The Nineteenth Byte

AdmBorkBork

8:01 PM

@JanDvorak Only on Facebook.

monly00

Pavel

@Downgoat imgur.com/gallery/LGvJH

Poke

1 hour ago, by Riker

@Downgoat http://imgur.com/gallery/LGvJH

TuxCopter

@Pavel Ninja'd. By 1 hour.

Jan Dvorak

@Pavel ... how?

mbomb007

8:09 PM

Gosh dangit

AdmBorkBork

> Who the f--- are you and why is there a charge from you on my card? Click here to view my statement ,, get back to me asap. --Phishing email a user just received.

Spammers are getting aggressive.

Anonymous

@AdmBorkBork Seems legit

Anonymous

It's a lot more coherent than the typical SE spam

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem Why are you still not DJMcMayHam? :P

mbomb007

@AdmBorkBork That's when you reply just as aggressively, lol

> Who the f are you and how did you get my email address?!

> Click here to view my middle finger

AdmBorkBork

8:19 PM

Just the ASCII art of the middle finger

PhiNotPi

No the physical finger sent through email.

mbomb007

I think it'd be funnier to use similar language to the previous email

Anonymous

Isn't there an emoji for that?

Anonymous

@PhiNotPi Something something Black Mirror

monly00

Reversed victory hand?

emojibase.com/emoji/1f594/reversedvictoryhand

DJMcMayhem

8:21 PM

@Mego Haha, I thought people were sick of my frequent name changes

Anonymous

@monly00 I mean, it's literally the next emoji in that database...

mbomb007

Anyone have a USB to IV adapter?

Anonymous

@mbomb007 Let's not spam here, thanks

monly00

@Mego Oh yeah...

Riker

imgur.com/gallery/RdjZZ

Anonymous

8:22 PM

@DJMcMayhem This one would be subtle, though. Just change the e to an a and see how long it takes people to notice

Jan Dvorak

infraviolet? It shouldn't be hard to find a USB lamp.

mbomb007

It's not any more spammy than what other people are posting, but ok

Anonymous

@mbomb007 It's an unwanted commercial advertisement

Anonymous

@JanDvorak Intravenous

Jan Dvorak

I wouldn't put a flashlight there

or a flashdrive

DJMcMayhem

8:24 PM

@Mego :O I like the way you think. But I can't do it soon, that would be too obvious

Anonymous

@JanDvorak Really? The biology lesson would be illuminating

mbomb007

Sir, please close your CD tray!

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem Just keep it in mind :P We can eleven these messages so that they're more easily forgotten, but that might be a bit abusive

AdmBorkBork

yesterday, by Mego

Man, RO powers don't let me eleven my own messages. What even is the point?

mbomb007

@Mego You should try it with your name

Business Cat

8:26 PM

@Mego There really is

Anonymous

@BusinessCat ninja'd

Anonymous

@AdmBorkBork See, eleven can mean several things. Yesterday, I was using it to mean edit. Today, I'm using it to mean move to Trash.

DJMcMayhem

@AdmBorkBork @Mego Wait really? I've trashed my own messages before

You can't edit any messages unless you're a mod

AdmBorkBork

Oh. Cheeky.

Anonymous

Well, you can edit your own messages within the minute window (or however long it is)

Jan Dvorak

8:27 PM

Sure you can. See? Quite easy, actually.

DJMcMayhem

Although I have found that you can self-star. (Not pin, star)

mbomb007

@JanDvorak Wait 2 minutes, then you can't.

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem Oh yeah that's a fun kind of elevening

Anonymous

There are eleven kinds of eleven

mbomb007

@Mego 2 minutes

AdmBorkBork

8:28 PM

> Two minutes, Turkish.

mbomb007

?

Anonymous

Trash, edit, kick, suspend, unstar, pin, unpin, self-star, ban, and nuke

mbomb007

@Mego That's 10

Self-nuke, perhaps?

DJMcMayhem

Timeout

Anonymous

@mbomb007 Exactly. If I told you the eleventh, I'd have to eleven you

AdmBorkBork

8:30 PM

@mbomb007 It's a movie quote

mbomb007

The eleventh kind is probably "eleven"

DJMcMayhem

And I don't think you can ban

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem Well we can't edit, suspend, or nuke, either

Anonymous

ROs just get a subset of the eleven

DJMcMayhem

Oooh, you meant general elevening, not RO elevening

mbomb007

8:33 PM

11 (read "one one") to rule them all, 11 to find them, 11 to bring them all and in the eleven bind them.

Anonymous

Mods have too many powers for my eleven jokes to work

mbomb007

Jon Skeet has 12 types of eleven

DJMcMayhem

Nov 22 '16 at 18:56, by DrMcMoylex

> "Four downvotes for the Mod-kings under the userpage,
Seven for the challenge-writers in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal users, doomed to use Java,
One for the Dark Geobits on his dark throne
In the Land of PPCG, where the golfers lie.
One downvote to rule them all, One downvote to find them,
One downvote to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of PPCG, where the golfers lie."

mbomb007

@DJMcMayhem Yeah, I've seen it. There's no eleven

DJMcMayhem

Although I have no idea who this mcmoylex guy is

Anonymous

8:34 PM

Move, edit, kick, suspend, unstar, pin, unpin, self-star, superping, private rooms, flag handling, automatic flag approval, immunity to kicks and suspensions, nukes, IP bans, etc.

AdmBorkBork

@Mego So kinda like ⅟

Anonymous

The list just goes on and on

mbomb007

...Vulnerability to Kryptonite

Anonymous

@mbomb007 No you're confusing them with weirdos in tights

quartata

@Mego yeah diamonds are pretty good

Anonymous

8:36 PM

@quartata Some even say that they are very valuable as acquaintances to females

mbomb007

Or as female acquaintances, like that girl from X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

quartata

That sentence took me a really long time to parse

Anonymous

Man @DJMcMayhem you're killing it on the starboard today

DJMcMayhem

@Mego :) I've taken over 50% of it so far

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mbomb007

Yeah, 40%. Not too bad

flawr

8:39 PM

feature-request RO names should be underlined and bold instead of italic.

Anonymous

It's 50% for me, thanks to being in other rooms

mbomb007

@DJMcMayhem The number of items one sees on the starboard is subjective

I can see 5 items

Anonymous

@flawr Such heresy

DJMcMayhem

Huh. I can see 0 (mobile) but when I go to desktop site I see 10

Anonymous

8:44 PM

That's what the side of the chat screen looks like to me

quartata

What is that thing

Riker

Anonymous

@quartata It's a PNG

Riker

@Mego wtf is that hedgehog donkey mashup

is that an animal even

quartata

I mean the goats covering the private room in your room list

Riker

8:45 PM

oh that's a goat?

Anonymous

@Riker It's a poorly-resized goat, copied twice

Riker

ah

Anonymous

@quartata Yep

Riker

that explains it

DJMcMayhem

@Riker 0_0 wow. I wonder if I can hit 100 :P

Jan Dvorak

8:46 PM

That doesn't explain what the goat's doing there

Riker

lol

1 min ago, by quartata

I mean the goats covering the private room in your room list

covering a private room in his room list apparently

Anonymous

It would've been much easier to just temporarily leave the room for the purpose of the screenshot, but that's the kind of smart idea I come up with after the fact

Jan Dvorak

Oh, it's a censorship rectangle.

You could have just blurred out the spot, you know

Anonymous

But that's a lot less fun than goats

Riker

or blacked it out in paint

> fun

those look like demons from hell

quartata

8:47 PM

Most likely the private RO election room since you don't have access to TL and I doubt the mods are allowed to let you into the Twentieth Byte

Anonymous

@quartata It's actually where we conspire to make sure that we dominate the starboard

quartata

ah

AdmBorkBork

One goat was too stretched, so you had to use two?

Jan Dvorak

Even using two goats is stretching it

AdmBorkBork

> Stretches one goat across Nah, too stretchy. Stretches two goats side by side. Perfect. --Mego (probably)

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quartata

8:52 PM

@Mego ROs can star their own messages by pinning and unpinning anyways so

Anonymous

@AdmBorkBork Precisely

Jan Dvorak

Do stars get preserved on migration?

DJMcMayhem

@JanDvorak we could test that. I have no idea

quartata

@JanDvorak yes

Also pins

Which IMO is a bad thing

Jan Dvorak

grows horns

quartata

8:55 PM

So in theory you can pin a message in any room as long as you can create a room

Anonymous

That... Doesn't seem right

Riker

i.imgur.com/Tsl6I3M.gifv

@Mego it's possible, I've pinned messages about goats into the sandbox like taht

quartata

@Mego Would you like me to demonstrate? :P

Anonymous

@quartata Sure, I'll unpin/unstar the message

DJMcMayhem

Someone star that so I can move it?

quartata

8:56 PM

Mego made me do this

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← 1 message moved from Beep Boop Maggot

There you go.

Anonymous

That... Is not what should happen

DJMcMayhem

Yeah, that's not good.

quartata

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Jan Dvorak

Yeah, the star should have stayed for longer

quartata

At least I assume because it's been there for longer than time itself

Anonymous

8:57 PM

Well stealth pings were around for a long time too

flawr

You mean even before the big bang happened?

quartata

That's fair.

@flawr yes

Riker

@flawr no, even earlier

Jan Dvorak

status-meh-we'll-just-punish-those-who-misuse-it

Riker

before code golf existed

DJMcMayhem

8:58 PM

→ 1 message moved to Brain-Flak

quartata

@JanDvorak pretty much

Anonymous

Found the Meta bug report:

Anonymous

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Q: Stars and pins are retained when chat messages are moved!

In the chat system, stars and pins are retained when moved to another room. This is probably a bug. Here a picture: When a room owner pins a message, they can move it to another room, and they cannot unpin it. However when a starred message is moved to another room, the user can unstar it in t...

Anonymous

Nearly 3.5 years old, no response. Par for the course.

DJMcMayhem

I just found another bug.

I moved the brain-flak message, but it still shows up on the starboard here

flawr

8:59 PM

So did I, it just crawled over my keyboard.

quartata

@DJMcMayhem refresh

DJMcMayhem

@quartata Oh

AdmBorkBork

Y'all are obviously too bored. You should go do my challenge.

Anonymous

We're finding ~~new~~ ways to break chat

betseg

@AdmBorkBork too hard ;-;

AdmBorkBork

9:03 PM

Yeah, my challenges tend toward the "more difficult" end of the spectrum.

quartata

OK, this is super weird.

DJMcMayhem

@AdmBorkBork it's better than super trivial

quartata

So if I star a message, then move it, then it no longer shows me as having starred it (but it still has the star). However, trying to star it again unstars it.

It must be caching.

Riker

AdmBorkBork

@DJMcMayhem True. I like to think that I help raise the average quality of the site.

Anonymous

9:07 PM

@AdmBorkBork But then you post Powershell code and undo all of that hard work :P

quartata

@Mego Should I bounty this?

AdmBorkBork

Yeah, well, no one's perfect.

Riker

@quartata I'm about to click teh button to bounty it, so you can do it after I guess? :P

Anonymous

@quartata If you want, though there's a clear message on Meta that bounties don't serve their intended purpose of drawing attention

quartata

@Mego Sure but it still bumps it

Anonymous

9:09 PM

If the devs aren't going to fix it either way, bumping it might just encourage trolls to try it out. Personally, I wouldn't bother with a bounty, but it's your rep.

Anonymous

@Riker Way to send the wrong message with your bounty message

Anonymous

> Even though this is pretty cool, it needs to get fixed.

Riker

<shrug> oh well

Anonymous

It's not pretty cool at all. It's an avenue for trolls to be nuisances.

Riker

I'm outta here for now though, see y'all

Destructible Watermelon

9:17 PM

wait why is everything dark theme

but bad dark theme

Jan Dvorak

That's not a dark theme. That's a high-contrast theme. A bad one, that much I agree with.

Destructible Watermelon

refreshing fixed it though

wat

Does anyone recognize this string: dQw4w9WgXcQ

Anonymous

@wat Yes

wat

I got it sent to me on Reddit and I don't know what it is, please help me

Anonymous

9:28 PM

It's a Youtube video ID

wat

goddammit

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Nice song.

I should have known

Look, he's not even using autotune. He's actually singing.

And yet, oneboxing it here is just ... unfair. Some might get offended by the onebox.

Pavel

@wat brb, posting to puzzling.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

9:33 PM

Be sure to toss us the link

quartata

yeah so we can dupehammer it

Pavel

@JanDvorak I somehow read "dark theme" as "dank meme".

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@wat you haven't memorized it yet?

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