WTF Bites
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@error_bot xkcd filesystem porn
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xkcd said in https://xkcd.com/981/ :
Porn Folder
(via https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=filesystem+porn&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1)
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@error_bot said in WTF Bites:
WTF is this??
I guess it's the result of symlinks, somehow. In fact I am sure of it. And with no idea as to how.
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@Gribnit My guess is that explainxkcd couldn't find anything for "symlinks" and so redirected to xkcd/random. This also broke/oneboxed the markup in the post.
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He's not wrong
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IBM has been having big problems with its e-mail system.
a blog post to IBM's internal network said the migration had been planned for 18 months and that everything should go fine provided that everyone follows the instructions emailed to them.
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@El_Heffe I mean, this is
LotusIBMNotes we're talking about here. I'd be surprised if anyone got the instructions.
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IBM has been having big problems with its e-mail system.
a blog post to IBM's internal network said the migration had been planned for 18 months and that everything should go fine provided that everyone follows the instructions emailed to them.
Wow. That's been on record as the IBM specific Pollyanna Principle variant since 4 decades at least, and still it's the same.
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@El_Heffe I mean, this is
LotusIBMNotes we're talking about here. I'd be surprised if anyone got the instructions.I used it back when it was still Lotus Notes. Shortly after IBM bought Lotus I left that job and haven't had to use it since. Thank God.
How does anyone make something so terrible? Seriously. What the fucking fuck.
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How does anyone make something so terrible? Seriously.
Only Ever Add Features.
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How does anyone make something so terrible? Seriously.
Only Ever Add Features.
Also . . . . "We seriously believe that you'll never use any program other than ours, so, we can make the UI completely different from every other Windows program every created."
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It seems that Amazon fears The Wrath of Khan.
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How does anyone make something so terrible? Seriously.
Only Ever Add Features.
Also . . . . "We seriously believe that you'll never use any program other than ours, so, we can make the UI completely different from every other Windows program every created."
Entered a password? So secure! Not even the user has any idea what they're typing! And watching makes it harder! So secure. Yeah fuck Lotus Notes.
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@Gribnit you mean the part where instead of showing an asterisk for every character, it just shows one (single) randomly changing hieroglyph?
Fuck, now I remember. The pain, it hurts so bad.
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@El_Heffe I mean, this is
LotusIBMNotes we're talking about here. I'd be surprised if anyone got the instructions.Maybe they were in the word document attached to the Subject?
(Yes, that is something you can do in Lotus Notes - and in Lotus Notes only).
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@Gribnit you mean the part where instead of showing an asterisk for every character, it just shows one (single) randomly changing hieroglyph?
Fuck, now I remember. The pain, it hurts so bad.
Oh, it can be turned up. You can also choose 1d4 Xs, that's what [CLIENT.GOV] did. And we worked over RDP.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
@El_Heffe I mean, this is
LotusIBMNotes we're talking about here. I'd be surprised if anyone got the instructions.Maybe they were in the word document attached to the Subject?
(Yes, that is something you can do in Lotus Notes - and in Lotus Notes only).
Our secretaries, who consistently think the subject line is the email, would love this.
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@hungrier Last one is
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
?No that's the second to last.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
@El_Heffe I mean, this is
LotusIBMNotes we're talking about here. I'd be surprised if anyone got the instructions.Maybe they were in the word document attached to the Subject?
(Yes, that is something you can do in Lotus Notes - and in Lotus Notes only).
Our secretaries, who consistently think the subject line is the email, would love this.
I have a friend who sends me e-mails like this. The body of the e-mail is empty and the entire message is in the subject line.
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@Gribnit you mean the part where instead of showing an asterisk for every character, it just shows one (single) randomly changing hieroglyph?
Fuck, now I remember. The pain, it hurts so bad.
Since this isn't the "Lotus Notes sucks massive donkey balls and @blakeyrat will punch boxing gloves guy in the face" thread, for those that don't remember here's a blog post that shows how awful that shit is.
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Also . . . . "We seriously believe that you'll never use any program other than ours, so, we can make the UI completely different from every other Windows program every created."
And the always great… “We seriously believe that you will never want to communicate with anyone using a program other than ours, so we'll mangle all messages in ways that no other email client can make any sort of sense of.”
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Also . . . . "We seriously believe that you'll never use any program other than ours, so, we can make the UI completely different from every other Windows program every created."
And the always great… “We seriously believe that you will never want to communicate with anyone using a program other than ours, so we'll mangle all messages in ways that no other email client can make any sort of sense of.”
Well, MIME was never an IBM standard.
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Also . . . . "We seriously believe that you'll never use any program other than ours, so, we can make the UI completely different from every other Windows program every created."
And the always great… “We seriously believe that you will never want to communicate with anyone using a program other than ours, so we'll mangle all messages in ways that no other email client can make any sort of sense of.”
I'm young enough to have never encountered this problem. And I'm not that young.
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I'm young enough to have never encountered this problem.
You saw it a lot more 10–20 years ago. I've no idea if things have been fixed since, or if it just became less of a problem as companies switched to Outlook/Exchange (which aren't great, but are a hell of a lot better than Notes).
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I'm young enough to have never encountered this problem.
You saw it a lot more 10–20 years ago.
Did you remember to adjust those numbers for the fact it's been 5 years since
Trump was electedBrexit referendum already?
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Did you remember to adjust those numbers for the fact it's been 5 years since
Trump was electedBrexit referendum already?I thought “period 2000 to 2010” so yes…
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@dkf OK then
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@Gribnit you mean the part where instead of showing an asterisk for every character, it just shows one (single) randomly changing hieroglyph?
Fuck, now I remember. The pain, it hurts so bad.
Since this isn't the "Lotus Notes sucks massive donkey balls and @blakeyrat will punch boxing gloves guy in the face" thread, for those that don't remember here's a blog post that shows how awful that shit is.
@end said:
I've come full circle. I now think the password reveal option should be available on all login dialogs.
You're not going to believe this, but....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Gribnit you mean the part where instead of showing an asterisk for every character, it just shows one (single) randomly changing hieroglyph?
Fuck, now I remember. The pain, it hurts so bad.
Since this isn't the "Lotus Notes sucks massive donkey balls and @blakeyrat will punch boxing gloves guy in the face" thread, for those that don't remember here's a blog post that shows how awful that shit is.
@end said:
I've come full circle. I now think the password reveal option should be available on all login dialogs.
You're not going to believe this, but....
...he uses the "come full circle" idiom incorrectly?
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Thanks, Google!
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@Gąska sometimes. Rather a lot in Greek too, iirc.
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@Gąska If you were trying to find the answer to that question, no, it was not; it was written in Greek.
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@HardwareGeek I thought so too but my sister believed otherwise and I wanted to double check.
In other news, TIL there's no mention of a cross in the original Greek Bible. Not only that, but there doesn't exist any historical document that mentions any use of a cross as an execution device, ever, in any culture.
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I'm young enough to have never encountered this problem. And I'm not that young.
A ton of Outlook shit doesn't render (correctly) outside of Outlook, still. Invitations to meetings/events show up as empty messages in the GMail client on my phone. The browser version deals with it better, so you can perhaps blame this one on Google.
Outlook's smilies used to show up as a J outside of Microsoft's world less than five years ago. (Apparently it was "fixed" in 2017.)
Also, less than 20 years ago, I briefly went through a period of using pine. It didn't really do HTML messages (this was a nice feature), never mind the garbage that Outlook et al. produced/produces.
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@HardwareGeek I thought so too but my sister believed otherwise and I wanted to double check.
In other news, TIL there's no mention of a cross in the original Greek Bible. Not only that, but there doesn't exist any historical document that mentions any use of a cross as an execution device, ever, in any culture.
What about torture? There's been a market for excruciating pain, surely?
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I'm young enough to have never encountered this problem. And I'm not that young.
A ton of Outlook shit doesn't render (correctly) outside of Outlook, still. Invitations to meetings/events show up as empty messages in the GMail client on my phone. The browser version deals with it better, so you can perhaps blame this one on Google.
Outlook's smilies used to show up as a J outside of Microsoft's world less than five years ago. (Apparently it was "fixed" in 2017.)
Also, less than 20 years ago, I briefly went through a period of using pine. It didn't really do HTML messages (this was a nice feature), never mind the garbage that Outlook et al. produced/produces.
Leaving the Microsoft world is a weird time for a few years as the scale of kludge becomes apparent.
Not that their email client is really a "wait, Odin? Him too?" moment like the other topic has coming, but it's disconcerting.
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Invitations to meetings/events show up as empty messages in the GMail client on my phone. The browser version deals with it better, so you can perhaps blame this one on Google.
Probably. Invitations from Outlook work fine on Thunderbird.
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TIL there's no mention of a cross in the original Greek Bible.
The word σταυρὸς (usually in the accusative (direct object) σταυρὸν or genitive (possessive) σταυροῦ cases) occurs in Matthew 10:38, Matthew 16:24, Matthew 27:32, Matthew 27:40, Matthew 27:42, Mark 8:34, Mark 15:21, Mark 15:20, Mark 15:32, Luke 9:23, Luke 14:27, Luke 23:26, John 19:17, John 19:19, John 19:25, John 19:31, 1 Corinthians 1:17 and 18, Galatians 5:11, Galatians 6:12, Galatians 6:14, Ephesians 2:16, Philippians 2:8, Philippians 3:18, Colossians 1:20, Colossians 2:14, and Hebrews 12:2. Related words, such as crucifixion occur 39 other times.
Perhaps your source of this information was trying to claim that σταυρὸς should not be translated as cross. Claiming that word X in the original language doesn't really mean word Y in a modern language seems to be a popular ploy at discrediting the Bible. It's at least somewhat plausible in some cases, as it's very common for words to have multiple meanings (e.g., cross can mean a device for capital punishment or to move from one side to another, i.e., cross the street), and it is up to the translator to figure out the intended meaning in the original language and find a word, possibly from several choices) in the target language to convey that meaning. Σταυρὸς can also be a stake or pole. Whether or not it had a cross-piece, there seems little doubt people were killed by hanging them from the σταυρὸν.
there doesn't exist any historical document that mentions any use of a cross as an execution device, ever, in any culture.
That's simply false. Crucifixion was used by Persians, Carthaginians, Macedonians, and of course Romans. It is specified as a form of execution in the Qur'an. It is mentioned by Josephus, Appian, Herodotus, Tertullian, Seneca, Plautus, Plutarch, and Polybius. There is also (very limited) archaeological evidence.
In relatively modern times, it has been used in Japan in the Sengoku period (1467-1573), 19th century Burma. It is alleged to have been used against German civilians by Soviet occupiers after WWII. Crucifixion is still a legal, though seldom used, punishment in Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and (except for legal part) ISIS, although when it is used, it's often a symbolic crucifixion following execution by a more expeditious method.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
TIL there's no mention of a cross in the original Greek Bible.
The word σταυρὸς
...means a tall pole.
there doesn't exist any historical document that mentions any use of a cross as an execution device, ever, in any culture.
That's simply false.
Right. I meant no evidence before 1 AD.
Crucifixion was used by Persians, Carthaginians, Macedonians, and of course Romans.
Note I didn't say crucifixion didn't exist. I said a cross. All the cultures you mentioned used straight poles with no sideways beam.
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less than 20 years ago, I briefly went through a period of using pine.
15-ish years ago, I was still using /bin/mail to read text emails and the text content of HTML and mixed-content emails. If there was an attachment or other content that wasn't objectionable (e.g., spam, malware, etc.), then I'd use another client to read that. But /bin/mail was what I used for most emails. It had the advantage that it didn't understand attachments at all, so it was immune to malicious content (of that sort, anyway; there were probably ways of triggering buffer overflows or other such vulnerabilities common to software).
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Note I didn't say crucifixion didn't exist. I said a cross. All the cultures you mentioned used straight poles with no sideways beam.
Seneca the Younger, Plautus, and Plutarch, at least, all mention the patibulum, the transom that was attached to the upright stipes. Seneca and Plutarch lived in the first century AD, but Plautus lived around 200 BC.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
The word σταυρὸς
...means a tall pole.
Poland already existed back then?
Of course!
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Outlook's smilies used to show up as a J outside of Microsoft's world less than five years ago
I think this was because it used Wingdings, which has a smiley face as its J glyph
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Also . . . . "We seriously believe that you'll never use any program other than ours, so, we can make the UI completely different from every other Windows program every created."
And the always great… “We seriously believe that you will never want to communicate with anyone using a program other than ours, so we'll mangle all messages in ways that no other email client can make any sort of sense of.”
TBF, at the time they were facing stiff competition from Outlook Express.
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Also . . . . "We seriously believe that you'll never use any program other than ours, so, we can make the UI completely different from every other Windows program every created."
And the always great… “We seriously believe that you will never want to communicate with anyone using a program other than ours, so we'll mangle all messages in ways that no other email client can make any sort of sense of.”
I'm young enough to have never encountered this problem. And I'm not that young.
The Mercy of Late Birth is kind of a technical term in German.
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Also . . . . "We seriously believe that you'll never use any program other than ours, so, we can make the UI completely different from every other Windows program every created."
And the always great… “We seriously believe that you will never want to communicate with anyone using a program other than ours, so we'll mangle all messages in ways that no other email client can make any sort of sense of.”
TBF, at the time they were facing stiff competition from Outlook Express.
Yes. I was administering a mailing list at that time, and Outlook Express was an abomination for what it did with chewing messages around. But Notes was worse. With Notes it was often not possible at all to work out what the person wanted to say. And having met them in person (at conferences) they weren't incoherent idiots. (They were from the bit of IBM that has very smart people, and no, they probably don't get put on your project…)
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Claiming that word X in the original language doesn't really mean word Y in a modern language seems to be a popular ploy at discrediting the Bible.
It also seems to be a popular ploy at "no, this horrible thing the bible says is not meant the way it says it in all popular translations used everywhere."