Root Access

djsmiley2k

2:01 PM

@Bob saying saying it was, just was wat'ing

lol

@Burgi I LIVE IN THE FUTURE :O

@Burgi screen cap tool in windows. boom

@FleetCommand hear their lamenting whine as you crush them beneath your boot?

@FleetCommand You ask the last time he patched his kernel?

ROODAY

A bit random, but does anyone know how to download the context of webpage as plain text? Not the html source, the rendered view

Burgi

print as pdf?

ROODAY

I ask because Im cleaning a csv that has html in it, and i figured the easiest way would be to open it as html in a browser so it would render away the html tags

djsmiley2k

I mean I'm pro linux, but for real reasons, lol

People like the guy you discribed are jerks, and I don't like Jerks.

ROODAY

Would pdf preserve all the characters and formatting without adding any weird characters?

Burgi

2:05 PM

ffs... our hosting provider (the crap one i hate) has just responded to my ticket saying "no fault found"

ROODAY

My end goal is to get my csv, just without any html tags in it

djsmiley2k

@ROODAY ctrl C?

Burgi

I RAISED THE DAMN THING AT 9AM!!!!!

djsmiley2k

@Burgi and now it's fixed lol

ROODAY

Haha that was my first try, but its over a million lines long, it didnt capture all of it

djsmiley2k

2:06 PM

@Burgi also, you have a SLA with them?

@ROODAY :/ grepping out HTML tags is a thing...

Burgi

@ROODAY i have no idea, you could test it

ROODAY

Will try, just gotta wait for the page to finish loading

Burgi

@djsmiley2k only the basic one

djsmiley2k

ok, sometimes I amaze myself

I fixed a laptop with a dead ethernet port o_O

by...... messing with power saving options on the driver o_O

it was saving so much power it'd turned off entirely

Burgi

hopefully our customer will finally agree to migrate to a real hosting provider

djsmiley2k

2:08 PM

@ROODAY pretty PDF does have a 'copy text only' option

@Burgi Hhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahaha

@FleetCommand Also, I know it's not practical, but learn Linux better than him!

user226528

@djsmiley2k I do know Linux far better than him.

djsmiley2k

@FleetCommand then F̌̓ͬͥ҉̞̫̟̰̼̖ͅĮ̥̞̰̙͔̗̗̙̃ͨ̈̎̈́́́͜N͚̬͔̬̬̳̘ͭ̋̈́͑̚͢I̯͛̔͆̓̄͊̓͠S͚̤ͭ͌̉̆͒͌̉͌͟H̫̗̺͑̌̃ ̗̥͎͉̺ͦ́ͥͪ͊̏ͪH̻͇͓̩ͣ̄͒̀͟I̴̮͂͑̔͝M͑̊͏̼͔̭̹̙!̙̮̹̼͇͍̲͐ͯ̈̽̏́͘!

yesterday, by Burgi

if you remind me tomorrow evening i'll write a canonical Q/A

Also, finish it.

user226528

@djsmiley2k His pathetic self is not a problem. He blabbed to the management and now they are asking about moving to Linux.

djsmiley2k

Crush him.

MAKE HIM YOURS

The management respect destruction.

Burgi

@FleetCommand what happened to your colleague?

user226528

2:12 PM

@Burgi Which one?

Burgi

the one who offered herself to you

djsmiley2k

31 mins ago, by Fleet Command

This guys comes up to our servers, pulls up the Event Viewer and filters startup records, showing that our servers didn't have continuous uptime to the management. Then brags about such-and-such Linux servers that have had 6 years of uptime straight. Next thing, the management is asking about pros and cons of moving to Linux for uptime.

Oh that one

He didn't
**F̛̜͑ͣ̄ͯI̡̝̬̣͉̱N̒̈́҉̣̩̠͓̳͙̘I̵̲͚̱S͓͇̫̭͉ͨ̓͠H̙ͮͥ̊̑͋̍̔ ̘̙ͦ̆H̞̼͎̓͗ͣE̺͂̽͑̈͋̇̑R͎̻͈͖̲̺ͦ͛̈́!̙̹͔̩͍̰ͦͦ̅̂͂̄ͪ**

user226528

@Burgi Technically, I have no such colleague. Although I suspect I know what you are talking about.

Burgi

@FleetCommand so she got fired then?

user226528

@Burgi No.

Burgi

2:16 PM

you can't give us juicy gossip like that and not give us the follow up...

user226528

@Burgi I suspect you are talking about a certain colleague that did nothing wrong than getting a little careless with the word "c****s", a la Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory.

Burgi

i am!

user226528

As I told you back then, she got away with a very stern warning, which would have actionable followup if disregarded.

Burgi

1) did you take her for a coffee/drink?
2) take her up on her offer?
3) ???
4) profit!

user226528

The next day, I and her signed an NDA to the effect that we must peep not a single word of the event to anyone. I had to disclose that I did peep in this chatroom.

user226528

2:20 PM

The NDA was signed anyway.

user226528

And now, she is carrying some sort of non-lethal weapon, thanks to you, @Burgi.

Burgi

wow your company sounds like a barrel of laughs

@FleetCommand hey i wasn't offering...

djsmiley2k

non-leathal? no worries!

Burgi

@FleetCommand i think @djsmiley2k is willing to take one for the team...

user226528

@djsmiley2k Would you rather die or live forty years with no hand, no leg, no eye and no ear? (At least, not functioning ones.)

ROODAY

2:23 PM

Am I misusing this script? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19878056/sed-remove-tags-from-html-file

I tried just running it on my file and it takes a while and prints out a bunch of stuff in console (some of the output has html tags) , but the file I run it on doesnt seem to change

Do I have to do sed 'stuff' file > newfile ?

djsmiley2k

@FleetCommand Hand, or hands?

same for eyes, ears, legs?

I could go without legs, fine

1 hand? fine.... even one eye and one ear

@ROODAY you'd redirect the output into a 'new' file

Burgi

i've seen him try to crawl away from buying a round of drinks on bloodied stumps before now

djsmiley2k

script > new.file

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi win-printscrn or screenshot tool, PDN to annotate

djsmiley2k

@Burgi ;)

user226528

2:29 PM

@djsmiley2k Aren't negative sentences supposed to use singular nouns?

ROODAY

@djsmiley2k Ok, thanks!

djsmiley2k

@FleetCommand I'm no Engish expert.

Burgi

@djsmiley2k not sure if intentional...

Bob

I question SoundHound sometimes, I really do.

Burgi

without a lawyer?

Bob

2:31 PM

It identified an instrumental version of My Immortal as Für Immer Bei Dir by John Cashmere... which does not appear to exist...

looks like that's actually a movie title?

user226528

@djsmiley2k Alright. But by now you should have learned a thing or two about the human society. One of those thing is: If a woman tase or pepper-spray you, without even being provoked, and then claim you wanted to rape her, no one is going to believe you saying you didn't want to. I don't want to put myself in that situation.

ROODAY

Hmm this is weird. So i tried the regex from the link i put in earlier here: regexr.com with a sample of my text, and it selected the tags properly, but when i ran it on a small file with a sample of the text, it didnt remove any of the tags. Does the regex simply select the text/is there something i need to add to make it remove the selected text?

Bob

lol and the video link from Spotify is ... Scotland the Brave

I'm so confused

ROODAY

Ah I think i found the issue, the tags have newlines in my file and the regex isnt capturing that

Is that an issue with sed? RegExr is matching tags properly even with the newlines

Bob

@ROODAY There are many different regex engines, and each engine has many options.

GNU sed has three engines available, each of which have their own options controlling things like multiline matching

That one expression works in one engine but not another does not imply a bug in either engine.

ROODAY

2:42 PM

@Bob how do I specify an engine? (RegExr was online site I was using to double check the expression)

Burgi

OMG.... i was just listening to "Walk On The Wild Side", i never realised how rude the lyrics were until just now

Bob

@ROODAY In sed? Default is basic POSIX, -r is advanced POSIX, -e is PCRE

ROODAY

Ok, will try those out. Thanks!

Bob

PCRE is probably the most widespread, but even then it's got multiple versions and not all implementations are the same

most of the world these days is split into PCRE and .NET, and they're fairly similar - only the more advanced features might differ a bit

basic/extended POSIX is there for backwards-compat but generally more difficult to use

ROODAY

Hmm, just tried all three and none seem to be matching a tag that has a newline in the middle

Burgi

2:45 PM

> In the backroom she was everybody's darling,
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head

o.O

user226528

@Burgi You know, if you want, I change the ending of the story. I can tell you a story in which we ended up doing it under the stars in the observation deck of USS Enterprise.

ROODAY

Could it be a limitation of my terminal? Im on windows if that makes a difference (running sed through cmder)

Burgi

@FleetCommand nah i'm NOT into fanfic

Bob

@ROODAY Probably because you haven't set the multiline options correctly.

regular-expressions.info is a good resource

allquixotic

So, those who know me a bit, know I have a relationship with a government agency (leaving that intentionally vague)

ROODAY

2:47 PM

Ah ok, ill dig around there. Thanks!

allquixotic

All I'll say is "It's Happening" sourcecode.cio.gov & code.gov/#

user226528

@Bob I know a better resource: regex101.com

MathCubes

I need an fake wanacry/reasomware for my VM

Do anyone have any?

It's a Scambiating VM Windwos Vista 64bit

allquixotic

it's been a year since they slapped us with the "You will do this" policy, and we're now getting around to it :D

maybe soon I'll be able to link to GitHub for code I wrote on the job

Bob

@ROODAY you can also search for your issue specifically. e.g. a quick search indicates multline handling in sed sucks and you're better off looking for an alternative => unix.stackexchange.com/a/26289/33227

Burgi

2:49 PM

@allquixotic i think you work for the department for education

allquixotic

Wrong

Bob

@allquixotic wait isn't everything created by the us fed gov public domain by default?

Burgi

@allquixotic the black ops wing obviously...

user226528

@Burgi Then try watching episode one of season 8 of The Big Bang Theory.

Bob

@FleetCommand eh, that's more a tester than a learning resource

allquixotic

2:51 PM

@Bob Yes, but to get around that, almost all agencies have at least a minimal "Public Trust" clearance to work in their software/information systems departments in any capacity, meaning that in order to see, work with or contribute to their data/code, you have to agree that it's basically classified

it's a laughably low classification, but it's just enough that they get around saying it's public domain

Bob

these testers are acceptable for throwing up something quick, but pretty poor for actually learning to write good regex

@allquixotic tricky

allquixotic

it's not the kind of stuff you'd get executed for leaking

user226528

@Bob It has a full Regex library too. See the sidebar to the left.

allquixotic

but it's enough that you could get fired

Bob

@FleetCommand a library of expressions of questionable quality created by other users... still not going to go into deep explanations of how it works

e.g. this is the first thing I saw in that library => regex101.com/library/omlmWu

and it's already setting off red flags (like not allowing a@mail.sub.example.com)

allquixotic

2:54 PM

/me parses html using regex

Bob

@allquixotic W̺̘̰̭̯ͅH͔͈̙̣̞Y͏̠̬̼Y̥͚̺̜̺͇͙͟Y͈̟̙Y̰̻̘̙Y̠Y̶͍͙̩Y͙͟Y̩̥Y̩̜͚̦̦̦Y̶̭̜̬̹Y̡͖Y͙͉̲̲Y̥̙̫Y̲̝͖͈͟‌Y̥̕Ý̘Y͙̦͔̩̫

allquixotic

@Bob because

Bob

@allquixotic :̧̮̗̟̝̝̺͈̀̕(̢̬͎̙̜̬̱̼̹̬͟͠

Burgi

tbh i don't think that the UK does that

i think most of our government depts are locked into proprietary contracts

Bob

lol someone wrote regex to check for valid UK postcodes

because a previous one was wrong

and then someone else commented saying this one's wrong too

protip: don't regex these things; check against a constantly-updated list of real ones (or don't check at all)

Rahul2001

2:57 PM

@ave wot

allquixotic

@Burgi For contractual work, US government agencies by default require that all code written by the contractor under the contract umbrella is copyright (c) federal government

Rahul2001

LTSB got updated out of the blue?

Is it even supposed to get updates?

Bob

@Rahul2001 ...what did you think the S stood for?

Rahul2001

And I thought Windows to go didn't update?

@Bob but... It's supposed to ask before updating?

Bob

LTSB is, by definition, supported via updates for a long time.

allquixotic

2:59 PM

UH OH BERGIE

You haven't mentioned which version of Windows you are running. Have you got Sticky Keys enabled? — Burgi Dec 18 '15 at 15:55

Bob

@Rahul2001 If you configure it to do so, it probably will.

allquixotic

YOU'VE BEEN FLAGGED, SON!

Rahul2001

@Bob I did not realize they're automatic by default

allquixotic

0

Q: Why was my comment mod flag declined?

I recently mod-flagged a comment under a question: You haven't mentioned which version of Windows you are running. Have you got Sticky Keys enabled? Importantly, the OP commented immediately saying "thanks, it was the Sticky Keys". In the flag explanation field, I explained that the comme...

Rahul2001

@Bob honestly, Windows To Go updating is a pleasant surprise

Burgi

3:04 PM

Also the OP self-answered and it turns out you can't convert fake internet points into cash so I'm fine with not getting the credit. — Burgi 1 min ago

Bob

oh wow, cheapo tablets are cheap these days banggood.com/…

allquixotic

2020:

@Bob's bedroom drawer

Bob

lol

nah. I might be building up a stack of SSDs though

depends how the next couple days go and whether I give in to that temptation :P

@allquixotic also, I wouldn't keep those near my bed... dodgy batteries and all

allquixotic

to be fair, I've got: borked Asus "Signature" Bay Trail that I wasn't able to get working again after I tried to install Linux on it (what was I thinking?!); iPad Pro 12.9" (current gen), mom has last-gen iPad 9.7", and in a drawer I have a still-working pretty-current Amazon Fire tablet that can play back Amazon Prime Video natively at 1080p unlike even iPads

oh, they changed it

used to be (less than 2 years ago) to get 1080p you'd need an Amazon device

now you can play 1080p on an iPad I guess

even with HDCP compatible DRM browsers on Windows

Rahul2001

Honestly, if stuff keeps not working this way, I'm just going to use a WAMP distribution

Faheem Mitha

3:21 PM

Hi folks. I wasn't sure where to ask, so I thought I'd try here. I'm having some trouble using the Skype Test Call. I haven't used Skype for awhile, but before the Test Call would play silence if the audio wasn't working. Now it isn't even doing that. Is it worth asking a question on the site about this?

Rahul2001

3:35 PM

Kushner asked to sign Russian flag

►

Shokhet

3:59 PM

@slhck Okay. D'you know when you'll get the results? I'm actually kinda curious.

slhck

4:42 PM

@Shokhet Might take a while, need to write a paper about it first, get it through peer review, have it published etc. That could easily take months.

But if I can create some first results that I'm allowed to publish I'll post them here.

Burgi

GAH!

Rahul2001

Burgi

the frontend dev has merged stuff to master without a PR

Rahul2001

I'd tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.

DavidPostill

5:26 PM

@ROODAY You should read this answer (and the rest of the answers to that question):

4426

A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...

Also @allquixotic ^^^

Shokhet

5:50 PM

@slhck That's cool. Feel free to ping me here when any results are ready! :)

bwDraco

Adobe to discontinue Flash Player by the end of 2020: blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html

3

We'll stop updating & distributing Flash Player by the end of 2020. More about our plans & a look at what’s next:… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/889878192994918401

Tweeted by Adobe on July 25, 2017 at 4:01 PM

Wccftech on this:

> The company will continue to provide security updates to Adobe Flash Player until the end of 2020. However, after that, no web browsers will support it and Adobe will stop releasing any and all updates to Flash. Three years may sound like a lot of time when killing a technology, but Adobe says that entire businesses are built around this technology and will require security patches until they are ready to move on.

Once and for all!

Steven Vascellaro

@bwDraco Oh wow.

At work we are required to use IE10 because the version of Kronos we use still needs Java

So there are definitely still places that use Flash

bwDraco

@StevenVascellaro Kronos? I've applied for jobs on websites that use this. It feels really, really old.

That REDACTED Guy

Adobe will end Flash support, update and distribution in 2020

(for some reason I can't open the linked Adobe original article: blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html

Steven Vascellaro

@bwDraco The office is supposed to be converting to a newer version of Kronos soon which should hopefully work better

Won't require Java or Flash

That REDACTED Guy

6:03 PM

Oh didn't see @bwDraco had linked it earlier

Steven Vascellaro

Seeing flash go is bittersweet. So many lost animatons

bwDraco

(the software applicants see is Kronos Talent Management, not Workforce Central)

That REDACTED Guy

www.kongregate.com will die... so many amazing games on there!

bwDraco

@ThatREDACTEDGuy Newgrounds IIRC has had support for HTML5 for quite a few years.

That REDACTED Guy

Lots of great games were made using flash. IIRC, Super Meat Boy started as a flash game

Steven Vascellaro

6:05 PM

Newgrounds was smart enough to automatically convert all its animations to HTML5

That REDACTED Guy

OMG ADOBE WILL KILL HOMESTAR RUNNER! ADOBE WILL KILL STRONGBAD! ADOBE WILL KIL TROGDOOOOOOOR

Steven Vascellaro

Heck, the original Steam version of Binding of Issac was built in flash

bwDraco

Kongregate, too.

Steven Vascellaro

Homestuck as well

On an unrelated note, Imgur's size modifiers are really weird

Avery

@Rahul2001 it gets security updates

Steven Vascellaro

6:07 PM

I managed to break them in 3 separate ways using 3 images

I also learned that there's actually an official list of modifier names, and we've been using the wrong names for most of them

bwDraco

Linky?

Steven Vascellaro

api.imgur.com/models/image

There's 6 of them. Huge Thumbnail h, Large Thumbnail l, Medium Thumbnail m, Small Thumbnail t, Big Square b, and Small Square s

We've been incorrectly telling people to use s for small

When it's really supposed to be t

That REDACTED Guy

You guys here like the surface, right?

Newegg is selling the Surface 3 for less than $300 today

bwDraco

The Atom-based model?

Ah. 4C Airmont.

That REDACTED Guy

> 10.8-inch touchscreen with 1920-by-1080 resolution, a quad-core 1.6 GHz Atom x7-Z8700 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of onboard storage, and Windows 10. The device has a single USB 3.0 port, one mini DisplayPort, a microSD card reader, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.0.

Rahul2001

6:13 PM

@ThatREDACTEDGuy worth it

bwDraco

I already have a cheap laptop. I'm not convinced I need another low-power Windows device.

(Lenovo Flex 4-1130 purchased on sale at Best Buy for $230)

Jul 20 at 0:05, by bwDraco

Bifrons: Celeron N3350 (2C/2T Apollo Lake (Goldmont) @ 1.1-2.4 GHz). 2 GB LPDDR3, 64 GB eMMC.

That REDACTED Guy

Yeah, would be a great deal if it wasn't for the dollar-BRL conversion, the shipping price, the taxes, the fact that shipping is included in taxes, etc etc etc

djsmiley2k

well that was real odd

win 10 decided my password was invalid (linked to MS account)

went online, same password worked

That REDACTED Guy

6:39 PM

Last Friday my work login stopped working. It is the same password for Linux sudo and various web logins, backed by LDAP. I reset it to something else. Next day, the previous password started working and the new one stopped. Next day, the opposite. Today, it switched again.

Rahul2001

> the same password ... various web logins

RED ALERT!

That REDACTED Guy

@Rahul2001 Have you ever heard of LDAP, kid?

Or even Domain accounts?

djsmiley2k

@Rahul2001 it's a microsoft account

you can set it up to let you log into win10

That REDACTED Guy

@djsmiley2k BLASPHEMY! I DON'T USE WINDOWS! (hides laptop with Steam)

djsmiley2k

which means it backjs up your os key to your account

Rahul2001

6:42 PM

@ThatREDACTEDGuy uh, yeah

djsmiley2k

which is what I needed lol

Rahul2001

7:09 PM

I WANT MY BOT BACK

bwDraco

TIL Windows 10 can spoof MAC addresses for privacy on public networks

(DragonAndroidTether is my phone tethering AP)

3

Q: How does the Random Hardware Access function work on a smartphone?

Certain smartphones and laptops, one of which my Windows 10 Phone and Laptop (Windows 10, redstone 1 update) have a function called "Random Hardware Access" under the WiFi settings. The settings has the following explanation for this function: Use Random Hardware Addresses to make it harder ...

privacy wifi user-tracking smartphone tracking

djsmiley2k

7:47 PM

@bwDraco most network cards have had that function since like... forever, but yeah interesting to see it there, on the very much privacy hating win10...

Burgi

8:19 PM

2020... that's 10 years too late

and there will still be a million crappy websites out there using flash

not to mention all the little flash games

djsmiley2k

and you'll not even know til 2030 because you've got so many tabs open ;D

@ThatREDACTEDGuy steam and some games run on linux now

we live in the future man