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anonymous2

20:00

Done!

Kaz Wolfe

Election Winners are Thomas W. and terdon.

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Nathan Osman

Winners are Thomas W. and terdon.

DRAAAAAAT.

Bharadwaj Raju

> Election closes momentarily.

What?

Nathan Osman

@KazWolfe You haz faster interwebz!

Kaz Wolfe

CONGRATULATIONS @ThomasW. AND @terdon

Bharadwaj Raju

20:00

well

> Download the election data and use OpenSTV for windows or mac to audit the results.

anonymous2

@KazWolfe Seriously, how did you know?

Stefano Palazzo

great job @ThomasW. and @terdon

Bharadwaj Raju

Good way to troll AskUbuntu, SE

Seth

Congrats!

Serg

I can't open that file

Henry WH Hack

20:00

please welcome and congrat our new mods! :)

Thomas W.

^.^

Byte Commander

Here are the results!!

Thomas W.

@KazWolfe Thank you!

terdon

Hey, cool! Thanks everyone!

Byte Commander

RESULTS!

anonymous2

20:01

Congratulations!

terdon

Well done @ThomasW.!

Nathan Osman

> "12,740 voters were eligible, 3,407 visited the site during the election, 2,616 visited the election page, and 1,006 voted"

Thomas W.

@terdon Thank you! Well done to you as well!

anonymous2

And my condolences to those worthy candidates who didn't make it this year!

Kaz Wolfe

OpenSTV version 1.6.1 (OpenSTV.org)

Suggested donation for using OpenSTV for an election is $50.  Please go to
OpenSTV.org/donate to donate via PayPal, Google Checkout, or
Amazon Payments.

Certified election reports are also available.  Please go to
openstv.org/certified-reports for more information.

Loading ballots from file 5.blt.
Ballot file contains 10 candidates and 1006 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 1006 non-empty ballots.

Serg

20:01

@terdon and @ThomasW. congrats !!! Operate that ban hammer with discretion and pride

terdon

@NathanOsman Wow, almost double from the last one

Android Dev

@NathanOsman That is so not fair!!! I gave wget the wrong link!!!!!!!!!!

Bharadwaj Raju

@terdon @ThomasW. Yeah!

Nathan Osman

Now for the stats.

Byte Commander

Here are the results!!

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Nathan Osman

20:02

If three people would have been chosen, @Pilot6 would have been the third mod.

Jacob Vlijm would have been the fourth.

Henry WH Hack

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Q: 2016 Community Moderator Election Results

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Stefano Palazzo

Can I just say...

Thanks to everyone who put themselves forward. You're already making a big difference.

Nathan Osman

Here's my shell one-liner:

rm -f elec.blt && wget -O elec.blt askubuntu.com/election/download-result/5 && openstv-run-election -r TextReport MeekSTV elec.blt | tail -n 1 | tr -d '\n' | xsel --clipboard

You need the openstv and xsel packages installed.

Kaz Wolfe

wget askubuntu.com/election/download-result$1 -q -O $1.blt; openstv-run-election MeekSTV $1.blt | tail -n 1 | xclip -selection c

terdon

Conclusive evidence that the primaries aren't predictive. JacobVlijm and ThomasW. were neck to neck and well ahead of Pilot6

andrew.46

20:05

Congrats to both :)

Kaz Wolfe

And, I called it! yay

terdon

Oh, the horror! I can see AU flags!

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Kaz Wolfe

shiny

i'll try to run next year, if i can stay productive xD

Nathan Osman

@ThomasW. is blue. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Byte Commander

wget -O AUelection2016.blt askubuntu.com/election/download-result/5 && openstv-run-election -r HtmlReport MeekSTV AUelection2016.blt > result.html && git commit -am RESULTS && git push

Nathan Osman

20:06

j/k

Byte Commander

^ includes publishing to my github.io website.

Videonauth

well congratulations then

Rinzwind

gratz @terdon @ThomasW.

Serg

Welp, now we have shared mod between AU and U&L , which is more than yay

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terdon

Yup. Mint questions, here I come!

Rinzwind

20:07

I wonder if the review list will rise again :=)

Byte Commander

Congratulations everyone.

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander That won't work for us :D

anonymous2

@ByteCommander Everyone, including those didn't make it. :)

Byte Commander

@NathanOsman but produces fancier output.

Wild Man

@ThomasW and terdon congrats!

Nathan Osman

20:08

Mine was for a different purpose.

Mine was designed to make it easy to copy-and-paste the results.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman ASAP?

Byte Commander

@anonymous2 Sure! Trying and failing is better than not trying.

Nathan Osman

Indeed.

Thomas W.

@WildMan Thank you!

anonymous2

We certainly had a bunch of great candidates this year.

Nathan Osman

20:10

That we did.

Alright, well, everyone back to your regularly scheduled silliness. Now that the politics are over for a while, let's get some work done.

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Byte Commander

Well, after the elections is before the elections...

Kaz Wolfe

well good show everyone

Byte Commander

Those who did not make it but are still serious about their nomination can have their next chance in a year or two or three.

Mitch

@terdon @ThomasW. Congratulations you guys :)

Serg

20:12

hopefully till the next elections come around , i'll bump up my reviewing game a bit

terdon

@Mitch Cheers!

anonymous2

@ByteCommander Right on. Just because you didn't make it doesn't mean that people didn't like your nomination; it just means that there was another person who was on the list before you.

Kaz Wolfe

@NathanOsman So. Entry polls 2017!

edwinksl

quite a crowd in this chat

Serg

everybody was hyped for the elections , of course

Kaz Wolfe

20:14

better than US 2016 will be

edwinksl

drinks on the house please

Serg

Trump gets my downvotes . . . .oh wait , there's no downvotes in those elections

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg Not with that attitude!

Nathan Osman

There were no downvotes in this one either...

@Serg And Hillary too.

Kaz Wolfe

@NathanOsman Her logo is literally crooked xD

Nathan Osman

20:17

Yes.

anonymous2

First choice: George Washington. Second choice: Thomas Jefferson. Third choice: Henry Ford.

edwinksl

@NathanOsman can we make trudeau american

Nathan Osman

No.

You don't want him either.

I mean, we certainly don't want him.

edwinksl

better than trump

Kaz Wolfe

#Einstein2016

anonymous2

20:18

@edwinksl Maybe

Nathan Osman

@edwinksl 99% of the world's population falls under that category.

Serg

Linus Torvalds for president !!!

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Nathan Osman

He... isn't very stately.

Remember what happened with Nvidia?

Byte Commander

Edward Snowden for president !!!

anonymous2

@NathanOsman Did he run too?

Nathan Osman

20:19

@anonymous2 No. You have to have been born an American citizen.

Kaz Wolfe

@NathanOsman Great! He's not afraid to speak his mind.

Serg

@NathanOsman but at least he uses source control and open source :)

Nathan Osman

@KazWolfe neither is Trump.

Kaz Wolfe

@NathanOsman But Linus has a brain.

Nathan Osman

@Serg GPL... and that's a big "meh" from me.

@KazWolfe that may be true.

anonymous2

20:19

@NathanOsman Or Obama, for that matter.

Byte Commander

Kay guys, got to leave. Seeya tomorrow!

anonymous2

@ByteCommander Is there another election tomorrow?

James

Calm down everyone, i know the post-election frenzy and highs are here, but lets just relax and flood the new mods with flags. :-)

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anonymous2

I'm out!

Just kidding, BTW

Serg

FLAG ALL THE THINGS !!!!!!!

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anonymous2

20:21

Ok, where are all of @Serg's answers... ;)

Kaz Wolfe

FLAG THINGS LIKE WE STAR CHAT

Serg

<.< oh no you dont

Byte Commander

@anonymous2 Yeah, we will elect the king of the star wall...

edwinksl

I RAN OUT OF STARS

Byte Commander

Like every hour in these days.

Nathan Osman

20:21

Kaz Wolfe

@edwinksl THEN USE FLAGS

edwinksl

FLAGS = STARS CONFIRMED

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Byte Commander

Guys, STOP SHOUTING! Thanks. :)

Nathan Osman

I LIKE BACON.

anonymous2

Sorry, were we waking you up?

Kaz Wolfe

20:22

@ByteCommander WE STILL HAVE FLAGS TO USE

Nathan Osman

CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN.

Byte Commander

@anonymous2 Nope, just preventing me from leaving.

anonymous2

Everyone, imagine you're on Iwo Jima...

Serg

I just realized something . . . . now that terdon is mod . . . . all of my scripts are doomed . . . . noooooooo . . . .or maybe i should go copy his >.> then he'll be pleased . . .

anonymous2

Oh, say does that star-spangled flag still wave...

Wait, that was a banger, wasn't it.

*banner

Kaz Wolfe

20:25

rofl

anonymous2

pahttfl

Nathan Osman

O_o

anonymous2

(punched a hole through the floor laughing)

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Kaz Wolfe

remember. to make it easy for mods, be sure to use the "Other" setting.

Nathan Osman

@anonymous2 you... can edit your posts :D

anonymous2

20:27

@NathanOsman I know.

Wait, were you referring to pahttfl, or the banner?

Serg

Q29uZ3JhdHMgVGhvbWFzIGFuZCBUZXJkb24gIQo=

Nathan Osman

Your BitCoin address?

Kaz Wolfe

base64

translating to "Congrats Thomas and Terdon !"

Stefano Palazzo

>>> base64.b64decode(b"Q29uZ3JhdHMgVGhvbWFzIGFuZCBUZXJkb24gIQo=")
b'Congrats Thomas and Terdon !\n'

anonymous2

@Serg I'm taking it this is your social security number in code?

Stefano Palazzo

20:29

Aw man

Serg

Because everything is better in base64

anonymous2

Even questions on AU?

Kaz Wolfe

@anonymous2 this is mine MTQ3LTI1LTgzNjk=

James

SSBrbm93IGEgc2l0ZSB0aGF0IHN0b3JlcyBjcmVkaXQgY2FyZHMgaW4gYjY0

Stefano Palazzo

kaz is quick on the keyboard

Serg

20:30

@anonymous2 that would drive the new mods crazy

Kaz Wolfe

@James SSUyMG5lZWQlMjB0byUyMGtub3clMjB3aGVyZSUyMHRoYXQlMjBpcy4uLi4lMjBmb3IlMjBhJTIwZnJp‌ZW5kLi4uJTIwc28lMjBpJTIwY2FuJTIwdGVsbCUyMHRoZW0lMjB0byUyMGF2b2lkJTIwaXQu

James

@KazWolfe lol

trust me, they aren't in business anymore.

Kaz Wolfe

i wonder why

James

but that was a bad day when i did that audit.

completely unrelated reasons, actually.

Stefano Palazzo

@James sounds like they encrypted it and you cracked the code

JonasCz

20:32

@StefanoPalazzo There's no need to use python, just do "echo Q29uZ3JhdHMgVGhvbWFzIGFuZCBUZXJkb24gIQo= | base64 -d" :-)

Stefano Palazzo

James might be a hacker o.o

Serg

hopefully ethical hacker

Stefano Palazzo

Hackering is illegal by the way

@JonasCz Ugh. force of habit.

Kaz Wolfe

attention. I have a picture of @James irl

Stefano Palazzo

(bet he wears a balaclava)

Kaz Wolfe

20:33

Stefano Palazzo

Okay that's proof enough for me.

Serg

yup, i totally can see the resemblance

anonymous2

Sure it's not Trump?

Kaz Wolfe

well, SPRINT TO 10K

user136984

I'm having a slight dilemma at the moment, a mod probably won't be able to help, but when one of you is available, could I just have a quick private word?

Kaz Wolfe

20:35

what is?

James

@StefanoPalazzo lol

@ParanoidPanda ok, i'l make a room

Stefano Palazzo

(:

Serg

sigh . . . i still have to go clean gutters today . . . . super excited for it , considering my lower back is still having discomfort

Severus Tux

Congratulations @terdon @ThomasW. :)

user136984

Right, well, just got kicked out of there... :D

user136984

20:38

Oh, it's working now...

Kaz Wolfe

what, mods get to make private channels?

jealous.....

James

Only for moderation purposes.

exclusively.

Stefano Palazzo

I'm not good with computers...

Kaz Wolfe

@James still jealous

terdon

@SeverusTux Thanks

Serg

20:42

@StefanoPalazzo if you can convert base64 , you're already better than most people. I had one lady freak out because Windows 7 kept switching to desktop . And what did she do ? Simply place mouse in the bottom right corner . . . end result , she stormed out of lab as if we personally offended her

muru

The fuzzy feeling when both your picks made it :)

2

Is it weird that 2400 users visited the election page and only 1000 voted?

anonymous2

The not so fuzzy feeling when none of your picks made it...

Serg

because visiting gives a badge

Kaz Wolfe

^

Severus Tux

Voting gives badge too

Videonauth

20:43

^

anonymous2

@muru I wonder why there are exactly two stars beside this...

muru

@anonymous2 :D

Serg

Let me disappoint you, one of the stars is from me

Kaz Wolfe

the other is from meh

muru

I remember seeing this nice (animated?) graph of how an SE election went

anonymous2

20:45

:) I didn't seriously think it was, it was just an interesting coinsidence

Serg

(and now we know whom muru will be voting for in the next election . . . jk )

muru

Anybody remember seeing something similar?

@Serg myself, of course. :P

Serg

@muru don't mind if I make you competition ? >:)

muru

@Serg not at all. What's the fun if there's no serious competition?

Serg

It's gonna be awesome running against someone who basically brought me to AU

anonymous2

20:46

@Serg Doesn't make any difference if he doesn't vote for you... ;)

muru

@terdon specific question for you, now that you are a mod: will we see more migrations to U&L instead of just closings?

Serg

He did mention mint questions

muru

The biggest barrier to re-opening the migration path is the too few AU users are regulars on U&L.

terdon

@muru Yes. Certainly the good ones anyway. Feel free to flag them.

muru

Good. That might be the end of ~10% of "Questions on X should be asked at Unix & Linux" comments

terdon

20:56

We'll see. Half of those are "should be asked on yahoo answers" questions.

Anonymous

hi all

Kaz Wolfe

@terdon how is debian formeD?

muru

So, is the AU mod dashboard as horrible as I imagine it to be?

Anonymous

Anyone here have issues with gSheets in Firefox? After a minute it says "trying to connect" forever

terdon

@muru Double digits, but I was expecting it to be much worse. I think the others may have cleaned it up for us, nice folks that they are.

Videonauth

20:59

@terdon just wait i have a fresh shiptment of flags incomming ;)

muru

@onebree just looping for me. :(

terdon

@Serg lol :) Yeah, now I'll go and delete all of yours so mine can shine!

Thomas W.

@SeverusTux Thanks!

edwinksl

@terdon uh oh the great purge has begun :D

Serg

@terdon @ThomasW. well , in case there's Chinese or Russian questions, you know whom to ping

That's about it for now , i guess

See ya folks !

muru

21:09

I wonder if I should post askubuntu.com/a/789916/158442 to askubuntu.com/questions/404424/… and close as dupe

Thoughts?

(deleting the current answer, of course)

Stefano Palazzo

@muru what about this one? askubuntu.com/questions/198730/how-to-restore-bashrc-file

muru

@StefanoPalazzo same problem - no shell for the OP to execute commands, it seems

(hence my mostly GUI answers)

Stefano Palazzo

I know it's missing the permissions thing, but all three of them basically ask how to start over with bashrc

yeah, I think go for it

muru

No, I think that whatever program OP is starting in .bashrc is just not terminating, blocking the shell and preventing further input

Stefano Palazzo

Right

I just mean it's the same question, just with one case where you can't even get a shell going

You could compile all of that stuff into one super answer, with advice for when your shell is working, when it isn't, command line and gui versions

Kaz Wolfe

21:15

nice gold dupe muru

muru

@StefanoPalazzo closed (though there's another answer now)

Stefano Palazzo

👍

Kaz Wolfe

wrong window

Zacharee1

So I have an old LG G2 with a broken digitizer

Should I get just the LCD assembly for $33 or should I get the assembly attached to a full frame for $42?

Kaz Wolfe

@Zacharee1 get a new digitizer

Zacharee1

21:24

@KazWolfe read what I said right after

Kaz Wolfe

lag

the full frame is easier to install

but that phone isnt worth much anymore

Zacharee1

It's actually the full frame though (excluding the back)

It comes with adhesive so I can stick the components in

@KazWolfe Not trying to resell. I just like the phone

Kaz Wolfe

depends how much work

Zacharee1

The full frame would probably have a better end result

and I could have a black phone with a white back

which was fun when I did it with an iPhone 4 :p

Looks like both have adhesive tape where needed

oh @Seth are you still looking for a phone?

Anonymous

I am using 3 browsers now... Firefox for 99%. Chromium for math homework (and gSheets). And Chrome to run anything flash-related

Zacharee1

21:33

why

Kaz Wolfe

too many zubats :(

Zacharee1

IT BOOTS

well, to the charging screen

Kaz Wolfe

what does

Zacharee1

The G2

I haven't even touched this thing in over a year

Kaz Wolfe

you got the part already?

Zacharee1

21:35

Yes, with AMAZON PRIME

Videonauth

@muru so now its complete good for linking as dupe

Kaz Wolfe

within 15 minutes.

wtf

Zacharee1

no, I just want to see if the rest of the phone works before I buy a $30-40 piece

Kaz Wolfe

ah kk

Zacharee1

xD

user136984

21:38

VTC this EOL question.

muru

@ParanoidPanda tag the new mods on it

terdon

Tsk. Been there, done that.

Anonymous

@ParanoidPanda end of line?

Thomas W.

@ParanoidPanda done

Zacharee1

Got the Good Q badge on my NVIDIA stuff

Wow, it's still on 4.4.2

Better hope I don't get any texts :p

user136984

21:50

@ThomasW.: So, how does it feel to now be a mod? :)

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 this should be one you could answer askubuntu.com/q/789939/522934

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