The DMZ

AviD

12:00

@RoryAlsop that's how I knew they were candles. Like a blimming birthday cake.

Rory Alsop

@Adnan I haven't said it out loud. I'm theonly one here, and I'm afraid I'd just laugh at myself

@AviD well, I've gone back to being cool

@AviD - have you looked at what has happened to our mod stats on questions

TildalWave

@RoryAlsop well in the Universe really

AviD

no? I'll look now.

Rory Alsop

hats = biggest impact on question upvotes ever :-)

@TildalWave :-)

you and your Space environment

AviD

@RoryAlsop haha, so thats what we need to do to get people to vote, eh? Just give them something to put on their heads??

TildalWave

12:04

@RoryAlsop I'm not sure if there's Drake equation for how many intelligent civilisations currently hold silly hat competitions, but I'd presume the chance of two of them having it at the same time is incredibly small

Terry Chia

Alright, should get the sock puppet hat soon.

TildalWave

BTW I'm quite certain that meta doesn't count, because we don't even have hats there and I've tried to get one hat through it, and it didn't work

Terry Chia

@TildalWave There is a meta specific hat though.

TildalWave

@TerryChia Yes? Which one?

kalina

more than one

AviD

12:07

@TildalWave hmm.

Terry Chia

@TildalWave winterbash2013.stackexchange.com/oh-the-horror

AviD

@TerryChia and MSO doesnt count as meta.

kalina

@AviD also not true

TildalWave

@TerryChia yes, but I think they meant mSO with that

Terry Chia

@AviD Oh? That's just for mSO?

Bit unclear from the description.

kalina

12:08

@TerryChia I think you can get that on any meta

it's just not likely to happen on any meta other than mso

Terry Chia

@kalina Yeah.

kalina

mso counts as a meta for the comment badge

so you can't get the comment badge on meta

AviD

@kalina why not true? There are separate hats for MSO.

kalina

@AviD I got 5x2 comment upvotes and wasn't given the hat for it

Terry Chia

Upvotes please. :P I'm trying to rep cap.

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Q: RSA key recovery using sound - How does it work?

A very interesting Debian security advisory was released yesterday. Genkin, Shamir and Tromer discovered that RSA key material could be extracted by using the sound generated by the computer during the decryption of some chosen ciphertexts. How does this attack work? What are some poss...

kalina

12:09

had to get it on a non-meta site

TildalWave

@kalina true, but mSO is a meta of SO on top of being meta for SE in general

AviD

@TildalWave AND an individual site all of its own.

kalina

well obviously, the clue is kinda in the name

AviD

The only meta site with its own reputation, etc

TildalWave

@AviD well, it doesn't have its own meta :P so ... no! :D

kalina

12:10

meta-meta would be a bit excessive, no?

Terry Chia

@TildalWave Maybe there is and we just weren't invited.

AviD

@TerryChia hmm. Kinda closeworthy.

kalina

meta.meta.meta.meta.stackoverflow-flow-flow-flow.com

Terry Chia

@AviD :(

@kalina Not enough flow.

kalina

@TerryChia you have no idea.

TildalWave

12:11

@TerryChia c'mon us? we're all special here, we'd be invited for sure!

Terry Chia

@TildalWave Except for @Simon. He isn't special.

TildalWave

@TerryChia different kind of special

Rory Alsop

@TildalWave you have seen the meta.SO story competition, yes? I think you maybe have the basis for a plot...

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Q: Should employees with head injuries be allowed to post on meta?

While yodeling to myself quietly in our warehouse today, a pallet full of mugs came crashing down on my head, and gave me a concussion idea. First, it's very unlucky to go yodeling around on a skate board in a dark warehouse, and second, we could really use a short creative writing contest. Fort...

discussion winterbash-2013 always-friday-in-iceland

TildalWave

@RoryAlsop I didn't ... I try to walk a long circle around mSO if at all possible

Adnan

@TerryChia Et tu, Terry?

Terry Chia

12:13

@Adnan Already linked that paper.

AviD

@TerryChia which is why its closeworthy.

The answer is in the question.

Adnan

@TerryChia Where?

AviD

as in, RTFP.

Terry Chia

@Adnan Answer...

TildalWave

@RoryAlsop Cool, cheers!

Adnan

12:15

@TerryChia Ahaaa.. I never saw the answer. Sorry

@TerryChia Well, this makes you even double as bad as @Lucas

TildalWave

in other news, is it scary that I knew what all the spoons are for that were shown in the last QI?

AviD

@Adnan double, because once for asking and second for answering?

kalina

@TerryChia Is this an attempt to get the sockpuppet hat?

Terry Chia

@kalina Indeed.

Adnan

@AviD Yup

kalina

12:15

@TerryChia downvotes

Adnan

God damn it, guys!

What have the hats done to you?

TildalWave

Including the Fijian brain fork, that they didn't even say what it really is, just said it's for cannibals

AviD

done? Nothing. This is the way the always are.

kalina

@TerryChia jk upvoted you

Adnan

Shitty questions, shitty answers, shitty editing and voting behaviour, all for the ducking hats!

Terry Chia

12:16

@kalina :)

kalina

WHAT?

THERE IS A DUCKING HAT?

I WANT IT

Rory Alsop

@kalina it's a spelling mistake

kalina

...

do you really think I'm that stupid?

Rory Alsop

and you don't want it - it involves @Simon

Adnan

@TerryChia It's a REALLY nice post, it's just better put as a blog post in our blog.

Terry Chia

12:17

@kalina I think there's a pony one. Did you get that?

kalina

don't answer that

Adnan

@kalina I do

kalina

@Adnan :*(

@TerryChia I got the unicorn horn yes

AviD

@Adnan agree. It is not a question at all, nor an answer.

@Adnan ooo dya think there are any seekrit hats for posting on the blog?? /cc @RoryAlsop

kalina

no there aren't

AviD

12:19

how dya know?

Terry Chia

@kalina No, this one. i.sstatic.net/a4SzT.png

Saw it on here. meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/211851/…

Adnan

@AviD Ahh, don't get my started.

kalina

@TerryChia there are more hat images than actual hats btw, just like last year

Terry Chia

@kalina Ahhh.

kalina

I... what

just earned...

oh it's past 12

we're doing that again are we

everybody star somebody

Winter Is Coming is now available

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Rory Alsop

12:23

@Adnan @Terry Now you have probably got your sock, do you fancy writing that up as a blog post. We don't yet know if there are any blog sekrit hats, but it's worth atry

Terry Chia

@kalina Awesome.

Rory Alsop

@kalina what is this hat?

AviD

star me, star me!

kalina

@RoryAlsop star in chat on the 20th

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop Sure. I'll write it tomorrow.

Rory Alsop

12:23

nvm - got it

AviD

umm... it's the 19th.

Rory Alsop

hahahahahahahaha

kalina

@AviD somewhere in the world, it's the 20th

Rory Alsop

@Kalina is good

kalina

they did the same last year

Rory Alsop

12:24

oh, I see there will be a star hat on new year's day as well

Terry Chia

@AviD You gonna write an answer for that memory safe code question?

Or any one of the regulars here?

AviD

possibly. If I ever get off hat monitoring duty.

Rory Alsop

still can't see what folks have done for the winterbash past hat

but never mind - I have a cheese toastie to make!

Terry Chia

Don't really wanna give the hat to random people. :P

Rory Alsop

Cheese >>>>>>>> Hats

Adnan

12:25

@AviD ;)

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop Unless it's a cheese hat.

AviD

@RoryAlsop especially fried cheese....

Rory Alsop

@TerryChia lol - I tried a couple of ideas but neither worked, so I'm not t sure

@AviD I will be grilling a Wookie Hole cheddar on fresh brown bread, with mustard powder and mixed herbs...

it is going to be awesome

AviD

oooo

Rory Alsop

back soon - I'll try not to drool cheese on the keyboard

again

Terry Chia

12:27

Hmm, the question actually has to be reopened for this hat to be rewarded? winterbash2013.stackexchange.com/reanimated

kalina

@Adnan I JUST HAVE YOU A HAT

gave -.-

AviD

oo! Winter is coming

kalina

DONT STAR MANISH

:D

Terry Chia

@kalina He would have to say something first.

AviD

Good point. Don't star @Simon, either.

Terry Chia

12:34

@AviD Just ban him from chat for a day.

AviD

@TerryChia well, if I did that, I wouldnt need to worry about him saying something.

Terry Chia

@AviD Is that a bad thing? :P

AviD

@TerryChia no, thats the point. I dont care about his hats.

Terry Chia

Are there any LOTR/Hobbit themed hats?

AviD

I really dont care what any crazy canadian wears on his igloo-living, maple-licking, moose-riding head.

kalina

12:38

harsh

Rory Alsop

Mmmmm - awesome cheese. I went with a variety: Wookie Hole, Taw Valley and Pilgrim's Choice - 2 mature cheddars and a vintage.

what - no star for cheese

I am sorely disappointed

AviD

@RoryAlsop I admit I am not familiar with those names.

Rory Alsop

@AviD local cheeses

for local people

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006vm6j

AviD

well there ya go

wasnt that a monty python skit?

Rory Alsop

@AviD League of Gentlemen

but in the same vein of Britishness

AviD

12:54

@RoryAlsop ah no, this is what I was talking about:

►

Rory Alsop

The cheese shop sketch is my all time favourite Monty Python sketch

My wife was very worried I might just recite it at our wedding dinner...

it nearly happened

AviD

hahaha

do you really remember all the cheese names in order?

Rory Alsop

@AviD For a long time I did - even now I probably can do it all in one take

Terry Chia

Woah, $4k bounty for a PHP bug. hackerone.com/reports/523

AviD

@RoryAlsop this is one my favorites:

►

partly because I've been in interviews like that....

Terry Chia

13:04

0

Q: Select right SSL cipher suite for set top boxes (sh4)?

We have lots of set top boxes with sh4/STb7109 CPUs, that feel quite sluggish when accessing HTTPS websites. I would like to find out which SSL cipher suites are most appropriate to use for our websites, so that the STBs give optimal performance. Unfortunately there are no "OpenSSL" command line...

ssl

What should be the close reason for this?

AviD

Don't. Edit it into something useful, about testing crypto performance and selection of algos on limited hardware scenarios.

Scott Pack

G'morning gentletrolls.

Terry Chia

@AviD Hmm. Completely remove the reference to the set top box and that specific CPU?

AviD

@TerryChia specifics, yes; settopbox should be an example for limited hardware scenario.

Rory Alsop

@ScottPack ey oop lad

Terry Chia

13:07

@AviD Alright, I'll give it a shot.

Scott Pack

@RoryAlsop 26 fucking hats? Goddamn son! 12 hours ago you only had 15!

AviD

the q shouldnt be "which algo do I use", but "how do I decide on an algo (in a constrained environment)"

Scott Pack

Jesus. You people were busy last night.

Rory Alsop

@ScottPack I was asleep

AviD

@ScottPack so he is one short.

and he had help from...

THE HAT DETECTIVE!!!

Scott Pack

13:09

@AviD One short?

Rory Alsop

@ScottPack I had 19 for a while

AviD

@ScottPack he sholud have been getting one an hour.

Scott Pack

How so?

Ugh. I need to read the transcript don't I?

AviD

@ScottPack it's rounder.

Rory Alsop

@AviD did you get the hipster?

I made some amendments

Lucas Kauffman

13:10

0

Q: Select right SSL cipher suite for set top boxes (sh4)?

We have lots of set top boxes with sh4/STb7109 CPUs, that feel quite sluggish when accessing HTTPS websites. I would like to find out which SSL cipher suites are most appropriate to use for our websites, so that the STBs give optimal performance. Unfortunately there are no "OpenSSL" command line...

ssl

Scott Pack

@AviD Someone who frequents bars?

AviD

@ScottPack nah. Just @kalina being @kalina, @Adnan being @Simon...

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Lucas Kauffman

this got migrated but is more appropriate for serverfault tbh

AviD

@LucasKauffman nope, see discussion from about 30 seconds ago.

@RoryAlsop nope :-(

apparently it dont work on meta.

haha, BlackHat?? Really??

Lucas Kauffman

►

Rory Alsop

13:11

@AviD I was looking for a not too inappropriate one

Terry Chia

@AviD Better?

Scott Pack

@AviD Your face doesn't work on meta.

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AviD

@TerryChia Much. only thing is I doubt he "owns" the settop boxes, its probably more the company that sells them....

Terry Chia

@AviD s/own/have?

Scott Pack

I wonder

Lucas Kauffman

13:16

@RoryAlsop that rep trained pretty good

AviD

@TerryChia yeah, I guess

@LucasKauffman -> "pretty bad"

Lucas Kauffman

@AviD well the quality is bad

AviD

@LucasKauffman "it reptrained pretty bad". Reptraining is not a positive situation.

Lucas Kauffman

@AviD why is it a bad thing?

Terry Chia

@AviD It is if you are a repwhore.

AviD

13:18

@TerryChia exactly.

38 secs ago, by Terry Chia

@AviD It is if you are a repwhore.

Terry Chia

The question now is why is being a repwhore a bad thing?

Lucas Kauffman

@AviD I'm a llama with a mask, your argument is invalid.

@TerryChia It's because @AviD wants to go against the stackexchange community. He's a hipster that way.

AviD

@LucasKauffman heh, you get to say that to anything now, don't you.

@LucasKauffman LOL

Lucas Kauffman

@AviD Obviously :P

AviD

@LucasKauffman then why dont I have the scarfhat??

kalina

13:21

HELLO

Lucas Kauffman

@AviD Or do you?

kalina

@AviD I don't either but I am going up against the stackexchange community

AviD

@kalina yeah! let's do that together!

kalina

single handedly carrying Arqade to the end game

Terry Chia

You know... SE should copy TF2 next year and allow us to buy and sell hats. :P

Scott Pack

13:25

Thanks guys. I pinned that message to see if a room owner or mod could give themselves the Winter is Coming hat.

Kevin van der Velden

@TerryChia instant profitabillity for every site ever.

Scott Pack

You people ruined it.

Terry Chia

@ScottPack You should have said something....

Although knowing us, that wouldn't have helped.

Scott Pack

Precisely.

My best bet was to slip it in while you weren't looking.

kalina

mods getting a free hat is unfair on the rest of the community

without the community, the mods wouldn't even be needed!

we are the most important part

Scott Pack

13:26

@kalina Also ex-mods.

AviD

@ScottPack does that usually work for you?

Scott Pack

@AviD No. Comment.

AviD

@kalina specifically, the spammers, trolls, and other abusers.

Terry Chia

@kalina Go spam the site more so we need another mod.

I want that hat next year.

kalina

@TerryChia no

nothing I do could be considered spam

Adnan

13:27

@AviD To be honest, recently @Simon has been trying to be @kalina at a very scary rate.

AviD

@Adnan also true.

kalina

I don't understand what you mean by "be kalina"

only I am me

Adnan

@AviD and, please, me being @Simon? Ew!

kalina

I am unique

AviD

@Adnan my theory is that @Simon is trying to be @kalina in a sneaky ploy to get you to flirt with him, too.

kalina

13:29

I actually have a downvoted post at the moment

I'm tempted to delete it

Adnan

@kalina Like a snowflake?

@AviD That's where your logic fails. I'm not flirting with @kalina to begin with.

kalina

...

AviD

@Adnan ohh shuuure you're noooot

kalina

don't try to apply logic to the actions of simon

he will defeat all of you if you do

Terry Chia

@kalina Simon, defeat? That's an oxymoron isn't it?

kalina

13:31

ORIGINAL REQUEST

wtb downvotes: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/212440/229699

it's my post I'm asking fo downvotes on

AviD

@TerryChia Simondefeat? Is that like the next level past Ultimate Defeat?

@kalina peer pressure badge?

kalina

yeah

HARD AND FAST

GIVE THEM TO ME

Terry Chia

@AviD Remember when @Adnan was begging for that badge?

AviD

I refuse to remember anything @Adnan does.

Especially when he's begging.

kalina

I'm not begging, I'm asking politely

room full of people who dislike me, I wouldn't have thought this would be a difficult request

AviD

13:34

you're not @Adnan. and I dont think it was downvote-worthy.

Terry Chia

@kalina See, if we really dislike you we wouldn't be giving you what you want.

kalina

I'm going to delete it anyway

Terry Chia

I would DV but I don't have enough rep on mSO>

kalina

@TerryChia awwwww <3

-.-

Adnan

@AviD :|

AviD

13:39

@Adnan what?

kalina

I am disappointed that nobody will downvote me

Adnan

@kalina Link?

kalina

it's fine, I deleted it in a tantrum

Simon

y u so mean

y u wont star me

y u say i kant v0te cuz canadia

y u say am special

y u say i wanna b a pony

There, I think I dealt with most of the stuff that was said about me.

kalina

what's wrong with ponies?

Simon

13:52

Everything.

kalina

...

you are just jealous of my awesomeness

Simon

WAIT, I GET A FREE HAT IF SOMEONE STARS ME?

I'm in big trouble.

Scott Pack

room topic changed to The DMZ: The first breach costs you an arm.... Don't star Simon or else he'll get a hat [double-entendre] [food] [libations] [rory] [security]

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Simon

Luckily, nobody reads that.

Rory McCune

but what if it was pinned at the top of the starwall?

Simon

13:56

@RoryMcCune I'd be... fucked.

God damn it.

Rory McCune

@Simon just as well there aren't any room mods here who would do something like than then 'eh

Simon

Yeah, absolutely!

qq

WTB star

Rory McCune

@Simon don't worry I'm sure you and @kalina can form some sort of unholy star-getting /hat acquiring team :op

Simon

The only thing we'd form together is a war.

Here we go, it's one of those days where I can't spell for shit.

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