Speaking of port forwarding, I'm not sure that's even a good example of a gray area. I feel like we should have a canonical question on that topic. We tend to close questions that come down to "you have to forward a port," or that seem to.
But making an open port accessible over the Internet involves multiple steps. Some of them would be done in Ubuntu (are you really running the service? is it listening on the port you think? is iptables, configured via ufw or otherwise, set up allow traffic in?).
Others sometimes would be done in Ubuntu (would you rather not bother forwarding? does your router support UPnP? does your application support UPnP? do you have UPnP enabled? are you using a VPN? does UPnP work over the VPN? does your VPN support port forwarding? can you set it up through your VPN client?)
@Natty tp This is that user's second link-only answer on that question.
@Zanna Is it reasonable for them to be undeleted? At least the question. (There is one thing I was wondering about, in connection with undeleting such posts, though.)
@EliahKagan yes, I saw that... was thinking about it
I don't know anything, but I do have a lot of stuff to read (the Help Center has doubled in size!) so I may find something without actually digging for it in the couple of days
according to this stuff I'm reading in the broom cupboard of the Help Center, migrating that post was probably the right thing, and I'm not supposed to bother the destination site's mods about it.
I always thought migration was, like, really difficult to do or something
@EliahKagan I thought it stayed locked, though I don't know why I thought that and it doesn't seem like it would make sense
yes... I can understand the idea that if someone doesn't know how to do Linux 101 level things they should not be using Kali and it's ultimately not helpful to walk them through that one problem
@EliahKagan I'm looking for a package which is in Universe and got a non-security update after 3 years. mplayer also got security update. Netbeans and Evolution are in Universe and wasn't updated after the flavor reached EOL. I'm interested in packages which are in Universe and got a non-security update after 3 years.
Maybe going backwards and trying to contradict my claims might prove them to be true.
@EliahKagan Stephen has updated their answer.
I think this can be closed as dupe of the above question.
Also the answer is misplaced or based on wrong assumptions. The answer is about point releases not packages as indicated by questioner's comment and your comment.
Please refrain from posting duplicate/near-duplicate comments, for example, here. If the same comment with more details is present, there's no need to post comments again.
The question was migrated from Server Fault. Then it was closed as too localized here. That sent it back to Server Fault, where presumably it was immediately unlocked. After some significant passage of time, it was deleted there. Then it was undeleted and reopened here, since the migration shouldn't have been rejected originally.
But manually undeleting and reopening it didn't unlock it and the answer that was migrated with it, so those had to be manually unlocked separately, which nobody noticed needed to be done until later.
(I'm saying this from a combination of the post timelines and my own recollection. I can't view deleted posts on Server Fault, and I haven't attempted to search deep in my Ask Ubuntu flag history for the custom flag I raised that, IIRC, resulted in the posts being unlocked here.)
@terdon I must have been somewhat annoying, all the times I custom-flagged a question for migration and included some phrase like "if the mods there agree" in my flag message. I will stop doing that.
I mean, I'll stop phrasing the messages in that manner.
@Zanna Seems I was just wrong about this then. Sorry to have misled you!
@EliahKagan lol, quite the contrary. Having more info in the flag is usually helpful. Granted, telling us to square it with the other side isn't very useful, but meh :)
@Kulfy I think non-security updates are fairly rare in Ubuntu (once a release comes out). If this turns out to be what it means when flavors have a shorter support period--that flavors ship with some universe packages by default, and those only eventually receive only security updates--then I suspect the community here would just want to support them for the full length of time that the release is otherwise supported.
Pretty much all the arguments for why it's bad to use an unsupported release come down to how doesn't get security updates. (Also, albeit less compellingly because our policy doesn't actually have to be consistent: most users of vanilla Ubuntu systems probably have universe packages installed. We support those systems.)
@terdon A couple of days ago I noticed I am almost at 3k on Unix & Linux now, which makes me think I should know about the scope (since I would theoretically be able to review Close votes), but I have only a general idea. I should come and read your on-topic page and meta.
I don't know why I put it like that... I'm not planning to come and review the close votes, I just want to know for the purposes of considering proposed migrations
This relates to the question of whether we want SmokeDetector to post reports that have only experimental reasons (the "Possible..." and "Toxic..." reasons).
I should write a SQL query for metasmoke's data explorer to find out how many.
But I don't know how to do that.
I should learn how to do it.
But I was hoping for a way to make the comparison sooner, so people here could express their views on whether to enable those messages in this room sooner -- so that, if it turns out people do want it, it can happen sooner. :)
@jokerdino there's a difference between a deleted message (shows up as "removed" for all users) and group-deletions: you only get one "deleted" for the whole bunch.
At least if we're thinking of the same one, it's this script by Doorknob. (It also works for room owners who are not mods, since room owners can also see deleted messages. For example, I can use the script in this room.)
user435118
@EliahKagan Do you want me to enable it? I can make a PR to do so
Do you want posts which are detected only for "experimental" reasons reported? Experimental reasons are ones which will tend to have a higher level of False Positives, but also are detections which catch less established spam/R/A patterns. On metasmoke (MS), we don't have a good way to search all such reasons at one time, only each one separately.
@Kulfy I had meant to request clarification earlier...but didn't.
Would you prefer they not be reported here?
(I plan to ask everyone here who's active and pingable; then it can be enabled if most people want it. You needn't hedge your response on account of others. Is several people don't want it but don't speak up because they assume other people do, then that would create the impression that it has more support than it really does, which I'd like to avoid. I personally support this, but I don't want to turn it on without a strong idea of how many people want it.)
@EliahKagan I'm not sure if there is written documentation of getting updates via Ubuntu's repositories since Wikipedia also suggests Lubuntu 16.04 reached EOL in 2019. Because of this confusion, I'm always reluctant to vote to close "unsupported flavors" as OT-EOL. (By unsupported flavors I mean the official derivatives of Ubuntu release X where flavors reached EOL and Ubuntu X is still supported)
(unrelated) Why this query isn't returning any rows? I'm interested in searching the deleted posts of owner of this post which was recently undeleted. I assumed their user id to be 256029. (since when user is deleted their display name changes to userUserId)
@karel @pomsky @SasukeUchiha @terdon @user3140225 @Videonauth Any preference/opinion as to whether SmokeDetector should post here about experimental detections? When Smokey started posting to this room, that wasn't feasible, but now it is. See these messages and this for details.
(Also, I apologize if any of you would have preferred not to be pinged about this, and also to anyone who would prefer to have been pinged whom I didn't include. I've omitted users from the ping who have already given feedback about this, users I don't think use this room in a way that would suggest they're interested, and users who aren't currently pingable. Anyone who sees this should certainly feel free to respond, even if never pinged!)
I ran select * from PostsWithDeleted for U&L where I can see everything, and checked one of the results: nothing deleted there. not even a deleted comment!
SELECT
concat('https://askubuntu.com/q/', Id) as [Post Link],
Score as [Score],
CreationDate as [Posted on],
DeletionDate as [Deleted on]
FROM
PostsWithDeleted
where
CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),DeletionDate,111)='2014/03/13'
AND
PostTypeId=1
ORDER BY
score desc;
This seems to work. Got 53 rows.
It seems at least 2 users were destroyed that day. user256028 and user256029
If I wanted to create multiple directories (on the same level) and then feed it a comma seperated list of directory names (or something to that effect)?
How do I delete the following directory?
I typed:
rmdir lampp
This error comes up:
rmdir: failed to remove `lampp': Directory not empty
Is there a command to delete all the files in the directory and delete the directory folder?
@EliahKagan I'm not clear about one thing, would SmokeDetector post "experimental" detections from all SE sites (instead of just AU) as one of the older comments says?
@pomsky No. It used to be that the only way to get experimental reports was to get them from all sites (which is not something we'd want in this room). But Makyen has since then implemented site-specific experimental reports. We'd just get them for Ask Ubuntu.
deletable First OP never clarified Ubuntu version or DE, so the dupe is completely based on a presupposition. Secondly, The answerer found out the question (and the answer) is a dupe of an older canonical question, so they then edited the answer to include that realisation and VTC'd as dupe.
deletable It seems the answer was accepted due to OP's naïvety, question is for Xubuntu (Xfce), the answer is specific to vanilla Ubuntu 20.04 (GNOME 3). So the answer is quite unsuitable for the question. If I'm not horribly mistaken, from a (deleted) comment by OP, it was clear that OP actually found some help enabling dark theme from the first comment instead.
deletable The answer essentially says it's no-repro.
deletable Correctly closed against a question which itself should've been closed as no-repro; very transient (and not so uncommon) server-side issue.
deletable Closed as a dupe, reposted by OP. The answer misses the point of the question.
@EliahKagan I was kinda occupied lately with my real life so i have no clue about this experimental feature of smokey but i would not object it posts in here.
Something along the line of: "While this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference."
Oh, I notice I had a typo, of course I meant "asking the answerer" (not "answer")
@EliahKagan Thanks for the ping! I think it would be helpful to have these reports here, as I think that it would be more familiar for people to interact with reports for AU here than on Charcoal, which shows reports from all SE sites.
I found this comment in which the OP talks about their medical condition. I think that it should be deleted, since it doesn't offer any info relevant to the OP's technical problem. However, it doesn't exactly fit in the flagging categories. Should I custom-flag it for a mod? Or perhaps @Zanna could you take care of it?
@user3140225 I just now custom flagged it, and the mods lurking here not always monitor the channel so pinging them is a way to go in this cases. CC: @jokerdino @Zanna
With Ubuntu 18.04, I can drag and drop files from Desktop to File manager and vice versa.
On my other Ubuntu 20.04 install, this is no more possible.
Has this fetaure been voluntarily removed or is it an accidental regression?
How to enable it again?
Many people seem to have noticed the same prob...
@Kulfy I apologize if I have done so and I assure you I would not have done so intentionally. I will refrain from doing so and I always have. I can't see the relevance of the linked question though. Can you please explain.
@SasukeUchiha Well the comments are now deleted. Earlier there were comments by Ravexina and you as well. You commented something like "This is more like a comment".
Does that indicate that Ask Ubuntu is the most spammed site?
I thought that table was specifically showing autoflags. If so, it means Ask Ubuntu has the most autoflagging.
The text above it is:
> In the time since then, we’ve continued to make improvements to the system, ultimately resulting in moving up again to four flags on the posts that the system is most confident are spam. We’ve also started casting one autoflag on every post from the SmokeDetector account to help moderators identify posts that were affected by this system, which has the handy side effect of letting us monitor accuracy from SmokeDetector’s flag history. Spoiler alert: it’s stupidly accurate.
But I think Stack Overflow still has more spam in total. It's a far bigger site. OTOH, maybe that's changed recently. The graph I cited doesn't show how many of the reports are fp. Maybe SO has so many more fp than AU that AU really has more spam now.
user435118
@EliahKagan All autoflags have at least 1 flag from Smokey's acc
@Videonauth Experimental detections are, roughly speaking, the ones that are added by !!/watch rather than !!/blacklist commands. (See Guidance for Blacklisting and Watching.)
For example, if I run !!/watch example\.com (which of course should not be run, it would catch way to many non-spam posts and few spam posts!) then posts that only match that will trigger one of the "Potentially bad keyword in..." detections. (I said roughly speaking because there are some other ways for a detection to be experimental.)
Experimental detections have been around for a very long time--they're related to the usual workflow for watching keywords and domains before moving them to the blacklists. The recent new feature is that we can receive experimental reports here that are just for one site (it used to be that a room could only be subscribed to all experimental reports network-wide or no experimental reports).
(unrelated) We have something for this, don't we? I don't mean the sudo cd part, which is secondary to the main problem. I mean the main problem itself, where the user doesn't have permissions to access an external drive.
Maybe. Can't the problem also sometimes happen in cases where the hard disk is automatically detected and mounted when plugged in, such as when multiple users are logged in graphically?
@pomsky I don't know if that question is on-topic or not, but questions about other discussion forums are not inherently off-topic.
The OP's comment is not very helpful (it's true that we should give links when stating policy, but the comment doesn't quite say that; also, the inference given at the end of their comment, that is a bad inference), but in general asking about the Ubuntu community, including resources, is on-topic.
We certainly can suggest other discussion forums, as in that question about resources for help with Ubuntu+1, so your comment is incorrect. We don't have such a policy; also, such a policy would not make sense. That doesn't settle the question of whether that particular question should stay open or be closed.
@EliahKagan I will delete my comment. Would you suggest any other course of action? Also I don't like feel like replying to OP's aforementioned comment, don't want to feed it.
(unrelated) A part of me thinks this question is an innocuous and usual one, but the other part feels it's arguably the cleverest spamming attempt yet. :D
Note that the website was linked (clickable) initially, I removed the link.
@karel I'm not sure what the significance is of the other two comments, but they seems to be unattributed quotes from official materials about the Windows Insiders program. AFAIK, there aren't major changes to WSL currently available through Insiders. In particular, WSL2 is available in the "2004" update to Windows 10, which is released. Even if there are such changes, it's not obvious what bearing they have on the OP's question. The OP is not asking for resources about the Insiders program.
@pomsky At first I thought that might not be no repro on the grounds that the other answer applied. But then I looked at the timing of when the question was asked and the releases it refers to, and that other answer is actually completely wrong. I've added my close vote (and commented).
no longer needed - I don't flag most such comments (though maybe I should), but in this case the necessary information has been requested already and it's just a distraction. This is also not a case where the OP has not tried anything or has not indicated they tried anything. They just haven't shown the actual script they wrote, so it's not really answerable.
So the question should be closed as unclear. But this is not even tangentially related to whether or not it's homework.
@EliahKagan Adding CUDA and/or GPU Compute support to WSL has been our #1 most requested feature since our first release! Over the last 3+ years, the WSL, Virtualization, DirectX, Windows Driver teams, and our silicon partners have been working hard on a complex engineering feat to deliver this capability.source
Yeah, like I said, I don't think any of the comments there except the first one (which links to your answer that you just quoted from here) are valuable.
GPU compute support is coming to WSL2, but it's not here yet, so the OP is not going to get any support from Linux yet. In the meantime the Windows Insider program is the main resource that is available and which is specific to this topic.
I think that's really not clear from from the comments on the post. This seems to me like a pretty straightforward case of comments that should be an answer. At minimum, you might consider replacing the comments with something that actually says that.
The OP's response is totally unwarranted (and I've flagged their comment as "no longer needed" as well, maybe I should've selected "unfriendly or unkind"), but it does clearly demonstrate that what you're trying to say is not clear to them either. Anyway, it's up to you. You don't have to do anything.
I figured it would be even more awkward if I posted here to recommend flagging comments that include yours (and that I expected you might not think are "no longer needed') without pinging you, since that might've come across as passive-aggressive. Perhaps I've only made things more awkward, though. If so, my apologies.
I cleaned up the comments. Clearly the OP read my comments and understood the gist of it, but he is expecting Ask Ubuntu to provide support for a Windows feature that hasn't even been released yet and I have no desire to go down that rabbit hole, so deleting my comments was the best thing that I could do.
I see what you mean. At this point, I don't really know what to do with that question. I'd somewhat like to close it as a duplicate of the question with information about the topic (from your first comment), but I think it might just be off-topic. It's asking about WSL, GPU, and data science, but not about Ubuntu, and the communities they're looking for aren't necessarily topical to community for Ubuntu.
If I wanted to create multiple directories (on the same level) and then feed it a comma seperated list of directory names (or something to that effect)?
How do I delete the following directory?
I typed:
rmdir lampp
This error comes up:
rmdir: failed to remove `lampp': Directory not empty
Is there a command to delete all the files in the directory and delete the directory folder?
