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Bob

12:19 AM

,ptm

Burgi

12:39 AM

store.steampowered.com/app/435400/Hidden_Folks

Journeyman Geek

1:10 AM

morn

Michael Frank

2:23 AM

@Burgi There was that one couple that ended up getting a bunch of press attention as they walked out.

allquixotic

2:37 AM

man, we get a meta Q about logging out about once a week

by that logic, StackOverflow must get a meta Q about logging out about 64 times a day

Journeyman Geek

;p

Am tempted to ping and ask a mod. Or post a meta post ;p

RogUE

2:50 AM

@allquixotic You mean the feed?

Journeyman Geek

yup

It was asked on main, migrated to meta, then closed as dupe ;p

Michael Frank

Should have migrated it to webapps lol

Bob

3:14 AM

@ShawnV.Wilson I'm a writer. I live to be quoted. — Mark Baker 4 hours ago

Journeyman Geek

HE LIVES!

allquixotic

Bernadine's at it again - second log out question in the same day

0

A: Trying to log off StackExchange

Did you look at the screenshot in this answer? If you're claiming that the "log out" link that's shown in that screenshot is not there for you, you're going to need to give us some proof -- take a screenshot of what you see and post it here (edit your original question here and include the screen...

damn cats

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic I donno what else I can do

there's a animated gif there showing how to do it

@Burgi congratulations

for those keeping track

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/…

> Madsen was found guilty on all three of the primary charges filed by Copenhagen prosecutors against him: premeditated murder, aggravated sexual assault, and the desecration of a corpse. He was given a life sentence—a rare verdict in Denmark, and one that on average means 16 years of prison time.

allquixotic

3:42 AM

Let's Play, Star Trek: Away Team Episode "Leyte Gulf"

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this guy streams Star Trek Away Team, Starfleet Command II, and now Battletech - just wanted to give him some publicity

he's pretty underrated and doesn't have a big subscriber base

Bob

4:05 AM

i haven’t got time for a full answer right now, but the short answer That immediately springs to mind is: this is a Bad Idea. — Joe Bloggs Mar 26 at 14:18

@JoeBloggs Yes, a handgun with propellant that expands at near light speed isn't a personal weapon, it's a weapon of mass destruction (including the vaporisation of the wielder) with a large blast radius. — Mike Scott Mar 26 at 14:19

Journeyman Geek

Is it a bad thing I immediately knew it was world building?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Nah. If you'd guessed IPS, I might be a bit concerned :P

Michael Frank

4:47 AM

@JourneymanGeek Oh that. Messed up... :|

Journeyman Geek

5:05 AM

bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-43890078

user226528

5:15 AM

You guys had polar bear in Singapore?

user226528

More accurately, why?

user226528

Although, keeping it healthy so that it outlives the average polar bear life by a decade is an achievement.

Journeyman Geek

Well cause

1) He was born here

2) It was the 70s

3) People did silly stuff in the 70s

Inuka

Inuka (Inuit for "Silent Stalker") (26 December 1990 – 25 April 2018) was a male polar bear and one of the mascots of the Singapore Zoo. == Biography == Inuka was born in the Singapore Zoo and was the first polar bear to be born in the tropics. This was the result of an extensive breeding programme run by the zoo. There have been four polar bears at Singapore Zoo altogether—Nanook, Sheba and their offspring Inuka, as well as another female, Anana. Nanook and Sheba arrived at the Singapore Zoo in 1978, from Winnipeg Zoo in Canada and Cologne Zoo in Germany respectively. Nanook was 11 months old...

Oh my bad

4) two polar bears loved each other very much....

or one got artificially inseminated

Journeyman Geek

5:52 AM

thesetupwizard.tumblr.com/post/173313239208/apps-these-days

user226528

That your blog?

Journeyman Geek

naw

Singapore dosen't have a wizard school.

Ave

6:15 AM

@Burgi I actually considered buying one but I did not

Bob

6:39 AM

@JourneymanGeek "with a battery life of about two days maxed"

that's... a lot better than most modern phones in active use :P

user226528

@Bob Actually, there is a modern Nokia phone whose battery lasts one month.

Bob

@FleetCommand In standby.

user226528

Also, Nokia 79's battery lasts one week. I know this by experience.

user226528

In case of the latter, it is not in standby. It is my ordinary consumption. I suppose in standby, it'll last two weeks.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I think that's the joke

user226528

6:42 AM

Compressing 800 MB into a RAR archive drains its battery in 10 minutes.

Bob

@FleetCommand "glued to their phones" usually means active use, i.e. screen's on and you're reading/playing/whatever on it.

user226528

Yeah. Still that'd be a week for N79.

user226528

I listened to audiobooks on it.

Bob

ow

Bob

7:40 AM

> https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/22987/1766

Interestingly, the worst time I ever had understanding a clearance was one from a nominally English speaking controller. We were talking to Scottish control, and received a reroute into Amsterdam from a controller with a very pronounced accent (Glaswegian?). All I was able to get was that at the end he was turning us over to Dutch control and the frequency. I went over to the Dutch, and asked for them to restate what our new clearance was, and I apologized, explaining that I had been unable to understand Scottish control. His first words we…

@bertieb @FMLCat ^ :P

Journeyman Geek

why did that expand to a seperate tab 0_0

Bob

? o.O

Journeyman Geek

I see a (see full text)

and that links to chat.stackexchange.com/messages/118/44225793

Bob

erm

idk

works for me

Journeyman Geek

odd

ah

might be porkchat

Bob

7:46 AM

are you control-clicking?

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek it is porkchat bug

I'd bugged @fredley about it, but no fix so far

Journeyman Geek

ah

I might remove it at some point

djsmiley2k

@Ave did explain it I think.

(the bug)

Ave

yeah

djsmiley2k

@Bob Nah, porkchat rewrites the url, badly

Journeyman Geek

7:48 AM

there's a unrelated, super specific to me bug where it tries to apply the black theme to mobile chat and fails.

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek huh, how o_O

Journeyman Geek

but you literally need to run my browser with websnippets

djsmiley2k

I sometimes get the css isn't loading when I resume the laptop from hibernate at home

that's weird

Journeyman Geek

Ave

this is my setup.

djsmiley2k

7:50 AM

oh, ew, wtf

Ave

(it also works fine on mobile chat btw)

djsmiley2k

oh, you're doing mobile view, in the browser?

I've just set it to a number of diff mobile views in chrome, they all look fine

(black background etc too)

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k the browser emulates a phone to do mobile view on the sidebar

so. yes. literally. Its a bug that only happens on my browser ;p

djsmiley2k

How weird.

Journeyman Geek

yup

@djsmiley2k 0_0

THat's just creepy

cause I don't think anyone even linked videos of that

and that's Norah Jones' sister ;p

djsmiley2k

7:57 AM

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, weird eh?

so.... is chrome sniffing the TEXT i'm posting to this page?~

is it just pure chance?

/me doesn't know

I just wish, google would show me some where 'We showed you this because you talked about X, on device Y, at time Z' for each suggestion, ya know?

Journeyman Geek

yup

they actually have SOME information

but this feels fishy

djsmiley2k

That's the thing, I'm happy with them watching everything

I just want to understand how they got from A->B, and be allowed to tell them that A isn't important to me, so don't show me B.

Journeyman Geek

hah lol

quite

but that's how it all starts? ;p

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek privacy is a lie

especially these days, when a image of someone can be built from what everyone else shares about them, even if that person never uses a computer.

So, just let me know where you're getting the incorrect information from, so I can at least fix that.

Journeyman Geek

That's reality sure but that's not quite right either

But I'd trade imperfect privacy for better information sure.

user226528

8:02 AM

According to my WSUS dashboard, I have approved 1178 updates and declined 5710 updates.

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek The problem comes when some people have privacy, that no one else can have/afford/get

such as Zuck and his ability to make his messages disappear

Journeyman Geek

ah ya

and heh

(I've been using google maps to track my parents by their request so.... )

And I'm like "If only I could tell where they went when they got lost"

so... I get that, and google probably already has that information

shouldn't there be a "not interested" button?

I mean its not as good as a "how are you cyberstalking me" menu...

Burgi

morning

@Ave are they quite common in turkey?

Ave

@Burgi no

there's 2-3 I could find

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek yeah, me and the wife share our location with each other

@JourneymanGeek yeah there is

Journeyman Geek

8:16 AM

I track my dad on his request...

djsmiley2k

but that doesn't negate the original 'you watched A'

Burgi

@Ave just one of those weird local oddities then?

Ave

yup

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k could remove that from history

but there's no history

djsmiley2k

@Burgi be a good uncle!

Congratulations to your Sister, and her other half.

Hope shes doing well

E-CSections can be a bit scary if you're not prepared for it, so I hear

@JourneymanGeek not sure that'd effect recommendations or not

Burgi

8:18 AM

i thought it might have been like that weird french teletyper they introduced in the 80s which they only shutdown a few years ago

Journeyman Geek

er...

minitel?

Burgi

yeah

like ceefax/teletext but over the phone system

djsmiley2k

telephone.

texiphone

teletype!

Journeyman Geek

there's a rediculously old, grungy laptop downstairs

if its still there I need to take a photo

Minitel

The Minitel was a Videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and is considered one of the world's most successful pre-World Wide Web online services. The service was rolled out experimentally in 1978 in Brittany and throughout France in 1982 by the PTT (Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones; divided since 1991 between France Télécom and La Poste). From its early days, users could make online purchases, make train reservations, check stock prices, search the telephone directory, have a mail box, and chat in a similar way to what is now made possible by the Internet. In February 2009...

Burgi

8:42 AM

@djsmiley2k thanks, i'll pass on the regards

"the guys on the intertubes wish you congratulations..."

2

;)

Michael Frank

So... Apparently this Quadro K1100M puts out half decent FPS on World of Warcraft haha

Burgi

8:58 AM

people still play WoW?

Ave

yes

Seth

Yes. The recent Addon was quite well received. The upcoming one ... doesn't look that good.

That Minitel thing looks alot like BX. Though with less demon face on the screen.

Boris_yo

World War III waiting to happen...

But everyone's cool. Goes to 9-5, drinks beer, watches movies, plays video games. Hopes the big bro will take care of everything for them...

djsmiley2k

9:25 AM

!!thisisfine

:P

ChatBot John Cavil

Ave

okay

I have time to explain the comet now

from 80s to mid 2010s, newspaper used to have a page of coupons on every single issue, and they used to advertise stuff like "bring all coupons of product X (Y in total) and get X". The products given this way were usually cheapo electronic things with translate, calendar, game and contact storage etc features.

Burgi

@Boris_yo WW3? i thought we had dodged that one

Ave

I believe comet was given through such a thing. It doesn't run real DOS.

Burgi

interesting

they did similar things in the UK but they tended to be branded (low quality brands) of PDAs and mobile phones

Ave

9:40 AM

I was going to use the word pda but wasn't sure if it was accurate

Burgi

i think the oddity of it comes from the fact it pretends to be a laptop

Ave

yup

Burgi

it is weird which local companies choose to champion technology for the people

Journeyman Geek

I think they still make machines like that ;p

Burgi

here we had tesco's (a supermarket) partnering with Acorn to provide computers for schools

Journeyman Geek

9:50 AM

apparently your comets were stripped down versions of google.com/search?q=Brother%20PN-8500%20MDS

besta.com.sg

Man, that's pure chinesium

Burgi

remember at that time Acorn was one of the largest computer makers in europe

Journeyman Geek

In a strange sense they still are ;p

Burgi

:)

i think you needed 100,000 vouchers for one computer

it was ridiculous

Seth

Depends on the time frame. It will certainly take time but having a week or a year makes a major difference.

Burgi

10:06 AM

theguardian.com/business/2005/mar/07/supermarkets.schools

its a little hard to find articles about the original scheme

Seth

Ouch

Burgi

as a marketing tool i think it was a huge success as people flocked to the supermarkets to support their local schools

as an education scheme i think it was really poor

i remember my school (about 200 pupils) saved for the entire campaign and only managed to get a single machine out of it

Michael Frank

@Burgi Yup, I normally play every expansion at least until I've finished the main storyline.

RogUE

10:39 AM

Does anyone here know the difference(s) between Find and Quick Find in Firefox?

Burgi

i didn't know quick find existed

how do you access it?

i normally just hit ctrl+f and find my stuff from there

Bob

@Burgi /

Burgi

ah, i knew about that one

didn't know it was a different find though

RogUE

@Bob Or '

Bob

@RogUE That one's links only

RogUE

10:47 AM

So there's more.

I meant the 'Links only Quick Find'.

@allquixotic You remember when I mentioned about some firewall blocks I encountered, and said that they are bots probing me, most probably.

now it is different.

Bob

11:02 AM

@RogUE presumable that only searches for links

RogUE

@Bob Another difference is, you don't have to close the search bar to follow the link, just press enter. THAT IS USEFUL.

Seth

11:58 AM

I highly suspect that whenever hitting enter works depends on how much shady JS is running.

Burgi

12:12 PM

its defaulkt functionality for a highlighted link

for accessibility reasons

user226528

12:25 PM

This latest XKCD would have been more interesting if the fictional news channel in it was called News 13.

user226528

After all, Triskaidekaphobia is more pervasive than Tetraphobia.

Burgi

thats too meta

Seth

Wasn't that the news channel for the TMNT ?

MYGz

Hi. Can we start rdp in windows server 2012 r2 before any user login?

user226528

@MYGz Yes.

user226528

12:35 PM

That's actually the whole point of RDP.

user226528

It's implemented as a Windows service, so it is started without anyone logging into console. That makes sense, seeing as servers aren't supposed to have consoles anyway.

MYGz

@FleetCommand Hmm. Well, I have a Win2012r2 machine. I can't rdp unless I login with any 1 user.

After login with any user, I am able to rdp

Burgi

arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/…

user226528

@MYGz This sounds like a sabotage, be it deliberate or accidental. A server machine into which you cannot log in remotely is not a server machine.

user226528

Maybe try and find out why.

MYGz

12:46 PM

@FleetCommand Ok. I waited for sometime after restart. I can login now.

user226528

Now that's more natural.

user226528

Services take time to start. Of course, on modern servers, this time is very short.

user226528

I am speaking about microseconds.

user226528

So, in your case, the RDP service takes an inordinate amount of time to start?

MYGz

Ah. I did wait for microsecond earlier :). AFter 3-4 mins I could login. Will check the timing next time.

user226528

12:51 PM

If this happens on a modern server that I have down here, I'd immediately set out to investigate using Sysinternals tools. (sysinternals.microsoft.com). This server has server-class SSDs and two CPUs.

user226528

Hence, I expect its startup time must be fast. On the other hand, I often don't restart it for months on the end. (Not all Windows Server updates need a restart.) Also, I've set the Windows Server updates to get installed at midnight, so the restart and the subsequent startup of all services has hours to get completed.

Burgi

this is a IPS question waiting to happen

djsmiley2k

1:06 PM

o_O

user226528

I won't let my ancestors define me.

user226528

> The name of that doctor was Gerald E. Mortimer

user226528

So was the name of the doctor in Blake and Mortimer.

user226528

> Ashby was diagnosed with a tipped uterus while Fowler was said to have a low sperm count and low sperm mobility.

user226528

That's exactly what happened to Monica and Chandler in Friends.

Burgi

1:26 PM

they adopted Joey

user226528

Why is @BenN still moderator pro tempore? Mustn't have he become moderator permanens by now?

user226528

Uh oh. This is not good. AFK...

Ave

1:49 PM

I love how google assistant can understand "How's the weather in recife?" but not "How's the weather in Kahramanmaraș?"

djsmiley2k

I doubt I can pronounce either of those ;D

Burgi

i added my petname for my girlfriend to google contacts so when i use a voice command to call or text her it knows who she is

it made me literally giggle to myself when i found out it works

djsmiley2k

2:05 PM

nice nice

I wondered if that'd work, but I've never used any of the voice commands on my phone

Burgi

only while driving

djsmiley2k

2:21 PM

hmmm

server 2012 r2,

I would like sshd, but it'd be ideal if it authenicated with our credentials

tho actually, that isn't really required, as we just use a shared user XD

Journeyman Geek

@FleetCommand his site needs to graduate

"Full" mods are elected, pro tems are appointed

Burgi

3:05 PM

basically the AI hivemind has appointed him as its minion

i hate testing multi-step forms

djsmiley2k

3:35 PM

sounds annoying

bertieb

3:54 PM

@Bob Aye, sound about right :P

djsmiley2k

7 hours ago, by Burgi

"the guys on the intertubes wish you congratulations..."

bertieb

Anyone else bitten by the non-clicking-cursor issue in Virtualbox? I'm sure I ran into it $AGES ago but it's cropped up again

djsmiley2k

We could all sign an ecard and you can print it out ;D

HackToHell

4:56 PM

What To Do If You're Too High On Weed

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lifehacker has ended up as this :(

djsmiley2k

5:07 PM

lol

lifehacker should of ended a long time ago

along with lifehacks.se

hmmm

Why does the web make some things too easy D:

I'm thinking to myself

oh man I can make a awesome dashboard thing using this old 7" tablet

but then I'm like... how would I do it? Oh. just make a webpage

/me sighs

jokerdino

what's a computer?

DavidPostill

iPad Pro — What’s a computer — Apple

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jokerdino

If Commercials were Real Life - Daytona 500/Apple iPad

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Burgi

5:45 PM

@djsmiley2k you could write a native app

That Brazilian Guy

6:00 PM

So I just overheard a conversation from our journalism team.

Apparently management requested an interview with a famous arquitect. Who died in 2012.

jokerdino

do they need a Ouija board?

djsmiley2k

6:41 PM

@Burgi I could try, and fail ;D

Blog bot

7:05 PM

Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change.

Jay Hanlon on April 26, 2018

Let’s start with the painful truth:

Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.

Our employees and community have cared about this for a long time, but we’ve struggled to talk about it publicly or to sufficiently prioritize it in recent years. And results matter more than intentions.

Now, that’s not because most Stack Overflow contributors are hostile jerks. The majority of them are generous and kind. Sure, a few are… just generous, I guess? But our active users regularly express thei …

bertieb

↑ interesting read

Wonder if it'll reverse (or at least ameliorate) the "please and thank you are noise" policy in the longer run

Ave

@Blogbot oooh nice

SO is hell tbh

djsmiley2k

7:27 PM

Well firstly realise 90% of answerers are of a certain type of personality

realise they are the kind that, if they cared what people thought, would be posting on IPS