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Journeyman Geek

2:19 AM

hm. I am tempted to ask for ~~a mop and bucket~~ RO ship so I can clean up SD posts ;p

user202362

4:30 AM

Smaller interstate highways in the US are pretty good - relatively straight & flat

user202362

4:58 AM

So today driving back from Grand Canyon south rim to highway 15, we have driven across Colorado river and Colorado city, both in Arizona

Unitato

6:17 AM

@JourneymanGeek Where in Tamil Nadu are you from?

Journeyman Geek

@Unitato I've spent nearly my entire life in singapore ;p

My mom's from around coimbature. Dad grew up in jaffna

rene

6:35 AM

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Sha Wiz Dow Ard

plz-delete hive meta.stackexchange.com/questions/300715/… @rene @Bart (@Trav isn't pingable)

rene

needs only @Bart now ...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

Where is @Bart?

Think he complained once he didn't get enough pings.

rene

I assume @Bart is commuting

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

computing?

rene

6:37 AM

No, not a p, an m

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

PM?

Prime Minister?

Fits @Bart.

Unitato

7:09 AM

@JourneymanGeek Cool, I am currently in Trichy

Journeyman Geek

7:39 AM

ah

I have family around there

DonQuiKong

8:23 AM

spam: patents.stackexchange.com/questions/18360/…

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

Still no Smokey permission? @Don

DonQuiKong

9:00 AM

@ShaWizDowArd haven't asked, too much stuff to do. Shouldn't even be here ;)

Glorfindel

@DonQuiKong there's a change in the works so that you can use !!/report here as well. Should be fixed in 6-8 hours.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

9:17 AM

@DonQuiKong I did on your behalf. :)

Mithrandir

we're trying to figure things out in CHQ

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

oh no

angussidney

Working on it

Mithrandir

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Q: RIP Jerry Pournelle

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angussidney

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 1 min ago, by angussidney

We're going to have double smokeys for a while until we can work out what's wrong, sorry.

Bart

9:24 AM

@rene that and gamedev crunch. Fun times.

angussidney

10:18 AM

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 11 secs ago, by angussidney

Smokey isn't accepting commands; we don't know why but we'll get around to fixing it as soon as we can. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@angussidney maybe something changed on SE side? API? Though other bots don't appear to be affected.

angussidney

@ShaWizDowArd transitioning over to another instance seems to have fixed the issue, but we have no idea why. For now, we're just going to leave it and see what happens

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

10:50 AM

spam: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/300719/…

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

11:15 AM

oh

So auto detection works, just not commands

Bart

@ShaWizDowArd it's going through puberty, internally screaming along with "F*ck you, I won't do what you tell me"

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

11:30 AM

rofl

Let's hope he won't rebel and run away.

user315433

11:43 AM

Yeah, I know...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Michelle tpu

user315433

Smokey's getting old and hard of hearing. Wonder if there's a pill for hearing loss.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

Will you two decide? Teenager or old?? @Bart @Michelle

Bart

Maybe we have to settle on midlife crisis then?

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Michelle hearinglosspill.com

flags as spam ^

$300.00 for 10 bottles

I'll sell my tap water for more.

@Bart I'm sure @Michelle isn't in any crisis. He's just Normal. Human. In his mid-life.

Oh you mean Smokey.

user315433

11:52 AM

Smokey must be tired of detecting the same links over and over...

user315433

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 2 hours ago, by ArtOfCode

i.stack.imgur.com	1434
israelbigmarket.com	981
drozforskolin.org	812
%20http	522
www.puravolantiaging.net	510
www.xinyanlaw.com	466
www.alariarxreview.org	398
goo.gl	332
sunitlabs.com	318
www.lumagenexuk.co.uk	291

user315433

Spam hall of fame

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

Israel second! Hooray!

oh wait

user315433

Well, minus imgur and Google... and I don't know about %20http, links obfuscated by spaces?

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

Never considered my country to be spam nation. lol

Maybe because we have no laws against it...

user315433

11:54 AM

Not only is Israel #1, it's the first to reach 1000 spam posts (Art's query ran on stale data): metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/domains/147

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Michelle whoa... what a respect. ;)

user315433

> No whois data available.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Michelle probably, so they don't appear as links in the post itself

user315433

An interesting thing about big market is the names of spammers...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

?

user315433

11:56 AM

Something something juriya, with minor variations, for two years...

Elias

juriya: resistance (translated from... dunno)

user315433

Not Hebrew, I guess.

Elias

Hausa language???

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Michelle indeed, appears to be Indian spammer

abusing Israel name!

Elias

googling "juriya" returns Hindi language

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

11:58 AM

How rude.

lol

user315433

And Nigerian usernames. An international effort.

user315433

They didn't even pay for private domain registration data? Apparently not afraid of getting spam.

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Michelle probably big enough to not care, yeah

Now that's a big botnet: zdnet.com/article/…

user315433

Juriya village is located in Bhuj Tehsil of Kachchh district in Gujarat, India.. I guess the Nigeria / Hausa language connection is incidental.

user315433

@ShaWizDowArd Using a gaming keyboard to hack servers...

user315433

12:08 PM

G1 = steal passwords, G2 = send email spam, G3 = spam Stack Exchange...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

G4 = ?

Elias

self-destruct

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

kaboom

Took me long time to figure how to use L3 and R3 in PS controller though

Just didn't figure I can push that stick

Magisch

@ShaWizDowArd unsurprising

Most spam is from india

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@Magisch yeah but wonder why?

user315433

12:12 PM

Not much different from other IT services.

user315433

Large scale outsourcing.

Magisch

@ShaWizDowArd Probably because employing spammers in europe is unprofitable

Profit margins on spam (especially email spam) are small enough that it barely makes a profit at indian sweatshop wages and working hours

No way you could run that in europe, even below minimum wage

40 new cases of serial upvoting

I'm gonna flag these later this week I cba atm

Bart

Meh, no recent "listenings" any more from GnomeSlice/whatevernamehegoeswith

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

12:33 PM

@Bart you miss those?

@Magisch yeah, probably. But isn't China even "cheaper" in that context?

Bart

@ShaWizDowArd yup

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@cazc_941 @Bart miss your Today's Listening

Journeyman Geek

@ShaWizDowArd cause many folk have non existant morals, lax regulations, cheap, vaguely english educated labour...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

@JourneymanGeek you can say that about many places though

Journeyman Geek

@ShaWizDowArd well, the last bit...

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

12:42 PM

Same

Hack, it's the same in Israel, lol

Many people know English, but don't bother with its grammar or syntax

Magisch

1:06 PM

@ShaWizDowArd I don't think by much

@ShaWizDowArd I'm constantly hard on myself because my english isn't native speaker level, but

some of the native speakers don't really seem to try either

Elias

English hard I know but can type this

Magisch

@JourneymanGeek If this job is your ticket to your family not starving, would you be concerned about the moral implications of annoying people with advertising?

It's mostly relative, y'know

I know I'd rather be a spammer then starve

Bart

@ShaWizDowArd lol, thanks. Going through some old ones now.

Testing my new headphones. :D Good investment

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch pretty sure the people actually making the big bucks are not starving

Magisch

@JourneymanGeek Pretty sure indians aren't making the big bucks from spam operations

most of the bosses are headquartered in europe or the US

Journeyman Geek

1:19 PM

@Magisch there was actually a (partial) article on this on Ars I think

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/…

Elias

sd f

canon

1:51 PM

awesome: stackoverflow.com/a/987587/621962

Feeds

'Which one?' 'I dunno, it's your house. Just check each object.' 'Check it for *what*?' 'Whether it looks like it might have touched a paper towel at some point and then forgotten to let go.' '...' 'You can also Google to learn how to check which things are using which resources.' 'You know, I'll just leave the towel there and try again tomorrow.'

Magisch

@JourneymanGeek These are tech support scammers

rene

4:02 PM

@Bart do you have the ping sound on?

rene

5:00 PM

sd f f

rene

5:12 PM

> Don't let anyone badger you into doing things on this site.

user315433

5:40 PM

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A: My cat hates his collar. How to handle it

If my cats kikin of rolling round trying to get it of will she get used to it

user315433

Have you got used to it, @bjb568? ^

rene

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canon

6:12 PM

How do these people get rep? stackoverflow.com/questions/46161899/…

user315433

6:52 PM

@canon In this case, by asking questions (158 questions vs 20 answers, most rep is from questions)

canon

@rene x_x

@Michelle Oh, I know...

user315433

Feature request: cap question-rep so it never exceeds answer-rep. Because the rep computations are not complicated enouth.

user315433

Or simpler: rep cap is 200/day for answer-upvotes and 50/day for question-upvotes.

canon

Question upmod: 1, downmod: -5

Bart

7:31 PM

@rene I do. And it's even more noticeable with the noise cancelling headphones :D

rene

I'll ping you when you don't expect it. See how long it takes to be annoying ...

Bart

You're already annoying. No need to ping.

rene

Ha!

Oded

What headphones did you get?

Bart

Bose QuietComfort 35

Oded

7:35 PM

pricy

rene

339 € at the Wehkamp

Bart

Yup, quite. There is a 25 version which is cheaper. But then again, at least 8 hours per day, 5 days a week. If it lasts a couple of years, it's worth it.

Especially in the noisy place where we work now

bjb568

9:55 PM

@Michelle It’s become a part of me.

rene

Weird? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/300750/…

Thomas Ward

10:18 PM

yay you work again!

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