security people trash our machines with hackish security software, then they are clueless when our stuff is broken and we can't work
Best posts made by sockpuppet7
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RE: The Official Status Thread
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd suggest you eat healthier, but as I understand you live in the States so that might by difficult.
They are really small, the average height there is 5.9, while the european average height is 180
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Company released a memo with a internal regulation about they finally allowing 1-day a week of homeoffice as a pilot. It's text is just it repeating over and over that you really have to still make the normal 8h-18h hours, and that your superior has to remind you that you have to really work when you're in homeoffice and how much screwed you're going to get if you don't work in the homeoffice. I think I'm better off coming to the office than dealing with all this distrust where they assume you're going to slack off by default. They forgot people slack in the office too.
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RE: Here's a phishing scam. Don't click it.
I once sent a friend a program he asked, renamed to virus.exe. He refused to run it, no matter how much I explained I just renamed it. Had to send the original file.
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RE: Feature request: notifications for downvotes
@Lorne-Kates said in Feature request: notifications for downvotes:
@ben_lubar said in Feature request: notifications for downvotes:
I'd like to get rid of the voting system
Wait until one of my post is the highest rated post in the forum.
Then shut down the voting.
Because I'm the best.
Your most voted post is a speech on how @ben_lubar is the best. And Ben's most voted (non likes topic) is a quote attributed to Jeff Atwood hence Atwood is the best.
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RE: The world's most terrifying job
@the_quiet_one said in The world's most terrifying job:
And this is hardly the most terrifying job. That label better fits for overnight pizza delivery driver serving W Preston St. in Baltimore.
If by world you mean the USA.
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RE: Any of you from India?
@weng What about people that never been to India and read this anyway, wasting their own time? Did you think about those? Huh?
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RE: WTF Bites
Emergency message system in the phone network is being used to spam users by their operators in some cities
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RE: `s/www\.//g`
Google plans to replace urls with the contents being signed iirc
Edit: this thing: https://www.ampproject.org/latest/blog/a-first-look-at-using-web-packaging-to-improve-amp-urls/
It will still be a URL, but it's no longer the URL your browser is downloading from. I believe it won't take long with this for your browser to be displaying something completely unrelated to a URL, this thing being abused in worse ways than URLs already are, and we have zalgo on the address bar.
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RE: Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass
There goes our chances of ever seeing an epic flame war between blakeyrat and linus about git. That would be the best flame war ever.
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RE: When being configurable is more important than being useful
@stillwater wikipedia was more useful than expected to answer that
In Polish and Kashubian, ą is right after a in the alphabet but never appears at the beginning of a word. Originally ą was a nasal a but in modern times, its pronunciation has shifted to a nasal o sound. The letter doesn't simply have one determined pronunciation, but most often it will be pronounced /ɔw̃/, or just simply /ɔ/ followed by a nasal consonant with a place of articulation that appears in the Polish language. Therefore, ą will sometimes be pronounced as /ɔn/, /ɔm/, /ɔŋ/, /ɔɳ/, /ɔɲ/.
Unlike French but rather like Portuguese ão, nasal vowels in Polish are asynchronous: they are pronounced as an oral vowel + a nasal semivowel [ɔw̃] or a nasal vowel + a nasal semivowel.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
not long ago, I needed disk space, and the uninstall from a game didn't run because there was no space for some temporary shit
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RE: The Official Status Thread
beware it's april fools today, we changed the calendar
https://wibble.fbmac.net/news/april-fools-day-moved-to-june-31
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla said in I, ChatGPT:
@topspin but...but...
You just need another AI to supervise. Easy!
and another over this one to make sure
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This site is run by immortal vampires
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης) was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer, and poet born on March 4, 1851, on the island of Skiathos in the western part of the Aegean Sea¹. He moved to Athens as a young man to complete his high school studies and enrolled at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens but never completed his studies due to economic difficulties¹. He supported himself by writing throughout his adult life, anything from journalism and short stories to several serialized novels¹. Papadiamantis is best remembered for his scores of short stories that provide lucid and lyrical portraits of country life in Skiathos or urban life in the poorer neighborhoods of Athens, with frequent flashes of deep psychological insight¹. He died of pneumonia on January 3, 1911, in Skiathos¹.
Isn't short stories as close as one can get from thedailywtf for someone in the 19 century? That was clearly @apapadimoulis , and he invented this pneumonia to cover his age, highlander style
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Why can't I task switch in my phone without it reloading the page when I switch back to it?
Not only chrome does that, but also Baconreader. I had a better browsing experience with 16MB RAM computers.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@DogsB said in I, ChatGPT:
spit out John McCane and Dean Winchester erotica
You're not using the right tool for the job, look here:
wizard-mega-13b-awq can be downloaded to run locally, but I used Replicate, it's free for some number of daily requests, then you pay by the token
There are more uncensored models around, but I don't have the hardware to run it, this is what I found on replicate.I found this list that claim that "Wizard Vicuna 13B Uncensored SuperHOT" is the most uncensored, but the variant it listed isn't on replicate or anywhere I can run it on the the web, I think it's too uncensored for these services.
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RE: It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account
@codinghorror1 well, I know I'll miss your participation here, that forum drama was way overblown, and a misunderstanding about what how @apapadimoulis runs things here.
If you come back, you'll see that outside the garage and threads that weren't specifically annoying to you the experience on this forum improved a lot. Things are being moved to the garage when they get out of hand, and people behave better here.
I also miss blakey and Lorne, I'm not taking sides here, I would just like everyone to chill out and focus on the fun side of things here.
And if someone close one of your topics as a duplicate to make fun on stack overflow I'll still laugh of that.
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RE: MPS Banned?
@pie_flavor said in MPS Banned?:
@kt_ I consider it a mark of honor that I was able to defeat @Polygeekery once.
Wait, flame wars have winners? I can't point anyone as having won any of these.
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RE: I hate Scala
@gąska It reinforces my skepticism about tech lots of people claim is the greatest thing ever on the internet, yet it isn't popular. There is always a reason it isn't being adopted quickly.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I just convinced some people they should ask our customers if they tried turning a device off and on again before replacing it
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Zerosquare they're from Boston, they're upside down and have the wrong number of strings
and the strings are probably zero terminated pointers to chat arrays
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RE: Python - My take
@cartman82 JavaScript needs some threading, maybe they can take it from Python
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RE: Indian Recruiters
@stillwater said in Indian Recruiters:
Me: Alright. I make XXXX and I -
HR: Oh shi- * Hangs up the fucking phone *Better than the ones that make you go for 3 different interviews just to say they can't pay what you're asking for.
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RE: Dreams of widows running on Linux (and not just hardware)
@izzion said in Dreams of widows running on Linux (and not just hardware):
@boomzilla said in Dreams of widows running on Linux (and not just hardware):
@Groaner said in Dreams of widows running on Linux (and not just hardware):
Anyone who has read The Old New Thing for any length of time and thus knows of the decades of compatibility hacks Microsoft has implemented to keep legacy software running will be able to tell you that this is a lost cause.
Unless the plan is to break all that software and piss off a lot of people.
How long do we have until Excel is an electron app?
You say that as if Excel 365 isn't already the predominant platform
Not long ago I received a word-based form and opening it with libreoffice messed too much with the formatting. Then I signed up for office 365, and the formatting was still messed up. With the normal Word app it worked fine. What's the point of office 365 if it isn't better than the free stuff?
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Sandwich bites
@Karla said in Help Bites:
You need help on something but it doesn't need a full thread.
You're hungry but it you don't need a full sandwhich thread.
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RE: Firefox is getting new icons. Again.
@topspin said in Firefox is getting new icons. Again.:
Stop fucking with it, before you arrive at a red circle.
Maybe that's their endgame. Imagine associating any red circle with Firefox. That would be ultimate brand recognition.
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How to be fired at Salesforce
Some dude was fired for using an innapropriate costume at Salesforce's brazillian branch company party. Some director argued against it, and was fired too. Then their brazillian head argued against it, and he too was fired.
edit: this is the only translated version of this thing I found http://localsofbrazil.com/holiday/costume-at-company-party-causes-crm-executives-to-be-fired-in-sao-paulo/
This is the costume he used (very NSFW):
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RE: Windows update.
said in Windows update.:
Frankly, I'm annoyed that there's no "Ok, yes, I know, I'll restart the computer when I'm ready. Piss off, I'm still playing a round or two..." button for windows update.
Yes, I know critical updates have been installed to my computer.
Yes, I'm aware that I have to restart my computer for these to be effective.
No, I do not want to restart now. I will restart later. This is the same thing I told you the last 2 times.
STOP NAGGING ME!You shouldn't have upgraded to windows 10
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RE: The minor rants thread.
A series I'm watching ended season 1 with a big cliffhanger, and it was solved and dismissed in the first 15min of season 2 episode 1.
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RE: Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
@HardwareGeek said in Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score:
FSM coverage
Flying spaghetti monster coverage?
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RE: Commuting WTF Thread
@AlexMedia said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Autonomous cars won't get you to your destination any quicker though, it will only make it possible for you to do something else while the car brings you there.
You could take an Uber. Then you'll notice it isn't that useful, because doing anything in a moving car sucks.
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RE: The Linux command line sucks
@jaloopa Following one of the answers to your link led me to something that made any CLI look good:
To use the original dsw, you would set the front panel switches to a number and run dsw, which would then read that number of entries from the current directory, print on the terminal the name of the last one it had read, and crash itself, leaving a core dump. You could then, if you wanted, remove the file it had named by reexecuting the core file.
Source:
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I did stupid
Some time ago I put a custom CSS to hide avatars. Now I wanted to get to my profile settings to change paging size and it's gone. I need to get there to change the custom CSS thing too.
INB4, I know how to work around it, just wanted to share this moment of stupidity
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RE: Bumping Old Posts - w-t-m-f?
I think bumping should be solved by sorting the post list by number of users that posted on it in the last X days, instead of sorting by the timestamp of the last post
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RE: The minor rants thread.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
Basically no in-game transaction support
An entire store without pay-to-win games? Sounds perfect, where can I find this?
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RE: Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass
@Lorne-Kates said in Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass:
Oh, and then they can also overpay for fad-focues "gluten-free" products that look, smell and taste like shit, but are perfect for parting suckers from their money.
My father is allergic to gluten. We're thankful for this fad, as they created an entire industry of gluten-free stuff, that wouldn't be there if only for the allergic and celiac people.
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RE: The minor rants thread.
@sockpuppet7 On a related note, my current project must be completed quickly, so management moved me out of the scrum team and told me to go full cowboy coding on it. I guess midboss doesn't really believe on agile and we just do it for show.
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RE: Update: the new admin/moderation team and changes discussions will begin soon
@error said in Update: the new admin/moderation team and changes discussions will begin soon:
I feel like, with the frequency of my posting about work stuff, and the size of my employer, someone could correlate several of my posts and identify me from that.
Everyone knows you're in the military, General Error. Dunno why you were so obsessed about reading my floppy disks in the 90s
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RE: A critical reflection on GDPR
@blakeyrat said in A critical reflection on GDPR:
We're talking about cookies here.
(he is reading your post on that phone)
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@JBert said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
@Polygeekery said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
@remi said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
@Polygeekery This gets even worse when you consider why some regulations still require fax (at least in the cases I was exposed to), which is because they want a document with an actual signature on it
In the past I have created PNGs with transparent backgrounds that look suspiciously like a person's signature. I don't know why they wanted me to do such a thing because I never asked and told them not to tell me what it would be used for.
On an entirely unrelated note, I bet you could scan your signature, convert it to PNG, use an image manipulation program to crop it and clip out all the whitespace and leave a transparent background and then you could pass that off as a physical signature and bypass all those shenanigans. If only such a thing were legal to do..... If only......
One of the products my employer sells is a PDF signing product (basically competition for what Adobe does).
While we always make sure that all the cryptography stuff is in order and that the name of the person who's signing is locked into the document, there's now a feature request which states that people are tired of having to use the mouse to add an additional scribble (can't blame them - it's tough to repeat the same scribble twice with a mouse, let alone make something which looks like the signature you would put on official papers).
Their proposal?
"Oh, just use a cursive font to make an image with their name"
"You know that's just security theater and that anyone could make such image?"
"Yes. I expect it done by Thursday"
This week I used adobe to sign something. It allowed a cursive font, and used a self signed certification key. I think adobe signing is as unsafe as it gets.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
windows 7 requires administrator permissions if I want to calibrate my display colors, WTF?
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RE: Programming Memes Thread
@LaoC said in Programming Memes Thread:
Portable Rust backend?
cause you can't run rust directly on iron, rust destroys iron, so you need some kind of virtualization
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RE: Technology seems to be named specifically to confuse future archaeologists
@ben_lubar History will just describe this as a dark age of linguistics were all words completely lost their meanings because of marketing people. Maybe you're right and we should just learn lojban instead.