WTF Bites
-
-
My password didn't work at my health insurance. Got a validation error "Password cannot be longer than 20 characters." Hmm...weird...maybe they added that since I last changed my password.
Whatever...reset!
So...I look at my PW manager and count the characters in the password there. 20. Hmph. Paste it in. "Password cannot be longer than 20 characters." Motherfuckers.
They say cannot be longer but they mean must be shorter than.
-
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
My password didn't work at my health insurance. Got a validation error "Password cannot be longer than 20 characters." Hmm...weird...maybe they added that since I last changed my password.
Whatever...reset!
So...I look at my PW manager and count the characters in the password there. 20. Hmph. Paste it in. "Password cannot be longer than 20 characters." Motherfuckers.
They say cannot be longer but they mean must be shorter than.
They're . It cannot be longer than 20 characters. It also cannot be longer than 19 characters, or longer than 25 characters, or longer than 100! characters.
-
This post is deleted!
-
This post is deleted!
-
Another "MS Teams is absolute garbage" bite:
Opened a PDF in the shared files tab of a "team". On one page the PDF says "to create an account for Foo click on the link blah".
Teams knows it's a link. When you hover the mouse over it the link gets highlighted and the mouse cursor turns into the hand cursor. But when you click it nothing happens. It doesn't open in the Teams internal browser, as some links do. It also doesn't open in an external browser, as I've had some other links do (with no rhyme or reason when this happens). And when I right-click it to copy the URL, of course nothing happens, because who needs context menus anyway.I'm still not sure if I'm more upset about being tortured by having to use this or with us paying for a 5 digit number of licenses for this shit.
-
When you hover the mouse over it the link gets highlighted and the mouse cursor turns into the hand cursor. But when you click it nothing happens.
Command + Click opens it in a browser?
-
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
When you hover the mouse over it the link gets highlighted and the mouse cursor turns into the hand cursor. But when you click it nothing happens.
Command + Click opens it in a browser?
It does! Discoverable!
-
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
Next time, you'll remember that taste and decide to recover in order not to have to drink that again.
-
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
They say cannot be longer but they mean must be shorter than.
They use an old kind of string representation which always adds a final
\0
character. And only after doing so, they start counting.
-
Yes IBM, I know you still operate on COBOL mainframes from the 60s and UTF-8 is a really hard problem that such a small organization has no chance of solving. But if you don't want to know my name, don't ask for it!
Funnily enough, I'm not sure anyone's legal name has parentheses or double quotes in it.
-
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
But if you don't want to know my name, don't ask for it!
töpspín?
topßpin
And no, IEEE, that is not a GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA. I've asked you to change that 3 times.
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
Next time, you'll remember that taste and decide to recover in order not to have to drink that again.You don't drink hot beer with spices in winter?
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
Next time, you'll remember that taste and decide to recover in order not to have to drink that again.Yum, mulled beer with honey! Just don't think of it as beer but as a tea that happens to get you warm and drunk. Good stuff.
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
Next time, you'll remember that taste and decide to recover in order not to have to drink that again.You don't drink hot beer with spices in winter?
Glühwein.
-
@topspin Glögg.
-
Yes IBM, I know you still operate on COBOL mainframes from the 60s and UTF-8 is a really hard problem that such a small organization has no chance of solving. But if you don't want to know my name, don't ask for it!
As it was IBM who originally developed ICU, they can't even claim NIH.
Funnily enough, I'm not sure anyone's legal name has parentheses or double quotes in it.
This is supposedly her legal name:
The title "the Great" also seems to be part of Pope Gregory I's name.
Fortunately, neither of the two is very likely to want an IBM account.
-
topßpin
That should really be acceptable.
I could understand them refusing it when it wastąpspin
.
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
Next time, you'll remember that taste and decide to recover in order not to have to drink that again.You don't drink hot beer with spices in winter?
That's heresy! You shall be punished by drinking hot beer during hot summer days.
A good drinking temperature of beer is around 5-10°C (40-50 F).
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
For beer to be good when warmed, it needs to be brewed specifically to be that way. The profile of volatiles you want is totally different to in beer designed to be drunk chilled.
-
-
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
Next time, you'll remember that taste and decide to recover in order not to have to drink that again.You don't drink hot beer with spices in winter?
That's heresy! You shall be punished by drinking hot beer during hot summer days.
A good drinking temperature of beer is around 5-10°C (40-50 F).Weird. It's pretty popular around here.
Popular enough that you can easily buy premade mixes of spices, like this:
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
For beer to be good when warmed, it needs to be brewed specifically to be that way. The profile of volatiles you want is totally different to in beer designed to be drunk chilled.
Yes, you try to achieve such a profile with a beer that does not depend on anesthetic effects for flavor. For a chilled beer this is not a concern.
-
(emphasis added by me)
-
My device is still the same Xiaomi phone with a working IR blaster, thatworks with the current version of the app. I'm on Android 10, which may not be the latest but is still supported, and I get the latest security updates thanks to Android One. But apparently, none of that matters for the new version of the app. Apparently one of the bugs was "app continues to work"
-
@hungrier It's available for my Samsung Android tablet that doesn't even have a IR blaster and that isn't listed (in the description) as supported.
-
@loopback0 My phone isn't listed there now, but whether it was or wasn't before, I was still able to install and use it. Now it's showing up as a pending update, but can't actually update it, for
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
Next time, you'll remember that taste and decide to recover in order not to have to drink that again.You don't drink hot beer with spices in winter?
That's heresy! You shall be punished by drinking hot beer during hot summer days.
A good drinking temperature of beer is around 5-10°C (40-50 F).Weird. It's pretty popular around here.
Popular enough that you can easily buy premade mixes of spices, like this:
Nothing weird, just a cultural difference. This is specifically a Polish thing and anywhere in Germany/Czechia, it is considered an abomination. Although, the conversation usually goes like this:
You know, they put syrup to beer in Poland.
And spices...
Well, actually, it's polish beer, so
-
@Kamil-Podlesak must be our viking roots. Grzaniec is basically mead lite.
-
@Kamil-Podlesak must be our viking roots. Grzaniec is basically mead lite.
Uhm, no, I strongly disagree with that second part; mead is always from honey (I mean, the word is obivous cognate to Miód).
The first part, however, makes sense. Warm and spiced beer is definitely something that Vikings would do. Actually, google tells me that warm beer porridge is still a thing in Denmark.
-
@Kamil-Podlesak must be our viking roots. Grzaniec is basically mead lite.
Ah, yes. Surely the Viking roots. Also a very Viking approach to classification.
-
Uplay, the bane of my existence. Every single aspect of it is terrible, as I’ve mentioned before.
Whenever you start a game it downloads 60MB of updates for Ubisoft connect, then asks you for UAC permissions 4 times, then it downloads a few GB of game updates (which you can’t skip because offline mode intentionally does not work).
Same old same old. The thing that pisses me off today: between downloading updater updates and before downloading updates, it took some 3-5 minutes “calculating required disk space.” In the meantime, it took Explorer roughly 0.1 seconds to display “800GB of free space available.”
What the fuck are you doing? How much time do you need to figure out whether 800GB is enough free space or not.How can this be so wrong?!
These fucking retards must have either hired or the whole Windows Update team.
-
@topspin at least it isn't like in 2014, where it downloads with 30kB/s but somehow saturates the entire network link to the point you can't even browse internet because pages don't load at all.
-
@topspin I think they're the former Apple team for Windows or at least learned under them. Because iTunes on Windows also invoked the UAC three times during installation.
-
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Warmed beer... Uhm, in Bavaria we use that in case of a common cold. As a medicine only, because ... of its taste.
Next time, you'll remember that taste and decide to recover in order not to have to drink that again.You don't drink hot beer with spices in winter?
That's heresy! You shall be punished by drinking hot beer during hot summer days.
A good drinking temperature of beer is around 5-10°C (40-50 F).I've drunk hot beer lots of times, in my youth. Mostly due to getting drunk, passing out in the sun with the beer cans next to me. When I woke up, I just kept going with the really warm beer. You get thirty when sleeping in direct sunlight in the summer.
-
Uplay, the bane of my existence. Every single aspect of it is terrible, as I’ve mentioned before.
Whenever you start a game it downloads 60MB of updates for Ubisoft connect, then asks you for UAC permissions 4 times, then it downloads a few GB of game updates (which you can’t skip because offline mode intentionally does not work).
Same old same old. The thing that pisses me off today: between downloading updater updates and before downloading updates, it took some 3-5 minutes “calculating required disk space.” In the meantime, it took Explorer roughly 0.1 seconds to display “800GB of free space available.”
What the fuck are you doing? How much time do you need to figure out whether 800GB is enough free space or not.How can this be so wrong?!
These fucking retards must have either hired or the whole Windows Update team.I've stopped playing any games that require me to run Uplay. It was hot diarrhea when first inflicted upon the world, and did not improve from there.
-
You get thirty when sleeping in direct sunlight in the summer.
Minus any you already drank, of course.
-
First thing I see on the homepage:
-
-
@hungrier I specially like that it's available in red and black.
-
@hungrier don't worry. What's the worst that can happen? You make the tree even more dead?
-
@hungrier I specially like that it's available in red and black.
Those ones are actual pen refills, as is the leftmost option (Blue with the product package showing). They're still ridiculously overpriced (5.99 for two black 0.7mm refills, 12.67 for blue 1.0mm, 20.43 for red) but at least they're what the product is supposed to be. The rightmost one is shown in my screenshot, and the second from the right is labelled "1", shows a pair of 0.7 mm black ink refills, and costs $59.43.
-
@hungrier Get this product, and you'll never go empty again!
-
@Tsaukpaetra if it was a gallon of pen ink, I probably wouldn't
-
@hungrier That's a real pro tip
Edit: file under recursivity
-
@hungrier don't worry. What's the worst that can happen? You make the tree even more dead?
You refill your ball pen with insecticide and everybody who touches your shopping list dies a mysterious and painful death.
-
@LaoC I'm all for killing off everyone who still can't use a smartphone and does their shopping lists on paper. Fortunately, it'll happen on its own within a few years.
-
@LaoC I'm all for killing off everyone who still can't use a smartphone and does their shopping lists on paper. Fortunately, it'll happen on its own within a few years.
You don't have any female household members, do you?