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Anyone know a good site that will tell you what parts you need to put a specific stereo in your car? Crutchfield is where I normally go, but this particular stereo is no longer sold so they don't list it :/

Chan-Ho Suh

@Seth you recommend getting a starter kit for arduino or just getting the pieces separately?

Seth

@Chan-HoSuh eh, I would buy my pieces separately, unless you plan on following a guide that uses that starter kit. That way you only get (and pay for) what you need.

(disclaimer: doesn't own an arduino, although he wishes he did)

Chan-Ho Suh

1:24 AM

@Seth thanks... appreciate it.. now I only need an idea for a project :D

Lucio

lol

Chan-Ho Suh

@Seth oh yeah, because you spend all your dough on yachting or something, right? I seem to recall..

Seth

@Chan-HoSuh I got this book from the library, it was pretty good: shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596155520.do

@Chan-HoSuh If you do it right you can spend next to nothing on it ;)

But it's true. I do tend to spend most of my (little) spare cash on it.

Lucio

I can feel a lot of nice people around since the elections are here

the mod stuff room is also active, again..

@fossfreedom and you my friend, you deserve that membership.

Seth

@Lucio wasn't my idea hehe

I expect it will die again soon :/

Lucio

1:32 AM

it is its destination :S

I'm writing my gh page. it looks pretty straight-forward, i like it

SQuirel

Hi

Lucio

hello little squirrel

what are you eating?

"Little SQuirrel"???

:O

...?

1:44 AM

that..that is correct

SQuirel

...

Lucio

i have a little port view

you may understand

SQuirel

........

Lucio

and still i can see the whole body so..

SQuirel

...

Lucio

1:45 AM

it is not that large if you know what i mean

@Seth i love the pics that you share via twitter! i do wonder, do you visit some of those landscapes often?

Lucio

2:08 AM

Good night people

good night little @SQuirel

user139252

I caught a Vulpix!

Nathan Osman

Which of these looks the best?

amazon.ca/Sodial-Sodial--Displayport-Adapter-Macbook/dp/…

amazon.ca/White-Mini-DisplayPort-HDMI-Adapter/dp/B008J7E17Y

amazon.ca/DisplayPort-Female-Adapter-Macbook-Laptop/dp/…

They are all similarly priced and have free shipping.

The top two are 3-in-1 adapters, offering HDMI, DVI, and DisplayPort outputs.

The number of Thunderbolt to VGA adapters is startling... why are we still connecting displays with VGA cables?

Journeyman Geek

@NathanOsman displays? No

Legacy projectors still use em a lot

I think essentially anything modern with a lcd's HDMI or DP by now

Nathan Osman

Fair enough... any opinion on the adapters?

Journeyman Geek

@NathanOsman I'd think they all run the same chipset.

Nathan Osman

2:20 AM

:P

rohith

3:36 AM

I am having the same issue as mentioned here askubuntu.com/questions/521372/… Can anyone help me in this regard ?

Seth

@Lucio I visit the ones that are near as much as I can, but the US is too big for me to visit most of them often.

Serg

Guess whos back

Seth

I've been here and here though, @Lucio (both pics from the US Dept. of Interior).

@Serg Welcome back! How'd China go?

Serg

@Seth quite well, already wanna go back there.

Seth

You've come back just in time for the drama lol :/

@Serg Cool! :)

Serg

3:49 AM

I have my own drama here, i lost 10k rep

Henry WH Hack

@Serg HOORAY YOUR BACK @Videonauth Serg is back! :)

Serg

^_^ @HenryWHHack i missed you too buddy.

Henry WH Hack

@Serg Mod election askubuntu.com/election/5

Serg

@Seth so what's the drama ? Also, is there any way i can get back my 10k rep ? I've lost due to serial upvoting .

Seth

@Serg That's... part of the drama.

15

Q: I lost 3000+ rep as a reversal

It is possible that someone serially upvoted my posts. I can't see it. But the weird thing is that some of my answers were unaccepted. That is a puzzle. What does this mean?

support

The other drama is the election, but that's mostly good drama I guess. If there is such a thing

@Serg if you have questions about it reply to the message you received, one of the SE staff should respond at some point..

Serg

3:55 AM

Wow . . . .ok . . . .

Seth

@Serg So did you eat extra food for me? :P

edwinksl

@Serg wow 10k

that's a lot :(

Serg

@Seth yes, i did eat for two people :) That's one of the biggest things i will miss about China. But the biggest is my gf

Yup, im officially non-single

Seth

good for you!

Serg

@edwinksl yeah, i was at 33k, now down to 22k.

Henry WH Hack

4:00 AM

@Serg Was the great firewall of china blocking you from accessing askubuntu.com.

Why are people losing reps?

Seth

read the meta post I linked above --^

Serg

@HenryWHHack it wasn't really blocking anything. I was just too busy every day. We were walking around a lot. And after visiting the great wall, i officially hate stairs. Hooray for elevators

Seth

@Serg hahaha, that's a lot of stairs all right xD

Serg

Yes. And very steep stairs too. On the way down, i thought my legs are gonna give up and i will just go counting those stairs with my spine.

Acupuncture did the trick though. I didn't feel any discomfort in my lower back for like 3 days after all the needles

user139252

@Serg has returned!

Henry WH Hack

4:13 AM

Videonauth is missing the welcome back party for Serg.

Serg

@TheBrownOne i sure have returned :D missed me much ?

user139252

I cannot wait for Pokemon Go to go public. It is so much fun!

user139252

@Serg yes, I did. The room felt so empty

Serg

^_^ well, it sure is not empty now

edwinksl

@TheBrownOne you signed up for the pokemon go field test?

Serg

4:17 AM

And probably smelly too, because i still haven't taken a shower after the flight

user139252

I might have.

user139252

Am I allowed to say that I have?

edwinksl

i think you can as long as you don't reveal the contents of the test

user139252

Yeah, I just read through all of the confidentiality stuff again

edwinksl

that's pretty cool

user139252

4:25 AM

It's pretty fun, the way it works. If you played ingress, you can kinda see some similar elements, but that's to be expected since it comes from the same developer

edwinksl

i wish i had signed up earlier

user139252

I can't say exactly what those elements are, but I think Pokemon fans will appreciate the app

edwinksl

i played pokemon blue and yellow back in the old days. does that count as being a fan? ;)

Henry WH Hack

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, Aug 13 '14 at 16:07, by SmokeDetector

hi!

:O

I knew SmokeDetector was not a bot.

The Mods and SmokeDetector was lying.

Journeyman Geek

that's a pretty serious accusation....

Henry WH Hack

4:39 AM

So the mods was not lying.

Journeyman Geek

(protip. bots are 'regular' users with the same reputation requirements as anyone else, so at some point any bot had a user behind it)

Naw, you're merely conversing out of your posterior in this instance.

Henry WH Hack

Sorry SmokeDetector and the Mods!

Wait so who coded @SmokeDetector is it undo?

Seth

undo is in charge.

but the Charcoal dev team wrote smokey

Henry WH Hack

What is SmokeDetector programming languages is it Python?

Seth

yes

Henry WH Hack

4:45 AM

;)

I saw his github page. ;)

I was going to ask how does SmokeDetector work but asking too many questions may annoy you guys.

How does SmokeDetector work?

Videonauth

5:35 AM

@Serg Hello :) welcome back, how was your china trip :) ?

Henry WH Hack

SORRY!

Videonauth

@HenryWHHack for what all the sorry adn so on, no need for that :)

Mudit Kapil

Someone did a serial down-voting to many of my posts. :)

Mudit Kapil

5:50 AM

How do I cast a Vote for Mod's,Yesterday I received a caucus badge visiting a page?

Videonauth

@MuditKapil you can cast votes for moderators in about 5 1/2 days on that same page you visited to see all their nomination posts. --> askubuntu.com/election?cb=1

Mudit Kapil

By adding comment to a desired candidate.

Videonauth

@MuditKapil since I'm so new on this site i not have seen an election in action, maybe @Seth can shed some light for you here.

Mudit Kapil

I've just posted a comment and someone has deleted @Seth has done awesome work for the community specially codecs.

@Seth I posted a comment,Does that count a vote.

I feel the people who are very good like @Oli,@Seth should be Mod's again and I want to see @Fabby as another MOD.

That's another Question Whether you Guy's pay @Oli What he deserves.

Videonauth

6:11 AM

@MuditKapil a new election does not mean they have to step down, it is more they need some backup forces and hiring two new moderators on top of that. But I highly doubt that Fabby will step up and nominate himself to be a moderator as he is currently very busy with the real world, having a new Job which takes most of his time.

Mudit Kapil

May be I don't know him,But he tends to help new user a lot like me.

Videonauth

We all do love to help, otherwise we would be here :) when we sometimes not answer to a question in chat it is mostly because we are not knowing the answer. :)

Mudit Kapil

No @Fabby has helped me a lot,The person is very good and precious for this site.

@Rinzwind He is also very good and nice.

@Rinzwind I want to see him as Moderator .Of course as backup force as you mentioned

May be in front line.

@Tim She also can be a perfect Mod.

I feel Mod's should not be a rocket Scientist But have an abilty to keep site clean and helpful.

edwinksl

6:57 AM

@MuditKapil Maybe one day you should consider running for moderator too

Videonauth

@edwinksl thank you for your supporting words on my nomination post

edwinksl

@Videonauth No problem at all; you earned it!

Videonauth

it still baffles me, i would never have thought to get so much supporting comments

edwinksl

Well that's what happens when the community sees a deserving candidate

Videonauth

for sure even if i wont make it in this election it will give me fuel to go on even more engaged :)

edwinksl

7:10 AM

you stand a pretty good chance as far as i can tell ;)

Videonauth

i think so too, but still hope for the best but expect nothing is my course of action

this way i wont be disappointed when it doesn't work out

there are a few good candidates

Severus Tux

How many votes can we cast ? two positions available so two ?? Or only one and the top 2 guys will be selected ??

Videonauth

in fact 6 out of those 11 candidates have a good chance.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, makes it harder to decide who to vote for

@SeverusTux elections here use a modifed STV voting system

Rinzwind

@Videonauth name them :=)

@SeverusTux 2 :)

Videonauth

7:16 AM

@Rinzwind No i wont :) because its just my opinion

Severus Tux

nice :D

Videonauth

I'll try to stay neutral as much as possible

Severus Tux

@Videonauth I find only 2 interesting candidates ( my opinion ;-) )

Videonauth

but if you read carefully youll see where i have commented

Journeyman Geek

@SeverusTux 3 is the best number ;)

since you pick 3 in preferencial order

edwinksl

7:18 AM

1 upvote or downvote per candidate in primary phase, max of 3 ranked choices in election phase

Rinzwind

@SeverusTux I agree. and I can stretch it to 3 if I am forced. The others all have at least 3 or more arguments against them

and to me a mod should be impecable >:-DDDDD

Hello

heya

Hi :D

I honestly think AskUbuntu is on a whole different level than Ubuntu Forums

Journeyman Geek

7:20 AM

@Rinzwind perfect is hard

Videonauth

@Rinzwind can you explain that word, i had to look it up and i fond nothing on lep.org

Rinzwind

@grooveplex it is!

edwinksl

@grooveplex in a good way or bad way?

grooveplex

AU = good, UF = Well, um, more noobs and clutter

Rinzwind

@Videonauth "perfect" :=D

edwinksl

7:21 AM

reading the ubuntu forums gives me a headache

Rinzwind

@JourneymanGeek I said "should".

edwinksl

it is way too cluttered like you said

grooveplex

@edwinksl this.

Rinzwind

UF is a discussion site. AU is a Q+A site
2 different animals :)

Videonauth

ah o.k., well then I'm out of the picture, I think I'm far from perfect, but maybe i simply overanalyze myself

edwinksl

7:23 AM

@Rinzwind it is unfortunate that discourse is being sunsetted

Rinzwind

@Videonauth oh but you see... perfection is a goal ;-) and I will pick the 3 best out of the group

edwinksl

discourse is a better software for forums discussions that whatever ubuntu forums is using

*than

Videonauth

well then i might ask you after the election who you picked

Journeyman Geek

@edwinksl discourse's kind of a pain to run tho

Rinzwind

@Videonauth at the moment Tim and you are #1 and #2 ;-)

edwinksl

7:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek yeah that is true but i still find it easier to use ;)

Severus Tux

Only 65% of questions answered on our site., others have more than that :( :(

Rinzwind

@SeverusTux then go do something about it ;-)

@SeverusTux hey I am on that list <3

Severus Tux

haha :D

Videonauth

@Rinzwind that are wanted posters ;)

Rinzwind

at least the review list is well under 1k :X

@Videonauth yeah I already got fossy >:) now aiming for Oli

Videonauth

7:26 AM

but how'd you catch yourself then ? xD

Severus Tux

WOW! During beta , it was 96% area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu

Videonauth

well one more LQ to review and 19 more late answers then I'm through for today

Rinzwind

@Videonauth i would become the huntee and use my cloak to make me invissible

Videonauth

ah :)

i still wonder, did you choose your name because you're a Terry Pratchet fan?

Rinzwind

yes and the icon I choose cuz I am an anime fan (it is from Elfen lied; at the time one of my fav. series)

now it looks old :D

Severus Tux

7:34 AM

@Videonauth your meta participation is a little low. you could improve that ;)

Videonauth

I'm on it :)

Rinzwind

@Videonauth seems like the wrong approach to me ;-) now it looks like you want to fulfill the mod requirements just to fulfill the mod requirements. Your work on meta the next few days is not going to make a difference. It is your meta work over a year or longer that will.

see why I aint going for moderator here ;-)

Videonauth

@Rinzwind yeah but what I wanted to say I will show more presence there from now on. in fact this is a result of me being very new on the page still

Rinzwind

That is always good :-)

Journeyman Geek

Don't forget, most mod tasks are things you can do as a high rep user

Rinzwind

7:43 AM

And don't tell anyone you are new >:-D

Journeyman Geek

(other than one shot killing spammers, flag queue and such)

Rinzwind

The one shot killing spammers should be a high level privilige :P

Journeyman Geek

nuking accounts requires a special level of trust tho

Rinzwind

@JourneymanGeek I meant their topics :=)

not the actual one shotting of a user.

I got an interesting question for all under 15k rep:
how and when do you protect a question?

edwinksl

So I was reading "A Theory of Moderation" (blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation) and I noticed that it says "In the case of serious disputes, communicate directly with users via email to help mediate and resolve those disputes."

Videonauth

7:50 AM

@Rinzwind Well why should I hide it it is clearly written on my nomination post

edwinksl

Do moderators actually expect to get emails from users?

Rinzwind

@Videonauth cuz it is a "negative" ;-)

edwinksl

I can't even find moderators' emails easily on their AU profile pages

Rinzwind

@edwinksl they do :D and probably not from the most educated parts of human kind

Journeyman Geek

@edwinksl there's a PM system for mods

or you can sometimes find them on chat

the email system predates the mod message system and they discourage us using email these days

Videonauth

7:51 AM

@Rinzwind no its a sword which cuts both ways look at the time and then on my account age and you know the time i spend on helping maintaining the site, otherwise my score would not be possible

edwinksl

@JourneymanGeek Makes sense to discourage email. Maybe the blog post should be updated to reflect that.

Rinzwind

@Videonauth sure but getting the nomination means to get cut the least :-D

oh man D:

In France 2 dudes decide to rob a McDonald. They grabbed 2k in euro out of the till
Only to find out a group of 11 soldiers from an anti-terrorist unit where there eating hamburgers.

Videonauth

LOL That is what i call a bad day xD

Rinzwind

lol

Karma :X

edwinksl

@Rinzwind true story?

Rinzwind

7:57 AM

yes just popped up in my news feed

dutch version: ad.nl/buitenland/…

edwinksl

as i expected, this news showed up in r/nottheonion in reddit lol

Rinzwind

lol

Videonauth

@Rinzwind good that i can read it and understand it up to 90% of the time but speaking i think is a complete different ballgame :)

Rinzwind

@Videonauth english version connexionfrance.com/…

Videonauth

no need i have read the dutch version, since im only living 20 minutes from dutch border away im somehow used to it

Journeyman Geek

8:02 AM

@Rinzwind could have been worse

Rinzwind

I live less than 20km from the german and belgium border ;-)

@JourneymanGeek that's true :D

Journeyman Geek

They could have run into this guy badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html

Videonauth

hehe well krefeld is about 45 car minutes from venlo

SPAM: askubuntu.com/a/784326/522934 <<-- nukeitfromorbit.com

Rinzwind

@JourneymanGeek damn :D :D :D

@Videonauth we live close by. Roermond

Videonauth

hehe well :) then were technically neighbours :D

Rinzwind

8:13 AM

bbl :)

Videonauth

@Seth askubuntu.com/a/784331/522934 and askubuntu.com/a/784326/522934 SPAM trolling in perfection

God this is one of the moments i could at least protect a post

@Rinzwind do you want to please

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edwinksl

someone needs to get rid of this too askubuntu.com/q/784332/15003

Severus Tux

[Smoke Detector] Spam --->http://askubuntu.com/q/784332/497359

Henry WH Hack

We have a spam overload.

Videonauth

more a troll overload, who did feed them ?

xD

and this guy is seems as well one he already posted this question as an answer in two not relating posts

Henry WH Hack

8:25 AM

Who on stackexchange will edit a spam?

Videonauth

askubuntu.com/users/554686/proton25 <<-

@HenryWHHack the spammer self

Journeyman Geek

lots of people have. They don't know better

Henry WH Hack

Monty Python - Spam

►

^This is how it started.^

Videonauth

I would like Spam spam spam spam spam egg bacon an spam please :p

but with not so much spam in it

Henry WH Hack

9:22 AM

I have to go back to the sandbox.

Sandbox

Formatting Sandbox

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