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13:01

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DHCP FAILED APIPA BEING USED by Mrshamtown on networkengineering.stackexchange.com

user259867

Hired mods being replaced: Anime, PPCG

Unihedro

Coincidence... The two sites on the top of leaderboards of StackEgg

user259867

SE has a curious way to select people to hire...

Martijn Pieters

Beer.SE could do with new pro tem mods too.

Or, better still, active users.

:3258277 If drunk, then they've been in a 10 week stupor.

user259867

Uh oh. Usually the self-evaluation contains 10 questions. Whatever the criteria are, it looks like we didn't have 10 that met them. — Monica Cellio Feb 4 at 1:57

Unihedro

13:09

Is Beer.SE a meme yet?

SilentKiller

Cya!

user259867

> Our new Beer site is somehow different from Homebrew, so Joel quits. -- Podcast #55

Lynn Crumbling

HAHAHAH.. I've just finished reading the last 12 hours of transcript. You guys crack me up.

BUT... have you successfully gotten a lock on triangulation yet?

Jason C

@LynnCrumbling No, lol. We only know where Wolfram|Alpha thinks his IP address is. The only option is proper internet stalking, which has failed so far.

Lynn Crumbling

ponders

is the bot still up?

Jason C

13:21

!comp weather

bjb568

temperature | 46 °F
conditions | overcast
relative humidity | 81% (dew point: 41 °F)
wind speed | 0 mph
(28 minutes ago)

Jason C

Yup.

Lynn Crumbling

!comp emit flair from current location

Jason C

Lol

Unihedro

!comp where am I

bjb568

13:23

IPv4 address | 74.83.14.180
IPv6 | ::ffff:4a53:eb4
(as seen by Wolfram|Alpha)

Unihedro

!!comp geoip loopup of 74.83.14.180

!!comp geoip lookup of 74.83.14.180

rene

Jan Dvorak

!comp geoip lookup of 74.83.14.180

bjb568

name | Fuse Internet Access
location | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Jan Dvorak

Cool. Now we know BJB's ISP

Lynn Crumbling

13:25

Clearly time for some social engineering :)

Mooseman

!comp geoip lookup of 8.8.8.8

bjb568

name | Google
location | New York City, New York, United States

Mooseman

!comp geoip lookup of stackoverflow.com

bjb568

name | Jeff Atwood
location | El Cerrito, California, United States
coordinates | 37° 55' 11"N, 122° 18' 9"W

Lynn Crumbling

Or.. Wardialing all of Cincinnati.

Unihedro

13:27

!comp lookup unihedro.com

bjb568

(no host found)

Unihedro

!comp geoip lookup of unihedro.com

bjb568

(no host found)

Unihedro

Oh.

Martijn Pieters

!comp nearest street corner

Unihedro

13:28

!comp the best pizza

Braiam

kaboom!

Martijn Pieters

Half a mile south-east of the nearest school, right?

Mooseman

!comp pi*pi

bjb568

pi^2

Bart

Heh

SmokeDetector

13:29

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: Brian Flatt 3 Week Diet News (Ebook FAQ And PDF Download Guide) by Weight Loss Top on skeptics.stackexchange.com

Mooseman

Nice try xD

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Mooseman Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Jason C

Lol here we go again.

Bart

Ooh, I see Martijn is going to be a mod. Nice.

Unihedro

@Bart Oh?

Lynn Crumbling

13:31

@Bart Which site?

Jan Dvorak

Now with images. And now gone.

Martijn Pieters

@Bart I haven't even posted a nomination yet. :-P

Jason C

@LynnCrumbling I was thinking of that last night, but I can't think of any ways to start a conversation with an IP address and no name, and end with a physical address. If we knew his name, maybe.

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29447040/…

Martijn Pieters

!comp nearest gardens

Bart

13:32

It's pinned @MartijnPieters. That's pretty much a confirmation. A shoo-in at worst.

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/3413391/792066

Martijn Pieters

is looking at google.co.uk/maps/place/Rockdale+Academy/…

context: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3257202#3257202

!comp nearest cemetary

bjb568

(none found)

Lynn Crumbling

@JasonC I thought we knew his name....

Bart

!comp nearest mall

Jason C

13:33

@MartijnPieters We went through this. It's on this block: google.co.uk/maps/place/Rockdale+Academy/…

bjb568

Premium Outlets

Martijn Pieters

!comp nearest university

Unihedro

"comp"

Martijn Pieters

@JasonC :-D But I'm playing with it now..

Jason C

It would be funny if we all called his ISP pretending to be bjb.

Martijn Pieters

13:34

Don't spoil my fun just yet!

Unihedro

We should start a fundraising campaign.

Bart

@JasonC if he speaks as he types, I'm not sure I can be convincing

7

Martijn Pieters

!comp nearest bus stop

Jason C

@Bart "Hi, how can I help you today?" "Hi. Can I haz mah address plox?" "Excuse me, sir?" "Lelz"

4

Bart

"Ah, how nice to hear from you again"

Jason C

13:37

Shouting in the background, "Yeah guys, it's that weird cat kid again."

Bart

rofl

Andy

Are you guys using bjb's bot against him?

Lynn Crumbling

@Andy Against his privacy perhaps, but never against him.

Mooseman

SPAM tor.stackexchange.com/q/6581/6577

Undo

@Mooseman gone

Braiam

13:46

I didn't know that I had 188 rep in tor.se

Jason C

!comp destroy owner

I love how abusing bjb's bot has set a tavern attention span record.

Martijn Pieters

SPAM beer.stackexchange.com/questions/3324/…

Mooseman

@MartijnPieters gone

Braiam

to create or not create an account on beer.se

Mooseman

@Braiam I only have spam with beer :p

Braiam

13:47

HA!

Martijn Pieters

@JasonC the !comp antipode of current location / !comp antipode of <result of previous query> got it down to a building, I see.

!comp antipode of current location

bjb568

39° 8' 24"S, 95° 29' 37"E

Jason C

You can do:

Martijn Pieters

!comp antipode of 39° 8' 24"S, 95° 29' 37"E

bjb568

39° 8' 24"N, 84° 30' 23"W

Jason C

13:55

But it's a non-residential building, near that block. It was good validation for our previous guessing game though.

!comp antipode of antipode of current location

bjb568

39° 8' 24"N, 84° 30' 23"W

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DURING TAKEOFF IT IS KNOW THAT LIFT>WEIGHT BUT WHEN MATHEMATICALLY CHECKED IT COMES THE OTHER WAY AROUND? by VISHAL on aviation.stackexchange.com

Jason C

@SmokeDetector Really...

Martijn Pieters

@JasonC I'd say it is the other building, the apartment block with the ads fro apartments for the new academic year.

Undo

Are we stalking bjb?

Jason C

14:00

We're showing Martijn how to stalk bjb. It's part of the tavern's new mandatory training program.

Martijn Pieters

@Undo We are coercing his bot to do the stalking for us.

Bart

@JasonC this digital program is far better than the previous one though. Two weeks in the tree in front of his house was a real pain.

Jason C

Tell me about it. At least there are no police stations in Cincinnati.

Undo

So what's the bot do?

I want to get in on this malicious bot-using thing

:P

Andy

Queries Wolfram|Alpha

Undo

14:09

ah

!comp ip

bjb568

IPv4 address | 74.83.14.180
IPv6 | ::ffff:4a53:eb4
(as seen by Wolfram|Alpha)

Andy

@Undo You can do better than that. That wasn't original

Undo

nmap isn't finding anything

!comp location

bjb568

Undo

!comp geolocate ip

bjb568

14:11

Geo | (data not available)
International Paper | (data not available)

Undo

... wut?

Andy

"International Paper" would not have been my first definition of "ip"

Undo

So there's no way to make it run JS?

ProgramFOX

!eval 1+1

apparently not

Martijn Pieters

!comp ip location

bjb568

14:15

IPv4 address | 74.83.14.180
IPv6 | ::ffff:4a53:eb4
(as seen by Wolfram|Alpha)

Martijn Pieters

!comp current geoip location

bjb568

IPv4 address | 74.83.14.180
IPv6 | ::ffff:4a53:eb4
(as seen by Wolfram|Alpha)

Martijn Pieters

!comp geoip 74.83.14.180

bjb568

name | Fuse Internet Access
location | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Unihedro

Thank god I don't run a bot

thinks to self to thank @inf when she appears

Undo

14:18

I run Smokey, but he's fairly safe

:P

ProgramFOX

!!/revealUndo'sLocation

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX 97191e2 (ProgramFOX: +kinnaristeel)

Braiam

@Unihedro ... on your personal system

Undo

ROFL

Andy

Ummm

ProgramFOX

14:19

LOL

Undo

@Andy starts with !!/rev

Andy

Ah. That makes sense then

ProgramFOX

My initial reaction was "wth, it replies"

Braiam

you should use a parser instead of regex :/

Undo

Just about the worst thing you could do with it is commit something that spikes the CPU and then !!/pull it, and that would only work until I saw it :P

Jason C

14:20

@ProgramFOX Did you add !!/so2015?

Undo

I did

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

@Undo Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Nominations start in 0 days, 5 hours, 39 minutes and 28 seconds.

ProgramFOX

@JasonC no, Undo did

Jason C

@Undo Way to totally ignore the comment at the top of the file :P

ProgramFOX

@Braiam We use startswith, so all of !!/rev, !!/rev?, !!/revision etc. work.

Undo

14:21

@JasonC I'm an idiot :P

8

Jason C

@Undo pizza made fun of me for it, lol.

Undo

Why is typing "I'm an idiot" the only way I can get stars? :/

bjb568

One is bigger

Undo

!!/rev

Jason C

@Undo It triggers the auto-star bot that everybody in here is actually running.

Braiam

14:22

eats bigger one and leaves bjb the others

Undo

!!/rev

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 12 secs ago, by SmokeDetector

@Undo 39cb17e (Undo1: because apparently I'm supposed to do this --autopull)

hah

Jason C

Lol

!!/commands

bjb568

BTW, I'm pretty sure the wolfram thing is just looking at my IP.

Jason C

I'm pretty sure it's looking in your window.

Hey @bjb tell us how we did! How close is google.co.uk/maps/@39.1409486,-84.5064291,19z to your actual house?

bjb568

Couple miles

Jason C

14:25

And how did I end up with a google.co.uk tab... o.O

Undo

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

@Undo Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Nominations start in 0 days, 5 hours, 34 minutes and 8 seconds.

Andy

@bjb568 So, well within the reach of a decent nuclear weapon.

2

Undo

!!/commands

SmokeDetector

@Undo Commands: addblu, rmblu, addwlu, rmwlu, wut, lick, hats, alive, rev, status, reboot, stappit, master, clearbl, block, unblock, errorlogs, pull, help, apiquota, queuestatus, so2015, commands

Jason C

14:26

^ Suck it, @pizza

Oh looks like ProgramFOX has the wiki link in there. In that case should we just get rid of !!/commands, put the link in !!/help, and keep it all in as few places as possible?

Undo

I still won't remember to update it :P

Jason C

But at least you'll just forget to update one thing instead of two.

gunr2171

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29469552/…

Andy

@Undo I bet you could make a test that fails at the CI stage if a new command is missing the documentation

Undo

voted

Jason C

14:28

I'll make the change later. I think it's for the better.

@Andy The better solution would be a dictionary mapping commands to both a command handler function and an optional short description, instead of a big if block. Then it will always be up to date if !!/commands generates the list from that. But now that there's a wiki it's silly.

Hey @bjb my cat's in heat, can I hire you to come... help her out?

bjb568

ಠ_ಠ

Undo

@bjb568 Do they block VPNs?

Andy

@bjb568 Hey look everyone! A new IP address!

bjb568

Yep

Undo

I have a VPN to my server ready to go for when I'm on government networks

bjb568

14:33

U hakkorz!

Jason C

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3258643#3258643 needs more stars than it has. Come on guys, step it up.

Unihedro

@Undo ... and you said that in public? gg

Undo

The day they go after me for VPNing on Govm't networks, I have other things to worry about

Jason C

On the github site, if I want to make my fork be the same as the current, newer version of the original, do I just delete it and make a new fork? Or is there a way to merge it in?

(I want my Smokey fork to be the current version)

Undo

@JasonC help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork

Jason C

14:41

Thank ye

Undo

np :)

Jason C

Aw I have to actually install the command line client.

Guess it's about time though.

hichris123

@Roombatron5000 Hrm?

Undo

A vote for a candidate who doesn't win isn't a wasted vote

A vote for a candidate who does win is a wasted vote :P

Depending on the weather

Jan Dvorak

@Undo I guess you don't vote on questions either?

Undo

14:46

er what?

I'm missing a point somewhere :P

ProgramFOX

I think that's an off-by-1522 error.

user259867

@Undo The total is low.

bjb568

@JasonC … It doesn't come preinstalled?

Andy

spam stackoverflow.com/a/29473541/189134

ProgramFOX

spam stackoverflow.com/a/29473602/2619912

by same user

also cv the questions, OT tool-rec

Jason C

14:51

@bjb568 Not with the GitHub desktop client.

Or if it is it's in some weird place.

I think it's sort of the same situation as TortoiseSVN; also have to install SVN separately for the traditional client.

Undo

@ProgramFOX added to Smokey

ProgramFOX

good idea

hichris123

@Undo Yeah, but I was only in the primary, where you can't really waste a vote.

@JasonC No, it does. Just search for Git shell on your computer.

@Unihedro nevermind

Unihedro

@hichris123 K

Undo

Markdown fail

user259867

14:58

@SmokeDetector gone

Jason C

@ProgramFOX github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/pull/51

ProgramFOX

@JasonC Looks good; merged.

Jason C

And I even passed the style checks this time.

ProgramFOX

haha

Undo

!!/rev

SmokeDetector

14:59

@Undo f309add (ProgramFOX: Merge pull request #51 from JC3/master)

ProgramFOX

!!/help

Jason C

!!/help

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

Undo

@JasonC ^ There you go

SmokeDetector

@JasonC I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

Jason C

15:00

Ahhh the one-word wrap.

Andy

this still lives:

10 mins ago, by ProgramFOX

spam http://stackoverflow.com/a/29473602/2619912

hichris123

@Andy not anymore

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/7658028/…

Undo

voted

rene

poof (as in closed) it can super-poof in 2 days

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/29463935/…

ProgramFOX

15:21

!!/help

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

ProgramFOX

@JasonC ^ pr merged

Jason C

Thanks.

That was irritating.

hichris123

close due to broken link? stackoverflow.com/questions/14861987/dynamics-ax-2012-factboxes

Mooseman

@hichris123 *no code

ProgramFOX

15:26

already gone

bluefeet

@hichris123 how about just delete it?

hichris123

@bluefeet that works too. :P

Jason C

Well, time to get to work, \o

Infinite Recursion

We missed spam meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/289426/…

hichris123

@InfiniteRecursion It's all @pizza's fault.

13 hours ago, by pizza

Probably not. Was looking for a similar thing, saw the questions, then shared his search result.

(in response to)

13 hours ago, by hichris123

spammer? http://stackoverflow.com/users/4751875/suleyman-unlu?tab=activity

hichris123

15:43

@AlexisKing That actually may have been an idea thrown out. :P

(not by SE, by er... users of the site)

Alexis King

@hichris123 And then presumably hastily silenced, never to be spoken of again.

hichris123

@pizza Anna was elected without 20k IIRC.

@AlexisKing That's... a good presumption.

Alexis King

I only have 11.8k rep. :)

hichris123

Also animuson was elected without 20k.

Alexis King

We'll see if I can break the curve. ;D

hichris123

15:46

Feb 24 '14 at 15:29, by animuson

Eeek I'm now a 20k user on SO.

@AlexisKing :D

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Using dynamic query + user defined datatype in postgresql by Mourya Teja on stackoverflow.com

Alexis King

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@AlexisKing Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keywords in title: MEGAVIDEO]!~ “Mortdecai” [FULL ONLINE] Free MOVIE by borena on security.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

@SmokeDetector tpu SPAM

SmokeDetector

@AlexisKing Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

hichris123

15:55

@SmokeDetector gone

Santa Claus

My NPR station is broadcasting some sort of show about grammar.

Undo

is bjb a guest?

Santa Claus

I can't tell whether this is a joke or they are completely serious

@Undo Well people are calling in, but I haven't heard any cats yet...

Somebody just said "The only way you can lay down is to <blank> a duck". But they never guessed the blank. Then the show abruptly ended.

Alexis King

hahaha

I love NPR so much

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/29282227/…

Undo

16:06

voted

hichris123

I need a sharper poking stick... one more vote here: stackoverflow.com/questions/29463935/…

Undo

@hichris123 I think @Bart has a retired smiting stick that he might lend you

hichris123

me want.

Bart

@Undo my smiting stick never retires

hichris123

dv-plz stackoverflow.com/a/7834464/2581872 -> roomba material tonight

Undo

16:16

downvotation complete

Unihedro

> seen Aug 26 '14 at 2:19

hichris123

@Unihedro The OP's is worse:

> seen Nov 2 '11 at 6:23

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: Adding a scroll bar if div extends below bottom of view port by AlphaHylian on stackoverflow.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user.

Undo

16:25

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Undo Blacklisted user.

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Strongly connected components, component graph, semiconnected graph and new graph from SCCs by Nam Nguyen on codereview.stackexchange.com

hichris123

lolwut

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Blacklisted user.

Alexis King

One of the survivors, poking around in the ruins with the point of a spear, uncovers a singed photo of Richard Stallman. They stare in silence. "This," one of them finally says, "This is a man who BELIEVED in something."

I laughed way, way too hard at this.

Undo

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

16:34

@Undo Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Nominations start in 0 days, 3 hours, 25 minutes and 33 seconds.

Undo

THE TIME APPROACHETH

hichris123

@AlexisKing The tooltip too...

user259867

@hichris123 On Programmers, not Stack Overflow

Alexis King

Well, I don't think anyone can deny that he believes in something very strongly.

user259867

spam android.stackexchange.com/a/104652

Undo

16:42

gone

Lynn Crumbling

cv-pls ot-software stackoverflow.com/q/29377673/656243

hichris123

@pizza You sure?

Dec 2 '14 at 23:49, by Anna Lear

Not sure off the top of my head... but the trend has certainly been bucked before. I was elected on SO back in the day with like 7.5k rep.

Undo

Anna had other things going for her, too

Lynn Crumbling

Does anybody plan on running/know anyone who is?

Undo

I probably will, @hichris123 probably will

@Andy says he might

Lynn Crumbling

16:51

There's my 3 votes :)

Undo

You have to vote for Martijn if he runs.

That's a rule, IIRC

Lynn Crumbling

Ah.. yes.

Undo

yeah, this'll be an interesting election

And probably one where I don't vote for myself first.

Lynn Crumbling

Nearly 80k on Meta.. and 350k on SO. 25,943 Revisions.

33,761 Comments.

rene

I'm not sure with the Dutch...

Lynn Crumbling

16:59

heh.

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