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Journeyman Geek

12:33 AM

hm. Threw together a super basic ticketing system off of google forms

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Makes sense. Don't reinvent the wheel, use the wagon someone else built. :D

I have a worse idea

create a private twitter account

connect ifttt to it

connect ticket's client system to it with ifttt's maker channel

our ticket system just dumps everything to a discord channel

it's glorious

12:51 AM

Ok. Contributing to Mozilla/Firefox is a relatively happy experience.

Even attempting to contribute to Google/Chromium is absolutely useless.

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver costs next to nothing, we already have a corporate google docs account. I'll prototype responses for a week then go to my boss

Looks like my reasons-to-hate-Chrome pile has grown...

If you don't happen to be sitting in a Google office? pffft, who cares about you?!

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Avery I'd like to make my life easier, without spending any money ;p

@JourneymanGeek trac, gitlab (issues), ...

Journeyman Geek

needs a server

12:57 AM

@JourneymanGeek eh, trac's very light... chuck it on that old desktop in the corner :P

Journeyman Geek

HR came in and asked me what my timing is...

0_0

and I was like... no one told me

I was told to come in at 8, and apparently I should be working no more than 44 hours a week

.... that math makes no sense.

anyway, need to talk to the temp boss about that

@JourneymanGeek ifttt, twitter and discord are all free

@JourneymanGeek 44/w's fairly long hours for this kind of thing, no?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I'm working.... significantly longer at the moment

o.O

40h/w is 'standard' for most office jobs

at least here

Journeyman Geek

1:03 AM

No one has any clue what my hours are. I was told to come in at 8. Most people start leaving 6.30

so that's when I leave

of course, a lot of people come in 10.30-11 soooooo

Was told to talk to my boss. Cause apparently HR's primary job is to get people to sign mission statements

also apparently round neck T shirts arn't appropriate for casual fridays...

....

I donno man, don't you people have a contract to process?

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek If you can find out who really is the boss, that is. Some real paperwork really would be nice, wouldn't it?

Journeyman Geek

Oh, he's the guy who interviewed me

yup

my current acting boss is his son

1:20 AM

MantisBT?

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco heh, presumably!

The first step is really to get people used to the idea

@JourneymanGeek time to resign?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi and .... what job?

I have asked them about notice periods tho, and that the time delay is EXTREMLY frustrating

fair point

Journeyman Geek

jokes about wanting to join the community management team aside, job hunting is frustrating and a string of short jobs and unemployment does not help

so unless I get another, firm offer, or I don't get my pay at the end of the month, I'll stick to this

They'll probably end up losing their edutrust cert if they're messing with me anyway

1:30 AM

O_O

30 emails... yay

Journeyman Geek

(I mean, if anything remote I can do, or non remote in a team where I know people crops up, I'm applying ;p)

but ugh.

1:43 AM

ow. another 20 emails.

my watch is vibrating nonstop

emails faster than I can mark read

:S

Journeyman Geek

lol

@JourneymanGeek somewhat relevant reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/2vi5ht/…

Journeyman Geek

2:03 AM

OMG. Sounds like where I work ;)

lol

almost thought that was you till I looked at the date

2:33 AM

WHY is your command prompt font Comic Sans MS?!?!?! — MD XF 2 days ago

2:44 AM

Mornin'!

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google. pls.

1 hour later…

3:57 AM

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:(

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Bob Would you expect MS to let you "in" without javascript and cookies? They have to watch you :D

Brave Dave's Big Fat Freight Hop - Part 1

@Bob ^^ Warning: highly addictive video series

@allquixotic I'll only get addicted if I remember to watch it :P

at work right now

@Bob Has google gone crazy?

wait...

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4:12 AM

o.O

Journeyman Geek

hm. This place has... 13 SSIDs 0_0

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek That ought to keep the smart phones busy. Laptops too.

Updated CSS for mobile users! rahul.tech/gossipmonger/index.php

OMAHGOSH I ACTUALLY MANAGED CSS FOR ONCE

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:29 AM

Yes, and no. Needs a little more work.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to get it from the phone to here :/

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On Samsung Galaxy J1

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver and things will interfere if you don't know what you're doing

With APs, less is more

@GypsySpellweaver huh

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Isn't it standard to have all the APs on one SSID?

Journeyman Geek

hmm. Standard happens to other people

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Rahul2001 See how the boxes overflow their container boxes? In portrait mode it's only a little bit of the entry box. In landscape mode it's the scrolling area and the whole entry box

4:36 AM

@GypsySpellweaver Okay, that phone is small

user226528

Hello, superdudes!

user226528

Question: Would a post about installing Android for PC off-topic on Super User?

Journeyman Geek

IMO no

Gypsy Spellweaver

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@Rahul2001 On an iPad in landscape mod, still some overflow.

Portrait mode is ok, however

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@GypsySpellweaver Looks like Google dev tools aren't very accurate

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:46 AM

Wow, just checked the size on that last one 2K+ wide! sure don't look that big to me.

hm

Gypsy Spellweaver

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iPod 4th gen.

user226528

Pretty.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Weird, the ancient iPod has better resolution than the newer Galaxy J1.

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this is one of the crazier things I've done

chrome in australia => nginx in france => guacamole (rdp client) => xrdp server hosted in lxd container => ssh to netherlands w/ X forwarding => ssh to another lxd container with X forwarding => firefox

I think video latency is somewhere between 10s and 100s :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

5:01 AM

@Bob lol

@Rahul2001 Well, now you have 3 mobile sizes to play with. Ping if you need testing again later.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob got my contract. Slightly fishy ...

was waiting on the big boss allegedly.... he isn't here today

@JourneymanGeek ...fishy? o.O

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Does it meet MOM guidelines, at least?

BTW, I think MOM ought to be Ministry of Minions ;P

Ministry of Magic? :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

5:17 AM

@Bob Only if you're an house elf

Journeyman Geek

Allegedly it was waiting on the CEO's signature...

He's not in

so it might have been signed before and no one checked ;p

@GypsySpellweaver ministry of manpower

this place isn't organised enough for me to be anyone's minion

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Just at the whim of other minions finding lost forms.

Journeyman Geek

5:30 AM

that assumes there's an evil mastermind somewhere

5:57 AM

hmm

can win10 burn iso's natively?

user226528

@djsmiley2k Yes.

user226528

Starting with Windows 7, this feature has been present.

woo

user226528

Starting with Windows 8, it can mount them.

@Nick "don't let someone intrude into your space" maybe it's just me but that sounds weird. (though it is correct.)

user226528

6:00 AM

@satibel It is an awkward thing to say, but its awkwardness is outweighed by necessity when someone does the even-more-awkward act of doing it.

woo my chrome history is corrupt

user226528

Shame. Histories are useful things. And now you have to clear it.

@djsmiley2k dammit cthulu, I said don't touch the chrome history, bad cthulu!

Turboprop Core - Turbine Engines : A Closer Look

fascinating

user226528

Been there.

6:07 AM

@satibel hehe

@FleetCommand nah it's still there

chrome updated, and upon restarting it say the file was file corrupt

cept my history still there, shrug

I had my android phone say my memory is corrupt and I need to reset the phone.
I then charged the phone out of the low energy mode and it worked.

weird!

user226528

@djsmiley2k Oh, great! :) Now, you don't have to pretend you are permanently stuck in ~~Porn Mode~~ Private Browsing Mode.

:D

concidering I'm at work, this is a good thing ;D

I actually use it for a lot of stuff, and I miss opera's private tabs.

user226528

6:14 AM

Those private tabs were ~~death traps~~ negligence traps.

user226528

Always a private window

Is this one strong? bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1331560-REG/…

user226528

Strong? I don't think it can withstand a jackhammer.

user226528

But it is a good laptop. Six generation Core-i7...

O_O

@allquixotic redmondmag.com/articles/2017/04/20/…

6:26 AM

So anyone hit by the latest in malware/

No

user226528

I am. A couple of AV alerts.

:O

from my view (which is of a number of clients, but not very deep) it hasn't hit anywhere yet

user226528

I am proud of my security, you know. Home security, not workplaces.

ah yus

well, I have backups

yus yus

user226528

6:31 AM

You remind me of a guy who kept using the word Gurul. Took me a while to figure out he means "girl".

user226528

I have backups, antivirus (just for the record; nothing to brag about), personal firewall and sandbox. I run a tight ship.

i backup my wifes laptop to my linux server

which then pushes to the cloud

user226528

I don't trust cloud.

Actually planning to reinstall win10 on her laptop at some point, but I need to find out how to get the key to do so :/

@FleetCommand hense why it goes via my server

And I don't really have any otehr way of doing off site backups

@FleetCommand most private tabs I used were of the type "translate potato" or "java how to do stuff".

no problem here AFAIK

though security is really weak.

meanwhile me:
test root # export PS1="👻 >"
👻 >

6:40 AM

hmmmmm

my external hdd not showing up at work

i've not used it in like a year

hope it's not deded

I now have a ghost in the shell.

I have a severe lack of disk management on this machine xD

hmmm

i think it's formatted as ext4 or something

s and so not showing up under my computer, as I can see the properties for it

sigh, can't even run diagnostics to format it lol

6:57 AM

@FleetCommand Would you prefer Macbook Pro over it?

> The two were content for a time, but her brother became restless and went on a rampage, destroying Amaterasu's rice fields, hurling a flayed pony at her loom, and killing one of her attendants in a fit of rage. Amaterasu, who was in fury and grief, hid inside the Ama-no-Iwato ("heavenly rock cave"), thus effectively hiding the sun for a long period of time.

wat.

Religion?

@djsmiley2k Japanese mythology

ah

But that's some rampage... "hurling a flayed pony at her loom"

O_O

7:01 AM

:D

this is the SUN we are talking about

'The sun - capable of hurling flayed ponys'

Technically, both cars are haunted, but the murder ghosts can't stand listening to the broken GPS for more than a few minutes.

@djsmiley2k ...other way around. other guy hurled flayed ponies at the sun

7:25 AM

:O

ok that's impressive

7:39 AM

if you need a tough laptop either take one from 1990 or a (semi) rugged notebook e.g. dell latitude rugged, panasonic toughbook/toughpad.
for the lenovo, the T460 isn't listed as rugged, but the T450 and E460 are.

@Bob that's Susanoo, right?

and dear lord it begins...

morning

so... why is this new ransomware any different to previous versions?

or is it more a case that the news readers are bored with talking about elections?

It's not

exactly

s/talking/reading

:D

@satibel the brother? yea

@Burgi it has a secondary spread via SMB bug

lets see if my installing updates on a whim 2 weeks ago has actually patched us...

7:48 AM

it was patched march 2017

so maybe/hopefully then @Burgi

@Rahul2001 blame me for what?

@Burgi from what I heard, not much except the scale.

the scale isn't perticularly large either

200k pc's, 20k GBP made in bitcoin

almost like someone was trying to make a point

kinda like shoplifters vs national/world bank robbing.

so many obvious mistakes and stuff

7:54 AM

@djsmiley2k "hey guys, junk XP and make backups"? :p

yeah kinda

stop having publically accessible shares

@djsmiley2k have you checked?

@JourneymanGeek thats the back up plan if the WD40 on the rails at the back doesn't work

@Burgi I don't wanna be self employed

so no :D

dear lord

few clients have 'locked down IT systems'

now everything is broken, meaning previously, only the security was broken ;D

here in france, if you are freelance you almost need to be self employed.

8:17 AM

Western society is turning into consumption-based society that very Chinese hate: theonion.com/article/…

@satibel The problem with being self-employed freelancer is a competition on a worldwide scale.

@Boris_yo you realise that the onion is a satire site, right?

@djsmiley2k I didn't know that. Does it mean that stories are manufactured?

yus

they are 'joke' stories

o.0

There is some true to that satire story though.

ffs the directors are asking for proof that our servers are patched

8:32 AM

@Burgi show them the windows updates installed.

Oliver Salzburg

@Boris_yo That's what makes it satire

@Rahul2001 rahul.tech and rahul.tech/admin just change the font XD

though anything else than admin gives the hompage font.

Oliver Salzburg

> oh, and my girlfriend, I suppose.

Nice one ;D

so a windows 10 machine

thinks it's on the domain but lost it's trust

nvm, just between rahul.tech/asdf and rahul.tech/asdf/

8:41 AM

so the user can't login, is there anyway I can get the IP address from the login screen? :/

It doesn't seem to respond to ping either (thanks windows firewall!)

"If you're looking at this, you're either a bot or a geek.
In either case, you're probably better than regular human beings.
Why don't you hit me up on email, and we'll be friends?

Tip: start the subject line with "FRND:" to be prioritised.

Alternatively, drop by on gossipmonger with parameters
'supergeekz' & 'rainbowcookie'."

hum

lol

9:05 AM

also @Rahul2001 good job on sanitizing your inputs, but you truncate the username at 20 chars while the server only supports 19 and room name at 30 while only 29 is supported.

9:18 AM

@satibel oh really? I'll fix it once I get home...

@satibel wha... That's weird.

@Rahul2001 see the next message, I was fooled by autocomplete, it's the main page font for rahul.tech/asdf but another one for rahul.tech/asdf/ .

Gypsy Spellweaver

9:36 AM

@Rahul2001 Too bad the chat doesn't have a function to ding when a new message is posted. Kept it open, and missed another entry by ¾ of an hour.

@Rahul2001 GAH! you need to have your styles in a separate file

you are also missing<ul> tags

i am confused as to why you are using <pre> tags too

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver it would ding a lot

@Burgi l'amour est dans le <pre>

@JourneymanGeek talking about rahul.tech/gossipmonger/index.php

Gypsy Spellweaver

True, if used much. Not the one I have open now though. Or maybe a function to turn it on when window/tab looses focus.

@satibel its in foreign

9:48 AM

@Burgi PRE IS COOL OK?

not the way you are using it, it isn't

Journeyman Geek

@satibel ah,

@Burgi Lol, I was in a hurry when I made it, I'll make the code valid later.

but <div> is semantic and uses the same number of characters

@Burgi translation : love is in the <pre> (meadow)

9:51 AM

o.O

the original title is "farmer wants wife".

"and all the sheep said no"

@GypsySpellweaver I could possibly cook up a desktop notification script if you want...

Gypsy Spellweaver

Not that I'm gonna use it much, except for your testing phase. I use 6 desktops across two monitors, and multiple projects active. Sometimes what is mostly inactive suddenly gets active and I don't notice it.

In here, I can set it to ping for @ mentions or anytime. When it goes dead, I set it to anytime and then ignore it. When it get busy, but don't involve me, I set it to @ mention, and skim from time to time.

Cool.

Gypsy Spellweaver

9:59 AM

@Rahul2001 While you're doing code clean-up and moving CSS to its own file, catch that inline style on your name too. For the "home" page.

@GypsySpellweaver ah, yeah...

Gypsy Spellweaver

Here's a general question: In HTML 5 it's legal to not close <li> if it's immediately followed by another <li> of the closing </ul> or </ol>. Legal yes, good form? (Y/N)?

terrible form

@GypsySpellweaver it's never good form

specially if @Burgi is trying to parse it with a regex :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

I know I don't like it. Then again I still have the habit of typing <br />, so I not up to speed on lots of the new stuff

he comes

10:11 AM

<br> is fine

tbh a lot of IDEs auto close the matching tags for you

Gypsy Spellweaver

I know it is, now, just a hold over from when I was doing XHTML.

<br> never had a close tag.

@GypsySpellweaver I used to type <be /> till yesterday, when I replaced all of it in my code with <be>

@djsmiley2k does in strict XHTML iirc

Gypsy Spellweaver

All the unpaired tags where supposed to be closed in XHTML with the space/>. br, hr, img, link, meta, etc...

Yep.

Gypsy Spellweaver

10:15 AM

<br /> <hr /> <img src='...' />

I still do it.

@Rahul2001 :O

Gypsy Spellweaver

I gather, not knowing for sure, that it's actually wrong in HTML 5?

src?!

yeah I feel tht W3C issued something saying stop doing it

STAAAP

Gypsy Spellweaver

@djsmiley2k w3.org/TR/xhtml1/diffs.html#h-4.6

10:19 AM

@GypsySpellweaver depends. if it's actually supposed to be a void element, it's useless. If it's supposed to have a proper closing tag, then it's wrong.

<img /> is pointless but acceptable

<div /> is wrong

(because they effectively become <img> and <div>... and the latter needs an actual closing tag)

@GypsySpellweaver XHTML is deprecated

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Bob Yes, HTML 5, with a much simpler doctype, is now the standard.

Hm. Not officially deprecated, but basically ignored these days.

I remember its original use-case was for very simple devices (phones) where a proper XML parser was easier (more efficient)

@GypsySpellweaver ah yes I know about that one

But these days you can chuck an actual HTML parser onto just about any device, including low-end

I mean an actual closing tag,

10:22 AM

@GypsySpellweaver I don't think I've ever typed an HTML4 or XHTML doctype.

It's always been a case of copy-paste :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

I used to keep all the doctypes in boilerplate because they were so horrendous.

Ya, templates if you have 'em. Google if you don't.

Gypsy Spellweaver

HTML5 made me sooo Happy :D ^\o/^

lol

Gypsy Spellweaver

Time for me to knock off for a bit. Enjoy.

10:27 AM

@DavidPostill first' new latop with this image wooo

@Bob github.com/zigwart/PIP-Arduino-Web-Browser well, it runs on arduino so yeah...

> Occationally when the browser crashes during a render, the HOME.HTM can get corrupted. Just copy the file in the enclosing folder back onto the SD card.

> Currently, URLs over 90 characters in size are truncated. This will undoubtably break them, or results in 404 errors. Which aren't handled well yet.

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Journeyman Geek

Oo

@Bob what.... Is this?

3 mins ago, by satibel

@Bob https://github.com/zigwart/PIP-Arduino-Web-Browser well, it runs on arduino so yeah...

eh, a web browser that takes about 10kb, what did you expect?

well, these guys made a 3d game that takes only about 10 times the size. youtube.com/watch?v=2NBG-sKFaB0

Journeyman Geek

10:40 AM

Ah

Oliver Salzburg

Now if only you could procedurally generate a browser

Journeyman Geek

Oo

Oliver Salzburg

kkrieger is procedurally generated

this guy made a boot floppy that can send arp requests in less than 512 bytes. forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=170192#p170192

11:04 AM

@Rahul2001 what on earth is a <be> tag?

@Burgi br

goddamn autocorrect

ah! you made me google it ;)

@satibel Font issue fixed!

@satibel Ah, I had strlen($var) < 30 in code, my bad

"There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096

11:25 AM

anyone interested in a junior linux sysadmin job?

@Burgi me h

@Burgi Is it at my work place?

:D

its 30k and in manchester

we looking for Junior errr Network Analyst.

30k is nice for junior position

I don't know if I should think about networking again, or stick to sysadmin

I'm just not sure there's enough interesting stuff in networking :/

http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/37401536#37401536
I could do it :p
though manchester is a bit far.

11:32 AM

you could move here...

shrug

I could, though I still have a month or 2 of work, and I plan on taking my time to find a new job/make my own business.

11:48 AM

in france you have an 1 day worked : 1 day payed Unemployment allowance, so I'd have about 10 months of sponsored lazyness :p hum "job searching"

infact 30k is really nice

how expensive is manchester?

Journeyman Geek

stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/692943/… this dosen't look too bad if you're the support-ish sort and didn't want to be a groundpounder...

@djsmiley2k reasonable

roughly £3.50 for an average pint

Journeyman Geek

I love how people talk about cost of living in terms of pints.

lol

12:26 PM

HA! HA! HA! validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rahul.tech%2F

12:38 PM

@GypsySpellweaver "has left the chat session" notification added back :)

.

anandtech.com/show/11368/aquantia-launch-aqtion-5g25g1g-nics

This is very exciting news. 10 GbE and 5 GbE NICs that consumers can actually afford \o/

I'd rather know the price of a baguette :p

though jokes aside, I use kebab for reference.

so what's the price of a kebab in manchester?

12:56 PM

fyi if you have a windows phone (lol), MS are killing them off

arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/04/…

@bwDraco eh... it's a decent start but it'll still be at least half a decade before any of the necessary equipment (switches, maybe routers) get even near the affordable range

@Bob Can you not be so negative?

You're always so negative on new product launches...

Probably because a lot of new product launches disappear quietly into the night a few months later.

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