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00:44

Can someone please modify step 2 of the instructions in the formatting sandbox, so that it works correctly with Highlight.js? (@Glorfindel)

@Tinkeringbell You don't have to depend on other companies to file your tax returns, right?

If you don't, you have it better than us Americans.

Rob

01:06

Pick your MSO poison: 1: Suggestion: canonical Community Wiki "why Stack Overflow has/uses/allows downvotes" question, 2: Suggestion: canonical Community Wiki "why Stack Overflow has/uses/allows downvotes" question, or 3: How should this specific regex question close-reopen war end?.

4. Why are proposed changes to voting, which limit or remove the use of downvotes, met with strong disagreement?.

It's a cautionary tale, as there's been comments suggesting to migrate it here.

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

02:03

@Rob I think you duplicated links 1 and 2. Did you mean to put a different question for one of them?

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

02:58

@JNat Cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20246990/cathy-wessel

Feeds

05:46

stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/05/…

John Dvorak

06:00

@Feeds λ

Journeyman Geek

@JohnDvorak I would +1 that, but I regret but I have but one star to give

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

06:14

@JNat Cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20816414/hygieneforall

Tinkeringbell

06:47

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog Not a company no, just the government.

They're messing up massively too though.

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

Here you only get free filing from the government if you're considered being in poverty, otherwise you either have to know all the subtle nuances of the tax code yourself or pay an accountant or software program to fill everything in for you

Tinkeringbell

I mean, that's pretty much similar to here. You can get free help (independent of your income though the people that use it often don't have money to spare), but otherwise you have to know how to do it yourself or pay an accountant to fill everything in for you.

Journeyman Geek

meanwhile in singapore...

"We already got the information from your employer and you owe $X. If you have another source of income please declare it, or any tax returns"

Technically if I set up direct debit, they could take the money too :D

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek Well, that is how things work here (and presumably in the Netherlands too): we have direct withholding

Journeyman Geek

We don't have witholding taxen

Tinkeringbell

06:55

@JourneymanGeek Never trust that one XD So far, each year I had a pre-filled tax thing I also had to fill in some other stuff and got money back :D

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

Tax returns are mostly intended to re-confirm that as well as see if you qualify for any deductions or credits (e.g. donations to charity)

Ryan M

@JourneymanGeek You can only +1 it because if you could +2 it it would become Half Life 3, and Valve notoriously cannot count above 2

Journeyman Geek

...

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Luuklag

07:50

@Tinkeringbell you have a louzy employer ;) I never have to pay extra or get any returns

Tinkeringbell

08:09

@Luuklag I always get returns, either donations or like last year, with my apartment being bought and all... :D

So yeah, I always have to alter/change my pre-filled in form.

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell Yeah hypotheekrenteaftrek is one you have to fill in yourself

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag that's not a real word ._.

Luuklag

Hypotheekrenteaftrek (Nederland)

Hypotheekrenteaftrek is een aftrekpost voor de bezitters van een eigen woning, die ter financiering van die woning een lening hebben afgesloten, waarop ze rente betalen. Het is een regeling in de Nederlandse Wet inkomstenbelasting 2001 waarmee de rente (en kosten) van een schuld aangegaan voor aankoop van de eigen woning kan worden afgetrokken van het inkomen in box 1, voordat over dit inkomen belasting wordt berekend. De rente wordt dus aan de schuldeiser betaald, terwijl de belasting die de schuldenaar over diens gehele inkomen moet betalen dankzij de regeling van de hypotheekrenteaftrek minder...

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Last year it wasn't so much hypotheekrente but the costs of 'notaris' and stuff.

rene

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@JourneymanGeek oh, for sure it is here. And don't touch it or rioting will come your way ...

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Any news on this that I missed: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/404822/… ? I just re-opened it because the dupe obviously doesn't apply.

Luuklag

08:32

@rene Haven't heard anything about it. Should ask Adam I think, seeing he posted last years anouncement

Journeyman Geek

@rene why is that at -5?

Luuklag

Don't know who is in the lead on that now, I think it used to be Anita Taylor, but she changed roles end 2020

rene

@JourneymanGeek it was asked at the time the dupe was still applicable so I guess lack of research could count.

Luuklag

09:24

Mmmm streaming a 4k video in a powerpoint over teams isn't really cutting it...

Anyone knows how that could be improved? I could ofcourse make it 480p to reduce filesize

rene

Have you embedded the video in the PowerPoint?

Luuklag

@rene yup

rene

Can't you run the video from the filesystem with a decent player like VLC?

Luuklag

Powerpoint is now 1GB

@rene In theory yes, but that's a hassle with changing presenter screens

rene

hmm, fair

Shadow Wizard is Vaccinating

09:47

@Tinkeringbell here only freelancers need to deal with taxes, otherwise it's all on the employer side.

Rob

@Luuklag If you could embed a private YouTube or Vimeo URL they could serve the video, at up to 8K.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizardisVaccinating That's a neat idea :)

I do like the idea of hypotheekrenteaftrek, though I still haven't been able to calculate how much I actually 'earned' that way :D

Luuklag

@Rob yeah, but that would require the audience to watch the video themselves. I'm sharing my screen as a presenter in a teams meeting.

Rob

10:42

@Luuklag YouTube has embedded videos and clips (one video, cut up): support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en support.google.com/youtube/answer/… --- For Microsoft Teams see: livetilesglobal.com/how-to-share-your-screen-in-microsoft-teams youtube.com/watch?v=bpI9RZUGm-U - looks very clear (resolution) to me using LiveTiles.

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

10:56

@Luuklag There is an option in PowerPoint to compress video without losing quality. Once brought a presentation of mine from 200 MB to 60 MB.

Luuklag

11:36

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog I'll have a look at that when the kids are asleep

Luuklag

12:24

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog Ouch, unavailable on MAC

@JourneymanGeek should we facilitate this discussion continuing? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/361486/…

pinging you seeing you asnwered it

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag tbh, considering there's an official CM answer there... ehhh

Deleting it changes not very much IMO

However I do think it might be a good idea to just starve OP of attention by not responding any further :)

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek yeah might be best. Just close the thing and move on.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag and I wouldn't be averse to the community closing it - which seems the direction its going in

Luuklag

Let your sock chip in ;)

Journeyman Geek

not enough rep, and if I'm going to throw a close vote, might as well do it myself

Luuklag

12:39

@JourneymanGeek You wanted community closure ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag actual community. Not ... robots.

:D

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Only if people here start adding close votes I think, since it's already out of the queue ;)

Journeyman Geek

and only needs two :D

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell It's on the front page, so it'll attract some more

Tinkeringbell

12:57

fingers crossed :)

Journeyman Geek

hm

I'm not actually sure if SO rep counts for main chat server chat-room access

Tinkeringbell

Yes

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A: Demystifying chat reputation requirements

Note: This is a suggested answer based upon some research I've done. It really ought to be confirmed by an SE Community Manager or SE dev. Using the information provided in this chat history1 attributed to this sketchy community member, these appear to be the rules. Meta StackExchange (MSE) a...

Misread it at first, sorry. SE chat is what you meant by 'main chat server', right?

Luuklag

13:14

only 9 flags to go for my marshal badge on MSE :)

Tinkeringbell

should be able to get that this weekend then. :P

Luuklag

Nope, not really active on the weekends

Rob

14:08

@Luuklag I've only got 498 to go on MSO, but just 20 for SO; too many declined flags here on MSE, so it can fester while that gets sorted.

Journeyman Geek

14:24

funny thing is, I think if I quit as a mod, I'd get a marshall badge :D

Tinkeringbell

14:46

same

Journeyman Geek

I mean it would have been nice if it happened when I actually quit as a mod ....

Tinkeringbell

Well you could do that again :P No one is seriously stopping you. And any questions are easily answered: "He'll be back in a few hours, he's just getting a Marshall badge" XD

Feeds

15:34

The Overflow #63: What I wish I had known about single page applications

Medi Madelen Gwosdz on March 05, 2021

Welcome to ISSUE #63 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week, Part 2 of our Level Up series digs into Python libraries, a passionate article argues Java is great for low latency systems, and the podcast team discusses the security…

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell well more like a few weeks

And it feels unethical 🤣

(I might have asked for that if I had gotten hired though 🤨)

Tinkeringbell

Hahaha

Ollie

17:09

Got a question

Just encountered a suggested edit from an anonymous user

And it shows this:

Does that mean suggested edits from every anonymous user are counted?

user400654

17:21

i mean, i'm sure this one anonymous user is just being singled out

Rob

17:51

@Ollie I noticed that a while ago, was going to ask eventually; it doesn't look like it's an accurate count, as you'd think that there would be more:

That's a little more than a month ago.

Ollie

20:53

@Rob Not that I'd think there'd be more, but that every anonymous user's edits gets counted. I'll go post a Meta question.

Wait... think it's a mod-only IP log...

user400654

23:12

☕️

Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

@Tinkeringbell Spam account: meta.stackexchange.com/users/953676/tecsour

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Q: How is the anonymous edit count from a certain location determined?

This post will not make much sense without first reading Suggested edit by Anonymous, which details my making over a hundred anonymous edits to MSE over a period of years before creating my current account. As it turns out, there is a counter that publicly tells how many anonymous edits from a s...

@Rob @Ollie Way ahead of you, as usual

Tinkeringbell

23:28

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog poof

Spevacus

23:42

@SonictheCuriouserHedgehog Darn hedgehogs and their speed...

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Rob

23:52

QOTD:

I'm not a native English speaker. I had to read the announcement 4 times before understanding that Rosie is not the rabbit featured in the picture (which I confused for a Guinea Pig). I was honestly convinced SE had chosen to nominate the rabbit in the picture as valued associate #843 and give it a personality. — bad_coder Feb 23 at 3:17

Spevacus

I feel bad for laughing, but that's hilarious. Lol

Rob

You see, if you're not a native English language speaker then it's difficult to differentiate between rabbits and guinea pigs; and rabbits can seek employment, so it's an important point.

DavidPostill

@Rob Where I come from guinea pigs are employed to test vaccines ...

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