@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I almost ran over a guy taking a leek with my bike last sunday
That's pretty harsh just for vegetable theft, even on a Sunday.
@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I almost ran over a guy taking a leek with my bike last sunday
That's pretty harsh just for vegetable theft, even on a Sunday.
As an example, just look at the pricing on the current Samsung 4K TV UHD TVs, as listed through the company's website. On April 29, if you wanted to buy a 55-inch MU8000, it would cost you $1,299.99 (as part of a $200-off sale). If you wanted to get the 65-inch version of that same TV, it would cost you $2,199.99. A $900 increase is a considerable amount of money, to be sure, but it's not outrageous. However, if you wanted to step up from the 65-inch model to the 75-inch one, it would cost $3,499.99--an increase of $1,300.
A 70% increase isn't outrageous, but a 60% is. This is why we shouldn't let the journalists do the math.
It gets even more funny when you account for the screen area increasing in the square of the diagonal. As in, $/m2 .
But this is tech reporting. You know the saying?: "Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, review. Those who can't review, report."
This got hammered home to me by one news story of a journalist causing a fire alarm when they'd tried to destroy a hard-drive with a hammer. I wondered aloud how that was possible, at the workplace. A coworker pointed out that the person in question was a former technology reporting lead for a newspaper, so they'd probably mistaken the laptop battery for the hard-drive. This was later confirmed.
@topspin There's also adult shoes with LEDs. Which I know because a thief got on the news by trying to escape into the night while wearing a stolen pair. The police had no problem whatsoever finding him.
@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@dfdub said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Gąska said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Gąska said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It may not be the worst language ever created, but it's definitely the worst ever to be taken seriously
*laughs in PHP*
*cries in ruby*
*sighs in Bash*
*mojibakes in APL*
*wharrgarbls in Perl*
*suicides in ColdFusion*
*whirls in WTFAI*
*Writhes in pain in MUMPS*
How's the saying go? "A-players hire A+ players. B players hire C-players that should behave meek and grateful, like the cattle that they are"?
@Gąska said in Do you send thank-you notes after being interviewed?:
So what's her argument?
It signals that the person wants the job — or rather, no thank-you email signals the person probably doesn't want the job. The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected. A few times, the offer is accepted, but the person pulls out before their start date or leaves after a few months.
Funny thing - if this really becomes widespread rule, then candidates will adapt and will always send thank you email, whether they like the job or not, whether they plan to pull out at the last moment or not - and the rule will lose all its effectiveness.
How long until Outlook includes a function for automating thank-you mails after you've made the calendar entry for an interview? Bets are open.
Best comment in the OP article's comment section thus far:
People went to digital photography to get AWAY from this
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a "think of the children" panic in Canada, and crusaders went on the tear to get the police and government to "do something" to stop it.
In the middle of this climate, I know of three cases where people ended up getting visited by police investigating them for alleged child pornography.
One case was a Japanese anime, as in, a cartoon, with no actual humans being filmed, let alone children.
The other two were the result of photo development. Those old enough to remember actual film cameras know that unless you had a darkroom, chemicals, and skill, you needed to go to a photo developer to convert your raw film into actual snapshots. Camera stores did it, of course, as well as specialty outlets like Fotomat, but one of the most common photo development places was, oddly enough, the pharmacy. And it was pharmacies that called the cops on two people getting their photos developed.
The first case showed the shocking picture of a nude 5 year old boy with his pants on the sidewalk with a scantily clad 3 year old girl next to him. In other words, a 3 year old girl snuck up on her big brother and pants his swimsuit on him. Mom happened to be taking pictures of her kids in the pool, and couldn't resist getting a snap of her kids pranking each other.
The second case was similar, with a grown woman in a bathtub with a 2 year old boy, who decided to make an obscene gesture to shock his mommy just as Daddy walked in. In other words, a typical "Jim, get in here and see what your son is doing" family moment.
Fortunately, in both cases, the police officers were parents themselves and not idiots, and when they visited the families and saw that the kids photographed were the children of the photographers, they realized that the photo developers had completely over reacted. But as you can imagine, those families stopped sending their film out to be developed, and went to digital photography.
Now, you don't even have to drop your film off to have busybodies report you to the cops, your camera vendor will do it as soon as you take your picture.
There's no way that this won't be abused, both by companies, and governments.
@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
Because we don't have a separate "Internet of dongs" thread…
Source: @qDot
It's a surprisingly common issue with any use-case that doesn't have just one phone + one headset.
Two examples of products that I've had the (mis?)fortune to take part in the development of:
The solution: each battery-radio-display unit got an NFC tag, and the HUBs got an NFC reader.
Of course, one PHB had just learned of the miracle of RFID, and so was trying to make us use those instead. Bad idea when all devices are within 10ft (3m) of each other, but it took a few meetings to shoot the idea down. I moved to greener pastures before the product went to market, so I don't know how well the concept worked in Real Life(tm).
Solution: let's embed ESP8266 to each device. Each forms a WiFi. Configuration UI in HTML. Yay.
Current problem: Factory may need to configure and test 20 devices at a time. 20 ESPs in the same room fight for airspace. Only way to get a reliable connection to some is to take them out of the range of the herd.
Edit:
added "of products ... development of"
Potential idea for a Halloween decoration/trap:
Hoped-for sequence of events:
The lighting is key. The spider must be unnoticeable until the viewer is right under it.
Ten bucks on "adding their own neo-ActiveX". Maybe something Java-ish this time.
Five bucks on baking in a version of Flash Player that is several versions out of date.
If the Flash Player one is a hit, then 20 more bucks say that it can't be disabled.
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
did you update your footer year?
Did you write your server code competently in the first place, to insert [current year] so that it doesn't need to be updated in the future?
Seemed relevant.
@loopback0 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Also, you've Jeffed too many posts.
We get the level of service we pay for.
Turns out that Sweden is now automatically taxing anyone they think drives past their checkpoint. I just got a bill for €0.81 for allegedly driving past a tax booth in Göteborg - with a car that has never left Finland.
Here's news article about it, from 2019, so the problem has been going on for quite some time:
Apparently the Swedish government can just decide to tax someone who's hasn't gone anywhere near Sweden for a decade or more. (And not just me. They event sent a bill to some Finnish fire department. I really wish that department had taken the matter to court. But unfortunately not.) Finland apparently lets Sweden's scheme go on, and will dutifully uphold the bill in court, which is because, honestly, what kind of miserable government allows another state to fleece their tax base?
@boomzilla said in Windoze 10 Fall 2018 Flopdate, now with even more nothingness:
@dcon said in Windoze 10 Fall 2018 Flopdate, now with even more nothingness:
Speaking of updates... There I was playing Candy Crush. Put the machine down (I lost, was getting ready to try again), went in the kitchen, came back, machine had rebooted. Thanks for waiting. (it had just downloaded them as the machine had not been turned on since the weekend)
Yeah, crushing candy is more important than shooting aliens, so updates will defer in that case.
Did you know that some games have a "Non-stop" mode that only allows a limited number of saves for a playthrough? The idea being to test your ability to beat the whole game in one go, presumably over one weekend, usually at "Nightmare" difficulty level or equivalent.
Forget Candy Crush. Imagine doing a 48h marathon of Dead Space with no saves, pausing to go to the loo, and returning to find your machine rebooted.
@DoctorJones said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
@Zecc I've always thought it was stupid when a language borrows words from another language. It's lazy and sounds stupid, you know, inserting a random English word into a foreign sentence. I don't know why I dislike the sound of it so much, I suppose it just doesn't have that "je ne sais quoi". 😉
You say this because you've not had the displeasure of trying to use words designed by committee.
We have such a thing as "Finnish Language Committee" here. They attempt to design words for new things from abroad. Words that absolutely nobody will use, because they're utterly ridiculous.
Let's take an example.
The original suggestion for the Finnish term for CD was something along the lines of (translated) opticalmusicandaudiodisk. But longer. Nobody used it, ever. Not even school books. Currently the committee is recommending that laserlevy should be used, which directly translates to laser disk. Which is a different type of disk everywhere else; one used for watching video. So everybody still uses CD-levy, which means CD-disk. While redundant, it is unambiguous. And intelligible to foreigners to boot.
Was this posted already? Either way, the article's forum thread had an interesting reference:
https://mobile.twitter.com/d1rtydan/status/1277081198624337920
Which lead me to:
Hokay. Maybe India had a point there. If you're going to (maybe) do war with a country, best ban all apps from thereabouts too.
@boomzilla Any bets on how many days Google will take to follow suit?
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
An ingenious move. Now they can plug the money leak from desktop users, who used to be able to just buy a new keyboard if the old one failed. No more; a broken keycap now means they'll have to replace the whole system.
@loopback0 I know. But it's too fragile for outdoor use.
From the website selling it:
Q. Can I paint my car / bike etc…
A. NO - 3.0 is quite fragile and will just scratch off, it won’t weather well.
Q. Can I put a topcoat over it then?
A. NO that will destroy the matte effect, and many topcoats (including our COAT) will react with the paint and ruin the finish.
Q. I got some weird white marks form on my work, why?
A. You didn't let it dry fully between coats or you painted it on an absorbent surface without sealing it first.
EDIT: P.S.:
This still cracks me up for some reason:
*Note: By adding this product to your cart you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make it's way into the hands of Anish Kapoor.
@remi Roundabouts and lorries...
In Vaasa, Finland, there was a problem spot, where the city planners absolutely wanted to put a roundabout. But a factory, in the business of making long and heavy objects, absolutely needed access for long trucks. And the factory provided enough jobs for the area, that they couldn't just be ignored either.
So they compromised on it:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
With Windows 11 Microsoft has been making a lot of noise about security to justify its TPM 2.0 requirement, but it hasn't adequately explained why, say, Intel's 7th gen Core CPUs are too insecure to include while the 8th gen CPUs are. It was also pretty suspicious when the single mobile 7th gen CPU Microsoft decided to add to the list happened to be installed in the $3,500 Surface Studio 2 it currently sells.
That about sums it up.
Microsoft told The Verge that its minimum requirements aren't really the minimum requirements, after all; they're just the requirements to get an automatic Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrade.
Wait, so, I can avoid the first wave of automatic "upgrades" if I remove any and all TPM modules and possibly disable the feature in my motherboard? Nice.
@Mason_Wheeler If you do get someone's tongue frozen to a metal object, the correct way to get them un-stuck is to pour warm water onto the cold metal object, onto and around the spot where the tongue touches metal. The goal is to warm the cold object enough to thaw the thin layer of ice between tongue and metal. Water does not need to be boiling; 50degC usually suffices. Don't burn the tongue. Quantity is your friend; pour a lot. In case you only have a 100degC water-heater, mix boilt water 1:2 with tapwater. Or just use water from the hot side of the tap.
Just a heads-up. Pulling a tongue off a frozen sign post by main force will leave a bit of tongue-skin on the pole, and will hurt for weeks afterwards.
@dcon said in Florida Man goes to...:
@boomzilla said in Florida Man goes to...:
Back on topic!
My first thought was "how did they find out?" - then I read this:
The recording was made in “May/June 2022,” according to a complaint that does not reveal how police obtained Springer’s “personal USB drive.”
That's the part I really wonder about.
People leave their USB keys all over the place. I've seen news of Brit ministers leaving USB keys containing databases of the population, or of national secrets, on a train. And some people actually believe the USBkey advertising, and hang the stick in the key ring with their home keys. Then they're surprised when the thin plastic loop breaks, and the drive is nowhere to be found. And some of the really security-conscious (or paranoid) have all their personal files on that one drive, and nowhere else.
Speaking of key rings, here's a funny story. I once looked after a relative's dog for a few days. And also needed to hand some files to them. So I put them on a USB stick, and attached it to the dog's collar. When the day to pick up the dog rolled around, sure enough they'd forgotten all about those important files. Then the next day, I get a call.
: We forgot the files! They're important! And urgent! You have to drive here ASAP!
: Look in your dog's collar.
: No time for that! Files! Driving!
: The files are on the USB stick that you got with the dog.
: What stick? You never gave me any stick.
: Like I said, it's attached to <dog's name>'s collar. Look at the front of the collar. See the long USB stick hanging off it?
: Where? ...What's that? Oh. Is that a USB stick?
@ixvedeusi In case of some of the competitors, yes. But I can assure you that the company where I worked at only made devices that produce the legally mandated BEEP BEEP BEEP.
They even had a built-in microphone just for ensuring that the beep works, and refused to operate if the test didn't pass. Kid you not. It made life hell in the departments that had to develop and/or test those particular devices, as you couldn't silence the beep in any way without completely disabling the device. Lucky me, I worked at the sensor side, far from the monitor department.
Personal Corona Status:
Still at home. So far I've got:
-Headache on-and-off for the whole week
-Chest pain
-Raspy noises, presumably from thick slime, in the breathing tubes
-Fever (though barely)
-Some muscle pain
-Couldn't taste my luch beef bowl. Though I'm not sure if that's corona or just my wife's cooking
And now it turns out my employer doesn't believe in the "stay at home if you have any symptoms" strategy. So now I have to call the healthcare provider and ask them to diagnose me. Or head back in to work. No remoting allowed (even though I've been doing just that for the whole week).
I forgot to ask for a slip when I went to see the doctor about my throat last time, so I may have to spend vacation days to cover my ass.
Oh, and the nurse who I had a phone-appointment with couldn't just diagnose me remotely, so she put in a phone appointment with a doctor. Who didn't call me yet, even though the appointment time told by the nurse was an hour ago.
Whoo...
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
As a $unspecifiedSexualOrientation $unspecifiedGender, I feel the sexual orientation of a teacher being relevant is worrying.
Don't want the pedo predators to molest your son instead of your daughter.
@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also remember that no-one "invented" each specific weapon. They just evolved from the most basic design (something pointy or otherwise nasty at the end of a stick), in whichever way local people made them with what they had at hand (or didn't) and what they knew (or didn't). Two warriors (or peasants-turned-forced-warriors, which is how much of these originated i.e. cobbled-together weapons from agricultural hardware and basic skills...)
"I only gots this hammer. But I can't reach those knights with it."
"We got these axes. But they got spears, so we can't reach them. And they run us over with the horses. Wish I had a spear too."
....
"Hey. there's some trees. Let's add longer handles."
...
"Well, now I hit the knight. But he still rode over us. The hammer just bounced off."
...
"Hey, blacksmith, can you add some sharp to this hammer?"
"That's one long hammer."
"Yeah. Gotta reach those horse-riding jerks."
"Okay. You want the sharp on the top, or on the side?"
"Can I have both?"
"Do you have 2 coins?"
"Yes."
"Then yes, you can."
@frillunflop said in WTF Bites:
Also, is it the users who don't like options or developers who don't like debugging things with these options?
No.
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fess up, who of you was that?
Not me. I would have suggested they use a barcode font, so it can be scannered back in later. OCR is too unreliable.
@PJH said in In other news today...:
EVER ETHIC
EVER LAWFUL
So maybe the next one will be caught smuggling. Maybe it'll be caught by the Chinese and sunk on the spot?
EVER EXCEL
Sunk by miscalculated weight distribution?
EVER LADEN
Either it capsizes on the way to drydock, or it's sunk by a flock of swallows. With coconuts.
EVER LEARNED
Do they ever.
EVER LUCKY
It's like they want to sink these things.
EVER LUNAR
Sunk on a full moon?
EVER SAFETY
Even odds for ramming a dock facility.
EVER UNITED
The crew will mutiny. The ship goes down in flames.
EVER URANUS
The newspaper headlines will be epic.
@Zenith You'd love our product's config pages. No JavaScript. No CSS. Just plain HTML pages served by a single-thread server written in C, embedded in an MCU with 512K of FLASH total.
In addition to server-side validation, I added HTML5 format descriptors to every field I could, so the browser can validate them too.
No space for any kind of JavaScript library. But I did shoehorn in a 16x16 px icon.
Finland Status:
Still testing some 1200 corona samples per day. Official explanation is lack of resources (both material and personnell). Universities and other laboratories have offered their help on the personnell and facilities front. They've been turned down by THL as "unnecessary".
Now it turns out that there's capacity to manufacture 100k corona testing kits per week in Turku, Finland - but they're all being shipped to China and elsewhere.
So some companies pooled their money to get 38k employees from all of them tested, just so they can get on with life easier. They're airlifting the samples to South-Korea for analysis.
B*****m my life.
@dcon You do realize that that thing's never been driven anywhere close to water, right? Because if it had, those tyres would now be sporting mudguards. It only takes one stripe down the back for people to learn.
An interesting view on the and the lessons from FTX:
You didn’t have to know diddly squat about cryptocurrencies to foretell that this scam would come crashing down.
@Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Microsoft is making it harder to want to switch to Windows 11
What makes you think that they'll ask you? It's not like it was really optional last time.
A boat on the water with commercial cargo on it, and not a soul in sight.
...I don't even have the energy to be sarcastic about it. As soon as this thing is out of primary radar coverage, it will never be seen again.
@topspin said in Apple goes full Big Brother:
@acrow said in Apple goes full Big Brother:
@boomzilla Any bets on how many days Google will take to follow suit?
You're under the invalid assumption that Google doesn't already have all your data on their servers.
One of the article's comments:
As I understand it, this technology has been developed because Apple has built its service in such a way that it can’t scan in the cloud so it has to scan on device. Everyone else, Google included, scans in the Cloud. One way or another, you’ll get scanned - it’s just a question of where.
Edited to add:
Not that I believe Apple couldn't scan in the cloud. But that'd be using their own electricity, so no.
Relevant part:
The family says an Amber Alert, which notifies users about missing and abducted children, abruptly produced an "ear shattering" sound level that ruptured B.G.'s eardrum and damaged his inner ear. As a result, B.G. has permanent hearing loss and tinnitus, suffers from dizziness and needs to wear a hearing aid, according to the lawsuit.
Not limiting the volume of the earbuds at all is a bit of a move. You'd think limiting to 130dB or something would be common sense.
I actually tried to look if some law prevents the phone manufacturers from just respecting the sound settings of the phone with AMBER alerts. Couldn't find any on a brief search. But lots of instructions on how to turn off the alerts. In fact, it seems to be easier to turn AMBER alerts off entirely than to make them respect the general sound settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL7i0-yVjBU
If you feel that it's not entertaining enough for the thread, turn up your audio volume.
@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
$2,293 [...] for a [...] NFT that grants access to [video game] until February 8
People are paying $2k for essentially a digital ledger entry that acts as a ticket to play a video game (for a limited time).
It's like some kind of weird social experiment. "How badly can we scam rich idiots while telling them openly exactly what we're doing?"
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
again
I'd love to hear what happened the first time.
Nothing spectacular. Somebody triggered a Factory Reset on equipment that had been pre-configured for a specific install location. I presume that they'd been fiddling with the settings, and realized that they couldn't un-do. Factory Reset sounds like the solution, and removes the flashing red alarm marker, but leaves the system in a blank state, where it will not report malfunctions either.
The first such occurrence happened at a site where the installation technicians had been mainly Polish. And mainly because they were cheaper. Hence the "Polish" in the first post. But to be fair, the same later happened in Japan. Since the equipment in question doesn't come with a power cord (permanent screw-terminal power installation), it can't really be fiddled with en route, which greatly narrows down the list of suspects.
Now I've added a query for a pin-code in the UI. the pin code is hard-coded and written down in the manual. The main purpose is to make sure that any technician changing settings has at least read the manual, and so kinda know what they're doing.
@levicki said in Ubuntu has decided to no longer support Steam:
Seriously, new HP Color Laserjet network printers can be had for as low as 260€ (295€ if you also need a scanner), and black-and-white ones start from 135€. They are surely going to work just fine with any OS, have much better print quality, and be much more energy efficient than 15 years old junk people cling to just because
"it still works"it wasn't engineered to fail after 2 years or 10,000 pages, unlike newer consumer printers.
Printers are now all engineered to fail after a set number of pages. Depending on model, they may either start smudging the pages or stop printing entirely, based on the print-counter. So saying that a new printer is "only $X" is disingenuous. How about saying what the printer + lifetime ink (based on engineered obsolescence page count) costs, per page?
Example of defeating engineered obsolescence:
TL;DR: A group of people were demonstrating because the investigation on last year's port explosion was being handled unsatisfactorily. Someone got into their head to shoot into the crowd. Unfortunately, at least some people in the crowd were members of Hezbollah. They went to get guns to shoot back with. And it all went downhill from there...
A single system down, and all flights grounded. Anybody else get a feeling that this reliance on monolithic systems has gone too far?
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Nobody sane uses that crap.
My insurance company uses that as the method for submitting claims.
Yeah...
@Tsaukpaetra said in Linux: Let's try Deepin, the Linux Desktop that will Embarrass Windows 10 and macOS in 2020....:
I always chuckle that virtualization can be so easily detected. So much scare about how viruses and whatever could completely ensconce your machine inside a hypervisor and you can't tell. This warning puts my fears to rest.
What they mean (pick yours):
@Boner And then apparently demanded that you "Submit". I'm afraid to ask what she had to submit to.
@Deadfast You got 'd by this in the good jokes thread, by almost half a year:
Don't remember who posted it. I just saved the image to the "entertain visiting family" folder.
(It's either this or talking politics.... I like the collective picture-viewing better.)