Is anyone monitoring main page comments? Is there any plan to put any spam protection in? The older ones are rapidly being inundated under waves of spam. Everything from the last week has at least a half-dozen spam comments at the end: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/do-while-false/2, http://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/robotic-implementation, etc, and I'm sure it goes back way farther.
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Recent spam attacks on main page articles
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RE: Recent spam attacks on main page articles
Well, yesterday's comments got two whole pages of spam. C'mon, at least try to put in some filtering?
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RE: Non-IT WTF: Feminism WTF
Indeed, this seems specifically like something that a proper script would present that upfront, or somehow alleviate tension. Instead it seems custom-designed to get the most hostile responses possible, short of calling them "toots" or "dame". This is definitely a management WTF, since they're the ones who would create the scripts and train users on the interactions.
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RE: I have failed as an IT Professional
Many regular markers (and sharpies) keep their ink liquid with aggressive solvent compounds. Such compounds end up eating through the disk's protective layers. After a few years of letting the solvent do its work, you end up exposing the reflective layer to corrosion or the solvent just eats into it outright.
Always use a marker explicitly created for writing on a disk surface, because those should not be manufactured with solvents known to react to the various disk coatings that are used by disk manufacturers.
Er, solvents evaporate quickly, as in a matter of seconds to days. Slipping them into a protective plastic sleeve immediately or stacking them right on top of each other is a bad idea, but even putting them into a slim case with minimal airflow is plenty of room for the solvents to dissolve themselves into the air and be on their merry way -- that even goes for the universal solvent, water. They'd only be dangerous to the box it was held in as they eventually condense. The drying time is also the evaporation time of the solvents, or at least 99% of them.
They range from Butane and Acetone (which vaporize nearly instantly) to the exotic solvents found in actual Sharpies, which the longest of which (Butanol and Diacetone) might stick around for ten minutes or so at room temp.
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RE: Crontab typo
Imagine if the UI was different to the API. Then you could change the commands used by humans working with the software, while other software hooking into it was still presented with the same interface.
Someone should invent something like that
That's a good idea. They could call it something like an interface, even. They could have command-line versions, application program versions, and even user versions, the possibilities are endless.
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RE: Give all your data to the clown!
@Weng said:
WtfCorp uses Google Drive and gdocs for "everything".
So do our users. They like it much more than the Sharepoint site provided by central IT; they can actually collaborate on things and it Just Works™. The vast majority of our stuff is only sensitive in so far as it hasn't been published in a scientific journal yet.
I think there's software that can layer good encryption on top to get real corporate control and so on, but our users don't care about that. (Is strong-encrypted data really out of your control when the encrypted version ends up in a foreign jurisdiction?)
Indeed. Well-administered Sharepoint is much more beneficial to users in a Microsoft environment than any other cloud solution.... and I've seen a grand total of one well-administered farm in my lifetime, compared to dozens of slipshod ones that should have been sent to an early grave. Not that Microsoft makes it easy with good management tools, you apparently need a Ph.D. to properly administer Sharepoint. I'd rather take a corporate Google Docs account any day, mere mortals can easily handle that.
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RE: Beware the ides of double-quote
Now I kind of want to know what in the Sam Hill this post was originally attached to. Then again, maybe I don't, I spent years excising the horror of CS.
Latest posts made by foxyshadis
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RE: Recent spam attacks on main page articles
Well, yesterday's comments got two whole pages of spam. C'mon, at least try to put in some filtering?
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RE: Recent spam attacks on main page articles
@cabrito Spammers are too indiscriminate to care, whether they're going for SEO or clicks. Search engines mostly ignore them already.
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Recent spam attacks on main page articles
Is anyone monitoring main page comments? Is there any plan to put any spam protection in? The older ones are rapidly being inundated under waves of spam. Everything from the last week has at least a half-dozen spam comments at the end: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/do-while-false/2, http://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/robotic-implementation, etc, and I'm sure it goes back way farther.
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RE: Give all your data to the clown!
@Weng said:
WtfCorp uses Google Drive and gdocs for "everything".
So do our users. They like it much more than the Sharepoint site provided by central IT; they can actually collaborate on things and it Just Works™. The vast majority of our stuff is only sensitive in so far as it hasn't been published in a scientific journal yet.
I think there's software that can layer good encryption on top to get real corporate control and so on, but our users don't care about that. (Is strong-encrypted data really out of your control when the encrypted version ends up in a foreign jurisdiction?)
Indeed. Well-administered Sharepoint is much more beneficial to users in a Microsoft environment than any other cloud solution.... and I've seen a grand total of one well-administered farm in my lifetime, compared to dozens of slipshod ones that should have been sent to an early grave. Not that Microsoft makes it easy with good management tools, you apparently need a Ph.D. to properly administer Sharepoint. I'd rather take a corporate Google Docs account any day, mere mortals can easily handle that.
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RE: Crontab typo
Imagine if the UI was different to the API. Then you could change the commands used by humans working with the software, while other software hooking into it was still presented with the same interface.
Someone should invent something like that
That's a good idea. They could call it something like an interface, even. They could have command-line versions, application program versions, and even user versions, the possibilities are endless.
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RE: Crontab typo
Introducing
getopt_long
, courtesy GNU. The single-letter versions will remain forever due to backwards compatibility though.Especially since new software keeps reusing single-letters, mostly because old software did.
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RE: Crontab typo
FTFY, although I can't choose which version is better. Maybe both?
I think I meant to say "ease of creation." One letter SURE BEATS a whole long name.
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RE: I have replaced myself with a simple neural network
Awesome, I've always wanted an H1-B mailing list question generator.
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RE: Crontab typo
The biggest WTF is not the -r option, but the -i option.
It's a safety against this thing happening... but you have to explicitly enable it every time? This doesn't even begin to make sense .
You know those machines where you have to hold two separate buttons for them to work so you can't get your hands caught in them? It's like adding a third button that you also have to hold if you want the safety mechanism to work.
It's having to hold the second safety button to activate the safety at all, otherwise it always happens. Lean your elbow on the main button and the plant blows up. SIMPSON!
I understand dry run options, but destructive options might need one last sanity check. Command lines tend to think about ease of use over failure modes, though.
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RE: Epic site design
Kept clicking on HELP plunger, nothing happened. 0/10, would not order internet penis again.