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Bob
12:29 AM
@JourneymanGeek oooh boy (fox)
reading chronologically, you can really see where that guy pokes the bear :P
@Burgi is that a "there are no errors! :D" or a "my logging system is broken D:"?
 
the logging system is broken
looks like a security update over the weekend decided to delete all the permissions on several folders
i'll get the hosting company to investigate on monday, i've fixed the immediate issue of offline sites
 
Bob
welp
> Imgur confirms email addresses, passwords stolen in 2014 hack
 
this means that the passwords were stored in plaintext or reversible hashes, right?
 
Bob
@Burgi Nah, SHA-256. Which is weak these days, but not the worst.
No hash is reversible
 
too slow on my edit.... i meant encryption
 
12:53 AM
@Bob I think I know what you're talking about D:
 
he needs to give it up
 
no man
That's a beautiful hack ;p
 
1:37 AM
hmmm.... having issues with quake 1
the new official episode is not behaving
actually its quakespasm...
 
2:35 AM
 
Bob
@CanadianLuke Easy choice, really
 
Blue or red?
 
Bob
@CanadianLuke Games are just programs. Anyone* can make one. ISPs require a lot of capital and regulatory approval to start from scratch.
If EA bought every other publisher, a hundred new ones will appear overnight.
 
2:51 AM
Good, someone can think!
 
3:32 AM
@Burgi Quake... 1? New official episode? Is it 1996 again?
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy you can frag like its 1996
always fun to see BSODs in the wold
 
Is that a Windows XP BSOD?
 
I suspect so
maybe 7? 7 still did the non frowny face BSODs...
 
It's 7
 
4:10 AM
If anyone here is into photography... ran into this very useful website while looking for a faster memory card for my colleague's camera. They test each camera with a large number of memory cards to determine which cards perform best in each camera. cameramemoryspeed.com
@Ramhound: catching up from an earlier conversation...
6 hours ago, by Ramhound
I am reading this information correctly in that, a 700 Watt Gold at 100% would only be 609 Watts?
The power rating is the maximum total continuous output from the supply. A 600W power supply that is 85% efficient at full load will draw 706W from the wall.
Note that efficiency varies with several factors, including temperature and the nature of the load (most supplies are at their best with a balanced load). Most higher-quality supplies are rated to operate at their full capacity in ambient temperatures of at least 40 °C, and often 50 °C.
 
That was my first instinct but EE is my weaker subject are
Anyways need help with this:
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Q: How to force Ubuntu on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to load specific user?

Kenya-WestI downloaded Ubuntu from Microsoft Store and launched it, but the user on this system is root. I've created another user, but when I launch Ubuntu, it displays default user root. I want it to show the user I have created at startup. How to do this?

 
A higher-efficiency supply also generates less heat, and better models often have a semi-passive mode where the unit doesn't run its fan at lower loads. The best supplies can run entirely silently under sustained loads of 40% or more of their capacity, depending on ambient temperature. A few are completely fanless.
 
Submitted an answer to the duplicate but neither the author or anyone else thought the answer was helpful but can’t close as duplicate myself :-)
 
(I have an 80 PLUS Titanium supply and it is inaudible under nearly all operating conditions, at least inside the Astaroth desktop in which it is used – even when the fan is on, it's very quiet unless you push the supply very hard and it's hot)
@Ramhound Upvoted your answer on the duplicate target question, so you should be able to vote to close now.
 
4:30 AM
👍🏿
As much as I hate asking for accepts not getting it when I know my answer is correct it’s all the same annoying (despite knowing I shouldn’t care)
Damn human. Need more schnauzers
 
@Ramhound: There's a bunch of new power supply standards from a company called Cybenetics Labs, which runs more comprehensive testing than 80 PLUS.
Hmm. The rating scale recently changed.
 
Aware of the certification:-)
It’s as impressive as a A+ from the BBB
 
lol
Problem is that lots of PC OEMs are still shipping cheap 80 PLUS Bronze supplies in prebuilt systems. Most enthusiasts will pick Gold or better supplies.
The technology needed to achieve 80 PLUS Gold or ETA A- (under the current scale) has gotten much cheaper than before.
Titanium is still very expensive to do, and Platinum only somewhat less so.
 
Bob
5:13 AM
@bwDraco "standards"
 
Well, certifications.
 
Bob
@bwDraco Eh, that's not really a problem.
 
standards: something Microsoft only does when there's no alternatives
 
@Bob I seriously need to learn to be more precise about what I write.
I have to learn to nitpick myself.
 
Bob
A problem would be shipping the PSUs that explode.
Either themselves or other parts.
 
5:15 AM
(well, when it comes to precision... it's hard to see things from alternate viewpoints when you have so little social contact)
It's something I've been been working on over the last few months, and I intend to practice it more in chat in an effort to prevent soapboxing incidents.
 
5:28 AM
Maybe we can talk about this more in the mod room?
 
Bob
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Q: Optimizing Windows 10

Undead Cosmonauti work as a freelance tech support contractor to a few local Freight and Logistics businesses in my town. My main client has 11 PCs all upgraded to windows ten, and each is about 5 years old. They vary in specifications. The clerks complained about slow PCs. So i did the following: Changed the ...

I... uh. What.
 
 
2 hours later…
So... corporate IT security thing. I kinda wish we mere mortals had more access to corporate security systems for our personal use.
Case in point: smart cards. A lot of businesses use smart-card authentication; why can't we easily buy these systems for personal use?
 
sure you can
 
Also, with the widespread adoption of OTP-based two-factor authentication by consumers for web applications, why can't I set up my system to require entering an OTP?
At least out of the box, through Windows Hello.
 
Windows hello should allow for that.
 
@JourneymanGeek Not out of the box, though.
Biometric authentication, sure, fingerprint readers are readily available.
But not OTP.
Also... I can buy a TPM fairly easily and install it onto Astaroth to leverage BitLocker fully. But where would I find a smart card system that isn't too expensive?
(the C6E, despite being a gaming board, has a TPM header)
 
7:37 AM
(unrelatedly 2 hours to phone interview. Its probably 'just' a prescreening but... butterflies)
 
FWIW, I don't really need this sort of security, but having the option would be great.
Technically, a USB flash drive can stand in for a smart card in BitLocker, but that isn't ideal.
 
or a OTP fob. I think the higher grade of yubikeys (not the U2F models) will work
 
I'm actually surprised at how cheap these have become.
But it looks like setup is going to be tricky...
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Q: Setting up Windows laptops to require a smartcard for unlocking

MattI am looking for details on how to secure a windows laptop using smart cards. The scenario is that we have laptops in vehicles, which remotely connect (via https) to an application server over the internet. Scheduling and payment applications run on the laptop. The operator is often away from ...

 
8:30 AM
you thinking of going uber secure @bwDraco?
@JourneymanGeek saw a kernel panic root_fs not syncing in Solihull the other day
was going to take a photo but busy
 
@JourneymanGeek that's neat
 
@djsmiley2k No, but exploring the options.
Just wondering if it's possible for consumers to replicate corporate IT-style security without unreasonable cost or effort.
 
TBH, a good chunk of it is slightly pointless things you can throw into GPOs
 
Possible, or worthwhile?
security vs convience.
 
8:43 AM
So... just compiled my own OptiPNG binaries using MinGW-w64 GCC. Custom-built for Ryzen.
(-march=znver1 -O3)
(because the UEFI setup on this setup generates stupid-big BMP files and I need a way to quickly reduce them)
 
wtf half my outlook rules don't seem to work
 
Bob
9:16 AM
@JourneymanGeek so. SO Documentation? :P
 
hmm
Actually. What it would have turned out to be if it had extended to other sites
 
9:27 AM
@JourneymanGeek ???
 
@djsmiley2k oh, @Bob was saying how much like SO docks tldr seemed to be
 
I've not seen/looked at So docs :O
is that something i should know about?
 
I was literally just looking at that
 
hackaday?
 
nod nod
omfg work is odd today
one of the guys who's been here ~20yrs is finishing up
my car is dying, goin to take it to the garage tomorrow morning
 
11:09 AM
Also, we're strangely not hearing anything about the interstella bacteria on the outside of ISS
 
4 hours ago, by bwDraco
Biometric authentication, sure, fingerprint readers are readily available.
Oh no he said biometry! Put a NSFW warning before @JourneymanGeek sees it! ;p
 
o_O
 
!!thatword
 
Which word D:
 
11:18 AM

Biometric penises

Nov 13 at 1:07, 8 minutes total – 11 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 7 secs ago by That Brazilian Guy

 
biometry presumably
 
No, how do you paste a conversation again? Permalink by permalink? Sigh
 
rofl
I forgot about that :P
I broke the server that manages our firewalls \o/
I think winter hats should be all of Dec :/
 
@djsmiley2k Poor server is broke, you show tip them out more!
 
lol
hmmmm, still taking ages to verify, this isn't good.
 
11:59 AM
yey fixed it \o/
 
Bob
hm
why is my memory commit at 45 GB
and there's no processes responsible
-_-
 
the wonders of windows reporting?
 
Bob
nah, something's leaking memory
I bet it's the nvidia drivers
 
dem tabs :P
 
Bob
nah, that'd come up in the process list
 
12:25 PM
@Bob how do you keep tabs on your tabs
 
12:55 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy more tabs
 
Recursive tabs!
 
tab(les) of tabs
 
very meta.tabexchange.com
 
Tab.meta.tabexchange.tab
 
1:12 PM
[tabs.se]
One firefox tab every eight hours for two weeks
@bwDraco IMO, national ID cards should be a PKI which would be used for authentication, signing, etc.
 
1:47 PM
@Burgi @DavidPostill looks like we might all get snowed in tomorrow according to facebook xD
 
that well known and trusted news outlet, facebook
 
hehe
there's snow and ice warnings for the east coast for the next two days.
so I can hope
 
2:10 PM
I live a life of hoping.
 
3:15 PM
Use my link to take the Developer Economics Survey! (I'll make money, and why wouldn't you want that?!)
 
3:29 PM
lol done
 
@djsmiley2k no-one important lives on the east coast
 
haha
 
omfg... work are calling me AGAIN
 
Can I make this reddit comment a post on skeptics.se?
 
3:46 PM
good luck
 
in theory... it increases the surface area but it might explode with the lower pressure at high altitude
also not sure you'd be able to hold on to it for long
 
better ask on facebook
 
i reckon you'd still hit the deck at about 40mph
 
survivable
but then again, falling out of a plane is survivable
@rahuldottech it's pretty simple, yes it'd help. but with lots of "If's"
such as, if you managed to hold on
if you didn't faint / freeze / suffocate
 
@jokerdino lol ok den
wait
@jokerdino Good luck with surviving? Or good luck with the post?
 
3:51 PM
@Burgi the snow has made it to nottingham. #WinterIsComing
 
yes
@rahuldottech good luck surviving. we need experimental data... >;)
 
@rahuldottech doesn't look that angry
 
!!cat
 
Same cat ^
 
black cats all have rbf.
 
4:20 PM
@MichaelFrank :/
 
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Q: Getting registry key value in VB.Net where key name has spaces

punI am trying to read registry key value in VB.Net with not much luck. Here is the key in question: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intel\Setup and Configuration Software\INTEL-SA-00086 Discovery Tool\System Status Here is the code snippet Dim key As String = "SOFTWARE\Intel\Setup And Configuration ...

Do I even bother trying to get the author to improve the question so it can actually be migrated?
 
you could edit it?
 
How do I edit the question, to include the information only the author can provide, unless I go to the effort of running the code or similar code all for a question that should have been submitted to Stackoverflow instead of Superuser.
 
ah now i see
users are dumb? _O_/
 
I could just ignore the question I suppose, I already issued my close vote, but that doesn't get the author help.
 
4:30 PM
tbh all you can do is try and help
/me is stressing about getting the car home
 
4:50 PM
hum de dum
stress stress snow snow
knowing my luck, now i'm stressing about it, the car will be fine on the way home
or the wheels will fall off ;D
If someone is bored, see if you can manage to draw a phallus on uksnowmap.com/# by deliberately t weeting snow in perticular areas ;)
 
5:19 PM
good morning
heard it is snowing in England
 
5:41 PM
lol yeah in parts
Chaos ensues!
and just to be really annoying, my cars forgotten all it's errors, and drove home fine -_
 
awesome
 
6:12 PM
lol
cept it's going ot the garage tomorrow no matter what
so it's not so awesome -_-;
and i can't remote into my desktop at work
 
I just use cameyo to run windows in my web browser and bypass stupid local restrictions
not quite the same thing tho
its your desktop just not your 'desktop desktop'
 
lol
so i can't run microsoft lync, because 'doesn't exist' / won't run on this device
i'm restricted to email only :(
 
6:47 PM
This... might just be a gamechanger for me.
Now, I don't currently hold any major leadership position, but it's important to be ready for what's next. 10, 20 years down the road as an IT pro, these skills will be necessary.
Staying calm and rational in the face of imminent disaster. This has actually been a core goal of mine for years, but I have yet to master it.
 
its only when you face a true problem cab u find that ability
such as whwn my mum slipped on the stairs, dislocating one ankle and shattering the other
 
Suppressing emotions is one thing. Making rational decisions is another. I've practiced this many times during incidents at home. But the "staying calm" part needs work.
 
i was as cool as a tomato, until she was gone in the ambulance at least
tbh its different at home tho
 
I'm going to redouble my efforts and investment into staying calm and remaining rational at all times.
 
:)
all times?
dont do that
 
6:56 PM
Leverage the skill in even day-to-day events like simple arguing.
 
just $whenItMatters
 
#readyforwhatsnext
You see, I deeply care about my behavior. Ever since elementary school, when I've gone through incident after incident after incident in the classroom, I've been very passionate about learning to behave in the best possible way, no matter what happens in this unpredictable world.
 
is there a name for hexadecimal but also case sensitive
base 22?
 
In this pursuit of better behavior, I discovered and confirmed time and time again, independently from my parents, that self-control is the one skill that really matters, the skill that lays the foundation for everything else.
 
@bwDraco my point is some times some behaviours are justified
 
7:04 PM
The Stanford marshmallow experiment was a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel, then a professor at Stanford University. In these studies, a child was offered a choice between one small reward provided immediately or two small rewards (i.e., a larger later reward) if they waited for a short period, approximately 15 minutes, during which the tester left the room and then returned. (The reward was sometimes a marshmallow, but often a cookie or a pretzel.) In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able...
@djsmiley2k But you have to know what you're doing at all times.
Metacognition is something I take pride in.
 
hmmmm yeah, acting like a blind animal is rarely useful, other than in a physical altercation.
 
chuckle
Well, the point is to avoid winding up in a fight in the first place.
 
@bwDraco you realize that by discussing metacognition you've moved into metametacognition
and I swear to god if you discuss the fact that I'm discussing metametacognition and call that metametametacognition...
...I'll laugh
 
lul
turtles, all the way down
 
lol
Well, I'm learning not to fall into that trap.
 
7:27 PM
the rule i try and live by? Be a good person
 
user226528
The rule I try to live by: Don't install new versions of Windows 10 any sooner than three month after they are released.
 
the chinese arrived
and they gave us a wall scroll?
 
8:14 PM
So. My new phone is a Samsung On7. Which I paid USD 150 for it.
A US citizen earning minimum wage (google tells me USD 7.50 ~ 10 in average) would have to work 15 to 20 hours to be able to pay for it.
 
user226528
I hate Samsung. I had literally every piece of hardware from Samsung and I was never satisfied.
 
user226528
I had three mobile phones (not smartphones), one CRT monitor, one LCD monitor, one LED monitor, one 50 GB HDD and a DVD player from Samsung.
 
A Brazilian worker earning the national mandated minimum wage would have to work 85 hours -- or, if they work at Saturdays, 94 hours. To buy the same phone. Paying the exact same price for it, converted to local curreny (which is what I paid for it).
(How, do you ask, a person working more hours would need to work more to buy the same phone? Well, if persons A and B earn the national minimum, A works mon-fri and B works mon-sat, then B's hours are worth even less.)
Not that it counts, we're paid monthly.
Well, we were. We got ridden of labor laws this year, who needs those enlightened and embraced flexible negotiation between employees and employers.
We flex our knees and they.... well forget it
Oh, and according to the news last night, in 2006 more than 40% of the population earned below minimum wage (don't ask me how).
And 1.8 million of underage children were working.
 
8:36 PM
can anyone recommend a good physics puzzler for android?
 
8:58 PM
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Q: Answers as comments - please resist the urge

TetsujinI'm lifting this straight from Photography.se as I think they have a very good policy on this. I'm guilty of this too, but if it becomes policy then I shall also refrain. Many times, short answers are posted simply as comments. This has a detrimental effect. The one instance* that has particu...

> no names, no pack drill. I am not going to single out any individual.
I've flagged the specific one for a mod to look at - at least that way I'm not pointing fingers in public, which was not my intention. — Tetsujin Oct 8 at 10:33
Now... I have singled-out individuals in the past. Why is this wrong?
 
Oh I do that, when the answer is as simple as 'wget -m'
because.... If I wrote 'wget -m' in a answer, I'd get downvoted into oblviion
the fact is, if a question is easily answered in a comment, it's a Bad question
 
My question is, why shouldn't I publicly specify the user responsible when there's a pattern of poor behavior?
 
@bwDraco opposing views
I happily call out people
some people think that's bad, others agree it makes a point
You need to stop trying to see the world in black and white, it isn't
Like the way me and @JourneymanGeek strongly disagree about him removing stuff which maybe flagged in teh future
 
Should I actively avoid making the responsible person identifiable, as is the case here?
 
That's for you to decide.
Imagine a society where courts hid the purputrator
 
9:03 PM
...let's look back at some incidents that could very easily be viewed as witch-hunting one of our mods:
Mar 15 '16 at 15:58, by bwDraco
So I looked into what happened yesterday and it seems that Meta post got past my normal content vetting process without a full check for ad-hominem attacks. In the future, there will be tighter checks to prevent something like this from slipping through, and such posts will be more carefully worded to target specific actions or patterns of actions rather than the person who took took those actions. Sorry for what happened yesterday.
There's the answer.
 
The other week at work, I screwed up, kinda big time
 
If the person responsible is identified, you turn the issue into a witch-hunt and you miss the whole point of the discussion.
 
everyone knows it was me, I admitted to it
we are all over it now
instead we've looked at how the issue occured, and we are revising the process around it, so it can't happen again, to anyone
 
In fact, under certain conditions, it may be necessary to take active steps to ensure that the person in question isn't identified, because some people may decide to look for someone to scapegoat, which again defeats the purpose of the discussion.
This is a key moderation skill. TIL.
 
Also by not identifying someone, you can leave a lot of people asking themselves 'Did I do x? Is it my fault?' - this isn't helpful to anyone
 
9:07 PM
Hmm...
That's what makes moderation tricky.
 
6 mins ago, by djsmiley2k
You need to stop trying to see the world in black and white, it isn't
 
It depends on how visible this is. If it's obvious that somebody needs to be disciplined, sure. However, you often want to avoid creating drama, and no particular person should be punished or otherwise disciplined.
You want to steer folks in the right direction. If it isn't necessary to play the blame game, we shouldn't.
 
Sorry, there's no punishment
if someone is deliberately bad, they are punished, and can be identified
if someone is accidentally stupid, you can identify them, teach them, make them better and let the community see they've improved.
right i've gotta go to bed :
o/
 
Maybe we can get @Tetsujin (@@127548 if you're a mod) to talk about this?
 
user226528
9:24 PM
I updated to Windows 10 version 1709. Had to reinstall the fingerprint reader driver. The accelerometer driver stopped working too; Windows says it is incompatible with this version. The funny thing is, it seems to be not needed anymore.
 
user226528
Now, I don't see any of those fancy Fluent Design thingies. What's the deal?
 
@FleetCommand What's a fluent design thingy?
 
@djsmiley2k I'm a cat, it's always never my fault. Always "human error".
 
Except when it is a catastrophic error;)
 
9:37 PM
@DavidPostill have you had problems with greasemonkey since the quantum upgrade?
 
@Mokubai Yes. Half my scripts didn't work any more. I switched to ViolentMonkey :)
You have to import them one by one though :/
All the broken ones run fine with ViolentMonkey.
 
user226528
FlashGot stopped working... :(
 
Nov 14 at 22:06, by Bob
@DavidPostill ViolentMonkey and TamperMonkey are drop-in replacements for the old GreaseMonkey
 
Need to figure out where all my scripts are
 
Nov 14 at 22:06, by Bob
the new GM is not completely script-compatible
@Mokubai I just downloaded them again. You can also edit the script using GM and then create a new script in VM and just paste in the script.
Then delete the script from GM.
 
user226528
9:42 PM
@DavidPostill Hi. You once mentioned you use Firefox. Is there any alternative for FlashGot?
 
@FleetCommand I use Video DownloadHelper tested as working with flv files
 
@DavidPostill Cheers to you and @Bob, Tampermonkey seems happy enough.
 
I just felt an earthquake. No loud noise, no aircraft, no explosion in the area, but people across the street felt it too
Wasn't wind -- wind is calm right now. I could feel my desk shaking a LOT
I'm in Maryland -- mideastern US. Seismic activity is rare here
It was displacement of maybe half an inch to an inch, not something apocalyptic
 
Bob
10:07 PM
morn
 
roar
 
Hi!
 
@DavidPostill Using Tampermonkey - no problem here.
@allquixotic That reminded me of an earthquake we had a few years back that shook a large portion of the East Coast.
The 2011 Virginia earthquake occurred on August 23 at 1:51:04 p.m. local time in the Piedmont region of the US state of Virginia. The epicenter, in Louisa County, was 38 mi (61 km) northwest of Richmond and 5 mi (8 km) south-southwest of the town of Mineral. It was an intraplate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 and a maximum perceived intensity of VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Several aftershocks, ranging up to 4.5 Mw in magnitude, occurred after the main tremor. With an estimated magnitude of 5.8., it, along with a quake on the New York–Ontario border in 1944 and the 2016...
It was felt here in New York City.
Today's quake may have been felt by those in high-rise buildings in the NY metro area.
Did you just feel that? A magnitude 4.4 earthquake just hit Dover, Delaware.
UPDATE: USGS upgrades Delaware quake to magnitude 5.1
 
@bwDraco I remember that vividly. I had my headphones on, didn't feel it, and coworkers ran by and yelled at me to get out of the building.
We had significant damage -- the building wasn't built to withstand earthquakes. Probably met some 1975 bare minimum spec.
 
@allquixotic I'd love to see that...
listening to music... "why are people running around screaming and panicking" ...
 
10:18 PM
I think the vibrations from the music in my headphones, plus wearing shoes, kept me from having any sense of what was occurring... today I was at home in bare feet, on an upper story of the house, and no music playing
 
@allquixotic I oddly didn't feel it personally (was on campus, moving from office to office at the time) but everyone was talking about it.
 
my desk is VERY squeaky -- a light push on the desk with one finger causes a hinge on the back to squeak loudly
I thought it was me making it squeak, until I took my hands off it and it kept going
 
Father felt it a bit at home.
 
then I went downstairs and someone across the street said they felt something
 
11:17 PM
maybe NYC thought that all the disaster film predictions had finally come true
 

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