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I do actually think AI has an important role here. Teasing enough information out of a hardware debugging problem is tedious and poorly handled by /ask. An AI coaching out and formatting the right data would save people a fair bit of time. Tag/title suggestions too. And quality detection and spam removal. As much as that is taking things away from people donating their time, these are things that don't actually help people get things fixed. They're distractions that I'm happy for AI to take on.

SE is a system built on human interaction. Things can be edited, reversed, ranked based on how much we like them, revised when we learn more. Take that away, and it's not really SE any more. It's ChatGPT with a public history.

@C.S.Cameron While they can't even detect spam —even at the spammiest, most obviious spam like we've been getting recently— it seems unlikely. Maybe that'd be a good start. But the current most frustrating parts of this system are things that are locked away in black boxes. I can't set who gets the question/answer ban (for prolonged poor quality) and I can't override it when the system does.

/questions is where it's at

The conspiracy theorist thinks this is somebody trying to get me to abandon my /etc/network/interfaces file for netplan.

No I think I'll just submerge this server in magma if it happens again

Give me back my eth0, you big sphincter

Go-go-gadget-net.ifnames=0

@AmithKK Yeah, possibly my least favourite feature of Systemd.

Oh my. Five reboots and it held as eno1. Sixth and it went back to em1. I'm going to slay something.

Don't you just love it when you have a pile of boot-blocking configuration tied into a network card's logical name and then one day Ubuntu decides it's going to go from em1 to eno1.

@Videonauth Took me a minute to check that something hadn't actually corrupted the filenames

Whoa, ls quotes filenames with spaces now.

Isn't it?

It's not GitHub though, it's git outright

@dessert Hi Used To Put. I'm Dad.

Okay, it's not that slow, but yeah, fixed strings is king if you can manage it

An open regex on 1.6 million lines is disastrously slow. That's what pushed me to Python in the first place.

cat|tr for all the posts takes 0.5s wall time, but obviously streams so starts returning much faster.

tr+case-sensitve search returns first result within a tenth of a second.

First result.

Nope, I think it's exploded.

Measured with time (and a stopwatch when I didn't believe it was that fast)

@DavidFoerster case-insensitive is much slower. It's been running for a minute now without a single result. I'll leave it going but yeah...

Ha. grep is faster. cat ../Posts.xml ../Comments.xml | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | grep -Ff smokey/blacklisted_websites.txt. Doesn't do quite a much cleaning up after itself but 16 seconds is going to be hard to beat.

@Fabby Pushed the update. Chows through all our 1.6 million posts+comments in less than a minute now. Oh and uses stock python3.

I know unzip and unrar exist but I don't think I've ever seen something similar applied.

@MBaev What's wrong with extract?

omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/… ?

@terdon Where?

It's my scratch.

@Rinzwind Yeah as soon as my desktop icons go for good, I'm finding something else, or forking Nautilus.

I'm probably missing half the picture (council meetings, etc) but it seems increasingly like Gnome only exists to make itself happy.

It's also the second thing like this where it it looks like one developer has the power to say "I think it should be like this" and if they can affect those code changes, they get to commit that change.

I like Gnome because, visually, it does a fair job at staying out of your way but when people start telling me 20 years of established metaphor is too insecure to "allow", I start to feel oppressed.

Any Gnome users in here also scratching their heads over its developers' decisions to remove features? Desktop icons are in flux. Nautilus typeahead search... And now Nautilus won't —as I read it— allow you to launch executables by double clicking them.

AKA almost everybody not us.

@Videonauth The same people who leave this stuff purring away in the corner of the office and only pay it any attention when it breaks.

@Videonauth That still uses the upgrade tools, there'd not be a path from 16.10

Burn the witch.

Heresy

Nah

@Videonauth The upgrade tools that Ubuntu uses do things. Transitional stuff and big changes. Unfortunately the upgrade tool is slightly more stubborn than me (keeps rewriting archives.ubuntu.com back into the used sources so short of writing a proxy to huff out the calls, I'm going to do see if a dist-upgrade works.

Oh god, it's part of the UpdateManager library. Back to plan A) download and run the upgrade tool manually. If that's even how it works.

Or at least, denature do-release-upgrade to stop it wiping the cache.

@Kulfy They gained all that reputation in the last 10h, just minutes within posting this. I'm not sure what their reputation was at the point they hit this problem. It's possible they were under 10, it's possible they might have started off writing an answer at 11, had an upvote removed, and then tried to submit the answer... Before getting upvotes elsewhere. I don't have enough resolution and won't speculate further without a link.

A link to the specific question would be helpful, but it sounds like it might have been a protected question. They're questions that have too much traffic for their own good, and attract spam or "me too" non-answers. But I'm surprised it let you start writing an answer if that was the case.

@ThompsonDawes askubuntu.com/election/6

@xtrchessreal This is an election for additional moderators, not to replace anybody.