Root Access

Rahul2001

11:00 AM

Now I'm at the lawyer's office again.

satibel

what does he want exactly?

Avery

well that's reversed for some reason.

Rahul2001

@satibel to quote him "To make you beg for forgiveness, to ruin the children's lives and not let them be successful, to cripple you and make sure that you end up living on the streets"

satibel

well, he can at most mildly annoy you if you go out of india, so #2 is moot, #4 is also moot if you can take care of her. She just needs to be careful of #3.

Avery

How can he get out of india though

satibel

11:05 AM

though, I know some people who could take care of the problem for 5k$. (sorry for dark humor.)

@Avery find a job which offers relocation.

Avery

@satibel when he's 16?

satibel

in 2 years.

Avery

he can just get his dad off his life in 2 years?

Also no country ever will accept work visa application from someone without a degree

The whole point of work visa and relocation is "hey we can't find enough qualified people here so we'll hire someone from abroad"

and it's hard to argue that jobs that don't require degrees need qualified people, at least with old people who are in charge of the countries.

if you were to ask me, I'd go full open borders, baby.

satibel

@Avery +1 that.

Avery

@Rahul2001 telegram

Journeyman Geek

11:09 AM

@Avery alas, that's both one of the tools that is used to control people, and its a less practical idea than one things.

Avery

@JourneymanGeek hm?

Journeyman Geek

@Avery well, border controls are a tool states use to control their current and future populations

and unchecked immegration would probably empty out some countries and others will end up with too many people

satibel

you can get a student visa for studies (Visa de long séjour pour etudes in France).

Journeyman Geek

@satibel needs $$$ unless you get a scholarship

satibel

@JourneymanGeek I forget that in France it's cheap.

Journeyman Geek

11:12 AM

@satibel if you're french

or presumably from one of their old colonies, cause the french are really nice to their former posessions

Avery

@JourneymanGeek true

but if a place is shit, why should you be stuck in it?

people live in middle of desert ffs

Journeyman Geek

hmm Why am I here again? ;p

satibel

@JourneymanGeek or if you're from europe.

Journeyman Geek

@satibel ah yeah

Avery

Most countries [that I checked] offer cheaper or free education to people from that country or state.

Journeyman Geek

11:14 AM

yup

Avery

If you want to study abroad, though, then you're going to have five or six digits to spare

Journeyman Geek

yup

Bob

0

Q: Windows script for now hours of your HardDrive

I want to do a script that check the hours of run of the HardDrive to prevent losing information. Is there a way to do that? I have checked on internet but i cant find any batch command. Thanks for the help ! (PS: Sorry for my bad english.)

what

Avery

they're trying to view smart data of "Power_On_Hours"

though that has nothing to do with data loss

Bob

@Avery I guessed that. The misconception is... ugh.

Avery

11:19 AM

What really matters is Wear_Leveling_Count

or Total_LBAs_Written

djsmiley2k

relocations, and failed relocations

Bob

@Avery Only for SSDs. And that's incredibly unreliable too.

Reallocated sectors and pending sectors for HDDs.

Which is also a useless predictor; it shows you after a drive has failed.

Avery

yup

djsmiley2k

yup

true fix is backups, but we already know that

well, if a drive Starts relocating you know it's going

how quickly it progresses is anyones guess

Bob

@djsmiley2k It's just as likely that half the drive becomes inaccessible at the same time it 'starts' relocating.

djsmiley2k

11:22 AM

yup

satibel

if you've got an intel ssd, you're set, once it gets an error, it puts itself in read only mode, then kills itself on next power cycle.

Avery

what

that sounds stupid af

djsmiley2k

@satibel lol

Journeyman Geek

eh

multiple backups

One is none ;)

Avery

you're all lazy

I have no backups.

If my SSD dies, I'll reinstall and recode everything and anything.

it might take years, but I'm not lazy like you

Journeyman Geek

11:30 AM

@Avery I ~~scienced~~ automated the (post consumer food) the heck out of it.

Avery

muahahaha

Journeyman Geek

(veeam endpoint out to a single disk nas, that gets synced back to my desktop)

one of my servers is backed up the same way

@Avery tbh, I'm more worried about the stuff I downloaded ages ago

satibel

@Avery that's actually useful in large raid setups.

Rahul2001

@Avery online on telegram

djsmiley2k

@satibel yus but normally it's the raid controller which decides 'this disk is fubar, lets not use it'

Journeyman Geek

11:42 AM

heh, once we get the synapse homeserver network a little more settled, we ought to get you guys accounts for stuff like this

djsmiley2k

rather than the disk itself going 'I hate life!'

what's synapse homeserver network?

/me runs a jabberererer server for everyone \O/

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k chat thing kinda like IRC but more modern and persistant

people run their own servers that can federate like jabber

satibel

@djsmiley2k well the disk ensures it's data integrity. THE DATA WAS NOT CORRECT, I'LL 切腹

Avery

@satibel I can understand read only, but self destruct?

satibel

@Avery I'm trying to find excuses, ok? :p

Avery

11:49 AM

also

did someone say steam sales?

STEAM SUMMER SALES 2013 IS HERE!

►

still best video on youtube ever.

satibel

fail

@Avery so it's that video.

Rahul2001

I need to get a punching bag. Desperately.

Avery

@Rahul2001 hugs > punches.

djsmiley2k

@satibel the disk does not understand data

satibel

@Avery hugging bag o/

Avery

12:01 PM

@satibel those are called pillows

satibel

Avery

no

those are dakimakuras

here's my style of dakimakuras tbh

Rahul2001

Lol

satibel

"may also alleviate lower back pain when placed between the legs during sleep periods." needs one

Avery

I'd get a gaben one printed

but it'd be all squished up

satibel

12:05 PM

XD

Avery

we need a new form factor for dakimakuras for strong, big-boned men like him

satibel

seriously?

in the french wikipedia for bolster there's "usage: pillow fight".

DavidPostill

@Bob lol. I answered it anyway just because I knew how to do it :)

Rahul2001

Wow

Everyone is fighting at home

Avery

:(

satibel

12:16 PM

hug

Oliver Salzburg

So no AD domain rename today either. More frustrating support experiences instead

Apparently, O365 not working is all my fault for not waiting up to 72 hours for everything to synchronize

When I asked how and where I can check if synchronization is complete, I was told that "It works when it's complete and if it doesn't work after 72 hours then it's an issue"

Rahul2001

I can't deal with any more crap

I'm getting out of here

Oliver Salzburg

Additionally, I was informed that when the system tells me that I am not an administrator, even though I am a member of a group that is a member of the administrators group, that that doesn't make me an Administrator in the eye of all O365 components

The only way to make sure is to be a direct member of the group

So I added myself as a direct member of the group, and that surprisingly didn't change anything

The tech told me that that is likely due to, you guessed it, synchronization not being finished yet

Rahul2001

At this point I just want to enter a deep sleep for a month or something

Oliver Salzburg

I disagreed

Rahul2001

12:24 PM

@OliverSalzburg wtf

Oliver Salzburg

@Rahul2001 That is a nice summary of recent developments ;D

satibel

@Rahul2001 shutdown /h

Oliver Salzburg

I also just received two emails in my O365 account. Which is extremely surprising because none of the domains have an MX that point to O365

satibel

@OliverSalzburg great way to check stuff, I'll use it when my program has a bug.

Burgi

the cheeky bugger

Oliver Salzburg

12:28 PM

@satibel It was all BS anyway. Whenever I made any changes, they seemed to sync with Exchange almost instantly. Something I could easily check with another admin account. My account is the only one causing problems

But they ran "some check" on my account and it came up clean

Burgi

the electrician who was meant to be doing the safety inspection has said no-one was in!

Oliver Salzburg

And because I changed my email address since then, I apparently fucked up "the check"

satibel

@OliverSalzburg XD

Oliver Salzburg

It's really annoying to deal with people who just follow a script but have no deeper understanding of the subject than you do

It's all a strategic game where you have to nudge them a little bit every time until they finally escalate to the people who have a clue

And you have to find the pressure point

satibel

@OliverSalzburg after a bit you know the script, and can tell them the answers already.

Oliver Salzburg

12:32 PM

If you're like "OMG I'm never going to buy or recommend this crap to anyone!", they're like "So what?" But if you tell them "This is not a 10/10 rating on your ticket for me", they'll help :P

Well, they try to help from the start, but their way of helping isn't helpful to me :(

Rahul2001

FUCKING HELL WHAT

Now my school wants to send me for a competition

satibel

"I get no access to the internet, the right light is orange, I already did check the modem is ok, I already rebooted the router 3 times."
-ok, we 're running our checks, please wait.
[5 minutes later]
-there's a problem on our side, the whole sector is affected.

Rahul2001

Where we're only allowed to use Turbo C++

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Journeyman Geek

@Rahul2001 0_0

Rahul2001

WHAT IS THIS

Journeyman Geek

12:36 PM

Weren't you complaining you guys used that in school?

Rahul2001

Yeah

Journeyman Geek

I don't think that makes sense, but at least they are consistantly illogical

satibel

int main(void)
{
    asm {
        //code
    }
}

@Rahul2001 how to do it.

Journeyman Geek

lol, assuming turbo c++ will let you inline asm

satibel

@JourneymanGeek doesn't it?

Journeyman Geek

12:39 PM

I don't think all IDEs/compilers do

satibel

http://digiassn.blogspot.fr/2006/04/asmc-using-inline-asm-for-video.html
seems like it does, but you need TASM.

djsmiley2k

wat

0

Q: How can I tell what achitecture an APK was compiled for?

I need to run Skype for Business on Linux, and my current approach is to install this apk through the Android SDK Manager (the same solution I use for Whatsapp). My attempts to install it fail with INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS. Stackoverflow tells me this is when you are trying to install an...

linux android

I need to run Skype for Business on Linux, and my current approach is to install this apk through the Android SDK Manager

wat

@satibel turbo asm?

Avery

@djsmiley2k someone tell him to install genymotion

satibel

@djsmiley2k yes.

Avery

And the arm translator

djsmiley2k

12:44 PM

@Avery or just Skype for Linux? :D

Avery

@djsmiley2k SfB has no linux binaries.

satibel

anbox seems nice, though I haven't used it extensively.

djsmiley2k

D:

i thougth they released some by now?

stop using skype \o/

pfft

satibel

@djsmiley2k I did since my account was banned x)

Who will a Trans persons? Will he a dangeras?

►

dat guy XD

Avery

ugh

@satibel doesn't work on non-ubuntu

@satibel I am now a truck

pronoun.is/truck/truck/truck's/truck/truck

Bob

12:59 PM

@DavidPostill The difficulty is not in the doing, but rather the pointlessness of it (see: XY question) :\

satibel

@Avery and also an airplane

pronoun.is/truck/truck/truck's/airplane/airplane

DavidPostill

@Bob Which I explained in my answer ...

Avery

@satibel well you're doing it wrong. Take this for an example: pronoun.is/she

satibel

1:20 PM

@Avery am I doing it right?

Avery

think so

I'm not really fond of abuse of pronouns (not in the bad sense- I respect every serious pronoun change), but pronoun.is kind of exploitable

satibel

I don't mind people who want other to use different pronouns, but 1) if it's the first time meeting them and they throw a tantrum when I used the wrong pronoun while not knowing, I'm probably not going to like them, and 2) why so many? xkcd.com/927

Nick

Hi guys. My class for the day is over. Just one day more of class left. The organisers are telling me I did extremely well. The students are all keen to learn more. I could not have asked for a more perfect class of coders.

Sorry for telling them all about this room. I just wanted to tell them about SO/Python and while we were on stackexchange, showed them around.

SU is a real centerpiece for SE

Journeyman Geek

@Nick it was the timing I suppose

(This place does have a pretty strong sense of community, and people talking about pretty personal stuff. I think it would be cool though to go "Hey, I might use this in a class, roughly around foo IST")

djsmiley2k

lol

Journeyman Geek

1:32 PM

And I'll be a little honest here

djsmiley2k

we could always have a channel where we have some topics to deliberately discuss, for that reason...

Nick

Yeah, it was unexpected. I was planning this for days. Most of them didn't even know what IRC was!

djsmiley2k

rather than bringing pupils in here, which might be a bit.... unwieldy

Journeyman Geek

If I end up doing classes on hardware maintenance, I might reference SU and RA a little

djsmiley2k

@Nick Did any know BBS or Gopher?

Avery

1:33 PM

@djsmiley2k splitting rooms seldom ends well

djsmiley2k

@Avery it'd not be a 'real' split

it'd be a fake room basically for someone to show off as an example?

if we knew we would have 'visitors at XX:YYpm'

we make sure we discuss something useful there

tho tbh just show students the questions and answers part

Avery

@djsmiley2k I know BBSes, but Gopher?

djsmiley2k

@Avery it's ollllllllld

Gopher (protocol)

The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. The Gopher protocol was strongly oriented towards a menu-document design and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) became the dominant protocol. The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web. The protocol was invented by a team led by Mark P. McCahill at the University of Minnesota. It offers some features not natively supported by the...

satibel

I know gopher.

it's that cute little squirrel looking thing, right?

djsmiley2k

ok

Google Map Hyperlapse is a bit..... spooky

that's the first time anythings spooked me out lol

Nick

1:40 PM

@djsmiley2k Most didn't even know there browsers beside Chrome, FF and Opera

I had to teach them GK about who runs which company. :/

Journeyman Geek

@Nick do any of the other ones matter?

and opera is basically a reskinned chrome these days

(as is vivaldi, which I actually run now)

Nick

@JourneymanGeek Nightly, Neon, Torch and Canary matter

Journeyman Geek

canary and nightly are chrome

neon... is interesting. But mostly a toy

Nick

FF nightly. Chromium is also chrome but it's also interesting.

satibel

avant browser and lunascape are quite interesting too.

though a reskin wouldn't hurt them.

Burgi

1:50 PM

ok so... it turns out because i was the person who reported the fault with the oven they didn't need to inspect mine...

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

djsmiley2k

@Nick what are they studying?

I'd say it doesn't matter unless they are web designers..

satibel

@Burgi people inspecting your oven... that sounds dirty. x)

Burgi

my boss's boss was asking "why do we need AV if we all have macs"

djsmiley2k

run away screaming

Actually, no, fair enough question

Burgi

not really

Oliver Salzburg

2:00 PM

@djsmiley2k I was about to say

djsmiley2k

as Apple now actively advertise that as a plus of OSX, and really, it's a terrible advert and false.

So well done to @Burgi for having a sensible boss's boss.

Burgi

no no you misunderstand

djsmiley2k

lolololol

the desk is currently spending 2.5 hrs each night, copying some files.

I'm like.... wut

script that.

INSTANT PROMOTION.

Burgi

my boss's boss was trying to NOT pay for AV software

djsmiley2k

That's his job tho

But the point is, he asked.

he scores extra points if he actually listens.

and the Jackpot if he then overhauls the whole infra because it's terrible and dangerous

Oliver Salzburg

2:09 PM

I once explained to someone what that thing called ClamAV is doing on their server. It ended in me explaining why you "need AV on a Linux server"

allquixotic

speedtest.net/my-result/i/2142951638

That's from an interior room in an enormous building! AT&T Microcells coating the customer building... Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile get no LTE or marginal speeds at best in these areas

Cc @NotDog and @Bob

Bob

o.O

yea uh

our LTE is faster than our wired connections -_-

allquixotic

It's basically a cellular worst case if you needed cellular from a tower outside the building - the room has no windows, is in the middle of a multi story building with thick walls, no line of sight to outside for many many meters of solid objects, etc.

But the microcells are amazing :D

Our wired is much faster though

Bob

2:25 PM

@allquixotic microcells/picocells don't work too well without good wired :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob dedibox ordered

Bob

@JourneymanGeek \o/

I guess you want me to stop the mailspam? :P

Journeyman Geek

I guess

lol

Bob

ooh, SSD?

Journeyman Geek

JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME

Bob

2:27 PM

2017-06-23 13:56:39.6410|INFO|dedibox.Program|Cycle done
2017-06-23 14:01:39.8165|INFO|dedibox.Program|Found Dedibox XC SSD 2016 Intel C2750 2.40GHz16 GB1 x 250 GB SSD2,5 Gbit/s115.99 € pre-tax @ console.online.net/en/order/server
2017-06-23 14:01:39.8165|INFO|dedibox.Program|Sending email
2017-06-23 14:01:41.2139|INFO|dedibox.Program|Cycle done
2017-06-23 14:06:41.4195|INFO|dedibox.Program|Resetting found
2017-06-23 14:06:41.4201|INFO|dedibox.Program|Cycle done
2017-06-23 14:11:41.6121|INFO|dedibox.Program|Cycle done

it's been going on and off tonight :P

Journeyman Geek

Now I need to decide whether I want to keep the old one

also how I want to set this up

kiiiinda tempted to go with the bare metal or container route here

djsmiley2k

o_)O

Bob

@JourneymanGeek CONTAINER! :D

djsmiley2k

COmpanies still use dreytek?!

Bob

ZFS!

cmon you know you want to :D

zfs + container (cow) = :D

djsmiley2k

2:31 PM

:O

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I probably actually have the ram for ZFS....

but eh, I actually want to go for as simple a build as possible

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I'm running zfs on the dedibox :P

it doesn't need much RAM

especially with a 250 GB SSD

@JourneymanGeek it's nice for backups though

zfs send lxc/containers/blah | gzip > backup.zfs.gz

Journeyman Geek

probably going veeam on this

Bob

also snapshots

zfs snapshot lxd/containers/blah@20170620

instant snapshots with no space taken (well until cow)

Rahul2001

Hi

Andy K

2:44 PM

hey guys

0

Q: Can we create an AWS direct between AWS datacenter in Frankfurt and on premise datacenter in China?

Background We have an app that will write into a postgres db hosted in Frankfurt datacenter. The app is installed in each of the 8 sites we have around the world, from China, Korea, India , Germany, France and Mexico. When connecting from Europe, to the Frankfurt database, the response times ar...

amazon-web-services amazon-rds

XKCD

The hardest refresh requires both a Mac keyboard and a Windows keyboard as a security measure, like how missile launch systems require two keys to be turned at once.

Bob

3:18 PM

@JourneymanGeek I'm rather liking Edenbridge :P

Burgi

3:52 PM

WOAH!!!!

i think the neighbours washing machine is broken

it sounded like it was coming through the wall

Rahul2001

4:25 PM

Infinite Looping Siri, Alexa and Google Home

►

Cool!

Bob

@Rahul2001 nah, it'll stop when the calendar events pass :P

Rahul2001

@Bob yeah ;p

Unless they're getting their times from the internet

In which case you could carry out some complicated spoofery to mess up the times

Burgi

you could set up a non-calendar related loop

Rahul2001

@Burgi That too, bit it'll be tough to get them to say each other's names

Burgi

maybe

my girlfriend is coming over but i just steam saled up... :S

Rahul2001

4:36 PM

@Burgi aw

DavidPostill

@Burgi So no steamy night in with the GF?

Burgi

@DavidPostill its certainly hot enough

Rahul2001

Has anyone watched Airport (1970)?

noɥʇʎԀʎzɐɹƆ

4:54 PM

@Nick can you give some more detail?

Rahul2001

@noɥʇʎԀʎzɐɹƆ I wouldn't go there. It's only going to end up with you getting frustrated. He isn't one to learn.

Ben N

5:45 PM

In other news, does anyone know of any command-line tool that lets you invoke arbitrary DLL functions with arbitrary arguments? People think rundll32 does that, but it doesn't, so I was considering writing a little tool that actually does

Rahul2001

6:02 PM

STARZ PLZ

djsmiley2k

]

]#]

2.1 attackingt

NotAdmin Dave

6:31 PM

@BenN: old.dougfinke.com/blog/index.php/2010/08/29/…

still need to know the accessible methods within the dll's i believe though.

Rahul2001

Favicon works for everyone? rahul.tech

(across devices?)

Rahul2001

6:55 PM

Imgur acting up for anyone else? imgur.com/g5jlWSW

Try opening the image (right click > open image in new tab). Get a 404?

OMG old Hollywood films are amazing!

Also:

(+) chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=30927938#30927938

This just happened again

djsmiley2k

works finer here.

Rahul2001

7:13 PM

@djsmiley2k huh, i.imgur.com/g5jlWSW.png gives me 404

Interesting source, that page has

djsmiley2k

erm

wut u trying to show?

Rahul2001

spamming ;p

Avery

7:37 PM

@Rahul2001 lol

djsmiley2k

k bored :/

so many things I could do

instead just playing games :/

Soon it'll be late enough that I cxan't do most things

Actually that reminds me I need to figure a way to attach this thing to the wall before putting a fishtank on it

else I may have a flood D:

For a random photo taken by 'AI' that came out pretty nice

CC.

8:01 PM

See here: https://superuser.com/questions/1222138/why-the-content-of-browser-tabs-periodically-disappears#comment1787046_1222138
Please do this minor edit.

Rahul2001

@CC. sure. OK now?

Also, upvoted, so you got some rep :)

Huh, there was no need to star that :)

3

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)

Watching this now :D

Journeyman Geek

11:58 PM

questions like this make me sad superuser.com/questions/1218386/…

Ben N

:(

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