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00:24
I sit upon Kris Kringle's knee
"What is your Christmas wish?" asks he.
I answer, bubbling with glee,
"I'd like a Ginger Amputee"
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@schroeder Hahahaha
@DavidFreitag Now I want to hear @RoryAlsop put that to music .....
and fireworks
@schroeder Strumming gently on his guitar? Heck yes.... cc:\ @RoryAlsop
01:17
I'm so fucking done with WPF right now
01:40
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ︵ ╯(°□° ╯)
02:15
@DavidFreitag Your mom is done with WPF
03:05
IT'S SOOO ADDICTIVE
03:38
Happy squirrel appreciation day! A couple of rehabilitated squirrels from 2015 for your Sciuridae enjoyment! https://t.co/TuIbcBTwYM
d'awwwwww
05:08
Saw cars... driving... an 18 wheeler... closed tab.
@MarkBuffalo ts;dw: car cuts over three lanes blindly into the fourth and slams into a parked semi, only to be totally owned from behind by another semi
 
1 hour later…
06:26
just met Dave in real life
06:44
really dave just spoiled my day
Adi
Adi
@paj28 I hope so.
@paj28 Are you sure that the team lead experience must be 5 years? The recruiter explained that the needed experience is 5 years in the industry and experience leading a team
07:46
mornin' All
08:03
@schroeder does the same go for BNL?
and of course NMN
Morning
Adi
Adi
Mewrnin
08:43
@DavidFreitag DAMN YOU I HAD STUFF TO DO TODAY
@Adi any recruiter's stated requirements should be treated as a wish list only.
@Adi did you move to manchester??
o_O
albeit that's more 90's manchester than modern-day
09:37
I remember when sgi had their offices at Salford Quay. Before much of the improvement of that area. They had regular trouble with gangs. One day a gang came in at night and stole all the RAM from the machines on the ground floor...
Techie gangs are the worst!
Adi
Adi
@AviD Not yet
@AviD and you're wrong in this case. These requirements are from the British government regarding visa issuing.
Yeah - special case here
Inb4 @Simon "you're a special case"
nice pin wall edit mods.
:-)
One does what one can with mild abuse of mod tools
It did appear to be requested
09:54
Heya
how nice. I suspect I just lost a disk on my own server...
@M'vy RAID-1 FTW?
or RAID-0 FTL?
It's a real simple solution
I dont' think it has any raid
it's for my own uses
Need to see if I have time to develop that song for @schroeder
I should have some backup though. not really fresh, but that'll do
Oh - that is impressive: so that spam post got closed down so quickly, when I went to also destroy the user account, their account page says "Users reached: 4"
That is some damn fast community anti-spam action!
10:08
ahah
10:23
@Adi ah yeah, thats different - but thats not a recruiter tho?
@Adi but you are doing that?
very cool!
wait, what about @Kissuminthu??
@RоryMcCune lol not me this time guv
@RoryAlsop I liked the original
but what do I know, I'm a blatant bieber-basher.
@AviD I hope that isn't a euphemism!
@Adi - your recruiter is probably right
theregister.co.uk/2016/01/22/… <-- Golf clap for RSA, who instead of using standard social media integration, actually processes the user's twitter creds
I'd say twitter security should block'em
@RоryMcCune brilliant, eh?
kinda like Wall o' Sheep, but opt-in.
@AviD have they not heard of oAuth!!
10:30
@RоryMcCune or the strange new technology called "links"
I mean shit a link to twitter with a pre-populated tweet would've been the safest option but at least oAuth is less heinous than actually taking the creds
10:41
oh absolutely
Imma be callin that "Opt-in Wall O' Sheep"
Adi
Adi
@AviD It's still in the initial stages.
@AviD None of your fucking business.
@Adi heh, fair enough. Didnt mean to step on any sensitive toes.
Adi
Adi
@AviD Fuck. You.
but dont do anything that will force me to get on a plane to come all the way over there to slap you with a live fish.
@Adi seriously man, I have no idea whats up
Adi
Adi
@paj28 Yeah, I verified with the big PDF they have. It seems like the dude is right gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/…
 
1 hour later…
11:46
salut
@kalina watcha
you still sunning yourself, or back in the frozen lands?
non otb
on ze beach
ahh
nice
here, it is cold/wet/dark
11:50
strangely it's doing many of those things here
but it's still warm
that's the tropics for you
I guess wet is less of an issue when it's nice and warm
is that a euphemism
actually no
although I realised after typing that if the tigger or simon were here they would suggest it was
big sigh
time to wander from my hotel to the place I am being tonight
bye o/
@kalina o/ ahh didn't realise it was a busmans holiday
u wot
m8
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Q: What to do when a new employee makes basic spelling and grammar mistakes?

TerryThe company my other half works for has recently employed a new admin assistant, but she is constantly making basic spelling and grammar mistakes. A few examples would be which/witch, your/you're, there/they're/their. There are also a few basic words which the spell checker can't even suggest th...

"They don't really want to fire her because she works hard."
"Sorry ma'am, we gotta let you go due to your poor grammar"
wadafuk.jpg
12:34
@RоryMcCune ha yeah. lovely.
@AviD "yeah honey, lets catch that new Ryan Reynolds romance movie for Valentines... what it's violent, not at all, see here's the trailer"
Sucks to be a dude with a lame gf, my donut asked me yesterday if we're gonna go watch it.
aw yuh
@Simon sucks to be a misogynist.
.....................
@AviD eh?
12:54
@RоryMcCune nah, I was just sayin'
I really love it when I get different number of search results with different sort order on YouTube. That explains why sorting is done through the filter drop down menu LOL
13:16
shit, I just realized it's Friday
that explains a few things
13:28
Yeah friday
Still no answer from support for my server. I created a real ticket to be sure they got the memo :)
@M'vy Yeah Friday! Friday! Friday Friday! Gotta get down on Friday!
okay that was nasty
sorry not sorry
@AviD dude, you're pushing it!
#oldjoke
I was just reading that Bieber comment thread on meta LOL
no, I AM sorry. and ashamed...
13:34
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Q: Not-constructive flag declined, on highly up-voted moderator comment

Fermi paradoxThis is the comment: First of all you didn't follow their advice - they specifically said a musical artist, of which Bieber is neither. Why is this flag declined?

This is pretty bad to even be discussed IMHO
@TildalWave the flag, the comment, or the beiber?
or the password advice...
@TildalWave I don't get it? Why not discuss it?
@AviD comment is fine, leave it it adds a human touch to what's supposed to be a collaborative effort of people, not robots
everybody focusing on the snark, ignoring the actual relevance to the password advice...
I dont even remember what my own point was.
if someone wants clean pages, they can go to tabularasa.com
13:38
@TildalWave I think there are two issues with it, apart from the "hey let's be wikipedia-grade serious", which indeed we can afford to deviate from. Firstly sometimes comments like this do get flagged and removed, and it would look good for outsiders/newcomers if it didn't seem that the "high rep people" like AviD or the bears can make jokes but their own jokes got deleted. Secondly, there might actually be people, who are of age to be at university, who... yes.... who like Bieber ...
I know some of the undergrads around me do. It's terrifying but it's the law of nature.
@AviD maybe that anything Bieber won't have much entropy?
There are pokemon fans everywhere now, which i just don't get whatsoever but hey. Bieber is probably no worse or no better a child cultural phenomena than Pokemon
@SteveDL even Wikipedia is anything but surgically clean and dull if you check comments
I don't know. I'm here for the people that make up the communities. If it's gonna be too clean, I'm out of here
I think it's not about being too clean but about what kind of dirt is there.
Anyway
not worth bickering over.
@TildalWave I'm just surprised he didnt go with the more popular line of the song: "Baby, baby, baby baby, baby ohhhh"
which would result in a password of: "bbbbbbo"
@SteveDL uhh... I'm gonna just ignore that second part ;-)
13:50
@AviD surely, you mean BBBBBB0
but I agree with the first part.
as I've said, I did have another point besides the snark (it was s ubtle one about the password rules), but I really dont remember what I was thinking at the time (it was late at night.)
that said I do agree with the meta post, and what you said - it smells "iffy".
and if it wasnt so darn popular, I would have removed it by now.
@SteveDL also, about who is allowed to make that dirt - even if it just feels like there is a difference.
@SteveDL I would slap you with a glove and challenge you to a Pokemon battle but obviously you don't play Pokemon.
Also, boo @AviD, mod abuse, blah blah blah.
no wait that isn't nor should be an issue ... you're not the only mod around here, and you were all elected and done a great deal for the site, more so than most other of its members ... if you're not allowed a bit of noise, then .... well, then fuck it, pardon my French
@SteveDL You wanna get into a fight? Because that's how you get into a fight.
Are people seriously getting their panties in a bunch over a non issue like this?
13:57
@TildalWave rules should not be subverted by those entrusted with enforcing the rules.
@AviD my point is that they're not
quis custodits and etc
@TildalWave of course not. But it should not feel like there is an imbalance of power.
@AviD You mods don't usually clean up comments unless they result in large off topic arguments anyway.
even if there is.
you should have a pretty good idea how much noise is in all the hundreds of thousands of comments made by others
13:58
I mean, I have plenty of snarky comments still out there.
@TerryChia on occassion we do. rare ones.
@AviD site works, no?
large part of it thanks to mods
@TildalWave irrelevant.
no it fracking isn't
stop saying that
Yeah, @AviD is trolling us at this point.
13:59
@TildalWave you're irrelevant.
@TerryChia lolwat
@AviD that's irrelevant
because I agree with the person who said that mods shouldnt abuse their power, I'm trolling, just because he was pointing it at me?
@TildalWave moistly irrelevant
@TildalWave irrelevantly moist.
@AviD It's trolling because you keep insisting it was an abuse of power when we keep telling you it isn't.
@TerryChia no no, not at all
it was NOT an abuse of power
Also, I'll make a meta post if that comment gets deleted. ;) /adds oil to fire
14:01
@AviD dude at your age moisture is anything but irrelevant
MOISTURIZE ME
@TildalWave Oooh, apply cream to burnt area.
but I could understand if someone outside felt like it was an abuse of power. Like I said, it smells iffy.
@AviD So do you. When did you last shower?
@TerryChia o_O
14:02
@AviD Some people get heinously offended when you use any form of humor.
@AviD why would I care what someone outside feels about it?
great, now we're down to toilet humour.
@AviD PINGING @Simon.
for the record, comments like that on the site WILL be deleted.
just poor taste.
@TerryChia hehe, I was thinking precisely that.
@MarkBuffalo I dont think its about the humour, its about mods being above a trace of suspicion of abuse.
@AviD please, seriously dude, don't go there
14:03
same as with anybody in "power".
don't even joke about it
I'm getting really confused now.
@RoryAlsop Can you please tell @AviD he's being stupid. Moreso than he usually is?
hehe, "moreso"
@TerryChia getting?
@AviD I actually quit SO because of this in the past
14:05
its for the same reason mods dont handle flags on themselves, and leave it for other mods, even if it would be handled just as fairly as any other flag.
I made a post that helped a user, the mod deleted it and replaced it with his own answer
and it got checked
:]
the humour, or the modabuse?
The modabuse
see there ya go
But that was totally different
14:06
@AviD I find your lack of faith disturbing.
The comments in that thread... why are we even fighting over this? Are you just joking/trolling?
@MarkBuffalo exactly, so why do you bring it up then you donut? :)
Or are you genuinely special?
now, for all you know, someone may have flagged it, and a different mod handled it, and then came along this one and posted his answer. You are still left the assumption of abuse.
@MarkBuffalo I'm not fighting, I'm just saying the post was okay, and y'all should stop attacking him for questioning me.
if we cannot question the motives of our authorities - what do we have left?
Oh, okay... yeah, that's fine.
I thought you were literally freaking on @schroeder for abusing his mod powers by saying the community wanted it
14:08
@AviD a marriage
:P
@MarkBuffalo heh no
I'm sorry, but I feel compelled to vote this down. That was a horrible, not to mention offensive comment, and it would have been deleted immediately if it wasn't made by an abusive moderator. — AviD ♦ 17 hours ago
I was talking about myself ^
tongue firmly in cheek, of course.
... then everyone stays awkwardly quiet like we just had sex or something
@TildalWave Stop having sex on channel... It kills the conversation...
@TildalWave I think you're doing it wrong.
14:20
@AviD It should come with an instruction booklet. Insert tab A in slot B sort of thing
@AviD that would explain my backache :))
@Matthew Instructions unclear. Stuck in ceiling fan. Killed a Korean.
I suggest unscrewing the ceiling fan, putting on an oversize kilt, and running away. Don't worry about the body. People will be far too baffled about the man running around with a fan under his kilt.
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Ok, my server has been replaced. I'm up for a new OS installation
I constantly worry about the modules in my applications being decoupled, but then I remember you have to quit iTunes to update Xcode.
14:36
@Simon
-1
Q: Is this something exploitable in this code?

sebastianpszczolkaIs there any possibility to pass this weak comparison? Can user input a file with an extension not contained in $allowed and get past the security check? $allowed = array('txt','docx'); if (isset($_REQUEST['file'])) { $file = $_REQUEST['file']; if (preg_match('#\.(.+)$#', $file, $matched) &

I'm not reading any PHP code today, it's Friday.
I can't see where that goes, and I could be wrong, but this seems like he's being overly trusting of user input
ah, he's checking the extension.
I see the flaw!
XSS?
Post it, and I will examine
Hello. Any tips / stuff to read for a new Information Security ...not enough english... (Someone who takes care of Info Sec on a project)?
14:40
wot
@ardaozkal Hold on, I know a good book. I'll find one
Thanks
Hey Markus, Benoit posted an answer, wanna go be mad at him in the comments?
Let's see if he's right or not
Where? Which thread?
It's at the damn top of the page.
14:44
Why is stackoverflow not using captchas?
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Q: Why is stackoverflow not using captcha?

GudradainA site as big as stackoverflow must certainly attract a lot of spammers and bots. Hence, I find it strange that they are not using captcha, either to create a new account or to post a new answer as a guest. Are they using hidden techniques like honeypot or they just expect the community to flag ...

I already upvoted him. It's a good post.
@MarkBuffalo that should be migrated to Meta Stack Exchange
Yeah, but it could be a security issue. Bots and spammers can compromise the integrity of the site
by posting spam and other crap all over the place
Just like off-topic questions.
it could, but it's specifically asking about SE
fkin rekt
14:45
@TildalWave True
@Simon Damn, you got me. I'll have to cry in a corner now.
Who am I gonna be an asshole to this weekend I don't come in the chat to insult Markus?
I can give you my number so you can insult me when you need a shoulder to wail on.
I don't wanna know how you sound like, that'd ruin everything.
Probably.
Do you assume I have a whiny, squeaky voice, and that I'm secretly 4'11" and insecure about myself?
14:48
@JourneymanGeek Booooring.
A brick wall gives literally no feedback.
@MarkBuffalo yes
@MarkBuffalo yes
@Simon Actually, it gives feedback when you get too close with a microphone.
and have a speaker nearby
@Simon Good, because that's exactly what I am :(
@Simon I think you're supposed to validate Newton's equal and opposite reaction law
We should do more InfoSec challenge videos like we once did with the IBC.
14:51
@Simon We should have one for you in the mental category.
|-------------------| That's how close we are to wrestling.
@Simon I'm using a 4k monitor. That's a pretty small gap between the start and the end. TWSS, amritie
TWSS to you all day every day.
However, most Asian women that aren't allergic to pollen should be given bouquets of flowers because they're real lovely ladies
You have insulted me this day
wot
14:56
Well, you compared yourself to me
And tried to make us equals
pls
@MarkBuffalo: ooh. which one?
@JourneymanGeek pls?
@Simon is that an insult to asians?
@MarkBuffalo the monitor ;p
14:57
@JourneymanGeek Upstar. Some cheap off-brand
It does it's job well, and I ahve no issues
No dead pixels
@JourneymanGeek I wouldn't dare.
giggles
14:58
I got a crossover as a secondary. Probably the same panel. Has 3 HDMI 2.0 ports, DP, and VGA
@JourneymanGeek Simon thinks that it's still a true thing. But diets have changed heavily, and things have also changed heavily... so to speak, haha.
Also "Asians" Is a super broad classification
In theory I'm asian. but most people assume asian is CJK...
Most people assume East Asian
CJwat
smacks @Simon with a jar of kimchi
Chinese/Japanese/Korean
14:59
kimwat

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