The Bridge

fredley

1:00 PM

🍠

Nzall

if you type : in chat you can get a list

fredley

weird, there's sweet potato but no savoury potato

Nzall

I don't know why I even bothered codifying that :

fredley

🥔

Private Pansy

fredley

1:00 PM

The plot thickens

Kevin van der Velden

@Nzall no I don't

Nzall

do you have pork chat?

oh, you need to type a letter as well

🤔

and sometimes they don't work

that's supposed to be :thinking_face :

Kevin van der Velden

@Nzall of course I don't

Why would I trust @fredley?

Avery

@PrivatePansy deep

Private Pansy

@Avery For some reason the largest broadsheet here has turned the daily weather forecast tweet into this

Nzall

1:09 PM

132

Q: Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?

We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message "gimme gimme gimme" in stderr, which wasn't expected. Why are we getting this output?

161

A: Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?

er, that was my fault, I suggested it. Sorry. Pretty much the whole story is in the commit. The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called ...

Kevin van der Velden

Nice

Dragonrage

I don't trust @fredley as far as I could throw him, but dark mode for chat is like a requirement

Also he is/was a mod so he can't be too bad

At worst he will just troll us with Rebecca black videos or something

badp

@PrivatePansy what about the narrowsheet

Kevin van der Velden

I basically care about 0 of porkchat's features and am at a work machine where I'm not gonna install some addon created by one guy that's used by a dozen people. Joking about not trusting @fredley is funnier though

Private Pansy

Avery

1:24 PM

@Dragonrage you can use userstyles

that's what I do

besides, I like the one I use more than the one in porkchat

Dragonrage

It's funnier to use porkchat and then when someone new shows up and hears about it, they make the mistake of googling porkchat

Pro tip: never google porkchat

Nzall

@Dragonrage If trustworthyness was determined by how much power they had, noone would be complaining about Trump

fredley

@Dragonrage Although it was never my intention for this mistake to be made, I think it's hilarious

@Dragonrage Maybe that's why we have so few new users

Avery

@Dragonrage HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

you sweet summer child

Dragonrage

@fredley quite possibly

Or they don't like getting trolled by Rebecca black videos

Cc @Sterno

Avery

1:27 PM

we didn't have a RB bomb in forever

Dragonrage

True. It's the best when you hide the link so it doesn't get caught by porkchat and then people who use it are confused

fredley

That was only because April the 1st was a Friday

It wasn't me trolling you, it was an April Fools gag

Totally different

Avery

last RB we had seems to be this, which is actually not that long ago tbh

Dragonrage

Someone needs to create an RB rick roll. Or does such a thing already exist?

Avery

Never Gonna Give You Up On Friday / Rick Astley vs Rebecca Black

►

fredley

1:30 PM

@Dragonrage An RB is a rickroll, surely?

Also that's the worst thumbnail I've ever seen

protip: don't Google 'Worst thumbnail possible'

Dragonrage

Generally googling worst x possible is a bad idea

That's just asking for trouble

Avery

"worst mod possible"

Dragonrage

@Avery pretty sure that falls to @Wipqozn

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley is it a picture of your face?

Dragonrage

As @Wipqozn is literally the worst everything ever.

Avery

1:32 PM

@Dragonrage yup

Dragonrage

@KevinvanderVelden sick burn. Cc @Wipqozn

Avery

2

also winterbash when

stack pls

I want to fight for hats again

Dragonrage

Wait, is @Wipqozn up?

If not we could totally flood @Wipqozn's inbox again

Avery

@Dragonrage nah he got down for friday

Dragonrage

We haven't done that in awhile

Avery

1:34 PM

flooding @Wipqozn's inbox? why would anyone want that

Dragonrage

Need to make sure @Wipqozn still thinks he is popular

Avery

cc @Wipqozn

oh apparently winterbash generally starts on 1st of dec

10 days to go

I can't wait to see @Wipqozn in a hat

Dragonrage

Friday is like the @Wipqozn of songs

Can we get a hat named @Wipqozn for the arqade?

Avery

best song?

Dragonrage

It would be the worst hat ever

Avery

1:36 PM

jokes aside @Wipqozn is great

cc @Wipqozn

@Dragonrage how would someone get it though

Kevin van der Velden

Poor Wipqozn, getting so many pings. I refuse to take part in this pinging of Wipqozn

Today

Dragonrage

And you would get it by CC'ing @Wipqozn

Avery

by commenting on @Wipqozn's posts probably

like the hairboat hat thing

(was that even the name)

cazc_941

wot

Arperum

I think I'll probably go back to the I hate hats option, that was some blessed peace from that specific bit of addicting nonsense.

cazc_941

1:37 PM

umm

Avery

18

Q: Why didn't I get the Hairboat's revenge hat?

According to the secret hat trigger list: So I left this comment: It's been over 4 hours and I still don't have the hat. What gives?

bug status-bydesign winter-bash-2015 secret-hats

ah yes, it's hairboat's revenge

wtf is this

What happened?

Idk what it is, but it's probably @Wipqozn's fault

Private Pansy

1:38 PM

Someone messed up Fallen London's server time

Dragonrage

@PrivatePansy probably @Wipqozn

Avery

@PrivatePansy oh dear

Private Pansy

@Dragonrage Yeah, I blame @Wipqozn

Dragonrage

Either that or #brexit

cazc_941

huh, a game got revoked from my account

Private Pansy

1:39 PM

@Avery Just now the server was refilling actions every minute (instead of 10)

Dragonrage

I still think fallen London is a game set in post-brexit London

The story probably follows @fredley as he tried to navigate the city to undo the damage he caused by voting for #brexit

Private Pansy

@Dragonrage Well, in the game the earth opened up and swallowed the city of London whole. So it's probably metaphorical.

Dragonrage

And in the end he makes peace by just blaming @Wipqozn

@PrivatePansy that sounds like it would be problematic worldwide, not just for London

A giant hole the size of London opening up would probably cause problems everywhere

Private Pansy

@Dragonrage Well at least Italy is still on the Surface

As far as I can remember. Can't stay there too long - sunlight is deadly

Dragonrage

Wait why is sunlight deadly?

A giant hole opens up and sunlight becomes deadly. That makes no sense

fredley

1:44 PM

@Dragonrage Help I have been owned

Dragonrage

Why would I want ownership of the person who caused #brexit?

Also doesn't @Avery own you?

Avery

wa-wha

you got me guys

Private Pansy

@Dragonrage reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/3mo1oj/…

Avery

@fredley is my mod alt

now pls merge that account into mine

Dragonrage

@PrivatePansy ah I see. At least I can now maintain suspension of disbelief to some extent now

fredley

1:49 PM

@Avery brb

Dragonrage

Well it's almost 6am so time to lock up and head home to sleep. Cya guys later.

fredley

Dragonrage

Also @Wipqozn don't worry, you are the best worst mod and hopefully we didn't flood your inbox too much

Avery

@fredley :pls:

badp

@Wipqozn please worry

fredley

1:52 PM

Vintage Bridge Memes

Vridgetage Memes

Vridgetemeage

Brintage

Kevin van der Velden

Brexitage

Avery

(I don't use that name, at least outside legal stuff)

Nzall

@cazc_941 Which game got revoked?

Arperum

TIL that our workfirewall can be dodged by throwing the url of the blocked page in google translate.

fredley

@Avery It was a meme from Before Your Time

Nzall

1:57 PM

Considering we're talking about a sunken London: girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171120

Private Pansy

@Arperum I mean Google Translate is just another proxy

Kevin van der Velden

@Nzall it is most definitely a fitting page yesterday for this conversation

badp

RIP @ArdaXi

Nzall

Girl Genius finally started the trip to England, which apparently sank beneath the land during an attack by a powerful spark

cazc_941

Cosmonautica

which I got.... a long time ago from some key site

don't care, but that's strange

Avery

1:59 PM

Ugh 8 days and I still didn't get my new card

fredley

Oneplus 5T is on sale now, if anyone was going to buy one of those

Kevin van der Velden

Oh yeah that's a thing now, maybe

Maybe some other phone, I 'unno

fredley

I just got one for my gf, to replace ageing Nexus 5S. Seemed to be the best thing you can get if you don't want to spend flagship money.

Escape from Cyber Monday with our one-of-a-kind Internet Escape Pod. Let Colonel Sanders and his protective dome help take you back to a simpler, internet-free time. https://www.kfclimited.com/ProductDetail.aspx?did=28027&pid=235423&logoid=0

Tweeted by kfc on November 16, 2017 at 8:41 PM

Yuuki

2:21 PM

@fredley hmmm

Private Pansy

@Yuuki reddit.com/r/hmmm

cazc_941

2:46 PM

Master boot is the best

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden If you do, let me refer you btw

Kevin van der Velden

Uhhoh, there's a new referral system?

SaintWacko

@cazc_941 Okay, that's pretty great

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden I give you a link, I get a voucher for accessories (and maybe you?)

Kevin van der Velden

I get $20 off on "accessories and gear", you get points if I buy something, which can be redeemed for vouchers

At least, that's the US system, I don't know if it's even global

Oh hey, you get double points for the next 9 days or so

Heck, I already have a oneplus device, I can refer myself =p

Tim Stone

2:58 PM

@fredley Yeah, the Ars review was pretty positive except for the ??? update strategy

fredley

@TimStone Yeah, but paying another £200 for a Google phone for a non-??? update strategy is not worth it for her I don't think

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: counter stirke fix

i have downloaded a 50 map-pack for (version 1.6) but it turns out that half of them have missing files..each time i open one...it either works or collapses and i have to start the game once again..is there any remedy for this as i'm tired of living in this loop. can we delete all files that have...

mods counter-strike quake-3

Tim Stone

@fredley There are ways to address that anyway if you're feeling hands-on, so I entirely agree

fredley

@TimStone Yeah quite. If there are serious security flaws that they don't provide patches for that's something I can take into my own hands.

Yuuki

@fredley Kentucky... Faraday Cage?

fredley

3:02 PM

@Yuuki 👏👏👏

Kevin van der Velden

The modern timeout box for children

Instead of "Go stand in the corner" it's now "Go sit in the faraday cage"

fredley

The handle being a piece of chicken is creepier than slender colonel tbh

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden And feel the Colonel's warm embrace.

fredley

I mean, animal limbs as handles is just weird in any circumstance.

1 like = 1 engineering fact I think is weird and cool, and possibly not general knowledge Not limited to computers

Tweeted by myrrlyn on November 21, 2017 at 5:34 AM

Lazers 2.0

3:30 PM

1

Q: Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Strange Circle

When I run the game, I have this strange blue circle on the game. Can anybody tell me why I am getting that? I was thinking maybe because my screen is touch enabled. I used external monitor, it did not fix the problem. I could not find any options in the game to turn it off.

metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley that's a cool one yeah

Also, idiot doomsday preppers are storing their money in bitcoin for the apocalypse

Unionhawk

BUY GOLD IT HAS INTRINSIC VALUE

(NARRATOR: no it doesn't)

Kevin van der Velden

At least you could use the gold to bludgeon people to death with

That's about as useful as gold is intrinsically

Unionhawk

It also melts at 1337K so that's pretty neat

Yuuki

3:43 PM

@Unionhawk I mean, depends on what's the definition of intrinsic value, but there's a reason why humans have used gold as currency for such a long time.

It's not super crazy to think we'd revert to gold as a standard for trade in a post-apocalyptic society.

Kevin van der Velden

It's shiny, it's rare, it's hard to replicate, it doesn't tarnish

Yuuki

Although it's far more likely that we'd go further back to a barter system.

Five gold coins isn't going to help you much when trade caravans are scarce due to the nuclear winter.

Kevin van der Velden

What we certainly won't go to is a fricking INTERNET AND ELECTRICITY BASED FAKE CURRENCY SYSTEM

Yuuki

Oh yeah, someone who saves bitcoin for a post-apocalyptic eventuality is perhaps crazier than the average person who prepares for a post-apocalyptic eventuality.

Wipqozn

my words

so many pings

but sitll only 21

back to work

Kevin van der Velden

3:48 PM

I was innocent this time!

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn Like hell you are!

Yuuki

Ohhhh fuck.

My workplace is discussing style guidelines.

Tim Stone

It's time for someone to be Wrong

Kevin van der Velden

Having a wound on the side of my chin is fun! Everytime I chew or open my mouth it breaks open! \o/

Yuuki

Specifically, the space between function keyword and parameters.

Tim Stone

3:50 PM

Yaaa, wait, no, that's terrible :(

Kevin van der Velden

At least it's tiny and not really painful, it's just that everytime it starts bleeding and it's annoying

Tim Stone

@Yuuki Of relevance

Yuuki

@TimStone The funny thing is that we're discussing this through commit review comments.

Nzall

@KevinvanderVelden bandaid?

Tim Stone

@Yuuki But why? D:

Kevin van der Velden

3:53 PM

@Nzall I had one but it let go and I thought it was closed enough BUT APPARENTLY I WAS WRONG

Yuuki

@TimStone I imagine because this is the comment where the rule is being re-reverted.

Nzall

@Yuuki So is this a commit which touches all files?

Yuuki

@Nzall No, it just affects JSHint/lint config.

Okay, so I have made a proposal to move discussion to Slack.

Unionhawk

So animal crossing is out for Android

It does have f2p microtransaction mechanics, looks like you can spend tickets to rush furniture construction or something

Kevin van der Velden

As long as it's actually f2p I'm fine with such things

Unionhawk

4:00 PM

It is

Matt E. Эллен

so now you can go into actual debt playing animal crossing. That raccoon must be rubbing his hands with glee

Unionhawk

You start with no in game debt

But you can take loans to expand your RV

Kevin van der Velden

@Unionhawk and then the intro cutscene finishes

Unionhawk

It feels like I'm out of the intro?

Kevin van der Velden

I have no idea, I'm just gonna say you can't avoid debt

Because it is animal crossing, and the raccoon must have it's delicious tears

Unionhawk

4:02 PM

Unless all the way through the game teaching me about fishing and catching bugs counts as intro

Nzall

@Yuuki Yeah, but you still need to apply the new style to all existing files. Or does this happen through a commit hook or build stage?

Yuuki

@Nzall Build stage, IIRC.

Unionhawk

Pfffffffft

Yuuki

This is the most comments I've seen on a 7-delta change.

badp

don't mind me I'm just reliving the good old times

Sep 2 '15 at 15:01, by badp

Sep 3 '15 at 7:27, by badp

Sep 14 '15 at 9:58, by badp

Sep 23 '15 at 11:07, by badp

Oct 5 '15 at 9:03, by badp

@fredley thank

Yuuki

4:11 PM

@TimStone WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE PEOPLE KISSING AS THEIR TWITTER BACKGROUND? IT MAKES LINKING THIS STUFF REALLY AWKWARD WHEN I'VE ONLY SEEN IT ON MOBILE.

Tim Stone

Ohhhh...

Yuuki

Seriously, like half of the Twitter accounts posted in this room have people kissing as the background.

Tim Stone

Okay, this time that's definitely my bad

Usually I don't know but since I follow her I knew and didn't think about it >_>

Yuuki

They should disable backgrounds for people visiting Twitter anonymously.

Kevin van der Velden

> They should disable backgrounds

FTFY

Yuuki

4:16 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Eh, some people like to express themselves through their backgrounds so I don't feel comfortable with removing them.

But disabling backgrounds for anonymous Twitter (i.e. when you're not logged in) means that you can easily sidestep the risk of NSFW or marginally NSFW backgrounds with "open in incognito mode".

quartata

I'm sure there's a userscript for toggling them

fredley

@badp pls

Yuuki

It's always a bit awkward when your proposed solution to a ticket is "did you forget to use new?"

fredley

Read Twitter through RSS

Avery

@TimStone well

this makes sense I guses

quartata

4:28 PM

@Yuuki I actually make this mistake a lot in JS and its ilk -- it doesn't help that some libraries like Knockout have weird factories where you don't use new (e.g ko.observable())

Yuuki

@quartata Yeah, but it feels like I'm being slightly insulting by questioning.

quartata

I mean do you know the answer

like can you see the code

if you can just say "I think you might have accidentally dropped a new on line ..."

Yuuki

Well, I tried to replicate their code. Didn't work. Then I added the new and it worked.

quartata

maybe in that case you could say "I had a similar issue with this code: <show a snippet>The solution was to add a new at ..."

badp

@fredley wish I could

quartata

4:36 PM

idk just something to make it feel like less of a silly mistake

Sterno

@Wipqozn Do you Etrian Odyssey 5, bro?

Unionhawk

lmao the first camper expansion is 10k bells

Kevin van der Velden

@badp twitrss.me

And other crap like it =p

Unionhawk

But the loan isn't to the raccoon it's to a trio of penguins

Kevin van der Velden

Also hoooomeee tiiimeeee o/

Unionhawk

4:54 PM

Nintendo stop with friend codes but 97100468497

fredley

@badp Don't let your streams be dreams

Private Pansy

5:06 PM

@fredley cat dream > /dev/null

Arperum

5:57 PM

rip mobile game I used to play. Stupid greedy devs made the energy based system so extremely ridiculous that I uninstalled in protest.

Energy based system of "max 7 energy stored" (which is a limit I ran into maybe once). With "game costs 1 energy to play" changed into "game cost 4-7 energy to play"

Well fuck you, if I can't play more than once every X hours, I won't play at all.

StrixVaria

Energy mechanics need to die in an inferno.

Yuuki

StrixVaria

For every game that implements energy mechanics, a score of kittens are born without legs and suffer long, painful lives.

user15026

@Arperum What the hell that's stupid

Arperum

I was thinking about buying some in game currency because it was a fun game and the microtransactionsystem was not too annoying, but they added a shitton of "get stuff, but wait X hours for it" plus the energy nonsense.

@Ash Yes, ridiculously so.

user15026

6:02 PM

@Arperum Yeah, that's just greedy awfulness right there

Yuuki

Is it pronounced "HAIR-as-ment" or "ha-RASS-ment"?

fredley

@PrivatePansy cat dream?

StrixVaria

@Yuuki The latter.

Yuuki

@StrixVaria NPR begs to differ.

StrixVaria

It's also "in-SURE-ance" not "IN-surance".

I think it's just a regional thing.

> /həˈɹæsmənt/, /ˈhæɹəsmənt/

Both are listed.

(wiktionary)

Arperum

6:13 PM

Rip me. Cat is sleeping on my lap, and I wanted to go make food.

user15026

6:26 PM

@Arperum nope, you must starve now

Yuuki

murgatroid99

@Yuuki The .com address is probably already taken, and .net sounds out of date

Unionhawk

Buy up 0.io so you can have web2.0.io

Yuuki

476

Q: Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?

We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message "gimme gimme gimme" in stderr, which wasn't expected. Why are we getting this output?

date man

user15026

@Yuuki This is fantastic

Yuuki

6:34 PM

lmajsfy.com

Avery

ugh I hate it when stuff touches my hand when cooking or eating or whatever

be oil or sauce or anything

Yuuki

6:53 PM

@Ash So I found something that's basically adult/fancy Lunchables.

user15026

@Yuuki heck yes I am all for this

user15026

Unrelated but guys I deadlifted 155 lb today :D

user15026

(sorry I just excited when I smash my personal bests)

Yuuki

quartata

@Unionhawk single letter domains are reserved by whoever made the TLD

murgatroid99

6:55 PM

It looks like 0.io is actually for sale

quartata

seriously?

they're probably charging like $100k then

murgatroid99

Or for auction or something

user15026

@Yuuki Oooh that's fancy looking

quartata

@murgatroid99 more likely

murgatroid99

You can just go to 0.io and see for yourself

quartata

7:04 PM

tbf no domain is really reserved if you have enough money

see: t.co

still don't know how twitter got that

Yuuki

> still don't know how twitter got that
> tbf no domain is really reserved if you have enough money

I think you answered your own question.

quartata

oh wait a second

OK now I get it

So there actually is a .co TLD for a country other than the .co.<country code> ones

ah it's colombia

I wonder if you can get .co.co then

puffs.co.co/a/

murgatroid99

Yeah. I think YouTube might actually think I live there, because I once accidentally typed "youtube.co" instead of "youtube.com"

quartata

haha

Fluttershy

We just had someone get mad at us because we're closing for Thanksgiving. O_o

quartata

7:10 PM

do you happen to be a restaurant

if not then it doesn't make sense

if so then it still doesn't make sense

djsmiley2k

people be mad

americans especially

GodEmperorDune

7:26 PM

i wonder if i can buy h.ue

user15026

@Fluttershy o.O what

murgatroid99

@GodEmperorDune That TLD doesn't exist

quartata

You'd have to petition ICANN

I think the fee is like $200,000 or so

Avery

let's make a kickstarter for it

GodEmperorDune

@quartata i feel that i could put $200k to better use than a meme

Avery

7:28 PM

I'm putting in 100$, promise.

quartata

@GodEmperorDune possibly

in The Nineteenth Byte, Jan 14 at 21:10, by Downgoat

@quartata I believe it's 250,000 USD

turns out we had this discussion a while back

GodEmperorDune

i'm suprised that canada doesn't have .eh

quartata

we wanted to get .c as a tld

for golfing purposes

Avery

everyone knows that abc.xyz is the best domain

Unionhawk

Oh lmao there's a daily login bonus and the next one is 10k bells

Next camper expansion here I come

xd

quartata

7:36 PM

obviously .de exists

not sure about .dee

GodEmperorDune

dammit

bungled that edit

ecks.de

oh that's a real site and not about the lulz

Fluttershy

@quartata We are not a restaurant. We're a granary. And harvest is over.

user15026

@Fluttershy Yeah, I was going to say.... :/ people be crazy

GodEmperorDune

@Fluttershy but what if someone NEEDS MOAR GRAINZ

Fluttershy

@GodEmperorDune Then they should've said something a month ago, because that's how long it takes for our stuff to reach our customers.

Avery

7:41 PM

@GodEmperorDune yeah everything aside buying a .de domain is pain anyways

> Denic, the .DE Registry, requires that all .DE domains have a German address for the administrative contact.

Unionhawk

So the animal crossing mobile game is an enjoyable little game

Avery

also dum stuff like:

> .DE domains have different regulations regarding nameservers. A minimum of 2 authoritative independent DNS is required. It means that the IP-addresses of each nameserver should differ by at least one number in any octet. Also, at least one of them must be connected via IPv4.

GodEmperorDune

@Fluttershy i have so many questions

Fluttershy

@GodEmperorDune Like what?

GodEmperorDune

do you keep the grains separate per customer or are they mingled and each customer owns a certain amount

or is it just that your company buys up lots of grain and then customers buy grain from you

and are there like a billion of those rounded towers or is there a more efficient shape to store the grain in?

djsmiley2k

7:46 PM

windows 10 isn't letting me tuirn off tapping on my touchpad o_O

badp