Things you don't need to know…

Originally Posted by Carnifex
… and that he doesn't try to walk or run it. [Florida]

Not so sure about that, in 2020 he completed the Icarus Florida 24 Hour UltraFest, running 157 km.

pibbuR who prefers spending his elder days playing LOTRO where he's part of "the Elders" kinship.

Well almost had an oven fire after my pan decided to become a bonfire. I swear that stove has it out for me with all the problems it caused this year. You damn oven.

Last time the heating metal coil cracked and had to be replaced.

Ouch!! Glad it didn't become worse.

pibbuR who feels that liking posts like this may be misunderstood.

Originally Posted by Couchpotato
Well almost had an oven fire after my pan decided to become a bonfire. I swear that stove has it out for me with all the problems it caused this year. You damn oven.

Last time the heating metal coil cracked and had to be replaced.

I feel you. My oven is randomly misbehaving, and tripping the main fuse. It's only a year old, but now I'm too old to want to deal with the process that goes: Call centre. Interrogation. Appointment. No show. Call centre. Channelling-the-spirit-of-the-Great-Karen. Resolution. Satisfaction survey.

Can you spot the snake?



pibbuR who would lie if he said he found it, but …. he found it.

In 1993 Don Zagier found the smallest rational right triangle with area 157:
https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/s…54803648991238

He used sophisticated techniques using elliptic curves paired with a lot of computational power.

"And the beauty of it is that it's purely of theoretical interest. No practical applications whatsoever." (quote from somewhere).

pibbuR who finds this interesting (yes, he really does).

Originally Posted by pibbuR
Can you spot the snake?



pibbuR who would lie if he said he found it, but …. he found it.

Snake? Snakes!

Originally Posted by pibbuR
In 1993 Don Zagier found the smallest rational right triangle with area 157:
https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/s…54803648991238

He used sophisticated techniques using elliptic curves paired with a lot of computational power.

"And the beauty of it is that it's purely of theoretical interest. No practical applications whatsoever." (quote from somewhere).

pibbuR who finds this interesting (yes, he really does).

Didn't Alonzo Church say something similar?

Robots fall sometimes, especially when they do silly things

The final result is impressive, however (yes, those are the same robots that were dancing in @danutz_plusplus's dance thread)

Surprised to find out Patrick Stewart voiced Uriel Septim in Oblivion.
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Patrick_Stewart

Perhaps it was big news at the time but I missed it. It's something I would never have thought.

Can you think of other famous actors that voiced a character in a videogame but that went kind of beneath the radar?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn MI 8 SE met Tapatalk

Never take a picture of a baby without his/her signed consent. It made me laugh

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/…is-child-porn/

Warning, contains sexually-explicit photography But do open it if you like Nirvana.

Good grief… I think to most functioning human beings, there's nothing sexual about a naked baby. Seems like a crazy lawsuit, to me. If anything, he should be suing his parents for giving consent (but they probably don't have money.)

People in America will try to sue over anything they can. I smell a a loser looking for a quick cash grab because he needs the money. We're known to have quite a few of those over here.

Well, here, there are more and more articles in newspapers and in magazines reminding people of "data sensitivity" … meaning that parents just shouldn't post fotos of their children in "social media" because a few really really sick men might … take these fotos …

We have currently *several* VERY serious court cases going on about sick pedophiles … including one about an IT technician hosting a full sever with that, having chat rooms and whatnot … To say the reports from these court cases are "disturbing" is quite an understatement.

Buy your own miniature Blue Origin dick rocket for $69

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/8…l-rocket-estes

Those robots are really cool! Enjoyed that.

The HTTP protocol defines several status codes returned by a server in response to requests by clients. Oner of the most well known is 404: Not found, typically returned if you ask for a web site that isn't there (and the URL is not captured by a porn site).

Here are all the 4xx codes (there are about the same numbers in the 1xx,2xx,3xx and the 5xx series, but I choose to omit those here):

400 Bad Request
401 Unauthorized
402 Payment Required
403 Forbidden
404 Not Found
405 Method Not Allowed
406 Not Acceptable
407 Proxy Authentication Required
408 Request Timeout
409 Conflict
410 Gone
411 Length Required
412 Precondition Failed
413 Payload Too Large
414 Request-URI Too Long
415 Unsupported Media Type
416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
417 Expectation Failed
418 I'm a teapot
421 Misdirected Request
422 Unprocessable Entity
423 Locked
424 Failed Dependency
426 Upgrade Required
428 Precondition Required
429 Too Many Requests
431 Request Header Fields Too Large
444 Connection Closed Without Response
451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons
499 Client Closed Request

I suggest that you take a closer look at 418. Huh?? WT*? Eh…

"I418 'm a teaport" was originally suggested on April 1 in 1998, as part of the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, RFC 2324, and was specified as the code to be returned if a teapot was asked to make coffee. Attempts at removing the code by the powers that be in 2017 was met by fierce reistance from the Save 418 Movement (Web site: https://save418.com/. twitter hashtag #save418).

So the code remains. It actually has some use:
1. Mostly for humour.
2. Occasionally as a response from servers when asked to do something they can't do.

Most web browsers support it, possibly excluding MS Edge. And several programming languages. In ver. 3.9, Python included 418 IM_A_TEAPOT in it's http library.

pibbuR who notices there are 48 available 4xx codes between 451 and 499 and thus open to suggestions.

PS. Wikipedia has of course a page about this. DS.

That's greatl. I'm already seeing opportunities by having our server redirect error codes to 418

I personally liked 451 (Unavailable for Legal Reasons) likely Fahrenheit 451, the dystopian novel from way back when….

Number 410 could be left behind by burglars.