Ahem. (4401-4405)Scrap.
Oh, and it's TURKEY WEEK!
"But what if the caterer is a guy?"Plot twist: that's the new queer relationship Jeph's been planning---Clinton & Elliot having been an elaborate ruse. Sven turns out to have never explored the possibility of being gay, but ends up enjoying himself---despite his sister's coercion---more than he's ever with girls---the frivolousness of that sex being retconned as his unattraction sublimate in an active libido.
"Sleep with them anyway! I want a discount!"
Mocha fan here, so "fancy coffee" and "hot coco" both apply ;D
Poor Sven! Trapped in the middle of a sit-com routine!
Well, comic wasn't up.
"But what if the caterer is a guy?"
"Sleep with them anyway! I want a discount!"
How is it that in a poll about things to drink there is no "drink more water, Clinton" option?
I could also ask how it is that in a WCDT we're over a dozen posts in and still haven't actually discussed the comic, but I know what this forum is like :D
Is it just me, or did the 'Like' button mysteriously disappear from this thread?
It's N.N. Marf's avatar fouling up the works. The "Like" button won't load until everything else loads, and his avatar is on some bizarre onion domain that won't load and will eventually time out.I'm not sure how to construe that remark about my user-photo. I'm also not sure how some putative stylistic unconventionality of a third party resource---my net-site---should affect the well functioning of these forums. How, for example, would removing all but my user-photo, from my site, change things? There'd certainly be no unconventional style there.
I've never noticed the like button, what does it look like?I don't see it either. I think it requires EMCAScript.
Is it just me, or did the 'Like' button mysteriously disappear from this thread?
Give it a minute, it will eventually show up. It's N.N. Marf's avatar fouling up the works. The "Like" button won't load until everything else loads, and his avatar is on some bizarre onion domain that won't load and will eventually time out.
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It's N.N. Marf's avatar fouling up the works. The "Like" button won't load until everything else loads, and his avatar is on some bizarre onion domain that won't load and will eventually time out.
I'm not sure how to construe that remark about my user-photo. I'm also not sure how some putative stylistic unconventionality of a third party resource---my net-site---should affect the well functioning of these forums.
EDIT: Belay that. I was looking at MrNumbers's avatar, which fails to load but at least has the courtesy to fail quickly.
Ah hell I want some free robotitties
Ah hell I want some free robotitties
I'll take two.
Except it's not irreversibly broken. It loads fine, for me, and at least one other person. (Just so you know, what you're saying about be finding a different host, is like telling someone in a wheelchair, to find different crutches. Yeah, the stairs are crumbling from wheels hitting them day in and day out, because what's in the building, is more valuable to the person in the wheelchair, than cost of being jostled by getting someone to drag the wheelchair up each step. The proper solution should be plan renovations that would make the building more accessible, maybe installing a ramp meanwhile---maybe don't blame the person in the wheelchair.) There's nothing obtuse about requesting elucidation about an opaque statement that could be construed as blaming, without further elucidation, one person for another's difficulty. Thank you cybersmurf, for at least something maybe helpful (https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,34774.msg1454759.html#msg1454759).Fine, I'll be more specific: Whatever site or file storage service you use is technically incompatible with this site. It is nothing about style and everything about incompatible coding and settings. Your link is irreversibly broken and is hurting other users of the forums. The only solution is to stop using your current location and find one that actually works with the forums. Trying to be cute or obtusely defensive about it just makes you come across in a bad light.It's N.N. Marf's avatar fouling up the works. The "Like" button won't load until everything else loads, and his avatar is on some bizarre onion domain that won't load and will eventually time out.I'm not sure how to construe that remark about my user-photo. I'm also not sure how some putative stylistic unconventionality of a third party resource---my net-site---should affect the well functioning of these forums.
EDIT: Belay that. I was looking at MrNumbers's avatar, which fails to load but at least has the courtesy to fail quickly.
I'm 99.7% sure you use Chrome. Why? That picture does load properly. Only Chrome doesn't. Reason? It's embedded via HTTP on a site running over HTTPS. It's a Chrome thing.
I suppose one might try looking through [url=http://mmhak3fquhmd3fnaplgvgcq5yxefhhv3h53m6p6ckiblau675f6milyd.onion/#QCC]my net-site[/url], maybe through a `Tor2Web' gateway e.g. onion.ly;
It could still be something in the forum software, as your link is missing the ".ly" after "onion" which is what I saw happen to the url of your avatar when I looked into it. It's easily avoided by not using onion.ly, I suppose - but maybe you have some reason to suppose that linking images from QC is a major security problem for you.
The avatar issue is more easily fixed by simply uploading the image to the forum instead of linking to it.
Maybe that's easiest for you. Don't assume it's easiest for me.The avatar issue is more easily fixed by simply uploading the image to the forum instead of linking to it.Easiest fix is suggested.
EDIT: Belay that. I was looking at MrNumbers's avatar, which fails to load but at least has the courtesy to fail quickly.
I'm 99.7% sure you use Chrome. Why? That picture does load properly. Only Chrome doesn't. Reason? It's embedded via HTTP on a site running over HTTPS. It's a Chrome thing.
The URLs at issue end with the ".onion" TLD. These URLs are intended for use within the Tor security network and are forbidden for use on the Internet by RFC 7686. Their use here will cause problems for anyone not using a Tor client, and can only be considered unfriendly to the community.Perhaps you misunderstood that request for comments. From the text thereof, published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7686.txt):
https://www.theregister.com/2015/10/28/onion_kept_off_public_internet/ (https://www.theregister.com/2015/10/28/onion_kept_off_public_internet/)
6. DNS Server Operators: Operators MUST NOT configure anThose are the only things forbidden according to that document. Presumably to avoid ambiguities. The ``onion'' top-level domain name is used to refer to TOR `onion services.' (Tangentially, (6) is poorly phrased: client software might ignore such results.) Problems caused by pointing to an onion service directly, should be no worse than problems caused by a pointer by name that doesn't resolve.
authoritative DNS server to answer queries for .onion. If they
do so, client software is likely to ignore any results (see
above).
7. DNS Registries/Registrars: Registrars MUST NOT register .onion
names; all such requests MUST be denied.
Switching to Firefox will get me MrNumbers's avatar just fine, as does enabling insecure content on this site. N.N. Marf's is still broken either way.I'd switched it from the (obfuscated/shortened by TinyURL) `Tor2Web' gateway pointer to the resource, to the direct one. This might reduce delays caused by a client waiting for that resource to load.
Of all the hills to die on, why this one?
Except it's not irreversibly broken. It loads fine, for me, and at least one other person. (Just so you know, what you're saying about be finding a different host, is like telling someone in a wheelchair, to find different crutches. Yeah, the stairs are crumbling from wheels hitting them day in and day out, because what's in the building, is more valuable to the person in the wheelchair, than cost of being jostled by getting someone to drag the wheelchair up each step. The proper solution should be plan renovations that would make the building more accessible, maybe installing a ramp meanwhile---maybe don't blame the person in the wheelchair.) There's nothing obtuse about requesting elucidation about an opaque statement that could be construed as blaming, without further elucidation, one person for another's difficulty. Thank you cybersmurf, for at least something maybe helpful (https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,34774.msg1454759.html#msg1454759).Fine, I'll be more specific: Whatever site or file storage service you use is technically incompatible with this site. It is nothing about style and everything about incompatible coding and settings. Your link is irreversibly broken and is hurting other users of the forums. The only solution is to stop using your current location and find one that actually works with the forums. Trying to be cute or obtusely defensive about it just makes you come across in a bad light.It's N.N. Marf's avatar fouling up the works. The "Like" button won't load until everything else loads, and his avatar is on some bizarre onion domain that won't load and will eventually time out.I'm not sure how to construe that remark about my user-photo. I'm also not sure how some putative stylistic unconventionality of a third party resource---my net-site---should affect the well functioning of these forums.
She can volunteer with Winslow :DThat is a great idea. Get Momo into the act, too.
I'd switched it from the (obfuscated/shortened by TinyURL) `Tor2Web' gateway pointer to the resource, to the direct one. This might reduce delays caused by a client waiting for that resource to load.
Jeez Dora - if you want your brother to not be a jerk to the people he sleeps with, how about you stop sabotaging his efforts? :-\Yeah, but we already know Dora has serious boundary issues, specifically not respecting others. That’s why Marten broke it off after all…
And as someone with siblings, I don't think that being siblings exempts you from respecting it when your sibling is protecting someone else's privacy. Curiosity is natural but trying to pressure your brother into telling you after he's said that - not cool.
Sven might not be in line for canonisation, but it occurs to me, yet again, to wonder exactly what it is he gets out of interacting with Dora, like, ever. A jealous kid sibling might have a tiny element of charm when you're both young, but at this point it's just rather pathetic, at least in as much as their dynamic colours seemingly every single interaction they have. Leaving aside the fact that he was a bit of a douche in the past, I don't really see why he needs her approval in any respect in the first place, particularly when she remains so blind to her own flaws and doesn't ever seem to have done anything to improve herself.He’s there to see his friend Hannelore; his sister just happens to employ her and also work there. At this point, interacting with Dora is the price of admission. Also he might want a coffee? I don’t think that’s been established yet.
Meanwhile, I'm thinking that Hannelore is wondering who had appointed her as the Bianchis' official referee!"Fault!"
I strongly advise you don't ever use this comparison to a wheelchair user ever again.You're right. A better metaphor would be to tell a person who can walk on their own, though perhaps with a gait that might be clumsy, especially on these crude floors, to use braces, even going so far as pointing, multiple times, to the braces you have for them to use. Except not considering the possibility that those braces won't fit them, or might damage their legs. I want to be perfectly clear, in case it wasn't: the metaphor, isn't about me being crippled, but about you telling crippled persons to deal with their being crippled a certain way.
And these are the braces you're pointing to, incredulous at my not using them, considering that somehow unfriendly to some vague `community.' And the metaphor continues: it's difficult to brace and unbrace; it's difficult to change my user-photo that way. And, no, I don't know that it causes problems. I know that a certain confluence of circumstance, which seems happens to include my user-photo pointer, has been reported to cause problems for other persons. They seem to emphasize my user-photo. Maybe that's what's most visible to them. And sure, similar problems have occurred in the past. This is time, though, is the first time that I'm getting any helpful feedback about what, exactly, the problem might be---so is the first time I even have an opportunity to try something better than random.I'd switched it from the (obfuscated/shortened by TinyURL) `Tor2Web' gateway pointer to the resource, to the direct one. This might reduce delays caused by a client waiting for that resource to load.You realise that you can simply upload the avatar image to the forum and avoid all this fuss (over the avatar image, at least)? As I said before, deliberately continuing to use a URL which you know causes issues for other users is unfriendly to the community.
I am considering withdrawing the facility of using URLs for avatars altogether - it has caused other problems in the past, and most forums don't allow it anyway; but I would have to consult first, as a few other people use it (as I do, in fact).That seems would be an equitable solution: make it equally difficult for everyone. Force everyone who wants to walk, to use braces. As a temporary fix, until you get better control of the server as you claim to be planning, that might be tolerable.
that had better be one thunder bang wonderful avatar
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PS C:\Users\Richard> nslookup
Default Server: bthub.home
Address: fe80::66cc:22ff:fee9:9b61
> mmhak3fquhmd3fnaplgvgcq5yxefhhv3h53m6p6ckiblau675f6milyd.onion
Server: bthub.home
Address: fe80::66cc:22ff:fee9:9b61
*** bthub.home can't find mmhak3fquhmd3fnaplgvgcq5yxefhhv3h53m6p6ckiblau675f6milyd.onion: Non-existent domain
>that had better be one thunder bang wonderful avatar
Had nothing better to do on lunch, decided to hop onto Tor and "walk" to it. It's alright. (https://lumi.living-me.me/i/5c2o.png)
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But just for fun, I thought I'd try loading this page in a bunch of different browsers:
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Or maybe - juuuust maybe - using a .onion address on a site intended to be used on the non-Tor Internet is a silly idea.
Marf, it's not the forum software, and it's not the server hosting the forum software. It is, at a very great stretch, the fault of the users' browsers for not resolving the .onion TLD - but since those RFCs specifically say that DNS operators must return NXDOMAIN for .onion requests I can hardly fault them for trusting that the domain does not exist.I didn't say the difficulties were that some can't access the directly pointed-to resource. I pretty clearly stated that that was the most recent thing that I had tried, to ameliorate the reported certain these forums' features' activation delay, that seemed to be the `Tor2Web' gateway misbehaving (I saw it misreporting errors, claiming it had gotten HTTP errors in the 500s---internal server errors---that the host I use never gives). I don't find it so important that everyone see my user-photo---that's not an error I care about, and neither do others, it seems, because it's never been reported before, except that another user's user-photo similarly not display properly, reported in comparison to my user-photo not displaying and `causing' delays---so I changed it to the direct pointer: the delay has been reported to have been reduced, and no further problems have been reported to me.
Dang, there's a lot of faulty software out there.Yes. Yes that is. A lot and a lot of of faulty software. Here's the thing: that domain exists---so, yes, they're wrong. What they should be saying is they're unaware of that domain existing. But they say it doesn't exist---they're making false claims. Sadly, in this case, that's the majority, so some assholes consider themselves right in not accommodating---even going so far as sneering at---certain minority cases, without even considering that there might be a legitimate reason that the minority case does things that way. Here's a hint: most minority cases, have a good reason.
Or maybe - juuuust maybe - using a .onion address on a site intended to be used on the non-Tor Internet is a silly idea.Geographically-localized metaphors about the internet tend to not work well. The internet is all around the world, more like international postage: mentioning a TOR resource on the `clear' internet, would be like mentioning something that can be delivered by one postal company, in a message delivered by a `the' (i.e. the `usual' or `standard') postal company. Some persons might not want to get things delivered by that postal company---that's fine, let them not. That's a terrible reason to prevent such things being mentioned.
If you want metaphors, you're walking around Edinburgh and wondering why people look at you funny when you tell them to visit you in Brigadoon.
I strongly advise you don't ever use this comparison to a wheelchair user ever again.You're right. A better metaphor would be to tell a person who can walk on their own, though perhaps with a gait that might be clumsy, especially on these crude floors, to use braces, even going so far as pointing, multiple times, to the braces you have for them to use. Except not considering the possibility that those braces won't fit them, or might damage their legs. I want to be perfectly clear, in case it wasn't: the metaphor, isn't about me being crippled, but about you telling crippled persons to deal with their being crippled a certain way.And these are the braces you're pointing to, incredulous at my not using them, considering that somehow unfriendly to some vague `community.' And the metaphor continues: it's difficult to brace and unbrace; it's difficult to change my user-photo that way. And, no, I don't know that it causes problems. I know that a certain confluence of circumstance, which seems happens to include my user-photo pointer, has been reported to cause problems for other persons. They seem to emphasize my user-photo. Maybe that's what's most visible to them. And sure, similar problems have occurred in the past. This is time, though, is the first time that I'm getting any helpful feedback about what, exactly, the problem might be---so is the first time I even have an opportunity to try something better than random.I'd switched it from the (obfuscated/shortened by TinyURL) `Tor2Web' gateway pointer to the resource, to the direct one. This might reduce delays caused by a client waiting for that resource to load.You realise that you can simply upload the avatar image to the forum and avoid all this fuss (over the avatar image, at least)? As I said before, deliberately continuing to use a URL which you know causes issues for other users is unfriendly to the community.
I think there's a deeper problem with a certain mentality, where, after something is recognized as a possible answer to a problem---just use our braces---that would alleviate some difficulties, all other potential solutions are rejected, and very little is done to even try coming to something that might accommodate everyone better. And again, about the vague `community'---unfriendly to whom, exactly? To everyone? Certainly not: it's not unfriendly to me---unless you're excluding me from the community, but do explain on what grounds, if not arbitrary. To a part of the community? Maybe, but the insistence that it's primarily my problem, is also unfriendly to a part of the community. Maybe, if you would be so kind, please be more descriptive about what, exactly you mean, rather than using that weasel-word, and, at the least, explain what action, exactly, in what way, exactly, is unfriendly. It's starting to look like maybe you just don't like me for whatever reason.I am considering withdrawing the facility of using URLs for avatars altogether - it has caused other problems in the past, and most forums don't allow it anyway; but I would have to consult first, as a few other people use it (as I do, in fact).That seems would be an equitable solution: make it equally difficult for everyone. Force everyone who wants to walk, to use braces. As a temporary fix, until you get better control of the server as you claim to be planning, that might be tolerable.
I blocked them quite some time ago, and feel better for it. This lack of basic netiquitte only confirms that decision.
Jeez Dora - if you want your brother to not be a jerk to the people he sleeps with, how about you stop sabotaging his efforts? :-\
And as someone with siblings, I don't think that being siblings exempts you from respecting it when your sibling is protecting someone else's privacy. Curiosity is natural but trying to pressure your brother into telling you after he's said that - not cool.
Comic up, site down
Oh right, it's US Turkey day tomorrow.On Patreon, Jeph commented that he had forgotten about doing the turkey comic until the last moment, since he lives in Canada now.
(Canadian)
It usually is, my mother is a good cook 😊 She does tend to get a bit passive-agressive about how much work it is, and how much time she spent in the kitchen, and that it takes a day to do the cleanup... So this year we put our foot down and divvied up the tasks 😉
Jeph is very into his characters experiencing growth 😊 I like that.
Sven might not be in line for canonisation, but it occurs to me, yet again, to wonder exactly what it is he gets out of interacting with Dora, like, ever. A jealous kid sibling might have a tiny element of charm when you're both young, but at this point it's just rather pathetic, at least in as much as their dynamic colours seemingly every single interaction they have. Leaving aside the fact that he was a bit of a douche in the past, I don't really see why he needs her approval in any respect in the first place6, particularly when she remains so blind to her own flaws and doesn't ever seem to have done anything to improve herself.
Jeph is very into his characters experiencing growth 😊 I like that.
Well, the turkeys aren't talking about their junk this year. Guess that's progress ...
Oh right, it's US Turkey day tomorrow.On Patreon, Jeph commented that he had forgotten about doing the turkey comic until the last moment, since he lives in Canada now.
(Canadian)
Comic up, site down
[Snip]This largely depends on how dysfunctional your family is, --in some cases-- if one or more siblings has bothered working through any of the childhood crap, and in other cases if the one who got bipolar disorder and is borderline schizophrenic has acknowledged either and gone to a psychiatrist for help[1].
Oh them being siblings doesn't mean it's just okay, but (most) siblings are close enough or care enough for each other that such questionable actions are less offensive because they can trust each other to not act with intentional malice.
It usually is, my mother is a good cook 😊 She does tend to get a bit passive-agressive about how much work it is, and how much time she spent in the kitchen, and that it takes a day to do the cleanup... So this year we put our foot down and divvied up the tasks 😉
This largely depends on how dysfunctional your family is, --in some cases-- if one or more siblings has bothered working through any of the childhood crap, and in other cases if the one who got bipolar disorder and is borderline schizophrenic has acknowledged either and gone to a psychiatrist for help[1].
[1]We all three got the hereditary depression issues, one's also boarderline schizophrenic (amongst other undiagnosed issues), and somehow I managed to be the only one w/o bipolar disorder. Yay just being depressed! ....Wait. Shit.
Yay just being depressed! ....Wait. Shit.
Yay just being depressed! ....Wait. Shit.
Hey, this year being already depressed turned out to be an advantage - I already had all the survival skills I needed to cope with isolation. “Got the corona blues? I have so much to teach you about getting through it!”
It usually is, my mother is a good cook 😊 She does tend to get a bit passive-agressive about how much work it is, and how much time she spent in the kitchen, and that it takes a day to do the cleanup... So this year we put our foot down and divvied up the tasks 😉
Taira, Claireten, Daligold and Faybles weddings all at the same combined event?Taira, obviously, and Faybles I'll sign up for. The others still have things to work out before they get hitched.
So, in light of Turkey Day being yesterday, if anyone's interested, here's the link to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's website. (https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/donations) Yes, you can donate to the tribe if you're willing and able.
Without their help[1] in 1621, those Brownist Seperatists[2] would had starved to death.
1) Know a guy who used to draw cartoons for Hustler. His wife was a teacher. She held up one of hubby's cartoons, smiled and said: "This paid for the new living room."
1a) Some of his tamer stuff gets merchandised by Hallmark. I saw one of his cards in the local Hallmark store. The rather prim-looking lady running the store said brightly: "That's our best seller!"
2) I was talking to the septic tank guy as a few years' worth of life's by-products flowed out of our septic tank and into his pump truck. The hose couplings did a decent job, but some smell still got through. I asked him if the smell ever got to him. "Smells like money to me," he said.
Pull the stick out, Dora.
The recording company that buys Sven's music would have people on the payroll whose misfortune it is to have to play it. Imagine the poor aspiring musician (who took the job just to make ends meet), after years of playing this dreck, finally meeting the author. Would Sven survive? :-D"Smells like money," as the septic tank guy said.
Pecunia non olet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet)`Unusually large' transactions, tend to reek---say some nosier, but mine suggests the ranker scents, becoming more thoroughly clean, ought worry some.. Of course, intelligent laundrers avoid such error: to not the most perfect anolfaction, but a careful, trace scent, of a mild-mannered history inferred.