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Can a mod please nuke this acc meta.stackexchange.com/users/1437973 they keep posting spam/nonsense

@JourneymanGeek If you were still a mod, would they have gotten the whambulance by now?

rofl

I'm pretty sure timezones aside, any of the current mods would too

the CCP propaganda spammers are... something we handled on the regular

@JourneymanGeek So that's what that is. CCP propaganda. To me it looked like random drivel. I couldn't even tell what it was. Except that it was red-flag worthy.

lol

Its really wierdly pointless CCP propaganda since I had to look who all these people were and wouldn't know who they were if they hadn't mentioned it

@JourneymanGeek nuke-pls superuser.com/users/1865038

kaboomed

@JourneymanGeek how can we flag a user? New hidden feature?

oops

I got distracted :D

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@JourneymanGeek by @M.A.R's new hat?

naw

was checking for other accounts, if it was on either of my current sites, I'd go nuke there too

Chances for official response to this: -8% to -6%

Some people somehow still have faith, that is really impressive.

Also that incident was not accident, but meh... if one choose to believe the apology, so be it. I don't.

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry Oh if they don't there'll be another strike or a mass exodus

its a 'relatively' simple but critical thing

@JourneymanGeek lol

I mean, even if there will be, the company can't care less.

Or they'll just keep lying and making a show they care, that's not relevant.

Well - We give them every opportunity to make things right

Else, there's other places, or other things we can spend our time on ;)

BUT this is a core part of the agreement, and if nothing else "No one asked/cared" shouldn't be a reason its not followed through on

@JourneymanGeek I really don't believe they ever meant anything they said in the negotiations. Empty words, just to end the strike.

Hey there - I was wondering, where can I ask about mp4s, encoding, decoding, etc.?

almost all of them are in SO. But I am not sure that my questions will be programming related - which is the main rule there - if I understand it

@Exampleperson Maybe try Sound Design, they have tags for: [mp3], [encoding], and [aac-m4a]

If you have a programming question then it's fit for SO. For example, "How do I encode mp4 files using C#" or similar. But if it's not, then other stacks might be more relevant. @ElementsInSpace mentioned Sound Design but also consider Super User if your question is more about how to use existing tools to deal with mp4 files. Software Recommendations if you want to find such tools.

I'm not sure when Sound Design would be the best fit. Best check the site's scope.

Well really depends what you want to ask. There's even on topic questions about mp4 in Law.SE

@JourneymanGeek If they don't, it publicly displays that they won't keep agreements made, which can tank the likelihood of anybody wanting to do business with them.

@Mithical but you think those wanting to do business with them check MSE?

Well - what if the question is something along the lines of "I have an mp4 encoded with a lossy profile, decoded to ... how to encode the ... back to an mp4 that exactly resembles the original mp4, or atleast uses the same amount of space?"? - Maybe this question title would be too long, but I think you get it

The strike wasn't just on MSE, it got international news coverage. If there are reports that the company never upheld its end of an agreement - an agreement that is publicly written down and confirmed by high-level employees - then yes, that can have an effect on their business. Corporations do sometimes investigate before making deals to make sure the other side is trustworthy.

@Exampleperson Is that appropriate for Cryptography?

Encoding. Not encryption

Not my forte, I'm afraid :p

@Mithical Okay - but, one of the other 'simple' questions I have is - 'Bitrates v/s compression (lossy/lossless)' - 'Bitrate affects video quality - and compression too. So, if I use lossless compression, and very low bitrate - what would happen?' - atleast you can point me to a document where I can learn more about all these concepts

I'm afraid that my Google-fu is unlikely to be more effective than yours in this case.

Umm...

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry SE's ... kinda having problems with people doing business with them

It might be a good thing to actually consider the implications of a happy, enthusiastic core user base ;)

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sorry, wrong room

ignore this

Yes, there was a certain confusing lack of context :D

(even if I was likely to agree with what you're going to say)

@JourneymanGeek people talking about JKR on the Bridge.

yup

I think that games on the 'I wouldn't get it if was free" cause of the creator

@SPArcheon Which game is that?

@VLAZ I think the harry potter one

Maybe. I just wasn't sure by the UI. The terminology for witch/wizard but I couldn't pin anything specifically to HP.

@VLAZ The 'start your journey' thingy had a hogwarts crest ;)

OK, true.

Anyhow, if anyone needs a game recommendation, I had some fun playing 'Graveyard Keeper' this weekend :)

@VLAZ The Hogwarts Legacy one as other pointed out. Technically unrelated to Harry Potter but still set in the same world. So still "related" to JKR books and she still gets money from it. So many user boycotts this.

@SPArcheon I don't really know how to call the setting without referring to Harry Potter.

I'd be interested in exploring other non-Hogwarts aspects of it. Might be interesting to have a new school open (because there were three[?] in Europe) and see the early years. Or maybe a school that's not even in Europe.

There are also non-school things to explore but the HP universe is mostly centred on Hogwarts, so replacing that focus seems to be a natural fit.

@VLAZ mostly...

Dragonlance.

STILL Dragonlance.

Didn't know HP was in dragonlance

@VLAZ angry stare

:P

@SPArcheon hey! I read it.

....

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry You can read? :D

@JourneymanGeek only books, not banners or warning messages.

:P

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry context, your usual foe.

Well my first Fantasy book was from that series, so it will always have a warm place.

you used it to start a fire? You barbarian

@JourneymanGeek well need to roast that chicken.

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry and now we know who to blame for "No more WB"

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-197/chicken

@Mithical let's hope this will be enough to force their hands to actually reply. But I doubt even this will.

@JourneymanGeek it will be good, but nowhere on their radar.

Their radar showing one thing only: AI.

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry sometimes its worth taking your eyes off the iceburg and notice the island you're going to crash into

though I feel like they're less titanic, and more ever given :D

@JourneymanGeek I think they're well aware where it's headed. Why they don't stop or change direction? Only God knows. Or not.

Anyway, this was unexpected, from the things he said, re-tweeted, and doesn't bother to stop on his own platform, Musk doesn't appear to be on "our" side. meh.

Musk is his own side and nothing else, it seems.

more or less

also you need to be more precise about the 'our'

@JourneymanGeek Israel

@Tinkeringbell but dry stats are against us, if you take into account numbers only.

'accounts' don't count tho

Revenue and active users do

Numbers are just that. Statistics can make any numbers say anything.

@Tinkeringbell Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Yep :)

Another favourite quote of mine on the topic is "Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination" by Andrew Lang

Its less statistics than folks choosing to misinterpret them or ignoring the ones that dosen't work for them

@VLAZ Hey, that's a new one for me. It's good :D

@JourneymanGeek Well...yeah, that's really it. There are many ways to show statistics that are technically correct but in misleading context.

One simple one that I notice often is multiple choice answers where the answers overlap. Yet the result interpretation uses just one of these. For example: "Do you go to the store?" with answers like a) Yes, often b) yes, not very often c), yes, rarely d) no. Let's assume there is an even spread of votes for the four. That means that 75% of people said they go to the store. Yet an analysis might pick just the a) answers to report.

Even if they say "Only 25% go to the store often" usually they do that to imply 75% don't. Yet, it's not really the same thing as what the results show.

Yep. News articles are very good at that.

Another tricky way to use statistics is to just choose to interpret the results in some way. I was in a company where they did that for a survey on satisfaction. A bunch of questions asked for "How do you like X" on a 1-5 scale. And the interpretation was that 3-5 were positive. Because they weren't negative.

@VLAZ and leading questions

"What do you think is toxic about <thing>?"

@JourneymanGeek Oh I hate those.

They're really toxic :P

Would it surprise anybody we got really high employee satisfaction score?

I mean, it wasn't really a bad place to work. But the satisfaction survey was scummy way to inflate the results.

At least my company just says 'hey, they use US numbers so don't give a 6 if you're 'just okay' as that will mean less money at the end of the year'! :P

@VLAZ Like how SE has an annual developer survey...

Right. With the "loved", "hated", "dreaded" and whatever labels they choose to impose upon the answers.

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry to be fair, I am fabulous

@VLAZ okay that's a pretty rad quote

@JourneymanGeek speaking of toxic, I inhaled carcinogens and burned my hand with sulfuric acid today. What did you do? Huh huh huh

@M.A.R. Get a very plausible alibi

@JourneymanGeek For what? :P

@Tinkeringbell If I told you, its obvious what the alibi is for

I don't see the problem with that? :)

Unless the thing you need an alibi for somehow involves me.

The less you know what I obviously didn't do cause I clearly wasn't there, the better.

:( boring

Speaking of Alibis.

New chair came in today, and... other than the whole "I need a chair to sit in and wait when stuff comes in problem..." the box is huge and now I need to lug it to my place over the weekend ;D

getting curtains installed tomorrow

@M.A.R. no doubt!

@JourneymanGeek Nice!

@JourneymanGeek You didn't have it delivered at your apartment?

@JourneymanGeek yay!

@M.A.R. ate some cakes.

@Tinkeringbell I assumed the box would be smaller :D

sec

@JourneymanGeek question is, since when a chair comes in a box?

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry that company sells em flatpacked

sec

@JourneymanGeek Still, much easier to just have everything delivered to the new place :P

@JourneymanGeek ond?

Okay what's with the sec, is that part of your alibi?

lol

I was looking for the photos :D

What's with the dog? yours?

@JourneymanGeek you have a new dog delivered in a box too?!

faints

lol

who do you think assembled it?

@JourneymanGeek the dog!

Naw, its the old dog/old chair box

Ohhh.

Well secret labs chairs are nice ;-)

@JourneymanGeek oh, thought you found a twin. :D

But yeah, they're big boxes (and heavy chairs)

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry Now, if I'd gotten a new dog...

I wouldn't exactly be quiet about it

that's the new box

its a bigger model but...

@Tinkeringbell about 40 gd

I might need help lifting it into and out of the car too :D

something something poor life choices something something

Hahaha

Lift with your knees, not your back! :P

....

I did the other day, both my knees and my back hurt

and I can't move the damned spare tiles

Get a 'doggie' :P

I'm probably gonna end up needing to unpack em and move em one by one

@Tinkeringbell In english they're dollies

and not much use unless you can lift it off the ground

Not nearly as fun as doggies :P

a 'dog' is something you use on a bench

@JourneymanGeek Have you tried using physics yet? Some kind of leverage?

Slide the dollie under it.

I need to get under it to get leverage

I cannot find a place to rest my stick, ergo, I cannot move the earth

@JourneymanGeek Wedges.

Or you know, indeed just move the tiles one by one XD

Maybe store them on something with wheels?

@JourneymanGeek who knows, maybe you wanted to surprise us. ;)

aliexpress.com/item/4001333646315.html I used the wedgey thing on this

@Tinkeringbell Well yes, but I need to get them off the ground first :D

so I'm going to try unpacking the 5 they have in a pack, and moving them one by one...

I can probably repack it later, I have the gear

Sounds like LOTS of work and suffering for a single chair.

Hope it will be worth it! :D

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry It will be at least a learning experience :D

It is a nice chair tho

secretlab.sg/pages/titan-evo-2022-series I've gotten the XL in fabric (its a little oversized for my frame, but ehhh :D)

the "medium" sized one I have's been in use for 4-5 years

@JourneymanGeek learning for what goal? Install chairs for your living? ;)

that I'm terrible at guessing sizes sometimes

some days I eyeball stuff and... no issue. Other times, well, I end up doing stuff like this :D

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry I'm half certain at least 3-4 people have bought these chairs cause of me. I should really get a referral code :D

@JourneymanGeek totally!

Well I never really spent much on my chairs, no idea how my back is still in one piece. :P

It being in one peice is bad

it needs to be in many pieces

@JourneymanGeek I've gotten an XL too, was the only one that could support my weight. Heightwise it's too high but I got one of those ergonomic foot rest thingies and it works :)

They're nice chairs :D

@Tinkeringbell they have a HEATED one coming up

@JourneymanGeek Oh. I have a 'Stoov' on my chair, similar :P

@Tinkeringbell ah, I prefer having my feet off the floor :D

@JourneymanGeek oh oops. This might explain some things. :D

You see, you have these things called vertabrae... :D

@JourneymanGeek I get 'sleepy' feet when I do that for too long XD

@Tinkeringbell soak them in coffee then. Should keep them awake.

:D

@Tinkeringbell lol. My feet're off the floor when my current chair's all the way up

the new ones are supposed to be 'shorter'

oops lol

Well one for each!

funny thing is the model I use now (omega) hasn't existed in years...

(I'm cleaning it up as a spare for the parents house, new arm rests, deeeeep clean up... possibly new rollerblade style wheels)

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry Thanks. I'll try not to make a mess of it XD

@JourneymanGeek Yeah. Of all the office chairs I had, this one seems of pretty superior quality (I've had it for 2 years now and not a dent/scratch/anything)

@JourneymanGeek spare for your use? Or parents?

@Tinkeringbell no worry, Smokey can also clean it up.

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry yes

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry basically I can use it if I need it when I am over. Or whoever else needs it

🚽

@JourneymanGeek that's what I thought indeed. You're very generous with your chairs. :D

@KevinB wait, is this reply to the blog post link below? You saw it coming??

My computer is just too slow to get the timing right

@Feeds the face is disturbing.

@KevinB computer, or connection?

computer, definitely computer

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry Sick. I made Thanksgiving dinner (Thursday) and essentially collapsed until today.

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry the wizards of today are so lazy

@Catija ouch. Sorry to hear, go rest and feel well quickly! :)

Hope kids are fine? Sick kids when you're sick can be... tough.

@SmokeDetector huh!

@starball you can add comment but have to wrap it "with quotes".

Otherwise Smokey think it's a batch of several posts.

(and the first was reported fine.)

@ShadowWizardIsSadAndAngry ah ok. thanks!

@Catija oh no! but you are feeling better now?

@RandomPerson hi, noticed your recent edit - just a quick tip, it's pointless to edit off topic questions which are being deleted quickly anyway.

@starball well, she did post here, so must be a good sign. ;)

hmm I hope @g3rv4 isn't sick as well.

(as in "former SE staff common sickness"... ;))

Which reminds me, hope Cat found a new job by now.

@starball yw

Smokey why no WAG

@M.A.R. The Fat Wizard Ate The Brown Cake

But not lazy!

yawns

falling asleep

So much pings to make, it's exhausting.

OK... this might be something big, or small, not sure. But best ask. @Journeyman what do you think about the fact anyone can read the recent responses of any user in SE? Is this a privacy leak? (i.e. anything in the Responses tab of the profile, think it's comments and pings, not sure what else as I never visit that page myself.)