@ThiefMaster I have the opposite argument. As the domain now belongs to SE Inc., if they typo that domain it'll direct them to one of their own sites rather than a malicious typosquatter.

@ThiefMaster it was waaaay worse before, with the various domains seeming like the usual phishing variations (stackoverflowsolutions.com just screams phishing to me) and not linked off of stackoverflow.com

tbh, in theory that's where HTTPS should help

in practice, a scammer can get a LE cert too :D

How so? You can get HTTPS certs for ...yeah, that.

Excessive trust in https is dangerous :D

Also even EV certs were never particularly reliable...

Safari's UX decisions there were...really harmful.

(fortunately, they've reversed course)

@SPArcheon for some reason I feel like I need to share this monstrocity with you

hm

SU seems to be down

The service is confused

I get "service unavailable" and our custom down page

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You had some time to burn @JourneymanGeek?

@Luuklag uh yes

How you burn time? Ordinary fire?

@Luuklag short version? I tested positive for covid :D

@JourneymanGeek so now you have time off, congratz! xD

Hopefully you won't get too sick

@Luuklag from the military training I was looking forward to as time off work

@Luuklag symptoms are mild. Light sore throat, very very slight congestion

Also, synonymns/mergers are fast

unless they go wrong

Do you get paid for being sick, or how are employment conditions over there?

the 'new' UI for it is... a lot better

@Luuklag its a bit messy

Army is paying my salary for the period :D

they gave me an MC, and helped report me to the ministry of health

So no real loss on your side then? That's great!

@JourneymanGeek Well, there are plenty: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synonym-request

I had the option of dropping out but this is my last one

coughs dramatically

@JourneymanGeek sorry to hear... you still can smell and have taste? Those are the symptoms I'm most afraid of. I love to eat.... :D

@Luuklag oh, there was a flag

@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron I am the one who has it

smell and taste are fine

fixed

(and that's how the darn thing spreads so fast. Let's hope Luuklag has a good firewall and antivirus :P)

new message pushed everything down so I misclicked reply arrow

@Tinkeringbell @ShadowWizardHatesOmicron getting confused or dramatic coughing?

@Tinkeringbell :P :P :P

First we need to be able to send smell over the internet...

@JourneymanGeek Sha accusing Luuklag of being covid positive :P

@Tinkeringbell probably not... But ill keep my imunesystem active with 3 little kids

Some companies made some experiments, but pretty sure nothing really works, yet.

@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron the annoying part is I was negative on monday

There was this TV you could lick for taste on the news a while back...

Positive on wednesday

@Luuklag yeah three kids here too, with all the viruses they carry, surely my own immune system getting constant practice as well. :D

The two older kids keep asking to test for COVID, lol. (the home test)

@JourneymanGeek so you will be free again on Monday, if tested negative for COVID?

BTW, you know what variant?

no idea what varient

we're just relying on ART/LFT tests

@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron they need to run an extra PCR analsis to determine that, right?

Wonder why they're not telling the variant, it's not like they don't know.

@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron oh, this was an ART test

Here they take samples from the test that have been run positive periodically, and then determine the variants. It's quite a complicated process from what I understood.

@Luuklag yup. But... even without negative PCR test, one can be free if they show no symptoms, after a full week, here in Israel.

@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron ART 72 hours from first ART test, if not 7 days

@Luuklag oh, I see. Making some sense. ;)

I wish there was some way to tell viral load

Here you can go out of isolation if you have no symptoms for 24 hours I think, or if you are tested negative after 5 days of isolation

@Luuklag yeah, very similar to what we have here.

@Luuklag That's the weird bit. I had no symptoms day 1, mild on day 2, milder on day 3

my mom's completely asymptomatic

Dad's got a bad cough

@JourneymanGeek oh, but negative for COVID?

All positive

oh no

The reasoning is that if you don't have symptomps, you are not infective I think

Parents are at greater risk, not good.

Hope they got at least two vaccine shots? @Journeyman

@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron we suspect it started with mom, but she's in denial over it

@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron 3

@JourneymanGeek meh, doesn't really matter...

All boosted

@JourneymanGeek awesome, so risk is low.

@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron for contact tracing it might

I contacted work to ask them to all check

@JourneymanGeek I think they pretty much gave up on that here.

We have a fancy high tech system and it was...

"Could you fill up these forms?"

and so many SMSes

@JourneymanGeek for verification?

No to let you know you have forms to fill up

@JourneymanGeek that one is a parody. These aren't.

That looks pretty cool

Uh, I thought you were going to show me something monsterous and shocking

not shocking. Just weird.

Most of these are reasonably cool/unusual/original

@SPArcheon thats what you get when you take a pony

most of the crossover product or third party (both licensed and not licensed) figures are BETTER than Hasbro official toys.

Ok. that's horrifying

What is horrifying exactly?

It is just an Hatsune Miku figure with an Hatsune Miku pony.

All of it

Why?

Because

It is not like Miku looks any different usually.

I thought ponies had those brightly colored always tangled synthetic hairs, like trolls?

These ones are all plastic, so no fun.

@Tinkeringbell oh, you are right, but you are thinking about regular toys. These are just display figures a Japanese company made. Collector items, like every Japanese cartoon/comic one. The difference is that in this case they decided for some reason to use characters from an American show.

@Tinkeringbell you can't play barber with them

@Luuklag Slowly pull out all the hairs one by one :P

In this case, it's 'just snap all the plastic of in one movement!'

@Tinkeringbell LOL, you're trying to become an interrogator or something?

That said, even Hasbro made some "all plastic" figures

@Luuklag Nah. But I had some lower quality barbies as a kid and the hair would always come off, and then there'd be this one strand that was bent or not falling in line and...

Eventually, there weren't any hairs left.

compare the brushable Equestria Girls dolls

and the Equestria Girl Mini figures

I think I'll stick with tamagotchi's.

If I have to pick a Japanese toy :P

@Tinkeringbell to be fair, last two are made by Hasbro, so.. America.

Pffft.

The one I got from my brothers a while back says 'bandai' on the packaging (yeah, I got one and haven't taken it out of the packaging yet, haven't had time for it XD)

made in china though XD

@Tinkeringbell like 99% of the stuff in the world

Hahaha yeah

@Tinkeringbell Well, like Apple loved to print on the IPhone... "designed in America"

that said, the "Bandai" figure could also very well be a bootleg.

@SPArcheon Yeah, so do many German companies. They say Designed in germany, and in much smaller print Made in China

Some online shops like Amazon are full of those.

I dunno. You tell me :P

It was a gift, so I don't care much if it's original or not. It was fun to get it :)

@JourneymanGeek garbage for you to nuke ˆˆ

That was... strange

Ah the phone number spammers are back

Someone tried to do phone number spam on MSE :D

@JourneymanGeek quite a few posts actually

@Luuklag I've taken to salting the earth so...

Always a great idea to do it when I can see it

?

metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/flagging/logs

@Luuklag I checked through each user name and uh

got em all?

If I missed any on MSE let me know, I'd gladly give them a nuclear warm welcome

there's a continuing trickle but they are quickly flagged and deleted for the most part

the thing to look out for is when autoflagging fails for some reason (like it apparently did around an hour ago for one of these) and if they start spewing a new number which is not yet blacklisted (but even then we seem to have enough to autoflag, generally speaking)

^ plagiarized, still up

flag-pls spam returning visa spammer travel.stackexchange.com/a/172132

^ they had an earlier spam 13 minutes ago which was not reported here

whistles

That's a nice profile. Pity if it got a lot of processed meat product on it. Oh wait

User's other posts are spam too

all smokey stuff is deleted.

@Luuklag yup

🚽

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Since when is the size of the comment box adjustable on MSE?

At least on mobile?

adjustable in what way

mine isn't, but on desktop resizable textareas have been a built-in thing for a while