@JourneymanGeek Maybe it's 'overtagging' (metataggy?) but my point is that the synonymization is incorrect and leads to the wrong tag. If everyone is happy the way it is it's less work to not make a request that isn't going to be popular. I'm happy with Tinkerbell's answer that one would have to sort through the history, I won't be doing that on my cellphone. I'm satisfied with the response and have a tag I can use, good enough. Thanks for your input.
What tools are available to room owners?
Room owners are users that have some elevated permissions in a chatroom. Typically, they will be the first line of defense when it comes to inappropriate content or behavior in a room. Users will look to the room owners to guide the room. The room owners...
If a reasonably active room has no owner, or none of the owners have been in the room for a certain time, a new owner may be automatically appointed, to ensure that there's somebody who can administrate.
As for your 'calculator discussion' I can see how if the light was on (and all was well for the calculator) and then the light was turned off (draining it's power) and just before it was to fail the light was flicked back on - the calculator might go astray. Computers can do that when there's a brief interruption.
Yeah. If you could control the input power with enough precision, you could do some very interesting glitching (up to arbitrary code execution).
But that assumes you can cut power at very precise timing, e.g. in the middle of an individual clock cycle (which aren't very fast in calculators, but still).
I think most low-power photovoltaic calculators don't even boot.
(I mean, the processor naturally needs to synchronize individual subsystems and bring them into a stable and defined state, but that takes on the order of nanoseconds).
Not "boot" like a computer, but they have a brain that needs to start - to process keys, store whole numbers when an operator is pressed (+,-,÷,*), and generate the segments to represent each number on the display.
It's a bunch of logic blocks on a tiny chip that does the calculator function. Previously (decades ago) calculators were huge, only did a few things (no √ or π) and cost over $200. Now they are reasonably fully featured and sometimes available at the dollar store (for $2).
@Mithrandir true. Query to test it. /cc @balpha can you please kick SEDE to update its data please? It says it was updated 3 hours ago, but it didn't. Thanks!
> Experts Exchange went bankrupt in 2001[2] after venture capitalists moved the company to San Mateo, CA, and was brought back largely through the efforts of unpaid volunteers.[3]
Sometimes it's worse seeing a site that's dead and abandoned, but still have the servers chugging on... I mean, seeing an old site on a web archive is like going to a graveyard, but this? This is like watching something that wants to die but can't.
@TimPost how many swag boxes you have? The contest is nearing 200 answers. Also, if you have less boxes than answers, what will decide the winners? Score, or submission date?
@rene - Did you notice my discussion earlier with @Tinkeringbell and @JourneymanGeek, along with @andmyself about the "realtime" tag being synonymized with "live-refresh" instead of "realtime-questions" ? - chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7474499#7474499 - currently resolved as leave it.
Still less likely than their kid being hit by a car or shot by a burglar.
Also I think the reddit OP has some kind of paranoid psychosis lol
Judging by the kinds of reactions he perceived.
I mean I live around people who would freak out if an ESSID appeared called "FBI van", and the worst thing they do is collect guns cuz muh small gubment.
If I was a secret government agency I'd set my ESSID to something like iROAD (which is apparently used by construction monitoring equipment) or something like that
I'd set it to FBI van just because no one would actually suspect it.
I mean if I saw an ESSID like that I'd laugh it off.
But if I saw a hidden ESSID or some anomalies on an SDR, I'd be creeped out. Or if some other ESSID was set to match my own... (I don't use WiFi though).
> I almost called CPS until I saw it was potentially corrupted
He should have changed it to PedoNetwork and all would have been well, by his thinking. Or buy the cheapest WiFi possible and bury it in the wall/ceiling hardwired to the hallway lighting, change the SSID to "Creepy Neighbors" and move out. 😄
@forest not randomly. The single RO of that room wasn't active for long time, and you were the most active user in the room hence the system picked you. Same happened to @JourneymanGeek at some point. :)
I'm in an email with someone who is sure that the government has infected his USB drive and it automatically is spreading to his computer when he plugged it in, and then his router and phone etc. And obviously the backdoor is communicating using strange protocols and survives even re-formatting and the like.
He's absolutely convinced that he's being targeted despite the fact that there is virtually no govt malware which is so advanced that it can spread like this (we're talking about dozens of 0days here), yet so obvious that a novice notices it.
I basically told him that he'd have to find evidence (I told him how, pcap logs and firmware dumping with an SPI programmer or JTAG) for anyone to look at it.
No one is going to do detailed analysis of his hardware on a hunch.
Now, if he does give me pcap logs and firmware images that show indications of compromise, I'll certainly put him in contact with the right people.
But I don't think that's gonna happen.
I even saw someone who was absolutely sure his phone was hacked by his friend who therefore must know exactly what he is searching online at that very second, because his friend sent him a text message with something like "you still use adobe? XD". Apparently he made a connection that the "X" in the emoticon "XD" stood for "XXX", implying that his friend knew he was looking at porn at that moment.
@rene I don't know that the blame falls on you, just wondering if you wanted to chime in ... It could be fixed or left as is. There seems some disagreement as to whether or not anything is wrong, or what is wrong. Easiest to leave it, but didn't want to leave you (or anyone else whom has whatever opinion) out of the discussion. I thought of you because I know you like perusing the tags.
I certainly agree that the synonyms would not have been my 1st choice. realtime-tab would have been nice for that specific feature. What remains is wiki clean-up at best.
If you want to search for Q&A's that only involve the realtime feed it's nice to not have them cluttered by everything else, thus the tag; synonymizing it with another unrelated tag presents a high amount of noise to sift through. This is a case of "less is more (useful)".
We could run the Wheel of Blame to see whom done it:
The live-refresh is something entirely different - mashing them all together would only return hits that are unwanted by one or another searcher - someone whom wanted both (no such thing) could easily use both tags in their search.
The problem I see is that realtime is ambigious. So it is more that before the stuff was synomized it would have been more appropriate to clean-up questions first. Maybe the synomizer assumed that questions with stackexchange and realtime would be used to distinguish topics about the real-time tab. Having it merged makes it certainly harder if you want to answer questions about the realtime tab only.
It disambiguates from anyother realtime categories. Not sure what other thing someone would think it meant. The current realtime-questions is equally obvious but certainly much longer.
Leaving the 'realtime chain' in it's current state saves people having to figure out what changed or why.
We should wait for Geek, Tink, and the other one (to save searching to see whom it is).
The other question, mentioned by Tinkerbell, (and someone else?, on Meta a few days ago), is should we write a Meta to give this question proper exposure instead of doing "behind the scenes skullduggery in the chat room".
Yes, well. We're trusted to add a tag. When it comes to screwing the front-page we need to be careful / mindful of those that don't care about the zillion of old posts being bumped.
So ..., if a new tag was created realtime-tab and described as " This tag is for Q&A's about the realtime question feed located on the main Stack Exchange website, located here: https://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=realtime" and that tag is synonymized with the current realtime-questions then nothing would be stepped on, wrecked, squatted, etc. ???
And... um... blush.... I saw a full episode yesterday with my children. They just kept watching it over and over. Something with griffins kingdom and lack of friendship in there, until the ponies arrive.
@Tinkeringbell whoa.... I really should re-join... then you'd get more Likes... I feel like those telling themselves "tomorrow I'll start diet!" and.. well... they don't. :D
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