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Mithoron

12:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek Did you finish Fallout?

Journeyman Geek

Yup

Loved it

Mithoron

@JourneymanGeek We three, my echo, my shadow and me. ;)

Though these flying power armors were kinda a stretch :p

Journeyman Geek

12:37 AM

A little but they sort of helped with the plot/humour

super-starball-ultra

2:05 AM

huh. meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/399005/2

rene

5:56 AM

@super-starball-ultra yeah, that was a neat trick, employed by many.

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

6:18 AM

Including me.

super-starball-ultra

6:41 AM

@rene I wonder what is used for that detection. Origin header? Referer header?

Journeyman Geek

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rene

7:07 AM

@super-starball-ultra Hmm, I tried curl -vvvvv https://i.sstatic.net/pHlZ7zfg.png -o myimg.png that gives me the PNG without issues. It does send a UserAgent but nothing else. Maybe they have a job that marks whether an image is actually found in any post/user profile/comment/revision/chat etc. So I'l re-test in 6 to 8 hours.

Tinkeringbell

7:25 AM

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Okay, I've done the rename. a.) I have trouble to find a question to add the 'new' stack-exchange-image-hosting to. b.) the image-uploader now mentions imgur in the tag info. Split that tag too? Or just rewrite the tag info to mention the new destination and a 'previously imgur' line?

rene

7:46 AM

@Tinkeringbell I've updated the tag info of image-uploader: meta.stackexchange.com/tags/image-uploader/info I think we're good, no need to split imo.

Tinkeringbell

@rene Cool, thanks!

rene

I initially also mentioned chat but off course chat (still) doesn't use the image uploader.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Tinkeringbell When are the installers coming for your new solar panels?

Tinkeringbell

@rene Hahaha nope XD

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I don't have a date yet, I'll probably give an excited yell when I do/it's close :P

Can take more than a month though, these people are busy

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Are you going to own the panels or are you leasing them?

Tinkeringbell

7:58 AM

Own.

Costs about 3k for 6 panels, which includes all the wiring and getting an extra thingy at the breaker panel.

And the time/people to install all of it, and the renting of scaffolding etc.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

I hope you're getting some form of government incentive on that. Here, we get 30% of the overall cost of installation as a rebate when we do our taxes

That's a key reason why solar companies try to push people to lease their panels, because then they get to pocket the tax rebate.

Tinkeringbell

There aren't really any incentives except that the excess energy I create during summer, I get to 'use' during winter. So, I make 300kWh in summer and only use 150, then I have 150kWh 'for free' in winter.

It's a complicated thing and something the government wants to get rid of, because it is no longer very fair (people without solar panels are paying more for electricity because energy companies have to 'give away' increasing amounts of electricity during winter, while that energy isn't free for the energy company to get)

But since my grid situation is weird anyways, I can use that for at least the next 9 years, regardless of what the government decides.

rene

You mean energy companies make less profit and that is bad for the share holders, right?

Tinkeringbell

(Oh, and there's stuff like 0% interest rate loans, but those require you to do 2 or more 'green' measures, and a few other things IIRC)

@rene I will be the first to agree that having share holders and energy companies is absolutely nuts (hah, nutsbedrijven :P)

rene

LOL

Tinkeringbell

8:06 AM

But I do kinda agree that the current situation isn't sustainable long term either :P I work for a grid operator and part of my job includes me seeing daily messages about how bad things are getting XD

I mean, we are all still being very Dutch with our solar panelling at the moment, preferably getting way more than needed just because it 'pays off'.

Batteries, same: The ones that have a battery system here are mostly the ones that really want to 'make some profit'.

No one here is thinking 'oh, I have enough money to do something good for the environment, I'll get panels and a battery so I can run airconditioning at night from power made during the day'.

That doesn't 'pay off', it doesn't 'earn its worth back', so no one does it.

(I'm one of those people btw, I'm also only getting panels and no battery :P)

rene

Correct. We still fly to our holiday destination, right?

Tinkeringbell

I don't. I always celebrate my holidays in Hintergarten or Tuinesia.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Yep, we in California tried a deregulated electricity system back in the early 2000s...a certain company named Enron abused it and caused an electricity shortage. Never went back to that model.

In my city, we're trying to get enough signatures to get a vote on the next election to force a sale of the current private electric company to a public nonprofit

Tinkeringbell

That'd be awesome if it pays off.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

We did succeed in moving generation to public nonprofits. Grid operations and billing are still the private company's responsibility, however.

Tinkeringbell

8:14 AM

Well, having everything non-profit is how it should be, IMO.

Energy, grids, healthcare, housing... to an extent, I would even say food shouldn't be subjected to 'profits' and 'capitalism'.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

I agree. This was the same company that the previous January doubled natural gas prices in a time of a very cold winter:

Jan 26, 2023 at 18:36, by Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

> The cost per unit of natural gas (known as a therm) has more than doubled increasing from $2.36 per therm in January 2022 to $5.11 per therm in January 2023. More than 90% of the increase in the overall gas rate is driven by the market price for gas – what SDG&E pays suppliers to buy the gas on behalf of our customers.

@Tinkeringbell Also telecommunications and the railways

Also: jacobin.com/2019/10/general-motors-nationalization-uaw-strike

Tinkeringbell

8:34 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Not just railways, all public transport, also buses, trams, metro

M.A.R.

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact I don't wanna merge with your butt

That's the first step towards that centipede man movie

Or whatever it was called

SPArcheon

@M.A.R. Please, don't. A stupid coworker mentioned that piece of trash once, I newer saw it but I also don't need someone reminding me it exists.

rene

@M.A.R. HumancentiPad ...

SPArcheon

rene

8:53 AM

You're welcome

Tinkeringbell

9:30 AM

@M.A.R. I've seen the memes/references, but never the movie itself. Is it worth it?

SPArcheon

.... aaaaaand, I think I will get going for now.

Andreas moved to Codidact

9:50 AM

@M.A.R. Why not?

@SPArcheon It exists.

@Tinkeringbell I saw a scene on YT once, and the effects disappointed me. It looked like they’d gone for the cheap option of just bandaging over the stitches, instead of showing them. If I remember correctly, of course.

Yeah, just looked it up again. How disappointing.

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

10:25 AM

@SPArcheon hey, what should I do to get this new one as well? isEager

;)

Andreas moved to Codidact

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Just say something entirely normal.

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact oh, like how much Kenny pee in the Den?

Andreas moved to Codidact

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda A little bit more normal than that.

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact long time no flush?

Andreas moved to Codidact

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Yes

I bought some whale meat from the grocery store yesterday.

Expensive, but not that bad of a price.

rene

10:51 AM

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact is that legal? I don't think my AH has that on sale here.

Andreas moved to Codidact

11:20 AM

@rene Yes, of course.

From what I can read online, only a few countries hunt whales: Norway, Iceland, Faroe islands, Japan, Indonesia.

rene

Is its taste comparable to anything we might know? Is it like tuna?

Andreas moved to Codidact

Oh, and indigenous people in Canada, USA and Greenland.

@rene I don't know. I put it in the freezer for later this week. It's been too long since I tried it, so I can't remember.

rene

Fair enough. Keep us posted ;)

Andreas moved to Codidact

Sure will. :D

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell Depends on your definition of worth it and how you'd take a video that's literally about a mad scientist sewing people's front and rear ends together, so noooo

rene

11:27 AM

Is this spam: meta.stackexchange.com/a/399694 ?

Journeyman Geek

@rene yes, it stinks like it

I also think I nuked that spammer before on SU

M.A.R.

1:04 PM

@SPArcheon look, half the reason I'm here is to troll someone. It might as well be you

SPArcheon

@M.A.R. ... until someone else clicks the link and proceeds to flag the post.

M.A.R.

@Tinkeringbell if you're asking if it's one of those "so bad it's good" movies . . . No. No it's not. It's so bad it's bad.

Tinkeringbell

Guess I know enough then. ;)

I'll go watch something else this weekend. Eurovision, probably :P

At least with a few drinks and my family's snide comments, that becomes 'so bad it's good'

M.A.R.

@Tinkeringbell sounds fun. I'm jealous

Tinkeringbell

Come over, and I'll get you drunk ;)

And yeah, I'm hoping for fun! :)

Journeyman Geek

1:12 PM

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Journeyman Geek

1:35 PM

@M.A.R. there's another half?

Andreas moved to Codidact

2:05 PM

@Tinkeringbell I skipped the first semifinale this year. Might watch it before the next one tomorrow. I used to watch ESC every year. Haven’t done so the past few years.

@JourneymanGeek Hey, you got trolled into thinking there might be one.

Tinkeringbell

Oh I'm skipping semi-finals as always. But last few years we've gotten together as a family to watch the finals and it has been fun. Plan for Saturday is to first go to Germany , get a bunch of cheaper meat/booze, and then have a bbq + songfestival later :)

Andreas moved to Codidact

mhm…

Tinkeringbell

I have a long weekend coming up, tomorrow and Friday are no work either. But I've already planned so much, I might as well just be working :|

Andreas moved to Codidact

2:31 PM

Yay, holiday planning…

Tinkeringbell

Tomorrow: Garden center for more soil and a few plants (hopefully they'll have the variety of coreopsis I want). Digging out pavement sand, replacing it with soil, and planting. Bunch of cleaning, and a friend coming over for tea.
Friday: More cleaning, some necessary DIY-ing in the shed and shower, cleaning said shower and folding loads of laundry.
Saturday: See above.
Sunday: Crash.

SPArcheon

"and on the seventh day the parrot rested"

Tinkeringbell

2:49 PM

Yeah, in this case... Good the week has seven days and not just six

Andreas moved to Codidact

5:20 PM

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Q: Are Mods on all sites aware of and able to handle the mass defacing/deletion attempts by users unhappy with the OpenAI announcement?

Phrasing it in the form of a question, since I really don't know the answer, but there's a pretty big issue going on right now with users (at least 5 so far, and probably more) defacing and/or deleting their content in protest of the OpenAI announcement. This is happening on multiple sites that ...

First thing that comes to mind: @Journeyman’s resignation reason: didn’t wanna clean up more of SE’s mess anymore. :P

That is a very good title. Best I’ve seen in my whole life.

Journeyman Geek

11:01 PM

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact Broadly precisely that

Journeyman Geek

11:33 PM

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact to be fair, I didn't predict half these dramas

Andreas moved to Codidact

@JourneymanGeek So you'd like to volunteer again?

I mean, to clean up the half that you didn't predict?

Journeyman Geek

Naw

I've a few conditions for coming back - its not a negotiation, but more what's sensible for my mental health and none of those look like they would be met

Andreas moved to Codidact

11:49 PM

Best stay away, then. It's a very addictive platform.

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