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Posts made by topspin
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
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RE: Unit of Measurement WTF
@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@HardwareGeek what happens if his replacement, when he eventually retires, is not 6’?
Is being precisely 6’ one of the job requirements?
Standard issue Prussian.
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RE: In other news today...
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
What did all the dumb fucks involved - on both sides! - thought was going to happen?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
No thanks, today I think I'll just do everything slowly.
That actually was what the button did. Slowed it down to like half the clock speed.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Zerosquare things that remind you of hardware.
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RE: Facebook Messenger × EU = Stupidity²
E: goddamnit, I basically posted this before.
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RE: In other news today...
Xitter post @cvi linked to said in In other news today...:
We’re still learning what is best for PC players
I can't even express how fucking ridiculous that is. Amazing Newspeak.
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RE: Hacking News
I didn’t really read / understand that article too well . What’s going on, something about outsiders getting access by triggering password reset emails? How does that work?
And why is everybody now arguing against hosting your shit on premises instead of
somebody-else’s-computerThe Cloud all of a sudden, as if on-prem wasn’t the much more reasonable option? -
RE: In other news today...
@ixvedeusi ah yes, I didn’t even think of that. Even assuming you’d understand them, it’d take an hour to read.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Benjamin-Hall there’s fun evil and there’s bad evil. You’re comparing The Joker to HP, and you don’t want to be the latter.
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RE: In other news today...
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
(You just have to go through your long-ass list of throw-away mail providers to find one that’s not blacklisted.)
Or, hear me out here, just have one hotmail account that you use for all the throwaway stuff.
No, I have a mail account for pseudonymous stuff besides my real-name account. But if I use that for too much throwaway stuff, it allows them to aggregate too much garbage. The point is both to not care about mails and not allow any sort of connection between different throwaway things.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
intentional breakage happening to gradually erode trust
Trust in Google? There's nothing left to erode.
Trust in Firefox of course. The same kind of shit-slinging as Microsoft does with its “hurr durr, Edge doesn’t use battery”.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Arantor can we get those merged into our instance?
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RE: In other news today...
@DogsB what a fucking moron. “Boohoo, it only takes 3 minutes to create a superfluous account you don’t want, give out your email address to be harvested and manage more 2FA shit”.
Yeah, fuck you.Best thing is when they do what the McDonald’s app did: you can select to log in with your Apple account, but if you do that and select Apple’s anonymization option to create a unique disposable email that they can’t harvest, then mysteriously the sign up doesn’t work and you get a try again later error. Of course if you use a real email address it works just fine. (You just have to go through your long-ass list of throw-away mail providers to find one that’s not blacklisted.)
But it’s not like this is going to hurt them. People put up with literally anything.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@dkf well, as long as that's UNIX instead of Windows, you're safe here.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@cvi .
I might be a C programmer by proxy, but I'm not going to touch that. -
RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Zerosquare hey, I might be a criminal weeb degenerate Linux user, but I'm not a C programmer!
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Then Google came along and just made everything a major release, so Mozilla had no choice. If Firefox was on version 30 and Chrome is 124, it makes Firefox seem outdated.
No. Firefox on version 6 and Chrome on version 25 makes Firefox look outdated, for a split second to a half-brain who never would’ve installed Firefox anyway. Firefox version 8 and Chrome version 124 makes Firefox look normal and Chrome look retarded.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the name of the product (which would look like an UTF-8 encoding error).
"Måjibäkke"
Gesundheit!
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@HardwareGeek this sounds positively retarded. You give the thing access to HR data so it can answer extremely trivial questions that would be better answered with a simple web interface. It apparently fails to provide such functionality, but now you have exposed potentially sensitive data to a system so idiotic you have no idea what it does.
What’s the chances that it fails to answer your query, but with the right coercion doesn’t fail to answer about how much sick leave certain coworkers took? -
RE: WTF Bites
@Gurth It's relatively new, but I guess I should check.
But the OS didn't complain that it couldn't write, or anything like that. It currently shows 332.5GB in use for that 35% backup. Scaling that up, it thinks it needs 950 GB to back up a 512 GB SSD, even assuming all of that SSD is in use with local snapshots and nothing is excluded. -
RE: WTF Bites
I have a MacBook Air with 512GB SSD, out of which 297GB are currently in use. About 100GB of that are system stuff and applications. So about 100 GB of actual user documents and another 100 GB of phone backups. I also have a 512 GB USB memory stick, which I configured as a Time Machine backup location. I figured it shouldn't really need more than 300 GB for backups, since user data easily fits in there and doesn't change that often.
Well, a few weeks ago it told me that it couldn't complete the backup because no more space was available. Um?! Rolling backups, anyone? The configuration window itself says "The oldest backup are deleted when your disk becomes full".I thought I'd wait to see if it gets its shit together, but it has since started to annoy me with messages like "no backup since 35 days". So first I tried manually excluding Applications and System and stuff that I thought it shouldn't be backed up anyway, but that didn't free up anything. Then I manually deleted the backup from the TM volume and tried to let it create a new one, didn't work either.
So I said "fuck it", removed it from Time Machine, cleared the whole volume in the Volume Manager app (which then showed it to be empty), added it back and increased the quota to 350 GB this time. So let's run another backup.It ran for awhile before it failed. Doing so, it said it had completed 35% of the backup and has copied around 60 GB. But also that 17.75 GB are still available on the drive out of 350 GB. How does that add up? Would you please overwrite the old, deleted data already?
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@ixvedeusi said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
otherwise it would have to muck around with the function body (or worse, the call site).
Not saying it couldn't be done, but it wouldn't be as straight-forward and the way it actually works makes sense to me.But that's already what it is doing at that exact moment. It's saying here's a function which has this name, these parameters with these names (which are basically part of the call signature because of named arguments), etc., and it has the following "text" as code. Besides syntax, the function isn't evaluated, so why should default arguments be evaluated at that point? The code to execute them might as well be stored along with the other information that make up the function.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Gern_Blaanston well, it says "easy touch", not "easy on the eyes".
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@DogsB said in I, ChatGPT:
I have no idea why you would want this.
Your files are exactly how Copilot thought you'd want to leave them.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@Atazhaia that sounds like a very naive understanding bound to lead to frustration.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@dkf said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
That's quite a contrast to what Python does!
Well, the Python way is quite unintuitive. And the technical explanations why it needs to work the way it works don't really sound convincing either.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Arantor he might try to brush off the whole scam itself as “an art project”. But only when forced to. Until then, he’s probably trying to keep it low profile.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
But guess what, it's not like the server is reachable from the outside world.
Yeah, good luck telling that to the security audit guy(s).
: Have you heard of the other side of the airtight hatchway?
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
Some would think, more so.
Status: Daydreaming about having that in my future, far away from anything running computers.
Addendum: Preferably somewhere I don't even know what a Taylor Swift is.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Officially 100 versions behind.
I used to be annoyed by Jenkins constantly popping up big scary warnings that yet another goddamn version has come out and I need to update it. Which I really don't see the point, because those updates caused me nothing but trouble, with nothing changing in the best case and things breaking in the worst case. Maybe if this shit wasn't its own whole OS / ecosystem, it wouldn't have so much need for sEcUrItY fIxEs .
But then, 2 years ago I got this lovely message:
Well, thanks for EOL'ing the Java version that is still installed on our RHEL 7 machines.
I decided that there's literally no point in this stupid treadmill and just stopped updating it altogether. So now I'm on 2.355 and currently 2.455 is out, thanks to Google Exponential Version Numbering.
The errors in the security monitor now no longer fit on a single page. But guess what, it's not like the server is reachable from the outside world.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@Mason_Wheeler and we build them because high precision clocks are not particularly useful.