Boomzilla, the Alleged Army-of-One, Eaten by a Grue: An Internet Tragedy - Wibble News In an unexpected and hilarious twist, Boomzilla, the forum admin accused of controlling multiple user accounts, has reportedly been eaten by a grue. The incident has shocked, amused, and divided the online community.

@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...: I bought myself a thing: 1,179.00 USD 3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router for High Precision Metalworking, with Linear Guide & Ball Screw Motion Elevate your metalworking game with the Genmitsu 3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router, a cutting-edge precision tool engineered for unrivaled accuracy and power. This is a machine that gives you an opportunity for heavy-duty, long-term, and high-intensity work, right from your desktop. ... Ball Screw Motion

@izzion said in WTF Bites: @Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites: @izzion said in WTF Bites: @BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites: @Zerosquare said in WTF Bites: so I'm going to go with "used memory off of eBay" as the source of the problem and you didn't get what you thought you were paying for. Yes. "used memory off of eBay" is almost never a good idea. Don't worry, it was only underwater for a few hours after the hurricane knocked out power in the entire region. Filed Under: "used memory almost anything off of eBay" is almost never a good idea.

@Bulb said in Programming Memes Thread: You've heard of “duck typing”, right? So the opposite is: Slowworm typing: it looks like a snake, it slithers like a snake, but it isn't a snake. Sometimes it's Platypus typing: it looks like … something. Which it probably isn't. Guess again. Oh, and don't go near it, that way lies pain.

Shivali Best  /  Apr 27  /  Science How to upgrade your outdated acronyms to keep up with Gen Z Currys have revealed the easy acronym swaps you can make to keep up with Gen Z.

@Zerosquare read another book!

@dkf said in Nope, you eat it: Who really knows what blue is supposed to taste like anyway? Food should not be that colour. When I was in college the local convenience stores (Snappy-Mart) had their own equivalent of Icee/Slurpee called "Slush Puppy", which came in an assortment of colors, including blue. The others were fairly obvious (yellow for lemon, red for cherry, etc) but we had to ask to find out what they'd assigned for blue. Coconut. My friend thereafter always ordered a blue coconut Slush Puppy every weekend on the way out of town to go hiking.. About fifteen years later I returned for a visit, with my girlfriend of the tim, and of course I had to take her to Snappy Mart for a blue Slush Puppy. The flavor had changed, though. Mine tasted like kerosene, as did the many burps I treated her to for the rest of the afternoon.

TIL Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia Edit: partially, anyway. I'm not reading all that.

@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...: they're really more involved in Twitter than their profile suggests. Is that supposed to be in indication of legitimacy or a red flag? Filed under: Yes

Wordle 1,043 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Duotrigordle #787 Guesses: 35/37 0️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ Duotrigordle BUILD/GRAPH with KNOWS on the 4th guess

@hungrier Yeah it's not as nicely balanced out to neutral grey but OTOH it's even further from red while still looking red.

@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread: @PleegWat Looks like someone is confusing football and soccer. Sportsball is hard, let’s writhe on the ground until we get what we want!

@boomzilla I've got a Gal in Kalamazoo – 07:43— afftechmei

@boomzilla One man is severely overconfident in their ability to....

I don't remember if this was the same service you guys were playing with: David Burge on Twitter

THEWORSTINME - "THE WØRST IN ME" (Official Music Video) | BVTV Music – 03:16— BVTV Music

@topspin said in UI Bites: @Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites: But still ... How/why do you even do something like that? How? Magic says: Hiding the window borders, painting your own, and fucking up WM_NCHITTEST. At a previous company, they kept pushing us to do that. We finally got them to back down (and roll the change back) when we pointed out that we were constantly fixing various bugs with it ("Look, it's costing us a lot of money" - then they listened). Who would have guessed that the borders look different based on themes and Windows versions!

DeAngelo Marquise Vaxter  /  Apr 24 Video released: Assault on Embark bus driver leads to crash into Oklahoma City business Video has been released from inside of the bus that crashed over the weekend in Oklahoma City, causing damages to a business and injuries.On Saturday, police ar

@BernieTheBernie said in Azure bites: @Bulb Interesting idea, I might try it somewhen. Depends on 's preferences. But I see a catch: my home IP address is dynamic, and I get a fresh address every night from the vast range of t-online ip addresses. That would mean that I'd have to open the firewall for every address or do a lot of rules. Since it's “serverless”, you are sharing the server with a lot of people that access it from all over the place, so protection against DDoS is Microsoft's problem, and they already have some in place, so is addressing the server vulnerabilities, and you are only concerned with someone guessing your credentials. The last point I'd address by using the Entra authentication. In Azure, you create a security group, set it as admin and disable non-entra login. In the .нет library you replace the credentials with Authentication=Active Directory Default[1] in the connection string and it will pick the login from anywhere it can—environment, managed identity, visual studio or az, so it basically just works. And the management studio supports the interactive login, so that works too. Only if you also need the sqlcmd tool, you need magic incantation: token_file=$(mktemp) az account get-access-token --resource https://database.windows.net --query accessToken --output tsv | tr -d '\r\n' | iconv -f ascii -t utf-16le > "$token_file" sqlcmd -G -P "$token_file" …# the other options… (for Linux shell or Git Bash; I don't know powershell well enough to remember how to get the token in UTF-16 off the top of my head) And then I wouldn't worry about just setting the firewall to the whole range or even just leaving it open altogether.

@izzion said in Commuting WTF Thread: @Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread: @Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread: got off on his own accord. Wait. If he owned a car, why did he want to take the bus? What, you're not going to ask about his fetish for relieving himself in public on his car? Bonk! Go to Honda Jail.

@hungrier said in Today in reading the headlines...: @loopback0 £100 flipflops :theres_your_problem: They were very heavy and in the way.

@hungrier said in 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. In Tony Toon Adventures, whenever Buster and Babs (Bunny, both) introduced themselves together they would quickly point out "no relation" That wouldn't have been the reason though, since unlike Mickey and Minnie, they weren't presented as a couple, so it would have made perfect sense to just assume they were brother and sister. Yakko, Wacko and Dot were explicitly put forth as siblings, although Dot Warner insisted that her full name was Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banna-Fana Bo-Besca the Third, suggesting that she must have changed her name from "Warner" at some point.

@sockpuppet7 Give 'em shit Swampie... I'll make sure to post videos elsewhere even youtube again... I hope I don't have to Do A Dance... I found 1 reddit post that got through... https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/x7e7lj/the_best_starter_program_ever/ With the best from this thread and swampie stuff our AISwampies will be all right...

@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread: https://twitter.com/catshouldnt/status/1641457837376430085 OMG! OMG indeed, the tweet is a year old and the incident actually happened on July 22, 2015: Robin Levinson King Staff Reporter Cat clings to wing of plane during flight A stowaway cat shocked small-plane pilot and passenger.

@Zerosquare should there be some magenta though?

This is THE WORST PRINTER I've EVER seen | Soviet SM6337.02 – 11:44— Chornobyl Family 🇺🇦 Today, we will take a look at the SM6337.02 – a vintage Soviet dot matrix printer made in Russia in the late 1980s. In my life, I've seen a lot of computers and devices manufactured in the USSR, but this one features an unbelievably low quality level. Technically, it is an Epson-compatible peripheral device with RS-232 and Centronics interfaces, and it comes with a few built-in fonts. However, from what I see, it is unlikely that it was functional even when it just came out of the factory. Even more bizarre it becomes when we take a short look at its military/KGB counterpart.

Whoooooaaaa

@HardwareGeek It's a very small place with only one notable feature: the ferry port.

Microsoft seemingly admits "ads" on Windows 11 Start menu are in the works Microsoft may finally be coming clean. With a new hidden change, the tech giant seems to acknowledge that "ads" on the Windows 11 Start menu are real, though it could also mean more ads are coming.

@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...: @cvi Ok, I think we can start. Let's go 'round and introduce ourselves, all. ... Call me Ishmael I once did this on a Usenet group where some schoolteacher had introduced her students with something like "Hi, we're a group of students who want to connect with others interested in {topic}." My response was "Hi, I am an apteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers."

Honorary Florida Man: Colorado man tries to pay for Burger King with meth, proceeds to go on least-successful shooting spree of all time Move over Bitcoin, there's a new alternative currency on the market: Methamphetamines.

How Google Search was "killed". A very long article, but nice to read. Enjoy! Apr 23 The Man Who Killed Google Search Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The...

@Gurth is that a picture of the notepaper that one writes Lotus Notes on?

@HardwareGeek I would add that the hold appears to double as a procedure turn to align with the approach course in this case, that is any aircraft arriving from that direction has to enter the hold anyway. That might be the reason the controller expected the pilots to expect it.

@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF: Mark Harris Texas High School Baseball Game Takes 2 Days To Play, Ends After 23 Innings A high school baseball game in Texas took two days to complete and finally ended after 23 innings with a final score of just 4-3. The 23-inning slugfest that took place over 25 and a half hours set a record for the longest game in Texas high school sports history, but somehow fell two innings shy of the American high school record for the longest game of all time Nothing about 7 runs in 23 innings says, "slugfest." Maybe the author is a Chicago White Sox fan who dreams of 2 runs in 23 innings

Does anyone here know gRPC / protobuf? I'm passing large-ish chunks of data between my own client and server and have implemented streaming because the overall dataset to pass is larger than the max message size (default is 4 MB, I know I could increase that but probably not to the point where it would cover all my use cases, so streaming it is in any case). The issue I have is how to find out what size of messages to send in my streaming implementation? Searching the interwebz I can find tons of discussions on how to set the maximum message size when starting the server, but this is not what I want. What I want is querying an existing server to find out what is that maximum size. Either my google-fu is weak, or nobody ever discusses that? Currently I need this in two places and in one I've hard-coded a 4 MB (minus a small margin for headers etc.) limit. In the other one I've been smarter and implemented a horrible hack where I parse the string from the error message (!!!) to read the maximum size.

@Zerosquare Anyways, Microsoft is technically correct !

@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread: Is it getting cold where you are? Do you have a Keurig? Mott's (I miss @mott555, when was he last around?) makes K-Cups of spiced apple cider that are surprisingly fairly good. Add a splash (or several glugs) of bourbon and you have something to warm you up in two ways. You're welcome, or I'm sorry, depending on how many you decide to drink in a night. Tonight was a fairly cool evening here where we are. Several of the neighbors ended up hanging out in my shop and I decided to introduce them to this cocktail and after this evening there's a strong possibility that many of those neighbors will not be allowed to play with me anymore.

@HardwareGeek Did you searching on PornHub? They got some great statistical data.

@error ✅

@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @Watson said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages, ...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us Wait... Microsoft doesn't follow their own standard? Well, Microsoft's first submission to ISO had a lot of Windows-specific stuff (for supporting all their different versions of Word), and ISO naturally said that such stuff wasn't appropriate for a vendor-neutral industrial standard. Microsoft went away and split their backward compatibility out those 600 pages of "Legacy" @LaoC referred to, and resubmitted the "Strict" part as the standard, with the optional "Legacy" extension. ISO accepted this on the condition that all new OOXML documents adhere to the "Strict" part, with the extension only used as required for backward compatibility. Microsoft said "Okay, sure" with its fingers crossed behind its back.

@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites: @boomzilla That's merely a little mix-up of Big Endian and Little Endian. It's just the latest standard™. After slot, tri-point, Philips, Pentalobe, Allen, double-square and 12-point, behold: the InfiLobe!

@Gurth said in “iPad doesn’t recognise fingerprint anymore, and the code also doesn’t work!”: France ... old No, not necessarily. France is well known for good food and good wine. That may have some effects.

@coderpatsy Thanks though, the follow up(s) clarify. A bit.

@BernieTheBernie said in Pay peanuts or chicken feed: How many Indian "sofwtare specialists" would be willing to take software job abroad The point isn't to pay foreigners a reasonable wage, no matter how the "Fachkräftemangel" talk makes you believe that. The point is to drive the price down with the alternatives of not paying well here or outsourcing because you "can't find anyone" here.

@HardwareGeek said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread: I'm certain this dream was entirely unrelated to watching Fast and Furious 5 just before going to bed. Ah yes, Fast and Spurious...

@loopback0 said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?: Check out this Studio flat for rent on Rightmove Studio flat for rent in New Street, Dudley, DY1 for £750 pcm. Marketed by Taylors Estate Agents, Brierley Hill The building's a former police station. The holding cell is left in this studio flat as a feature. Key features LARGE STUDIO WITH FEATURE HOLDING CELL Perfect for teenage daughters!