Professional I.T. guy, union actor, hobby comedian and closet rap-battler.

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  • I’m so sorry for my delay. Just had a hell of a weekend at work and only just resurfaced.

    To give you some more detail (it might not be good enough for QA but I’ll try)…

    Blorp 1.9.4, Pixel 7, Android 16.

    I mentioned in the title of the OP that the issue occurs when browsing All/* (New/Hot/Active).

    For Blorp, the issue presents after I load All/anything, then scroll through the feed until it stops, I assume it should have infinite scroll, I keep gesturing ‘up’ (to scroll down more), but no more posts appear.

    I can scroll back up to the top and gesture ‘down’ to make it refresh and it does, but just the initial 50 posts then no more

    I assume 50 posts is the first-page fetch.

    My initial post was also triggered by my experience in Boost, which actually shows a ‘timeout’ error popup, about 30-60s after scrolling to the end of the first page-feed.

    Lemme know if you need more details.














  • Long anecdote short; no.

    Short anecdote long; nooooo. I had a Selenocosmia Crassipes (from north-east QLD, Australia) for a year or so, and she never seemed to … ‘warm’ to me.

    I had to get her out in a cup regularly to change her substrate, and/or attempt to give ‘pats’ after a few beers, but she’d always rear-up to strike :/ But I was her cricket and pinky-mouse dealer!

    I didn’t research it. I don’t have studies to cite. I didn’t approach it constructively.

    I just hoped one day we’d click, before going on adventures together.

    I miss Fluffy.


  • Heh yeah they’re getting better.

    One day working in I.T. at a bank, I received an email that was formatted and written really convincingly that someone has referred me for a bigger role with a salary bump, with light/abstract details that could ‘be inferred as’ relevant to my country, sector & role. It just asked to click-through to see the opportunity-

    -which popped-up a warning from the company’s I.T. security that this was a phishing testing/training email, and I’d failed.

    I usually evade a phish, but this slightly-targeted one got me good.

    After that I had to ritualistically double-check potentially legitimate emails from external domains, for sketchy domains/short URLs/links/tracking cookies etc, because they included vendors & 3rd party consultants or contractors we were working with.

    At least (the) God(s) know scammers are bad people.

    Heh.


  • Software/solutions consultant, and union actor.

    I mean I was. I mean I am. I dunno. 20 years in I.T. starting from programming to a ‘senior tech consultant’. But was then made redundant. Didn’t get a job straight away. Started working at my girlfriend’s bar as a bartender & server.

    That was over a year ago. 60+ applications for jobs in I.T.; zero interviews. WTF.

    I’m trying to work out why & what to fix, but for now? I’m a server & actor.

    I’m reading and tinkering with technologies but not nearly enough. And will have to explain the gap in employment.

    It’s getting harder to resist the urge to panic and break down.


  • I saw one out front of our business, on Front St Toronto, and several lined up along the edge of one of our downtown parks.

    The information on the home and from the guy talking to by-standers is that there’s a bicycle on the front of it - so it’s apparently allowed to stop “anywhere” because “it’s a bike”. No opinion on that, just repeating what I heard.

    Our owner had a chat with parking enforcement because it was during summer - CafeTO - and was taking up one of the few parking spaces nearby. Parking said (at the time) that they couldn’t do anything/don’t know what to do.

    No opinion here, just answering the previous two comments.



  • Yeah that sounds like a good path!

    I used to love advanced math, physics and game coding, so I’ve revisited the 'Landers several times over the years (a day here and there in the middle of life/emigrating/careers).

    If you also Google for solutions to the 'Landers you’ll find people have done hardcore analysis and genetic algorithms!

    (cough like this)

    Next mission: somehow hack UE5 into CodinGame and let it sort it out.