• (disco)

    Think Like A Bot

    huh....

    where's @‌sockbot when you need her?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    I don't know what that is, but it's not cookies. Looks more like moist mulch...

  • (disco) in reply to LB_

    Looks like cookies to me:

    [image]

    dang, you humans are picky about what kind of things you'll eat... who cares what it looks like if it's yummy?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    ^^ This. Of you really knew what things actually looked like before, during, and sometimes even after processing... Yet we still drink "water". :D

  • (disco)

    Meh. Non-technical person outsourcing maintenance task. Small configuration bug (which would never have been found by said non-technical person) fixed after small amount of effort by technical consultant. Consultant offers his services in continuance of sad maintenance.

  • (disco) in reply to Quite
    Quite:
    sad maintenance

    That's describes a lot of IT housekeeping that I see. Not quite non-existent...

  • (disco)

    It occurs to me that there's an anonymisation problem.

    If the pages geniunely contained just the complaint about cookies, the spider would have finished immediately and generated just one file. There were NO links mentioned in this file, so nowhere for the spider to go next.

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Actually, since they linked the website to multiple places, chances are some of them will be direct link to a product page or something like that. So the spiders would follow each of the links, and stop right there. (They need to do this because they can't tell a website is a blog/web hosting site or not, where the sub-sites themselves do not link with each others)

  • (disco) in reply to LB_

    If I'ld venture a guess I'ld say it's whole wheat shortbread dough

  • (disco)

    Definitely a fake story. How come there was no one from "higher management" who refused to implement the proposed solution, citing legacy reasons, customer feedback, budget constraints, or plain old "just because"?

  • (disco) in reply to cheong
    cheong:
    Actually, since they linked the website to multiple places, chances are some of them will be direct link to a product page or something like that. So the spiders would follow each of the links, and stop right there. (They need to do this because they can't tell a website is a blog/web hosting site or not, where the sub-sites themselves do not link with each others)
    Fair point, except the story sort of implies that he pointed the spider at the root of the site and let rip. If I'm wrong about that, I'm wrong about that.
  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra
    Tsaukpaetra:
    We still drink "water".

    It's very appropriate to put the common name of this dangerous chemical in scare quotes. If anyone remains unconvinced about the dangers of DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide, the more proper name of this ubiquitous chemical), I urge them to visit http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html.

    It's high time we cleansed this planet of DHMO and moved forward into a sunnier, cloud-free future.

  • (disco)

    SEO is hard becasue you don't experience it directly. We had one customer complain that his site doesn't show up on Google. We searched everything, consulted Google Webmaster Tools but couldn't figure out what was wrong. Then we inspected robots.txt:

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /

    So we removed it. I must assume it was introduced by one of us guys for WTF reasons.

    We've also had a case of pathological canonical tags.

  • (disco)

    Thanks for posting a 5184 × 3456 photo in my RSS reader, I really appreciated it when my phone hung up and then the app crashed. At least it got to start fresh, eh?

  • (disco) in reply to foxyshadis
    foxyshadis:
    Thanks for posting a 5184 × 3456 photo in my RSS reader

    Blame your crappy RSS reader. There's no technical standard that mandates a maximum resolution. If an image is too big for the RSS reader to handle, it should handle gracefully aborting the download and/or display.

  • (disco) in reply to Ragnax

    Oh that reminds me of back when we switched to Exchange and Outlook (some 10+ years ago). It had this nifty feature of forwarding emails and one of the managers found out that he could forward to his phone as the phone companies back then had automatic email to SMS gateways (you basically just emailed [email protected] and it showed up as and SMS) Problem was, it was before smartphones.

    Guess what, he got a mail with an attached word document..... :laughing:

    (Yes I know that forwarding has been around for ages, but it was first with exchange/outlook that windows users really discovered it).

  • (disco) in reply to Ragnax
    Ragnax:
    Blame your crappy RSS reader.

    On the other hand, how much does the article really benefit from an 18MP image of something almost entirely irrelevant?

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier
    hungrier:
    On the other hand, how much does the article really benefit from an 18MP image of something almost entirely irrelevant?
    dailywtf doesn't care, they're leeching the bandwidth for that image from wikimedia. *Again.*

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#Hotlinking_or_InstantCommons

    Directly using a Commons file via embedding its URL ("hotlinking") is also possible, **but is not recommended.** See Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia/technical. Additionally you should always check if the needs of the license used by the file are fulfilled if you use a file from Commons, since e.g. the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license requires that you attribute the author and licensor of a work in "reasonable to the medium or means" [1].
  • (disco)

    “Actually, I’d like to fix some of those other bugs I found at the start of the project,” Ian said.

    Now we know where TDWTF is going to get most of their material for 2016 from.

  • (disco)

    "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me!"

    "Me not fussy — just give me box of cookies."

    "Om nom nom nom..."

    "I'd do anything for a cookie."

    "Me want cookie!"

    [image]

    [spoiler](The site is a cookie monster!)[/spoiler]

  • (disco) in reply to Zylon

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia/technical#Hotlinking

    That's not the reason they don't want you to hotlink. It's not about bandwidth. Bandwidth is cheap. It's about how someone could change the picture to a photo of a dick at any time.

  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra

    https://youtu.be/Yfm6okwS36M?t=257

  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra
    Tsaukpaetra:
    Yet we still drink "water".

    Dihydrogen monoxide is related to 100% of all deaths. In nearly every case it is found in the body, and when it's not, there's not enough.

  • (disco) in reply to Shoreline
    Shoreline:
    Dihydrogen monoxide is related to 100% of all deaths.

    You do realise that it's a common industrial solvent and highly corrosive?

  • (disco) in reply to dkf

    And that it can be lethal to humans in quantities as small as a teaspoon?

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    Shoreline:
    Dihydrogen monoxide
    dkf:
    You do realise that it's a common industrial solvent and highly corrosive?
    PleegWat:
    And that it can be lethal to humans in quantities as small as a teaspoon?

    Then I guess that's why. Probably best ban it.

  • (disco) in reply to dkf

    It is a MAJOR component of vaccines and plastics. And used by BigFarma and the Oil industry.

  • (disco) in reply to ben_lubar
    ben_lubar:
    It's about how someone could change the picture to a photo of a dick at any time.

    While I see the point, you have to admit that it would be right in the wheelhouse of this site.

  • (disco) in reply to Dlareg
    Dlareg:
    a MAJOR component of vaccines

    Oh geez. Now you've done it.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    you have to admit that it would be right in the wheelhouse of this site

    Don't give someone ideas.

  • (disco) in reply to Yazeran
    Yazeran:
    (you basically just emailed [email protected] and it showed up as and SMS)Problem was, it was before smartphones.

    Guess what, he got a mail with an attached word document..... :laughing:

    So he got thousands of SMSes, almost all base 64 codez? You'd think it would just stop at one, unless there is something stupid like having to pay for incoming SMS.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    While I see the point, you have to admit that it would be right in the wheelhouse of this site.

    Hey, we aren't 4chan! Around here it would be glittery unicorns and Rosie O'Donnell, not dicks.

    Filed Under: Though dick and Rosie O'Donnell might technically be synonyms

  • (disco) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    unless there is something stupid like having to pay for incoming SMS.

    A while ago, yes, I had to pay 10 cents per text message, either way (after the 100 texts that came with the plan). So, in effect that's only 50 texts with replies.

  • (disco) in reply to Zemm

    Yep, thousands of SMS with base 64 :-)

    However I do not think it was because he had to pay for receiving them, I just think the phone company had not considered that it might happen and the system just defaulted to send it all (which was sensible if a normal email was longer than the 240 or so characters which can fit in an SMS). The feature was not widely advertised, I only found out about it by accident

    half a year later or so, the email to SMS was stopped. I think it was because the phone companies (thought) that they lost money as from their point of view users was supposed to SEND SMS (which they paid for) not only read them.

    The reason I used it was that i despise having to play tap-dance on a numeric keyboard when I most of the time have a perfectly usable normal keyboard right i front of me.....

  • (disco) in reply to Yazeran
    Yazeran:
    The reason I used it was that i despise having to play tap-dance on a numeric keyboard when I most of the time have a perfectly usable normal keyboard right i front of me.....

    An early phone I had was a Nokia 5510, then a 6800 then 6820. I wanted to get a E70 but didn't get it in time. Loved the qwerty keyboards, especially the ones that folded out so the phone could look and work like a normal one!

  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra
    Tsaukpaetra:
    A while ago, yes, I had to pay 10 cents per text message, either way

    I've had mobile phones since 1999 and never paid for incoming calls nor sms. And rarely going over inclusions. I seem to remember something silly like prepaid not having sms access, or no ability to send between different networks: most of my friends were on Optus so I had to change! Which also involved a number change. But that is all different now, of course.

    I pay 25c per message, but that comes out of "credit". I get $550 of credit but it only costs me $AU17 of real money per month. My plan also includes 1.5 GB data, which has been enough but starting to get a little tight.

  • (disco) in reply to Yazeran
    Yazeran:
    half a year later or so, the email to SMS was stopped.

    Wasn't there a story last year about some guy in England who got eBay scammed or something, and he got revenge on the scammer by using a gateway to SMS the scammer the entire text of Lord of the Rings or some other long book?

  • (disco) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    never paid for incoming calls nor sms.

    It was a shitty plan, one I didn't use for long. I think it was one of the earliest incarnations of contract-less pay-as-you-go.

  • (disco) in reply to jkshapiro

    I hate the name DHMO - it sounds boring, and it doesn't really fit with (my understanding of) the systematic nomenclature of chemicals. "Hydroxylic acid" for example sounds so much cooler.

  • (disco) in reply to RandomStranger

    I like Hydrogen Hydride.

  • (disco) in reply to RandomStranger
    RandomStranger:
    I hate the name DHMO - it sounds boring, and it doesn't really fit with (my understanding of) the systematic nomenclature of chemicals. "Hydroxylic acid" for example sounds **so** much cooler.

    While that name does reinforce the dangerous acidic qualities of DHMO, it glosses over the fact that it is an equally powerful Arrhenius base, similar to lye or slaked lime.

    DHMO is a chemical, and it's difficult for some people to pronounce. If that doesn't tell you how dangerous it is, I don't know what will.

  • (disco) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    DHMO is a chemical, and it's difficult for some people to pronounce. If that doesn't tell you how dangerous it is, I don't know what will.
    the food babe:
    [There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever][1]

    <empty my arse

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    DCRoss:
    DHMO is a chemical, and it's difficult for some people to pronounce. If that doesn't tell you how dangerous it is, I don't know what will.
    the food babe:
    [There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever][1]

    <empty my arse

    dude.... at some level.... like everything is chemicals man... You gotta let go that whole conspiracy mindset man, it's just chaining you to the ideas they want you to have. ... man.... once you , like, let those thoughts go you'll be... like free-er then that eagle up there that's flying through the purple clouds of joy!

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    On that note, we are just big sacks of chemicals. I think there's a relevant XKCD but I am too lazy to find it.

  • (disco) in reply to LB_

    https://xkcd.com/1173/

  • (disco) in reply to anotherusername
    [image] [image]

    .....

    some people have a very odd definition of fun.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    some people have a very odd definition of fun.

    Paging @ben_lubar for obligatory DF link.

  • (disco) in reply to PleegWat
    PleegWat:
    accalia:
    some people have a very odd definition of fun.

    Paging @ben_lubar for obligatory DF link.

    please, don't we have enough NSFW content here for the unwary to wander into?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    PleegWat:
    Paging @ben_lubar for obligatory DF link.

    please, don't we have enough NSFWL content here for the unwary to wander into?

    FTFY. DF is safe for work, just not for life (or at least sane life).

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    [image]

    .....

    some people have a very odd definition of fun.

    You're just now noticing that?

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