The Chat/Spam Thread

[hellman]

so programmers are wondering how non-programmers get into tons of technical issues...

guess they forget the tons of issues the programmers themselves deal with on a daily basis, but due to experience manage to resolve on their own or with a few search engine queries

not to mention how programmers often fail to adapt their work to the non-programmer majority, which then becomes the source of tons of technical issues..

WOW m so glad you didn't write a book this time. To be honest i stopped reading your posts some years back because of the length of your posts .. good to read your post after all this time. I just you to read 1-2 lines and used to pretend i read your post #confessionTime

[hellman]

It's almost like everyone thinks in their own way and communication is hard.

Buuuuuuut also; Apparently it's incredibly hard to imagine the average IQ level or experience of those users. One of our users didn't know how to put her text in bold and when asked why she didn't click the bold B to do it, she said she didn't know what that button did and didn't want to click on it. She was 24, it wasn't even some old lady that never saw a computer before. That bold B button is pretty much standard in every text program there is and even any website that has some form of text input that allows markup. It even comes with a tooltip that says "Bold". Has she never ever, during her studies, opened MS Word before? How did she even graduate? I'm not calling her stupid but that level of ignorance is completely beyond me. While programmers do struggle thinking like their average user population (UI/UX is a big role and a job/specialization on its own these days for a reason), I feel like half of these people are completely beyond any help or best intentions from the developers side. It's definitely a problem on both ends.

(Not pointing at you here, yoco, as your questions are usually already fairly technical and hard to resolve )

damn I miss the time I used to hit on you.. Now i can't. Those were good times

[hellman]

My oh my, getting her to save the document must have been pure bologna. "Just click on the Save button, it looks like a floppy disk... floppy... like a Transformer whistling. Third one from the left. Yeah, that's right, now you need to click on it..."

[anon]

The list goes on.. can you hack facebook or gmail.. can you fix my computer? Can you root, unlock bootloader, install rom in mobile, jailbreak iphonr?

Sure, I'll just need black candles, chalk, and a live sheep *giggles in Japanese*

By the way, everyone knows you can't hack Facebook or Gmail, they got Norton.

[hellman]

By the way, everyone knows you can't hack Facebook or Gmail

then you're in for a surprise

[anon]

Don't tell me some Russians from the dark Web have found a way to hack Norton

Although I know for a fact you can pay a few hundred rubles to have any Skype account permanently closed, and support won't bring it back for you, citing a breach of their terms of service. There was also a exploit for Windows 10's memory protection going for $200,000, wonder if they found a buyer by now.

[Sazzy]

Norton works by hogging all the resources your computer has to offer so the viruses don't have anything left to run. It's a foolproof system, for any existing virus and any new one.

[anon]

Been there, I used Norton Internet Security 2003 when I didn't know any better... on a computer older than the program itself... what a nightmare. But running a reputable antivirus and firewall is of critical importance, right? Doing the fake phone activation with a keygen was oddly fun, in any case.

Add Nero to the list of classic bloatware. Maybe both are much better now, but after my past experiences, I have zero interest on finding out.

[anon]

I visited my ISP's homepage and noticed they recently added a gigabit plan. But what's the upload speed on it? 30 Mbps. The 100M plan I have right now has a 10 Mbps upload. Why don't they scale it linearly, are they afraid people will upgrade? Or is 30 megabits good enough to prostitute your private life on Facestagram and maybe stream on Twitch?

[yoco]

My ISP went from 500/500 fiber to 500/50 so....

[Sazzy]

I visited my ISP's homepage and noticed they recently added a gigabit plan. But what's the upload speed on it? 30 Mbps. The 100M plan I have right now has a 10 Mbps upload. Why don't they scale it linearly, are they afraid people will upgrade? Or is 30 megabits good enough to prostitute your private life on Facestagram and maybe stream on Twitch?

honestly yeah it's enough, 6-10 will get you a very long way, but also it seriously sucks. I get that they're trying to prevent people from setting up seeding boxes or what not... probably... buuuut, imagine having to get the gigabit plan just because you stream on twitch in a watchable quality. If you always play the same game and arent really someone how downloads a lot, it's just such a waste. Let's not even mention your stream dropping because you don't live alone and someone else might set up a stream or upload something. Idk how it works with you guys, but if i manage to hit my download speed, my upload speed also seems to tank severely. It's not unheard that you have to get an update for a game you're streaming. Why not just... idk, at least give half of the download speed? If you're getting 100 down, 50 up doesn't seem crazy and even acceptable. And allow them simultaneously. Meaning you can really get 100 down and 50 up at the same time. I know I really like complaining about internet but geez. They're really getting every penny they can out of it and, at least in my country, we just have to take it since we have like 2 major instances and all the others are just using their networks thus come with the same rules. Costs an arm and a leg too.

[anon]

My ISP went from 500/500 fiber to 500/50 so....

What a travesty. As someone who uploads much more than I download, I'd find that a huge letdown. I mean, I'd be happy with a 50/500 plan...

FiOS providers in this area are known to lure customers away from competitors with high speeds and low prices, then drop one later. Or both, when they "accidentally" give you one third of the speed you paid for.

how it works with you guys, but if i manage to hit my download speed, my upload speed also seems to tank severely.

Well, that's how TCP works, and also happens the other way around. If you tweak your window size and ACK frequency, you can improve this at the cost of adding some latency. And if you run Wireshark while using Google services, you'll see they've made some interesting tweaks to their network stack

As for the rest, agreed. We don't know what peering arrangements and fees are in place, but if they can give 1000/30, why is 500/500 or at least 900/100 so impossible. Then again, I remember when cablemodems were one-way and you needed a dial-up connection for the upload channel, so I'll take what I can get.

[anon]

Also, I watched the Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin anime. Lots of funny moments, and Taihou and Belfast got their own episodes, so I'll count it as a win.



No one, not even Akagi, deserves the commander more than Taihou

[anon]

That moment when you think you're going to get laid, but get massive cranial trauma followed by involuntary defecation and death instead. Could happen to anyone.

[Master Razor]

How's everyone doing? I'm behind with the posts since January