@Wisecrack thanks, er I guess that *partially* clarifies it 🤔 But why would an automated tool go around pasting ssh logins into Pastebins? Why would an 'account reset' function do this? Sorry if I'm being thick here, I'm really struggling to understand this

Am I the only one having a hard time understanding wtf the first part of this story means?

They posted their bitcoin wallet login? Or an SSH key? To a "paste in" alternative? A "system automated message"?

Huh? Wut?

@chonky-quiche I disagree with your disagreement

@Nanos 💯

Yeah you'd need to be loading tens of thousands of words before the data footprint of pure text becomes anything significant.

Glad people agree with me here. Really crappy piece of UI, even more so if what @Lensflare said is true and that data has literally already been retrieved by the API and is just sitting there ready to go, lol

@Lensflare I'll check it out, thanks !

@Lensflare that's interesting! Albeit even more dumb that the Devrant app does this. Damn, with they had JoyRant for Android

@max19931 // if the full content is shipped to the client the payload would drastically increase //

Would it? Scrolling briefly through the list as I'm currently seeing it, only about half the rants are truncated in this way, and of the ones that are, the truncated part only constitutes about another 1/3rd of the total text. So I'm forced to tap and wait 2 seconds just to read that last 1/3rd of the rant. I can only find a couple of large rants that more than double in length when you click into them. I don't see why loading this extra text is going to lead to a massively bigger data footprint. And even if it did, you could just load fewer rants into the list by default, or perhaps don't the load images. Two possible solutions right there that would get round any issues of increased data load, which I doubt is an issue anyway, and which would make this particular piece of shitty UI a lot slicker... imho

@JASONPEZZIMENTI not gonna pre-fill an actual thought-out legitimate enquiry about a project into a textarea tho is it, which is all I'm interested in.

I do state clearly on the form "do not use this form to offer services of any kind" and on the 403 it says "in the unlikely event this is an error you can email ...." I also keep a table of everything that was submitted, which I review from time to time. I've never found a false positive in there, ever.

Hot tip: I added some very simple logic to the contact form on my website so that if the form is dispatched in under 5 seconds since page load-- which no legimate human enquiry would ever do-- it 403s and blocks their IP. No need for any CAPTCHA; just doing this has stopped at least 95% of these spamming cunts before they reach my inbox

Well, personally, I love PhpStorm. I paid like $400 for a 3-year license, and it was money well spent tbh.

Only $120? Cheapskate!

But the problem is when you open the site through Facebook or something and it opens it in the inbuilt browser; no ad block

This is where you want to make sure your terms & conditions are all in order and covering what happens in the event they start fucking around in cpanel and fuck everything up. Not sure why they even needed cpanel access given the scope of the site as you describe 🤷

Even more fun is when it actually turns out to be two separate bugs that are intersecting with each other in a complicated web of fuckery that leads you down a twisting, meandering rabbit hole of pain, suffering, and suicidal inclinations before you finally solve the riddle. That's always a good one.

I wish I could upvote this a thousand times

I had something in a similar vein once: I sent over a demo of a showreel video I'd created for a client, which they opened in VLC player. The file had some programmatic temporary name like "013744_demo.mp4", which VLC shows by default in the bottom right hand corner of the screen for the first 5 seconds or so before fading out.

Next thing I know I've got the retarded client angrily complaining about some "jargon" that I'd obviously "forgotten" to remove being displayed over the video, which was "very unprofessional".

One thing I've learned over the decade or so I've been self employed is that it simply isn't worth taking on clients below a minimum threshold level of computer literacy because these retarded imbeciles will quickly become a black hole for your time; namely because you end up providing a free, unpaid, and utterly thankless IT coaching service on top whatever work you've actually been contracted to do.

Running different versions of php on local vs production is usually asking for trouble tbh

Oh yeah I'm actually an order of magnitude out on the no. of keypresses...

A decent mechanical keyboard should last your working life; the switches are supposed to be good for like 3 million keypresses each. My Das keyboard is still going strong after 7 years, it's built like a brick shit-house.

Wrong.

You should try to stay awake right through to your 'normal' (work mode) bed time

Just checking that the OP realizes he has 5GB free OneDrive storage with his Microsoft account?

Yeah, really struggling to see what's wrong with accepting your own answer on Stackoverflow? What if it's, y'know, the right answer..?

Upvoted simply to try the double tap method.

Mind blown.

I think I'd replace || with &&

Would you really want to nuke any email that contains "policy" 🙄

It's not a problem for as long as you're in bed (with copious duvets). It's getting up that's the issue.. especially if you sleep stark bollock naked as I do... I don't tend to waste much time getting dressed in the mornings...

Lol @ you guys in your deserts and ~20C bedrooms. Jesus. I live in Scotland. Bedroom door remains shut (cats not allowed in due to allergies) and windows always open for fresh air. Hence, room is outside temperature. Always. Reached -10C (minus ten) this winter. Nothing like waking up in the morning, lying on your back, and watching your breath as you exhale.

Nobody has asked how this accident happened....?

Project assets now compiling with Grunt. God it feels good to be back with my old friend.

I have to admit that in the moments that I actually got Mix to do something, I was impressed with its speed. Unfortunately it's just far too much of an absolute clusterfuck to configure if your project deviates even slightly from the meagre examples given.

Especially, it seems, if you're using Windows.

I have to be honest, I feel so much better for writing that though