Brian Boru
Moderator
Brian Boru
Moderator
Nobody reads EULAs, ToS, privacy policies etc.
I think there should be a small few standards like those for open source software—GNU, MIT etc—and every site must pick one of them to honor. People might read and become vaguely familiar with a few defaults, and site owners wouldn't be able to sucker visitors so easily.
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Stargate on Earth
Nice idea, this should spread
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I think there should be a small few standards like those for open source software—GNU, MIT etc—and every site must pick one of them to honor. People might read and become vaguely familiar with a few defaults, and site owners wouldn't be able to sucker visitors so easily.
Free wine hidden in website terms claimed after 3 months
The offer was included on the tax website as an "experiment" to see if anyone would read the terms.
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Stargate on Earth
Nice idea, this should spread
Where is the Dublin Portal providing a live link with New York?
A 24/7 screen allows people in Dublin to see what's going on in New York throughout the day.
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Zloth
Community Contributor
Can't. It's my work PC. They would string me up by my eyelids!
P.S. 56 gorram it.
P.P.S. WHICH ear!?
P.P.P.S. How did you keep count of your score?
Zloth
Community Contributor
Oh, wait, I came here with a purpose! There's a chance of the Northern Lights getting past 40° N tonight. We've been told to watch for them a few times in my life, but I've yet to ever see them.
I saw a post on Reddit that it had been sighted in my country, but I was already in bed and too tired to bother getting dressed and go outside to see if I could spot it as well.
Zloth
Community Contributor
Brian Boru
Moderator
Left is right
Text editor open on 2nd monitor, typing 1234… as I got 'em right, moving to new line every 10 Qs and new 'para' every 25 Qs—I think it's 25 easy, 25 medium, 25 hard.
I find a wingsuit nearly as good
Northern Lights: US may get rare show this weekend due to solar storm
Rare solar storm could trigger phenomenon as far south as Alabama, experts say.
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55+bonus. Sorry I mistook the Irish national flower for the Sunflower, but I thought it would be something with a color similar to your beard
Brian Boru
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ZedClampet
Community Contributor
I got every question correct. Not the ones in the video. I didn't watch that.
In other important news, Aldi is no longer selling British cheese, so I'm now ordering cheese from a place in Wisconsin. It's excellent, but 3X more expensive.
In other important news, Aldi is no longer selling British cheese, so I'm now ordering cheese from a place in Wisconsin. It's excellent, but 3X more expensive.
I had one of the weirder computer problems I've encountered over the past two days. It all started when my wife couldn't connect to Diablo IV. She would just get a message that the network servers couldn't be reached and the game would close. So I figured the Diablo servers were just having some issues and it would fix itself. However, the friend she was playing didn't have any problems and I couldn't find any mention of an outage online. Even stranger, her friend did see her account come online for a few seconds before being disconnected, so she must have been making connection to a server. She eventually fixed the problem by going through a VPN.
Later in the evening, I noticed I couldn't load Google pages any more. After a bit of testing, it seemed I was able to connect to some websites, but not others, but I couldn't really find a pattern into which websites worked and which didn't. One of the strangest things was that I could go to Reddit, but it would only load 4 posts. Refreshing the website would give me 4 different posts though, so it wasn't a caching issue. We had already reset the router, so I figured it must be a problem with our ISP which would probably resolve itself in not too long.
The next day I worked at my office all day and my wife was able to use the VPN to connect without any issues, so I didn't think about it until the evening. When I tried to open the YouTube app on my phone, it took a while to load the overview of videos, but eventually it did. When I then opened a video, it just kept buffering for a while, but eventually did load the comments and the title of an ad, but the ad itself didn't load. So obviously it was making a connection, but for some reason it was really struggling. I was too tired to bother trying to fix it then though, so I just switched to my phone's data instead.
I was honestly a bit worried we had gotten some malware that was flooding our internet with traffic, because it seemed that most of the things that did still load contained mostly text, like this forum. Since I was working from home today and I didn't want to be stuck using my phone as a hotspot, I decided to get to the bottom of this. I checked the Network tab in the browser console window for a couple of websites, but that didn't really help. Then I decided to reset our router to factory settings, but when I logged into the configuration page I couldn't find a button for it anywhere. However, while I was going through every page looking for that button, I noticed that the primary DNS was pointing to a strange IP address. At which point I remembered I set up Pi Hole a while ago, but had eventually abandoned it. After changing the primary DNS to 8.8.8.8 everything worked again.
I did have a secondary DNS set to 1.1.1.1, which I suppose was how we had been able to connect to everything after the Pi Hole had been shut down, but it seems it's experiencing some issues and we had nothing else to fall back on.
Later in the evening, I noticed I couldn't load Google pages any more. After a bit of testing, it seemed I was able to connect to some websites, but not others, but I couldn't really find a pattern into which websites worked and which didn't. One of the strangest things was that I could go to Reddit, but it would only load 4 posts. Refreshing the website would give me 4 different posts though, so it wasn't a caching issue. We had already reset the router, so I figured it must be a problem with our ISP which would probably resolve itself in not too long.
The next day I worked at my office all day and my wife was able to use the VPN to connect without any issues, so I didn't think about it until the evening. When I tried to open the YouTube app on my phone, it took a while to load the overview of videos, but eventually it did. When I then opened a video, it just kept buffering for a while, but eventually did load the comments and the title of an ad, but the ad itself didn't load. So obviously it was making a connection, but for some reason it was really struggling. I was too tired to bother trying to fix it then though, so I just switched to my phone's data instead.
I was honestly a bit worried we had gotten some malware that was flooding our internet with traffic, because it seemed that most of the things that did still load contained mostly text, like this forum. Since I was working from home today and I didn't want to be stuck using my phone as a hotspot, I decided to get to the bottom of this. I checked the Network tab in the browser console window for a couple of websites, but that didn't really help. Then I decided to reset our router to factory settings, but when I logged into the configuration page I couldn't find a button for it anywhere. However, while I was going through every page looking for that button, I noticed that the primary DNS was pointing to a strange IP address. At which point I remembered I set up Pi Hole a while ago, but had eventually abandoned it. After changing the primary DNS to 8.8.8.8 everything worked again.
I did have a secondary DNS set to 1.1.1.1, which I suppose was how we had been able to connect to everything after the Pi Hole had been shut down, but it seems it's experiencing some issues and we had nothing else to fall back on.
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
One time I was interviewed by a local TV news guy, and I remember thinking later that something I said was pretty stupid, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.
But I just listened to an interview of a college baseball player on the radio, and he said the following:
"We're all good friends. I don't know them."
and
"The sky's my limit. I just have to stay humble."
He's a young guy and was obviously nervous. I just thought it was kind of funny.
****
Speaking of stupid, I had a semi-colon behind "radio" above, and I kept deleting it and putting in a comma, but it kept showing up as a semi-colon. Finally I realized there was actually just a speck of dirt on the screen in exactly the right place, and I had had a comma there the whole time.
But I just listened to an interview of a college baseball player on the radio, and he said the following:
"We're all good friends. I don't know them."
and
"The sky's my limit. I just have to stay humble."
He's a young guy and was obviously nervous. I just thought it was kind of funny.
****
Speaking of stupid, I had a semi-colon behind "radio" above, and I kept deleting it and putting in a comma, but it kept showing up as a semi-colon. Finally I realized there was actually just a speck of dirt on the screen in exactly the right place, and I had had a comma there the whole time.
Zloth
Community Contributor
So that's one of those "problem exists between chair and screen" issues. Meaning the speck of dust on the screen, of course.
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