Root Access

Bob

00:33

hello

Ben N

Hi!

Circus Cat

Lo

bwDraco

03:20

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Q: Daughter dies at party

My 19 year old step daughter attended a party in Illinois. One kid slipped a pill in her drink which caused her to have a heart attack and die. After watching this play out, this boy didn't even bother to seek any medical aid for her, such as calling 911 or alerting that she would need help. He ...

Boris_yo

03:44

Thoughts? scry.cloud

I wonder if they crowd-source assumptions and based on that see the likelihood of something to happen?

XKCD

04:12

The 538TR attempts to capture a player's combined skill at basketball (either real-life or NBA 2K18) and election forecasting.

Bob

04:41

backup-brigade superuser.com/a/1328384/117590

There's probably a dupe somewhere but I don't have time to dig right now

rahuldottech

06:10

((hii))

Journeyman Geek

woof

bwDraco

06:27

roar

rahuldottech

07:17

'''''''''''‌'''''''''''

Michael Frank

07:41

@rahuldottech ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

Burgi

07:58

morning

did you see M$ are buying github?

rahuldottech

@Burgi s/are buying/have already bought/

It's done

:(

They'll probably mess it up

WHY, GITHUB? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Burgi

they've wanted a replacement for TFS for ages

djsmiley2k

extend, embrace, extinguish lol

rahuldottech

YEAH I KNOW BUT GITHUB WAS MAKING PROFITS WHAT THE HELL MAN WHY SELL OUT?

Burgi

08:15

because sometimes when one of the biggest companies in the world comes knocking you sell

Andy K

morning

if you have an idea

0

Q: How to not have sum on pivot-table excel spreadsheet

I have a pivot-table excel spreadsheet. As you can see below, I'm currently having sum in it. What I would like is to have just, the value without summing. I checked on the internet and so far, no luck. Is there a way to do that? Thanks

microsoft-excel pivot-table

Bob

@rahuldottech "making profits" like a loss for most of its existence and inability to hire a CEO for 8 months?

yea, no

rahuldottech

@Bob seriously?

Burgi

basically they've secured the jobs of all their employees for the next few years

rahuldottech

I was misinformed then. I read that on reddit somewhere.

djsmiley2k

08:17

ah yes reddit

Bob

@rahuldottech that's a ... maybe. maybe not.

djsmiley2k

that source of credable information.

Bob

codeplex was decent

djsmiley2k

waiting for this training to start

rahuldottech

o_o chrome just blocked access to archive.codeplex.com

djsmiley2k

08:18

and I can't open the stupid document :<

rahuldottech

wut

Burgi

MS are well known for dogfooding, so this is a good thing for GIT

Bob

@djsmiley2k that was 20 years ago, and it only really referred to specifications. unless you're implying they intend to kill git, which ... wouldn't make sense. they've extended it already ... and submitted the extensions as patches to git core.

Burgi

the cert has expired

Bob

really, the worst I could see happening is the paid plans changing and possibly the support dept being gutted

for the most part it'll probably be business as usual

rahuldottech

08:20

@Burgi no

> Google Safe Browsing recently found harmful programs on archive.codeplex.com.

djsmiley2k

@Bob is was a joke :<

Bob

@rahuldottech sooo, like any other file upload site except google fucked up and blacklisted the whole domain

it's like saying someone uploaded malware to github.com or code.google.com (ahem) or drive.google.com or ...

productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/AIgdYkSqVsU

annnnnnnnnnnnd typical google support (read: non-existent)

I'm not sure if it's better or worse than microsoft support (which exists but tends to be useless form answers)

Bob

08:38

they almost seem to trade places of worst support depending on product

chromium bugtracker > edge

azure support > gcp

djsmiley2k

yawn

waiting for everyone to get logged into everything for this training, and alas, mine doesn't work ;)

Ave

@djsmiley2k yes, exactly.

user226528

09:48

Strange question: superuser.com/questions/1328406/….

user226528

It is a question about Office 365, but those customers receive top of the line support from Microsoft. Why has the OP comes here? Coupled with what I see in this screenshot...

Burgi

i think it reasonable to ask here

MS tech support is notoriously slow

user226528

Their premium tech support assigned to subscribers like 365 are not. They are paid to be fast. But also, did you see the screenshot?

Burgi

its in russian

user226528

Exactly.

Burgi

09:59

it took them 3 months to resolve our O365 billing issue

user226528

Plus, there is something in blue at the bottom of it.

Burgi

thats the RDP container

user226528

Not sure what you mean by that. I was referring to the email address.

user226528

Billing issue isn't tech support. That's for the billing dept. I have no experience interacting with them, but if you say they're slow, I'll take a case.

Burgi

yes it is the container for a RDC tab

user226528

10:10

I meant the text label of it. It tells you something, doesn't it?

user226528

Well, maybe it doesn't tell you anything, or else you'd seen it by now. Alright. No pressure. I am done here.

djsmiley2k

woo a break

user226528

I did. The break accepted my ring and said "yes". 😉

3

djsmiley2k

Zoomed to the shop and back to make sure I made it in time

was so quick, now melted again cc @ThatBrazilianGuy

djsmiley2k

10:39

sigh

these people can't get windows RDP working

there's me, loading it up in linux, configuring it to work on my desktop in real time xD

djsmiley2k

11:18

and I've finished the first lab, and just waitiung, waiting, wait...

user226528

Ah, great. I updated my NVIDIA driver and Ghost Recon got screwed up.

user226528

And yet, games from Konami, Capcom and Square Enix never get buggy, no matter how you update your driver.

user226528

Well, at least, per my experience.

djsmiley2k

11:48

Lunch break, woo

user226528

@djsmiley2k How are thins on your end, cool guy? :)

djsmiley2k

Not bad, doing a training course for 3 days from home

user226528

Who are you training?

djsmiley2k

i'mn havcing training on the next verison of our firewall

user226528

Ah. So you are the one being trained. Is this firewall any good? Should I buy one too?

djsmiley2k

12:03

it's expensive, enterprise stuff.

user226528

I guessed that much, since you need to be trained on it. But I am a Windows domain admin too. Anyway, I won't interrupt your training any further. Knock them right out the park. ;)

djsmiley2k

Tim Minchin LA Dec 2015

►

He does make me laugh

user226528

12:30

It is a "he"?

djsmiley2k

yes

Burgi

...

djsmiley2k

su0p @Burgi

Burgi

its a mad mad mad day

bertieb

Y'know, I wondered if Conchita Wurst drew some inspiration style-wise from Tim Minchin

Something about the eyes

Burgi

12:41

tim minchin is johnny depp's stand in for the next PotC film

Andy K

tomshardware.com/news/…

user226528

@Burgi What's PotC? Power of the Crime? Part of the Community? Plan of the Consession?

Burgi

Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)

Pirates of the Caribbean is a series of American fantasy swashbuckler films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and based on Walt Disney's theme park ride of the same name. Directors of the series include Gore Verbinski (1–3), Rob Marshall (4) and Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (5). The series is primarily written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (1–4); other writers include Stuart Beattie (1), Jay Wolpert (1) and Jeff Nathanson (5). The stories follow the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). Characters such as Hector...

user226528

Huh! Didn't know Caribbean requires a definite article despite itself being a definite noun. Then again, I didn't know there is a going to be a next PotC. Didn't its director refuse to direct one?

user226528

Oh, yeah. I see it there in the snippet.

Burgi

13:01

Thunderstorm Nukes Brain Implant

djsmiley2k

@Burgi errhhh

'We need safety features in these devices'

Surely, it shutting down, WAS the safety feature

Burgi

not sure

djsmiley2k

you know what I mean though?

If you were design it, to fail safely in case of 'weird electrical signals'. You'd design it to do, what it did anyway.

Burgi

yeah but they need to shield it better

djsmiley2k

hmmm

what does it do...

and what are the chances of lightning effecting it, etc

as shielding is heavy

2pm and my brain is starting to slowe down

Burgi

13:11

it sends electrical pulses directly into the brain/nervous system

i think they are worried that it wasn't designed to turn off if there was a power spike. it was just a "happy" coincidence

djsmiley2k

If that's the case then fine

it should fail safely

Burgi

from what i understand, they haven't designed them to fail safely at all and they got lucky in this instance

djsmiley2k

hmmm

>_<

welp Mr. Man is telling us he's gonna talk at us for 1/2 hr, this'll be fun xD

bertieb

@djsmiley2k Mr Man, you say

djsmiley2k

13:32

;)

Bob

Circus Cat

14:34

!!caaaaaaaat

ChatBot John Cavil

Bob

Burgi

IN SOVIET RUSSIA INTERNETS MEME UR CAT

so wanna hear the crazy twists and turns of my day?

djsmiley2k

14:56

@Burgi Always.

Burgi

so you know the last guy that was the Front End Dev here?

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi Always. Even when nothing untowards happens.

@Burgi The one you always complained or the one hired after him?

Burgi

the latter

he resigned then failed to show for the last week of his contract

then claimed he'd been stabbed on the train and had been in hospital

That Brazilian Guy

Go on...

Journeyman Geek

I remember

Burgi

15:00

well we got a weird phone call from the MD of a rival agency based round the corner from us this afternoon

bertieb

Is this the minion that was mugged? Or was someone else attacked? (or claiming they were)

Burgi

yeah

it turns out that he had got a job there that week and told them that he had hated it at our place

Journeyman Geek

...

RogUE

So, he made your company a backup?

bertieb

Hated it so bad he imagined he'd been stabbed, as if his life was a Christopher Nolan film?

That's quite the somatization

Burgi

15:06

and that we'd let him go early out of a mutual decision

That Brazilian Guy

Oh boy

Burgi

he told us that he was moving to london with his dad

That Brazilian Guy

Who needs soap operas when we got @Burgi?

bertieb

He done a 'whoopsy'

Might end up being a learning experience for him

Burgi

well this guy at the other agency had a spidey-sense moment with him last week when he said that his grandparent had just died. they gave him compassionate leave for a day or two

then today he has just vanished

That Brazilian Guy

15:09

0.o

WHAT. THE.

Burgi

taking with him one of their laptops

bertieb

Wait what

That Brazilian Guy

Is he a serial vanisher?

bertieb

He disappeared from the new place too

Burgi

yup

That Brazilian Guy

15:10

He just collects contract bonuses, grabs a laptop, then disappears?

bertieb

I think this guy might be a literal PFY

That Brazilian Guy

Did he stole a laptop from your agency too @Burgi?

bertieb

Nabbing stuff for some BOFH somewhere

Journeyman Geek

o0

Burgi

@ThatBrazilianGuy no, i don't trust anyone so he had a desktop

That Brazilian Guy

15:10

Ha

Might have been the only thing that stopped him

Burgi

well this other agency has gone full on PI and discovered that the last 7 agencies (not on his CV) he has vanished from after a few weeks.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

That Brazilian Guy

Fuck, he really is a serial vanisher!

Burgi

yeah

Journeyman Geek

so he more or less grabs a paycheck and whatever hardware he can, and goes on to the next mark?

Burgi

15:15

basically since his last perm role he has been at roughly 9 different companies

That Brazilian Guy

So many questions

Basically... WHY?!

And... isn't in against the law?

Did he really thinck no one would find out?

And... why?

Burgi

job hopping isn't illegal

That Brazilian Guy

and isn't illegal for companies to discuss employee information?

And... why?

Burgi

not declaring information when you get employed is fraud though

bertieb

Also stealing a laptop is probably against the law

Though he might use the old "I thought I was given it" routine

jokerdino

15:27

I remember there was a theft incident at your place @Burgi

Burgi

@jokerdino that was back in january

Ave

can we please talk about how scummy this is?

djsmiley2k

lol

I'd hope somewhere doing that goes out of business very quickly.

Ave

it's fixer.io btw

they put up a paid scheme and blocked off most endpoints to paid plans

ToxicFrog

@Ave I don't know what fixer.io is but wtfffffff

Ave

15:40

and they don't even allow https on free plan

@ToxicFrog fixer.io used to be a good free api for accessing conversion rates. Now it's... hell.

Burgi

even tumblr allows https!

Ave

tumblr api is the worst

Burgi

tell me about it

djsmiley2k

we have just completed a lab on https sniffing heh

Ave

@Burgi I dealt with wikihow/wikimedia api and survived

djsmiley2k

15:43

pretty sure by the prior discussion, tumblr api is now 2nd worst.

Burgi

i've been working on a storefront for tumblr for a friend for a year

djsmiley2k

tumblr.... store front?!>

dafaq?

bertieb

Yea

That's pretty much what my brain said

Burgi

yeah

they asked, i said (naively) oh sure! it'll be super quick

they have something like 10,000 followers

i know nothing about tumblr so i have no idea if that is actually good or not

Ben N

16:19

Welp I just got my first unsolicited e-mail from a SE passerby

Burgi

since GDPR, SE has been emailing me daily with jobs

its fracking annoying

That Brazilian Guy

17:12

Sepaking about GDPR

GDRP is now breaking RSS feeds

If breaking HTTPS because of paywalls is scummy (cc @Ave) then breaking RSS because of GDRP is just plain dumb.

user226528

17:37

It is official: Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. In case you are interested, here is Microsoft's announcement.

bertieb

18:11

D:

The prophecy has come true

djsmiley2k

18:26

and in the darkness bind them?

bertieb

One... Red Ring of Death?

Circus Cat

Y'know, I've actually figured out a positive benefit for lag/latency over bluetooth audio

It lets my smart lights sync up to the music perfectly, because they lag by the same amount :-D

Now if only I could manually control monitor display lag as well...

djsmiley2k

18:42

turn on ALL THE EFECTS.

Circus Cat

@djsmiley2k I would, but there's still one set of effects I've not built a microcontroller to synch with the PC yet

JUST ONE LEFT

Michael

@FleetCommand Maybe Microsoft will post the Windows source code?

Circus Cat

But yeah, Philips recently released a PC-Lighting sync application that takes advantage of their new real-time ZigBee UDP broadcast tech. Previously it required Razer Chroma hardware to use, but now Philips released a generic application for everybody. It works!

It makes the "Hue Disco" app on Android which records audio on the phone, processes it, then uploads requests over WiFi to the Hue bridge via HTTP largely redundant. Much easier to process the audio before it's even reached the speakers :-D

Don't you just love it when someone releases a high-tech product, and then keeps providing exciting updates and useful new features several years down the line? Disappointingly rare in the tech world.

Also don't you just love it when someone makes an announcement that they'll release something and not only actually releases it on time they actually release a functional and polished product? For free? A product that works properly out of the gate, AND IS ON TIME. Also disappointingly rare in the tech world.

That Brazilian Guy

18:59

@djsmiley2k ...and in the darkness bind them.

djsmiley2k

some how i'm ranked 40th for a crash in burnout paradise.

got there in the end :P

Ramhound

@Burgi - I disagree that not declaring information is fraud, provided, you are not asked for the information. A resume is meant to sell you as an employee. I am not going provide employment information that isn't relevant to the position I am applying to.

djsmiley2k

@Ramhound over here it's specifically asked for you to provide ALL jobs in the last 6 months or a year, or whatever

Failing to provide that, by 'missing some out' is fraud.

That Brazilian Guy

I agree that not listing all previous information is not fraud

However, in this specific case, it's blatant that there's malicious intent

djsmiley2k

@Burgi was he any good?

Circus Cat

19:10

What the fuck. A software product in 2018 that's released on time, fully functional, doesn't require 0-day updates, isn't full of bugs, is totally free, no forced registration, no subscription, no silly DRM, no ads, and no bloat. And. Just. Works.

HOW???

djsmiley2k

@CircusCat is it something by @BenN ?

Circus Cat

Game developers could really do with taking a page out of Phillips' book.

Oh and it's open and developer friendly.

user226528

@Michael They've already made the Windows source code accessible over the Internet, but not to the public. There are lot of governments and regulatory parties who need access to it. India, for example, has a law that any piece of app used by the government must expose it source code to inspection.

Circus Cat

@djsmiley2k And isn't Linux. Or a Powershell script. Or by BenN.

That Brazilian Guy

(continuing)

Now there's the question of how do you protect the employee's rights and privacy while at the same time protect the business from employees doing what he did.

djsmiley2k

19:14

@ThatBrazilianGuy BLOCKCHAIN!

you can have employers leave anon reviews of the employee

That Brazilian Guy

...

Ramhound

You don't assign laptops, that can be taken out of the office, to anyone who recently joined the company.

djsmiley2k

it's even.... weirdly appropriate D:

Ramhound

Wish my chair would ship.

djsmiley2k

@Ramhound or... you employee people with nothing to hide.

At my job before last 2

I was given a laptop day one

at last but one job, got laptop after 3 days

(as a contractor)

the day one, was a mac book air

:O

Ramhound

19:15

A laptop you can take home or a laptop for office use?

Michael

@FleetCommand Wow, really?

djsmiley2k

a laptop i took home

on day 1

and they knew where i lived, my bank account numbers, and all sorts of other info,.

of course they had prey, and google tracking it

they also knew where i'd worked for the last 1.5 years, and prior to that too.

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k Yeah, who needs privacy?

djsmiley2k

@ThatBrazilianGuy lol I didn't say the blockchain was public?

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k "What could go wrong"?

djsmiley2k

19:19

I dunno

ask all the americans with their social security numbers.

That Brazilian Guy

Oh we have a similar "secret" number.

Except we have to provide them when we call our bank, ISP, etc

But it is "secret"

Except it is not

But it is used everywhere as proof of identity

Ramhound

I need a nap

That Brazilian Guy

It's broken and stupid and no one seems to notice or care

djsmiley2k

yeah so

thanks for confirming you currently have no privacy anyway ;)

Ramhound

social security numbers. Everyone and their uncle has one of those, even if the number isn't theirs,they have one.

Won't even get into the problems that fact gives employers.

Circus Cat

19:39

> The KB4100403 release notes mention that Toshiba SSD users had also been suffering ill-effects from the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. Less drastically, select devices with Toshiba XG4 Series, Toshiba XG5 Series, or Toshiba BG3 Series SSDs were sometimes exhibiting degraded battery life. These users can also now go and manually prompt Windows Update to do its stuff via Settings.

Erf. Glad my auto-updates are deferred...

Oh hey Microsoft blocked the update on my laptop anyway. Yay!

Ramhound

....

Circus Cat

Hah, Alienware took out one of the USB-C ports on the updated 2018 model of my laptop and replaced it with a standard USB-A

Ramhound

....

Why on earth would they do that?

seems like they would have to engineer and retool their equipment.

Apple announces that it's bringing iOS apps to the Mac

HAHAHAH

Apple is trying to copy Microsoft now!

Ramhound

20:22

-3

Q: stop microsoft from takeing data off a pc and or server

i love all the messages on this but no one has said that microsoft can start a vpn or ipsec section on your pc, and get unrescited access to the pc, and now this access can give them access to hole domain network, they have used one pc, to link all the others useing secret logins, for logest time...

windows vpn dns windows-server-2008 tracking

I think I just crossed my eyes trying to read that

DavidPostill

Someone is off his meds, or never got diagnosed properly in the first place ...

bertieb

> unclear what you're asking

> unclear if you're asking

DavidPostill

bertieb

That's a rather unfortunate shape for a tin-foil hat

DavidPostill

@bertieb As sold on Amazon.

amazon.com/Electro-Deflecto-Unisex-Foil-Size/dp/B01I497JAM/…

Read the reviews :)

> Exceptional job of blocking the electromagnetic radiation produced by the cell phone tower they just installed by my house. This was my primary motivation for this purchase. After I started wearing my Electro Deflecto I was pleasantly surprised to see a reduction in Government’s ability to control my thoughts. I’m still exposed to the mind control chemicals in the contrails, but the hat blocks all attempts to take advantage of that exposure.

djsmiley2k

20:36

okturing.com/src/4545/body

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k lol

Burgi

@Ramhound in the UK it is misrepresenting the facts to achieve a positive outcome for yourself

@djsmiley2k yeah, a few rough edges to smooth off but he was a junior

DavidPostill

@Burgi Looks like you need to beef up your hiring process ... ;)

Burgi

well not only us but numerous other agencies too

Ramhound

@Burgi - I only disclose what I am asked to disclose. I attempting to sell me as an employee, and you are selling yourself as an employer, we discuss the terms of an agreement where i perform a job for money. If you don't ask a question or request certain information that isn't my fault. I am not going to provide every single detail of my entire work life on a peice of paper or a file

DavidPostill

20:43

By now I'm sure his name has been spread around ...

Burgi

@DavidPostill yup

@Ramhound no but this guy is only 21

Ramhound

So I know nothing about what he was going to do for that money. Use all legal protections as an employer, because that employee, will do the same.

DavidPostill

With a bad reputation he will find hard to shake off, no matter how good he is. There is this thing called references ...

Burgi

like i say we got off pretty lightly, this other company have lost an £800 laptop

DavidPostill

@Burgi Presumably they can report that as theft ...

Burgi

20:54

@DavidPostill yeah, its more the principle

the more we've dug around the clearer it has become that the guy has got serious mental issues

That Brazilian Guy

Well in my team I've witnessed three mental breakdowns. So far.

One of my ex bosses (and ex co-worker) got a raise in pay and position after he finished University.

He majored in Psychology.

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy And then had a breakdown?

That Brazilian Guy

He works as a sysadmin and he knows Linux quite well

@DavidPostill No, I suspect he stays around because of the others having breakdowns

We always joke one's gotta have a few missing screws to be in IT

Michael Frank

21:16

@djsmiley2k Oh, that was about my 2 1/2 year old. She's suddenly decided that she gets lonely at night in her own room.

Michael Frank

21:43

0

Q: How to produce PDF with text that copies as garbage

I often encounter PDFs, text from which can be copied, but when pasted into any other application turns into garbage, for example this pdf (Relevant discussion). It seems like a special font is generated with glyphs that do not contain any symbol metainformation. Is there a way to generate this k...

security pdf pdftk pdfcreator

Huh... This is interesting!

Ben N

Huh, I always thought it was bad OCR

Michael Frank

Yea, I've never seen a PDF do that before. I wonder if it even prints correctly.

bertieb

Accessibility problems, here we go!

Next QA: "Why did my my screen reader collapse in the corner screaming when I tried to get it to read this PDF"

Michael Frank

22:18

Someone needs to test this!

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank IIRC scribd did something like this

Circus Cat

22:53

4 June 2018

►

Room-scale ambilight using my existing light bulbs... kinda spoilt by the extra screens but hey, it works!

user226528

23:06

@MichaelFrank The problem is that reversing it is as easy as (no easier than, no harder than) doing it. You can treat this type of scrambling like a ROT13 encryption.

user226528

@BenN Bad OCR is also another source of scrambled PDF, but this time, the flow data is messed up. In its essence, a PDF file describes page pretty much similar to typesetting in the letterpress printing machines of the old. Flow data is added on top of them to make them coherent. Mess with the flow data and computers no longer see those letters as coherent units.

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