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@ByteCommander That can be easily done. I'll need a different icon though, because it is gnome's stock icon. I'll be driving now, so leave me comments if you have more here. I'll check when I'm home

Byte Commander

1:03 AM

@Serg Maybe interesting Area 51 proposal for you area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/94001/ukrainian-language

avery

Is changing username on ubuntu a crazy idea?

Byte Commander

Should be not that big problem, as the system mostly relates on the user ID and not the name, I think.

Not sure whether you can easily rename the home directory though.

In any case, a backup is always your friend.

avery

I'll take a backup and attempt stuff tomorrow, thanks.

Byte Commander

@Serg Might also interest you: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/92460/…

avery

Oh also, it might get confusing, so I'm reposting this here.

in The Bridge, 2 days ago, by Avery

PSA: Arda is now Avery, he/his is now she/her.

Zacharee1

1:16 AM

@avery thanks for sharing

@Fabby what happened to the MetaSE post?

yay I can receive WiFi calls with these Unifi WAPs

I never got them on the Linksys

Serg

1:37 AM

I'm thinking I won't be posting any answers tonight, since I've already had a shot and half of brandy

Celebrating my 10 years

holly sh!t . . . 10 years . . . I almost wanna cry

chaskes

Congratulations!

Serg

Thanks ^^

chaskes

You're on the road to be one helluva an open source developer.

Zacharee1

10 years of what

@avery do you have a Discord?

chaskes

Of being in the US

Serg

1:45 AM

@Zacharee1 10 years of derpwolf derping thorough the United States of A

Zacharee1

oh

coolio

are you a full-fledged citizen?

Serg

Yep, I am, even have the certificate of citizenship

Zacharee1

noice

Serg

I'm a certified citizen

Zacharee1

when did you learn teh inglesh

Serg

1:48 AM

I inglished my whole life . . . Really. I started in like 1st grade, which wasn't anything special. In school you mostly learn bunch of grammar, and no real experience.

Then after I came to the US, the real learning and practice began

Zacharee1

hue

There's a 48-port complete PoE smart switch from UniFi o_O

it's $835 though :p

Serg

I remember when I was in like 3rd grade or so, there were some american students who came to our town, and visited the school. I was reading a poem in English to one of the guys with green hair. "Good morning , good morning, good morning to you, good morning , good morning, I'm glad to see you". I'm also perplexed what the heck american students were doing in god-forsaken town as mine. We're literally in the middle of nowhere

Zacharee1

lol

chaskes

Peace Corps?

Serg

Do Peace Corps wear kind of punk-rock style clothes and have green-dyed hair ? I think those guys were like college or high-school level folks, doing some kind of exchange or travel-study program

chaskes

1:53 AM

They are hipsters and wear whatever is trendy at the time...so still could have been them.

What year was that?

Serg

1999 ? 1998 ? something around that time

chaskes

Just wondering if it was post-Soviet, but still guessing it was PC

I forget it's been 25+ yrs since 1991

avery

@Zacharee1 yes, ao#4273

Zacharee1

thanks

Serg

yeah . . . it's been over a quarter century. . . and Im gonna be 27 this year . . . reality sinks in . . . hard . . .

chaskes

2:08 AM

I don't know how it feels to you now, but the events of 1989-1991 (really starting in 1982 in Poland) just seemed unbelievable at the time.

Serg

I was born in 1990 , so I grew up after all that

chaskes

But that's what I mean, to you it's a could-have-been-different and something to be learned about afterwards.

Totally.

so cool

^^ funny

2:29 AM

I think i will have to commit a few changes to github tomorrow. I don't have enough brainpower left for tonight.

Just glad i managed to put the new indicator onto github and into PPA today

Seth

@Zacharee1 hahahahaa

been there done that so many times..

Zacharee1

lol

Seth

I always thought it was ironic that if you saw that you already owned it.

Zacharee1

well it was for the previews it showed before the movie

chaskes

but the extra-high volume is the funny part

Nathan Osman

3:01 AM

Here's a picture I took.

Imgur scaled it down a bit:

Original resolution is 10204x1600.

chaskes

Nice. Is that Alberta?

Nathan Osman

Yes indeed.

And there's the same view at night.

chaskes

That's impressive

Nathan Osman

I goofed up the middle part of the night picture.

I must have moved the camera since the image is blurred a bit.

chaskes

Was wondering about that

Here's the closest city to me at night (not my pic):

Nathan Osman

3:13 AM

Nice!

chaskes

At least I had the day off Friday ;)

Serg

3:31 AM

@terdon cc ^

Nathan Osman

Lol.

So true.

Serg

As long as regex editing goes only to stdout and not back to the original file - it's OK. Even if you mess up, the original file is OK. But if you try to do in-place editing without backing up that data, yer gonna have a baaaad time

chaskes

@Serg Have you looked at this question? askubuntu.com/q/874763/117123

Serg

@chaskes taken a brief look. I've no clue what OP might have done. the import error could potentially be a spelling issue, but others are baffling

Kaz Wolfe

4:25 AM

and bounty on one of my questions... i'm getting annoyed.

+150 if anyone wants to help me fix broadcom wifi

link: askubuntu.com/q/858265/208574

hi

Hi.

Hello.

Hai

what's going on so far

Kaz Wolfe

Still hating my wifi.

to the point where i'm offering a bounty.

Edity

4:36 AM

oh i see

Kaz Wolfe

i need to answer some questions now.

Edity

rep :3

Seth

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A: How do you get a UUID from a a device on the grub2 prompt?

The ls -l command should be revealing.

How does that reveal the UUID? o_O

Edity

4:52 AM

O_O

Eliah Kagan

@Seth The GRUB prompt has an ls command that lists devices.

Seth

@EliahKagan Ah. I figured it might be something like that, although it sounds a little unintuitive.

Eliah Kagan

Do you think I should edit that screenshot (cropped) into the answer?

Kaz Wolfe

another user running chmod rampantly... askubuntu.com/q/874782/208574

we need a Darwin Awards for things like this.

Um, @Seth, why is recovery a synonym of data-recovery? Not all recovery-type options are data-related.

i guess that should be a metapost.

Eliah Kagan

Do we even need the recovery tag? Should we retag the questions that have it and discourage its use?

Kaz Wolfe

5:04 AM

yeah, saw the metapost on that just now.

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Q: The "recovery" tag

Just now, I saw recovery. I'm not sure what to do about it, but it seems it needs to go, because it isn't specific enough. File recovery? Recovering a system to a usable state? The tag has a variety of questions in it. Perhaps it should be blacklisted and it be recommended that more specific tags...

so just ignore my crazy ranting.

Eliah Kagan

Well I think you're right, though. It seems to me recovery should be like installation -- not a synonym, and with a tag wiki explicitly telling people not to use it and what to use instead.

Kaz Wolfe

i mean, most recovery is data-recovery.

i was thinking more about system recovery (or recovering from Horrible Mistakes[tm])

still making a metapost, will propose if that's okay, @EliahKagan

Eliah Kagan

Yes, please do post.

I mean, if that's how people use the recovery tag (same as data-recovery) then I guess it's okay to keep it a synonym.

But I think your original point is correct -- there are a lot of other things called "recovery." Like recovery mode.

Nathan Osman

@KazWolfe there's also sanity recovery.

Edity

i wonder what to do with BoW..

Kaz Wolfe

5:16 AM

posted, waiting for au meta thing to pick it up.

Edity

au meta bot*

it takes 3-2 mins i think

have da upvote

who can blacklist tags?

Eliah Kagan

I don't think installation is actually blacklisted. We still have 7,428 questions with it (unfortunately), and when I add it on the ask question page, there's no error -- though I do see the conspicuous tag wiki about how I shouldn't use it. If installation doesn't merit full blacklisting then recovery might not either. (But there are historical differences, so I am not concluding it shouldn't.) Aside from that, I agree entirely with the meta post (and have upvoted it).

Kaz Wolfe

looks like it is blacklisted? @EliahKagan

Eliah Kagan

Huh. I didn't get that. Does it only come up when you actually submit the question?

Kaz Wolfe

yep

i just tried to submit an empty title/body question with only the installation tag and that came up.

Eliah Kagan

5:27 AM

Ah. It is, then. I guess blacklisting doesn't require that no questions exist with the tag, just that no questions are asked with it (or have it added by editing). Thanks.

For anyone coming here from meta or wherever, let it be known that I was totally wrong when I suggested the installation tag wasn't really blacklisted. :)

Kaz Wolfe

@EliahKagan fun fact too, you can reply to yourself,

@KazWolfe like this.

Eliah Kagan

Yeah, I've done that before. I don't know why I didn't just do it then.

Kaz Wolfe

alright, just wanted to make sure you're aware

@EliahKagan well, it is sort of a weird/involved process

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Q: Give [recovery] the [installation] treatment

Let's talk for a minute about the recovery tag, again. There are many different kinds of recovery, including (but not limited to): data-recovery, for recovering lost data, password-recovery, for recovering a lost password, recovery-mode, for doing recovery things, System Recovery, for recoveri...

discussion tags tag-blacklist-request

Eliah Kagan

@Edity I think it's still necessary to ask Stack Exchange employees to do it. I don't think moderators can actually edit a site's tag blacklist.

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Q: Give moderators the ability to manage blacklisted tags

The request to Implement a Tag Black List was first raised back in Aug '09, but as one of the mods on English Language & Usage pointed out only a few days ago, even moderators don't have access to modify the blacklist; only devs have that ability (I'm not a mod, by the way). Can moderators have...

feature-request status-declined tags moderator-tools tag-blacklist

Kaz Wolfe

5:31 AM

there it is

@EliahKagan looking at the answer, they don't seem like they want to let mods for whatever reason, "too extreme" or similar, i'd guess

Edity

k

Kaz Wolfe

i'd also like shog to re-eval this but that's not happening.

Pilot6

11:04 AM

@karel What exactly do you call "being mean"? This is about this thread askubuntu.com/a/874859/167850

You downvoted two correct answers just because I downvoted one incorrect of yours? How old are you?

Mark Yisri

-1

Q: learning linux server and apache tomcat server

Im new to Linux and i want to learn Apache tomcat server and samba server could you please tell me what are the things that is should learn

server

I need some moderator help: @JourneymanGeek

What to do about the above?

Pilot6

11:22 AM

@MarkYisri What kind of help do you need?

Mark Yisri

Read the comments.

in that question

Pilot6

And what is your problem? You can always flag the question as too broad or off-topic.

The question already has 2 close votes.

Mark Yisri

well, when I told him that he should state a problem, he just says the title of his question.

@Pilot6 I couldn't see those. ok thanks

Pilot6

Just flag and do not worry. The rest will be handled by the system.

Mark Yisri

@Pilot6 okay, just flagged as "too broad"

David Foerster

11:33 AM

Hi all!

spam alert: askubuntu.com/a/874837/175814

Pilot6

@DavidFoerster I was the first to flag it ;-)

Mark Yisri

i flagged too @Pilot6 @David

Pilot6

@MarkYisri Job's done!

Mark Yisri

grr, the Apache tomcat guy is getting annoying

he just repeats something over and over

Pilot6

@MarkYisri I sugget to leave them alone.

Journeyman Geek

11:38 AM

@MarkYisri I'm not a mod here.

Nor a high rep user

but I'd totally think something like that clearly is seeking product, service or learning material recommendations...

cl-netbox

12:20 PM

Hello everybody ! :)

@Pilot6 Hello Pilot6 ! :) I just compensated the downvote with my upvote ! :)

@UbuntuUser and what do we see here my friend ... ? :D

Zacharee1

12:45 PM

@DavidFoerster late reply much? o_O

lotta French spam lately

NBC has an overlay over its videos if it detects an ad blocker, but it still loads the video behind it, so I can just delete the overlay element

Byte Commander

Sounds like a job for µBlock Origin.

terdon

1:01 PM

asking about generic Linux questions is off-topic. — Mark Yisri 2 hours ago

@MarkYisri no it isn't! Asking about stuff specific to other Linux distributions and not applicable to Ubuntu is off topic.

Asking about anything that is applicable to Ubuntu but also to non-Ubuntu Linux is perfectly off topic.

Largely because if we were to only accept questions 100% specific to Ubuntu and not applicable to anything else, we would have about 4 questions on the site.

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Q: Are "not only Ubuntu-specific" questions on-topic?

I know this question has been asked and answered already here: How do we tell if a question belongs here, or rather at stackoverflow/superuser? However this topic came up recently again in a discussion in the comments of a question about sudo, where an user claimed the question be off-topic bec...

discussion

cl-netbox

Good afternoon terdon ! :)

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander I actually had to disable Privacy Badger and Windscribe last week, because they triggered the adblock blocker

only ABP bypassed it

Byte Commander

Eew, ABP.

I recently got rid of it.

Zacharee1

why

it works well

Byte Commander

It's slower and hogs more resources than the others and many people are unhappy with the "acceptable ads" that go through.

Not sure if I had read about some privacy problems as well, might be confusing that with another add-on

Zacharee1

1:13 PM

I like the idea of acceptable ads

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander The problem is that there is no better equivalent available ... Good afternoon ! :)

Zacharee1

because sites do need ads

just not all the banner, pop-up and insertion ads

cl-netbox

@Zacharee1 I agree ... good afternoon ! :)

Zacharee1

hello

Byte Commander

I thought so too, but now switched to µBO after getting surprised by the WOT scandal.

Zacharee1

1:15 PM

wot

cl-netbox

Do you see the avatar today @ByteCommander ? :)

Byte Commander

I'm on my home laptop, it always worked there.

Zacharee1

alright, 4th adblocker added

Byte Commander

Problem is my work/study laptop.

@Zacharee1 One advantage of µBlock O. is that you can manually block every HTML element on a site by right-clicking it. So in case it misses a banner, simply add a rule for it in 10 seconds

Zacharee1

ABP can do the same

cl-netbox

1:20 PM

@ByteCommander @Zacharee1 : I see one downside of uBlock -> Updated: June 2, 2015 ! :)

Byte Commander

@cl-netbox uBlock Origin, not UBlock.

addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ublock-origin updated 2016/12/19

Zacharee1

also, the extension doesn't really need to be updated

it's the lists that matter

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander ah okay ... missed that O ... :) gonna check it out ... :)

cl-netbox

1:34 PM

@ByteCommander Installed ... what I see is that EasyList is included ... just as in ABP ... isn't that the list where the privacy concerns came from @Zacharee1 ?

idk

v(°_°)v

Zoidberg?

wat?

1:35 PM

No Decapodian, no.

How do you get that idea?

Serg

@ByteCommander your shrug icons don't work as expected eh ?

looks like the claws

It's an arm.

\ _(^_^)_/

The lower tip of the v is the elbow. :P

Zacharee1

1:37 PM

looks like Zoidberg

Byte Commander

@Serg maybe that one is easier understandable...

Ubuntu User

@cl-netbox I don't have that!!! :(

@cl-netbox Well I got xp pro to work!

Bye!

cl-netbox

@UbuntuUser which ubuntu version are you running ? mine is 16.10 ! :)

Rinzy ! :) Good afternoon @Rinzwind ! :)

Serg

well, i am

Rinzwind

HEYA boxy

Serg

1:42 PM

fecked

Rinzwind

16.10 me too but looking at 17.04 :-)

cl-netbox

@Serg Hello fecked Sergiy ! :D

Serg

I just sneezed and my lower back got the jolt of pain .

Journeyman Geek

@UbuntuUser my condolences.

Zacharee1

@Serg wat do

@Serg fun

cl-netbox

1:44 PM

@JourneymanGeek hahaha ... yes indeed : CONDOLENCES @UbuntuUser ! :D ... for runinng the latest and greatest operating system out there ... :D :D :D

Journeyman Geek

(I have a posready2009 eval VM ;p)

Its... XP with nearly everything stripped out

Byte Commander

@Serg lumbago?

We call that "Hexenschuss" (witch-shot) in German.

Journeyman Geek

lol

misses having a comfy chair ._.

Serg

@ByteCommander I've no idea what's it called but it hurts :)

cl-netbox

@Serg get yourself some ... you know what ... :D

Serg

1:48 PM

I had some brandy yesterday to celebrate my 10 year anniversary . but i can't have any of that now - i've got to go to work later

i hope i didnt pinch a nerve again

i dont have money for chiropractor

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander To be honest ... I can't see much difference to ABP or advantages ... but it works as it should @Zacharee1 ! :)

Byte Commander

2:04 PM

@Serg yet another reason why the Americans insisting on no health insurance are dumb.

In Germany that would be covered by your statutory health insurance.

Rinzwind

@Serg my insursance allows me for 50 visits a year to one if I ever need one.

Serg

@ByteCommander Health insurance here is still expensive thing

Byte Commander

Expensive, but if you ever need it, it's worth it.

Rinzwind

@Serg 130 euro a month. including dental care. I have to pay the 1st 385 euro myself and then have 450 euro a year for dental care and 100 euro a year for glasses.

any doctor visit is free. medicine after that I reach that 385 is free too

Serg

3:39 PM

bad situation. Lower back pain, phone running out of battery, and i mght have forgotten laptop charger

IanC

hello

good afternoon

Serg

hi

IanC

how are you doing @Serg?

Serg

@IanC not too good. Lower back pain, low on phone battery, showed up too early for work, so now have to wait one hour

IanC

@Serg damn, hope the rest of the day gets better for you! How is the new semester week schedule working out?

Serg

3:52 PM

@IanC ok actually. it looks scarry but i have lots f time for homework. Plus i like that i work on weekends. Less time to argue with parents,haha

Eliah Kagan

Should HTTP links like http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/xdotool be edited to APT links like apt://xdotool/?

IanC

@Serg working on weekends/holidays is alright when you get used to it, at least I've done it for a year and I actually sometimes enjoy it

Eliah Kagan

@EliahKagan I'm asking in connection with this suggested edit: askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/669323

IanC

@EliahKagan maybe the link works with both protocols?

I can open it with a browser (that later tries to install the package with aptURL)

Serg

@IanC yeah, and there's less people on campus, so not as busy

Zanna

4:00 PM

@EliahKagan the first one redirects me to apt.ubuntu.com/p/xdotool and proceeds to launch a GUI installation dialog for the package

Eliah Kagan

So, no reason to prefer the second one? Do you think the suggested edit should be rejected then?

Zanna

I don't see any use for it... I skipped it as I'm so much lazier than you

Eliah Kagan

:)

Zanna

now I rejected

Eliah Kagan

So, what's going on here? It seems like at some point too much was edited out, and now it no longer asks a question. This isn't a reason to keep it closed -- we can just edit back in whatever is missing. But I'm not sure exactly how much description should be put back.

0

Q: No wifi on dell inspiron 3543

Here is the output from running the Wireless Info Script

16.04 wireless

Btw that relates to this item in the reopen queue: askubuntu.com/review/reopen/669322

Zanna

4:08 PM

oops, careless of me, I edited their edit without retrieving the original question from the revision history. I've put the information back in now

editing again haha

Eliah Kagan

Thanks. Now I don't have to figure out what to put back. :)

Serg

@Zacharee1 you haz time for making two icons plz ?

Zacharee1

uh

maybe

Zanna

@EliahKagan thanks for catching the mess I made of it :S

Eliah Kagan

No problem. ...So, they've tried everything suggested on the question it was duped to?

Serg

4:12 PM

@Zacharee1 nothing complex, just color and gray icon. Should be something like clipboard icon

Zacharee1

ok

Zanna

I deleted that part, because it pre-dated any dupe suggestion, so we have no idea what they have tried

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