WTF Bites
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@DogsB no repro. Maybe it's GDPR thing?
Unless they think GDPR applied in Sri Lanka, no, it looks like a reverse proxy misconfiguration.
Ain't nobody got time to count all those Europoor countries or not. Block 'em all!
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@DogsB no repro. Maybe it's GDPR thing?
Unless they think GDPR applied in Sri Lanka
...which isn't exactly out of the question...
True. Usually the error is
You don't have permission to access "/foo/bar"
though, with a local path. Looks like some backend is being passed a URL where it wants a path.Seems t be a common thing BTW, my guess is proxy problem at some CDN.
Edit: @Akamai.
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https://www.schnellmann-detail.ch/stille-stunde.html
Quiet Hour for autists. Ok, but
it's actually TWO hours on Tuesday and ONE AND HALF hour on Thursday. Three and halt hours in total.
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Congratulations Odysee, you incompetent schmucks, you made your whole site unclickable.
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@MrL ad block blocking a stupid overlay?
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@MrL It prevents you from clicking on anything until you stop blocking their ads and tracking. And cookie warnings. And newsletter popups. And notification prompts. And seasonal offers. And...
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@MrL ad block blocking a stupid overlay?
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@MrL It prevents you from clicking on anything until you stop blocking their ads and tracking. And cookie warnings. And newsletter popups. And notification prompts. And seasonal offers. And...
It still doesn't work with adblock disabled. So, as I mentioned: incompetent schmucks.
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@MrL Cookie warnings then. Mind you, I don't dispute the incompetent schmucks part at all.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
halt hours
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Cookie warnings
Being a while since I've been on it but Nintendo's site use to break if you didn't dismiss the cookie dialog manually. Adblockers use to get rid of it.
Today's wtf. My laptop's wifi works better when I unplug the power.
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@DogsB Would be best if they just came clean about it in the footer, in friendly letters. Like:
"This site steals all the data we can get our grubby hands on, and then we sell it to spambots, bullshit artists and other dipshits, and snort coke off strippers' asses wiping them with dollar bills. On the other hand, you wouldn't be paying us even if we didn't publish all this stupid drivel, you fucking moocher. So just chill the fuck out and deal with it, everybody."
Adjust for "our product sucks" or "we haven't even got any product to sell" appropriately.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
https://www.schnellmann-detail.ch/stille-stunde.html
Quiet Hour for autists. Ok, but
it's actually TWO hours on Tuesday and ONE AND HALF hour on Thursday. Three and halt hours in total.Sounds nice. Wish they had that here (and for longer).
Not that I've heard an announcement in a supermarket for a long time. Do they still do those? Maybe I'm not paying attention. (And as far as music in shopping places goes ... for typical choices of "music": the less, the better.)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@MrL Cookie warnings then. Mind you, I don't dispute the incompetent schmucks part at all.
The overlay is easy to delete, so now we will never know.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
https://www.schnellmann-detail.ch/stille-stunde.html
Quiet Hour for autists. Ok, but
it's actually TWO hours on Tuesday and ONE AND HALF hour on Thursday. Three and halt hours in total.Sounds nice. Wish they had that here (and for longer).
I suppose... but I couldn't stop thinking about "it's not one hour, it's several hours, PLURAL"! But then again, maybe that's how they can tell apart the target group?
Not that I've heard an announcement in a supermarket for a long time. Do they still do those?
Yes. Not in discounts (Lidl, Aldi) though.
Maybe I'm not paying attention. (And as far as music in shopping places goes ... for typical choices of "music": the less, the better.)
I don't know what's worse - the usual choice of radio hits during one half of the year, or the Christmas hits during the other half.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
I suppose... but I couldn't stop thinking about "it's not one hour, it's several hours, PLURAL"! But then again, maybe that's how they can tell apart the target group?
Guess I failed that check. But, fair, "Stille Stunden" would technically be more correct.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@DogsB Would be best if they just came clean about it in the footer, in friendly letters. Like:
"This site steals all the data we can get our grubby hands on, and then we sell it to spambots, bullshit artists and other dipshits, and snort coke off strippers' asses wiping them with dollar bills. On the other hand, you wouldn't be paying us even if we didn't publish all this stupid drivel, you fucking moocher. So just chill the fuck out and deal with it, everybody."
Adjust for "our product sucks" or "we haven't even got any product to sell" appropriately.
You forgot the bit where they haven't done any testing, so they don't know what will happen if anything is blocked. Fuck it, we don't know what will happen if they aren't blocked. Because fuck you, that's why!
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@DogsB I think we might have become a bit jaded about all this stuff. I wonder why is that.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
Yes. Not in discounts (Lidl, Aldi) though.
I've heard an announcement in my local Lidl (a few years ago). It was asking for one of the staff to stop stocking shelves and open the other till because the checkout queue was building up too much.
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My laptop's wifi works better when I unplug the power.
Are you using a third-party charger? Some of them are shoddily made and generate lots of eletromagnetic interference, which can cause such problems. On mobile devices, another symptom is the touch screen malfunctioning.
If you're charging using USB-C, USB 3 signals are known to interfere with WiFi in some cases. Using a USB cable with better shielding may (or may not) help.
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Status: apparently we're making WinZip EOL in 2022.
I was unaware people still used it...
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
My laptop's wifi works better when I unplug the power.
Are you using a third-party charger? Some of them are shoddily made and generate lots of eletromagnetic interference, which can cause such problems. On mobile devices, another symptom is the touch screen malfunctioning.
If you're charging using USB-C, USB 3 signals are known to interfere with WiFi in some cases. Using a USB cable with better shielding may (or may not) help.
Switching to Windows 11 appears to have fixed it. Completely clean install minus all of Lenovo's bullshit. Liking how snappy 11 is, but considering the grunt on offer, I should have had this with 10. No Lubuntu though.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
My laptop's wifi works better when I unplug the power.
Are you using a third-party charger? Some of them are shoddily made and generate lots of eletromagnetic interference, which can cause such problems. On mobile devices, another symptom is the touch screen malfunctioning.
If you're charging using USB-C, USB 3 signals are known to interfere with WiFi in some cases. Using a USB cable with better shielding may (or may not) help.
It's the USB-A connectors who are the culprit, though, i.e. USB 3.0. If you're using USB-C connectors the problem usually goes away. That's my experience with a 2018 Mac Mini, at least. As long as I'm only using the USB-C ports and not the USB-A ones, everything is fine.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
WinZip ...
I was unaware people still used it...
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I found something even more irritating than "it's".
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@HardwareGeek if you happen to have people who went all in on the ZipX format (zip files cap out at 4GB because 32 bit sizes, and ZipX is the direct-successor format) then they might be people who went for WinZip because WinRAR was unpalatable for some reason.
Especially as after Windows gained native zip support, WinZip felt the need to reinvigorate its reason to live.
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@hungrier ah, the joys of global
GetLastError()
.
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: Unable to stop debugging.
*thinks back to the 3:00 AM debugging session a few nights ago*
Me too, debugger, me too.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
If you're charging using USB-C, USB 3 signals are known to interfere with WiFi in some cases. Using a USB cable with better shielding may (or may not) help.
My wireless mouse and keyboard started misbehaving. I unplugged them from the usb-c thingie and plugged them in directly to the laptop. All is well now. Windows11!
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@hungrier ah, the joys of global
GetLastError()
.At least it’s not
On Error Resume Next
.
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@hungrier ah, the joys of global
GetLastError()
.At least it’s not
On Error Resume Next
.Go wash your mouth with soap.
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@hungrier ah, the joys of global
GetLastError()
.At least it’s not
On Error Resume Next
.In this case it would've been better, since it would at least let me stop the thing running by clicking the Stop button
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@LaoC I was actually a VB programmer back in the day and made sure I didn’t do that in my code. Also made sure to have
Option Explicit
set.I find it sad I didn’t have all the things I wrote back then, as I wrote myself a replacement for the taskbar in Win98 to have some of the features XP had without upgrading to XP, and I feel like I might want to dust some of the code off again.
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@LaoC I was actually a VB programmer back in the day and made sure I didn’t do that in my code. Also made sure to have
Option Explicit
set.I find it sad I didn’t have all the things I wrote back then, as I wrote myself a replacement for the taskbar in Win98 to have some of the features XP had without upgrading to XP, and I feel like I might want to dust some of the code off again.
If it works in Windows 11 you'll probably make a couple of bucks selling it to those fools.
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@DogsB I don’t think I have the source code any more, and even if I did, I don’t have my copy of VB5 any more.
Then again maybe it’s a thing to try and remake, as an adventure away from the hellsoup that is the web.
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Then again maybe it’s a thing to try and remake, as an adventure away from the hellsoup that is the web.
And it's possible you'll end up with something that's actually better than the stock Windows 11 one.
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@Zerosquare I haven’t actually sacrificed a machine to the dark gods yet so I have only seen screenshots, not actually tried it. But with the effluent coming out of Redmond, it feels like even I, a long-rusty desktop guy using Visual Studio incorrectly could do a less shitty job.
I think I’d flounder a bit with multiple screens and some of the high DPI stuff but… so does Windows so I don’t feel particularly bad about it.
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@DogsB I don’t think I have the source code any more, and even if I did, I don’t have my copy of VB5 any more.
Then again maybe it’s a thing to try and remake, as an adventure away from the hellsoup that is the web.
Application development, as I remember it, isn't too bad. The patterns were decided upon about two and a half decades ago and they're very regimented. Nothing too interesting or clever happens there anymore. You're wandering into the OS dev end of things though. Never being there but I hear is a complete shitshow on windows.
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To be fair, it's also a complete shitshow on Linux. It's just a different shitshow.
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@DogsB the taskbar isn’t, or at least wasn’t, back in the day. I don’t know about since WinXP but back in the day it was just the application defined in the config as a task launcher, with everything about the task list or notifications in the notification area being API calls to the WinAPI.
I can’t imagine it’s that fundamentally different now.
makes a note to find the code for Start8/Start10 if it’s available and have a read
EDIT: ClassicShell as was is on GitHub: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu and it looks to build a regular exe, with DLLs for supporting infra and translations, and would likely be less complex if it didn’t support all the old theming infrastructure.
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The patterns were decided upon about two and a half decades ago and they're very regimented. Nothing too interesting or clever happens there anymore.
Occasionally someone invents a new visual metaphor and we get a new component/widget to add to the toolbox, but it's really not that frequent. Also sometimes people decide that buttons are links and links are buttons and everything is flat, but that's just horrible for users. The best plan is to make buttons look like buttons and links be underlined and stop trying to confuse everyone. Be boring and clear and users won't hate you quite so much.
If you want to get into the real wild west of UI design, work on the launch screens for computer games.
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@dkf why stop at launch screens? The entire world of gaming tries its damnedest to pretend that it’s special when it comes to UIs…
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@Arantor A lot of games have more in common with HUDs than GUIs for most of their playtime, with only turn-based strategy truly holding out. But launch screens are when there's nothing important going on, yet there's no particular expectation of being compatible with anything else either. True freedom, and it shows up in just how awful and unusable so many of them are…
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@dkf this is true, though I was definitely thinking if the turn based strategy segment that really goes to town on complex.
The noun question tends to be “how much state do you need to know/be appraised of right now” and how much to throw at the user the whole time.
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@LaoC I was actually a VB programmer back in the day and made sure I didn’t do that in my code. Also made sure to have
Option Explicit
set.I find it sad I didn’t have all the things I wrote back then, as I wrote myself a replacement for the taskbar in Win98 to have some of the features XP had without upgrading to XP, and I feel like I might want to dust some of the code off again.
At least if my old stuff is anything to go by, I'd say a glimpse of the actual code should usually cure that feeling. Otherwise you may be turning into
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I was typing some perfectly normal text into Visual Studio, and suddenly the whole app disappeared without a trace. No error, no "This program has stopped working", just it's gone
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: Do whatever needs to be done. I don't want to see any crash dialog ever again!
: No problem. I'll write an error handler that just exits the application instead.
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@Zerosquare in one Sonic game for Sega Genesis, they've implemented a global catch-all error handler as a screen that says "congratulations! You found secret cheat menu! Select a level you want to play." The motivation was that any crashes during the certification process would delay the release - but if the game says "secret cheat menu" instead of "unexpected error", maybe they won't notice.
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@hungrier From memory, 0x80004005 is
E_FAIL
, so this really is a "We have not idea why this failed" error.
Shameful, but even more shameful is how many of the programs I work on could possibly display a similarly unhelpful error message.