The Sand Trap

Radvylf Programs

12:52 AM

Remind me tomorrow to get the model number of my schools' phones

I bet I'll be able to in APUSH

emanresu A

8:06 AM

Somehow youtube set itself to 6.9x speed.

nice

Unrelated String

nice

lyxal

12:03 PM

another submission for caird's pfp contest

mathcat

Which tool did you use?

lyxal

DALLE-2

you give it a picture, erase a bit of the background, give it a prompt on what it should fill in the places you erased, and it does the rest

mathcat

nice

lyxal

Really easy to make too

@mathcat do you have a picture you want spookified?

mathcat

I signed up

lyxal

12:14 PM

Ginger

splulps

@lyxal can you try re-spookifying my pfp?

lyxal

I can give it a go

Ginger

thanks

lyxal

just gonna switch to my spooky month pfp first

Ginger

because the results for caird look so much better than what I got

lyxal

12:16 PM

I had more image to play with for caird

give me an image with a background to remove

Ginger

can you just use my profile?

or is that not worky

<- because this cat does not, in fact, exist

...damn it

lyxal

as I said, there's not enough background

Ginger

hmmm

I have this version as well:

there, is that any better?

lyxal

for example, this much background is what I mean

Ginger

ah

well the above image is the original, uncropped, unedited (except for the foka) one

lyxal

12:19 PM

That way, I can actually use DALLE to fully switch the background, apply clothing, etc

Ginger

;-;

mathcat

dalle is awesome

Ginger

~~use dalle to generate the background for you~~

lyxal

you saw what happens when I do that

Ginger

I did, it's about the funniest thing I've seen this week

there must be a way

mathcat

12:21 PM

@Ginger where?

one second

lmao

how's that

lol

12:23 PM

@mathcat found em:

lyxal

(I removed the text parts so it doesn't think "hey I'll make more white boxes with what I think is text")

Ginger

in The Edge of Propinquity, yesterday, by lyxal

and finally, the best one:

in The Edge of Propinquity, yesterday, by lyxal

lyxal

Ginger

>>>>>>>>:(

@lyxal so this ain't half bad actually

but I think that better can be done

lyxal

while I do some work on it

put the fork away waltuh

►

mathcat

12:28 PM

lyxal

waltuh, put the fork away waltuh, you're not supposed to put a fork in the microwave waltuh

mathcat

^ I like this one more

Ginger

also, I just zoomed in on that last living room image:
- one of the tvs shows a person with ears the size of his face talking to another person with NO face and a stump for an arm
- the other one shows what I can only assume is an oil painting of the Fresh Prince made by someone on LSD
- a lot of the cats have dog faces
- I appear to have a malignant tumor growing out of my back
- I ALSO appear to have a front leg with two knees and a weird human-like fist
- the carpet border on one side looks like soul sand but with cat faces

funniest shit I've ever seen

oh my god

12:31 PM

do not listen if I invite you over for a cuppa

lyxal

Ginger

> Cabt

> Citt our

> Catb

> CHITTATIVM

r/aIhadastroke

lyxal

your hat too big

Ginger

he hat too big for he got dam head

lyxal

12:35 PM

Ginger

the hunchcat of notre dame

lyxal

Ginger

wow it spelled "halloween" correct

lyxal

So, do any of those seem suitable for PFP purposes

Ginger

well

I still like the first one (with just my face) more

but I'll think about it

thanks very much

lyxal

12:36 PM

np

Ginger

@mathcat if we ever do another AiPFP Week I'm going to use this one

lyxal

every week is AiPFP week for mathcat, pygamer0 and I :p

Ginger

fair enough

ok new pfp deployed

lyxal

protip: go to your chat user profile and set your site to code golf

that'll update it quicker in chat

Ginger

I did

the delay was me adding the foka back on

Number Basher

1:00 PM

No FUCKING WAY!!!:

Reading The Longest English Word (190,000 Characters)

►

lyxal

← 2 messages moved from The Nineteenth Byte

59 mins ago, by lyxal

55 mins ago, by lyxal

1 hour ago, by lyxal

the three above are the only ones

oop I missed one

caird coinheringaahing

@lyxal This looks cursed by standing her up :P

lyxal

58 mins ago, by lyxal

Ginger

2:03 PM

oh boy I love meeting things

Ginger

2:16 PM

okay so I am currently working on sechat version 1.2! which will have exciting new features including:

- message history
- anonymous API for accessing logs and stuff without being signed in
- more complete transcript functions
- unit tests so I don't accidentally introduce errors into releases

also, as of right now sechat 1.0.4 has a bug that makes it unusable, so download 1.0.3 instead please

Seggan

what @cairdcoinheringaahing's house looks like

Ginger

uh

what

Seggan

argh image not uploading

Ginger

oh

thought you were asking a question lol

caird coinheringaahing

@Seggan It's made exclusively of jelly jelly

Ginger

2:19 PM

ofc

my money don't jelly jelly, it folds

caird coinheringaahing

That's jelly (as in gelatin) with a bunch of Jelly code printed on it

Seggan

Ginger

imo best perk of getting 1k rep is being able to see detailed vote counts

Seggan

caird's house ^^

@Ginger yep

caird coinheringaahing

@Ginger Isn't that the only privilege of 1k?

Ginger

2:22 PM

...it is lol

but I like it

Ginger

2:37 PM

hey @RadvylfPrograms do you mind if I make another bot account using amidst.dev for email? I need to make one for unit tests for sechat

bc I don't want GB or OLIMAR being compromised if I screw up and release the account data by accident

Radvylf Programs

2:56 PM

@Ginger Sure

Ginger

okey dokey, just a sec

Radvylf Programs

Do you have an email address of your own? If so, I can set it to forward the emails to you so you don't need to wait on me to relay information

Ginger

not a public one

but, I will soon have my own site

so then I'll just use it instead

@RadvylfPrograms also, message sent

Radvylf Programs

Ginger

I just read "TOPIC" with a long "o" and was very confused for about 3 seconds

Radvylf Programs

3:00 PM

Your registration is complete

Ginger

yay

Seggan

@cairdcoinheringaahing how close is this to ur house

caird coinheringaahing

The puppy is accurate, the rest isn't

Seggan

DALLE2 I believed in you...

Ginger

3:24 PM

now we need a pfp for Unit Tester

@mathcat think you can whip something up?

Wezl'

@DLosc alright I replaced ubuntu with alpine and the graphical programs aren't working, happy? :P

Seggan

3:49 PM

DALLE gave me that

Ginger

lmao

Seggan

Radvylf Programs

It looks angry

As if it knows the unit tests are gonna fail already

Seggan

this ones nice

not this one

ginger can you stop deleting messages pls

Ginger

but it was not contribuseful!

Radvylf Programs

3:59 PM

It was fine

Ginger

was it really?????

Radvylf Programs

A deleted message takes up just as much space, as long as it's not like, offensive or really annoying, better to just leave it

Especially in OTTNB

Ginger

okay, sorry

will try to be more careful about what I send in the future

Radvylf Programs

You didn't do anything wrong, your message was perfectly fine

I'm saying you're being too careful :p

Ginger

^ exactly

Radvylf Programs

4:04 PM

I mean of course be aware of what should and shouldn't be sent, but especially in OTTNB, don't ruin your time spent here by excessively moderating yourself and worrying about every little message.

Ginger

huh, maybe I have anxiety issues

need to look into that

Wezl'

I delete tons of message here. I just do it before sending them :P

Ginger

but anyway, I saw this question and was genuinely confused because I didn't recall the US building any particle accelerators, let alone 50 of them, and then I realized that 1. it's talking about particle states and 2. the US does not have numbered states, let alone fractionally numbered ones

I think I need more sleep :b

Radvylf Programs

Texas was going to have a really big particle accelerator but it got cancelled :(

Not by Twiiter though

Ginger

Twiiter: Nintendo's brief foray into social media

5

Wezl'

4:08 PM

that totally could have been a thing

Ginger

if the us did have numbered states what number would texas be

Radvylf Programs

28

Ginger

it'd probably be like 36 or smth and there would be a bunch of texans desperately trying to make it #1

there is no fear greater than that of accidentally right-clicking in a way that triggers a random option in a context menu which closes too fast for you to make out what you clicked and then watching the mouse turn into a loading icon

if you're lucky nothing will happen, if you're not it'll open a labyrinthine sequence of dialogs and popups which you will never again find your way out of

just noticed replit changed their logo

Radvylf Programs

> This product contains cryptographic features and is subject to U.S. and local country laws that govern import,
export, transfer, and use. Delivery of Cisco cryptographic products does not imply third-party authority to
import, export, distribute, or use encryption. Importers, exporters, distributors, and users are responsible for
compliance with U.S. and local country laws. By using this product, you agree to comply with applicable
laws and regulations. If you are unable to comply with U.S. and local laws, return this product immediately.

Cryptography being illegal to export was mega wack

Ginger

It's totally a reasonable modern analogue. Jefferson would have been all about crypto.

mathcat

4:32 PM

@Ginger a what?

Ginger

4:56 PM

@mathcat profile picture

mathcat

for what?

Ginger

Unit Tester

mathcat

I figured that much out.

Ginger

:p

it's a bot whose only job is to be a puppet for the sechat unit testing system

mathcat

nice

mathcat

5:44 PM

@Ginger ~~I dare you to use this as its pfp~~

Ginger

ಠ_ಠ

also, I just realized something: to fully test this I actually need TWO bots

but I've bothered @RadvylfPrograms a bunch already

hmmmmmmm

I'll write my tests with 1 bot for now and maybe upgrade to two later

Radvylf Programs

6:24 PM

@Ginger Dw about it

Make two bots if you want

Ginger

okie dokie lol

@RadvylfPrograms now I need a witty name for the second one

Radvylf Programs

twonit tester

Ginger

PERFECT

@RadvylfPrograms sent

Radvylf Programs

Registered

Ginger

yay

mathcat

6:32 PM

okay, what exactly are you two up to?

Ginger

s c i e n c e

@mathcat know of any ez questions? I need to get this account some rep as well

mathcat

-9

Q: Produce all even primes

A prime number is a positive integer that has exactly two divisors 1 and the number itself. For example number 7 is a prime since it is divisible by 1 and 7. Number 1 is not a prime since it has only one divisor. Write a program or function that produces all even prime numbers. This is a code go...

^ if 20 is enough

just answer in makina or whatever

Ginger

> -9

and a makina answer would be too long and complex

mathcat

well okay

hmm

idk then

Seggan

@Ginger ...

Ginger

6:45 PM

read: I can't be bothered

nvm found one

Radvylf Programs

I think I may have found a way to nearly halve the data usage of NSMP

mathcat

?how.

mousetail

@mathcat Ok this challenge is epic

DLosc

TIL the electric shock gloves used by the Equalists in The Legend of Korra are based on a real thing :O

mathcat

@mousetail I know right

Radvylf Programs

6:58 PM

@mathcat Chroma subsampling and some minor luma subsampling

Ginger

...I thought NSMP meant "New Sandbox/Meta Posts"

:/

Radvylf Programs

lol

mathcat

@RadvylfPrograms genius

Radvylf Programs

By 4:2:0 subsampling the luma every other update, I drop that from 2 bits/px to 1.25 bits/px, then by 4:2:0 subsampling the chroma I drop that from 2 bits/px to 0.5 bits/px

Which means the average frame now uses just 1.75 bits per pixel

mathcat

ow

how come I didn't think of that

Radvylf Programs

7:06 PM

I could reduce the data usage by about 0.2 bits/px in a few different ways, but there'd be diminishing returns

mousetail

What are you trying to do?

Radvylf Programs

Making a video compression algorithm

It doesn't compress super well (about 20-40× bigger than MP4 with H.264), but it also doesn't look much worse

Ginger

upvote this please

thamksyou

also I have given them PFPs now

Seggan

which ones

nvm

Wezl'

9:03 PM

"Embracing One's Duty" (N's Castle Bridge): Remaster ► Pokémon Black & White

►

Wezl'

9:34 PM

radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/…

Radvylf Programs

10:07 PM

Why does my house smell like smoke

TIL the Jimmy Carter rabbit incident was very very overexaggerated :(

Ginger

11:08 PM

and apparently those are the same level of importance? :p

Radvylf Programs

Yeah my sister has burnt my house to the ground and I got several third degree burns on my left kidney but how would I care about those things when Jimmy Carter didn't really get attacked by a rabbit

(Not really my house and my kidney are fine)

Ginger

~~I mean it sounds somewhat plausible~~

@RadvylfPrograms I'm going to be hosting a web server on my RasPi soon, what should I do to prevent l33t h4x0rs from breaking in and screwing my shit up?

Radvylf Programs

1. Use nginx and follow the typical recommendations
2. Don't forward anything but port 80 (and 443 if you use HTTPS, which I'd recommend via LetsEncrypt + certbot), and if you forward 22, adequately secure your SSH
3. Make sure your firewall is set up to only allow those ports (and the SSH port even if you don't have it forwarded to be accessible outside your LAN, which I'd recommend doing anyway if you don't care about SSHing when not home)

Ginger

11:23 PM

I was going to use apache, is that bad?

Radvylf Programs

Nah, that's fine

Ginger

ok

also I want to host a mail server, what should I use?

Radvylf Programs

Any of the big web servers will be pretty well hardened down, and security should basically be the default

@Ginger I would not recommend that

Ginger

but you're doing it? or what are you doing then

Radvylf Programs

It's gotten a lot more complicated to host reliably working email on your own machine from what I've heard

@Ginger I just have Google Domains forward emails to my personal Gmail

Ginger

11:24 PM

ah

@RadvylfPrograms linux and "just works" go together like butter and antimatter: they just fukin explode

Radvylf Programs

Even if you just plugged your RPi into the floor and installed a web server with absolutely no config and slapped a static site onto /var/www, you'd probably have no security issues. Linux and "just works" don't really go together, but Linux and "just doesn't have critical security flaws in web servers" do

Ginger

> plugged your RPi into the floor

into the what now

Radvylf Programs

It does "just work" for servers, honestly. I've had few issues, and they're easy to fix typically, with great support since unlike for personal use, Linux for servers is mainstream.

@Ginger The floor. Your carpet isn't made up of millions of bare ethernet wires?

You just twist 'em into pairs, clean off the cat hair, and you're good to go

Ginger

the CAT hair

Radvylf Programs

Siamese are CAT-7, but if you've got a regular old tabby, the fur's only CAT-5e and that'll be the weakest link in your setup

(The seal-point pattern gives Siamese cats good isolation, preventing signals from getting mixed up)

Ginger

11:29 PM

ok now what

Radvylf Programs

Coat your hand thoroughly in HTML and CSS, then slap your RPi and some of the static site should embed itself within your flash storage

Ginger

@RadvylfPrograms it is but it's no fun walking around and constantly getting shocked by the PoE lines

Radvylf Programs

They keep you awake way better than caffeine

Ginger

my paws are on fire

Radvylf Programs

Like my latest invention, the alarm-clock-with-spring-loaded-knife-plunger

It hasn't sold well but that's probably due to supply chain issues

Ginger

11:31 PM

@RadvylfPrograms I'm sorry FLASH storage what kind of raspberry pis yall got in texas

Radvylf Programs

They use SD cards, right? Those are flash storage devices

Ginger

just wrote a file to my sd card and I didn't see any "flash" so no they're not, they're dark storage devices

like black holes ~~and your mom~~

lyxal

Who needs morning TV with breakfast when you've got Radvylf and Ginger to provide entertainment while you crunch your cereal? :p

emanresu A

Imagine morning

Unrelated String

couldn't be me

lyxal

11:36 PM

Imagine midday

Kiwi nerd.

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