Nice workaround!
In my situation the hotel’s DNS was properly giving out the IP address to its portal but the travel router wouldn’t respond whatsoever to DNS queries. Wireshark on a laptop showed no traffic whatsoever back; that was the firmware bug they’d addressed in the update. (DNS on the router itself going out to the hotel network was fine though.)
Most modern smartphones will randomize the MAC address for privacy (on Bluetooth too irc). It really killed my crappy WiFi-based people tracker.
That’s what I was guessing too because I imagine older cards actually kept that in its hardware.
I used a travel router at the last hotel I was at but didn’t realize the firmware was buggy — it wouldn’t respond to DNS queries whatsoever on my personal network.
I unfortunately forgot my Ethernet cable so it was a real challenge.
Remembering that iOS uses Wi-Fi Privacy (changes MAC address constantly) I just brought up their portal on my phone, signed in, cloned the MAC address then on iOS chose “Forget this Network.”
Worked like a charm! (Then the travel router updated its firmware and DNS was back on track.)
Google is getting objectively worse. I’ve read that in a few places but it hit me the other day with this query:
”ruby” “gem” “rspec” -rails
I had added the quotes because all the results talked about only Ruby on Rails and not using RSpec in Ruby on Rails.
With the above query, Google showed results with Rails in bold because it thought it was “smart” thinking if I’m talking about Ruby, I must be talking about Ruby on Rails.
This is like entry-level search engine syntax. I’ve already de-Googled my life other than search, but this is really pushing me to ditch Google search as well.
You need like a $50-200K per year kickback from the fossil fuel industry and loose morals to get it
I think it depends what you’re used to. I’m a web developer using macOS, Linux, UNIX everyday but it’s been so long since I’ve used Windows I wouldn’t have a clue how to change basic settings.
Younger people are probably much better at the trendy social apps than I am, but I choose not to use those apps.
As for the average non-programmer? I think computer skills probably go down the drain after years of not really using them. Most people get by with smartphones.
Ha! I’d kill for 10 minutes. When I first moved to SoCal I didn’t have a car and had two take two buses daily to work with an hour between.
One time the second bus didn’t show (not the first time), I couldn’t find a ride so I walked the 10 miles and got to work sooner than if I’d taken the bus.
Hate to bring this up after the fact: windshield insurance is usually pretty cheap. I don’t have brand new cars though so I could be off base.
That looks like it’s only useful for machine-readable dates so it wouldn’t be useful for killing off the JavaScript portion of my “hack.” I cry at night for this
I use a standardization library for phone numbers. It makes parsing any user input dead easy, storing it as a standard string (can’t think of the standard name) and then outputting in the country’s respective format. I don’t have to inject a bunch of JavaScript crap that’s like “wrong format” and harass users; the backend sorts it all out.
Looks like my code example glitched here. Basically a an HTML span tag with some CSS class for JavaScript to process.
Whenever I’m passing a date from a website backend to frontend I’ll usually send it inside something like <span> then have JavaScript convert it to a string based on the browser’s localization settings.
So many websites I see for error reporting, etc always throw everything out as UTC and it drives me crazy. It would be nice to just have an HTML tag for ISO-8601 (or even UNIX as done here).</span>
You should be localizing it before displaying to users. Let their browser/platform decide.
Personally I can’t stand the format you’ve shown. I also can’t stand periods being used for phone numbers, e.g. 555.555.5555.
Block at the DNS level. It won’t matter which browser you use.
I’m heavily anti-Windows but if I had to pick a release (and have it supported forever) Windows 2000 would be my pick. Pure NT kernel, no 9x bullshit? Sign me up.
When these things existing my uncle was driving me somewhere and he had his scanner going in the car. We were able to listen in on those analog phones; crazy to think of these days with ubiquitous encryption everywhere.
On VPN of course am I right?
Seriously, shit is annoying.