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Rob

00:31

Ha, mistyped the search terms; you've still got 10 answers to go.

forest distrusts StackExchange

@Rob Can't I just add the Linux tag to existing answers? :P

Rob

01:59

@forestdistrustsStackExchange That is excluded, but you should answer these tags, boosting yourself in 2-3 of your highest categories simultaneously, placing closer to gold; instead of spreading your answers out amongst the tags, and gaining a lot of brass: security.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/… security.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cryptography+linux

forest distrusts StackExchange

ah

Rob

02:21

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Various answers: kinda: meta.stackexchange.com/a/119551/282094 or no: meta.stackexchange.com/q/30193/282094

forest distrusts StackExchange

So basically... add the tag before answering.

What if I add a tag to a totally non-Linux related question, answer, then remove the tag? :P

Rob

02:46

It looks like you can add it after, and it's recalculated daily. --- It's the tag edit that breaks the Hammer for that particular question, but it still works on any other questions. --- Of course, you are subject to rollbacks for simple errors; and flags for abuse. --- Wouldn't be hard to make a SEDE to find prospective Hammer holders who are also adding the tag to questions for gold and silver tags. --- If you ever came up for an (manual) audit this would probably be on the list of things to

check.

rene

05:42

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Luuklag

07:03

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/21432151/williamriver?tab=accounts

Ryan M

@Luuklag it's plagiarized, too...reflagged with a custom flag.

Luuklag

Thought as much, but just flagged as spam to move quickly

Ryan M

1 custom flag's all we need anyway, after that we can pile on the spam flags and they shouldn't decline them.

but since they missed the fact that there was nothing of value there the first time, I wanted at least one custom flag explaining it

Luuklag

07:23

haha glitchly loading on that last smokey post

I could only raise a custom mod flag

So the post must have been deleted in the millisecond between my page load and the flag dialogue load

6502

07:37

I remember reading somewhere that the 100k rep swag program was restarted a few months ago, is that true?

Ryan M

@6502 yep

Luuklag

@rene threw a NAA on it as well

He has also some already deleted posts

@Tink, @Journey maybe time to expedite the rate limiting?

Ryan M

"no idea what this means" well I'm glad it's not just me

6502

@RyanM: thanks, found the meta post, also saw someone saying that the email sender address is weird... may be my mail ended up classified as spam or may be is still to be sent

Ryan M

are these being self-deleted or deleted by external forces?

since I sadly can't see deleted posts just yet...getting there, though...

Luuklag

07:49

@6502 You might want to just use the contact us link then

@RyanM Tink nuked one

@6502 Yup, they use a seperate domain for those emails, so chances are you treated it like spam, the domain should be in a thread somewhere, so you might want to whitelist it before asking them to send you the mail again

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag funny thing is - I have a template for that with a specific unique search keyword for situations like this hidden in an answer.

Luuklag

Is it Pr0bL3m?

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag Ivanna

@6502 IIRC its stackoverflow.mail and there's a second one for marketing emails I don't remember off the top of my head.

Luuklag

que?

rene

@6502 you probably need to whitelist stackoverflow.email: meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=stackoverflow.email but there are more domains used.

Journeyman Geek

07:52

@6502 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81379/…

@Luuklag Ivanna

6502

Apparently the addres is from stackoverflowsolutions.com (see meta.stackexchange.com/a/364087/148479 )

Journeyman Geek

@6502 - It appears you either got a marketing email or swag

6502

@JourneymanGeek not sure I understand what you mean... I got past 100K during the dark period where no swag was given (just an automated email from a script). Later I've heard that they found the money to fund the program back but this was in december and nothing happened since.

Journeyman Geek

@6502 yeah, they're just catching up with swag now

But that mail server is used for swag and marketing emails so its one of the two

Ryan M

I'm still hoping that they do swag for people who hit 100k rep network-wide...not that I have that, either, but I'm a heck of a lot closer :-p

They could even subtract out the association bonuses! Although if you earn rep enough sites to make the association bonuses count for any non-trivial amount in your network-wide rep (you need at least 99 earned rep, to get to 200), that's impressive in itself...

Journeyman Geek

08:05

@RyanM I actually slightly suspect its harder

Both sites I've gotten 100k on were my 'main' sites of the time

and I have some degree of subject matter expertise on specific stuff

Luuklag

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20066276/williamm?tab=accounts

Ryan M

Very, very patient cross-site spammer...

Yeah, I've got subject-matter expertise in a few areas. Law and Android development are the main ones. And I'm a native English speaker.

Answering Android questions is a very slow way to earn rep, though. Not a lot of upvotes thrown around in that tag.

Though if you get popular questions/answers, you can get upvotes slowly over time.

The silliest way I've gotten a bunch of rep is that I've so far gotten 180 rep for flagging a +10 link-only answer as NAA, then summarizing the answer from the link and posting it.

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Journeyman Geek

@RyanM on SU (and indirectly on MSE), I tended to literally focus on answering one question a day :D

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

08:33

@Luuklag how cross site? I see account only on one site.

Rob

Luuk uses The Force

rene

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard a doggy ate one account

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@rene ohh

Rob

Multiple accounts, abandoned, recreated:

WilliamM

1

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@Rob how can you tell it's the same person?

William is very common name, so also lots of Williams having surname starting with "M".

@rene oh, I also hope he ate it with a style.

(Sorry couldn't hold myself ;))

rene

08:49

You can see yourself out ...

Journeyman Geek

@rene There's probably no spammers where doggy's gone

so mostly just kaboom these days :D

Rob

✔️

But get some of that before it's gone!

Luuklag

09:08

@JNat cross site spammer stackexchange.com/users/21432151/williamriver?tab=accounts

Ayo

09:18

Hi Team 👋
If anything pop's up this week, I'm on standby if you need any assistance :)

rene

Hi @Ayo we will keep you in the loop ;)

Ayo

@rene Awesome!

Luuklag

Hi Ayo

Tinkeringbell

09:57

@rene Had a previous, obvious spam as well. Gone.

rene

okay, I didn't want to leave the default comment in case they watched that q/a and then get motivated to post somewhere else

Tinkeringbell

@rene Meh. Sharing is good. Sharing spammers to destroy thus is good too :P

rene

:D

Luuklag

10:12

-5

Q: Convert output of Render Target to WebGLTexture in four JS

I am a game developer and C++ OpenGL programmer trying my hand in Web Development. I have created a four JS Render Target. The output is right. Now I have to convert output of that Render Target, i.e 4.Texture, to a WebGLTexture. I don't want to use doElement.toDataURL() or like that. How can I d...

anyone can put a custom flag on that?

Oh wait I can :/

Mod just edited the post to make it more clear...

Hi Juan, that dino is pretty good at hopping (in and out of the tavern) ;)

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

10:30

@Ayo bug fixing? ;)

Rob

11:01

🦗

Luuklag

11:26

@JNat cross site spammer stackexchange.com/users/21559929/jodessia3?tab=accounts

Ayo

11:59

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard Haha!

Kevin B

14:21

🚽

Journeyman Geek

15:30

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Ekadh Singh

17:53

Apparently it’s possible to find other users deleted posts with a SEDE query even if you’re not a diamond, is this a bug? relevant link

Ryan M

Not a bug, rene just did some serious ninja guesswork to know generally where to look and then used his 10k powers to exhaustively search the two questions he narrowed it down to

Mithical

Just because rene's able to do something doesn't mean users are able to do that thing...

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Ekadh Singh

@RyanM okay, thanks

@Mithical any user with 10k rep, which is still a lot more people than moderators

Ryan M

In this case, it relied on rene guessing that it had the [entropy] tag on it, which was a heck of a shot in the dark.

Ekadh Singh

Okay. Got it

rene

18:09

@RyanM only needed a couple of attempts: i.sstatic.net/OiKYR.png first revision was 50.000 rows. That was a bit too much to check by hand ....

Ekadh Singh

@rene what if you checked it by foot? :)

rene

I'm rooted

Ekadh Singh

Elbows? Head? Knees?

Mithical

just petals

Kevin B

18:29

🌺

Ekadh Singh

19:04

@Mithical I am quite confused

Catija

rene is a flower - see his avatar? So he doesn't have feet, he's rooted into the ground. He does have petals, though they're a bit blurry.

Ekadh Singh

Ah, my bad :)

forest distrusts StackExchange

19:45

Someone saw a website that provides forum software and it has the ability to let moderators ban people based on IP, and somehow he concluded that the website is supporting human trafficking and wants us to report it for him. I can't even...

Kevin B

reminds me of a certain meme where someone accidentally opened dev tools and thought they unlocked access to view the FBI tracking child trafficking

forest distrusts StackExchange

oh my god

No, I'm not an admin on this website I just don't want to be you know abducted cause technically that's IP grabbing which is illegal and this is what it says and it's not making it very clear on who can see it says If you're ever bothered by someone who posts annoying messages, you'll be able to view the IP address from which each message was posted, and block it or pre-approve messages before they're posted. — Akasuki Suzuki 14 mins ago

Ryan M

20:03

probably a HIPPA violation /s

Kevin B

i mean

> Unable to find why Order By is sorting correctly

quite the title

Ryan M

I, too, occasionally wonder why my software works

Rob

20:59

Many hours of reading, in the Wikipedia fallacies section - even they can't explain everything, but my Profile does 😀, in one sentence.

Denying the antecedent

Denying the antecedent, sometimes also called inverse error or fallacy of the inverse, is a formal fallacy of inferring the inverse from the original statement. It is committed by reasoning in the form: If P, then Q. Therefore, if not P, then not Q.which may also be phrased as P → Q {\displaystyle P\rightarrow Q} (P implies Q) ∴ ¬ P → ¬ Q {\displaystyle \therefore \neg P\rightarrow \neg Q} (therefore, not-P implies not-Q)Arguments of this form are invalid...

forest distrusts StackExchange

22:38

@RyanM I'm not sure if HIPPA says anything about IPs as PII.

But I also know very little about HIPPA...

Ryan M

22:49

Well, HIPPA is a popular law on Twitter, best known for outlawing everything from asking people about their health to disclosing information about your own health.

HIPAA, on the other hand, covers far less. Also, it exists.

As far as IPs as PHI...maybe? To the extent that they disclose a relationship with a Covered Entity, I could see it.

(disclaimer: I haven't double-checked that, so don't quote me on it)

DavidPostill

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Yes it does

>
Name
Address (all geographic subdivisions smaller than state, including street address, city county, and zip code)
All elements (except years) of dates related to an individual (including birthdate, admission date, discharge date, date of death, and exact age if over 89)
Telephone numbers
Fax number
Email address
Social Security Number
Medical record number
Health plan beneficiary number
Account number
Certificate or license number
Vehicle identifiers and serial numbers, including license plate numbers

Sourc: 18 HIPAA Identifiers: Information Technology Services: Loyola University Chicago

Ryan M

hey my guess was right :-)

forest distrusts StackExchange

23:37

HIPAA, d'oh

Rob

@rene What do you think of the comparison of an image from another Mars rover compared to an image from NASA's rover?:

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