• FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
    10513·
    11 months ago

    usually i think it’s cringe when people shit on the linguistics of memes, but this is the most non-pov “pov” post i’ve ever seen. the meaning would be the EXACT same if they just hadn’t included the dumbass “pov:” part. fucking spotify marketing intern ass buzzword

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        12·
        11 months ago

        That’s… what a photo is. While technically correct, no one would use “Photo:” as a meme format. It’s just redundant and dumb.

        • MaoZedongers@lemmy.today
          11·
          10 months ago

          Are we really using redundancy and dumbness as a point against a meme format?

          "When you

          When you shit your pants"

          Is literally an old meme format where repeating the top line is part of the joke.

          Plus there’s “BOTTOM TEXT” which is just completely stupid but funny.

          We must be seeing different memes.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
      91·
      11 months ago

      Nobody:

      You: usually i think it’s cringe when people shit on the linguistics of memes, but this is the most non-pov “pov” post i’ve ever seen. the meaning would be the EXACT same if they just hadn’t included the dumbass “pov:” part. fucking spotify marketing intern ass buzzword

  • Toes♀@ani.social
    861·
    11 months ago

    Oh this reminds me when people discovered all the printers at school were available on the WiFi

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
      53·
      11 months ago

      That’s incredible.

      Then again, school IT jobs are often given to “my nephew who is good with computers”, because the pay is often half compared to the private sector.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        26·
        11 months ago

        One teacher told us that once an IT technician at our school built the network, connecting 2 school institutions with ~7 buildings using only hubs. That network was apparently almost unusably slow, which isn’t surprising.

      • xpinchx@lemmy.world
        11·
        11 months ago

        I have a friend that does IT/networking for a school district and he makes bank, YMMV.

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
          30·
          11 months ago

          My brother works for a school with 200 kids PreK-12. He’s a teacher, but he also does IT. He gets a $500/yr stipend, and he calls me at least twice a week with basic questions that are solved 95% of the time by rebooting the computer.

          I’ve told him a number of times the district owes me that stipend lol

          • Outcide@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            $500 a year?!? Hey buddy, thanks for looking after our IT systems, here’s an extra $1.50 a week …

            • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
              2·
              11 months ago

              That’s ridiculous!

              I’m surprised it’s not a student ran IT Club that the kids have a pay a materials fee for…

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      And not just printers. There may or may not also be a few Wi-Fi APs with login details admin:admin. And there also may or may not be many computers with RDP enabled without password. And those that have some password may or may not re-use the same short password for Administrator account. There also may or may not be SMTP server, though unfortunately in my case it doesn’t allow using it so send e-mails outside the network. It returns “Relay access denied” error.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      11 months ago

      If it makes you feel any better, before the days of ubiquitous wi-fi, printers on wired networks in my school were about as easy to discover and use from a distance. FTPing a text file to one would start a print job for that file and it would be trivial to mash together that information plus a list of printer addresses for the entire district network (courtesy of nmap).

      This information was certainly never put to use.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    65·
    11 months ago

    my brain is churning through char limits… i just cant believe it would be large enough through multiple systems…but then, i dont know the char count of the script, compression techniques used, encapsulation etc.

    • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      48·
      11 months ago

      It can just fetch the information one line at a time like a printing machine. I don’t think the receipt machine has that much memory to hold everything

        • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
          4·
          11 months ago

          Maybe this isn’t a big chain. I worked for a local pizza place a while back, and they had their own website set up by the owner. It would have been up to him to set the limit.

          If his printer wasnt one from just eat linked to the just eat order machine we might have had the same problem. The printer was dumb, it likely just responded to whatever input it recieves. In the case of just eat orders they likely have a char limit so its never an issue.

          • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            11 months ago

            Theres a couple clues that suggest it’s a Canadian cannabis dispensary. Which is interesting as many use the same web app for menus and online orders (Dutchie), though some don’t.

    • Wren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      The script is ~55k characters long, depending on the source. This transcript, 55k, includes who is saying the line, as well as descriptive elements of the story, so the actual ‘words only’ version will be a bit shorter. This one is 99k and includes even more description of the visual elements. From what I’ve seen, though, most of transcripts have these non verbal inclusions, so the person who added it to the special instructions likely copied those over as well.

      I can’t speak to the other points, but allowing 55k characters is definitely wild.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
        2·
        11 months ago

        youre not gettin more than maaybe 512 outta me if i was asked to store/move ‘special instructions’ with no requirement

        a part of me thinks someone connected directly to this printer and printed it. i cant imagine someone pasting 55k into an online form and it making it intact all the way to the print job.

        reality is, this would have been truncated client side before it even hit the wires.

        • lad@programming.dev
          1·
          11 months ago

          And if everyone in the chain thought the same, sending this by hand instead of using client would have this effect

    • YoorWeb@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 months ago

      It depends, if the employer doesn’t treat his staff well, they’d give you extra portion.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    393·
    11 months ago

    I do hope when someone reads about a Christian Nationalism lawsuit going on they don’t find out what law office is representing the guy who wants to hurt gay people. Then find the fax number on their site, go get a temp email at all the free sites that provide it, go to a send fax over the Internet site, and send them long faxes.

    • Railing5132@lemmy.world
      37·
      11 months ago

      An old trick you could do on old physical fax machines was to tape a couple of sheets of black construction paper together, feed them into the machine and tape them into a loop. Dial your special person and burn through all their toner. Of course, now it would just generate a bunch of emails.

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 months ago

        Black fax - such an effective remote physical attack that fax companies had to actually hard-code a defence against it, to not print pages where there would be enough ink or toner dispensed that it could damage the machine or be a fire hazard

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
        2·
        11 months ago

        Ahh, yes, the Infinifax™

        I may have once pulled this with the Banana knock knock joke. Ran their machine out of paper.

  • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
    21·
    11 months ago

    Yooo this reminds me, I think there was an AITA comment on reddit some time ago about a guy who burned down a Pizza place due to putting the entire bee movie script in a message box.

    Edit: I believe it was a comment on an Askreddit thread, but a quick google search appears to not be enough to find it

    Edit 2: I think it’s this one, no clue if it actually happened though https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/bjttfe/tifu_by_ordering_food_online_amd_essentially/

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      10·
      11 months ago

      Ok my copier story. We had a copier room in my high school with a little window in the door. I put a black sheet of paper on it, set it to copy 999 times, locked the door from the inside, then walked away. Turns out no one knows where the key was to the little copier room. I got caught and was punished. The end.

      • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        16·
        11 months ago

        We’re not really that unique. We’re not consciously or likely even unconsciously referencing that thread or others like it. We’re just coming to the same witty conclusions those before us did.

        Even your comment comes up every time there’s a similar thread or experience. Mine too.

        Happy New Year, btw.

  • Ad4mWayn3@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 months ago

    Set a character limit. Easy. A maximum reasonable length considering the attention span and efficiency of an employee to grasp such information if required should do the job