#software gore

[hankmcjones]

Uh what

[ysengrm]

photo editor didn't play nice with my jp2 files and yielded this garbled yote

[parasiticvitriol]

The cables of an infallible machine is the flesh’s perfect imitation of the feathers of an incorruptible angel, and as such I can only assume that the key to something greater than even divinity lies within that of which is yet to be constructed, but is inarguably mechanical .

[fagpepper]

Was helping my girlfriend troubleshoot windows and something fucking insane happened

[tumblebagel]

Throwback to that time I tried making a fnaf dating sim, and my drawing program bugged out and opened all my lineart layers at once

[etoastie]

a work story:

there's an internal tool to do a process which has a form that, among other things, has a required "email" field where you put the email that (allegedly) is meant to be notified when the process does its thing. I do not know who assembled this form, I believe it's been here longer than I have.

the field does not accept your own company email.

it does not accept your team's email.

it does not accept the active oncall's email.

to my knowledge it doesn't accept any emails at all, nobody i know has managed to pass that validation. also, just for fun, the validation only happens after the page redirect happens, so you lose all your other inputs after it fails. they don't pre-validate before submission.

what you do is you leave it empty, and the process succeeds.

so recently there was a conversation where an uninitiated coworker pulled me over and it went like this:

"Hey do you know how to make [process] run? I put in all of these correct fields and it's giving me this error"

He shows me the stuff.

"I tried putting in a few emails and nothing works."

I reply: "Oh, don't put an email."

"What? Look:" he gestures to the asterisk that indicates the field is required.

"Nope!"

He stares at me for a bit as I crack a smile. He clicks submit. The page waits for about 10 seconds, during which I start laughing.

The longer the delay goes on, the more he's starting to smile too. Eventually his screen floods with a small green banner and he reaches enlightenment.

I walk off and we're both laughing our asses off. He turns to the other engineer that was helping him debug the same: "HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT??"

[bettythecake]

olliieeeeeeeeeeee!!!! (Again)

[deathsprout]

some harrowing images created by my graphics card crapping out while playing cpj