WTF Bites
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It's for your own good. You don't want to be responsible for the collapse of California's electrical grid by plugging them in.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It's for your own good. You don't want to be responsible for the collapse of California's electrical grid by plugging them in.
What's really funny is that the Title 20 stuff will basically outlaw all traditional bulbs, halogens, and CFLs without actually naming them.
Ah-ha. Found some that Amazon would ship. Had to search for "E26 LED 100 watt" (The others were A19 even tho A19 uses the E26 base. I figured out the "E26" thing from the blog I linked before)
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Found some that Amazon would ship.
Do you want cancer?
Because that's how you get cancer in California
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Found some that Amazon would ship.
Do you want cancer?
Because that's how you get cancer in CaliforniaMy house was build in 1941. I'm positive it's full of cancer causing things.
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@dcon starting with its residents
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@TimeBandit how many politicians are in @dcon's house?
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@TimeBandit how many politicians are in @dcon's house?
Thankfully, none! Unless there's something my dog isn't telling me...
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@dcon a dog who's an undercover political operative. An underdog, if you will.
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@Gustav A dog doing politics. Better than most elected officials in California
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Gustav A dog doing politics. Better than most elected officials in California
That's about as low a bar as you can find. A dog with no legs could jump over that bar. Even a rattlesnake is better than most elected officials in California.
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@dcon a dog who's an undercover political operative. An underdog, if you will.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Even a rattlesnake is better than most elected officials in California.
Yes. Unlike politicians, rattlesnakes emit a distinctive sound to warn people to stay away from them.
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@Zerosquare Politicians do, too: "Moneymoneymoneymoney", but they're not the only creatures that make this sound, and they tend to hide it among other dangerous utterances.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Politicians do, too: "Moneymoneymoneymoney"
Isn't that literally the intro song from that Trump's TV show? "The Apprentice"?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Politicians do, too: "Moneymoneymoneymoney"
Isn't that literally the intro song from that Trump's TV show? "The Apprentice"?
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Comparison of news subscriptions from Bonnier News:
Look at how much stuff I can get from the two rightmost ones!
Also, noteworthy is the big bulletpoint at the end that shouldn't be printed and is an instruction:
Gives access to all Locals sites but not DN/Exp. In other words a difference against the +Everything-package that also gives DN/Exp-access. This is for for example E-newspaper package and print packages that must have access to all Locals titles.
Edit: Also, the site is titled "Product asket", someone forgot a letter there.
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Fucking hell. Just tried to buy some 100w-equivalent LED light bulbs on Amazon. Can't be shipped to California because of Title 20.
No, not because of Title 20 but because the shipper is a moron.
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Status: mildly flummoxed that this degausser completely failed to affect this harddrive. It clunked and bumped and everything but?.. Drive is fine! Well, as fine as it was before anyways.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: mildly flummoxed that this degausser completely failed to affect this harddrive. It clunked and bumped and everything but?.. Drive is fine! Well, as fine as it was before anyways.
Time for an EPFCG
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: mildly flummoxed that this degausser completely failed to affect this harddrive. It clunked and bumped and everything but?.. Drive is fine! Well, as fine as it was before anyways.
Of course. The only time where @Tsaukpaetra actually tries to break something, it keeps working.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It's for your own good. You don't want to be responsible for the collapse of California's electrical grid by plugging them in.
What's really funny is that the Title 20 stuff will basically outlaw all traditional bulbs, halogens, and CFLs without actually naming them.
Ah-ha. Found some that Amazon would ship. Had to search for "E26 LED 100 watt" (The others were A19 even tho A19 uses the E26 base. I figured out the "E26" thing from the blog I linked before)
Ok, could you please explain what is that about? It's very confusing, because A19 and E26 is (AFAIK) only a mechanical difference.
Also, does "Title 20" actually affect 100-watt-equivalent (ie usually 12W) LED bulbs?
Also, why do you use metric units? It that a California thing?
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@TimeBandit how many politicians are in @dcon's house?
Thankfully, none! Unless there's something my dog isn't telling me...
You should not have him reading so many old Dilbert comics! Once he mutates into a Dogbert, well, you are lost...
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It's for your own good. You don't want to be responsible for the collapse of California's electrical grid by plugging them in.
What's really funny is that the Title 20 stuff will basically outlaw all traditional bulbs, halogens, and CFLs without actually naming them.
Ah-ha. Found some that Amazon would ship. Had to search for "E26 LED 100 watt" (The others were A19 even tho A19 uses the E26 base. I figured out the "E26" thing from the blog I linked before)
Ok, could you please explain what is that about? It's very confusing, because A19 and E26 is (AFAIK) only a mechanical difference.
I just saw reference to those in the blog I linked and changed my search.
Also, does "Title 20" actually affect 100-watt-equivalent (ie usually 12W) LED bulbs?
All I could really find was that Title 20 affects "some" LEDs. No clue which. Something about lumens vs power consumption vs California-is-stupid.
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All I could really find was that Title 20 affects "some" LEDs. No clue which. Something about lumens vs power consumption
Which means it should affect incandescents / CFLs, not LEDs.
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Which means it should affect incandescents / CFLs, not LEDs.
All of the above. It specifies a minimum lumens/Watt, which pretty much nothing but LEDs can meet. (There are some exceptions for special-purpose lamps, like appliance bulbs for ovens, which have to withstand high temperatures.) It also specifies a minimum color quality (CRI — color rendition index, or something like that), which poses a problem for LEDs. Generally, a higher CRI tends to require higher power, but that may push them below the lumens/W requirement. Not all LED lamps can meet both requirements. (Exceptions for colored lights.)
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
There are some exceptions for special-purpose lamps, like appliance bulbs for ovens, which have to withstand high temperatures
Also, oven lights don't need to be efficient. The oven is used for heating anyway.
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Status: Gorram who the fuck still configures their web servers to require the
www
in the domain name?!? Fucking Assholes!
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@Tsaukpaetra several of our customers got confused about this that 'we only want www.example.com' and I'm like... no, you really don't, you want example.com to work as well.
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Someone signed up a company alias I'm on to a dumb mailing list:
Did you know that May is the only month that has a proper binary representation (101101)? Other months either have too few or too many letters to fit neatly into a binary sequence.
Welp, I think that’s enough of an intro, don’t you? Please enjoy this month’s serving of GitKraken product news and other interesting and educational tidbits.
- Dave from GitKraken
I'm not sure what GitKraken does but if they think 45 was "a proper binary representation of May" and there existed "other months" with fewer letters that precluded them from fitting "neatly into a binary sequence", I don't feel like looking either. At least until I need a supplier for weird shit to smoke.
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Someone signed up a company alias I'm on to a dumb mailing list:
Did you know that May is the only month that has a proper binary representation (101101)? Other months either have too few or too many letters to fit neatly into a binary sequence.
Welp, I think that’s enough of an intro, don’t you? Please enjoy this month’s serving of GitKraken product news and other interesting and educational tidbits.
- Dave from GitKraken
I'm not sure what GitKraken does but if they think 45 was "a proper binary representation of May" and there existed "other months" with fewer letters that precluded them from fitting "neatly into a binary sequence", I don't feel like looking either. At least until I need a supplier for weird shit to smoke.GitKraken is git UI and it's actually great. But their marketing strategy is to be cool, nerdy and funny. Which is annoying.
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Someone signed up a company alias I'm on to a dumb mailing list:
Other months either have too few or too many letters to fit neatly into a binary sequence
I remember mentioning this to a friend back in Ob.
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@MrL is it £4.95/month good?
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May is the only month that has a proper binary representation (101101)?
(1) WTF is a "proper binary representation"?
(2) WTF does the number 45 (101101) have to do with May?
(2.149) "Other months either have too few or too many letters"
What month has fewer letter than May?
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
What month has fewer letter than May?
Might be one of those 19 bonus months the yanks have after December.
All I can think of regarding 101101 is that ‘101’ is 5 and not longer than ‘May’. But I have no insight on writing that twice.
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WTF Status: THUNDE~1.EXE is not responding and must be shot down
Since the update to Fartbird v110 it has has been utter bloody fucking shit. Failing to process filters, downloading messages randomly (because mail server apparently timed out, when it actually did nothing of the sort), can't open folder because it's busy with other operation (nothing in the Activity Manager, though), chomping fucktons of RAM and worst of all, freezing the entire UI at the slightest hint of having to do work. What fuckery is this? How can it be so wrong?
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@Tsaukpaetra It still has a higher uptime rating than you do
No, I was just
:tro:
about the old days when dialogs like that could be seen. I can't Abraham fucking Beli-Eve it that in 2023 UI thread of a widely used and regularly updeyyted program is still freezing because of background work. Even Acrobat Reader doesn't do that anymore. It fucks up in other ridiculous ways (like switching its window frame to Windows 7-like somehow) and executing dogecoin miners embedded in PDFs, but it doesn't freeze.E: Anyway, shot it down and downgraded back to v91. It still does some freezing, but I'm almost taken aback how quickly it sorted through all the crap that v110 couldn't even be bothered to.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
WTF Status: THUNDE~1.EXE is not responding and must be shot down
Since the update to Fartbird v110 it has has been utter bloody fucking shit.
I've used Thunderbird for a long time but it appears I'll be forced to stay with v91 because everything after that has been complete shit.
Also, Mozilla is doing something weird with dates.
Their website says:
But when you install it, all the files are dated September 8, 2022. So what exactly was "modified" om March 18, 2023?
I've noticed this same thing with Firefox. Old versions with newer dates.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
So what exactly was "modified" om March 18, 2023?
The files on the specific server. Copying files might or might not copy the timestamps, and in any case it generally should not.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Copying files might or might not copy the timestamps, and in any case it generally should not.
Yes, copying a file is not supposed to change the timestamp. It appears that Mozilla is
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Copying files might or might not copy the timestamps, and in any case it generally should not.
Yes, copying a file is not supposed to change the timestamp. It appears that Mozilla is
On linux (which this probably is) a bare
cp
will not preserve timestamps.cp -a
will copy timestamps from the source, except for the change time which you cannot set to arbitrary values (but updating modification/access time will set change time to present).
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
v91
I'm on 102.10.1
Been there. I didn't like it and went back to 91.
It seems that 102.x is the latest non-beta version. There are versions going all the way up to 114, but all marked as beta.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
On linux (which this probably is)
Yes, it probably is. Mozilla (and Netscape before them) has always be very Unix-y and Linux-y
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
v91
I'm on 102.10.1
Been there. I didn't like it and went back to 91.
It seems that 102.x is the latest non-beta version. There are versions going all the way up to 114, but all marked as beta.
I stick to the release channel.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
WTF Status: THUNDE~1.EXE is not responding and must be shot down
Since the update to Fartbird v110 it has has been utter bloody fucking shit. Failing to process filters, downloading messages randomly (because mail server apparently timed out, when it actually did nothing of the sort), can't open folder because it's busy with other operation (nothing in the Activity Manager, though), chomping fucktons of RAM and worst of all, freezing the entire UI at the slightest hint of having to do work. What fuckery is this? How can it be so wrong?
Uninstall the beta and either go back to the current release version (102) or update to the current beta version (114)? 102's been fine for me, though we may not put the same stresses on it.
Aside: I'm not really looking forward to the rewritten UI they're talking about forcing on us later this year. I'm sure it'll annoy me to no end in some way despite them saying there will be settings to make it look like the current version.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Yes, copying a file is not supposed to change the timestamp.
It depends. There are use-cases where you want it to and use-cases where you don't. Well, you can use change time (the later of change time and modification time, really), but for historical reasons nobody does, so it's a bit of a mess.
But these ain't files, they are http resources, and for those the timestamps—there is only one there—must indicate when the content of that particular URL last changed.
On linux (which this probably is)
It probably has Linux underneath, but most likely it's some kind of managed storage like azure storage account or amazon s3 bucket. And the files were pushed with http put which does not normally transmit the timestamp anyway.
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Yes, it probably is. Mozilla (and Netscape before them) has always be very Unix-y and Linux-y
I doubt Mozilla foundation maintains their own servers for this any more though. And while most servers anywhere, including in Microsoft land these days, are Linux, I've seen a benchmark according to which IIS, the Microsoft Windows-only web server, was actually fastest by quite significant margin.