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@Tsaukpaetra said in Nope, you eat it:
@DogsB said in Nope, you eat it:
You two are cannibals and are going on the list.
I would eat a horse, at least once. The puffer fish though..?
You'd eat it only once. But if you ever tried it, you'd know it's food to die for.
Created after the Coding Help category, this is for other serious requests for help that don't fit in there (or any other subcategories that may be created.)
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@Tsaukpaetra "Your files are not quite where you left them" ?
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
WTF? Oh yeah, when ubuntu goes to sleep, it logs me off and kills all processes.
Probably some IT security that makes the machine "more" "secure".
@TwelveBaud said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Chris Hansen would like you to have a seat over there.
Sure! After he takes care of the very simply pussy!
GitHub - rastapasta/mapscii: 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows - rastapasta/mapscii
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Recommend rebooting to see if that helps like it did this poor luser.
Reboot the luser or the PC?
FileUnder:
Basketball joins the Pete Rose club
Apr 17 / 00:52
NBA bans Raptors' Porter for gambling violations
Raptors center Jontay Porter has been banned from the NBA for violating gambling rules, the league announced Wednesday.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
How do you know they're not?
Because canonically they’re two different families that happen to have the same last name which isn’t always a sign of being a relative.
@Arantor said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
@dkf said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
@Arantor said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
Right click, inspect element, add overflow-x: scroll, job done.
On my phone?
Well, not with that attitude, clearly!
No, for a phone other strategies are called for, namely bookmarklets that can operate on the current page.
Yes this approach works, I have a “view source” bookmarklet on my iPad for shit like this.
I use Kiwi browser, which is basically mobile Chrome with extensions and developer tools.
@PotatoEngineer said in The Fox Ideas Thread:
@accalia That reminds me of Lackadaisy Cats, which is about cats rather than foxes, but is definitely about illegal activity during Prohibition.
(Mind you, progress on that comic has come to a screeching halt now that the creator is working on an animated series for the comic.)
That's that I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name!
Ron Amadeo / Apr 12 / Tech
Google kills “One” VPN service, says “people simply weren’t using it”
Did anyone want a VPN from the Internet's largest data collector?
@Carnage
To anyone wondering why they keep falling over, rabbits love to pick things up and steal them but baby rabbits haven't got full coordination yet. So they are trying to keep the leaves for themselves away from the others but also the leaf is too hig so they stand up to keep it and fall over.
It's greed plus heavy food taking them out.
LOL
@error said in Another AI based art generator, DALL-E Mini:
@sockpuppet7 Is she falling to her death? Seems oddly dark.
https://youtu.be/nwhSOwoiz-A?t=13
@kazitor
I knew there was at least one such logo that I was semi-familiar with, but couldn't put my finger on it. Thanks!
Now I'm pretty sure there are other(s), based on how many close-but-not-quite matches any search for e.g. "square logo" returns, including a lot of stock images (so basically "hey business owner without any graphical skills, here's simple stuff you could use"). Any other suggestions?
@boomzilla
Voyager 1's distance from Earth complicates the troubleshooting effort. The one-way travel time for a radio signal to reach Voyager 1 from Earth is about 22.5 hours, meaning it takes roughly 45 hours for engineers on the ground to learn how the spacecraft responded to their commands.
"Hey! Get back to work!"
"Debugging!"
"Oh. Carry on."
@Arantor said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
@boomzilla said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
@Arantor said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
@Jaime considering that I’m writing the app in PHP and got this shit foisted on me in passing, no.
It’s a web app. It has web shit on the front of it. Which means I’m fucking doomed, forever, to deal with this clusterfuck of an ecosystem because every fucking thing in it relies on Node even when it’s not a Node app.
Meh. No ISVM report, no problem!
I did wonder at first what the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms had to do with it - plenty of packages in the ecosystem qualify as microorganisms.
Then I remembered the IT version, and left myself a note to run npm audit on Monday to see if my ecosystem has gotten a vulnerability this week.
What are we going to do today, @Arantor?
The same thing we do every Monday, Dashie.
Oh boy, checking npm for vulnerability reports!
I checked out of this conversation a while ago, but since it still seems to be going, I'll just drop this link I've bumped into without further context:
Visitor and multiple dispatch via C# 'dynamic'
@BernieTheBernie said in Windows Server?:
@loopback0 said in Windows Server?:
Azure only has Enterprise IIRC but standalone it's the same control over updates as Pro unless Azure forces them.
Actually none.
In order to control updates, the machine must be in a domain.
I do not have a domain, so...
You can edit "local" group policy (which is what I believe you're referring to) without being joined to a domain in all editions from Pro up.
@izzion said in Neighbors are TR:
The reported text of the signs seems pretty weak sauce. Personally, I think the judge should have tossed the witness intimidation charge, but
This later article has a few pictures of the signs and has the text of the report an officer made when visiting the property. It doesn't show where the signs are in relation to the neighbor's property, sadly.
Mar 25 / Crime & Courts
Free Speech Lawyer Says Charging Wyoming Man For Angry Signs ‘Really Lame’
A felony interfering-with-a-witness charge for a Wyoming man who displayed strongly worded signs in his yard is “a really lame case,” a longtime First Amendment attorney says.
I think it'll be dropped eventually, like the cleanup complaints.
Aside: One of the things listed in the complaint was an inoperable vehicle, which was later found to be working but not have its registration up to date. My Dad once got a visit from a local cop because a neighbor had complained about the car sitting next to his garage. Dad restores old cars and (IIRC) it was one he was waiting for parts to get back to working on it. Dad tells this to the cop and the cop replies "That's fine, but you still can't keep a derelict vehicle out in the open like that in town." Dad tells him the tabs are paid up, so it's not a derelict. The cop goes "Allrighty then, you're good. See you later."
I'm using TypeScript, where the enums are just a combined object of name-to-number and number-to-name. The implementation looks vaguely like this:
ServerEnum = {
0: "FirstServer",
1: "SecondServer",
"FirstServer": 0,
"SecondServer": 1
}
And I'm using an enum as the key in an object. And it's really convenient a lot of the time, because I have one of those enum values hanging around most of the time.
{
[ServerEnum.FirstServer]: {...},
[ServerEnum.SecondServer]: {...}
}
It's great, except in two cases:
Object.keys(), Object.values(), and Object.entries() will all return a string key, so my enum value of 1 gets coerced into "1".
I also end up sticking that enum into the URL, where it should be the string-value rather than the number-value.
So for 1), I'm using parseInt(enumThing) as ServerEnum in my iterators.
And for 2), I'm doing a lot of ServerEnum[enumAsNumber] and ServerEnum[enumAsString]. I should probably switch from Object to Map, but , and Map's iteration API is a bit uglier.
Mar 27
Rescued 'baby hedgehog' turns out to be a pom pom from a hat - UPI.com
A Cheshire, England, woman rescued what she believed to be an abandoned baby hedgehog and took it to a local animal hospital, where veterinarians told her she had actually rescued the pom pom from a beanie hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIdHBDSQHyw
LoRa packets by banging a pin on a microcontroller. Uses some aliasing tricks (overtones) that I don't quite fully grok yet to make something way less than 900Mhz create a 900Mhz-ish signal. From a few 100m to a bit over a km (with ridiculously low transmit power).
Aside from being really cool, lots of potential here.
@dkf said in India:
@BernieTheBernie said in India:
Many needful doers from India work in the IT industry in Western countries. But India is starting to experience a shortage of IT workers.
heise online / Mar 24
Missing Link: India's Software Brain Drain Turns the Tide to Talent Shortage
From India’s own digital rise to new visa dynamics to a huge demand for talent by Big Tech – there are many levers pulling IT professionals back to India.
Looking forward to ny times to come.
They probably really mean that they're short of people willing to do that much work over that many hours a day for that little money...
Sounds ripe for a gig economy startup!
@anonymous234 said in Nintendo plans on selling the same games AGAIN:
@LB_ Selling old games is a very good thing. Hell, now that digital purchases exist I'd say that there's no reason to ever stop selling a game. We've gotten too used to the absurd idea that software has to be on sale for a few years and then disappear forever. Remakes are great too (if there's a demand, why wouldn't you adapt things to newer hardware?).
What's not great is: 1. Having to buy a particular machine to run a particular game, and 2. Having to pay for the same game more than once. We need to switch to a model where once you buy a game, it's associated to your account and you own it forever and can play it on any device (within technical limitations). When Nintendo figures that out, then I'll start paying for my games.
(hell, they don't even sell the same games for the 3DS and WiiU virtual consoles, even though they all run on the same emulators).
some Xbox 360 games would be associated with my account if I had bought an Xbox one after it broke. too little, but at least they moved in the right direction
@The_Quiet_One said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
Well, that just means if it's in the park, then it's not being used on a road, therefore it's fine!
And there are no such things as off-road vehicles.
@topspin said in YouTube and cookie warnings:
@dkf said in YouTube and cookie warnings:
@Gurth said in YouTube and cookie warnings:
I had more or less read the notice before pressing “Reject all” but I had not connected “personalized content and personalized ads” with “Warning: this will clear your viewing history and recommendations based on it!” — largely because I didn’t expect that to be stored in cookies.
It isn't. The cookie is just the key to look that info up.
: it isn’t. The cookie just contains the “official” way to track you, so that they can pretend to obey GDPR. They’ll keep tracking you in secret.
I’ve had all cookies from YouTube blocked since ~forever. Yet somehow it often shows links to videos entirely unrelated to whatever I’m looking at but suspiciously similar to something I’ve watched prior…
@boomzilla this story misses the absolutely critical part of the third party repair that got crushed
Andy Greenberg / Dec 14, 2023 / tags
McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.
(Amazing jorb, wired home page. Pop up some bullshit about subscription halfway across the screen, I dismiss. Scroll , get the same popup again. Dismiss, repeat 3 times: well, looks like you’ve already read 3 of our stories for free, it’s subscription time now. Pops up another thing full screen that can’t be dismissed.)
As ever, wish I hadn’t said anything at all let alone something half-tongue-in-cheek over the fact that the previous conversation asserted a great deal more than the singular fact being claimed. Specifically that damn near everything was political all the time according to you and that I was in the wrong for so much as breathing an idea (not even the one I agreed with you about)
Don’t worry, you can have this garage back too.
@jinpa said in Story Details and Acceptance Criteria:
I expect you to respond with, "You're doing it wrong."
Everyone does it wrong sometimes. Some people do it wrong a whole lot more than others.
Artificial Intelligence can have good uses:
Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers
Roni Bandini, a maker and developer, has created a Raspberry Pi-powered device that detects and distorts Reggaeton music played by his neighbors. The device, which uses machine learning to identify the music genre, is a fun experiment and its legality varies depending on location.
My noisy neighbors are too far away for bluetooth interference, but the project may help other WDTWTFers.
Shaina Mishkin / Feb 26 / Barron's
Home Prices Hit a High in 2023. Limited Supply Continues to Fuel Gains.
Prices gained 6.1% in December from a year ago, Case Shiller says..
