@Bob That's RB

🇺🇸 well now the emoji works here, I installed that EmojiOne (thanks @bob)

@allquixotic It's RB. Posting that on gems will only encourage him.

@DavidPostill RB?

@DavidPostill ah, good to know.

Red Bull?

Ah, RB. I get it now.

Oh, sure! RB!

...dafuq is RB

Trash can.

@ThatREDACTEDGuy A user who has been suspended until Nov 10 '25

He comes back every week or two wearing new socks

What did they do? Killed puppies over livestream?

@ThatREDACTEDGuy He can't control his potty mouth and is generally disruptive.

Can someone clue me in on the Recycle Bin saga? I've been out of the loop.

@jokerdino RB is trash can and TC is recycle bin?

The only thing I know about this user is that he's been trolling the site almost continuously over the last couple of years.

@DavidPostill Can you give me a sample of posts from this user? Again, I'm out of the loop and would like to better play my part.

Hmm...

Yes, but more examples?

10k-only links are fine.

I.... don't know why it matters lol

It would help me identify posts from this user.

@bwDraco No can do. Most of his posts have been deleted when the socks are nuked. Please let the mods deal with him.

Don't try to identify posts from a bad user, identify bad posts and act accordingly

Ah well. "Destroying" an account IIRC hard-deletes the posts from the system.

@bwDraco Exactly

noithing is deleted

nothing

But as @ThatREDACTEDGuy said

(I had a bot account a while back whose deletion hard-deleted the one answer posted on that account)

|It matters not who the user is, but the content that they post.

I'll just flag as usual. Thanks.

@djsmiley2k True, but when the user is nuked there is no easy way to find the posts.

@djsmiley2k The post is quite literally removed from the database.

@DavidPostill yea I need to recalibrate my spidey foxy senses :P

@bwDraco No it isn't.

Then why is it not visible to 10k users?

he's basically Francis

@bwDraco Because if you destroy a user the link between user and posts is removed.

I thought it would still be readable by a 10k user with the link?

@bwDraco Yes. But you have to be able to find the link.

Oh, okay. That's not a hard delete.

I'll keep a watchful eye for more troll posts going forward.

@bwDraco Example. This user has been destroyed but the post is still there superuser.com/questions/1225555/…

@DavidPostill That reads like any other spambot post.

It makes sense now.

@bwDraco It was an example. Not one of RBs posts.

I get it now.

SmokeDetector is already doing an excellent job weeding out spam posts so I almost never see any (and I don't even have to lift a finger to flag them!).

@bwDraco RB's post was caught by Smokey

Heh.

Epic fail

> I was trying to protect the animal but also to avoid any damage to my car.

And in other other news:

@bwDraco sorry, its one of my own meme type things

nothing on se is ever truely deleted

@DavidPostill "Cladding"? What, buildings now have armor like late 1800s-era iron battleships?

England is weird

(I'm entitled to say that on July 4)

> We spent 12 months putting our passion for perfection to the test, creating the next generation of revolutionary wireless headphones. Air is the first true wireless headphone in the world to implement carbon nanotube technology. This is a major industry breakthrough that will allow Air to have a comfortable, ergonomic design while looking, feeling and, most importantly, sounding spectacular.

@OliverSalzburg hehe :)

fnarf

> BLE 4.2 protocol increases the data transmission speed by 2.5 times, Bluetooth over IPV6 to enable less energy consuming and safer internet access.

Safer internet connection... just what I was worried about my headphones doing

No more porn downloads for you headphones!

@bwDraco sorry, my being tasteless

Sorry about that.

I should have respected your wishes.

@allquixotic Yep, because who'd have thought that plastic might be flammable.

@bwDraco Not your fault, my bad taste...

> CVC 8TH Noise Isolation Technology ＋Double digital silicon microphone will maintain the most reliable call quality by preventing the background noise efficiently.

Double digital silicon microphone?

This is just sounding like a homeopathy advert replete with buzzwords now

I'm about to ask a question... Anyone seen this?

site to site vpn - everything working fine... changed the ip and bounced the connected

@WilliamHilsum Was that the question?

now every machine going to a mapped drive is timing out and causing big issues...

I'm just about to ask a question on the site... maybe serverfault, but, wondering if anyone has seen it?

literally everything is hanging

at first, I thought maybe branchcache issue, but disabled that and rebooted pcs... I can reboot the file server but will be annoying

just the first time I have ever seen this...

and can't see much on Google/anyone else with similar

@WilliamHilsum When you say "changed the IP", what did you do?

so, newish client, trying to get them all up to standard - server is in the DC and got a site to site vpn... power cut and it dropped out/didn't come back

turned out they didn't have a static ip...

updated, everything worked fine

I've seen it

I don't know what causes it nor how to fix

they got a static ip, so, I updated the tunnel to use that

I don't actually think it is related to the screenshot now - because it is coming and going

but basically, any machine - if I go to the mapped drive (the other side of the vpn) it just hangs

can't see anything wrong, can ping the server etc

bah, restarting the server whilst keeping my fingers crossed

@djsmiley2k Yes, I do care about who posted the content.

If it's from an established user, for example, then it's more likely to be a compromised account than intentional wrongdoing from the user.

rebooted server, fixed it

I can't handle the sysadmin stress any more... grrr

##/funnyfails

Ooh my new network (the worst in the UK) has just launched B7 in my city

Maybe

offtopic I don't think they thought this trough: pbs.twimg.com/media/DD5gaiFV0AAHF_p.jpg:large

Sortof

TIL: waybackmachine is a right wing site

Is it me or is it a major pain to get a self-signed certificate on a Windows server?

I would just go with LetsEncrypt, unless you are using the certs to restrict access

I'm using the cert for VPN

oh

then answer is: yes , it's not just you

Good! :D

The RRAS service requires one for the SSTP encryption, if I understand the problem correctly

I've never set up Windows VPN from scratch. It's pretty messed up

Well, I bet it wouldn't be if I was using the wizard, but that is even more confusing because I'm trying to copy over a config from an existing installation

I have a CA on the same server, but I new a CSR and I just can't get the CSR wizard to produce anything that makes sense

If the CA was the problem, I'd just use a different one, but I can't even get the CSR. And the docs I'm reading aren't helping as they don't match the options I'm seeing

2.1s first tooth has made an appearance

@NotDog B7?

So ESXi is amazingly simple to install and set up... I had no idea. o.O

wired.com/story/…

Why inject the passengers, when instead you can just record "we're all dead"

@allquixotic Was added for insulation. Unfortunately they didn't choose the fireproof version (which was only marginally more expensive).

@tereško vice.com/robots.txt

Perhaps HTTP header changes?

@djsmiley2k I was very tempted to flag this. It could be read as offensive at least to families of airline incident victims.

@bwDraco ewrrr

1. I meant eject,

2. not really :/

Now, if there was a air crash yesterday, and I said it... I'd agree

@NotDog fortune.com/2017/04/19/bose-headphones-privacy

@djsmiley2k Band 7 (2.6Ghz). Triples network capacity and doubles the speed

In practice it means going from about 10Mbps to 100Mbps at busy times

Thing is this is a very unusual transmitter. It makes no sense. And it appears to be in the stairwell of this building.

Which makes no sense.

@djsmiley2k Richmond-based plane crashes in Buckingham

@OliverSalzburg Wasn't difficult for me..

Install certificate as usual, ... done

Actually selecting the certificate to use is just as much a pain with self signed as any other certificate - and generally involves copying and pasting the thumbprint into the registry somewhere

@Burgi Technically Google is blocked by the bot

@DavidPostill thanks for that

lol

This is very very strange

This area has notoriously poor coverage on all networks so the UK's worst network manages to put coverage here, then restricts it to the stairwell of a hostel?

So said transmitter serves all of five people for about 20 seconds a day, sitting at <1% of it's gigabit backhaul's capacity, while the transmitter outside is serving 10,000 people a day and averages over 90% of its 70Mbps capacity?

I guess that sorta incompetence is what makes the UK's worst network the UK's worst network!

xD

ok so the thing that has been beeping every 65 seconds since sunday afternoon is NOT my neighbours fire alarm (at least according to him)

Just a bit frustrating the UK's worst network have managed to hook up a gigabit line into this building while the hostel has 6Mbps ADSL and other networks barely manage coverage at all

is there a tool or an app that will help triangulate where the beeping is coming from?

@Burgi Err... yeah if you have a hardware device capable of forming a triangle

Kinda hard with a mobile phone with only one microphone (though some have two, which isn't too much help in a device that size)

@Burgi Ears are very good at triangulating ... that's why they are opposite sides of most peoples head ...

To be honest I was surprised that you thought the beep was coming from some other apartment. Are you sure it is not something inside your flat?

@Burgi earts

yeah, gonna say...

ears*

cover one ear each to test

@Burgi How to Find a Beeping Smoke Detector If You Don’t Know Where It Is

and our water has been cut off

@Burgi lol

@DavidPostill [BEEP]

united utilities has got the dates wrong on their website

and the entire postcode has no water

i can't even make a brew

i can't even go to my parents... they are in the same postcode :(

@Burgi Buy a case of bottled water from the corner shop?

it'll be shut but asda is open...

i should go now before 30,000 people descend on asda to buy all the water up

brb

@Burgi lol UU suck too

so i get back from asda and the water is back on

Yay!

:D

likely isolation work to fix something then

Also thanks guys, this phone is awesome enough for me

Now to find a case and screen protector :/

amazon.co.uk/…

wtf are these o_O

@djsmiley2k You stick it to the back, then you put your finger through it while holding your phone so you don't drop it.

:O

so if someone tries to nick your phone

they' ring your finger... ?D:

Yea.... I guess if they could pull it hard enough.

@djsmiley2k For a second I thought it was an oneboxed Wikipedia page and was mad at capitalism.

lol

siugh trying to find a case and screen protector in one on amazon rather than 2 seperate items :/

MAXIMUN PROTECTION:Made with soft TPU and crystal clear PC combo, give you a steady and durable case. Scratch resistance, all around protection for your Moto G5

morning

roar

so couldn't find cxombined screen protector and case, lame

@djsmiley2k They exist, but they're shite and you don't want one anyway

@Bob Hey bob

I found a mystery Vodafone transmitter on the top floor of my building

i meaN sold as one thing on amazon

rather than buying 2 things

as prime is limited to £5+

so 2 items is likely more than i'd pay for something combined.

@djsmiley2k What, no it's not

Unless they started doing that in the last week or two...

erm

no, most things are add on items below that priuce

there's a few on there for £3.50 or so

which is odd, but 99% of prime items are over a £5

I've ordered things that cost like £1.39 on prime

But Amazon is a lame place to get screen protectors anyway, you'll get three for £1.99 on Ebay with free delivery

Had £8 items that were add-on items and £2 items that weren't, but either way it isn't a prime limitation it's just Amazon in general

Add-on items aren't even prime related, they're add-on regardless of whether you have prime or not

Heck I've ordered £3 items with free same-day delivery, Amazon must hate me for denting their profit margins so

@NotDog o.O

@NotDog add-ons are annoying. in the "I can't even buy them unless I have $25 of other crap, never mind free shipping that doesn't exist" way

@Bob Yup