@JourneymanGeek i have scripts that confvert magnet links into torrent files.

A magnet link is just a torrent file transformed into a URI-encoded string :P

;p

(ok, technically they're more than that, but that's what you'll most often see)

@Bob I think you remember my rtorrent/bt setup right?

with the RSS downloader app seperate...

vaguely

ya, was a pain

4 NUCs later... ;p

but both magnet links and torrent files are independent of the DHT

It's possible to specify trackers in a magnet link. And it's possible to have a torrent file without trackers in it (which will then default to looking up the file hash in the DHT).

Okay.... I don't think this is normal

Sorry Alex, but that crap has to go!

yey recursive dirs

IIRC the one thing that's usually different is a torrent file will have individual file hashes where a magnet link most often just has a single bundle hash. Can't quite remember though, it's been a few years since I last touched BT

@OliverSalzburg Looks like a backup program that tripped over a symlink

I feel like this will be more interesting soon :P

Because that root Backup folder isn't even showing up in Explorer

I didn't even know it exists

are you going to have to take alex outside and break his knees?

o.O

@Burgi I'm trying to find the .exe for fucking Adobe Acrobat

This just randomly popped up

I hate Adobe so much and especially fucking Acrobat

@Burgi now now... we start at the toes

> Please make sure to close Outlook, because our installer will fail if we can't install that useless Outlook add-in you hate

> Please make sure that your Desktop is not read-only, because we really need to create a shortcut for Acrobat on it. You'll never need or use it, but we'll make sure it is re-created all the time.

> Why? Because, fuck you, that's why. :)

Maybe Alex is a collector of Acrobat installers

...

ARM?

maybe we need to start with fingers

@Bob I did

Dammit talking to Bob when I wake up in the evenings doesn't work anymore when the time difference is +0 instead of +11

@OliverSalzburg My favourite is how the Creative Cloud installer/updater insists on restarting Explorer.

Why? 'cause.

Oh hey Bob's awake

Hi Bob

Oh, those Explorer windows you had opened? They're gone now.

@TOWMN 'lo

I might have to skip Sydney

Come to Sydney! We have ... uh. bridges?

:-/

lol

@TOWMN Ran out of money time?

It's like $150 to go up the bridge. Though I know someone who knows someone who could get me up for free.

@Bob Trains are cancelled, replacement bus service instead :-/

Ow.

...shit. I forgot about that.

I could fly, for about $150 more than the train but then where could I take the train? Sydney to Adelaide would be far too long

Dunno if it would've affected Trainlink but they were making announcements about bus replacements on the intracity lines north of the city this week.

Yeah, there's bus replacements all the way from Melbourne to Albury for the next 3-4 days

0_0

And that's like, basically half the way -_-

trains got cancelled?

@TOWMN Ah, that's not even in NSW... would be unrelated to the local ones then

@Bob :-P

Albury was on the Vic border with NSW IIRC

I wish I can punch some guys

@TOWMN That's not too bad tbh

Albury to Sydney is a good distance

unless you're unhappy about the bus/coach ride? :P

@Bob Gotta load those important shell extensions so you can convert files to PDF!

Oh great, Jetstar flights to Syd just went up from $180 to $280

@Bob I like trains

@TOWMN It's actually 40% of the way but ok :P

Albury to Sydney is 15% shorter than Edinburgh to London

but yea up to you of course

we mostly have ... old architecture? *shrug*

and not even that old, considering you went through Italy

and you live in the UK :P

The day that Microsoft makes exFAT free for all without collecting the damn royalties is the day that I will jump off a cliff.

ok is it weird that the government agency only NOW has concerns about website security....

@Bob Lol

Hey Italy has plenty of 2nd/3rd gen 300kmh HSTs

@Bob Odd thing with the 40% - it's 3 hours for that 40% on bus and 8 hours for the remaining 60% by train :-o

Also the bus leaves an hour earlier and sits around in Albury doing nothing for an hour. And I'd have to get up in 4 hours. Bleh.

@TOWMN yea our trains go pretty slow

@Bob That's part of the beauty of the journey! :-P

where are you travelling to?

But as much as I like trains, and just travelling for the hell of it, the ability to get out of bed six hours later and arrive earlier is very very tempting....

@Burgi Bob's lawn.

Also where the heck is AVV airport

@TOWMN come back in 20 years abc.net.au/news/2016-07-14/…

> "This is the third busiest air route in the world, Melbourne to Sydney," he said.

O_O

@Burgi lol it's expected.

Oh erm, did we ask about security for that thing we launched?

@Bob Oh yeah, I plan on it. Also plan on going back to Malaysia in 5-6 years

They're in the process of building high speed rail from China through Thailand all the way down to Singapore

I mean I've done all the high speed rail routes in Europe, so I just gotta wait for them to build some new ones on the other side of the world.

@TOWMN been to japan?

<.< >.>

@Bob Nope

Waiting on them to finish building the 500km/h maglev

$20 extra for Qantas instead of Jetstar... airport is half the distance away, and luggage is included so it works out cheaper anyway

Oh and free food and what not

Great, now I have an invisible, half-deleted, half-undeleteable folder on my system which drives Everything insane

wtf lmao. If I fly with airmiles it's cheaper still, even though I have to go Melbourne => Brisbane => Sydney

Might be time to start off the weekend

That's not a shorter route -_-

@TOWMN funnily enough, if you took a train up north you'd probably pass within 200m of it

:35950249 lol. You think the 4 letter acronym agencies can't read your deleted posts?

@TOWMN that's... an interesting route

@DavidPostill THERE WAS NO MESSAGE

@Bob Reward flight availability is also weird

@TOWMN ha, if only the names fit

0 direct flights available on Sat, 0 flights at all available on Sun, 20 different flights on Mon including business class for less than the train

But Monday would be too late cause I wanna spend at least 4 days in Adelaide

Wish I'd booked 20 days in Aus instead of 10 now

lol

could always reschedule but it'd probably cost an arm and a leg

Win-win, then you'll have more room on the plane

@Bob Only during the week it seems...

Mon-Fri there's like flights every 10 minutes on Qantas, Sunday there's... zero

Note to self: Bob's lawn is within 200m of railway line

And has cats

@TOWMN I think we're down a cat.

Incidentally, I almost tripped over one on my walk home Thursday

"Woolloomooloo"

Is a place in Sydney

:-/

@Bob that was @TOWMN stalking you

@TOWMN juuuuuuust 100m if you pick the nearest track :P

@TOWMN It was also the go-to example for the combinatorics component of the discrete maths course :P

@Bob o_0

the other one was Mississippi IIRC

@TOWMN There's a place in Coventry called Paradise.

(it's not)

Grr why did my 4G roaming SIM have to die just before I got to test the 600Mbps 4G-X networks :-(

Well, 850Mbps, but my phone can't manage that

@Bob perhaps i was mistaken..bittorrent is a protocol but it is just a generalized way of defining P2P sharing of files..the actual implementation of how files are shared and tracked are done through tracking server and its later replacement DHT..good thing is i didn't speak anything about bittorrent protocol in the seminar though my topic was similar

@Bob So you're a mathematician?

@TOWMN compsci had math courses

@defalt sounds about right

why there is no offline installer for microsoft visual studio 2017 commnity? They ruin experience of users..its online installer keeps on showing error downloading file after 25%

get better internets

if it failed for everyone, there'd be no users.

i've good internet..the installer is buggy..it downloads files very slow

@defalt make your own docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/…

i wonder what was the purpose of microsoft for not creating zip file of the application

online installer worked fine for me yesterday

@defalt it's an additional burden, and hard to keep up to date.

@Bob yeah i went to that link..it is just an extra overhead for me to make it offline

meh, it's only one extra step

@JourneymanGeek Thoughts about this one?

i'm going to try last time through online installer..i'm downloading 5GB of extra tools through the installer..maybe that's why it is so slow

And this and this ?

Looking for over the year headphones to take with me anywhere...

@defalt I installed both c++ and c# workloads... 9GB, took half an hour maybe less

P.S. Enjoy this 80s song and tell me how it doesn't make you wanna dance...

my installer says operation failed after some like 25% of download and starts all over again..such installers which don't save already downloaded data after failed download and restart again from 0% are the worst installer in this world

Weird; I didn't experience any issues even though my Internet was dropping outbound packets like crazy

its beer o'clock

if it was a zip file it would not take me more than 15 miutes to download it

thank the lord

Does a reboot help?

All my stuff (.NET, desktop native, and ASP.NET) was 12GB FWIW

reboot did nothing..my package is ASP.NET and web development..that makes 4GB total

lol

@Bob Really? You think a software company with the resources of Microsoft would find it hard to add a 'tar -czf' to the end of their automated build process?

@TOWMN except it's not one big build, it's lots of little components that are updated independently

if they provided one big archive, the whole thing would have to be updated when any little part changes

@Bob And yet they still provdide Windows install DVDs :-P

making your own archive gives you a point in time snapshot shrug

And service pack rollup packages

Urgh. My operator's throttling my port 443 SSL vpn to 25kbps

@TOWMN seems like it's more out of necessity than anything else... they're promoting the MCT more now :P

yea the cumulative update decision was a bit weird

feckin DPI

And ATPI

less testing, I suppose

they care less if VS breaks :P

@TOWMN go grab a Telstra SIM :P

you know i'm going to suggest microsoft if they can't face small burden to create an offline installer then atleast upload the zip archive so that users can use IDM to download it..much better than using their online installer which has no functionality at all to make it quick

@Bob At 3am? :-/

Not sure if I'll even have time to get one before my 7am bus

Optus has free Spotify, should have got one of those

Only need VPN because Spotify is basically blocked on my 3G roaming SIM :-/

@TOWMN Coles express at petrol station :P

but activation might be difficult

ideally you'd want to activate at a carrier store. dunno if online activation works without driver's license number

i was wondering one day that if every tor node uploads its decryption key then the entire tor network would become plain text

isn't this possible?

oh, Telstra has their 24/7 online chat so you could activate that way

@defalt you'd still need to know the path the data took, to decrypt it mid journey

For your spam flags: superuser.com/a/1187205/337631

and why would every node suddenly do that?

and you'd need to defeat the end encryption too

end encryption lasts to third node and if every node uploads their key everything will become visible. About the path every packet will have a IP to which node it is going so i or NSA just has to look for its corresponding decryption key.

superuser.com/review/first-posts/632737 spam with no link?

'blackeye softwares' as the user posting too

I think htis Tronsmart micro-USB cable has now properly kicked the bucket

'This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. You passed. Downvoting, editing, flagging as "very low quality", or voting to close are all appropriate actions in this case.'

AHHAAAA

i win the internets!

@djsmiley2k I've seen that before - spammer can't spell SENTIMENTAL - should be sentinel

yeah

:D

@Bob Does it have to be an Aussie drivers license number? :-P

bye

@Bob I want Optus :-(

I have one of those

Anyone here play Cattlefield 1?

this shit just got serious :(

+1

@Burgi I thought you were in the pub?

@Burgi I did tell you to run away

the hosting company refuse to provide the apache logs from the time of the attack

@DavidPostill we get beer in the office

@djsmiley2k they WILL find me

@Burgi Not before you get old and retire

@TOWMN the 4 Letter Agency will know

@Burgi DVLA?

MI66?

CCNA?

Yeah I dunno what 4 letter agency you mean

Plenty of evil 3 letter agencies

HMRC?

@TOWMN you are better off not knowing

@Burgi EBCA?

roar

FIFA?

yes fifa

Thought so.

Why would he care?

What happened Burgi?

I found the four letters.

Hey guys

I am glad this week is over.

@jokerdino our client has partnered with a large UK government agency (hereby known as 4LA) to provide "services". given the nature of what the 4LA do i suggested that we need to do a pen test and move our client to a more stable and secure server and i was ignored

@Burgi Maybe the 4LA is looking for recruits amongst the attackers :)

Sounds ominous.

so last night after the new site was put live it was immediately hacked

!!headdesk

FIFA isn't a UK government agency...

lol

@Burgi Is there anything you can do now?

@DavidPostill this may or may not be the "services" our client provides :-|

@TOWMN Hint: HDIR

@Burgi lol

The 4LA entry bar is normally set quite high judging by the previous recruitment puzzle competitions

Nginx local server... Whenever I access any site of the form example.com it loads my nginx web page but any site example.com/page.html will serve my site but not use my style.css or background. Its just text. Why does it not load the entire site?

No wait. That was a 3LA

@DavidPostill it might not be aimed at full grown up people

Ah. script kiddies :)

Sup @Bob

Why is he even still awake

Anyway the "arm and a leg" cost to change my flight to something 2 weeks later is "only" £228, which isn't too bad

I mean, last time I tried to change a flight ti was £550 for a week later and a considerably worse flight

Lets see if I can stay in Melborne a couple more days, cause I cba thinking straight at 4:30am

Good morning @TOWMN

There's huge demand for apprenticeships defending the country's most important assets against cyber attacks

Does anybody know where to put the code in the answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/35716988/…

I know but I mean in the abc.html file?

or in the nginx config file

fuck it

i'm going to go home

i'll drive in zig zags to dodge the drone strike

Keep us updated.

genuine ticket... 'Check Cabling on UPS (Virtual Host)'

....

face

palm

So it IS Mi6

@djsmiley2k Close. I believe it a related 4LA.

NASA?

D:

ooo

FCHQ

@djsmiley2k You are very warm :)

Hey, I don't want a drone strike @DavidPostill

So I'm wondering if it's a hacking challenges website ;)

lol

@djsmiley2k G

@jokerdino C

@djsmiley2k H

@jokerdino Q

\o/

\o/

lol

@Burgi weren't the 2s immune to Cylon hacking?

@Burgi the four letter agency who's after you has armed dromes?!

@djsmiley2k ooohhhhhh gchq?

I get it now

oh no

ur gonna get droned

But why the heck would someone as high security as gchq be so incompetent with their security

@djsmiley2k your drones have no power over me, I'm out of range!

Then again I suppose the aussie government could be pretty easily convinced by the brits to hand me over

... If they can find me Mwahaha! (I'll be hiding in the rail yard next to Bob's yard if anyone needs me)

that's @TOWMN

I pronounce TOWMN like "chow mein" except "t" instead of "ch"

rofl wat kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Hi_mein

tow mein ?

@djsmiley2k yup :D

Heh, I mentally pronounce it "tom win" even though the W and M are in the other order

meow

@bwDraco cew (little tiny meek cat mew)

hmmmmmm kingdom of loathing

maybe i can play that here o_O

So I have this problem where I can access my local nginx site with www.site.localnet or even www.site.localnet/fake.html but www.site.localnet/fakepage/nonexistent.html will load my site but not the background and styling... I put base href ="/" in the header tag which made one directory down work e.g. x.com/file.html But I cant get it working for more

I tried using abs paths for the style sheet and background image file but that made it not load the site entirely everywhere instead of just not for the longer URLS

o_O

@allquixotic cute kitty

yawn

20min to go

woo

!!!

:O

@CheesusCrust lol

!!Tell @Comicbookguy hv

@JourneymanGeek Don't be annoying, drop the @, nobody likes a double-ping.

Hm

!!Tell Comicbookguy hv

@Comicbookguy i.sstatic.net/TlV1F.png

Hm. That needs fixing

@JourneymanGeek that's never worked; you can't onebox something when it's also @ing someone, bot or no

try this instead

!!tell 35959116 hv

@allquixotic Doesn't it work split over two lines?

Much easier than looking up the chat id

Ahh thanks

Ooh. Someone broke all the sites

@allquixotic yes, isn't that what i said?

@TOWMN maybe...?

!!you weren't listening were you?

@Burgi That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

good, good

Derp.

I wish I was a coconut

why?

@JourneymanGeek Hehe, I missed it, but it looks like it was fun

@BenN I missed most of the fun too