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bwDraco

00:52

@XKCD I'm getting tired of all this Brexit nonsense...

Michael Frank

01:10

@bwDraco Imagine how the people directly involved feel then?

bwDraco

Yeah. So much uncertainty. Brexit or no Brexit? If so, deal or no deal? If deal, what kind of deal?

1 hour later…

Isiah Meadows

02:20

I've got the strangest issue: I've got a DVD drive that showed up on my Mac when I put in a disk containing drivers and manuals, but when I inserted a Windows 10 OEM disk, it won't even show up in sudo diskutil list.

The install DVD is not physically damaged, for context. It's a brand new drive that I'm hoping isn't DOA.

Canadian Luke

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Isiah Meadows

Okay, never mind, it appears to at least be working on the target system. :-)

Still kinda wonder, though.

Canadian Luke

5 hours later…

CaldeiraG

08:03

404 Page not found :)

rahuldottech

08:16

@bertieb haha, the "professionals" who cut trees here wear just an old t-shirt and jeans, and climb the tree and start hacking away with a good ol' axe.

djsmiley2k - CoW

09:16

@CaldeiraG I like it :D

@rahuldottech Ah so you live in america.

;)

Wait no, they shoot the tree there right?

rahuldottech

tbh their solution to basically everything is guns

djsmiley2k - CoW

rahuldottech

Oh, and the solution to guns is "thoughts and prayers"

s/guns/dead children/

djsmiley2k - CoW

Didn't you know their all Palidins, prayers give +5 AC

Careful, we're still on SU.

rahuldottech

Yeah I'll say no more

djsmiley2k - CoW

09:41

sad isn't it :/

bertieb

10:13

@rahuldottech Something something OSHA

djsmiley2k - CoW

11:05

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/…

everyone be like 'use vpn more secure lololol'

me be like 'build your own vpn biatches!!'

bertieb

What are you securing against?

Not just you specifically

But those who use ze VPNz

Journeyman Geek

11:40

@bertieb Its s nice way to bridge sites

bertieb

@JourneymanGeek Yup! Those who use it for that won't be using NordVPN, which AIUI is an endpoint/anonymiser type deal?

Journeyman Geek

Other than that they have all your traffic

On Faith

bertieb

Aye

But if the point is to circumvent low-effort government initiatives - eg 1 year retention in UK, 'meme blocking' in EU etc - does it matter hugely if someone has access to that

I guess potentially

djsmiley2k - CoW

12:42

oh i completely agree @bertieb it's just funnys

bertieb

Yup!

bwDraco

12:53

@bertieb z

bertieb

@bwDraco Yez

Blog bot

13:23

The Stack Overflow Podcast – Episode #125: ~Tilde Club~ and Mechanical Keyboards

Ben Popper on October 22, 2019

Welcome back to the another episode of the newly rebooted Stack Overflow podcast. This week we’ve got a very special guest, Cassidy Williams of React Training. Cassidy is a coder, mechanical keyboard enthusiast, and prolific Twitter comedian. She also curates our newsletter. On this episode, we talk about Paul’s career as a a club promoter, Ben’s brush with terrifying bitcoin spam, and Sara’s favorite Kanye tweet. Enjoy, subscribe, and leave us a rating if you like the show. …

djsmiley2k - CoW

Oct 16 at 14:57, by djsmiley2k

they were failing..... because they were running

I don't even know what this is.

bertieb

@djsmiley2k-CoW Your systemd scripts

IIRC

slash services

djsmiley2k - CoW

13:50

oh yes cron

well that mystery continues.

bertieb

14:33

🕵️

...my kingdom for a pipe unicode character...

No, not |, wiseacres

bwDraco

Hyper-V dynamic memory is amazing, a godsend on a laptop with 8 GB of memory.

bertieb

Yea, but does it make you tea?

;-P

How many VMs are you using on your laptop, out of interest?

bwDraco

Generally only one, but I run a web browser and other stuff at the same time. The system's image is also pretty heavy. It does not help that 1 GB of memory is set aside for the Radeon Vega processor graphics.

The VM needs a bare minimum of 1 GB of memory to function, and 1.5 GB to 2 GB is best.

It's used for learning Docker. I'm trying to replicate the old setup I had under VirtualBox under Hyper-V.

djsmiley2k - CoW

wtf are you running in docker than needs 1Gb memory o_O

The worlds gone mad, MADDDD i tell you.

bwDraco

14:49

Because I kinda need a graphical environment to work with. It's a dev environment for learning.

djsmiley2k - CoW

hmmmm

i'd have my 'dev' tools all on my main system

because, I never stop needing them

the only thing in a VM is the thing that's 'running' the code

bertieb

I guess it's different if you're learning

Might not want things there all the time

But then I have no idea how Docker on Windows works, so dunno how much of an impact having it on a 'main' install would be

djsmiley2k - CoW

15:14

i guess so.

Not saying put docker on the main install

but docker is just.... wlel, docker, and yaml files

When i say tools, I imagine editors etc.

bwDraco

15:49

...wow. I can change the Dynamic Memory limits while the VM is running, and the VM gets to use the extra RAM immediately.

buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/… (via Pocket, Firefox new tab page)

Exploiting the Facebook ad platform to scam people out of millions of dollars. Wow.

I think I'm going to set the startup memory to 1.5 GiB with a Dynamic Memory range of 256 MB to 3 GB.

2 hours later…

Blog bot

17:45

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder In The World – by Ben Popper

Ben Popper on October 22, 2019

I’ve spent the better part of the last decade immersed in the world of technology. I could give a lengthy lecture on the history of LIDAR and the future of self-driving cars. I could explain what’s so fascinating about artificial intelligence that can beat humans in poker and why we shouldn’t be afraid of robot overlords just yet. I’ve got a cocktail party’s worth of witty things to say about the potential for brain-computer interfaces and our very cybernetic future. Despite all my years as a journalist covering technology, however, the closest I got to working on the code that makes all …

Ramhound

18:19

"This might be a stupid question, Device Encryption is supposed to be enabled by default, on any Windows 10 tablet device that supports it. Any event the Microsoft documentation is clear, if Device Encryption does not appear in Settings, then it is not available (and cannot be enabled on your device)." - OOPS! I forgot to actually mention my stupid question :$

Feeds

18:34

Q: Migration - Replace ServerFault with SoftwareRecs?

I don't have figures for this, just a perception based on my close-votes, usually with new users though not always. We have no migration path to software recommendations, even for well-structured questions that may be a perfect fit over there. I know if people actually read through the Help & l...