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Journeyman Geek

2:16 AM

ping

caird coinheringaahing

pong

curious

ping

Ryan M

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Meta Andrew T.

2:37 AM

pung

Journeyman Geek

throws chat a scooby snack to be safe, and a stinky dog biscuit...

Ryan M

chat gets high and solves crimes

Meta Andrew T.

... is it done yet? I got read-only on MSO, but now already r/w. I slept over the maintenance period and got a ticker notification on Android.SE while it's already r/w, but no notification on Anime.SE :/

caird coinheringaahing

Most main/metas seem to be back up

Journeyman Geek

4:03 AM

that's a very meta badge

its a badge badge

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Meta Andrew T.

4:19 AM

unfortunately, not beige color :(

Feeds

4:45 AM

stackoverflow.blog/2022/09/21/…

Meta Andrew T.

5:02 AM

@Feeds Can integrating chat with onebox improve readers user experience?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

7:04 AM

@JourneymanGeek lol

@Luuklag how rude of them! At least not audit...

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag wouldn't it be uncompleted then?

Luuklag

7:42 AM

@JourneymanGeek probably, but I wasn't elligble to review the item when I refreshed

Journeyman Geek

maybe it was done?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

8:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek or down

Phone number, email, suspicious link....

Mast

Odd indeed.

It needs something suspicious in/near the e-mail for that filter to trigger IIRC, so that may be it.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Oh, also "link at end of body". And still not nuked...

Well hate to do it but I'll vote to close as spam, maybe would be faster.

Might break the record, think it's 20 minutes for obvious spam to stick on MSE.

(borderline cases can take much longer.)

!!/lonely

SmokeDetector

8:41 AM

@ShadowTheKidWizard No such command 'lonely'.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

:)

lol

Sep 5, 2010 at 18:15, by balpha

        string[] places = { "house", "place", "lounge", "loft", "room", "hangout", "palace", "yard" },
                 adjectives = { "awesome", "lonely", "cozy", "happy", "crazy", "quiet", "decent" },
                 attrs = { "unicorn", "party", "waffle", "freehand circle", "cooking" },
                 quals = { "my", "the", "in the", "our", "your", "at the"};

@balpha you remember this? ^

@badp off topic! :P

@ShadowTheKidWizard two more minutes...

Luuklag

@ShadowTheKidWizard poofed it

Shadow The Kid Wizard

oh hey @balpha that was fast :D

balpha

@ShadowTheKidWizard Yep! Bunch of screenshots on meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62671/… prove that it was real 😁

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag thanks! Though no record now. D:

@balpha awesome! One of the best hidden gems I've seen. :D

Your internal staff rooms still have cool bots in them? @balpha

SPArcheon

9:06 AM

@curious In case you were interested, I saw some mentions of this app on Twitter - link -> HTTPS: // softology.pro/voc.htm

can't guarantee for its safety or quality, so be aware of that.

That said, the guy seems well known and even has a youtube channel.

Visions of Chaos Tutorial - Text-to-Image

►

Configuring the thing seems pretty time consuming, so it is probably not something you may want to try. And again, I can't guarantee the app is safe to use and not malicious in any way.

balpha

@ShadowTheKidWizard the internal staff rooms aren't really used anymore, we're almost exclusively on Slack

I ported two of the bots to slack though, one is public: github.com/balpha/wheelofblame

SPArcheon

oh, balpha is here. This means it is a good time to point out how Stack should start investing into TextToUnicorn image generation :P

balpha

@SPArcheon twitter.com/balpha/status/1565987112805175298

SPArcheon

@balpha oh, you actually tried :P

Third one is extremely cursed.

@balpha anyway, can I ask how those were generated? Google collab demos, hugging faces, actual local environment on your machine etc?

Mast

9:30 AM

Website, probably. stablediffusionweb.com

balpha

Locally. I'm running this port of Stable Diffusion which works on a CPU (I don't have a fancy GPU in my personal machine).

Journeyman Geek

shocking :D

(I do hope SE's maintained their standards on work machines_

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek plot twist: SE actually runs on an old Commodore 64. All of you kept teasing them for years because of the small bugs but in reality it is one of the most optimized platforms in the world

balpha

That is correct. When you get the "offline for maintenance" page, somebody is in the data center rewinding the cassette tape with a pencil.

3

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek, care to chime in here as SU mod?

This definetly isn't a Hardware Recommendation question. It might be a Super User question. — Luuklag 57 mins ago

Journeyman Geek

9:51 AM

ehh, super vaguely

I wouldn't go out of my way to close it but its not a great question

Shadow The Kid Wizard

10:16 AM

@balpha oh no. Hope you read that. ;)

I think Slack is just another hack-able layer, but meh, count on you guys to make it as secure as possible.

@JourneymanGeek so it would fit on SU?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard ehh not realllllly

It might get closed I suspect cause no one can 'really' know why the plug is too short

Shadow The Kid Wizard

bummer

Poor OP.

Journeyman Geek

Its technically on topic

but its not a good question as is

curious

10:36 AM

@balpha that Homer Simpson is quite nice!

Shadow The Kid Wizard

10:55 AM

Begone, evil spam.

Or, even better!

Journeyman Geek

11:33 AM

@ShadowTheKidWizard Well now that their account is deleted they can go on a vacation to lovely Wayanad.

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek at least its answered: superuser.com/questions/1743565/…

Luuklag

11:59 AM

@Glorfindel, not sure I agree with this dupe here, meta.stackexchange.com/questions/382223/…, as it is about computing hardware, so the dupe target doesn't really offer any advice there.

Glorfindel

You may be right, I only looked at the body of the question. It really should not depend on external links :)

Luuklag

@Glorfindel true, not really a great Q to keep around anyways.

lacks details ;)

Luuklag

12:13 PM

Oh well I put the first delete vote on it. It'll probably be gone quickly

curious

@SPArcheon Nice! I sort of wish I could install Stable Diffusion to give it a shot and compare with DALL-E2 and MJ... time consuming also!

SPArcheon

@curious coincidentally....

3 hours ago, by balpha

Locally. I'm running this port of Stable Diffusion which works on a CPU (I don't have a fancy GPU in my personal machine).

curious

@SPArcheon Ran into this for video yesterday... twitter.com/LighthiserScott/status/1567355079228887041

@SPArcheon yes I noticed that haha

I'd probably need help and I assume @balpha is busy implementing TexttoUnicorn ;)

Journeyman Geek

heh

I THINK my main pc could run it >_>

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:47 PM

@JourneymanGeek :D

Journeyman Geek

Also really good coffee there

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek where?

!!/coffee good

SmokeDetector

@ShadowTheKidWizard brews a cup of ristretto for @good

Journeyman Geek

Waynad

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek way who?

Can't find any mention of Waynad neither here nor on MSE

Let's see on Google...

Journeyman Geek

12:53 PM

Wayanad district

Wayanad (IPA: [ʋɐjɐnaːɖɨ̆]), is a district of the Indian State of Kerala with administrative headquarters at the municipality of Kalpetta. It is the only plateau in Kerala. The Wayanad Plateau forms a continuation of the Mysore Plateau, the southern portion of Deccan Plateau. It is set high in the Western Ghats with altitudes ranging from 700 to 2100 meters. Vellari Mala, a 2,240 m (7,349 ft) high peak situated on the trijunction of Wayanad, Malappuram, and Kozhikode districts, is the highest point in Wayanad district. The district was formed on 1 November 1980 as the 12th district in Kerala, by...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Found! ^

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek Looks like a microsoft background LOL

Shadow The Kid Wizard

But how is it related to anything said here before? Unless it's just random like "It's hot here today"? ;)

Journeyman Geek

The spammer? :D

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek ohhh

Another link I could never guess

@Luuklag pretty sure it is

Luuklag

1:00 PM

Someone upvoted this, so it got back to -2, is my del vote still pending on it then? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/382223/…

Journeyman Geek

yup, still pending

Just acknowledging this is on our list of items to investigate today; it is certainly not expected that the chat interface should even think about allowing you to post while the entire network is read only. — Aaron Bertrand 12 mins ago

I got folks to poke at chat. Win!

Luuklag

1:55 PM

wow thats fast

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag nah, 21 seconds.

Just balance with the spam that lived for 19 minutes earlier.

Average still pretty high. :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

depends on their luck

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek aka "how many of the mods are busy". :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

Shadow The Kid Wizard

We very rarely have 6 MSE users around in same time, so only mod can nuke spam fast.

Journeyman Geek

1:58 PM

I was swapping out my 10 inch pen tablet for my 17 inch portable monitor I was using at my old job

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek bigger (screen) isn't always better.

:D

Journeyman Geek

says people with small screens

Shadow The Kid Wizard

I got big screen

umm

Journeyman Geek

this one is thinner and smaller bezel

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Actually never really cared, I was fine with small screen, as long as I see what I need.

@Spe what about you?

Hope this time you were ready for a ping? ;)

Spevacus

2:01 PM

My work laptop (which I haven't set up with my other monitors yet) is a relatively small screen, which is lame.

I primarily like 1920x1080 and my personal main monitor is...

Oh boy. I forget how big it is.

I prefer a somewhat large screen though.

Journeyman Geek

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Spevacus 34 inch? ;)

Journeyman Geek

the bottom one is 17 inch FHD :D

Spevacus

I love the screens. I hate the cables.

Journeyman Geek

top 2 are 27 inch UHD

lol

on my office laptop its single cable

rest of it, I'm working on cleaning up my desk

Shadow The Kid Wizard

2:02 PM

Time to go shopping, tomorrow it would be madness so better go today.

Journeyman Geek

so its a bit of work in progress and I'm trying to avoid moving the PC till the very last bit

admittedly

my set up is the exact opposite of minimalist ._.

Spevacus

I just moved and I set up my desktop on the wrong side of my desk and I seriously can NOT be bothered to switch it to the other side. I'm just so incredibly lazy.

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek time for some cablemanagement

Journeyman Geek

I think I have years of dust on this

Spevacus

But if I do it'd be a lot cleaner cable management

@JourneymanGeek U

Journeyman Geek

2:04 PM

at least 1

so right now its basicallt getting all the stuff off it lol

and I was just seeing if this would work

but ya

going to take it all down eventually and try to re-organise the cables better

Spevacus

Well-organized cables are so satisfying to look at but so unsatisfying to make happen

Journeyman Geek

Oh It was neat before lol

Last two year I didn't bother

and I don't mind 'nice' cable work

but uhhh

g3rv4

oh, I love this real picture... people generally tidy up their desks to a point that I'm SURE it's not how it looks in their day to day

here goes mine

Journeyman Geek

oh, this has less stuff than before

and this is about 3 days into on and off cleanup lol

g3rv4

with the banana peel included

Journeyman Geek

2:07 PM

I'm debating downsizing to 1+1 when I move

(especially since its a much smaller apartment)

Spevacus

Nice standing desk. How often do you switch throughout the day from sitting <-> standing?

g3rv4

if I have 1 hour meetings, I'll def have some time of the meeting standing

walking, really

Journeyman Geek

I'm currently using an old dining table as a desk lol

g3rv4

but I don't find it comfortable to code while standing (it could be because I'm too tall)

:)

Journeyman Geek

its a dust magnet ._.

@g3rv4 always felt standing desks were a bit overcomplicated

and for people too "LOOK I AM WORKING" to take a 5 minute break every hour like a sane person ._.

Spevacus

2:10 PM

That's something I need to start doing more of throughout the day. I'm kinda in the market for a new desk (and chair, which currently takes priority) but I'd rather cheap out on the desk than the chair tbh.

Journeyman Geek

@Spevacus well, uh

I'd agree

my last 2 desks were free

Spevacus

LOL nice

Journeyman Geek

well nearly free :D

(ex office tabletop with ikea trestles, and I'm kicking myself for not buying the 'nice' ones then, and ex dining table)

g3rv4

@JourneymanGeek it could be... Stack bought my original one (spent... a ridiculous amount of $$$ to get it shipped to Uruguay). I thought I'd use it more, but when it came the time to change my desk, I still went for a standing one because I do enjoy standing on some really boring meetings

Journeyman Geek

@g3rv4 the good old days lol

Stack now pays you to pick up stuff

(so I'm told >_>)

g3rv4

2:12 PM

I'm glad I got to see a bit of the good old days

I'm in a different boat now, as I'm a contractor... so benefits that apply to FTEs don't apply to me. I couldn't be happier though ;)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Spevacus

Pretty sure if you get hired here you do get a budget to build your own home office.

Journeyman Geek

As long as the pay's good, perks are perks

Spevacus

here as in SE/SO

Journeyman Geek

@Spevacus about 2k usd

I'd honestly blow most of it on a nice chair

Spevacus

2:13 PM

Honestly same. It's horrendous trying to find a good one atm.

Journeyman Geek

no idea if their work systems are still as good as they used to be

@Spevacus I had the misfortune of sitting on a herman miller aeon for a few months. Its basically ruined every other chair for me :D

(work got it tho)

Spevacus

Oh my gosh yeah. I hate that they're so damn expensive because they really are so good.

Journeyman Geek

my current chair and probably future one's a secret labs

Spevacus

Buddy swears by his Secret Labs.

He frequently takes naps in his.

Journeyman Geek

and I'm planning on cramming my PC into a tiny space

rofl

g3rv4

2:14 PM

I still have the herman miller aeron that Stack paid for 6 years ago... it needed a repair and they did it for free

Journeyman Geek

done that

my dad's usually "you spent what?" on most of my stuff

Spevacus

Yeah the herman miller ones not only are built well but they've got great support IIRC?

g3rv4

12 years of warranty make the investment super interesting though

Journeyman Geek

he took one sit and was like "order me one, damned the cost"

g3rv4

lol

Spevacus

2:15 PM

It really is worth it especially if it lasts however many years

But damn if the upfront cost doesn't make you balk

Journeyman Geek

@g3rv4 Yeah but I don't think I can justify blowing a month's salary + on a chair :(

@Spevacus if I had a job that needed me to WFH (not counting well I'm on a break now :D) , I'd consider it a good investment

You're spending 8ish hours a day

not really worth cheaping out and messing up your back

glares at last workplace

Spevacus

My girlfriend's been over my shoulder when I was looking around for chairs and keeps poking me like "Go back to the <500 dollar section" and I'm just like... D:

Journeyman Geek

ehhhh

g3rv4

@JourneymanGeek yeah, makes sense... I wouldn't spend a month's salary+ on a chair either

Journeyman Geek

I wonder if they're cheaper in malaysia...

though I can't imagine sticking it in my dad's car and getting someone to drive me over

Kevin B

2:19 PM

i mean

Luuklag

can't you just have it shipped?

Kevin B

i didn't enjoy spending $600 on my chair, but it's still good as new, 7 years later now

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag taxes, various corporate agreements...

Spevacus

You really do get your bang for your buck depending on where you buy from.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag generally the singapore and malaysian resellers for anything don't compete

do I can't say, go to malaysia, buy bulkier ikea stuff and have it shipped here

and occationally its the same company

g3rv4

2:21 PM

the one I bought costed 600 in the US, and I (well, Stack really) paid 1600 for it in Uruguay

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, that's kinda why they supposedly switched to a allowance :D

Spevacus

Sheesh

Journeyman Geek

@g3rv4 on the other hand, on a good enough salary, its less painful ._.

g3rv4

indeed

Journeyman Geek

or if you had enough money to stash eventually lol

(and my apartment fund ate most of that... and the rest was basic expenses and computer parts :D)

Journeyman Geek

2:43 PM

@Spevacus there's a running joke that one of my SU regulars in brazil might find it cheaper to fly to the US, buy stuff and fly back than buy it locally

Prices for stuff varies wildly

Spevacus

Lol

SPArcheon

3:07 PM

@curious at least it would mean he has got some spare time. I keep repeating myself that this won't rig itself on its own, yet two others players managed to do that (somehow poorly imho) before me.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek fun fact, people fly to Israel from the USA for dentist, and it's cheaper for them. My aunt used to do that, until her husband got sick so she can't leave him there for few years already. ;(

SPArcheon

3:54 PM

... and thanks to stable diffusion....

behold.