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Jaeger is just a little bit exhibitionist and wanted to make sure the other mods saw... things too. But not everybody.
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Accipiter posted:You kids today have it easy. You will never know the pain of running wolf3d using the PC speaker for in-game audio and having the game pause every time it played a sound. That game plays sounds CONSTANTLY and it was a 10 minute struggle to turn sound back off with the mouse jumping all over the place as the system spent 99% of the time just making barely audible background noises. I never actually tried it with Wolf3D, which in hindsight is odd since I was playing it all the time back then (and still today). vanity slug posted:Scusi, like in Italian  edit: Remembered one more tale of the PC Speaker Sound Driver. We had a 28.8 "Winmodem" at the time which for the younger crowd means the modem was basically a low-end sound card and a lot of the work was actually done on the CPU. We also had AOL. Dial up, connect, AOL plays "welcome" sound, PC speaker sound driver monopolizes the CPU for a half a second, software modem gets interrupted, connection resyncs, AOL plays "you've got mail", PC speaker driver monopolizes the CPU again, software modem gets interrupted for long enough to actually drop the call. That was the end of that driver for me. I still have that PC, next time I fire it up I might try to find that driver again just for nostalgia's sake. wolrah fucked around with this message at 17:09 on May 13, 2025 |
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SCSI, pronounced cheugy
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Way back in the 1990s I vaguely recall that there used to be a popup in Netscape or Internet explorer saying when a website actually used encryption before TLS became widespread. I am trying to find a picture of that popup but Google is failing me. Anyone remember what I’m talking about?
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The Iron Rose posted:Way back in the 1990s I vaguely recall that there used to be a popup in Netscape or Internet explorer saying when a website actually used encryption before TLS became widespread. I am trying to find a picture of that popup but Google is failing me. Anyone remember what I’m talking about? I believe Internet Explorer had that right until the end. It also came with a checkbox for "don't show me this again", which everyone with a bit of attention would probably check the first time and then never see it ever after. But no, I can't think of any search terms to find that box specifically either.
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The Iron Rose posted:Way back in the 1990s I vaguely recall that there used to be a popup in Netscape or Internet explorer saying when a website actually used encryption before TLS became widespread. I am trying to find a picture of that popup but Google is failing me. Anyone remember what I’m talking about?
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I think I remember reading some speculation that part of the justification for that popup was it being at a time when encrypting the traffic had a noticeable performance impact on the the machine, but I'm not sure how much sense that makes since the info box doesn't actually call that out.
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Internet Explorer posted:Wait, you do know that there are actual DMs, right? You don't have to use the report button every time you want to shoot your shot. Sending a million reports with "a/s/l?" as the only content rafikki posted:I think I remember reading some speculation that part of the justification for that popup was it being at a time when encrypting the traffic had a noticeable performance impact on the the machine, but I'm not sure how much sense that makes since the info box doesn't actually call that out. Microsoft love some totally unnecessary UI clutter. The dialog box was either some product manager felt that calling out that you were now encrypted would drive use of their browser if Netscape didn't do it, or a programmer had shipped no code that week and put something pointless in and a C-level liked it. Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 17:19 on May 13, 2025 |
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Cleared my desk because I feel again there's a high likelihood tomorrow, but no absolute smoking gun yet. Might be clearer this evening after another secret IT meeting I'm not part of lol. The director has been absolutely pounding us for credentials this morning lol. I just hope that it's just me and not a larger layoff. I'll be fine.
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Alright I have a pretty alright handle on AWS, but now I need to learn more about DNS I currently have a route53 hosted zone with the domain contoso.nl and I can control routes and such, is there a way to use route53 as some sort of authoritative DNS for contoso.nl, but also use say... cloudflare to mirror it or even host subdomains on it? Like route53 could hold contoso.nl and labs.contoso.nl, but cloudflare could have the dns records for goon.contoso.nl and idiot.contoso.nl? or do I basically just need to buy another domain for cloudflare to host entirely? The reason I brought this up is currently the lab I have setup to learn terraform/aws is good, but my employer uses Cloudflare as its DNS host, so if I want to have a lab that can more closely mirror what I have to deal with at work it'd be good to have that. It wouldn't be a big issue to buy another domain, my work allows me to have a decent budget for "educational/lab tools", just would rather save  if it was practical/
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The magic word you're looking for is "NS Record", you can delegate authority for subdomains to other nameservers that way.
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DNS delegation, look it up.
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jaegerx posted:DNS delegation, look it up. JehovahsWetness posted:The magic word you're looking for is "NS Record", you can delegate authority for subdomains to other nameservers that way. Yep, this allowed me to find what I needed, thanks!
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teethgrinder posted:Cleared my desk because I feel again there's a high likelihood tomorrow, but no absolute smoking gun yet. Might be clearer this evening after another secret IT meeting I'm not part of lol. That's a terrible feeling. Sorry you're going through that.
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Appreciate it. I just want to take the money and run at this point. This Sword of Damocles poo poo sucks though.
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Tuning up my CV, just putting down some recently-acquired skills. I've been trying to get a hold of the person I report to since Thursday. No reply Friday, Monday he tells me we'd talk within the day, and I sent him another message today. I'm fine with people being busy, but considering I was told about this new position a month ago, then instead of wfh I'm attached to a client that takes me ~90 minutes to get to/from, on-site, with no defined responsibilities, I'm kinda feeling like I'm being jerked around a bit. And I haven't heard about insurance or the raise I asked about, which doesn't fill me with any kind of hope.
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If it helps, most of the time that's just incompetence, not malice
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Vulture Culture posted:my Italian inlaws have at least a hundred insults and slurs alone starting with "st" I was talking about Spanish.
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An issue I've experienced with Cloudflare is that if you want to use a lot of their cool free features like Tunnel then they want to be the name server for the domain and they will check and realise if you're adding a subdomain. I'm sure it's not an issue if you're paying them. If this has changed then that's good news but I couldn't see any solid documentation one way or the other.
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Thanks Ants posted:An issue I've experienced with Cloudflare is that if you want to use a lot of their cool free features like Tunnel then they want to be the name server for the domain and they will check and realise if you're adding a subdomain. I'm sure it's not an issue if you're paying them. Mostly we currently use it for just DNS. The use case for me, practically, is taking janky terraform, yanking out references to creating DNS records in route53 and replacing it with creating the same sort of records and whatever else in Cloudflare.
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Internet Explorer posted:Wait, you do know that there are actual DMs, right? You don't have to use the report button every time you want to shoot your shot. Hey siri Order a case of cum-b-gone for jaegerx’s keyboard
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In my defense, that dude that wrote a dhcp server in perl as I recall deserved the report.
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I've done worse things in Ruby than whatever you can imagine
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Vulture Culture posted:I've done worse things in Ruby than whatever you can imagine I wrote a DDNS script that pings every second.
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I modified the ruby interpreter to implement a form of Chambers' "Predicate Classes" (https://wiki.c2.com/?PredicateClasses) by manipulating robject klass pointers in the call handler. I also did it in "pure" ruby through method aliasing and the evilr extension. the t in oop stands for TYPE SAFETY
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These loving people man. At 9:02 my manager slacked to say he needed to postpone our 1:1 to the afternoon. There's also an HR person here that almost never comes into the office. I wonder if he just slept in lol. There's almost no one else here even. But I think it's also possible they changed their minds last minute. One of the suspicious meetings for this timeslot vanished during their last secret IT call. I wouldn't be surprised if the people they're trying to recruit don't accept the job at this poo poo company.
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teethgrinder posted:These loving people man. At 9:02 my manager slacked to say he needed to postpone our 1:1 to the afternoon. As The IT World Turns christ.
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I had an interview with a company where I'd be replacing someone. It was to operate saviynt. I asked the manager if reliability was the issue, and if so, I would not be able to solve for their shortcomings. I didn't get the job, thankfully, and I hope I hit the nail on the head.
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Is it just a piece of poo poo?
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I suspect a reason I may be on the chopping block may simply be salary deflation. I haven't moved on because nothing else seems to pay what I earn here for roughly equivalent work.
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teethgrinder posted:I suspect a reason I may be on the chopping block may simply be salary deflation. I haven't moved on because nothing else seems to pay what I earn here for roughly equivalent work. What time zone are you in? This will they, won’t they is the only thing entertaining me today.
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Eastern Time, but I'm sorry, no dice. My best guess is no one lined up accepted the job. Creeping calendars at first it was kind of surreal, like weirdly literally no suspicious meetings after today. But I just spotted now that they already have a new interview lined up next week, but ugh does that mean I'm on the hook another few weeks. Annnnnnd all that said, I need to get the gently caress out. During what turned out to be an actual 1:1 it was made clear no one reporting up to this director is getting a promotion "this cycle". Same old. My guys have been waiting over two years sigh. And my own title sucks and isn't representative of my work and responsibility.
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Jesus Christ. At this point I’d start writing all this poo poo down so if they do fire you then you immediately point to all the poo poo that made it a hostile work place. Then contact an employment lawyer. Get the bag
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lol a senior desktop admin position opened up near me which I'd totally go for, if they were offering more than $50k. I make more working help desk.
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Haha at least I have all the screenshots and chatlogs from sharing this poo poo with former co-workers. Which reminds me... it's kinda like the frog in slowly warming water. I have literally one good friend remaining here, but it's kind of shocking how every single personality has either quit or been shown the door. The culture and Slack are dead dead dead, and the office itself is almost comical ... built during COVID with the expectation there'd be a massive return to office. 350 seats, I think one or two earlier days maybe we peaked at 200 people in for major events. Now a team event might bring in twenty tops, and that's once or twice a month. Virtually none of the newer hires care at all about culture, just here for a paycheck which obviously I don't blame them for. But anyone with personality that does somehow start here also flees within a month or two. The management knows they don't hold the cards to compel people back to the office. I actually like it because it's quiet and I have one of the best commutes imaginable, just a lovely 40 minute bike ride through the valley almost end-to-end, barely needing to touch a road. When the weather is warmer I sit at a beach and read. These are the only reasons I'll miss this place. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 22:02 on May 14, 2025 |
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It would be funny if it was an office space situation and those mystery meetings with HR were about promoting you.
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