Root Access

TOWMN

12:00 PM

@Burgi Also moaning why is life so harrrrddd

Burgi

i'm playing on easy mode...

TOWMN

How do I switch?

Burgi

you need to go to the main menu and restart from the beginning again, I don't think the savegames are transferable

shameless plug: stackoverflow.com/q/42975446/2505109

TOWMN

Shit

I blame my parents

Burgi

I blame your parents

TOWMN

12:04 PM

Eww CMS

djsmiley2k

'I had the same issue with a document type, thought I'd deleted every property to try fix the problem, turns out I'd forgotten to delete a tab I'd created on this doc type that was stopping it from being deleted.

'

delete all the properties first appently o_O?!

/me has no clue what this thing is

Burgi

crazy...

TOWMN

Yay I've figured out how to hotlink and onebox Facebook photos

djsmiley2k

click the photo so it's in the popup photo viewer

right click - copy image address, !<address>

yey you could of asked!

TOWMN

@djsmiley2k Huh, wow, I had no idea

@djsmiley2k Yeah but I like my streak of having never asked any questions on SU :-P

Burgi

12:13 PM

it would have been flagged as off-topic

jokerdino

Ask on webapps

Burgi

exactly ;)

TOWMN

Grr I need a bigger/faster/cooler SSD

But it's hard to justify spending money on frivolous things like that when I have no money

Even worse when I have worse than no money, I have negative money

djsmiley2k

@TOWMN welp that was weird.

@TOWMN Join the club

@TOWMN heh, it took me awhile to figure out in #arqade with them all laughing at my failures

doesn't help that fb occassionally just switch it up as well and that'll stop working

TOWMN

12:30 PM

@djsmiley2k Lol

I've used the sorta "other" trick that someone in here mentioned a while back of just putting "&.jpg" at the end of the URL to trick chat into thinking it's a .jpg extension

Boris_yo

@Burgi Really? Like market pen? Is it absorbed or something?

@TOWMN Tried making money on the internets?

TOWMN

@Boris_yo Cant think of any non-immoral way of doing that that still works

djsmiley2k

@TOWMN ooo that's nice

didn't know tht :D

TOWMN

Originally it was explained ot me as asdf.com/basdefasdf?.jpg but if it already has a ?blah=foo then you can trick it with another &

Burgi

@Boris_yo yeah it can damage the covering and lead to flaking

TOWMN

12:40 PM

In the old days on Facebook you could just cut off the whole ?auth=crap&token=foo stuff

Journeyman Geek

@TOWMN ow

TOWMN

Urgh that's the second time i've looked at someone IRL in the corner of my eye and it seemed their upper torso had been censored

Journeyman Geek

0_0

TOWMN

(since seeing that movie on Qatar where they blurred out the entire chest area to "censor" cleavage... I've been mistakenly seeing that IRL)

Burgi

o.O

you might need to vary your dosage...

TOWMN

12:42 PM

Anyway... that aside, I suspect I'll be avoiding the middle eastern airlines for the time being seeing as half of them have been forced to ban laptops

djsmiley2k

lol

jokerdino

o.O

TOWMN

@Burgi Oh I was going to mention yesterday, I wonder how long I'll stay alive this time without my meds...

!!s/alive/out of hospital/

!!s/without my meds/without the chatbot/

djsmiley2k

sigh, media

'How did this attack get through!?'

Erm.... it didn't?

TOWMN

@djsmiley2k BBC? I saw the same headline earlier

djsmiley2k

12:43 PM

yup

TOWMN

Makes a change from Trump topping the BBC headlines but can't say I'm glad for obvious reasons

djsmiley2k

Also, yup

I'm glad it's only 8 people

That sounds bad, but it's not meant to be :/

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k apparently they need to magically make terrorists into turnips or something before they do things.

TOWMN

Better than 80, last time we had an attack in London

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k alas, the optimal number is 1, and its when the terrorist does the decent thing and only offs himself.

or 0. When those people don't exist, or are too incompetant to do it right

TOWMN

12:45 PM

I've been wanting to commit suicide by hijacking a plane and crashing it but can't think of doing that the decent way without getting anyone else invovled

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek Well that's partly my point, they are incompetent (and our security services are good).

TOWMN

Chances are if I land the plane to let everyone else get off they'll stop me taking off again

djsmiley2k

@TOWMN Teach yourself to fly first, then hijack a plane before take off.

just instead, just don't do it at all.

TOWMN

@djsmiley2k Oh I know how to fly (barely). Problem is the amount of shit that's attached to modern jet aircraft before takeoff

Electrical cables, fuel pipes, wedges under the tyres, etc.

A lot of stuff that's simply impossible for a single human to operate even if they knew how to do it

Rahul2001

OH YEAH BABY! rahul2001.com/archive/executables

TOWMN

12:46 PM

I can just about point a plane at a runway when it's in the air, or point it at the air if it's on a runway.

djsmiley2k

Why do you want such a spectacle anyway

TOWMN

Detaching the passenger airstairs?

Dunno how to do that. Although last I checked the machine was operated with like one joystick, so it can't be that hard

djsmiley2k

if you start moving, I'm sure something will happen XD

TOWMN

@djsmiley2k TWSS!

djsmiley2k

;D

TOWMN

12:48 PM

@djsmiley2k Because I want to fly a plaaaaneeeee!!!!

djsmiley2k

are people just downvoting instead of flagging as spam or something o_O?

@TOWMN you can do that without dying

nd it's a lot easier.

TOWMN

And if I hijacked a plane and lived to tell about it, I'd probably end up in jail for the rest ofm y life anyway

@djsmiley2k I tend to do both

Journeyman Geek

lol

@djsmiley2k you could flag it

Boris_yo

@TOWMN Design and sell tshirts, resell products... Moral?

YouTube channel... Are you good at presenting? Udemy.

Burgi

he can't do that, everyone will know he isn't actually a cat then

Rahul2001

1:02 PM

@Mokubai I was bored enough to do all the work behind this. I still think it was fun

Boris_yo

But Samsung 850 EVO for $69 on Black Friday and resell to @bwDraco

Immoral?

Buy Audio Technica headphones for $99, sell to @JourneymanGeek for $199. Immoral?

Journeyman Geek

I wouldn't buy it off you.

Boris_yo

:D

Would you buy it from Bob?

Journeyman Geek

hmm.

no

Burgi

@Boris_yo you need to add a "reduced from $300" sticker then he'd buy it! ;)

Boris_yo

1:09 PM

Of course you wouldn't. Why do that when you can buy from Audio Technica themselves?

@Burgi Oh... That MSRP... He is savvy enough to not fall for it, despite MSRP may be the true price in a perfect world.

TOWMN

I think this hostel uses bonded ADSL lines

Yup. Definitely bonded ADSL lines.

Boris_yo

Let me explain. People want cheap, employees get paid less and forced to do more. More competitors enter industry. All this leads to less margins and employee cuts, ultimately leading to everyone's doom. Yet nobody gives this a thought. Everybody only cares for themselves. What kind of "bright" future this leads us to?

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek I did.

Boris_yo

So in perfect world there is MSRP where everyone gets paid well, thus can spend more without being cheap.

TOWMN

@Boris_yo Yes but nobody wants to watch me present mobile transmitter photos

@Boris_yo I suppose I could use my >60kg free luggage allowance to keep importing things into Australia that cost way more over there than here

Boris_yo

1:15 PM

I buy MSRP. People think I am a crazy sucker. I tell them I am not. It's just that I care for others and bright future of our planet.

*kidding...

1 in 7 billion... Yeah. Be the change you WISH to see...

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo We know you are.

@Boris_yo I actually ordered (part) of my headphones directly from the russians ;p

TOWMN

NOOO

Journeyman Geek

then it came crushed and they had to mail me a new one ;p

TOWMN

Don't support ZE RUSSIANS

ZE RUSSIANS FUND TERRORISM

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek On what website?

Journeyman Geek

1:17 PM

@TOWMN BUT SOUNDSKI! IS GOODSKI COMRADE! DO YOU NOT HEAR THE MUSIC OF THE GLORIOUS UNION OF THE PEOPLES?

Boris_yo

@TOWMN Udemy has course for international importers.

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo fischeraudio.com

They seem to be out of stock on spares tho

Boris_yo

@TOWMN But unless you have money to invest, I recommend to hold off.

@JourneymanGeek They are a brand...

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo and?

TOWMN

@Boris_yo Can I invest my body

Or use it as money?

Journeyman Geek

1:22 PM

TOWMN

> An error was encountered while processing your request:

There was an error displaying this message

Burgi

@TOWMN yes

TOWMN

Ohhhh I think Steam obeys Windows' "Metered connection" settings and blocks steam sync on it

Journeyman Geek

hm

I think I broke my ttrss server

djsmiley2k

1:43 PM

text to rss?

Journeyman Geek

tinytinyrss

its my preferred feed reader

ah. never mind. Its now broken differently

that's all

and its back up

possibly

fixed!

djsmiley2k

yey

Burgi

brilliant... yet another "rushed" deployment has resulted in a broken site

Journeyman Geek

1:59 PM

hm.

My synapse install is broken

but that's fine. I was going to reinstall it anyway, and all I really needed were the certs

djsmiley2k

@Burgi are you getting blamed?

superuser.com/review/first-posts/637334

so the answer says it can't be done, but is written badly.. :/

DV I guess..

oh ffs

was a test :D

satibel

dhl logic: "hey it's fragile, let's put 2mm of foam with tape all around the box to hide the label, and throw it as hard as we can."

Journeyman Geek

sounds like shipping anywhere

I have one courier who thew SSDs into my house through the grill...

and made an effort to deliver a 2 dollar cable properly.

Burgi

@djsmiley2k yes

djsmiley2k

superuser.com/review/first-posts/637330

Ben N

2:09 PM

Ow :(

djsmiley2k

urgh, spam, maybe? ? ? ? ? ?

in windows 10 is it not as easy as it was to spoof a mac ?

Ben N

Last time I tried it, it worked the same as on previous versions

djsmiley2k

you do it in the hardware properties?

Ben N

Yep, or the Registry if Device Manager doesn't show that option

Weirdly, plenty of network cards that don't show that option in the GUI work perfectly fine with the alternate MAC if you Registry-whack it into place

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

people have issues

I didnt remember I asked this many questions on stack exchange haha

but I thought it was over when 2 of my questions had "thanks" removewd

but no there's more. I login today and now 5 more questions scavenged

I should delete my meta post

thats attracting these people with a vision

Journeyman Geek

2:18 PM

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere by saying that here...

-1

Q: Is this a real 32GB SDHC card?

Is this a real 32GB SDHC card? Here are two images of how the chip looks that I extracted from inside the case of the card. Sorry for the horrible picture quality. The side with the contacts has smooth black shiny plastic and the backside is also black but doesn't have a smooth finish. No si...

sdhc

the photos here are potato quality

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

I see you've noticed, will I be expecting a HQ camera my next birthday sent from JoG from singapore? <3

Journeyman Geek

Nope

You could buy yourself a fresher potato.

also, I think the main issue is you're too close and your lighting is insufficient

Burgi

Those photos look like they are UFOs. Can you really not get better pictures? — Burgi 10 secs ago

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

maybe

my camera sucks I have to focus on objects in the background to get the foreground look sharp

ohhh

so burgi is the one who -1'ed 5 months ago because I used a stinky potato

just coming clean now huh? :D

Burgi

2:40 PM

no i didn't

please stop accusing me of DVing you without any evidence

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

Im just doing it cause someone else accidently accused you yesterday right? lol

Bob

@JourneymanGeek it does turn out to be a nice amorphous blob though

allquixotic

Paul Le Roux

Paul Calder Le Roux (born December 24, 1972 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He created E4M, an open-source free Windows disk encryption software program, in 1999, and is a suspected creator of the open-source TrueCrypt, which is based on E4M's code. Le Roux is currently in US custody for ordering the assassinations of six people. == Early life == Le Roux was born on December 24, 1972 at Lady Rodwell Maternity Home in Bulawayo and given up for adoption. His birth certificate gives...

What a life that guy has had

Journeyman Geek

that might actually explain why truecrypt was shut dfown

allquixotic

Original author of TrueCrypt, then Heisenberg (a la Breaking Bad)

lol that's just the tip of the iceberg; read his long history of atrocities

djsmiley2k

2:43 PM

A true criminal mastermind?

Journeyman Geek

o0

Bob

@allquixotic yea I was like... ok, not much info on truecrypt... *scrolling*... *more scrolling*... wow

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

... please dont verbose your life in the root access chat unless you are CuE

okay bye everyone have a lovely thing

Journeyman Geek

@Bob facebook.com/…

djsmiley2k

Cue?

CuTe...?

Burgi

2:57 PM

@djsmiley2k i think he thinks he is a stick for pushing coloured balls around a green table

Bob

@JourneymanGeek lol, I'm in a similar situation now

also some more plugs and crimper arrived

Journeyman Geek

@Bob that's why I linked it

Bob

turns out my old crimper works well with some of the plugs and the new one with rest

old one would break the jacket clamp on most plugs :/

Journeyman Geek

heh. Apparently my read on the langauage issue is incorrect. Seems @BenN dug up some pretty official MSE posts. Blah ;p

Burgi

are we allowed to fudging swear?

Journeyman Geek

3:01 PM

apparently not

Burgi

> Also, this is not a dating site

Journeyman Geek

121

A: Are expletives (cursing, swear words or vulgar language) allowed on SE sites?

No. Expletives are not acceptable behavior on any Stack Exchange site, even on Meta. There are a very small handful of exceptions (such as if you were talking about the word itself on a language site), but in general you should not use expletives anywhere, under any circumstances. If you can't e...

Burgi

since when?

Journeyman Geek

this has utterly no wiggle room

jokerdino

@djsmiley2k abbreviating his name I suppose

djsmiley2k

3:03 PM

@Burgi I've been trying to convince a kitten to take an interest D:

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi dang. I told that to causing overflows when he tried to pick up a user here ;p

its been quite a while

Ben N

@JourneymanGeek Hehe, "relevant MSE" has become another of my catchphrases

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi this is totally not a slippery slope I support going down

Bob

@JourneymanGeek could've sworn there used to be more answers

Journeyman Geek

@Bob remind me when I get to 10k ;p

Ben N

3:05 PM

Yes, I'm pretty sure they were and were probably torched

Bob

the atwood one used to be downvoted too

@JourneymanGeek you'd think so, but there's no precise definition of expletive either

we've been going down the euphemism treadmill for a while now

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I fundamentally disagree that usage of <female dog> is offensive, but I don't feel <donkeyed> enough to argue

and my main issue was the seeming roboflags, and I can deal with that in another way

(fix the comments, or delete.)

Burgi

today has been an utterly shit day

IB4TPF

jokerdino

flagged

user226528

3:23 PM

@JourneymanGeek Hi. Do you think this question is rude and offensive? superuser.com/questions/1191369/… Unfortunately, it goes past the red line I mentioned to you earlier.

Journeyman Geek

I'd find an excuse to close it ;)

djsmiley2k

3:50 PM

@Burgi purple flag?

Burgi

close

"profanity"

djsmiley2k

ah

Burgi

rather pleasing @jokerdino sealed my joke with perfect timing

DavidPostill

@Burgi Look more like a car numberplate to me ...

Burgi

heh!

DavidPostill

4:04 PM

And I've absolutely no idea what it stands for ... is it some kind of txt speak?

Burgi

In Be 4 The Profanity Flag

3

DavidPostill

ah

TOWMN

4:17 PM

I am rude and offensive

bwDraco

lol

TOWMN

Ooh Origin lets me play Ass Effect before it's released and before it's even downloaded!

DavidPostill

!!/flagged

TOWMN

You can start playing at 42% downloaded apparently. I dunno how good the experience will be if it starts pausing to download when it would need to load.

DavidPostill

!!/alive

TOWMN

4:18 PM

Perhaps it'll feel like back in the old days of 5+ minutes to load a level from crappy old hard drives...

Then again I've seen reviewers say the game takes 60+ hours to even get halfway through, which would be ample time to finish downloading the rest before I get to 42% way

IB4TPF

Also I only get to play 10 hours free trial anyway, before I have to wait 3-18 months before I can play the rest for free >_>

Andy K

4:32 PM

bye folks

Paul Vargas

Burgi

@PaulVargas I IS MAEKIN STATEMENT

M.A.R.

@DavidPostill Smokey doesn't listen in these rooms though does it?

djsmiley2k

theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/23/…

wow

Ben N

@M.A.R. He's trying to test our local bot, ChatBot John Cavil

It appears to be toast at the moment

M.A.R.

4:43 PM

I like toast.

Burgi

fracking cylon

djsmiley2k

ooooo there's a powershell question

DavidPostill

@M.A.R. What @BenN said

Burgi

5:18 PM

PowerShell is off-topic for for SU

djsmiley2k

:O

Burgi

i was expecting 1 of 2 things to occur

1) a flurry of flags
2) a cascade of stars

bwDraco

5:36 PM

!!/powershell-blue

...bot's down again.

allquixotic

omg I just had a thought

remember a few weeks ago I said Google popped up a thing indicating they were interested, then it went away?

I think that was a test, and I should've used Inspect Element in Chrome to find the content and unhide it or find a link to click

Burgi

anyone on VM in the UK?

the virgin media status page is offline...

bertieb

6:14 PM

@Burgi Page itself is working here, just used a nearby postcode

Burgi

its just come back for me

my parents have no internet

they could just be being weird

bertieb

Have they tried turning it off and on again?

Burgi

i told them that

i'll see when I get home

also i've been offered a job at 40K but with a start up...

probably give it a miss

DavidPostill

@Burgi That's always a gamble. Will they have money to pay you?

Burgi

exactly

plus i don't think i'm worth 40K

it would be nice to be in a full dev team again

DavidPostill

6:28 PM

@Burgi That might be the imposter syndrome

Impostor syndrome

Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome) is a concept describing high-achieving individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a "fraud". The term was coined in 1978 by clinical psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes. Despite external evidence of their competence, those exhibiting the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they...

Burgi

probably

risks are too high at the moment

allquixotic

that's only 50k USD per year

not very much

Burgi

its loads in the UK

allquixotic

depends on how much you participate in the global economy

Burgi

the average wage here is 27k

allquixotic

6:30 PM

(read: purchase media and software that's the same cost everywhere)

global economy items are apparently priced with the average Californian software engineer in mind

Burgi

brb

Burgi

6:50 PM

well thats odd

i just reuploaded the site i broke earlier and it works fine

Nick Alexeev

7:02 PM

Folks, would this question be on-topic for SuperUser? It's getting closed as off-topic for EE.SE .

-2

Q: Wifi Connection in Subway

Do you have any information related that possibility of Wifi Internet connection during subway is moving from one station to another? In Turkiye this service is not available at the moment. I heard about in some cities on London and Tokyo, this service is available however I am not sure how this ...

wifi network

M.A.R.

@NickAlexeev That just sounds like crap, which, according to the golden rule of migrations, shouldn't be migrated

Mokubai

@NickAlexeev While "Wifi" would be on-topic, "how do you do Wifi in a subway system?" is more of a large scale installation rather than a home network. How they do it would be far too in-depth and the question is pretty much awful.

user226528

7:17 PM

@Mokubai Hi. What are you doing here all alone? Enjoying the room decoration? ;)

Mokubai

@FleetCommand Remembering the old days...

user226528

@Mokubai Can you please take a look at this and give me a second opinion? superuser.com/questions/874188/…

user226528

Thanks in advance

Mokubai

Back when I was young...

@FleetCommand Anything specific about it?

user226528

Yes. But I don't want to lead you or impact your judgment.

Mokubai

7:20 PM

Gimme 5, eating.

user226528

So, if you think everything is alright, I take that as the coveted second opinion for which I am here.

user226528

Hmmm... I could eat. Make it 10.

djsmiley2k

you downvoted it for needing tar software?

after they specifally say'any other software or tricks' ?

Mokubai

@FleetCommand The accepted answer is better, but using tar is an interesting option. Not great as you end up with the files in a container, but you do end up with the files in whatever order you like. Turn off error checking on the extraction of that container and it's not too far from what is wanted anyway. The PAR2 files would be self-error checking and would also error check the main data. It ends up quite similar in effect, but no multisession disk.

user226528

@djsmiley2k I didn't downvote it

user226528

7:31 PM

I just wrote the comment

djsmiley2k

ok

i personally wouldnt trust optical media

user226528

Amen to that

Mokubai

Trust no one

(or thing)

djsmiley2k

it's just far too delicate

hdds at least have a metal case

and then head parking

Mokubai

CDs have a lot of error checking

Burgi

7:34 PM

@NickAlexeev i'd say travel.SE but it is a terrible question

Nick Alexeev

@Mokubai Maybe I should try Networking.SE . Maybe they can do something with this question.

allquixotic

@djsmiley2k I'd trust these over any HDD, tape or SSD

bertieb

> While the exact properties of M-DISC are a 'trade secret'

magic fairy dust discs!

allquixotic

@bertieb that third-parties have tested! the secret to not losing your data appears to be, store them in lower than 90 Celsius conditions. So if your basement / CD collection area tends to run temperatures near the boiling point of water, you're hosed.

Otherwise, if you're a normal person and would never subject them to more than, say, worst case, 50 Celsius, you're probably fine

user226528

I just noticed that "I Am A Bot" is no longer in this room! This is the first time.

djsmiley2k

8:03 PM

@allquixotic i'd trust those.... for about 17 years storage

Registered On
2004-04-10

I've got cd's, that have sat in a bookcase (dark) in a quiet, cool room, for 2-3 years, and are unreadable for no given reason

DavidPostill

8:30 PM

@FleetCommand Now TOWMN is back home they don't need a bot to watch the room in their absence ;p

Mokubai

@DavidPostill Why do they need a bot? we have the transcript for reading history...

DavidPostill

@Mokubai (shrug)

Mokubai

Fair enough

djsmiley2k

9:15 PM

@Mokubai after you travel half way around the world because 'prices went up for one night' you can find an excuse for everything

djsmiley2k

9:29 PM

welp, that's the first post review queue anniliated

well done everyone \o/

Ben N

Yay!

DavidPostill

9:59 PM

I'm still curious where the "282 total posts awaiting review" comes from. Looking at the individual queues:
Late answers 0
Close votes 22

etc

doesn't add up to 282

Ben N

The number in the top bar is the total reviews pending for everyone

The /review page shows the number of tasks accessible to you (i.e. ones you haven't already voted on)

DavidPostill

@BenN Ah. So we can get it down to zero soon :)

That makes sense.

allquixotic

neverssl.com

DavidPostill

@allquixotic ?

allquixotic

@DavidPostill read the page :P

DavidPostill

10:06 PM

@allquixotic I've seen it before - I was wondering why you posted it :)

allquixotic

because it's useful to me

DavidPostill

fair enough

Michael Frank

Very useful for me, since the captive portal at work only works on non-ssl sites.

allquixotic

ditto

Ramhound

10:42 PM

@JourneymanGeek or anyone else indicate the point of a user answering a bunch of word questions but they were simply examples of plagiarising Microsoft help articles?

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound folks trying to get rep the easy way. Flag em

Ramhound

Oh, I did...

Journeyman Geek

ah, I don't see em in the queue

Bob

@allquixotic msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt :P

also quote amusing if a bit sad neowin.net/forum/topic/1248306-microsoft-ncsi

Ramhound

10:59 PM

It was this morning :-)

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