[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

He's a brilliant character. My wife and I regularly refer to him in real life (e.g. she will call me Jackson Lamb when I'm eating sloppily).

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Haiti cat: Miaow?

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I will watch it and curse you twice

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

Wait, there is a Wing Commander movie?!? How did I not know that...

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 49 points 1 week ago

The president or prime minister said that if China is serious about reclaiming Taiwan, it should also reclaim land that is currently Russian, as that land was also lost during the same time period.

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 99 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This only goes for the movies. In the books they have arranged a house for Frodo on the eastern border of the Shire, where he will go lay low for several months before going to Rivendell. Merry, Pippin and Fatty Bolger have figured out the plan months in advance and made their own plans, in such a way that when the black riders arrive in the region, they leave within 5 minutes and have a route planned out already.

Also, it's tobacco as clearly mentioned in the books. They are probably quite drunk in this scene though.

Edit: and of course Samwise was also involved in the plans, he was the one who told them. Frodo was being played by all his close friends.

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 50 points 4 weeks ago

Don't humanize centipedes! That leads to strange and disturbing things...

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 65 points 1 month ago

“Hungary, strong country. Run by a very powerful, tough leader. He’s a tough guy. The press doesn’t like him because he’s tough. Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, very tough man,” Trump said in his speech.

This almost gave me a brain aneurysm. It's like the orange doofus takes two words and scrambles it in a random sequence of sentences while being incapable of adding extra information.

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submitted 2 months ago by Pringles@lemm.ee to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

It keeps showing Internal server error and has been for over 2 hours now. I tested from different locations (China, US, EU) and same errors everywhere. Yet I don't see any news or posts about this anywhere. I have an exchange server that needs installing today and I can't download the prerequisites to even launch the install. Sigh

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 49 points 2 months ago

As a European, we're just already assuming it will be Trump and will be pleasantly surprised if it is not that orange turd

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submitted 3 months ago by Pringles@lemm.ee to c/football@lemmy.world

Bayern Munich have agreed a three-year deal with Vincent Kompany to take over as head coach.

A fee of £10.2m will be paid to Burnley to bring the 38-year-old to the Allianz Arena, where he will succeed Thomas Tuchel in the top job. The Bundesliga club failed in their attempts to convince the German to stay after a run to the Champions League semi-finals and were forced to search elsewhere for a replacement.

Kompany, who began his managerial career at Anderlecht, earned a big reputation after joining Burnley two years ago. The former Manchester City defender took the Championship by storm, earning rave reviews after turning a defensive side into a thrilling attacking team, and led Burnley back into the Premier League at the first time of asking.

There were hopes that Burnley could succeed at the highest level by sticking to their progressive style of play but a failure to reinforce his squad led to a 19th-placed finish and relegation. Allowing Kompany to make a swift departure will give Burnley time to find the right replacement as they gear up for another promotion campaign.

There will be raised eyebrows at Kompany earning such a big job. Equally there is a feeling that the 38-year-old’s methods could work well with a side at the top level. Kompany has experience of living in Germany after representing Hamburg during his hugely successful playing career.

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 62 points 3 months ago

The rag called metro making news from random stuff again, I see. This is not even news. It's literally "reporting" that something is not happening.

Like this: "Intel not buying AMD for 6B$" Industry insiders report that Intel has decided not to buy their rivals for 6B$. The CEO of AMD has reportedly stated having no interest in selling to Intel. Their spokesperson, when confronted with this breaking news, replied "WTF have you been smoking, Pringles?" We will continue to report on this story as it continues to develop.

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submitted 4 months ago by Pringles@lemm.ee to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[BUG] Unable to remove spoilers in post text


Sample description When having a spoiler tag in the description of a post, like >!this!<, trying to reveal the text results in an error.

Scenario (steps to reproduce)**

  1. Open post with spoiler tag in description
  2. Click on the spoiler

Result(s) Error removing spoiler

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

View type: Compact    

Device: OnePlus8    
Model: OnePlus IN2013    
Android: 13
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[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 86 points 6 months ago

That was Charles Michel, president of the European council, congratulating Putin with his landslide victory on the morning when voting began. Not a fan of Michel, but that was pretty good.

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submitted 7 months ago by Pringles@lemm.ee to c/tales_from_it@lemm.ee

This story is from a number of years ago. At the time I was still working my way up the IT ladder and in this position I was an on-site admin. My colleague, let's call him Bob, had more experience and was more like a proper system admin, except that he managed to land probably the cushiest job in the IT landscape. He was getting paid very good money as a full time consultant and had to do almost nothing. He spent his time looking at cars, vacation spots and getting frustrated on tinder. That's not to say he was lazy, but he did most of his work outside of company hours for his own company and regarded the office hours more as leisure time.

Anyway, we received a mail from the police department that a laptop that had been turned over as evidence in an embezzlement case, could not be opened because the disk was encrypted. An investigator would come by to give us the laptop so that we could decrypt it. The investigation had been going on for over 5 years at that point and we pretty much instantly realized this was unlikely to succeed. So the investigator shows up one day with the laptop and we earnestly try to decrypt it, digging through all potential files that may maintain the correct decryption code. Iirc this was McAfee encryption and we did export the keys on a regular basis, but that was a practice I had introduced after too many codes were lost. Since this laptop was dated from well before my time, I was pretty sure we wouldn't find the code.

Now Bob did think of a solution, with the caveat that it wasn't exactly a legal solution. Given we were dealing with the police, we couldn't really tell them we were about to use illegal methods to provide them potential evidence. When the investigator went on a coffee break, Bob prepared a usb stick that would decrypt the disk, using some obscure piece of software of which I can't remember the name. When the investigator got back, we told him that we were at wits end and that this could take a long time still. The guy was pretty resigned at that point, as he had been waiting for a couple of hours already, and said that he would leave the laptop with us and come back once it was decrypted.

Bob and I waited until the doors of the elevator closed behind him. I'm pretty sure that by the time he got to the ground floor, we had already bypassed the mcafee screen and were logged on to the laptop. Bob launched the decryption and then we discussed when we should inform the investigator that the laptop was ready for pickup. We didn't want to make it suspicious and send the info to him right away, but we also didn't want to wait too long. Bob wanted to milk this thing, as all time spent working on this were bookable hours for him, so we settled on 3 days. So at the end of the week we informed the police the laptop was ready. We got a reply back he would pick it up 2 weeks later. 2 months later he actually did pick it up. I never learned what happened to the investigation.

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 89 points 1 year ago

I'm a sync user and pretty tired of these pointless statements. Don't want it, don't use it! I pay for ultra to support the dev and that's my choice. Again, if you don't want it, don't use it. But can you please stop this sync bashing? It's not as if the torrent of anti-sync memes forgot to cover what you are saying.

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