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Posts made by Arantor
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Surely if you’re going for that, the word you want is “buggered” given the person in question?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gern_Blaanston we’ve been over this before, it’s some weird mount he’s set up and called it B for shits and giggles.
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RE: In other news today...
@Zecc or possibly to avoid demonetisation (or censorship). Do they also use the word unalived, unironically, in the video?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston FYI, it sounds the same to people who like them.
Weird Al Yankovic needs to hire the guy who made that video. Those lyrics are fantastic.
Reminds me of the time Weird Al did “Smells Like Nirvana” with the proviso that unlike its inspiration song, you can actually hear the words. And that that is actually part of why Kurt gave him permission to do the song.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Zecc I mean, didn’t they Czech they were dealing with the right person?
(Yes yes, puns thread is , I know)
Straying off topic, writing Limericks and now terrible puns. Have you no shame?
I post here, so no.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@HardwareGeek pay peanuts, get monkeys. They will learn that if you don’t pay the money you get crap results.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Carnage there will be no shortage of work for actual programmers coming along to rip this shit out and replace it with functioning software.
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
@boomzilla said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
@Gern_Blaanston said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
The other part of this meme that isn’t obvious is how it demonstrates Microsoft’s ongoing campaign of aligning interface consistency.
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RE: In other news today...
@PotatoEngineer assume that any sufficiently motivated app maker will find a way, just like uBlock Origin does.
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RE: Random thought of the day
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
How do you know they're not?
Because canonically they’re two different families that happen to have the same last name which isn’t always a sign of being a relative.
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RE: WTF Bites
@topspin the sad part is that probably is what happened, or something like it.
What is wrong with our entire industry?
:professor-farnsworth.gif:
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RE: In other news today...
Days since classified material was leaked on the War Thunder forums: 0
This time, War Thunder introduced “Havana Syndrome” and someone uploaded the Russian manual showing its capability to penetrate armour.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@BernieTheBernie the AI is going to tolerate or even accept human input?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra it just means that other people are really awful at guessing anything about anything they don’t have first hand knowledge about.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I don’t want to toot my own horn but I somehow got a free coffee out of ryanair.
To borrow from Hugh Dennis, it’s not only the name of the company but the name of their cheapest sandwich - rye and air.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@Zecc I mean, didn’t they Czech they were dealing with the right person?
(Yes yes, puns thread is , I know)
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RE: WTF Bites
@loopback0 most Homebrew users want everything upgraded to the latest every single time?
Given how prevalent it is amongst devs, this seems counterproductive.
Especially as any install step updates everything.
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RE: WTF Bites
So I go to install PHP 8.2.
Installation fails trying to install Node 12.
I do not understand how these two things are related.
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RE: WTF Bites
Fuck Homebrew.
I install a new tool that I need. I simply ask it to install a new tool.
It decided that not only should it install that, it should also ruthlessly prune things it thinks are out of date, like slightly not current versions of PHP.
Which, while not actively supported by PHP, are supported by LTS and we have one customer still on 7.4… which has now been excised from my system.
Fucking thanks. I didn’t ask you to run any cleanup steps.
Edit: fuck you Homebrew you also removed the PHP cask I was actually fucking using.
*stomps off to reinstall PHP 8.2.*
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RE: Help Bites
@dkf not so much the rendering as the declaring of it. But to actually try to recreate it.
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RE: Help Bites
I think you're still going to get bitten on that alpha blend on the edge of the colour change.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@HardwareGeek said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
law firm ... incompetence ... amazing
Lawyers. You think you hate them enough, but...
My hatred of lawyers compares favourably - but only just - with AM’s view of humanity.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@Arantor the law firm blaming the judge for making a "bad decision" when it's their incompetence that filed for the wrong couple is amazing.
Well, the law firm made a mistake, went to the judge to get it undone, judge said no. That’s the mistake, they thought the rules didn’t apply to them. But, lawyers.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@HardwareGeek it’s the same article, just the web version which got a slightly different title to the print edition.
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RE: Help Bites
@dkf I think you’re still going to end up getting wrecked on the blending doing it that way if not careful.
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RE: Help Bites
@dkf I think you might even get into blending multiple gradients there.
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RE: Help Bites
@topspin the only way you’re doing this is with blending multiple gradients. There’s just too many parameters to get in otherwise.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...:
No fair providing only a picture of an excerpt of the article! How are we supposed to violate the letter of the thread's name now?
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Carnage said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
It all started with programmable looms.
I'm Bobbin Threadbare. Are you my mother?
Lady Cygna is nowhere to be found. Perhaps by weaving the Transcendence draft you might rectify this.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Bulb so it’s like a hyperactive version of the default Windows Lock Screen. Yay.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
We had a combined class here when I was at school, “design and technology” which rotated through a whole bunch of disciplines, including home economics (cooking, food storage, food hygiene, preservation), textiles (including using a sewing machine), woodwork, metalwork, electronics, product design, packaging design, all sorts of things.
The idea being that you do a rudimentary in everything and specialise for your final two years in a single discipline. (I did electronics, my final project was building a motion based alarm card that you could fit into a desktop PC, with a physical key for the backplate to turn it off. I could have drawn power from the mobo but I just had it battery backed instead.)
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RE: responsivenes with vh and vw
@dkf said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
@Arantor said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
Right click, inspect element, add
overflow-x: scroll
, job done.On my phone?
Well, not with that attitude, clearly!
No, for a phone other strategies are called for, namely bookmarklets that can operate on the current page.
Yes this approach works, I have a “view source” bookmarklet on my iPad for shit like this.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith Tech Twitter has that from a different angle. Like, you can absolutely make a SaaS business from nothing, run it for nothing on serverless and make $10k MRR for apparently no work.
So many pseudo influencers pushing this shit, and as far as I can tell they’re either entirely full of shit (operating the “fake it till you make it” approach) or they have the numbers they claim, from SaaS ventures that guarantee you’ve never heard of and have no idea how anybody has but that clearly they’ve done a deal with some devil to make it actually make the money they claim.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@loopback0 if you're not collecting side quests like baseball cards, are you even playing a Fallout game?
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RE: responsivenes with vh and vw
@dkf said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
@sockpuppet7 said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
all that extra space on the sides, and the text truncated, that is infuriating
What is really frustrating is when left-right scrolling is disabled in those situations. Can't see the whole of the text, and won't let you change that.
Right click, inspect element, add
overflow-x: scroll
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RE: Random thought of the day
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
It’s been canonical since 1933 that they’re married (and the implication is that they were married before this point) though apparently divorce is on the table.
That said, the core Disneyverse does have two unrelated Mouse families, with also two unrelated Duck families (plus the McDuck clan), and the Goof family at one point originally being the Dawg family.
It looks like they went full on for “last name is species” so not technically a drama.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@HardwareGeek it absolutely can fix it if you use enough of it.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Zecc Hanlon’s Razor doesn’t cover competent, merely differentiates malice and incompetence.
Edge cases: competently malicious, maliciously competent, incompetently malicious, maliciously incompetent.
A non-zero number of these descriptors applies to Microsoft at this time. Which one(s) are an exercise in the reader’s certain point of view.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
unless 12 comes out and undoes a significant amount of the fucktacular bullshit
What are the chances of Microsoft doing that?
Slim to fuck all but I was surprised by the (quiet) announcement of “we’re going back to a 3 year cadence” instead of this rolling shitshow they initially promised, so I figure if that’s the case it’s theoretically possible 12 won’t be a disaster.
All signs and portents suggest the announcement in the summer, release in the autumn. Plenty of time for me to learn if it’s a shitshow and to continue preparation for migrating to Linux if so.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@remi nope, because I know that Win10 stopped being good a couple of years ago with its incremental changes that no one needed, and it’s mostly that I’ve put up with it thus far.
I’m not angry about the “forced to stick” because I chose to adopt Win10 at the time rather than be too sad about the loss of Win7, because actually I didn’t have that much dislike or frustration. The only big drama I had until more recently was that 1803 (or 1809?) figure out how to install itself correctly because my machine had a slightly weird drive setup, and this was a problem other folks experienced with the same model of laptop that I had, but a manual reinstall solved it.
But Win10 2019 feels a lot less shitty to me than Win10 2024 does and that’s the train I’m now looking how to get off in the least worst fashion. If Win10 had remained how it was, I would be angry and sad about moving on but MS made that decision quite easy that I need to get off the Win10 train.
The only question is where, and it’s entirely possible the next iteration will be something Linuxy.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@remi said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
the thing is, Win10 bucked that trend in a nasty way.
Au contraire, I think it's pretty much following the trend, as you illustrate since you're now clinging to it. That you do that because of the shittiness of Win11 rather than any love of Win10 doesn't change that.
No, I’m looking at my options a full year before EOL.
What I have right now is usable. Moving to anything, regardless of what it is, even Win11, is more effort than doing nothing.
Therefore I am using the window before EOL to assess if new options that are more desirable are coming (Win12 not being a shitshow) or alternatives (moving to Linux).
I would hardly describe planning a move a year before the deadline as “clinging to it”.