CodeJunkie
@CodeJunkie
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RE: GPS tracking for...
@PJH If your child needs daily location monitoring equivalent to that of a hardened criminal, then I think you have a much bigger problem on your hands. However, it costs $10 a day so they must be pushing this towards affluent dick bags.
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RE: Secret Ransomware Ransoms
@Gurth said in Secret Ransomware Ransoms:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Secret Ransomware Ransoms:
zip disks!
You mean hard drives.
Sorry, been watching The Looming Tower recently. Zip disks appear several times (it’s set in the late ’90s, I guess they figured everybody used Zip disks back then), and all the characters in the show keep calling them “hard drives”.
Come on now, everyone knows this is the hard drive!
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@Polygeekery said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
@remi said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
@Polygeekery said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
On an entirely unrelated note, I bet you could scan your signature, convert it to PNG, use an image manipulation program to crop it and clip out all the whitespace and leave a transparent background and then you could pass that off as a physical signature and bypass all those shenanigans. If only such a thing were legal to do..... If only......
I actually
did that oncehad the same random thought but it turned out to be more painful than the Wooden Table, although that's probably because I rarely need it (printing+scanning isn't that much work when you only do it once). The main issue is how to easily paste a picture in a PDF and save the result as a PDF.Acrobat Reader (or most PDF viewers) can't do it, and free PDF editing software is a pain. I don't really remember but I may have actually resorted to an e-Wooden Table, i.e. doing a screenshot of the PDF, add the picture in a picture editor and save the result as PDF.
"Since PDFs are image files... "
They aren't image files. It's a binary file format with a tag system...images are one of the tags...GIMP is processing the PDF and presenting you with an interface to edit it.
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@loopback0 said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
@Polygeekery said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
Edit a PDF in GIMP
Woah. TIL.
So now it's not only a shitty version of Photoshop it's also a shitty version of Acrobat.
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More NPM Fun
The author of the malicious tool uploaded some of his own credentials in the process of publishing this junk.
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RE: Venmo social feed is dumb
@dcon said in Venmo social feed is dumb:
@anotherusername said in Venmo social feed is dumb:
The fuck would anyone want their purchase history to be public?
The fuck?!
Fuck.
Maybe that's what the current generation should be called: The Social Generation
The NSA Approved Generation.
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@MrL said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
work in banking sector, it's a shrine of ancient technology.
I too worked in the banking sector for 12 years. 4 years at a big bank here in the states and 8 at a software development company that developed software for credit unions. And yeah, it's treasure trove of WTFs. You have old laws and regulations that don't apply anymore, but are enforced tooth and nail. You have poor use of technology. Poor understanding and implementation of security related to said technology. The list goes on and on.
Even though most of their operations are automated they still tend to operate as if it's not in most cases. One of my favorites is holding all your weekend transactions at bay until Monday so they can attempt to get overdraft fees. Apparently computers don't work on the weekends so can't process transaction. Still not even sure how this is legal.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@BernieTheBernie said in I, ChatGPT:
@CodeJunkie Because that's the guy who used to complain that with american dishwashers you have to pre-clean, while with polish dishwashers that's not necessary.
Ahh ok. I call bullshit on that claim though.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@BernieTheBernie said in I, ChatGPT:
@Zecc But the machines do the work incompletely. You still have to fill your clothes into the washing machine, add the washing agent, switch the machine on with the correct program, open the water valve, later on take out the clothes, put them into the drier, then iron, fold, put into the locker etc. Same with dish washer.
Even with the dish washer you still have to pre-wash the dishes by hand before putting them in the machine.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla said in I, ChatGPT:
@dkf there ought to be a law. Or maybe even three laws!
Or perhaps 4?
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RE: Overheard in the next cube
@HardwareGeek said in Overheard in the next cube:
Dammit, I just upvoted two 17.5 year-old posts. We need a "goddamnit fbmac" banner at the start of these old threads.
But if you have never read it, it's still new right?
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RE: WatchOS 10 designers: have y'all ever heard of muscle memory?
@DogsB said in WatchOS 10 designers: have y'all ever heard of muscle memory?:
@PleegWat said in WatchOS 10 designers: have y'all ever heard of muscle memory?:
@Steve_The_Cynic I recall which game it is, but half the time on popups OK is left and Cancel is right, the other half they are swapped. Probably applies to plenty of them, and hard to fix once it's established.
Might be cyberpunk. The button prompts change in different places and general ui is all over the place. Not to mention they change between patches too.
Wasn't there a trend there for a minute where front end designers where swapping ok and cancel buttons because ? Even though it had been established like 30+ years ago what order they should be in.
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RE: Windows 11 Insider program stupidity
@TimeBandit said in Windows 11 Insider program stupidity:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Windows 11 Insider program stupidity:
I wouldn't know, because Release Preview is, in effect, late Beta or even RC.
We all know that what Microsoft consider release quality is Beta at best
Honestly, every OS is still in early access, but no one has figured that out yet.
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RE: On the time I accidentally emptied a workstation printer
@Steve_The_Cynic said in On the time I accidentally emptied a workstation printer:
@Polygeekery said in On the time I accidentally emptied a workstation printer:
If you're paying less than a grand for a printer then something about it is total shit.
Hmm. 250è-ish euros (what my HP Color Laserjet Pro m252dw cost(1)) is definitely less than a grand, and the danmed thing Just Works(tm), with the easiest toner-change system I've ever seen. Maybe changing the drum(s) will involve disassembling it down to individual atoms or something.
(1) In an Apple store, no less.
My HP LaserJet 4100n is still alive and well. I got thing over 20 years ago for free from the place I was working at the time (they were going to throw it out) and have never changed the toner cartridge even though it's been saying toner low for at least a decade. It still prints just fine and I even bought a replacement toner cart, but haven't needed to change it. A couple years ago I spent about $20 to get a roller replacement kit.
It definitely just works.