Oh god, have we really come around to screenshotting bash.org?
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Yeah incredible, this is like a 20yo quote!
To be fair, this one is more relevant now than it was 20 years ago, with watches and pens being IP capable nowadays.
well someone made that screenshot all by themselves! so, you know... original content 😆
I never claimed that it's original content :) I included the quote numbers for all the IRC posts I did, so people can look it up on bash.org . I also slightly edited the posts - adding some color coding and removing clutter info (if applicable) so it's easier to read. I would've posted as text if that formatting was available.
. I would’ve posted as text if that formatting was available.
when creating the post, there is a text field for title and body. filling the url link or image is not necessary.
so my first objection is about the form. you could use a text, or you could use a link - http://bash.org/?quote=5273
turning a text to image is absolutely horrible thing to do - you turned what could have been 28 bytes into 17 kilobytes, so you increased the size by a factor of 600, and you degraded information in the process!
my second objection is that that copying bash entries is meaningless activity - everyone can just go to where they already are to see them.
and last - that post was not funny when it was new and time did not help it 🤷♂️
my second objection is that that copying bash entries is meaningless activity - everyone can just go to where they already are to see them.
Couldn’t this be said of…anything posted to an aggregator site? A large chunk of Lemmy (and Reddit) is screenshots of other sites.
and last - that post was not funny when it was new and time did not help it 🤷♂️
A lot of stuff posted to Lemmy isn’t funny to me either but my opinion doesn’t matter much.
Not sure if I’m wooshing or you’re serious about being this particular about this post.
Couldn’t this be said of…anything posted to an aggregator site?
it could be... and if you weren't just copying from a pile that was already aggregated once, it might make sense
Tap dancing Christ, I hope you’re not this dreadful in real life and just being an overly pedantic bore is something you reserve for the internet.
my second objection is that that copying bash entries is meaningless activity - everyone can just go to where they already are to see them.
Yeah, and I could browse every other website on my own to look for content I found relevant but the entire purpose of an aggregation site like Reddit or Lemmy is to…aggregate things.
and last - that post was not funny when it was new and time did not help it 🤷♂️
I found it amusing enough to toss it an upvote. Which is more than I could say for your needless dull reply.
entire purpose of an aggregation site like Reddit or Lemmy is to…aggregate things.
yeah, except when you are copying stuff that was already aggregated... then you can just say "hey, are you interested in 20 years all irc quotes that are not really funny? well there is website that si full of them!"
I’ve always hated the phrase “you must be fun at parties”, but I’ll be dammed if I can’t come up with a more apt reply to you than that in this moment.
As I said before, for your sake, I sincerely hope this is just some act you’re putting on for the sake of…boredom? E-clout? I dunno. I can’t rationalize why anyone would act how you are right now. We get it, you didn’t find this funny. But 250+ other people did. I’m gonna toss out another quote that I dislike but it really fits here too. If you don’t like it, just downvote and move on. There’s no reason for you to be a dick like this, but here we are.
I’ve always hated the phrase “you must be fun at parties”, but I’ll be dammed if I can’t come up with a more apt reply to you than that in this moment.
you didn't come up with anything better than stupid prefabricated cliche and you consider that reason to brag about it? well, to each their own 😂
If you don’t like it, just downvote and move on.
and that is exactly what you could have done with my comment, but you are strangely fixated to it
You’re right. One of the annoying habits I used to have on Reddit was trying to put assholes in their place. But as you’ve reminded me, the world will never run out of assholes. I need to take my own advice, downvote you and move on (and of course block your dumb ass so I never have to see your pointless negativity ever again). Good luck on getting that stick removed from your ass one of these days.
What... No one new is allowed to see something aggregated in a new platform and/or at a newer time?
Because fuck me if I never saw it first time around?
Sorry mate but I'm going to have to give you the old Aussie "yeah.. nah..."
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The 20 year olds don’t know :)
Scrapping the barrel eh
Just thought I'd point out that you probably meant "scraping the barrel" as in scraping the last dregs out of it instead of "scrapping" as in discard or remove from service
I'm just sad they never added all the ones I submitted 20-whatever years ago.
That reminds me of a university or company where they had a mission critical server that they couldn't locate. It was running perfectly, but after numerous searches they still couldn't find it. Finally it was found behind a wall...
That sounds true, yeah.
I had a client at a law firm who moved to a different city, but continued to remote into his computer at work. At some point someone moved it to some other spot in the building so they could have someone else use his desk, and he continued to use it without issue.
Until one day it shut down, while he was in the middle of something very important and lawyery. No one at the firm was willing to look for it (as they were all lawyers), so we had to send a technician on site to just check each room until he spotted an old computer connected to power and Ethernet in the corner of a mail room.
Some months later it happened again, in a the middle of another important time sensitive lawyer thing. Except now he had two headless computers which he used both of (an old computer and a new one he was migrating to), and he still didn't know where they were physically. Luckily there was a intern on site to do the search this time, but it took some time to figure out which was which when we did locate them.
Where were they the second time?
@lukstru At the end of the 90s our company had to patch and restart all servers of our customers to make the server software Y2K safe. One colleague travelled from customer to customer. At one customer he said: "I have to patch your server". The answer: "What is a server? We don't have something like that."
The colleague then traced the network cable through the workshop to a huge pile of wood scrap. that filled a part of the room. They had to remove that scrap for quite some time and then found the server there. The Novell server had an uptime of several years.
@lukstru Some other story that really happened. A company moved to another place, so step by step they located and moved the servers in the server room from the old to the new location. In the end there was a single server left in the server room. They didn't knew the purpose and were sure that they needn't that server - and they were right. Several years ago that company belonged to another company in the same area. At one point in time the company had been sold. That server belonged to the old company and still served a critical purpose for them.
What?
Lol so free electricity for the old company
Can confirm.
Simple, load up the PC speaker driver and play some sound through it.
Having been working around with a Raspberry Pi for my class, I can't imagine just randomly throwing mine somewhere without giving a care. Those bitches are too damn expensive 😂
$35?
half a year ago you could put a 1 in front of that for the 4 GB model, as they basically had no supply and prices skyrocketed
I bought one last year for slightly below retail price! A guy had one he barely used (had some projects planned but never got time to implement the) so he was selling it, and wasn't scalping since he bought it at retail price and didn't want to rip me off. Legend.
where?
I don't quite recall, but I think they were moved again to an office or something. No idea who was moving computers around and properly connecting them to the network, it wasn't us (contracted IT). At least they put both this guy's computers directly next to eachother. But nothing was labelled. I recall trying to get someone onsite to label the computers both times and I don't think it ever happened lol.
I think another wrinkle was that most of the attorneys were at that time being migrated or already using a single remote desktop server in a Colo, so I don't know why the customer got this guy a second remote computer. The owner had a tendency of just buying computers without consulting us, and this particular lawyer was a bit of a squeaky faucet with tech, and the RDS was.. less than perfect. So that's probably it.
Some say he’s still searching to this day…
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