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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:27:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   "You cannot watch a remote computer that does not have Windows NT or Windows 2000. You cannot watch a remote Windows NT 4.0 computer from a Windows NT 4.0 computer."

   this is homophobia. love is love, let the NT4 computers watch each other

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:30:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     eww. the .net way to watch a file for changes is to put a FileSystemWatcher on the whole directory and set a filter glob that only matches the one file?

     I mean, I guess it works, but it's an ugly API

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:43:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this api has Filter, Filters, NotifyFilter, and NotifyFilters.
     These are all different things.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:52:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I thought this would be an easy hack but on my first try it broke in two separate ways, and both of them are race conditions!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:23:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     new race condition: I'm opening a message box every 1000ms, because the code won't disable the timer until I click OK on the message box.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:39:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     ugh. I don't know why this isn't working.
     I've got a filesystem watcher that triggers an event, which does fire. the event function just turns on a timer.
     the timer is set to go off every 1000 ms, and it's set to call an on-timer function.

     on-timer is never getting called now, and I have no idea why. It was getting called before, when it spammed messageboxes

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:43:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     apparently you can't enable a timer from a different thread, and guess where filesystem watcher events run?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:47:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

     @gsuberland yep, that was it.

   • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:47:05 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @foone oh, WinForms? you need to use Invoke to modify control properties from the form's thread.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:47:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     invoking it fixes it. Cool.