Oh yes - subsidiary to (1) People urging the Wee Fishwife to activate a "UWO" against IQ45, but she appears to be dragging her feet, which strikes me as odd, to say the least. [ Note for furriners: "UWO" = Unexplained Wealth Order. A serious criminal & usually tax-related investigation into people with apparently Unexplained ( Hence the title ) amounts of money being used oddly ... DJT's golf courses/hotels in this case. ]
]]>Having just been on the other end of one of these, I would like to point out that one possible underlying scenario is that while something appears from C's perspective to simply be "Click DO THING", from the perspective of U, it === "put a koala on your head". Well there aren't any koalas round here, so a squirrel is the best I can do for a substitute.
In this particular instance, DO THING was a link on a web page in a hosting company's help system, which would download a chunk of java, to the browser, and then execute it, again in the browser, to instantiate a VNC connection to a KVM instance. And I guess that if you are working for a hosting company, you will automatically be using a PC which has been configured so that it is indeed just a matter of "click DO THING".
For me, though, to start with it means I have to install java. But I got rid of java. Its dependencies were exacerbating the situation every time I ran into a dependency hell with some unrelated package, and I was fed up with it. And it was only used by libreoffice, which I no longer used because I was fed up with how shit it was. So I got rid of it, and since then have been installing things without consideration of java's dependencies. Chances of it being even remotely feasible to install it now without breaking everything else are essentially nothing.
Then I would have to make it and the browser functionally aware of each other. Which means descending some vast tree of "oh now this isn't working", because the java coders, the browser coders, and the distro packagers all have different ideas of where files should go and what they should be named and what version strings correspond with which capabilities etc etc, and I have to reconcile three different sets of hidden assumptions before anything does what anyone thinks it should do.
Then I have to run it in the browser. For which the expected outcomes, as for running anything in the browser, in order of decreasing probability, are: 1) Browser crashes instantly 2) Browser crashes slowly 3) Thing being run won't load 4) Thing being run loads but freezes instantly and can't be made to respond to anything 5) Thing being run loads and then crashes and takes the browser down with it 6) Thing being run seems to work for a few seconds and then says something equivalent to "Error: cannot find penis" 7) Thing being run does run, but incredibly slowly and with a minute or more of lag on mouse and/or keyboard input 8) Someone hides a bin liner full of £20 notes under the rain cover of my mobility scooter and a million pigeons fly over Downing Street and drown Bozo under a giant heap of pigeon shit.
But then there is the apparent alternative (squirrel) suggested by the previous occasion I'd needed to use one of their KVMs. The instructions page had been identical apart from the KVM IP, but all I really needed to do then was to install a standard native VNC client from a .deb package and point that at the IP, and it worked fine without any fucking about.
Unfortunately when I tried that with this KVM, it turned out to be using some fucked up custom protocol and nothing else would connect to it. Turns out that when they say "koala", they really mean it, and a squirrel won't do, no matter how unreasonable expecting a koala to be available is.
Nor could they give me one of the other KVMs that does use standard protocol. They tried, but the keyboard would not work no matter what they did. I eventually had to build my own koala out of squirrel parts to make it work. (Fresh userland in a chroot to install java on, and a manual translation of the code for loading the thing in the browser into shell script.)
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> What you're describing is called usability testing.
Yes - but have you not noticed how very, very little of it is being done these days??
It's still being done ... by customers
]]>the magic of outsourcing
]]>Freudian slip?
]]>Lest anyone think that's too outrageous even for the post-satire Trump group, no, they really wrote that. But the lawyer involved was Lin Wood, who once misspelled his own name in a filing with the Supreme Court.
]]>He was invited to testify under oath at the Senate impeachment hearings; whether from common sense or legal advice, he responded with an emphatic refusal. I think everyone on either side understands why it's not good for him to do that.
Facing disciplinary action from the Screen Actors Guild over literally being a bad actor, he sent a cranky letter resigning from SAG and blaming them. SAG replied simply "Thank you."
I'm sure there was a third thing too but as I type it's slipped my mind.
]]>Yeah, it sucks that corporations are the entities delivering justice, but so it often goes in the US; competent legal representation can be quite expensive.
]]>If you missed last week's Jewish Space Laser thing you can count yourself lucky and move on.
]]>If he had won, he should rightly have ended up as being the first president to be removed on the grounds of (mental) incapacity between election and inauguration.
Or have I lost my marbles, and am living in an imaginary world?
]]>I know; like so much of the last five years it looks like a parody of a real celebrity's actions.
My best guess, like that of many people, is that he dictated something awful and one of his assistants provided the grammatical and reasonable parts. The boasting about his own film credits and gratuitous insults of the other party are obviously Trump. I won't speculate how many cycles they went through before someone handed him a Sharpie and he signed the final draft.
But it's not you. Parts of the world really are crazy!
]]>We could poach the Antipope position from D.J. Trump, and be a hive-Antipope for sedevacantists!
[1] the more boring version: For the record: Michigan nuns at Trump rally aren't really nuns (Feb 3, 2021, Christopher White)
]]>And because Trump's strategy team is taking its cues from old Three Stooges shorts, naturally voter fraud conspiracist Lin Wood is being investigated for voting illegally himself, as he may have voted in the state of Georgia despite being a legal resident of South Carolina.
For normal people this would be a trivial residency filing glitch; on one of the noisiest voter fraud proponents it's embarrassing.
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