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Boris_yo

6:34 AM

@FleetCommand Yeah, equip dogs with bomb and send them to attack and blow stuff off.

Bob

7:43 AM

hi

slow day

🐌 🌞

DavidPostill

@Bob Because holiday weekend?

jokerdino

Finding Wally in Google Maps anyone?

rahuldottech

8:04 AM

Sinclair's script for stations

►

Can an American please explain to me what is going on here?

DavidPostill

@jokerdino lol

rahuldottech

Okay, wait

Understood

Journeyman Duck

9:15 AM

kk.org/cooltools/hazard-fraught-tools

DavidPostill

9:36 AM

@JourneymanDuck lol at nose picking kit

bwDraco

10:44 AM

I need to get my laptop repaired, but the closest Micro Center is in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a region with exceptionally high crime.

So, any ideas on a local repair for a Lenovo laptop under warranty?

(or more accurately, Greenwood, but that's still too close for comfort)

It's located just outside the area where the highest crime rates are, but I'm not too willing to take a subway route that passes through one of the worst parts of Brooklyn.

rahuldottech

11:13 AM

Journeyman Duck

hmm

when you click on it it has the right date

rahuldottech

Huh, this is really cool. Chat blocks SVG images from running JS. If it didn't, it would show today's date

Journeyman Duck

oh

that might be (semi?) intentional

ToxicFrog

SVG images can contain embedded JS? wtf

rahuldottech

@ToxicFrog Yes, they can

@JourneymanDuck Uploading with the "from the web" option fails, interestingly

Journeyman Duck

11:15 AM

not suprised

rahuldottech

@ToxicFrog shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/02/this-svg-always-shows-todays-date

Journeyman Duck

Imgur dosen't do SVG

rahuldottech

@JourneymanDuck Ah. Makes sense.

ToxicFrog

but why D:

Journeyman Duck

and there was a pretty bad bug with SVG and edge mentioned on meta

rahuldottech

11:17 AM

@JourneymanDuck linky?

Journeyman Duck

I will say, if anyone does it on RA, I will suspend you so hard you'd wish you were never born

rahuldottech

@JourneymanDuck Oh! AngryMan ~~Geek~~ Duck!

Journeyman Duck

@rahuldottech I don't remember where I saw it ;p

rahuldottech

@JourneymanDuck I couldn't find it either. huh.

Journeyman Duck

ah

9

Q: SVG files and billion laughs attack

SVG files are susceptible to billion laughs attack. Our website allows users to upload/submit markdown files and we run the .md file through marked.js before rendering it. Now images in the markdown get rendered as, <img src="https://evilsite.com/badsvg.svg"/> in the webpage. Browsers will pre...

svg

Burgi

11:21 AM

happy day of fools

the neighbour who had the all night party last week had another one last night

got about 2 hours sleep

Journeyman Duck

@Burgi pity.

ToxicFrog

Eat their skull

Journeyman Duck

You should have left them a gift of freshly brewed ginger beer.

(If you don't chill it and open it just right...)

Burgi

we swapped over to a new building management company today. the OOH emergency number redirected straight through the managing director of the new company

he said he would send her a formal letter

basically the start of eviction proceedings

Journeyman Duck

\o/

not digging the minecraft april fools day joke

Burgi

11:27 AM

what is it?

Journeyman Duck

They swapped out the textures for something out of a 90s dos game, but worse

with makes it pretty much unplayable for me

minecraft.net/en-us/article/…

but it looks even worse

ToxicFrog

Minecraft textures are already sub-90s-DOS-game level

That's more like 80s EGA

Michael Frank

11:45 AM

Scored these at a garage sale this morning!

imgur.com/a/t66yj

Journeyman Duck

nice

cc @Bob ;p

bwDraco

That's cute :)

@allquixotic, where's the chatbot?

Journeyman Duck

@bwDraco currently not working

+ there's probably a breaking change to SE coming soon

bwDraco

12:03 PM

Well, today's April 1, after all.

Journeyman Duck

quack.

bwDraco

Let's forget this ever happened.

But I hate the April Fools tradition.

Why not both?

Misspoke here.

12:05 PM

Beat me to it in the time it took to find the image :P

Journeyman Duck

Some AFD jokes are mean

bwDraco

Apr 2 '17 at 16:33, by bwDraco

This is why I hate April Fools. I know people will call me out for breaking a time-honored tradition, but it literally gets impossible to distinguish between truth and lies on April 1st. People have to make the pranks so realistic, it annoys me to no end.

Journeyman Duck

those are not cool.

shrug

Or just do harmless, silly things

bwDraco

No more April Fools for me. April 1 isn't a special day.

Journeyman Duck

You're taking it too seriously ;p

bwDraco

12:09 PM

well... how do I stay out of an April Fools discussion without creating disruption?

Journeyman Duck

Well by being aware its a discussion. Or staying out of it

But saying that you're staying out of it, and no more kinda..

gives it actual weight ;p

ignoring it silently is fine, most people here seem to be doing it.

bertieb

(I am also in the 'grumpy April Fool's folk' camp, if it helps)

Journeyman Duck

which is fine.

bwDraco

While we're on the topic of April Fools... The holiday has evolved in recent years in such a way that's become a highly divisive matter.

Do we (or as some might say, should we) really need to make pranks realistic?

Journeyman Duck

@bwDraco well, a lot of humour is more effective when people relate to it

bwDraco

12:15 PM

"Should we" because those who care about the tradition will make it as realistic as possible to troll people.

Journeyman Duck

"Care"

bwDraco

I don't see April Fools as an excuse to troll people, but some people find it to be a good idea or even necessary. Because tradition.

Journeyman Duck

So... you hate the duck?

bwDraco

Not the duck. But some people consider trollish pranks to be strongly preferable over simple, lighthearted humor.

The duck fits into the theme of Stack Overflow and I don't object to it.

But when pranks and jokes seriously troll people, that's crossing the line for me.

DavidPostill

April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't

@bwDraco Where is your evidence for it being divisive? It appears to be only you who is upset ... ;)

bwDraco

12:20 PM

Wikipedia:Rules for Fools

April Fools' Day has historically been a contentious day on Wikipedia, and the limits on how editors may play jokes and pranks on other users and the encyclopedia have been disputed for some time. While there is no consensus on a complete April Fools' Day joke ban, editors are advised to use common sense. To help settle the debate on what is and is not allowed on April Fools' Day, several rules have since been established based on this request for comment in 2013 and this request for comment in 2016 for users who choose to play jokes on April Fools'. == The rules == Wikipedia policies an...

This went up to ArbCom.

Journeyman Duck

@bwDraco jokes at any time can be mean spirited

or harmless

bwDraco

(for those not familiar with this, the Arbitration Committee is a body of elected Wikipedia editors responsible for making binding decisions on highly contentious topics which could not be resolved by community discussion or administrator actrion)

DavidPostill

The words storm and teacup spring to mind

bwDraco

lol

Why not say it straight?

> You're creating a storm in a teacup.

...and that would sound too heavy-handed, possibly even give the appearance of a mod action.

Journeyman Duck

@bwDraco we're making a fairly large mound out of a fairly small mound...

Much Ado about Nothing?

DavidPostill

12:26 PM

@bwDraco Exactly. I was trying to be nice. Now what I suggest is you take the teacup and have an nice cup of tea, or a nice cup of your new coffee. While doing that take a break and relax. None of the April's fools jokes are harming you so just let it go ...

Journeyman Duck

quite

bwDraco

*drops the gavel*

> Dismissed!

Journeyman Duck

naw

DavidPostill

And go play wack-a-mole :)

Journeyman Duck

maybe the mike.

(poor mike.)

bwDraco

12:27 PM

:P

So... I wanted to go out and take some pictures.

DavidPostill

@bwDraco There you go then. Go out and take a break from worrying about useless pranks.

bwDraco

For whatever reason, my new Lumix FZ1000 has trouble focusing accurately past about 200mm (equiv. 135). The problem might be tied to the AF algorithms used for multi-area AF, since it appears to clear up if I use the single-area or pinpoint modes.

Any ideas? Is this a common issue with the FZ1000?

Journeyman Duck

err

maybe photography?

You'd need someone with the same camera to really tell

bwDraco

1:58 PM

well... Adobe DNG Converter is faster than ever! It looks like it now processes multiple files in parallel, taking full advantage of my 8C/16T processor.

In other news...

I'm getting sick and tired of calls and voicemails purporting to be from the Consulate General of China saying that I have something to claim from them (via Google Translate). This is a known scam.

newyork.china-consulate.org/eng/lqfw/lsbhyxz/t1486921.htm

I'm not a Chinese national, for crying out loud!

Also, they have spoofed local NYC numbers in their caller ID, including several numbers that point to the consulate.

!!/headdesk

Should I file a police report?

rahuldottech

2:16 PM

THEY FINALLY KISSED!!

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

Journeyman Duck

....

#rahullivesinaharemanime

rahuldottech

I need some halp

I might have this date-sorta thingy

And I'm kindaaaa anxious, because like every other girl I've dated I met through school, but I've only met this girl once before

And IDK how to keep up the conversation

!!anxiety

Journeyman Duck

@rahuldottech roughly the worst place to ask ;p

Maybe ask @Burgi and @ThatBrazilianGuy ;p

@bwDraco happens here

I pick up the phone hear robocalled chinese and put it down

@ru

user226528

@JourneymanDuck Er... are you aware that your avatar has changed to a yellow hog?

bwDraco

s/hog/duck/

Journeyman Duck

2:30 PM

@FleetCommand no

user226528

Journeyman Duck? Are you planning to keep this? Because it is cool.

Journeyman Duck

I am completely unaware of my avatar being a yellow hog.

@FleetCommand for 6-8 periods of time.

user226528

"Periods of time"?

Journeyman Duck

Hours, minutes, seconds, pants...

user226528

"Pants?"

Journeyman Duck

2:35 PM

Pants.

bwDraco

I need a sense of humor.

Journeyman Duck

@bwDraco its something that is best spontaneous

user226528

!!s/spontanious/spontaneous

Journeyman Duck

oops forgot to check spellcheck

user226528

!!s/check spellcheck/check the spelling

Journeyman Duck

2:43 PM

spellcheck

rahuldottech

@FleetCommand No, he meant what he said

or said what he meant

Journeyman Duck

I rely on spellcheck a lot

rahuldottech

@JourneymanDuck Me too

i MEAN, qUITE A BIT

user226528

My espell chequer brok dawn yesterday

Boris_yo

@FleetCommand That's "yesterdee"

Sundee, Mondee, Tuesdee, Wednesdee etc.

That's how my English teacher taught us ...

Sounds like British English to me.

rahuldottech

2:47 PM

How crazy is it that september isn't the 7th month, october isn't the 8th, november isn't the 9th, and december isn't the 10th!?

Boris_yo

@JourneymanDuck What happened to you? A profile makeover?

rahuldottech

@Boris_yo HE JUST LIKES DUCKS, OKAY!?

Boris_yo

Didn't know that he does.

user226528

@rahuldottech I've often wondered but never cared to check. Probably a calendar change akin to that cursed daylight saving phenomenon.

rahuldottech

> Why is September the ninth month when it means 7, and likewise for October, November, December...?
-- Jessie Churchill, San Francisco, USA

Septemeber is the ninth month for us, but the Romans had only ten months in their calendar, so the number-names worked out right for them.
-- Amanda , Norman, OK, USA

It's one of the things "the Romans did for us" - slotting in two months - July named after Julius Caesar and August named after Augustus Caesar. This nudged the later months along by two and so September became the ninth instead of the seventh month etc.

@FleetCommand

from theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-82486,00.html

Goddarn. She just cancelled. That was the one thing I had to look forward to.

Journeyman Duck

2:51 PM

@Boris_yo quack.

Boris_yo

djsmiley2k

Annnnnnnnnnd we're home

bwDraco

Not an April Fools joke: New 1.1.1.1 DNS service from Cloudflare

1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 for IPv4, 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001 for IPv6.

Distributed cache. Interesting...

djsmiley2k

nice

2.1 just ran up and handed me his trousers o_O

bwDraco

Cloudflare says that it's the world's fastest DNS service out there by a long shot.

djsmiley2k

3:03 PM

I wonder why they doing it

/me tries to follow the money

bwDraco

It's run in partnership with APNIC, which owns that IP address (along with the rest of 1.0.0.0/8).

Journeyman Duck

@djsmiley2k they run (authoritatitive) DNS servers as their core business and its relatively cheap advertising

bwDraco

Cloudflare is best known for their CDN and DDOS protection services.

Hmm...

It wasn't Cloudflare which mitigated that 1.7 Tbps Memcached attack (that was Arbor Networks), but they certainly have the capacity to do it.

djsmiley2k

Cloudflare had the 600Gbps attack iirc

the ones which that guy wrote about ;D

/me has a blank brain after driving for 3+ hours

bruce snichihsiner

bwDraco

Schneier.

rahuldottech

3:40 PM

BEST CLASSROOM APRIL FOOLS PRANK EVER

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rahuldottech

3:54 PM

Bixby Speaker Impressions!

►

bwDraco

4:22 PM

...and reconfigured DNS on the router.

DNS lookups seem to have dramatically sped up.

Though I wouldn't be able to tell for sure without some means of formal testing.

Boris_yo

@rahuldottech Nice prank...

rahuldottech

This month, April Fools and Easter ended up on the same day. If you celebrate Easter, then happy Easter! And if you celebrate April Fools, that's weird, it's not a holiday.

mrSuperEvening

4:48 PM

hello, i have this virtual host:

``` <VirtualHost site.dev:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName www.site.dev
ServerAlias site.dev
DocumentRoot /var/www/site
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>```

i enabled

i also added a host in /etc/hosts

i reloaded apache

when i visit site.dev, it just redirects me to site.dev

what on earth?

i even disabled default conf, it's still the same

DavidPostill

5:14 PM

@mrSuperEvening Did you flush your dns cache? ipconfig /flushdns

allquixotic

5:35 PM

LOL @JourneymanDuck WTF

DavidPostill

5:54 PM

30

Q: Stack Exchange has been taken over by a rubber duck!

I couldn't miss this now, on all SE sites: What are the duck powers? Was anyone able to make it do or say anything other than "Quack"?

discussion fun april-fools quack-overflow

djsmiley2k

6:35 PM

:)

djsmiley2k

6:51 PM

so everyone had a good easter?

DavidPostill

7:29 PM

@djsmiley2k It's not over yet (tomorrow) but good so far ;)

djsmiley2k

:)

gopood

got back from friends today

knackered, but we had good fun

allquixotic

7:46 PM

just another day

another dreary day

djsmiley2k

:)

djsmiley2k

8:47 PM

yum de dum

Burgi

9:41 PM

ffs

had an issue with missing windows files after a crash, run sfc and it claims to have fixed it. reboot and nope

same issues

bwDraco

10:01 PM

> APNIC's research group held the IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. While the addresses were valid, so many people had entered them into various random systems that they were continuously overwhelmed by a flood of garbage traffic. APNIC wanted to study this garbage traffic but any time they'd tried to announce the IPs, the flood would overwhelm any conventional network.

We talked to the APNIC team about how we wanted to create a privacy-first, extremely fast DNS system. They thought it was a laudable goal. We offered Cloudflare's network to receive and study the garbage traffic in exchange…

allquixotic

LOL

bwDraco

7 hours ago, by djsmiley2k

/me tries to follow the money

@djsmiley2k, see above quote.

djsmiley2k

10:33 PM

Interesting

Journeyman Duck

10:45 PM

@allquixotic quack