Root Access

Michael Frank

00:00

Shovel Knight

Bob

00:13

thanks

William

00:34

Hey chat people. What is the most iconic thinkpad year/model that isn't to expensive? I have gathered they seemed to look fairly similar until they made the new keyboard switch. I own 2 before they made the keyboard pre-430 models switch which I tend to like better.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ^

Michael Frank

@William I have an X230 and an X240. They're both awesome.

William

@MichaelFrank with or with out touch screen

Michael Frank

Without.

William

certainly looks nice. X230 seemed to hold their value well. I tend to buy the older stuff and throw a SSD in them and they work well enough. I do prefer the older keyboards

Michael Frank

00:46

Yea, the X230 has quite a slim HDD slot, so make sure you get a.n SSD that actually fits. None of my spares seemed to work

Bob

@bwDraco wiki.mozilla.org/E10s/Status/June2 ff54 is shipping with 4 content processes

William

It appears JourneyMan has a r60 according to chat(which is crazy cheap and old). I wish I new if I had a r60 or t60 when I was a kid. Mine was returned to the business I was using them at when I was 12.

Michael Frank

01:02

I use a T450 at work, it's a great machine.

msangel

>Славный коммунизм

2

kurw....a

bwDraco

rofl

May 10 at 11:47, by Fleet Command

@JourneymanGeek I think it was fun to change the subject of this chatroom to "Славный коммунизм" for one hour, but the next hours were just embarrassing.

Have less than ten people in the society. Communism doesn't scale. And movies rarely reflect economic reality. — Michael Hampton Oct 11 '16 at 0:11

> Glorious communism!

rofl.

Jokes aside, I've been on record before about how communism doesn't scale:

Aug 20 '15 at 13:05, by DragonLord

It only takes a single bad apple among a population of millions for a working communist state to degenerate into a "communist" dictatorship.

Aug 20 '15 at 13:08, by DragonLord

It's not that communism isn't an ideal societal structure. The issue is that true communism (Marxism or otherwise) is not feasible to implement, at least in part due to intrinsic issues in human nature. It just doesn't scale.

Bob

01:20

> StringInfo
ID "IDS_STARBASENAME_PSI00"
Value "Divinity"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_STARBASENAME_PSI01"
Value "Purity"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_STARBASENAME_PSI02"
Value "Sanctuary"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_STARBASENAME_PSI03"
Value "Sanctity"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_STARBASENAME_PSI04"
Value "Redemption"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_STARBASENAME_PSI05"
Value "Vindication"

I think I just found my new server naming scheme :D

> StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI00"
Value "Tyrand"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI01"
Value "Vengea"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI02"
Value "Aventus"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI03"
Value "Lumiscant"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI04"
Value "Direnus"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI05"
Value "Imperia"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI06"
Value "Immaculata"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI07"
Value "Malevesant"
StringInfo
ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_PSI08"

those work too :)

William

What do the names come from?

Bob

@William Sins of a Solar Empire, default names for Advent faction

hm. TIL... don't think we've seen that before, @allquixotic?

bwDraco

tomshardware.com/news/hp-omen-accelerator-gpu-dock,34682.html

Yet a new eGPU dock. This is getting interesting...

Bob

hm

I need a easy place/way to dump files for transfer

any suggestions?

William

how many/what size files?

Bob

01:34

preferably without authentication... cause I'll be doing it from untrusted machines

Captain Bohemian

so hot

Bob

@William unspecified, though assumed a single file at a time (zip/tar as necessary)

anywhere from 1 kB to, say, 10 GB

hm. I might spin up a second owncloud instance...

Michael Frank

01:54

@bob Mega?

William

^ lol if it still existed

Michael Frank

@William mega.nz ?

William

lol well that isn't mega upload is it? That is what I thought you were referring to. EDIT: that is true

Michael Frank

shrug I didn't say Megaupload though. Mega is the spiritual successor and basically the same as MU.

Bob

@MichaelFrank hm, maybe

there's a cli at least

needs account :\

Michael Frank

02:29

lols Software Management System informs all users of a critical update that's required and will be pushed to every computer today. A user comes over to my desk with an urgent query about their work and I see the software update icon in their taskbar. I pointed it out and said "You should probably look at that..."

"YOUR COMPUTER WILL AUTOMATICALLY RESTART IN 2 MINUTES."

"Why can't I snooze it anymore?"

Bob

03:26

@Neil_UK It's like a twist on the clock saying: "A man with one multimeter knows what the voltage is, but a man with many multimeters is never quite sure" — W5VO ♦ 14 hours ago

Michael Frank

03:39

@Bob heh

I like the guy referring to the OPs multimeter as a "wanky meter".

XKCD

04:08

Sounds fine. I looked up the Academy, and it says on their MySpace page that their journal is peer-viewed and downloaded biannually.

Bob

04:22

You can import re after you reference it‽ — Adám yesterday

Michael Frank

04:41

@Bob If I set a breakpoint in VS Code, does it execute that line before pausing?

Rahul2001

@Bob owncoud is cool!

Bob

05:04

@MichaelFrank dunno about vscode, but the convention is no

satibel

06:12

hello

Rahul2001

@satibel hi

Bob

hi

satibel

how's you doin'?

Rahul2001

Vivaldi - Spring

►

Listening to this

Man, I miss playing music so much... I wish I still had my instruments

satibel

you have a desk and at least 1 hand free right?

Rahul2001

06:16

@satibel uh... I'm sitting on the bed... :P

satibel

or at least your mouth isn't fully restrained and you still have teeth.

Rahul2001

@satibel haha. I don't sing.

That reminds me, I need to go get my braces tightened.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@satibel and/or @Rahul2001 where should I go the get information on how to access the SE database?

satibel

what I mean is that you can play music with whatever you have, as long as you can interact a bit with the world, and you are just restraining yourself to not play music.

there, here's a facebook status for you :p

Rahul2001

@satibel true :)

@GypsySpellweaver data.stackexchange.com

Gypsy Spellweaver

06:20

thanks

satibel

@Rahul2001 as Sean Stephenson says "get off your but"

also a good watch: The prison of your mind

Bob

Package ping is a virtual package provided by:
  iputils-ping 3:20161105-1
  inetutils-ping 2:1.9.4-2+b1
You should explicitly select one to install.

:S

eeny meenie miny moe

satibel

06:36

@Bob catch a lady by her toe, if she screams don't let her go.

Bob

@satibel that's rather dark

satibel

Tag, You're It/Milk and Cookies Double Feature

►

Rahul2001

Okay, for my blog, should the title of the page say
`Rahul's Weblog | Home`
OR
`Home | Rahul's Weblog`
??

satibel

@Rahul2001 Both have good arguments, Home is rather vague, and when tabs are shrunk, "Rahul's" is more easily identifiable than Home. But if you know on which website you are, "Home" is faster parsed than "Rahul's Weblog | Home".

Bob

Most of the time Home is unnecessary

just leave it out entirely

Rahul2001

06:50

@Bob huh

What about posts?

Bob

Use the post name

Rahul2001

I think I'll go with <posttitle> | Rahul's Weblog

Bob

usually post name comes first

satibel

@Bob I took it as a template, like "Rahul's Weblog | Shop" "Rahul's Weblog | Gossipmonger"

Bob

@satibel see, those are meaningful and should come first

Rahul2001

06:51

@satibel Yeah, that's kinda what it is

Bob

but the homepage should just be "Rahul's Weblog"

Rahul2001

@Bob okey :)

Bob

others, put the specific title first

satibel

and you may want to make those specific titles specific and short.

Rahul2001

07:16

@Burgi @DavidPostill My version of NPP doesn't have the forkbomb, but it's not the latest. There's an update available, so I should not update because it'll break tabs?

Rahul2001

07:27

I think I just found a bug in chat notifications

Someone please ping me with a short message that contains an apostrophe within quotes (like "bob's phone")

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Rahul2001 like "bob's phone"

Bob

@Rahul2001 what's that about my phone?

Rahul2001

This is weird

@satibel What's up with your apostrophes?

satibel

@Rahul2001 that's a test

Rahul2001

@satibel Didn't get a notification, I was online, try again now...

satibel

07:41

@Rahul2001 test 's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's‌'s's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's'‌s's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's‌'s's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's'‌s's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's's

snaaaaake, it's a snaaaaaake!

Rahul2001

@satibel For some reason I'm not getting notifications now :/

Gypsy Spellweaver

Maybe chat don't like to be told it's broken. Cut you off :>

Rahul2001

Ping away, I'll be back in a bit, gtg watch a movie with fam.

Burgi

@Rahul2001 it worked ok for me on Win10

Rahul2001

@Burgi Thanks, I'll update then

Gypsy Spellweaver

07:45

@Rahul2001 Both have good arguments, Home is rather vague, and when tabs are shrunk, "Rahul's" is more easily identifiable than Home. But if you know on which website you are, "Home" is faster parsed than "Rahul's

Michael Frank

07:59

Bleh... I turned on mouse wraparound in DisplayFusion thinking it'd be cool, but all I've done is drag and drop a bunch of desktop icons accidentally. :|

Burgi

08:23

what do you do with close votes when you are a bit "meh" on whether to close it?

Gypsy Spellweaver

skip

Burgi

skipped!

is it home time yet?

Gypsy Spellweaver

Always home time here ;P

Burgi

grumble grumble

Gypsy Spellweaver

Home is where I do my real work (and my fake work). My evil experiments are hatched and cooked here as well. :D

djsmiley2k

08:43

nom nom

morning yall

Burgi

08:58

the wind kept me awake last night

LOL

you should see the phishing email i just got

Boris_yo

@ThatRussianGuy Yes in English...

@Nick How often does it for you?

@djsmiley2k Takeaway? We also have that term at McDonald's, cafes but it means that you don't eat at the place. You rather not sit down but take it with you. Takeaway order usually have higher cost to them.

djsmiley2k

@Burgi Looks legit.

@Boris_yo yup

but in this case we get it delivered, one night was pizza, other was indian

bevcause we were being lazy

smithsonianchips.si.edu/chipfun/graff.htm

wow awesome

Boris_yo

09:18

@djsmiley2k Aw... Being lazy is not bad. Being lazy is your body conserving energy. Mmkay?

But sometimes you body conserves too much and too much energy leads to what? Fat storage.

Rahul2001

@GypsySpellweaver

Burgi

is this in the mobile app?

Gypsy Spellweaver

nope, copied from the post that was bad the first time

I was thinking that the odd behavior was possibly related to where it broke, and the single quote was misinterpreted in the inbox.

Appears it was, since what I had at that position was a double quote.

Rahul2001

@Burgi web

Hm, I'll go post a bug report on Meta

DavidPostill

09:33

6

Q: HTML encoding strikes again (but with a twist) - Chat messages inbox notifications aren't looking good

I just noticed this in my inbox: Same appears in the global inbox of the network profile. This looks like this other bug that was reported and fixed over four years ago, with the difference that it happens only if the word containing the special character is the last when truncating the ...

@Rahul2001 ^^^

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill Ah, saves me the work :)

OH CRAP

THIS IS NOT A JOKE

Burgi

10.5m €, nice

Rahul2001

> 10.5Millions Euro

Burgi

> a firm german

Rahul2001

*Sees improper grammar and punctuation, deletes email without reading further*

Bob

09:37

> were married in orphanage

Rahul2001

> and then you will take my son to your country and raise him as your own son

Bob

@Rahul2001 uhm. there's a whole freaking lot of business emails with "improper grammar and punctuation"

Rahul2001

I... uh... I'm not sure if I'm ready for the responsibility

Bob

I'm convinced the higher ranked you are in a company the worse your grammar is

Rahul2001

@Bob :(

Burgi

09:38

@Bob +20!

Bob

hm. just wasted half a day fiddling with network configs only to find out the provider didn't route the address correctly :\

Well here we go.

At least they're fairly responsive.

@JourneymanGeek for all people complain about online.net's support, I find they're really quick to respond, far quicker than OVH. But I'm not sure yet who has the dodgier infrastructure :P

Rahul2001

This email shows me something very interesting though. Spammers appear to be brute forcing the gmail sign-up page to see which email IDs exist. Smart.

Oliver Salzburg

@Rahul2001 Unlikely

They have a list and they're processing it in order

Rahul2001

@OliverSalzburg Why?

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 More likely all of those names have been scraped and published on one of those 10 million email addresses for sale CDs

Oliver Salzburg

09:44

Like Santa

Rahul2001

Well, then I should totally use the brute force technique to create a spam list of my own! MUWHAHAHAHAHA

Bob

only if you're a fast typer and enjoy answering captchas

Rahul2001

Huh, There is a single iCloud address at the bottom of the list

DavidPostill

How Do Spammers Get Your Email Address?

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill Got mine from the Adobe breach :(

Oh, also 000webhost

Journeyman Geek

09:48

@Bob I've never really had to use their support, outside their KB

Rahul2001

haveibeenpwned.com

"To check if you're on any email lists, type your email into this website form!"

Gypsy Spellweaver

I like the return address best of all O_O

DavidPostill

@Rahul2001 Good news — no pwnage found!

Journeyman Geek

Ok, the people who work in the backroom are funny...

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Turn off the ether

Journeyman Geek

09:50

"Ok, I'm about to go home... everything fine here?" (their location has strange unexplained shit breaking)

"GO HOME!"

DavidPostill

My throwaway address "Oh no — pwned!"

Journeyman Geek

Also, they're apparently getting moved to the other location we've rented ._.

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill Same for my main address... Apparently encoding holds up: rahul.tech

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Had to use it cause it wouldn't let me order additional IP addresses the first time. Now one of the ones I ordered is misrouted.

bleh.

Journeyman Geek

ah

@Bob oh, if you use KVM, and figure out to do ipv6 only VMs....

Bob

09:53

@JourneymanGeek Yes to the first, haven't bothered to the second :P

> I am sending this to my collegues in charge

Escalated 30 mins ago

DavidPostill

Hahahahahahah

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill lmao

DavidPostill

Look what just ended up in my spam folder :)

Gypsy Spellweaver

congrats, you've been pwned :>

allquixotic

@DavidPostill weird; I just got an email that made it through the gmail spam filter (impressive on its own), had a legitimate mail header from stdavidshospicecare.org, an apparently legit UK charity, asking me about "Gift aid" and confirming my address as The Old Cider Press, Bishton Lane, Chepstow NP16 7LG

Journeyman Geek

09:58

0_0

allquixotic

if they have a web form that lets you sign up for gift aid with an email address and mailing address, then someone's doing something nasty with my email

Burgi

@allquixotic gift aid is a legit tax rebate that charities can claim back from the inland revenue

Gypsy Spellweaver

Does that mean you've moved from Trumpland before there's a wall keeping you in?

Burgi

its more likely that it was meant for a legitimate user but they have made a typo in the email and got you instead

allquixotic

no, and it seemed legit enough so I replied to them and let them know wrong recipient

> Hello,

I am having trouble finding your address on our system. Can I just check that it is The Old Cider Press, Bishton Lane, Chepstow NP16 7LG and that your property is not numbered as well as named?

Please could you reply to this email to confirm your address and then I can finish signing you up to gift aid.

Thank you for your support.

Kind regards,

Person who emailed me (anonymized)

Burgi

10:02

@allquixotic is your email address easy to have made a typo on?

allquixotic

@Burgi yes; despite notifying them about 4 times, a bible-thumping, tech-illiterate church group in the midwest US keeps me on their mailing list and sends me rambling info about events as if I'm one of their pastors

DavidPostill

@allquixotic The postcode matches Bishton Lane, Chepstow, but the royal mail has no property with the name "The Old Cider Press" in that postcode

Burgi

also that address looks really nice on street view...

@DavidPostill google maps drops it directly on bishton farm

maybe the old cider press is a renovated building on the farm?

allquixotic

@DavidPostill that seems like a weird property name anyway; it really makes me think some kind of social engineering or a bot submitted a request / application for gift aid and made up an address (and found a legit email address from a list of emails randomly)

Burgi

@allquixotic its a legit address

allquixotic

10:06

the U.S. Postal Service generally requires properties to have a numbered street address, and I don't know how common exceptions are; even The White House has a street address on Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20001 (IIRC)

so it'd be <number> <street> <city> <state/district> <zipcode>

seeing an address start with a name is just weird

Burgi

its quite common here

Bob

to add to the weird emails

...wha? what on earth is their goal...

allquixotic

@Bob lol, that seems like more standard phishing / social engineering; "vip.163.com" doesn't inspire confidence

Bob

@allquixotic nah, chinese love numerical domains

DavidPostill

@allquixotic That's common for properties in country villages in the UK (names, not numbers)

Burgi

10:09

what is "assistant projection"?

Bob

iirc 163 is a huge social network

allquixotic

@Burgi what you do to your minion when they're being naughty? :P

Burgi

throw garlic at him

Bob

NetEase

NetEase, Inc. (simplified Chinese: 网易; traditional Chinese: 網易; pinyin: Wǎng Yì) is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. Founded in 1997, the company was a key pioneer in the development of Internet services for China. Today, NetEase develops and operates some of China's online PC and mobile games, advertising services, e-mail services and e-commerce platforms. NetEase has produced some of China's online PC-client games, including Fantasy Westward Journey II and New Westward Journey Online II, as well as other...

oh, not social. still.

lots of chinese email addresses at 163. it's like their gmail.

allquixotic

assistant projection

Bob

10:10

@allquixotic wtf kind of phishing starts with a request to purchase industrial equipment O_O

allquixotic

d'aww, it was legit! <3 they replied!

Bob

@allquixotic each UK postcode has like a dozen addresses total :P

allquixotic

> Hello,

I am so sorry, we must have been given the wrong email.

Thanks,

Person

I feel like Randall should do an XKCD about The Day Everyone Got Legitimate Wrong Recipient Emails At The Same Time

like some kind of weird phase of the moon apocalypse type stuff

Bob

it's so weird how some questions just HNQ while other arguably better ones don't

allquixotic

@Bob it's all in the question title and its "allure"

to get clicks, your question title has to trigger one of the following in the reader's head:
"OMG, I've always wondered that too!!!"
"That really pisses me off and I want to dispel misconceptions about that stupid thing!"
"I have a strong opinion on that and everybody else is always wrong!"
"That's easy to answer; maybe I'll try to get some easy rep!"

Burgi

10:14

@Bob aka ClickBait

i think the question that made me join SE was one on Role-playing Games and was about exploding sheep

Rahul2001

@allquixotic Or, "That should be obvious but isn't! I wanna know!"

Bob

@Burgi this isn't even a baity title

neither was the previous one

:S

though I guess shorter titles do better

allquixotic

@Bob in the day of low information content and lowest common denominator, sometimes having a simple message is better than being good

I mean, it worked for #MakeAmericaGreatAgain

the magical word limit seems to be 4

Bob

#MakeMeRepcapAgain

:D

allquixotic

lol

djsmiley2k

10:27

hmmm

so there's a 'technical' test here, for people coming on to the service desk

just gone through it with HR, my god it's bad

I remember me doing it when I originally applied, crossing out half the questions because they were wrong etc ;D

Rahul2001

  _        /\ _ /\         _
 ( )      |/\| |/\|       ( )
  \|_____    | |     _____|/
   |_____|   | |    |_____|
       _____ |_|  _____
      |_____( | )|_____|
        (_)  V V  (_)
         _         _
        (_)       (_)

SPACESHIP!

Okay, not sure if it actually looks like one, but eh

Bob

uhm

there's many things it could look like

a tiger's face

a human body (*cough*)

allquixotic

it looks like a crab to me

Bob

a weird floating-armed monster

allquixotic

a pelvis bone?

looks vaguely like the top-left bone in this turtle bone puzzle from The Dig:

satibel

10:32

two open treasure chests and whatever is in the middle

Rahul2001

Oops, I'll resend with a better title :P

WEBAPP: Old School Gaming Filters

Burgi

i thought it was a crab too

DavidPostill

It's a transformer :)

Rahul2001

[Zoom in to see something cool!]

imgur compressed it :(

Bob

10:59

Yaaaay, legit reason to focus on Wonder Woman's panties! — Mooz 8 hours ago

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