Software Recommendations

ṧнʊß

18:46

@JourneymanGeek Am I too late in saying Happy New Year? ;p

Gilles

@ṧнʊß No, too early. The new year is still over 5 hours away.

Izzy

20:54

Time zones... :D

OK, diff=1 from me to Gilles: 2h left here.

Don't know for our doggies, though #D

Just finished the "new years address" for my German readers. English readers already got it in advance today: Why do some apps request too many permissions? :)

Gilles

@Izzy 2h left here too. I'm in UTC+1. When it's midnight here, it'll still be only 23:00 on SE.

Izzy

@Gilles Oh, same TZ. May I ask which area you're in?

Gilles

@Izzy Paris

Izzy

Not that you live next door and... Ah, my guess with "France" was a good one then :)

Or you've already told me once :D

Gilles

I used to have it on my profile

Izzy

21:00

Quite a few years ago I was in Paris last time...

I'm in Munich here (my profile just says "Germany" AFAIR ;)

ṧнʊß

21:46

I'm in UTC time :D

so 2 hrs 10 mins left for me...

Who's gonna post a chat message within five minutes of 0 UTC 1/1/2015 that gets starred

... ;p

Izzy

22:14

Oh. I could repeat mine. But too late :)

The SE app was too slow to ping me on your message...

ṧнʊß

The SE app has many more problems.... ;p

Gilles

@ṧнʊß I intend to be around

ṧнʊß

@Gilles will see you then then :)

Gilles

@Izzy the main site waits 15 min to relay chat notifications as well, you're supposed to get your notification from having a chat tab open if you want it immediately

which I supposed doesn't work out well on a mobile device that lacks a concept of unfocused but active tab

ṧнʊß

I never knew that! I guess that kind of is the point of 'chat' - instant stuff...

Izzy

22:23

@Gilles Ah, that explains. I rarely use the app it's rather a "notificator" for me ;)

@Gilles wait... I always mess up with that stuff. So UTC 0am = 1am our time?

Gilles

@Izzy yes

1½h left

ṧнʊß

@Izzy timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html helps me a lot ;)

Gilles

TZ=… date

Izzy

@ṧнʊß Yeah. But I had to look it up everytime I come into a situation like this :)

ṧнʊß

true

it's much easier to ask @gilles ;p

Izzy

22:26

So I also could use man date to see how to output in a different TZ, and follow that advise then #D

@ṧнʊß Good point #D

ṧнʊß

@Izzy quick question...: does my name require copy-pasting every time, or what...?

Hi @UndotheSnowman

Undo the Snowman

Hi!

ṧнʊß

Happy early/belated new year!!

Undo the Snowman

Early for me

ṧнʊß

same for me ;p

you've got like 8 hours, right...?

Izzy

22:28

@ṧнʊß Your name maybe not, but your nick probably does. I don't know how to produce it by typing...

ṧнʊß

or something over 5, i tihnk...

Undo the Snowman

@ṧнʊß About, yeah

ṧнʊß

@Izzy oh... I feel sorry for everyone now!! Everyone must copy, paste my name?

Undo the Snowman

@ṧнʊß autocompletes for me

Izzy

Luckily, SE knows that. So in chat, I only need to put the @ sign, and what pops up immediately? "@ṧнʊß" LOL

ṧнʊß

22:29

really??

doesn't happen to me for you guys...

Izzy

@ṧнʊß Not for you probably ;)

ṧнʊß

I type @ and nothing comes up!

I think I'm just special ;p

Izzy

Sure not. Why pinging yourself?

Gilles

@ṧнʊß your own name is excluded from the completion list

ṧнʊß

No - I mean for your names

Gilles

22:30

for others, you're the easiest person to ping — press @ then tab

Izzy

No. You can type ours :)

ṧнʊß

Or do you mean to say SE is that clever that it knows my name's a pain...!?

Undo the Snowman

Yup, you can't ping yourself (or you can, @Undo @Undo @Undo does nothing for me). But for other people, it shows a list of people with not-humanly-typable usernames.

Izzy

Try "@I" and see what happens.

Gilles

for a name that begins with an ASCII letter, you need to press the first letter before completions are offered

Izzy

22:31

@ṧнʊß Exactly #D

ṧнʊß

@Gilles thanks - i''m officialy the easiest person to ping :D

@Izzy @I works, and Gilles cleared everything for me ;p

Izzy

LOL But only when you're in chat :)

ṧнʊß

true

@Gilles just wondering... how the hell did you know that!?

just experimentation...?

(if that's a word)

Gilles

@ṧнʊß either that or reading it on MSE, I don't remember

Undo the Snowman

experimentation, reading meta, and plain experience

ṧнʊß

22:33

lol

Undo the Snowman

That's how I learn stuff

Izzy

@UndotheSnowman ...and pain experience... well, did I really have that much alcohol – just from 1 glass of Sherry?

Undo the Snowman

Hah

waits for weird flags to show up

ṧнʊß

talking about flags... check the SR mod flags ;p

Izzy

for pain? #D

Undo the Snowman

22:36

@ṧнʊß what flag? :)

ṧнʊß

lol - thanks :)

@Izzy you have no idea what we're talking about do you? ;p

Izzy

@ṧнʊß No. Must I?

Gilles

@ṧнʊß How do you pronounce ᔕᖺᘎᕊ?

Izzy

Kidding works without. Though now you've made me curious.

ṧнʊß

no, i just love it when that happens, and hate it when it happens to me @Izzy

Undo the Snowman

22:37

I've always pronounced it shub in my head.

ṧнʊß

@Gilles how do you read it?

@UndotheSnowman that's right :)

Undo the Snowman

Like shrub without the r.

Izzy

@ṧнʊß Uh? What happened?

Gilles

@ṧнʊß I can't, I don't speak, um, whatever Canadian native language this is

ṧнʊß

although, don't you know me from before I went all fancy?

@Izzy no need to know ;p

nah.. it was just a comment cleanup needed :)

Gilles

22:38

(except that this doesn't even seem to be a plausible word, the letters are from incompatible alphabets as far as I can tell)

Izzy

Umm. That's not nice. Making me hungry and then nothing to eat.

ṧнʊß

well i've told you know :)

@Gilles no idea what the letters are... just got it from fsymbols.com/generators/encool

Izzy

@ṧнʊß No, now I don't know...

ṧнʊß

read 5 message ago (excluding this one)

@Izzy

make that 6

Izzy

comment cleanup? What did you write? #D

ṧнʊß

22:41

lol

Izzy

I see :)

Undo the Snowman

Got to go, cya

ṧнʊß

cya @Undo, probably next year ;)

am I the only person who edits chat messages!?

Izzy

@ṧнʊß Nah. I did so a few minutes ago as well (cleaning a typo)

OK guys. See ya next year!

Izzy

23:27

Happy new year! \o/

ṧнʊß

is it finallly real this time? ;p

Izzy

@ṧнʊß For Giles and me: yes :)

ṧнʊß

lol, then happy new year

i'd star you if you posted this in 19 minutes ;p

cause then it'd be worth somat ;p

Izzy

For you, too – just say when :)

ṧнʊß

lol - 19 mins plz

Izzy

23:37

in exactly 19min? Oh, 18?

ṧнʊß

i dunno i'm too tired to too accurate maths!

just wanna get my hat and go to sleep!!!

5 mins before 00:00

Izzy

OK, within 15min to midnight UTC if I remember correctly?

Ah, OK.

ṧнʊß

true dat ;)

no.. not true dat

5 mins! lol

starred chat item on 12/31

hmmm...

winterbash2014.stackexchange.com/tam-o-shanter

Izzy

Maybe there's a "secret hat" for: "Posted a msg to chat within 5min to new year using the app getting starred 5 times before 1am, where at least 1 star came from an app..." #D

ṧнʊß

2 hats in one day for one thing..?

too much text... can't process!!!

Izzy

23:39

LOL

ṧнʊß

i starred you for that

did you get the Tam o' Shanter hat?

Izzy

Thanks – now see if you got that hat :)

ṧнʊß

Mistletoe is the one for new year

lol - thanks

think ther'll be 10 min delay...?

Izzy

@ṧнʊß Not really: one is for starring – the other for getting starred, right?

ṧнʊß

you can see I can't even type any mre

Izzy

23:41

@ṧнʊß Yupp, think so too.

ṧнʊß

nope - both for getting starred

Izzy

@ṧнʊß OK – so where's my glas?

ṧнʊß

there is a 3rd one for starring 8 users

Izzy

Urn... hard here (we're only 6). Harder on ASE (only 2 in chat)

Gilles

@ṧнʊß but that one ran for the whole length of winterbash

ṧнʊß

23:42

lol - just star the ones on the right of this window - that'll work, I think

yep - you can do it till the 7th

Gilles

and you can even star pre-wb messages iirc

ṧнʊß

oh, hi gilles

thought you were izzy!

Izzy

LOL

ṧнʊß

@Gilles doing that now then ;p is that allowed..?

Izzy

@Gilles ṧнʊß had a few more drinks it seems :)

Gilles

23:44

@ṧнʊß yes but you have to do it while sober, otherwise it doesn't count

2

ṧнʊß

lol - im underage unfortunateyl

Izzy

So what is it you're having trouble with? Do drinks ask for age where you live? #D

Or was the Whisky too young, too?

ṧнʊß

lol - you seem to have a lot of experience with underage drinking...

Izzy

None. I've never been drunk.

Not that I can remember... #D

ṧнʊß

lol

that means every day then... ;p

Izzy

23:46

Thanks! Sum up all my drinks of a year. I bet you'll find a lot of people having the same amount in an hour...

ṧнʊß

lol

7 mins... hang tight till 5 mins till new uear

Izzy

I do!

ṧнʊß

4 mins till 5 mins

Izzy

3 and counting

ṧнʊß

......

funny we're counting down to 5 minutes before new year :)

Izzy

23:53

count down to countdown? LOL

ṧнʊß

lol

2 mins...

1 min!!

Izzy

We better give it one more for the clock sync :)

ṧнʊß

true

star me

Izzy

So everybody and officially according to UTC: Get a safe start, and then Happy new year! \o/

@ṧнʊß Done :)

ṧнʊß

star me

and me

Izzy

23:57

me too :)

ṧнʊß

just in case

starred us as well :)

Gilles

I see stars!

2

Izzy

Yupp, just got "Tam o'Shanter" (post a chat message on 12/31 that gets starred)

ṧнʊß

starred you @Gilles

Izzy

But I like my "breaking bad" somehow :)

Proud of that one I am :)

ṧнʊß

23:59

lol

that's close, edit, reopen, right?

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