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12:10 AM
Ben Popper on March 31, 2021
Sometimes, everything just clicks into place.
 
@Catija .....
I distinctly remember suggesting that, and it ought to be official SE swag :D
 
I suppose this post isn't serious
 
It's definitely serious.
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI TBH, I'm trying to figure out if the key is photoshopped and... it isn't....
the pixels look right
 
Rob
Seriously April Fools.
 
12:19 AM
@Rob Its a good one
But also an amazingly plausible one.
 
@JourneymanGeek Yes, it does look pretty authentic, although when you try to pre-order, it says "April Fools'!"
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI I mean, I could literally order one with a bit of work :D
 
@JourneymanGeek I'm not sure I understand.
 
@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI hmm
3 key macro keyboards? A thing - Aliexpress has a good selection
 
Rob
12:24 AM
@Catija It should be featured, it's not on MSE; There are other SO Blog entries but the key isn't one of them.
 
The MSO post is featured.
It's SO only so it's not on MSE.
 
Rob
I don't see it.
 
Caching?
 
It takes about 30 minutes
 
Rob
6-8 weeks.
Amusingly, @Rob featured it, 15 minutes ago.
 
1:11 AM
Robception
 
Rob
1:37 AM
It's a CV Double Feature™:
 
2:30 AM
@Feeds Tim didn't lose the key. He invented one.
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4 hours later…
6:28 AM
@JourneymanGeek I remember few years ago, I was searching something about databases when I came upon an article that claimed the Next Great Thing. A database engine entirely written in JavaScript which only exposed low-level operations so you get guaranteed speed instead of having to do slow high-level commands. It was an April Fools thing. The problem was I didn't see it in April. The article had a date but wasn't very prominent. It took me a while to figure out it was a joke.
 
6:40 AM
@VLAZ apparently there's 3 button macro keyboards in existance
 
I'm pretty sure it does. This isn't really a new joke. Not even the only one. People have made a "windows keyboard" which has three keys only: Ctrl, Alt, Delete
As in, I've seen such things that were physical but not sure if they actually work. They may do. Or it might have been just a base with the three keys put on it.
 
oh they do
 
At any rate, that's from probably 20+ years ago. I'm sure somebody has made a working version at some point and somebody else made a macro version.
 
I am pretty sure I can buy one from aliexpress and get the key caps from say WASD:D
 
There are also some "gaming controller-like keyboards". Not sure what the full name is. It's basically a cut down keyboard with WASD and few keys around it + a few macro keys. Here is one. This just has numbers for names but I've seen some that have QWERT + ASDF + ZXCV + space or similar for keys.
 
6:54 AM
@VLAZ that's a razer orbweaver
I think that's Razer's spin on the old logitech nostromos. They also make a mechanical spin on it called the widowmaker
 
Yeah this isn't the best april fools SE pulled off.
Probably because Yaakov isn't around to plant easter eggs
which would be extra special combo this year
 
@Luuklag I agree. It's alright but could have been better. What I'd love is if next year they just run the same thing again (like copy and pasting) but maybe with other Easter eggs. So, basically if they re-use this in the future to make the joke more meta.
 
@Luuklag Maybe not, but at least it hasn't annoyed as many people as that retro thing of a couple of years ago.
 
The retro thing was great though. Once turning it off properly worked :)
It definitely made me smile more than a few keys.
 
Sadly, Rebecca's April Fool's post got massively downvoted & closed. meta.stackexchange.com/q/362764/334566
 
7:09 AM
Well Rebecca doesn't work for SE so...
 
@Luuklag more that we needed something that wouldn't take a ton of time away from the actual work.
 
Closing it is probably the right thing to do, as is downvoting it and cleaning it up.
 
I still use the cursor trail from the retro year.
 
That's available somewhere?
Or is it a special CM thing.
 
Yeah. Check my questions on stack apps.
Someone wrote me a userscript.
 
7:11 AM
Not being able to turn off the 90's look was pretty bad. It's ok if a few people get annoyed or perplexed by these pranks, but you have to make sure that they can be easily disabled.
 
@Catija Ah cool. Will do then, once I'm on the PC
 
Yeah. Number one rule in the planning meeting this year was "no full page takeovers".
 
@Catija looking at twitter, lots of folks seem to want one :D
 
Yeah. And do me a favor and don't ping. My computer audio is on and it's loud. I'm downstairs on my phone.
 
7:14 AM
@JourneymanGeek That's Twitter for you. There's a reason some artists that post their work on Twitter only ask you to say that if you really mean it....
 
My apologies.
 
@JourneymanGeek omg. People seem to love the whole thing. I'm super excited.
 
Yup :D
 
Thanks :) just don't want to wake Andy up.
 
Well - Its very on brand, and people love desktop toys
and as far as AFD jokes very low impact, cause SO is srs bzns
 
7:16 AM
Ben is legitimately trying to actually build a bunch as swag.
 
I'd actually love a Stack Overflow branded rubber duckie.
 
On the old XKCD forums, there was a thing around this time of year called Mod Madness, where the mods would apply "amusing" word filters, so posts appeared to have different words to their actual contents. Usually, there was some kind of theme, so everything looked like it was written in lolcat, or Jamaican patois, or pseudo-Anglo-Saxon. Mod Madness lasted for a couple of weeks. It made it difficult to do anything sensible in the coding forums. ;)
 
We had them for one of the sites. I can send you a SO rubber duck sticker. :D
Though, they apparently don't actually have any branding, I think.
 
@Catija Speaking of swag, one of our members on Physics.SE just passed 200k. physics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13490/123208 It looks like she hit 100k in early 2017, I don't know if she got swag for that. She's a retired particle physicist from Greece. She also turns 80 this year. I think it'd be nice if she got some kind of recognition from the company...
 
@PM2Ring That sounds like a couple weeks is enough time to figure out how to work around the word filters.
 
7:24 AM
@PM2Ring sweet! We usually don't send the second round of swag until 250k but I can check. She should have been contacted back in 2017, yes.
 
@Tinkeringbell True. You could use alternate characters, like small caps, etc, if you really needed to make something clear. But most people just went with the flow. Also, some of the "popular" word filters were kept after Mod Madness, eg "tweak" -> "twerk"
@Catija Thanks!
 
One of the sites I used to use turned their chat boards into pirate speech every September 19.
 
Right. One of the early Mod Madness themes was pirate speech. The Jamaican theme had a fair bit of overlap with that.
 
@VLAZ I think I have a Code Golf one somewhere. To be more precise, I think my sibling has a Code Golf rubber duck somewhere.
 
7:41 AM
MSO was the right place for questions on Teams right? Anyone that hangs around there more often, that knows if there's already complaints about the red notification dot?
It just doesn't go away.
 
@Tinkeringbell Yup
 
Cat: I was going to suggest that as swag but figured it would be trouble :D
 
@JourneymanGeek link? I want to upvote it then...
 
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Q: Should Stack Overflow for Teams be on topic on meta SE?

Journeyman GeekWhile it has been asked before - there's been a significant change in Stack Overflow for Teams. It's still 'formally' hosted on the Stack Overflow website, but you can access your teams from nearly anywhere on the network. In a conversation with Teresa Dietrich on SE chat she mentioned: Well, di...

 
7:47 AM
Very helpful. I thought you were answering the second part of my question.
 
8:05 AM
@Catija Yeah that's fair. Otherwise people will complain over it again ;)
@Catija Can I give this a negative star please ;)
Oops, didn't read your no-ping please
sorry about that, I had some catching up to do
 
Rob
8:19 AM
@Catija That, and fire-close windows are essential Desktop elements.
 
@Rob Rob, don't ping her, or you'll wake her kids up ;)
 
@Luuklag I really hope for her sake she doesn't have to treat Andy like a kid.
 
Oh, he is her husband, oops ;)
But believe me, sometimes we husbands are just like kids ;)
 
Oh, that's very easy to believe. That's why I don't wish it upon her that hers is like that.
 
Rob
It looks like that was a while ago, but I wasn't planning on doing a bunch in a row (like a very few people do). If videos are going to play or Tweets going to twit you got to sort your end; if fire trucks and ambulances are running up and down my street I don't blame you, even if that's where they've headed.
 
8:28 AM
Yeah I don't know the time in texas right now, but it must be earlier then here ;)
 
@Tinkeringbell Age is just a number. You want to eat a jar of puree, then play with toys, then have a nap, if you want. You don't need the kind of negativity like "But that's food for babies!" or "Where did you get Voltron toys?" or even "You shouldn't sleep during work!".
 
I'm going to stop you at 'you shouldn't sleep during work'. You made an adult decision and agreement to sell your soul, and you should keep your end of the bargain. Justifying breaking agreements just because you feel like it, and dismissing the people that hold you accountable as 'a kind of negativity' is not a moral thing to do.
 
....I'm... pretty sure that was the joke. ;)
 
If it was, it wasn't funny.
 
>_>
I've totally taken naps during office hours ;D
 
8:34 AM
@Tinkeringbell I do it every now and then, but don't write it as time worked ;)
 
@Luuklag That's not during work then.
If your agreement allows flexible hours, and taking breaks between those hours flexibly, and you take those breaks to nap, you're not breaking any agreements.
 
9:19 AM
I guess yourney is asleep, a spam user on SU already alive more then 20 mins ;)
 
I'm working :D
@Luuklag taken care of
 
Oh you
 
Huh... it looks like it's down? :'(
 
Someone need to pre-order The Key™ to the SO server...
Oh. Joker got fooled XD
 
@Mithical you mispelled it
 
@JourneymanGeek won't say anything more ... 🤐
 
10:14 AM
Will MSE get swag once it reaches 100,000 questions?
 
No. The 100.000th question will be one of those off-topic homework dumps.
 
I wonder why the blog is tagged pasta
 
That doesn't deserve swag.
 
I could understand if it was tagged canned meat ;)
 
I had assumed it was because 'copy-pasta' is some kind of internet slang.
A copypasta is a block of text which is copied and pasted across the Internet by individuals through online forums and social networking websites. Copypastas are said to be similar to spam. == History == The word "copypasta" was first used on Usenet groups in 2006. === Etymology === The term "copypasta" is derived from the computer term "copy/paste", and can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan imageboard from 2006. == Notable examples == === Navy Seal === The Navy Seal copypasta is a lengthy, comically written, aggressive attack paragraph against a "kiddo", written in the voice of ...
 
10:18 AM
ah yeah, thats it
Is this comment a bit too much?
Good that you edited your answer, but it's best deleted, seeing that OP asks specifically about Agriculture, and precision Agriculture, that is something that isn't done small-scale or at home. It's purely professional and thus off-topic at Gardening & Landscaping — Luuklag 5 mins ago
 
10:52 AM
@Luuklag Not at all.
Unless you're afraid the compliment is sounding fake... Then yeah :P
 
haha lol
 
11:35 AM
Watching livestream from our parliament now, hilarious
 
April Fool's joke?
Please tell me they didn't waste this much taxpayer money on a single joke.
 
nope, turned out Mark Rutte was the one that talked about a "positie elders" for Pieter Omzigt
 
Guess that means a second chance at scoring a red pencil then.
 
@Tinkeringbell yup, according to Greet it is
Might mean the PVV becomes the largest party though
 
That would suck...
 
11:50 AM
Damn, this is really a sad story of he said, she said.
 
Yeah. On the one hand, I expect much, much better of politicians, after all, it is their job.
On the other, I can imagine an off-the-cuff remark about something not being on the front of your memory if you're being put on the spot by the press.
 
I think I heard Mark Rutte say: I didn't lie, about 10 times already in the last 5 mins.
Yeah, he didn't remember correctly is his explanation.
 
At least it's not a Trumpian 'it never happened'... but it's damn close.
 
12:20 PM
lol, all april fools posts are in the CV review queue
 
Some people have no sense of humour
 
@Luuklag Belonging on MSO? It did cross my mind this morning.
After all, this one is just for SO.
Like Teams
 
Hmm yeah, not suited for this site.
I vote to leave open, but you could be right there
 
Blog's also under MSE tho
 
Huh? Oh, posts talking about blogs are on topic both on MSE and MSO I think. In this case, the blog was even accompanied by a post on MSO.
I wouldn't be against moving things over to MSO, and keeping April Fools jokes limited to site meta sites. Also removes some 'incentives' like reputation gain.
 
12:31 PM
@Tinkeringbell I could agree to that. Some posts make me question authors motives
 
12:43 PM
Eh, I also voted to leave open on all of them because they're on the blog and all... But I don't feel too strongly either way.
Meta idea: Make a meta question about whether The Key should be on-topic on Meta.
 
I'll leave that up to the person that close-voted first. If they feel strongly enough about it, they can do so XD
There's a reason I didn't just migrate all of it this morning when I woke up :P
 
:)
 
1:08 PM
And now I'm awake again.
 
But why?
 
Because it's the morning.
 
Fair point.
 
I'm amused at how many of the people talking about the Key on Twitter are taking a photo of their screens instead of a screenshot.
 
Possible enhancement to The Key - a button that takes a picture of your screen for you.
 
1:12 PM
@Catija yeah lol, people got used to using their phones way too much
So now we can ping you at wil again ;)
We didn't wake your husband?
 
That's correct, though those pings were coming fast and furious for a while :P I plugged my headphones in to bottle up the noise because it's impossible to tell if pushing the mute button on my keyboard works while it's locked.
 
Yeah first thing I do when joining chat is to mute the tab
The star in the banner is enough for me ;)
 
I mute the other servers but I like the MSE noise.
 
Yeah its kinda annoying when your in the middle of a (phone)call, so just in case I always mute it first thing
 
The wheel of blame is the one that annoys me the most.
 
1:25 PM
I don't think that's something most of us are privy to :D
 
So what kept you awake in the middle of the night Catija, too busy with the aprils fools joke.
 
Following along on Twitter as people discovered it has been great. :)
Though, there's at least one person giving Jeff credit and I'm like... WTF.
 
Jeff? Who's Jeff? ;)
 
I think the unboxing video is going up shortly.
 
1:29 PM
Well that should be nice
Dutch politics is also nice
But I should be working
 
I'm wondering what keycaps they used :D
 
@Luuklag Obviously Ja Rule. Real name Jeffrey Atkins
 
cause it would be an epic troll to pull out an SU one next april fools day
 
Apparently they 3-d printed a test one before they opted to actually have one built.
 
Now I'm curious to where they got it built
also amused :D
Video is up
 
1:38 PM
Good thing its USB-C
Who is unboxing it btw?
 
uhhh
I think
IIRC she's a bit of a mechanical keyboard fan
 
Yes
 
which reminds me
I need to get drop to bug DHL about my new keyboard
 
@Aibobot That's what her blog profile says: "I often make silly videos on the internet, plus I enjoy building mechanical keyboards"
Sounds like she is the one to build this
 
I don't think she built it, no.
 
1:42 PM
OMG, it's great! The still shot didn't show it correct but the video made me realise it has a built in downvote button V which also doubles up as an upvote button Λ if you rotate The Key.
 
She'd know where to get the stuff made though
 
... There's supposed to be a new SO logo, too... not sure what happened to it.
I may have noticed - staCk oVerflow... :P
 
@Catija haven't seen it
 
They might have decided it was one step too far?
 
would be a shame
 
1:57 PM
Oh the fun, there are some new parties in Parlement, and one of them is continually using Plural we, to describe her party, of which she is the sole representative in parlement.
 
@Luuklag "We, the people" XD
 
We the king :)
 
I haven't noticed who it is though, is it Bij1 or BBB?
 
We.... Are not Amused
 
BBB
 
2:02 PM
Ah yeah, that's the one I didn't get to hear speak yet.
(Had a meeting :( )
 
How did community spamnuke this, while it has only 3 downvotes?
 
Mod flag
 
Ah that makes sense
 
Migration rejected D:
 
2:19 PM
@Spevacus ?
 
Just this
(Shoulda linked it my bad)
 
Page not found

This question was voluntarily removed by its author.
 
Does self-deletion reject the migration?
Because I assumed that it was closed, but then it would've been returned here...
 
Nah, self deleted. :)
 
Gotcha.
 
2:30 PM
So the probably best off deleted here on MSE as well
 
Agreed.
 
2:51 PM
We'll I'm off to pick up the kids for hopefully a long weekend
except for tonight probably :/
 
A few more minutes and I will start another long weekend too. Enjoy!
 
Don't eat too much eggs!
 
No such thing.
I'm probably lucky if I get to eat one or two.
 
chocolate eggs!
 
Same thing...
 
2:58 PM
@Tinkeringbell the covidiot clears them out before you?
 
Hahaha no, it's not that bad at least.
 
Don't come between a parrot and the chocolate.
 
3:18 PM
🚽
 
4:03 PM
@rene At this point, you're more than welcome too
 
 
1 hour later…
5:05 PM
afternoon.
I was thinking...
 
Don't do that.
 
Too late
Code you post on SO...
You give usage license to SO but the code is still your...
So, should we post a bug to the key thing?
 
I mean... we should be able to copy the code we posted for free.
 
Then copy it from your original source, not SO.
 
5:08 PM
And furthermore, we should get a share on the unicoins they make from copies of our code.
 
you could do that as a unicoin contract
 
@SPArcheon You can use those to pay SO for being used as a versioning system then, if you didn't keep another copy of your own code to copy from.
 
@Tinkeringbell but then you would have to get any editor to pay too.
 
Ka-ching.
 
And it gets even more complicated. If a parrot then deletes the post, one should get a refund
 
5:11 PM
No, then the money goes to the parrot to compensate the parrot for the parrots time.
 
But but but.... The parrot is already looking quite fat for all the crackers they get.
 
So? It's never a bad idea to hoard.
 
but the the parrot will become a bugbear instead.
 
I thought dragon
 
@SPArcheon The parrot is just big boned. The dinosaur DNA is strong there.
 
5:13 PM
Oh stop making excuses. The parrot makes horrible life choices
 
So did the brontosaurs. That's why they are dead.
 
@VLAZ nope. Seems more of a bear.
 
Ahem, no glasses.
 
@VLAZ I would say I hope to go out with just as much of a bang then, but brontosaurusses were already dead far before that.
 
That's because they never built a time machine and travel to the future with it. If they did, they'd still be around.
 
5:23 PM
I'm kinda glad they never did.
 
5:49 PM
But now we don't have any bronto-steaks
 
38 mins ago, by Tinkeringbell
Oh stop making excuses. The parrot makes horrible life choices
 
6:21 PM
 
6:54 PM
@JNat great cross site spammer for you: stackexchange.com/users/17535771/admin-koushik?tab=accounts
only has 8 accounts to nuke :)
 
 
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9:19 PM
🚽 🚀
 
Rob
9:45 PM
🪥🗞️💦
 
10:40 PM
 

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