WTF Bites
-
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
I hate non-replaceable cables.
They can be replaced, with a soldering tool
It's highly impractical though, because when the cables break right at the point where they leave the charger you will have to crack open the charger's enclosure. At least you need to if you want to do a proper repair rather than slathering on solder to connect the two wires with a tin blob.
Once you crack that charger open without disemboweling yourself with a knife you'll hit the problem that it cannot be closed again. While you can follow the 1st rule of duct tape, the end result will be a sticky mess when the charger heats up and melts the glue.
Just embrace that most such chargers are crap which you toss out when anything happens.
-
While you can follow the 1st rule of duct tape, the end result will be a sticky mess when the charger heats up and melts the glue.
Don't put tape, glue the 2 parts together
-
Once you crack that charger open without disemboweling yourself with a knife you'll hit the problem that it cannot be closed again. While you can follow the 1st rule of duct tape, the end result will be a sticky mess when the charger heats up and melts the glue.
That's what electrical tape is for.
-
-
@Polygeekery
they choked on a message with to many Re:'s in it's subject?
-
how the fuck do I rate the charger's "sheerness"?
Great, now we have needful doers writing surveys...
-
a zip tie
yes, you can use those for other stuff besides restraining your victims
-
@Luhmann Network cables are my victims!
-
@dkf
It's no surprise you are into cable porn
-
@dkf
It's no surprise you are into cable pornWhatever floats your boat.
-
@topspin Better than the alternative ( @dkf is British IIRC):
Whatever floats your boat.
Right, no kink shaming. Although sometimes it's really, really difficult...
-
At $3/pack of 15-pieces
For the love of...
Why they went with grey instead of the bright Razer green is beyond me
'Cause they couldn't yet figure out how to make it RGB.
Razer claims it’s the blend of B vitamins (B5, B6 and B12), Niacin and Green Tea Extract
But has it got electrolytes?
-
Community Server that we know here was renamed to Telligent Community 10+ years ago.
And, as we all know, the "in-" (or "im-") prefix means the opposite of the rest of the word (e.g. possible / impossible).
inflammable == flammable
-
And, as we all know, the "in-" (or "im-") prefix means the opposite of the rest of the word (e.g. possible / impossible).
inflammable == flammable
And then there is the word "inflamed", which is a legitimate word, but it is one of those words that has no opposite, i.e., "flamed" is not the opposite of "inflamed".
Also:
The opposite of insufferable is not sufferable.
Continent is not the opposite of incontinent.
-
"flamed" is not the opposite of "inflamed".
But it should be!
(except it's the same special base as flammable/inflammable; (in)telligent isn't)
The opposite of insufferable is not sufferable.
Why you think so. Sufferable sounds like a perfectly cromulent opposite of insufferable.
Continent is not the opposite of incontinent.
It is homographic with one though .
-
And, as we all know, the "in-" (or "im-") prefix means the opposite of the rest of the word (e.g. possible / impossible).
inflammable == flammable
And then there is the word "inflamed", which is a legitimate word, but it is one of those words that has no opposite, i.e., "flamed" is not the opposite of "inflamed".
Also:
The opposite of insufferable is not sufferable.
Continent is not the opposite of incontinent.
Being flamed must be when you're being accosted by a flamer.
-
@Carnage … while being inflamed is when you are accosted by tiny flamers that managed to sneak inside your body. Ok, that's not an opposite.
-
-
-
Methinks the UI has failed in a very exciting way...
-
-
Man, open-source software is getting less and less user-friendly.
-
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Man, open-source software is getting less and less user-friendly.
Uh, pretty sure if that were the case it would have underflowed to be maximally user friendly by now.
-
Just when you thought you could get away from micromanagement by working at home:
-
WTF Docker Compose
$ docker-compose [blahblah] down --rmi local Removing network blah_default WARNING: Network blah_default not found. Removing network blah_another WARNING: Network blah_another not found. Removing image blah_one_component WARNING: Image blah_one_component not found. [...] $ docker-compose [blahblah] up Creating network "blah_default" with the default driver Creating network "blah_another" with the default driver ERROR: Pool overlaps with other one on this address space $ docker-compose [blahblah] down --rmi local Removing network blah_default Removing network blah_another WARNING: Network blah_another not found. Removing image blah_one_component WARNING: Image blah_one_component not found. [...] $ docker-compose [blahblah] up Creating network "blah_default" with the default driver Creating network "blah_another" with the default driver Building blah_one_component [...]
After trying to remove a bunch of stuff that was already removed, it ran into a conflict with the network pool. Removing all the same stuff again that had already been previously removed (aside from the re-initialized network that didn't have the conflict) somehow fixed everything
-
@hungrier It takes docker a while to properly remove networks (if the things that depend on them don't finalize quickly). I've found you have to wait a while after changing anything.
Although we use
docker stack deploy
rather thandocker-compose up
directly.
-
So helpful.
-
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Just when you thought you could get away from micromanagement by working at home:
Fuck this is a nightmare.
-
@error … if only compilers could settle on common or at least few common, reasonably parseable error message formats.
-
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Man, open-source software is getting less and less user-friendly.
Nostalgia is helluva drug. Try downloading a 2005 release of any open source project and see how user friendly it was.
("Liberated" rebrandings of formerly commercial projects don't count. I'm looking at you, Netscape Navigator.)
-
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Just when you thought you could get away from micromanagement by working at home:
You know what's very good at detecting programs that shouldn't be running? Anti-cheat systems. Valve should turn VAC into a corporate employee monitoring solution.
-
@error
"So why is my new login 6079SmithW?"
-
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Just when you thought you could get away from micromanagement by working at home:
You know what's very good at detecting programs that shouldn't be running? Anti-cheat systems. Valve should turn VAC into a corporate employee monitoring solution.
The YGBSM Bad Ideas thread is
-
You know what's very good at detecting programs that shouldn't be running? Anti-cheat systems.
You're saying Chrome shouldn't be running?
...I guess I walked right into that one.
-
Fuck this is a nightmare.
Yeah, I'd probably be telling my employer where to get off if they tried to get us to agree to that by policy. And I'm not even taking the piss at the moment.
-
By the way, for those who were too to read the article: in addition to the screenshot-taking software, they also mention another one that takes webcam snapshots. Up to once a minute.
-
@Zerosquare To be fair, though, he's using it to monitor needful-doers in India. It's still a terrible idea, but maybe kinda necessary in this case. In general, though,
@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
I'd probably be telling my employer where to get off if they tried to get us to agree to that by policy.
And even more so if they tried without agreement.
-
@Zerosquare My webcam is disabled in device manager because things like GoToMeeting kept joining with it turned on by default.
-
@bobjanova Our HR referent recently handed out plastic shutters to cover the camera. The things may keep trying to open it, but it won't capture anything useful unless I open it.
-
My cameras are enhanced with a hacker-proof piece of electrical tape, which can be easily removed and replaced as needed for e.g. video calls.
-
Srsly? The app I use to pay for tollroads (North Texas Tollway Authority) is pushing ads for Grubhub in my notifications, when it's not even running.
-
-
WTF Status: I've got a thing running in Docker, that I want to debug in Eclipse. I had a working setup for this a few months ago, and since then the project has had some updates, but none that should've broken remote debugging (that I wasn't able to fix right away).
- The container is setup to run the thing in debug mode and listen to port 5005. When it starts it shows
Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5005
so I know that's setup correctly. - The container also forwards its port 5005 to localhost:5005, which I trust is working correctly.
docker ps
shows that in its list. - The configuration in Eclipse is dead simple, literally two text fields for hostname and port, and they're set to
localhost
and5005
respectively. This configuration worked before.
Despite all of that, whenever I try to connect the remote debugger, it shows "Failed to connect to remote VM com.sun.jdi.connect.spi.ClosedConnectionException"
- The container is setup to run the thing in debug mode and listen to port 5005. When it starts it shows
-
@hungrier Java version mismatch by any chance? Just today colleague mentioned that new Eclipse needs Java 11 while some of the projects were not yet updated from Java 8.
-
Srsly? The app I use to pay for tollroads (North Texas Tollway Authority) is pushing ads for Grubhub in my notifications, when it's not even running.
pretty sure that's a violation of Play Store policies, and you could get it yeeted from the Play Store for that
EDIT: Yup
-
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
you could get it yeeted from the Play Store for that
All I'd really accomplish is making it more difficult for me to pay for my TollTag.
-
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
you could get it yeeted from the Play Store for that
All I'd really accomplish is making it more difficult for me to pay for my TollTag.
Nah, it wouldn't get yeeted off of your phone...
It would just make it more difficult for other people to pay for their TollTags
-
@hungrier Java version mismatch by any chance? Just today colleague mentioned that new Eclipse needs Java 11 while some of the projects were not yet updated from Java 8.
I don't think it is. The project had changed from Java 8 to 11 a while ago, but when it did I also updated Eclipse to use 11. I had to change the command line options, and the new option, something like "container aware", sounds like it would be just the thing for what I need. Anyway I'll investigate it further tomorrow
-
WTF Status: I've got a thing running in Docker, that I want to debug in Eclipse. I had a working setup for this a few months ago, and since then the project has had some updates, but none that should've broken remote debugging (that I wasn't able to fix right away).
- The container is setup to run the thing in debug mode and listen to port 5005. When it starts it shows
Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5005
so I know that's setup correctly. - The container also forwards its port 5005 to localhost:5005, which I trust is working correctly.
docker ps
shows that in its list. - The configuration in Eclipse is dead simple, literally two text fields for hostname and port, and they're set to
localhost
and5005
respectively. This configuration worked before.
Despite all of that, whenever I try to connect the remote debugger, it shows "Failed to connect to remote VM com.sun.jdi.connect.spi.ClosedConnectionException"
Actually, you have not provided the crucial information: is it listening on "public" address (
address=*:5005
)?
Because the most common source of problems with docker is usinglocalhost
(becauselocalhost
inside container is something different) and the Java 9 changed its behavior to listen on localhost only by default (address=5005
).Actually, you can just
docker exec -it <containerid> netstat -atln | grep 5005
to check that (as long as you have netstat in the image; if not, you can muck around with/proc
, but that is quite a hassle).
- The container is setup to run the thing in debug mode and listen to port 5005. When it starts it shows
-
@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
as long as you have netstat in the image; if not, you can
.. see if
ss
is there instead.