@cvi the bit that kills me is that what is old is new again. The web was always somewhat decentralised and then the social media juggernauts happened.
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RE: WTF Bites
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RE: Web USB
https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/system/site-logo.png
The emoji form is too damn small to indicate the levels of wrong here.
So not only is there a major in 'why u let internet have control over hardware it has no fucking business having control over', they're then expecting the hardware manufacturers to practice defence-in-depth. It's not their fucking responsibility to protect against this kind of shit.
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RE: In other news today...
@luhmann well, if she's going down the hill, it is from her perspective, an ex-hill. Combine this fact with the fact that with the effect of gravity, one usually accelerates while travelling down a hill and you get the word exhilarating, as a portmanteau of these things.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Of course not, they're not us and clearly are using it the way it was intended...
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RE: Tinder is shit
@boomzilla I’d be up for eating rotisserie chicken in the parking lot and talking about aliens. I think it’d be a decent evening out all things considered, but I’m probably not what he wants in a “date”.
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RE: WTF Bites
@topspin Hanzo is the keeper of the Book of Five Rings, and he stalks across the Dresden campus of Hesse University, like a ninja in the night.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
See, you all joke, but I give you https://www.npmjs.com/package/true
This is a real fucking package, that literally just returns
true
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RE: Necros
Why is it we only complain about necromancers? Why not rangers, warriors, guardians, revenants, mesmers, engineers, thieves or elementalists?
This joke was brought to you from the comedy circuit of Lion's Arch, Tyria, for more information see guildwars2.com
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RE: In other news today...
Well, that's going to be fun. Intentionally bricking libraries to stick it to the man, that's a new one.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Now is always now by definition
It's also an infinitely short eternity. Then again it depends if you're using
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Indeed... and yet he still overtook me.
I want to thank everyone here for this because this is all awesome and why I love TDWTF for being the place it is.
Oh, and just so everyone knows, I retook my place already ;)
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
100!
There you go, @royal_poet! Your ransom has been paid!
Aaaaawww, that is so awesome, thank you!
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RE: Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair
@cartman82 it's not the monetary amount, it's the principle. Swallowing the loss is what reasonable people do, which is why arses like Telstra can do this.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
I would totally love to see try/catch replaced with fuckaround/findout as a standard language feature and not a macro.
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RE: Re: Fuck Google
@kt_ said in Re: Fuck Google:
Apple is a larger company, but it doesn't hate its customers, so I don't understand where you're going with this?...
This is the company that literally told its customers that they were holding their phones wrong.
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RE: Can I borrow an apology?
I feel like this captures the mood well somehow.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status:
[ ok ] Lego parcel arrived. [ ok ] Parcel contains two Lego sets. [ ok ] Sets identified as correct to order. [warn] There are still more than two hours left in the work day.
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Muted. /t/1000 was fun while it lasted, and will be fun again if it is ever resurrected. However, the replacements are, IMHO, pointless. Neither are likely to get enough participation to cause significant breakage the way /t/1000 did, which was (theoretically) the point of /t/1000. If they do get that much participation, they will be too much time and effort to keep up with, and they will probably also just get shut down, too.
QFT(and likes)
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RE: In other news today...
Details are still sketchy but... the game engine Unity announced a new licence change coming in for 2024: https://unity.com/pricing-updates
Basically if your game goes over a certain amount of revenue + installs, you as the developer get to start paying Unity per install.
The exact amounts/tiers depend on what Unity licence you as a developer have.
The other amazing highlights of this:
- uninstalling + reinstalling, or installing on two computers = 2 installs
- charity/bundles will apparently somehow be exempt (but no-one knows how that's going to work)
- no clarity on how licensing via, say, GamePass is going to work
- the assumption is that game demos count towards the same limit
Just think for a moment: if installing a game sends home telemetry to the engine manufacturer, what are the chances that someone is going to fuck with that, say via piracy? Or, say, automating install + boot + uninstall + repeat of a game for a developer you don't like to make them pay actual money.
Unity seems to be under the impression that this won't happen, and that they're going to put some kind of anti-fraud measures in place.
This also comes on the heels of dropping out the 'plus' plan with the effect of pushing people up onto the pro plan (= price hike of $1600 per seat per year for many users)
This even comes into effect, apparently, for games already released using Unity but counting new installs from 1st January.
I bet Unreal, Godot, GameMaker et al are loving this free promotion today.
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RE: WTF Bites
I don't really care. But using symbols like that is just being hindering awkward and stupid.
Makes it beautifully self-selecting.
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RE: WTF Bites
Like it or loathe it, WooCommerce is a major brand name in its field. And it’s owned by Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.
And until relatively recently, the site was WooCommerce.com
They had a rebrand, become just Woo, even to the point of acquiring woo.com to do it.
They announced over the weekend that after consulting with a team of SEO experts, they’re reverting back to the longer domain.
Apparently it was harder to find them online, and “Google’s March update” made it worse so they’re going back to the brand they spent years building.
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RE: Instead of buying a quality router for $60, buy this special plug that reboots your shitty router
Only problem is that this product is not called ITAPPMONROBOT.
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RE: WTF Bites
So @royal_poet just installed Win10 AU. Spare us the idiot comments, we know, it's AU.
And Cortana re-established herself, the condescending intrusive cow that she is.
I got to observe @royal_poet yelling a little at Cortana, with the final line of 'Cortana, fuck off', which not removed Cortana from the taskbar but also opened an Edge window, to Bing for the search phase, and I quote,
Cortana, f*** o**
.Not sure if good idea, bad idea, quixotic idea or simply WTF, but it seemed like a small bit of that we can all enjoy, especially as values of will vary.
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RE: WTF Bites
@royal_poet and I share Steam libraries with each other, of course, and I was going to try The Witcher III. Then I noticed this:
Seems @royal_poet is an early adopter of Steam and in particular The Witcher III... so early it's from before either of us were born.
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RE: In other news today...
@Benjamin-Hall I'm not 100% sure of humanity making it through the year at the moment, let alone 10,000 of them.
goes to play Muse in the background
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Ish that the door to Shir Sean Connery’sh houshe?
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RE: WTF Bites
Have been trying to buy a small rug or mat I can put by the door for the wiping of feet. This is not particularly exciting or interesting.
But I found a floor rug earlier, at least it claimed to be one, except it said quite clearly on the description: no foot traffic.
What does that mean? It's decorative floor-wear? You're meant to hang it up as art?
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RE: WTF Bites
I just got an email from my grocery company - I do weekly shops online because fuck walking to the store.
They just emailed me to tell me that they’re staggering Christmas shopping slots and that I get to pick/reserve mine next week.
This means I effectively start the Christmas food shop next week, and as per their email, save + update the cart up until 2 days before my slot closes in the week of 20th-24th December.
It’s fucking September. I’m normally a “go buy the Christmas food a few days before” kinda guy… I don’t book my food 3 months in advance.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Student should have just answered every question with FILE_NOT_FOUND rather than constructing handwriting that tries to say true and false at the same time.
Though kudos to the kid for essentially figuring out Schrodinger’s Pop Quiz at a young age, I predict they’ll go far.
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RE: WTF Bites
@error that’s damned idiotic. I remember a manager who tried that back in the day to “prove” someone else on the team was never on time, and she believed in all sincerity that the system was inviolate.
I bet them that I could go two weeks without swiping in or out, just to prove the swiping was utterly useless, let alone proving promptness. And this was in 2007, I was in the office every day. If I could go the two weeks, she’d buy me lunch at any venue of my choice - and if I lost, I’d return the favour.
It’s not hard to tailgate literally every day to an office that only has one door, and any number of people who were more than happy to open the door for me.
Using it for proving presence is about as moronic, I wonder if you can claim overtime for it as a malicious compliance fee.
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RE: The contractor that should not be
@DCoder I'm impressed, you got shafted with a worse PHP dev that we've had to deal with.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@topspin translation: 92% of people who are the kind of people who’d fill in a GitHub survey are using AI. Specifically, already strong overlaps with the techbro circle in the Venn diagram.
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RE: What is the meaning of OR?
@izzion English is the PHP of human communication languages. It's inconsistent at best, many books have been written on 'how to use it' but all of them are bad advice given by people who don't know any better, all of the advice is at least two generations out of date but is still accepted as gospel and while things have improved, everyone else still carries the old reputation around in their mind so we're all still thoroughly fucked while some folks pine for the olden days when everything was simpler.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I think I maintained the software equivalent of that in PHP one time.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Atazhaia said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Was reminded of the local Pessimist Consultant (Ronny Eriksson) and two of his words of wisdom:
I woke up this morning and that was that day ruined.
It’s never too late to give up.
Never too late to let you down.
Never too late to desert you.
Never too late to make you cry,
Never too late to say goodbye,
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RE: Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
@alexmedia except somehow webslack eats way less resources than appslack.
You might say... when it comes to holding in resources...
It has a Slack Bladder
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RE: What are the rules for sockpuppets here?
Having been a forum user and forum admin for too many years, the only rules you need for sock puppets are:
- Sock puppets are not for being a dick to everyone else
- Admins should be aware of the owner
Everything boils down to these two rules. There's no need to outline what sock puppets may do, only what they may not.
And remember this place is way more tolerant than many, sock puppets are generally frowned upon because other than bot running, there are surprisingly few legitimate reasons for sock puppetry, and all them are covered by rule 1.
I like how the argument is currently "I want to be a dick to people but others are being mean and backseat moderating" as opposed to "this shit shouldn't even be necessary to debate because being a dick to people is not entirely ok"
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
Fairly sure I did mention it had been locked (when it was the second coming of the Great Big Padlock)