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Edity

7:00 PM

KILL

enters command KILL, looks outside

ABORT

despreately types ABORT

Nathan Osman

This is amusing.

Edity

your bacon hat is more amusing

Thomas Ward

I have no life apparently :)

@NathanOsman glad I could help amuse you :)

anyways, that'd be interesting, a high powered orbital kinetic impact weapons platform, controlled by an old-style command line prompt/response system xD

and nobody would be able to hack it because it's too obsolete xD

Edity

:S

Thomas Ward

mmmmm, coffeee...... mmmmmmm

is at a Dunkin Donuts

Edity

7:13 PM

what about donut?

Byte Commander

@ThomasWard I'd truly rather have them controlled by an elderly Unix server than by Windows...

Thomas Ward

@ByteCommander I never said it was a Windows system :P

it'd be an ancient UNIX-style system

Byte Commander

Speaking of weapons, I'm going to try whether my WiFi here is good enough to play WorldOfTanks.

IanC

hallo

Thomas Ward

cool

@IanC LOOK OUT INCOMING DEBRIS FROM ORBIT

IanC

7:18 PM

protects himself with an umbrella

Thomas Ward

flaming pennies FROM SPACE start raining down on the umbrella

@Edity I just finished three :)

tempted to get another 5, since I missed lunch

Edity

:)

Thomas Ward

donut number 4, here I come!

mmmmm, donut.

IanC

man, a donut would be nice now

just had lunch but I got no dessert here :/

Thomas Ward

@IanC a donut?

a single donut?

screw one donut, go for ten!

IanC

7:23 PM

maybe a 2ft donut? :D

Byte Commander

Who brought up that donut vs. doughnut discussion recently again?

IanC

some people call it doughnut?

TheXed

It is doughnut.

Byte Commander

That's the proper British English spelling, yeah.

Only lazy Americans write donut.

4

;-)

IanC

doughnut sounds a bit like you're talking about the private parts of some person called Doug

which is not how I want to call something I'll eat, so I'll just call them Sweet Torus Shaped Bread

I'm not even sure how they are called here in Brazil to be honest, I think it's rosquinhas

Byte Commander

7:28 PM

Well, "dough" is what they're made of, so it makes sense. More sense than do-nut at least.

Thomas Ward

Connecting to LOKI Weapons Platform....... DONE

LOKI Weapons Platform: Enter Command Access Code:   *********************

AUTHORIZED, ENTER COMMAND.

command: TESTFIRE ALLTARGETS

ACTIVATING TEST FIRING... WARNING, LAUNCH CONTROLLER MALFUNCTION, ACTUAL LAUNCH IN PROGRESS, WARNING, ACTUAL LAUNCH IN PROGRESS, ABORT ABORT DETONATE SELFDESTRUCT ALERT SELFDESTRUCT NONFUNCTIONAL THE END IS NIGH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

*static*

Connection closed by remote host: Broken pipe.

has no life

IanC

^C

world was saved!

Thomas Ward

watches as wreckage falls onto @IanC's car, home, and workplace

Zacharee1

wat

Thomas Ward

oh dear

Byte Commander

7:31 PM

You surely should look for a less destructive hobby...

IanC

car and house not found @ThomasWard

Thomas Ward

@ByteCommander you mean like making donuts?

sorry, but I set the oven on fire last time I tried making donuts.

NO IDEA how I did, but I did.

IanC

even though I don't play Battlefield for a long time (have played BF3 and BF2142 - which I personally disliked - a few times on friends PCs), I still get chills when I listen to the theme song! Reminds me of the old BF 1942 times :)

Thomas Ward

only battlefield game I played for a while was BFBC2

IanC

if I had a powerful desktop and some more extra time, maybe 32h days, I'd play the BF1 and BF4, they look really nice

bad company? I remember the trailer for this one was very funny haha

Thomas Ward

7:37 PM

@IanC bad company 2, but yes

IanC

I guess BC1 was the first one where they started making houses and walls breakable

Thomas Ward

I once put infinite ammo mode on BFBC2 in single player and totally destroyed a building with a grenade launcher heh

Byte Commander

@ThomasWard Well, no worries. I managed to do that once when baking a frosted pizza at work...

Kaz Wolfe

o/

Thomas Ward

@ByteCommander lol

@KazWolfe TAKE COVER!

Byte Commander

7:44 PM

I wanted to put it on a sheet of baking paper and that paper touched the heating wires for a fraction of a second and immediately caught flames.

Could still blow it out though, but that surely was a surprise.

Thomas Ward

@ByteCommander oops.

Kaz Wolfe

we still need to figure out @ThomasWard's alignment.

Thomas Ward

@KazWolfe what do you mean by this

Kaz Wolfe

Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethical and moral perspective of player characters, non-player characters, and creatures. The original version of D&D allowed players to choose among three alignments when creating a character: lawful, implying honor and respect for society's rules; chaotic, implying rebelliousness and individualism; and neutral, seeking a balance between the extremes. The 1977 release of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set introduced a second axis of good, implying altruism and respect for life, vs evil, implying selfishness...

also, systemd is awesome.

Thomas Ward

@KazWolfe Neutral Evil

Kaz Wolfe

7:51 PM

demmit.

wait, we elected a Ne/Ev to be mod?

Thomas Ward

I'm not that evil

lol.

but the D&D online test says i'm Ne/Ev.

I don't believe it

Zacharee1

wat

REVIEW

pee-pee-ell

Kaz Wolfe

not until i repcap

Zacharee1

nao

Byte Commander

@ThomasWard Online test? loves stupid online tests...

Zacharee1

7:56 PM

@ByteCommander i.e. all of us

@Serg ew :p

Byte Commander

I am no American, but I guess my laziness weights that up.

Kaz Wolfe

resumes being Ch/Ne

Zacharee1

wat

Kaz Wolfe

also if we elected a Ne/Ev as a mod, I have a chance! :D

Kaz Wolfe

8:09 PM

Aaaand every secret hat just got unlocked.

thanks @Videonauth!

Zacharee1

lol

Videonauth

@KazWolfe btw i wasnt awake this morning , guess my cat moved the mouse or hit the keyboard so the computer got out of the screensaver

CAT

Cat.

:3

8:19 PM

does anyone active have a tumbleweed question that hasn't been answered yet?

Zacharee1

what's the threshold

Kaz Wolfe

zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week

Zacharee1

oh

nope

Videonauth

huh since when do i get flag informations (for chat) already

Zacharee1

since 10k network rep

Videonauth

8:24 PM

ah ok

well dunno what to do with this one i leave it be simply

Kaz Wolfe

found one. User will (hopefully) be back, and i hope to god they know about accepting answers.

Videonauth

LUL

Kaz Wolfe

ok, he definitely does. now to wait for more hats.

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A: Dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04

You can say hi to your friends from me. It's only hard if you don't follow a good tutorial to how-to install article. It is very wisely and useful for the future that you understand other OS such as macOS(I learned most thing such as terminal from Ubuntu) There has been many tutorials in the ...

Posted the inverse of question asked.

Zacharee1

huh?

Kaz Wolfe

OP asked "how do i install windows on my S76 laptop", answerer posted how to install Ubuntu alongside windows.

Zacharee1

8:33 PM

ah

Kaz Wolfe

oh, and @Zacharee1:

I've done my part.

Zacharee1

yay

Kaz Wolfe

8:48 PM

i did that at 2 AM my time.

Byte Commander

@KazWolfe And the FPs? Go go go!

Kaz Wolfe

@ByteCommander i don't do FPs.

They cause me too much pain.

Seth

haha, like clockwork fits me almost perfectly by default

Kaz Wolfe

@Seth so why aren't you wearing it

Seth

@KazWolfe Caching.

Kaz Wolfe

8:53 PM

@Seth ah, kk :D

Byte Commander

Finally completed the D&D test, which proves me to be truly neutral.

shrug

Videonauth

@ByteCommander link ?

Byte Commander

archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20001222b

Serg

hullo world

Byte Commander

hullo Serg

Zacharee1

9:06 PM

hullo DerpWolf

Serg

did i miss anything fun on AU so far ?

Zacharee1

I mean, it's AU

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg not really.

Zacharee1

always something stupid happening

like @KazWolfe's various antics

Kaz Wolfe

all secret hats were now discovered but nothing fun. except the review queue.

Byte Commander

9:08 PM

We found out that Thomas is a Neutral/Evil character on the Dungeons&Dragons scale.

Zacharee1

lel

where is this scale

Serg

Nah, Thomas is a fluffy bunny, i know that deep inside my stomach

Zacharee1

WHOA

that FLAG

Kaz Wolfe

link?

Byte Commander

1 hour ago, by Kaz Wolfe

Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethical and moral perspective of player characters, non-player characters, and creatures. The original version of D&D allowed players to choose among three alignments when creating a character: lawful, implying honor and respect for society's rules; chaotic, implying rebelliousness and individualism; and neutral, seeking a balance between the extremes. The 1977 release of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set introduced a second axis of good, implying altruism and respect for life, vs evil, implying selfishness...

Zacharee1

9:11 PM

@KazWolfe chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/34455934#34455934

Byte Commander

At the bottom of the article is a link to an online test.

Serg

@KazWolfe that redirection question you answered probably has a dupe, yet I can't find one

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg doesn't matter, still got goats.

and i still need to repcap.

Serg

@KazWolfe have nothing against that. Just saying.

Wonder if i should go answer some or wait till new UTC day hits

Zacharee1

Lawful Good

huehuehue

Serg

9:19 PM

I am lawful derp

Zacharee1

tru

Serg

I derp therefore i am

IanC

I'm not sure if I feel good that the function I wrote compiled and seems to be working on the first try, or if I feel suspicious about it..

Thomas Ward

@Serg WOULD YOU CARE TO TEST THIS ASSUMPTION IN BATTLE MY FRIEND

Zacharee1

when is MetaBot gonna pick up my Q?

probably not as fast as it found Kaz's

Thomas Ward

9:28 PM

@ByteCommander Actually I answered these questions more truthfully

i ended up with Chaotic Evil

Zacharee1

o_O

Byte Commander

Wasn't that to expect?

Thomas Ward

though I've drifted between Chaotic Evil, Neutral Evil, Lawful Evil, and Chaotic Neutral before

Byte Commander

The tendency is visible though

Zacharee1

you're Quadpolar?

Thomas Ward

9:29 PM

I'm omnipolar

I AM EVERYTHING

ALL ALIGNMENTS

ALL OF THEM

Zacharee1

sigh

Thomas Ward

AND I CHOOSE WHICH I AM AT EACH MOMENT MUAHAHAH

shoots self in foot

anyways

Zacharee1

and to think, I voted you mod :p

Thomas Ward

i'm actually just tired right now XD

Zacharee1

no vodka this time?

Thomas Ward

9:30 PM

nop

just tired, long week

want sleep

Zacharee1

slep

Kaz Wolfe

@ThomasWard True Neutral.

Thomas Ward

@KazWolfe with the capacity to choose what i choose to be at any given moment

o/ @Takkat

o/ @Hizqeel

Kaz Wolfe

question. there's a question where there's a lot of reasons for an error to happen.

i don't know which one, but would it still be a good idea to post an answer covering one of those errors?

Hizqeel

@ThomasWard What is o/ ? :\

Zacharee1

9:34 PM

@Hizqeel means hello: o/ is like a person waving

Kaz Wolfe

damn, ninja'd.

Zacharee1

or \o

or o\

Serg

@ThomasWard nah, i dont battle for no reason

Zacharee1

or \o/

Hizqeel

OooooO @ThomasWard O/ a big one :) @Zacharee1 o/\o

Zacharee1

9:35 PM

lol

Hizqeel

i like that :D

Byte Commander

@Zacharee1 That's more like a person hitting their head...

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander upside down

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Q: Very Low Quality flag still appears in the review queue

I noticed that the VLQ flag seems to have been taken away, which makes a lot of sense, since it never really fit anywhere. Flagging an answer normally shows this: Flagging from review still shows the old dialog: (From Late Answers) It still shows the VLQ option. If it's been removed, sho...

bug

IanC

@Serg are you busy atm man?

Kaz Wolfe

9:42 PM

woo, 30 away from repcap

Serg

@IanC not really, whats up ?

Kaz Wolfe

also, unpopular opinion: I like Windows ACL/permissions a lot more than I do Linux permissions.

you can be way more verbose with them and assign anyone their own set of permissions as opposed to the relative shotgun blast of rwx.

IanC

@Serg mind going to utox?

Serg

@IanC sure. Give me about 10 mins

IanC

no hurry!

just ping me when you log there @Serg

Zacharee1

9:46 PM

@KazWolfe I hate Windows permissions. They end up in a loop sometimes. Like if I want to delete a system folder, I'll need permission from TrustedInstaller. So I try to take ownership of it and its subdirectories. If that works (whole other story when it doesn't), when I try to delete again, I need permission from myself!

Kaz Wolfe

that's windows being stupid with TrustedInstaller though.

Seth

@KazWolfe very unpopular. Windows permissions are disgustingly awful

Kaz Wolfe

@Seth still better (imo) to be able to assign permissions to a user without making yet another group.

Byte Commander

Linux supports ACLs as well, you know?

Kaz Wolfe

i mean, linux permissions are more elegant, but windows perms are more powerful

@ByteCommander i do know, they're still occasionally a pain to use though.

Seth

9:49 PM

@KazWolfe simple is powerful.

Zacharee1

@KazWolfe well it happens with SYSTEM, and other users too. Not only limited to deletions either. And I still can't find a way to just override any permissions and delete stuff. Even an admin CMD will get permission denied

Seth

I've spent hours dealing with windows permissions issues..

Zacharee1

@Seth tell that to Apple. I don't think they got that memo

Kaz Wolfe

@Seth simple (without ACLs) doesn't allow me to give jdoe access to a folder without making a new group or putting them in an existing one.

Zacharee1

@KazWolfe it's not like that's hard to do

although I do agree it's weird

Kaz Wolfe

9:51 PM

i just don't like things like group-for-accessing-some-random-folder-42984 cluttering up my system.

Seth

@KazWolfe that's exactly what ACLs are for though. Not to mention exactly how Windows does it.

Zacharee1

@KazWolfe I just don't like not being able to control my files :p

Seth

Windows certainly makes it easier to set up from the get go, but it's a lot harder to maintain.

Kaz Wolfe

@Zacharee1 well that's windows being stupid because it doesn't have a true root. it's split up into god knows how many places with all sorts of annoying variables.

Zacharee1

@KazWolfe and that's a permission system problem

one that imo overrides the convenience of individual permissions

Kaz Wolfe

9:56 PM

still, i don't want to create a special group just for a single folder that's accessed by a hodgepodge of people.

i mean, yeah, ACLs, but those aren't always an option for reasons.

It's a miracle!

A new user has sensible tags!

Zacharee1

wot

TheXed

anyone want to see some pictures?

Zacharee1

sure

TheXed

10:11 PM

Okay don't laugh too hard...

hmm the upload keeps failing...

Byte Commander

Probably too large?

Scale it down or reduce quality

Kaz Wolfe

TheXed

it worked last night...

1drv.ms/i/s!Aiq_fp3hXV2IjctayR0tZJMjKdMAqw

Byte Commander

Where's the awesomeness?

TheXed

I never said it was awesome...

1drv.ms/i/s!Aiq_fp3hXV2IjctbLy4kA7TpURg8fw

I just said it was a picture

Seth

10:27 PM

@KazWolfe what is that from? It looks familiar.

Kaz Wolfe

@Seth it's a meme.

Caddyshack, though.

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander best Who episode EVER. Goosebumps all over 1st time I saw that

Byte Commander

Unfortunately I haven't seen "Blink" (guessing this is what you're referring to) yet

Kaz Wolfe

SCPs are better.

Byte Commander

Last episode was last year's Christmas special with the dream crabs.

Kaz Wolfe

10:30 PM

so... question. How would I turn this question into a +3?

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander yes

and I meant that as "best single Doctor Who episode".
There are a few multi-episode that where better story-wise

Kaz Wolfe

and i repcapped, so it's time to reboot into windows.... sigh

Byte Commander

So about the dream crabs, that means the two episodes where they get to know Missy were all dreamt?

Starting after Danny Pink died and before Clara threatened to throw away the Tardis keys?

Rinzwind

yes

Byte Commander

So Missy is still alive - but he now knows her?

Rinzwind

10:44 PM

spoiler: Missy = The Master

Serg

Only 20 more points to get my scripts badge

Byte Commander

@Rinzwind That has already been revealed in the last double-episode.

Rinzwind

get to it! :=)

@ByteCommander did you see the xmas special?

Byte Commander

But I never saw the Master, so I don't get much from that info.

Xmas special was the dream crabs.

Rinzwind

no the last one ;)

Byte Commander

10:48 PM

no

Rinzwind

tsk

In June the new series begins <3

ah well

see youall next time

Zacharee1

oolala askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/659861

@Zanna come back to chat!

o/

yay :D

o.O

10:53 PM

:D

Zacharee1

@Zanna I see you've been attacking Ubuntu One

Zanna

chat is buzzing I see

Zacharee1

sort of

I'm fooling around with Emotion AOSP on my Note, now that CM is dead

Zanna

@Zacharee1 yeah... trying to balance that out a bit now by attacking the CVs in mod tools, so as to cut down the queue at the same time as pumping it with new stuff...

@Zacharee1 so gutted about CM! Any forks?

Zacharee1

@Zanna nice

Zanna

10:56 PM

How is Emotion?

Zacharee1

@Zanna Well LineageOS is the official continuation, just no longer under Cyanogen Inc. But there's also Resurrection Remix (which uses CM as a base), Paranoid Android, AOKP, AICP, Emotion AOSP, straight-up AOSP, and probably some others

@Zanna It's blazing. Two year old Note 4, running about as fast as my V20

Zanna

lots to explore then :)

Zacharee1

yeah

but it's definitely more fractured now

Zanna

@Zacharee1 heh that's awesome :)

@Zacharee1 I guess something will rise to the top after a while

Zacharee1

we'll see and hope

Zanna

10:57 PM

yepyep

Zacharee1

It looks like a lot of people are going to stay with LineageOS though, so that's good

Kind of sad that we'll probably not see a theme engine in CM/LOS 14

Zanna

yeah :(

Zacharee1

but Substratum is definitely nice

just bought a full-black theme for it and it's pretty good

my OLED screen thanks me :p

Zanna

I've not seen any of my Linuxy friends for a while. DIdn't ask my bro what he's doing about CM when we talked over Hangouts at Xmas (he didn't have a chance to come home from Japan this year) my mum gets kind of impatient with any techtalk haha

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