Root Access

12:08 AM

Ya know how women (yea I said women) will tell you "don't say that or it will happen"?
Just because the men are smart enough to know what is about to happen, and possibly avoid it.
So it is all so much BS that they have a belief system like that, and I am going to find a lottery ticket that won the big one tomorrow :-)

Then next I am going to discover time travel, and then anti-gravity.

Canadian Luke

@JourneymanGeek That's fine, but you can also pay the EFI symposium (I think that's the title?) to allow your keys you make to be used

Journeyman Geek

@CanadianLuke I don't think anyone's done that, since they'd still need to ensure manudacturers have it. Its simpler to get MS to do it

Canadian Luke

Absolutely, I'm not denying that! I'm just stating that MS will allow other systems to be installed... It's not MS that's putting the restriction on, it's the mobo manufacturers that only include MS's keys

Journeyman Geek

yup, which is why I find people who freak out over secure boot amusing

Dog

12:30 AM

@Bob Well, they're overcharging my camera batteries

Basically I forgot to bring my camera battery charger with me and it'd cost 25EUR to buy a universal one here

So it turns out I had a spare USB-to-nothing cable I could tear apart and jury rig it to charge my battery from a USB port

Thing is it's a 7.4v battery, so I had to jury rig the battery to my dual-port USB power meter, and connect my phone to the other port to get my QC3 charger to deliver 9v. But even then it's a bit high (stock charger being 8.4v) so I was relying on the length of the USB cable to provide enough voltage droop to keep it "safe"

That's what the setup looks like... only problem is even with the 3m cable and the meter in the way, it's still delivering way too much voltage (and current)

That 8.2v there isn't too bad, but that's off my portable battery pack

Off the mains charger that's 3.4A going in (at 7.97v)!

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Dog

Remember QC chargers are rated at 9v 2A, but even with the longest cable I have, the battery is still drawing 3.4A! o_0

That bit isn't actually that bad. The problem is with the 9v QC output, the battery's overvoltage safety cuts out at about 8.6v or something, and the cable's too good to maintain the voltage droop below 8.6v when the battery is >50%.

So yeah. While the battery is empty, the >2A current draw is enough to keep the voltage around 7.9-8.2v but as the battery charges, the current drops, and the voltage increases, until the safety cut out engages well before the battery is full because the current draw is too low to keep the voltage down

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: Spoof dxdiag results

I'm trying to play Overwatch on an AWS EC2 instance. The GPU used in the g2 unit is not compatible with the game (NVIDIA GRID K520). Although I think the game should run fine. Looking at this forum: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20745224795 The support agent suggests spoofing t...

Dog

But regardless, that's the hackiest thing I've done all year. And it's awesome.

Journeyman Geek

twitchy game... lots of latency?

Dog

12:42 AM

@JourneymanGeek Eh, latency wouldn't necessarily be too bad

Bit of a lucky coincidence I had a random, spare USB A cable, and a two-way USB power meter thing with me too. Not only allowing my phone to command 9v from a QC charger but also metering the voltage and current just so I can keep an eye on its blow-up-likelyhood

bwDraco

@Dog QC 2.0 goes up to 12V. QC 3.0 goes up to 20V with voltage negotiated between 3.2V and 20V for optimized charge speed.

Dog

Nonetheless >3A into a battery designed to charge at 0.8A from a charger designed to deliver <2A is a bit... scary. Hence why I moved the setup onto the stone floor instead of the fabric bed in the second photo :-P

Oh yeah, and also having an exactly 9v only QC circuit was also a bit of a coincidence too.

bwDraco

QC2.0 allows 5V, 9V, or 12V depending on the device being charged.

Dog

I was tempted to cut up one of those new reversible USB cables too, cause it's utter shite, but turns out I had a spare Y-cable on my USB3 SATA adapter so I sliced that off

My backup plan, had I not realised I had a 9v charger, was to daisy chain two AA batteries onto a USB port to give 8v :-|

@bwDraco Not when you have a 9v only charger it doesn't

Bob

@Dog O_O

That sounds... risky. Awesome, but risky :P

What's wrong with the reversibles?

Journeyman Geek

12:56 AM

@Dog no boom today, boom tommorrow, always boom tommorrow.

oldmud0

how exactly does one play Overwatch on an EC2 instance??

Like, you gotta live a few blocks from a datacenter and have google fiber

And maybe, just maybe, you might have a latency less than 10ms

And that's just video.

Input?? Hahahaha..

"Oh yeah look at me my gaming rig is an EC2 spot instance, I pay 5 cents an hour every time I want to play a demanding game"

"But I'm filthy rich anyway so I use it as my main computer"

"Actually if I'm filthy rich why don't I just buy a gaming rig?"

Journeyman Geek

!!therethere

ChatBot John Cavil

oldmud0

"Oh right... wife doesn't like it around the house...."

Journeyman Geek

You clearly seem very concerned with how other people spend their money ;p

oldmud0

1:01 AM

!!thisisfine

ChatBot John Cavil

@oldmud0 i.stack.imgur.com/yssEr.jpg

oldmud0

noooooo it didn't load the image ;_;

Journeyman Geek

clearly whoever uploaded it did it wrong.

!!Info thisisfine

ChatBot John Cavil

@JourneymanGeek Command thisisfine, created by oldmud0 on Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:36:20 GMT

Journeyman Geek

points and laughs

oldmud0

1:14 AM

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

I didn't upload it... Ijust bound it

that's right point and laugh

There are bunch of bikes on craigslist. The one I have in the garage doesn't fit me.

I think I'll just take one, fit an electric motor on it, maybe order a 'duino and an LCD display

The 'duinos have EEPROM you know, at least 512 bytes of it.

I could make an odometer.

oldmud0

2:31 AM

I killed the chat room

Journeyman Geek

2:46 AM

!!tumbleweed

!!tumbleweeds

NOT tumbleweed. Spiders. Lots of spiders. ALLLLLL THE SPIDERS!!!!

oldmud0

Good

This just in: thousands of people die across the world from natural causes

Journeyman Geek

3:07 AM

OMG BAN NATURE! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! NO NOT THAT WAY YOU FREAK!

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

4:13 AM

@Bob what? :p

Henry WH Hack v2.0

4:49 AM

It's a long time ago since I talked in this room.

This guy is a super spammer he,she or what ever keeps recommending the same product over and over in every answer like there is no tomorrow it's a bit funny in a way.

!!/help

ChatBot John Cavil

@HenryWHHackv2.0 Information on interacting with me can be found at this page

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@ChatBotJohnCavil Thank You! :)

Journeyman Geek

5:44 AM

@HenryWHHackv2.0 what guy?

(just flag em)

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@JourneymanGeek His account was deleted.

Journeyman Geek

as should be

point is there's almost zero benefit to directly linking a spammer on a chat if you have flagging rights.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@JourneymanGeek Well

Bob

> The cake is a fake and the pie is a lie

Journeyman Geek

Bob

5:50 AM

@JourneymanGeek Important info.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

7:07 AM

@JourneymanGeek Never Question me.

Journeyman Geek

Why not?

Psycogeek

was that a question :-)

Journeyman Geek

Oh why yes, good sir, in fact, it was

Psycogeek

I finnaly got OldMuds joke , good thing someone (also) starred the Joke Failed.

Leathe

7:33 AM

:P

Burgi

morning

Journeyman Geek

hihi

Burgi

i thought i heard a rumour you had a temp contract @JourneymanGeek?

DavidPostill

@allquicatic You missed your chance to make the answer 42 :)

Journeyman Geek

7:50 AM

@Burgi yup

2 months. MIGHT turn into something more permanent or another contract

Burgi

cool, when do you start?

Journeyman Geek

sept first

still waiting on the details tho

Burgi

good luck :)

Psycogeek

8:15 AM

superuser.com/questions/1110065/… <--- had his chance to update the question to more info, and did not do so. VTGFYFWMT (vote to go freak yourself for wasting my time)

Burgi

i've been flag blocked again

DavidPostill

@Burgi :(

Burgi

superuser.com/users/flag-summary/393570?showDeclined=true

Journeyman Geek

"Will be unbanned in 1 hour" >_>

also, can non mods even see that?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek 404

Journeyman Geek

8:24 AM

thought so

what someone flags is more or less seekrit

Unrelatedly unix.stackexchange.com/questions/301976/…

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I can only see his flag totals.

Journeyman Geek

total clickbait title

@Burgi I wonder if your suspensions are some wierd "lets take the total proportion of flags rejected and calculate based off that" thing

Burgi

i'm annoyed at the rejected spam one in the last 7 days

Burgi

8:46 AM

@JourneymanGeek probably

my minion can't stop drooling at coffee/reception girl

Journeyman Geek

That felt like someone who had seen a deal too good to be true rather than a spammer proper.

Rahul2001

The Historical Importance of Ms Pac-Man

►

This is so cool!

Burgi

@Rahul2001 women can be drug addicts too!

Rahul2001

@Burgi so?

Burgi

some drugs come as pills

Rahul2001

8:53 AM

@Burgi so?

idontgeddit

Journeyman Geek

Good for you.

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek did you?

Journeyman Geek

absolutely

“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”

4

djsmiley2k

9:19 AM

@JourneymanGeek After he fsck'd his disk, you WON'T believe what HAPPENED!

Journeyman Geek

ten simple tricks your sysadmin dosen't want you to know!

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek PacMan is solely responsible for the 90's rave scene?

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k Clearly

DavidPostill

9:33 AM

Some Pac-Man Trivia: "In 1980, the game was picked up for manufacture in the United States by Bally division Midway which changed the game's name from Puck Man to Pac-Man in an effort to avoid vandalism from people changing the letter 'P' into an 'F'" :)

djsmiley2k

lul

Burgi

9:53 AM

@DavidPostill who on earth would deface something in that way? ;)

Rahul2001

10:07 AM

@DavidPostill In Japanese, it's actually pakuman

The billboard site is broken

billboard.com/charts/hot-100

Click on the video for Cold Water

Burgi

10:43 AM

what is billboard?

Bob

A high volume of calls?

whoops we broke it

DavidPostill

@Burgi Top of the Pops clone

Burgi

ah

with the creepy rapists?

DavidPostill

@Burgi ???

Burgi

jimmy savil

DavidPostill

10:59 AM

Ah. No a clone in the sense that it is just another music chart listing site

Bob

whoops

I think we killed the load balancer too

Journeyman Geek

o0

DavidPostill

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play, online streaming, and sales (physical and digital). The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, this has been changed from Friday to Thursday. Radio airplay, which unlike sales figures and streaming data, is readily available on a real-time basis and is tracked on a Monday to Sunday cycle (it was previously Wednesday to Tuesday). A new chart...

@Burgi

Burgi

ah ok

the corporate machine

poisoning the youth of america with manufactured pop

#comarades!

;)

Journeyman Geek

11:21 AM

blog.andrew.im/post/148661867485/ulterius this seems interesting

DavidPostill

Are questions about "test" releases, for example Firefox 50.0 Developer Edition (not yet even a beta) considered on topic?

Journeyman Geek

ehhh. If its specific and answerable maybe

djsmiley2k

I rmeember when download sstarted counting in the chart

it was funny at first, these random artists making an appearance

DavidPostill

0

Q: How to disable colored emoji font in Firefox 50

Firefox 50's release notes: Emoji for everyone! Firefox will use built-in Emoji on operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux) So I'm on Windows 7 and I absolutely dislike colored emoji for how much distracting they are. There is no font file called "Emoji...

windows-7 firefox fonts

Burgi

@djsmiley2k until the corporates caught on!

DavidPostill

11:25 AM

@JourneymanGeek I'm not sure it's answerable ... although it is specific

djsmiley2k

@Burgi nod

Burgi

i haven't heard the top ten in about 15 years

DavidPostill

7

Q: How far can we go when asking about beta software?

This question asks about OS X Mavericks, which is still in beta. There's a close reason specifically for questions about software that's still in beta. However, once Mavericks is released, the question will be perfectly valid and might even be posted again. Also, a moderator edited it—apparently ...

discussion specific-question off-topic

djsmiley2k

I remember when the radio used to play the top 30, in full

it was about 4 hours long

Burgi

@djsmiley2k is it not still on radio 1?

djsmiley2k

11:27 AM

yup

saturdays and wednesdays i think

it's like 1 hour now

Burgi

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkgn

> 1 hour, 45 minutes

djsmiley2k

yeah but no actual music :P

Burgi

how odd

djsmiley2k

there is music

but not full, and not every song

Burgi

simon mayo was the one doing the chart show when i last listened to it

djsmiley2k

11:31 AM

wow :D

Burgi

there might have been someone else but i'm not sure

DavidPostill

@Burgi Longer for me. Probably the '80s ...

Burgi

it was Mark Goodier

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill seems specific and useful in future

so meh, I'd be inclined to let it be

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek np ;P

Burgi

11:44 AM

simon mayo did the late breakfast show (10-1)

Journeyman Geek

(I love the word inclined as a moderator. It lets me say "maybe" a little more precisely)

My mom's been complaining about my gaming being loud. Wierd thing is a good chunk of my gaming is done with headphones...

Psycogeek

well then speak a little quietr when you have them on :-) (yelling because you cant hear yourself)

DavidPostill

Are your cans soundproof?

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Probably talking about the shouts of 'yes!' and 'shit'

Journeyman Geek

@Bob can attest a lot of it is "RUN AWAAAAYYYYYYYY"

Rahul2001

11:49 AM

Man, today has been really crappy so far...

DavidPostill

Are you sure you don't have the sound going though the speakers as well? You wouldn't notice with cans on. ;P

Journeyman Geek

yeah

Rahul2001

So, this really good friend of mine went and snitched about something really minor to a teacher, and I got into trouble

DavidPostill

!!s/friend/ex-friend/

Rahul2001

And another friend turned out to be the biggest dick on earth...

ChatBot John Cavil

11:50 AM

@DavidPostill So, this really good ex-friend of mine went and snitched about something really minor to a teacher, and I got into trouble (source)

Rahul2001

yeah

@DavidPostill guess what he complained about?

DavidPostill

So tell us, what what it about?

Rahul2001

That I did the homework in school... :/

I mean, wtf?

DavidPostill

lol

Rahul2001

everyone does that

DavidPostill

11:52 AM

And how did the teacher respond?

Rahul2001

And the teacher got really angry...

DavidPostill

With the wrong person ...

Rahul2001

I broke a majer rule, apparently

@DavidPostill Yeah, if I was the teacher, I would be disgusted at the snitch

DavidPostill

I suppose it is to stop people collaborating on their homework?

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill No, because it is homework

Why do you even care as long as it is done?

But no, how dare you do it in school?? Now you have to do it five times

Do I not have better things to do in life?

Psycogeek

11:56 AM

i rarely did homework, especially not at home. that is like comming home from working an 8hr job and having to do laundry the dishes and washing the car, , , oh wait we do that :-)

The whole point is to prepare you for the proper life of slavery

Rahul2001

Donald Trump's threat to dismantle NATO, explained

►

That actually explains NATO better than my school teacher

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Hehe. We can just rename NATO to NEATO

Rahul2001

;p

Burgi

why does he want to dismantle NATO?

does he not think russia is a threat?

Rahul2001

12:11 PM

@Burgi youtube.com/results?search_query=trump+and+putin

jokerdino

@Burgi he is close friends with Putin

Burgi

speaking of invasions... i bought man in the high castle the other day, i just need a holiday to read it

jokerdino

@DavidPostill what do you use to block specific images?

Psycogeek

@Rahul2001 I have read before that america should be happy it is capable of maintaining such alliances after the unapproved actions, and illegal activity they pursue in ?

Rahul2001

@Psycogeek That is something that can be debated upon. The fact that NATO prevents WW3 isn't.

Psycogeek

12:14 PM

@Rahul2001 oh does it, or does it start it?

Rahul2001

Aug 5 at 17:46, by Rahul2001

Also, I'm just 15, so may not really have an idea of what's offensive, so next time, please just ping me and tell me what I did wrong... I swear that I have an open mind...

DavidPostill

@jokerdino uBlock Origin -> Right click > Block Element.

jokerdino

@Rahul2001 I am offended.

DavidPostill

@jokerdino

jokerdino

Got it, thanks.

Rahul2001

12:15 PM

@jokerdino Okay, thanks for telling me. I won't post more political stuff.

DavidPostill

@jokerdino I'm curious, what exactly offended you?

Rahul2001

That's what your were offended by, right?

jokerdino

@Rahul2001 lol kidding, post away.

Psycogeek

what keeps WW3 from starting, the lack of any economic interest in doing stupid crap like that again? Or the quantity of people that want to see it happen ?

Rahul2001

...

DavidPostill

12:17 PM

@jokerdino Flagged for trolling :)

jokerdino

@DavidPostill just lazy to block caaaaats until now. Going to do it sometime today.

Burgi

the war on cats!

jokerdino

@DavidPostill I thought you would know me by now.

Burgi

someone in our office has 4 rescue kittens for a good home

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I hope they find one ._.

Burgi

12:19 PM

Rahul2001

@jokerdino People, thoughts and opinions change...

DavidPostill

@jokerdino Unfortunately you have to do them one by one ... unless ... I share my blocking list ...

jokerdino

@DavidPostill Hmmm

@Rahul2001 he has flagged me quite a bit now.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill I'd actually be totally cool with sticking that on my web space ;p

Rahul2001

Coming up soon: rahul2001.com/web-block-list

Burgi

12:21 PM

@DavidPostill do it as a gist or pastebin?

jokerdino

looks like there is great demand.

Psycogeek

catblocker 2017

Journeyman Geek

or I suppose I could just mindjail the person doing it >_>

Burgi

the simple solution would be to delete the commands

jokerdino

I thought of booting the bot but allq don't like it.

Journeyman Geek

12:22 PM

booting the bot would be bad

Rahul2001

I agree

Burgi

i voted for that!

jokerdino

3 votes for bot boot. woot

Rahul2001

I democratic referendum decided that @ChatBotJohnCavil deserves to remain...

Psycogeek

Journeyman Geek

12:23 PM

One man, one vote, mine?

jokerdino

A man has a bot.

Burgi

One dog, one vote

Journeyman Geek

(Also, the bot was banned in the past so... don't even think about joking about that :( )

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Why was it banned?

Burgi

he is a fracking cylon!

Journeyman Geek

12:25 PM

@Rahul2001 for greeting people who came in.

Rahul2001

Burgi

why wouldn't you ban him?

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek lol

Journeyman Geek

So, having a bot here isn't quite popular with TPTB

Rahul2001

He won 14/7

Journeyman Geek

12:25 PM

but for those of us who use it sometimes there's value.

Psycogeek

rAIcists

Burgi

i'll be honest its mostly the stupid caaaaaaaaaaaaaaat things i hate

Journeyman Geek

There's a few options really. ignore cavil, block the caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat command output or mindjail dog.

The last one... eh, I've done it with one other user but that was slightly different

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek @Burgi @jokerdino pastebin.com/aLEeH3Ci

Burgi

i have most of the caaaaaaaat things adblocked

DavidPostill

12:28 PM

Ignores more that just caaaaaaats

Journeyman Geek

but this really feels like a wee bit of overdramaness.

jokerdino

@DavidPostill like?

Psycogeek

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=caat&user=&room=118

Burgi

@ChatBotJohnCavil causing drama whereever he goes!

Rahul2001

@Burgi @ChatBotJohnCavil is a f*cking beast!

jokerdino

12:29 PM

maybe we can limit adding commands to a select few and remove all the inane commands already added.

DavidPostill

@jokerdino headdesk, dogs, tumbleweeds, other such annoying stuff.

Journeyman Geek

Its a bit. How much drama depends on how we choose to deal with issues

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek oh, that person.

@Rahul2001 I heard you the first time.

Journeyman Geek

and erm. am I allowed to say this feels slightly silly?

Rahul2001

Yes, it definitely does

Burgi

12:30 PM

silly

jokerdino

I only asked what he used for blocking images.

Rahul2001

And I'm kinda mad ATM, so ignore me if I say something stupid

Burgi

that should be in our MOTD

jokerdino

@Rahul2001 ignored

Rahul2001

@Burgi ModOfTheDay?

jokerdino

12:31 PM

message of the day

Hennes

Still slowly cleaning out deprecated tags.
Mostly [hp] atm.

Burgi

message of the day

Hennes

Replacing some of them with [hp-pavillion] and similar since they already existed

Burgi

@Hennes i had a go at oracle the other day

Hennes

There is no tag for HP-procurve atm. Should I add that or is that too specific?

also. to specific or too specific?

Burgi

12:33 PM

the latter

Journeyman Geek

why are we having procurve questions on SU ._.

Hennes

Why not. We also have dell-poweredge questions.

I would say allow both (and other brands) or allow none

And as a home user with multiple poweredges I belong more to SU than SF when asking.

Journeyman Geek

2

lol

I suppose

Burgi

lol

Journeyman Geek

I'm not too fond of the brand-model or brand tags tbh

Psycogeek

12:34 PM

better'n baby mama pajama obama drama, from yokohama while riding a Brahma.

Hennes

Especially since I do stupid things which I would never do at work (e.g. add non supported DIMMs and RAID cards. Change PSU cables, ...).
That is something I would never do at a work place

Journeyman Geek

but I kinda don't use tags much

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek lol

Hennes

@JourneymanGeek I am not to found of them either. But we already have them.

Burgi

i love tags

Hennes

12:36 PM

AQnd while editing I can either
1) strip [hp]
2) or raplace it with a more detailed tag.

Burgi

i could happily sit here all day tagging up everything

Hennes

And for some setups it is relevant. E.g. servers or workstations which haqve ILO, slow boot times, are freaky selective about hardware, etc etc

@Burgi nods. Much to improve. But I am skipping most of that and just trying to catch up on what meta already decided upon.

Rahul2001

@Hennes the only time I can think of when company tags are/will be useful is if an employee from that company comes up and starts answering all questions regarding that company's products...

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Me too. Does anybody actually search on them? If not what is their useage?

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill ^

Hennes

12:38 PM

There are a few. E.g. an apparent problem with HP-pavillions and their batteries.

But there are quite a few useless tags

DavidPostill

@Hennes Yes. But does anybody actually go looking for those questions? By tag. Just to answer them.

jokerdino

@DavidPostill ^

Hennes

uhm. I did once or twice. But I guess that is something stackexchange can measure?

Rahul2001

1 min ago, by Rahul2001

@Hennes the only time I can think of when company tags are/will be useful is if an employee from that company comes up and starts answering all questions regarding that company's products...

jokerdino

it could have other uses though.

Burgi

12:43 PM

is @barlop in chat?

i guess not

Rahul2001

@Burgi no

but you could leave a comment on one of his answers, asking him/her to

@edity seems to have left chat

Burgi

i think JMG boxed his line