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12:09 AM

have you ever had a student like @bjb before @home?

user259867

@Dronehinge I can't compare, since I don't teach high-school attending kittens. And I don't like comparing either. Everyone is unique and special, you know...

bjb568

im a speycial snowflake!

Too bad snowflakes are ugly and mostly just blobs of ice…

user202362

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 23 hours ago, by chmod 711 telkitty

If I could go back in time & bring me back from 5 days ago when I was coughing & spreading the virus, I would have brought me back and then teleport the previous me to near you and cough on your face in the hope of getting you infected.

user202362

I told this to a could be online frenemy, now think about it, I have made things more complicated ...

user202362

I could just create a distortion in the time space to achieve the same goal

user259867

12:20 AM

Blog - Stack Exchange: Stack Overflow in Portuguese: now with less beta!

Gabe Koscky on June 04, 2015

Há mais ou menos 2 anos nós fizemos uma descoberta avassaladora: nós percebemos que a maioria das pessoas do mundo não fala Inglês. E, se isso é verdade, significa que existem programadores que, pasmém, não conhecem o Stack Overflow. O choque inicial foi grande, mas depois de um copo de água com açucar nós decidimos fazer algo a respeito disso: abrir novos sites sobre programação!

Criar novas comunidades onde mesmo quem não fala Inglês possa se expressar em sua própria língua, à sua própria maneira. Afinal, ter a resposta para todo tipo de pergunta sobre programação é só metade do que faz do St …

bjb568

bleh, that onebox sucks

user259867

Why have the title in English, if this is not the audience of the post?

bjb568

Also, why is the english part that's obviously not a quote in a blockquote?

Braiam

> Os sistemas de fóruns convencionais

How can I say "Stack Overflow is not a forum" in Portuguese?

bjb568

> Stack Overflow não é um fórum.

from google translate

user259867

12:29 AM

@Braiam In the comment? But he's not directly calling SO a forum. I'd let it pass.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Is Podrick really such a good lover? by Dark Knight on movies.stackexchange.com

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@KevinBrown Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Braiam

12:51 AM

@bjb568 couldn't Einstein don't make things more complex than they already are...?

bjb568

*not

He just furthered our understanding of the already complex universe.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: How to move Whatsapp chat history from iPhone 4 to Nexus 4? by Trisha K on android.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Korean character in body: XSS Poor Validation Issue Classic ASP by kpgu1718 on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector Apparently, not spam.

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector Pretty sure that picked up on recovery.com

Rusemaster

1:08 AM

Woah Nicael got banned?

lol what happened

more sh*tposts?

user259867

@KevinBrown Yes, but this not an issue with regex: the application is of the type that sites are spammed with. (Maybe even this one was). But here, it's an actual user of the application answering an actual question, which gets a pass.

user259867

May 15 at 16:11, by Shog9

@nicael: you're being annoying. Come back in 30 days.

Kevin Brown

@HomegrownTomato Wasn't saying it was an issue, it's clearly not spam. I just wanted to note why it was picked up as being blacklisted.

user259867

Maybe the statement should be different, like "Possibly a blacklisted website"... to indicate it's a regex match, not a site that was specifically blacklisted.

Gabe

@Braiam The comment is precisely about the differences between SO and old forum platforms

bjb568

1:19 AM

That's what I was thinking…

user259867

@Gabe Giving the blog post an English title seems a bit deceptive. It's all around the network now, inviting people to click and presumably read something. Instead, they get told "this isn't for you".

bjb568

Why are all the blog posts advertised network wide?

Gabe

@HomegrownTomato I thought about that. The first blog post in Portuguese had an English title too and I was concerned that we'd have complaints about things is "non-English" on the bulletin board

user259867

A/B testing!

user259867

Show it in English half the time, measure who complains more. :)

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bjb568

1:26 AM

> A lot of noise has been made lately about STEM careers. However, remember that your working career is going to span multiple decades; that's a very long time to spend doing something you aren't passionate about-- or at least enjoy. Virtually nobody wakes up eager to go to work just because of their paycheck-- it's important to pick something that excites you, because without passion, you're most likely destined to never be particularly good at your field of study.

- reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/teachme

I think this should be emphasized more to contrast all the STEM hype. Without the double dashes of course.

user259867

@bjb568 Yes. Not to mention that lumping math, a liberal arts degree, with engineering is misleading. And what exactly is a Technology major anyway...

bjb568

People should be thinking Interests -> Jobs -> Education, not the other way around.

Especially when you can choose an education that's not good for anything.

yaaaaaas

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Twitter's Facebook Connect - Driving Me Crazy by nickyb on webapps.stackexchange.com

Andy

@bjb568 I saw this happen much less often when the student is the one paying, not the parents or a scholarship.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Twitter's Facebook Connect behaves inconsistently by nickyb on webapps.stackexchange.com

bjb568

1:34 AM

@Andy Huh, that's interesting. I hope that doesn't apply to me tho :p

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore- it will be closed and deleted as OT

Andy

I wasn't meaning for it to apply to you, just an observation I had made based on experience

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector OP is persistent, enjoy the downvote...

James

Morning all

Andy

Morning?! It's not even 9pm yet

Andrew T.

1:38 AM

anyway, someone can check if whatsappmigrator.com is down just to double-check? I already used isitdown.com and tried to open the link from PC and mobile

user259867

Down for me.

Kevin Brown

I got a 200 response, it was empty though.

Andrew T.

ok, seems a useless link-only answer then.

bjb568

curl -i whatsappmigrator.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 01:41:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.29 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:46:20 GMT
ETag: "a8108-0-514de0acc2700"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Andrew T.

yes, it's not 404 but a blank 200. useless anyway...

bjb568

1:47 AM

Nobody younger than 12 there? Slackers…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: XCode 5 shortcut to insert new line after by jcxcoder on stackoverflow.com

user259867

> shit+Enter

bjb568

sigh…

user259867

@bjb568 Are you taking classes there?

bjb568

Yep!

Getting multivariable credit there.

user259867

1:51 AM

Nice, and it appears to be free.

bjb568

Yep!

user245368

@HomegrownTomato I wonder how many people do that on purpose.

bjb568

dies

user259867

That's community college web design for you. Get used to it.

bjb568

And it's blackboard too. Great.

Braiam

1:55 AM

@Gabe I vaguely understood that he said that "SO is a forum where you can ask questions", and asking Google for a second opinion didn't seem very accurate

user259867

Are you taking their class online or on their campus, or at HS? Looks like they offer everything.

user245368

I don't get this:

user245368

Once, I told my friend about Jon and he was so impressed, he googled it. But he made one major fatal mistake he never expected...He typed "Jon" as "John". To no surprise, our entire district was blacklisted by Google. — Hele Apr 18 '13 at 4:16

bjb568

@HomegrownTomato Online thru the highschool.

Kevin Brown

@Hosch250 Quick guess: the results page has changed greatly in the past year and a half

bjb568

1:56 AM

There's an old grandma that brings us cookies who made powerpoints on calc.

user245368

Oh, lol.

user245368

So, "John Skeet" is a naughty person?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, blacklisted website: How to Record Both Mic Audio and Speakers while using headset by EchoMa on apple.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

I think the joke is just that someone who misspells Jon Skeet's name is blacklisted by Google.

But maybe I'm reading too far into it.

Andrew T.

^ joke on ~~John~~ Jon Skeet meme

user259867

1:59 AM

Lame humor is lame.

bjb568

define lame

user259867

@SmokeDetector I don't know. It could be a promotion that abides by the rules enough to be not-spam. They should disclose affiliation through. The formatting of the link is definitely spammy (SEO-oriented).

Andrew T.

wait... why my internet conn.. disconnected from server'

Kevin Brown

@HomegrownTomato The user's other answer isn't the greatest, but it's also not spam. Not that spammers aren't smart enough to post non-spam answers ahead of time...

Braiam

@KevinBrown oh, they are

Just look for from where the user could have copied an valid answer

Andrew T.

2:03 AM

What makes it suspicious is they don't want to provide the name of the app in the post and instead use adjective such as "professional recorder for Mac"

Braiam

and the other answer is a extremely crappy answer to a crappy question..

user259867

@AndrewT. Yes, that's what I called SEO-oriented linking above. We are approaching xkcd 810 here...

user259867

But the links are nofollow anyway, so I don't think it's a huge problem.

Kevin Brown

Might be useful to change the link text to the product name, even if it isn't spam

Andrew T.

might be insightful stream-recorder.com/forum/…;

that it's a fake company.

Kevin Brown

2:09 AM

So, time to pull out the spam hammer?

Andrew T.

I flagged already for "avoiding" direct spam

it's up to you though

Braiam

wot says is suspicious mywot.com/en/scorecard/apowersoft.com

opendns doesn't have saying in the matter domain.opendns.com/apowersoft.com

user259867

Powersoft is blacklisted for a good reason, I think. Flagged as spam.

Braiam

mm... maybe we need a CM to pull us all post containing the domain network wide

Kevin Brown

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Q: The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses

This is a list of known spammers, spam domains, and IP addresses to which these domains point. This list is derived from spam patterns observed on Super User as well as information from DNS and reverse DNS lookups from sources such as VirusTotal. It will be expanded as research progresses and as...

That's why it was added

user259867

2:16 AM

And now for something different...

Kevin Brown

66 hits on SE on Google

user259867

spam productivity.stackexchange.com/a/14265

Braiam

I wonder if it isn't against the ToC if you spam somewhere else your app

Andrew T.

> We couldn't find anything for your search - timecaster.

wot.

seems a new app, published on 31 may 2015 and has 2 5-star ratings

Braiam

@AndrewT. caching

here play.google.com/store/apps/…, btw only 1-5 installs and already 2 5-stars revisions

Andrew T.

2:26 AM

spam http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/85473/40281
spam http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/89128/40281
the site use Microsoft(!) logo.

Kevin Brown

Apowersoft hits: apple.stackexchange.com/a/130044/130114 (smells of spam) softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/1843/12261 apple.stackexchange.com/a/176497/130114 (other post on SU already destroyed)

software recs is difficult in general, spammy answers are just par for the course there

user245368

Good luck getting The Hobbit from Open Library by the summer end being the 14'th person on the list...

Kevin Brown

More apowersoft: stackoverflow.com/a/25925298/359284 superuser.com/a/905544/72528

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Do spells stack when placed on top of each other? by abu Mark on gaming.stackexchange.com

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

2:36 AM

@KevinBrown Blacklisted user.

Andrew T.

2:59 AM

@KevinBrown the SO question might need to be closed too.

Undo

@KevinBrown hey!

;)

Andrew T.

Ooh..

Undo

Service dog.

Service puppy!

Andrew T.

Ooh!

Undo

@SmokeDetector fp-

user245368

3:08 AM

Anyone know Russian around here?

Anna Lear

@Hosch250 yes. what's up?

user245368

Because the Smoke Detector posted an answer with an email.

user245368

-2

A: Не дать пользователю убить процесс (c#)

можно сделать так на вашем проге создать ну еще 2 форму и поставить пароль на 1 форме разместить 2 кнопки 1 чтобы отключить диспетчер 2 включить, на 2 форме разместить как диспетчер задач но в отображений спрятать свой процесс ) я тоже щас создаю прогу для запрета запуска программ там и так де...

Andrew T.

Just checked on GTranslate, not a spam

user245368

I can't read it.

user245368

3:09 AM

OK.

Undo

@KevinBrown, the guy in that SR answer doesn't have any others across the network right?

Dronehinge

like @frank's about me

Anna Lear

@Hosch250 Yeah, that basically gives instructions and adds "if you need code, email me". which is ... bad, but not malicious.

Kevin Brown

@Undo If he did, they are most likely gone by now (A bunch of SU users went around in the past and cleaned them up across the network)

user245368

OK.

Frank

3:13 AM

@Dronehinge Huh?

Dronehinge

@Frank a compliment

Frank

@Dronehinge What did you say?

bjb568

eek Why's your avatar so small?

Dronehinge

@Frank trim your ear leaves

Frank

@Dronehinge idr your username, do I know you at all?

bjb568

3:14 AM

roombatron

Frank

ok that was my fist guess

*first

bjb568

soo beautiful

James

trippy

bjb568

math is like meth in that like IDK

Frank

@bjb568 I like it. I want it as my profile pic

bjb568

3:17 AM

It's higher res…

Frank

except I can't

I'm a tree

bjb568

aww

A very pixelated tree.

Frank

maybe for some obscure zero traffic SE account of mine, where no one else will see it...

bjb568

:D

Dronehinge

/me share this linky

bjb568

3:20 AM

@Dronehinge yes…

Dronehinge

@bjb568 /me sorry, misleading title, not about what me thought it'd be about

bjb568

oh

bjb568

3:55 AM

duckduckgo.com/?q=440nm&t=osx&ia=answer DDG is awesome

Unihedron

49

Q: Reduce usefulness of posting spam to Stack Overflow

I've seen a lot of spam lately that looks like this deleted post. Essentially, it's a flat-out spam, without any attempt at presenting it as something else. Although post like that get deleted within minutes, it looks like they get indexed by Google before deletion. I was surprised to see the po...

discussion spam

With 263 helpful spam flags on SO, I'm tempted to throw the experience card and tell them it's definitely not only lately...

Shog9

@HomegrownTomato not supposed to be all over the network. Something broke. @Anna assures me that this will resolve itself.

bjb568

@Shog9 [dubious - discuss]

user259867

@Unihedron There is certainly more of it lately, which is why more people are noticing. And this one is of the variety that's hard to miss.

Dronehinge

35 of Jon's answers have been used as audits that reviewers have failed to identify as ok at one point or another. In some cases, multiple reviewers have failed the same audit.

user259867

4:06 AM

Maybe those weren't such good answers after all.

Dronehinge

@Unihedron nice, i only got 214

del plz stackoverflow.com/q/30658167/3041194

Unihedron

0

A: Reduce usefulness of posting spam to Stack Overflow

With over 250 helpful spam flags on SO, I'll just throw the experience card and say that these spam waves are definitely not only lately. In fact, one of the first major meta posts featuring the spam deluge dates back to 2013. Now to address your concern - While Google's webcache does cache thes...

bjb568

> Note: this is not homework.

o_o

user259867

I have "326 posts marked spam // 325 deemed helpful"

bjb568

Can I get a get a woo woo? Can I get a -20? — Anony Mouse 21 secs ago

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