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Nathan Osman

12:10 AM

So... is very quiet.

Zacharee1

rip

Nathan Osman

I iz cold and wet since I missed the bus.

Zacharee1

rop

Seth

This doesn't seem to be a duplicate:

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Q: How to copy files from multiple directories?

I have a bunch of text files in several directories I want to copy into another. What can I do, instead of going inside each directory and cp *.txt in this directory?

command-line

The answers for files in multiple directories will be different from the answers for files under one directory. Of course, there are ways to make it work on both but that wasn't done and so now it's two different questions.

TheXed

12:30 AM

what the...

Seth

Nice.

Some people would kill for that upload.

TheXed

I only pay for 60/10

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Some people would like their Ethernet card or Wifi card to work that fast too :)

On that note... HI EVERYONE :)

TheXed

Wifi never, Ethernet easy...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Seth I got to use your silentcast yesterday to show how Conky bar graphs the CPU percentage....what a great program you were part of!

Seth

12:34 AM

:)

TheXed

lol even better...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

^^^ That was 15 seconds of idle, then 15 seconds of chrome loading with 10 tabs.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then @Seth participation in Silentcast project is worth a million words.

Journeyman Geek

Yay, silentcast.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

You know it too? I think it's awesome.

Journeyman Geek

lol

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:40 AM

And the generated gif file is soooo small.

Journeyman Geek

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A: Record screen to animated GIF on Linux (alternative to LICEcap)

Update 10/22/2014: Seth Johnson has improved the Ubuntu PPA so that only the Silentcast PPA is required. (Previously, 3 PPA's were needed.) Update 10/13/2014: Version 2.0 released. Added options to create webm or mp4 videos instead of just animated gifs. Added a script to do a full install witho...

kinda sorta.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

:) that 140k rep is well-earned.

btw "LICEcap" sounds like something you put on your head when your hair has lice infection....

I think they were doing a play on words with icecap but it sort of backfires in my mind.

Mateo

@karthick87 here: launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki-editors click join the team on the right, since you have a page I bet it won't be hard to get in

karthick87

@Mateo thank you. I have clicked on Join the team and its waiting on Approval i believe.

Mateo

it might be a bit, it is manual approval process

karthick87

12:52 AM

Thank you :)

Nathan Osman

1:25 AM

So...

What's new?

Zacharee1

headache

hue

Nathan Osman

Ouch.

Zacharee1

I always get headaches

Nathan Osman

Double ouch.

Nathan Osman

2:20 AM

This song is catchy:

SABATON - The Lost Battalion (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

►

TheXed

2:59 AM

Can you game with a Model M?

Journeyman Geek

Its not really designed for twitch gaming I suspect

@WinEunuuchs2Unix it works really well tho

TheXed

3:45 AM

@JourneymanGeek nah...but it seems to work fine...

Nathan Osman

4:22 AM

Spam fail:

This is one of the weirder emails I've run across:

No attachment, no hidden JavaScript. Just a greeting.

I'm betting the From: email is an attempt to get me to visit the website, but based on the type of user they are targeting, that seems a bit ridiculous.

I'm debating whether I should ask this on Security.SE.

Seth

sounds like a good question to me

Nathan Osman

Alright.

@Seth security.stackexchange.com/questions/154658/…

Thomas Ward

4:47 AM

@NathanOsman Sounds more or less like plain 'spam' to me

if it's pure plain text then meh, though I tend to run my spam filters to anything SpamAssassin has the score over 3.25 as "capture it as spam"

but meh.

Nathan Osman

@ThomasWard Mine is set to 5.

I'm not brave enough to set it lower.

Thomas Ward

@NathanOsman I'd start catching at a tier of 4 TBH

i've only ever had five false positives, because I broke DKIM, and that raised the spam score.

3.5 at the lowest if you do advanced handling

Nathan Osman

Hey, maybe you know the answer to this: how do I feed data into SpamAssassin? For example, if I constantly get emails that are nearly identical from someone, how can I tell SA to start recognizing it and auto-flagging?

Kaz Wolfe

5:04 AM

@Seth, can I ask why we anonymized this question just because OP didn't like the downvotes?

Downvotes are a natural part of the system, and should be owned by a user. Just because DVs are given out doesn't mean that a user should be able to disassociate themselves from their post.

We've all made bad posts on Meta, it's part of life. We can't just pretend like it never happened, it's not fair IMO

Thomas Ward

@KazWolfe Users are allowed to request disassociation of posts from their account.

but ultimately you're not wrong.

Kaz Wolfe

@ThomasWard "request"

Thomas Ward

The user seems to hate adversity to their suggestions though.

@KazWolfe IIRC that goes up to staff and CMs, not us...

so...

Kaz Wolfe

That doesn't mean they need to be fulfilled. But if we're playing that game, brb requesting disassociations.

@ThomasWard So?

Thomas Ward

blame Seth for the disassociation thing

not me :P

Kaz Wolfe

5:14 AM

That's why I pinged him in the first place.

Thomas Ward

I disagree with the disassociation but I don't have any say when I'm busy or asleep or both

Kaz Wolfe

I still think I have the privilege to challenge mod decisions, right?

Journeyman Geek

is OP still around?

Kaz Wolfe

Probably, not on Meta.

Journeyman Geek

@KazWolfe in theory, everyone does - as long as you aren't an arse about it.

Kaz Wolfe

5:16 AM

@JourneymanGeek Noted.

Journeyman Geek

Cause as a regular user, I've done that a fair bit on SU

and as a mod, I do that sometimes to CMs on main meta

Kaz Wolfe

actually, @ThomasWard, you might be able to answer a technical question while we wait for the SE dumps.

Who "owns" anon posts? There has to be a bound user account iirc because of how the system is designed.

(effectively, what's the UID of anons?)

Journeyman Geek

not necessarily

there's questions with no accounts but a name from migrations.

Kaz Wolfe

OwnerUserId would still need a value, no?

I mean, I'd assume it can't be null.

Journeyman Geek

assuming that and name are on the same table?

Thomas Ward

5:19 AM

probably -1 or some other 'system owned' username in the backend, but we don't know enough about the structure of the system to answer that

that'd be a question for Shog.

Journeyman Geek

and/or main meta

Thomas Ward

^ that

Kaz Wolfe

actually...

meta.askubuntu.com/questions/15858/… has a user id in the db of 6824 (according to SEDE).

Journeyman Geek

hm

Seth

@KazWolfe some of us aren't adults. I, for one, don't like playing babysitter.

Journeyman Geek

5:22 AM

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Q: What are the different types of users and what can they do?

I'm generally confused by the terminology when talking about types of user accounts ("registered", "unregistered", etc.), because a) certain things have changed over time and so different posts use different words for different things depending on how old they are, and b) I think others are confu...

support user-accounts

JUST got asked

Kaz Wolfe

that doesn't cover anonymized users though, I dont think.

Seth

Disassociation is his legal right and it stopped the whining.

Kaz Wolfe

So I can request a disassoc for any post with negative score on meta? brb doing exactly that.

Seth

@KazWolfe you can. And people have done it.

Wont earn you any respect though.

Journeyman Geek

Do it too often and people will be less inclined to accept it

Kaz Wolfe

5:24 AM

That seems... wrong.

Seth

Of course if you've already trashed that then no reason not to. Case in point.

Kaz Wolfe

It destroys the entire point of reputation and downvotes.

Seth

@JourneymanGeek they have to, legally.

Journeyman Geek

Its meta tho

@Seth really?

Kaz Wolfe

Doubly so on Meta because they have exactly zero actual value in terms of rep or meaning.

Seth

5:25 AM

@JourneymanGeek yep. It's part of the content licensing that you can have your posts anonymized at any time. It's what allows the editing model to exist.

Journeyman Geek

That's new

Seth

No..

unless you meant new to you?

Kaz Wolfe

just my two cents, i really don't think such blatant abuse of the anonymize feature to escape downvotes is right in any way. If users do this, why should they be allowed to participate in our system which depends on the entire voting system being unmanipulated?

Journeyman Geek

yup. Where's this?

Not saying you're wrong, but its something that I'm clearly unaware of

Seth

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A: There needs to be a way to delete content or disassociate your account from said content

The Creative Commons license under which contributors post their content specifically retains the moral right to remove your name from any content that you do not want associated with your name. As such a simple request to the SO team ought to suffice to have your content disassociated from your...

Journeyman Geek

5:32 AM

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A: There needs to be a way to delete content or disassociate your account from said content

This is, IMO, a positive side effect of the careers side of Stack Overflow. I've been meaning to blog about this, actually. Anyway -- as far as removing content, you can easily do this: change your display name to "Anonymous" or whatever you like email us to delete your account, which permanen...

Seems more official tho

Kaz Wolfe

I think this might be worth bringing up on MSE, actually.

This can't be the first case of abuse of this rule.

gongsun

imgur.com/a/f0qsq

i just try ubuntu

why sometimes webpage in firefox give this

Kaz Wolfe

@gongsun Have you asked a question on the main site?

gongsun

Sorry i'm not good in englist i'm afraid no one cant understand me

Kaz Wolfe

That's why we have editors :)

Journeyman Geek

5:41 AM

@KazWolfe though, why does dissociation on meta matter at all?

Kaz Wolfe

@JourneymanGeek I just consider it an unfair abuse of the system in order to evade downvotes which don't even mean anything.

Journeyman Geek

> "which don't even mean anything"

I mean, sure its going to matter if you want to be a mod, maybe.

Kaz Wolfe

exactly. so why should people get all upset about them?

Journeyman Geek

Why are you? ;p

Kaz Wolfe

Because I have a lot of downvoted-on-meta posts.

Journeyman Geek

5:42 AM

I consider those a badge of honor ;p

Kaz Wolfe

And just because they're downvoted doesn't mean I want them deleted or disassociated because that seems an abuse of the system.

I posted something dumb, I got downvotes.

Journeyman Geek

Clearly, this person does not

Kaz Wolfe

It seems unfair to me and everyone else who got roasted by meta that someone can just come in and disassociate themselves (with absolutely no penalty) with a post because nobody liked their idea.

Journeyman Geek

Its about the idea, not the person.

The idea is terrible.

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