port is a relatively big deal. We are regularly waiting for week or more for just permissions to systems we need to do our jobs. And that takes a lot of reminders, otherwise you may end up never getting the access at all and just working around it. We still have that ticket for a colleague who did some smaller tasks to get some access in Jira, after a couple of month, and when his work is finished already. And it does not matter whether it is the customer in Minnesota, the one in Lower Austria, or the one in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, they are all the same (and our own ICT is sometimes not that much better).
Yeah, but we are the ones actually making the decisions - it's just that our support is dragging its feet with the implementation.
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Shouldn't be too hard? Well, we're waiting for two weeks now...
Come back when you have been waiting half a year.
Exposing port is a relatively big deal. We are regularly waiting for week or more for just permissions to systems we need to do our jobs. And that takes a lot of reminders, otherwise you may end up never getting the access at all and just working around it. We still have that ticket for a colleague who did some smaller tasks to get some access in Jira, after a couple of month, and when his work is finished already. And it does not matter whether it is the customer in Minnesota, the one in Lower Austria, or the one in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, they are all the same (and our own ICT is sometimes not that much better).
Yeah, but we are the ones actually making the decisions - it's just that our support is dragging its feet with the implementation.
The project managers are making the decisions on time. It's mostly the support dragging its feet here too.
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A tester in one customer's departmentÂą is having problem with the software we delivered. So I asked him to pack up some log files for analysis and send them to me.
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The device is connected to a separate network and he can't get there from his workstation, so pulling it with
scp
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So I wrote him to pack it onto the SD card, pull it out and read it into his computer, to which he replied that he
… have raised the request for USB rights, once I will get the USB access, I will …
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But he had to write the image on that card in the first place, because that's how the device is installed. Well, he
… was having the USB access. The access was valid for one week and [expired]…
Now that is dedication to security…
A bit of on our part—we lacked the foresight to install
sftp
in the image, because then we could tell him to just upload it to the sharing server with department-shared password that is accessible from both intranet and internet.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
Thanks, Microsoft, so what encoding should that "Unicode" file be using?
WTF-16 little endian, with BOM.
I always thought it's without BOM?
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@GÄ…ska MS always seem to want a BOM.
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@dkf Do you think they should drop the BOM?
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@Mason_Wheeler I think they should take it up the BOM
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@Mingan Guys, please stop BOMbarding us with bad puns.
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@Rhywden but it so easy to set us up the BOM.
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