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4:03 PM
There are people speaking heavily accentend English on the corridor. One of them is wearing an Olympics 2016 badge.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy are they carrying suitcases full of money for bribes?
 
Well, the person with the badge is a journalist. I can't imagine what a journalist would need a bribe for...
 
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
 
> Rabble | Definition of Rabble by Merriam-Webster
a large group of loud people who could become violent. the rabble : ordinary or common people who do not have a lot of money, power, or social status
 
@Bob finally fixed the redirects
@cat is now @dog?
It's getting hard to keep track of all your usernames now... :/
 
4:21 PM
!!/info caaaaaaaat
 
@bwDraco Command caaaaaaaat, created by Dog on Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:14:28 GMT
 
!!/listcommands
 
@bwDraco help, afk, awsm, ban, color, convert, define, die, doge, domain, eval, export, findcommand, forget, forgetseen, github, google, hang, imdb, import, info, inhistory, jquery, learn, listcommands, listen, live, mdn, meme, moustache, mustache, norris, nudge, parse, refresh, spec, stat, stats, tell, timer, todo, unban, undo, unonebox, user, weather, wiki, xkcd, youtube, zalgo, ;), ;p, \/s*, after5, ahh, ahhfire, apumpkin, areyoukidding, bababababat, baroo, bearhello
beatingbloodoutofarockwithahalberd, bespecific, boberror, brainf__k, bunny, caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
!!/forget beatingbloodoutofarockwithahalberd
 
@bwDraco You are not authorized to delete the command beatingbloodoutofarockwithahalberd
 
4:22 PM
> caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, caaaaaaaaaat, caaaaaaaaat, caaaaaaaat, caaaaaaaat2, caaaaaaat, caaaaaaat2, caaaaaat, caaaaat, caaaaat2, caaaat, caaat, caat, cat
That's all the cat commands.
!!/caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
 
@bwDraco: cli applications for android that you want in cyanogenmod that arent there already.. go
 
OptiPNG.
 
@GuitarShoeDave Did you try the hacking challenge?
 
4:24 PM
@Rahul2001: nope
 
(sorry for the caps...)
@GuitarShoeDave Want to?
 
@Rahul2001: cant right now :/
 
oh, ok
Anyone else?
 
The foreign journalist moved to a cubicle-walled-room next to me. I'm conflicted between eavesdropping or not.
 
Did you fix it so it can be done with browsers people know about?
 
4:25 PM
@BenN Uh... not yet
 
@bwDraco: Any others?
 
!! s/browsers people know about/lynx and arachnis/
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Did you fix it so it can be done with lynx and arachnis? (source)
 
@bwDraco: like hexdiff or something
 
I'm busy right now, sorry
 
4:28 PM
@BenN I may not fix it...
depends...
 
Well, arguably, hacking challenges should be web sites that work but are vulnerable
Currently it takes a lot of effort to get it operating normally :p
 
That's the challenging part of it ;p
 
Here's a writeup of a pretty cool hacking challenge, for inspiration: eev.ee/blog/2012/08/29/stripe-ctf-2-dot-0
 
4:44 PM
!!noisykittens
 
@Dog: It's important that you stick with one username for as long as possible. I think the Catty one is best, but please don't confuse us.
 
@bwDraco Let @dog change her username as much as she wants. I change my avatar frequently. She can change her name every month, the system is designed to allow it. And IIRC, she would've had to wait 13 days more, but a mod changed it for her yesterday.
The catvalanche is annoying and disrupts other active conversations, is akin to flooding, so that should be disencouraged. But changing usernames doesn't disrupt anything, IMHO
 
ah successfully ported ifstatus to android
feels gud
 
Dog
@ThatBrazilianGuy Seven actually
I think the 13 days was when I copied my name from this site to the other sites - that seems to reset the timer on the target sites
!!beatingbloodoutofarockwithahalberd
 
Dog
:-/
@Rahul2001 I'm a cat. Woof.
 
So, for some reason last month I was paid nearly 2.5x my usual paycheck
If it was a mistake, I want it to happen every month!
Damn. For some reason they paid my vacation salary in advance, and decided to pay my christmas bonus in advance as well.
So I'll be paid less than everyone in the end of the year =/
I better pay all my debts quick. I can't trust myself with extra money on my hands +_+
(by "christmas bonus" I mean the extra salary mandatory by law at the end of december. I don't get obscene bonuses or everything)
 
u have extra salary by LAW?
 
The thirteenth salary is paid to employees according to different terms of law or contract of employment. Mostly, it is equivalent to one full monthly salary and paid in December (the 12th month) around Christmas and is traditionally called a Christmas bonus. The following examples show some differences: In Brazil, the law mandates the thirteenth salary. Germany and Austria have no unitary regulation, and the thirteenth salary is mostly regulated in the collective agreement. In Italy, the thirteenth salary was regulated by law after its introduction during the 1930s. In the Philippines, a thirteenth...
 
but i guess you just get paid less the rest of the year in reality :/
 
5:06 PM
@djsmiley2k Also, salaried workers here can't be force to work more than the hours on their contract (usually 40hs/week). If you work more, you get paid overtime. It's the law.
I get flabbergasted when I read on forums: "well, he's salaried, so he had no choice but work the extra hours, work on sunday, etc"
 
yeah i don't get that
salary's still specfy hours
 
Also, if you work after 8pm or 10pm, you get overtime x 1.5 IIRC
 
and if my boss wants me to work more than those, then I expect overtime or time off in leu
 
I hate with all my guts the Java malware spyware most banks here force you to install.
On Windows it "only" install a new virtual network interface and routes all your traffic thru it.
 
o_O
Do they still blame you if someone steals your monies?
 
5:09 PM
So I have to fire up a new VM whenever I want to check my balance.
@djsmiley2k They're banks and have lawiers, so I'd say "yes" is a pretty safe bet.
@djsmiley2k Oh, it also blocks IPv6 completely
> A plugin of security used by Brazilian banks is creating headaches in a small group of users. After installing the Warsaw 1.5.1 GAS Technology, sites that have IPv6 enabled simply have blocked access. The bug affects pages like Facebook, Google and YouTube, as well as Brazilian portals like UOL, Terra and Globo.com.

The Warsaw is a plugin developed by GAS Technology company Diebold Group to "provide reliability in electronic transactions." According to the company, its technology is used by Bank of Brazil, Caixa Economica Federal, Itaú, Santander and other banks. On Windows, the Warsaw
 
Ah Diebold
 
They should call it Stockholm instead of Warsaw
 
those reliable people who make voting machines...
 
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
A VOTING MACHINE MADE BY THESE GUYS
NONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNO‌​NONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONON‌​ONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONO‌​NONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONON‌​ONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONN‌​ONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONNONONONONONONV
 
lol I presume it's the same guys
 
5:15 PM
!!nonononono
 
5:51 PM
Frustrated. I can't find where IE stores its browsing history.
Stupid HDD...
 
@Ramhound Which version of IE?
 
IE11
I have done it before. I just don't recall what I did
 
4
Q: Where is IE 11 History located on the FS?

ZoredacheWhat is the location on the filesystem for the IE 11 history storage? IE 10 stores in C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache\ IE 5-9 stores in in a few locations IE 11 doesn't appear to be using the locations for IE 10 or any earlier version. The C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Loc...

@Ramhound Look like it is OS version dependent as well. Which version of Windows?
 
Windows 10
 
5:56 PM
I'm on Win10 and it appears to be %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\History\History.IE5
Then there are a bunch of subfolders
Wait no, all these folders just contain a zero-byte file -_-
 
I don't have that directory on the source HDD anyways
 
> IE5
nice legacy code, MSFT
 
A lot of stuff in the Registry is stored under a key called Windows NT
 
Well does not matter. The other directory I want is "corrupt".
 
So, apparently there's an EMP-emitting pepper shaker... (/s)
 
6:07 PM
I really don't want to go to work today
working the swing shift really isn't fun
 
Being Microsoft there is ofcourse a legacy version of IE (version 11) included in Windows 10 (just in case you don’t like the new browser) and interestingly enough both Edge and IE history records are stored in the same database:

\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache\WebCacheV01.dat
@Ramhound
 
interesting, thanks
 
Tells you how to read it ...
@Ramhound
 
Dog
@BenN That's cause you're running Windows NT.
 
@Dog As is everybody else here running a whole range of different Windows versions which are all part of the Windows NT Family:
 
6:23 PM
Wish this Acronis backup job would finish. Want to fire off another job before work :$
I don't have high hopes for it grabbing very much. 90GB out of 600GB source
 
@Ramhound Task Scheduler?
 
That is either permission problem or it just couldn't bloody read it
Its not that important
I am 50/50 on if I want to try HDD Regenerator
 
nothing beats ddrescue
 
Well its not about recovery the data, its about getting the hdd to decide, how bad it really is
 
huh?
 
6:27 PM
My hdd is reporting lots of bad sectors. What I know about ddrescue it attempts to recovery data not simply relocate it
 
yus
but if the disk is failing i want to chuck it asap
 
It has a 5 year warranty after I get the data I want off the drive, going to dban it, then get it replaced
I normally would use Spinrite but it has problems with a 3 TB drive formatted as MBR
indicates that the drive size is mismatch, and when you ignore the warning, it crashes on a divide by zero error
 
sounds like some kinda overflow error
ffs
 
6:48 PM
Yes, it is an overflow error,
 
7:15 PM
@DavidPostill WinNT 4 was the best before they sold out and went mainstream with 2K emoflick
 
7:30 PM
@Burgi Hehe. Are you old enough to remember Windows NT 4.0?
 
yeah
i'm going to have you give you guys advanced notice, from the 9th i may not be around much as i have pre-ordered no man's sky
 
@Burgi I remember using Windows 3.0
 
my first "PC" had win 3.11 for workgroups on it
 
@DavidPostill I am old enough to remember MSX Basic on cassete tapes.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy You were lucky to have a cassette tape.
The ZX81 is a home computer produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Scotland by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and was designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the general public. It was hugely successful, and more than 1.5 million units were sold before it was discontinued. The ZX81 found commercial success in many other countries, notably the United States, where it was initially sold as the ZX-81. Timex manufactured and distributed it under licence and enjoyed a substantial but brief boom...
That was my first computer.
1K RAM
 
7:36 PM
i had one of those, my grandfather got it from a car boot sale
the power cable was dodgy and none of the games loaded properly
 
@DavidPostill Well, my first computer was an MSX. In 1993.
> Microsoft MSX is a standardised home computer architecture, first announced by Microsoft on June 16, 1983
 
And the 16K RAM pack wobbled and lost all it's data. I had it fastened with elastic bands.
 
the manual was brilliant, it talked about asking your maid to remember to buy eggs
 
10 years late. Everyone was running Win 3.1 games and I owned a third fourth-hand MSX =/
@DavidPostill Eventually I bought a 360 Kb floppy drive bigger than my arm.
 
Dog
Woohoo takes me 6 hours to write five lines of code -_-
But hey, IT WORKS
Using a mish mash of hacked system calls, undocumented APIs, and some good old fashioned brute force grep
 
7:42 PM
my best mate had macs from about '93. i just couldn't understand why more people didn't have these amazing machines
 
Dog
Also leaving work at nearly 9pm... I suspect this is going to be happening a lot this week
 
@Dog Looks like the kind of stuff that takes 6 lines of code to write and 2 pages to document.
 
Dog
@ThatBrazilianGuy Documented across five wiki pages :-P
 
3 hours ago, by That Brazilian Guy
@djsmiley2k Also, salaried workers here can't be force to work more than the hours on their contract (usually 40hs/week). If you work more, you get paid overtime. It's the law.
 
@DavidPostill I'm using a Mac
 
@allquixotic I was referring to people running Windows. It is likely that almost all of them are running something in the Windows NT Family.
 
> Windows NY Family.
I'm running Linux Rio de Janeiro. The buffers are always overflowing and the memory is corrupt.
3
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Yeah. Typo (corrected) NT Family.
But I Like your Linux version :)
 
Dog
Urgh fuck you Chrome
Losing all my tabs again
Double fuck you Chrome
Going about actively deleting online backup of my tabs because you failed at recovering from the local copy
Retarded pile of shit.
I'm switching back to Firefox
Google, you're getting so retarded it isn't even funny.
 
8:15 PM
Speaking about retarded...
 
how could you google starts with G and so to does God, Google is your God, an evil rich owning one with porche driving angels.
 
Dog
I literally cannot describe how pissed off at Chrome I am right now.
 
It was only last Saturday I managed to understand what you mean about the facebook inbox on the mobile browser
 
@Dog Erm your rant above gives us a pretty good idea.
 
Dog
Oh hey guess what, there's still a synced copy of my desktop tabs on my phone from ten hours ago (my PC hasn't been on for 20 hours). if I set my phone to offline mode... I can open all 200 tabs on my phone...
Then sync my phone's tabs, and open all my phone tabs on my desktop.
 
8:18 PM
@Dog if your only means of keeping websites you care about is leaving them open in a tab, YDIW.
!!wiki Bookmark_(World_Wide_Web)
 
Dog
@allquixotic -_-
 
In the context of the World Wide Web, a bookmark is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is stored for later retrieval in any of various storage formats. All modern web browsers include bookmark features. Bookmarks are called favorites or Internet shortcuts in Internet Explorer, and by virtue of that browser's large market share, these terms have been synonymous with bookmark since the first browser war. Bookmarks are normally accessed through a menu in the user's web browser, and folders are commonly used for organization. In addition to bookmarking methods within most browsers, many external...
 
Dog
That's not my means of keeping websites I care about, it's my means of opening stuff that I don't want to read immediately.
Only problem with my phone being in offline mode is i NEED to put it online to do some stuff.
Also opening desktop tabs from phone = losing all the windows, and they all get combined into one. Great
 
I have a folder on my bookmarks bar called "later" that I use for keeping stuff I don't want to read immediately
 
Yeah well, you pays your money and you makes your choice. Or you make your bed and lie in it. Or something.
 
8:21 PM
but yeah, per Bob, Firefox appears to be the browser of choice for :D/∞ tabs
 
You run a crap browser and complain when it breaks?
 
@DavidPostill who you calling a crap browser?
Chrome's my main browser on OS X and Windows and I very rarely if ever have any problems
 
Dog
@allquixotic That would invovle me actually knowing what I want to keep... and also updating my bookmarks twenty times a minute throughout the day... No thanks
Blargh.
 
but I use it the way Google intended; I don't go out of my way to produce PEBKAC errors just because I like to be different
 
oh god trhis duscission
there's a guy on IRC who claims he needs his 3000 tabs open in firefox
 
Dog
8:22 PM
Half the problem is I get distracted in the middle of something and thus don't have the chance to bookmark everything explicitly
 
How do you even find the one you want?! D:
 
Dog
Open ten tabs => Someone walks into the office and asks me stuff. -_-
Book mark all open tabs and delete them again later? No thanks :-/
 
I have 7 pinned tabs
 
Dog
@djsmiley2k People still use IRC?
 
(2 chats, gopogle inbox, facebook, twitter, hackaday and slashdot
the rest regularly get closed
 
8:23 PM
I use IRC
 
@Dog hmmm yes
:D
 
It's pretty neat
 
@Dog I make an update to my bookmarks maybe a few times a day... do you really have that much of a hoarder mentality that it's actually that bad to "lose" a link to an article or webpage you were reading? I mean, what are you reading that's so hard to find that you can't just google it when you need it even if you lose it?
 
Infact I reguarly find people opn other networks that I know :D
|Then again IRC is my main linux support.
 
Dog
@allquixotic If I could remember everything I was reading I wouldn't need to bookmark them!
 
8:24 PM
are you really reading them
can you recall any of it
I'm doubtful.
 
Dog
Right now for example I had about 60 flat adverts open because I need to find somewhere to live...
 
I do wish Chrome kept a longer, more searchable record of closed tabs on all my devices
 
@Dog New Folder -> "flats" -> add every one to there and delete them once you've decided you won't be living there
 
Dog
Sorted into like, 3 groups of 20 depending on which ones I've contacted and which ones i've not. I've bookmarked the contacted ones, but the others I haven't.
@allquixotic Yeah that'd involve updating my bookmarks 25 times a minute... no
 
@BenN I can't say I've had any issue wit hthat?
or do you mean going to 'closed windows' and reopening from there?
I simply use the history search from the awesome bar to reopen things
 
8:26 PM
Need predictive bookmarking
 
If I can't recall it, it wasn't that important :D
 
Dog
Open 100 ads => Look at one => Interested => Leave open => Next tab => Not interested => Close tab => Next tab
 
@Dog @Dog oh yeah I do that
 
Dog
Bookmarking and unbookmarking every time instead of just Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+W? That'd take forever.
 
But I'm thinking of these people who just keep thousands of tabs open
and claim it's sane :/
 
Dog
8:27 PM
@djsmiley2k I never claimed to be sane
 
@Dog: Nah, auto categorization of bookmarks based on metadata within the page.
 
Dog
I mean, I'm a dog and my bio says "Woof. I'm a cat."
 
@djsmiley2k Yeah, but I close a lot of things over time (including by accidentally closing the window, grr) and I wish the history page had a flag for "this was the last thing a tab was at"
 
Dog
Grr I need to wash my bike and this Google pissing me off business has made it too dark
 
Like forinstance.. if I have a bookmark bucket called programming. Bookmarking a site related to programming would automatically categorize it with the programming bookmark bucket.
 
Dog
8:29 PM
@GuitarShoeDave I don't think "metadata" can detect whether I like the look of something or whether I've phoned someone IRL...
 
@Dog: Alot of sites still use <META> tags with keywords
 
@GuitarShoeDave You could pretty easily rig up some PowerShell to do that if you use Internet Explorer
 
o_O
 
s/pretty easily/with a little effort if you use Chrome
 
concidering google can't get catigrazation right, i'm doubtful of a bit of powerscript winning
 
Dog
8:30 PM
@GuitarShoeDave <META>Is Interested IRL</META>
Yeah, no.
 
Dog
<META>Script-obfuscated-phone-number-is-in-mobile-phone's-call-history</META>
Oh wait, that would require having a working history
!!extraheaddesk
 
view-source:w3schools.com
<meta name="Keywords" content="HTML,CSS,JavaScript,DOM,jQuery,PHP,SQL,XML,Bootstrap,Web,W3CSS,W3C,tuto‌​rials,programming,development,training,learning,quiz,primer,lessons,reference,exa‌​mples,source code,colors,demos,tips,w3c">
 
Heh, most modern search engines completely ignore <meta>
And by "modern search engine" I mean I only checked for Google
 
Dog
8:32 PM
lol
 
Yup true.. They used to only be used back in the 90's
I still remember when there weren't even crawlers and you had to manually submit yoursite to search engines like google.
 
Dog
> <meta charset="iso-8859-1"><meta name="language" content="en-GB"><meta name="author" content="SpareRoom">
<meta name="robots" content="all,index,follow"><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0"><meta name="description" content="Rooms for rent in Edinburgh, EH10: I have one or two rooms available in a bright shared flat. Central location and quiet street. Single or double occupancy. Couples ok and payments adjusted accordingly. The flat is on two floors...."><meta name="keyw
How does that help?
 
<meta name="keywords"
if i had a folder named rooms to rent
if i added a bookmark to that site.. it would know to associate it with the rooms to rent bucket / folder.
 
Dog
That still doesn't help choose which ones to bookmark...
 
sure it does
 
Dog
8:35 PM
How?
 
ghrrrr
reverse pickpcketing a grenade not working in fallout 4 :/
 
if you have a bucket called programming and another bucket within that bucket called asp.net and you were visiting a site on asp.net programming. Bookmarking could suggest programming->asp.net
 
Dog
That still doesn't help choose which ones to bookmark...
 
That statement, you're essentially implying that keywords arent ways of categorization..
 
Dog
No, you seem to be missing the point entirely
How is a hundred tabs with the same keywords going to decide which ones are in a good location?
You're implying meta keywords will let the browser magically detect which ads are worth bookmarking.
 
8:39 PM
It would suggest based off of your existing buckets
 
Dog
I think you've lost your mind
 
Im not talking about advertising
Nah I havent
 
Dog
Then you haven't even bothered reading what i'm trying to bookmark or why.
 
o_O erm, i'm with @Dog
 
Dog
@djsmiley2k Woof!
 
8:41 PM
meow.
 
@Dog: I didnt.. You were talking about bookmarking ;) And i simply said.. hey bookmarking would be nice if it had <this feature>
 
Dog
Which completely misses the point... since <this feature> has nothing to do with my bookmarks...
 
Ugh =(
I wasnt talking about your bookmarks, just bookmarking in general.
 
Dog
Then why did you reply to my bookmarks saying something that had nothing to do with why bookmarks were suggested in the first place?
17 mins ago, by Dog
Bookmarking and unbookmarking every time instead of just Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+W? That'd take forever.
17 mins ago, by Guitar Shoe Dave
@Dog: Nah, auto categorization of bookmarks based on metadata within the page.
This makes no sense whatsoever
 
you can use pocket too in FF
 
Dog
8:46 PM
Y'know what feature would be useful though? The ability to upload my lost tabs, which are still saved on my phone, to the cloud and/or my desktop, after Google decided to delete them.
 
Ah I need pick pocket level 2, ffs :/
 
Dog
!!tell 31419183 wat
 
@Dog the odd thing is in chrome I can select 'tabs from other devices' anmd my phone is there.
 
Dog
@djsmiley2k On your phone or desktop?
 
8:47 PM
i got that menu on my deaktop
 
Dog
Yeah, same. But it doesn't show my desktop's tabs on my desktop -_- it deleted them instead.
 
o
wut
 
Dog
It shows my desktop's tabs on my phone, but as soon as I sync that it'll just delete them -_-
 
no restore closed window option?
 
Dog
@djsmiley2k It showed the option, clicking it restored nothing
 
8:49 PM
:/
 
Dog
I think the easiest way would be to hope my laptop has a stored copy of my desktop's tabs, and open them all on my laptop without syncing first. It'd be about a day out of date, but tbh I haven't used my desktop much during that time.
(Or use Firefox... but even that's lost my tabs sometimes)
I just rageswitch between Firefox and Chrome. Every time one browser loses my tabs I rage and switch to the other. Repeat ad infinitum.
 
@Dog can you grab the sqllite file from your phone and recover them that way?
 
Dog
@Burgi I'm not sure, and that'd be a crapton of work I don't feel like doing :-/
 
i think he needs an auto-committing git for his user profile dir of his browser
hourly cron
 
Dog
@allquixotic Nah, all I need to do is not trust Chrome...
 
8:53 PM
or FF...?
 
Dog
Anytime it crashes, rather than relying on it's auto-recover-tabs feature, just delete the entire installation
That way it'll pull the open tabs list from Google's server instead of deleting them on launch.
Of course it'd be nice if it weren't that stupid to begin with, but hey, it's just like SSDs. In theory they should fail gracefully and allow easy recovery. In practice, they fail in catastrophic ways that are stupid beyond comprehension.
 
ffs my friend won't come and see star trek with me because his wife won't let him
 
Dog
@Burgi Your friend needs a new wife.
 
LOL
i believe they are expensive....
 
Dog
Controller metadata failure? Sensible option: Expose what's left on the flash in read-only mode. What actually happens: Controller overwrites existing data with random garbage as soon as you power it on.
 
8:55 PM
@Burgi so expensive, in fact, that I've decided they're not worth the money
once you have a phone, a tablet, a small laptop, a large laptop and a desktop, adding a wife to that mix is just way too burdensome
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Dog
Because, DUH. OBVIOUSLY the desired course of action on drive failure is to overwrite your data with garbage and make it impossible to recover.
 
@Dog Why don't you tell us what you really think! :)
 
Dog
@Burgi Yeah, but it's not like it's going to cost him any more than he's already paying
Also, there's a new star trek to see? o_0
 
I'm pretty sure wifes are like cars: if you upgrade to a new one, you get to keep paying the loan on the previous one until it's paid off
 
@Dog it'll cost double with a divorce, child costs etc
 
Dog
9:01 PM
@Burgi Dispose of her before she can file for a divorce?
 
that sounds risky
 
@Dog are they recyclable now?
 
Dog
@allquixotic Compostable
 
bio-degradable
 
Dog
But really, our motto around here is "Reduce => Reuse => Recycle". You should first reduce, then re-use, then recycle only if you can't re-use.
 
9:03 PM
is there a market for second hand wives?
 
ever notice that both the word "wife" and the word "knife" have the same pluralization rule? knife => knives. wife => wives. that should tell you something about the similarity between wives and knives.
 
Dog
Interesting. My chrome has a SyncData.sqlite3 stored locally
 
@allquixotic its viking
 
@Burgi sure, just go to smartphone---wifetradein.com and put in your ---model number her waist size
 
Dog
And also a Sync Data Backup folder
 
9:04 PM
i don't have a wife, where do you find the model number?
 
spam answer (read my comments) --> superuser.com/a/1107517/337631
 
@Burgi with a tape measure and her waist
 
Dog
Wonder if the sync data includes the local data to be synced or only synced data from other devices
 
@Dog open it in sqlite and check? :P
 
Dog
Funny, only mention of those files I can find is on SO
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Q: Where does Chrome keep the SQLite Database file it writes things like stored passwords to?

GeorgeJust like the title says, where does Chrome keep the SQLite file that holds things like stored passwords. I've found the follow database files and neither one of them hold the stored password information - C:\Users\George\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\databases\Databases.db and ...

@allquixotic Yeah I have a sqlite browser somewhere... but that again involves effort and brains
Also I have to find it first.
Well that was easy
 
9:07 PM
@allquixotic As does life => lives - which should tell you about the similarity between life. wife and knife.
 
Dog
@Burgi Yeah, I've fiddled the local history.sqlite in the past.
But it took me about 30 minutes to write the crap to extract a list of all recent URLs from it, and I didn't manage to figure out how to get separate window lists
 
@Burgi Don't be so shy. Mention it's your answer :)
 
;)
 
Dog
And I really don't want to do it again if I can just get Chrome to use the data it already has
 
9:09 PM
considering i don't use chrome very often a lot of my best answers are for it....
 
Dog
Oh oh ooooh
That's your answer
Yeah not hugely informative :-/
Hmm, I wonder if CurrentTabs and LastTabs are sqlite as well
Nup. "SNSS format"
Oh hey someone's figured it out
Yay for people way smarter than me!
> Chrome Session and Tabs Files (and the puzzle of the pickle)
I'm sure I read this before
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A: Tool to read data from Google Chrome SNSS files?

kenorbSo far I've found Chromagnon tool written in Python which allows to read SNSS files to extract current tabs from current and last session. Usage: python chromagnonSession.py ~/.config/chromium/Default/Current\ Session python chromagnonTab.py ~/.config/chromium/Default/Current\ Tabs See: Rever...

The main reason I'm pissed off though... is I shouldn't have to go to these lengths because Google decided it was smart to delete good data and overwrite it with bad.
@ThatBrazilianGuy a) My contract doesn't specify hours, b) The law only limits workers to an average of over 48 hours a week, unless they sign an opt-out, c) My contract specifies no overtime
On the lower-paid levels the contracts specify hours and overtime, but above a certain pay grade it just becomes "You will work whatever hours you're needed to work"
> This is not a file format that I would want to parse by hand again, so to automate the process I have written a Python script
This is not a file format I would want to parse, ever.
Bleh I need some cats.
!!caaaaaaat
 
Dog
Oh extra fuck you Chrome
If I set my phone to offline, it refuses to show you tabs from other devices. Soon as I put it online it deletes the stored data.
Seriously Google go die in a fire.
Now i'm so pissed off I've lost my glasses
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