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rene

6:58 AM

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Current status: Waiting for the ANWB to jump-start the car so I can drive to the dealer to get the battery replaced.

Tinkeringbell

7:16 AM

@rene Don't those things usually break with cold weather XD

rene

yeah.

Let's leave it at: they break at unusual temperatures ....

Tinkeringbell

Fingers crossed they can come soon.

Don't you have a neighbor that could help with this though?

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

7:37 AM

@Tinkeringbell don't think there are cables for electric car, if that's what @rene has?

@JNat cross site spammer (literally this time ;)) for your handling. Thanks!

@Ethan that's how it's done. ^

Anyhow spammer calling themselves spammer are actually trolls as they have goal of wasting our time on purpose.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar naw

some mods wipe out accounts that way

Luuklag

@rene couldn't you bike to a shop to buy a new battery and place that in your car. They usually come fully charged

@JourneymanGeek @Tinkeringbell NSFW profile to nuke: meta.stackexchange.com/users/1212284/rasmika

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@Tinkeringbell Not according to this newer answer:

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A: Too many tags requested (search limited to 25 tags)

The tag limit for searches appears to have been removed or increased in several places. No known tag limit (200+ tags) Searching multiple tags (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/1+or+2+or+3+or+...) Wildcard tags1 (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html*+or+java*+or+...) Searchi...

@Luuklag meh, avatar is fine. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag ah, escort spammers

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Would your wife agree? xD

Tinkeringbell

7:46 AM

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar I didn't know you could jump-start EVs

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

8:08 AM

@Luuklag that it's fine? I guess, yeah. :P

@Tinkeringbell surely there's way, but only technician can do it. No? Google Time

Huh well looks like it's possible even for ordinary people. tomsguide.com/reference/… ;)

(depending which car you have)

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

8:22 AM

@JNat another cross site spammer, backlog starting to build up... ;)

Luuklag

8:44 AM

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/25186245/…

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

watching backlog grow again

rene

9:03 AM

@Luuklag bike?

Luuklag

@rene yeah or walk, whatever works for you

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/16458418/vibranium?tab=accounts

Journeyman Geek

9:31 AM

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Luuklag

yay for buggy connection

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

9:59 AM

@rene you sit on two wheels and let engine take you to places.

Journeyman Geek

11:23 AM

@JNat one more for the great and glorious backlog stackexchange.com/users/13599091/pillsbills

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

12:11 PM

...and SE sites all down again...

This really starts to be annoying.

Meta Andrew T.

it's a New Normal™

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

Most annoying is the lack of transparency, i.e. they don't tell what's going on.

It's OK to admit failures, it's not OK to hide them under the rug.

Meta Andrew T.

I thought it's the usual DDoS?

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@MetaAndrewT. every day for few minutes, three times a day? Yeah, perhaps.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar they wouldn't immediately know

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

12:13 PM

@JourneymanGeek It's like this for long weeks now.

Journeyman Geek

hm

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

Every single day, at least one downtime of few minutes.

SE sites down, chat still up.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar I have a thing that watches chat.mse, chat.se and SE and MSE

and I've not seen much downtime lately

Meta Andrew T.

didn't they say that they found a way to automate DDoS mitigation so that the DDoS wouldn't take too long?

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@JourneymanGeek it's not much, and that's probably why they don't fix it.

@MetaAndrewT. hmm perhaps, I'd look again.

Meta Andrew T.

12:15 PM

"mitigate", not "prevent"

From the blog stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/16/…

> Instead of having our incident teams scramble and ban IPs as they came in, we automated it like good little SREs. We created a script that would check our traffic logs for IPs behaving a specific way and automatically add them to the ban list. Our response time improved on every attack. The attacker kept going until they got bored or ran out of IPs to throw at us.

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@MetaAndrewT. reminds me of COVID vaccine, which no longer prevent COVID, just improve chances of not getting it rough.

Luuklag

12:32 PM

@sha, I asked about the stack status maintenance issues: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/379675/…

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar k

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@Luuklag +1

@Luuklag ++

hmm wonder what I'll find for k++ in Google

> Highly integrated, small and exquisite

K++Pro combines the algorithm of classic flight controller K++ and the advantages of redundant control system, And integrates RTK, power module, 4G network module, small size, large function, easy to install Pack. Greatly improve the efficiency and convenience of production and after-sales

:D

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar sounds fun

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@Luuklag too Pro for me.

I'd buy the K++ N00b edition.

@M.A.R surely has M++ so he's fine.

SPArcheon

1:07 PM

this is so bad I have to share.

I know you simply love NFT

> In it's core Funko releases a limited range of 36,000 packs of digital collectible cards, divided over standard packs with 5 cards for $9.99 and premium packs with 15 cards for $29.99. These cards are animated and range from common cards to 1-of-1 unique cards. All have some form of animation and feature a pony POP figure.

Now here's the catch: these cards are only digital and only exists as long as the Dropp platform stays alive. They're more expensive than regular trading cards, and you need to perform a transfer outside of Droppp to trade them (yes, their own platform doesn't support …

Journeyman Geek

So... NFTs?

SPArcheon

(edit - it is easier to read this way)

Journeyman Geek

NFTs

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek read everything, I know it is long but it is worth it...)

Journeyman Geek

hm, NTFs AND beanie babies.

yeap, gross

SPArcheon

1:10 PM

Limited live NFT + gambling + big chance to get nothing.

Short version: buy random NFT that will have a short life, try to assemble a full set to "win" a funko figure.

in case someone doesn't know, Funko Pop are those ugly square head figures that are everywhere at gaming store and such.

these.

also... kinda sad. Got only Journeyman comment. But yep, it is beyond bad.

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

1:35 PM

@SPArcheon nobody else is around or dare reply and risk being sucked into the Void.

:P

NFT is just bad. Period.

It won't cause tremendous worldwide crisis like Bitcoin, but it's pure crap that cause millions of people to just lose billions of dollars.

Luckily most of those people can afford losing it, but some don't, and for them I feel sorry.

So no matter what the scammers sell, be it pony, bored monkey, or some fancy spaceship, it's all exactly the same crappy scam.

SPArcheon

1:52 PM

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar but this is worse. It is NFT with a contest for physical collectibles built on top

Tinkeringbell

So you can study for once the takeover has happened :P

The NFT thing would be a 'ja, doei!'.

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

2:07 PM

@SPArcheon can't be worse, if anything tiny bit better since some people actually get something real.

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Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@Tinkeringbell I... don't really get the joke?

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Mostly an explanation of my reaction to SPArcheon's thing about NFTs. Would be a 'ja doei!' for me.

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To prevent image rot I'll post it here:

@Tinkeringbell yeah, but the translations, is it some internal Dutch joke?

So, I can't help wondering, is this attempt to draw a belt? :D

Tinkeringbell

2:23 PM

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Nope, they're correct

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Looks more like drawstring to me.

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

@Tinkeringbell OMG

@Tinkeringbell but drawstring meant to prevent pants from falling, so, kind of belt. ;)

@Tink not sure what's going on, but something is wrong:

As expected, "poe poe" is poo poo, and not "impressed".

Unless... one is impressed by poo poo? Hmm...

That is indeed advanced.

According to GT, impressed is "onder de indruk"

Mgetz

anyone else getting random "we are offline" on SO questions?

Journeyman Geek

and elsewhere

Mgetz

thank you

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Oh, it's 'meaning', not 'literal translation'. "Ja doei" literally translates as 'Yes bye'

SPArcheon

3:01 PM

@Mgetz @JourneymanGeek don't know if this is related but about an hour ago from now I experienced an about 10 minutes window where no page would load at all on Stack.

Shadow Wizard Says No More War

3:39 PM

@Mgetz yeah, scroll up a bit

Though today is worse than usual, I admit. Hopefully would get better. :)

@SPArcheon for me it was ~2 minutes. But maybe there was 10 minutes downtime when I didn't notice before or after.

Also chance it's region related, i.e. DNS issues.

SPArcheon

3:53 PM

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar happened again, this time it was shorter.