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Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

11:09

My home isn't equipped with a chimney...there's just a small exhaust pipe for the enclosed fireplace.

Shadow Wizard

That's a chimney. No?

Nice thing you have a fireplace in your home... is it a private house i.e. not inside a building?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard My residence in San Diego...it's a single family home.

Shadow Wizard

But is it a building? Or a one story house?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard It's a two-story house.

Shadow Wizard

Nice. :)

So, that's how your house looks like? @Sonic

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

11:16

@ShadowWizard Yep, pretty much...

The walls on mine look plainer, though.

Shadow Wizard

My house is in a building, it went through a serious overhaul recently which took 3 years. Now the building look and feel almost as new even though it's actually 40+ years old. :D

(they also added two new floors, so now it's 6 floors instead of 4 floors)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog well, guess your home didn't win any awards... :) 24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/175061/…

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

My relatives in India did something similar, massively renovating their house and extending it from 1 floor to 2

@ShadowWizard Well, to be fair, the same builder mentioned there built ours, and it's what's inside that matters...

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog yep sounds similar. Here the government helps a bit with those trying to encourage people to make their houses more resilient to earthquakes.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

California is very prone to earthquakes

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog oh. Nice! :D

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog so is Israel, in general.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

11:21

So our house is built up to earthquake standards

Shadow Wizard

Here most old buildings are not. :/

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

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Shadow Wizard

Great Rift Valley

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Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

San Diego is lower-risk, though...LA is much higher

Shadow Wizard

Hey why no picture in my onebox? :(

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

11:23

@Shadow Is it true that in Ben Gurion Airport, you have to arrive 4 hours before your flight due to the insane amount of security?

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog depends when, but yes in peak hours that's true.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Out of curiosity, what security risk do you usually get deemed as, out of 6? (It's the first digit in the barcode they put on your passport.)

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog no idea, never checked.

Think I kept the barcode from my last flight, will check later when back at home.

(passport is in the drawer next to my bed)

My wife got the SSSS twice in a row in USA thogh.

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Q: What does "SSSS" on my boarding pass mean?

When I checked in for my American Airlines flight from Costa Rica back to the States, I noticed that my boarding pass had "SSSS" printed across the top left corner. Nobody else in my party had this on their boarding pass, and I didn't notice that I was treated differently at the airport (securit...

Andras Deak

not to be confused with SSSR

Shadow Wizard

lol

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

11:31

Heh, I got the SSSS once, on a flight from Paris to LAX. Perhaps the fact that my incoming connection was from India on an airline with (false) claims of being associated with terrorism and a recent money-smuggling incident involving a crew member was to blame?

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog maybe. Never figured why my wife got it.

Oh.... and in our latest flight back to Israel from Switzerland my son got it. Not SSSS, it's something different there, but he was chosen for random check and got personally checked by a security officer. o_o

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard If you suspect you're on a watchlist of some sort, you can appeal to the U.S. government, and if found to be valid, they'll give you a "redress number" to enter into airline reservations that (at least in theory) will prevent you from being flagged

@ShadowWizard TSA does random inspections on all flights here.

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog nah, it didn't affect me (yet) and my wife found it rather amusing. :)

Andras Deak

3 degrees, feels like -1. Ugh, I don't want to go outside

Tinkeringbell

Then stay in ?

Or dress up. -1 is manageable ;)

Andras Deak

11:38

@Tinkeringbell my students would love that :)

Tinkeringbell

@AndrasDeak See, fixed!

Shadow Wizard

@AndrasDeak why would they care if you're dressed up with warm clothes?

Andras Deak

:|

Shree

cv-pls discussion off-topic Virtualization: physical vs. virtual partitions - Frank van Wensveen‎ - 2018-11-20 11:37:47Z

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Shadow The biggest security incident we've ever gone through is when we were booked to fly Mumbai-Munich-Frankfurt-Los Angeles. My parents didn't have the right visa to enter the Schengen area to catch our domestic leg, so we were of course refused entry and had to stay in a "cell" for a couple of hours, until we eventually got the immigration officer to let us speak with an airline agent.

Andras Deak

11:40

what do you mean?

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard They probably wouldn't

The point is mainly that it's just too cold to go outside :P

Shadow Wizard

@AndrasDeak ohhh... you replied to the "stay in" from @Tinker, thought you replied to the "dress up" message. facepalm :D

Andras Deak

have another coffee :P

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard You were supposed to keep me awake today, not the other way round :P

Shadow Wizard

!!/coffee me

SmokeDetector

11:41

@ShadowWizard brews a cup of Espresso for @me

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

The issue was solved because a handful of passengers were slated to fly DEL-MUC-LAX and the DEL-MUC flight got cancelled, so those seats on the MUC-LAX flight became empty and we snagged them. The airline was fined an unknown amount for letting passengers without the right visa onboard.

Tinkeringbell

@SmokeDetector Wrong! You were supposed to brew for Shadow, not keep it yourself.

Bad bot.

Shadow Wizard

lol

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Sad part is, a few friends were booked on that DEL-MUC flight

!!/coffee Shadow

SmokeDetector

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog brews a cup of Ristretto for @Shadow

Tinkeringbell

11:42

Kinda reminds me of a google spreadsheet I saw...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Tinkeringbell Problem solved.

Tinkeringbell

It listed instances of people telling an AI to learn to do something and it having unexpected results :)

Andras Deak

by the way I wouldn't mind the cold but it's been drizzling all day

Tinkeringbell

Like 'Play Tetris without dying for as long as possible' and the AI learned to pause the game.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Does coffee turn hedgehogs black?

Tinkeringbell

11:43

@AndrasDeak Oh that's nasty weather.

Andras Deak

@Tinkeringbell there's also some evolutionary game where the AI started cheating

Tinkeringbell

I don't mind full blown rain but drizzling gets under umbrellas a lot more.

Mithrandir

@Shadow - my grandparents usually give ~100USD

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog whoa, sounds scary. Glad it ended with this. :)

Tinkeringbell

@AndrasDeak Yeah, this was a cool list ;)

I think there were a few such instances on that list too

Shadow Wizard

11:44

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog only real black coffee, i.e. Turkish Coffee. I have 3 of those during the day, and one during the night.

Andras Deak

arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453v1

stuff like twitter.com/jeffclune/status/973605950266331138/photo/1

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Derpy What turns hedgehogs blue?

Shadow Wizard

@AndrasDeak tic-tac-toe

wired.com/story/when-bots-teach-themselves-to-cheat

Tinkeringbell

@AndrasDeak docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/…

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir wow, not bad. Hope you're using it wisely! ;)

Andras Deak

11:47

These are the kinds of shit that will exterminate us one day

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer (79): What's this part of the bike, and is it safe to alter it? by VoxTrail GPS on bicycles.SE

Shadow Wizard

Nah.... I really don't think so.

Mithrandir

....totally not planning on buying more camera equipment

Andras Deak

"Computer, maximize well-being on the planet!" "Affirmitive, exterminating all humans"

Shadow Wizard

We'll exterminate ourselves before we'll let any AI do it.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

11:48

cv-pls one-more-close-vote-needed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318563/…

Tinkeringbell

I hope by then people will have learned not to command that

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir hehe

Mithrandir

also totally not planning on creating a YouTube channel

Tinkeringbell

you never have too much camera equipment ;)

Andras Deak

@Tinkeringbell yeah, sure, people are totally going to know better

Shadow Wizard

11:49

@Mithrandir It costs money these days?! :/

Tinkeringbell

@AndrasDeak Hence I hope :P

Mithrandir

...the camera stuff does

Tinkeringbell

It's about all I can do to not fall into 'I despair they won't have learned' :P

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Well, you do have to give away your bank info to get deposits from monetization

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog huh

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

11:50

Stephen Hawking once said, "artificial intelligence can be a real danger; it can design improvements to itself and overthrow us all".

Andras Deak

> Neural nets evolved to classify edible and poisonous mushrooms took advantage of the data being presented in alternating order, and didn't actually learn any features of the input images

hehehe, talk about branch prediction failure

Shadow Wizard

> Trump: Send two nukes on Moscow, please.
> AI: But sir, it will kill more than 2000000 people. Sure you want to continue?
> Trump: Of course you stupid machine!
> AI: Sir, please don't curse.
> Trump: Send those nukes now or I will take your head off!
> AI: Sir, I don't have a head.

Andras Deak

"Nukes sent to Moscow"

Tinkeringbell

@AndrasDeak I also love the one where the AI learned that a picture of something with a ruler was more likely to be cancerous than one of something without :P

Shadow Wizard

rofl

Andras Deak

11:53

@Tinkeringbell hehehe, creepy

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Send two nukes on Moscow? Sorry, no vehicles by that brand found :P

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell I saw recently something about a "smart door" not recognizing the owner due to batman on his shirt.... :D

(so it identified him as batman, who isn't on its whitelist of allowed people.....)

Tinkeringbell

Who wouldn't whitelist batman!?

Shadow Wizard

lol

Tinkeringbell

What if there's an emergency?

I hope that door has an emergency mode...

Shadow Wizard

11:56

@Tinkeringbell hey, don't underestimate my vision of future AI! :P

and myself

AFAIK, it went into defensive mode instead... with turrets and such...

Tinkeringbell

@andmyself Cool. Now I want one :P

I'll be in the turret library if people are looking for me ;)

Shadow Wizard

Found it!

Tinkeringbell

That's just 'new people seen' :P

Shadow Wizard

lol

Tinkeringbell

11:58

But it's at kid height, so it's kinda correct :P

Shadow Wizard

Think the story was he got locked out, called support, and that's what they found in the logs.

Tinkeringbell

Nice ;)

My dad once hung up a security cam... then lost access to his e-mail because the cam triggered by a moving branch on a very windy day a lot, and he was e-mailing himself or something and sending soo many e-mails people thought he was a spammer.

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell Not for the poor man... :D

Tinkeringbell

Took some calling to get that right again.

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell LOL.... that's funny! Hope you tweeted about it? :P

Tinkeringbell

12:01

@ShadowWizard Still, what if there's a real emergency? Would the only option be to kick down the door? If there's e.g. a fire and you lose power before you can evacuate, will you be able to leave or will the door remain locked?

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell heh, you can do that? Good to know. :)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Nah, that was pre-twitter era :P

@ShadowWizard He could, he had an e-mail through our internet providers hosting at that moment.

I don't know if it would work for e.g. gmail or hotmail :)

Magisch

If we all end up building a truly sentient self learning ai then maybe humans aren't even necessary anymore

much like we don't still have neandethals around right now

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell good question, I can only hope policemen/fire fighters have some secret code for such doors, or can get instant access by calling a support number available 24/7

@Tinkeringbell oh... probably not. Though gmail does ask for our own phone numbers.

Derpy

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog running in a device create by Dr Ovi Kintobor

Shadow Wizard

12:04

@Magisch read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" if you didn't already. :)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard That has more to do with 2FA, if I remember correctly ;)

Woohooo! I just did my first vtc as duplicate XD

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell nah, it's used to get back access if you forgot password, happened to me once. You can choose to send secret code via SMS, you type the code, and can access your account again.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Ah, that's a good thing too ;)

Shadow Wizard

Yup

@Tinkeringbell yeah, followed by my hammer. Congrats! :D

Tinkeringbell

It confused me for a while... my comment was lost but the question didn't show the yellow 'on hold' until I refreshed :P

Shadow Wizard

12:12

@Tinkeringbell yeah the live refresh isn't perfect. :)

Tinkeringbell

It's okay, I now know what to expect :P

Shadow Wizard

And it's not "on hold", just duplicate.

Tinkeringbell

You knew what I meant :P

Shadow Wizard

Of course! :D

Derpy

Palutena's Guidance Secret in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate! (Daisy)

►

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

13:03

@Tinkeringbell duplicate questions are NOT on hold! We shall not miss this chance to nitpick

Tinkeringbell

Consider your chance taken then ;)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

So, what did I miss about SE stuff?

Tinkeringbell

Nothing much or interesting. How long were you gone exactly? :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Graduate site redesigns ticked off some

@Tinkeringbell time is relative

It feels like an hour ago that we were arguing about arguing about Wensel's post

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ more twitter drama...

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ oh that passed.

But I don't want to put poor tink through rehashing that unpleasantness

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

13:08

Well I might not be on planet Earth so one hour for me is 23 years there

Only Nolan nerds and some other people get that reference.

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell he was last active on June

(this year)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

No, one hour ago

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ in short, we hit peak twitter, there was HNQ related drama on twitter, and a significant number of mods are unhappy

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

"June" means "hour" in Hebrew

Shadow Wizard

eh... no, it's not.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

13:11

@JourneymanGeek nothing like people that don't know the context making assumptions about it in 140 characters

Shadow Wizard

hour in Hebrew is "sha-a"

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Did I get that right?

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ actually... you got it right

anyway, there you are, caught up

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard so you're a time wizard in fact!

That is an interesting twist

Shadow Wizard

lol

and the Hebrew word for the month June is read as "Yunni" if that's related. ;)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

13:13

Uni you say huh

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ it can be much less and boiled down to "Stack Overflow sucks, let's close it".

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ yes that also works. :D

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Meta.SE looks normal. JavaFX not being able to display Listview is the hot question

@ShadowWizard Joel needs some practice with sensei Sugarberg on how to handle stuff like this

. . . Is there a way to see hot meta posts or did they go the way of Dodos?

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Q: How do I make the central question panel larger?

I read this answer to hide the nav bar: How do I hide the left navigation sidebar? Which I have done, but now it just leaves a huge white gap:

support

Why though? I like it this way

Not having to read 300 words in a line is a blessing

Oh code blocks

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ newsletter. I can forward you some if you give me your email. ;)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Bah

Nevermind

I never read mails

Andras Deak

meta.stackexchange.com/newsletter/preview

might not be comprehensive

Shadow Wizard

13:25

@AndrasDeak but not for the past :)

Andras Deak

ah

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. did you see this?

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Q: Live: Left nav, new theming and responsiveness

This post is now locked due to a lot of off-topic or very tangentially related issues being posted here. It's so large that it is pretty hard to find/triage issues listed. If you have a concern related to left nav, theming and/or responsiveness, then I'd encourage you to post them as a questio...

discussion navigation responsive-design

not much drama, just tons of downvotes. ;)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Nope, but I do now

I know how to find drama

Hot meta posts was a quick way to figure out posts worth discussing

Newsletter doesn't cut it

Shadow Wizard

oh, and ongoing off topic wave on MSE due to email with direct links to MSE posts.

(sent to all SE users)

plz-delete AWS meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318566/… @rene @Bart @Glorfindel

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard oh? I didn't get that one

Or maybe I did

I'm practically a ghost

Shadow Wizard

13:35

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ look for email sent somewhere in October (they sent it in batches) with the title "[Quarterly Update] Making Stack Overflow more welcoming".

afaik they sent it to each and every user who gave them a valid email address.

On all SE sites.

Wait.. maybe just Stack Overflow.

But still... :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Must have been very thought provoking for pharma spammers

Shadow Wizard

lol

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Make spam more user friendly

Shadow Wizard

Oh right! @M.A.R. and we now see a welcome card for new users, including spammers.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Nutella cream is a new user. Please make sure what you say or do is not rude.

Shadow Wizard

13:37

See the hat on @andmyself's head? That's the welcome icon used. :D

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Nope, gotta turn on VPN for avatars

Shadow Wizard

:(

Any image host we can use to share images with you? @M.A.R.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I can't see my own avatar. Which is it?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ it's a weird colored Visual Studio logo.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Oh nice. Because I definitely know how to work with VS.

Shadow Wizard

13:40

I'm sure you can work with it better than I can work with airplanes. :D

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JourneymanGeek puppies can't make those eyes.

Only felines

Journeyman Geek

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

How dare you throw a spinning loading bar at me

Journeyman Geek

Shadow Wizard

13:43

lol

Andras Deak

leave it to huskies to give you a sassy look

Something Bad Happened

“Facebook employees are still at their desks after finding that their company was actively attempting to discredit activists. […] They haven’t organized. They haven’t made a stand. And they won’t.” Great piece by @monteiro 👏 https://medium.com/@monteiro/when-to-put-down-the-tools-e9de4520709f

Tweeted by m_ott on November 18, 2018 at 8:04 AM

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Something bad happened

Andras Deak

context?

I guess on the medium post

Something Bad Happened

Context: Favebook has always been morally reprehensible and their employees don't care.

Journeyman Geek

13:55

@AndrasDeak Facebook got caught hiring a company that does PR by actively making shit up

Andras Deak

Ah!

Journeyman Geek

@SomethingBadHappened I don't think most people are really going to see past their paychecks.

Something Bad Happened

It is hard when they are so big, and Facebook does have a lot of.cool tech.

It would be hard to leave.

Journeyman Geek

and paychecks are love

well are money anyway

and there's probably very few employers you're going to find a perfect value match with

With the google thing...

they didn't want to work on the tech

here its "eh, its marketing... those scamps"

Something Bad Happened

At that compensation level for average engineers you only have a handful.of choices and they're all problematic in some dimension.

Journeyman Geek

13:58

and marketing goes "its division 23."

@SomethingBadHappened which is why I am where I am now

Its a job. It pays money.

and bouncing back from losing your job's often a pain. Not sure if people want to rock the boat, especially considering FB's never had a cuddly corp culture.

Something Bad Happened

But we are collectively pretty powerful groups with leverage. Collectively, we (or rather, employees at big tech) are in a relatively empowered position to affect change these days. (Thesis of the article.)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): How to get to Niagara Falls (Canada side) from Toronto airport during a layover? by sarah marri on travel.SE

Journeyman Geek

@SomethingBadHappened but y'all are also replacable.

Something Bad Happened

True. It seems like organizing they might be a bit harder than it was for the Googlers.

Journeyman Geek

Google had that old core of "don't be evil"

Facebook literally was a frat boy programming project designed to pick up girls

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

14:01

Will they ever fall though?

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ everything eventually falls

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I like that the medium post says they're digging their long term graves and they probably do but they seem to big to fall

Catija

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ !!!!!! :D

Something Bad Happened

We're not that replaceable. BigTechCos are all trying to suck up as much talent in each area as they can; having tens of employees demonstrating together creates a problem larger than they can fire and replace.

tens of thousands* oops :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

It could work if it's tens of Skeet

Something Bad Happened

14:03

I'm joining the #googlewalkout, which feels slightly odd as I'm working from home today. Still, tools down for a while in remote solidarity.

Tweeted by jonskeet on November 1, 2018 at 11:13 AM

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Catija !!!!! :D

Journeyman Geek

@SomethingBadHappened Well, its google - and its an internal issue

look at how facebook is handling it?

"We have no idea who hired them, and will investigate"

and wait till people forget.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

See that's what I mean

They end up doing their evil when things are quiet and there is lack of coverage

Something Bad Happened

Maybe. We might need to hope for external factors there....

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Actually I was making the same arguement about mods ;)

Something Bad Happened

14:05

if the money is a big attractor, then a falling stock price is a big problem, since like half of their compensation is in equity.

Catija

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I've missed you. :D

Journeyman Geek

@SomethingBadHappened That it can be

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JourneymanGeek ehm, OK. Which argument? Uncooked pasta?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you bet. And it leaves a trail of undying numbers.

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ that at some point, we're unhappy, we can mass quit ;p

Something Bad Happened

14:06

@JourneymanGeek 🔥🔥🔥

Journeyman Geek

but we'd possibly be replacable.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Catija you're too kind! I missed lots of things staring at the hospital's whitish wall

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ :/

doing better?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Of course I'm doing better! I have three kidneys now

Catija

Three?

Shadow Wizard

14:08

@AndrasDeak ethics and Facebook. It's like Light and Darkness.

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ on your way to being a timelord? Or a Centauri....

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Yeah they probably didn't touch the other two

Shadow Wizard

Wait, no. Darkness still got some light in it. Sorry, Light.

Magisch

The dark side of jQuery file upload manipulation

Catija

Ah. But the important thing is you have at least one that won't let you down!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

14:09

@JourneymanGeek on my way to being a useful person in the society

Something Bad Happened

$.applyEthics(this)

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ ... probably?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

So, both? Unless the time lord is evil

Shadow Wizard

@Catija quora.com/…

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ eh, I have two kidneys and a heart that cerifiably works (they checked it twice!)

Magisch

14:10

@SomethingBadHappened error: applyEthics is not a function

Journeyman Geek

and ... I'm not always a useful person in society.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@SomethingBadHappened where can I buy the lotion?

Catija

@ShadowWizard Ugh... those answers need editing badly.

Journeyman Geek

@Catija why don't.... oh

Magisch

@Catija this is one of those things that now frustrate me to hell on other forums

just recently I was reading a post in a games forum and spotted a typo and then instinctively went looking for the edit button to fix it. Alas

Shadow Wizard

14:14

@Magisch no editing?

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch and it is a core feature on SE ;). And there's platforms where... you can't fix your own mistakes

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek where even presidents are forced to just delete their shame.

Journeyman Geek

Yup

Shadow Wizard

Or a simple typo becomes a worldwide meme.

Mithrandir

@M.A.R. if you need a spleen, my cousin has 4

Journeyman Geek

14:17

with world wide coverfe?

Shadow Wizard

lol you see? :D

@Mithrandir how... on.... buh. Never mind, better not know. :P

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body (99): Can tell me best freelancer site for telecom engineer by sravani M on superuser.com

Mithrandir

:P

Journeyman Geek

@Mithrandir 0_0

DO THEY KNOW THERE'S CHILDREN IN AFRICA WITH NO SPLEENS?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mithrandir we need people like your cousin in times of apocalypse

Shadow Wizard

14:19

@JNat cross site spammer for your kind nuking. Thanks! :)

baby is misleading.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I need to take a nap. Then study. So I'm off for today. o/

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ spleen bank?

Catija

@JourneymanGeek was? 😜

Shadow Wizard

blue feet is gone, so now the feet are wet?!

Journeyman Geek

@Catija I'd edit that but...

Shadow Wizard

14:21

@JourneymanGeek she can edit...

Mithrandir

they're all natural, don't worry, @Shadow

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard that's the joke

Catija

@JourneymanGeek if only you knew someone who had mod power.

Journeyman Geek

@Catija though I actually used the past tense in the sense that "it was something included early on"

@Catija If only XD.

feetwet

If a question is closed as duplicate, but has answers, is it supposed to have "Accept Answer" buttons for the OP? This 5-year-old post suggests yes, but this user reports no.

Journeyman Geek

14:22

I'd still leave it though

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir oh. Now I'm relieved. Thought your cousin is a cyborg.

:P

@feetwet sure, why not?

feetwet

@ShadowWizard No relation to me ;)

Mithrandir

Not a cyborg... a mutant, maybe.

feetwet

@ShadowWizard Potential bug I guess.

Shadow Wizard

@feetwet I'll take a look.

@feetwet well, no repro. I can accept answers here.

Journeyman Geek

14:25

maybe mobile view?

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek ohh. Let's see...

Journeyman Geek

or user posted that unregistered, but that would need a mod

feetwet

@JourneymanGeek Actually looks like he's asking about a different account he must have forgotten about.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek nope, mobile also works fine.

@feetwet yeah, so they must merge the accounts.

Journeyman Geek

@feetwet there we go

feetwet

14:27

@ShadowWizard Yep: "Multiple User Account Error"

Thanks guys!

Shadow Wizard

@feetwet No problem! May your feet dry fast. :D

@JourneymanGeek well, Mr. Wet is a mod there. :)

Journeyman Geek

ah ;)

Shadow Wizard

I think once mods could merge accounts, but it was aborted. Right?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard sadly there's too many mods for me to remember

@ShadowWizard this is correct

an incorrect merger is a pain to fix

Shadow Wizard

11

A: Curiosity fell over the cliff (aka what happened here??)

We no longer merge sock puppets, as Mad Scientist states. The main account for this user knows why their Curiosity account was deleted.

Journeyman Geek

14:30

actually

IIRC balpha had to deal with an automerge once...

and ... he seemed annoyed

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek auto merge is a different beast. No?

someone asked about it today on MSE, got downvote rain.

and close as unclear.

Mithrandir

automerge is definitely a thing

Shadow Wizard

-13

Q: How is it determined that user has two or more accounts?

It's simple that it can be determined with: Email Username IP Password But is there some other ways to understand that?

discussion multiple-accounts

As far as I can tell, this one asks how auto merge happens. ^

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body (66): SS7 or Diameter phone network vulnerabilities ? Cellphone carrier fake updates? by rcbartel on security.SE

Shadow Wizard

In an unclear way, but...

Mithrandir

14:36

7

Q: What happened to my Profile?

I wanted to Sign In as I do regularly, but when I clicked Sign In, I first saw a page about some problems that had appeared before (because of which I had been logged out). I decided to Sign In with Google Account this time. So I clicked this button and voila - now I am my wife. I didn't choose ...

bug status-completed badges login user-accounts

Magisch

No, this is just the same guy that wants to know exactly how sockpuppet / serial voting detection works on SE

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch isn't that @forest?

Magisch

@Catija Do CMs have access to the exact algo of the vote reversal script?

@ShadowWizard No, the other user asked on mso before: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/376028/…

Catija

@Magisch maybe? Probably. I haven't needed to know what it is.

Magisch

I was wondering if even within the company it's a "need to know" basis

SmokeDetector

14:52

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-latin answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer (51): How can I increase the number of default languages shown in Google Translate? by minorzone3r on webapps.SE

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