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David Foerster

4:00 PM

Hm… I'll try to think of something. I just noticed that PulseAudio Equalizer uses a reputable equaliser filter.

@TheWanderer: What's the output of pactl list modules | grep -wFe plugin=mbeq_1197?

TheWanderer

pactl is not recognized as an internal or external command

:p

I'm in Windows rn

David Foerster

*eyeroll*

But… you're talking about PulseAudio on Ubuntu, right?

TheWanderer

yeah

David Foerster

It's possible to use it on Windows. That why I'm asking.

Avery

Can we ban @TheWanderer for connecting through a botnet.

TheWanderer

4:04 PM

no

Avery

yes

David Foerster

In that case you're welcome to reach out to me when you have time and access to the Ubuntu installation in question – possibly via a question.

Avery

windows has mike rowe soft botnet code in it.

it spies on you

TheWanderer

doesn't your country explicitly monitor internet usage? @Avery

@DavidFoerster thanks

Avery

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft was a legal dispute between Microsoft and a Canadian Belmont High School student named Mike Rowe over the domain name "MikeRoweSoft.com". The case received international press attention following Microsoft's perceived heavy-handed approach to a 12th grade student's part-time web design business and the subsequent support that Rowe received from the online community. A settlement was eventually reached, with Rowe granting ownership of the domain to Microsoft in exchange for an Xbox and additional compensation. == Background == The domain name MikeRoweSoft.com wa...

you know what that lock stands for.

TheWanderer

4:05 PM

bet it's PPTP

Avery

nope

OpenVPN

David Foerster

@TheWanderer Even if that's true it's unrelated to surveillance by Microsoft, ;-)

Avery

Own server. vpn.ave.zone.

TheWanderer

how would you know >_> @DavidFoerster

@Avery well now they know where to find the source

your ~~dictator~~ president KNOWS ALL

Avery

my dictator needs to fite me irl

TheWanderer

4:08 PM

1v1 me brah

cash me ousside

… on de_dust2

who is terrorist?

@jokerdino Both. You do a few rounds then switch sides.

Avery

@jokerdino the govt can't be terrorist obviously (/s), so I guess I'll have to be.

@DavidFoerster 15, actually.

TheWanderer

4:12 PM

hue

David Foerster

"In Counter-Strike: Source and Global Offensive, there is a text on the wall in Bombsite B in Farsi which says "فریمن اینجا بود". It means "Freeman was here" as a reference to Gordon Freeman, the main protagonist of the Half-Life series." :-D

jokerdino

@Avery heh, I think the govt is both sides really.

Avery

@DavidFoerster also can we take a moment to appreciate the amount of foreigners who expected me to read the text?

jokerdino

David should choose a hostage map.

hostage vs CT+terrorists

Avery

shush

office is best hostage map

and fy_pool_day needs to go die in a fire.

David Foerster

4:14 PM

@Avery You can't expect random Americans to know about the 4 main language/scripture families in the Middle-East. ;-P

jokerdino

name them so we learn

arabic, hebrew, farsi and ??

TheWanderer

Turkish?

David Foerster

Arab, Farsi, Turkish, Hebrew

TheWanderer

wait people can't guess those?

jokerdino

sorry I am not American

didn't realize Turkey is middle east

TheWanderer

4:16 PM

wants to be EU

David Foerster

@TheWanderer Many people don't even know that Iranians don't speak Arab, i. e. they don't know about the difference of Arab and Persian languages.

jokerdino

oh dear

I don't know the differences but I know they are different.

TheWanderer

I know Arabic!

> effective.
Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
冗

:D

David Foerster

@jokerdino That's what I meant.

Avery

I know russian!

Seth

4:23 PM

@DavidFoerster I know there is a difference but I have no idea what the difference is.

TheWanderer

gutteral noises and rolling Rs

Seth

They look the same written to me too

TheWanderer

that's linguist

Avery

CSGO taught me all about russian

jokerdino

English, French, Spanish, etc all look the same to me.

terdon

4:24 PM

Uhm. Farsi isn't even related to Arabic.

jokerdino

@Avery cyka blyat

TheWanderer

maybe because they use the same script? @jokerdino

Avery

@jokerdino сука блядь руш в

jokerdino

ok relax

Seth

@jokerdino do they?

jokerdino

4:28 PM

:D

TheWanderer

do you?

jokerdino

do me?

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Thomas Ward

out of context that would seem odd, @jokerdino

jokerdino

nein!!11

terdon

Nine!?

Once isn't enough for you?

TheWanderer

4:30 PM

eight

@terdon xD

Thomas Ward

@jokerdino THE AXIS POWERS MUST BE DEFEATED! bomb-raids Germany

TheWanderer

wat

Thomas Ward

(TL;DR, I'm watching too many World War 2 documentaries, where the 'hitler' actor keeps saying 'NEIN!')

jokerdino

are we playing Red Alert now?

TheWanderer

yes

jokerdino

4:31 PM

ok then

Thomas Ward

always

Not sorry by the way.

jokerdino

wait what?

Thomas Ward

points at star wall

jokerdino

why is there a big white space??

O_O

TheWanderer

lol

Thomas Ward

4:35 PM

@jokerdino notice what's up on the star wall now? ::P

Android Dev

Google's 2nd gen Pixel XL has been canceled

Seth

@AndroidDev I was like "meh, I never wanted a phone that big anyw... oh. dangit."

David Foerster

@TheWanderer Not exactly. English uses a Latin alphabet, the others use various extensions thereof. </nitpicking>

Seth

@jokerdino lol

aha!

TheWanderer

ok

Seth

4:47 PM

ko

TheWanderer

ok

David Foerster

@Seth My neighbour during today's lecture took out a device for which I couldn't tell if it was a large phone or a small tablet.

Android Dev

@DavidFoerster That's what you call a "phablet"

David Foerster

Oh. I always thought that was a different spelling of fab.

Android Dev

shrug

user136984

4:51 PM

I don't know why this is still so popular:

user136984

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Q: "CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry..."

When I started up my machine today I got some quite bizarre messages in my syslog: ... Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]: Startup finished in 266ms. Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]: Starting Default. Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 121. A...

user136984

I guess it's just the silly error message name or maybe people actually get this error and think "What the hell?! Which 'fail whale'???"! :D

TheWanderer

@Avery is English or Turkish your first language?

Zanna

What's going on in here? O.o

Android Dev

stuff

TheWanderer

5:04 PM

wat

user136984

Woof!

@jokerdino ok

O.o

2

Lol

5:08 PM

also, hello

TheWanderer

hellu

Avery

@jokerdino ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

@TheWanderer Turkish

TheWanderer

how'd you learn English?

Zanna

When I did my TEFL course Turkish was the language we did as learner exposure (ie they gave us a brief course of lessons so we could experience learning a totally unfamiliar language as an adult). The teacher was very encouraging, but I can only remember how to say "very good!"

TheWanderer

lol

Avery

5:13 PM

@Zanna harika?

Zanna

Haha nope

TheWanderer

rip

Avery

cok guzel?

@TheWanderer when you hate your country you start to learn other languages

TheWanderer

you must really hate your country...

jokerdino

@Avery ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

TheWanderer

5:15 PM

because you sound ("sound") like a native speaker

Thomas Ward

@SumeetDeshmukh Ohai! Just a question, but have you read the thread "How do I flag correctly?" on Meta yet? If not, please read before you continue flagging things. Thank you!

Zanna

@Avery yeah, with appropriate accents none of my phone keyboards have :D

Avery

@TheWanderer it's a dictatorship

Zanna

@jokerdino cute!

jokerdino

(⌒‿⌒)

Zanna

5:17 PM

I hate my country but have failed to learn any other languages

@jokerdino hugs

Avery

hey UK is good

your politicians atm aren't the best sure

but it's a nice country

stares at may

Zanna

It's a fine place to live given certain conditions, sure, but it's evil

jokerdino

hey UK has a strong and stable government right now. Nothing to worry about for the next 2 years.

Avery

arguably turkey is strong and stable too

Zanna

:P

jokerdino

5:19 PM

@ThomasWard (ﾉಥ益ಥ)ﾉ

Thomas Ward

lol

Avery

but yeah even if you get out of UK there's nowhere to go

Thomas Ward

@jokerdino YOU CANNOT STOP MEEE! (Rule 1: IT guys rule the world. Rule 2: Don't annoy IT guys. Rule 3: See Rule 1.)

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Avery

the progressive countries are shutting down their doors

Thomas Ward

@Avery there's always ~~the Neo-USSR~~ Russia in a pinch...

Zanna

5:22 PM

Who will want me?

jokerdino

China probably would accept you.

David Foerster

@Avery Only until the next military coup of which its history since its foundation has many. ;-P

jokerdino

@Zanna me :D

Zanna

I don't like Chinese food :/

@jokerdino <3 :D

Avery

@jokerdino I don't feel like moving from dictatorship a to dictatorship b

@DavidFoerster they only make erdogan more powerful it seems

Thomas Ward

5:23 PM

@Avery so I presume the USA is out of the question :P

*shot*

David Foerster

@Avery Currently yes, but there will probably be some dissent in the military that's difficult to remove.

Android Dev

@Zanna We should form our own country. The Ubuntu Islands maybe? :D

Avery

@ThomasWard I was denied. Next country?

David Foerster

Unless Erdogan goes full Stalin on his army.

Avery

@DavidFoerster he did.

well not really

Thomas Ward

5:24 PM

@Avery there's always Syria but I'm pretty sure you don't want to go there.

Avery

but he fired most of it

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Installing Debian packages as unprivileged user

I have a piece of software which I would like to install in a separate hierarchy beneath $HOME/local on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine. The software is distributed as a Debian package, and the source code is not available (I would happily have downloaded it and compiled it myself had it been). I don't...

ubuntu package-management dpkg not-root-user

Avery

@ThomasWard obviously not

jokerdino

@DavidFoerster I think he kinda purged a lot of people

Thomas Ward

@Avery Mexico?

Android Dev

5:25 PM

@ThomasWard Can you see who close-voted something? Or are your mod powers not quite that extensive?

Kaz Wolfe

mods can see closevotes.

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev Mods are demigods, and can see such things. what's up?

David Foerster

@jokerdino @Avery Yeah, but that's along time from outright killing ⅔ of the office corps or sending them to labour camps.

Android Dev

Weird... Someone has already voted to close this question as 'unclear', I wonder if it's the same person doing that to so many other questions suddenly for no apparent good reason? — Paranoid Panda 2 mins ago

Avery

@ThomasWard if mods are gods, then what is shog

Kaz Wolfe

5:26 PM

@ThomasWard There are a bunch of random closevotes as "unclear" on things now.

Thomas Ward

@Avery an Elder God.

Avery

@ThomasWard mexico seems... unsafe. If you get what I mean.

TheWanderer

@Avery if we just set her loose in a wheatfield, do you think she'll come back?

Avery

@TheWanderer maybe

bad joke.

jokerdino

@TheWanderer naughty

TheWanderer

5:27 PM

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Zanna

Maybe it's me, everything seems unclear when you're clueless

TheWanderer

@jokerdino oh so naughty

@Zanna wat

jokerdino

@TheWanderer stop

TheWanderer

wat

Avery

@jokerdino you can't stop her

TheWanderer

5:27 PM

THERESA MAY IS IMMORTAL

she struck a deal with Lord Buckethead

David Foerster

@Zanna Once you gain some clues you'll notice that most things remain unclear plus nobody else finds them clear either.

Kaz Wolfe

theresa may looks like hillary clinton.

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev Well you have to give me exact link examples, because I don't have a "See all the recent reviews" button.

Kaz Wolfe

@ThomasWard here's one‌. I think it's clear?

TheWanderer

@KazWolfe "How do you do, fellow humans?"

David Foerster

5:28 PM

@KazWolfe Huh? I don't think so. They're white, female, old and their hair cuts are similar but that's about it.

Zanna

@DavidFoerster :)

Android Dev

@KazWolfe Yeah, a little bit

jokerdino

@KazWolfe how what?

TheWanderer

who what where why when

user136984

@KazWolfe She looks like she's being possessed by an evil demon to me. Have you seen how many evil smiles they've been able to capture from her? And that laugh just confirms it... Someone interviewed her recently and said they didn't feel they were actually talking to a real person.

Android Dev

5:29 PM

@KazWolfe That's the one I just gave him

Thomas Ward

@KazWolfe One close vote isn't going to hurt anything, someone else may have thought it was unclear for a specific reason, but declined to comment as to "why". They can retract their close vote themselves, but we don't have a "Clear the votes" button.

@KazWolfe any other examples?

Kaz Wolfe

cv review queue has a few interesting ones.

Zanna

@TheWanderer how

TheWanderer

give Thomas three examples

@Zanna no

Thomas Ward

goes into the review queue with the mod hammer

TheWanderer

5:30 PM

if they're all the same user, you got a pattern

Android Dev

Wow three messages just came in the same instant. @TheWanderer Chat Exchange is going to need to be able to handle something like that.

TheWanderer

@ThomasWard oh I stole that a few weeks ago. Yours is a fake

@AndroidDev that's @NathanOsman's job

Kaz Wolfe

@ThomasWard here's one.

bad, but not unclear.

TheWanderer

nooooo Shog-o-Phone is gone!

Android Dev

@TheWanderer Quit pinging him OK? If he's not responding and you keep on doing it, then at that point it becomes a bit rude

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Thomas Ward

5:32 PM

@TheWanderer holds hammer up, and lightning comes down from the heavens to hit it

Zanna

Burn a fallen strand of his hair, and he shall appear

Thomas Ward

@TheWanderer Seems pretty darned real to me :P

Kaz Wolfe

@TheWanderer here's another one

Avery

@ThomasWard I stole that.

yours is a fake

Kaz Wolfe

@AndroidDev @TheWanderer doesn't really understand the nuances of pinging people.

Avery

5:32 PM

from ikea.

David Foerster

@Avery Not Germany as long as the Christian Democrats or the Social Democrats, the two biggest parties, stay in power.

Avery

Don't blame me if it breaks into a million pieces.

Android Dev

@ThomasWard You were standing on insulated mat, right? :P

jokerdino

you maked it? I maked it.

Avery

*made

jokerdino

5:33 PM

maked*

*made

Doned

Proof ^

lol

5:34 PM

what is going on with this chat

David Foerster

@Zanna That's as much proof for correct English as polandball comics. xD

Zanna

Idk, I just missed my bus stop from laughing so much

2

Android Dev

Ooops :P

lol

jokerdino

ow, sorry

Thomas Ward

@Avery out of nowhere, a high powered directed energy pulse rail gun appears on his arm, materialized out of nowhere This is real, though, so muahahahah. fires the Rail Gun at the wall, and then walks through the hole in the wall into the review queues to burn things

Zanna

5:36 PM

It's ok, it's warm and I can use the exercise

David Foerster

Zanna

Lol

Android Dev

@ThomasWard You forgot the part about the handheld nuclear reactor to provide the 1.21 gigawatts of power to the railgun

Kaz Wolfe

ok but can we be serious for once?

@ThomasWard there may be a rogue closer, we should find them if this is the case.

Zanna

Rogue closer hehehe

Thomas Ward

5:40 PM

@AndroidDev Have we forgotten that my eyes are supernovas, so all I have to do is redirect my internal bionetic circuitry to redirect power to the railgun? :p

Zanna

Drunk in charge of 3k rep

Android Dev

@Zanna wat

Zanna

Voting to close stuff just for giggles

David Foerster

Android Dev

@Zanna You mean this? chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38084405#38084405

Thomas Ward

5:42 PM

@KazWolfe One of them is me going through the queue and putting things down where necessary. But I try not doing this on a regular basis. To check each and every one by hand would be a headache since only the timeline tells us the CVs.

Android Dev

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LOL!

Zanna

Yeah that seems to be the main topic right now, although it's hard to keep track on mobile

user136984

@AndroidDev: Exactly...

user136984

Facepalm...

Android Dev

IKR

user136984

5:44 PM

I was just about to complain about that in here! :D

Android Dev

lol

user136984

And he's not the first I've seen doing that... And probably won't be the last...

user136984

Shakes head...

jokerdino

@DavidFoerster you polska fan?

user136984

Bangs head repeatedly against desk...

Android Dev

5:45 PM

@ParanoidPanda gives ice pack

user136984

Starts banging head with ice pack... ;P

David Foerster

@jokerdino I can laugh at many of them, yes.

jokerdino

@DavidFoerster I like the turkey bird one a lot

David Foerster

user136984

Chucks ice pack at computer and leaves...

jokerdino

5:47 PM

yes that one haha

user136984

@Zanna Ingenuous! I never thought of doing that! Well, I must give that a go then! ;D

user136984

Giggles evilly

Zanna

I am pretty ingenuous all round I must admit

@jokerdino what do the Mexicans call it?

jokerdino

huexolotl

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: where does shared objects go after installing and how to find out their names

new linux user here, and i just installed the SFML library using the following command: apt-get install sfml-dev and after installing it i went to my /usr/lib folder to find out what the actual shared object's name was. (so that i can tell the compiler to use it) but there was nothing with "SFML...

ubuntu c c++

Zanna

5:53 PM

@TheWanderer ^^

user136984

@jokerdino: Sounds like the name of a Mars Volta album.

user136984

:P

jokerdino

hue

user136984

But you probably wouldn't know them.

Zanna

Argh U&L wai must you block the hue?

David Foerster

5:55 PM

@ParanoidPanda The Mars Volta are reasonably well known in the rock music scene.

user136984

@DavidFoerster: There are still a vast majority of people though who have never heard of them.

David Foerster

Yeah, I doubt they'd be played in a main stream radio program.

I saw them on MTV once…

jokerdino

They're all dead.

David Foerster

@jokerdino is browsing Reddit/Imgur.

user136984

I listen to their album The Bedlam In Goliath all the way through non-stop every day. I just take it as one long song! It's some amazing stuff, it's my favourite of their albums currently.

jokerdino

5:57 PM

@DavidFoerster leddit :/

That's what I do when I must be busy doing something important.

user136984

In fact, I'm listening to it right now, I'm an hour in and have just 15 minutes or so left.

user136984

I'm so glad to hear about their reunion and that they are touring again, I hope they start making a new album soon!

David Foerster

Ok, folks. I'm going to boot Windows and play some vidya for the remainder of the night. Cya!

jokerdino

Hey, Vidya is a nice person.

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