WTF Bites
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Maybe the server (Lane U) is hot and deserves such a big tip?
I have no idea what this is in response to,
This post, probably.
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In old versions of Android (and/or my old phone), I could have my music on an SD card, and Android's media service would scan it periodically and remember that it was there at all times. Now, every once in a while it unmounts the card/clears the cache/forgets for whatever other reason, and I have to wait for it to rescan before I can listen to my music. That is, unless I manually play one track at a time with the file manager.
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@dcon But are you going to remember that your dog ralphed when you were picking security answers?
I've forgotten my PayPal account's security questions because I've forgotten what were the "obvious" answers I gave.
(this pre-dated my knowledge of password managers)And that's why in total I've used my PayPal only once, all those years ago.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Atazhaia The point is that those are not real security questions -- it is a security theater.
That information can usually be found on your Facebook wall.
Yeah, my Facebook is full of me reminiscing about my second love and talking about my likes and dislikes in the early 90s
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It may not be on your Facebook wall, but I'm sure it is on that old GeoCities website you've forgotten about and that's been archived
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Here we go again:
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------------------------------- target: valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 ------------------------------- --2020-02-07 09:36:07-- http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 Connecting to 172.26.0.211:8888... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 500 Unable to connect 2020-02-07 09:36:27 ERROR 500: Unable to connect. --2020-02-07 09:36:27-- http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist/temporary-src/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 Connecting to 172.26.0.211:8888... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 500 Unable to connect 2020-02-07 09:36:47 ERROR 500: Unable to connect. Could not download package URL: http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 make: *** [/workspace/bsp/this_customer_bsp/src/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2] Error 1 /usr/local/lib/ptxdist-2019.01.0/rules/post/ptxd_make_world_get.make:17: recipe for target '/workspace/bsp/this_customer_bsp/src/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2' failed
Ook?
Hm, http://valgrind.org/downloads/ only shows 3.15 and http://valgrind.org/downloads/old.html only shows up to 3.4.1 and only has links up to 3.2.1. It probably moved tohttp://valgrind.org/downloads/archive/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2
like the others but
Filed under: Configuration management is hard, let's go shopping
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------------------------------- target: valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 ------------------------------- --2020-02-07 09:36:07-- http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 Connecting to 172.26.0.211:8888... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 500 Unable to connect 2020-02-07 09:36:27 ERROR 500: Unable to connect. --2020-02-07 09:36:27-- http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist/temporary-src/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 Connecting to 172.26.0.211:8888... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 500 Unable to connect 2020-02-07 09:36:47 ERROR 500: Unable to connect. Could not download package URL: http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2 make: *** [/workspace/bsp/this_customer_bsp/src/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2] Error 1 /usr/local/lib/ptxdist-2019.01.0/rules/post/ptxd_make_world_get.make:17: recipe for target '/workspace/bsp/this_customer_bsp/src/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2' failed
Ook?
Hm, http://valgrind.org/downloads/ only shows 3.15 and http://valgrind.org/downloads/old.html only shows up to 3.4.1 and only has links up to 3.2.1. It probably moved tohttp://valgrind.org/downloads/archive/valgrind-3.12.0.tar.bz2
like the others but
Filed under: Configuration management is hard, let's go shopping
I can't read command line output. What's the wtf?
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I can't read command line output.
It's not command-line output, it's a compiler (well, build tool—it is downloading dependencies) output. Aren't you working with those things daily?
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@Bulb I don't have errors or warnings in my code
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@Bulb I don't have errors or warnings in my code
You're supposed to keep the warning flags enabled.
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@Bulb I don't have errors or warnings in my code
You're supposed to keep the warning flags enabled.
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@Bulb I don't have errors or warnings in my code
You're supposed to keep the warning flags enabled.
I don't know, the fact the file name ends in
.js
should be a big enough warning by itself, and he said he didn't have any warnings.
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What's the wtf?
- Valgrind cannot be downloaded by the build tool, because they move the archive around after making next release.
- Pengutronix is aware links may go away and promises to mirror the dependencies for rules they publish, but the mirror does not work.
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@dcon But are you going to remember that your dog ralphed when you were picking security answers?
I've forgotten my PayPal account's security questions because I've forgotten what were the "obvious" answers I gave.
And there lies the fallacy of "passwords that are easy for you to remember but difficult for others to guess", like Correct Horse Battery Staple
Today, it seems obvious. In a few weeks you will not be able to remember it. 100% guaranteed.
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In old versions of Android (and/or my old phone), I could have my music on an SD card, and Android's media service would scan it periodically and remember that it was there at all times. Now, every once in a while it unmounts the card/clears the cache/forgets for whatever other reason, and I have to wait for it to rescan before I can listen to my music. That is, unless I manually play one track at a time with the file manager.
My last carrier update broke the stock Android music player. It no longer can see an SD card, and I had to switch to some third-party music player which can see the SD card, except it misreads MP3 metadata and organizes my entire music collection in ways that don't even begin to make sense.
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@mott555 FWIW I use Shuttle Music Player. I can't recall in particular why I picked it over the other ones I tried out at the time, probably permissions, but it's been working well. It correctly reads ID3 information, and a while ago it got album shuffle. It's still at the mercy of Android's media service but aside from that I haven't had any problems
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@hungrier Huh, I go to check on this and suddenly Play Music works again. Must have been patched since the last time I tried it a few months ago.
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@dcon But are you going to remember that your dog ralphed when you were picking security answers?
I've forgotten my PayPal account's security questions because I've forgotten what were the "obvious" answers I gave.
And there lies the fallacy of "passwords that are easy for you to remember but difficult for others to guess", like Correct Horse Battery Staple
Today, it seems obvious. In a few weeks you will not be able to remember it. 100% guaranteed.
That's why you write important and irreplaceable passwords down once, then keep that paper safe with all your other important bits of paper.
Then if passphrases allow you to remember the password 98% of the time it also means that you don't need to take out that paper too often or need to tape it to your screen.
Password managers then help to reduce the amount of little papers you need and increasing the frequency of using your (hopefully really secure) master passphrase so that it's again less likely you forget it.
But whatever, most people don't care anyway.
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I don't know, the fact the file name ends in
.js
should be a big enough warning by itself, and he said he didn't have any warnings.I was going to say that it could have been worse, in that it could have ended with
.php
, but suddenly I'm not sure about that…
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@JBert I'd actually recommend a fire-proof container for storing important pieces of paper.
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This morning a ticket came in from a web developer that is working with one of our clients on updating their sites. Said developer asked for credentials for the super admin account for their GSuite account.
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@levicki the first rule of the super admin accounts is that web devs don't get their grubby little hands on them.
For the record, these are the same web devs that completely fucked up this client's DNS and killed their email for a day or so. That they would even ask is kind of alarming in their lack of self awareness.
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@Polygeekery Time for a small electric fire?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Said developer asked for credentials for the super admin account for their GSuite account.
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@dkf I'm going to have to save that one for later usage.
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@Bulb I don't have errors or warnings in my code
You're supposed to keep the warning flags enabled.
If you can't write warning free code, maybe goat herding in Patagonia is more suited to you
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@Bulb I don't have errors or warnings in my code
You're supposed to keep the warning flags enabled.
If you can't write warning free code, maybe goat herding in Patagonia is more suited to you
If you're saying code should be warning-free when you provide it for review, you're completely right. If you're saying you haven't triggered any compiler/runtime warnings for years now, then either you don't have them enabled or you're not writing any code.
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If you're saying you haven't triggered any compiler/runtime warnings for years now, then either you don't have them enabled or you're not writing any code.
<clever comment about never triggering any warnings when using -Werror>
(Or does that fall under not having warnings enabled?)
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
credentials for the super admin account
What is a super admin account?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
viral video
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If non-exhaustive match in F# causes unconditional runtime exception even if all actually used values are covered, why is it a compilation warning and not hard error?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
credentials for the super admin account
What is a super admin account?
It doesn't exist, don't worry about it...
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If non-exhaustive match in F# causes unconditional runtime exception even if all actually used values are covered, why is it a compilation warning and not hard error?
What? How does that even work?
Does it go "hey, this value is covered; but I see this other value I don't have wouldn't be covered so here's an exception"?
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I'm playing with the trial version of Corel Painter Essentials 7, going to experiment with doing a book cover of my own for my first nonfiction book. I'm curious how much the paid version costs, but the website merely says "(incl. VAT)" in the price field, and the "Buy Now" button does not have a click handler.
EDIT: Price doesn't matter, I clearly don't really know how to do digital artwork.
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@dcon But are you going to remember that your dog ralphed when you were picking security answers?
I've forgotten my PayPal account's security questions because I've forgotten what were the "obvious" answers I gave.
And there lies the fallacy of "passwords that are easy for you to remember but difficult for others to guess", like Correct Horse Battery Staple
Today, it seems obvious. In a few weeks you will not be able to remember it. 100% guaranteed.
I have forgotten the password to a gmail account. Combined with the fact that I can't recall when I created the account, that means that I'm totally locked out. Thankfully, it's just an alternate account for sites where I wanted to be more anonymous, not my main account, so I haven't really lost anything important. But I would like to regain access sometime to see what's happened with it.
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the "Buy Now" button does not have a click handler.
Do you mean that it doesn't have a js or php code handler or that it's not just a styled GET/POST link or both?
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@djls45 It appeared to be nothing but an image of a button.
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the "Buy Now" button does not have a click handler.
Do you mean that it doesn't have a js or php code handler or that it's not just a styled GET/POST link or both?
It couldn't geoip. The handlers then didn't load because couldn't get the assumed currency to convert to the same currency.
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I'm playing
withthe trial version of Corel Painter Essentials 7,That's how I initially read that. And thought "that's a weird name for a game"
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But I would like to regain access sometime to see what's happened with it.
One word: Spam
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@levicki hey there, spoiler alert. Some people are still waiting to see the new stuff for free. I’m not going to reward their “we can pump out whatever crap we want, people will go to the theater anyway.”
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Status: Sometimes....
I just have to wonder.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I just have to wonder.
Status: Wondering what is happening...
which works. But this, apparently, does not:
Despite being the same command...
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A ransomware gang is installing vulnerable GIGABYTE drivers on computers it wants to infect. The purpose of these drivers is to allow the hackers to disable security products so their ransomware strain can encrypt files without being detected or stopped.
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When public pressure was put on the company to fix the driver, Gigabyte instead chose to discontinue it, rather than releasing a patch.But even if Gigabyte had released a patch, attackers could have simply used an older and still vulnerable version of the driver. In this case, the driver's signing certificate should have been revoked, so it wouldn't be possible to load the driver's older versions either.
"Verisign, whose code signing mechanism was used to digitally sign the driver, has not revoked the signing certificate, so the Authenticode signature remains valid," Sophos researchers said, explaining why it was still possible today to load a now-deprecated and known-vulnerable driver inside Windows.
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I'm playing with the trial version of Corel Painter Essentials 7, going to experiment with doing a book cover of my own for my first nonfiction book. I'm curious how much the paid version costs, but the website merely says "(incl. VAT)" in the price field, and the "Buy Now" button does not have a click handler.
This sounds like overzealous ad blocking, so I tried it out myself. Their site works fine in a private window with extensions disabled. It gave me a price of $50.
EDIT: Price doesn't matter, I clearly don't really know how to do digital artwork.
Well, it takes a lot of practice. Having done desktop publishing as a hobby for many years I can do some very simple things with bitmap images, but nothing on the level of an actual digital artist. I'm better with drawing and layout tools but I'm still only doing simple things like line art shapes, borders, maps, diagrams, and such.
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I'm playing with the trial version of Corel Painter Essentials 7, going to experiment with doing a book cover of my own for my first nonfiction book. I'm curious how much the paid version costs, but the website merely says "(incl. VAT)" in the price field, and the "Buy Now" button does not have a click handler.
This sounds like overzealous ad blocking
Sounds more like shitty web design.
I ran into this same exact problem with Corel's website a few months ago. My ancient copy of Corel Photopaint won't run on Windows 10 so I tried to find out if something newer was available, but no price was displayed. So I just said "Fuck 'em" and went looking elsewhere. It never occurred to me that they would be this stupid.
With adblocker turned off:
With adblocker turned on:
Edit: Now that I can see prices, I discover that Corel Phototpaint is only available as part of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite which costs $500. As a stand-alone product, at a reasonable price, Photopaint could be a legitimate competitor to Adobe Photoshop, but apparently Corel has no interest in that.
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@El_Heffe Use Affinity Photo instead. It's less expensive as well.