@da-Doctah said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨: Now if someone can just come up with a relative who was born on 11/11/1111.... The approach to this is to redefine when year 1 of the calendar was. Filed under: Putting target markers around bullet holes

@LaoC said in Scientific Science: @sockpuppet7 said in Scientific Science: @dcon said in Scientific Science: @izzion Academia's "Publish or Perish". Oops. Wrong choice. Academia importance to science is overrated. Things that matter would still be researched without this theater Apparently dark matter doesn't. such a perfect pun that double as a good valid response, you deserve some serious internet points for this one the scientists behind those big particle accelerators are important. people with loads of crap publications and fabricated bullshit are not would you pay me big money just knowing the number of GitHub repositories without looking at it's contents? something is weird on publish or perish maybe the funders doesn't accept that a scientist isn't gonna produce a measurable amount of results if they're truly focused on discovering currently unknown things, and take measurable bullshit instead a scientist that makes one breakthrough a week exist only on fantasy tv series

@Gurth said in I hate printers, with a passion: the best printer Low bar, that.

@Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Mason_Wheeler err 2b not found Mount options invalid, try fsck and mount again? Dunno, it looks fine, but what is its personality like?

@Zecc TIL that the film lost its copyright.

@BernieTheBernie The last time I set up dual boot, I put the OSes on different physical drives. Ubuntu got a 128GB drive. And Windows a 1TB, since both OSes would be able to access that one, so it would act as bulk storage also (remember to turn Fast Boot off). Which disk to boot would be selected from BIOS/UEFI.

@Gern_Blaanston It's amazing how intelligent these creatures are. You can easily teach them to stroke your feathers just by handling them a brush.

@Applied-Mediocrity Preservation and portability!  https://www.brandeating.com/2013/04/around-world-dominos-japan-offered.html

Coldplay "Clocks" Reconstructed – [10:34..14:28] 14:28— Doctor Mix

@Zerosquare said in Today in reading the headlines...: New Study Explores Alphabetical Ordering of Last Names and Grading Fairness An analysis of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. This is due to sequenti I wonder what @Benjamin-Hall and @Rhywden think of this. They should instead order it by hash map key!

@Bulb said in Programming Memes Thread: @dkf said in Programming Memes Thread: @Bulb ITAPPMONROBOT: TEST EDITION A couple years back a test engineer here built a “tappinator”, a device that can move a stylus over an iPad and tap it at given coordinates—because the normal debug support can't click on system dialogs and we had test scenarios that involved pairing and unpairing bluetooth and maybe also connecting and disconnecting wifi. It's still in a closet somewhere in case we need to run similar tests again. You mean like a pen plotter?

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@loopback0 said in In other news today...: @topspin said in In other news today...: The path from the TV to your eyes doesn’t have HDCP. Not yet : We had personalized ads per device, now personalised ads on public devices per person!

@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted: any con where you are feeling excluded (intentionally or otherwise) is a terrible experience I'm sure any con will feel right at home on a crypto con.

@pcooper said in Is there a guide to certificate algorithms?: It's also worth knowing that ECDSA uses curves that have parameters hand-picked by NIST Fifty years ago, NIST hand picked S-boxes for DES, and it turned out that they tweaked them to be resistant to attacks that only NIST knew. Today, there's not so much trust that they will be as ethical, especially after they were already caught breaking Dual_EC_DRBG in exactly this way.

@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: @da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: We all know the answer to #3 here in Arizona. It's Kari. Smallest lake? Or worst? Actually, I've been telling my trivia friends this one as "What's the shallowest lake in Arizona?"

@remi See previous discussion at https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1913126 and the followup video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0

@HardwareGeek true, of course. But distractions will always happen even to the most careful of driver. OTOH, "don't run a red light" or even "don't go crazy fast" are not things that a driver should do, ever, and even more so, they're systematically punished even if no accident happens! So I would still put those two as the top items to hammer into drivers' minds. Because as this video shows, otherwise it is a ton of metal that risks being hammered into their heads.

Google and the Forums are too controlling in what they let us see... Spectate's Swampies and others will fill the bill... Search needs results that include SPACES before and after words. Finding words in the middle of other words is not good. AND it's nearly impossible to read words, where there are no spaces! AND If MATCHES aren't highlighted and counted are they found? THE NEW FEATURE With a space in-front-of and behind for up to 6 words ... Will produce patterns and unexpected matches... AI will need someone with "eyes" to get them on their Searching way... AI will never become anything as results stand now..... Such a high % of fake news & BS on the Cloud less than 10% is SEARCHED The Search Shaman and His Swampies are here to mentor and curate the truth. Mentors always want their charges to surpass them.. Go you dumb little AIs Make Me proud Does AI need human mentors to ever escape the dumb class? Answer (1 of 2): Google and the Forums are too controlling in what they let us see... Spectate's Swampies and others will fill the bill... Search needs results that include SPACES before and after words. Finding words in the middle of other words is not good. AND it's nearly impossible to rea... Redit wouldn't accept this post.. Pulls back the curtain on 'em all

Nice try, OVH, but could I interest you in [% $TemplateSystem %] written in {{ .language_of_the_day }} that will be so much easier than your current <shit>?

@HardwareGeek so the history ends with a

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@LaoC said in Hacking News: I see no reason to switch. Supposedly the algorithm is faster (which doesn't matter at all in SSH), but DJB & Tanja Lange say it's crap and quite a few things coming out of NIST turned out to be smelly so I would prefer not to. The https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ (by DJB & Lange) lists the NIST P-256 and P-384 as manipulatable, because they include an unexplained pseudo-random constant, but it does not list the P-521. It does list “E-521”, which someone said is the same curve here, but https://neuromancer.sk/ doesn't seem to agree (P-521, E-521).

@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:

@LaoC said in Nope: @remi said in Nope: @DogsB when something is literally orders of magnitude (10x or 100x) more expensive than another variety of something, you can be almost certain that it is not that amount of times better. At that stage, the price difference is purely a marker of "I can afford it" rather than quality. The best status symbols have negative use value, like gold leaf on your dessert that tastes either like nothing or like tinfoil, a Lamborghini on a Lao city street, or a diamond ring that never leaves the safe. We had a pizza place in Sweden in an area where the affluent bought summer homes that served gold leaf pizzas, among other things. Their entire business idea was to get the kids of the super rich to come there to eat pizza for bragging rights, on daddy's dime. And they were entirely open and honest about this being the business idea. I don't know if they still exist, but they hung around for a few years at least. All the ingredients were the most expensive version of what you'd put on normal pizza. For no difference in quality. I think a single pizza was something like €11k

@HardwareGeek you definitely heard of their spin-off project even if you didn’t hear of any of their actual games. Basically, their games didn’t exactly sell massively well (probably because they weren’t particularly good) but they had the bright idea to found a little project to raise awareness of their games by hitching them to other games, and in the process founded Humble Indie Bundle, later Humble Bundle, later the Humble Store.

@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites: It's basically called stack ranking, and MS was known to practice it in the past. Make of that what you wish. Now we can do Stack Overflow internetpointzzzz ranking!

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.

@Zecc said in Help Bites: Sie haben die maximal zulässige Anzahl an Blinkernutzungen überschritten So maybe there's a horizontal gradient atop the conical gradient? I don't think that's it as I think the seam transitions smoothly from soft to hard. But anyway, your attempt looks pretty damn close. EDIT: wait, maybe yours does that too. Doesn't quite look like it to me, but I'm not sure.

@boomzilla said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!: @Gern_Blaanston said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!: The other part of this meme that isn’t obvious is how it demonstrates Microsoft’s ongoing campaign of aligning interface consistency.

@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.

For some strange reason, wind turbines are not very effective at harnessing the wind power of tornadoes. https://youtu.be/G6yL0tWXZMs?t=25096

@cheong Glad to hear you got your glasses back before you woke up. And the correct passport color too.

@BernieTheBernie said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else: @Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else: I'm glad they think this computer isn't supported. At least I won't get any surprise upgrades. Surprise! Surprise! It is supported! And we've just provided you with the Greatest Version of Windows. Enjoy! Releasing in 2025… Windows_Final_Updated_v2!

@Atazhaia said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: the man turned into a woman before my very eyes. There's a thread for that.

@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.

@Arantor said in Shipping Antipatterns: Snarry I can only guess, but yuck.

@Bulb said in TIL （ａｂｏｕｔ ｔｈｅ Ｄａｒｋ Ａｒｔｓ ｏｆ ＨＴＭＬ）: I did a couple of times. It ain't hard.

How else is she going to know?

@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!

Florida police officers complete a grocery delivery after they arrested the driver in the middle of his trip A family in Titusville, Florida, was recently surprised to find a police officer knocking at their front door. Their minds were quickly put at ease when the officer informed them that she was only there to deliver some groceries after arresting their delivery driver.

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?

@Steve_The_Cynic I guess you like your instructional videos to be younger.

@sockpuppet7 said in The Wibble: @Tsaukpaetra do you think gemini writes more interesting than my current gpt-4-turbo-preview thing? I did this test in on the free web thing: It appears to produce a sequence of coherent-at-face-value text related to the input.

Look, there is a Boeing flying. How can you identify it?