--- Log opened Mon Nov 14 00:00:28 2022
07:12 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
07:35 <@Mirage> Missed this last week.  https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-homeland-security-report-antifa-portland-1849718673
07:35 < PigBot> Homeland Security Cops to Manufacturing Terrorists for Trump (at gizmodo.com) https://tinyurl.com/22n3fswv
07:43 <@Mirage> https://youtu.be/7oFZxEmy1Fs
07:44 < PigBot> Funny Doctors Who Prove Laughter Is The Best Medicine - Doctor Acts Of Humor - YouTube (at youtu.be) https://tinyurl.com/23nklvzz
08:09 <@Dolemite> https://gizmodo.com/ed-markey-elon-musk-fix-twitter-or-congress-will-1849778990
08:09 < PigBot> Sen. Ed Markey Tells Elon Musk to Fix Twitter, or Congress Will (at gizmodo.com) https://tinyurl.com/2a83x872
08:09 <@Dolemite> I think Musk is about to get a hard lesson in how much acting stupid can hurt.
08:16 < aestetix> I really want him to buy Facebook now
08:16 < aestetix> If Musk goes down, he should take as much of Big Tech with him as possible
09:44 <@Dagmar> Oddly, Twitter seems to be working fine to me
10:35 < aestetix> well
10:35 < aestetix> looks like Elon Musk just publicly fired a pretty solid engineer on twitter for the crime of making him look bad
10:36 < aestetix> this @ericfrohnhoefer guy
10:36 < aestetix> https://twitter.censors.us/pic/media%2FFhhaMrRXgAcwn28.jpg%3Fname%3Dorig
10:36 < aestetix> this is a very solid answer
10:36 < PigBot> None (at twitter.censors.us) https://tinyurl.com/23dejc9w
10:38 < aestetix> honestly that guy should be put in charge of the android app, based on those tweets
10:38 < aestetix> and these alt-right trolls are just piling on the guy, when he showed he clearly knwos what he's talking about
10:38 <@Dolemite> Well that was a waste of another 100 minutes for a meeting that was 99.9999% focused on just the networking team.
10:39 <@Dolemite> Evilpig: I take it still no word?
10:39 < Evilpig> just that she hasn't heard anything
10:40 < Evilpig> she was supposedly going to talk to the HR folks today to see what's up
10:42 < Evilpig> trying to not let it bother me but the delay is causing issues with insurance and what not.  had an endocrinologist appointment this morning that I couldn't reschedule.  good news out of that though.  my bp is down to 115/75, my fat ass is at 220lbs, and my a1c is down to almost normal human at 5.8
10:42 < aestetix> Evilpig: how long do those responses normally take?
10:42 < Evilpig> so my doc has said that he thinks one of the medicines i'm on is no longer doing any work and to remove it for the next week or two and verify that my levels remain consistent and if so keep it gone
10:43 < Evilpig> aestetix: most other places i've dealt with HR responses are typically with in a week, two max
10:43 < aestetix> how long has it been for you?
10:44 < Evilpig> about two weeks since I last heard anything from hr
10:54 < Evilpig> it's cold as fuck outside and trying to decide if I want to go fight with this car now or wait a few weeks and see if it warms up
10:55 < Evilpig> my passenger window on the mustang have been dancing up and down again like someone is trying to open the door and was doing some reading that suggests the connectors in the door might be getting moisture and shorting
10:55 < Evilpig> the fix is to pull the door panel and put dielectric grease on the connectors after cleaning them good and it fixes the issue vs whatever nonsense the dealer told me the last time this happened and it was a sensor 
10:59 <@Dagmar> aestetix: And yet Twitter loads up in about 1.3 seconds from a cold start on my phone, which is a Pixel _3_.
10:59 <@Dagmar> Calling it "super slow" is pretty misleading
11:03 <@Dagmar> You would be wrong.
11:03 <@Dagmar> @#$@#$
15:55 < Evilpig> anyone have a good way to test a video card or ram in windows these days?  a buddy of mine hit me up saying his computer has been crashing and the common thread seems to be when he fires up games
15:56 < Evilpig> I got him to load the intel ssd software and test the ssd it still shows 96% life and the quick test came back good
15:56 < Evilpig> looked at the performance of the processor under task manager and it's showing full speed, not acting underclocked like it's having any issue
15:57 < Evilpig> he does only have 16G of ram which is half used by system shit because windows is like that. which made me think possibly power supply having a voltage issue or the video card itself having some fit?  he also just loaded the latest nvidia drivers
16:47 <@Dagmar> Well, you're looking at it
16:47 <@Dagmar> Punish it with a game
16:50 <@Dagmar> A quick Googling turned up http://mikelab.kiev.ua/index_en.php?page=programs/vmt_en which might give him malware, but then at least he'd have a different problem
16:50 < PigBot> HTTPConnectionPool(host='mikelab.kiev.ua', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /index_en.php?page=programs/vmt_en (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fc203e15048>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',)) (at mikelab.kiev.ua) https://tinyurl.com/2xz5ozbq
16:50 <@Dagmar> https://superuser.com/questions/456435/how-can-i-test-my-gpu-memory-ram
16:50 < PigBot> graphics card - How can I test my GPU memory/RAM? - Super User (at superuser.com) https://tinyurl.com/y6sleo3h
16:51 <@Dagmar> It's _real_ easy to have a PSU issue with the latest cards
16:52 <@Dagmar> Those ATX form factor sodium reactors are kinda pricey and some vendors just use table salt inside them
16:52 <@Dagmar> If he's bought a high end 4xxx-series then it's almost certainly that his PSU can't power a small city
16:53 <@Dagmar> ...unless it just started happening in which case you KNOW it's the GPU failing, probably because of filth and overheating
16:54 <@Dagmar> Anotehr option that looks less worrisome (well, a different kind of worry) than a Ukrainian site https://github.com/ihaque/memtestCL
16:54 < PigBot> GitHub - ihaque/memtestCL: OpenCL memory tester for GPUs (at github.com) https://tinyurl.com/hxmq9gh
16:54 <@Dagmar> SHould be compatible with any nVidia card anyone gives a shit about
16:55 <@Mirage> The power cabling for a lot of those apparently has an issue with the main connector to the card if the wires get bent, especially to the side
16:56 <@Dagmar> Also, they're pushing WTF you can actually get away with on the latest cards because it's fuckin' melting connectors
16:57 <@Mirage> Which in at least some cases is that wire/connector issue.  I've watched a couple technical breakdowns of the issue and the connections/terminations in the cable that cause the melting to happen.
16:58 <@Dagmar> There's just no margin for error there
16:59 <@Dagmar> Given the diameter of the wire and composition of hte connector, they're going to need to start asking vendors to use heavier clips or just 10 gauge wire
16:59 <@Mirage> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NGUov5Zb_0&t=486s&ab_channel=JayzTwoCents
16:59 < PigBot> Igor's Lab figured out why NVIDIA adapters are melting! - YouTube (at www.youtube.com) https://tinyurl.com/256p44z8
17:01 <@Dagmar> Yeah the wire and connectors they're using with that just are _not_ thick enough
17:01 <@Dagmar> It's like trying to run a hair dryer off a USB-C cable you got from a gas station
17:02 <@Dagmar> Physics says, "Not only 'no', but 'fuck you'"
17:04 <@Dagmar> Looking at that video... fuuuck
17:04 <@Dagmar> A connector shouldn't heat up like that ever
17:05 <@Mirage> Yeah.  It's got some really good info
17:05 <@Dagmar> That it's heating up at all is fucking madness
17:05 <@Dagmar> I could maybe see 10-15 degrees over ambient.  Maybe a little.
17:06 <@Dagmar> 140+ degrees F?  
17:06 <@Dagmar> Fuck that
17:06 <@Dagmar> That video alone will make nVidia pick up the phone and cuss out a vendor or two
17:09 < Evilpig> Dagmar: I suspected a possible psu problem but trying to get him to test it would be problematic.  I have a psu tester here and he could get one cheap enough from amazon
17:11 <@Dagmar> Just looking at the specs will probably tell you it's underpowered
17:11 < Evilpig> that system is 3 years old so crud build up is a possibility,  the card is a 2080ti iirc
17:11 <@Dagmar> Hrmm... That should still be in the land of reasonable
17:12 < Evilpig> he has a 1000w supply in there and hasn't changed any parts out and it had enough juice to drive it this long, but it could be failing and have a low rail or something causing issues
17:12 < Evilpig> I'll get one of those apps to stress the video and see if it triggers like I think it will, then figure out a next step
17:12 <@Dagmar> Benchmarkers will strain the cores
17:13 <@Dagmar> ...but watch the temps while that's going on too
17:13 <@Dagmar> If he hasn't looked to make sure the _fans_ are still running... heh
17:13 < Evilpig> that's a good call.  luckily windows makes temp monitoring easy these days with task manager
17:13 <@Dagmar> It could be a matter of idiot paste
17:14 < Evilpig> considered that too
17:14 < Evilpig> had that issue with my desktop a couple of months ago
17:14 <@Dagmar> I've heard from more than a few people about their cards having wayy too much paste, which predictably liquefied and ran out leaving airgaps
17:14 < Evilpig> with him i'm sure it's stock, no custom cooler and the heatsink was factory installed
17:14 <@Dagmar> Not sure when it became the cool thing to do to glob that shit in there instead of spreading it super-duper thin
17:14 < Evilpig> but that doesn't mean the paste hasn't degraded
17:15 <@Dagmar> I'm talking about stock cards that had too much paste from day one
17:15 <@Dagmar> Even fuckin' toothpaste will work, but it needs to be thin enough that it won't freakin' boil away
17:49 < Evilpig> damn metro
17:49 < Evilpig> https://findmystop.mnps.org/elinkrp/search.aspx
17:49 < PigBot>  Versatrans e-Link - School/Transportation Search  (at findmystop.mnps.org) https://tinyurl.com/2273uso8
17:49 < Evilpig> how the fuck did the bot get to it, but I can't?  and downforeveryone said it is down too?
18:30 <@eryc> i can get to it
18:30 <@eryc> dns?
18:31 <@eryc> hm, 0 second ttl is odd
18:34 < Evilpig> it was definitely down, wondering if it was a bad route or some type of maintenance going on
23:22 <@Dagmar> eryc: TTL of zero usually means someone's being subject to "DNS security" and can probably get results from nameservers that don't exist.
23:30 <@Dagmar> The general idea is to make the records uncacheable, but it's also a bit nuts.  Every query takes a non-zero amount of time to complete, so anything with a zero really _should_ have already expired.
--- Log closed Tue Nov 15 00:00:29 2022