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Jason C

12:09 AM

@bjb568 all my favorite games are on the nintendo wee wee

giggle

Journeyman Geek

12:23 AM

You play with your wee wee? Do you swing around your joystick? ;p

Jason C

@JourneymanGeek One time I didn't put the strap on and it hit my friend in the face.

... Ok. Reset.

That escalated quickly.

Journeyman Geek

Quite

JamesENL

1:20 AM

The image of BJB giggling causes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: When did the Harry Potter books take place? by Kripa Patel on scifi.SE

user202362

no facebook or wechat 4 me

user202362

I am on the internet more than I should already

Jason C

@JourneymanGeek Was that you I was talking to about crappy web pages the other day?

user202362

user202362

1:34 AM

Jason C

Cause I found a doozy: en.oxforddictionaries.com use the keyboard arrows to scroll in the page and behold the keyboard capture fail.

@Telkitty Ok I'm gonna start crushing skulls if you don't start posting better cat gifs. Your standards are dropping lately.

user202362

:'(

Jason C

user202362

how come we never get to see your cats?

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC possibly

SmokeDetector

2:36 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Where i am get vba for My usa paypal account verifcation? by haios on money.SE

user315433

4:01 AM

Was HTTPS Everywhere supposed to be patched by now? Still blocks all child metas for me, although by now I'm inclined to consider this more of a feature than a bug.

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4:50 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: ALPHA PLUS TEST BOOSTER by xoledu viki on apple.SE

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5:23 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Switch carrier error by Fuker neoude on android.SE

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5:56 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Ultimate Alpha Extreme by sipituhe on graphicdesign.SE

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6:28 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Email in answer: Which character is best for killing Bastion from behind Reinhardt? by Sofia Jessica on gaming.SE

Andrew T.

7:26 AM

Mithrandir

7:52 AM

@AndrewT. That cat looks confused...

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8:24 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: ¿Cuál sería la traducción de "strunk" al español? by Ricky Sett on spanish.SE

Stijn

8:55 AM

Derpy

9:21 AM

5

Rip Fun

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9:35 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username, offensive answer detected: Meaning of "little more o’er the merry-o" by nigger on ell.SE

Shadow Wizard

@Adam nice new haircut, but what happened to the cat? :(

@SmokeDetector why?

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@ShadowWizard Post - Offensive keywords: Pedo, Pedo

Shadow Wizard

Why two same?

@SmokeDetector ignore

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@ShadowWizard Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Shadow Wizard

BTW @M.A.R. late congrats for entering the HNQ!

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9:43 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer: Acoustic piano vs digital piano: is there any solid evidence for one being better than the other? by Margaret Mitchel on music.SE

Derpy

two stars...

Shadow&Telkitty I assume

Fawad

@SmokeDetector why?

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Post - Offensive keywords: *nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger*
Username - Position 1-7: nigger

M.A.R.

9:58 AM

@ShadowWizard ?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. ?

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard ?

Shadow Wizard

8

Q: Is "this is questions" ever grammatical?

I know for a fact that you can use plural nouns after "there's", which is an existential construction. I encountered a post on Stack Overflow today which went like this: . . . this is questions. Now, of course it was ungrammatical because what the poster actually meant was "these are questi...

It was in HNQ yesterday

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard Oh, anything I write on ELL gets to HNQ

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy innocent look

@Fawad that one was obvious....

Fawad

10:05 AM

@ShadowWizard i was testing will sd reply me.

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector any comment to this answer? Their other answer also links to the same URL

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad the "why" command is for everyone, as it does not have any impact.

Only actions with impact require permissions.

SmokeDetector

10:27 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How can I export my reviews, votes, questions and answers from Amazon? by dandong on webapps.SE

Derpy

10:37 AM

@ShadowWizard well, three more now

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy Not my socks!

I blame @Bart

Bart

What did I do?

user202362

you stole shadow's socks I am under the impression based on what he said

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer: What Coin is This? by Avantika on history.SE

Shadow Wizard

10:52 AM

@Bart star attacked @Derpy

Shadow Wizard

11:05 AM

@Derpy Zelda in now Hot Question. Happy? ;)

Link is happy for her.

@Telkitty my socks are safely on my feet.

Or is it foot? I always forget. :/

user202362

1 foot, 2 feet

Shadow Wizard

So I got one sock of left foot, and one sock on right foot. @Bart can't take any of them! :D

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Evil subsite is evil.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy hmm?

Happy is evil?

It's also on a shirt teepublic.com/t-shirt/61130-happy-pocket-link

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Not talking about the image. Talking about the network site.

Shadow Wizard

11:20 AM

heh, this company created bunch of SO accounts (around 10) for its employees just so that they can link to them.

user202362

We love open sauce

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty sauce that anyone can mess with and add ingredients? No thank you.

;)

user202362

open sauce goes well with DIY burger ...

2

Shadow Wizard

and Hot DOG.

!!/bark "hello"

user202362

!!/coffee & cake

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11:32 AM

@Telkitty brews coffee for @Telkitty

Shadow Wizard

!!/coffee ee

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@ShadowWizard brews coffee for @ShadowWizard

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12:27 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How do I choose a good cover photo for my website? by Cintya Lestari on graphicdesign.SE

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating words in answer: How would winds behave on a tidally locked planet? by josh k on worldbuilding.SE

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12:57 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How do I choose a good cover photo for my website? by Pamela Andriani on graphicdesign.SE

Bart

Does it matter @ShadowWizard?

Shadow Wizard

@Bart sure, chat use different markdown. And easier to spot abuse.

OP probably didn't understand the other one isn't for chat. meh

Bart

Meh, all boils down to the same thing, but okay.

Shadow Wizard

meh it is then. :D

Bart

reopen-vote-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293278/quote-self-in-chat

Some twat closed that

Shadow Wizard

1:06 PM

lol

missing bug hammer

Also you sound like Shog. @Bart

Bart

... that can't be a good thing.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart you hint that Shog is not good?

;)

Bart

You're trying to get me banned, aren't you?

Hahaha, that "duplicate is older than its target" question has now made it from MSO and MSE to ELU

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Q: Can a "duplicate" predate its twin?

There's a heated thread currently brewing over on MSE: How can an older question be marked as a duplicate of a newer one? In that thread, I made the argument that the culture and mechanics of StackExchange certainly make [the situation described above] possible. In response, the OP raised ...

word-usage

user202362

omg bart found out we are trying to get him banned ~runs away~

Bart

polishes smiting stick

Shadow Wizard

1:15 PM

@Bart heh, HNQ?

@tel who is @bart? Oh, @Bart's evil twin. Ban him!

Bart

@ShadowWizard All Over The Network Question

Shadow Wizard

lol

And that character still insists he's right and the world is wrong.

Stijn

@ShadowWizard he's being incredibly pedantic for the sake of it, I believe. I'm pretty sure he understands how the system works, and just wants to waste everyone's time by blowing up the whole situation over some wording.

While at the same time throwing around insults to everyone who disagrees.

If it was up to me, he was banned already.

Bart

Really now? I think including images such as this one is very constructive.

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn well, from what I've seen he reduced the insults, after one offensive comment on me he didn't try again. But yeah, if he keeps insulting all around in comments, better be suspended to cool down for a week or so.

M.A.R.

1:22 PM

@ShadowWizard Who? The guy that managed to lose all Assoc. bonus?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. he did? huh. Yeah.

@Bart where?

M.A.R.

Wait

Bart

@ShadowWizard meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/346345/… (See the revision history)

M.A.R.

Which thread are we talking about?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. several now

It's spreading

M.A.R.

1:24 PM

I DEMAND SCREENSHOTS

Shadow Wizard

lol

It's all still there. I think.

M.A.R.

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/346345/… -- This one isn't

Bart

@M.A.R. MSO MSE and ELU

M.A.R.

@Bart But different OPs o.o

Dan is a good guy, I'm sure

Kylo Ren is most probably upset about downvotes

Bart

Sure @M.A.R. Dan is the victim of good intentions here

M.A.R.

1:27 PM

I can't see the MSO one, and you guys STILL haven't shown me a screenshot

Stijn

Andrew T.

Actually it can be solved easily if "asked before" is removed from the text.

Shadow Wizard

3

Q: Changing "This question has been asked before and already has an answer." when the duplicate was posted before

From time to time, a question A is closed as a duplicate of question B, even though B was asked after A. I find the closure message misleading: This question has been asked before and already has an answer. Could we change the message so that it doesn't claim A was asked after B?

discussion exact-duplicates

M.A.R.

@Stijn Awesome, thanks. I have no idea what ShadowWizard's use is now, now that you can provide screenshots.

Andrew T.

Heck, there are many duplicate bug reports without answers :)

Shadow Wizard

1:32 PM

oh wait, it's dupe. too. dang.

Can't use hammer now.

Andrew T.

Dupeception

Oh, issue's fixed then. Everybody wins.

Stijn

Right, so Mr Kylo Ren's problem has already been fixed and is only a problem for questions closed before the fix?

Shadow Wizard

Why?

Stijn

@ShadowWizard as you put in your answer, the message was changed

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn the answer is wrong... asked OP to unaccept.

I didn't check well enough before posting it.

271

Q: Syntax highlighting language hints

Do you think it would be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting? Sometimes I find the highlighting on SQL or VB.NET answers is more distracting than helpful; for example: Converting MySQL select to PostgreSQL Retrieving data from a VB.NET arraylist o...

feature-request status-completed markdown syntax-highlighting

Closed as dupe of newer question, message is still off.

Actually, can't really get when the "new" closure message is used.

Stijn

1:39 PM

@ShadowWizard but it was closed a few years ago.

I have seen the new message, although it doesn't seem to be consistently used indeed.

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn even so, with thousands of such questions, the change is pointless.

Stijn

True.

Shadow Wizard

Considering to edit the answer, but it better be deleted.

Andrew T.

And then, there's period where "duplicate banner" was added manually to the question body...

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. that's a different thing, we're talking about the lower banner, not top. :)

But yeah, that just add another layer of confusion.

Andrew T.

1:43 PM

I guess my point is, not all new changes can be propagated to older posts

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. they can, just matter of time and will. :)

e.g. script can do that, going over all questions closed in the old way, reopening and closing again, editing out the message.

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Q: Two kinds of Duplicate closing are too confusing - suggestion for a possible fix

Question closed as duplicate before Changes to "close as duplicate" (part deux): Question closed as duplicate after Changes to "close as duplicate" (part deux): This is confusing. This is two different designs for the same thing. To sum the changes up: Different banner on top of t...

feature-request exact-duplicates

Heh, only three questions with bounty on MSE. Guess people realize it's pointless.

Journeyman Geek

I was quite productive today

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek where?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard was stuck with upgrading my server, got help from a guy on chat I trust. The question/answer ended up HNQing. Upgraded my server. Broke php. Upgraded that to PHP7.0 for some reason. Fixed broken things due to that. Got my matrix server back up.

I don't have a client for it, but that can wait

Shadow Wizard

lol

Nice!

Journeyman Geek

1:53 PM

oh, and backed up the server vm

Fawad

neongrey.itch.io/pet-that-cat

Journeyman Geek

next, upgrading the host, but that is going to be somewhat of a pain

Shadow Wizard

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Q: Unable to do release update on ubuntu 14.04

I'm currently trying to upgrade a ubuntu 14.04 box to xenial. I'm trying to do do release update, and its failing with errors like UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 382: invalid start byte It looks like a known bug - I've tried that and had no luck finding the ...

linux ubuntu

So you trust Bob? @Journeyman

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard yeah

Shadow Wizard

:)

Bob is a name easy to trust.

Stijn

1:54 PM

@ShadowWizard bounties on MSE are nothing more than a one-person protest against The System

2

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn hehe, so I'm one of the top protestors... ;)

(might be the top)

Fawad

so you people dont confuse MSE with maths.se?

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad umm... no. Why should we?

This is MSE chat. :)

Guess on Math.SE chat room it can become... confusing.

Andrew T.

(deja vu)

Shadow Wizard

?

Fawad

1:56 PM

@Stijn yes,and mostly that one person looses

:(

user202362

@Fawad we are primitive animals - meat over maths ... I mean meta, close enough anyways ...

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad -o

Stijn

@ShadowWizard almost! Pekka and gnat are ahead of you :) data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackexchange/query/638838/…

user202362

@Fawad loose clothes? :p

Shadow Wizard

lol

reveals too much

Fawad

1:58 PM

@Telkitty you know this site ? neongrey.itch.io/pet-that-cat

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad what about it?

Fawad

@ShadowWizard about cat pets

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn oh wow

Fawad

@Telkitty losses? sorry for typo

Stijn

@Fawad no, loses instead of looses :)

Shadow Wizard

1:59 PM

> mostly that one person loses

Stijn

Don't worry, it took me years to learn how to properly use those words

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad you got a cat?

Fawad

@ShadowWizard no youtube.com/watch?v=1aBRLhZ8mic its a D.O.N.G

Andrew T.

@Fawad thanks for the invite, but I prefer to stay away from the Den :)

Stijn

me too

Fawad

2:03 PM

@AndrewT. sorry what?

Stijn

scary monsters and wizards live there

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad DONG?

Fawad

@ShadowWizard yes

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn and yellow stuff

@AndrewT. you see who invite you to a room?

Fawad

@ShadowWizard huh?

Andrew T.

2:05 PM

@ShadowWizard I see Fawad invited me to Den

Fawad

ok, i will invite,send screenshot

Stijn

@ShadowWizard yep

> Fawad has invited you to join Let's get philosophical. See your invitations.

Andrew T.

Fawad

:O i didnt thought i will be caught.

this troll failed

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. huh! I'm pretty sure this is new. It used to just say "You have been invited..." /cc @Stijn

Fawad

2:08 PM

I Think message flaged cannot be seen

Shadow Wizard

@Fawad yes, so please stop now.

Fawad

@Stijn sorry /cc @AndrewT.

Bart

@Fawad you mean who flagged chat messages? There are ways to see that iirc, but nothing that's directly exposed no.

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard ಠ_ಠ

@Fawad Devs can see it though

They can see EVERYTHING

@ShadowWizard Of course

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. you're not the only yellow stuff there. :D

M.A.R.

2:19 PM

@M.A.R.@nvoigt in this question they can not download SDK so i will post link .i will edit my answer. — IOS_DEV 2 mins ago

How did this guy ping two people in one comment?

Stijn

@M.A.R. did you get the ping?

Perhaps only you got the ping but nvoigt didn't, and the ping validation is slightly broken (no whitespace between the names)

I'm trying to upload a new avatar to my SE profile. Every attempt so far, at least one of the sizes fails to generate correctly and it ends up being corrupted.

user315433

2:41 PM

@ShadowWizard It doesn't because in that room, MSE means Math.SE

user315433

As on the Mathematics Meta site

M.A.R.

@Stijn Yep

@Stijn I see your new avatar

@Gerry Which is why I never use "MSE"

Stijn

@M.A.R. yeah it uploads, but it uses different sizes in different places and every time one of the sizes got corrupted. I think it's fine now, but it's still syncing across the network.

M.A.R.

Your new face is the face of the guy seconds before they get pranked

Prunk?

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Adam Lear

2:54 PM

@ShadowWizard she's not always cooperating, so this time she missed out on being in the shot :)

Andrew T.

@ShadowWizard it still shows that on SE notification, but not inside chatroom

(don't know if it's recent change on chatroom or not)

Shadow Wizard

3:05 PM

@Gerry so if I'll write "see this question on MSE" there, and mean this MSE, they won't know what I talk about? :)

@AdamLear oh. Who took the picture?

@AndrewT. weird... oh well, better know who did it anyway. ;)

@Stijn like the peeking duck?

whoa, @Stijn appears to have lots of fun, nice! :D

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard I don't see any problems with it.

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. oh. So you say @Stijn is a gray person?

M.A.R.

Grizzly bear

Shadow Wizard

they're black

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard :O RACIST

One does not simply talk about black things.

Shadow Wizard

3:11 PM

M.A.R.

5

Q: Is moderator Maulik V ok?

I haven't seen moderator Maulik V around for some time. Is he ok? Does SE try to look after their moderators if they go missing?

support

@Any-interested-CMs

@ShadowWizard Nice selfie! You look handsome

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. blush

Adam Lear

@ShadowWizard yours truly. my selfie skills are improving.

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard ಠ_ಠ I'm not looking for a relationship

Shadow Wizard

(me blushing)

@M.A.R. how can I know?

@AdamLear oh. Try putting food on your shoulder then. ;)

M.A.R.

3:15 PM

@ShadowWizard By my ಠ_ಠic style

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ isn't in my dictionary

eating cookie

om nom nom

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard Expand it then

@ShadowWizard How many pixels are you?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. can't already full

@M.A.R. when small? 988x738

big version is 2560x1440

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard And when blushing?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. I become small

Adam Lear

3:17 PM

@ShadowWizard Me and my one true love, pizza, for the next time then ;)

Shadow Wizard

@AdamLear lol, cat love pizza... nice. ;)

You got one cat? @Adam

Adam Lear

two. Skysong is the shoulder cat, but funnily enough she's the antisocial one except with me. Jasper is people-friendly one, but he hates being picked up.

Shadow Wizard

Each cat and their own quirks.. just like humans. ;)

I also don't like being picked up. :D

Adam Lear

instagram.com/p/BJZIY9-A8RI. Sky's the grey one.

Shadow Wizard

Oct 5 '10 at 21:17, by Diago

@Tim Yeah. My wife's Mac is Renesmee. Her machine is Isabella. My Mac is Edward. The server is Alice, my VM is Marcus, the Linux server is Carlisle. The router is Aro and the wireless router is Jasper. You get the drift.

Hope your cat isn't named after Diago's wireless router? :P

Adam Lear

3:20 PM

Just a happy coincidence.

Shadow Wizard

lol

M.A.R.

@AdamLear Huh, then what about BJB?

Shadow Wizard

Nice and unique names, how did you choose them? @Adam

@M.A.R. he's always friendly

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard Dices

@ShadowWizard That's never true about a cat

Adam Lear

@ShadowWizard One of my exes named Skysong. It's from some book? I don't recall much about it. :) And my now-wife and I agreed on Jasper... mostly just by picking a bunch of names and seeing what fit for the cat.

M.A.R.

3:22 PM

Unless you mean mannequins

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. sure it is, they just have a reason for being friendly

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard BJB's being attracting us to DevDoodle?

Shadow Wizard

@AdamLear I see. Why "now-wife" and not just "wife"? As in not ex-wife?

Adam Lear

she wasn't my wife at the time :)

Shadow Wizard

Oh, lol

How long you have the cats?

@M.A.R. is it still running?

M.A.R.

3:24 PM

@ShadowWizard Dunno. Maybe it stopped to take a break

Adam Lear

actually... I think I'm wrong and we were already married. Don't tell her I screwed that up. :P

Shadow Wizard

lol

Adam Lear

@ShadowWizard I've had Sky for almost 8 years and Jasper for 2.

Shadow Wizard

looking up @Adam's wife email address and phone number

@AdamLear whoa... 8 years is long time. You always had a cat?

Adam Lear

Most of the time. I grew up with cats, but didn't get one of my own until I was out of university.

Shadow Wizard

3:29 PM

One of the best. Ever.

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@AdamLear well, makes sense, better not have a cat if you can't handle them properly. :)

While we're here, @Adam did you have chance to look into @Jason's bug? :)

(usually I ask in comments, I know ;))

Adam Lear

A bit. I didn't get to dig all the way through to the cause, though - there were other issues discovered in the same area last week and they were more pressing. On the upside, fixes to that may have fixed profile data not getting propagated correctly. There's only one way to find out. ;)

Shadow Wizard

Yeah, wait....

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard @Jason, in case you missed it

Stijn

3:49 PM

@ShadowWizard yes, sometimes I manage to escape from the grasp of SO and do something fun :)