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DavidPostill

00:00

@allquixotic Really? 0_0

bwDraco

> Sexually Explicit Material. Accounts that use Stack Exchange to post sexually explicit or pornographic material, or links to it, will be suspended.

Do we get a CM here to suspend the user?

DavidPostill

@bwDraco Why do you feel it is explicit? There are no rude parts on display ...

That Brazilian Guy

@DavidPostill Yeah, to me it's quite unmistakeably a bottom part.

@DavidPostill The definition of what's explicit changes according to time, location and culture. To some people, nudity is sexually explicit. To others, only stuff from hardcore porn is explicit.

wat

@ThatBrazilianGuy what is to you?

That Brazilian Guy

@wat I don't know. My judgement varies with the circumstances and surroundings.

I think the avatar in question it is quite inappropriate for a community like SE.

bwDraco

00:08

It's near-full nudity, which is not acceptable for Stack Exchange.

That Brazilian Guy

If I turn the fan off, I feel too warm. I turn it on, I feel too cold. Ouch my youth...

DavidPostill

@bwDraco And yet this film Suicide Squad, rated PG13, is far more explicit than a bare bottom. And by the way, that movie does include a shot of a bare bottom.

@ThatBrazilianGuy I don't disagree.

bwDraco

This meta post alone probably warrants a mod message.

That Brazilian Guy

@bwDraco Nah, your NSFW warning edit is enough. The image is linked, not in the content

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy The first revision of the question had the image inline ... and considerably larger than an avatar would be ...

That Brazilian Guy

00:18

I find it ironic as my country it is usually regarded as a liberal, even libertine place, with quite revealing outfits in the streets, TVs and magazines, and yet it's a quite moralist and conservative country.

You don't see women going topless on beaches, which from what I hear isn't given a second though in Europe. Here it would be a scandal. Other example: a TV news reporter from a #1 sports channel ended her marriage to marry a woman, and met lots and lots of hostility.

@DavidPostill Really? In that case, and given the "resemblance to something other than a heart" line, I wonder if could it be a troll.

TRiG

@ThatBrazilianGuy Topless beaches are not the norm in the UK or Ireland nor, I believe, in Eastern Europe.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco Its on meta. CM's are probably aware.

That Brazilian Guy

@TRiG Well, I don't know which countries, sometimes my mind just labels a vague definition of "those persons with very very white skin who think 21 celsius is hot"

DavidPostill

@TRiG There are plenty of nude beaches in the UK (none of them in Ireland AFAIK).

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy its plausible

or he's never seen a butt before.

That Brazilian Guy

00:25

@JourneymanGeek The troll theory?

Journeyman Geek

Yes

Kinda odd he has no account elsewhere

and if I saw that on SU, I'd force-change the ava and mod message

Granted the one time I did that it was far more clearcut

bwDraco

Got it. Thanks for your short yet comprehensive reply. — Xander Transeau 37 mins ago

That sounds like trolling.

allquixotic

@bwDraco I'd be shocked if someone who posted a picture of a butt on meta.SE was trolling (gasp)

bwDraco

If I were a mod there, the question alone is sufficient to warrant a moderator private message.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic outraged sir. simply outraged

@bwDraco why? I'd rather tree him in the open

DavidPostill

00:28

The Peach Emoji Looks Like A Butt Again ;)

bwDraco

I am not so sure a suspension without warning is justified at this point...

Journeyman Geek

I mean, if a question was asked, I'd rather deal with it in meta.

That Brazilian Guy

@DavidPostill Journalism at its best.

allquixotic

@DavidPostill butts are to be celebrated, embraced, and ogled; this is only a good thing

though I'm pretty sure RA's MPAA rating is sinking right now

Journeyman Geek

There is a time for everything under the sun... a time for butts....

@allquixotic I'm totally trying to find something to change the topic about

allquixotic

00:31

@JourneymanGeek your time for butts is when you're walking in the park and there's that wauzer chick trotting her stuff across the field

Journeyman Geek

precisely

bwDraco

Changing the topic. So, does anyone else have experience with putting an internal SSD in an enclosure? I did just that a couple of days ago only to find that TRIM is not possible. Has anyone run into issues where the drive goes into steady state?

Journeyman Geek

errr

@allquixotic did I think

bwDraco

One thing I hate about many cheaper flash drives is that they intermittently drop to zero IOPS while transferring data to the drive once you write the drive's capacity worth of data.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic the guy with the PIV, is it just me or does it feel like he's nickle and diming his build?

That Brazilian Guy

00:38

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I just randomly remembered I had an account on a freelancing site

Logged in after nearly 3 years and they have been taking USD 10 each month

I've lost nearly BRL 300... ;_____;

Journeyman Geek

0_0

That Brazilian Guy

Could've paid an entire month of grocery shopping =/

Well, no use crying over the spoiled milk, I guess.

Journeyman Geek

"dormant account fee" ... those... felines...

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek That's quite offensive. To cats.

I find it so pitoresque how Rio is such a huge metropolis and yet one can be walking in a street downtown (well, the century old part, but yet commercial streets) and there's suddenly a cat sitting amidst the products on display, nonchalantly watching the passersby...

Journeyman Geek

00:57

lol

That Brazilian Guy

I passed by one today and it was so cute I just started scratching its head and he didn't even moved he just closed its eyes and ommmmmmg caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

!!xkcd 231

ChatBot John Cavil

Yes you are! And you're sitting there! Hi, kitty!

Journeyman Geek

I miss ol oneeye

there was this grizzled gigantic tomcat in my neighbourhood who would walk up to people and roll over to be petted.

That Brazilian Guy

01:24

=^_^=

Bob

We have a roofcat

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Q: How to decrypt .lock files from ransomeware on Windows

I am helping a friend which is an accountant and got all of her books locked due to this. Here are some details: BTC address of the attacker: 1MBwkTssJkqRvXmAFcSEZ3xTD39A9rkyYA Email: [email protected] File name example: [email protected] Filename o...

oh look another one

allquixotic

I'm a cat who has a pet cat

Journeyman Geek

01:47

recursive catting?

Anna duh

!!caaaaaaaaat

ChatBot John Cavil

Anna duh

Catception

Bob

02:14

@allquixotic A cat in chat who has a pet cat

Anna duh

@ChatBotJohnCavil "You're a kitty" is hardly insane

Bob

@Annaduh inane*

Anna duh

@Bob òOS SORRY

Fuck where are my glasses

Found my glasses. Why are my glasses covered in pot noodle powder

Bob

@Annaduh so you can lick them? :P

Anna duh

@Bob I don't like licking my glasses

Psycogeek

02:28

My friend paid 1 BTC to the (ransomware) scammers, after which they sent no key and asked for more money (obviously).
World has really gont to hell if you cant trust the criminals anymore :-)

Anna duh

I might be made of celery

Journeyman Geek

02:46

@Annaduh stop snorting it then

Journeyman Geek

03:00

hmm

This feels like a spammer. But its kinda cute when they go "this tool didn't work" while trying to do crappy SEO

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Q: How do I decrypt Cerber 4 affected files

My system has got corrupted with .cerber4. It asks money to decrypt files. But I don't want to pay for it. I find this post and follow the manual guide but it seems no work. I want to try System restore but there are not restore points in my computer...

windows-7 encryption

Bob

03:26

zuul npmjs.com/package/zuul

Anna duh

zuul?

So Leonard Nimoy is dead...

Bob

03:45

@Annaduh uh... welcome to 2015?

Journeyman Geek

03:57

The tamil CM died

I think she died yesterday and they covered it up for a bit

Anna duh

@Bob Took a while to set in

Bob

@JourneymanGeek CM?

Journeyman Geek

Chief minister.

Bob

oh

Anna duh

04:21

Well I just hacked my hostel website to get 15% off

Now I need a donut.

Donut not found. Please assist.

Donut located. Powering up weapons.

Target acquired. Weapons locked.

Capt'n! The donut's gone to warp!

Bob

> Handling of 'touchmove' input event was delayed for 2147483647 ms due to main thread being busy.

my uptime's amazing

Anna duh

Fetch me the nyancat

If anyone can outrun a faster than light Donut, nyancat can.

@Bob eh, it's only 24 days

Bob

04:41

@Annaduh :(

@Annaduh actually yesterday was my first reboot since mid-Sept on this machine :P

home one's probably been running longer

but eventually need those sec updates...

Anna duh

05:07

Now that you mention it, my brute force method of disabling windows 10's forced reboots seems to have worked

Journeyman Geek

05:19

If you need to shoot holes in your donut, its not a donut. Its a do not. And do or donut, there is no try

Freedo

05:49

does anyone here knows about rar on bash?

Journeyman Geek

"on bash" >_>

I don't think anyone's written a bash implimentation of rar or unrar

Freedo

ss64.com/bash/rar.html

Journeyman Geek

ah hah. but that's not exactly bash

Freedo

what is then ? lol

Journeyman Geek

Its a command line application

You could call it in any shell you please.

Freedo

05:55

oh ok lol

I don't really understand this I'm just trying to do a script by myself

Journeyman Geek

ah

and?

See, if I need to play 20 questions....

Freedo

it just loops forever

the man page is confusing

Journeyman Geek

hm. Try unraring on its own first.

rar shouldn't loop anyway

Freedo

rar a -r -ao -dh -m 5 paman.rar C:\backup\paman\

paman is the file to be created, and the other is the path where the folder is

By loop i mean it just print the command on the screen and keep repeating but does nothing

Journeyman Geek

shouldn't there be an - before the a ?

Freedo

06:04

I don't think so...their examples they don't use it.... Is there something with better documentation I can use to archive a folder in .bat files

Journeyman Geek

wait

bash or bat?

Freedo

bat

Journeyman Geek

That's completely different from bash

Freedo

oh sorry

Journeyman Geek

annnd, at this point, maybe you should ask the question on the main site.

Freedo

06:05

I thought they were the same. Can you just say some alternatives I can use with better documentation ?

Journeyman Geek

I don't really compress things in CLI

7zip is what I'd typically use tho

Freedo

so just to know when searching

if i'm doing a scrip which is saved as .bat

which language it is?

Journeyman Geek

........

If its .bat its windows batch.

.ps is powershell

otherwise look at the first line

Freedo

k thanks

Bob

06:26

@JourneymanGeek ps1*

Psycogeek

07:10

theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/05/… Amazon to open up (possibly) 2000 automated grocery stores with (orwellian) purchace tracking system and automated payment.

To note: that amazon also was gonna do a bunch of other stuff too before they realised all the Laws and permits and BS that would be involved in doing wuch things,

Psycogeek

07:32

today was a really weird monday here in california, it is as if 1/3 of everybody dissapeared? at the few stores i was at the normal ammount of working humans was very low (couldnt find employees) , commute traffic was low , The people that did still exist seemed "slow" today.

Also and probably the problem, many people seem to have seasonal illness, colds and all, and it is very cool for california. just weirdly different day.

djsmiley2k

07:53

@Psycogeek why not just have people scan the barcodes on their phones

track them too, as a security measure

I just imagine at really busy times, the store won't know wtf is going on

Amazon are building a warehouse up by me

It's a bit odd tho, the road access isn't exactly great - I don't know if the planners may of told some fibs about amount of traffic and such in the area.

karel

08:06

I need help from a reviewer to cast the fifth close vote on this question: I need a formula in Google Sheets that does the following so that it can be migrated to Web Applications Q&A. As soon as this question is put on hold, I will flag it with a request for mods to migrate it to Web Applications Q&A. fixer1234 has already commented about this under the question.

djsmiley2k

tbh it's not a web apps question, it's maths

And does the answer given not work>?

bwDraco

HEXUS hits 4.85 GHz on air with their i7-7700K running at 1.30V: hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/…

However, no increase in IPC as established before.

karel

08:28

If the question is migrated, its answers will be migrated along with it, so nothing will be lost because of migration including the upvote that an answer received.

bwDraco

Realistic overclocking limits appear to range from 4.8 to 5.0 GHz at 1.30V. HEXUS's reports their chip may be a bad sample as their chip was rather unstable oparating at 5 GHz and 1.35V (they mention a source stating that depending on sample variation 1.29V to 1.35V is needed for 5 GHz).

Journeyman Geek

@karel there's a certain... Lack of effort in the question.

bwDraco

In essence, CPU performance has almost completely stopped improving. Intel's relying on its process superiority to achieve sky-high clocks and higher efficiency but has made next to no improvement in IPC over the last few generations.

Psycogeek

@bwDraco waiting for the "next big jump" the real one

bwDraco

...and in fact, no improvement in IPC at all for Kaby Lake.

Journeyman Geek

08:36

@bwDraco though arguably without any real competition, and the way machines are now - massive increases in performance don't make that much commercial sense

bwDraco

Most consumer workloads are still I/O bound even with the advent of low-latency NVMe SSDs.

Journeyman Geek

Even if AMD caught up in performance and efficency, and were nipping at intel's heels, there's no major 'realistic' advantage for a processor to be 10 or 20% faster for most people.

Burgi

morning

Bob

'lo

bwDraco

CPU performance per watt is becoming more important because most consumer workloads today are on constrained mobile platforms that must operate within strict thermal and power limits.

Psycogeek

08:41

the SSD change was a good balancing of that slower bottlenecking , making many consumer functions much faster feeling to the user. being a pretty good fair priced upgrade for these years.

all of the cpu changes, have been underwhelming

Burgi

@DavidPostill perhaps the solution here is to stop people having arses that look like fruit

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek any ssd feels like an improvement

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek its more a dogbert thing

how do you find out if the archeologists surveying a building site have found anything?

Psycogeek

get one drunk ?

Burgi

that wouldn't be too difficult....

Bob

08:48

@JourneymanGeek not really

Psycogeek

be really interested in thier "job" eventually they will let down thier guard, and tell all,

Bob

depends what you use it for, and there are some truly shoddy ssds out there

I maintain that many workloads won't exhibit a significant difference

not really *that* much random access, especially with a decent amount of RAM (cache)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I threw a shoddy ssd into an old machine

My dad turned down upgrading to the x220 ._.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek old machines aren't a particularly fair comparison

they tend to be ram-anaemic and have terrible hdds too

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yup

Bob

08:56

if you added more ram you'd probably see a similar effect

if you switched to a modern hdd you'd probably see a similar effect

Journeyman Geek

But there's very little that makes me go "I need to upgrade my PC to be usable" ;p

Which was the bigger point I was trying to make

Psycogeek

the human is the slowest part of my computer :-)

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Journeyman Geek

Unlike say...

Burgi

that makes you rare in this channel ;)

Journeyman Geek

my first 3 PCs

My 4th one, I could probably refurbish to be usable, but cannot be bothered

and that's a c2d, so... verging on a decade?

Burgi

09:19

the Real User Monitoring on pingdom is really cool

djsmiley2k

hum de dum

just waiting, waiting, waiting for office 2010 to copy ot some laptops

DavidPostill

09:39

@karel Done

djsmiley2k

and then I find they've never actually requested the purchase of keys.

Rahul2001

I GOT A GIRLFRIEND!!

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xD

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Congrats

Rahul2001

Thanks :D

Burgi

congrats

whats her name, what is she like?

it also explains why we haven't seen you

Oliver Salzburg

10:01

Does anyone have any experience with spam-filter-as-a-service providers and could possibly recommend one?

Burgi

TrendMicro

we deployed it to several customers and it never missed a beat

Dave

Hi. Some one has asked how to get a protected PDF. Is it wrong to answer them? superuser.com/questions/1153447/download-protected-pdf/1153453

Rahul2001

@Burgi Nah, we just started dating yesterday

And she will remain unnamed on the internet :)

Burgi

"Mrs Rahul2001"

Rahul2001

Too young to get married :P

allquixotic

10:09

I feel like support sites intentionally put static HTML on their pages to always show messages like this as a psychological barrier to people wondering why it takes them 2 weeks to respond

> An unexpected increase in volume has resulted in delayed responses, but we will do our best to respond as soon as we can.

more honestly:

> An unexpected decrease in support funding from our greedy CEO/CFO has resulted in delayed responses, but we will do our best to respond as soon as we can. The greedy bastard.

Bob

lol

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi Thanks!

allquixotic

also phone systems that say "We are experiencing a high call volume right now, please be patient"

djsmiley2k

@Annaduh

Those eyes xD

Burgi

> What on earth are you eating!

Oliver Salzburg

10:15

@Burgi How are they billing? By volume? By user?

Burgi

> DUUUUUUDE!!!! Sugar Puffs!!!!

@OliverSalzburg i'm not sure i didn't get involved in that

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi Alright, thanks anyway :)

allquixotic

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Space History Build Challenge with Amy Shira Teitel

►

DavidPostill

@allquixotic ???

allquixotic

@DavidPostill lol

check edit history here ;p

it's the same woman as in that Scott Manley livestream vid

she did a special "atomic pin-up girl" costume for halloween

DavidPostill

10:23

@allquixotic Ah. I was wondering what the connection was :)

allquixotic

it's just a shallow "ooooo nice" from me... science hottie

beautiful women are abundant; scientifically minded women are relatively plentiful; beautiful, scientifically minded women are super rare

Bob

@allquixotic did you end up trying the plugin on ts?

allquixotic

@Bob instability

Bob

@allquixotic greeeeaaaaaat

got any ideas? :P

I suppose go back to native FLAC encoding, or host CoreCLR purely for the encoding step...

allquixotic

@Bob probably because a bunch of unmanaged threads are putting the native instruction pointer of their thread into the function call into the .NET stack and it's like "O____O"

Bob

10:28

@allquixotic ha. in theory that should work perfectly well

I suspect I got the function struct wrong, but I have no idea how to tell :\

my experience debugging native code starts and ends with gdb

...doesn't help that TS3 isn't open source, so can't really hook a debugger up to that easily

@allquixotic it's nice just having this playing in the background :P

allquixotic

personally I prefer Amy in the foreground, but to each their own

Bob

lol

@allquixotic so, I'm not gonna be doing anything on that plugin for today. dunno about tomorrow. will probably fiddle a bit more and see if I can't get it stable-ish, otherwise maybe look into the ffmpeg api (:S). how unstable was it? crash %?

Journeyman Geek

10:57

I got another HNQ. Mine's the only answer. HOW DOES THIS THING EVEN WORK ._.

Anna duh

Cats

Journeyman Geek

This makes sense

Anna duh

I don't get why all OpenVPN tutorials seem to suggest using a static key or certificate authentication, when you could just use username and password

Static key is terribly insecure and PKI is ridiculously overkill and complex for normal users

Yet I've never seen a tutorial that tells you just to use plain username/password

I suppose it does require a server TLS cert anyway, but it's still vastly less complex than signing client certs for every client...

Bob

11:27

@Annaduh how is static less secure than password?

I suppose for multi-user...

didn't know it existed though

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