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Rob

1:00 AM

@Feeds Common quantum logic gate symbols:

Rob

3:06 AM

@Spe, checking the History it was done for a reason.

There's probably a SEDE to find out how many times the tag was removed.

Spevacus

@Rob I figured as much. Thanks for pointing me that-a-way. Keeping the caps is definitely preferable.

Rob

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Rob

3:22 AM

@Spe 1804 times added, when it wasn't there originally; which is the opposite of "how many times was it removed" - I'll have to search for (and test) that one later. --- Hopefully the additions underwent some scrutiny, and were applied correctly; in that event it's usage isn't particularly frequent.

Spevacus

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Feeds

4:46 AM

stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/03/…

Meta Andrew T.

@Feeds Highlights from our 2021 Onebox Survey

rene

7:00 AM

→ 12 messages moved to Chimney

Luuklag

7:16 AM

o/

@rene first order of buisness for the day?

rene

@Luuklag yeah. i slept in for a bit. The six o'clock wake up call came and went.

Luuklag

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/22091350/surbhi-jain?tab=accounts

@rene haha same here. But I decided to relocate my 6 o'clock alarm to 7. Seeing I only have 2 boys at home, and not a wife and daughter. Saves a load of time in the morning :)

rene

7:33 AM

Ha!

JNat

7:57 AM

@Xnero it is meant to happen, yes — apologies for the confusion, we clearly forgot to leave an announcement on Meta in advance as we usually do for pro-tem elections

but it looks like one of the mods from Drones had already given a bit of context in the chat room user1271772 linked to

Luuklag

@JNat Another step to add in automating elections ;)

Luuklag

8:28 AM

@SmokeDetector k

Luuklag

9:09 AM

Nice round number for this years rep :)

VLAZ

Time to stop getting reputation.

Luuklag

Yeah, just call this year quits

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@SPArcheon oh, OK. :D

Rob

Is there life after 25K ...

Luuklag

@Rob well, I ain't dead yet...

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

9:19 AM

@Rob 30k

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 and then 400+K meta.stackexchange.com/users/811/shog9

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag eh, you have somewhat of an advantage being a CM or Mod, and your level of tenure

Ryan M

Friendly reminder that Which computer science / programming Stack Exchange sites do I post on? is only relevant for programming questions, and sending users asking for recommendations for questions about server configuration, general computing, etc. to that page won't help them.

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Did you forget about 25,873?

Luuklag

PSA, perhaps its time to clean up the pinned starboard?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

9:26 AM

@Luuklag that's already Skeet League

@Luuklag not sure, it auto expire after 14 days (each pin)

Mithical

Too many important announcements all at once...

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob of course not.

> RPL36 ribosomal protein L36 [ Homo sapiens (human) ]

That's 25873 ^

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 brings me back to Uni

Ryan M

@Mithical SE needs to stop doing things! Err, wait, doing things is good...

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob what about that protein? Is it blue?

Luuklag

9:31 AM

cytochrome c oxidase subunit 6A1 [ Homo sapiens (human) ] The leet gene

Rob

This target isn't better (meta.stackexchange.com/questions/27520/…) - perhaps the other needs a bit of scope expansion.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag :D

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Currently it buys you nothing: meta.stackexchange.com/help/privileges

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

I didn't learn about proteins or ribosoms in school or uni.

@Rob it buys you 20 max bounties for free.

(as in you can give 20 bounties, 500 each, without losing any privilege. ;))

Rob

But do you have a question / request that you want to promote that badly?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

9:34 AM

@Rob no, just spreading some ~~love~~ rep around.

(in theory, personally I don't do it.)

Also, 30k might give something special in the future:

157

Q: What privilege should 30k users get?

The last time we lifted the level cap was in 2015. In 2014, we added a unilateral close-as-duplicate power for gold tag badge holders, but no new reputation level. So we've been thinking about giving users more reasons to keep playing. (I've answered this question with some circumstantial evidenc...

Wasn't rejected, yet.

Rob

I've been on both ends, getting 2 in a row on the same answer is a great thanks.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob true.

Rob

^^ Our pension will drift us to 30K by the time that's implemented.

Been so long, that person left.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob who left?

Luuklag

Jon

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

9:44 AM

Wanted to say "right" but not enough details.

@Luuklag ohhh. lol

Well, true for most old requests.

Luuklag

Well, this was a "staff" post if I read between the lines

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

OP got inactive at some point.

@Luuklag kind of, it's more of personal whim of someone who happened to work for SE at the time.

Shog also posted few, even rejected some of his own requests, as far as I remember. I find it funny. ;)

50

Q: Change "comment" to "critique or request clarification"

Got around to talking about comment flags with Robert Cartaino this morning... We're working on rejiggering the flagging options to make it a bit more obvious when stuff should be flagged, with the end goal of making it possible to automate some of the current flag-handling. More on that later; o...

feature-request status-declined comments user-interface

And there are more, lol

Luuklag

never mind, self-deleted already

rene

yeah, I was in the middle of writing a comment for @RyanM ... anyway: performance forbid that the red-dot is personalized.

Luuklag

@rene Sounds legit, but on the other hand, can't it be done client-side?

rene

9:58 AM

the drop-down kind of does that. It issues on xhr call to get up to date data before it shows up

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag consider Stack Overflow: 1 million requests, if it will have to query for each, server will crash.

rene

I recall on SO /review would go belly up and then Shog9 fiddled with queue settings to get it back to life

Ryan M

@rene Fair but frustrating. I bet that it'd be solvable with enough work, but it wouldn't be near the top of my list of issues with review to fix...

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Red Dot Project, aka RDP

Estimated Developer Time: ~100 Hours

Ryan M

(e.g., have a fast-access lookup for when the user last reviewed, and then only check if it was within some threshold of recency such that they would be likely to have reviewed items in the queue already...not perfect, but better)

Ryan M

10:22 AM

Is it helpful to mod flag MSE questions that belong on per-site metas for migration there?

Journeyman Geek

10:34 AM

Very carefully

If its excellent, accidentally asked here, and not for scope for us, yes

Ryan M

10:52 AM

@JourneymanGeek So "migrate this to MSO so we can close it as a dupe" (e.g., the most recent migration) would fail that first one, and we should just suggest it in the comments and VTC?

(of course, Glorfindel's a ninja and/or robot and was already migrating the question as I wrote out my question here...)

I expect that excellent questions about specific sites tend not to be asked on the wrong meta, but I'm sure it happens...

Journeyman Geek

11:22 AM

@RyanM "So we can close it as a dupe" feels like a general waste of time :D

Ryan M

Perhaps, but the comment discussions are often useful to the OP, at least

But I see your point

rene

not on this case :(

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I guess it's inaccurate to say: "Jon left SE" when he was here yesterday, and some people haven't briefly visited since Mar/Apr. But he left in the sense that he was an employee when he posted that, and with his leaving, hopes for that (well supported) idea have faded.

Mithical

...yeah, it was kinda implied that "leaving SE" meant his departure from the company...

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

11:58 AM

@Rob I don't think his leaving SE as employee has/had any effect; He never had any real inside impact on such decisions to begin with.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 "never" is a very broad thing

I'm pretty sure CMs have had an impact on decisions like that when SE isn't disfunctional

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

hmm

Luuklag

So when are you going to become a CM @JourneymanGeek. I read that Phillipe said they will expand the countries/regions they'll be hiring from

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag I'll hold off on hoping till I know I'm in one of those

Wolf

???

Luuklag

12:04 PM

@Wolf ???

did anyone ever request to see the author of a comment in your global inbox?

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I agree with Jou, CMs have some "impact" - they have meetings, pitch ideas, vote on them, some get implemented, some backburner, some it's decided that's not the direction we are heading ATM. Do you have a link for "pecking order of impact"?

Luuklag

@Rob CEO > President of something > VP of anything > commonfolk

Rob

None of whom are CMs.

Luuklag

12:19 PM

@Rob the latter category are

And Phillippe would fall in the second to last category

and Theresa in the second category

I doubt that they don't take any input from their team-members

they must have meetings every now and then

Spamnuke anyone? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/368164/…

Mithical

(*Teresa. Without an "h".)

Luuklag

Like in mother Teresa ;)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@JourneymanGeek hey man, never stop hoping. :)

@Luuklag I don't think so. Go ahead, worst case I have hammer right here, ready for use.;)

@Rob no link, but someone can gather stats of requests done by staff which were actually done; I'm pretty sure the ratio is even lower than the requests done by ordinary people.

Luuklag

maybe tonight, I've got to finish a report, and then pack the boys some stuff for their sleepover at their grandparents

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Maybe, probably, because they were aiming high, but still.

@Luuklag huh, so you get to spend night(s?) without kids? Only with wife? That's awesome!

Luuklag

12:30 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 without everyone. My wife and daughter are with my inlaws on vacation

Hi Rosie, good to see you here :)

Rob

This is an example of an "unsupported statement about a single category" (not a hierarchy):

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag oh. So... alone?! I didn't have a single night alone since... hmm.... since moving to live with my wife, 11 years ago. ;)

Rob

Rosie

Good morning/afternoon @Luuklag and everyone else

Rob

This is a link: dictionary.com/browse/…

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

12:33 PM

@Rosie waves

Rob

Different.

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 wow, she is really clingy ;)

or are you?

Rosie

I hope everyone is doing well.

Luuklag

I'll survive. Too much stuff to finish before holidays next week

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Luuklag not really, and neither am I... I just never asked, or tried. lol

Luuklag

12:35 PM

hence a good thing I'll be alone

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Oh wait

Rob

Yes, thanks for asking.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

I had army services, but I wasn't really alone even there, was sleeping with several other men in same tent/room.

@Rob you're welcome? Asking what? :)

@Luuklag what holidays are due next week?

Rob

To wait.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Here we have holidays throughout September, three consecutive holidays.

@Rob did you really wait?

Or did @Spe interfere in the process of waiting? ;)

Luuklag

12:39 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 my summer holidays

Spevacus

: )

I'm barely functioning this morning. Caffeine levels are low.

Luuklag

At least my arm isn't as stiff as it was this morning. Got a 250 km drive ahead of me later today

Rosie

@Spevacus same here. I was getting ready this morning and realized when I got dressed that my hair was dry...meaning I was such a zombie that I totally imagined I had showered but in fact did not.

Luuklag

@Rosie Good thing you're still working from home right ;)

Or did you have any appointments outdoors today?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Spevacus :(

Rosie

12:46 PM

Still working from home. I'm hoping to go to the office someday...with the variants and cases rising though I don't want to get hopeful about an ETA though

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

!!/coffee Spe

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 brews a cup of Mocha for @Spe

Luuklag

Can we get rid of this migration stub, the author self-deleted their MSO version meta.stackexchange.com/questions/368162/…

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Better?

Luuklag

@Rosie yeah same here, although I got my last shot yesterday :)

Spevacus

12:47 PM

@Rosie I got a bit further than that a couple weeks ago. I showered, dressed, and walked out to door, only to arrive at work with extremely messy hair - I hadn't tamed it after coming out of the shower, so it was everywhere. At the time, I had longer hair than I do now.

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Much :)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rosie ouch lol

@Spevacus :)

Luuklag

!!/coffee everyone

SmokeDetector

@Luuklag brews a cup of Mocha for @everyone

Luuklag

why can it never be real coffee

and why doesn't my report(s) finish itself magically :/

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Spevacus how did you find out? ;)

Rosie

12:48 PM

nice. I've had both shots, which I'm grateful for, I know it's a lot harder to get in certain areas. My partner's family in Brazil were just able to get theirs

Ryan M

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 a bird tried to settle down and raise a family in it

3

Luuklag

@Rosie yeah that's great for them. I don't hear a lot of positive stories about Brazil and corona though

Spevacus

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Randomly had the urge to pee when I arrived. Walked right past a mirror and... Quickly wetted my hands and tried to reign it in. Hahaha.

rene

that is a weird sentence

Spevacus

It was a weird morning.

rene

12:52 PM

I bet

Spevacus

I'm also still low on caffeine so it's possible that I completely bungled the english in that sentence. Let me go fix that...

Rosie

@luuklag yeah both my partner and I have family all around the world so it's hard knowing some of them are having a tougher time through all of this

Rob

It's only bad when the squirrels move in:

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rosie that's good, from what I heard and know, having both shots doesn't prevent getting infected with the Delta variant of COVID, but it does help to prevent hard symptoms.

@RyanM :P

@Spevacus lol! And? Had success?

Rosie

yeah that's why I'm not banking on the office right now, I'm less worried about getting really sick and more concerned about being an unknown carrier at this point

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

12:56 PM

@Rosie global family, nice. :)

@Rosie yup, fair.

Luuklag

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 untill you want to visit them, or timezones kick in and you want to call ;)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob they look happy

@Luuklag lol, also true...

Luuklag

My inlaws were expats for a while. It does come with nice "free"ish holidays, but besides that there are a lot more benefits in having them live close (100km) by

Rosie

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 what neck of the woods are you in? I'm in NYC. My partner and I have family across the states but then he has family in Brazil and Italy. I've got family in the UK, France, and Austria. We both have friends across all continents though.

The past few months have been really tough for my friends here whose parents live in countries where it is almost impossible to get a vaccine although it seems like more of them are finally able to get their first or second shots which is such a blessing

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Happy hair?

Luuklag

1:02 PM

Rosie and family for world domination xD

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rosie Israel for me, and family "only" in USA and England. ;)

Rosie

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 nice :)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rosie yeah, that's a blessing indeed, and hopefully things will improve soon enough. :)

@Rob only during Happy Hour

Luuklag

Well I'm off for a while, got to get packing

Rosie

yeah, my partner and I are hoping we can pull off a wedding in the spring with friends and family, but we're taking it day by day. I'd rather postpone further or honestly just elope and have a party in the future, if things aren't in a great place but we're hoping things will improve enough by then

Luuklag

1:08 PM

@Rosie Yeah acquintances of mine have been postponing their wedding for about 2 years now.

Rosie

yeah we had some friends postpone a few times and others that eventually happened but we weren't comfortable traveling at that time so we just sent our congratulations from afar

Luuklag

yeah it really is shitty this pandemic. Let's hope things get under control at some point. I have lost all hope of a speedy resolution anyways

Rob

1:31 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 That's 100% hair, pure and raw, it's neither happy nor unhappy - it doesn't have feelings.

Luuklag

@Rob its dead...

Rob

Shadow's Jim.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob it can be blue though.

Luuklag

Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) [Gabry Ponte Ice Pop Mix] (Original Video with subtitles)

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Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

good song!

SPArcheon

1:50 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 the local erinaceinae blue ambassador would kindly request that to be changed to "My Sweet Passion".

(hopefully they won't notice this message)

Rob

2:01 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Not the same as blue skin.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@SPArcheon too late

@Rob of course. Skin has different role, more important.

Hair keeps one warm; Skin keeps bad things out of the body. :D

SPArcheon

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I meant that the local erinaceinae shouldn't notice it.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@SPArcheon oh. And they didn't notice yet?

SPArcheon

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Hasn't replied yet so...

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 It's not monkey skin blue, if it's not blue monkey skin.

Much like this is not Donna Summer:

I Feel Love - Blue Man Group on Paint Drums & PVC Pipes with Venus Hum

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Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

2:10 PM

@Rob sad but probably true.

Rob

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Your friend is famous - Biology.SE probably NSFW, somewhere ...

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Rob huh! Nice find. Legit use of the trashed picture. ;)

@bobble there's a bird staring at you

glares at ENTER key which clicked prematurely

bobble

2:26 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 shh, I was going to lurk and not do my work

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@bobble on closer inspection, you're safe, dodged her glare just by inch.

Ollie

Perhaps she's asleep.

Slate

I am watching.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Sleeping birds can still fly into rooms?

@Slate jumps in shock

:D

Slate

Chirp chirp?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

2:30 PM

uh oh now it's all on me

Ollie

@Slate oops.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

hiding inside @Ollie's neutron star

Waffles are yummy and fill my tummy! :D

Ollie

That'll be worse than facing Slate.

Wait

bobble

I'll just hop onto @Sha's head and disguise as an ordinary hat

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

oh believe me @bob you don't want to hop into my head. ;)

The horrors you'll see in there.....

Journeyman Geek

2:33 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Eh,More that if its time, its time. At this point, I think if singapore's on the list, multiple people will gimme a poke, so no need to worry

bobble

(could you please not abbreviate my name to "bob")

2

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@bobble @bobble your wish is my Command!

Blame 7 years of short pinging

8? Don't remember when I started to use chat

@JourneymanGeek :)

Fair!

hmm @SPA @Spe hope you're fine with those short forms of your name?

Ollie

@ShWizWerMasVk2 is that a good short form?

bobble

What's the "k" doin'?

Ollie

@bobb I mean to put the V before the 2, so a misclick.

SPArcheon

2:43 PM

@bobble (obscure Gumball reference incoming) Would "Dr. Wrecker" be better?

Ollie

Or maybe @cur for curious?

curious

@Slate chirp chirp doesn't sound quite right for a blue jay :)

bobble

could y'all just use "bobble"? It's 6 characters, I'm used to responding to it, and it doesn't make my brain think you're calling for a boy named Bob or Bob b. etc.

curious

@Ollie it does seem to work :)

Ollie

@bobble Sorry, yeah.

Slate

2:46 PM

@curious I'm not honestly sure how to onomatopoeize it... got suggestions?

Ollie

@Slate slate slate?

Slate

[slate noises]

curious

@bobble eeeh I wanted to edit a comment yesterday, someone pinged a booble :|

Journeyman Geek

bird noises

Ollie

@JourneymanGeek you're a dog!

Journeyman Geek

2:47 PM

@Ollie or a memory of one

curious

@Slate squawk?

Ollie

@Slate bellow bellow

Mithical

@Slate "Eeeeep?"

bobble

@curious rest assured that wasn't the first time :)

Slate

Hmmm... all of these orbit the sound, I think. "Screech," maybe?

curious

2:48 PM

allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue_Jay/sounds

"Blue Jays make a large variety of calls. The most often heard is a loud jeer, Also makes clear whistled notes and gurgling sounds."

Ollie

@curious How about allaboutbirds.org/guide/Slate/sounds

Slate

Probably "jeer" is the orthinologist's term, but I don't exactly want to describe myself jeering at site members.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@Ollie :D

Ollie

@Slate a mashed-up collection of meta noises?

curious

@Slate TIL. I didn't even know it was an actual word though it did sound familiar

Ollie

2:50 PM

Waffles baking, unicorns being ridden, Journeyman woofing, the beautiful sound of spam being nuked...

2

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

@curious Bubble Bobble! Awesome game.

curious

Well gurgling at people isn't great either

Slate

"Hey Slate, there's a fire on the meta--" "[gurgles] Help me, I'm dying" "I'll... go ahead and ask someone else."

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

Named Bob and Bub.

curious

I didn't play that much but I do recall!

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask V2

2:53 PM

I played hundreds of hours.

The only game that might compete with the time spent is Champions of Krynn. :D

SPArcheon

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 changed to "Bubby" and "Bobby" in the sequel

curious

3:30 PM

→ 8 messages moved to Chimney

Mithical

@Slate WhAT

Catija

@Slate You can't ask for help... you just have to do it.

2

Spevacus

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Unless some other Spe- name comes along, totally fine! :)

Catija

@Xnero It was a miscommunication about posting the announcement but the election is correct. Beta sites don't get chat rooms ("official" ones, anyway... users can always create one).

Slate

@Mithical ;)

@Catija I have to provide my own emergency care?? Alas.

Catija

3:37 PM

:D

SPArcheon

I keep reading "Slate" as "Slade" and all this talk about fires brought back memories about cut characters.

Meta Andrew T.

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 bubble bobble

oh wait, it is

Catija

4:07 PM

Bubble Bobble was a game I thought was cute, only ever got to play at friends' houses... and was never good at... but it still somehow has a very soft spot in my heart.

SPArcheon

missing the two sequels.

bobble

those graphics are something

SPArcheon

I do have seen simpler graphics being far more artistic that ultra hd games....

Especially if the ultra hd game is cyberpunk.

bobble

4:24 PM

"I do have seen"?

SPArcheon

Meta Andrew T.

4:37 PM

@SPArcheon I had the PS1 CD package of Bubble Bobble + Rainbow Island

SPArcheon

I played the Megadrive version of Rainbow Island, aka the bugged one.

luckily, that was just a friend copy and some time after I got to play a version that actually worked.

@MetaAndrewT. For reference, in case you wonder what I am talking about

Meta Andrew T.

:(

John Dvorak

"kneel before me, mortals!"
"does that mean you'll kneel too, or did you mean "in front of"?"
<chicken_kiev.jpg>

Ollie

@JohnDvorak no onebox?

Random Person

5:34 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 :)

Rob

6:30 PM

@JohnDvorak I think it means that they want to be able to see you, this time.

Moonlight Madness (video game)

Moonlight Madness is a video game for the ZX Spectrum home computer, published in 1986 by Bubble Bus Software. It is an arcade adventure game in which players control a boy scout. The object of the game is to unlock a safe within a mansion to obtain pills for the mansion's owner, a mad scientist, who has collapsed. This requires the player to traverse the mansion's rooms while avoiding hazards such as dangerous house servants and fatal falls. The game was developed by John F. Cain, who had previously created Booty, a popular budget game. Moonlight Madness was criticized for its price on release...

Random Person

7:13 PM

Hey people! Is this a bad suggested edit: meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/79010?

Mithical

Yes.

Random Person

@Mithical Can you please elaborate?

Mithical

It changes only the markdown of the post itself without any visible changes. The style of markdown is a stylistic choice left up to the author; there's no need to make invisible changes to change that style.

@RandomPerson Takes some time to type :P

Random Person

@Mithical sorry..

@Mithical I have moved the pics to imgur

Mithical

Pretty sure the existing image host is the one used for the blog, so there's no real advantage in this case.

Random Person

7:17 PM

@Mithical hmmm. OK.

Mithical

I mean, good intent, but ultimately not an overall useful edit in this scenario.

Random Person

what about the gaps in [with apologies to ] and [ Area 51]?

@Mithical Ok. Thanks for sharing your views :)

Mithical

Again - no visible changes. As part of something that'd make substantial changes it'd be fine, but not enough to justify an edit on its own.

Random Person

OK. Got it!

Mithical

(thumbsup)

Random Person

7:21 PM

😊

Luuklag

Anyone wants to status-review this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/368165/… ?

Mithical

Mine's been broken for quite a while as well...

Luuklag

You're also on the eastern part of the world right?

Mithical

reputedly

Luuklag

7:36 PM

Well, more east then europe ;)

user707129

@Luuklag My flair works fine.

Luuklag

0

Q: Can the author of a comment be added to the global inbox?

When another user @-mentions you in a comment this comment gets added to your inbox. The same happens when someone writes a comment to on of your posts. Recently I knew that a certain user replied to me, but I wasn't exactly sure what their comment was, and to what post their comment was exactly....

feature-request comments global-inbox comment-replies

@Xnero mine does to, but there are multiple users reporting it broken

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/22298038/himanshi-arya?tab=accounts

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/22362632/joetuckeruj?tab=accounts

Spevacus

pls send teh flagz ^

VLAZ

7:53 PM

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Does this work?

Spevacus

She'll do.

Kyle Pollard

8:13 PM

👋

Luuklag

Good evening Kyle

Rob

Xnero's works ATM, but was broken a minute ago - everyone else on this webpage looked OK:

Luuklag

Now that we catch you in the wild here @KylePollard, mind giving this a kick to the person on bug duty today? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/368165/…

@Rob hmmm very strange

Kyle Pollard

@Luuklag 👍

Luuklag

Thanks :)

I've been playing around with a VPN to try to repro, but this free VPN is quite limited in locations I can use. So I'm unable. But it was also reported on MSO, so it's not just Shree

Kyle Pollard

8:32 PM

I'm leaning towards it not being a CDN issue since we're not serving those through the CDN 🤔

Luuklag

@KylePollard Strong argument :)

Catija

I don't know... I feel like there's still a chance. ;)

Luuklag

haha, well there's a decent chance I'm going to find my bed right now :)

I'll see what you guys come up with in the morning ;)

Mithical

@Luuklag I can check with a VPN in the morning if necessary

Luuklag

@Mithical SE is wealthy enough to afford their own ;)

Mithical

8:44 PM

Also true

Rob

9:13 PM

@KylePollard There's a bunch of image issues that are not related, but result in a missing image. Checking the User List and rolling through it the images load out of order, some take a 1/2 second to appear and infrequently some remain blank. I'm in North America.

Facebook is missing an Authentication Token, and Google is down: graph.facebook.com/10211456305072279/picture?type=large lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UFbQFaghOos/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/… The other three mentioned above work: stackexchange.com/users/flair/411877.png i.stack.imgur.com/b9Mn3.png i.stack.imgur.com/vSVWj.jpg

Kyle Pollard

@Rob do you have links to the users those images are for? I skimmed stackoverflow.com/users but couldn't find any broken images

Rob

Just a sec

Catija

@Rob So... what you're saying is that we shouldn't allow third-party avatars because it sometimes causes the avatars here to break? :D

Rob

9:30 PM

You might grab them when they are submitted, and i.stack.imgur them - I think there's a FR for that.

@KylePollard I'm sure I didn't find the exact same two, and had to rip through over forty pages to find these entirely different examples (so it's intermittent): meta.stackexchange.com/users/882193/huzaifa-abedeen meta.stackexchange.com/users/163265/a-cat

Kyle Pollard

Huh, interesting. Is there a meta post for that issue already?

Rob

The second image is Imgur, and a bug (dot), so it *could be intentional: lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/… i.stack.imgur.com/iW9WH.png?s=328&g=1 - the Google one is broken.

@KylePollard For what Cat said, not for what I said above, yes.

Kyle Pollard

@Rob No chance that the google one is intentionally just a blank white image? 😅 Seems different to the other one you linked where it was giving a 400 bad request

Rob

That's hard to say, I'm not familiar enough with those embedded URLs to offer an expert comment.

Kyle Pollard

(Neither am I 😅)

Rob

9:44 PM

@KylePollard Here is the correct account links for those two users: meta.stackexchange.com/users/1045827/don-flannagan meta.stackexchange.com/users/1039872/kharmageddon - The second is particularly helpful because the Profile describes what is in the avatar image.

Kyle Pollard

@Rob Amazing, thanks Rob!

Rob

Looks like this to me:

Kyle Pollard

I can repro on my end

Rob

Catija

@Rob Yeah, I don't think we can do that legally. We don't own the rights to the images, hence why we just echo it... I think.

Rob

9:47 PM

Mebe - I can hunt down that FR,in an hour.

Catija

I have asked about it because I know that the tracking pixel issue is a thing that a few people are concerned about... so having our own copy of the image was something I'd asked about internally and got some sort of response that indicated it wasn't possible to "take" the image ourselves and host it.

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Q: Do not load Facebook-based avatars directly from the Facebook CDN

Users who register for their account via Facebook get their Facebook profile photo as their default avatar. However, the avatar is not copied to SE servers or Imgur, and thus the original URL is kept. This URL compromises the privacy of the user as it contains their Facebook user ID which everyon...

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I assume you're talking about this one.

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