• (nodebb)

    I have noticed that Google Play Music (I miss that service) would do the same thing once in a while. It would just "loop" a song randomly, which results in play time almost double the actual song length.

  • (nodebb)

    I'm more amused that the receipt contained a base64-encoded digital signature & public key on it. Like, is someone ever going to type/scan that in & run it through ECDSA to verify that the signature is valid? Yeah, right.

  • (nodebb) in reply to adamantoise

    Looks to me like someone left debug output turned on on that point of sale machine.

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to adamantoise

    If someone came in to complain about a receipt and there was a possibility that the receipt was faked, this would provide very strong evidence either way. Maybe you wouldn't do it for a few bucks but if it was a large amount or repeated claim, it would be useful

  • Jasmine (unregistered) in reply to gordonfish

    No, it's pretty much standard here. Yes, you MIGHT want to verify those hashes/keys/signatures

  • dusoft (unregistered) in reply to adamantoise

    That's probably legally required electronic billing transaction ID (also seen in other EU countries).

  • LZ79LRU (unregistered) in reply to gordonfish

    Or perhaps "superuser" is a special admin only user meant for developers and there is a bunch of code for debugging that basically ties to if(superuser) print. And someone, maybe a service person, might have logged in as superuser and left their credentials on and nobody bothered changing things since lest it break. I've seen stuff like that far too often.

  • (nodebb)

    I notice that Peter G didn't comment on TRWTF he received from Quantum Spirits...

    What kind of barbaric country makes people wait until they are 21 before they can legally buy alcoholic drinks?

  • OldCoder (unregistered) in reply to LZ79LRU

    Nah. It just proves that their system is running on Windows.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    The same barbaric country that allows you to buy a rifle at 18.

  • Friedrice the Great (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    If you say yes, the next page says they're closed and thanks customers for 5 years of business. I think they're out of business for everyone.

  • (nodebb)

    Regarding receipts, I recently got one with an encoding Error, where the German eszet letter ß was replaced by two nonsensical ones. I.e. probably UTF-8 being decoded as latin1.

    Classic issues, I've just never seen it printed on paper before.

    Fun detail: If you enter

    data:text/html,Straße

    as URL in Chrome on my Android phone, it displays it as

    Straße

    Now I wonder what makes which part of the program assume what encoding. Now I wonder which part of the process

    Addendum 2024-08-17 03:24: What happened with my last paragraph Oo

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to R3D3

    Yes, the common "from UTF-8 over ISO-8859-1 to HTML and back" journey... just ask Mr. Lampampasuppez on Schlatildefracterstrasse in Berlin. Oh, and Firefox makes "data:text/html,Stra%C3%9Fe" from the provided text, so lots of opportunities to turn "Straße" into "Stracfe" or "Straprozentprozentfe".

  • (nodebb) in reply to R3D3

    I think "Straße" is the phonetic spelling of "Australia".

  • Monda (unregistered)

    habibi 🤣

  • (nodebb) in reply to R3D3

    Now I wonder what makes which part of the program assume what encoding.

    The default text encoding for HTTP is ISO 8859-1.

    For reference, Safari does the same thing as Chrome.

    Addendum 2024-08-19 09:15: Try this:

    data:text/html;charset=utf-8,Straße

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