Great Moments in Computer Programming

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

When Github started this "personal access token" thing, I knew they'd fuck it up. The only truly unlimited thing in the universe is mankind's ability to fuck up a logon screen.

I am on my dad's old computer and I attempted to download the cyberganked repository. I try to clone it and a Windows panel comes up from Github. It has a space for the personal access token. And.... only that!

I knew I could see into the future (and github would fuck this up). AND THEY DID. Smiling at the superior user experience, I entered my personal access token, which I can only get if I logon to LastPass. I entered it and nothing else. JUST LIKE THEIR FORM WANTED. There was no space to enter a username, mind you.

And of course it didn't work. Of course it didn't. Because you can't just clone repos with a token, you need a username. Because you'd have to be fucking stupid to think that you know better than usernames and passwords and guess what, they DON'T.

[Tdarcos]

At least the NFL wasb't stupid enough as the National Basketball Association, which tried to claim that the score of a game was copytightable material, and either places reporting the game while it's in progress, or (which is probably more likely) taking bets was illegally using its copytighted scores for profit without permission of the NVA. I believe they sued over this, and lost.

[RealNC]

wat

[Wrong Forum Fairy]

At least the NFL wasb't stupid enough as the National Basketball Association, which tried to claim that the score of a game was copytightable material, and either places reporting the game while it's in progress, or (which is probably more likely) taking bets was illegally using its copytighted scores for profit without permission of the NVA. I believe they sued over this, and lost.

[pinback]

He was replying to a thing on the previous page from weeks ago.

[Flack]

48 hours is enough for anyone.

[Casual Observer]

This change happened awhile ago so it's probably been ranted about here but it's pissing me off so here goes (probably again). I fucking hate how google manipulates us with url's. Researching companies to call on is a huge part of my job, so the process is to search for company name (google's the only game in town really except for porn searching which it's horrible at) then grab the company's url, just the url and none of the https://www bullshit so I can make sure in our CRM that nobody else owns the damn company. Google won't let you just copy the url from the search results, that would be too easy, I would have to start copying way before or after the url for it to select then I'd have to delete the extra characters in the search bar anyway. So just click the site url which is what Google is demanding that I do.

The change I'm talking about which was made awhile ago is they started hiding the https::// and replaced it with just the url next to a cute little lock icon. Wouldn't that be great then if I could just select the nice automatically truncated url and copy and paste into my crm search bar? No, that would be too easy because when you click on the url, which if you click it does look like it's selected so let's hit old CTRL-C and CTRL-V in the CRM and doh, it automatically changes to the real url including the https bullshit. So now I know that have to re-click and select the part of the url that I need before I can copy only the part I want. Thanks google assholes you added like three steps to something that used to be 1. I can forgive not letting me copy the url because they make money driving folks to the sites and every site does that crap anyway. But the url thing was just engineers being engineers who need to justify their existence not by creating something truly helpful or innovative but by changing , i don't know , something.

I can teach Indians and Filipinas to do this so fine but since they've got me using them for everything couldn't they just charge me a bit to take away some of their "features"? Damn google engineers.

Ok they changed this back, suddenly sometime recently Chrome went back to letting me just copy the part of the url that I want. Weird. Wonder if I had changed a setting or something.

[AArdvark]

So Microsoft is putting ads in the new File Explorer?

Also, the use of the term 'dogfooding' is not allowed so they have to stop it.

[Flack]

I hadn't heard the dogfooding news. I was in a meeting with a bunch of Microsoft techs one time and each time I said I was going to Google something they would reply, "yes, let's Bing that real quick" until I finally threatened to kick in the teeth of the next person who said it. It was so quiet in the room after that you could hear a Bing drop.

[AArdvark]

I've heard that someplace, brb

[Tdarcos]

You may think Bing is stupid to recommend as a search engine, but it happens to be #2 in the search business, and returns millions of dollars a year in profit to Microsoft.

[Flack]

I can think of dumber things.

[odyssia76]

You may think Bing is stupid to recommend as a search engine, but it happens to be #2 in the search business, and returns millions of dollars a year in profit to Microsoft.

And Google returns Billions.

[Casual Observer]

You may think Bing is stupid to recommend as a search engine, but it happens to be #2 in the search business, and returns millions of dollars a year in profit to Microsoft.

The commander apparently doesn't use porn but he's defending the search engine that is literally usefull only for that thing.

[AArdvark]

From Penrod And Sam by Booth Tarkington, 1914

[Casual Observer]

Anyone know a reason why JC would suddenly start defaulting to the "Games "discussion " page on mobile Chrome? How to fix it?

I hate this era of computing, nothing I have just keeps working right. I feel like it was better 10 years ago.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

What is happening? Like, did your bookmark change?

[Casual Observer]

I don't know, this is what it's showing and the link that copies. So I have to now click on the "Jolt Country" link which is only a problem because the buttons are small and my phone screen isn't very accurate:

https://www.joltcountry.com/phpBB3/index.php

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Can you click on the little button that expands it over to the right of the screen and see if it goes back the way it was?

[Casual Observer]

You da man!