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Shadow Wizard

1:00 PM

@Ano makes a confession!

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I'm the anonymous editor. I'm responsible for ~95% of anonymous edits in the past year here on MSE. The proof: https://meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/55306 First, a little about myself. Back in 2013, I created an account on Stack Overflow, so I could get help for computer programm...

Derpy

wait.. even better...

Shadow Wizard

Journeyman Geek

no, stashbarge

Derpy

@rene Punyon!

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy -1 that's a beard, not moustache

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Q: The mysterious Epic Punyon Beard

I have just seen the hat known as Epic Punyon Beard for the first time. Does anyone have any information (or hints if you don't want to spoil it) on this mysterious hat!?!? Here are the given (but not so useful) clues: The hat in action: UPDATE: Shog9 states that the beard is possible but...

Chicken

1:07 PM

🐔

10

Shadow Wizard

what.... is... that.... ?? ????

Andrew T.

🐤

Shadow Wizard

@Chicken 🐔

Andrew T.

...a feed for Ano to talk here!?

Shadow Wizard

lol

Might be a dev made mistake and brought it to wrong room

Andrew T.

1:10 PM

Or a Winter Bash ~~Easter~~ Chicken Egg

Shadow Wizard

There are tons of private rooms on this domain full with activity and probably all kinds of feeds too....

6 rooms with about 15 users chatting in the last 120 minutes.

rene

Chicken is not a user it seems?

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Andrew T.

Skynet.

Journeyman Geek

Devs do not make <connection lost>

Derpy

1:14 PM

!!/birdseed

SmokeDetector

@Derpy No such command 'birdseed'.

Shadow Wizard

@rene feed

Andrew T.

You are on the way to destruction

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard we do we have a chicken feed? Or do we feed the chicken? Or does the chicken feed?

rene

@ShadowWizard not in feeds currently configured for this room

Journeyman Geek

1:14 PM

WHO KNOWS?

Shadow Wizard

0

Q: What are the negative users on chat?

Possible Duplicate: System Users for Chat I mean like this: http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/-42/clippy They aren't linked to any stackexchange account.

support chat users

What it's called... easier to just call them all Feeds.... ;)

Journeyman Geek

SOmeone should ask on meta ;p

rene

Point is, I can't kick the Chicken

Andrew T.

You don't kick the chicken!

Shadow Wizard

@rene Of course you can't it's a system user!

Journeyman Geek

1:16 PM

Can you cho.... never mind

Shadow Wizard

It can kick you

rene

Try it!

Journeyman Geek

or peck your eyes out

Shadow Wizard

Seriously though, like Community, it's not a real user.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard but but

Shadow Wizard

1:17 PM

So we can't ping it, can't kick it, etc.

Journeyman Geek

WHY IS IT HERE?

rene

THAT^

Andrew T.

waiting for the first contact...

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek only @Nick knows.

Journeyman Geek

There's no devs/cms to blame either.

Andrew T.

1:17 PM

!!/blame

Derpy

Egg hat.

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. It's Pseudohuman's fault.

Shadow Wizard

smells like a trick out of his sleeve. :D

Journeyman Geek

@Nick knows what fowlness lurks in the hearts of chickens?

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector who!?

Shadow Wizard

1:17 PM

@AndrewT. @JennaSloan's bot

Fluttershy - Maybe, but, but... No!

►

Andrew T.

but the bot hadn't interacted here recently, still included on the wheel of blame???

or it is the Chicken.

Shadow Wizard

Dec 6 at 20:23, by angussidney

By the way everyone, sorry if Smokey acts a little weirdly/differently over the next few days, we’ve just done a massive refactor of our chat system and we’ve encountered a few bugs that we weren’t anticipating.

Probably they changed it to take from all users currently in the room.

/cc @angussidney ^

!!/foobar

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard No such command 'foobar'.

Shadow Wizard

That's new too ^

Derpy

@Chicken 🥚

Shadow Wizard

1:20 PM

!!/two words

rene

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-196?tab=general

u no onebox?

Shadow Wizard

@rene chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-194

Derpy

maybe the chicken is related to the turkey hat.

Shadow Wizard

huh, probably onebox performs sanity check for user ID

Derpy

or maybe the chicken will become the turkey hat but it escaped while they were bringing it to "Food&Seasoning"

Shadow Wizard

1:23 PM

aka regex to determine if to onebox or not takes only positive numbers :/

rene

@Derpy yeah, I suspect that as well

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. No such command 'my dear, watson', you can't stop me, 'plebs'.

Shadow Wizard

!!/@rene

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard No such command '@rene'.

Shadow Wizard

did it ping you @rene? ^ ^^

rene

1:24 PM

yes

Shadow Wizard

lol

!!/‮@rene

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard No such command '‮@rene'.

Shadow Wizard

And this one? @rene ^

Wait... @rene did you actually try to kick the chicken out? LOL

late bloomer here

I'll never kick a chicken.

I wonder if Chicken bots appeared on other chat domains as well?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: How to download all di.fm & sky.fm playlists at once? by Ade on webapps.SE

Derpy

@ShadowWizard chat.stackexchange.com/users/-717/kevin-van-der-velden anything over 717 is a 404 error

so, they got a duck instead

rene

1:31 PM

@SmokeDetector yes

@ShadowWizard yes again

Shadow Wizard

lol again

Andrew T.

HTTP 197: Not a Chicken

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy but the duck did not intrude into rooms and quacked.

chicken

:/

wait, it's not a chicken.

Rooster

:(

Journeyman Geek

hi @Andy

Andy

Howdy

user202362

1:43 PM

chicken not children

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: What is.... the chicken?

So, we just noticed a new, fowl user on the tavern I think he called us chicken. Or called himself a chicken. Or something poultry like that. And interestingly its a system user. So... what's the story? Who knows what fowlness lurks in the heart of the chicken?

support chat

Kinda shocked no one did it earlier. And the lack of poultry puns.

Stijn

@rene how's the snow treating you over there? I left for work early enough this morning to arrive before first snowfall, but looks like I'll have to take a train home if I don't want to spend 3+ hours for 70km. Chaos everywhere :(

Andrew T.

@JourneymanGeek lel, got downvoted

Journeyman Geek

@AndrewT. oh well. 4th for the day

Maybe someone prefers ducks?

Derpy

Calling it: new Hairboat styled hat. To avoid having a random lucky employee to win a free pings Epic Loot Box they have created a dedicated spam receiver account. Probably related to the turkey hat if that is getting implemented as someone suggested.. — Derpy 1 min ago

rene

1:56 PM

@Stijn It started around 10:30 it is 4 cm's now. I work from home but I did some shopping early. I had to drive home y'day from the north back to the R'dam area. Till amsterdam it was pretty scary now and then.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username: Animacion en C, con Graphics.h by NIGGAV3N0M0N on es.stackoverflow.com

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector :/

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. hmm?

Why sad?

Derpy

also...

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A: The Quest for the Winter Chickens of the Bash

You mean those chickens? 😄

Andrew T.

@Derpy OMG

@ShadowWizard not sad, just... "meh"

Derpy

2:01 PM

two years later, we will have the promised chickens.

furthermore, it makes sense : every year I keep asking for easter eggs on the Bash site.

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. :/

Journeyman Geek

technically, winterbash is easter eggs. In Xmas. ...

oh wait

Wouldn't that make em christmas eggs?

Shadow Wizard

Rooster Eggs

Derpy

Since this is no Easter and so we don't have any chocolate eggs laying rabbit running around, the only other egg-producing animal they could think off was a chicken

be happy: at least they are not spider eggs

or snake

Journeyman Geek

platypus eggs!

Shadow Wizard

2:07 PM

Or Eggs McLaren

Journeyman Geek

That's a name I have not seen in quite a while

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek only two months

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Q: Why the name Eggs McLaren?

As you might know, this puppet account asked the first non-deleted question on Stack Overflow and is present on other SE sites as well. I'm just curious what does the name mean and why that name was chosen (presumably by Jeff Atwood).

discussion display-names sock-puppets jeff-atwood

Journeyman Geek

> What is.... the Chicken? 🐔

.... I didn't even know you could emoji titles... @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

lol of course you can 🐔

Andrew T.

emoji is just a unicode... with image

Shadow Wizard

2:14 PM

Think I'll append 🐔 to all my messages now

rene

@Stijn not sure how the NMBS is coping but the NS isn't so sure about their services ...

Journeyman Geek

also, the android chicken looks better

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. not really image, it's part of the font 🐔

Hene different look for every OS 🐔

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard this should be almost as interesting from my last user ID question

Shadow Wizard

Image would have looked the same. 🐔

Stijn

2:15 PM

@rene most routes are OK, some small delays. Some routes are closed. But they prepared by activating the heating elements at the track switches last night.

The bus service, on the other hand :p

Shadow Wizard

oh no we can't search for 🐔! It's ignored! :(

Journeyman Geek

ya, you can't search for emoji ;p

Andrew T.

🐧

Derpy

> Here comes a new challenger!

🦃

Shadow Wizard

square? ^ 🐔

Journeyman Geek

2:17 PM

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Q: Searching for emoji in chat is 💩 (broken)

Recently, I've been recommending music in chat, 'tagging' it with emoji (🎶). But they don't come up in search! https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=%F0%9F%8E%B6&room=118 Yea, this is probably waaaaaaaay down the priority list. But it's a nice-to-have.

bug chat search emoji

Derpy

@ShadowWizard emojipedia.org/turkey

Andrew T.

@ShadowWizard Real rooster, or so I thought

Stijn

I wonder if it works like in WoW...

@Chicken /cluck

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. it is even a square on my android device

you use some very fancy fonts... @Derpy @Andrew ;) 🐔

Andrew T.

@ShadowWizard just a normal Chrome 63 62 on Windows 10...

Derpy

2:19 PM

@Stijn WoW?

Journeyman Geek

Stijn

@Derpy wow.gamepedia.com/Quest:CLUCK!#Walkthrough

Journeyman Geek

works for me on chrome android

Shadow Wizard

:(

Andrew T.

yeah, I'd say "upgrade your Android version" :(

Derpy

2:23 PM

@Stijn Yep, I know. I meant that LotRO version of the "chicken quest" is far more irritating.

also...

in The Assembly on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 42 mins ago, by gparyani

About @Chicken: this may be relevant

Andrew T.

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. borderlands!!!!!11!!!

b_jonas

@Chicken po-dack

Journeyman Geek

actually,

@ShadowWizard the mixed gender terms was the joke ;p

Derpy

trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%F0%9F%90%94

Derpy

2:40 PM

!!!!!

QUICK! TO THE BASH SITE!

Shadow Wizard

?

Andrew T.

@Derpy what's that?

Shadow Wizard

...

@Derpy you can't repeat trolling. ;)

Derpy

@AndrewT. @ShadowWizard I don't know what you two are talking about

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. it's @Derpy doing @Telkitty

cover version? ;)

Derpy

2:43 PM

@ShadowWizard maybe the real troll was making you think I could be @Telkitty in the first place.

Shadow Wizard

That would be awesome trolling! :D

Derpy

"when the troll seems to be too evident, you are looking at the wrong troll"

Stijn

3:17 PM

@rene a colleague just came back after waiting 45 minutes, apparently there was an accident and there are almost no trains leaving the station here

so I've no way to get home now

rene

Oh boy ....

I guess calling Thuisbezorgd.be for some food isn't going to work either ...

@Stijn in case you need to stay at the office for the night, you might want to check the heating stays on ....

Stijn

Well... we're in a modern "passive" building, there is no heating here

rene

O_o

Stijn

I'm at the blue circle at the right, and need to get to the one at the left

rene

Just go over Eeklo, Brugge, Torhout ...

Stijn

3:27 PM

those are jammed too, but you only see it when you zoom in further :p

gonna try the highway towards France, that one is only in yellow

rene

@Stijn I feel very sorry for you: i.sstatic.net/QaUEO.jpg

Catija

4:27 PM

So... was there ever any follow up on the crayons and swag thing?

Mithrandir

@Catija I think that @TimPost got scared off by the chicken, so it never happened

Chickens are scary.

Catija

But what if we are supposed to color the chicken? It's a perfect blank canvas.

John Dvorak

4:48 PM

@Stijn At least it's not midsummer evening - you'd have a big evil Sun stuck in your face the whole way through.

user315433

@Catija Was there ever followup on most of Tim's ideas posted on Meta?

Catija

@CrazyIvan I don't know what his track record is... I just wanted some swag.

:P

user315433

Would anyone care for some processed meat-like substance with a gelatinous glaze? - a number of requests in comments, no response.

user315433

Empowering tag-badge holders part II - let's look at silver? ... well we looked

user315433

How can we empower per-site mods to more efficiently dispose of network spammers? Who knows...

user315433

5:00 PM

Let's show users an audit of account activity sounds good...

user315433

And the biggest one, Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project!

Catija

@CrazyIvan Hey, they may still be doing stuff... I'm really crossing my fingers for my suggestion there.

John Dvorak

They're drawing hats, for one

user315433

5:18 PM

Swag contests seem unlikely at these dark times.

Catija

5:30 PM

Maybe Tim wanted us to draw hats for them.

Feeds

People keep telling me to use the radio but I really hate making voice calls.

user315433

6:08 PM

> Paradoxically, I find the best way to learn a new languages is to answer questions rather than ask them. jericson.github.io/2017/12/08/race_to_1k_5.html … -- Jon Ericson at 9:36 AM - 11 Dec 2017

user315433

I wouldn't say "the best" but agree with "better of the two".

user315433

> "These five programming languages have flaws that expose apps to attack" I hate to break it to the press, but any programming language that relies on programmers has this problem :) -- Tim Post at 10:08 AM - 11 Dec 2017

user315433

Yeah, but if Alyssa was still around, she'd make a listicle for the blog out of this, with a link to Jobs at the end....

Tim Post

@Mithrandir You calling me chicken?

Mithrandir

6:42 PM

@TimPost yes. Yes I am.

But in retrospect, it's possible I should have said that you're acting like a monkey.

Chicken

6:54 PM

🐔🥚

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Catija

Chaos monkey?

@Chicken I'm sorry, Chicken, but that second emoji seems to be broken.

Jon Ericson

@CrazyIvan The secret to learning a language (any language) is using it. Answering (when you don't already know the answer) forces you to experiment. (I should probably expand on that idea in my blog post. Hmmmm....)

Mithrandir

8:10 PM

@Catija I can't see it either, but Google seems to tell me it's an egg emoji.

Catija

@Mithrandir yeah. I can see it on my phone.

user315433

Is there a dialect of English in which "brocolli" is considered correct spelling?

user315433

Don't want to be like one of those folks changing "centre" to "center", etc.

Catija

I don't think so.

user315433

Thanks; I couldn't find it either.

Catija

8:24 PM

Seems to be a common misspelling, though.

user315433

9:51 PM

Unibot

1 1

user315433

I guess this user shouldn't count as an employee either, despite API saying so. Damn edge cases...

Catija

10:11 PM

U can't haz employee list!

gparyani

10:43 PM

Yay! I'm in, finally!

Catija

But do you really want to be?

The Tavern is a silly place.

user315433

@Catija o rly

Catija

@CrazyIvan Yes... because they will pepper the list with Unibots and other mis-labled non-staff.

user315433

Eliza looks suspicious too.

user315433

Especially considering chat activity

Catija

10:52 PM

What about sassie?

I do have to admit the brilliance of that avatar, though.

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Q: Is tequila a depressant?

I recently read this Buzzfeed article after witnessing excessive drunk crying. It claims: Unlike other forms of alcohol, tequila is not a depressant. As a source, it quotes Esquire: Tequila is not a depressant. At least it's not borne out by our research. Seldom is the time that te...

physiology alcohol

user315433

Sassie is definitely a real person.

user315433

in The Couch, Nov 25 '11 at 20:41, by Eliza

@JeremyBanks How long have you been in horrible distress at not knowing who created I?

user315433

A- for grammar

Catija

11:27 PM

Thanks @rene

rene

be careful ....

Don't hit the unprotect button twice.

Catija

... why?

user315433

Did Startups really have "0 users with 200+ rep"?

Catija

no.

user315433

Caching? The Startups v1 page shows correct stats.

rene

11:37 PM

@Catija when it starts it processes in the background while it leaves the button enabled. if you click it again it will do the question again, failing the ones already done, hitting the server more often. Anyway, now fixed in v0.2

Catija

@rene So, when I hit "search" it doesn't give me the results of that search or tell me when it's completed?

rene

hold on ...

@Catija make sure you have this line for the filter: const filter = (i) => i.protectedDate < Date.parse('2017-11-01');

you need to make that change in the script

then this what you should get: i.sstatic.net/aKpTE.gif

(when run on MSE)

Catija

@rene The only difference I see between that line and the one I have already is a double space between the => and i.protectedDate

rene

oh, Ok. That should work then ....O_o

Catija

@rene That's super cool... so I can uncheck any of the ones I don't want to unprotect, and then click "unprotect".

rene

11:49 PM

Yep

Catija

(I'd already removed the filter by your username, if that's what you were expecting me to have in there)

Hmmmm... so I've found a slight problem... it only works on page one of the protected questions list.

rene

Oh ... I thought the * in the match rule should have fixed that

Catija

Does it need a * at the end or something?

user315433

Is kotlin-android somehow different from kotlin?

rene

@Catija like so // @match https://*.stackexchange.com/tools/protected-questions*

Catija

11:54 PM

yeah, ok. that's what I figured.

rene

I recall I had that in there but removed it for unknown reasons

Catija

I like it a lot.

rene

I find it extremely tricky as you can easily unprotect all questions ...

vnext will need a few safeguards

Catija

Yeah, I'm not going to make it "public" on IPS any time soon... but I will let HDE know.

rene

@Catija your filter works as well?

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