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12:47 AM
To MSE mods: Sorry for kicking my chatbot and notifying you guys, it was an accident. I didn't mean to kick my chatbot, but it said that moderators will be informed. I apologize for the incident. I promise I will not do it again. Thank you.
 
 
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2:44 AM
@JourneymanGeek sage goes in all fields :^)
Seriously though it's so annoying. I'm now editing several dozen posts with the broken sci-hub.tw link to sci-hub.se (not all of the posts are even mine, in fact most aren't).
 
 
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4:47 AM
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Q: Number of cyclically symmetric transpose complement plane partitions in a box against a determinant

T. AmdeberhanThe ubiquitous Catalan numbers can be given by $C_0:=1$ and $C_{n+1}=\sum_{i+j=n}^nC_iC_j$. In the same spirit, one may define the sequence $T_0:=1$ and $T_{n+1}=\sum_{i+j+k=n}T_iT_jT_k$ listed on OEIS. Keep in mind that $C_n=\frac1{n+1}\binom{2n}n$ while $T_n=\frac1{2n+1}\binom{3n}n$. They have ...

This is why I could never be a mathematician.
The title alone is the stuff of nightmares.
 
Rob
5:16 AM
All of the front page, with 3 or more upvotes (as a lost soul filter), is difficult to read; any questions, let alone answer. --- But for some other sites the same can be said.
 
 
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6:20 AM
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Q: An option to escallate a declined flag? My post NEEDS to be deleted

user838483I have tried edding the question, I have tried flagging for moderator intervention. All I get is a canned response about not deleting answered questions. There are special considerations I mentioned in my flag where my previous employer whose project I was working on for that post has notified me...

I feel like this happens distressingly often
 
6:35 AM
@Rob The jargon to recognizable word ratio on other sites is considerably lower.
@JourneymanGeek This is why I archive everything. :P
Every once in a while I manage to get juicy credentials!
 
@TheforestofReinstateMonica more - a combination of people posting stuff they shouldn't, and companies allegedly going "WE OWN ALL THE THINGS! TAKE IT DOWWWWN"
unless OP's question got deleted, the one question they have is hardly company secrets too
 
Any site where people post code will suffer those issues.
@JourneymanGeek But sometimes the code contains more than just copyrighted material.
I've seen someone post encoded credit card information.
 
yeah
hence - common sense involves actually understanding enough to sanitise what you post on the public interwebs
 
Actually, seen that sort of thing a few times. Made a buck here and there but usually credit agencies are more diligent at detecting fraud than, you know, Bitcoin private keys lmao
 
and even if SE deletes it, or even a full redaction, there's yanno
 
6:39 AM
@JourneymanGeek Yup, and if the data you want to post contains any raw data you don't understand or recognize, assume it's private.
 
nothing on the internet that's not actually useful is ever lost
 
Well, some things do sadly vanish before they can be archived, but rarely on big sites like this.
Someone sent a DMCA notice to Crypto.SE once because they were discussing just how broken some shitty company's snakeoil crypto was. Company claimed it was all proprietary info.
 
I think I heard about that in the backrooms...
 
It was all preserved, thankfully.
 
bought their way into some big convention where they got soundly pilloried too didn't they?
 
6:42 AM
Same with that whole Silk Road debacle.
@JourneymanGeek Nah that was another one. I think I know the one you mean.
You know, the author of "Cryptography for Dummies" was conned by that scam. :D
 
Hard to keep track of when its not your main site/community :D
 
Well at least Crypto.SE is fairly slow.
I have to change all these links too :/
 
lol
slowly? :D
 
lol
Should write a bot for that I guess.
 
So, when I handling a huge retag. I had a 9-5 job
folks would find that useful :D
or even a way to time/trickle in edits
 
6:49 AM
I wonder if such a thing already exists.
 
I mean I could write a hacky one in Python.
 
Let me know if you find one ._.
 
But a bug might result in a whole lot of spam.
 
6:49 AM
@JourneymanGeek I could write one for you if you dare run code I write. :^)
 
(I mean, if things go well - I might end up having the keys to the link fixing bot...)
@TheforestofReinstateMonica on a disposable machine, on an isolated.... :D
 
I bet I could still jump your airgap. :D
 
(Not much of an airgap if it's networked though, I suppose)
 
you assume you have it on my main network
If its low data, I could just shove it on my freebie 1gb a month sim
 
6:51 AM
I can move latterly.
sim?
 
sure
so a machine that has no knowledge of my main network
I mean, you could hack me but there's uh...
dozens of networks nearby :D
 
Raw access to a network card makes it easy to find which one is closest.
 
Its not a proper burner, sure
 
It'd have to be a proper burner. Not hard to exploit firmware (BIOS, option ROMs, maybe even NIC firmware... pretty much anything but CRTM).
 
oh that reminds me
oh the sim
 
6:55 AM
SIM cards can be hacked as well. Arbitrary code exec in some cases. Not that I know anything about the SIM specification (whatever it's called). Mobile/cellular sec is not my forte.
lol speaking of people posting personal data
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Q: Can the blue masked out numbers be revealed or unasked at all?

Eloo Okoye I sent wifey money to make a payment as she said that she could not afford doing it on her own at the moment but she later send this blue masking the balance number. It's obvious she doesn't want me to know she really could afford it but just wanted me to do it for her anyways. Is there a way po...

Thanks for giving so many banking details... damn
 
 
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9:08 AM
is there any meta post/policy on pronoun-only suggested edits (should be approved/rejected)?
 
9:40 AM
@double-beep meta.stackexchange.com/q/335025/369802 and meta.stackexchange.com/a/335601/369802 is probably the closest, but I can't find a similar quote in meta.stackexchange.com/q/336364/369802
 
@TheforestofReinstateMonica that should be considered doxxing their own wife right?
 
@RishiNandhaVanchi Dunno. I didn't look into whether or not I could identify her with just the info posted. Honestly right now I'm a little too tired to try.
 
@double-beep depends, but I'd say it would usually be approved as it's an important edit that makes the post better. It might be rejected if there are other issues in the post which aren't fixed (aka it's seen as rep farming).
 
@double-beep If it's changing an incorrect he to she (or vice versa) then it would be fine as part of a larger edit, I'd think. But changing "they" or "OP" to "he" would be stupid.
 
9:59 AM
@ShadowWizardisVaccinating how does it make the post better?
 
@double-beep Probably since SE has decided the "metrics" that decide "better" mean gender-neutral language.
(assuming the edit made things gender-neuter)
 
bad word?
thats a bot?
@double-beep some of us are gonna take a standpoint that gender neutrality in language is just as important as grammar. Other than edits that correct completely unfathomable grammar, if other grammar corrections are considered useful, then this should be too
 
so are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 useful and important edits that make the post better?
 
@double-beep Don't know which number but chess.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/17105, changing a quote, is definitely not.
 
Those examples are ridiculously frivolous.
 
10:09 AM
 
chess.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/17084 is doing the same unuseful thing, and chess.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/16950 is just stupid because that answer was already using correct pronouns, the chess match was between two males.
@double-beep Anyhow, it's probably something you should raise on chess.se meta at this point ;)
 
I've already done so, but haven't got any reply. And I also think it's not a meta-specific question
 
(So how much longer are those bank details and passwords on Sec.SE going to be up?)
 
@double-beep I couldn't find anything more on MSE than the ones I found... with the examples you have though, feel free to ask if there's a network-wide policy on such edits, that change pronouns in quotes or male ones to genderless ones when the author is clearly talking about males. (can't guarantee someone else won't find a dupe target).
The problem is that even if MSE says there should be network-wide policy banning such edits, if Chess.SE argues it's even more super-welcoming to just accept them, you're still nowhere.
 
@RishiNandhaVanchi yes @SmokeDetector is an anti-spam bot.
Welcome to the Tavern!
 
10:14 AM
:)
 
But it can also make...
 
ooh
does it have a !!/help command
 
10:29 AM
9 messages moved to Chimney
 
So guess no coffee for new members? note taken.
 
Rob
@TheforestofReinstateMonica I answered a question the other day where someone was looking to do a fuzzy search of code; presumably either to find dedupable code, or copywrite violations.
They weren't clear that they understood the answer, so it must have been OK.
 
 
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2:21 PM
Any idea why this isn't a case of serial voting?
 
@AnnZen I distinctly remember you asking this at least once before
and I don't think the answer is any different
 
@JourneymanGeek I did?
 
sorry, I guess I forgot
 
 
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5:59 PM
@JourneymanGeek well at least she isn't going Laszlo on us.
 

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