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@think_meaning_builds Yes, thank you!
02:14
Someone or somebot has been repeatedly trying to hack my Microsoft account since yesterday, requesting a one-off login code to my email.
I hate modern login systems. Although more secure, they feel really tedious and annoying and time consuming sometimes.
02:32
Which ones?
Those one-time codes are indeed annoying.
Word of the morn: dragoman -- an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts.
Nice word.
03:38
@CowperKettle great! 👍👍
04:21
OK, I found it, the single most misleading linguistics-related website in existence: hashtron.cloud
It claims to be able to convert "English" to "IPA"
It turns "caught" into /kˈɔght/
It turns "dawn" into /dəwn/
Wut
Yeah, don't you know that dialect?
@alphabet Even more so than my blog?
And both "comma" and "coma" into /koʊmmə/
@Cerberus You have a misleading blog?
And "homicide" into /hoʊmikɪdɪ/. Seems like it just translates letter sequences automatically to IPA symbols, then adds random stress markers for some fun variety?
Indeed, you can type in random letter strings and it will somehow still try to turn it into IPA in ways that make no sense.
@alphabet Yes, the gemminated m, quite correct.
@alphabet If I had one, I'm sure you'd find it all wrong.
@Cerberus Aw, c'mon, it's not like I reflexively hate everything.
Unrelated: there are a few of these "IPA to English translators" online and they're all bad and wrong and dumb.
But a few people on the Linguistics SE have failed to realize that.
@Cerberus E.g., use Microsoft authenticator app to approve login. To do so, I have to unlock my phone by typing its PIN, then open auth app and then approve. All this becomes worse when phone is slow.
04:35
@alphabet But it might go against what most people write!
@Vikas At least you don't need to copy a code?
@Cerberus No.
So could be worse.
@Cerberus Our State Bank of India is known for its weird login user experience. It sends so many OTPs at each step to make sure your account is safe.
Hmm.
One should be enough to log in.
Combined with poor UI lol
04:40
Then one more to transfer money.
Sometimes OTPs get delayed so that also wastes time.
Sending a code on email is faster.
I see.
@Cerberus Oh you meant a code like 23GX34 sent on mail/phone text message?
It's annoying on phone for sure, via OTP.
The solution is to just never check your bank account.
@alphabet Agree.
I use PIN login in my phone bank app. If you forget the PIN, it's game over. Generating a new PIN will need many steps, including you'll need your password. And if the password wasn't updated in recent months, it will first ask to update the password.
All these steps will require many OTPs.
05:36
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title (96): How do I refund a wrong transaction on PhonePe?‭ by Sameer Khan‭ on english.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, blacklisted user (163): How do I refund a wrong transaction on PhonePe?‭ by Sameer Khan‭ on english.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad phone number in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, blacklisted user (263): How do I refund a wrong transaction on PhonePe?‭ by Sameer Khan‭ on english.SE
 
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It seems my English accent is not comprehensible to Aussies.
07:23
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10:03
Maaaaaaate just try and talk nay-sal, and streeeetch your vooooowlls out.
Tryyyy adding moyre Y inya words too.
10:14
@Robusto Indeed. And so is Robusto! Cheers
 
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#travle #674 +0 (Perfect)
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title (194): FINGER LOAN APP CUSTOMER CARE HELPLINE NUMBER ✅ 9007809540))-+-9831756269__call now‭ by Sajaj Ulls‭ on english.SE
14:07
#WhenTaken #234 (18.10.2024)

I scored 820/1000 🎉

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2️⃣ 📍 3723 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 131 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 1076 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 165 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 777 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 173 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 706 km - 🗓️ 14 yrs - ⚡ 152 / 200

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Ouch!
@Conrado Maybe that's a question suitable for Skeptics.SE ?
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Oct. 18, 2024

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 1880
Ouch again!
@Conrado How should I know? What is "Neom"?
Well, you always post fun charts, so I though you might know. Not a big deal.
> Neom is an urban area being built by Saudi Arabia in Tabuk Province.
It's supposed to eventually be a city in a 500km? line, only a few hundred meters wide, full of all the newest stuff.
The initial design over-promised with unrealistic budget and scheduling targets.
14:44
@Conrado Where in South America do you live now?
In Chile. Puerto Octay, beside lake Llanquihue.
Do you get a lot of earthquakes there?
And is Chile chilly down there? ;-)
@Robusto Yes, but not much activity over 5 (which I think I've experienced twice over the last twenty years here) on the Richter scale in this region since 1960. That was pretty impressive, though. In 2010, there was one at 8-odd, but further north.
@Conrado Is the food there similar to Peruvian food? One day I'd like to try Lomo saltado; do they have that in Chile?
@Robusto 13 C right now. It's springtime, we have a temperate rainy climate. We have frost a few weeks during the winter, and it rarely gets above 25 C in the summer.
@GratefulDisciple I don't know Peruvian food well, although I've visited there. I know they cook well; I think they have a reputation for that over Latin America. We do have lomo saltado, but it would be more expensive here than in Peru.
14:53
@Conrado Sounds nice. How'd you wind up down there?
@Conrado I see. I just read a little about that area, which turned out had a sizable German colony between 1850 to 1875. Do you still feel the German influence there? Is there still a significant German-speaking minority there?
My dad always dreamed of living in South America (his folks were English but lived in Paraguay for a few years before he was born), and so after he married (to a US native), he packed up his family and we came here, when I was ten. So I was born in central Appalachia, but raised in the Andes. And I became more accustomed here than in N.A., although I've been there several times to visit. Now I've lived 25 years in South America (two of them in Bolivia), so I feel more at home here than anywhere.
@Conrado Wow, quite a move. Pardon my ignorance, but culturally, is Chile/Bolivia/Paraguay closer to Argentina or to Brazil?
Maybe Argentina because all those countries speak Spanish?
@GratefulDisciple Yes, you can feel the German influence, in art and culture, but the German speakers aren't a very large population any more. Most folks younger than sixty years only speak a few words in German. People born since 1980, hardly even that.
@GratefulDisciple Yes, I would certainly say Argentina.
In fact, all four of these were part of the same Spanish viceroyalty.
@Conrado It seems to be happening in Canada as well. Children of German immigrants around WW2 now speak English more.
@Conrado That makes sense. Do those countries still maintain ties with Spain the way Canada / Australia / etc. are part of the British commonwealth?
15:06
No, they're all independent.
@Conrado Countries in the British commonwealth are now all independent too (even to the constitution) and election is completely uninfluenced by UK, although they still recognize the King of England. So no recognition anymore of the Spanish monarchy?
@Conrado Wow
The famous "Line" city-building.
The Line (stylised THE LINE; Arabic: ذا لاين) is a linear smart city under construction in Saudi Arabia in Neom, Tabuk Province, which is designed to have no cars, streets or carbon emissions. The city is one of the nine announced regions of Neom and is a part of Saudi Vision 2030 project, which Saudi Arabia claims will create around 460,000 jobs and add an estimated $48 billion to the country's GDP. The Line is planned to be the first development of a $500 billion project in Neom. Thousands of people have been forcibly moved to make way for the project and villages have been razed. The original...
Such as Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos.
There is also Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
@CowperKettle Yes, "the Line". Isn't it a funny idea?
15:13
I'm not an engineer - they must have consulted the best engineers available
@GratefulDisciple I don't think Spanish monarchy has any more influence here than the Queen would have in USA. I never heard of OEI.. I'll have to go read up later.
@Arfrever Yes, but they aren't really meant to be governing anything except the dictionary.
@Arfrever Cool. Maybe similar to Alliance française for French?
Not trying to diminish the importance of the dictionary, of course.
The Neosho Times, Missouri, January 17, 1918
@Conrado In Canada, it's merely ceremonial. Although when I become Canadian citizen I have to swear an oath to His Majesty King Charles the Third, King of Canada, His Heirs and Successors. :-)
15:20
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@GratefulDisciple That's where it's different than the USA. In USA, I think you would pledge allegiance to the flag, and sing "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free". In Chile, I think you would make your vows to the democracy, too. Swearing to a European king would be deemed quite colonial and imperialistic here, possibly backwards and old fashioned.
@Conrado Yes, it's a mental change coming from the USA.
@CowperKettle Nice. Is it pronounced once't?
Adverb: oncet (not comparable)
  1. (Southern US, South Midland US, nonstandard) Once.
/ˈwʌn(t)st/
Adverb: twicet (not comparable)
  1. (Southern US, South Midland US, regional) Twice.
Mebbe ghosts don't know about the 2nd ammendment.
Or mebbe the cowboy saw a civilized ghost.
15:26
@Conrado Even if they do, they're not covered under the 2nd amendment, although the Supreme Court may still need to rule on that (when they are dead, are they still US Citizen?)
It just says "the people". I don't know if non-citizens count. I never did bear any arms other than the ones I was born with, or study the laws surrounding them. I'll have to ask my cousin, who has more arms than digits, unless his wife has civilized him somewhat by now. On the other hand, she was Kentuckian, so she might have encouraged him in his incorrigible behavior.
But for now, I need to go work and make some CLP.
Been nice chatting.
Cheers!
@Conrado "who has more arms than digits" LOL. Have a good day working!
15:46
#WhenTaken #234 (18.10.2024)

I scored 859/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 13 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 194 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 260 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 182 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 1079 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 163 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 740 km - 🗓️ 19 yrs - ⚡ 136 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 13 km - 🗓️ 10 yrs - ⚡ 184 / 200

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Ouch!
@jlliagre Hey, that was my line! ;-)
16:04
@Robusto Mine is pronounced with a French accent :-)
@jlliagre Rhymes with douche? ^_^
Shower you mean?
Of course.
Hi, guys. Can I check with you these sentences? Do they sound natural enough to say?

1. Almost half of the company's staff have been let go since the beginning of the recession.
2. In the 90s, this program was distributed as a collection of files on CD-ROM. Nowadays, it can be easily downloaded online.
3. Sometimes, as anyone who's ever solved a computer problem before knows, it's usually the simplest problems that are overlooked.
4. You must curb access to your personal computer as much as possible if you want your data to be secure.
Les Houches (French pronunciation: [le.z‿uʃ]; Arpitan: Les Ouches or Les Oucies) is an alpine commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. It is located just west of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the larger canton of Le Mont-Blanc. == Overview == Les Houches, located 6 kilometres from Chamonix, is a ski resort with a domain which extends from an altitude of 950 metres up to 1900 metres. Long descents through tree-lined slopes are combined with impressive views of the Mont Blanc massif and the Chamonix valley. Les Houches is twinned with the Russian...
@MichaelRybkin 1. has?
16:09
@MichaelRybkin Yep, all OK. Not all of them how I'd word those thoughts, but that's OK too.
@jlliagre The British use the plural with nouns representing groups.
@Robusto In French both the plural and singular are free to use in such a construction. Prescriptivists prefer the singular, but I'm not one of them.
@jlliagre Americans prefer the singular: "the Board has decided" (Am) vs. "the Board have decided" (Br).
Me, I don't care. Just because something sounds unfamiliar doesn't mean it's wrong.
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@MichaelRybkin Please get rid of the word before. I can proofread, but you'll have to pay me. 1 to 4 otherwise look good.
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Oct. 18, 2024

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 0
Zero-point energy!
16:29
@Conrado I wonder what Neom Chomsky has to say about that.
@Conrado . . . Why?
@MichaelRybkin they're all okay. I would especially word 3 differently, it feels a bit clunky to me. But grammar-wise, there's nothing wrong with any of them
I mean, it's good that the Saudis are putting that heap of money to better use than the next luxury European supercar, trying to secure a future for themselves when the oil runs out. But a city like the snake game sounds a bit like a vanity project
Maybe there are logistical reasons for it that I dunno. But I doubt a futuristic city would take off and attract investors just because it's shaped weird.
@MichaelRybkin All OK except 3: "sometimes...usually" is not right.
3
But yeah, good catch
@jlliagre you're killing it
Literally
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Oct. 18, 2024

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 380
https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope
Well, a miss is as good as a mile
16:45
Oops.
And I thought Martini recipes were bad
@M.A.R. OK this gives me some hope.
Well, the questions are pretty US-centric
No one told them they had to cater to a global audience to be fair
Maybe they should ask about Hafez and Goethe
Or Shams and Molana which totally was not gay love. It was divine love. Or something.
@M.A.R. Yes.
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Oct. 18, 2024

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 1740
I managed to get one or two random guesses right.
What does this symbol mean in your results?: ⎵
3 wrong guesses is game over
16:49
Oh, I see.
I could easily have lost, then.
@M.A.R. By the way, until this line, I thought I was talking to Alphabet.
Your (dualis) icons!
So confusing.
I imagine they're like when Wile E. Coyote tries to get a feel for the ground beneath him and realizes he's went over a cliff and it's nothing but air
@Cerberus the key difference is only one of us rants about CGEL.
That would give him away.
And of course you also have your style that gives you away at some point.
But until then!
My style is mostly navel gazing about the newest piece of news in healthcare
That, too.
9 mins ago, by M.A.R.
Or Shams and Molana which totally was not gay love. It was divine love. Or something.
But this is also very you.
16:59
@M.A.R. I think some businesses might also get a bit worried by the "getting chopped up with a bone saw" risk.
@alphabet the risk is the same as placebo unless you actually want to find out what sort of people you're working for
Do you see how indistinctive the two of you look?
Which of you would be willing to slightly alter his icon, colour it in some way?
I will happily Photoshop it for you.
I could go for blue, though I'll change it tomorrow, not right away
Like last time
And that was Mitch
Yay!
Do you want me to do it for you?
Well I don't have Photoshop readily available, but maybe I could figure something out using something else, I dunno
Wait, something's come up. BBL
17:11
@M.A.R. There will not be a gayborhood.
@Cerberus In a sense, you're always talking to Alphabet when you're online.
I hope not in this room!
That would be my hope as well. Somehow I doubt it, though.
@M.A.R. Is that a yes? I can whip something up quickly.
@Cerberus Maybe show him?
Present him with a fait accompli.
17:13
Maybe!
@Robusto I see there a Jquery library hosted at Google that is loaded by this page.
@Cerberus I don't know if they would have anything hinky in that. On my club website I do that as well and I don't worry about it. Jquery is Jquery. But I could be wrong.
I use the extension Local CDN.
It blocks many well-known resources and replaces them with local versions.
Including the one on this page.
@Cerberus Nice.
Does it ever cause problems?
I don't know haha.
Not that I have noticed.
Very occasionally, a page will not work, but then I never know what the cause is: only works in Chrome; blocked by Ublock Origin; made to malfunction by any of various other extensions.
17:32
@Cerberus Yeah. And say good-bye UBlock Origin very soon.
At least on Chrome.
I wonder how it'll affect Brave?
@Robusto Oh but I would never use Chrome.
Ad watchers of the world, gather ye in Chrome.
@Robusto Thank you very much.
I use Brave, which is Chrome-based, but that's because of laziness. I always have Firefox on the side for multiple uses.
@M.A.R. Thank you.
And a big thank you to the rest of you who also helped with checking the sentences.
@MichaelRybkin 1. OK 2. OK 3. Shouldn't it be "the simplest solutions that are overlooked" ? 4. "curb" is okay grammatically, but I think "restrict" makes more sense (from an IT guy speaking) since it's about adding an authorization policy so that only the right users can access it. 5 OK.
17:46
@Cerberus Chat on SE is indexed by Google btw. It's completely public
@MichaelRybkin One more suggestion for #3, use "would know" instead of "knows". So it becomes: "Sometimes, as anyone who's ever solved a computer problem before would know, it's usually the simplest solutions that are overlooked."
@Laurel Is that consciously done by SE staff, that Google index the Chat sites? Or we're at the mercy of Google? If there is a will, isn't there a way to notify Google NOT to crawl the Chat sites, such as by using a robots.txt file? If it is consciously done, I wonder for what purpose.
@GratefulDisciple SE could tell Google to please not (via robots.txt), but they didn't, I guess. Even then, it's just a text file that's a request, not actually blocking them. (There may be benefits to having it be searchable via google tho too)
18:05
@M.A.R. wait....what was me?
@Laurel That's true. I'm not complaining, just wondering.
18:18
@GratefulDisciple This is just fussbudgetry. @MichaelRybkin's purpose point is (as he's said before) not to improve the sentences, but to decide if they sound like normal conversation.
@Mitch You're blue, that's what. Or not blue. I guess it depends on the light.
@Robusto Thanks. Noted. Learned a new word :-).
@GratefulDisciple Oh, thank you very much, my friend, for your valuable improvement sugessions.
Yes, I'm not asking for improvement or anything like that. I just want to know whether my sentences sound good enough to pass as normal, everyday English.
@CowperKettle I understand that this is a joke, but there are no polar bears in the Antarctic, nor any penguins in the Arctic.
Oh
> In 1936, a Norwegian polar explorer named Lars Christensen saw the potential for an Arctic penguin population. He plucked nine king penguins from South Georgia’s beaches and sent them north aboard the SS Neptune. They were settled on the Lofoten islands.
Lofoten (Norwegian, pronounced [ˈlùːfuːtn̩]; English pronunciation: , LOH-foh-tən, loh-FOH-tən), Lufoahtta (Lule Sami), or Lufuohttá (Northern Sami) is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten has distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches, and untouched lands. There are two towns, Svolvær and Leknes – the latter is approximately 169 km (105 mi) north of the Arctic Circle and approximately 2,420 km (1,500 mi) away from the North Pole. The archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated ...
> ... there until at least 1944.
Human interventions including zoos aside, I stand by the statement.
Å (Norwegian pronunciation: [oː], from å meaning "stream") or Å i Lofoten (lit. 'Å in Lofoten') is a village in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest of the village of Sørvågen on the island of Moskenesøya, towards the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago. It is connected to the rest of the archipelago by the European route E10 highway, which ends here. This part of the highway is also called King Olav's Road. Until the 1990s, Å was mainly a small fishing village specializing in stockfish, but since then tourism has taken over...
@Laurel Actually not, I believe: chat.stackexchange.com/robots.txt
Oddly, if you do a Google search with "site:chat.stackexchange.com" it does turn up results, though. Huh.
18:47
@alphabet I wonder if Google actually honors robots.txt directives.
@Robusto Yes, it does.
But would you be surprised if it cheated?
I believe Google is typically good at following those. But it seems like in this case you do get some results, dunno. Maybe the robots.txt directive is a recent addition?
Frankly, I don't trust Google, and haven't probably for a decade or so.
But I do use Google search when I can't find what I'm looking for on Duck Duck Go.
Huh, Google does still index transcripts even though robots.txt is set to disallow all.
18:55
Yes.
A journalist from Krasnoyarsk left a skin scratch on an army official during their argument at the local conscription station during a journalist assignment. She has gotten 3 years of jail. e1.ru/text/incidents/2024/10/18/74226641
I think there's actually a bug in their robots.txt setup. Specifically, the chat.stackexchange.com robots.txt (unlike the main stackexchange.com one) is populated but returns HTTP status 418 (not 200) so it will get ignored. @Laurel Where would one report this bug?
So the "Disallow: /" directive does nothing.
19:48
@CowperKettle I have been to the Lofoten islands a few decades ago, by car. Norway is very scenic.
 
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@CowperKettle Will she be exempt from getting conscripted as a prisoner, or will they let her out with the other convicts? /s
 
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Note that the use of generative LLMs is banned on SE and this answer, as did others from your hand, are suspected of being AI generated. Please refrain from using ChatGTP (yup 'GTP', biologist here) or other generative AI tools in the future, or the mod team may have to undertake action. — AliceD ♦ yesterday
@Mitch you used to be an ox in a green field, which was easily confused with a previous Tom the cat avatar of mine that also had a lot of green
@Cerberus hey, I'd be grateful! I discovered that in the morning I'm going to be so busy I won't be able to make time to edit it myself
@CowperKettle that's like being conscripted from the back door
@Conrado wow really? Every other year at least I feel a 5+ earthquake around here
Of course, I read somewhere long ago that the fault Tabriz is on is the 2nd most active in the world, the 1st being (one of the faults?) active near Japan
22:34
@CowperKettle Fun.
Everyone knows penguins live in iglos.
@M.A.R. OK! Blue, you said?
@Cerberus blue should do. Thanks again
Next time maybe I'll pick a scene with no green
@alphabet meta.SE makes the most sense
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Q: The robots.txt file on chat.stackexchange.com does not work, likely because it returns HTTP status code 418 ("I'm a Teapot")

alphabetIt apparently used to be the case that the robots.txt file on chat.stackexchange.com permitted search engines to index some parts of that domain (but not chat transcripts). Now, however, it is set to disallow crawling of the entire domain, again preventing chat transcripts from being indexed. How...

Gimme upvotes, I wanna be famous
Done - I guess SE wants to keep that sweet knowledge away from the search engines ?
@M.A.R. Would this work?
Or this one?
It's not perfect...
There is a bit of a greenish glow on some edges that is hard to get rid of.
@alphabet Noo I want the chat log to be searchable!
The chat's own search is not great.
Don't let SE know this!!
23:28
@Cerberus Eh, it's marginally better for privacy (not that these chat rooms are really private, of course) and I'd prefer they fix this.
@Laurel I know, I use it to search chat!
@alphabet But it used to be intentionally searchable!
They changed their policy.
But we don't need to work with them there.
@Cerberus No, it never was. The old robots.txt blocked it also.
Are you sure?
But it has been Googleable for 14 years...
23:30
Ah wait, I misread it--the old policy had Allow not Disallow
I'd prefer their new policy be in place; I've updated the question to reflect that.
So I'll gladly collaborate with them on this one.
Traitor!
Quisling!
6 upvotes, 1 downvote, so I think that I'm on the side of the majority (assuming people actually read the text of the question, which they may not have).
@alphabet One of the upvotes was mine, so not exactly organic.
Well, yeah, I did literally tell people here to upvote it
23:36
Change that into a downer!
I've edited it a few times for clarity etc.

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