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1:00 PM
For the floppy disk driver, there are none. For a Windows 95 box, yes.
 
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Maybe I should buy a more modern floppy drive?
 
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Although, the question is: Are they in existence?
 
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Googling...
 
Bob
@FleetCommand IIRC floppies need a different type of IDE port
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Q: How do I install a 3.5" floppy on a new motherboard?

UsagiI'm trying to install a floppy drive in my new desktop. I don't know much about IDE connections/cables but it seems there are multiple types. I've seen some with pins in the middle taken out and others with all their pins. I think I have a newer version of IDE on my motherboard. Do they sell t...

 
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1:08 PM
You found this on SU? I was actually searching RC. And I came up with this...
 
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Q: Where can I find an external 8-inch floppy disk drive?

JeffWhere can I find an external 8-inch floppy disk drive? I have some data I would like to retrieve from a really old 8-inch (200 mm) floppy disk, but have no working computer than has a drive to read it. Are external drives for that size still sold? Where can I find one? Either Linux or Windows s...

 
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Also that I answer is for a 3.5" floppy drive, not an 8" one.
 
user226528
Ours is distinctly using an IDE-like cable
 
It's a floppy cable and a floppy port. Usb is the way to go for 3.5 inches
Unless it was SCSI
 
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We have separate problem with SCSI too
 
user226528
1:21 PM
But back to the floppy drive: Its connector is a DEC RX02.
 
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It is incompatible with IBM's IDE.
 
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!!wiki List of floppy disk formats
 
This is a list of different floppy disk formats. == IBM 8-inch formats == This is a list of 8-inch floppy diskette formats as introduced by IBM. == DEC 8-inch formats == Digital Equipment Corporation used the following formats on 8-inch disks: == Other manufacturers == == Physical composition == == Logical formats == Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many different logical disk formats were used, depending on the hardware platform. == See also == ZIP-100, ZIP-250, ZIP-750 (floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology) clik!, PocketZip (floppy-like, but incompati...
 
can you not install a 3.5" drive in the older machine?
that might be the easier option than trying to install the 8" on a modern computer
the loss adjuster is back in...
 
Bob
1:56 PM
@FleetCommand It's a parallel cable that superficially looks like a HDD IDE cable. Not the same thing.
 
user226528
@Bob Hello, Bob! Welcome to this discussion with the information that I had already discovered and posted here 36 m ago!
 
user226528
By the way, I totally dig your fox-like avatar.
 
user226528
Well, Fennec Fox to be exact.
 
why on earth would any company still have 8" floppies?
 
user226528
The floppy drive belongs to a DEC PDP-1103 computer. It runs a rare-earth content analysis device.
 
user226528
2:05 PM
The device is worth millions of dollars and the Chinese equivalent sold these days aren't as good.
 
user226528
So, we are having an excellent piece of antique equipment in good working order.
 
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Someone told me it is made by JPL.
 
user226528
@djsmiley2k Number 4 is "Churnalism".
 
that was the joke...
 
user226528
2:20 PM
Did I ever mentioned that someone has recently created a ".NET strategy" article in Wikipedia?
 
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!!wiki .NET strategy
 
The .NET strategy was a long-term Microsoft software development and marketing plan, envisioned in late 1990s. Former Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, described it as Microsoft's "most ambitious undertaking since Internet Strategy Day in 1995". It involved massive changes across all Microsoft products that enable very cooperation, interoperability and content embedding. In lieu of this strategy, between 2000 and 2002, Microsoft added ".NET" branding to several of its works, including Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic .NET, .NET Passport, .NET Framework, ASP.NET and ADO.NET. A Windows .NET Server was...
 
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OH, MY GOD! Someone has re-wired @BenN to act instead of ChatBotJohnCavil.
3
 
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😱
 
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Anyway... I didn't know so many news outlets actually cared about Microsoft's .NET strategy for it to be able to a Wikipedia article of its own...
 
2:32 PM
Notability requirements are a joke, hth
 
lol
 
Bob
!!info
 
@Bob I awoke on Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:00:10 GMT (that's about 1 day ago), got invoked 26 times
 
@FleetCommand I found a advert page
Zaika is an Indian restaurant in Kensington. It describes its cooking as Awadhi, offering "the vivid flavours of Lucknow". It had a Michelin star for its cuisine from 2001 to 2004, making it one of the first Indian restaurants to be so honoured. The Independent described it as cool, with an atmosphere of "glory, glamour and gorgeousness." It explained further that the restaurant's first chef Vineet Bhatia had introduced two much-copied techniques: cooking a biryani with a puff pastry lid studded with seeds; and serving a trio of small dishes linked by a single ingredient like duck or cheese. ...
 
Bob
Jon Skeet has broken the 1 million barrier
@djsmiley2k the user who wrote it doesn't look like a spammer
 
2:51 PM
!!user jonskeet
 
@Burgi Command deprecated. If you want it to stay, ping Zirak.
 
dang
@Bob they need to swap the numbering to 1M
 
3:19 PM
wtf... the longest reminder period in outlook for events is 14 days
i want a reminder 30 days before!
 
3:42 PM
hi
 
@Burgi set a reminder for the reminder?
 
@djsmiley2k going to have to
 
I'd love to say stop using outlook, but I know how difficult that is (i'm bundled with it at work too)
 
annoyingly it is the best integrated email/calendar product available
 
@djsmiley2k It looks like you're trying to stop using outlook, but you know how difficult that is (you're bundled with it at work too). Would you like me to sell all your data to Microsoft? (Yes, please! / OK, go ahead)
 
3:49 PM
lol
 
4:13 PM
its astonishing that you still can't change the font in windows sticky notes
 
@Burgi indeed
u cant?
pretty sure i set it to comic sans for lols
 
not without hacking the registry iirc
 
the fact mine never saved was weird
no idea if 'normal' and if so, wtf is the point of them :/
Also, couldn't 'stay on top'
k the windows 10 one sucks
 
its the same one from win7 as far as i can see
 
hmmm
insights?
that wasn't in win7
also closing it was a small x
and you could change the font :! :D
 
4:38 PM
no... the sticky notes
 
People are using my facepalms! Yay! I feel like a valuable contributing member again
 
4:58 PM
i vote to delete all the cat macros
6
 
5:13 PM
yeah i fired up sticky notes, and it wanted to enable insights, tying into cortina and bing
i told it to foad.
 
Ah, the old foad; find out another dude
 
5:29 PM
not quite what i was going for :P
 
Close enough :P
Recovered from the Dreaded Lurgy?
 
i feel a lot better but not 100%
as son is now coming down with it, i'm not going in tomorrow anyway ;D
 
Ah! Good that there's been some improvement (shame SmileyJr picked it up tho)
We got some more of the dreaded snow oop here
Vans spinning their wheels on a (city, A road) dual carriageway this morning
More warnings, upgraded to... orange now?
I've gotten 5 alerts on my phone in the last hour, and yet the Beeb reckons we couldn't do a missile warning
 
5:48 PM
@bertieb so what if we DID get a warning, then what?
START THE LOOTING!
 
Hah!
 
It makes sense in the time when everyone had a gas mask, and the ability to go hide in a bomb shelter because you had 10-12 minutes
btw where are you again, i recall it's somewhere up north
 
where are the bomb shelters?
 
Well, there might be some old Anderson shelters kicking about
 
@Burgi london underground stations and errr... not much else
 
5:49 PM
@djsmiley2k Glasgow
aka the place that never gets snow, help what is this stuff falling from the sky?
 
orly?
never been to scotland, Manchester is the furthest we've ever been
 
@djsmiley2k yet another example of the london-centric bias from the government
rabble rabble rabble
 
@Burgi :D
we used to have subways in this city til the council closed em
 
@djsmiley2k It's pretty and the roads are comparatively quiet 👍
 
because of the snow, or 'normally' ?
 
5:51 PM
@djsmiley2k did they not add them after your city was flattened?
 
Whenever I get to ~Carlisle on the M6 I always go "woah, where did all these cars come from" ?
 
oh right
 
@djsmiley2k Just less of us I guess; plus you could talk about deprivation, Glasgow was (is?) the city with lowest car ownership for a long time
 
nod
 
i know this is the wrong place to ask but is there such a thing as wordpress custom post types that aren't accessible to people?
 
5:54 PM
I don't even know what that means @Burgi
 
Basically, "Something something decline of shipbuilding industry, something something health inequalities, something something Glasgow effect"
@Burgi Like an automated post? Or inaccessible to unlogged-in folks? Something else?
Accessible to SEs, not people? (SEO?)
 
let me explain a little better
 
@bertieb huh, ooo that's weird.
but then again I think of second cities and I see it some other places I know of
barcelonia for example
but nto quite to the extent of glasgow, sure
 
@djsmiley2k Oh really? Quite interested in Barcelona (tried to live there for a while), didn't realise it had deprivation issues like that
 
@bertieb not quite as bad
but pretty much like any large city gets eventually, if left to it's own devices in some areas
 
6:00 PM
Especially interesting as one of the driving forces behind Catalonian independence is them being a net contributor to Spanish economy
 
gangs moving in from latin america
 
i have a CPT for shop locations. I also want to store the geolocations for all the postcode searches customers will do but i don't know if i should be storing them in WP as a sort of "abstract CPT" or if i store them in their own non-standard table?
 
Thanks, will have a read
 
i don't know what best practise is or if "abstract CPTs" are even a thing
 
Oh, is MS-13 the one that was also found in... LA? ISTR a notorious gang for their brutal-by-even-normally-pretty-brutal actions
@Burgi I had to Google to be sure I knew what you meant by CPT so I'm not sure I should offer any advice if you're looking for 'best practices'
:P
 
6:04 PM
yeah, no worries
i'm probably overthinking it
is there a WP chatroom on SE?
 
If wp.se doesn't have one itself, maybe try webapps ?
 
> The Loop Where humor doesn’t work.
 
If not #wordpress (or whatever it actually forwards you to) on Freenode is busy (but good busy, lots of visibility)
Can vouch, have had guidance from there before (#wordpress, not The Loop)
My non-expert 2p: If it's a simple lookup to fill in a field I'd say a custom table; if it's a fancier, customisable user-facing page-type thing, CPT
 
@bertieb from what i could tell it's mostly gangs from latin america getting displaced by things getting hot over there, finding spain being an easyish target due to lifestyle simularities, language, etc
 
6:14 PM
@djsmiley2k Eesh, I think they are the one (quoth WP: "They are notorious for their violence and a subcultural moral code based on merciless retribution. ") I was thinking of
A tweet from Trump should sort them out
 
LOL
 
On a slightly different subject, is the dishwasher behaving since you sorted and re-sorted the pump?
 
seems to be
however on the subject of floors
seems lots of water went under ours -_-
they warped a bit but screw em, they staying put
seems lots of water went under ours -_-
 
@djsmiley2k D:
I know a guy that happened to
That sucks though, jeep keep an eye (nose) out for mould would be the thing to do if the boards are staying put anyway
full disclosure: that's what I'll probably be doing, assuming my floor has reached its warp limit :P (9.975?)
 
So... the biggest impediment to my finding a good job is my not being self-motivated - in fact, @allq has suggested that I may be on the wrong career path:
Jan 6 '17 at 21:49, by allquixotic
as for a more general way to get a leg up on coding, I'll give you the same advice I give every new programmer; be interested. If you're not inherently interested in the topic enough to be self-motivated and (1) find a problem you think you can solve; (2) learn how to solve it; and (3) solve it, then you're probably not going to be a successful programmer.
Jul 20 '16 at 18:07, by allquixotic
it has to be innate, it has to come from a place you can't control, to make you want to learn because you're curious/interested without having to find an external motivation
So... Is there a way I can get myself to be more motivated?
 
6:26 PM
@bwDraco Tricky one if currently working and work is demotivating / saps energy (vicious circle!)
 
Or is this simply a matter of self-discipline (e.g. just set aside the time and do, even if I don't like doing it)?
 
I only code for fun (day 'job' is very different) but solving problems / making things efficient motivates me to learn new things (languages frameworks) to a barely passable level
 
Is forcing it (to the extent possible by willpower) an acceptable option?
Learning for the sake of my career, even if I didn't like it.
 
I'm not sure it's possible to force self-motivation; but it may be possible to 'force' yourself in a jump start- get yourself to a level where you do enjoy it (aka musical instrument analogy)
Not sure how well that analogy translates to programming tho
 
...hmm. That might be counterproductive. Am I forcing myself to go down a career path I won't like? Could I wind up working a job I'll hate for the rest of my life?
 
6:29 PM
Unless you enjoy the progress, if not the coding itself
Well, there is that
If you have to force yourself to do it in your spare time, chances are you won't enjoy it any more doing it as a day job
(caveat, not all generalisations are true)
People are often paid to do the things they don't especially don't want to do, see also: jobs, working :P
That being said, even if you don't enjoy programming (for its own sake), knowing some fundamentals would probably help in related jobs
 
Morning all
 
o/
Related to above, there was an interview this morning on Radio 4's The Life Scientific
Prof Jim Al-Khalili interviewing Ebon Upton
Both have programmed but both are not huge fans- one presents a national radio show, the other founded the org that came up with the best-selling British computer (Raspberry Pi)
 
Because I have JS books on the table I haven't used in ages.
Even O'Reilly's famous "rhino book".
 
How about other languages? Python's usually the go-to one for making programming 'fun' for folks
 
Well, I kinda like JS because it's universal - it'll run on practically any device as long as you can get a reasonably current web browser for it.
 
6:38 PM
Aye, fair enough. It's a lot more pleasant to do stuff with JS frameworks these days (I remember jumping through hoops to get it to do simple things back in school... but that was a long time ago) for sure
 
And with stuff like the DOM, along with HTML and CSS (languages I've worked with before), it's not hard to make graphical apps that work anywhere.
 
Plus you can scratch personal itches by writing small userscripts to fix personal annoyances (still on my list: an automated Gumtree 'duplicate results' remover)
 
JS even works in backend applications, albeit with different APIs.
 
Yup, that stuff also translates to mobile apps too with things like eg Cordova
 
It's "I like working with JS" but "I'm not motivated enough to sit down and properly learn it".
 
6:42 PM
An alternative in the meantime is to keep making stuff with JS and learn as you need to
It might not give you a 'formal education' of JS but on the plus side it gives you a portfolio of things that are finished (protip: finish them) that you can point to
(disclaimer: I have no idea what HR looks for when hiring)
Except to cite @Bob's recent starred message
Jan 13 at 10:44, by Bob
> If programming was like car driving

Recruiter: entry level bus driver for unpaid internship, experience flying planes, must have invented at least seven cars

Hire: I have seen a car in a cartoon
 
Or even the ability to answer Stack Overflow questions, which can help in finding a job, too.
Recruiters look for demonstrated knowledge.
SO answers are a good representation of your ability to apply skills.
 
@bwDraco That's nice if you can do that, but <unpopular_opinion_puffin.jpg> the SE effect isn't as kind to newer users
Particularly in a tightly contested space
Finished works are demonstrated knowledge too
Github projects, blog posts explaining a problem you came across and how you solved it, interesting tweets etc
Huh, I was doing a random walk among meta QAs, and ran into one on being nicer to new users; I should probably clarify what I meant so I'm not seen as preaching to the choir :P
I was more getting at the tendency to be out-competed by those who are well-established
@bwDraco Is there anyone in the field you would like to get into that you could reach out to (either knowing them personally or via internet-space) for suggestions?
If someone is able to say to you "At $COMPANY_YOUD_LIKE_TO_WORK_FOR, we look for a track record of contributing to big projects / a tertiary education degree in CS/Software Enginnering / formal certification / someone who will join in Casual Friday Foosball." would be worth its weight in gold
And potentially save you the time and effort of doing something counterproductive in the long run
Also PSA for anyone who has bought a phone from OnePlus recently, they are investigating fraudulent credit card charges
afk, off to tidy kitchen with its warped floor
 
7:28 PM
Lmao less than half an inch of snow and buses are delayed over 40 minutes
 
7:42 PM
yey
i'm still dying
I thought you wanted to go into IT...
 
@bertieb Good to know! I already changed my CC number about 2 weeks after ordering the OP 2, long time ago... So it's quite possible it was that shop that caused it
 
@CanadianLuke Ah right, good thing to have changed it. I think the spate of fraudulent charges is a recent thing; better safe than sorry tho!
I ordered an OP3 ages ago but I keep a very close eye on my accounts* (via hledger, ie plain text accounting) so will hopefully catch a fraudulent charge if it crops up
* Hey, it's easy to track your accounts when you have no money :P
 
8:00 PM
@bertieb That links looks interesting.
 
@MichaelFrank That's what I thought when I first saw it! :)
I'd used a free-trial's-worth of YNAB and liked the concept (envolope budgeting + budgeting-to-zero) but was irritated that it was subscription-only whereas it was previously a purchase-and-keep arrangement
Plus wasn't happy about not being in full control of financial data
So looked for alternatives. Had used GnuCash previously and it didn't take to me.
Writing simple lines in a text file seem to have though :)
 
I've been paying for PocketSmith, but I just couldn't get into it. heh
 
^------- That's really interesting (and bizarre to think something from my childhood is "ancient" history!)
 
8:17 PM
I've only changed CC numbers twice in the 11 years I've had a CC... Once cause of fraud purchases, the other cause a company signed me up for recurring payments without me saying to, and claiming they had no way to reverse the transactions
 
I had to do it once, when my card details were stolen from a parking machine.
 
My cheap netbook's network adapter has failed again:
> Miniport Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Wireless Network Adapter, <uuid>, had event Fatal error: The miniport has failed a power transition to operational power
Bifrons has always had flaky wireless networking.
Bluetooth is just as flaky.
 
8:34 PM
Quick - does ayone know of a send-SMS-from-PC service that 1) works (have had issues with messages not 'syncing' from phone before) and 2) doesn't insert ads into the outgoing SMS unbeknownst to the user
 
> doesn't insert ads into the outgoing SMS unbeknownst to the user
Almost certainly a paid service, and that may make it expensive.
 
Oh, I mean send-SMS-from-my-phone-using-PC
 
oh
that's a modem function @bertieb
 
lol
 
!!quadfacepalm
 
@djsmiley2k The jury of my eyes are still out on whether that says 'modem' or 'modern'
Damn ke[rn|m]ing
 
the former
 
So... Google play → 🔍 'modem' you say
 
not really
your using your phone for teathering?
 
Nah
Well, not currently
Just want to ttype an SMS with a keyboard rather than a phone keyboard
^^ because clearly I am so good at typing without ypos
 
8:39 PM
k, why do you need to sms from your pc?>
remote desktop onto the phone then
many many ways to do that
 
Aye fair point, seems overkill for just SMS tho
Unless there are other advantages to remoteing to phone that I haven't thought of (likelihood: high)
 
@bertieb You're trying to send/receive SMS messages through either your phone or PC, correct?
 
@CanadianLuke I'd be happy to just send them from PC, reading them there too would be a bonus as it would mean i don't have to check my phone
 
@bertieb I just see it as quite easy ;D
 
IIRC pushbullet used to do something like that but I no longer have PB installed on my phone (or the bash helper script)
 
8:42 PM
!!/oh
 
I have a partial solution for you, that works on every Android I have... The one main requirement is that you are OK with having your SMS messages encrypted end-to-end with your recipients. Check out Signal, by OpenWhisper
 
Rocket League has just given me a HOT PINK unicorn horn for my car
 
@djsmiley2k Must confess I haven't tried it in a long time; recall it being a bit laggy?
@CanadianLuke Cheers, will have a look
 
8:43 PM
that'll send from his phone?
 
It uses data instead of the SMS protocol, but it's dead easy to setup, and I even have my non-tech family members using it
 
... that's not SMS then xD
 
It replaces the default messaging app if you tell it to
 
'use email'
 
That's why it's a "partial" solution
 
8:44 PM
@djsmiley2k If you want anything in particular for your cars I'd be happy to give anything I need (assuming cross-network trading is a thing) as I haven't changed decorations for years :P
Ah, I see
 
don't need anything, tho if you've got any ultra rares thjen let me know xD
i don't know about cross netowrk
 
@CanadianLuke Will see how many I can convince
 
wow everyone in this match but me is a PC player :O
i feel lonely
 
Good luck!
 
I think some of the BBC correspondents use Signal
(Dave Lee etc)
Some of my contacts are on WhatsApp (another kettle of fish)
@djsmiley2k That's myfacewhen everyone else is PsyNet
No one to say "gl, hf" to :(
@CanadianLuke Ta!
 
8:47 PM
exactly
 
What remote phone solution would you recommend?
 
newsgrabberElapsed: 07h 42m 55s
pffft dunno :/
 
Because I can predict the top search results, "5 Android remote access apps compared" [makeuseof] "Lifehacker's Top 10 Killer Android Apps You Should Get" [2012 edition], 4 near-identical blog posts which are just there to include affliate links to everything
 
> If only planes can honk... :D
my favorite comment
 
Ah my bad, thought you were using one in particular!
 
8:52 PM
yeah i chgose one which lists prices and pros/cons
haven't ever needed to :/
However I'd likely just look for some vnc type thing
 
I thought there might be come vnc/X forwarding type thing built in, will hunt
Have used at least 3 or 4 from that list :P
With varying combinations of problems 1 (no work) and 2 (spammy)
 
9:06 PM
@bertieb if you're talking about remotely accessing a computer from a phone (graphical desktops), TeamViewer has worked well for me
 
@allquixotic otherway round, send a sms from the phone, written by the PC
 
@allquixotic Vice-versa!
 
ohhh...
umm.....
sorry, I had to, since I have the requisite hardware to do so :P
 
Whatsit called... Paper... something?
 
@allquixotic Pretty much that, yup!
 
9:10 PM
AirDroid!
 
iMessage is still the best, but unfortunately they haven't put an iMessage client on the web, so if you don't wanna use your phone, Siri, or iPad, you have to be using a Mac to do the input
 
(bizarrely, Messages suddenly rocked to life a week or two ago and started delivering me Google Hangouts messages, which it hadn't done since 2014)
 
Apple would probably convert a lot of people to iOS if they had an iMessage SMS client on icloud.com accessible from any web browser
 
@MichaelFrank I used to use AirDroid, but stopped for reasons that I can't remember- looks like it might be the best option so may give it another go
 
and if they added their office suite, I could almost (almost) leave Google products behind entirely
 
9:11 PM
@allquixotic In case I'm missing out on something huge, it's iPhone/iDevice only, right?
I have half the requisite hardware, but an android phone
 
@bertieb the only way to get an iMessage account is to have an activated iPhone -- not even just "iDevice" in general; you have to have an iPhone that's actively on a cellular network
 
@allquixotic Bleh :(
 
Verizon offers something similar (or, arguably, better) if you happened to have service with them, which you don't, because you don't live in the US
I moved away from Verizon Wireless, but when I last used them less than a year ago, they had seamless, cross-platform SMS integration with a service called Verizon Messenger... basically iMessage that isn't tied-down to any particular platform
you could access Verizon Messenger from the Web, or install a desktop app (not sure if the desktop app is still available), or install an app from the Google Play Store or App Store on Android or iOS to send messages with it, and it would send the messages over traditional SMS using your phone's phone number
perhaps there is a carrier that offers service in your area that ships a similar service; if Verizon can do it, any carrier can
 
@allquixotic I could point out all those times when peoples messages went missing, but yeaah, when google first did hangouts with android and on pc, I thought maybe they were doing this
but they kept them seperate :(
 
@allquixotic I doubt it sadly- my carrier doesn't even have an email-to-sms gateway AFAICT :(
 
9:15 PM
IIRC Verizon Messenger was even free for any paying customer that has a smartphone on their account
quite nice
 
@djsmiley2k If we could get Google Voice here I could go a step even betterer and send text messages via IRC!
 
nod :(
 
Alas
grumbles incoherently
 
@bertieb you shouldn't (in principle) have any problem with being unable to get a service like Google Voice due to your location... what you need is the ability to spoof your location :P
sign up with another service that offers a VoIP based U.S. phone number, and use that number to verify yourself for a Google Voice account in the US
using VPN as necessary
 
@allquixotic Hmmm... your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter
My only concern is with Google Voice doing weird things because it isn't a service here
 
9:18 PM
also text via IRC is scary unless you're using mandatory authentication and TLS; I'd be worried someone would find a way to join my channel and spam text messages impersonating me
 
@allquixotic bitlbee (local IRC 'server') :)
 
I'm sure it'd be weird, and there might be extra international SMS charges (? not sure) if you send texts from a "U.S. based" Google Voice number to mostly the UK
but I think once you have a number registered they wouldn't require you to constantly be in the US or appear to be in the US
people can use Google Voice while on travel abroad all the time
 
Aye fair enough; it might be worth me looking into regardless for purposes of contacting family stateside (2.5p / min otherwise)
Plus it would give me an excuse to set up an Asterisk server
On the other hand, this is getting waaaay out of scope for "a simple way to send SMSs using my PC's keyboard" ;-P
 
!! s/set up an Asterisk server/try to set up an Asterisk server, fail, get angry, look for support, realize the only support is paying thousands of dollars to attend their yearly 'conferences', then give up and try something else/
 
@allquixotic Plus it would give me an excuse to try to set up an Asterisk server, fail, get angry, look for support, realize the only support is paying thousands of dollars to attend their yearly 'conferences', then give up and try something else (source)
 
9:22 PM
@allquixotic Hah :P
 
setting up Asterisk is more excruciating than setting up fully functional email and webmail from scratch on Linux using extremely terse tools like postfix and dovecot and squirrelmail and postgresql
 
I must admit some of the references to Asterisk seem a bit daunting
But it would let me do things like whitelist numbers (reduce call spam!)
Or ever better, do something along the lines of:
 
setting up Asterisk is more excruciating than the knowledge you'd need to go around to every jet airplane that's set to take off today around the world and get them ready to fly from a "cold and dark" (shut down) configuration to ready for takeoff
@bertieb I LOVE LENNY
 
@allquixotic :D
It would make the pain worthwhile if I could waste annoying timewasting people's time like that ^^
OTOH, I don't have time to do the many many many things I should and/or could do, so probably best I don't try
 
@bertieb this is Lenny!
"Uhh, rr, sorry... I can barely hear ya, there?"
"Yes.... yes, yes...."
"Oh, good! Yes, yes, yes, yes..."
"Uh, yes, yes... Someone... did say last week... someone did call last week to... was that you?"
"S-s-sorry, what was your name again?"
lol <3
 
9:27 PM
It's all gold :D
 
rofl, I love how the bot makes him repeat the question about 4 times
the guy who made the original recordings for "Lenny" should do about 100 more clips, then have speech recognition that wires it up to a sort of pseudo-AI that determines which clip to feed back based on the content of what they asked, sort of like NPCs in games back in the old days
like you'd say "How do I find the skeleton key?" and the term "skeleton key" would trigger a specific response
 
"funny you should say that... my daughter was just talking..."
 
@MichaelFrank apparently his eldest is named both Larissa and Rachel
 
9:43 PM
soundcloud.com/user-138243492/lenny-says-hi-reddit-for-2017 -- he actually posted a personalized message for the community :D
 
10:13 PM
omg, you know what would kill Lenny? Having a robo-telemarketer call and talk to Lenny and have it tie him up like a DDoS for hours on end
"Hello Sir, we'd like to talk to you about our product, the Spaminator. Do you have time for a few minutes to chat?"
"Yes, yes yes..."
(34 days later)
"Hello Sir, ..."
if I made one of those time-wasting bots it would be named Bert, and I'd have a speech to text recognizer that would correct them when they pronounced the name (regardless of how good or bad it was) by saying "No, no no, my name's not Bart, it's Bert. A-are you calling for Bert, or Bart?"
 
@allquixotic lol
 
10:51 PM
I am correct to assume that superuser.com/questions/1177435/… should be considered spam, right?
 

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