The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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...speaking of back pain, on my Saturday grocery trip that pinched nerve I have decided to act up again as I was bending down to retrieve something off a lower shelf (it felt like a knitting needle was suddenly jabbed into my lower back). Hobbled on home with what I bought (fortunately which was fairly light in weight) and before putting it away dug out my back brace. Been doing stretching exercises which help a bit but just going to have to tough it out until something slips back into place.
At least all the snow and ice is gone. which makes walking outside much easier and safer..
I was trying to determine if 101 is a prime number by testing if it can be divisible by certain numbers in my head. I got to about 30 without finding any number that 101 can be divided by tomakea whole number. Before trying 31, I thought of looking up if 101 is prime and I was right.
Check the primes up to the square root of the numeber and if none of those dvide it's prime. For 101 that would be 2, 3, 5 and 7 (11 squared is 121 which is too big so that is the end)
Non-complaint: Wheee..., my morning rainbows have returned. It's that time of year when, for a few weeks, the low morning sun can peek through the leavless trees, enter my kitchen window, traverse my various prisms arrayed on the window sill and project multiple spectra onto my white refrigerator, and spray color dots & bars around the kitchen and even into the livingroom/office. Wheee, it's carnival time again.
"The Complaint & Non-Complaint Thread"
Yeah, yeah, I know, it's still too early.
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I should get some as I have a window facing the east that as the track of the sun moves further northward would be great for rainbows all over the apartment in the morning.
I did something similar then I remembered I suck at math and decided to eat a cookie instead to distract my brain from trying dangerous things like doing math again.
my problem is I had no cookie.
I want cookie!
I want cookie!
I have pop tarts instead!
I was wondering about doing something and instead of actually doing it or starting a thread asking if it made sense to bother with or if it's a waste of server space (I always keep poor little Burt in mind as he has enough of a burden) I decided to ask an opinion here... since both Richard and Frank seem to mod this thread I figured their input is kinda important too in regards to this...
I was thinking of starting a reference image thread in the Art Studio forum... I take tons of reference photos for stuff I make or as ideas for scenes and I was thinking of going through them and selecting some of the more useful ones that people might be able to use for a project or as a reference image.
Its probably stupid because it would be kind of random based on stuff I've thought was interesting or useful and I know that th Internet is full of images on anything you can imagine, but in my experience it's never what I want or includes the kind of helpful details... I see lots of people make models too that seem to be good model makers, but they omit certain simple and glaringly obvious details and I've wondered if they just aren't finding good reference material.
The most likely starting point would be architectural reference images and machinery details... stuff that would be good for modeling those type of things or modeling... Like last week me and my daughter were photographing some ruins on the grounds of an abandoned psychiatric facility and a lot of the images are good references for horror or apocalypse/dystopian scenes or modeling.
I feel like it would evolve over time, probably based only comments/input, but I dunno it seems like it could be an interesting thing and might even draw people in to discover DAZ if they find the thread using a Google search... so sort of an asset for DAZ in a way.
If this is a totally idiotic idea and a waste of server space or something forbidden (I don't get what's forbidden sometimes, it seems kinda hard to predict/interpret) please let me know.
If it's okay and interesting I'll start going through my collections and figure out how to do this in the most sensible arrangement/presentation and manner.
This is an example of a dilapidated machinery kind of picture...
I know, I know it's portrait format, not landscape... but it made sense for this item.
BTW- It seems the subject is some sort of hot water exchange unit that controls hot water delivery pumps... based on surviving labels on a different unit nearby.
I don't see why a thread of reference images should be a problem, though you'd want to be clear on the usage terms (and probably remind people, given how often the light requirements for the DS sample scripts are ignored).
I can contribute ground photos I took over the years?
Ground photo: Extreme picture puzzle.
Those shader nodes are a mess!
Dana
and I can see the remains of two VFD pump controls...
can they be used as backgrounds in renders?
Yup... but they are generally whatever iPhone's max normal image size is... probably 4032 x 3024 (?)... so I don't know if that's big enough for most people, but if it is... sure.
It just occurred to me though I usually try to upload photos here as "Large" size (to reduce file size) which changes the dimensions... I just looked at the image I uploaded previously and it started out as 3024x4032, but uploaded as "Large" its 960x1280.
I guess it would have to be based on the file size... for example the original (previous) image size was only 1.7 MB, but I reduced it to under 1 MB... some of the images I have are pretty large, in excess of 9 or 10 MB, so those would probably have to be reduced... or I could include a large version in a zip attachment if that saves/reduces file space.
...dropped off the Daz Reddit as apparently they have a rule that excludes younger characters I wasn't aware of.
Posted an image of a test where I transferred a G8.1 texture to a G8 character using Leela as the subject and it was removed with a message/warning. Got five up votes before it was pulled. .
Kind of bummed as I felt pretty good about finally being able to get it to work.
So it's just here and DA from now on.
what a crazy age we live in
Don't get me started.
Spent some time on Reddit. The vocabularies of a lot of people there seem to be words of a maximum of four letters.
I was just reading about how a well known password management service's senior DevOps engineer's home computer was hacked (in a completely avoidable manner) and the perpetrators obtained a decrypted vault available only to a couple of top employees... among the exported data were password production backups, critical database backups, cloud-based storage resources and decryption keys needed to generate the backups.
Back in August no less, but they are just now admitting this...
This is on top of a separate incident, also in August that they didn't admit until December.
Apparently, they believe the incidents were perpetrated by different entities... like that's more assuring or something.
"Don't worry folks, the same burglar didn't break in twice using the keys they stole, it was a different burglar who broke in through a different window we left open..."
Is it just me or is just safer at this point to write your passwords down on paper and tape them up on the community bulletin board at the supermarket, next to the ad for DJ Jeff's Entertainment Express and the guy selling a "slightly pet stained" sofa for $500?
I'm feeling like the days of mouseprint disclaimers and cryptic legal clauses disavowing companies of responsibilities they in all outward represention appear to be backing and making claims of support towards, should be over and done with... If you create a company that offers a service which in no way could possibly ever securely provide the service you attest to it be able to perform as OR you talk it up making outrageous claims and then your disclaimers cryptically refute all your previous claims in a manner a Harvard legal scholar would have trouble disassembling, you need to be forced to make in simple words, bold print, in plain sight, a warning that you are full of crap and everything you just said is fantastical nonsense you claimed in hopes of luring in gullible people who don't understand how stuff works...
PasswordKing!
WE MANAGE YOUR PASSWORDS SAFELY SO YOU DON'T NEED TO!
WARNING: Nobody can do this. Anything and everything can and will get hacked, at best this is a crapshoot that maybe your data won't get compromised while in our hands, but it's unlikely because once you create a service that says it manages your passwords, you effectively drew a big bullseye on it... it's like why they paint tanks green, not florescent orange and army uniforms are camouflaged, not magenta... the more attention you draw the more likely you are to be obliterated, so essential you may as well just tape them up on the community bulletin board at the supermarket next to the ad for DJ Jeff's Entertainment Express and the guy selling a "slightly pet stained" sofa for $300.
I know that'll never happen, but it should, because just because people are gullible, but probably should know something doesn't mean you can make stupid disingenuous claims or imply you are capable of providing something you are not... it's getting stupider and stupider every day.
Note: PasswordKing is not a real company, I made it up and if there is one out there it doesn't show up in any Google search*, but if there does exist one somewhere, that's not the one I was referring to, it's just a random stupid name I used random stupid brain cells to generate, to illustrate a point.
*A basic low level expression of Due Diligence.
Or... Let me play with your life savings and I will make you a billionaire in no time...
Short words. A result of brain shorts?
The disclaimer in that is the "no time" part... (there will be "no time" at which you'll be a billionaire due to any actions by the party assigned control of your funds).
...yeah yet the page allows for nudity (the imamate is blurred and you have ot click on it) as well as violence at times, but "innocent" fully clothed images of teens, any youthful, or petite looking female are a "no-no". Wasn't going to bother debating the matter as they mention additional "violations" could result in being banned so I saved the trouble and deleted my membership.
Thought it was an "official" or sanctioned Daz page (like the FB one) but apparently it is not.
[Female Passnger on Titanic] “Is this ship really unsinkable?”
[Deck Hand] "Yes madam, Not even God can sink it!"
...indeed, be careful what you boast about.
I keep forgetting to work on my scene. Daz Studio is even open. The icon is in my task bar. Happy March 1 already. Ok, gonna try to fix the lighting. Later
Frigging annoying forum software... this is a new one... every time I try to see my private messages, it logs me out and then back in, over and over and over... it's just insane the variations of broken this software is capable of mutating.
Sorry Dana, I can't really read the message before it flakes out, but think I got the gist of what you said... it's not the software/service you expressed concern over it's a different one... it's more of a subscription password only manager that uses a web interface...
I don't know if I can post a link to a new article since it names the company and that seems to a problem sometimes.
I probably can allude to it... first part of the name is a synonym of "Final" and rhymes with "mast" and the second half is a synonym of "permit" (noun) and rhymes with "gas".
That was unnecessarily stupid.
Got it. Easy enough to figure that out. I almost used that for my Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet, but I got the other installed instead, with help of a dev library for the Fire.
Dana