@Justin i.sstatic.net/5tpBT.png fyi....

the way it was fixed is how I'd do it a little amusing

@ShadowTheKidWizard so that's why I couldn't sleep last night

flag-pls spam electronics.stackexchange.com/a/633136

^ disarmed by a mod

@JourneymanGeek you can clean it anyway, no worry. :)

@tripleee yeah, well, no point flagging now.

@tripleee haha! But you arrived here, and just didn't post anything so your fault. :D

@JourneymanGeek rofl! Changing the whole floor because one tile was misplaced.

And they could still get it wrong, luckily it's error-less now. ;)

@JourneymanGeek At least it's not 1th, 2th and 3th now ;)

@Tinkeringbell exactly, lol

@V2Blast larger, so it means less smart as well? ;)

@Luuklag how old is your oldest? My oldest is 12, think she started to learn swimming at 6, didn't really swim until she was 8, so had to take more classes lol. Middle son is now 9, he got it right the first time when he was 7 or so. Youngest is 5, still waiting. :D

@Tinkeringbell maybe back to this?

Maybe. Though lately I haven't really found anything I still want to try.

@ShadowTheKidWizard She's 6. She started when she was still 5. Already got her first "diploma", now doing her second and third simultaniously. Planned to finish in about 1,5 months from now.

She really loves to swim, always has, so she was pretty experienced before she started her classes

@Tinkeringbell you can actually sell what you do, it's really good. Not as main job, but side project. Use the money to buy better tools, etc. :)

@ShadowTheKidWizard Who says I need better tools? :P

But guess selling stuff isn't as simple as it sounds, so not worth the hassle?

I already got most top-of-the-line stuff, actually.

@Tinkeringbell nobody! hides

@Tinkeringbell that's nice!

@ShadowTheKidWizard Selling is a hassle, and you never can get a fair price anyways.

@Luuklag nice, guess you go to swimming pools more often than we do, which is around 6-8 times every summer, literally. lol

Wife just doesn't like pools, I'm neutral, so only when the kids really push we go.

Yeah we mostly swim outdoors anyways, local beaches, rivers etc.

They all installed Roblox recently, since then, they stopped pushing to go to places. ;)

@Tinkeringbell yeah, well, selling such things isn't for the money, just having excuse to do more. No? :)

@ShadowTheKidWizard Yeah well if I want to do more I can just do more and throw them in the bin after :P

But they need to be good to have people want to buy, and yours surely fit.

@Tinkeringbell no! I forbid you to throw them away!

:D

guh

@Luuklag oh, sea is nasty, both shore full with junk, water even worse... so prefer to going there.

@ShadowTheKidWizard Another thing: Most stuff I make is done with patterns made by professional designers. Those things often come with a warning that you buy the pattern and can make the thing, but not sell the thing.

Swimming pools have only pee, but it's better than the chemicals in the sea. lol

No idea how legally enforcable that is, but it makes sense to me not to go and make profits like that.

@Luuklag and the other one? (You have two kids, right?)

@ShadowTheKidWizard 3, a set of twins

@Tinkeringbell oh, never thought about it. SE Winter Bash stuff also included? ;(

their 3,5 now, they start to enjoy swimming more and more

@Tinkeringbell if there's really a warning then, yeah, I agree.

@Tinkeringbell as long as you deviate from the pattern a bit, add two or three rows of extra loops or something you can just say it is inspired on the pattern, but not made after it

@Luuklag huh, nice. I keep forgetting. :D

@Luuklag That's just nasty.

@Luuklag "legal but smelly"? ;)

@Tinkeringbell yeah, it is exactly in the spirit of the rules, but it can be done like that.

In my work we were on the other end of something like that.

Tink is too good a person to do it. ;)

Was nothing we could do about it, but their quality of work was just shabby, so people saw right through it anyways

@Luuklag lol, reminds me of the worst passport fake ever done, read about it yesterday. Syrian citizen faked, probably by himself, an Israeli passport. It has typos all over, including in Israel name itself. :D

@ShadowTheKidWizard haha lol

The English is fine, just Hebrew is utterly broken.

Turns out it's also in English, enjoy! ;)

Yischael

pfft upside down??

@Mithical yeah lol it's really a mystery how he did it.

yeah that one is the same ;)

Just to save me tab switch every time, here it is:

@ShadowTheKidWizard he obviously didn't use google translate

ID number also isn't legal, and fails basic digits check. @Mithical

@Luuklag yeah lol, looks like he cut&paste random Hebrew letters.

Just to make it look like Hebrew.

Yeah, and according to the article he used different countries of birth in English and Hebrew

@Luuklag yeah Israel vs. Greece lol

@ShadowTheKidWizard I mean, the ם can look like a ס if you don't know what you're doing

@Mithical hmm this can explain some, but the first name in Hebrew? It's pure Gibberish. ;)

yeah I don't understand that one

@Journeyman I've deleted the comment, but can't undo the vote, question wasn't edited.

Lol just browsed Software recs. You know you got a healthy community when the most active user on the front page is Community

@Luuklag lol

final delete vote for this lost soul, anyone? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/381656/…

@Luuklag already cast my vote ;(

@Luuklag donk

@Mithical that's "kaboom" for lost souls?

@ShadowTheKidWizard my browser seems to be doing that sometimes, I leave the window open when I leave for the day

Mmmm does Edit and Reopen in the reopen review don't cast a reopen vote?

Look at this timeline: meta.stackexchange.com/posts/381574/timeline

there are 3 leave closed, 2 reopen, and 1 edit and reopen reviews

outcome is leave closed

hmmm no, the person that voted edit and reopen did cast a reopen vote

@tripleee ohh, it's confusing. Yeah, browser sometimes reload open tabs on its own.

@Mithical that's because you both assume it was and made.

@SPArcheon ?

It is clear he just asked DALL-E

hehe

Doubt he has access

"Make me a picture of fake Israeli passport"

sending AI to prison

@Luuklag lol I used to mod there!

@ShadowTheKidWizard now we need @curious to actual try :P

@ShadowTheKidWizard I can't find anything to edit, but good enough

and if someone complains, I can tell them I asked very nicely :D

@JourneymanGeek :)

@JourneymanGeek it all went downhill since

@Luuklag but why?

Well honestly - recommendation questions are a bit of a weak thing

and its easier to use the loophole

ask how to solve a problem rather than explicitly ask for a program

@JourneymanGeek meaning many are off topic even there?

more of, often answers have a 'short' usable life

admittedly I've not been that active on SR or HR lately

but that's also cause well I'm balancing 2 busy sites and previously (so nice to say) a job that took up a lot of time and energy :D

Fair.

(since I need fun projects to do stuff related to HW and SW :D)

@JourneymanGeek you no longer have a job?

@Luuklag nope

taking a short break then some courses and looking

@JourneymanGeek by your own choice?

@Luuklag lol, they wanted me to stay longer

so yes

ah good to know you weren't fired for doing too much SE stuff during work ;)

rofl

honestly? I think there was one or two other reasons that could have happened, but no one who minded found out ;)

(also, I kinda squeezed things in)

@JourneymanGeek haha good for you

Always nice to keep references for a new job

A lot of my job was "set an alarm, do a 30 second to 4 min thing that actually involves no inputs, take a photo with your phone, and post it to whatsapp

or...

@JourneymanGeek mmm sounds like something that could be automated

@Luuklag .... yes

As I was telling someone

Ïf we could get data out, we could generate reports better...

yeah, thats always a thing

but my boss's idea of automation is to have someone press a button

We had such a thing here as well. I automated everything in Excel, only manual thing left to do is move documents between several systems

and click the start button

It used to take hours, to enter all data manually before

(I automated a few things with power automate, streamlined the screenshotting process with .... a video capture box... whistle...)

flag-pls spam failed spam, URL is in post but doesn't render biology.stackexchange.com/a/109167

and suddenly I'm saving 2-3 hours a day ;)

flag-pls spam diy.stackexchange.com/a/255695

also my SE workflow is very efficient ;)

@tripleee kaboom

@tripleee That's a weird one; the user seems to have other legit activity on the site

@tripleee flagged

including another answer to that very same question

@Mithical spam as well.

mspy is quite dubious too

Pity some sites just accept spam, sometimes. lol

their other activity is also weird, two answers on the same question

Overall, spammer trying to appear as legit user.

flag-pls spam edited earlier today to add a spam link raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/138886/…

@tripleee yeah already custom flagged that. One answer should've been an edit to the other

garbage here to close/delete: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/381657/…

@ShadowTheKidWizard boom boom bakudan?

@Luuklag politics, worse than garbage...

@SPArcheon no, no baku

@tripleee still up, any new flaggers around?

@SPArcheon is this sad, or mad? ;)

@tripleee something in the middle, nuked by mod.

Forgot how insane it is to answer HNQ, lol

hmm Tim Post's site is dead, should I tell him?

Oh damn, I just sold someone a subscription to an ancient API we have running, since even before I was in the company, and now it doesn't behave like the manual describes. It's hosted externally, and hasn't been maintained, software wise, in at least 10 years :/

@Luuklag ouch

good luck getting out of that... ;)

Yeah, now I'm hoping someone, somewhere documented the credentials and access method for the hosting

@Luuklag can't you just explain the mistake to the buyer and ask them to buy subscription to the new API?

Since the company that build it, is no longer in buisnes. I might be able to track down a former employee of them, that does free lance stuff these days, but I'd be lucky to get him to have a look in the next 6-8 weeks :/

At least found the project it was in, its a 2011 project :/

@Luuklag well, for enough money, surely he'll take a look sooner. ;)

@ShadowTheKidWizard Yeah, probably, but there isn't that much money in the project....

@Luuklag meh, I still sometimes maintain code from 2003 ;)

@Luuklag so refund and move on, perhaps? ;/

@ShadowTheKidWizard nope, not an option. They where pressured by another client of ours, who buy stuff from them indirectly, who were in their place pressured by another client of ours, which is a major player in the industry

hehe, can't believe this still working! :D

@Luuklag omg, client ring!

Sounds like a fine mess, will keep you busy for a while... but can't you just throw it upwards, to the manager? @Luuk

@ShadowTheKidWizard I'm the project manager xD

@ShadowTheKidWizard it does take into account my fav and ignored tags

@Luuklag oh lol. So up to the VP? ;)

@Luuklag indeed! Doubt any developer these days even know this page exists, so it's pure miracle. :P

@ShadowTheKidWizard we don't have one, only a director. But I'll see what I can fix myself first.

Digging through some archives now, trying to find pre y2k data xd

@Luuklag COBOL for the rescue

My boss (the CEO actually lol) always brag how he used to write machine code, change actual memory bits, etc. In the 60's, 70's

lol one answer that took me few minutes to write (90% of that was to find the old menu), so many rep and badges...

Maybe worth spending more time on Travel.SE, look for more chances for easy rep. :D

@ShadowTheKidWizard so you get famous for internet points xD

@tripleee still still up, time for the regular ping for new flaggers

@Luuklag of course! :D

@ShadowTheKidWizard o/ week going strong, especially considering I'm taking Thursday and Friday off

@tripleee kaboom

thanks for the ping and the coffee, they go well together

finally! that one was pesky

@g3rv4 nice! That would make a long weekend. ;)

:D

umm oops

@Journeyman can you please confirm? Won't be a big surprise if they also let mods see those tabs, by mistake...

(feel free to check my own, don't care. ;))

oh it's the same dev who actually answered the infamous "moderators can see individual votes from all users" bug, lol

@ShadowTheKidWizard lol

I believe its not included :D

@ShadowTheKidWizard Reduce number of questions from the same site in the Hot Network Questions on the right sidebar <--- status-review since Feb 27, 2020 :)

@JourneymanGeek hopefully..... ;)

@gnat not really relevant, I'm fine with the question being HNQ, that's how I got to answer it. :)

But yeah, looks like SE doesn't use FIFO, so chance of old request/bugs with status-review to be done/fixed is pretty low.

They appear to choose randomly, from recently added items.

@ShadowTheKidWizard they have a roadmap and work from there

tho I suspect the public roadmap is only part of it

flag-pls spam horrible mess bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/115099/…

and why do they invoke the poor alot?

flag-pls spam returning spammer from this morning tex.stackexchange.com/a/655712

pardon the junk edit, I did not see the spam links until Glorfindel pointed them out

@JourneymanGeek I talk about "side bugs" and random requests they sometimes do.

@JNat cross site language spammer, need to be taught spam isn't language specific. ;)

hmm weird, got logged out of MSE.

And chat had to be reloaded to work again...

Anyone else got such thing?

Not today but I've had random log out issues in the past.

@SPArcheon haha! Yea I don't think that would work well, it would be VERY low res :P

I've tried generating layouts and it's definitely not there yet

Good for me, I only need to worry about my illustration class so far ^^'

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@ShadowTheKidWizard well it's not really about how questions get hot but only about how these are presented at sidebar. Your screen shot makes a good example btw - 4 slots occupied by Puzzling questions leave no room hot questions from other sites and FR suggests a way to make sidebar more diverse by making such cases less likely to happen

coherence....

@Tinkeringbell well maybe just cookie that expired

@SPArcheon lol. Hopefully not from SE? No SSL, which is plain terrible.

:P

@gnat wait, what screenshot? Think you or both of us got confused. What I posted here earlier was from my inbox, not sidebar.

And it's Travel.SE, not Puzzling, though that doesn't really matter. ;)

Inbox has no "slots", it's just list of the notifications.

@Feeds Functional programming is an ideal fit for developing oneboxes

@Feeds oh no. Blockchains onebox alert!

:D

oneboxes on the blockchain!

Now let's count the mistakes...

I'm not a coder. So if there's any I'll just watch the inevitable meta post ;)

hmm

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/381614/… I find the voting 'spread' here interesting

(+22/42 for the question +15/-2 for Rosie's answer)

@JourneymanGeek coder here, but staying away from blockchains so no idea, lol. But surely there are enough who know their way and can spot mistakes. ;)

@JourneymanGeek make it +23/41 once it's edited, but yeah, the answer is good and clear, the question, less so, kind of.

Think it's less from people who don't like the idea, more from people who still don't understand the idea.

Well if you want people to like it, you should make your ideas understandable :P

Another silent major change? They changed "historical lock" to "Obsolete" along with total overhaul of the whole banner message.

Just words, but heck of a big change. :/

@Tinkeringbell risking even more downvotes though. :D

(assuming many just don't vote if they don't understand.)

@ShadowTheKidWizard there's both

in this case its on topic, just that everyone involved is gone

@JourneymanGeek never seen "Obsolete" lock before, and it's 100% the same as historical lock, i.e. can't even flag.

So assumed it was just renamed.

@ShadowTheKidWizard nah

we just rarely use it :D

A lock's a lock

people are concerned with the label tho

@JourneymanGeek nope.

Most locks are softer, allowing at least flagging.

Does this need flags? :D

Only the historical lock (and now "Obsolete" lock as well as it turns out) shut down everything.

@JourneymanGeek well not now, but sometimes locked posts need editing.

If only there was a place you could ping a mod...

And it's kind of unfair for the OP that they can't get more reputation from it, but that's less relevant. ;)

and they'd be available in 6-8 hours..

OP's gone

@JourneymanGeek talking about general case

@JourneymanGeek emails! :D

In a general case I probably would have left it alone

@JourneymanGeek or delete and be done with it. :)

I don't think anyone here has my email address :D

a few CMs aside

@JourneymanGeek [email protected] duh

@ShadowTheKidWizard maw

Could be hilarious :D

tho I do own journeymangeek@(another free email service)

@JourneymanGeek msn?

naw

hotmail!

my browser dev has one

@ShadowTheKidWizard OIC - sorry, it looked just like a screen shot from sidebar. :) FR I linked to is indeed irrelevant then

@gnat hehe, all good. :)

@JourneymanGeek I always assumed you would reply if I wrote at [email protected]....

lol

@SPA something odd, it's been really long time since you pushed the red button, wonder if it's me becoming more innocent, or you becoming less around here? ;)

hmm I did talk yesterday about stuff that might trigger your button though, so not too late...

@ShadowTheKidWizard you have to ask? Really?

btw, the button obviously uses whatever the current room style defines, so it is actually blue here

@SPArcheon oh, lol

@SPA so you gave up on your project with @Dro since he went MIA?

something similar to his "Cat Diary" serie.

hmm

..... he should be capable to portrait the mess I have to work with....

OK, time to have that button pushed. Ready? @SPA

I just ordered 8 pairs of new underwear, as about 6 pairs got torn in the last year.

goes away slowly

now that you asked... I think I will have to go for something more grumpy, @Tinkeringbell style.

therefore I will instead point out that these exist.

:(

sadly going home

@ShadowTheKidWizard that said. You forgot a very important thing.

𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔴𝔬 𝔟𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰.

@SPArcheon ._.

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oh, look.... more work for UMATRIX....

no, wait, same amount. I've set the thing in "block everything except the few things I allowed"....

@SPArcheon forgot indeed

@ShadowTheKidWizard I'm not getting any more flexible

@Bart but you are getting smarter.

You can use a drone, for example.

!!/coffee

@ShadowTheKidWizard brews a cup of mocha for @ShadowTheKidWizard

And now time to make myself actual coffee.

@Bart hit&run are we? Well, at least you still hit! :D

@ShadowTheKidWizard If it's a choice between this room and a nice bowl of noodles ... the noodles win.

@Bart so not fair. We're not in 2150 yet when the computer will serve food. ;)

hmm actually before, make it 2055

You'll be able to click a link, and your 3D printer will draw this for you:

Real food, with the spices and everything. :D

(well maybe without the bowl, you'll have to put it on the printer tray to avoid having noodles flying all around the room.)

So, how was your bowl of noodles?! @Bart

I could definitely eat Singapore noodles every day.

@ShadowTheKidWizard looks like my dinner today

Noodles are overrated

There I said it. Sue me

@M.A.R. what is there to sue from a cat, maybe some fur, but that's hardly worth the effort

Last time I had a bowl of that the chef was a bit overenthusiastic with the spice and I was subsequently overenthusiastic in the bathroom

So you can have your plastic noodles and floating chopsticks, I'll stick to my local "egg and potato" burrito.

Or you should cook them yourself

long grooooan

noodles is litterally the easiest dish to make yourself

It requires travelling to new depths of the kitchen

It could be a dangerous journey

All those hanging utensils would be the perfect artillery in case of an ambush by crazy monkey ninjas.

rofl

@ShadowTheKidWizard Woohhoo, Finally tracked my hosting credentials

@M.A.R. the water cooker? Wow.

@Tinkeringbell your taking things even easier with instant noodles?

mmmm now to find out how to save a .php file from the webserver :/

ouch, what a mess this is

damn I'm ashamed of what we're hosting

@Luuklag instrotek.com/products/autorice ? ;)

@Spevacus haha would be fun, putting our server under a vaccuum

anyone with a support dupe hammer? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/381674/…