The Bridge

Are there any Minecraft command-er's currently present?

Ahoy

Ok. So related to my last question (see above)

Hmm

There is no way to do this through commands apparently. However - a bit left field...

12:28 AM

I don't know if that's possible for player @p

Is it possible to make a resource pack to do this in some way?

Only for predetermined players

Idk

I'll see what I can find

Awesome :)

I remember Hermitcraft had a way to make player heads drop, and I'm pretty sure they used a vanilla server with only command blocks...

Ronan

I did a search and there are a couple of ways but they seem to use a command block for each username

12:33 AM

Now you mention it I think I remember that. However I have only ever watched Mumbo's channel, so I don't really know who's in charge

@Ronan so it still relies on knowing the username?

Ronan

I don't know if there's a way around it but yeah.

If there was a solution out there I imagine it would have come up from googling

@Ronan I was thinking of using a resourcepack for this somehow... some way to record a usrename or something like that

12:51 AM

Yeah, it's not possible

Hrm

Paging doctor @Dinnerbone

Dang it

Ah well.

It it was Xisuma sure as heck would have done it over "you need one for each player"

Q: My heroes aren't learning from experience

1:07 AM

0

I notice at times that my experience meters aren't showing gains when either creeps are slain a Tome Of Experience is used The numbers shown when the mouse cursor is over the bar show no increase; the blue bar filling from the left is not displayed at all. Stuff like this has happened during...

warcraft-3 warcraft-3-frozen-throne

Q: Any explanation for intricacies (bugs) of the city and trade network?

1:24 AM

0

I do not want to ask about an explanation of the city and trade network in general, because it has been explained quite well in the Civilopedia, let alone it is rather intuitive. But there are a couple of issues/situations where the factual state of affairs cannot be explained via the Civilopedi...

civilization-4 civilization-4-bts

Wee! Cleaning paint booth is fun!

Q: Does the weather affect Shadows in Palaces?

2:03 AM

0

The game makes it quite clear that adverse weather affects the Shadows in Mementos, whether it makes them more likely to call for backup, have Treasure Demons appear, or enter the battle despaired. However, the fact that it specifies the Shadows in Mementos led me to believe that it only affects ...

persona-5

2:16 AM

0

Q: Does hypixel use data?

About how much data do I have to download to play a normal hypixel server? I want to use a vpn and it has a limit of download space so I wanted to know how much download space does it use?

minecraft

user15026

2:47 AM

6

New Nintendo 2DS XL - Reveal Trailer

►

Nintendo you have my attention

You also have hundreds of my dollars from the last paycheck sp

And probably 60 of my dollars tomorrow

user15026

3:03 AM

It's just a N3DS XL without 3d yes?

user15026

unless there is something else in the trailer I am missing

Hmm, that price tho.

You can get a used 3DS for around that now, no?

GodEmperorDune

@Ash hue

@KutuluMike hue

4:12 AM

does anyone have a link that list all the New Nintendo 3DS games? Wikipedia lists Xenoblade Chronicles 3D which i was certain was NN3DS only and that list has no indications of which are NN3DS Only

Yuuki

4:58 AM

@Unionhawk Ooo, maybe I'll pick that up since my N3DS is borked.

6:40 AM

@Unionhawk I wonder if they improved the internet browser on the device. I mean, I can't even watch video or anything on my 3DS XL

@Nzall Eh... why would you? The device's resolution is pretty terrible

And the stereoscopic 3D means that the screen's brightness is quite poor

@PrivatePansy Because the current device I use to watch online video in bed is an Android 2.3.6 Galaxy S+ phone, and i've been getting https warnings for a few months now on most sites I tried

I'm planning on replacing it, but I don't yet know with what

7:13 AM

I'm getting conflicting information about the 3DS video capabilities. Some are actually saying the device already supports video

en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13802, for example

@Nzall Well, there is a YouTube app for it

@PrivatePansy yeah, the device supports moving images. Wouldn't be much of a handheld console if it couldn't

The question was if the browser supports video

and in case it's not yet clear: I'm not talking about the YouTube variety of video. There is a reason I say "In bed"

But again, I'm not going to go into more detail

ah, it seems like according to Wikipedia, it supports it.

but only on the new varieties

Not really a big deal, 150 EUR seems like a pretty good deal.

I just hope they soon release more info about when it'll be available in the EU.

Q: What's the best difficulty to farm a "Ring of Royal Grandeur"?

7:49 AM

0

The Ring of Royal Grandeur only drops from Act I bounty caches. From various places online, I've heard: Torment I, because they're all the same Torment VI, because you're guaranteed a legendary drop from the cache Torment VIII, because you get "added bonus" (???) Normal(!?!), because almost no...

diablo-3

Q: Major lag on Minecraft Servers ( I have good fps)

8:42 AM

0

lately I am getting very bad lag on every servers (e.g Skyrealms Hypixel Mineplex and every other multiplayer server that I like to play) I have tried reinstalling MC, logging out and logging in, Optifine, watched YT and changed my MC Settings Whenever I join a server it says I have 200-100 fps...

minecraft

Some student raged at me saying "wtf is this hair you look like a woman (specific use of word was a misogynistic word to say woman, but meh)". I'm not sure if I should be happy or angry, heh.

Q: How does Final Spark interact with kills?

9:01 AM

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Recently Lux got buffed and received a new effect on her ultimate. Now in addition to its damage (and passive proc/refresh) it also refunds 10/30/50% of the cooldown if it kills an enemy. How does it work exactly? For example, if I get a double kill with Final Spark will it reduce the cooldown o...

league-of-legends

GodEmperorDune

9:14 AM

@Avery i'm glad you can find the silver lining, fam

9:25 AM

🤔 Should I go home and buy 2 pizzas or stay on 15 temmuz sehitleri kizilay meydani (why did be rename kizilay to that again?) and get some coffee and some decent food?

Hmmmm, yes.

To which one though?

actually i won't grab coffee here because I kinda want to brew some myself

so healthy food vs pizza

@Avery I don't know, that's why I said yes

You can make your own decisions, I think, fairly sure

GodEmperorDune

@Avery sometimes you gotta treat yourself, fam

@KevinvanderVelden ah (just like I suspected)

@GodEmperorDune true

Q: Why cant I mine diamond in Minecraft 1.11.2

9:37 AM

0

I've hammered away at the ore block in this screenshot (which I believe is diamond) but I cant break it. I've tried other tools but none have any effect. Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?

minecraft windows-10

Pizza ordered

2hot4me

(risky click of the day)

9:56 AM

That's... 22C

We aren't even allowed to turn our air-conditioning that low

Well you're obviously from the future where global warming wasn't stopped

I'm indoors so it's even hotter

@PrivatePansy People take cold showers that are warmer than that.

@Nzall water is quite a bit different from air

The "Feels like" rating is not very useful - they should just replace it with a normative statement. For Singapore it would be "you're going to die"

10:08 AM

so meteonormative

Q: How do I chat on a game called

0

I never used chat on the game becouse every time I try a box that looks like a notification box comes on the screen but it's blank and I really want to chat... I never said anything bad on the game because when I try to chat that blank box comes up IT looks like this but blank and no buttons or w...

ios how-to-train-your-dragon

10:28 AM

I like how turks are a minority in kizilay

nearly 2/3 are ~~syrian refugees~~ now turkish citizens

10:42 AM

Literally half the people in the office are in a meeting

is the meeting how to deal with post-oranije-day hangover

I think it's more work related, no one appeared hung-over

(those that expected to be hung-over just took a day off)

Q: What exactly is the climb mechanic for Shadow of Mordor?

11:04 AM

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I've just started playing this game on PS4 but I'm having trouble initiating climbs (for example up ladders). I usually end up taking running jumps at the ladder and then magically at some point the climb starts. The screen does occasionally flash up "press X to climb" but that seems to be random...

controllers ps4 shadow-of-mordor

GnomeSlice

wat

> Pros:
+Russians

Cons:
-Everything Else

@PrivatePansy It was 26 degrees here yesterday. Went from winter to summer weather in less than a week

Q: How to buy something from the Mann Co. Store

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To expand your backpack in Team Fortress 2, you can buy an item from the Mann Co. Store. When you didn't buy something there before and your backpack gets full, you get a message stating that which has a button saying "Upgrade". I pressed that button and then was taken to a store where I bought ...

steam team-fortress-2

11:22 AM

American Airlines announces pay raises for pilots and flight attendants, and investors balk http://lat.ms/2oBzMt2 https://t.co/gehjnS2FKq

Tweeted by latimes on April 28, 2017 at 3:05 AM

oh no not pay raises

> “This is frustrating. Labor is being paid first again. Shareholders get leftovers,” Citi analyst Kevin Crissey wrote in a note to clients. Investors showed their displeasure by sending American Airlines Group Inc.’s stock down 5.2% to $43.98 on Thursday.

what a tragedy

what has labor ever done for us anyway?

WHY WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES

poor billionaires

just can't get trillionaires

SAD

> Jamie Baker of Morgan Stanley downgraded American shares to “neutral” from “overweight,” saying the pay decision “establishes a worrying precedent, in our view, both for American and the industry.”

OH NO THE AMERICAN

WE RUINED IT

> overweight

Wat

11:27 AM

~~It's now truly american airlines~~

@badp Congrats on illustrating everything that is wrong with everything forever

@Unionhawk sets fire to everything

why am I on fire now.

2

Our school just got censured for Personal Data Protection Act non-compliance because the students running a camp last year accidentally set the Google Spreadsheet used to take down camp attendee information to be publicly visible

...lol

what do you mean by censored?

11:30 AM

@badp casualty of cleansing fire

@Avery Censured, not censored. Reprimanded.

(after some dictionary digging) oh

@badp BECAUSE AMERICAN AIRLINES INVESTORS ARE MAD THAT THEYRE PAYING WORKERS MORE THAN ZERO DOLLARS

@Unionhawk WHY DO YOU HATE EFFICIENCY

@PrivatePansy Wait, is that what censure means? that explains why I couldn't understand the name of that Paladin spell

11:35 AM

@Nzall Yes

> verb
verb: censure; 3rd person present: censures; past tense: censured; past participle: censured; gerund or present participle: censuring
express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement.
"the company was heavily censured by inspectors from the Department of Trade"

See also: English being a mess

@Nzall it also means "silence" especially in parlimentary contexts

Paladins in WoW had a spell from Cataclysm up to and including Warlords of Draenor called Seal of Truth, which applied a periodic damage effect called Censure

@Nzall Eardrum damage

@KevinvanderVelden Ur a mess.

11:36 AM

Or, maybe the victims are all British

And I always thought that the name of that effect was a nod to the Ministry of Truth from 1984, as in the Ministry of Truth censoring the past

11:53 AM

@Arperum what about urface

is his urface a mess?

my wireless sucks

@PrivatePansy "Feels like the inside of a bread oven"

@badp I don't know, You're probably closer to him. You can go check it out.

@fredley "Feels like being outside right now."

...

> President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House.

"I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump told Reuters in an interview. "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."

12:01 PM

how does this surprise you at all

I am sitting very still because if I move I will headdesk and I don't want to break my head

@fredley had he spent 10 minutes talking with Obama, he'd have figured out that being a president is actually bigly hard

PRESIDENT IS WORST JOB IN THE WORLD. HOW DO YOU TURN 70 AND NOT KNOW THAT. YOU ALREADY HAD A PRIVATE PLANE YOU DIP… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/830261846762483712

Tweeted by SwiftOnSecurity on February 11, 2017 at 3:47 AM

I wonder how that tweet ends

Source

> "Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers," the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. "It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us."

12:03 PM

@badp ...PING SAUCE MADE TO PROMOTE THE 1998 DISNEY MOVIE MULAN

@fredley DONALD TRUMP RETIRE BITCH

so uh...

~~have we shared this already?~~ Nothing to see here

@SwiftOnSecurity These 70 year old Millennials were brought up being told they were special and now they expect everything to be easy.

Tweeted by SeraphLS on February 11, 2017 at 4:23 AM in reply to SwiftOnSecurity

@BlueBarren Yup.

@PrivatePansy ah okay

9 hours ago, by Private Pansy

Hmm, that price tho.

12:05 PM

We shared it at like midnight tho

@KevinvanderVelden WHo even cares anymore at this point?

@badp He figured, as he always does, that he's better at it than anyone else

@Unionhawk Was midday for me

@Arperum he does, he's the only one

He'd be such a sad person if he wasn't also so horrible

@PrivatePansy 9 hours ago was 11pm for me

I was sleeping at that point

12:08 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Yes.

Q: Is there any "correct" or better way to improve the gang's safe house in Payday 2?

0

I've been collecting continental coins for a while, and now It's time to spend them. I know the majority of the upgrades are just aesthetic but, any of them affects in some way to the gameplay? Which are the better to have upgraded?, there are any path to follow for the upgrades?

payday-2

GnomeSlice

so ugh, I need to recompile wine to play starcraft

fun

Just use a VM?

wait that actually makes sense

12:21 PM

Don't you have a Windows machine anyway?

No, all my devices run some sort of linux at this point

Huh. I keep my desktop on Windows for gaming

Also, Microsoft associate who doesn't run Windows

@Nzall ...maybe get a tablet or something?

> It's a billion-dollar system," Trump was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency. "It's phenomenal, shoots missiles right out of the sky."

yeah, Trump, that's how they work.

@KutuluMike THAAD? It's not completely incorrect

12:26 PM

@PrivatePansy I mean .Net core is a thing that is on Linux iirc

.net core sucks

so does VS code, but that's just my opinion

@PrivatePansy I don't even use hotmail (outlook.com) at this point. I trust some random guy on Tennessee more than microsoft with my mails.

@Memor-X That's the only N3DS exclusive game I ever heard about, unless they released some "under the radar"

i have yet to use .NET core. I think. I am admittedly not 100% clear on WTF it actually is.

@KutuluMike It's basically a stripped down version of .NET

it's like .net framework but cross platform and more limited. BUT it doesn't have ARM binaries like what the fuck.

12:30 PM

In other news, ugh fuck the FCC right now

Q: What effects does the blood moon event have on the world, other than respawning monsters?

0

Aside from respawning monsters, how does the blood moon event affect the world? I've heard rumours that cooking during the blood moon event causes a guaranteed critical cook. I'm not sure if this is true or not though.

zelda-breath-of-the-wild

@Avery I've considered that, but A) I'm trying to consolidate devices and B) devices with buttons for scrolling are easier to use in this particular situation for texts.

@PrivatePansy oh right, I can't install kvm stuff thanks to some sort of mistake I made, so I either have to use virtualbox (< which sucks compared to kvm) or just take my time and build wine.

I pick the true linux way

@Nzall ah, ok then.

Attention Americans: The FCC Chairman plans to roll back net neutrality

10

Damnit americans

12:36 PM

didn't we know that already?

like, a tablet is harder to scroll down a webpage with and hold using the same hand

@Avery pls

Enclosed is an EFF Act page with a form email

@Unionhawk Attention Americans: You can apply for avepn too now because you elected an idiot who is getting people who fuck up net neutrality

@Nzall Is that something you have to do very often? Also, that's really not too hard

I've done that quite a bit in the last month, developing apps for the iPad

12:38 PM

@Unionhawk Move to Canada. We just got zero-rating kiboshed.

@Frank did Canada improve their Immigration Details page? i heard it crashed last time

@Unionhawk mozilla's mail on the topic

I'll leave a voicemail in a minute through GV

@Frank we did the opposite I think, we made laws forbidding zero-rating but they're too strict to be legal in the EU or something (hold on let me look)

anyways, why does this Chairman want to roll back these rules? have they actually said how this will benefit the average person?

Hmm, I can't find anything about it being removed by the courts, it seems net neutrality is still the law here

12:45 PM

@PrivatePansy I can't really go into much detail without risking offending people, but you're sitting at your desk and in a stable position. neither are true in the use case I'm considering

@Memor-X average... person? How is that relevant, they don't pay the politicians past/future wages

@KevinvanderVelden maybe wrong choice of words. what i am trying to say is that is there a reason for this or is it just one guy who's saying "i don't like these rule and i can have them change because i want to, fuck everyone else"

insert thinking emoji

@Memor-X there's a reason for it, cable companies want them

@Memor-X Not sure about Net Neutrality specifically, but his previous reasoning for killing ISP privacy laws has been - since websites can track and spy on you, so should ISPs

That's kind of indicative of his sort of thinking

12:47 PM

A lot of people in the FCC were paid by cable companies in previous jobs, or go to them afterwards

@Avery "Oops, we broke our app on a rival browser. How convenie- I mean, inconvenient for you"

@PrivatePansy yup

well google, I can use my own phone to call that number. International minutes are a thing.

Where does the 'learn more' go?

@PrivatePansy support.google.com/hangouts/answer/…

@Avery done

@Avery um, why is FF ESR allowed but not FF?

@Avery Plugin support was dropped for FF latest

ESR is on a much slower cycle

It's kind of in its name

12:52 PM

ESR is on 46 iirc

Right, and latest is 53

yup

They dropped it in 52: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/npapi-plugins

I'm so out of it this morning

@PrivatePansy huh

12:55 PM

Maybe it actually was a thing caused by firefox and not a conspiracy

(I'm giving 50/50 odds on that one)

@KevinvanderVelden Basically, Firefox dropped NSAPI plugin support, and Hangouts isn't updated for that. Chrome too is dropping NSAPI - developer.chrome.com/extensions/npapi

WebRTC is a thing (although to be fair Safari still doesn't support it), so they really should be moving off the plugin

StrixVaria

Trump says he thought being president would be easier than his old life

> More than five months after his victory and two days shy of the 100-day mark of his presidency, the election is still on Trump's mind. Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map.

"Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers," the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. "It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us."

Also, the fact that Firefox is dropping NSAPI isn't exactly news

56 mins ago, by fredley

PRESIDENT IS WORST JOB IN THE WORLD. HOW DO YOU TURN 70 AND NOT KNOW THAT. YOU ALREADY HAD A PRIVATE PLANE YOU DIP… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/830261846762483712

Tweeted by SwiftOnSecurity on February 11, 2017 at 3:47 AM

They've had literally years of notice

1:00 PM

@Memor-X Ajit Pai is in telecom's pockets. Always has been.

Wait... Chrome already dropped NSAPI support... 2 years ago

So how is Hangouts still functioning?

@StrixVaria also inb4ed but not starred =p

MBraedley

> Trump is even profiting from his golfing weekends

Sounds a lot like embezzlement to me.

(Well, the heading when taken alone.)

1:17 PM

OFFICE HUSKY UPDATE:

THEY ARE NOT HUSKIES

THEY ARE POMSKIES

You have an office dog?

@KevinvanderVelden Co-working place. Office next to us has ~~hus~~ pomskies

two of them

I'd say about a dozen dogs in the building in total

ToxicFrog

@MBraedley yeah, but if the president does it it's not a crime, so~

@PrivatePansy pretty sure it's a Chrome Extension or Chrome Web App or some other thing that doesn't require a C API

@ToxicFrog If you're not above the law when you're literally at the top, when can you be?

ToxicFrog

@fredley I mean, ideally, never, but that is clearly not the world we actually live in

1:21 PM

@fredley pics or it didn't happen

@KutuluMike wait, Trump is 70?

> Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946)

@Chippies He is one of the oldest Presidents

@KutuluMike woah, I never even thought about it until now

I mean, he doesn't look young, but he doesn't look 70 either

No, the oldest

1:31 PM

when you think of Trump as of the stereotypical racist grandparent, it all makes more sense

5

@Chippies That's because he looked young compared to Bernie

rich people do look younger than poor people

@Chippies Yup, Trump is that weird uncle everyone has who votes for the nationalist party and has radical ideas on immigration, prison and free market trade

@PrivatePansy adjusting for life expectancy there's older

1:33 PM

The same Wikipedia page has a list of oldest living President, and the date by which they cease to be the oldest, which is kind of morbid

I think they should cap off a presidential candidate's age at 50

varianceexplained.org/r/tidytext-gender-plots

@Nzall I don't have such an uncle

@KevinvanderVelden True, but Presidents tend to be well looked after

then you'd have people from 35-50 running for the office

1:33 PM

if you don't have such an uncle, then its you

@KutuluMike I am also not an uncle

clearly the evidence proves otherwise.

Except the ones who get assassinated.

@KevinvanderVelden yeah, but you do probably have a relative who votes PVV

Because I honestly don't expect old people to be making the right decisions for the future

1:34 PM

shame on you for missing your nieces birthday.

like not believing in climate change

and caring too much about oil

DanmakuGrazer

@fredley Neat

I mean, I have 2 uncles who vote for N-VA, which are essentially legitimized Flemish separatists

Ahh!

Q: Formula for primary stats on level up?

0

I'm creating a stat level up calculator and was reading through this guide > https://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/130791-final-fantasy-vii/faqs/36775 For leveling up on primary stats, it says "This difference is then capped at 0 to 11 inclusive", however I see the number can be calculated above 11 when t...

final-fantasy-7

1:38 PM

@BlueBarren That's even creepier than an unmarked white van outside a kindergarten with a 70s TV show host behind the wheel

@Nzall now just imagine that guy in the gif outside a kindergarten

@Nzall not to my knowledge

@KutuluMike not my fault my niece was born on my moms birthday

(I'm her nephew btw, point still stands)

@KevinvanderVelden Look, the PVV is the second biggest party in your country, there is bound to be someone you know personally who has voted for them

@Nzall like I said, not to my knowledge =p

Oh Elon

1:44 PM

Also there's 13 or so political parties in the netherlands, 2nd biggest could mean 10%

Q: Brief outage planned for Wed, May 3, 2017 at 0:00 UTC, 8pm US/Eastern (like a fire drill for computers)

@KevinvanderVelden PVV has earned 13% of the votes, 20 seats

13% aint that many

77

MicroVersion: Planned service degradation: All Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites read-only for 20 minutes on Wed, May 3, 2017 shortly after midnight UTC (8PM US/Eastern). If you blink, you'll miss it. Short version: There will be a service degradation for up to 20 minutes shortly after midnig...

discussion featured announcements

Has this been mentioned yet?

20 minutes is a long blink

2:01 PM

@Nzall DO you personally know people who voted for the PS? Or for MR? I don't, and both of those got ~10% in the last election.

@Arperum no, but I live in Flanders, we can't even vote for those parties

There's also the difference between "knowing a person who voted for $party" and "knowing that a person you know voted for $party"

Because the Partie Socialiste and Movement Reformateur are Walloon parties

Hence me saying "Not to my knowledge"

I'm not saying it didn't happen but =p

@Nzall Doesn't matter. PVV might not had a single vote in the part where @KevinvanderVelden lives.

2:03 PM

It's true! I put red marks on every voting bill beforehand

(also in dutchlandia you get a red pencil and mark the party you want to vote for)

(thatsthejoke.jpg)

~I just want to go home and play Mario Kart~

~Or sleep, either is okay~

@Nzall The only way this is guaranteed is if @KevinvanderVelden personally knows ~87% of all people who live in the netherlands.

@KevinvanderVelden remember how in Turkey they had stamps marked "yes" that you used to mark which one you wanted ”yes/no"? Good times

@Arperum I'm not talking about guaranteed. What I'm talking about is that at a certain point, there is like a 75% chance that you know someone (or someone who knows someone) who voted PVV. It's entirely possible that he doesn't have any family members who fit the PVV profile

Q: Where is the shrine in the cutscene after Mipha's Grace?

0

When you are done with Mipha's dungeon, in the cutscene that plays where the Elephant goes and places itself before firing it's lazer at Ganon, there's a shrine that can be seen. I've looked high and low in Zora's domain, and couldn't find it or that kind of beach again. So where is it?

zelda-breath-of-the-wild

Yuuki

2:26 PM

@Yuuki Found the chemistry major

We believe in an open internet & give customers the #netneutrality protections they expect: http://comca.st/2qgfce3 https://t.co/kvMTXALssF

Tweeted by comcast on April 26, 2017 at 10:13 PM

ahem hahahaha fucj

@Unionhawk um, april fools was 25 days ago

Thank you corporate overlords for protecting us god bless the free market

TIL: grouping on an unindexed field in Access surfaces an obscure bug: it returns Chinese characters for that field.

2:41 PM

Are you sure it's not random garbage that's interpreted as UTF chinese characters?

@KevinvanderVelden Could be. All I know is report was working, and then it was giving Chinese characters instead of text.

But apparently the bug has been around for a decade.

Oh hey, the official comment period on Killing Net Neutrality is open

fcc.gov/restoring-internet-freedom-comments-wc-docket-no-17-108

@Frank seems like a microsoft product thing

> There are better ways to guarantee net neutrality than classifying all broadband businesses under Title II public utility regulations.

translation: "waaah we want all the benefits of being a public utility and none of the responsibility"

Yuuki

"I'm a details-oriented person." - Donald Trump

The guy who started talking about bombing Syria and in three seconds segued into a twenty second long diatribe on the quality of chocolate cake at his restaurant.

2:51 PM

Bush hid the facts

Bush hid the facts is a common name for a bug present in some versions of Microsoft Windows, which causes text encoded in ASCII, or supersets of ASCII such as a Windows code page, to be interpreted as if it were little-endian UTF-16 (UTF-16LE), resulting in mojibake. When the string "Bush hid the facts", without newline or quotes, was put in a new Notepad document and saved, closed, and reopened, the nonsensical Chinese characters "畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴" would appear instead. While "Bush hid the facts" is the sentence most commonly presented on the Internet to induce the error, the bug can be triggered by...

This?

bleh.

eugh

one of my servers is down

@PrivatePansy Nope.

my boss decided that our team needed some kind of collaborative chat utility that would allow us to divide up into smaller groups, communicate in real time, share resources, and message each other.

Specifically in Access.

2:53 PM

something small and easy to use.

so of course, he picks: Microsoft Teams

headdesk

@KutuluMike Well, if you already have Office 365 it's not hard to see why

yeah. we're a gold partner.