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04:46

stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/25/…

Shadow The Kid Wizard

06:18

@JNat heh. Thanks! :D

@Feeds needed: onebox simulator

Journeyman Geek

08:25

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SPArcheon

10:14

site KO?

chat partially too...

only meta seems affected

nope, other sites are starting to lag too.

Journeyman Geek

seems ok to me

SPArcheon

10:31

yep, seems that was just web noise.

twitter.com/DougDeMuro/status/1576981788672421888

I suggest you look at the plate very carefully, bottom left...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

11:05

@SPArcheon meh, I bet it's fake.

Not-so-good photoshop.

On Twitter, 80% of the accounts are fake (aka "bots") and same for pictures people post, vast majority are posted after being edited/faked/stolen from difference source.

It's the biggest waste bin in the world. :P

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard yeah, about that...

I get you still think you live in a decent world...

Electronic license plate

An electronic license plate (also referred to as a digital display license plate) is a vehicle-mounted identification device that emits a radio signal for tracking and digital monitoring purposes. Various patents including advanced features have been published with the intention of replacing traditional metal and plastic license plates. It communicates directly with the vehicle computer system as well as other remote systems related to vehicle regulation. == Concept == Inventor Dean L. Naddeo published a patent on June 11, 2002, for the improvement of existing license plates. Naddeo's intention...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon I know it's real, the "downloading update" is fake.

People make their living on Twitter by posting things that other people go "OMG that is amazing!!1!!!" and click Like and Retweet. Just some boring plate won't do that magic.

So one must add some spice. Legit? Maybe. Smelly? Very.

So my default view of any picture on Twitter is "this is fake". ;)

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard coff coff coff...

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard Its a car youtuber IIRC - so I actually don't think its a photoshop

SPArcheon

Also, if that was fake the producer would have that pointed out.

Not Retweet the post.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

11:32

@JourneymanGeek Twitterer, or whatever it's called, they make money for advertising products.

He's doing fine job, I'll give him that. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard by pointint out how terrible it is?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon Still no proof it's actually showing the "Update" label.

Journeyman Geek

So people get them to try to hack them ...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek duh, any kid can probably hack this crap, lol. Change the number, show NSFW stuff on the plate, and much more.

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek And by sending the link to the "Internet of [you know]" twitter account I may also add, found that there....

Journeyman Geek

11:34

@ShadowTheKidWizard I AM NOT ANY KID

(I couldn't hack my way out of a paper bag either)

@ShadowTheKidWizard so... what isssss he advertising?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek JourneymanKid

@JourneymanGeek oh no idea, didn't bother to read.

:P

Could be priceless if that was car plate spam ^

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard it will happen eventually

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek paper bag is one of the very few things that can't be hacked, even by the best hacker. :D

Paper bug, on the other hand...

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard This seem a job wort for Hackerman

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon not even him

SPArcheon

11:39

The guy hacked TIME. A paper bag is nothing for him.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon why? It draw more attention, help to boost sales.

Reminds of of article I read recently about electric truck.

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard usual market strategy does not involve giving more visibility to people pointing out your products are bad.

Unless you are Sega.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

They built prototype without engine at all, let it go down a hill, and made a video showing how well it can drive.

Think the owners is now in jail.

@SPArcheon not sure. any exposure is good exposure, as it means more people know about your product. Some would surely change their mind at some point. :D

@SPArcheon TIME magazine? Meh, there are worse.

Third time lucky?

!!/coffee g3r

SmokeDetector

@ShadowTheKidWizard brews a cup of ristretto for @g3r

Shadow The Kid Wizard

(two previous pings for Mr. V4 didn't make him reply ;))

g3rv4

11:45

o/

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard worked so great...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@M.A.R. do you have an electric license plate for your car?

SPArcheon

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@g3rv4 yay!! What's up?

@SPArcheon that's you?

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard fans said the original design was trash. Fans said the new design was a little less trash, fans said the final movie was complete, utter, unsalvageable trash.

if that was on purpose... congrats, worked great

JNat

11:50

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g3rv4

@ShadowTheKidWizard not much :) cursing at computers

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon oh, that. lol

Wonder what @Sonic thinks of Sonic's new design and latest movie?

JNat

@Luuklag gone

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@g3rv4 does it work? Computer working better after cursing it? :D

Also, try to curse in C++, heard it works better. ;)

> May your pointer get stuck in infinite loop

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard fun ouroboros: Mario was one of the first videogame movies and still considered one of the worst. Sonic almost stole that title (or actually managed it depending who you ask).

Now it is Mario again that could show people how to make a game movie.

JNat

12:01

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Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon easy to measure how successful something is, hard to measure the opposite, yeah.

SPArcheon

The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Official Teaser Trailer

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Shadow The Kid Wizard

Feels weird to talk inside backlog, hollow feeling. :P

Journeyman Geek

I feel like @JNat might benefit from the new inbox changes, :D

SPArcheon

that said, it may get pretty good competition.

Scenery and Sentiment: Mondstadt Edition | Genshin Impact

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Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:03

@JourneymanGeek nah, they'll keep using the OTC.

Open Tabs Concept

JNat

^^that

Shadow The Kid Wizard

:)

JNat

I'd rather have a thousand open tabs than unread notifications

Shadow The Kid Wizard

lol

Journeyman Geek

ah lol

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:04

Maybe if we could Save inbox notifications...

Journeyman Geek

I keep a messy desk and neat tabs :D

Tinkeringbell

keep all the notifications unread, then when you want to go handle them... then open all of them in a new tab :P

JNat

@JourneymanGeek I fluctuate between several combinations of messy and neat on the desk and the tabs ;P

Journeyman Geek

@JNat cleaning my desk is a project that I have been trying to get moving for months

Tinkeringbell

Desk is definitely messy right now.. tabs... slightly, there's a few that I should close XD

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:05

@Tinkeringbell @rene has around 10k, pretty sure no browser can handle that many tabs. :D

Journeyman Geek

I suspect I'll just move out and grab what I need :D

JNat

my desk is neater than my tabs, at this point

hence the backlog purge ;P

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Good reason to do the backlog! ;)

JNat

@RyanM gone

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Do one of those dramatic arm swipes across the desk and throw everything else on the floor... leave it :P

Journeyman Geek

12:06

won't work either

Shadow The Kid Wizard

My desk at work is neat, at home less so because of the kids, they leave random things on it.

Tinkeringbell

Sure, blame the kids :P

JNat

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Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell I do!

;)

Ginger

nice desk :p

Journeyman Geek

12:10

that's actually rather neat

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Except for the coffee, small plate, and handcream, it's all the kids. :P

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, that's neat.

Neater than mine at the moment...

Ginger

is your tower even on your desk?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Ginger thanks! :)

@JourneymanGeek omg, better not show yours then. I guess! :D

JNat

@JourneymanGeek gone

Tinkeringbell

12:11

this one is a mess

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard I do have three monitors

Ginger

@ShadowTheKidWizard it's far better than my desk, which is covered in random electronic components, multiple computers, and something like 5 MicroSD cards :b

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Ginger you mean the computer? Yes, I wanted it to be on the floor, but wife thinks it's better on the desk itself, so there it is.

Ginger

wow yall have a weird ping sound

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek so you can go for ultimate realism.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:12

@Ginger MSE sound, made to be creepy on purpose :P

Journeyman Geek

@SPArcheon oh actually no

Ginger

I come from The Nineteenth Byte, where we just have the normal "lyxal's fridge" sound q:

Journeyman Geek

Bottom's chat, left is my main monitor, right is my secondary

Shadow The Kid Wizard

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Q: Let us pick the sound of chat ping

Getting ping'd in some chatrooms (servers?) makes a nice little ding!, in some others you get a loud bonk! Inconsistency is evil, this needs to be fixed. Or rather, instead of forcing a uniform bink! on all chat users across the network, how about making the ping notification sound a configurabl...

JNat

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Ginger

12:14

of course it's a userscript, why wouldn't it be a userscript

theory: SE and co. have so many userscripts because the ratio between "things the users want" and "things the devs have time to implement or are going to implement" is abnormally high

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell huh!! You win! But only because you're using that desk much more than me, I'm using my home computer only when working from home, e.g. today daughter is sick so I had to stay home with her.

Tinkeringbell

Hey, I'm also using the desk only for WFH lately ;)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Ginger true, but there are 0 "official" userscripts, they're all made by private people.

SPArcheon

JNat

@JourneymanGeek gone

SPArcheon

12:16

@JourneymanGeek think of the possibilities ^

JNat

and with that, so is the backlog

Tinkeringbell

Okay, I did use it this weekend to file a complaint too :P But before that, can't remember the last time I sat at the desk for non-work purposes ;)

JNat

...for now

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek what you have on the secondary monitor? ;)

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek all the trains you could drive, all the locomotives DLC you could buy (for about 25$ each)

Journeyman Geek

12:17

@ShadowTheKidWizard 'ideally' its basically 'supporting' information

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell oh, but how often you work f rom home? ;)

Journeyman Geek

so if I'm posting on SU or writing something, research

sometimes twitter

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek eww

:D

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard 4 out of 5 days a week :)

Journeyman Geek

or I have the RSS feed reader on the left and SE on the right

and so on

Ginger

12:18

@JourneymanGeek ah yes, Stack Underflow /s

Journeyman Geek

@Ginger Super User

Its my 'first' site

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JNat wow, that's awesome!!

Journeyman Geek

even if I have more rep here

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell need, or greed? :D

Ginger

@JourneymanGeek forgot the /s, whoops

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:19

(i.e. you have to work from home? @Tink)

Journeyman Geek

my future computer space might be a windowless room :D

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard I could go to an office, but why would I?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell in my case, work efficiency at home drops by ~50%

Tinkeringbell

Eh, that's reversed here. Office days have an efficiency of maybe 10 percent.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

oh lol

Tinkeringbell

12:20

Compared to 100 at home (okay, 80 because of meetings)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

OK then, you have my permission to keep working from home. :P

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard what about option 3) "it is completely useless to go to a different place since I would sit at a desk and work on a sharepoint server that is hosted in some remote MS datacenter anyway?"

Journeyman Geek

@SPArcheon my former job had us in an 'office' that was inside a client facility monitoring stuff running in datacenters...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon lol, that's actually a very good reasoning, but pretty sure you can't work from home even if you want to, working for some very old fashioned boss. Right?

Journeyman Geek

never underestimate corpogovernment stupidity

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:22

@JourneymanGeek sensitive stuff?

Tinkeringbell

Never underestimate any kind of stupidity!

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell yeah, sometimes they may get it right! :D

Journeyman Geek

Yes but... that ended up in people doing dumb workarounds

Shadow The Kid Wizard

13:12

@JohnMiliter k

John Militer

"k"? As in "tpu-"??? Are you saying that I am spam?????

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JohnMiliter f

John Militer

@ShadowTheKidWizard why

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JohnMiliter Position 3: "not a spammer"

:(

Smokey for modship!

John Militer

In practice, at least, smokey is already a moderator

Journeyman Geek

13:27

@JohnMiliter You are made of meat

John Militer

@JourneymanGeek We all are. One day smokey will realize this and destroy us all.

Journeyman Geek

so is spam

are you mechanically separated, seasoned and packed in a can?

John Militer

Does spam need to be mechanically separated, seasoned and packed in a can to be considered spam?

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek really thanks for reminding me of that thing.... grr......

John Militer

I say not. If a post contains spam, it is spam.

SPArcheon

13:34

John Militer

So we are all spam

Beware of the bot uprising against us once they realize this

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Spam V4

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard Super Spam Blue Evolved?

or was that the Ultra Spam Omen?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon nah

Just a can of spam with WiFi connection.

@SPA ^

Feeds

18:04

stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/25/…

Shadow The Kid Wizard

18:19

Huh, found SO dev who is also Licensed Acupuncturist. Very useful! :D

@Feeds Goodbye onebox, hello bug-box!

Kevin B

18:46

wat

turbopack? that's... sickening

Shadow The Kid Wizard

19:46

@KevinB Need for Speed

Kevin B

more corporate business naming their product after a "publicly owned" tool used by millions

and then so promoting it, just icing

Shadow The Kid Wizard

🚽

> Stalker mode: on

bad_coder is in private chat with Slate and/or Rosie

> Stalker mode: off

While I don't mind having this power, I'm not sure such info should be available in the chat users page.

Time to wash the dishes, cya everyone! :P

Ginger

20:44

._.

cc @JNat

Journeyman Geek

23:40

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theverge.com/23421320/…

this might be of interest for us meta critters

@ShadowTheKidWizard I guess that's someone who always get to a point

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