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12:28 AM
Am I the only one who likes Gutenberg?
 
12:43 AM
@JourneymanGeek Could be true! I'm not really that interested by old literature.
 
 
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3:23 AM
It's funny how my laptop will charge from an ordinary USB charger, even if at just 4.5W. The only things needed are a USB power source of some sort and a USB Type-A to Type-C cable.
(and even then, only when off or in sleep)
 
 
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5:27 AM
@bwDraco Same with my work laptop
But I'll charge it using the 130W brick instead of a USB cable
 
 
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7:05 AM
@allquixotic: The Matrix server just went down.
@Bob: any idea what's going on?
Also, the Riot app is giving me empty toast notifications, lol:
 
 
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8:44 AM
@MichaelFrank yeah I don't have that.
 
@djsmiley2k Really?
 
yup
If I go into things... there's lots of classlifications, but no 'People'
 
Try this:
On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
Sign in to your Google Account.
Tap Menu   Settings  Group similar faces.
Turn off Face grouping.
Turn on Face grouping.
Ignore the app part though I guess.
 
heh
i just saw it on my phone then, when i loaded photos
for am oment, but before it started loading my albums
there is no 'Group similar faces' either
 
At the bottom there
 
8:48 AM
nope
 
You might need to label someone first?
 
Hmmm how?
 
Bob
whoops
I accidentally encrypted my archive
 
Actually, what does that get you?
 
>
404. That’s an error.

The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
:D
 
8:51 AM
Guess it's not available in your Country.
Probably a GDPR thing?
 
LOL maybe
 
VPN to non-GDPR country
Enable it
Fun!
 
rofl wtaf.
well figured out!!
@Burgi you seen this
 
morning
 
8:57 AM
is riot/matrix offline?
 
yup
 
i think i connect through @allquixotic's homeserver
 
Am I going mad?
(don't answer that just yet)
I could swear Gumtree had price filtering options
Like, as of yesterday afternoon
But I can't see them now
Okay, what
 
Yea, it's right there on the left...
 
Did a test search to check, no filter. Ask question here. Tab back, price filter is there.
I swear there's a sysadmin laughing at me in the Gumtree devops room
I then do another search... no price filter!
Oh, I see
I see
If you search for a car, it disables the price filter
Because everyone looking for a car has unlimited budget
 
9:05 AM
;D
cars on gumtree are free!
 
Nothing to do with increasing impressions on those coveted paid listings
Thing is, I could swear I was getting price filtering options yesterday on cars
This is irksome
 
Bob
@Burgi yea I look a look and it seems synapse is restarting every few seconds. idk about his docker config so I'm not gonna touch anything :P
 
Now it's back?!
goes quietly noisily insane
 
9:20 AM
maybe it only appears if the prices are in a wide enough range
 
Could be!
 
no point in showing a range if the prices are between 200 and 201
 
Something something something, position of moon relative to sun
I still want to write a userscript to filter out keyword-stuffed listings
"For Sale: Vaxhaull Astra like Focus Leon Fabia Fiesta Corsa Civic"
they can gdiaf
 
9:55 AM
oooh the disappearing dev has popped up again
 
@bertieb just don't look at anything less than £500 then?
or use google image search, click cars you like
@Burgi :D
Each time, get them to ask if you can have your laptop back
(I don't know if he has a laptop, but they can ask ;DD)
 
@djsmiley2k That stuffing is everywhere- there was a Jag listed as "not a Focus"
I mean, they're not wrong
But if I wanted a Jag, I'd be searching for one
or getting one of my many staff to do so on my behalf
 
>_<
I already found you a cheap golf :P
 
Bit of a commute to get there :P
But in your defence that is true and it is cheap
 
9:59 AM
The MOT running out in August would be highly inconvenient though :P
 
Why?
I think it'd pass
at least for another year or so
 
The stuff it failed on gives me pause
 
The Xsara I got off em
 
But you could be right
 
they were like 'yeah the bar under this door is rusted out, will likely fail mot and need repairing before next year' - 3 years later and they still haven't failed it ;D
 
10:00 AM
Sounds like a test centre isn't doing a good job at spotting rust :P
 
The garage IS the test centre :D
 
Ah rly?
 
It's in their interest to spot it.
As I'd get them to repair it too ;D
They're... almost honest
 
Most places around here do "MOTs", but they actually just prep it and take it to an approved test centre
 
as honest as mechanics and garages come.
 
10:01 AM
Fair enough
I had an honest-to-a-fault garage / mechanic nearby for a few years there
The kind that you felt like you're underpaying
Unfortunately ill health forced him into retirement
 
Ugh... I just remembered how tedious the flying levels in Spyro are...
 
i buy cars that are as new as possible because they will last longer
hence the 8k i spent on mine
 
Aye, it's difficult to know which works out better in the long run
(TCO-wise)
Unfortunately I'm at the lower end of the market (don't have anywhere near 8k) so it's either "completely shitty" or "mostly shitty" for me :P
I'd rather not search for another car again until I have to, so looking to buy a keeper
 
can you affrod to do HP?
hire purchase
 
@Burgi Good question; it's something I've debated doing... not sure I feel entirely comfortable with it though
 
10:09 AM
my GF got her car for £157/mth but we found fiat 500s available for £40/mth for 36 months
 
Also not sure if being a student (and so technically having no income) makes a difference
 
they do a credit check on you
 
Ya
I have CC debt
 
time to swap to shank's pony until you finish uni?
 
Heh :P
 
10:11 AM
or find a rich relative to bump off... ;)
 
I can find something pro tem, it's just a case of what
 
Wooo. Nailed it with 0.1secs to go. sweating
 
@bertieb always go japanese in these cases
 
Oh?
 
Hellloooo
 
10:18 AM
@Burgi Reliability?
 
@JourneymanGeek How's India treating you?
 
@bertieb yeah
 
Lol. I'm hanging out in my cousin's place swapping horrible work stories and a lot of stuff I only mention here
Unproductive but good
 
10:29 AM
Been planning for a new PC build when I get back
 
Apparently, I made this some time ago: wincmd.000webhostapp.com
 
10:54 AM
@Burgi what's the bulk payment on that?
because £40*36 isn't enough for a car :d
 
@djsmiley2k that was with a deposit of 2k
 
11:09 AM
The other aspect of HP/PCP financing that troubles me is the final (quietly) CBP or crippling balloon payment
 
on HP the last payment is only £1 more than the standard monthly
PCP is trickier
i had a crash course on this crap over christmas
pun intended
 
@Burgi Aha, TIL
But HP tends to have a higher (heh) deposit than PCP?
Could be a useful suggestion, if I could afford the payments until I'm done
Apparently you can also get P2P loans to fund car purchases
jumps back on Bearshare
and Kazaa
 
Cheers! 👍
The one thing that does concern me a little is what if you need an uneconomical repair to pass an MOT on a HP car? On a car owned outright you can say "welp, scrap it"; on a HP you'd presumably need to pay the rest off...
I mean, I guess it's not that different to buying a car outright and being 'forced' to scrap it, but it'd be problematic if you didn't have the funds to pay off the rest of the car
And if you did have the funds, presumably you'd pay it off to try to avoid some interest...
Hmm
 
11:32 AM
@bertieb oh god we were discussing these things last night on IRC
audiogalaxy! winmx!
edonkey!
 
eDonkey!
isn't that one still going?
as eMule or somesuch
eDonkey2k was where it was at, of course
 
/me shrugs
 
...so a friend told me
There should be a 'popular programs of yesteryear' graveyard, in the style of the Google service graveeyard that was posted yesterday
 
Why would you not claim you're going to do 1000000000000 miles on a PCP?
so the optional final payment is lower?
if you do less miles, they pay you back more on the trade up
I guess it'd slightly increase the monthly payment?
(But then when you 'hand the car back' you'd get most of that back anyway....
or you pay the final price, and have the car, at a lower final purchase price
 
i suspect that they can do basic maths and work out you can't physically do that many miles
 
11:36 AM
/me looks at the banking sector
i'm doubtful of anyone handling money being able to do basic math tbh.
 
115% loan-to-value? What could possibly go wrong?!
 
I've seen licenced copies of WinZip
 
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11:44 AM
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Actually... Lots of copies. And a volume license
 
@JourneymanGeek .
 
@rahuldottech what is this even. Other than sideways F
 
Ah, but what about a licensed copy of WinRAR?
 
@JourneymanGeek brick wall
 
11:46 AM
@bertieb .... Not yet
 
@JourneymanGeek I thought as much :P
"I'll treat myself by buying a licensed copy of WinRAR", thought nobody ever
 
depends if you are getting audited or not
 
Actually, doesn't/didn't Walmart (used to) sell boxed copies of WinZIP?
 
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Even then
bertieb changed the room topic to: For all you Super Users out there. You have ASCII art, right?
 
11:49 AM
@bertieb lulz u not room owner ahahahahahahahaha
...but neither am I ://///
 
shrug I have no need to be
 
in the UK you do get fined 10K per installation of unlicensed software
 
A subtle hint speaks louder than a wildy-swung banhammer
@Burgi Who installs WinRAR these days tho ;-P
 
if you have RARs to open
 
Actually, that's a semi-genuine question; I would presume no-one uses it nowadays, but I'm out of touch
 
11:51 AM
@Burgi true but there's also perfectly good free alternatives
 
@JourneymanGeek but mIRC?
 
7-zip?
 
WHO KICKED ME?
 
winrar comes up first in the google search
 
@djsmiley2k I used to run hexchat, and there were free xchat forks
@rahuldottech I did
 
11:52 AM
the average user is just going to take the first hit and not investigate the morals or alternatives
 
@JourneymanGeek -__-
 
Random ASCII art is disruptive
 
yeah ok
<><
 
@Burgi As long as they pass it on, and don't Bogart it... wait what are we talking about?
 
@rahuldottech go get a fecking job
 
11:53 AM
@Burgi uhhh no
 
Hah
 
@Burgi 7-Zip
 
6 mins ago, by Burgi
winrar comes up first in the google search
 
@Burgi The average user shouldn't have install permissions
 
you'd be surprised
 
11:59 AM
Oh I wouldn't
I work in IT :P
Also, how did the average user get the rar file in the first place o_O
 
3rd party suppliers
 
Copy of spec v6 Final FINAL (1).docx.zip.rar
 
12:31 PM
lul
 
and inside the archive it will have a scanned PDF of the wrong file
 
12:44 PM
Yup :P
 
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@rahuldottech You got kicked and have now repeated the same behaviour. Please take a 1 hour break from abusing R/A. When you come come back hopefully you will have learned not to be disruptive again, otherwise you will be taking extended breaks.
 
 
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4:12 PM
Don't need WinRAR when 7zip is free and opens them
 
4:36 PM
^^ is there a name for these old-style training videos ?
I've seen a few of them, and they are very well made
 
4:53 PM
Don't these guys know you can download Wordpress for free?
Heck, 161k is pricey even for a Wix site
 
But wordpress might be EU tainted. Let brexit that and feed the money to the hospitals
 
Hah
(as an aside, London broadly voted 'Remain')
 
I might make jojes about it, but brexit is sad for both sides
EU stands to loose.
UK stands to be ruined for some peopple. E.g. no rules yet for radioactive cancer treatment yet.,
Which is bad, but given the timeline they should emprison the politicians for reckless endangerment.
 
It's a thorny situation to be sure
 
@bertieb see PII on matrix
 
5:02 PM
I'll see your pii
fner fner
 
@bertieb Copy of backup of really last final versions with edits 3.gz.tar
 
@Hennes Which is a photo of a handwritten transcript of a VOIP meeting embedded in an Excel document
 
Grin
 
...I feel I may be stepping on Randall Munroe's toes with that one
 
Photo/screenshot inside excel and then mailed is sadly nothing new to me
 
5:25 PM
@bertieb looks like it was a custom built CMS
 
@Burgi Even worse! Why would anyone build a custom CMS for a vanity project?
Oh right,
> vanity
Muh bad
 
5:39 PM
That would be 3 stars, but worth it
 
 
5:52 PM
@djsmiley2k I can!
 
6:10 PM
Btw how much does £5k extra a year work out as? Still below the higher tax limit
 
6:26 PM
> Among the sins I've heard confessed,
"LOL" was but once combined with "lest".
"LOL" is a kind of litmus test:
Lest used with "lest", it makes you blessed.
 
7:13 PM
@djsmiley2k Even if you go to the next tax bracket, you're not losing money....
 
@CanadianLuke yeah but it won't be as much extra to take home
 
No, but I just needed to be sure you weren't falling for the age-old fallacy that "if you make more money, you lose more money, so don't take the raise"-kind of thinking
 
lol nah
Just I gotr the same payrise ~6 months ago
and i can't remember how much it increases my take home (and so the tax bracket matters because it would change the amount of tax i'm paying on it)
 
7:57 PM
Only on the amount earned at a certain point though, you understand
 
8:14 PM
@CanadianLuke Yea, I had to explain this to my brother and sister after they both got their first jobs.
First qualified jobs, I guess.
 
My last boss tried pulling that on me. I asked for a raise, he said that would put me in the next tax bracket and I'd go home with even less money than I was making at the time... I gave him a pretty unique "What the fsck?" look
 
@CanadianLuke yaj
 
8:42 PM
Hmm... Radeon VII will get a subset of the Radeon Pro features. That actually makes sense given the target audience of this card.
I'd say Radeon VII is AMD's TITAN moment, a worthy competitor to the NVIDIA TITAN V (though not the TITAN RTX).
However, it's pretty clear the card was rushed to launch and doesn't really put the 7nm technology in the best light. Driver updates and game optimizations would definitely help here.
Performance can be anywhere between GTX 1080 and RTX 2080 Ti levels, though averaging slightly worse than the RTX 2080. The extremely high memory bandwidth gives it a slight performance advantage at higher resolutions, but I keep getting the feeling that AMD and developers aren't really making good use of the Vega 20 GPU's execution resources.
 
9:10 PM
Essentially, the amount of data backed up per device has exceeded the rate of cost-per-gigabyte decreases, and the service as a whole has greatly improved over the years.
It's been over a decade since Backblaze launched. A price hike makes sense at this point.
Those with existing subscriptions still have one more chance to add one year of service at the original $50 rate.
 
9:48 PM
Also new subscribers
If they sign up before March 11th
 
> not to be disruptive again
What conversation (active or otherwise) did I disrupt, pray tell?
 
10 hours ago, by Journeyman Geek
Random ASCII art is disruptive
 
@CanadianLuke True. There's really very little reason to even use .rar (I can see .zip still being used due to widespread compatibility), and absolutely no reason to use WinZin or WinRar
@bwDraco sure, when people are talking in the room. The next message wasn't posted till three hours afterwards.
 
The only real feature in favor of the RAR format is recovery records. 7-Zip is superior in practically any other situation.
 
.rar was supposed to be superior to zip, but now it's almost never seen in the wild, with most opting for either the even more superior .7z or the venerable .zip
tbh the only reason I even use .zip is because it's suuuuuuuper easy to select and archive files into it from Windows Explorer
And I rarely deal with files large enough that the compression scheme matters
(Also, cPanel natively supports .zip (de-)compression which is handy)
> tfw they accept your answer but don't upvote it
 
10:09 PM
@bwDraco Can't 7z do recovery / PAR-type data to make archives resistant to corruption?
 
Not as far as I can tell.
 
Huh, TIL
@rahuldottech the one you're continuing now ;-P
Can't remember the last time I saw an archive with recovery data, in fairness
But then I'm not on the Usenets
 
10:44 PM
I thought you could as well... now i know....
 

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