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TheWanderer

00:01

ooh boy

I think someone may be trying to steal my identity

OK, changed my Google, bank and PayPal passwords

edwinksl

not me

TheWanderer

a likely story

George Orwell really liked the word "interminable"

1 hour later…

TheWanderer

01:28

so TIL my touchpad also has a virtual middle click

1 hour later…

RobotHumans

02:30

@AndroidDev - that same curve is time spent programming to fix things that broke related to API changes that drop every 2 days (on dev), but doing it all twice because they want you to fix it against test instead of doing it right once.

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Q: Set cron to transfer file using LFTP

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8 hours later…

Byte Commander

10:23

Takkat

10:39

LOL this looks like these sponsor walls from sports transmissions.

"bark, bark, ... yeah we were a great team. Did our best. Some were injured but who cares. In the end the winner won justified"

Journeyman Geek

10:53

woof?

"Much game. very shoot. Wow!"

TheWanderer

@ByteCommander I'm also concerned about the mention of Purina

you know, the pet food brand

and Raid? I'm pretty sure the testing animals are bees and the like

1 hour later…

David Foerster

12:25

Hi all!

Quick question: OP keeps adding a work-around presented in the top answer to their question and insists that it belongs there despite multiple attempts to reason with them. What do?

Q: On-screen keyboard popping up whenever I touch screen

This bug is confirmed, please mark yourself affected at Launchpad: http://pad.lv/1723857. Meanwhile you can band-aid the problem with this extension from Keringar. I'm in 17.10. Whenever I touch the screen, whether to change windows/apps, scroll within a browser, or press a button, the st...

touchscreen 17.10 onboard onscreen-keyboard

Do mods have the power to prohibit specific users from editing a specific post, even the post owner?

dessert

@DavidFoerster Maybe have a mod lock the question so OP can't do that again?

askubuntu.com/help/locked-posts

> A post which is "locked" cannot be modified in any way. Locking prevents...
>...editing

David Foerster

I raised a mod flag to draw their attention to it.

dessert

Edit wars are explicitly mentioned by the help page I linked, so that should be the way to go.

cl-netbox

13:06

Hello everybody :)

Good afternoon @DavidFoerster @dessert ! :)

David Foerster

@cl-netbox: Hiho!

cl-netbox

@DavidFoerster I wish you a nice weekend David. :)

2 hours later…

Videonauth

14:40

Local Man Seriously Reconsidering Relationship After Finding Girlfriend Using Nano

David Foerster

I don't understand how most edit suggestions are accepted almost instantaneously and others take hours. Example: askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/802576

karel

@DavidFoerster If the same vandalism edit gets rolled back enough times, it gets automatically flagged for moderator attention. No nasty comment exchanges are required and a mod takes care of it.

2 hours later…

Nathan Osman

16:51

Falcon Heavy is scheduled for Tuesday.

1 hour later…

Thomas Ward

17:55

@karel Or the system handles it itself in certain rare cases..

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