WTF Bites
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@levicki
I think the joke, such as it is, is late stage SDS, leading that afflicted individual to write such a scorchingly bad take.
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Another explanation: "Subject A is popular, subject B is controversial... I know! All I have to do to get clicks is write an article that somehow ties A to B!"
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Another explanation: "Subject A is popular, subject B is controversial... I know! All I have to do to get clicks is write an article that somehow ties A to B!"
The Kardashians have made millions using Chinese BitCoin, and Trump is going to stop it!!
Filed under: Am I doing this right?!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Another explanation: "Subject A is popular, subject B is controversial... I know! All I have to do to get clicks is write an article that somehow ties A to B!"
The Kardashians have made millions using Chinese BitCoin, and Trump is going to stop it!!
Filed under: Am I doing this right?!
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@Gąska you appear to understand what I wrote there. Impressive, I don’t.
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@topspin nah, I was just going for a stupid pun.
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@Gąska you appear to understand what I wrote there. Impressive, I don’t.
Markov chain generator to the rescue!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Another explanation: "Subject A is popular, subject B is controversial... I know! All I have to do to get clicks is write an article that somehow ties A to B!"
The Kardashians have made millions using Chinese BitCoin, and Trump is going to stop it!!
Filed under: Am I doing this right?!
You just need a mesothelioma hook for the ad dollars.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Another explanation: "Subject A is popular, subject B is controversial... I know! All I have to do to get clicks is write an article that somehow ties A to B!"
The Kardashians have made millions using Chinese BitCoin, and Trump is going to stop it!!
Filed under: Am I doing this right?!
Almost.
Need to work in Greta Thunberg.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Another explanation: "Subject A is popular, subject B is controversial... I know! All I have to do to get clicks is write an article that somehow ties A to B!"
The Kardashians have made millions using Chinese BitCoin, and Trump is going to stop it!!
Filed under: Am I doing this right?!
Almost.
Need to work in Greta Thunberg.
:angry_thunberg_noises.mp4:
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Who you gonna call?
Jeffbusters!
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@Gąska you appear to understand what I wrote there. Impressive, I don’t.
Markov chain generator to the rescue!
Transformer agrees
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@Watson Before I had read your post, I tried feeding that headline into it, but it just kept producing real Bitcoin news articles verbatim
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@hungrier However, this version worked great
Greta Thunberg has made millions using Chinese BitCoin, and Trump is going to stop her.
Who is Greta Thunberg and what does she do?
Greta is the vice president of global policy development at Bitcoin.org. She makes between $15-30,000 a year, which translates to $500-$750k a year, depending on where in the world she is located and how much she charges for representing Bitcoin. For instance, in Asia she charges a much higher fee for representing Bitcoin, where she must charge $3,000 for a single speaking engagement. This is because Bitcoin.org works for a company, not for people, and the amount of people paying it will exceed the price of tickets.
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I know I've mentioned a number of times that technology simply doesn't work when I'm involved. Here's the latest such instance. My mother decided to buy me a drone for Christmas. A few seconds into the first flight, it quit responding to the controller, disconnected from my phone's Wi-Fi so I had no video feed, shot high into the sky, and then flew away. Now, the question she has is can you return a defective drone that's no longer in your possession.
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If it was a TV series, I'd say your drone got hijacked.
If it was an animal, I'd say he wanted to be free.
The more boring and more likely explanation is that, being an IoT gadget, you probably encoutered a bug in its
big ball of spaghetti"firmware".
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
I guess this one wasn't quite ready for prime time:
It looks nothing like him!
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Unicode “combining” characters. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I tried anyway. Displays fine on Firefox / macOS.
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Unicode “combining” characters. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I tried anyway. Displays fine on Firefox / macOS.
@error_bot xkcd Unicode support
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xkcd said in https://xkcd.com/927/ :
Standards
(via https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=Unicode+support&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1)
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@error_bot amazing. The entire comic contains neither word.
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@mott555 That would make a fascinating legal case.
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Firefox / Win10 also.
If you count this as fine
It actually looks good on Android.
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@anonymous234 Oh. I didn't notice that when I scrolled past before... That's what I get for trying to remember anything before I've finished my coffee...
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Unicode “combining” characters. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I tried anyway. Displays fine on Firefox / macOS.
Looks correct here on chrome:
But, yeah, FF is
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@Polygeekery Update to that, by the way:
If you really insist on updating your somewhat older Mac.
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For Christmas I bought my wife and I both new phones, and just in the nick of time. The charging port on my Galaxy S9 basically failed days after I got the new phone.
So issues with our pup and the holidays and just being generally slammed here at the end of the year caused me to never fully finish deprecating my old phone. Cut to this morning, a client is having issues and I need to login to our remote support software. It has been 30 days since my last login so I need a 2FA code. I never switched that over from my old phone. Shit.
My old phone is on my desk, plugged in to the charger but it has not been charging. It is dead as can be. I can't keep tension on the cord in such a way to get it to charge and when devices are off they don't show changes in charging status very quickly so that is an exercise in futility.
But it will do wireless charging! If only I knew where that was at. So I had to dig through multiple boxes of shit until I found the wireless charger from my Galaxy phone I had before the S9, but it works. Mostly. It won't charge very quickly and a couple of false starts due to it not charging fast enough for me to use it while it is "charging" and I finally get it to open long enough for me to get my 2FA code from Google Authenticator.
When I started using 2FA I never really looked in to it that much. I just used the Google Authenticator app on my phone as that is what most easily integrated at the time in to WordPress for our website. Are there any that allow easy use on multiple devices? Easy migration between devices? That also aren't a complete and total
because I realize that in theory you probably shouldn't be able to do that as it could easily be done in a way that makes their implementation of 2FA a security hole you could pilot the Titanic through? If I am going to make a switch now is the time.
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@Polygeekery Update to that, by the way:
If you really insist on updating your somewhat older Mac.
Gracias amigo. Did my 5th upvote notification remind you? :)
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery Update to that, by the way:
If you really insist on updating your somewhat older Mac.
Did my 5th upvote notification remind you? :)
No...? 🧐
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@Polygeekery The Microsoft Authenticator does do backups and thus should, in principle, be even cross-compatible?
Well, at least I was able to setup everything on my iPhone and then pull that same setup over to my iPad. I'll have a look if I can import that backup to my older Pixel?
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Unicode “combining” characters. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I tried anyway. Displays fine on Firefox / macOS.
Looks correct here on chrome:
But, yeah, FF is
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This is how I see it on Firefox (where I composed it):
Original screenshot was on Safari/iPhone btw.
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This is how I see it on Firefox (where I composed it):
I see that with Firefox on macOS, but this with Firefox on Windows 10:
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@Gąska: I'm sorry, I don't speak Polish.
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@Zerosquare with this encoding I don't either!
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@Polygeekery
Microsoft Authenticator lets you have an arbitrary number of devices as allowable factors and will gleefully push notifications to all of them simultaneously (and I would expect Google and other competitors should be similar). Migration between devices is a big ItDepends(tm), on exactly how you have it backed up... though even a password protected iOS backup wasn't enough to pull the MS Authenticator stuff over from my last phone as of late iOS 11. Not sure if things are better there yet or not... but since the two common cases are "intentional migration" (add second device while first is still working) or "lost phone" (invalidate all MFA on the account and force reconfiguration), backup and recovery isn't really a very high value use for the authenticator in either case...
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@izzion I've had to change device on MS Authenticator at work when my phone already died. The option to add device is behind forced 2FA and I've had to ask the IT dept. to clear my device list.
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I converted my OTP token secrets to QR codes that should be mostly-universal for whenever I get locked out of Authy. We'll see what happens...
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@Tsaukpaetra My bet is on them expiring right before you'd find them useful.
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@Tsaukpaetra My bet is on them expiring right before you'd find them useful.
The secrets shouldn't expire, or I'm.
the joke...
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@Polygeekery LastPass authenticator has online backups and supports multiple devices. https://blog.lastpass.com/2017/05/announcing-cloud-backup-for-lastpass-authenticator-easier-multifactor-security-for-everyone.html/
I haven't used it enough to offer a personal endorsement, but the number of sites it supports push notifications for is pretty good.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Firefox / Win10 also.
If you count this as fine
For certain values of "fine"