I’ve tried. For a long long time. Even when you get to the end page in seconds nope. Never happened. Never will. I’m quite certain it’s impossible and the people who get one “every time” must be on the same node as meh with fiber lol.
@unksol Nope. I’m on DSL with about 60ms ping. The key is timing your refresh to when the new product launches, rather than spamming refresh and getting a long loading screen in the milliseconds before the product changes.
@etingel no spamming like the woot days and the meh timer is never even close to accurate but I’ve hit the final yes buy many times. But whatever. I’m not bitter. I have enough collected ewaste to dispose of.
@etingel@unksol The problem I have is with the amount of time it takes to get to the bottom of the modal window to claim I am not a robot, even if I reduce the size of the screen.
I had one waiting for me on the porch when I got home from work today. I bought it while at work which, yes, has fiber, but the key is to do it on a real computer that you’ve already made a purchase on that day.
@djslack@fuzzmanmatt I assume he’s referring to something regarding bot checks being less likely if you recently passed one. I’m not sure if that’s true or not.
Meh is barely making it on the mehbership on the occasional sale. I don’t think I’m going to find anything in a footathon but good luck to the sock lovers
@fuzzmanmatt I’ve been successful on my phone the last two times (and numerous times previously), but my data seems to support the idea that buying an item beforehand seems to help with avoiding the captcha delays. I bought the first item up this time and the IRK was easy peasy.
@AttyVette@fuzzmanmatt@joelmw well… With only 50 you also have to instantly slam buy. Maybe if you just bought something it bypasses the bot check. that annoying block where you know it’s over. But they just gives you better odds. If it’s even a thing
To be clear, I don’t know–and don’t in any way purport to know–what works or doesn’t work. To be honest, I despise the bullshit of folks insisting that they know and telling everyone else what they need to do. I hate it (and the fuckers who do it) by degrees–e.g., more so in proportion to the arrogance, supposed certainty, condescending pedantry, etc. Some of that shit pisses me off. It’s not as helpful as its proponents think it is (mostly it’s simply not helpful); and either they’re complete assholes or it’s ten times as obnoxious as they must think it.
This is one reason I contradicted the claim that the purchase needs to be made on a real computer (assuming that means a PC? in hindsight, I’m embarrassed I made that assumption: what’s not real about the computing power of my smartphone? da fuck constitutes a “real computer”?). This is also why I said “seems to support”.
Speaking of asshole, saying it was “easy peasy” was also admittedly a dick move and I don’t mind if folks hate me a little for it. Again, in part it was meant as a counterpoint to “real computer”; in hindsight, that’s a shit excuse.
Fwiw, I do think it’s reasonable to suggest theories and discuss one’s personal experience. I just think it’s complete fuckery to brag, “it works every time for me” and/or “this is what you [implied, idiots] need to do”. I won’t get political, but that’s exactly the attitude manifested by folks in this country who benefit variously from privilege and/or simple happenstance and therefore claim that the misfortune they’ve never experienced (or, just as bad, the pale shadow of marginally similar misfortune they have experienced but reckon identical) is no big deal and could be fixed if others just had a better attitude or worked harder or whatever.
I lied. I did mean to get political. I just meant to do it obliquely.
@AttyVette@fuzzmanmatt@joelmw technically if there’s only 50 available it’s very suspicious that the same people get one every time. However the people who do get one every time seem to have a good system. Maybe network bias could contribute when you have thousands and even loading the page is a factor. You can’t buy it if in the second it loads the page it is sold out.
No conspiracy here just the internet works how it works.
@AttyVette@fuzzmanmatt@unksol I’m absolutely sure there are various numerous [sic] technology issues involved. I do tech for a living and won’t even speculate, in part because there are so many variables and in part because that’s a part of the biz (packets and cables and routers and all of that interwebs shit) that I not only don’t think I understand as well as I should but definitely don’t think most people who think they understand actually do either.
I also know there’s juju behind the scenes (assorted prioritizing and piggybacking and intercepting and bundling and monitoring and whatnot) that no one in this community is likely to have a clue about. That’s not conspiracy theorizing: we know that it’s being done; what most of us don’t know (including me) is exactly how it’s being done and to what extent, not to mention the implications. Part of my job includes cybersecurity training from former NSA and current HSEM employees. There’s not only what we allow our governments to do, but what our governments know and don’t know about what other actors are doing. Anyone telling you they know it all is surely full of shit, because if they actually did (which is incredibly unlikely), there’s a high certainty that they’d have better things to do with their time and better judgment than to brag in an obscure ecommerce community about it. Tho I guess that doesn’t rule it out altogether; people are a funny thing.
Also, what don’t we know about what none of us knows? Some of that intersects with the digital world.
In any case, there’s more shit flying in those electrons than is dreamt of in your philosophies, Horatio.
IMHO, the (intellectually/emotionally) most difficult “personal knowledge status” to assess, about a given topic for which one has a little/lot of expertise, seems so often to be “what i have not considered, calculated, or measured” or “what I don’t know”.
I suss we all fall into that one at times. Some people seem to never even pause to consider the potential limitation.
The deal count down timer on my phone is about 15 seconds faster than on my laptop. Not certain why? The only success I have is when I attempt to buy on my phone. If you have both nearby, take a look and let me know if it’s the same for you.
/giphy the matrix is real
@jimmyd103 I had the same problem so when there is a mehrathon I go into the clock settings on my computer and click the update button and it resets the time to what’s on my phone.
@heartny@jimmyd103 I always do it on my phone and it’s still a littles glitchy sometime. But yes. Windows defaults to some windows time server and for “reasons” my work laptop gets off a little sometimes usually after a reimage. Then I remember to change it to the nist.gov server and force a refresh.
Still not as bad as the fact that the Brin Page Corporation has decide I am not allowed to buy. I rarely get less than 4 rounds of the Picture Clicking Game.
Just so you know there is no way you can fail the Picture Clicking Game. The only thing it does is slow you down before telling you that IRKs are sold out.
I did not quit and scored one in the 3:20am round and then fell promptly to sleep. @felton10 don’t quit! I really REALLY did not expect to be successful so there will be no regret regardless of what arrives since just scoring one is a win!
@cbilyak@mike808 Don’t know what time zone you are in (I’m in the Eastern) but knowing there would be one in the middle of the night and seeing what had been received so far in the 4/28 IRK gave me zero incentive to stay up after the first one passed me by.
@cbilyak@Felton10@mike808 yea… I’m at that prop the phone up and let it roll and if I catch one out of the corner of my eye. while life… ok. I’ll try. And fail. Well past the woot/college stay up all night get monkeys at least stage.
Plus you knew there might be a good deal. Not the meh on a shipping container of random socks. I mean I’m sure @tinamarie1974 and other ladies might look fetching in some of them. she does have all 4 legs up in the air. But. I have no use for special socks
I have a long held belief that my brain makes connections that other people’s don’t. Why it does it idk. Its sometimes hard to explain the full chain. But it was helpful in school. Thankfully. Idk that it helps socially
This one is easy. There were lots of stockings. Stockings. Boots. Ineuendo. @tinamaria1974. How do I spell her user name… Oh there she is that’s a lot of legs in the air…related to stockings…
@cbilyak@Felton10@mike808@tinamarie1974@unksol This thread is more fun than a lot of the others! I’m picturing a pretty goat with its legs in the air, each leg encased in fetching stockings.
Ooo la la!
People do understand that all this hype and faux competition is just marketing to, … uh, … enhance the experience when it finally arrives via Pitney Bowes?
@mike808 Only it’s not Pitney Bowels anymore, at least not where I am - it’s FedEx now and they’re far worse in my experience! I didn’t have any problems with PB, but FedEx is horrible.
I’m a quitter at 50 at a pop. I know when I’m beat.
/giphy i wish i could quit you
You should quit. It’s relaxing.
I’ve tried. For a long long time. Even when you get to the end page in seconds nope. Never happened. Never will. I’m quite certain it’s impossible and the people who get one “every time” must be on the same node as meh with fiber lol.
@unksol Nope. I’m on DSL with about 60ms ping. The key is timing your refresh to when the new product launches, rather than spamming refresh and getting a long loading screen in the milliseconds before the product changes.
@etingel no spamming like the woot days and the meh timer is never even close to accurate but I’ve hit the final yes buy many times. But whatever. I’m not bitter. I have enough collected ewaste to dispose of.
I bet my DSL is worse then yours though lol
@etingel @unksol The problem I have is with the amount of time it takes to get to the bottom of the modal window to claim I am not a robot, even if I reduce the size of the screen.
That sounds like something a robot would say.
I had one waiting for me on the porch when I got home from work today. I bought it while at work which, yes, has fiber, but the key is to do it on a real computer that you’ve already made a purchase on that day.
@fuzzmanmatt so if you’re really dedicated, you should buy every item. Just in case.
@djslack @fuzzmanmatt I assume he’s referring to something regarding bot checks being less likely if you recently passed one. I’m not sure if that’s true or not.
Meh is barely making it on the mehbership on the occasional sale. I don’t think I’m going to find anything in a footathon but good luck to the sock lovers
@fuzzmanmatt I’ve been successful on my phone the last two times (and numerous times previously), but my data seems to support the idea that buying an item beforehand seems to help with avoiding the captcha delays. I bought the first item up this time and the IRK was easy peasy.
Beep beep boop boop. (I assume if you failed CAPTCHA you now understand Robot.)
@fuzzmanmatt @joelmw I’ve bought things before irks and still couldn’t purchase irks
@AttyVette @fuzzmanmatt @joelmw well… With only 50 you also have to instantly slam buy. Maybe if you just bought something it bypasses the bot check. that annoying block where you know it’s over. But they just gives you better odds. If it’s even a thing
@AttyVette @fuzzmanmatt @unksol
To be clear, I don’t know–and don’t in any way purport to know–what works or doesn’t work. To be honest, I despise the bullshit of folks insisting that they know and telling everyone else what they need to do. I hate it (and the fuckers who do it) by degrees–e.g., more so in proportion to the arrogance, supposed certainty, condescending pedantry, etc. Some of that shit pisses me off. It’s not as helpful as its proponents think it is (mostly it’s simply not helpful); and either they’re complete assholes or it’s ten times as obnoxious as they must think it.
This is one reason I contradicted the claim that the purchase needs to be made on a real computer (assuming that means a PC? in hindsight, I’m embarrassed I made that assumption: what’s not real about the computing power of my smartphone? da fuck constitutes a “real computer”?). This is also why I said “seems to support”.
Speaking of asshole, saying it was “easy peasy” was also admittedly a dick move and I don’t mind if folks hate me a little for it. Again, in part it was meant as a counterpoint to “real computer”; in hindsight, that’s a shit excuse.
Fwiw, I do think it’s reasonable to suggest theories and discuss one’s personal experience. I just think it’s complete fuckery to brag, “it works every time for me” and/or “this is what you [implied, idiots] need to do”. I won’t get political, but that’s exactly the attitude manifested by folks in this country who benefit variously from privilege and/or simple happenstance and therefore claim that the misfortune they’ve never experienced (or, just as bad, the pale shadow of marginally similar misfortune they have experienced but reckon identical) is no big deal and could be fixed if others just had a better attitude or worked harder or whatever.
I lied. I did mean to get political. I just meant to do it obliquely.
@AttyVette @fuzzmanmatt @joelmw technically if there’s only 50 available it’s very suspicious that the same people get one every time. However the people who do get one every time seem to have a good system. Maybe network bias could contribute when you have thousands and even loading the page is a factor. You can’t buy it if in the second it loads the page it is sold out.
No conspiracy here just the internet works how it works.
@AttyVette @fuzzmanmatt @unksol I’m absolutely sure there are various numerous [sic] technology issues involved. I do tech for a living and won’t even speculate, in part because there are so many variables and in part because that’s a part of the biz (packets and cables and routers and all of that interwebs shit) that I not only don’t think I understand as well as I should but definitely don’t think most people who think they understand actually do either.
I also know there’s juju behind the scenes (assorted prioritizing and piggybacking and intercepting and bundling and monitoring and whatnot) that no one in this community is likely to have a clue about. That’s not conspiracy theorizing: we know that it’s being done; what most of us don’t know (including me) is exactly how it’s being done and to what extent, not to mention the implications. Part of my job includes cybersecurity training from former NSA and current HSEM employees. There’s not only what we allow our governments to do, but what our governments know and don’t know about what other actors are doing. Anyone telling you they know it all is surely full of shit, because if they actually did (which is incredibly unlikely), there’s a high certainty that they’d have better things to do with their time and better judgment than to brag in an obscure ecommerce community about it. Tho I guess that doesn’t rule it out altogether; people are a funny thing.
Also, what don’t we know about what none of us knows? Some of that intersects with the digital world.
In any case, there’s more shit flying in those electrons than is dreamt of in your philosophies, Horatio.
@AttyVette @fuzzmanmatt @joelmw @unksol
Are there really people who get them every time, or are there people who say they get it every time?
@AttyVette @joelmw @Room101 @unksol I missed the foot fetish Irk, but I got yesterday’s. They get less special the more you get them.
@joelmw
/giphy “Do tell!”
Thx for rants. V good. Awesome, in fact.
Thx for one point in particular:
IMHO, the (intellectually/emotionally) most difficult “personal knowledge status” to assess, about a given topic for which one has a little/lot of expertise, seems so often to be “what i have not considered, calculated, or measured” or “what I don’t know”.
I suss we all fall into that one at times. Some people seem to never even pause to consider the potential limitation.
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
The deal count down timer on my phone is about 15 seconds faster than on my laptop. Not certain why? The only success I have is when I attempt to buy on my phone. If you have both nearby, take a look and let me know if it’s the same for you.
/giphy the matrix is real
@jimmyd103 the countdown timer is linked to your computer/device. So either your clock is off, or meh’s is.
@jimmyd103 I had the same problem so when there is a mehrathon I go into the clock settings on my computer and click the update button and it resets the time to what’s on my phone.
@RiotDemon really? I’m wondering how the clock became delayed? I don’t recall hashing this same issue a few years ago.
@heartny i didn’t even know our think to reset the clock on the computer. I will give it a try.
@heartny @jimmyd103 I always do it on my phone and it’s still a littles glitchy sometime. But yes. Windows defaults to some windows time server and for “reasons” my work laptop gets off a little sometimes usually after a reimage. Then I remember to change it to the nist.gov server and force a refresh.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-distribution/internet-time-service-its
Still not as bad as the fact that the Brin Page Corporation has decide I am not allowed to buy. I rarely get less than 4 rounds of the Picture Clicking Game.
Just so you know there is no way you can fail the Picture Clicking Game. The only thing it does is slow you down before telling you that IRKs are sold out.
I did not quit and scored one in the 3:20am round and then fell promptly to sleep. @felton10 don’t quit! I really REALLY did not expect to be successful so there will be no regret regardless of what arrives since just scoring one is a win!
@cbilyak I don’t think you fully understand what you bought. It’s right in the name.
@cbilyak @mike808 Don’t know what time zone you are in (I’m in the Eastern) but knowing there would be one in the middle of the night and seeing what had been received so far in the 4/28 IRK gave me zero incentive to stay up after the first one passed me by.
@cbilyak @Felton10 @mike808 yea… I’m at that prop the phone up and let it roll and if I catch one out of the corner of my eye. while life… ok. I’ll try. And fail. Well past the woot/college stay up all night get monkeys at least stage.
Plus you knew there might be a good deal. Not the meh on a shipping container of random socks. I mean I’m sure @tinamarie1974 and other ladies might look fetching in some of them. she does have all 4 legs up in the air. But. I have no use for special socks
@cbilyak @Felton10 @mike808 @tinamarie @unksol Most of the random socks are kind of ugly in my opinion.
@cbilyak @Felton10 @mike808 @unksol wait. You think I have four legs? I am confused
@cbilyak @Felton10 @mike808 @tinamarie1974 @unksol
In your dead goat icon,
I think is what he means.
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @unksol oohhhh, yup that makes sense!!!
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @tinamarie1974 lol yes sorry. I thought you would get the whole stockings can be sexy thing and then I got a giant dead goat icon
I’ve never claimed my thought chain would make sense to anyone else
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @tinamarie1974 plus I thought some might go with your boots so.
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @unksol I totally followed everything cept the four legs. I was like, wait…what…um…and then I decided to ask.
Sorry I was dense!!
@cbilyak @Felton10 @mike808 @tinamarie1974 @unksol
I was able to figure it out?
@cbilyak @Kyeh @mike808 @tinamarie1974 @unksol No you should be worried that you even responded to this thread.
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @tinamarie1974
I have a long held belief that my brain makes connections that other people’s don’t. Why it does it idk. Its sometimes hard to explain the full chain. But it was helpful in school. Thankfully. Idk that it helps socially
This one is easy. There were lots of stockings. Stockings. Boots. Ineuendo. @tinamaria1974. How do I spell her user name… Oh there she is that’s a lot of legs in the air…related to stockings…
So I’m sure you are fine.
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @unksol now that is funny! I thought my mind was scary, you may give me a run for my money
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @tinamarie1974 why should she be worried oh great keeper of the Walter? That sounded unnecessary
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @tinamarie1974 somewhere in there my phone popped up a GIANT goat badge hence the 4 legs short circuit
@cbilyak @Felton10 @mike808 @tinamarie1974 @unksol This thread is more fun than a lot of the others! I’m picturing a pretty goat with its legs in the air, each leg encased in fetching stockings.
Ooo la la!
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @unksol
@cbilyak @Felton10 @Kyeh @mike808 @tinamarie1974 I was about to wonder if any one with goats got funky
@cbilyak @Felton10 @mike808 @tinamarie1974 @unksol
Aww, that little goat is so cute!
@cbilyak @Felton10 @mike808 @tinamarie1974 @unksol. Here’s one with black stockings
People do understand that all this hype and faux competition is just marketing to, … uh, … enhance the experience when it finally arrives via Pitney Bowes?
@mike808
@mike808 Only it’s not Pitney Bowels anymore, at least not where I am - it’s FedEx now and they’re far worse in my experience! I didn’t have any problems with PB, but FedEx is horrible.
@Kyeh @mike808 could be worse, could be OnTrac
There’s a birthday around the corner. They’re probably stockpiling crap for that
FedEx has just sent my Irk back to shipper. Many delivery exceptions. So close. It was on the vehicle, then they snatched it back.