Ask Ubuntu General Room

David Foerster

09:10

Good morning!

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In this challenge, you must take a string matching the regex ^[a-z]+$ or ^[A-Z]+$, or ^[A-Z][a-z]+$ or whatever is reasonable, (you may assume the string is long enough, and has the right structure for all the operations), and output another string, produced similarly to word at the end of a rece...

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Zanna

@DavidFoerster that looks fun!

lol hilarious

btw you can (if you like!) delete your second comment too :)

David Foerster

@Zanna done

Zanna

progkaka XD

David Foerster

09:25

I don't know about English but in German (and some other languages incl. French) "kaka" or "caca" are childish words for "poop". :-D

Therefore I think I'll add "progkaka" to my vocabulary to use when I talk about shitty code or programming.

Zanna

@DavidFoerster that's exactly what I was thinking

jokerdino

@DavidFoerster oh interesting.

because it's the same here

David Foerster

Bonus: in German there's also "Kacke" which is still vulgar yet not childish.

Zanna

yeah in English we have the slang/vulgar word "cack"

often collocated like this "cack-handed" to mean "clumsy"

it is from PIE* (proto-indo-european)

jokerdino

My mother tongue is not part of that family.

David Foerster

09:36

Never heard of it in all my vulgar conversations in English. I heard that English prefers words referring to sex and genitals over faeces as swear words.

Zanna

@jokerdino I know

but maybe you have borrowed it from English or Sanskrit

Anwar

I had to spend some seconds to decipher the name of manetsus :)

aaand morning everyone!

jokerdino

I don't know how children borrow it from languages they never heard of.

Might be a universal thing like ma meaning mum and ka meaning poo.

Byte Commander

off-topic (and possible spam seed?) askubuntu.com/q/921032/367990

Anwar

but kaka is totally different here

It means uncle!

Zanna

09:38

lol

terdon

@DavidFoerster It isn't really vulgar. It's super unvulgar. actually. I mean, if you say cack instead of shit, it's like saying rats instead of damn.

jokerdino

@Zanna the childish thing is not part of the actual language.

terdon

@jokerdino ?

jokerdino

kaka is a childish word for meaning poo. it is not a Tamil word.

Maybe children in other places also use the same childish word.

I don't see how the word would have been borrowed across language families.

terdon

@jokerdino Why would it not be a Tamil word if it is the word used by Tamil-speaking children?

Zanna

09:42

all kinds of words wander into different languages I think

terdon

The English equivalent baby word, caca:

> "excrement," c. 1870, slang, probably from Spanish or another language that uses it, ultimately from PIE root *kakka- "to defecate," which forms the base word for "excrement, to void excrement" in many Indo-European languages.

Zanna

but Tamil is not an Indo-European language

jokerdino

@Zanna yeah but how can a child without any exposure randomly chooses this kaka to mean poo?

terdon

No, I know, it's Dravidian, but my point is that baby words are just as valid as non-baby words and have their own origin and etymology etc

Zanna

@jokerdino I think, babies don't invent words. Parents talk baby-talk to them, and they learn baby talk

terdon

09:44

@jokerdino They don't. They get it from the poeple around them which is why all babies use the same ones.

jokerdino

That's definitely not my experience or some of the young parents.. but maybe I will come back when I have solid proof. :)

Zanna

haha that would be difficult!

jokerdino

>Can't reproduce

terdon

@jokerdino Well, I'm sure some babies get their own but you yourself said that kaka is the baby word for shit, so it does look like it's pretty standard.

Zanna

@jokerdino XD

terdon

09:50

I know it is in Greek, French and Spanish, for instance. Not sure about English, oddly enough.

Zanna

I think not in English

but David said in German it is

In Cordelia Fine's book "Delusions of Gender" she talks about a couple who try to raise their two kids, boy and girl, attempting to protect them from all gender stereotypes

they go to extreme lengths

like changing the pictures in picture books

all kinds of crazy stuff

impossible to humanely isolate a kid so you can say what's "natural" and what's "environmental"

David Foerster

@Zanna possible but deeply harmful

Zanna

(funny outcome of that: this couple's boy wears barettes (hair ornaments) to school.
Another boy says to him "you're wearing barettes! You're a girl!"
1st boy replies "I'm a boy. I have a penis" [let's please ignore problems with this for now]
2nd boy "Everyone has a penis. Only girls wear barettes.")

David Foerster

@Zanna The last assumption (that all people or at least children have the same genitals) appears to be relatively common among young children who didn't get a basic, age-appropriate sex education.

Zanna

SRE is terrible in the UK :(

terdon

10:00

My 4 year old niece came out with the best version of that I've heard. One of our dogs got an erection, as dogs will do, and the kid asked what that thing was. My mother told her it's the dog's penis.

Kid thinks about that for a while (dog's thing is pink), then states "My dad has one too. But my dad's is beige".

The poor guy has been Mr Beige in the family ever since.

Zanna

4 year old knows the word "beige"!?

terdon

@Zanna The 4 year old is fluent in 3 languages and starting on her 4th. Yeah., she knows beige

Zanna

wow :)

kids are awesome

terdon

Greek mother, Italian father and growing up in the UK

Well, that's apt smokey!

David Foerster

@Zanna I never learned that stuff in elementary school either and all my siblings have the same sex as I. However, I saw my parents naked on occasion and I read (educational) books for children since I was 5. My memory doesn't reach back much further so I can't say what I thought about the subject before.

Zanna

10:03

haha I was going to say nice of smokey to join in the conversation

terdon

I have no idea where/when I learned about such physiological differences. Young enough not to remember not knowing, anyway

Ah no, I had female friends at a very young age and we were bathed together and the like often enough. I guess I found out then. Most kids do that way, probably.

David Foerster

@terdon If you can't remember then you probably learnt about it before entering school.

terdon

Oh yeah, years before.

Interesting (and a bit more on topic):

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Q: How to preserve Windows file attributes when copying files under Linux?

I'm using a custom Bash script running on a Linux machine to mass-duplicate FAT32-formatted USB drives. I need to preserve Windows file attributes such as "hidden". I use rsync (or dd with find and mkdir in newer version to force I/O sync for better stability and optimal bandwidth use). I blin...

files windows

David Foerster

@ByteCommander: I think you (or someone else if you prefer) should convert askubuntu.com/q/920810/#comment1454097_920810 to a proper answer – verbatim would be fine.

What a weird thing to try to achieve:

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Q: Page faults in Android

I am looking for a way to kill a process on Linux/Android, when page fault occur for the first time. Can anyone suggest something?. Suggestions are highly appreciated

kernel android

I can't even begin to imagine what the point of killing processes upon the first page fault it.

Zanna

haha

Byte Commander

10:14

@DavidFoerster copied, but not sure how useful it is.

David Foerster

Ugh, the Ubuntu Wiki needs a "blame" function.

Byte Commander

The Ubuntu wiki should redirect to Arch wiki and just inject a script that replaces "Arch" with "Ubuntu"...

Zanna

naw

lots of the package names would not work

terdon

Yes, but at least the information would be useful.

The Ubuntu wiki is really not very good.

David Foerster

Who's responsible for managing protected pages in the Ubuntu Wiki? I would really like to get rid of this unfounded paragraph.

terdon

10:23

Is it protected?

David Foerster

yes

terdon

Hmm. Maybe Ubuntu members can do it?

Zanna

last call from me for this and this (posts with missing images essential to the answer). I am closing this tab forever (https image cleanup done and all post-cleaning done). I couldn't think of a solution for those two posts -_- though

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:36

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Q: Can't enable mysqli

I istall clean linux mint 18 kde and install all latest updates. After that I install lamp: sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ -y Configure vhosts, restore mysql dumps, restart pc. Now my local sites without mysql work fine. But sites with mysql - not. In my code firs appeal to mysql is mysql...

ubuntu linux-mint mysql php webserver

Android Dev

13:21

@TheWanderer I created one: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/59680/huetoyoudevs

HueToYouDevs

huehuehuehuehue

cc @NathanOsman --^

terdon

→ 24 messages moved to HueToYouDevs

Journeyman Geek

hue hue hue?

Android Dev

HUE!

:D

Anwar

13:41

askubuntu.com/q/921015/61218 what does he mean actually? Why can't they give a screenshot? It's kinda annoying!

TheWanderer

13:53

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I need halp

with regex

jokerdino

@Zanna meta post?

Zanna

@jokerdino ahh of course :)

thank you!

jokerdino

@Anwar his images are bigger than his monitor size?

terdon

@TheWanderer What do you need? And what regex flavor?

TheWanderer

Java? idrk

"id:(.*)," AFAIK that means it's a greedy regex

terdon

13:54

Yes

TheWanderer

but if I add ? after the star, it doesn't match anything at all

the greedy matches to the last comma in the string

terdon

I don't know if Java's regexes support ?. Just look for non-commas instead:

id:([^,]*),

TheWanderer

well the problem is I'm trying to separate a bunch of basically identical strings

{id: 4763177, name: ("CptEric"), email_hash: ("!https://i.sstatic.net/ZEWDa.jpg?s=128&g=1"), reputation: 600, last_post: 1496322118}

,{id: 5375424, name: ("W0MP3R"), email_hash: ("!https://i.sstatic.net/6tp1Q.png?s=128&g=1"), reputation: 141, last_post: 1496322082}

,{id: 6854815, name: ("Mehdi B."), email_hash: ("!https://i.sstatic.net/h9pOo.jpg?s=128&g=1"), reputation: 570, last_post: 1496322020}

,{id: 726954, name: ("Graeme"), email_hash: ("d40f1e413fc6bae1342e5bd9caa81e9b"), reputation: 15262, last_post: 1496321941}

is an example

terdon

OK, first of all, don't reinvent the world. I'm sure Java has tools to proces JSON

TheWanderer

I want to grab only the ID chunk of the first one

does it?

Anwar

13:57

@jokerdino so he wants to scale down? There's an option for that afai remember

terdon

It must

But anyway, if you want to use a regex the one I gave should work.

2 mins ago, by terdon

id:([^,]*),

Hang on though, java? Or do you mean javascript?

TheWanderer

Java

terdon

So android apps are written in java?

Huh

Ooooh, no hang on. Of course *?matches nothing. The * means 0 or more so it will stop quite happily at 0.

TheWanderer

ohh

do I need +?

terdon

So, either use [^,]* as I suggested before, or try id:(.+?),

TheWanderer

14:01

I don't think +? worked either but I found a way to parse JSON if I get it to work

terdon

@TheWanderer Have you tried the [^,]* approach? That works in pretty much any regex flavor under the sun.

And doesn't Java have some sort of split() tool? Just split on commas and then split the 1st element on : and keep the second element returned by the split.

Here's what that would look like in Perl:

    $  echo '{id: 4763177, name: ("CptEric"), email_hash: ("!i.stack.imgur.com/…"), reputation: 600, last_post: 1496322118}' | perl -lne '@k=split(/,/); @l=split(/:/,$k[0]); print "$l[1]"'
 4763177

jokerdino

@Anwar yeah I think he wants that to be done automatically

terdon

There's a "stretch" option in unity isn't there?

Every other desktop I've ever used had one

jokerdino

14:17

yeah

There's the zoom, fill, scale, etc.

Zanna

I meta'd

TheWanderer

14:41

@terdon I'll try it but json will make it a lot easier in the end

nope that fails too

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Can we fix these posts with missing images essential to the answer?

I've had a really long https image cleanup hangover, but today I am finally closing this tab. However, there were two things that nobody managed to fix - highly upvoted answers with missing images that were essential to understanding: I spent quite a while trying to reproduce what this answer ...

discussion answers image

Zanna

I always find that embarrassing

TheWanderer

15:03

how do I make sure https:// isn't interpreted as regex?

Zanna

what do you mean?

Android Dev

@TheWanderer Speaking of HTTPS, how come huetoyoudevs isn't HTTPS by default?

TheWanderer

uh

it is here

@Zanna the method String.replace(String regex, String replacement) in Java

Android Dev

Wat

TheWanderer

I'm putting in https:// for the regex

and it's just emptying the string

Android Dev

15:04

It loads as HTTP for me

Zanna

oh I have no clue then

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Can't load Ubuntu: Superblock checksum does not match superblock while trying to open /dev/sda7

I have a problem while loading into Ubuntu 17.04. This happens for the 2nd time after I booted into Windows. For the 1st time I just reinstalled the Ubuntu. I am not good at this question, so I hope to get a full list of steps to diagnose and resolve this issue.

ubuntu hard-disk superblock system-failure

Seth

@TheWanderer https:\/\/

TheWanderer

yikes OK

hmm illegal escape

Seth

you might try single quoting it then

@TheWanderer what exactly are you trying to do?

TheWanderer

15:11

replace all instances of https:// with nothing

H3R3T1K

Hey. I wanna wipe a HDD with shred from a live session and make sure it's not mounted. Would I do that with umount /dev/sda?

Android Dev

Not exactly

cl-netbox

Hello :)

Android Dev

@H3R3T1K You need to specify the partition number

@cl-netbox Hi :)

H3R3T1K

@And

I wanna wipe the whole drive though, not just a partition...

cl-netbox

15:25

@AndroidDev Hi :) nice to see you ! :)

Android Dev

@H3R3T1K Yeah, but the whole drive isn't mounted, only individual partitions

cl-netbox

@Seth Hi Seth :) Feeling better today ?

Android Dev

@cl-netbox You any good with Android development? You could join HueToYou with me, Nathan and Zach :)

H3R3T1K

@AndroidDev Thanks! Is there a command to unmmount all partitions on a particular drive?

cl-netbox

@AndroidDev No, unfortunately not - I have absolutely no experience with Android at all, so I won't be able to contribute anything useful ... sorry ! :)

Android Dev

15:29

@H3R3T1K Not sure, but you could use lsblk to list all the partitions and just unmoumt them one at a time. Also, no need for any special wiping tools; sudo dd if="/dev/zero" of="/dev/sdX" BS=4M should do the trick quite nicely

H3R3T1K

@AndroidDev Thanks! Hard drives are not mounted in a live session unless you mount them yourself correct?

cl-netbox

@H3R3T1K true :)

Seth

@cl-netbox Not exactly. But I'm feeling ok :)

@TheWanderer should work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

H3R3T1K

@AndroidDev I've used dd before for that purpose but it took forever. The fastest way I know of to securely wipe a drive is "shred -vzn 0 /dev/sdX"

cl-netbox

@Seth hmmm ... but ok is better than bad ... so let's take it as a good sign for further improvements Seth - good luck ! :)

Android Dev

15:43

@H3R3T1K Adding BS=4M speeds it up by several orders if magnitude

cl-netbox

@H3R3T1K the fastest way to wipe a disk is creating a new partition table ... takes 1 second ! :)

terdon

@AndroidDev Any reason not to just use cat?

cl-netbox

Hi terdon ! :)

Android Dev

@terdon What advantage does cat have?

@cl-netbox Ahem. securely

cl-netbox

@AndroidDev when @H3R3T1K wants to overwrite old data then dd would be preferable (right as you suggested) of course ! :)

Rinzwind

15:48

@AndroidDev it is cat. what more do you need to convince you? :P

terdon

@AndroidDev What advantage does dd have? Cat does the same thing faster and more simply. You can get dd to be as fast but the syntax is awful and it is easy to make a mistake.

Rinzwind

@cl-netbox also the easiest to restore :-D

terdon

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Q: dd vs cat -- is dd still relevant these days?

I recently realized we can use cat as much as dd, and it's actually faster than dd I know that dd was useful in dealing with tapes where block size actually mattered in correctness, not just performance. In these days, though, are there situations where dd can do something cat can't? (Here I wou...

dd cloning cat

Rinzwind

@terdon I like dd. You always have that thrill of "did I do that correctly?" D:

terdon

Yeah. I feel the same way. Strangely, that makes me dislike it though :P

cl-netbox

15:51

@Rinzwind true ... but once you install a new system for example or store new data ... it won't be easy anymore - so ... :) Hi Rinzy :) Good evening :)

Rinzwind

Hey Boxy

1st Holiday. Scorching hot outside.

And tomorrow will be even worse :P

cl-netbox

Sometime weather forecasts can be wrong :D

@terdon I never heard that you can wipe a disk with cat ... so it shows that one never stops learning ... what is the command to wipe a disk or a partition with cat ?

TheWanderer

@Seth it's actually just hanging on the replace statements

terdon

@cl-netbox cat /dev/null > /dev/sdXY

I would guess. Or /dev/zero or /dev/urandom etc.

cl-netbox

@terdon cool - thanks ! :)

terdon

15:55

Remember that everything is a file, so you can treat them as files and redirect stuff to them.

Rinzwind

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ->

1 dude's bill on a Monaco terass :D

cl-netbox

unbelievable :D :D :D

terdon

@Rinzwind Yeah, but the utter moron chose to pay 12350 euros for a 62 gun salute.

Damn. Next time they should aim for him.

Rinzwind

Chivas Regal Royal Salute = 12.350 euro

That is WHISKEY ;=)

Android Dev

@Rinzwind O_O

Rinzwind

15:59

And guess what

There is a Midas Armand de Brignac on it. That's 30 liter champagne.... 130k

so most of the bill is 1 bottle :=D

Android Dev

Well then...

Rinzwind

what the really wonderous is: why did Tabacco only cost 20 euro

i.imgur.com/Ylav5dI.gifv

^^^ :D

H3R3T1K

Do you guys know if memtest86 tests all installed sticks or do you have to test them individually? Right now it seems it is testing only one of two installed :(

Rinzwind

@H3R3T1K sorry? what do you mean with "sticks"? memtest86 is to test memory modules.

cl-netbox

@H3R3T1K memtest tests RAM modules :)

Kaz Wolfe

16:05

i believe memtest tests all memory currently detected by the system.

Rinzwind

@KazWolfe -- dont think so. There was something that it did not do due to multi-cores :P

1 sec

H3R3T1K

I mean modules of course

Kaz Wolfe

UEFI screws memtest up iirc

Rinzwind

@H3R3T1K sticks tend to be usb-sticks ;-)

memtest86 does not use multi-core. You need to check every core for CPU checking.

H3R3T1K

@Rinzwind I'm testing RAM. It says it's using only one CPU core but what startles me is that it seems to be testing only one of two modules (the one in slot 0). It's been running about 3.5 hrs. Do I have to manually remove the module that's been tested in order to test the other one?

Kaz Wolfe

16:16

memtest takes a while.

Seth

that's an understatement.

Nathan Osman

o/

H3R3T1K

But do I have to wait for it to finish the first module?

Kaz Wolfe

I believe it tests one module at a time, yes.

Rinzwind

@H3R3T1K it should do the 2nd one after the 1st and 3.5h is nothing ;-)

Kaz Wolfe

16:28

yeah. memtest is really slow.

Whenever I need to run it, I just let my machine sit idle for 24-36 hours.

Rinzwind

I never bother with it D: D: 2 16Gb modules here ...

Kaz Wolfe

0

A: Software center download won't stop/cancel

Prosto nevjerovantno.. tek nakon što sam pokrenuo prekid instalacije preko terminala i to nisam do kraja ni upisao sve komande; tek kada sam došoao do sudo pkill dpgk i to u dva navrata da ne bude zabune ili čak tri.. ne sjećam se sad... tek onda je ubuntu software odradio do kraja instalaciju.....

Anyone speak Bosnian?

(cc @Seth --^)

Nathan Osman

I don't think Seth speaks Bosnian...

Kaz Wolfe

but seth is a mod who can handle flags/deletions

or write in an official context asking for translations, because i don't have a template for that yet.

Seth

I deleted it.

@NathanOsman I wish..

Kaz Wolfe

16:45

And T-Mo Digits has been launched (cc @NathanOsman and @TheWanderer)

we can now make/receive calls on computers and other phones from our main number.

so it's basically google voice

Seth

slick

Kaz Wolfe

well, it's slightly better than google voice inasmuch as you can do stuff with your actual number

so you don't need to have your GV number and your carrier number.

also something about having multiple numbers with different ring settings? idk

i still prefer the entire SIP thing with custom IVR management. much more powerful, but gets annoying on mobile.

Seth

that and it's not Google

Kaz Wolfe

eh. GV is way more polished.

Seth

true

Kaz Wolfe

16:59

digits i think has potential, but there are definitely issues here. it feels rushed and barely pieced together.

UI is meh, it's a webapp (of course) so no native integration...

phone app is complete utter garbage. won't even run unless you allow it to disable battery saving.

Seth

@NathanOsman @TheWanderer btw, you guys should totally follow /r/EarthPorn. It's amazing.

TheWanderer

@KazWolfe how much does it cost if you weren't part of the beta program?

Kaz Wolfe

@TheWanderer nothing unless you want additional numbers

TheWanderer

Oh really? Nice

Kaz Wolfe

i think additional numbers are $10 per

here's the best i can describe it... digits has potential if it wasn't t-mobile.

all things considered, t-mobile really does suck at the consumer-end technology thing.

Now, if we could actually bind SIP and this thing had an API for messaging and whatnot, that'd be awesome.

someone could turn this into a kickass product.

Seth

17:36

@NathanOsman SpaceX launch today at 2:55

Nathan Osman

Cool.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

17:58

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Q: libssl error after upgrading Mongo

I upgraded to Mongo 3.4.4 by first downliading the tgz file and copying all the contents of its bin/ folder to /user/bin/. I then ran mongo and got: mongo: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So I ran: sudo cp /lib/x8...

linux ubuntu libraries mongodb

Kaz Wolfe

NOOOOOOOOOOO phonearena.com/news/OnePlus-5-thin-design_id94649

(cc @NathanOsman)

TheWanderer

18:21

ugh thin

good news tho

Android Dev

@KazWolfe facepalm

edwinksl

18:45

@TheWanderer :O

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

19:00

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Q: Ubuntu Shortcuts for Ubuntu 14 — Beginning and end of line

OSX Control-A Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph. Control-E Move to the end of a line or paragraph. Whats the equivalent for system wide shortcut on Ubnuntu 14? Where do I set those?

ubuntu keyboard-shortcuts

TheWanderer

19:13

@Seth what are you doing in Charcoal HQ? >_>

@NathanOsman!

Nathan Osman

WAT.

TheWanderer

JOIN chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/59680/huetoyoudevs

Devilius

19:53

hello, for having flash on firefox, is the recommendation provided in askubuntu.com/questions/562271/…, which directs to instructions on webupd8.org/2014/05/install-fresh-player-plugin-in-ubuntu.html, still up to date?

Byte Commander

20:05

@Devilius which Ubuntu release?

Kaz Wolfe

`/!\ WARNING /!\` -- "Wat" rates have reached unsafe levels in Sector 12. Please evacuate immediately to Sub-Level 6 in order to avoid injury from excessive wattage leaking into the area. Close all doors and windows. Sectors 11 and 14 have been hermetically sealed to attempt to contain damage, as are maintenance tunnels and access doors to Sector 12.

cc @NathanOsman and @TheWanderer

Nathan Osman

wat

TheWanderer

wat

Byte Commander

@Devilius The most up to date answer is askubuntu.com/a/854651/367990 which correctly states that Adobe provides official flash for Linux again. I don't know about 14.04, but 16.04 and higher now have the package adobe-flashplugin in their partner repositories, which contains a plugin for both Firefox and Chrome-like browsers.

(it could use some upvotes btw)

Fabby

@Rinzwind upgoated and improved readability !!! :)

Devilius

20:12

@ByteCommander thank you very much

Fabby

@ByteCommander upgoated

Byte Commander

Fabby! o/

How are you doing?

Fabby

Just finished last meeting for the day...

Mateo

Wow, the community is doing some awesome stuff withe the Ubuntu phones

blog.ubports.com/2017/06/01/community-update.html

2

Fabby

Was doing some close voting as it was boring (until the lst 3 minutes when they needed my help)

Mateo

20:16

Long Live Ubuntu phones!

Rinzwind

@Fabby yeah I hacked the answer together :=) didn't even proofreasd

Fabby

@mateo, Is Slack available for Ubuntu Touch?

(Reason why I flashed mine to Android)

Kaz Wolfe

Is <x> available for Ubuntu Touch: No.

TheWanderer

hue

Fabby

Shutting down

Good night!

Hungry!

Byte Commander

20:21

Enjoy your dinner

Mateo

@Fabby haven't used, I could test they have a web app right?

Ah, desktop site

Seth

@TheWanderer erm, what? I've had that room starred since before you joined the site...

TheWanderer

:p

Kaz Wolfe

@Seth charcoal was around for three years now?

Seth

@KazWolfe chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/11540/2013/11/16

Kaz Wolfe

20:30

woo, i'm older than charcoal!

Nathan Osman

I'm older than everybody.

:P

Seth

truth ^

Kaz Wolfe

false.

txwikinger, Canada

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package-management server command-line software-recommendation apt kubuntu 10.04

Seth

txwikinger isn't active

Kaz Wolfe

> Last seen 6 hours ago

also, he's still older. so, technicality.

Seth

20:32

@KazWolfe that's hardly a sign of activity. However, Nathan was signed up for the Area 51 proposal iirc, so that puts him pretty much as old as anyone.

hah, literally userID 5 whereas txwikinger is userID 4. And everything below that is SE employees.

Kaz Wolfe

no user 1.

Seth

@KazWolfe Ugh.

That's about all I can come up with appropriate to say about that.

Jacob Vlijm

Obviously, I haven't been around for a while. Since when do we accept "call our helpdesk" -messages. Personally, I find this horrifying: askubuntu.com/a/920527/72216, no matter if it is our king or not

Kaz Wolfe

@JacobVlijm we don't.

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Q: What should we do with answers that include contact details for relevant support services?

I have no idea what to do about this answer I came across while reviewing. How do I fix the APT error "The following packages have unmet dependencies"?. They gave an answer and then a phone number. How should this be handled?

discussion answers

(disclaimer: that's my opinion and has no official reflection or backing other than 8 upvotes)

Jacob Vlijm

@KazWolfe I gave you one, +9 now :) Exactly!

Rinzwind

20:48

@KazWolfe delete it.

Kaz Wolfe

@Rinzwind ?

Rinzwind

@KazWolfe contact details

Kaz Wolfe

oh, on it. give me a minute

Rinzwind

there have a batch

Kaz Wolfe

contact data nuked w/ explanation.

Rinzwind

20:51

hmm

Jacob Vlijm

Wimzy!

Rinzwind

vlijmy!

@KazWolfe That Emma has an empty user profile. she should have added there she's with system76 :P

Kaz Wolfe

@Rinzwind I don't honestly trust user profile data. I can put that I'm the CTO of Stack Exchange there.

or that I'm jmac's exobrain.

Rinzwind

@KazWolfe I live on a turtle with 4 elephants underneath them

Byte Commander

@Rinzwind that looks like "slimy"...

Kaz Wolfe

20:56

@Rinzwind what are those elephants standing on?

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander oh good one :)

Byte Commander

(sorry Jacob)

Blame the Dutch language

Rinzwind

Byte Commander

@Rinzwind @KazWolfe No, the elephants stand on the turtle, right?

Rinzwind

yeah

Byte Commander

20:57

Ah, yes.

Kaz Wolfe

then what does the turtle stand on?

Byte Commander

it floats

in space

Kaz Wolfe

aww, no meme.

Rinzwind

it swims in space :+)
If you look carefully you can see Rincewind and Luggage on that little green bit at the middle.

Jacob Vlijm

@ByteCommander fyi, I often get misspelled letters, addressed to Jacob Slijm (slime) :)

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