WTF Bites
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@Zerosquare Online banking shows two charges from Kohl's and two reversals. Nothing from Target or Origin, both of which have PayPal as an intermediary. Do see charges from grocery shopping and laundry (each load of wash and dry is a separate charge
) earlier in the day — no, actually laundry was after the unsuccessful Christmas shopping. No alerts or messages. Not sure what's going on. Plenty of money in the account; many times what I need for these purchases.
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@HardwareGeek
Bought an item online for $27. Got a phone call from my credit card company wanting to verify that it was really me who made the purchase.Hired an electrician to do some work. The bill was $1,000 which I paid with a credit card. When the electrician ran my credit card through his machine, he fat-fingered the amount and entered $10,000.
Which went through just fine, no question from my credit card company.
I hadn't paid any attention to the receipt he gave me and didn't even know there had been a mistake till 3 days later when I got a call from the company telling me that they had to issue a $9,000 refund.
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@El_Heffe self-learning algorithms work in mysterious ways
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@El_Heffe I suppose it shows what fraudsters like to spend on (perhaps for themselves, perhaps to launder the money).
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WTF of my day: Two CDU (the conservative, nominally christian party) politicians from Saxonia just proclaimed that it should be thinkable to reconciliate socialism with nationalism.
Good grief. Yes. Let's call it "Social nationalism".
... or maybe the other way around? Naw, not as catchy.
No true conservative!™
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I read about the European Extremely Large Telescope so I googled EELT
Alright, lets see some images of it. clicks images
Thanks Google.
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Got an Amazon notification saying I had a delivery only two stops away. I pulled up the app, it showed the driver right outside my apartment building. I looked out the window, saw an Amazon delivery van, and thought "Oh cool, it's here."
The next notification a few minutes later was, "Your package is running late. Now expected tomorrow." I look out the window and the Amazon delivery van was gone. The Amazon app showed it on the main road away from my apartment complex. What a lazy starhole.
Let us know what happens tomorrow.
Nothing. Nothing happened.
Amazon has finally decided this package was lost and I need to apply for a refund. I hope the driver ate the package. It was a 1-pound bar of Wood's metal which is high in cadmium.
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XLR seems like a weird connector to pick for a brake light, but hey whatever.
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XLR seems like a weird connector to pick for a brake light, but hey whatever.
For future expansion, so they can address the LEDs customizing full pattern programmable with license
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
XLR seems like a weird connector to pick for a brake light, but hey whatever.
For future expansion, so they can address the LEDs customizing full pattern programmable with license
I see it already, in the future you’ll need to buy yearly subscription packages or the brake lights won’t
updatework anymore.
It’s a brave new world.
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Maybe it was the driver who discovered it was missing? Pulled up to deliver it, found it wasn't in the van as it should have been. Reported it missing and went back to Distribution, expecting it was just left sitting on the loading dock or something.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier What webserver is that piece of shit using? Both Apache and nginx are trivial to set for mutual authentication.
Tomcat. It's entirely possible that there's some configuration that I'm missing, and that it's brain-dead easy if you know it, but I'm not in that position.
Anyway it's the weekend, I'll keep trying to figure it out on Monday
I found an added setting and it did indeed work the way it's supposed to. And it worked for a moment, then I clicked Cancel on a Firefox dialog that apparently broke everything.
Is there a way in Firefox to "forget" that you had cancelled the "which x509 identity do you want to present?" dialog? I've tried removing and re-adding the certs and clearing site data, but no dice.
e: seems clearing all history for the past two hours and restarting the browser did the trick
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@levicki Bonus error in the same screenshot: "exced" is not the way that's spelled.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier What webserver is that piece of shit using? Both Apache and nginx are trivial to set for mutual authentication.
On a side note, this is reason 1,167 why I don't use face creams:
The woman’s son told a local news outlet that his mother knew that the cream was adulterated somehow, but she used it anyway because it worked better than other creams.
What's a little poisoning among friends when it gives you slightly smoother skin than the other not quite as poisonous stuff?
Not smoother, whiter.
The health department, meanwhile, tracked the source of the poison to a skin-lightening cream she obtained from Mexico.
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Adulterated skin-lightening creams are well-known to contain forms of mercury. But until now, they’ve typically been found to contain only inorganic mercury salts. According to the World Health Organization, mercury salts can inhibit the formation of melanin, resulting in a lighter skin tone. Inorganic mercury in creams and soap most often causes kidney damage, but it can also cause psychosis and nerve damage, WHO reports.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
What's a little poisoning among friends when it gives you slightly smoother skin than the other not quite as poisonous stuff?
Live fast, leave a beautiful corpse.
..... wait......... I recognize that chemical......
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare Online banking shows two charges from Kohl's and two reversals. Nothing from Target or Origin, both of which have PayPal as an intermediary. Do see charges from grocery shopping and laundry (each load of wash and dry is a separate charge
) earlier in the day — no, actually laundry was after the unsuccessful Christmas shopping. No alerts or messages. Not sure what's going on. Plenty of money in the account; many times what I need for these purchases.
Are you still out of state (sounds likely given your previous post)? I wonder if the bank's anti-fraud unit is flagging those transactions. Gift cards are massive fraud magnets for pretty obvious reasons.
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This is definitely WTF. A very minor WTF, but a WTF nonetheless.
So, like a WTF bite
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I wonder if the bank's anti-fraud unit is flagging those transactions. Gift cards are massive fraud magnets for pretty obvious reasons.
Not impossible, but I'd think they'd have sent me an alert if that were the case. But as I said, no alerts or messages on the account.
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You think game journalists are bad? Try anime journalists.
When Will Noragami Season 3 Air?
Looking at the fact that season two was released on October 9, 2015, and since it has been a long time since fans have been waiting for the third installment to know what happens next in the series we can assume that it's coming soon.
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@Gąska by that standard, HL3 would have been out for decades at this point.
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I have two Western Digital Black M.2 NVMe SSDs. A 1TB SN700 and 500GB SN750.
I also installed the Western Digital SSD Dashboard mostly to check for firmware updates.You can select which drive you want to check stuff for.
The entire UI changes depending on which drive is selected.
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@loopback0 I wonder why it is using a different CSS file in the two cases. Why did they bother? (The only difference of substance is the "Gaming Mode" toggle. Everything else is just a simple different layout or a change to the underlying data.)
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@Tsaukpaetra Yes, but what does that do? (In b4 "turn on the LEDs".)
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@Tsaukpaetra Yes, but what does that do? (In b4 "turn on the LEDs".)
(without looking it up) Sets Read-Ahead to 4MB per handle, forces sync writes off, forces buffered write on.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Yes, but what does that do? (In b4 "turn on the LEDs".)
(without looking it up) Sets Read-Ahead to 4MB per handle, forces sync writes off, forces buffered write on.
WD wasn't that forthcoming:
The Manual said:
Gaming Mode is a feature excusive to the SN750 model of WD Black SSD and beyond.
Turning Gaming Mode on will disable low power mode and keep the SSD running at peak levels for longer sustained execution when you want non-stop, consistent high performance.
A system restart is required for the SSD to take effect after changing mode.
I suspect this is about as useful as the other Gaming Modes I've seen over the years.
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Turning Gaming Mode on will disable low power mode and keep the SSD running at peak levels for longer sustained execution when you want non-stop, consistent high performance.
What waffling. What, does it "spin down" in "low power mode"? It's fucking flash!
Edit: And I like my suggested settings better, should actually help in many situations related to gaming.
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What does it mean "Game Drive for XBox One" on the right there? Is the UI making assumptions about what device the drive is installed in? But why would it do that? Or ... are the stylesheets COMING FROM INSIDE THE DRIVES?
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What does it mean "Game Drive for XBox One"? Is the UI making assumptions about what device the drive is installed in? But why would it do that? Or ... are the stylesheets COMING FROM INSIDE THE DRIVES?
The pane on the right (which, as a bonus WTF, has broken images) is just adverts for other WD products.
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@loopback0 Great post, I hate everything about it!
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@Parody I got curious so I googled to see if anyone had measured it
In my own experience, with the WD Black SN750 installed, the initial load screen in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey took my PC 26 seconds with Gaming Mode on and 27 seconds with it off.
Clearly a whole new level of performance.
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@El_Heffe Yes. Or it was then, anyway.
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That seems awfully hot for a drive, no?
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@El_Heffe Nah. Aren't all M.2 uberfast SSDs like that? Especially if put under graphics card or some such place with poor air circulation. I think M.2 on desktop boards was a mistake. And I'm saying this with complete impartiality, and not because I purchased an expensive U.2 drive long ago, no sir.
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@El_Heffe Nah, pretty normal for an M.2 NVMe SSD.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Aren't all M.2 uberfast SSDs like that?
Yes.
Heatsinks are available and there's even a version of the SN750 that comes with one, but neither of mine have them.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
What waffling. What, does it "spin down" in "low power mode"? It's fucking flash!
It spins down the voltage to keep it running cooler to avoid thermal throttling.
So if you set it to high performance, it will run hot and get throttled earlier. Great choice.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
No game (yet!) needs to keep accessing gigabytes of data at speeds of 3.2GB/sec at all times.
Oh, ye of little faith. Fallen Order is unplayable at high settings when not loaded from an SSD. Fuckin' EA.
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Take of the decade!
Warning: Star Wars Latest spoilers
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
No game (yet!) needs to keep accessing gigabytes of data at speeds of 3.2GB/sec at all times.
Oh, ye of little faith. Fallen Order is unplayable at high settings when not loaded from an SSD. Fuckin' EA.
oh. it doesn't need the SSD.
EA is just getting kickbacks from SSD manufacuters to force gamers to upgrade.
Just wait till their next Call of Duty game where you'll need at least a NVidia 3080 TI (or whatever their flagship nextgen card will be.... unless AMD gets them to push the VEGA card du jour instead by being the highest bidder)
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You can tell they've chosen the product name just so they can use this one pun in marketing materials.
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Locking this
filethread that exists to make one that doesn't yet exist.
EDIT: Done