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Zacharee1

4:14 PM

@Serg need more script help

RobotHumans

anyone have a time or desire to review a resume? my typical review person is being sluggish...

Serg

@Zacharee1 ask and you shall receive

Zacharee1

@Serg I have a path that I know will be /data/app/com.zacharee1.modcontrol-<something>/base.apk

how can I account for that wildcard in a cp statement?

Serg

/data/app/com.zacharee1.modcontrol-*/base.apk

Zacharee1

oh that easy?

Serg

4:17 PM

that could be sufficient if you expect only to have single path like that under /data/app

Zacharee1

thanks

@Serg should only be one yeah

Serg

Well, that should work then

cl-netbox

@Serg easy things mostly work best ! :) Hi Sergiy ! :)

Jacob Vlijm

@RobotHumans I don't think I am the best person to advice you in that. Whenever I write one, it is usually rewritten 100% after having it reviewed :)

Serg

@cl-netbox Not always true. Hello again !

cl-netbox

4:19 PM

@Serg I know ... that's why I said : mostly ! :D

RobotHumans

@JacobVlijm np. thanks for responding anyway...

Byte Commander

Oha. That kitty...

4

RobotHumans

could have just put a cucumber in front of the pipe, and the cat would have backed out

and this is why i'm not a fireman

Serg

4:35 PM

I need a clipboard manager for my brain . . . Because every time I have a thought today, it's gone within 30 seconds, and I cannot recall what the heck I wanted to look up in that new chrome tab I opened and was staring at for 15 minutes

Seth

4:46 PM

sounds like you need more sleep.

Jacob Vlijm

^ Definitely

Serg

4:58 PM

It's one of those things I always need, but can never get

also . . .the vending machine for coffee is out of paper cups, so I cannot get coffee today

Feck

Jacob Vlijm

@Serg you might want to request an image- replacement here: omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/09/… it says assing profiles :). Somehow I have the feeling it should be Assign profiles :)

... but this one might to better on Google :)

Seth

@Zanna @muru did the image/link converter script run before Marco added HTTPS to hostmar.co and thus miss all of them or did it just not catch them all?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:28 PM

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Q: Why is php not sending mails to local domain?

I am running Ubuntu Server 16.04.2. My domain.pl A record leads to this server IP. On this server I installed LAMP via tasksel command. After installing wordpress (I used letsencrypt as well) I noticed, that any mails sent by php (I guess that's sendmail(), can't really tell as I have only basic ...

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5:42 PM

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Q: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation

Running xubuntu 16.04, with xfce im trying to use ssh keys with passphrases. I would like to add my passphrased key to my ssh-agent but i dont know why i cant add it. I dont have gnome keyring enabled or anything alike in my startup. ssh-add privatekey, adds the key but when i try to ssh again it...

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Serg

5:57 PM

@JacobVlijm No, that's a spelling mistake in my original code. Thanks for spotting

Zanna

6:15 PM

@Seth it seems that it just failed to catch the inlined ones

Seth

@Zanna did it fix any?

seems like Marco deployed HTTPS the same day the script ran so it's a matter of when exactly it ran

Zanna

Let me check...

Um.... it looks like no

This is going to take a long time >_<

Seth

@Zanna no to what?

oh, no to fixed any. @Zanna let me ask SE to rerun it.

Zanna

Yeah not fixed. Sorry my connection seems to be really bad, I'll be back in about an hour.

Rerun would be great haha

Seth

6:31 PM

@Zanna I think chat is being spotty today. my chat tabs keep reloading and reloading.

Serg

Nothing like that with mine

m0sa

Can I ask you to rerun it on Ask Ubuntu? We had a bunch of images hosted on our own server that didn't support HTTPS yet. Support was added literally hours after you run it (our bad) and now we have hundreds of these to update. Feel free to pop into AU chat if you have any questions: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/201/ask-ubuntu-general-room — ɥʇǝS 4 mins ago

yo

Seth

hi @m0sa!

m0sa

hi @Seth

what image hosting domain are we talking about?

Seth

@m0sa hostmar.co/software-small and hostmar.co/software-large are the image URLs in question

Ask Ubuntu Meta

6:36 PM

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Q: Search not indexing groups of URLs

There are a couple of images used on Ask Ubuntu a lot (namely bit.ly/software-[large, small] and hostmar.co/software-[large, small]). All of the bit.ly images are outdated and need to be updated to the hostmar.co links, however when I search using url:bit.ly/software-large or url:bit.ly/so...

bug search

Seth

@m0sa so AU has a special use case where we link those images and a special URI to allow easy one click installation of software mentioned in a post. Example here: askubuntu.com/a/409977/44179. If you're running ubuntu and click the image it will open the software store on Ubuntu and direct you to the software in question

We're using a custom domain because the icon for the software center changes every few years and then the images become outdated. So one of our moderators runs hostmar.co and updates the imgur redirect any time that happens. Not the perfect solution, but it works.

Until late on the 9th it didn't support HTTPS though.

m0sa

ah

Seth

I hope it's not too much work to rerun it. I understand if that's not possible though :)

m0sa

I only see 7 remaining posts

Seth

@m0sa oh really? Either we're faster at this than I think or search is still bugged. No worries then, we'll just fix the rest :)

m0sa

6:42 PM

ah..

that's probably because the elastic index is out of date

Seth

@m0sa would that explain this bug I just reported?

m0sa

we had a bug, where we didn't index image urls for a long time

Seth

ohhh. That explains a lot of things.

m0sa

yup

I'll answer in more detail there

jokerdino

Thank you!

Seth

6:44 PM

@m0sa awesome, thank you!

m0sa

don't tell anyone, but iirc there was a bug in the regex parsing the generated html for urls :P

jokerdino

Would that explain why Shog's script was broken too?

m0sa

something like (a|img) href="(...)"

Seth

@jokerdino yeah, that's what he said. It only looked in the search index.

guys, when he says don't tell anyone it means don't star it :P

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m0sa

we planed on using the elastic index for the rebake initially too :)

Seth

6:47 PM

:)

jokerdino

How long before it is fixed? Because we are itching to get started on the cleanup project :)

RobotHumans

I feel a star purge coming on...

Zanna

7:06 PM

@jokerdino muru forked the query to exclude bit.ly and hostmar.co links, so we have >900 to do without any of that anyway ;)

@Zanna link?

@Zanna easy peasy

oh, wait, nvm.

@muru Just wanted to let you know your accepted answers from me have resulted in a Q&A that others will hopefully benefit from: askubuntu.com/questions/892076/…

Zanna

He also checked the revision history to exclude items updated by community mod when the script was run...

That must have been done not through SEDE because the data is too old

So I'm not sure what he did

@jokerdino yeah we are on it :D

Oh he used curl

I didn't get the ping because of a typo

WinEunuuchs2Unix

7:11 PM

@Zanna I was using curl to get sunrise and sunset times from www.dateandtime.com and it was taking 12 seconds. I replaced curl with wget and it only took about 2 seconds.... sorry for butting into conv :/

Zanna

But he said inline links were not caught...

m0sa

~2000 posts with that URL updated

Zanna

10 hours ago, by muru

@Zanna I think the script they used doesn't check inlined links, (like ![](...))

m0sa

should be showing images again

jokerdino

@m0sa Over 9 thousand?

Thank you @m0sa.

Zanna

7:12 PM

Awesome!

Thank you

jokerdino

askubuntu.com/users/-1/community?tab=activity

m0sa

https://askubuntu.com/q/144
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Zanna

Looks good askubuntu.com/posts/72031/revisions

m0sa

yay

Zanna

Nice that this came before the data dump tomorrow too :D

Our queries will be clean

m0sa

7:17 PM

are you guys doing crowdcrafting.org/project/sehttpimagescleanup ?

Not so far

kk

Looks interesting.

I won't bother with cleaning that up just yet, then

... on another note.. I wonder why the search index hasn't picked them up yet

it should, on the next run, since that replace was a post edit

Zanna

Sweet

jokerdino

7:21 PM

The indexer must have been out for the weekend..?

m0sa

or we still have a bug

Zanna

yeah, who's working on Saturday night? (except us, trying to fix our site lol)

m0sa

will double check on Monday

jokerdino

yeah, good idea. Have a happy weekend @m0sa!

m0sa

glad I could help

Zanna

7:24 PM

:D

Zacharee1

8:05 PM

Oh, Google Play's max APK size is 100MB?

thought it was 50

Serg

Me after watching a video on idiomatic python ----> @_@

Zacharee1

wat

Serg

Amazed at how some of the things in python can be simplified

Zanna

8:39 PM

seems to be dead and gone askubuntu.com/a/11498/527764

looks to me like not what it's supposed to be anyway

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 So did I. They must have changed it.

BTW, I heard you published an app?

Zacharee1

well it makes things easier for me

@NathanOsman yeah :D

Nathan Osman

Link plz?

Zacharee1

it's very small-scope

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zacharee1.modcontrol

very

Nathan Osman

Ah.

Zacharee1

8:49 PM

Only rooted V20s

Nathan Osman

Right.

Serg

@Zacharee1 is this the one where you left my selfie or something , lol ?

Zacharee1

@Serg it's not in the app

it's in the flashable ZIP

but I removed it :p

Serg

Awww, I thought the derp wolf shall spread across the world to infect all de endroidz width de derpness

Zacharee1

lel

well it's in the older version

I could probably also easter-egg it in

Serg

8:56 PM

gosh, it's quiet in the labs . . .

I cannot study when it's super quiet. I cannot study when it's too loud. In general, I cannot study ever . . .

Zanna

This comment would benefit from an upvote so people don't vote dupe instead askubuntu.com/questions/891858/…

Zacharee1

@Serg turn on some fans or something

Zanna

thanks :)

Zacharee1

so glad I don't need to learn the Expansion API to make this Android app

Serg

@Zacharee1 there's actually 60 Hz hum coming from laps above and i think there's ventilation hum as well

Zacharee1

8:58 PM

that's not enough?

Serg

for my psyche, it's not enough . . .

I watched a documentary on the last emperor of China, Puyi. Then watched a couple of videos on coding I bookmarked. Just finished watching Jack's new Subnautica video . . .

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:14 PM

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Q: Steam Not Loading On XCFE

I am new to Linux and XCFE, and I used crouton to load ubuntu onto my asus chromebook. Anyway, I decided to get Steam, but when I try to lauch steam, I get the error "Fatal Error: Failed to load steamui.so." Can anyone help me?

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WinEunuuchs2Unix

9:52 PM

@Serg I'm still struggling how to find if script launched by cron reboot is running and what the program ID is to kill: askubuntu.com/questions/891074/… Therefore I haven't accepted your answer yet (or implemented the code)

Hi @ParanoidPanda I wrote a Q&A on CIA's Vault7 spying but not getting much support for the question: askubuntu.com/questions/891611/… Also not getting any answers :(

Seth

"Wonder which page load popup is gonna win the z-index war?" - websites in 2017.

Tweeted by iamdevloper on March 11, 2017 at 6:34 PM

user136984

@WinEunuuchs2Unix: It sounds interesting. :)

user136984

+1 from me.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Thanks for +1 ofc but I was hoping you might have read some details on Vault7

user136984

@WinEunuuchs2Unix: I haven't read a huge amount into it... But if I get some free time, I will have a better look at your question and maybe I will have something. :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

9:59 PM

@ParanoidPanda Event comments supporting the concept of resisting CIA spying would be helpful! I feel all alone on that thread resisting the man.

Byte Commander

@WinEunuuchs2Unix "Besides a simple 10 second power off would erase all RAM." - No.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@ByteCommander Oops... blush

Byte Commander

The time needed for modern RAM modules to lose their data completely is highly underestimated.

It depends on temperature, if you cool the bricks they conserver most information for hours

Also they don't lose information all at once but gradually, like a picture with slowly fading colors.

See "cold boot attack" and such stuff

WinEunuuchs2Unix

OK... so how can you ask for a password and then erase the ram location where the password was entered? Surely it's not impossible...

Byte Commander

Anyway, have a +1 for paranoia so far @WinEunuuchs2Unix, but could you please add references to external resources with more information about the threat you describe?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

10:12 PM

Surely everyone has heard about CIA Vault7 by now @ByteCommander?

Byte Commander

Sometimes I feel like living behind some kind of moon...

Seth

this Windows 8 install is so buggy. Now the taskbar refuses to autohide.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Seth I just installed Windows 8.1 a couple months ago... there were a few hiccups to fix but I don't remember if taskbar was one of them... just google, fix, google, fix, repeat.

Seth

aha. stupid Windows. Action center was keeping it open.

Of course there's no way to actually tell that unless you check it..

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Sounds vaguely familiar.... only used Windows 8.1 to play one game a couple months ago but I'll be rebooting on March 21 with new game. Let me know if you install Oracle Virtual Box in Windows and if you have any tips :)

Seth

10:18 PM

I've used Virtualbox lots of times.

No general tips though. It tends to work fine.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Is it simple download and install with no configuration then?

I'll be running Ubuntu 16.04 of course.

Byte Commander

Amaranthe - Digital World

►

Let's all grow our beards down to our shoes and install Linux From Scratch exclusively.

Zacharee1

whoa the YT onebox changed

Seth

looks the same to me.

Byte Commander

10:33 PM

@Zacharee1 it seems only you changed...

Zacharee1

hmm

the name card doesn't scroll out of view when I mouse over anymore

WinEunuuchs2Unix

VTC as duplicate... @ByteCommander just listed that answer video to revolution ^^^

Zacharee1

@WinEunuuchs2Unix try clicking it

Seth

@Zacharee1 does for me

Byte Commander

@WinEunuuchs2Unix it's a screenshot because he claims its onebox appearance changed

Zacharee1

10:36 PM

@Seth weird

I tried refreshing

O_O

it's actually playing in-frame!

Seth

haha

WinEunuuchs2Unix

oh...haha I watch the video earlier and thought it was dup :p

Byte Commander

that's how it looks for me

and it does not play embedded

how the heck did you make that?

Zacharee1

wth

wat is this

Seth

freaking buggy windows

now I remember why I tried to get a Mac.

Zacharee1

10:40 PM

lol

Byte Commander

CIA is giving you embedded youtube as candy so that you don't ask questions

/shrug

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Bets CIA gives away free anti-virus software that actually installs their spy-ware

Byte Commander

sounds like McAfee...

I remember that one time when I almost accidentally installed them as part of Adobe Flash player...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

McAfee has been on Russia Today TV shows lately bashing the CIA's Vault 7 software... figure he's a double agent as it were and really on CIA side???

He was also acused of murdering his neighbour in Belize over a dog so maybe he's been blackmailed to avoid extradition?

Seth

what was that OSS SE chat clone called? I thought it was something like miaou.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

10:53 PM

@ByteCommander Changing the subject I wrote set of scripts to automatically get sunrise and sunset times then adjust display brightness over transition periods to full bright and full dim based on user configuration file. Should that be added onto your question Serg answered with Python or become a new Q&A do you think?

Seth

aha, found it. dystroy.org/miaou

Byte Commander

@WinEunuuchs2Unix better post a new qa, maybe linking the old. IMHO

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I'll also be linking many other solutions already published plus Gnomes forthcoming color scale adjuster to more red at night in Gnome 3.2 I think it is.

Byte Commander

I'm also still looking for an informative and trustworthy resource about your Vault7. Any links for me here?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

consumerreports.org/privacy/…

independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/…

cnet.com/news/…

Seth

10:57 PM

@ByteCommander wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/?platform=hootsuite

WinEunuuchs2Unix

rt.com/op-edge/379862-wilileaks-cia-vault7-data

Byte Commander

@Seth that's what I just started reading 1min ago

user136984

Goodnight folks! :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I would have thought everyone on the planet with a computer, cellphone or TV would have heard about CIA's Vault 7 by now

Geez 4 pm and still in pajama's all day... have to shower and buy stuff before close store at 5pm...bbl

Elder Geek

Hello All. VTC this as unclear but after a comment from the OP it`s a dupe. regardless it should be deleted as it's not even a good signpost.... askubuntu.com/questions/892119/wired-ubuntu-problem

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:20 PM

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Q: Both apt and yum will try to install a kernel upgrade when there is not enough space, and fail, leaving the latest kernel unbootable

I've encountered this with apt on ubuntu and yum on centos 7. Coupled with many linux install guides stating "you only need a few hundred Mb for the /boot partition", this is a minor disaster. It's recoverable if you know what you're doing, but for someone who doesn't know which files in /b...

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11:33 PM

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Q: Removing Mac Partition After Installing Linux And Deleting Mac OS X

Right now Linux Ubuntu is on 21.4 GB of my 110 GB disk space according to Disk Usage Analyzer. While downloading Linux I clicked the option that, I thought, would put Linux on my entire disk space and not just a small partition. How is the simple way to put the remaining 90 GB of disk space into...

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Serg

11:46 PM

I think I'm somewhat . . . ok , maybe a lot . . . limited in my degree

Elder Geek

@Serg Why?

Hi @Rinzwind How are you?

Rinzwind

heya

Seth

Rinzy!

Serg

@ElderGeek Well, you know that I'm electrical engineering student, right ? I was looking at job postings on linkedin just now and just making lists of things that is required form some jobs. PCI-e, USB, NAND flash , power supply design. And it hit me that I don't know anything about these. We touched on USB bus briefly in my microcontroller class, but . . . that's it . . .

So basically . . . I feel like I'm behind the curve

Seth

@Serg eh, a lot of job postings are stupid. HR departments don't know what they're talking about and basically ask for a miracle man in 50 different things.

so don't make a few job postings get you down.

Elder Geek

11:56 PM

@Serg There will always be new technology that they didn't cover in class and @Seth is right about job postings being a wish list for a miracle man. If you know what you don't kow and know how to find out you know more than most. Keep your chin up!

Serg

@Seth I've heard about that, basically what is on the requirements is often an 'ideal' candidate. Just the closer I get to completing my degree the more it seems I've no idea about my major actually.

@ElderGeek Will do ! At least , I'm re-examining what I don't know, right ?

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