AnyOldName3

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[–] AnyOldName3 -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not relevant to being a tankie as the US, Israel, and other states backing Israel, aren't claiming they're building communism or are the successor state to another which claimed to be building communism. It's the part where communism is an excuse that means the bad things didn't really happen and would be fine even if they did that makes tankie-ism its own distinct thing.

[–] AnyOldName3 42 points 1 day ago

They used that TLD because it had the same letters as Marxist-Leninist, not because they're from Mali. They're not from Mali.

[–] AnyOldName3 18 points 2 days ago

It's not even early modern English. Shakespeare is Early Modern English, and takes more effort to understand than this does. This just uses words and phrases that have been unfashionable for one or two hundred years, and were generally posher than most people used even when they were in vogue.

[–] AnyOldName3 5 points 2 days ago

Most of Valve's money comes from taking a 30% cut of all sales through the Steam store, which is a lot of money. They're not abusing their market position as much as they could (e.g. if you buy a Steam key from anywhere else, like a key in a physical box at a physical store, or another online key retailer like Humble Bundle, Valve gets no money, as the publisher can generate as many Steam keys as they want for free), but it's the surplus value of the labour of employees of other companies that Gabe Newell accumulates.

[–] AnyOldName3 4 points 3 days ago

Blaming us would be too close to root-cause analysis for them even to consider. We weren't normally QA testers, but they'd left it until too late to hire internal QA, so roped in the developers (us) from a SaaS vendor their app replied on as emergency QA.

[–] AnyOldName3 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

By the time the app was due to go live, we'd only reported bugs with the signup and login flows. This was misinterpreted as there only being issues with the signup and login flows, and the app launched on time. In reality, it was impossible to get past the login screen.

[–] AnyOldName3 76 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Once I was tasked with doing QA testing for an app which was planned to initially go live in the states of Georgia and Tenessee. One of the required fields was the user's legal name. I therefore looked up the laws on baby names in those two states.

Georgia has simple rules where a child's forename must be a sequence of the 26 regular Latin letters.

Tenessee seemed to only require that a child's name was writable under some writing system, which would imply any unicode code point is permissible.

At the time, I logged a bug that a hypothetical user born in Tenessee with a name consisting of a single emoji couldn't enter their legal name. I reckon it would also be legal to call a Tenessee baby 'John '.

[–] AnyOldName3 30 points 4 days ago

Some of them think that communism is so perfect that any communist state (i.e. a state that plans to build communism one day, but doesn't claim to have done so yet) can't backtrack and will only get closer and closer to communism over time. Claims that Russia is no longer communist, and is just an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy, must therefore be lies made up by the west to trick people into not trying to build communism here. Russian troll farms will find communities of people who think this, and make posts agreeing with them and telling them that everyone's super happy in Russia and anything bad is made up.

[–] AnyOldName3 78 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's also stethoscope theory, which is much more plausible:

[–] AnyOldName3 24 points 4 days ago

Maybe XT-1 woke up with tattoos like this, but it said Dave the lab tech was here, and Dave was the only one to enjoy it.

[–] AnyOldName3 7 points 1 week ago

It's not Kessler Syndrome until it's so bad that we can't feasibly launch anything new. A single cascading collision chain might calm down again after breaking a lot of stuff without any catastrophic long term impact if all the debris ends up either in a stable orbit that can be predicted and avoided by other objects, or unstable orbits that decay until the debris falls out of orbit.

[–] AnyOldName3 2 points 1 week ago

I've definitely noticed less shininess than the same filament was getting at the same temperatures on my previous printer, except for the first layer. As the first layer prints without part cooling, my guess is that the extra part cooling versus the other printer means it's setting before it's had time to self-level. If that's right, then turning down the part cooling (and then also the speed so you can get away with the reduced part cooling) would make things shiny again. I've not bothered investigating that, as most of what I print is either functional, where I wouldn't care about shininess, or gets painted, where any shininess would come from paint or clearcoat.

 

I've got a 3D printed project, and went over it with a couple of airbrushed coats of a 50/50 mix of Tamiya X-35 (their alcohol-based acrylic semi-gloss) and Mr Color Levelling Thinner. As far as I can tell, it looks good so far, but now the room next to the one I sprayed in smells of solvent a few hours later, despite extractor fans running. I knew the lacquer thinner was nasty, so bought a respirator, and haven't been in the room with the model without it (hence only knowing that the next room stinks), but would like to know when I won't need it anymore. The best I've been able to find with Google is the ten-minute touch-dry time, but I'm assuming the VOCs will take longer to be entirely gone.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AnyOldName3 to c/mildlyinfuriating
 

Edit 1: I'm attaching the image again. If there's still no photo, blame Jerboa and not the alcohol I've consumed.

Edit 3: edit 2 is gone. However, an imgur link should now be here!

Edit 4: I promise the photo of some plugs does not contain erotic material (unless you have very specific and abnormal fetishes). I can't find the button to tell that to imgur, though. You can blame that on the alcohol.

Edit 5: s/done/some/g

Edit 6: I regret mentioning the dartboard, which was a safe distance below these sockets, and seems to be distracting people from the fact that one's the wrong way up. I've now replaced the imgur link with a direct upload now I'm back on my desktop the next day.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/383055

Scroll to Update Three for a description of what turned out to be the problem, and potential solutions on Lemmy.world's end.

When I visit lemmy.world in either Firefox or Chrome, go to the log in page, enter my credentials, and press the Login button, it changes to a spinner and spins forever. No error is logged to the browser console when I press the button.

On the other hand, when using Jerboa on my phone, I can vote, comment and post just fine. That makes me think it's not an issue with this account.

I was briefly able to log in on my desktop a few days ago, but don't think I did anything differently when it worked.

Update

I tried again with my username lowercased, and with the password copied and pasted instead of autofilled, and it worked despite not working a few seconds earlier when I tried it the usual way. I'm going to log out and see which of the two things it was that made the difference.

Update Two

Copying and pasting the password while leaving the username with mixed case also let me in, so it's somehow related to the password manager autofill.

Update Three

I figured it out. I generated a password longer than lemmy.world's password length limit. When creating the account, it appears to have truncated it to sixty characters. When using the password manager to autofill Jerboa, it's also truncated it to sixty characters. When copying and pasting the password from the password manager manually, it truncated it to sixty characters, too. However, the browser extension autofill managed to include the extra characters, too, so the data in the textbox wasn't correct.

In case an admin or Lemmy developer sees this, I'd recommend:

  • Not limiting the password length. It should be hashed and salted anyway, so it doesn't increase storage requirements if it's huge.
  • Giving feedback when creating an account with a too-long password that it's invalid for being too long instead of simply truncating it. Ideally, the password requirements would be displayed before you'd entered the password, too.
  • As mentioned by one of the commenters, giving feedback when an incorrect password is entered.
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AnyOldName3 to c/general
 

When I visit lemmy.world in either Firefox or Chrome, go to the log in page, enter my credentials, and press the Login button, it changes to a spinner and spins forever. No error is logged to the browser console when I press the button.

On the other hand, when using Jerboa on my phone, I can vote, comment and post just fine. That makes me think it's not an issue with this account.

I was briefly able to log in on my desktop a few days ago, but don't think I did anything differently when it worked.

Update

I tried again with my username lowercased, and with the password copied and pasted instead of autofilled, and it worked despite not working a few seconds earlier when I tried it the usual way. I'm going to log out and see which of the two things it was that made the difference.

Update Two

Copying and pasting the password while leaving the username with mixed case also let me in, so it's somehow related to the password manager autofill.

Update Three

I figured it out. I generated a password longer than lemmy.world's password length limit. When creating the account, it appears to have truncated it to sixty characters. When using the password manager to autofill Jerboa, it's also truncated it to sixty characters. When copying and pasting the password from the password manager manually, it truncated it to sixty characters, too. However, the browser extension autofill managed to include the extra characters, too, so the data in the textbox wasn't correct.

In case an admin or Lemmy developer sees this, I'd recommend:

  • Not limiting the password length. It should be hashed and salted anyway, so it doesn't increase storage requirements if it's huge.
  • Giving feedback when creating an account with a too-long password that it's invalid for being too long instead of simply truncating it. Ideally, the password requirements would be displayed before you'd entered the password, too.
  • As mentioned by one of the commenters, giving feedback when an incorrect password is entered.
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Test post (self.openmw)
 

Test post for @[email protected] to test posting.

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