The DMZ

David Freitag

00:57

Belated Christmas present from my sister

AviD

excelllent

btw y'all seen this, right?

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David Freitag

Its a bit warm

Lucas Kauffman

06:33

@JeffFerland you broke it again?

Rоry McCune

08:47

morning all

@DavidFreitag could be useful during Snowmaggedon!

David Freitag

@RоryMcCune As usual the predictions were a bit far fetched. So far we have about 4", but there's another 12 hours of snow yet to come.

Rоry McCune

@DavidFreitag yeah over the UK the authorities seem to have got really jumpy this year as well, with all the warnings for ice/snow/rain/wind

deed02392

09:22

morning all

Rоry McCune

mornin'

AviD

09:37

@DavidFreitag if 4" are not enough, there are some pills you can take...

kalina

10:09

I find not having a big knob to hand makes life very difficult

2

every studio should have a big knob

the piece of studio equipment that I just can't live without

having a big knob provides major usability improvements

4

you're so immature

I'm looking at you, @TerryChia

Terry Chia

@kalina What? :(

kalina

don't think I don't know what you're doing

sitting there smirking

while I talk about my big knob

still, you should see the looks on some people's faces when I proclaim "I have a big knob"

but, as you can clearly see in the above picture

this device is, in fact, called a big knob

why have a small knob when you could have a big knob?

if you ever need a knob, I highly recommend this big knob

right, I just need one more

Arperum

@kalina One more knob?

kalina

no, one more star

for total domination

big knobs are the best

sorted.

Arperum

@kalina Yea, I knew, but just wanted to play along with the knob wordplaying.

kalina

10:17

I haven't had this much fun since I discovered that the animated "I'm doing something" thing that people use, typically associated with web stuff, is called a "Throbber"

Terry Chia

kalina

hey guys, it's entirely @TerryChia's fault

now if only I could find some method of combining my big knob with my throbber

ironically, that's the only out of place comment I've made today

everything else was a legitimate product recommendation

Terry Chia

@kalina Done in a very star baity fashion.

kalina

well, maybe

Arperum

@TerryChia Mostly because you are quite easy to bait.

kalina

10:20

I can't think of another non-baity method of saying some of these sentences

the product is called "Big Knob", there is no way that I can see that would avoid being enthusiastic about said product without also looking like starbait

and really, having a proper volume control that adds no noise to the signal that's that easy to use is definitely something to recommend

not to mention it allows switching between monitors, multiple headphone outputs, real time hardware based output monitoring, etc

so many pretty lights

literally getting to the stage where my workspace looks like mission control

I thought about getting a second row of monitors but figured that is too far, since I don't need them and wouldn't use them

Rory Alsop

@kalina Everyone has a big knob. I have one :-)

Arperum

@kalina But it'd look fancy?

kalina

@RoryAlsop and is it something you highly rate? You'd definitely never use a small knob ever again, right?

Rory Alsop

@kalina It's easier to get your hand on it, point it accurately without any fiddling, and it feels solid

2

kalina

@RoryAlsop very solid

Terry Chia

10:26

Rory Alsop

Do Mackie even make any other products?

or do they rely on the scurrilous name of this one

kalina

Now that I've had a big knob, I can't see myself ever going back to a smaller one

@RoryAlsop yeah Mackie make loads of products :P

Rory Alsop

@kalina you are just star playing today, eh :-)

kalina

you knew that already, though

AviD

@kalina @Simon will be disappointed.

kalina

10:27

@RoryAlsop no actually, this all started very innocently

AviD

@RoryAlsop you're one to talk.

kalina

obviously I'm not at home right now, I'm trying to write down some of my ideas

Rory Alsop

@AviD Well, as I have a big knob I couldn't keep quiet about its benefits

lol

kalina

I keep reaching over my keyboard for my big knob

and it's not there

the benefits of the big knob completely outweigh the loss in productivity from joking about it

it's an innocent and highly useful piece of hardware that has the added bonus of always ensuring your studio environment is full of happiness

and as we all know, laughter is good for creativity

also, having a hardware control for volume is a massive usability improvement

turns two (or more, depending on your routing) clicks into a muscle memory action

I spent so long looking for the perfect device for this purpose, when I found the big knob, I was positively ecstatic.

anyway, thanks, this way this escalated has improved my day from being miserable to a glimmer of hope

Rory Alsop

@kalina :-)

kalina

10:36

which is actually quite the improvement, because my morale has jumped off a cliff in the last few days

Rory Alsop

@kalina Understandable

Lighty

10:56

My class has a bit of discussion about a shady tweet from LizardSquad, those neckbeard l33t Hax0rz, they "claim" they took down Facebook and such this morning, can anyone confirm that? i can't find squat xD

Terry Chia

11:14

@Lighty Yo momma took down Facebook by sitting on it.

Lighty

@TerryChia if she did, it wouldn't be down for 1 hour ;P

Terry Chia

She moaned as the sudden spurt of hot white liquid soaked her quivering cleavage. It was the third time she'd spilt her Horlicks that week.

Tweeted by 50ShadesGran on January 25, 2015 at 12:56 PM

Fifty Shades of Gran

@50ShadesGran

Erotica for the Over 80s

13 tweets, 10.7k followers, following 13 users

Lighty

@TerryChia W.T.S.F

Terry Chia

@tylerl I wonder if you have, and are able to share any internal numbers on how much Google has paid out for its Patch Rewards program over the 1 year it has been active.

Rory Alsop

@TerryChia hahahahahaha. That's even better than 50 sheds of grey

which, I have just discovered, has been outselling 50 shades of grey :-)

amazon.co.uk/Fifty-Sheds-Grey-Erotica-not-too-modern/dp/…

kalina

11:28

I think I have just been damaged beyond repair, by reviewing the messages I've missed in the last 30 minutes in the DMZ

Arperum

@Lighty It'd be down for months?

Lighty

@Arperum years

Arperum

@Lighty So that is why the Netherlands are so flat and below sea level. Your mom sat on them.

Lighty

@Arperum you know it

kalina

yambored

so much yam

yamyamyam

am yo oroight

interesting fact of the day, guaranteed to cause wincing: it is possible to snap a penis

Arperum

11:36

@kalina Yup, and some positions have a way higher chance to cause it.

Rory Alsop

I suggest not doing that

you'll lose potential friends

AviD

> BROKE DICK, BROKE DICK

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best I could find, sorry :-(

Arperum

@RoryAlsop Not doing that sounds like a pretty good plan.

kalina

I have never done it

I have a pretty decent understanding of how to, though

AviD

@kalina just in case, of course.

kalina

11:49

well actually, it's more like active prevention, by knowing how, you can avoid doing those things

@RoryAlsop sometimes guys insist ... in the weirdest of positions and you're like "you know there's a 40 degree bend just there, right?"

Rory Alsop

@kalina nice edit :-)

kalina

seemed a little too graphic

I'm not embarrassed to admit that I do that

AviD

do what?

what did I miss?

kalina

I'm also not star baiting

I think there should be more mature conversations about things women get up to, bodily functions, birth control... everything

I'm sure that most guys have wondered what menstruating feels like at some point in their lives

and I know most guys have thought about what it would be like to have your own pair of breasts

and birth control is talked about so little that most women don't even know how it works

granted, this place is probably not the place

Arperum

@kalina That's not good.

kalina

12:00

way to kill the DMZ

gg

award for turning the DMZ into a "WOAH REALLY IS THAT HAPPENING IN HERE?" zone

Tinned_Tuna

well, this is a new form of discussion in here o.o

kalina

yeah... sorry

I forgot the internet doesn't like it when I start being serious or actually talk about things that matter

Arperum

@kalina Not everyone is self-employed like you.

I have to work in between chatting for a bit.

Tinned_Tuna

@kalina not that it doesn't matter, just that it's a topic I'd not seen in this room previously

Rоry McCune

@TerryChia reminds me of

Not Nigella Lawson

@CarryOnNigella

Innuendo themed parody account. In no way linked to Nigella Lawson or her plumptious beauties. Ran by @sidneyabbot

122 tweets, 9.7k followers, following 335 users

Rory Alsop

12:24

@kalina I think that is the key line :-)

AviD

@RoryAlsop great, now I'm thinking of key limes.

Rory Alsop

@AviD mmm - pie

did I tell you the marshmallow lady round the corner from work does the most emazing key lime pie flavoured marshmallows?

kalina

@Arperum hey, that's not fair at all

I've built the basic arrangement of maybe €2500 worth of stuff today

granted

it will take another 8 hours per track before they're worth that

and then probably 6 months for me to get 50% of that

and then remaining 50% over the course of 2-3 years in ever decreasing amounts

but that's not the point!

it's not like I could stay in bed all day and make money

well, that's not true

Arperum

@kalina You can work at night if you want...

kalina

I earn the majority of my money at night

(not starbait)

I'll accept that

Rory Alsop

12:33

@kalina :-)

kalina

@RoryAlsop I don't know, it seems to be acceptable to talk about literally anything else

Rory Alsop

@kalina yeah, but generally not in a serious manner

kalina

I feel so alone, being the only active representative of my demographic

Rоry McCune

@kalina as far as you know...

for all we know someone like @Lighty is a girl

(assuming that's the demographic to which you refer)

Rory Alsop

@RоryMcCune and @Simon may have had a stand in donut for his ALS vid :-)

Journeyman Geek

12:42

and I could actually be a dog

Rory Alsop

@JourneymanGeek :-)

kalina

you're not a dog?

Rory Alsop

you type very well for a dog

Arperum

@RoryAlsop He uses a bark to code translation service.

Rory Alsop

@Arperum through "Google Dog"

Arperum

12:44

@RoryAlsop Exactly. @tylerl can probably tell us more. The secret has leaked anyway, so no need to not speak up anyway.

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop good call

Simon

@AviD pls

@RoryAlsop I had 2 donuts last evening!

Rory Alsop

@Simon won't they get jealous?

AviD

@Simon oh, you're cutting back?

kalina

are we using donut as a euphemism, because if so we're getting conflicting messages

AviD

12:47

sometimes "donut" is a euphemism for an actual "donut"

Simon

@RoryAlsop Nah, my donut had a bite, it's all fine.

Rory Alsop

@AviD I treat it as a translation euphemism of doughnut :-)

kalina

@AviD that wouldn't be a euphemism

Simon

@AviD Those were my first donuts in 2-3 months!

AviD

@Simon broke dick?

Simon

12:49

wat

kalina

brick joke

Rory Alsop

1 hour ago, by AviD

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kalina

I would like to thank you all for your part in rep capping me for the first time on Superuser yesterday

especially @LucasKauffman for asking another easily Google-able question

Rory Alsop

@kalina wasn't me - I don't really hang out there. I'm still sub 3k rep over there

Simon

@RoryAlsop Oh lawd, I should rewatch that movie.

and dat quality

Terry Chia

12:57

@kalina That sounds like @LucasKauffman.

Actually, that sounds like his job description. ;)

kalina

my two highest voted answers on SU are answers to @LucasKauffman questions, consisting of basically paraphrasing the first answer I found on Google

Terry Chia

Huh, blink182 broke up again.

kalina

I'm going to ask "who is blink 182?"

but I don't really care, because the first result on google says "not a dance artist"

Terry Chia

@kalina Are you actually serious? O_O

kalina

75% serious

wait, about the first bit or the second?

Terry Chia

12:59

@kalina First bit.

kalina

right, I'm 100% serious about that

Thomas Pornin

@kalina Looks like a boys band.

(Though the expression "boys band" has fallen out of fashion)

Lucas Kauffman

@TerryChia :)

kalina

@RoryAlsop me too, like 600

Rory Alsop

@ThomasPornin I think over here they still call that sort of thing a 'boy band'

Blink 182 did a spoof boy band vid but I'm not sure they qualify

despite being a band

and boys

Simon

13:04

WHO ON EARTH DOESN'T KNOW BLINK-182?

Rory Alsop

@Simon hipsters

Terry Chia

@Simon This.

Like at least heard of them.

Simon

Yeah, come on!

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop I love that video. :)

Simon

I declare this morning a blink-182 morning.

Time to listen to "I Miss You".

kalina

13:11

sorry, I must be a hipster because I don't know of blink 182

woe is me

let me go and get my beret

and wear it backwards and sideways...

Terry Chia

@kalina And write Javascript.

kalina

I wrote some javascript once

on that day, a lot of bad things happened

Simon

@kalina Go listen to "The Rock Show" now.

Terry Chia

@kalina You mean, aside from the fact that you wrote Javascript?

kalina

@Simon no

Barry Carlyon

13:13

Was that the day Google routed everything thru Asia @kalina?

I KNEW IT WAS YOU!

Simon

@kalina You suck and not the right way.

Barry Carlyon

flips a near by desk

Simon

@kalina Fine, listen to "First Date" and I'll never ask you to listen to a song ever if you can't relate to the lyrics.

Terry Chia

Or Adam's Song.

kalina

I don't want to

Simon

13:18

A music producer who isn't diverse music-wise and refuses to discover new music is a bad music producer.

kalina

I am diverse music wise, I listened to 30 seconds from 6 of their tracks and they all sounded like noise

you've basically just stated I must be incompetent at what I do for a living because I don't share your tastes in music

Simon

What did you listen to while growing up?

kalina

I'm not talking to you

Simon

That's not what I said but sure, drama it up.

raz

But Blink 182 is awesome!

Carousel that is all.

Simon

13:24

Carousel is pretty damn fast.

Terry Chia

@raz I still like Travis better though. :)

Simon

Yeah, me too.

Terry Chia

But Dammit is goddamn good.

Simon

Actually, I think I prefer Tom's voice.

raz

Well yeah, but The Mark, Tom, and Travis show fixed that :D

Terry Chia

13:27

Tom's a giant dick.

raz

** Talking about Travis.

Simon

@TerryChia How so?

Terry Chia

@Simon Go read up on the latest drama.

Simon

Oh, bleh.

raz

I just leave Blink 182 at Blink 182. And I'm happy.

Terry Chia

13:29

He basically pulled the same shit as the last time they broke up.

kalina

hi @Lighty, my favorite currently-active person

raz

@kalina Said no one ever...

Simon

^ lulz

kalina

I just said it

and I meant it

Terry Chia

@kalina Someone pin this right now! /cc @AviD, @RоryMcCune

2

AviD

13:30

@TerryChia no. No no no. Just no.

6

kalina

yeah because we don't have enough pinned stars already

2

AviD

pins will be removed.

3

Simon

Josie's lyrics are damn cute.

kalina

@AviD you should give me room owner in here

raz

Do we have enough stars yet?

Terry Chia

13:32

@kalina hahahahahahahahaha!

kalina

I'm being serious

I think I deserve it

Simon

Giving powers to someone unstable emotionally? aw yeah boi

AviD

see now that starflood overwhelms the original stupid star. Just as well.

Rory Alsop

10594 starred messages - wonder how many are actually worthwhile stars :-)

Simon

Probably like 3.

Terry Chia

13:33

@RoryAlsop All of them?

AviD

@RoryAlsop 4

Rory Alsop

Start reading from here to get an idea: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/151/the-dmz/…

raz

I'll take responsibility for the flooding of stars.

Terry Chia

Someone should make a Markov generator trained from the pinned messages.

Arperum

Aug 8 '11 at 14:49, by Rory Alsop

in which case I am a moron

Simon

13:34

I'm sad that I'm turning 24, "What's My Age Again?" will stop being right :(

Was it illegal for more than 1 person to star a post back in 2011?

raz

@TerryChia Hmmmm I think it might get repetitious

With all the boredom that goes on here.

CHATKILL

Rory Alsop

@raz everyones reading the old star wall...

shhh

Arperum

I should be writing a goddamn manual, not reading a starwall.

raz

I should be able to concentrate but I have cleaners and painters making ungodly amounts of noise for too early in the morning.

Simon

@raz Listen to some music?

Rory Alsop

13:48

I am just about concentrating, but the painkillers are not helping much...

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop thats why I try to turn the pins into little out-of-context stories some times, the starwall doesn't feel too mega :)

Rory Alsop

@RоryMcCune I enjoy those days - nice little surprises

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop yeah needs the right sequence of stars, but with this rooms haibtues about, that happens fairly frequently...

Rory Alsop

@RоryMcCune I'm not sure the plasmasturm piece works. He states that control is more important for the smaller project. To me that's very wrong. A 10% deviance in costs on the small one might make it unprofitable, but still only lose 100k off the possible, whereas the 2nd will remain profitable but could lose 5mill.

(see the star wall sucks you in until you start questioning everything)

Simon

wat

kalina

13:53

bored

Simon

What's new?

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop yeah I think what he was getting at was that when the potential gains on a project are very high, the control isn't too necessary, but where margins are tight it is (or at least thats how I read it...)

Rory Alsop

@RоryMcCune yeah - his wording is odd though

Rоry McCune

indeed

Rory Alsop

interesting blog

kalina

13:56

also quite tired

might go and nap until it's dark

Rоry McCune

huh, who knew.. outlook uses HTTP Basic auth over HTTPS

Simon

@TerryChia I think my all time favorite is "Stay Together For The Kids".

Terry Chia

@Simon 1. I Miss You 2. Adam's Song 3. Dammit

Simon

Yeah, not a bad top 3 at all.

kalina

@RоryMcCune "Outlook does something random shocker", nobody is shocked

the world rolls their eyes in unison

Rоry McCune

14:00

@kalina did I suggest you'd be interested :op

kalina

did I suggest I was being serious?

DID I?

goddamit do I have to be calling simon names all day for people to assume I'm joking?

Rоry McCune

@kalina your words implied it (in my reading of them which is of course subjective)

kalina

I can get back to talking about periods if you want

2

Rоry McCune

@kalina whatever floats your boat :)

kalina

no

it's not my least favorite part of life, but it's certainly up there

Simon

14:06

periods, cockblocking men since the beginning of humanity.

kalina

only cockblocking if you're not willing to do what you'd have to do

Rory Alsop

@AviD It's like anti-voodoo

Simon

@kalina I don't mind blood.

It's the chick that usually is uncomfortable with it.

kalina

that's usually due to the cramps, you can help with those too

it's hard to be turned on when it feels like somebody is punching you in the ovaries.

Rоry McCune

on a different note, another interesting (for a certain definition of the word that I'm defining to include this piece of information) thing is, office365 seems to have a REST API that returns all your mail as JSON data if you go to outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/me/messages

kalina

14:14

"on a different note"

"swiftly changing course"

raz

@Simon Sadly I still need to buy new headphones :(

I decided to hide in the back lab instead

Rоry McCune

yay a new pinboard short story courtesy of @AviD and @kalina

raz

@RоryMcCune That's kind of fun

Rory Alsop

@raz That explains the expression:

Rоry McCune

14:30

@raz yeah it looks pretty complete msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/api/… which is cool, but I have a bad feeling that if JSON form submission becomes a browser standard all this web API stuff is going to be bad times from a security perspective

kalina

@raz ath m50x

raz

@kalina I've been looking at those

I have a pair of ad700's at home that are fantastic.

I'm curious about headphones with wood casing, but haven't found a place to listen to them yet.

@RоryMcCune I'm not really a web guy, how is it done now?

AviD

@RоryMcCune isnt it already?

raz

14:46

I kind of thought so

But I have limited web experience. Mostly from writing android apps.

AviD

one of the worst parts about it are lack of support from the infrastructure.

raz

@AviD What do you mean?

Rоry McCune

@AviD no I don't think you can POST a form to have a json data type

AviD

for example, most WAFs finally got around to building in proper SOAP support just a couple of years ago. I've yet to see one that supports JSON and REST properly.

Rоry McCune

darobin.github.io/formic/specs/json

is still a draft

AviD

14:47

@RоryMcCune no, I meant is already "bad times from a security perspective"

Rоry McCune

@AviD ahh... well yes but that'll make it worse, it'll be CSRF all over the place submitting onto APIs

raz

@AviD Oh I see

Rоry McCune

all the MS stuff is HTTP Basic auth over HTTPS

AviD

@RоryMcCune isnt it already? ;-)

raz

I think @Avid is a robot.

Keep saying the same thing over and over again.

AviD

14:48

heh

Rоry McCune

@AviD well at the mo' I'm not sure how you'd do it unless the API takes HTML form data....

AviD

@raz don't I already?

raz

@AviD At least be good AI and get a better dictionary :P

AviD

so, I'm AI, but bad AI?

raz

If I embrace my new machine overlords I at least want them to be well spoken.

I have standards.

AviD

14:50

no embracing nohomo

NOT that theres anything WRONG with that

raz

My father's gay.

kalina

@raz depending on your budget - Audeze LCD-2

I would probably never purchase a pair of those, though

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