Cross training eh?
Best posts made by blek
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RE: Internet of shit
Wake me up when someone walks on the moon at all. Wake up, sheeple!
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RE: The Google Memo and the terrible reporting of it
@sumireko It's not ironic, it just follows the trend. Modern liberalism is the opposite of liberalism, just like social justice is the opposite of justice, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is actually a totalitarian feudal monarchy, and the Great October Socialist Revolution wasn't that big at all, was Bolshevik instead of socialist, was more like a coup d'etat than a revolution, and happened in November.
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RE: Ouch Google, that's a bit low!
On the positive side, you'll be spared when Google's murderbots start wiping humanity.
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RE: WTF Bites
My energy company has an online portal that allows you to check a bunch of things - make sure that your bills are all paid, change your tariffs, that kind of thing. It's pretty useful.
Or was, because I just went there and login is disabled. All you can do is get links to PDFs to a couple of commonly used forms, and there's a note explaining that the portal is currently unavailable because they're deploying a new version, and "they'll be back in September". It's the 15th of July. TWO MONTHS TO DEPLOY A NEW VERSION?!
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RE: The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!
@Gribnit said in The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!:
Oh shit, it could be literally anyone!
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RE: A WINS Server is Required
Off topic, but since OP mentioned Cisco Meraki and I don't know shit about networking, I googled it to see what it was. Found the website... and found this quote on it:
WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU EVER DO THAT?! AAAAHHHHHHH!
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RE: Dumb things being crowdfunded.
Alright, I officially win the thread.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mainecannabiskid/rick-and-morty-pickle-rick-condoms
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RE: WTF Bites
Tried to
docker pull nginx
, can't becauseno supported platform found in manifest list
. I'm doing this on an x86_64 machine, not some kind of hipster architecture. Turns out this is why:Sometimes, we'll have non-amd64 image build jobs finish before their amd64 counterparts, and due to the way we push the manifest list objects to the library namespace on the Docker Hub, that results in amd64-using folks (our primary target users) getting errors of the form "no supported platform found in manifest list" or "no matching manifest for XXX in the manifest list entries" (see linked issues below for several reports from users of this variety).
The issue is open since December, and has a ton of other issues linked to it, so people keep hitting it all the time. Sigh.
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RE: Dumb things being crowdfunded.
Are you such a goddamned turboautist you can't just communicate to your boyfriend, girlfriend or gimp that you want to bump uglies? Fear not!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lovesync/lovesync-kickstart-your-love-life/description
This thing better emit enough radiation to sterilize anyone dumb enough to buy it.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dreikin I didn't edit the post at all.
The only possible explanation for this is that we're not actually talking on a web forum in the usual sense. Instead, any post we send goes to a mailserver and is eventually printed out somewhere at Inedo's basement, where a group of people who are both very fast typers and are also chained to the wall mark the post up as HTML and add it to what looks like a forum but is basically a completely static website. Now one of them made a typo, and will probably be whipped for his transgression.
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Siemens Healthineers
So, the healthcare department/subsidiary/whatever of Siemens decided to change its name to "Healthineers". Then, to celebrate this huge, world-changing leap in enabling customer success and to show their employees as well as the entire world how hip, trendy and modern they are, they threw a huge party... and it's the cringiest corporate propaganda event I've seen in a long time. Just watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKp5YQXWwc
About 2 weeks ago I came to work to find a booklet titled "THE BOOK OF $COMPANY_NAME" on my desk, full of masturbatory bullshit about how transparent our decision making is and how we're all one big family enthusiastic about leveraging synergies, or some shit. I was pretty pissed off then. But this right here... this just made me appreciate how good I have it.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@ben_lubar Ben, again, I implore you, please go do something else for a while, for the sake of both your own mental health and this forums. I know "please save the forums" doesn't sound very compelling right now, because you're angry and you'd rather see it die than continue to permit people you hate to talk, but you'll hopefully feel different after you sleep on it. I promise to stop shitposting, it's already past midnight for me anyway and I should go sleep.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Spotted in my hometown
(For those of you who haven't seen this absolute peak of European cinema:)
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RE: WTF Bites
Oh, and another project, one that I actually care about, just announced some major changes, including the schedule for a new major release deployment - over a podcast, and literally no other way. This is how I imagine the decision making process behind that:
Asshole 1: Hey, we should probably do an announcement about the next release, it's going to be big.
Asshole 2: Yes, but how do we make this as inconvenient as possible to everyone? Also, I'm a fucking retard so instead of doing something productive, I want to spend an hour just talking about shit into a microphone. And I want to make everyone listen to my annoying, nasally voice, because I have a gigantic ego.
Asshole 1: Oh man, that gives me an idea: how about we do a podcast? So instead of everyone being able to get the most important info by skimming through the announcement in 30 seconds, they'll have to listen to us talk for 60 fucking minutes, while staring at a blank screen the entire time like complete fucking assholes so they don't miss anything?
Asshole 2: Wow, you're a fucking genius!Calm down, Blek, calm down, the Christmas shutdown starts soon, think happy thoughts...
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RE: New bill would ban auto-scrolling and auto-play videos
Fuck yeah, make web 1.0 again!
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RE: Internet of shit
The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a "challenge to do".
"Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs," the smart speaker said.
I think Alexa might be a 4chan user.
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RE: WTF Bites
Just opened the Play Store on my phone. On the top there's a section titled "Don't forget to try - Recommended for you". Literally every single app shown in that section is currently installed on this device, and the store even knows that, because there's a little icon in the corner indicating this.
Excellent design, Google, you're really pushing the UX envelope. I can't wait for those self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses.
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RE: Dumb things being crowdfunded.
Carry a piece of fucking cardboard around with you, so you can rest your head on a piece of fucking cardboard! Upgrade your sleep! Eco-friendly! Designed by a rocket scientist! "PowerSiesta has worried about all the technical bits" on this piece of fucking cardboard! Only 12 fucking USD for the earliest backers! Retail price TWENTY!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/powersiesta/powersiesta
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RE: Nope
@boomzilla Ha, that reminds me.
My friends have a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog, which is a cross between a German Shepherd and a wolf, originally bred for the Czechoslovak Border Guard. Normally they look like a German Shepherd with a different color scheme, but this one has longer fur than most so he legitimately looks like a wolf that wandered here straight out of Siberia. The most amazing looking dog I've ever seen.
A few months ago the poor bastard got his snout scratched somewhere and caught a really nasty infection. The vet put him on antibiotics which seemed to help, but he kept scratching it till he drew blood, and then he scratched his ears too and the infection spread there as well.
That was about 3 months ago, and I was spending New Year's Eve with them. I swung by to drop some stuff off before the party, and Kali (the dog) ran to the room to greet me, and then he shook off as if he just got out of deep water, and covered me and my friend in tiny droplets of blood, because apparently I just interrupted one of his long ear-scratching sessions when I came in. My friend got some on her face, and my pants looked like I forgot to put on a rainsuit before a murder spree.
NOPE
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RE: Internet of shit
@izzion If you buy anything from Samsung you deserve everything bad that ever happens to you.
Then again, I'm going to be moving into my own place in near-ish future and I've been putting together a list of stuff I'll need/want to buy. A decent sized TV for watching movies from local storage is one of those, but non-smart TVs are becoming really hard to find (and impossible if you want 4K). Sure, you can just not connect it to your network, but I hear some of these things sneaky bastards that just connect to any unencrypted wi-fi they can find and transfer god knows what over it. Neighbors have unprotected wifi = your farts are now being analyzed. Sigh...
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RE: WTF Bites
This isn't cropped weird, it's just stuck at the bottom of the page like that, with the button labels hidden, even when scrolling. Can't wait for the update!
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RE: No RadioWTF this year?
@magus The front page is real. Here: https://what.thedailywtf.com/category/49/trolleybus-garage
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RE: In other news today...
The journalist who suffered this simulated sex act
Does the article author think sex means repeatedly crouching and standing up?
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RE: Tinder is shit
Big if true
Also, what the hell is that article? The title says "see what you get", the body says "Tinder has revealed", followed immediately by "lol noone knows what it's supposed to do", and then it talks about $60 per month instead of $500. And the whole thing is like ten short sentences. I know this is The Sun but good lord.
Can't happen soon enough, really.
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RE: The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!
@boomzilla Alright, thanks for explaining the situation. I'll bury my valaška for now.
One thing, though: Yes, @Lorne-Kates "generally avoids" the Garage - and instead he just goes absolutely mental once in a while and posts a completely unhinged rant outside of it. That's not keeping out of the Garage, that's just shitting up everything else. Again, I don't want him banned or anything like that, and when this shit happens it gets Jeffed to where it belongs pretty fast, so I don't really want anything to change, but I feel like this needs to be pointed out.
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RE: WTF Bites
The biggest Czech news portal is having a stroke. On some reloads, every character with an accent (á, ó, č, ř, ...) is replaced with
ďż˝
. Theż
character is especially puzzling because the language doesn't have one of those. It only seems to happen upon loading the front page, a refresh or clicking on any article and then going back fixes it. -
RE: The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!
@kt_ But... if Boomzilla is banned, and we're all his alts...
I don't feel so good
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@polygeekery Some people will never learn I guess
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RE: The Polygeekery ban is a false flag operation!
@Deadfast You do know that Fox has the journalistic integrity of breitbart and the accuracy of a moron trying to give a speech on acid, right? Even just reading the article, it has two sources: a facebook post from a secondary source and a local news site that itself cites zero sources and adds nothing to the credibility of the story. Furthermore, it doesn't list the author of the article. Yet another perfect example of the shady practices that made Fox famous for being a fake news site. For all we know, this entire situation could be made up, and even assuming the local news site is telling the truth to the best of their ability, that still just means that the McD's franchise owner received a complaint and responded to that complaint in some fashion, which could just as easily have been to check security camera footage, see that the cop was not treated that way, and promptly ignore the complaint.
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RE: In other news today...
@anotherusername In soviet Czechia, is always zero on filthy capitalist pigdog scale of temperature measuring.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Mason_Wheeler I believe that's a "you're going to a home the moment you retire, and it's not gonna be a nice one" face
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RE: It's 2017, where the hell is my Optimus keyboard?
@anonymous234 I think you answered your own question. The Optimus was available some time after the pictures made their rounds around the internet, and you can still buy one now, albeit one that is inferior to the original, and they even sell the extra keypad you think is a good idea. The question is, why would you? This is the kind of stuff that a geek would buy, except geeks don't look at their keyboards when they type. Instead, geeks buy mechanical keyboards with blank keycaps as status symbols. "Look ma, no eyes!"
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RE: Florida Man goes to...
Alabama man and his methed-out attack squirrel sidekick