@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog before you ask - might be worth recognising and respecting folks privacy in this situation, especially considering the circumstances. I'm sure he has his reasons and lets just leave it at that.

@DanIsFiddlingByFirelight Using the reply button would have made that more clear from the outset, as well as notify me of your message

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@SonictheStay-HomeHedgehog Actually I wanted to just remove the unnecessary jobs tag, don't know how struct was added. Thanks for correcting. I think I was searching "structure..." but didn't find any relevant tag. Does system no more warn if we attempt to create a tag?

@Pandya Tag creation warnings can be toggled on and off on specific sites.

Oh

!!/tea

@V2Blast brews a cup of darjeeling tea for @V2Blast

@Feeds xkcd's been on a real COVID-19 kick lately

Well, is there other stuff to make fun of?

We can make fun of parrots ...

:D

Parrots are fun, I agree :)

:D

@V2Blast Re: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80205/… , I seem to remember mine generating a notification :)

!!/tea

@doppelgreener brews a cup of passionfruit tea for @doppelgreener

thanky

warning: tea and coffee may sometimes without warning be dumped into the chimney

Or Up it

gravity is a suggestion no?

warning (revised): your chimney may at any time contain varying amounts of tea and coffee at indeterminate trajectories

is that really what Santa decomposes into?

science speculates yes

It is not really the season for Hot Chocolate. Unless you're on the southern hemisphere ...

@rene Don't be silly. It's cold enough even over here for Hot Chocolate.

even when it is warm out, hot chocolate is good.

cold chocolate is also very good if it's hot out :)

isn't that just chocolate milk?

which to be fair is excellent.

@Tinkeringbell you're just a koukleum ...

@heather Ehh, you can drink it cold, room temperature, or hot. I prefer mine from the back of the fridge (rather cold) on hot days :)

But yeah, it's just chocolate milk :)

@rene I am, yes. But that makes you sound like the kind of guy that's already wearing short-sleeved shirts and shorts ;)

I only own short-sleeved shirts ...

brrrrrrr shiver

what's wrong with short sleeved shirts?

it's pretty warm out by now, at least where i'm at.

It's below 10 degrees here.

short sleeved shirts are for 25 degrees or more :)

if that is the rule, you can never wear those shirts here ...

Apparently Wikipedia is up, but nobody in my house is able to access it for some reason

Can confirm is up. Governmental shenanigans?

No idea. @Shadow can you access Wikipedia?

@Tinkeringbell 35°C here today

@Mithical That's starting to sound like summer ;)

@rene Ehh... we had weeks of 30+ temperatures last summer IIRC ;)

Huh, and now after an hour of it not working I can access Wikipedia from my phone

MAGIC!

Or DNS Schnanigans

or I stopped chewing on your cables

@Mithical yeah, I enabled your access on the firewall. You were so persistent ...

Still not loading on my laptop, though.

linux or windows?

Linux

hmm

Ubuntu 19.04, Chrome 80.0.3987.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)

I don't know how to flush the dns cache on that :D

dang

google suggests beebom.com/how-flush-dns-cache-linux ?

@JourneymanGeek we have a site for ubuntu: askubuntu.com/a/907558/184931

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boom

@JourneymanGeek ubuntu doesn't, generally, cache DNS

unless you've set it to do so, in which case sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches

or you can restart the networking service, sudo systemctl restart networking (or failing that, sudo service networking restart or sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart)

@ArtOfCode the whole networking stack?

yup

@ArtOfCode cc @Mithical

thanks

it eventually started working again, albeit very slow

@Mithical yup

@Mithical ISP issue, most likely... Bezeq?

International I think

Well often random sites don't load at all for me, or just slow... Usually it works again shortly after.

:D

@Mithical big boom

that is the point ....

Honestly though... do you really have to sneer like that?

If it were up to me I'd now leave it like it is, out of pure spite.

It so over the top, isn't it?

Well... it is a little, I think.

Though with one answer from '14... may be a case of mosquito's and elephants ;)

sure.

Hey, @Son , have a look at the most recent convo here. I'm wondering if the FAQ on question/answer bans should mention that posting positive questions/answers assists with lifting the ban.

@Spevacus I'm told posting answers has barely any effect on question bans. It is way more effective to edit to improve

@Spevacus It already does.

> If you are banned from asking questions, then writing a few quality answers that get upvoted might enable you to ask questions again. But as the internals of the filter are secret, there is no way to know for sure.

But yeah, post bans are designed to be deliberately hard to get out of. I'd highly recommend reading this answer: meta.stackexchange.com/a/306585/377214

I do have some disagreements with that answer, namely that it makes it impossible in case, say, one asked a few bad questions as a student and got banned, and several years later, has a legitimate question they want to ask as part of their job. It's against policy for them to create a new account, so they have to get out of their ban if they want to continue participating.

Also, see: