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12:05 AM
@JourneymanGeek yeah, there's like a gap in my linux knowledge there...
 
@AaronHall naw. No one really digs that deep and widely to get bitten in the ass by all of those
I only know of 3 of them from my diy router build
 
12:58 AM
!!/watch linkcentre\.com
 
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog You don't have code privileges, but I've created PR#3733 for you.
 
!!/watch targetedwebtraffic\.com
 
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog You don't have code privileges, but I've created PR#3734 for you.
 
Rob
@AaronHall @JourneymanGeek - Try running a few flavors of Linux and BSD along with Solaris in VMs under Windows, more than a half dozen names and paths to remember (for each thing). It's not unusual to do that when testing new software.
 
1:09 AM
@Rob my job involves HPUX
that's a rabbit hole that I actuallly am slightly thankful I cannot go down
 
Rob
1:46 AM
Nonstop is a series of server computers introduced to market in 1976 by Tandem Computers Inc., beginning with the NonStop product line, which was followed by the Hewlett-Packard Integrity NonStop product line extension. Because NonStop systems are based on an integrated hardware/software stack, HP also developed the NonStop OS operating system for them. NonStop systems are, to an extent, self-healing. To circumvent single points of failure, they are equipped with almost only redundant components. When a mainline component fails, the system automatically falls back to the backup. These systems are...
HPE Integrity Non-Stop looks interesting.
@JourneymanGeek for a Desktop chassis I'd like a tiny version of the IBM Z chassis:
 
 
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12:38 PM
Oops! User seems to have been nuked or deleted at own demand??
 
12:58 PM
@πάνταῥεῖ no easy way to check :D
 
@JourneymanGeek I well know.
 
1:14 PM
Proposed a possible dupe to be helpful for future research. Feel free to hammer @journey.
 
1:31 PM
Its not a hammer if its the last of 4 :D
 
@JourneymanGeek Doesn't matter if it's closed finally ;)
 
I thought this was the greatest collection of pedants on the network :D
 
I am not that kind of Nazi :D
Soups only.
 
I said pedants :D
Or broth facists for that matter
Maybe consomme communists. How does that even work?
 
1:46 PM
Touchè
consomme communists snickles ...
And I love broth, consomme whatever you call it. The only need it's cooked from fresh stuff and not of instant soup.
 
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@πάνταῥεῖ There's apparently a difference
 
@JourneymanGeek Is there?
 
a broth is clear. Consomme is clarified, typically using egg white
 
@JourneymanGeek Ah, you mean that difference. Yes.
 
In cooking, a consommé is a type of clear soup made from richly flavored stock, or bouillon that has been clarified, a process that uses egg whites to remove fat and sediment.Consommé has three English pronunciations: traditionally in the UK, the stress is on the middle syllable; in modern UK English, the stress is on the first; and in the US the stress is on the last. == Cooking and serving == A consommé is made by adding a mixture of ground meats, together with mirepoix (a combination of carrots, celery, and onion), tomatoes, and egg whites into either bouillon or stock. The key to making a...
 
2:01 PM
I thought you referred to the political dimension ;)
I clearly like beeftea :D
 
Not only do you in English have words that are pronounced differently based on where they come from, and words that are pronounced differently based on grammatical tense. You also have words that are pronounced differently based on who the speaker is!
 
@JohnDvorak ?
 
re the onebox above
 
Ah you mean the consommé
 
@JohnDvorak Nothing seperates english speakers like the language
 
2:07 PM
It's a tea party.
 
why not vodka party ?
 
Because we're talking about soup.
 
soup with vodka , nice combination :)
 
:)
 
2:15 PM
@Shree But seriously you missed at least my point.
 
@πάνταῥεῖ I speak without an accent grave
 
@Shree Not that it was a big one. I am still wide open.
@JourneymanGeek I noticed that.
 
open ?
 
42 mins ago, by πάντα ῥεῖ
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0
I could think of borscht with vodka, but would prefer to have the vodka aside and not in the borscht.
Borscht is a yummy soup BTW!
 
:)
 
2:50 PM
Not to mention you'll need sour cream on top.
 
are there self-hosting evangelists in the chat?
I recently discovered old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted but a lot of it looks inconvenient or not trustworthy
also it's funny that you can't understand anything people list off because it's just names that are super undescriptive of what the app does
 
@user1306322 you start with a need and work from there
And sure. I self host everything I can but email
 
10 years of using SO taught me that there is no need, only want
 
Or that
 
Rob
Vodká
 
3:04 PM
is there a convenient automatic backup with file versioning like google drive does but where you can set up multiple targets to copy to?
 
Rob
For a phone, yes.
 
I've been using something that I wrote but it's not as stealthy as google drive and sometimes I gotta restart the service manually
I'm just looking for desktop
 
Rob
K
 
don't use any mobile devices really
oh and it's a Windows 10, none of that linux stuff for which there seem to be so many options
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Q: Free open-source alternative to Google Drive file synchronization

user1306322I'm looking for a free and open source app for Windows (other desktop and mobile OS support welcome) which can allow me to sync files from and to: Internal hard drives; External drives (portable HDDs/SSDs and USB flash drives); Network locations (Samba shares and the like); Remote destinations ...

basically this
 
Rob
3:55 PM
@user1306322 Your question seems well written, other sites to look at are: hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/10537/9731 superuser.com/q/1258162/419485 as how you intend to configure your hardware will play a role in the software that you use. Simply buying an extra HD that's 10x the size of your current system has its downsides.
 
 
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6:20 PM
/me looks in
 
boo
 
7:01 PM
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Q: Are we rewarding moderators enough?

PekkaIn the days and weeks before a moderator election, the community applies great scrutiny to all candidates. They need to jump through a series of hoops, answer hard questions in the town hall meetings, and have to convince the audience of their good character and judgement - almost like in a real-...

Giggle snort
 
That Won't come back ...
 
I can't
Can I vote to reopen instead
 
sure, your votes are yours.
 
This also needs one more delete vote and has for a couple days.
 
not anymore
 
7:08 PM
(thumbs up)
 
We should have a flag for deletion feature. At least as a certain rep privilege.
 
I want a sandwich
 
With sauce?
 
7:40 PM
sudo make me a sandwich
 
> If you look at a comment, you should see a little flag icon on the left:

[![screenshot of a comment, with a focus indicator on a small flag icon positioned under the upvote button, on the left of a comment][1]][1]

When you click it, you get a comment flag dialogue, with options to flag it as different things:

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These include:
> **Why are you flagging this comment?**

>* **It contains harassment, bigotry or abuse.**
 
7:55 PM
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A: Am I being ethical or annoying in refusing to 1:1 copy another company's UI for our own?

bharaltl;dr you're in the wrong, you don't know what ethics is, and you're being paid to be an engineer not provide philosophical guidance. There are other answers that talk about if it is ethical or not - this answer just says "you're not informed enough to know what ethics is". You - OP - funda...

Wow.
I philosophically believe YCS manifests in different people
There's something funny to be said about being the only answer providing philosophical guidance and the only one bashing it, but I'd rather spend time watching matter and antimatter annihilate and stuff
@Mithical What if a comment contains bigotry abuse
 
@It'sOver *bonks @It'sOver* hush
 
We've been at these rabbit holes all over :P
 
@It'sOver I dropped a word
@Mithical gasp CENSORSHEEP
 
BAAAAA
 
8:00 PM
@Mithical I'm trying to find out if you mean the British version or
 
Oh go away
 
No need to mention YCS particularly. Theere are many more.
 
@Mithical There are like, a lot of verbs you could have used there
 
@Rob there are only maybe 30 gigs of data I care about, the rest I can redownload easily
 
@It'sOver I beseech of thee, sire, to take utmost haste and remove thyself from the premises. I shall endeavor to expedite the process in any capacity of which I am able.
 
8:09 PM
and I'm not aiming at long term storage and infrequent backups
some files can wait 10 minutes, but things like browser bookmarks I wanna sync immediately, so I'm looking for basically what I described - a google drive replacement
 
does your browser not have native syncing?
 
I don't want to give mozilla my bookmarks :s
and it's one more login/password to remember
 
you can setup firefox to sync to your own server
no idea what's involved btw I just happen to know it's an option
 
I don't see an option that looks like what you describe
github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver this is full of linux stuff which I do not speak
it's easier to just sync the profile folder
none of that account server or sync server stuff required
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Q: Why do people still believe in free will?

Tjeerd GeertsAll actions in human behaviour are a result of events that happened in the past, brain structure at birth and later self programming of the brain during life through experiences. If you would upload a brain to a computer and run it it would make the same decisions as the human version. It is just...

that robot revolution they're talking about on tv has already happened at the very beginning of all existence :p
 
how do you prove/disprove free will
you can't
it's as silly as suggesting the entire universe is a simulation.
 
8:24 PM
but it gets retweets!
 
"the entire universe is a simulation" But that's a probable case :D
 
it's not tho. no.
it's possible, but unlikely
 
Prove that pls!
 
prove it's possible?
 
8:27 PM
Not without the meta information.
 
the problem with proving it, is you need to know the condition of the universe outside the simulation, to be able to identify those parts which are simulated inaccurately.
Elon doesn't get it.
 
He's beyond everything though :P
 
lol
prove you're not just my imagination.
 
=)
thanks for proving my argument :D
 
8:39 PM
I wonder how April Fool's will be like with balpha's departure...
 
@djsmiley2kTMW Knowlege beats all of it ;-)
 
8:55 PM
Or should I've saying certain knowledge?
 
Rob
@user1306322 That's important to add to your question, a USB Flash Drive could hold a few times that much. You also want to save that list of stuff you can redownload easily (and the settings / configuration). --- That's the way Android backups work, once your photos and documents are saved any Applications are easily restored. With a Desktop system, and a 1 TB drive, it's a lot to incrementally backup (after a few years) and external storage costs a lot. --- On Windows you'll almost get away with
just saving the User Directory.
 
@Rob honestly I don't expect an answer anytime soon on softwarerecs even without this limiting addition
thing is I already have a custom app that does it, it's just not ideal and I'd like if something even better was out there in the wild, but it's one of those one in a million dream shots at the moon
 
9:42 PM
you're wondering how to sync it elsewhere?
Owncloud?
yey i nuked it \o/
 
9:58 PM
@djsmiley2kTMW I used that, we're migrating to NextCloud.
 
10:42 PM
oooh i've heard of that one too
I've not used either, I just push my backups to gdrive atm
 
Rob
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