@Rob That was me painstakingly entering my review count, by hand into excel, every single day for a year. Always meant to automate, never got around to it.
So... I've had multiple users turn up on my blog, asking why posts were deleted - which is linked on my SU profile. Some are a little abusive. Another just threatened to hack my blog. I'm not engaging, not replying and figuring they'll go away. It's happened a few times already though.
I'm guess...
@Rob Thanks, one interesting note in that chart is the drop in mid October corresponds to the fires in Northern California in which I had to evacuate from my house for a week, and it was hard to get online.
I get that. But maybe something like "We had a security breach. We're investigating it" Security Update means... something security? Maybe Shog9 got a new lock for his door
@Machavity The data is being hoarded by a couple people.
I think in a decade or so, more information will be made public. I doubt anyone will fully leak it though. The most that happens is access through friends of friends (etc).
@Machavity I wonder if it's related to that mysterious mod.
It was odd to go through that trouble to earn one bronze badge when they could have filled out their "About Me" and earned 175 badges. It was like it was done by a tween and they tried playing with some of the knobs before they left.
The fun thing is that getting mod-level access often makes it possible to get significantly higher privileges quickly, because the surface area exposed to mods is very unlikely to be as heavily audited as those exposed to "untrusted" users.
@Rob It's just a common rule of thumb. Areas exposed to supposedly trusted users are less well-developed because of the assumption that they are, well, trusted users.
Yeah I know. I mean that they can use that level of detail for analysis.
For example someone who elevated themselves to a site-wide mod by exploiting SE would likely have access to a lot of personal data, but detailed logs would allow admins to say with some confidence whether or not that data was actually accessed.
There is a section in the moderator dashboard on user profiles that is called "Personally Identifiable Information (PII)". If you click on it, you see a whole bunch of information that is considered PII.
This section explicitly warns that the access is logged, but what it doesn't tell you is wha...
@forest lemme put it this way. If I go evil, SE can probably undo the damage with a little gentle swearing and elbowgrease, and maybe a script or three
I used to run a website with a lot of very unsavory and toxic folks, so every once in a while someone would flood the entire website with gore and child porn. It became extremely useful to be able to freeze the database and revert changes instantly.
I once had someone flood flags for comments with swearwords. Which in theory was fine, but they were naive matching, and the sheer volume made other flags hard to see
@Aibobot A lot of things are put behind paywalls opportunistically.
So it's not uncommon to try to find something that's not behind a paywall by finding it on another site (e.g. a university website or the author's own site).
Oh well, just hoping someone might know off the top of their head.
Voted to re-open the "soreadytosue" question. While I don't agree with it and it does come off as abrasive, I don't think it should be closed.
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2:39 AM
> I am little lost this morning. I find myself thinking about how, sure, the earth is spheroid in the third spatial dimension, but maybe it is also the curved back of a higher dimensional turtle. -- Kyle Brandt at 5:07 AM - 16 May 2019
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I am not sure this works, because the curved back of a turtle would have a boundary: not all of its points are the same topologically.
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But it could be the entire surface of a 4-dimensional, roughly spherical, turtle.
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Also, if Kyle Brandt did not move on to another job two days ago, he would probably have less time to ponder high-dimensional turtles right now
@Machavity At least it wasn't "Spring Update 16.05.19" which is the format certain higher-ups use at my org when communicating unpleasant news.
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That's one step away from "(no subject)".
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3:19 AM
I still don't know why they do that. A super carefully written text, probably with legal counsel etc... maybe the goal is not to say anything in the title because lawyer-speak is poorly compatible with brevity?
User PII access is bad of course, but Teams data is where the main concern would have to be - the implications for business (and SO for Business) would be severe.
Responsible disclosure is about telling a vendor about a security issue before telling everyone else. In this case, the vendor already knows and is avoiding telling everyone else despite the issue being fixed (presumably for PR reasons, but I don't know).
One time I contracted a cold and the doctor asked me if I had taken any readings, when I said yes she said 95% of people don't and doing so helps tremendously
My immune system weakens when breathing in cold air (which means coats/blankets don't help). I was once attending a hackathon in Dallas where someone had turned the thermostat to extreme cold in the communal sleep room, and I ended up catching a virus and was down for a large part of the 36 hours
Big datacenters' server rooms can be horrifically cold as well, to the point that it could be dangerous if you got locked in (though I guess you could start a fire if you really needed it, and had a bit of a death wish). I got sick from that.
@Tinkeringbell I guess the main thing is the city was designed for extremely cold temperatures. Central heating, double glazed windows, and the clothing in general. Here... not so much. At least my apartment is decently warm
@Rob Ah. Yeah, we have that too (central heating, double glazed windows). The clothing, especially the female ones, has massive room for improvement (it's always a struggle to find something I don't have to wear three layers of to stay proper warm, and doesn't look like I'm going to the Alps for winter sports).
I usually wear a blanket when I'm home because of that ;)
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Hmm, now that I think of it.. nope, we didn't have AC. In summer it reached 35ish, but I don't remember ever feeling too hot
@Tinkeringbell I bought a 'ski jacket' here before I moved. It was comically large compared to what I've seen. Over there, it was suitable for autumn, and would be laughably bad for winter
@Rob I think someone linked a video around christmas... of a woman that went sledding, and the amount of layers she was wearing... that was just comical
All I could think was... 'but what if you have to pee'.
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