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3:30 AM

@AaronHall That sounds a little subjective for an SE site.

Something might exist outside of SE.

Do you know more precisely what you are looking for? I imagine this is too basic: websitebuilderexpert.com/building-websites/…

@JeffSchaller I ended up just adding the Latin American keyboard layout to all my computers. Super+Space to swap layouts and then [+e to get é and then Super+Space back to ENG

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terdon

8:38 AM

@Seth US layout with dead keys lets you use AltGr + e to get é, AltGr + Backtick then e gives è, AltGr + double quote then e gives ë.

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Jeff Schaller

11:57 AM

@Seth thanks, Seth!

Has anyone here dealt with the latest sudo issue (CVE-2019-14287)?

Stephen Kitt

@JeffSchaller yes, I applied the distro update ;-)

Jeff Schaller

@StephenKitt well done :)

Stephen Kitt

I wonder how common the required sudoers setup is though, I imagine the impact isn’t all that great in practice.

Jeff Schaller

Right -- who has "someone (systems)=(ALL) [not ALL]"

I should say: "untrusted-users (systems)=(ALL) [not ALL]"

terdon

Am I being dense here or is this really hard to understand?

Q: Turn (baby) monster oneliner into a "two-liner" (shell group commands with redir/pipe/substitiution)

I just got an upvote answering a general Q on bash whitespace and grammar. The syntactical WS, as it is socalled. You can find it. I then tried to come up with a good example of where whitespace and grammar matter and where they don't. So I created this, just to make it complex in a simple way: ...

And yes, I know the two are not mutually exclusive.

Jeff Schaller

12:15 PM

@terdon takes more caffeine than I have on-board right now

Stephen Kitt

@terdon I vote for really hard to understand

That’s not the first time I’ve found rastafile’s writings hard to understand; see e.g. the comments on both the Q & A in unix.stackexchange.com/q/546457/86440

Jeff Schaller

@StephenKitt I thought you were going to mention unix.stackexchange.com/questions/546586/…

Stephen Kitt

@JeffSchaller oh wow yes that is quite something too

Jeff Schaller

(adding "that is quite something" to my list of responses)

Stephen Kitt

one of those great British-isms

Jeff Schaller

12:23 PM

Seems on-par with the US-Southern "Bless your heart"

Stephen Kitt

ha ha yes

I’ve actually had “Bless your heart” addressed to me here...

(or “at me” perhaps)

Jeff Schaller

well isn't that something!

It does appear that my attempt at a chat room for feedback on that suggested edit has fallen flat

I'm wondering if I borked the ping syntax

Stephen Kitt

@JeffSchaller is it possible to see whether users joined and left the chat room?

Jeff Schaller

@StephenKitt I'm not aware of a way yet; checking

Stephen Kitt

because one of the users’ subsequent edits gave me the impression the advice had been taken on board

Jeff Schaller

12:27 PM

I suppose it's possible that they could read the transcript without joining it, too. And I don't see a way off-hand to list "people who have entered the room"

Stephen Kitt

@JeffSchaller ah yes, that’s a possibility too

Jeff Schaller

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/99621/… suggests "1 all time users", which ... I'm just going to leave alone

if the advice has been taken, then I'm happy. I'll leave the room and we can let it die on the vine, if that's OK with you, @StephenKitt?

Stephen Kitt

@JeffSchaller yup, thanks for going to all that effort!

Jeff Schaller

@StephenKitt no trouble at all; yet another opportunity to learn more about SE :)

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