BleepingComputer: "Microsoft: Windows 'inetpub' folder created by security fix, don’t delete"
"...Microsoft told BleepingComputer on Thursday that this empty folder had been intentionally created and should not be removed.."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-windows-inetpub-folder-created-by-security-fix-dont-delete/ #cybersecurity #kludge
The hames made of the census means that my handy shortcut that brought me straight to the search for the censuses - http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/ - doesn't work any more - you have to wade through reams of kludge before happening on the search form
#CensusOfIreland #Kludge
From the Maybe-Too-On-The-Nose department...
> Microsoft uses .NET internally and a team tasked with migrating thousands
> of .NET Framework projects to .NET Core ran into performance issues, with
> the restore command taking more than 30 minutes in some cases, causing
> what principal software engineer Jeff Kluge called “wasted time and frustration
> for developers.”
A software engineer. Named "Kluge". (And at Microsoft.)
I think we're done here.
#OnTheNose #kluge #kludge #microsoft #software #engineer #SoftwareEngineer #ForReal
Hackaday: ALL ABOUT USB-C: MANUFACTURER SINS
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/07/all-about-usb-c-manufacturer-sins/
From article, The First Sin:
"The first, honorary entry is omitting 5.1 kΩ pulldowns on a USB-C port intended for charging your device. “Why does my device charge with a USB-A to USB-C cable, but doesn’t charge with a USB-C to USB-C cable”, asks the user? The answer is simple – because your device’s designer decided to save one cent while building your device, and didn’t care about testing the device before selling it to you. In other words, your device is supposed to have two resistors connected to the USB-C plug, yet it does not, and USB-C power supplies are unable to detect that they ought to provide power. Remember, the resistor detection is fundamentally a safety mechanism, and by now, information about this problem is omnipresent."
The overall situation of USB-C out there does seem to be a clusterfuck.
Oy.
#USB #USBC #USBA #tech #clusterfuck #kludge #glitch #mess #hardware #blog
Me: “It’s #broken for my case, and here’s an #experiment showing how and where it can be fixed.”
Them: “That’s useful but this guy that outranks you wanted it this way and he’s out today so I can’t get him to explain it.”
Me: (engages in #kludge to try to unblock, finds another stupid resource #limit)
Apparently I’m not supposed to be able to prove to others that the thing I’m working on will work. I’m 👉️ 👈️ this close to hollering to #management.
forgot to mention. the big chunk of black duct tape holds part of a music stand. I have the rest of the stand, slightly tweaked, so the whole unit is in range to play while I’m sitting near it.
So if they’re looking at it that way, I don’t feel so bad about this #kludge that makes the ridiculous application deployment actually work (technically by coincidence) on both the old machines and their replacements.
So, turns out my re-purposed food dehydrator can't hold two spools of filament - but it was so close I could remedy the situation by haphazardly taping on a strip of PVC I had lying around, so I did 😝
If that wasn't in jest, it's an electronic component - a chip in a DIP-16 package - that I had to cut the pins off of to remove it from a board, and then manually soldered replacement pins onto so I could test it out-of-circuit.
Non-hacked examples can be seen here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in-line_package
So when Android Studio complains about this error and prompts me to fix it in Gradle's settings, how is the second screenshot helping me in any way? Why is the Android build system this awful?
Every day I have to do anything with Gradle I hate the software world a bit more.
I was really proud of my #homebrew from trash parts through table wireless charging pad for my phone by coworkers says it’s “creepy” 🙄
I’ll get a fabric sticker to cover it because they can’t handle how cyberpunk i am apparently. 🙄🙄🥲🙄 #kludge
@briankrebs could you run two Mastodon clients in separate windows ? I can do this in @IceCubesApp on iPadOS- it’s a bit of a fudge ( does that translate outside the UK ) but it “works” #kludge
I'd like to create a shared knowledge base using #tiddlywiki for my work team, hosted on #OneDrive / #MSTeams, and I'm worried about burdening them with the complexity of the UX of TiddlyWiki. I really just want a simple taggable #knowledgebase but that's hard to get going on an internal file sharing site where we can't run our own servers. I currently have a #markdown KB running within #Obsidian, but people are struggling with the #kludge of that solution as well.
What would you do?
@polpo @mediaarchaeologylab When I was at UCLA we needed a feedback system to control the output of a CO2 laser. Using parts on hand we grabbed a plotter. We duct-taped one end of a ruler to the print head and the other end to a the knob on the top of a rheostat that adjusted the laser output. It worked, although we ended up burning out several plotters.
In the end, I've decided something a bit different: just found (and bought!) from Amazon a #Royal #Kludge #RK61 60% #keyboard with #blue #switches, Italian ISO layout and even double-shot #PBT #keycaps for €80!
It's a 60% so arrows as secondary functions. But still it's Amazon: I'll try it and if won't like it, I can simply return it .. and probably do for the #YMDK one.
The Second Worst CAD Package Ever
A while back, [Heavydeck] remembered stumbling across the worst CAD package ever, which is a schematic editor whose existence was purely intended for use to make quick circuit sketches for documentation, presentations and the like. All good. But, being based on low quality JPEG graphics, which when blown up to projector size on a big screen, they look really rough. After deciding that the original nasty, clunky interface was just nasty and clunky enough, [Heavydeck] then proceeded to reimplement the idea over the course of an afternoon, and came up with Kludge (possibly the second worst CAD package ever) making an actually useful tool even more useful.
You see, whether you make website content, YouTube tutorials, or just need to write technical reports, if you're in the electronics business, you're going to need to make high-quality editable schematic images at some point, and Kludge might well solve some problems for you. Kludge lets you do so many things; you can save a schematic, you can load a schematic, you can even export it to an SVG file. Actually, that's all you can do, but it is actually just enough. Once you've got an image as an SVG, you can whack that into Inkscape to add some more details and you're done. We demonstrate this with the image above, which was not annoying at all to create.
So here's to Kludging your way around a problem, and hoping that the somewhat limited symbol library may expand a little more in the future!
Finally ...um, "repaired" my DR-55. The stop/play switches have been broken for ages. I tried swapping them out with some switches I had laying around from an old Atari paddle controller which really looked like they'd work as drop-in replacement, but they didn't work for some reason. So now, via an incredibly ugly kludge, I'm probably the only guy around with Cherry microswitches on his old Dr. Rhythm. #DIY #synth #kludge #hack #music.
