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Shadow Keeps Social Distance

05:57

@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog parrot got there first

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

06:31

plz-delete pirate bay search @rene @Glor @Art @Mith @Sonic

rene

06:49

No the Pirate Bay stays. It is the reason XS4ALL is my ISP. Not because I use the Pirate Bay but because XS4ALL refused to censor that specific site on demand by the Government ....

Just want to make a point: Free the Internet people!

Oh, it is gone ...

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Tinked.

Tinkeringbell

Isn't XS4ALL quite dead though?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

oh no, the new one was tinked.

The pirate was just Soniced.

@Tinkeringbell doesn't appear dead...

XS4ALL

XS4ALL is the sixth-oldest Internet service provider (ISP) in the Netherlands, after NLnet, SURFnet, HCC!hobbynet, Knoware and IAF. The name is a play on the English pronunciation of access for all. XS4ALL was the second company to offer Internet access to private individuals, since 1993. Founded in 1993 as an offshoot of the hackers club Hack-Tic by Felipe Rodriquez, Rop Gonggrijp, Paul Jongsma and Cor Bosman, while based in Amsterdam. Initially only offering dial-in services via modem and ISDN, today it offers dial-up access as well as ADSL, (bonded) VDSL, and fiber-optic (FTTH) services as well...

rene

@Tinkeringbell yeah, sad trombone ...

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

It will be renamed soon though, and new company will be founded.

Sonic the Stay-Home Hedgehog

07:00

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

:P

rene

07:52

→ 21 messages moved to Chimney

→ 80 messages moved to Chimney

rene

09:03

→ 5 messages moved to Chimney

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

09:21

Maybe you should also move the "messages moved" messages? ;)

Is it possible at all?

dang.... @Journeyman @Tink troll alert: meta.stackexchange.com/users/788857/newshooter123. Please nuke and see socks they also created. Thanks!

rene

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance for a mod, yes

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@rene and RO?

rene

→ 2 messages moved to Trashcan

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance nope, just tried

Mithical

they can be edited but not moved or deleted

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@rene :(

Burgers arrived!

rene

09:29

Didn't know they were travelling ...

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

09:52

That was big!

@rene they are, with my boss as the delivery guy.... :D

(well, not direct boss, the CEO)

rene

That is where CEO's are for.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Come Eat Olives

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

10:08

Good old times!

user400654

13:27

🚽

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@user400654 thanks, it was a relief.

No unicode for a basin, what a shame. How can we wash our hands?!

Until then, let's use this. Keep Your Hands Clean!

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance With soap and water?

🧼💧 ;)

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Tinkeringbell nice, but not enough... the "bar of soap" doesn't really look like a bar or soap, more like a blue-ish bread slice.... ;)

Journeyman Geek

🚿

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Shower tap?

I don't wash my hands in the shower, too risky... can get all wet. :(

And don't tell me to go wash hands in the ocean (there's surely ocean unicode, right? ;)) it's even worse than leaving hands unwashed.... :P

Also, the soap icon looks too similar to the Coronavirus icon: 🦠

Same colors used. Suspicious... lol

user400654

13:43

🔥

apparently russia is actually developing a UV-Light treatment? or was that a troll

Journeyman Geek

@user400654 UV C will kill corona

Also the top layer of your skin. your eyes....

user400654

right

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@user400654 same level as Trump's bleach.

High class trolling.

user400654

i mean

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

People can also put themselves inside a microwave.

user400654

13:46

it'd be 100% effective

one way or another

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

It will surely kill the virus.

The one and only real solution is going to be biological.

I'm surprised nobody suggested to replace the lungs with artificial lungs, which can't get infected. :P

John Dvorak

If you mean external circulation... that might actually be a good idea.

If you mean a transplant, we don't have the technology I believe.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@JohnDvorak really?? Only kidneys? Let me see....

M.A.R.

@JohnDvorak sure we do

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

oh... we can only put lungs of other person.

M.A.R.

13:57

Uh, yeah?

John Dvorak

@M.A.R. link?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

So maybe put lungs of young people inside older people?

M.A.R.

What tech are we talking about?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@M.A.R. artificial lungs.

djsmiley2kStaysInside

lung transplants are a thing

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

13:58

@djsmiley2kStaysInside not artificial.

djsmiley2kStaysInside

artifical luings sounds more difficult, pig lungs maybe?

John Dvorak

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance There's a good chance that the Covid-19 mortality would rise among lung donors though.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

That's my point, since artificial lungs are immune to corona. ;)

@JohnDvorak well, you can pay their parents lots of money. ;)

djsmiley2kStaysInside

The problem seems to be Covid attacks in such a way, your immune system goes wild

the cure? Chemo? :/

John Dvorak

I'd rather send a letter of condolence than apology money :P

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

14:00

@djsmiley2kStaysInside nope, it won't help, surely many places tried already.

John Dvorak

Have they, actually?

I mean, it makes sense they would, but has anybody actually said they did?

M.A.R.

@djsmiley2kStaysInside I think that's some end-stage thing

I think the treatment mostly just involves dealing with severe respiratory symptoms

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@JohnDvorak I... did not find. Feel free to try, let us know how it went. :D

Common sense screams "NO" here though.

M.A.R.

Yeah, sounds like backward logic

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

It kills the immune system that's the whole point of chemotherapy, isn't it?

So those doing it are the most vulnerable to the virus.... but what if they already have the virus? hmm....

djsmiley2kStaysInside

14:05

There's a problem with this thinking

you don't harm someone who's already ill, unless you know it'll help

So you don't 'randomly' treat someone with Chemo, unless you're pretty sure it'll help, or it's the only option

M.A.R.

You use chemo to target body's own cells, cancerous cells take the biggest hit, and we call it cancer treatment

djsmiley2kStaysInside

And you need to be pretty strong to survive it...

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@djsmiley2kStaysInside or the one being ill is beyond help, so anything can work.

@djsmiley2kStaysInside yeah, this. :)

M.A.R.

When the body's being already hit by a virus, it makes no sense to me

user400654

in the US, that requires approval

djsmiley2kStaysInside

14:06

problem is, anyone weho's at that point, likely wouldn't survive chemo

But, still, I wonder....

OR something like tapeworms

M.A.R.

Again, AFAIK the treatment at the moment just involves not letting people die until something more certain can come along

djsmiley2kStaysInside

Need more silent carriers, to test and compare them

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@djsmiley2kStaysInside surely there are millions all around, problem is to find them.

Corona tests cost lots of money.

M.A.R.

Sends naval force towards @DJs

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Israel now perform 10k tests per day, after huge efforts to make it possible...

@djsmiley2kStaysInside leeches?

Feeds

14:50

How an interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process

Ben Matthews on June 08, 2020

In a previous role, I was an engineering manager for a well-known company for a particular tech stack. One way we sorted through all the applications was requiring coding tests for potential candidates. One truly stood out, and it taught me to think about what I am really looking for in these sorts of submissions.

rene

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance yeah, we started testing here last Tuesday. You had to make an appointment by phone. There ... were more calls then they anticipated ....

Rob

15:23

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Are they wasted efforts, after social distancing has been cancelled almost everywhere?

Those images are all less than one week old, guess which one is Israel?

rene

all of them?

Rob

Yes, and taken seconds apart; using burst mode.

Inception

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Mithical

@Rob Probably the one with the Israeli flag...

Rob

It was a rhetorical question, suggesting that either he doesn't get out much, only watches local news, or is a Panacea denier.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

15:40

@Rob no protests here (yet, at least not in big scale), but yeah... social distancing is something everyone laugh about. Checks are still vital to determine when it's a critical hit, then put the lockdown in place again.

Mithical

There was a 200-person protest in Jerusalem yesterday

Rob

Flush all efforts of the past 4 months.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Mithical small scale, doesn't count... there are house parties with more people these days.

(see also: Omer Adam.)

In the protests at least they try: they wear masks and keep apart. In parties, they have no masks and hug each other.

Rob

In NA there are different rules everywhere, but generally it's groups of less than 20-50 and 2 meter spacing; which is insufficient.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

People like the one above are to blame, IMO.

Sufficient is people will actually follow those orders.

Rob

15:44

Homemade masks do little, N95 masks are not perfect; this is why you see some people in *Astronaut suits*

Concerns have elevated beyond getting a little sick, maybe dying; people are offended by oppression and the Old Boys Club

Tinkeringbell

16:06

@Rob The whole messaging here so far has been that you may care as little as you like about getting sick or dying, you also have a responsibility of not getting others sick and killed.

That was the case when people protested about being locked down, and that is still the case for any other protest too. You stick to the guidelines (which, surprisingly, most protests seem to have succeeded in) or you don't get to protest at all.

Rob

@Tinkeringbell If you are located in the Netherlands I see little evidence of people following any guidelines: too close, homemade masks (some around the neck), too many people, extended period of time, etc. - that's less than a week ago.

Tinkeringbell

@Rob That was the first one in a series of many, and the only one that ended up being handled horribly. A similar thing happened in Rotterdam and the organisation cancelled it + people left calmly after it became clear that social distancing could be guaranteed (people started to crowd near the front, near a stage). There have been several more where people stayed on their spot and distanced.

Rob

Unless those few thousand people intend to self-quarenteen for two weeks afterwards they will generate another wave of outbreaks.

Tinkeringbell

That one was nearby, yesterday. 2500 people in total

@Rob Oh, true.

I'm not saying what those people did was right. I'm also saying that a protest can be done.

Rob

There's very mixed results, but it only takes a few rule breakers (one bad apple rule) to partially reset everything; and the second wave is coming (or here) to respin the whole mess.

Tinkeringbell

16:20

I guess so.

Rob

!!/blame- police

Rob

16:36

There are huge benefits of the Panaceum, we can now see Everest from Kathmandu:

John Dvorak

And, thanks to Musk's trains, we can stargaze from the safety of our remote homes instead of from outside :D

Rob

Yes, why buy a telescope when you can view a closeup HD movie of our Solar system. Modern times are certainly better than the bad old days.

Except wages used to be a lot higher, decades ago.

rene

@Rob You would expect some to admit that there is a pollution problem. Although the Beijing Olympics were also held in "clean" air but that returned to "normal' after the games were over.

Maybe economic drivers are more important.

Rob

^ True: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/3501/beijing-olympics-provides-rare-window-into-air-pollutions-effect-on-health.aspx

Plastic in the ocean is a bigger problem, we can breathe our own stench but it's wrong to dump plastic into the ocean; only to end up eating it.

Tinkeringbell

17:33

Wait, you take your food out of the wrapping?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@rene yeah, a family relative "won" a test for his toddler when he (the kid) had a fever for three days and a cough, without other symptoms. What he didn't realize it means auto quarantine until test result arrives... Which can take several days.

And here they mark internally people who should be in quarantine and track their phones.

If you try to go somewhere, police will arrive and escort back home.

rene

I like free-rides ...

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

18:06

Lol

Rob

18:21

@Tinkeringbell I guess you could leave it in the wrapping, then it would come out packaged; but not as neatly stacked as @Sha's.

Tinkeringbell

Same link twice :P

Rob

Grrrr, it's very difficult to use this chat since Firefox changed the way it works, the chat entry window floats and sometimes disappears - one ends up not being able to see what they are doing and attempting to correct things leads to endless attempts to tap on the correct spot to make the correction; sure be glad when they fix the few dozen bugs they introduced after making their drastic reworking of everything.

John Dvorak

no repro. My text input box still sticks to the bottom.

Oh. Mobile. Didn't check.

Rob

An advantage that the fictional Andromeda Strain virus had over our current situation is that it ate plastics.

John Dvorak

We do have bacteria that eat plastic.

Rob

18:34

John Dvorak

weird

Rob

Scrolling makes it jump randomly, sometimes disappearing and difficult to get back.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Rob my logs are much neater than that indeed. Want a pic? ;)

@Rob use Chrome then?

What's the second link should have been?

Rob

Other problems is that the 'Desktop Mode' button is partially sticky; you can set it and it sticks, after sometime it disables itself while remaining stuck, so you can't toggle it to reload the page. Another problem is tap and hold the back button for Tab History, which erases itself after some period of time. Yet another difficulty is seeing what you are pinging about while I type this. The list goes on ...

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Rob can't you tap the "mobile" link? Mobile chat theme isn't perfect but much better than desktop version on mobile device.

@Rob FF really sucks that much? It was bad (for me) when I tried it for few weeks few years ago, ditched it to never try again. Sad they only made it worse since then...

But really, why not Chrome?

Rob

18:42

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance All my Tabs were saved on reload in Firefox; crippling my use of them. I've looked for a transfer or converter to move then to a different version of FF or over to Chrome and found nothing.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Rob addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/…

Tried that?

Rob

"Not available on Firefox for Android. You can use this add-on with Firefox for Desktop. Learn more about add-ons for Android.".

I had to pick my poison; hoping an update or two will be the remedy.

At least my 2 year phone got another update the other day, great improvements almost everytime; this last one was just a security update.

Samsung has shipped almost 4 GB of updates the past two years, not too bad.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Every update of my phone OS is horrible, things work much worse after it. Every single time.

Rob

It runs as fast as when I first got it (despite being stuffed with APPs, photos, junk); probably still be a good second phone several years from now (which is great, considering the wallet draining price).

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

I try not to install anymore, but phone insists, and very stubborn.

Rob

18:51

What brand?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

The Chinese, Huwawe (spelling?)

Rob

Whawhawha (sad trombone sound).

😆

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

It pops the install banner every day with option to "remind later" but sometimes I miss-tap, and it's game over...

I got better, think I'm in day 60 or so.

Rob

Can you tap on the Switcher, then swipe to close?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Rob no it's not an app.

Rob

18:54

You've had your phone two months?

A system reminder, :(

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

And sometimes it pops out of the blue, in the middle of tapping something else, then it usually ends.

@Rob over a year, after third update or so realized it's just doing harm.

John Dvorak

I've heard there's a secret fanatic badge if you manage to delay your phone upgrades by 365 days.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Dec 10 '18 at 8:26, by Shadow Wizard

Done! I bought Mate SE. :)

Can anyone go back in time and tell me not to buy it? ^

Rob

I have Android 10, and the phone's UI is called "One UI"; so all Notifications and annoyances can be controlled (even the ping can be customized).

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Rob yeah, mine also got fancy stuff I never delved into.

@JohnDvorak I'll take your word for it. ;)

John Dvorak

19:00

My phone didn't have split screen out of the box. It came with the update.

Rob

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Yikes!, depending upon where you look the Mate SE is slightly more expensive than my Samsung S9+; and the S8+ is half the price.

John Dvorak

oh... it's a phone? I thought Stack Exchange was launching a dating site!

Rob

Matese

The Matese (Italian: Monti del Matese or Massiccio del Matese) is a chain of mountains in southern Apennines, southern Italy. == Geography == The Matese mountains straddle two regions (Molise and Campania) and four provinces (Campobasso, Isernia, Benevento and Caserta). The highest peak, on the boundary between Molise and Campania, is the Monte Miletto, at 2,050 m, followed by the Gallinola (1,923 m a.s.l.), Monte Mutria (1,823 m a.s.l.), Monte Monaco di Gioia and Monte Maio. Westwards, it faces the middle valley of the Volturno River towards the Monti Trebulani, while eastwards it faces the...

It costs Apennines to manufacture due to child and prison labor, along with subsidies.

M.A.R.

19:17

One of (actually, two of) my classmates got COVID

Tinkeringbell

Hopefully not any you met recently?

M.A.R.

One has diabetes I

@Tinkeringbell No, we have never met since this thing started

John Dvorak

I don't think that one's contagious?

M.A.R.

Thankfully, he only seems to be complaining about a bit of headache, nothing more

@JohnDvorak It's the often more severe diabetes though

They take huge doses of insulin everyday

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@JohnDvorak same here, sometimes I activate it by mistake.

Mithical

19:19

Apparently COVID has been known to kill diabetics within three days, so worrying is... justified.

M.A.R.

Diabetes has been known to kill diabetics within three days

He's really small of stature, but knowing he's doing alright I might do just as fine

Goes on a crazy camping trip in Alaska

Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R. Just checking ;)

Mithical

how many kidneys do you have now

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@JohnDvorak sex site was closed, think that three times... Dating.SE won't survive even one attempt...

M.A.R.

@Mithical They keep undergoing budding, I dunno

John Dvorak

19:21

not even if endorsed by the management?

M.A.R.

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Uh, isn't that Eeps

No offense to Eeps

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Plus Mating is very... Different... From Dating. ;D

M.A.R.

Pickup lines would be OT everywhere, except gloryhole.SE

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@M.A.R. woot?

M.A.R.

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Just the one letter

And everything else is covered by Eeps I think

With their strict "fasten seat belts" rules and stuff

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance IPS

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

19:23

@M.A.R. think there was GH question on Sex.SE when it was in beta.

M.A.R.

You're very knowledgeable about these things

John Dvorak

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance fair point.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

And more than one user who didn't realize their accounts are linked and ran away in shame when they did...

@M.A.R. didn't say I replied...

John Dvorak

We do have Biology, I guess mating questions would be on-topic there?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@JohnDvorak yup, even non human.

M.A.R.

19:25

Only for platypae

Platypoooeh

John Dvorak

Platypi

M.A.R.

I give up

Platy

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Play Poo? Eww

Tinkeringbell

@JohnDvorak If there isn't an SE for it, there's books ;) bol.com/nl/p/reproductive-disruptions/9200000034249192/…

John Dvorak

or platypuses.

Platypods also works, but it denotes the entire clade :D

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

19:26

@JohnDvorak I have platipus in my leg.

user400654

🚽

Rob

@Sha, if your phone is a couple of years old and you're unhappy you can trade it in while it still has value: haaretz.com/israel-news/business/… cellomat.com - In the US it's sometimes possible to get a few hundred dollars towards the new phone. The Samsung Store lets you bring in ancient non-working junk for a hundred dollar credit.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@M.A.R. are you also small? (of stature)

M.A.R.

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance No I'm pretty big actually

Which was one complication for the transplant

Rob

Platypuss size?

M.A.R.

19:31

@Rob Don't underestimate them

Perry the Platypus

Perry the Platypus (also known as Agent P or simply Perry) is a bipedal platypus and main character from the American animated series Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law. Perry was created by the series' co-creators, Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. He first appeared along with the majority of the main cast in the pilot episode "Rollercoaster". Perry is featured as the star of the B-plot for every episode of the series, alongside his nemesis Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. A mostly silent character, his lone vocal characteristic (a rattling of Perry's beak) was provided by Dee Bradley Baker....

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@M.A.R. you got Shrink Pills?

M.A.R.

If this was a Disney movie

I spend most of my time in a neo noir urban environment though

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@user400654 yes, my phone fell into it few times.

M.A.R.

With the top hat and deep voice and all

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance The Mate one?

You sure that's not Matte?

Who calls the phone "Mate"?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@M.A.R. luckily not, it would have surely died. Mate only fell to floors.

Rob

19:34

M.A.R.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

My iPhone fell twice, and LG once.

M.A.R.

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Nice

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Rob very pink.

M.A.R.

You seem prosperous in that field

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

19:35

@M.A.R. wet

M.A.R.

Hides cracked phone screen

Rob

Mine's waterproof, with a shockproof case; the screen isn't self cleaning through, so I keep it out of the shitter.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@M.A.R. Chinese

@Rob just throw it into dishwasher

Also pisser should be the common slang term, as that's the main purpose, in percentage of usage.

Rob

I'm a cat, I clean by licking; thus the need to keep it out of the dog's drinking bowl.

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Never licked my phone.

@Rob the brand I bought isn't being sold in Israel.

(officially)

When the screen broke I had to buy new screen from China.

Rob

19:46

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance With a more versatile phone you can lick and pick at the same time:

Having to mail your phone to the Mfg to get a repair is annoying, and decreases the value upon resale.

M.A.R.

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Okay mate

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Rob I didn't send it, just waited to the screen to arrive and had it installed in a lab.

Magisch

Hey

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

Hi

Magisch

I just had someone ask me about sharepoint, where's derpy when you need them

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

19:52

@Blue something was their latest name...

Well I'll send a signal.

double-beep

What happens if a user deletes their account in a site they have posted a q/a/comment and then recreate it? Will they get their posts back?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

in Sugarcube Corner on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 33 secs ago, by Shadow Keeps Social Distance

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 min ago, by Magisch

I just had someone ask me about sharepoint, where's derpy when you need them

Tinkeringbell

@double-beep no.

(unless they ask SE and SE reassociates, edge-case)

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

No auto merge?

double-beep

@Tinkeringbell thank you :) Would it be possible to add that information in the FAQ?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

19:55

@Rob my phone is too passive, it sometimes reacts only when I use force.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance I don't think so? Isn't that for accounts that still exist?

Shadow Keeps Social Distance

@Tinkeringbell not sure, worth digging.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance I found meta.stackexchange.com/questions/320572/…

@double-beep Let's dig into this first then, like Shadow said.

It's also already kinda there in the section on reputation and badges:

> What happens to the reputation and badges I've earned? Can I request my account be restored?
All reputation and badges you've earned on your account will be erased. Posts will generally not be deleted, but will be dissociated - i.e. will no longer be "owned" by an account, so you will cease to have special privileges on them. Any votes on your posts will no longer earn reputation for any account, though other users can still start and award bounties on them.

**You cannot later request that your account be restored - if you later decide to rejoin the site, you will start off as a brand ne…

Rob