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> Why is this happening?

Circle believes that the future of finance will be built on open blockchain technology and that global payments will become reality through fiat tokens and stablecoins such as US Dollar Coin (USDC).

Uh-huh

"We think the future is blockchain, so we're shutting down our useful service next month"

djsmiley2k

yeah

lol

bertieb

Something doesn't quite add up there

djsmiley2k

i think pressure from traditional banking services may have something to add to this.

bertieb

Maybe "We realised how easy it is to launder money through our app and wanted to shut it down before we had the NCA knocking at our door"

Yea

Could be

Oh well

That's me cached out

errrr

cashed xD

I guess I should blame caching

djsmiley2k

10:10 AM

:/

bertieb

Hey, it's beer money?

if you cash out

djsmiley2k

aye

i mean I can do the 'to bank' transfer, not a problem

/me wibbles

bertieb

Ah okay

How's the rain been down there, btw?

djsmiley2k

Constant, but not amazingly heavy.

it has rained tho for like 3 days now.

few more and I'll build a boat.

bertieb

Heh :P

Burgi

10:15 AM

its almost sunny here

bertieb

we too have - touch wood - been pretty much spared the monsoon

cue "it's not raining in Scotland?" incredulity ;-P

It's true

Heather is wilting, thistles are drooping

Hordes of confused folk roam aimlessly, hoping for a portion of haggis made scarce by the drought

It's a fact little-known outside of zoology circles; but in times of low rainfall, the wild haggis burrows deep underground to access moisture from natural aquifers

Burgi

sounds about right

are there calls to the police about a weird yellow glowing thing in the sky?

bertieb

Heh

There would be

But thankfully it's super cloudy

So no mass panic and seeking shelter from the great unknown

yet.

Ave

10:33 AM

hey root access

bertieb

Is it just me or does Paddy McGuinness look like Ricky Gervais if he'd been in the SAS?

Ave

what's the best way to graphically connect to a windows machine in same network, from linux?

bertieb

Hey Ave

Ave

vnc? rdp? something else?

bertieb

reminina?

(±spelling)

Ave

10:34 AM

remmina is just a client for many protocols

I'm asking which protocol to use

my usecase is video editing fwiw

bertieb

Oh, right

I dunno, I've only ever used it to RDP to uni virtual desktop dealie

Ave

I have a windows pc for IDA and vegas pro alone, I'd rather not use it directly but remote in

bertieb

And averse to using a physical KVM?

Ave

it's a laptop and I'll connect to it from a laptop

bertieb

My experience with remote graphical stuff isn't that up to date, but I've found VNC slow in the past, and folks seem to rate RDP enough

rahuldottech

10:50 AM

"Aw what a sweet dog. What's his name?"
"Karma. And she isn't a dog. Karma is a bitch."

Burgi

RDP is the way to go

rahuldottech

@ave iirc, there's a client for Windows RDP for GNU/Linux.

Burgi

freerdp.com

i just use good ol' mstsc

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi

Burgi

works here

bertieb

11:46 AM

Hmm

Anyone here used a speed wrench?

Oh fudge

my washing machine sounds like it just exploded

brb

False alarm

I hope

djsmiley2k

big clunk sound @bertieb?

@rahuldottech theres a few

bertieb

@djsmiley2k Kinda yeah

CRASH, CLUNK

djsmiley2k

12:04 PM

drum falling off the axis.

next comes the grinding sounds as it slowly dismantles itself while running.,

At least that's my uneducated (but experienced) guess

bertieb

Hmm

I don't know if past-me activated the 10 year warranty

What a fool I am if I didn't...

djsmiley2k

how old is it?

rahuldottech

12:23 PM

I feel really good today

I was able to help someone out

Feels good

Journeyman Geek

12:43 PM

@bertieb so just like my mic…?

bertieb

@JourneymanGeek Your mic exploded?!

I was so surprised, I apparently hit F11 and went full screen

I mean, the keys are right next to each other

Journeyman Geek

@bertieb no . Just sounds like your washing machine

Ask @Bob

bertieb

1:01 PM

Oh, right

Perhaps a different mic is in order? ;-P

Unless, of course, the crash and clunk sounds are intentional...

Journeyman Geek

naw

actually haven't used it in ages

Burgi

@djsmiley2k usually either 9 years, 11 months and 29 days or 10 years and 1 day

Journeyman Geek

though presumably with BL3 and Wolfenstein young blood coming, I might do co op if I can find the time ;)

Burgi

neither of those looked that interesting

Journeyman Geek

they kinda scratch an itch for me. I loved the first 3 BL games, and apparently its more of the same

and I really like the wolfenstein reboot

bertieb

1:20 PM

@djsmiley2k About 4 ish years?

Maybe slightly less

djsmiley2k

oh, then not like they can claim it's standard wear and tear

djsmiley2k

1:47 PM

So mine.... I guess it was in some kind of U shape, holding the axle for the drum

One day.... it jumped out, but managed to keep running

and it ran and ran and ran

but slowly it was grinding away all the other plastic bits inside D:

Burgi

2:10 PM

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - Spitfire

►

Bob

2:22 PM

@JourneymanGeek FYI your homeserver's still stuffed

Journeyman Geek

My DNS is still stuffed

I have no clue how to fix that

sort of i donno.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek disable DNSSEC

ask namecheap support

but yea your entire domain is still screwed

Journeyman Geek

disabled already

Bob

@JourneymanGeek It's not disabled

Go poke namecheap support

we're well past the TTL and the DS record is still there

@JourneymanGeek did you even have it on in the first place?

Journeyman Geek

2:39 PM

Yes

Bob

:\

Journeyman Geek

rofl

See riot.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Unreliable right now.

Journeyman Geek

I've sent the l1 the dnssec results from their own recommended page

Bob

Better to talk here or steam.

At least until you get your DNS issue sorted.

Journeyman Geek

2:41 PM

@Bob they requested 6-8 minutes to check

bertieb

Pretty standard for NC support

Bob

@JourneymanGeek if they need more evidence ask them to nslookup/dig against 8.8.8.8

Journeyman Geek

posted that already

@Bob 6-8 is magic

@Bob got a higher level support guy now

bertieb

@JourneymanGeek Just wait till you have to fight the Tech Support Boss

Journeyman Geek

@bertieb I think I just shibboleeted

bertieb

2:53 PM

@JourneymanGeek Ah, that's handy 👍

Hristo Hristov

3:12 PM

hello, is this the right place If I wanna ask about what is wrong with my fresh EC2 instance

Journeyman Geek

@HristoHristov we tend to prefer people use the sites for questions - you're free to complain though

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek they must recognise you

Journeyman Geek

woof?

also

@allquixotic tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history

Burgi

3:27 PM

> A thin slice of yellow plastic with a prominent black strip

mine was paper

or rather, thin card

Hristo Hristov

@JourneymanGeek I would ask there, although it's more of a discussion question. I'm not sure if it's gonna get flagged

Journeyman Geek

@HristoHristov well, the norms on 'asking questions' here are a bit strange

But well, I'll bite, what's going on?

Hristo Hristov

3:42 PM

Ah I just got some urgent work. Never mind me, I will try with this issue some other time

allquixotic

3:56 PM

@JourneymanGeek Draco lives in NY, not me. Interesting read tho

I've been to NYC 2 or 3 times (3, I think) but never rode their subway system

Burgi

@allquixotic its grim

i prefer the london underground and that is pretty squalid

XKCD

4:40 PM

You know when you can't hear your speakers, and you keep turning various volume controls up higher and higher in confusion, and then someone hits the mute button and there's a deafening blast of sound? That's basically what happened at Chernobyl.

rahuldottech

5:45 PM

Ow ow ow

I got my braces tightened today. And now I'm in paiiiiijn

My dinner is probably going to consist solely of ice cream

Which is also something that helps with emotional pain, heh.

Canadian Luke

6:14 PM

Shameless plug: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/524961/…

djsmiley2k

6:32 PM

I imagine NY underground is like in the game 'The Darkness'

Burgi

you've played GTA4? its like that

if the graphic engine in cyberpunk 2077 is as good as they showed in the E3 trailers it'll be the new yardstick

djsmiley2k

7:02 PM

> Hello,
End of the Google Pay P2P service
We are announcing the end of Google Pay P2P, our peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, in the United Kingdom. Starting from 6 September 2019, you'll no longer be able to send and request money through Google Pay's P2P service in Gmail or on pay.google.com.

@bertieb I'm thinking a law has changed?

Canadian Luke

7:12 PM

I wish I could put my Visa on Google Pay, and not carry my wallet as often...

But my bank doesn't allow it

rahuldottech

7:46 PM

ow ow ow

my teeeeth

Canadian Luke

8:10 PM

:(

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Q: Emailed Excel workbook appears broken after being attached

I have worked a bit with an email attachment issue, and can now send attachments through email, through a script. When the email comes in, I double-click the attachment, and Excel 2016 opens, with a dialog reading: We found a problem with some content in 'attachment.xlsx'. Do you want use to try...

djsmiley2k

8:46 PM

You appear to be cursed.

Burgi

i have that issue emailing excel spreadsheets to OSX users

Canadian Luke

That sucks. I want to automate sending that document

/disable "clippy.exe" /force

djsmiley2k

eh wtf

why is my eth0 interface down on my ubuntu vm

Canadian Luke

Don't know, you didn't give me access to it yet

djsmiley2k

:D

heh they offer gentoo iso's now

> About these ISO images
Gentoo & Gentoo based distributions.

These are currently unsupported as we have no one on staff that is a masochist.

djsmiley2k

9:25 PM

So anyone else had their buyvm vm been randomly restarted and had no networking?

eth0 and eth1 are down :/

djsmiley2k

9:54 PM

wow friday night is a terrible time to ask for help eh :D

rahuldottech

mila kunis is hot

bertieb

10:21 PM

@djsmiley2k I'm with el cheapo Contabo

Michael Frank

antlionaudio.com/collections/microphones/products/…

Anyone looking for a mic?

Decent deal on that one, at the moment.

@djsmiley2k I think you were?

bertieb

@MichaelFrank Funnily enough

After discovering my XLR cable/connector wasn't fu... fudgy

I'm not surplus one XLR cable

trying to figure out if I can somehow justify a second mic

what I'd use it for

etc

Oh, it's 3.5mm

Boo-urns

Journeyman Geek

11:22 PM

@allquixotic naw. OS/2 lives!

rahuldottech

I failed to show up to class one time and this is the true story I told my teacher.

I was in my electronics lab and the power supply kept making this horrible buzzing/grinding sound. I'd smack it and it'd shut up for awhile before doing it again. Now, you're thinking this was my alarm clock and I was dreaming about being in the lab. And you're quite right. The thing is, in this dream I was a gigantic grape with arms and legs and a face. So once I realized that it WAS my alarm clock and I needed to get to class I was still enough in the dream to think I was still a grape. And fruit doesn't …

Journeyman Geek

11:36 PM

@Bob nc escalated it further up

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