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01:05
@SonictheAnti-NewVariant-hog Ah thank you
01:21
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@Mithical Now I am wondering which one I was on SR.SE and here :D
@Luuklag Yes
01:36
The real question is:
There are two sites which Nicolas operated as part of his former hashcode.ru network and which weren't migrated into SE 2.0. Those sites are hosted on a separate server which is physically with him, in Russia.
@SonictheAnti-NewVariant-hog I'm concerned about his situation in general but its also none of my business
As far as I can best tell, while SE doesn't in a technical sense control said server, ever since they bought out hashcode.ru, said server legally belongs to Stack Exchange.
That's to say - it dosen't matter as much as his safety
you can rebuild a server, restore from backups
It seems Russian songs were removed from Spotify
Probably because paying compensation to Russian artists would involve sanctioned Russian banks
01:58
Kinda crazy.
 
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04:56
@JourneymanGeek I was the chaos monkey, no question
@Mithical on MSE I'm literally all 3, especially looking at the stuff I got away with over the years :D
ChrisF is 2 of those. Tink is at least 2 I guess too
 
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08:08
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron Nic's a CM 😅
He was part of the international team and RU.SE and RU.SO were basically parts of hashcode SE acquired when they hired him
I'm trying to figure out what exactly is going on here. Just need 6-8
@JourneymanGeek no idea what it means...
You mean Nic is a CM?
Yes!
Hashcode's a bunch of russian language Q&A sites SE acquired
@JourneymanGeek So remove the "He's" from the beginning, it... doesn't fit?
So I literally have no clue that some of these sites existed, nor their actual current status
Anyway, no ides who is Nic lol
08:12
\o/
Never saw such a name, and it's unique name, usually it's Nick. ;)
He's actually a longer serving community manager lol
It's like... Davi, which is David without the last letter.
ANyway
I've pinged appropriate people. It being a weekend though, I don't really want to bug/mug anyone too hard
@JourneymanGeek where? The spam sites? They're not under SE control, so the question is off topic.
Internet full with millions of spam sites, not SE role to clean them up.
If it's pet hobby of SE employee, still... off topic.
08:16
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron I'm not sure of the status of those sites at all 😅
Like I barely know what hashcode is
So I can either assume, or give it a day or two and let the folk here who would know figure it out
> To clarify here: Stack Exchange has absolutely nothing to do with the maintenance of the Hashcode sites. Outside of Nic working here and keeping the servers up, no other SE employee ever touches those sites, has access to do anything with them, or has any say in what happens to them. This is entirely up to Nic and whatever he wants to do with them. –
Seems to indicate that its not part of the network? IDK
For all I know everyone's forgotten those sites even exist 😅
And is running on some old university hosting account for alumni
Rob
Rob
08:34
I've proposed a duplicate, it probably answers the question.
Yes 100% duplicate, pity I've used my close vote already...
Anyway @JourneymanGeek it's Nicolas, it just can't be "Nic", it makes 0 sense.
Nic for Nicolas is like Da for David.
No way to guess.
Well maybe Dav. ;)
Those who know him in person will know, sure, but those who don't? No chance to know.
It's hard to type a lot, so I get it. :D
@JourneymanGeek meh, ani is the one who got me confused, you only tried to help. ;)
So what is the short names of other SE staff?
Rosie is Ros
Adam is... Ad?
Catija is Cat
lol. Naw, Adam is Adam.
Four letters??? Can't be. :P
09:19
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron Nick is an established short for "Nic(h)olas"
@JourneymanGeek Now I'm suddenly too lazy to type . . . Adm
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron shivers
09:32
@M.A.R. Where's the K come from?
@M.A.R. But can't be used in SE, Nick is already in use. ;)
Well, was.... but still.
Nicholas Scott Cannon (born October 8, 1980) is an American comedian, actor, rapper, and television presenter. In television, Cannon began as a teenager on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild 'n Out, America's Got Talent, Lip Sync Battle Shorties, and The Masked Singer. He acted in the films Drumline, Love Don't Cost a Thing, and Roll Bounce. As a rapper he released his debut self-titled album in 2003 with the single "Gigolo", a collaboration with singer R. Kelly. In 2007 he played the role of the fictional footballer TJ Harper in the film Goal II: Living the Dream. In 2006...
Can look for more... ;-)
Nick is a masculine given name. It is also often encountered as a short form (hypocorism) of the given names Nicholas, Nicola, Nicolas, Nikola, Nicolai or Nicodemus. It may refer to: == Given Name == === A === Nick Abbot (born 1960), British broadcaster and radio talk show host Nick Abendanon (born 1986), Dutch rugby player Nick Abruzzese (born 1999), American ice hockey player Nick Acquaviva (1927–2003), American composer and band leader Nick Adams (disambiguation), multiple people Nick Adduci (1929–2005), American football player Nick Adenhart (1986–2009), American baseball player Nick Afoa...
Lies. Maybe Likes.
Since we're inkerting random k's everkwhere.
I dokn't uske randokm k's
lol sounds like Russian :D
bans myself
09:38
Well Nick is established, what about Nic? ;)
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron If memory serves, he used to go by that before
I can also understand Nico, though not sure I would have understood Nico is referring to Nicolas either. lol
+ if Animuson uses it, it should be right
@JourneymanGeek are you trying to come up with rules for English spelling? That way lies madness.
> NIC is an acronym for Network interface controller, but it can also be known as a network adapter or LAN network. It is a piece of computer hardware, used for connecting a computer to a network, either through cables or wirelessly.
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09:39
@JourneymanGeek who? Nicolas by Nick? Where?
@DavidPostill awesome! :P
"Nic" looks exactly like it's missing a K.
@JourneymanGeek bet he also have Dav, Mav, Rav, and Jav, none of which we can guess.
I mean y'all sometimes call me @jou :D
@M.A.R. no, u missing a G
:D
09:41
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron Don't look it up in the Urban Dictionary 😂
@M.A.R. huh, so it's you?! :D
@M.A.R. Ok M.A.R.K
@DavidPostill looking
Journeyman Keek
> He also thinks Ariana Grande is Trash
@Davi
This alone made me ignore this. ;)
I don't admire her, but she ain't no trash! :D
09:49
Considering Urban Dict's rep, I was expecting something way worse
@M.A.R. well there are quite a few vulgar words... but yeah UD is 99.99999% crap lol
Bored kids who post total nonsense.
No moderation whatsoever leads to such vulgar chaos.
creating Area51 proposal for Urban.SE
(or Slang.SE? ;))
Rob
Rob
Nic's nic is Nic.
10:29
That said.... no spam today??
!!/alive?
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron Kinda sorta
!!/where is all the spam?
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron No such command 'where'.
!!/why no reports today?
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron No such command 'why'.
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron There are plenty of reports in chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/11540/charcoal-hq
11:15
@Mods Refresh this profile:
O_o
https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/259214/nicael
@DavidPostill oh, so the bug is here? Smokey blocked for some reason? Weird.
@Wolgwang why should mods "refresh" that account???? What is wrong with it?
Anyway, such thing isn't possible, lol.
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron -_-
@Wolgwang OK, and why not making this a link? To make us have to work harder to reach it? Not going to do that.
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron It links to main meta profile 0_0
OK, but you could simply post one clear message "Please reset this chat profile, it's not synched with parent account". Instead you.... just made it super complex.
11:21
Since when did posting "chat.meta.link" oneboxes main meta profile ?
hmmm
@Wolgwang Its Nicael
she's the queen of obscure bugs in the old days
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron 😅 Understood
she can report it herself :D
@JourneymanGeek it's a "he".
He just using female avatars.
Its done :D
11:23
And yeah nicael has some.... history.... lol
Including account merge, which is most likely what "killed" that chat profile.
Anyway...
!!/coffee Wolg
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron brews a cup of jQuery for @Wolg
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron brews a cup of green tea for @David
11:24
Just to be fair.... ;)
SO chat profile also out of synch, though at least not with only 1 rep so he can chat... in theory. ;)
So posting "chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/..." link always oneboxes meta profile but posting "chat.stackexchange.com/users/..." doesn't do anything. I realised it today. :-O
@Wolgwang if you want, ping Zoe in Den asking to reset it, she once said she's fine with pings in the Den if they're not nonsense.
(And Zoe is mod on SO)
waffles are yummy
hmm
Well that's a bug, but sadly onebox bugs are NEVER fixed, so waste of time reporting it.
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron Thanks 😎
Unless you want to report it for the sole purpose of getting some rep. ;)
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron <Insert some onebox quote>
11:30
> Onebox is actually Manybox of bugs
Unless there is nobox
🤔 Chat profiles used to sync automatically in 1 hour. Strange...
Chat's not really maintained
@Wolgwang normally, they do. But account merge means the account ID is changed, and the chat synch job has the old ID, so it's synching account that does not exist anymore.
What's the probability of overlords updating the chat in the next 20 years?
11:39
@Wolgwang 0
Unless they find way to make chat profitable, e.g. inserting ads.
And if they'll find alternative to their internal chat, I'm afraid it would mean the end of chat altogether.
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron actually I heard a lot of teams use slack now ._.
Slack? NVM
Pretty sure SE used Slack too, saw comments implying it.
Maybe still using, dunno
But it can't replace, e.g. the TL.
TL is a bit of a special case
Proper (?) alternative might be Discord channel, and also asking all mods to use it.
Discord becomes more and more popular.
11:43
Codidact uses discord...
Figures :)
Originally for gamers, but as time goes by, looks like it's expanding way beyond this.
lol
I am on matrix, slack and discord for SE related groups
What is IRC ?
.....
Get off my lawn
@JourneymanGeek none of those official though, i.e. not created/moderated by SE, right?
So imagine if SE itself create Discord server/channels, and asking all staff and mods to use it.
They'll give some time to adjust, then close chat down.
or just shut down chat and tell people go their own way
@JourneymanGeek nah, even SE won't do that.
11:52
Sometimes I not sure
When [name I can't write anymore] was in charge of things.... I could believe it, sure... but now things are... better.
Well, mostly. :D
Enough proof is mods who came back, all around.
12:05
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron as I was telling someone.
Its too easy to find villans
While we blame one person for <event>
The whole system was rotten
@JourneymanGeek it's never one person
Wish it was.
At the same time
the system is better but not perfect
In SE case, management, all the way up, let things happen the way they did.
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron or didn't care
@JourneymanGeek nothing is perfect, never will be.
Expecting perfect means you'll just get disappointed time after time, never satisfied.
I'll go with "better" and hope it won't fall back to "worse". ;)
@JourneymanGeek same; they let it happen because they didn't care enough. :)
And yes, looks like they still lack in that area, but.... not as bad as before.
12:08
Well there's resources
but its rebuilding from ruins
+ some mindsets hopefully will adjust
Well, I don't see anything really bad, or really good, these days. But looks like they're on a fine path ahead.
Anyway... now back to work on some project I didn't touch for a while, familiar images popping up....
@Tink hope you don't mind I've used your avatar in the dev environment.... :D
(some of the details are real, so erased it, but the uploaded files aren't real, they're local to the server. ;))
12:25
Why didn't you censor out that Tink's in ninth grade?
@Mithical :P
Well the first name is Noa
And it was 100% random lol
Just used images I have on my PC.
Anyway task now is to block registration of players if they're already part of certain association... used to work before, but got lost when changing the design. :/
(sounds familiar? ;))
lol
Turns out web service still working, I just didn't copy the part reading it. And turns out it's more than simple copy&paste. :(
The more weird part, client didn't notice it for.... two years? lol
Unlike SE, no thousands of users to help find bugs. ;(
12:40
lol
12:52
@Mithical yeah i don't want my accounts deleted for being underaged ;)
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron What's this ? o_O
@Wolgwang it's a rudimentary spell written in the language of runes
This one summons a powerful demon to do your bidding קסם תפוחי אדמה מופיעים
My only weakness! POTATOES!
Oh yeah? This potato has a CHAINSAW
GOOD, BAD I AM THE MAN WITH THE POTATO CANNON.
13:22
@M.A.R. exactly! You're a true Master. :D
13:36
Finally!!!!1!!!
lol
oh it was also before. O:
14:11
OK, spam is back. Now you can stop again for some time. :D
14:47
Half seriously
I wonder if all the spammers were busy for a bit
with a war going on
15:16
@JourneymanGeek in Disney movie, all the spammers would be united to launch a mega attack against Russia, such a massive attack, that it was the real reason for Russia backing off and starting negotiations.
:-D
Sadly, many of the spammers are Russians themselves, and the rest care totally 0 about wars. :/
Spammers that care... that is the movie we will never see ;)
Year ago, but doubt it changed much. lol
@ResistanceIsFutile yeah!
Imagine wars being fought only with spam
Smokey would win without any doubt :)
15:39
;)
BTW, the song "Russians" of Sting is now relevant more than ever... especially when they threaten with nukes...
> How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?
shivers
 
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Rob
Rob
16:58
@ShadowWizardHatesOmicron Not always.

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