Charcoal HQ

Andras Deak

00:05

I'm sure a few of us can chip in with a buck a year each, if need be

metasmoke is immensely useful:)

ArtOfCode

@Undo do you have to do it through Google, or do they let you pick registrar?

Cuz if the latter, 34sp.com

Undo

@ArtOfCode Through Google, I've been fairly happy with Google Domains anyway

ArtOfCode

Fair

Undo

No stupid dance to change DNS stuff

Andras Deak

good night

ArtOfCode

00:08

Night

Oh, thanks voters. GBP has dropped enough that my registrar is gonna charge me 50% more per year when my domains come up for renewal.

Undo

01:12

@QPaysTaxes How urgent?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in title: Movie [email protected] challenge to say the least by Randy Ryerson on movies.stackexchange.com …

Undo

Yeah. Meta would be best

:)

SmokeDetector

Restart: API quota is 9407.

hichris123

02:00

@SmokeDetector fp-

"feed that back"? You're not feeding any lions here. ;)

... that took a turn.

SmokeDetector

03:09

@QPaysTaxes Of course

hichris123

@QPaysTaxes Yeah, Saturday night is the one time spammers have off. (More like Sunday in their timezone though)

SmokeDetector

04:08

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Is there an archive of Polish or Hungarian passport applications from 1900-1940 from New York consulates? by Kathleen on genealogy.stackexchange.com …

Yvette

04:22

sd f

SmokeDetector

04:57

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Getting error in console : Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET by Rajat K Jain on stackoverflow.com …

Yvette

not sure

sd k

SmokeDetector

05:27

[ SmokeDetector ] Mostly non-Latin answer: Is there a downside of having a Poke-stop at your work? by Bill Clinton on gaming.stackexchange.com (@angussidney) …

Yvette

sd k troll

Bookend

05:49

!!/test appsforpc.com

SmokeDetector

> Would not be caught for title, body, and username.

Bookend

@AshishAhujaツ Done by means of a pattern, since we had appsforpcdownloads blacklisted earlier.

SmokeDetector

06:05

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: How many Machine Cycles are there in Jump Statements of 8085? by Merry Marlo on stackoverflow.com …

Yvette

sd k

Ashish Ahuja ツ

06:54

Hello!

rene

07:09

@hichris123 Yes, I like to have a say but leave the final decision up to you all here. In that sense I'm only a consumer of your service, not a key player.

SmokeDetector

07:22

Restart: API quota is 8370.

Bookend

Customers are key players for any service...

!!/pull

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 504d1b1 (Normal Human: wider "bad link text" pattern) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Restart: API quota is 8333.

SmokeDetector

07:59

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: How can I send SMS from my PC using my Android Phone (Galaxy S3) by atheompson on superuser.com …

Bookend

sd k

Yvette

sd k

Ashish Ahuja ツ

08:47

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@AshishAhujaツ Of course

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Why did they have heart plugs in Dune? by Guitarwhisperer on scifi.stackexchange.com …

Ashish Ahuja ツ

sd k

Woah! that has survived for an hour

SmokeDetector

09:04

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer: Security scanner not giving updates by Gideon Kreiner on salesforce.stackexchange.com …

Ashish Ahuja ツ

naa? Or clever spam?

ArtOfCode

@Undo Rails update broke mini profiler too

Ashish Ahuja ツ

@ArtOfCode what is the apiquota per day for MS api?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer, pattern-matching website in answer: Twillio , connect between 2 numbers by saeedhabibi on stackoverflow.com …

SmokeDetector

09:30

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body, phone number detected in title: Vashikaran Specialist in Delhi |+91-8054040523 by user615535 on superuser.com …

Ashish Ahuja ツ

sd k

Bookend

09:48

@SmokeDetector f seems relevant

Ashish Ahuja ツ

Really? If it was a genuine answer, why did you mark my flag as helpful :D

Yvette

@SmokeDetector k

Andras Deak

@AshishAhujaツ I've never seen a comment with a helpful flag

I suspect a misclick:D

Ashish Ahuja ツ

If it is, I'm lucky :)

Yvette

@Undo no doubt you've seen this meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/327636/… relevant to this room

ArtOfCode

10:03

@AshishAhujaツ unlimited, currently

Bookend

Meaning it works until HTTP 503

Ashish Ahuja ツ

@ArtOfCode and are there backoff's?

ArtOfCode

@AshishAhujaツ nope

I just built it simple. If it gets heavy use, or abuse, I'll look at implementing protective measures, but I don't expect that to be necessary.

Though if it gets abused I'm more likely to start by telling the abuser not to

Ashish Ahuja ツ

got it.

ArtOfCode

And at the end of the day, it's Rails on AWS, it can handle a fair old load.

SmokeDetector

10:08

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Mac Bluetooth Wireless keyboard and keypad by atheompson on askubuntu.com …

Ashish Ahuja ツ

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@AshishAhujaツ Body - Position 1454-1468: erasephone.com, Position 1598-1612: erasephone.com

Bookend

@SmokeDetector spam, the question isn't about Android. Or iPhones.

I mean, it's Ask Ubuntu...

Ashish Ahuja ツ

!!/test panerabread.com

SmokeDetector

> Would not be caught for title, body, and username.

Bookend

10:11

I like Panera. Hope they aren't spammers.

Ashish Ahuja ツ

@Bookend they mostly arent. Just wanted to confirm that this question isn't clever spam

Bookend

U pick 2 is what I usually get at Panera. VTC'd anyway. :)

Ashish Ahuja ツ

!!/test erasephone.com

SmokeDetector

> Blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title
----------
Title - Position 1-15: erasephone.com
Body - Position 1-15: erasephone.com

SmokeDetector

10:55

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer, pattern-matching website in answer: How do I change submit URL for exposed search filter? by Arshad Malik on drupal.stackexchange.com …

Bookend

sd k

SmokeDetector

11:14

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Magento 1.9.0.1 Image Size by ram on stackoverflow.com …

Bookend

!!/pull

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 3e6fbbc (Normal Human: development in <city>) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Restart: API quota is 7459.

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: luxmuscle.com/dominant-testo-reviews/ by marylusk on drupal.stackexchange.com …

Ferrybig

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

11:47

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: Chat-avenue.com transcripts by Chatavenue on reverseengineering.stackexchange.com …

Bookend

sd k

Undo

12:56

@ArtOfCode k, thanks

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: The Neurocet fixings expect that a key part will your thriving and the creators of Neurocet by rsonahasnain on drupal.stackexchange.com …

hichris123

13:16

@SmokeDetector fp-

Yvette

13:54

@SmokeDetector k

Yvette

14:16

night, will be around for spam o clock tomorrow ;)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: Can't Open/install/uninstall myEclipse by Mohammad Hasannejad on stackoverflow.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer: How to send more than one image to server by Manish borde on stackoverflow.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, blacklisted user: How to send more than one image to server by Manish borde on stackoverflow.com …

Byte Commander

14:33

sd 3k

SmokeDetector

15:04

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer, link at end of answer: Who runs www.bitcoin.org? by Satoshi Tominaga Nakamoto on bitcoin.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: It is possible to run a timer job in Office 365 online? by Maria Grazia Merlo on sharepoint.stackexchange.com …

Rand al'Thor

15:41

@SmokeDetector f

SmokeDetector

16:01

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body: Extract data from API and load til SQL database (Azure) by Sverre Nielsen on stackoverflow.com …

Rand al'Thor

16:34

!!/report scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/74037/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Warlords of Draenor: Status of Doomhammer by Dugi Game on scifi.stackexchange.com …

Rand al'Thor

URL being spammed is ultimatewowguide.com/wow-leveling-guides

ArtOfCode

!!/test www.ultimatewowguide.com/wow-leveling-guides/

SmokeDetector

> Would not be caught for title, body, and username.

ArtOfCode

Heh. I'm usually lurking in the background here so that I can input if needed.

Rand al'Thor

16:42

SFF seems to get more specialised spam than a lot of sites.

ArtOfCode

!!/pull

Rand al'Thor

Not just drugs and tech support, but concrete crushers and WoW guides.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 8ee53bd (ArtOfCode: +ultimatewowguide) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Restart: API quota is 6156.

ArtOfCode

@Randal'Thor yeah, I've noticed that. I've been wondering if there's anything we can do to catch it.

Time to go digging in the MS archives...

Rand al'Thor

@ArtOfCode You mean beyond having an SFF mod who occasionally hangs out in here? ;-)

If I see spam that hasn't been flagged by any of the regular Charcoal crew, I always come here to check.

ArtOfCode

16:44

Then again... Only 110 spam posts in the last 10 months.

One every threeish days

Rand al'Thor

@QPaysTaxes No, literally concrete crushers. Every so often we get spam from Chinese concrete companies. On a sci-fi and fantasy site. Go figure.

ArtOfCode

Can someone tell me what MS post 17501 contains that's stopping it loading on my iPad?

Rand al'Thor

@ArtOfCode Zalgo text.

You can see here what it looked like.

ArtOfCode

@Randal'Thor ah, that would make sense

SmokeDetector

17:12

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: UK EEA Family Permit Refused - Urgent HELP needed - Marriage of convenience by shannon on expatriates.stackexchange.com …

Rand al'Thor

@SmokeDetector k

Bookend

17:41

Feedback is great, but 28 minutes later, my spam flag was first...

Bookend

18:19

!!/report security.stackexchange.com/a/129692

!!/report security.stackexchange.com/a/129691

Ferrybig

Smokey isn't in the room at the monent....

Bookend

What happened?

Ferrybig

Don't know

Bookend

Metasmoke code red; @Undo should have received a message

Ferrybig

According to MS, he is down for 1 hour already...

Bookend

18:21

I'll start my copy then.

Restart: API quota is 9964.

!!/allspam security.stackexchange.com/users/117157/…

[ SmokeDetector ] All of this user's posts are spam: user 117157 on security.stackexchange.com

ArtOfCode

If @hichris is around and can start a Smokey, it can run on the dedicated account and integrate with MS. I'd do it myself, but I'm too far away from a computer with SSH.

Bookend

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 51 mins ago, by Oded

There were alerts in the dev chat room, but... Sunday.

Undo

I've got it

Ferrybig

Hiya Undo o/

Undo

So... apparently the Pi restarted?

Power outage, mayhaps?

uptime 1:17:10

!!/stappit

Bookend

18:31

Goodbye, cruel world

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 8ee53bd (ArtOfCode: +ultimatewowguide) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Undo

filesystem errors on some things, probably because hard cut

Ferrybig

usually when there is a power outage at my home, I need to buy a need usb stick for my pi, because the normal one will fail quickly

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 8ee53bd (ArtOfCode: +ultimatewowguide) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Ferrybig

!!/errorlogs 100

Undo

18:37

!!/alive

@Ferrybig It won't respond

and you won't get anything meaningful out of it

Ferrybig

Lets hope you did proper backups on that PI

Undo

@Ferrybig Like... of what?

There's literally nothing important or unrecoverable on it

main filesystem is fine, and I've seen this readonly stuff on the external before

Ferrybig

The disk image, I usually use dd over network to copy the image to my normal pc hard disk once a month

Undo

@Ferrybig I have pretty much no reason to do that

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 8ee53bd (ArtOfCode: +ultimatewowguide) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Undo

18:46

!!/reporthttp://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/734/external-trackpad-f‌or-a-macbook-pro

!!/report hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/734/…

sd f

Okay, should be working now.

SmokeDetector

Restart: API quota is 9997.

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 8ee53bd (ArtOfCode: +ultimatewowguide) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Restart: API quota is 9995.

Undo

!!/apiquota

SmokeDetector

@Undo The current API quota remaining is 9995.

Undo

Aaand we're good. Ping me if it breaks again.

Bookend

Did MS send you an email, btw?

Ferrybig

18:50

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@Ferrybig Of course

Bookend

19:03

Yes

@SmokeDetector del

:30934208 ignore-

Ferrybig

@QPaysTaxes only if the reason contains blacklisted user, if you f an manually reported post, it doesn't unblacklist

!!/isblu hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/1/undo

SmokeDetector

@Ferrybig User is blacklisted (1 on hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com).

Ferrybig

!!/rmblu hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/1/undo

SmokeDetector

@Ferrybig User removed from blacklist (1 on hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com).

Ferrybig

We don't want to destroy our blacklisted user statistics

hichris123

19:07

@ArtOfCode You picked the wrong time to break Smokey... ;P

Ferrybig

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@Ferrybig It's Undo's fault.

Byte Commander

:D

Ferrybig

@QPaysTaxes yes

sd ignore

SmokeDetector

@Ferrybig [:30934383] Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Bookend

19:14

!!/report security.stackexchange.com/q/129693

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: How to earn online via internet by Sohail Akbar on security.stackexchange.com …

SmokeDetector

19:38

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted username: How to farm power points in Dragon Age Inquisition? by deez nuts nigger on gaming.stackexchange.com …

SmokeDetector

19:52

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: Auto-terminate a Windows application after a given amount of time by Tom williams on superuser.com …

TIPS

Well, no affiliation disclosed.

Bookend

20:08

SU post looks okay to me.

SmokeDetector

20:50

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: How to copy or move a file from a folder to desktop? by jorina on askubuntu.com …

Byte Commander

sd k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: How to implement password strength like in gmail registration in YII php? by deep on stackoverflow.com …

SmokeDetector

22:09

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body: sql query with incorrect result by LucaPearl on stackoverflow.com …

Ferrybig

@SmokeDetector tp-

SmokeDetector

22:26

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with a link in answer: Toast message with Chinese characters, is it a virus? by Beng on android.stackexchange.com …

ArtOfCode

22:48

@QPaysTaxes likely one of the flag reasons. Combined with "comments are ephemeral", most likely.

Ferrybig

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@Ferrybig Of course

Quill

note that you're not actually a ninja, you're like a ninja

ArtOfCode

@Quill not a very good one really

one could almost say shit ninja

@QPaysTaxes I'm good at mod

What worked?

That's gonna get real annoying when you meet an art critic

Hooray for sweeping generalisations :)

Measurements: a quSN of something

Quill

I wanna change my name to artOWDEN

ArtOfCode

22:59

@Quill Why? Sounds like a pain to use more than anything else

@QPaysTaxes and woe betide you if you get wSNs

@QPaysTaxes I just realised you made a meta-sweeping generalisation

Quill

@ArtOfCode he's a real pro

ArtOfCode

@QPaysTaxes your poor jokes, not being done justice. I weep for them.

Are you an African black rhino or something?

Huh. I'm clearly far too well rooted in reality.

Quill

@QPaysTaxes I hope your tinfoil is comfortable

ArtOfCode

Oh, totally. I mean how did I not realise that?

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