WTF Bites
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(Windows is itself good at hiding that drives are failing/failed, buffering things up until you run out of memory. I don't blame users for having no idea what's going on.)
To this day I have no idea why operating systems will freak the hell out when it can't resolve an arbitrary DNS address, but will happily into the ground on a dead OS drive. You'd think after all these decades someone would have written a background service capable of popping a notification or system message or SOMETHING when Shit is hitting fans, but alas.... Windows Defender found no problems in the last few times it did a cursory scan....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Windows Defender found no problems in the last few times it did a cursory scan....
That just means you weren't doing something as morally objectionable as expecting Visual Studio to compile the code you were writing.
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@Tsaukpaetra because that telemetry is so important.
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@Tsaukpaetra Windows Defender is busy false-positiving games for dumb reasons, and not allowing me to whitelist the files because the UI is a shitpile and goes "No, I haven't done anything recently..."
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And today I can get to complain about Linux, or more specifically LVM and it being dumb. So I want to wipe a computer and reinstall it, right? Well, the Debian installer refuses to wipe the drive because it got a LVM volume group on it. Can I remove the group? No! No option to do so! Can I remove all the volumes in the group? Nope, it fails with error! Can I just write a new partition table to the disk, effectively wiping it? No, there's LVM groups on it!
And I also once tried to repair a broken Ubuntu install but had to give up because working with LVM was being very in trying to mount the system partition. Which is why I make sure to NOT use LVM for my Linux installs, as it's so much easier to fix problems just using regular partitions. And the fact regular paritions can be worked with without everything being horribly broken every time.
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And today I can get to complain about Linux, or more specifically LVM and it being dumb. So I want to wipe a computer and reinstall it, right? Well, the Debian installer refuses to wipe the drive because it got a LVM volume group on it. Can I remove the group? No! No option to do so! Can I remove all the volumes in the group? Nope, it fails with error! Can I just write a new partition table to the disk, effectively wiping it? No, there's LVM groups on it!
It's hardly LVM's fault that Debian's installer sucks ass.
And I also once tried to repair a broken Ubuntu install but had to give up because working with LVM was being very in trying to mount the system partition. Which is why I make sure to NOT use LVM for my Linux installs, as it's so much easier to fix problems just using regular partitions. And the fact regular paritions can be worked with without everything being horribly broken every time.
That's pretty much exactly the argument one of our ex Architects™ brought forward against LVM, which led to partitions being used for everything and complicated bind-mount contraptions put into Puppet to avoid (sometimes successfully) having to juggle terabytes of data when one of those ran full. These days we just run
vgextend
, put a new volume size into Puppet and call it a day.
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It's hardly LVM's fault that Debian's installer sucks ass.
, I mean both LVM and Debian's installer can share in the being dumb.
That's pretty much exactly the argument one of our ex Architects™ brought forward against LVM, which led to partitions being used for everything and complicated bind-mount contraptions put into Puppet to avoid (sometimes successfully) having to juggle terabytes of data when one of those ran full. These days we just run
vgextend
, put a new volume size into Puppet and call it a day.Sure, if your workflow requires the ability to dynamically add/remove storage as needed to volumes then there is LVM. For a plain no-special-needs Linux install, why overcomplicate things, though? So my issue may be more of people but the tooling seems to make it very easy to do that, not helped by (at least) Ubuntu making LVM the default option (iirc) in the installer.
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It's hardly LVM's fault that Debian's installer sucks ass.
, I mean both LVM and Debian's installer can share in the being dumb.
If the installer let you override its safety thing that is supposed to keep dumb users from mangling their system, there'd be no problem, right?
That's pretty much exactly the argument one of our ex Architects™ brought forward against LVM, which led to partitions being used for everything and complicated bind-mount contraptions put into Puppet to avoid (sometimes successfully) having to juggle terabytes of data when one of those ran full. These days we just run
vgextend
, put a new volume size into Puppet and call it a day.Sure, if your workflow requires the ability to dynamically add/remove storage as needed to volumes then there is LVM. For a plain no-special-needs Linux install, why overcomplicate things, though? So my issue may be more of people but the tooling seems to make it very easy to do that, not helped by (at least) Ubuntu making LVM the default option (iirc) in the installer.
Dunno, I find it enormously helpful even on my laptop. I only assign as much space as I really need to stuff like
/var
and/home
, and then extend as required. Recently I started building a few bigger Docker images and/var
ran full, so I made a separate FS for/var/lib/docker
. If I had only partitions, I'd have had to decide on a maximum that I would ever grow/home
to because then it would run into the new partition that I placed somewhere above it.
The only way to avoid that would be the "put everything on the rootfs and be done with it" strategy.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader (DC or Marvel or who knows) manages to flip around between Windows 7 style Aero theming, without the translucency, and Windows 10 / 3.11 style flat theming. Sometimes it looks like one, sometimes like the other, and sometimes the window flickers while it changes between them.
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@LaoC Why does the installer allow me to wipe drives containing regular partitions or unknown data, but refuses as soon as it has LVM on it? It should not matter what is on the drive if I want to just wipe and do a fresh installl. Put up a warning, sure, but just fucking do it!
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@topspin Hey, I've seen that, too! I thought it happens when system is running out of memory, though.
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@Applied-Mediocrity this VM instance (?) only has 48 GB of memory. That's probably underspec'ed for opening a PDF, but at least I don't have Chrome running in the background.
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@LaoC Why does the installer allow me to wipe drives containing regular partitions or unknown data, but refuses as soon as it has LVM on it? It should not matter what is on the drive if I want to just wipe and do a fresh installl. Put up a warning, sure, but just fucking do it!
Because the installer thinks LVM is special? Because it sucks? No idea. It's been a while since I used it but it really sucks, all I'm saying is that ain't LVM's fault.
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if I want to just wipe and do a fresh installl.
Ah, you're going to need a Terminal for that.
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Status: So I hear you like crashing....
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WTF is this? There's a grey block over the text, appearing and disappering while I type, staying at the end of the input. Not sure if Google bug or Firefox bug...
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WTF is this? There's a grey block over the text, appearing and disappering while I type, staying at the end of the input. Not sure if Google bug or Firefox bug...
I get that shit on Chrome constantly now on my home PC.
I'm probably going to reinstall Windows at some point, I'm convinced it inherited cooties or something.
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WTF is this? There's a grey block over the text, appearing and disappering while I type, staying at the end of the input.
The other day I saw something that looked like arrows on a spinbox (you know, to increase/decrease a numeric value) at about the position that you mention. I noticed because this caused the search bar to not look as usual but also because it made absolutely no sense to have a spinbox there (my search wasn't about numbers). I didn't try clicking it.
But that only happened once, I can't remember on which computer, OS or browser, so maybe I am actually misremembering.
Either that, or someone is doing A/B tests with some weird UI ideas.
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@remi Are you sure it wasn't just a vertical scrollbar?
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@PleegWat maybe... in any case, it was inside the search bar itself (not inside e.g. the popup with search suggestions) and IIRC it was horizontally located just at the end of the text I was typing. I.e., it was (almost) exactly where @topspin grey block is.
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There's a grey block over the text, appearing and disappering while I type, staying at the end of the input.
That makes it clear that it must be the
cursor
.
Though an odd selection of GUI, but a cursor it is.
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@Tsaukpaetra Windows Defender is busy false-positiving games for dumb reasons, and not allowing me to whitelist the files because the UI is a shitpile and goes "No, I haven't done anything recently..."
It's called Defender and I am pretty sure it has been always inspired by TSA.
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Heisting 20 Million Dollars' Worth of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request
TLDR
With a little bit of math, decompilation, and understanding of computer architecture, we are going to force a user-controlled arithmetic overflow to occur in Magic: The Gathering Arena, and use it to buy millions of card packs for "free" (only using the starting amount of in-game currency given to new accounts).
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@boomzilla that sounds like the sort of thing that Hasbro deserves. But they’ll only send the Pinkerton agency out like they did to the guy who accidentally got an expansion early and posted it on YT.
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Article @boomzilla linked in WTF Bites:
for "free"
What's more, the price is calculated by the client(!)
Whenever you let the customer dictate the terms of engagement, you will lose!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Article @boomzilla linked in WTF Bites:
for "free"
What's more, the price is calculated by the client(!)
Whenever you let the customer dictate the terms of engagement, you will lose!
Yes, but that's not what happened here. They recalculate on the server and if it doesn't match the transaction doesn't go through.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Article @boomzilla linked in WTF Bites:
for "free"
What's more, the price is calculated by the client(!)
Whenever you let the customer dictate the terms of engagement, you will lose!
Yes, but that's not what happened here. They recalculate on the server and if it doesn't match the transaction doesn't go through.
Sure sure, technically correct. But the server certainly accepted arbitrary numbers for the quantity as dictated by the client.
Who wants to bet that their patch for this is effectively a check for "quantity is in this set"?
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Just found this photo again. This is the official logo of the Ecuadorean Judicial Police Force, or at least it used to be 10 years ago. I had quite a lot of business with the guys but never found an answer to the question whether it was just the designer being as funny as the approval process was sloppy, or having a topless DD Lady Justice in skimpy bikini bottoms was intentional.
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Just found this photo again. This is the official logo of the Ecuadorean Judicial Police Force, or at least it used to be 10 years ago. I had quite a lot of business with the guys but never found an answer to the question whether it was just the designer being as funny as the approval process was sloppy, or having a topless DD Lady Justice in skimpy bikini bottoms was intentional.
I mean, if you had to dole out justice in tropical heat, your top would be off lickity split too.
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Just found this photo again. This is the official logo of the Ecuadorean Judicial Police Force, or at least it used to be 10 years ago. I had quite a lot of business with the guys but never found an answer to the question whether it was just the designer being as funny as the approval process was sloppy, or having a topless DD Lady Justice in skimpy bikini bottoms was intentional.
I mean, if you had to dole out justice in tropical heat, your top would be off lickity split too.
Quito is not usually bikini territory, and she's just domming the scribe anyway.
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It bothers me that her breasts are level despite one of her arms being raised and the other not.
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@Zecc She's also twisted at an angle around her waist so that might offset the up-pull from the right arm?
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Filed under: Reasons I don't know anything about breasts
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It bothers me that her breasts are level despite one of her arms being raised and the other not.
That's just good form on her part. By not raising her shoulder she uses the muscles in her back and doesn't risk damage to the rotator cuff.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
It bothers me that her breasts are level despite one of her arms being raised and the other not.
That's just good form on her part. By not raising her shoulder she uses the muscles in her back and doesn't risk damage to the rotator cuff.
Just tits where just tits are due.
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After following a link to goat.se (as one does), I noticed that I could theoretically buy the domain. The buying page doesn't list any price, but just has this:
So of course I wanted to try some things as a gag: First, I left it empty:
Next I tried 0 and 0.01, both with the same result. Ok, maybe it only allows integers. Lets try 1 euroWhy not put that somewhere on the page then? I may be knowingly wasting my time as it is, but don't waste my time
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following a link to goat.se (as one does)
One does? No, one doesn't. At least this one doesn't.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
following a link to goat.se (as one does)
One does? No, one doesn't. At least this one doesn't.
Of course you wouldn't accept cheap imitations, right? There's only one original, and that's goatse.cx.
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There's only one original, and that's goatse.cx.
Not any more. Apparently they ran out of dogfood.
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@hungrier Surprisingly recent registration (by someone hoping to make a quick(?) buck). Although 3 years of fees would be more than €20 by now, though.
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Spotted in (what I thought was) a POJO:
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This post is deleted!
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@error I have a feeling this one needs slightly more anonymization.
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@error I have a feeling this one needs slightly more anonymization.
Thanks, I'm an idiot.
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I'm an idiot.
Far be it from me to disagree with anyone who makes such a self-assessment.
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When writing in languages such as Danish and Norwegian, where the empty set character may be confused with the alphabetic letter Ø (as when using the symbol in linguistics), the Unicode character U+29B0 REVERSED EMPTY SET ⦰ may be used instead.
What a great hack! Did they get the IgNobel in computing for that yet? Or is the reversed symbol actually used AFK?
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@Applied-Mediocrity at least they didn't write the "reversed empty set" as
}{
.Filed under: "()" is not a palindrome
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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.