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Ramhound

04:19

So to avoid the snake eating its own tail action, of flagging 2 other questions a duplicate of a question I just answered, because vague answers pointed me to the relevant information. I answered a question with regards to a Dropbox functionality that has a problem due to some Windows changes here.

I wish I could have given credit to those other authors, but when the answer just provides links or simply says "this is a dropbox issue" there isn't anything to actually cite. (Besides I seem to recall an article on 15 icon limitation within Windows and Dropbox icon additions that were recently made)

Bob

how the hell is Epic just a silver badge

Journeyman Geek

04:40

\o/

Cause legendary exists and there's no platinum badge tier

Boris_yo

06:32

Anyone is familiar with ZAGG Smartbuds?

I am looking for alternative.

Burgi

08:11

morning

@bertieb my GF had one this week#

bertieb

Good morning

@Burgi No one is safe!

Burgi

ffs

rahuldottech

Hm. I've been getting an unusual number of upvotes from old answers on SU this week

Burgi

our head of customer services is trialling basecamp to improve his team's interaction etc

but it means we have to use it

well its shit

bertieb

Basecamp is software?

And not the thing at the bottom of Everest?

Burgi

08:20

it sends thousands of emails

bertieb

I can see how either would be inconvenient...

Burgi

yeah its collaboration software

it just doesn't fit how our business functions

seriously i have about 10 emails from it about one task

bertieb

10:39

Erf

Sounds annoying

No option to alter what it sends or how often it sends it?

Or tell it to give you a digest instead?

Burgi

10:51

it sends about 5 digests

rahuldottech

So I rescued an abandoned bike. This beautiful model that had just been left out for a couple years.

Burgi

you get a daily, weekly, monthly. Then you get a digest on each project you are assigned to

rahuldottech

Took a lot of cleaning, and about USD 20 of repairs, and now it's literally as good as new.

bertieb

11:10

@Burgi Can it send a digest of the digests..?

Burgi

or i could just not use the damn thing and be happy

bertieb

@rahuldottech Ah, nice! What kind of bike?

@Burgi Is that an option? :D

Burgi

at the moment yes

bertieb

Oooh

Well

Do that then :D

Seems like a no-brainer

Ahh, eBay

Where your search term is one, maybe two words

And your excluded terms number in the dozens

If only there was a way to exclude collection only

As driving hundreds of miles is not top of my list of thing to do when shopping

DavidPostill

11:35

@bertieb Advanced search > Located > (within {x} miles of {location}

bertieb

@DavidPostill Does that exclude collection only?

DavidPostill

@bertieb No, but it cuts down on the number of results ...

bertieb

Ah, right yeah

I am happy for the items to be anywhere, as long as they're the right price

I have no interest in collection though

bertieb

11:57

Shooting unarmed folks is a thing in the UK too it seems

Burgi

13:00

could they not find a better photo?

Journeyman Geek

looks almost like a red/blue 3d image

Burgi

djsmiley2k

14:03

@bertieb I often hang out in stolen cars too.

> Anthony Grainger, 36, was in a stolen car

Like the guy here who was shot

Ex marine, was in a boarded up house which was a cannabis farm

'He was visiting friends'

lol ok sure.

bertieb

14:27

@djsmiley2k Well yes

But still doesn't merit getting shot

We're not quite at the stage where it's 'stop vaguely outside the law and you're an outlaw'

> She said the report highlighted "a litany of catastrophic failures".

Seems to be a case of "we briefed our teams that these guys were armed and dangerous, plotting violence, sent our team out with firearms, one of the guys twitched and so someone shot them"

We're seeing more and more routinely armed police (at least up here)

It is concerning if they send people out with the wrong information and people get shot by mistake

DavidPostill

14:58

If the crims didn't use firearms the problem would go away:
> GUN crime in Glasgow has increased in the last two years.

The city is bucking the trend across Scotland where reported crime involving a firearm has fallen to the lowest level in almost 40 years.

In Glasgow it has almost doubled in two years.

bertieb

@DavidPostill That guy didn't have a gun

He was unarmed

and got shot in a car

@DavidPostill Also, AFAICT they mostly use the firearms on each other, as opposed to the polis

Plus there's the old "twice nothing is still nothing" adage

From the same article:

> The bulletin shows the use of firearms in criminal activity represented a very small proportion of all offences in Scotland last year.

DavidPostill

@bertieb So the polis should just do nothing and let the weegies shot each other (and innocent bystanders - do they even exist in Glasgow?)?

bertieb

and

> The relatively small number of firearms incidents makes year-to-year changes more pronounced, even as the long-term trend shows such cases have now fallen to their lowest level in almost 40 years.

@DavidPostill That's not what I'm suggesting at all

Any more than you are suggesting "get the cops to shoot criminals before they shoot each other"

Pretty sure there are innocent bystanders everywhere

I don't see any evidence that having routinely armed police deters criminals from using guns on each other

@DavidPostill Also, that number includes airguns

> The figures for all gun crime which also includes airguns has also increased significantly in Glasgow.

Which although they can kill (there was the sad case of the guy that killed his grandson whose trial concluded recently), also hardly merits an armed response

Anyhoo

djsmiley2k

So lets seee

2 days ago someone fired a shotgun at someones front door

week before, someone fired a gun into the air in the street randomly

2 weeks before that, someone 'accidently' shot his mate dead

2 weeks before that, armed hold up stealing cars

around a month before that, the guy I told you about was shot by police when they raided the house he was in.

So yeah.... shoot them.

rahuldottech

I beat harrymc to a bounty! superuser.com/a/1458279/432540

hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

djsmiley2k

15:12

@bertieb not sure that's why the police are armed....

rahuldottech

@bertieb roadbike

djsmiley2k

the police are armed, when there's a likelihood the suspect is armed.

bertieb

@djsmiley2k Well no, it's for the reason they don't like the inconvenience of retrieving their firearms when an armed response is needed

In the case of 'routinely armed'

@djsmiley2k So it's better for the police to shoot people?

djsmiley2k

/me ponders how often 'routine' is

@bertieb yes?

If their in a stolen car, and the reach down, I don't know wtf they expect to happen

Burgi

it has been known in manchester that scumbags chuck live grenades at police officers

bertieb

15:15

@djsmiley2k I wouldn't expect them to be shot

not in this country

djsmiley2k

Because I fully expect to see soon, guns being pulled in brawls etc.

bertieb

Guns are not a compliance aid

Burgi

where the hell you get a live grenade from?

bertieb

Shooting someone for not complying is not a good thing

djsmiley2k

coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/…

@bertieb correct

but when your faced with 'shoot them, or they may shoot you'

i fully stand by shoot them.

because screw em, don't be in the stolen car in the first place.

don't be robbing the hosue in the first place

rahuldottech

15:19

@djsmiley2k Sure, if you see a gun in their hand

djsmiley2k

don't be stealing that motobike in the first place

@rahuldottech lol you can see through metal?

bertieb

Where does it end, though?

djsmiley2k

@bertieb don't do the crime, don't get shot?

bertieb

"Don't cheat on your taxes in the first place"

djsmiley2k

that's a civil offense.

but reducto absurdum is fun, sure.

bertieb

15:20

Isn't tax evasion a crime?

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k It's easy for us to say, man. There's people out there who desperately need money to keep their families alive. Theft is always wrong, but it's important to take context into consideration and show empathy

bertieb

People will do crimes

rahuldottech

@bertieb Yes. It's not. The thing about police using guns is that initially people feel that there's a need, but the next thing you know, it's being misused, and it's still justified by that initial supposed need.

bertieb

Shooting some people isn't going to stop other people doing crimes

DavidPostill

@bertieb Only because they potentially have something to gain (which is usually not theirs).

djsmiley2k

15:21

@rahuldottech lol

bertieb

@DavidPostill That's still not a reason to shoot them

Same reason we don't have the death penalty for shoplifting

djsmiley2k

sorry, which bit of 'my kids are staving, I'm going to feed them this Audi' makes sense?

rahuldottech

Idk how this sounds, and I don't really care. But if someone in my family desperately needs money for healthcare or education or food, and if there's absolutely nothing else that I can do, I will probably resort to theft if the circumstances leave me no other choice.

djsmiley2k

It's funny, because I'm the one thinking 'crap, in 10 years my daughters gonna be out there, wiht this stuff going on'

yet ya'll tellin me it'll be fine.

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k Gunning people down won't help

djsmiley2k

15:22

@rahuldottech So you'd steal food, or mediciane

@rahuldottech tell the gangers sthooting each other that?

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k No, I'd steal anything that I could exchange for money

djsmiley2k

tell the 150 dead people in london that.

@rahuldottech lol, yeah, so not a car generally.

bertieb

@djsmiley2k Armed police make mistakes and shoot (i) unarmed but criminal people (ii) unarmed people in the wrong place (iii) unarmed people reporting a crime

Is the other side to this

djsmiley2k

I'm supprised no ones brought up the running away guy yet.

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k There's a difference between a gangster and the police, is there not?

Shoot down gangsters, sure. But common thieves? No way.

bertieb

15:24

The Brazilian plumber?

"Don't dodge the subway fare if you don't want to get shot" ?

rahuldottech

The crime has to justify the action taken

@djsmiley2k If you were in circumstances where theft was necessary to take care of your own family, I'd bet anything that you'd do it.

Because the only alternative would be watching them suffer.

DavidPostill

List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom

This list of people killed by law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom documents cases of people who died directly or indirectly because of the actions of British law enforcement officers, regardless of the manner of death, duty status of the officers, or if they acted officially or unofficially. It includes officers working for all law enforcement agencies, existing or historical, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, but excludes crown dependencies, colonies or other political entities subject or previously subjected to the direct control of the government of the United Kingdom...

Very few of them were ruled unlawful.

bertieb

The guy they shot in the car was also ruled 'lawful'

Being lawful don't make it right

djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech yeah sure

but when you're stealing because things are that bad

you're not sat there in a car

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k the police didn't see a gun! They assumed that there would be a gun! THAT'S NOT OKAY

djsmiley2k

15:30

If you'd be told someone was armed, and you saw them reach down, you'd assume too

DavidPostill

> Police officers in England and Wales opened fire just five times for the year 2011/12. Out of these incidents, two people were killed, including Duggan.

In the four years to 2012, armed officers officers opened fire 18 times – nine fatally. No-one was shot dead by police in 2012/13.

The two fatalities in 2011/12 emerged from 12,550 operations during the same period, in which firearms officers were on the scene and had been given authorisation to open fire, even though they did not, according to the latest Home Office stats.

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill Yeah, I'm saying that the more normalized police using guns becomes, the more are going to be the unlawful deaths.

And like bertie said, unlawful =/= right

See the US. It's a mess.

@djsmiley2k I damn sure wouldn't shoot them dead until I had proof

djsmiley2k

ideally we'd have a gun which just immediately makes people fall over, never bang their heads, never get hurt, just surrounds them in a giant blob of goo.

@rahuldottech ok, lets do this the other way

you're in a car

DavidPostill

@rahuldottech The US is far far worse, mainly because of all those gun carrying bears :)

djsmiley2k

cop says 'stop, hands in the air, get out the car'

do you 1. get out the car

2. bend down to pick something up off the floor

bertieb

15:33

3. panic because crap this is a stressful situation

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill Yes, but also due to the police there being much more trigger-happy

djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech the PEOPLE there are much more trigger happy

bertieb

4. not sure what to do because you're being given contradictory instructions like that guy in AZ that got shot while face down on the ground because they told him to keep his hands up and take off his trousers at the same time

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k What if he couldn't hear the police? What if he was cowering to possibly avoid being shot?

DavidPostill

They usually scream keep your hands where I can see them as well according to the UK cop documentaries ...

djsmiley2k

15:34

eitherway, this whole thing is pointless as no one is looking to be convinced.

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k There's a ridiculous number of ~~unlawful~~ wrong killings by the police in the US.

DavidPostill

See the stats quoted above. Mistakes happens, thankfully they are very rare in the UK.

The two fatalities in 2011/12 emerged from 12,550 operations during the same period

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill All I'm saying is that the mistakes will become more common as police using deadly force becomes increasingly normalized.

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bertieb

Like the one that started this whole back-n-forth off

DavidPostill

@rahuldottech It's not normalized. Again see the stats.

rahuldottech

15:39

@DavidPostill I'm saying if it is

DavidPostill

> And to highlight how rare it is for a British police officer to actually open fire, Mr Williams told Channel 4 News: “I carried a firearm for five years in London, and I never had to fire it. Actually firing a weapon is very rare. The vast majority of them have never fired a weapon.

“No firearms officer wants to shoot someone. It’s a last resort.”

> In the US for example, 410 people were killed by police officers in 2012: that’s about 0.00013 per cent of the US population, compared to 0.0000035 per cent in the UK.

Note the extra couple of 0's in there ...

Sam

is every domain name ns-lookup-able?

no never mind ofcourse it is.

DavidPostill

@Sam No. Only if it is registered.

😇

rahuldottech

lol

Burgi

16:50

you can ns-lookup any domain, it just won't return anything if it isn't registered

DavidPostill

@Burgi My point, it didn't return anything useful.

bertieb

17:52

One the the things I watched on eBay turned out to be collection only

But it's in Kenilworth

And isn't that on @djsmiley2k 's doorstep? :D

djsmiley2k

18:46

yes

what is it :/

bertieb

Was an audio receiver :-P

djsmiley2k

i got rid of mine \o/

bertieb

But yer audios!

Hmm

Twitter's pooed itself

At least here

User pages are erroring out

djsmiley2k

19:04

derp

bwDraco

19:20

techspot.com/review/1872-ryzen-9-on-older-motherboards

Even cheap 4-phase VRMs seem to be able to cope with an overclocked Ryzen 9 3900X, albeit at high temperatures. This can be an issue if there isn't ventilation. Six or more phases is preferred.

Also, firmware size is an issue as some boards use smaller chips to store the firmware:

> [...] the storage capacity of the SPI flash EEPROM chip that stores the motherboard UEFI firmware isn’t big enough to fix the latest AGESA microcode, and this is a problem for a number of entry-level and mid-range boards that only use a 16MB EEPROM.

djsmiley2k

19:39

how is this a thing again o_O

bwDraco

bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

New vulnerabilities in the Logitech Unifying receiver... but don't panic as all of them require physical access to exploit.

@djsmiley2k BIOS EEPROM? The problem lies in the need to support the Socket AM4 platform for an extended period of time. The result is that needs to contain code for a much longer list of processors and architectures than other platforms need to deal with. The smaller EEPROMs may not have been an issue with, say, Intel Z370, but it can't cover all those different generations and variants of AM4 processors.

Bristol Ridge, Summit Ridge, Raven Ridge, Pinnacle Ridge, Matisse, and Picasso.

We're looking at six different architectures here.

And more will be coming.

All with one socket: AM4.

That's why it can't all fit onto a 16MB EEPROM.

djsmiley2k

19:56

uhuh

the same way grub doesn't fit in the mbr

and so many other badly planned things lol

bwDraco

In fact, this was an issue for over a year: anandtech.com/show/12971/…

That Brazilian Guy

20:46

cyberspaceandtime.com

bETTER THAN ZOMBO COM

Canadian Luke

?

djsmiley2k

So half the city centre has been closed by police

they've found a car full of guns

xD

Please, tell me how shooting these people is a bad thing.

DavidPostill

21:03

@djsmiley2k where?

lol

> Short time ago a woman allegedly stripped in Harvey Nics, put lingerie on then put clothes over the top to steal said lingerie. Appears she didn't know she was doing this in front of a 2nd floor window witnessed by 100's of people whose cheering alerted our nearby officers Insp M
— GMP City Centre (@GMPCityCentre) June 23, 2019

Canadian Luke

21:53

Is there anyone with a Windows 10 PC and Active Directory that can test something out for me?

Can you try disconnecting the computer from the domain, reboot, set the network location as Public, and try reconnecting to the domain?

Burgi

22:38

ugh... i wish apple made an anniversary ipod classic

Ramhound

I still can

I still can't figure out the reason when I go edit a msg in chat, its white on a yellow background, it's not my Windows Theme..

Michael Frank

I get white on a dark background.

Which is my windows theme.

bertieb

Ya, white on dark

Which is... something something Linux

Burgi

How Australia Printed a Typo 46 Million Times

►

bertieb

23:09

Is twitter broken for anyone else?

Still erroring out on many pages

That Brazilian Guy

I saw some people complaining today.

bertieb

> Something is technically wrong.

> Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.

Today?

As in, it's been broken for a while?

Ramhound

Twitter is broken when it works :$

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