Ask Ubuntu General Room

@ParanoidPanda Having a message flagged (and removed) for saying "penile" in context. Well. Penis, vagina, breasts and bottoms is what I think to that.

ArtOfCode

sigh yeah, people flag those things too much

user136984

I'm surprised that didn't get flagged up too! :D

ArtOfCode

If I count the number of times I've posted a message saying "PSA: the word penis is not offensive"

user136984

@Oli: Which bother?

ArtOfCode

3:50 PM

I could probably get flagged just by posting the word penis on its own

So I'm not going to :)

user136984

Go on! Say it! ;P

user136984

Oh come on... :P

ArtOfCode

Say what?

user136984

Penis

ArtOfCode

;) gotcha

Oli

3:50 PM

flags

user136984

Oh great! Now I've done it! :D

ArtOfCode

waits for flag

jokerdino

I totally would flag that.

And watch Panda scurry to meta.

user136984

What on Earth would I say on Meta? :D

ArtOfCode

penis?

xiaodongjie

3:52 PM

@ParanoidPanda :) yes, good sleep, (Serg)...

runs away

AU Chat, everyone

\o

"Please, KingRoot team, help me find a root. The waiting list is getting too long."

^ That's what someone posted on a forum

ArtOfCode

I do still have a binding invalid vote. Plus I can't get suspended. Never did see what flagging a mod was meant to achieve in chat.

Zacharee1

3:54 PM

@ArtOfCode principle

;p

ArtOfCode

I suppose :)

user136984

@ArtOfCode: To teach you a lesson! :P

ArtOfCode

I mean, if your principles are to annoy mods, then...sure :)

Zacharee1

"You could've been banned, sir!"

ArtOfCode

could.

continues with normal life

jokerdino

3:56 PM

@ArtOfCode, you are supposed to babysit our chat room for the day.

Zacharee1

no pls

ArtOfCode

@jokerdino Babysit? I could swear the job ad said "antagonise".

user136984

:D

Zacharee1

@ArtOfCode 8th user? You're old

jokerdino

@ArtOfCode That's one of the job requirements.

ArtOfCode

3:58 PM

@jokerdino Ah. I did wonder why I signed up.

@Zacharee1 What about 8th?

Zacharee1

@ArtOfCode You're user 8?

ArtOfCode

Oh, on HR?

Zacharee1

I guess

ArtOfCode

One of my fellow mods is user 1, so I got a little bit beaten.

user136984

@ArtOfCode: Human Resources?

Zacharee1

3:59 PM

@ParanoidPanda Hardware Recs xD

user136984

You're the 8th most wanted there! :D

ArtOfCode

@ParanoidPanda Hardware Recommendations

user136984

@ArtOfCode: I see people writing "peni$" a lot of the time rather than "penis", and they say it's because mods are alerted to rude keywords, is this true?

jokerdino

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

ArtOfCode

@ParanoidPanda Not by default, though it's probably userscriptable.

So...could be either way :)

A wonderfully inconclusive answer for you.

user136984

4:05 PM

Hmm... Well, I don't really care anyway! Nothing bad has ever happened to me when I have said any of these words (not that I do very often, only when @Oli starts saying them >:P)... :D

user136984

Anyone else have any more ideas on this by the way? :)

user136984

1

Q: How to trace the IP of a Tox user?

I am a user of Tox, my client is qTox (if that makes any difference), and I was just reading their FAQs section when I came across these sections: How does Tox Protect My Privacy? Tox protects your privacy by removing the need to rely on central authorities to provide messenger service...

ArtOfCode

@ParanoidPanda Nor should it do... There are few contexts they're offensive in, and I've unsuspended a number I f people who've said them innocently and got flag suspended.

user136984

:D

user136984

Can you appeal to a chat ban?

ArtOfCode

4:08 PM

Complain on meta. Though to be honest, for half hour bans it's not worth it, you'll be back before your appeal gets through.

It's slightly easier to appeal if you have a mod's email address so you can appeal directly to someone with the power to reverse it.

user136984

Is someone really never going to delete these spam links by the way?

ArtOfCode

Longer bans, sure go appeal on meta

user136984

ArtOfCode

Have the posts been deleted?

user136984

I would think so.

ArtOfCode

4:12 PM

It's fine then, just proof that the bot is working right.

(Also, it's effort to scroll back to august)

user136984

You could just do a search and then click on the direct links...

ArtOfCode

I could search if I wasn't mobile, yeah :)

user136984

Ah...

user136984

Anyway, can we please end this conversation here... :D

ArtOfCode

leaves

user136984

4:20 PM

@ArtOfCode: Leaves! You see them too? They are everywhere! They are taking over! Oh no!

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda You're too sarcastic for your own good

Blink

Don't blink

user136984

@Zacharee1: No, just being surreal, not sarcastic! Don't worry! ;P

Zacharee1

I was thinking of taking the stages of a Weeping Angel and setting it as someone's slideshow background. Every time they'd look at the desktop, the image would be closer to the attack expression

user136984

(Also, I can't see images that are not on i.stack.imgur.com.)

Zacharee1

Fine

heppi

user136984

4:23 PM

Ah! But I assumed that that's what it would be! :D

Zacharee1

:}

user136984

That would actually be a really cool thing to do with your desktop! :D

user136984

How would you detect when they are looking at the desktop though?

Zacharee1

TFW you realize Dr. Who did a better job at horror than most modern horror movies

user136984

What if they look through a see-through program?

Zacharee1

4:25 PM

@ParanoidPanda It could just cycle

user136984

TFW?

Zacharee1

That feeling when

ArtOfCode

That feeling when

user136984

Two Flying Whales?

Zacharee1

YESH

OF COURSHE

TO FLYING WHALESH

ArtOfCode

4:26 PM

That <expletives deleted>

Zacharee1

>:|

õ‿Õ

·.·

Fun with ALT

ArtOfCode

O.o.o.O

Zacharee1

Are you a spider?

ArtOfCode

ermahgerd hrbrdgrf

No, not yet.

hbdgaf

@ArtOfCode o/

Zacharee1

4:30 PM

◔_◔

hbdgaf

Is that a name and pic change, of have I not seen you before?

ArtOfCode

@hbdgaf \o

@Zacharee1 Fancy one

jokerdino

@hbdgaf He's our new babysitter that we hired to take care of the chat room.

ArtOfCode

@hbdgaf You just haven't seen me before. I've seen you around though.

Zacharee1

dun dun dun

ArtOfCode

4:31 PM

Arm? Around.

hbdgaf

Must be on mobile.

Ok. Welcome to the new babysitter.

@jokerdino thanks

ArtOfCode

GOOD SIR I HAVE SEEN YOUR ARM.

5

Zacharee1

LOL

I hope @KGIII sees that

ArtOfCode

Is this how you babysit?

jokerdino

You make up rules as you go.

ArtOfCode

4:33 PM

This is how you babysit. Shreksellent.

Zacharee1

ArtOfCode

...*sigh* autocorrect really why you do dis

Zacharee1

ō_ô

ArtOfCode

@Zacharee1 ...and that is how babby formed.

Zacharee1

o˜˜˜˜˜˜o

I don't know what that is

wat

jokerdino

4:34 PM

Oh.. you have missed one of the classics.

hbdgaf

@ArtOfCode I had a boss once we used to call shrek behind his back. He did the full top baldness with a VERY thin comb-over. The wide ears. He loved coming in to work in salmon jean shorts and a shrek green polo. And, he was a little heavy and squat. So, it was quite hilarious.

ArtOfCode

howisbabbyformed.com

Zacharee1

@hbdgaf did he do it on purpose?

hbdgaf

I would hope not. He wasn't that sharp really.

ArtOfCode

I met the guy who owns that domain.

jokerdino

4:36 PM

@hbdgaf That explains the boss part.

Zacharee1

@jokerdino nice

jokerdino

Not me.

Zacharee1

@ArtOfCode Still can't get over this message

Did anyone else see that edit that said it improved the question, but actually had much worse grammar?

ArtOfCode

@Zacharee1 Which one? Seen plenty of those.

Zacharee1

@ArtOfCode today on AU

jokerdino

4:38 PM

Link?

Zacharee1

Let me see

ArtOfCode

@Zacharee1 In that case nope

hbdgaf

If you have linkification, I can help deny it.

Zacharee1

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/495608

hbdgaf

Agreed.

Needs the hammer

If anyone wants to star that, I wouldn't be offended ^^

user136984

4:42 PM

@Nathan: Why don't you make an AU ad about your chat script? :)

Zacharee1

ō_ô

jokerdino

Hammered to death.

ArtOfCode

Reject: NIW. No rep to do it tho.

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda How does that happen?

NIW? National Interest Waiver?

hbdgaf

No improvement whatsoever

ArtOfCode

4:44 PM

Precisely.

Zacharee1

Ah

lol

@para <-- did that work?

user136984

Yes

Zacharee1

cool

user136984

@Zacharee1: You create an answer here, and if it gets over a certain amount of upvotes it becomes a community ad for the year on AU.

Zacharee1

oh fun

gtg now though

user136984

4:47 PM

Bye! :)

hbdgaf

Three mods in the room at the same time? Has someone done something wrong?

ArtOfCode

@hbdgaf Go check into Mos Eisley on SciFi chat if you want lots of mods. They have about 10 at a time.

As for why I'm here, I was checking in past mod things, and just never left.

hbdgaf

Hah. It's just unusual here.

user136984

What's this about?

user136984

4:50 PM

@hbdgaf Yes. :P

kos

@ParanoidPanda Formatting sandbox?

hbdgaf

@ParanoidPanda That looks like a deleted user to me. So, was probably something pretty bad.

Oli

We usually have a pretty high proportion of mods in here. AU is a big site in itself and we have mods from other sites as regulars (terdon, NathanOsman, JourneymanGeek and Takkat to name a few)

hbdgaf

@Oli Crap. You're right. I talked to tedron and Nathan before they were mods. And, I didh't see them active at the same time in the quantity of three. I don't know why Takkat didn't fire in my head as mod. I guess the new face just threw me.

Mateo

5:15 PM

@ParanoidPanda it was always boats for me

Raiders of the Lost Downboat

Place to sail the open sea, and search out boats to take down....

3

4

user136984

What do you guys think of my answer by the way (I don't post answers very often)?:

user136984

1

A: How to assign custom keyboard shortcut?

You will need to click on the word Disabled which should then become: And all you will need to do then is to press the key combination you want to execute the command you assigned to this keyboard shortcut. So for instance if I then typed (without the + or any spacing): CTRL + A I would get ...

Seth

Is it only possible for boot to fill up without the rest of the disk if it is on another partition? Or how does that work?

(ref this Q: askubuntu.com/questions/659130/not-enough-free-space-to-update). If /boot isn't on another partition how did that happen?

Mateo

two hard drives?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

0

Q: New accounts being created for just a question.?

I have recently encountered a lot of questions by new users that create an account only for that particular question of theirs. What is annoying is the fact that these users leave the question without marking an answer or even checking the given answers. There must be a way to keep a check on...

discussion feature-request new-users

Seth

5:20 PM

@Mateo well the OP didn't even know what the /boot partition is, so the likelihood that they set it up across multiple disks or even partitions is very low..

Mateo

sounds like he is talking about two physical drives

user136984

VTC this question as unclear.

user136984

5:33 PM

Someone ping me please.

Mateo

@ParanoidPanda ping ping ping ping! ping...

ok, did it work?

user136984

Yes, could you do it another few times please? :D

user136984

Ok, fine now! Thanks! :D

hbdgaf

Definitely not pinging on request @ParanoidPanda

Mateo

that is all you get for now ;)

Zacharee1

5:40 PM

@ParanoidPanda now what?

user136984

I've got faulty speakers and headphones now it seems... :D

Zacharee1

good job

Sites seem to be finding ways around ABP now

user136984

@Zacharee1: Really?

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda it's still being tested.

user136984

@Nathan: What is?

user136984

5:49 PM

Oh right...

user136984

@Nathan: Does NitroShare encrypt your connection by the way? :)

user136984

And how come you are not using your own script? :D

Zacharee1

^

Chan-Ho Suh

6:02 PM

ABP = Ad Blocker Plus? Is it sites "finding" ways or is it sites paying money for ABP to whitelist them?

Oli

It's pretty easy to detect Adblockers. Has been forever. I wrote this in 2007.

Zacharee1

@Chan-HoSuh yeah. They do it now where you click a link to continue, it opens in a new tab, and the original tab redirects to an ad site

Pretty smart, pretty annoying

The adblocker won't block a new tab/window with the same domain it opened from, so they can have those redirect as well

@Oli any time I see those messages I will disable ABP for that site

Any time I see that ABP has blocked >20 ads, however, I keep it on, because 20+ ads on one page is ridiculous

user136984

I am following these instructions, so how do I use the build.sh file?

user136984

Do I just execute it with ./build.sh?

user136984

@Oli?

Oli

6:15 PM

@ParanoidPanda Whaaa?

Ask in the comments.

user136984

Ok...

da Boss

6:33 PM

@ParanoidPanda @Zacharee1 pi-hole is the only way to go.

Zacharee1

@daBoss wat

da Boss

pi-hole.net

Zacharee1

Don't have a Pi on me

user136984

I've run out of pies unfortunately... :(

user136984

I ate them all and now there are none left!

Zacharee1

6:43 PM

sigh

sighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsigh*sigh*

GeoMint

hi

Zacharee1

Well that turned out interestingly

@GeoMint o/

user136984

:D

user136984

sigh sigh sigh... Hi! :D

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda sign

GeoMint

6:45 PM

@ParanoidPanda i wanted to buy, but no one had in crete... i had to order it from uk. :P

Zacharee1

What's the best Pi out there?

user136984

The Apple Pie! ;D

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda No Apple for me, thanks

user136984

@Nathan: I hope that you've remembered about the Christmas special George YouTube video you said you would do! :D

GeoMint

@Zacharee1 raspberrypi.org/products/model-b-plus

user136984

6:49 PM

@Zacharee1: Blueberry?

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda sure

user136984

Isn't there a phone company called that?

Zacharee1

@GeoMint thx

@ParanoidPanda BlackBerry

user136984

Ah... No, I prefer Blueberry... ;P

GeoMint

@Zacharee1 raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero is the latest model. designed to be slim... but not better than Pi2B

Seth

6:51 PM

@GeoMint The Pi Zero and the Pi 2 are different products, not different models of the same one.

Zacharee1

The Pi 2 B looks a little better

GeoMint

that is what i was trying to say :) thanks @Seth

Seth

ah.

Zacharee1

@Seth movie-sounds.org/…

Seth

um. what?

user136984

6:55 PM

Can mods unstar stuff by the way?

user136984

In chat that is...

Zacharee1

Why?

GeoMint

@Zacharee1 is that mp3 a virus?

Zacharee1

@GeoMint totally

AFAIK, no

GeoMint

why you posted that?

Zacharee1

6:57 PM

-_-

_—_

GeoMint

lol, sorry. somehow my speakers didn't play the sound, just snow :P

sorry

Zacharee1

\_—\_

Interesting

What did I make?

Why does @Rinzwind keep dropping out of the list?

Raiders of the Lost Downboat

Transcript for