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@Feeds A Blogger’s Field Guide to Great Onebox

@forestdistrustsStackExchange that's true of most cryptocurrency stuff :D

good concepts, absolutely terribad implimentations :D

@JourneymanGeek indeed

Correct way would have been to invent this for the use of banks, and keep using existing currency. Instead, they create hundreds, if not thousands, of new currency, most of them pure crap or trolling, and expect people to buy. And people buy, which is the most terrible thing.

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar I was thinking more energy inefficent 'mining'

@Feeds Superintelligent Oneboxes

@MetaAndrewT. yeah the last standing onebox of external pages (xkcd used to always work) has fallen.

Next to break: onebox of posts.

And nobody doesn't have even the most slight idea why, I'm certain that the poor soul who'll be assigned to fix onebox, if SE ever choose to do it, will just rewrite it from scratch.

@JNat spammer stackexchange.com/users/25561444/digital-harpal

o/

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@Spevacus gone

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar gone

@Ethan gone. They had some profiles deleted yesterday, and their IP address was blocked. So even though I didn't see any more spam posts, it felt like a safe one to clean up.

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar This is the same one as the one from the message above ^^

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@Luuklag gone

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Thanks x 3

@JourneymanGeek gone

@JourneymanGeek gone

and that is all for today

Not bad! :P

!!/coffee JNat for the hard work

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar brews a cup of Americano for @JNat

I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't drink coffee ;P

@JNat That's not really coffee tho

@JourneymanGeek you mean an Americano isn't really coffee (because you're some sort of coffee purist)? Or is this a comment on the fact that no actual coffee was produced, and this is just a digital coffee? xD

@JNat yes

thought so

xD

(that said, my mom considers anything except drip brewed coffee 'not coffee')

@JNat whoops, let me fix that...

!!/tea JNat

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar brews a cup of mint tea for @JNat

better

:)

@JNat well if bitcoin is real money, digitally produced coffee is a real coffee as well. ;)

making NFT of coffee and selling for $1000 each

mmmm.... I can neither ingest digital coffee, nor exchange it for something else (unless people actually take digital coffee as legit currency somehow, and I'm not aware of it)

@JNat hm, coffee NFTs ....

Oh @ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar already said it

Well when the value goes down, you can stay up all night thinking of the money you lost!

@JNat CoffeeCoin

@JourneymanGeek :P

And of course, it's real. (I didn't check before posting)

Enough that Musk, or anyone with similar influence, will buy single CoffeeCoin, and its worth will rise x100000 in less than a day. And that's why it's so terrible. Well, one reason among many.

That is one pretty worthless coin though XD

All time high: 6 cents, over 3 years ago XD

lol 40M coins, for a total value of 7.5K

@JNat thanks.

@Tinkeringbell as was DogeCoin, before Musk trolled the world by buying it.

I don't know enough about all those coins XD

It's so ridiculous that the ridiculous level overflows and makes it possible, like the engine used to warp through space in the Hitchhiker's Guide books.

I know Dogecoin became meme-ish for a while, haven't heard anything about it for a long while though.

@Tinkeringbell I'm certain it's worth a lot, and won't go down as it became too big.

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar well bitcoin goes up and down a lot too

7 monts ago it traded at close to 70k/btc now its at 21k/btc

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@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar while I still think he's our best chance of getting sustainable spaceflight, I... am less of a fan than I used to be

@Luuklag yeah but it won't go below 10k

@JourneymanGeek yep, he's unpredictable, which can be fine, but not when his actions affect the whole world.

For all we know, he might shut down SpaceX out of a whim. In one instant.

Yup

Twitter is a puzzle, i.e. why he tried buying it, then backed off.

My best guess he never meant to really buy it, and expected them to refuse.

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar I think it was literally shooting his mouth out, and being forced to put money where his mouth was when they accepted

When it didn't happen, he looked for a way out.

and probably tbh, selling off his share if it went up

@JourneymanGeek yep

@Shadow Re: this change - I am unfamiliar with Grace but there are a few other instances of "she" and "her" in there. Should they be changed as well, or am I just misunderstanding?

@Spevacus good question

@Spevacus I don't think that edit was actually more accurate

Thanks for adjusting :)

I don't find anything in their profile that indicates that edit is warranted. Although I must admit your SE profile wouldn't be your first priority to update I guess.

Yeah they have no social media linked that one could look at and determine either.

@Spevacus yeah it's special case, Grace has both "he" and "she" as pronouns.

In the welcome post, both were used.

@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Worth noting that the original blog post where that was the case has been taken down.

Got to go now, will post link later.

o/

@Mithical oh oops. On purpose?

I'd assume so.

Will check the profile then for hints about current preferred pronouns.

If none, default "they/their" should be used.

I was unable to find the intro posts for Grace Note and Adam Lear, I assume intentionally.

(There were a few issues with broken links caused by several blog platform migrations over the years, but I was able to find all the others.)

Okay, no, I was wrong; the blog posts are still up, just all the links were broken and Grace's has been edited to remove the name I was searching with.

@Mithical so we now know the correct pronoun? Or should we poke a CM to relay the question to them?

*shrugs* I don't know, I wouldn't assume a blog post from 11 years ago is still accurate. The post uses they/them as of right now; I think leaving it is fine unless Grace chooses to update their profile or similar to explicitly state what's correct.

Agreed

Their profile also refers to themslef as "an Alice....". That sounds quite feminine to me.

@Mithical no it's not, you even linked to it. So I'm confused, but not worth fighting about. :)

@Mithical oh, yep.

What did you search for that was removed?

The name that was in the original blog post.

🚽

@Mithical oh, weird, as it wasn't Grace's real name. I think. Pretty sure. Or was it?

I don't remember the exact name, just that it was very similar to name of a very famous singer. Or even exactly the same, meaning chance of it being the actual name of Grace is really low.

Pretty sure it was; it's the name they were using when they emailed me, as well.

hmm so yeah probably only almost same as that singer, not exactly the same.

Oh I think it was

but was also gender neutral if I recall

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@Mithical I pointed this out a few months ago. The old name is still lying around in various places.

The old title is also linked in many of Grace's profile pages.

@forestdistrustsStackExchange Thats something they should update themselves

Yeah probably. I just don't think (s)he has realized that.

I guess it depends on how badly (s)he wants to hide the old name.

@JourneymanGeek my mistake I approved this suggested edit. Not being a native speaker I was fooled by agreement in number.

Its not incorrect IMO

you edit posts and tag wikis

as such there is no need to sever little fingers or any other sort of thing.

@JourneymanGeek dang you're right...! The English in my brain isn't working today...