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"when the lumen database stopped accepting them"

@Shog9 They did?

I'll let someone else tell that story, but apparently yes.

@Shog9 Can you leave a "short answer" comment, then?

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog sorry, no

12:27 AM

So who will answer?

I just wrote something like 700 words for you here, and that's gonna be about it for me today

Gonna go move a big pile of dirt

Is this the case?

Jun 21 at 1:55, by Catija

WARNING!!! WARNING!!! Shog approaching daily word limit... Aooooogah Aooogah! Shut down in 200 words.

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog badgering people for answers is not cool :(

It's his job

You did mention you wanted to be told when your behaviour is annoying right? This is annoying?

Lemme rephrase

12:34 AM

Did he say he was annoyed?

I'm annoyed. I'm saying its annoying.

This might annoy you, but our conversation is our conversation.

Anyway, the CM team takes care of the the whole network. 'Its his job' kinda dosen't cover getting pinged by specific users a lot over stuff that's not urgent.

John Dvorak

Are you annoyed by someone else's conversation, or would you have been were the conversation with you?

I mean, as a mod, it probably would take a suicide threat or an ongoing troll issue for me to ping a CM

@JohnDvorak well, I'm not a CM ;p

and if I were I'd totally at some point point him, a little more politely than I am now, at the proper channels

12:36 AM

If only I were an employee, then I could go look in the code as much as I wanted, without needing to ask another employee.

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog brush up on those coding and social skills and apply the next time a opening comes up ;)

Or I could just follow Tim Post's advice and email the team for every unresolved request

which is ok. It'll get thrown into the queue and handled when appropriate

cause that's literally what I do.

(also, yay for the new, apparently unified support email. I don't need to go "hey guys, which one was it again?")

John Dvorak

That's why automatic email filtering / forwarding exists

All of this would have been avoided with a little patience.

12:47 AM

@Catija :( That's kind of the big picture thing.

@JohnDvorak bit of a story there XD. But I don't really use that much

I think maybe 2-3x times a year

and more often than not with big issues I'd like the powers that be to know about.

But I can never remember, and use the contact form most of the time.

2:18 AM

huff... morning

2:36 AM

hi

SmokeDetector

3:31 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: How to restore Trash items to original location? by anna on superuser.com

In five days, the current version of the SE Android app will be one year old.

3:46 AM

@JourneymanGeek It looks like comments containing bare links to idownvotedbecau.se are now 1-flag deletable

\o/

Good to see someone agreed

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Have you tested with a couple?

@Catija I tested with a very recently posted one

Which had one upvote

4:06 AM

Well, I made some good progress. Dug up two drain lines for rain gutters, found a leak in one and a hole followed by about 12ft of tree roots in the other. Mapped contour lines for the side hill and dug trenches for new drain lines - these'll be perforated to allow water to seep into the soil.

Sort of like French drains?

Yeah, but in reverse

The old drain line just dumped water onto the hillside. Over time it washed a lot of soil away, and then got clogged by dirt and roots. When the drought hit, the shrubs started dying; nothing to hold onto water, no fresh supply.

Ah, so more of a reservoir that will gradually release water that's been stored.

I'm gonna try & set this up to both capture runoff (swales) and inject rainwater from the roof. Reduce erosion and get rid of a lot of dead wood laying around.

...then plant new shrubs

(this is also where the wood chipper comes into play)

Oh, nice. Do you have a lot of paving that has runoff or is the ground so hard (rock?) that you have to capture it?

... that makes more sense now. People don't generally need wood chippers.

4:13 AM

I'm on a steep hillside, and it's mostly packed sand or very poor soil

Below that, shale clay

Not... Great

Sounds like ... a recipe for landslides if you're not careful.

@Catija I need one maybe one day every two years. This was just cheaper than renting one :-/

You just have to store it, now... hope you have a big shed.

Building a shed is another project I need to get to one of these years

Maybe you could rent it out on one of those "rent your stuff" sites... I think one is called loanables?

4:16 AM

assuming you live somewhere dense enough? ;p

But heck... Even if I give it away or let it rust in the yard, still cheaper than renting

@Shog9 ... or put it to other uses? ;p

And you have something to fiddle with... assuming you enjoy that sort of thing.

(or rent it out, if its worth the effort)

People chipping?

4:17 AM

@Catija I totally did not say that ;)

I rented a pop-up tent once.

hah. My experience of camping was military...

tent's too short, so you could either sleep with your head or feet sticking out...

Oh, no... a 10x10 shade tent... like for a picnic.

Oh!

thoooose

4:19 AM

oh ok

;p

I think I've seen those somewhere

pretty cheap, something like a 100 quid?

They're pretty much ubiquitous here... We own one now. Use it in the back yard for over Bennett's inflatable pool.

granted, it would just take up space...

(unless our roof leaked? ;p)

Ya, they're a thing in india, though usually rented for events.

They're pretty compact... about 10 inches square and 4 feet long... and the case is on wheels.

We live in an apartment ;p

I don't remember how much ours was... $80 maybe?

4:21 AM

(also... lots of accumilated stuff)

sounds about right with exchange rates

Yeah, we have a house with a garage... though if we do this renovation, we'll lose about 1/3 of the space before we double it.

ya.

When we fixed this place up the last time, we did half then half ;p

buuuut...

We had a lot less stuff then

We may have to get a storage unit to house it all.

hah. We had one when dad's company closed down ._.

Guess who got to shred documents?

Oooh, fun!

4:24 AM

errr

at first

We really should have just gone with fire in a hell money burner

so...

The industrial ones are more fun... throw everything in the hopper and push start.

we cheaped out and bought a fairly regular shredder...

has a 5 minute cycle before it overheats

and can only take something like 5 pages

Ouch. That sounds time consuming.

and needs to cool down if it overheats

They have companies here where you can take stuff and they'll shred it for you... assuming you trust them. I'm not sure if you can watch or not.

4:25 AM

so... its shred shred shed... wander off shred shred... oh snap....

naw, dad didn't want to spend the money XD

If I knew what I knew now?

Well, you had to buy the shredder, right?

yup

I didn't realise there would be that much paper or work

I'd have bought the handcrank one

If nothing else, I'd have popeye's forearms XD

At least have gotten a workout? Some buff arms? :P

exactly

Oh, that's odd: meta.stackexchange.com/q/311710/284336

... he VTC? so it was attributed to him and community?

4:27 AM

halp, my office internet is slow as snail D:

yup

@SomewhatMemorableName I emphatise ;p

though I managed to go from slow, pricy and shitty to slow, cheap and shitty ;p

lunch!

Huh, I've not noticed that before.

almost lunch!

Cheap is better than pricey.

I'm going to bed.

Bon Appetit!

@JourneymanGeek needs to practice his French, so if anyone knows any...

lynch!

'y' is beside 'u'...

Anyway...

User eXperience's election is now on voting phase. Go use your vote now!

^ this indicated how FUBAR my office internet just now... :(

(using personal mobile data instead -_-)

4:53 AM

Rofl

@Catija I actually have a set of french learning cds

5:04 AM

totally going to start if things go anywhere at all ;)

5:17 AM

@Catija I know a bit

5:31 AM

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog its ok ;p

@JourneymanGeek I have some French learning vinyl records from the 1960s

erm...

mostly useless in this situation lol

As well as an extremely sexist life skills book from 1955

hmm

COmpletely useless in this situation

5:59 AM

one-more-close-vote-needed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72128/…

Travis J

6:31 AM

@Catija Well, I said a 100 vote post versus 10 votes, so by extension lets examine 40 votes versus 4 100 vote posts. Can you image what this would look like after one week? 28 100 upvoted posts. Now that is content contribution! 280 votes on posts reviewed from somewhere, sprinkled about... yeah, voting is important but that isn't going to create high quality content all by itself. I strongly disagree with your observation, and still believe there was a misunderstanding in implementation.

I tend to agree with her too. It took me a much longer time to badge-run the Sportsmanship badge than it did to make a single post (that got votes from others over time).

@JourneymanGeek nowadays, people goes to Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, etc... or anything mobile..

I think it's good enough... for basic learning

Q: Since when did SE stop uploading DMCA takedown notices to Lumen Database?

6:45 AM

Has there ever been a time where a local mod has wheel-warred with an SE employee?

6 hours ago, by Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

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There was an answer that was removed from Stack Overflow due to a DMCA takedown notice. According to the comments there, the complaint was not published to Lumen Database (formerly called Chilling Effects), despite the fact that since 2013, SE has uploaded such notices. Also, it appears that ther...

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@SomewhatMemorableName lol. There's a bit of background to why french. If things work out... It will be useful

chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86604/… (@rene)

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311715/ram-dectection-error

@JourneymanGeek oooh, business-level French, or conversational French?

Conversational

I think I can get myself back to toddler level french quickly

7:03 AM

Welp, I'm weak at languages that has... specialized pronunciation: Chinese, French...

Actually that's the clever thing with the CDs I have. They build french off English

@JourneymanGeek that would be better then I have ever reached and I did had French class for two years in high school

I wasn't good at it, at all

@rene I can understand non native french speakers in movies. Can't understand native speakers

It's been a while tho

My French teacher actually advised me to drop it

Ow

7:11 AM

@JourneymanGeek He was supportive and helping me out making the right choices. I visited him regularly despite him not being involved in my future education. He was inspirational in that sense.

Ah

Lol. I am only picking it up again if certain events happen :p

Like the French re-capturing Singapore?

Erm. Not in any sense of those words

Here in California you have to take two years of a foreign language to qualify for entrance into state universities.

To fulfill my back then burning desire to become a journalist it was mandatory to have graduated with two foreign languages. With French gone I had English and German left

7:19 AM

Journalist Geek!

@rene Is your school Dutch-medium or English-medium?

Dutch (and I'm no longer in school, I'm reciting from decaying memory)

Also, which of the six different levels here (1-5 and N) are you?

@rene I know that.

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog level 1 I think?

Maybe 2 if I make an effort

but meh

And nl-N?

7:23 AM

@rene is that a Dutch joke...

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I'm a native Dutch speaker

@SomewhatMemorableName do you ever catch me making jokes? I'm not like @Bart ...

You seem more like en-3 to me

@rene it's hard to imagine a flower catching jokes though..

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I would rather under estimate my abilities and for the people interacting with me it feels better if they don't assume I make sense, on any level ...

@SomewhatMemorableName ah no :p

Not that either. Besides french was never a regional language

7:30 AM

@rene So this applies to you?

Nov 8 '13 at 20:46, by Bart

@gparyani top tip: 95% of what I say is nonsense. The other 5% is suspicious.

It's been a year since Infinite left

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog pretty much