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Michael Homer

00:40

I'm almost certain this answer is gibberish, but it is very confidently presented from someone with non-trivial reputation so I want to sanity-check myself:

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A: Why does my user's login cause systemd to use up a CPU?

I'm not posting this as a comment, as there are too many, but I must agree with @Lervel here for two reasons: Usually, naming a User Account, after a system-wide, very often used tool, is a bad idea. See #2. cat is also known as the Concatenate Command. See also man cat. I think that journal...

Faheem Mitha

01:33

@MichaelHomer Sounds like nonsense to me.

> I think that journald, while logging, cannot escape your username, and as such is trying to actually run cat while logging, i.e. every time it "sees" cat, it executes cat.

Say what?

@MichaelHomer Should I downvote this? Are you going to?

Michael Homer

The comments don't make it sound any better.

Well, you can if you want.

Faheem Mitha

This answer is complete nonsense. Sorry. — Faheem Mitha 18 secs ago

I think that sums it up. Fortunately we don't get a lot of raving lunacy on this site.

I get enough of that in real life.

I downvoted. I don't normally do this, but it's pretty bad.

Michael Homer

There are a lot of rubbish answers, but they're usually from brand-new users.

Faheem Mitha

@MichaelHomer True. But that would be a bit worse than average even for a new user.

Faheem Mitha

01:50

How do I rollback an edit, please?

Michael Homer

@FaheemMitha There's a "rollback" link on each revision on the page you get after clicking "edited 3 hours ago".

Faheem Mitha

@MichaelHomer Yes, I see. Thanks.

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Barish

04:31

I have a question regarding installing a package to a naked centos server

anybody available?

4 hours later…

Faheem Mitha

08:18

@Barish Ask a question on the site, please.

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Fabby

09:59

@terdon: Mudit Kapil is off his meds again...

terdon

@Fabby Yeah, looks like it.

Fabby

(I've been trying to converse with him for the last couple of years and there is no use telling him he's posting nonsense as it makes sense to him.)

Faheem Mitha

10:14

@Fabby Context?

Fabby

@FaheemMitha AU chat room... Search for the person we're talking about...

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby Ok. That's an Indian name.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha I know! I've worked with enough Indians to recognize Indian names...

Just not good enough yet to recognize the female from the male names yet...

;-)

rebooting! bye bye

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby I looked at his posting. This sort of thing isn't unusual. There are 1.3 billion Indians, and a portion of them occasionally find their way on the net.

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Fabby

12:33

@FaheemMitha No, not unusual... Just difficult to talk to when he needs something.

I find this one much more unusual...

(It caused a discussion on Meta Stack Exchange)

Faheem Mitha

13:10

@Fabby Is he actually active on any site? I didn't check.

@Fabby Sounds like an American. Probably the owner of a tinfoil hat.

There must be quite a lot of mentally ill people on the net. What is perhaps surprising is that they are not more visible.

And in places like the US they don't receive adequate treatment either.

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Fabby

14:29

@FaheemMitha Actually, tin foil hats act like antennas so that the gummint and Aliens can read your mind better

(let me look up the study)

Tin foil helmet research paper

terdon

Q: Do tinfoil hats protect against any sort of radiation?

Delusional conspiracy theorists are commonly portrayed as wearing tin-foil hats to protect against mind-control rays from sinister organisations such as [goverments/aliens/NSA/CIA/FBI/liberals/conservatives/devil/god]. Are there any (electromagnetic or other natural world) rays that would be bl...

Fabby

@FaheemMitha ---^ CC: @terdon

terdon

@Fabby @FaheemMitha ^^

Fabby

@terdon Within µseconds of each other...

terdon

@Fabby that answer of yours won't be very well received on skeptics. Not to mention it's not true, given how I phrased the question. Clearly, tinfoil hats protect against electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum :P

Fabby

14:44

We'll see: I can always delete the answer!

(and that's why I left the comment! :D

terdon

Fair enough. Argh, I really want to upvote but I am too much of a pedant to do so unless you change the "No they don't". They clearly do protect from some forms of radiation.

Fabby

lemme have another look!

@terdon Better?

terdon

@Fabby Not really (I never asked if they protect from all, only if they protect from any, and it turns out they do) but fuck it, have an upvote anyway!

Fabby

@terdon :D :D :D

You actually made me LOL!

We'll see what the rest of the skeptics'll do: it'll take 5 downvotes now to remove the positive effect of the 1 upvote!

(and thanks)

Faheem Mitha

15:23

> The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz.

That's a little hard to believe.

Then again, this is probably a joke paper.

Fabby

15:37

@FaheemMitha no it isn't hard to believe: one man's hat is another's parabolic antenna!

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby As a scientific statement it's extremely hard to believe.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha If you beam the rays from the feet down upwards, the hat turns into a parabolic antenna...

I would say extremely easy to understand! :P

Faheem Mitha

15:52

@Fabby Hah

Fabby

(I think outside of the box all the time and things that are obvious to me, are ....

Faheem Mitha

Maybe I'll make myself my own tinfoil hat. Do a little experimentation.

@Fabby You should be a research scientist.

Fabby

I like the centurion model!

@FaheemMitha Nah, I should be a CIO! :D :D :D

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby CIO?

@Fabby You sure love the emoticons.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Otherwise people misinterpret my writings for sarcasm, whereas they're jokes...

Faheem Mitha

16:08

@Fabby Ah. Well, that's an important difference, clearly.

I make more sparing use of them. But I think sometimes ambiguity is fun!

I VTCed this one

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Faheem Mitha

20:36

Another VTC, imo.

AncientSwordRage

21:07

Is this question better suited here or on superuser?

Q: How to load an openSUSE live USB?

I've followed the instructions here: Create a Live USB stick using Windows I've managed to get the openSUSE loading screen up. One of the options is to install openSUSE the other is to boot from HDD, neither of which let me load it as a live usb. This is the iso I downloaded, and the section b...