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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: March 29, 2024, 09:16:15 am »
I got the Big Sad yesterday and it weighs in my mind today like a migraine or hangover.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 28, 2024, 08:58:07 am »
I think whatever content algorithm they have infers your extra couple seconds of time interacting with the right-wing-nutter webelement to report it constitutes attention and therefore it decides that you should have more of whatever is occupying your attention.
You report a scam fedex job posting on Tumblr, it shows you more of those postings, because you looked at it long enough to report it. It's silly.
You report a scam fedex job posting on Tumblr, it shows you more of those postings, because you looked at it long enough to report it. It's silly.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 27, 2024, 12:23:41 pm »
everything at work needs to be done with high priority
everyone is working on high priority things
so i get passed tasks with high priority
just kinda having work dumped on me and asked 'hey, ASAP please'
management is frustrated because developers aren't doing the regression testing development like we're requiring (and summarily skipping because everything must be completed with priority and therefore expedited out of this requirement)
upper brass is like 'you did it, you pushed real hard this week to hit our feature goal! do it again with a bigger number of features!'
meanwhile, i'm trapped in meetings about the urgent work that needs to be done urgently instead of working
everyone is working on high priority things
so i get passed tasks with high priority
just kinda having work dumped on me and asked 'hey, ASAP please'
management is frustrated because developers aren't doing the regression testing development like we're requiring (and summarily skipping because everything must be completed with priority and therefore expedited out of this requirement)
upper brass is like 'you did it, you pushed real hard this week to hit our feature goal! do it again with a bigger number of features!'
meanwhile, i'm trapped in meetings about the urgent work that needs to be done urgently instead of working
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 26, 2024, 09:48:47 pm »
comcast has decided in their infinite wisdom that a) you cannot set port forwarding from their router and must install their phone app and do it there instead and b) your device must be directly connected to the router via cable or wifi so you can select it to set routing for.
Ordinary routers? You say 'hey, send traffic on port 6969 to 192.168.0.5' and they go 'okeydokes! traffic going that way!' Is there a device there? Who gives a shit! The answer is probably yes, but it doesn't specifically matter! Comcast? You gotta select a device. Your device gotta be online. Your device is not online if it's attached to a wifi range extender. You cannot set any kind of port forwarding on that device. you cannot set port forwarding to a specific IP address.
you will grovel at the feet of this android application that requires an extra level of authentication and has less functionality so you can fail to do the thing you used to be able to do from the internal webpage on the router itself
the internal webpage still exists, by the way- but it exists only to tell you to download the app. I'd throw the damn thing into the bin and replace it with equipment I own, but I'm only renting and it's the homeowner's stuff.
I think my tentative plan is to 'connect my devices to the router via wifi dongle, spoof the MAC address on each dongle to match that of the ethernet port, set static IPs to each MAC I've spoofed, set the forwarding to my devices via the application, then reconnect my devices by hardwire to my wifi range extender (with the matching real MACs) which creams the shitty horrible wifi dongles I'm trying to get away from.
this should have been a five minute endeavor and now i'm spending HOURS trying to get around this bullshit
Ordinary routers? You say 'hey, send traffic on port 6969 to 192.168.0.5' and they go 'okeydokes! traffic going that way!' Is there a device there? Who gives a shit! The answer is probably yes, but it doesn't specifically matter! Comcast? You gotta select a device. Your device gotta be online. Your device is not online if it's attached to a wifi range extender. You cannot set any kind of port forwarding on that device. you cannot set port forwarding to a specific IP address.
you will grovel at the feet of this android application that requires an extra level of authentication and has less functionality so you can fail to do the thing you used to be able to do from the internal webpage on the router itself
the internal webpage still exists, by the way- but it exists only to tell you to download the app. I'd throw the damn thing into the bin and replace it with equipment I own, but I'm only renting and it's the homeowner's stuff.
I think my tentative plan is to 'connect my devices to the router via wifi dongle, spoof the MAC address on each dongle to match that of the ethernet port, set static IPs to each MAC I've spoofed, set the forwarding to my devices via the application, then reconnect my devices by hardwire to my wifi range extender (with the matching real MACs) which creams the shitty horrible wifi dongles I'm trying to get away from.
this should have been a five minute endeavor and now i'm spending HOURS trying to get around this bullshit
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: March 25, 2024, 08:37:52 am »Just... damnit. Gmail finally dumped the html version, and, of course, the new thing is a sack of shit that looks worse and has worse performance, because that's fucking always what happens when websites dump things that just work for something that requires a friggin' loading screen.
Probably won't migrate just due the effort it would take, but for the love of fuck I wish these idiots would stop "updating" shit that doesn't need to be updated and isn't actually improved on any level in the process. Have to interact with fedex at work and they're trying to transition in a similar way, except their new version that's the same sort of crap is literally nonfunctional for my organization so it's this pigshit except somehow even less competent. How these billion dollar companies keep fucking up in the exact same way I'll never quite wrap my head around -- I know it's corpo brainrot skimping on something important, but I just can't understand it beyond the intellectual level.
Though there's days I look at this stuff and somewhere in all the frustration there's an odd sort of something like respect for whoever's managing to boondoggle the idiot CEOs into making bad decisions like this. Like, fuck them with a rusty rail spike powered by the infinite hate of competent UI designers, but at the same time someone out there's making bank convincing people to do remarkably stupid shit and there's something similar to respect for that. It's not actually respect, because they're using their power for evil and I hate them, but it's something resembling it. Just wish someone'd goddamn stop them, blech.
the router here lets you do all configuration within a web browser, entirely as it should
EXCEPT for port forwarding or DMZ settings, which REQUIRE you to use the xfinity app to configure, which requires you to log into their service
and, like, for what? configuring just these two features has always worked fine via html, why am i being required to install crapware to do basic router management
it's like everyone
a) moves fast and breaks things
b) patch jobs the things they break instead of doing proper fixes
c) has no clue how to program
d) changes things for the sake of change
e) has already moved onto enshittifying something else
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unrelated:
i stayed up until 2am reading a discworld novel, and i do not cope well on a lack of sleep. not when i was doing this when i was seventeen, not when i was doing this when i was twenty, not when i do this at thirty
Small Gods was a fun read, though, ate the damn book in two nights
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 24, 2024, 11:24:29 pm »
oh shit, Truean! I was just wondering today where life took you. Glad to see you by again.
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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: March 23, 2024, 09:32:58 pm »
put LED lights along my bicycle tires
put a new glarus bicycle bell on the handlebars - it even has a matching color scheme
found a bicycle seat cushion thing that wraps around the existing seat so i won't bruise my ass so bad
lubed it up, no more squeaking
bike's still coming out to less than a hundred bucks total to have acquired, fixed, and put all my personalizing touches on
thrifting is really good in denver
put a new glarus bicycle bell on the handlebars - it even has a matching color scheme
found a bicycle seat cushion thing that wraps around the existing seat so i won't bruise my ass so bad
lubed it up, no more squeaking
bike's still coming out to less than a hundred bucks total to have acquired, fixed, and put all my personalizing touches on
thrifting is really good in denver
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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: March 23, 2024, 07:55:01 pm »
i, uh, wasn't really talking about physical pain with my question, but whatever
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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: March 21, 2024, 11:41:12 pm »
How do you quantify hurt? How do you, knowing how others have been hurt, or the shape or structure of hurt, hold some kind of answer to 'was it really as bad as you think it was?' How do you know how bad you had it? How do you frame it?
this is not really a small nor random question, huh
this is not really a small nor random question, huh
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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: March 21, 2024, 09:46:45 pm »
Oh, if you've got recommendations for the hack and slash stuff, I'm all ears. I've got a small list going.
I've been playing Morrowind through the OpenMW adaptation; there's a mod that configurably randomizes the destinations that doors or door-like transitions to, and it's fucking me up man
I've got a reusable teleporter to a house mod that is entirely inner cells and each of its several dozen doors takes you to some entirely different interior cell and you end up with this massive hypothetical snarl of a path through eight radically different (and maybe dangerous) rooms to get back to that other cell that had something useful behind it, like a merchant with a fat wallet or a supply of throwing knives
but otherwise i was making a little home base in the interior of some tower, which served as the connection point for two entirely different cities, and with each city having dozens of doors on their own, you'd pivot through town trying to figure out if the fletcher door takes you to some ash cave or the mage's guild or, or some entirely different guy's house
i'm also playing primarily with the intent to fully decorate/occupy the big house mod from above with all the goodies I find in the world. The collecting and the displaying of random junk and treasure is actually kind of the only reason I'm playing Morrowind, now that I think of it, but i frigging love it
I've been playing Morrowind through the OpenMW adaptation; there's a mod that configurably randomizes the destinations that doors or door-like transitions to, and it's fucking me up man
I've got a reusable teleporter to a house mod that is entirely inner cells and each of its several dozen doors takes you to some entirely different interior cell and you end up with this massive hypothetical snarl of a path through eight radically different (and maybe dangerous) rooms to get back to that other cell that had something useful behind it, like a merchant with a fat wallet or a supply of throwing knives
but otherwise i was making a little home base in the interior of some tower, which served as the connection point for two entirely different cities, and with each city having dozens of doors on their own, you'd pivot through town trying to figure out if the fletcher door takes you to some ash cave or the mage's guild or, or some entirely different guy's house
i'm also playing primarily with the intent to fully decorate/occupy the big house mod from above with all the goodies I find in the world. The collecting and the displaying of random junk and treasure is actually kind of the only reason I'm playing Morrowind, now that I think of it, but i frigging love it
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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: March 21, 2024, 06:06:57 pm »
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It's a little squeaky, but it's the thin-tire street bike I've always wanted, and it turns heads from all the cycling enthusiasts who haven't seen something vintage riding around amidst all the high-end mountain or e-bikes. Red definitely seems to be my color this year.
Definitely needs a new seat with more cushion, though. Ow.
It's a little squeaky, but it's the thin-tire street bike I've always wanted, and it turns heads from all the cycling enthusiasts who haven't seen something vintage riding around amidst all the high-end mountain or e-bikes. Red definitely seems to be my color this year.
Definitely needs a new seat with more cushion, though. Ow.
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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: March 20, 2024, 09:43:45 am »
Oh, I'm all moved in to my new place now. I have a home again. It's pre-furnished with some lovely furniture and lamps and I've quickly augmented the space with a desk and a bookshelf. The homeowner has a little terrier and he's just the happiest little guy that loves to share the space with me. I had to shoo him back upstairs last night because he wanted to come to bed with me! I'm flattered, little friend, but you should go be with your owner instead.
I thrifted a bicycle for a song and my long-time friend that put me up for the two weeks I've been in town lives just a mile away and wants me to join her rock climbing gym. I'm gonna get fit!
I'm just really happy to have friends, a quiet space, a little furry guy that I don't have to worry too much about, and full liberty to pursue my own interests again.
I thrifted a bicycle for a song and my long-time friend that put me up for the two weeks I've been in town lives just a mile away and wants me to join her rock climbing gym. I'm gonna get fit!
I'm just really happy to have friends, a quiet space, a little furry guy that I don't have to worry too much about, and full liberty to pursue my own interests again.
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General Discussion / Re: 2024 Hot Fresh Books Thread
« on: March 20, 2024, 09:34:52 am »
Oh, Vec, you're back! It's good to see you, I was worried about your absence and well-being.
I don't think I'll be setting any reading goals this year (or at least, not currently), but I've gobbled down a couple books about how to read tarot (I seem to make a hobby of magical haberdashery when I'm in a state of flux), have The Drunkard's Walk - How Randomness Rules Our Lives to read as a nice counterpoint to the cards, and I'm once again taking little pokes at More Than Two to better understand polyamory and its particular facet of the queer sphere. If there's anything I learned from my ex, it's that I still don't know so much first-or-secondhand about the queer community and I really ought to change that.
I should peel the thrift store sticker off my new-to-me bookshelf. It's nice to see specifically my own books on display.
I don't think I'll be setting any reading goals this year (or at least, not currently), but I've gobbled down a couple books about how to read tarot (I seem to make a hobby of magical haberdashery when I'm in a state of flux), have The Drunkard's Walk - How Randomness Rules Our Lives to read as a nice counterpoint to the cards, and I'm once again taking little pokes at More Than Two to better understand polyamory and its particular facet of the queer sphere. If there's anything I learned from my ex, it's that I still don't know so much first-or-secondhand about the queer community and I really ought to change that.
I should peel the thrift store sticker off my new-to-me bookshelf. It's nice to see specifically my own books on display.
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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: March 10, 2024, 10:51:25 am »
Oh, the forum is back.
Hi from Denver, everyone! I got out weeks ahead of schedule since I couldn't bear to watch my ex replace me in real time and use what would have been a personal birthday gift for me (but let's be real, it was always for her, not for me) as a birthday gift for her new guy. ( How cheap was our relationship to her? ) Sucks for her pet sitting gig, but I put my mental health above her gig. I wasn't going to get anything out of it anyways- no more favors, no more gratis.
I got to spend a week in Moab with one of my best friends, and now I'm staying with his girlfriend I'm Denver, another best friend, while I seek out my own place to live.
And I did! I'm signing on to a private, furnished basement in a house for a really good rent rate that goes month-to-month at the end of autumn. I move in after next weekend. Oh, and the homeowner has a really sweet terrier that I'm going to get along great with.
Everything is just sort of working out. It's really very lucky. I'll miss my dogs, but not being shackled and abused. There's a lot of city to explore and plenty of space to recover and reinvent myself.
Hi from Denver, everyone! I got out weeks ahead of schedule since I couldn't bear to watch my ex replace me in real time and use what would have been a personal birthday gift for me (but let's be real, it was always for her, not for me) as a birthday gift for her new guy. ( How cheap was our relationship to her? ) Sucks for her pet sitting gig, but I put my mental health above her gig. I wasn't going to get anything out of it anyways- no more favors, no more gratis.
I got to spend a week in Moab with one of my best friends, and now I'm staying with his girlfriend I'm Denver, another best friend, while I seek out my own place to live.
And I did! I'm signing on to a private, furnished basement in a house for a really good rent rate that goes month-to-month at the end of autumn. I move in after next weekend. Oh, and the homeowner has a really sweet terrier that I'm going to get along great with.
Everything is just sort of working out. It's really very lucky. I'll miss my dogs, but not being shackled and abused. There's a lot of city to explore and plenty of space to recover and reinvent myself.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: February 08, 2024, 04:00:48 pm »
yes i do
it's not wasps
i'm not sure why that's difficult to comprehend
it's not wasps
i'm not sure why that's difficult to comprehend