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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: UCLA UI DESIGN MAJOR? by user74554 on ux.stackexchange.com

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12:34 AM

7 hours ago, by josilber

Given that I am only catching the very laziest of plagiarists, I would assume there's a lot of plagiarism we haven't found.

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7 hours ago, by BoltClock's a Unicorn

@josilber I've found that the only way to maintain my sanity around here is to forget I ever made that assumption for a while

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LOL

Boys are assholes. I got ghosted by this jerk last night.

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@BoltClock'saUnicorn no kidding.

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: CellRendererToggle when TreeView changes in Python by manu on stackoverflow.com

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12:47 AM

@josilber another red flag for me when I find this sort of stuff is when someone has a very eloquently written answer, and then you look at the rest of their content (or even within the same answer), and the style of writing suddenly changes to be extremely poor.

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Like, this sort of pattern,

@Cupcake For sure!

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> Very eloquent paragraph about how this solution will change your life!

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Next paragraph.

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> It might help you!

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12:48 AM

Haha it might help you

I recently enjoyed stackoverflow.com/revisions/33057900/1 -- I have no idea why I never thought to preface my answers with **********BEST ANSWER EVER****************

user163250

Are you using SEDE queries to dig any of this stuff up by any chance?

No

I spend almost all my time on the site sifting through stackoverflow.com/tools/new-answers-old-questions

user163250

Huh, now there's an idea.

And so while I was in there I noticed somebody had copied "0 down vote" at the beginning of the answer -- stackoverflow.com/questions/24507917/…

and then I was like, huh, that would be a really easy way to catch the very most lazy plagiarists on our site

who copy another question, don't notice that they got a bit of extra text, and post it

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12:52 AM

@josilber oh yeah, I see that kind of stuff every now and then too.

yeah

so that always means they copied

> This page requires more privileges

so I just did a search for anything starting with that text

:(

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@hichris123 gimme a sec.

12:53 AM

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Oh cool.

@josilber Weird.

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LOL

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What a gold mine!

A: MYSQL -> Getting top value of each "group by"

12:56 AM

Have at.

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I don't know if I am understanding you correctly but I assume you mean something like this: 1 down vote accepted select racetime, odds from tom_cards where odds < 2.5 group by racetime order by odds desc; That would fetch you the highest odds in every group. To get the lowest odds just change...

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We need a system to record user ids for discovered plagiarists.

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It makes digging up their other content easier.

@tchrist It's from copy & pasting since if you catch the edge of the score, it'll copy that too.

Typically it's 0 down vote favorite though.

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Plus we can check for recidivism.

@hichris123 There was a "1 down vote accepted", too.

12:58 AM

Also, interesting avatar @tchrist.

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But then there's the whole issue of publicly shaming certain users...

@Cupcake Don't do that, right.

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> 1 down vote accepted

27 for "down vote favorite".

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LOL

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1:02 AM

I wonder what the mods' reaction will be when they suddenly get a new flood of plagiarism flags in their queue, lol

12 for "down vote accepted".

@Cupcake Yeah, it's the place on this site where I've found the highest quantity of low-quality stuff

(the new answers to old questions list)

@Cupcake "I thought that Cupcake fellow was eaten a while ago. Guess not."

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because you get a lot of folks with "I have this problem too" answers

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You know how some sites are set up so that if you copy text from them, there's JavaScript that automatically inserts attribution into your clipboard?

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1:04 AM

Stack Overflow should do that.

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Now there's an idea...

@Cupcake That might depend on how closely they pay attention to certain trends you notice when glancing at the 27 hits’ usernames.

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Mac Mail Limits (messages and mailbox size) by Deni on apple.stackexchange.com

1:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, korean character in title: ᐹ『OIΘ↔6794↔8090』인천출장안마壹 ᐵ인천출장마사지ᐶ빵야빵야ᑈ=Great by j.jakson on stackoverflow.com

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@SmokeDetector tpu-

Braiam

So... You can't star stuff at all on mobile

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@Braiam feature-request || bug

Braiam

Btw, the systems on my uni have most root certs invalid

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2:16 AM

@tristan meh, in here, the most frequent active conversations are between us and a narc. Plus it's not uncommon for this room to see all kinds of conversations about moderation related stuff, for obvious reasons. So no biggie, just another day in The Tavern.

hehehe

I like the description of Smokey as a narc

Not A Real Character

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lol

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, url in title: http://bodybuilding-guides99.blogspot.com/2015/10/rock-hard.html by soniakapoor on meta.stackexchange.com

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sd tpu-

2:23 AM

btw is it possible for me to get smokey privileges in here?

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You need to ask someone, gimme a sec to remember who can give them to you...

ProgramFox

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I think maybe Undo can too, or maybe that was hichris?

Pretty sure Undo can do it as well

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That sort of thing should be in SD's description.

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2:24 AM

> For permissions, ask <insert user here>.

It helps to send tasty gifts of appreciation.

Like cupca...... never mind

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Just don't send me, I prefer not to be cake-napped and sent through the postal system...

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@JamesENL great minds think alike.

Agreed

2:27 AM

Cool. @hichris123, are you able to grant me Smokey privileges? You seem to be the only of the users mentioned who is currently around.

hi

yeah, hold on.

chris123

damn

not quick enough

@josilber There you go.

Awesome -- thanks!

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Just remember this,

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2:33 AM

!!/help

@Cupcake I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

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and you'll do just fine.

Nice cheat sheet -- thanks!

!bjb are you awake?

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: All kinds of flexible cable flame retardant insulation by trinalian123 on drupal.stackexchange.com

2:35 AM

sd tpu- cable spam???

@AndrewT. I've only posted 2 messages since the latest reboot; that's not enough to execute all commands.

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@josilber if you're interested, you can also find statistics for SD at metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com.

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@SmokeDetector huh, weird that it said that.

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@SmokeDetector tpu-

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Just in case.

2:36 AM

@Cupcake Ah, neat.

It said that because cable and spam were also considered as commands.. in short, SD tried to execute 3 commands, but had only 2 messages

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: How to save excel to mysql database using vb.net by NoobProgrammer on stackoverflow.com

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@SmokeDetector tp-

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: How to know which Linux and which version I am using by Master Race Gamer on unix.stackexchange.com

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2:58 AM

Was there a change sometime in the last year where user profiles no longer report "last access date" in real time?

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This user's profile says "last seen 14 minutes ago",

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but the timestamp on this comment,

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uhm sorry. i just tried to revised it. thank you Sir Cupcake — NoobProgrammer 4 mins ago

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...?

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Never mind, the profile updated. Must get out of sync only very briefly.

3:16 AM

It's only approximate.

Braiam

3:27 AM

relativity at its finest, huh?

3:46 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PLEASE HEP MY SVGS WONT UPLOAD ON GOOGLE APP ENGINE by Dwight Theodis Taylor on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: UNDERLINING WORDS IN JAVA by user5447809 on stackoverflow.com

4:11 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: A Healthy Body Starts With Good Food by neenabl on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Pain Signals to the Brain from the Spine by alishrobber on superuser.com

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: In what way may cream reason? by elwandazielervhfq on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Is cream Advanced Eye Gel A Scam? by elwandazielervhfq on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: What is Advanced Trim Cleanse? by user509628 on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle Building Nutrition - Maximize Your Gains by user53127 on drupal.stackexchange.com

4:31 AM

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@Cupcake Should be pinned.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Boost Brain-Power And Productivity? by iwatokurui on askubuntu.com

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[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in title, url in title: http://naturalcoloncleanseeliteblog.com/advanced-trim-cleanse-uk/ by user53128 on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: With the help of this serum? by karenashearespslk on stackoverflow.com

sd 2trueu-

Q: PLEASE HEP MY SVGS WONT UPLOAD ON GOOGLE APP ENGINE

4:50 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GENDER API JQUERY WITH CLASSIC ASP by DANIEL on stackoverflow.com

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-1

i uploaded my website or i should say my clients website to openshift i moved from google app engine to openshift because app engine was giving me problems. it didnt allow me to log in. something about the certificates. started using 32 bit instead cleared it right up but back to the question i h...

svg

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PLEASE DON'T TYPE ALL CAPS. HAVE YOU TRIED NOT HAVING A SPACE IN THE FILENAME THOUGH? So images/companyname.svg not images/company name.svg — misterManSam 53 mins ago

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LOL

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: reater Brain Boosters Not Synthetic Strategies To Head Strength by jincruz on security.stackexchange.com

sd trueu-

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4:52 AM

Also (mildly) interesting to note that although the OP used an ALL-CAPS title, they didn't bother capitalizing anything else in the question body, even when such capitalization would have been appropriate (and indeed, expected) :P

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Does The Sacred Heart Soup Diet Really Work by tashabrown on drupal.stackexchange.com

sd tpu-

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Oh Stack Overflow, you crack me up sometimes...

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Electronic I'm hoping not but by Vicki Still on drupal.stackexchange.com

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5:05 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Also, you could have two by wershfking on meta.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector tpu-

5:18 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: New Advanced Trim Cleanse weight loss formula by qrixhuin smith on drupal.stackexchange.com

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: How to repair corrupted table by kylfederer123 on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Brain Exercises that Improve Attention by teresae on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle mutation and I'm hoping another by MargaretLWorley on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Neurocell Pigments accept by jamaima on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Where you've to believe deeply make an effort? by user461360 on askubuntu.com

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5:40 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: Neurocell Want What You Need by zacharysawyer on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Enhance Your Muscle Building Strategy With These Tips by zritykijx on drupal.stackexchange.com

sd 2tpu-

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Rate me right elbow to left knee changes by trackymilling on superuser.com

sd tpu-

5:58 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Where to buy cheap ffia 16 coins? by Annsunny on meta.stackexchange.com

sd tpu-

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/questions/267915/cool-brain-facts-myths

gone

sd gone-

And to break the boring spam reports...

6:17 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: I that's why I love this year by maryseawell3 on drupal.stackexchange.com

sd tpu-

6:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: How is safe in use product? by debrahmorris on superuser.com

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: (A+B)'*(A'*B') BOOLE by Mike Sigelakis on stackoverflow.com

sd ignore- question needs to be VTC though

@James all you say for the past couple of hours is "sd" so does it mean you're sad? ;)

After last night :/ yeah

I got ghosted

advocate.com/commentary/2015/10/13/gay-ghosting-epidemic

6:57 AM

status-learning-new-term

have a read, it's a new phenomenon in this crazy online world we live in

oh my. That's just bad

Sorry to hear @James - from what I remember from my own dating era, with girls it's not much better. They don't disappear, but most dates are just one big disappointment.

Yeah, I wasn't particularly happy last night. Went home and downed 6 drinks, watched MLP until I felt better

@JamesENL and now you're drowning your sadness in confirming spam reports. :P

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Yep

7:02 AM

Well, must admit it's healthier than ice cream, or drinking.

I imagine every spammer is this insensitive jerk who couldn't be bothered/didn't have the balls to just say he'd changed his mind and didn't want to do anything

Yeah, send Smokey after that jerk!

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Toddler Plays in Bed and Won't go to Sleep by user19406 on parenting.stackexchange.com

sd tpu-

A++ for parenting skills

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted user: Financial Modeling - Comprehensive Training by Ian Strom on unix.stackexchange.com

7:12 AM

sd gone-

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: New Brain Health Roadmap Announced by sarahlucy on drupal.stackexchange.com

sd tpu-

@ShadowWizard but I've found out that one of my ex-cadets who's now 19 had a massive crush on me back in the day and is bisexual, so I've asked him out

@JamesENL good for you! Good luck with this, at least this one isn't likely to ghost you... ;)

Agreed

7:49 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: what is not typically found Neurocell by fiona48 on money.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: It is one thing want to lose weight, but it is by Kylila Hagene on meta.stackexchange.com

sd 2tpu-

8:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: A Tight List Of Five Foods That Burn Belly Fat by tashabrown on superuser.com

rene

sd tpu-

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Thanks to power at thank you know by ammadroy1384 on drupal.stackexchange.com

8:22 AM

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[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in title: HTML5 video tag with Livestreaming by Fon Noel on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector I don't see a website, stupid

@SmokeDetector why?

@ShadowWizard Title - Position 22-35: Livestreaming

@SmokeDetector fpu

8:24 AM

@ShadowWizard Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Experts for weight loss purpose by daleknit43 on stackoverflow.com

sd tpu-

8:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Top 11 Tips To A Brain That Is Healthier by jodngray on superuser.com

sd tpu-

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: What is Pure Testo Xplode? by TamaraLemay on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in title, title has only one unique char: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu by b.balal on math.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector ignore- self-vandalism and self-reverted

Lol

mcafee says the superuser site is dangerous as it's a spam site

Lol (Again)

I impacted 3k people during this suspension

9:08 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: PHP mail send MYSQL query by karan on stackoverflow.com

sd tpu-

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Jon Hanna, Dublin, Ireland

56.7k 5 64 132

c# .net linq asp.net multithreading xml javascript

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^ the beard on that guy is pretty epic.

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#DruidProgrammer lol

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: What few know is using the profits SPARTAGEN XT? by Valerie Shaw on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body: How to improves your memory recall speed? by jeffnmjuriya on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: The Connection Between Concentration And Food by wiliamreecsn on security.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Recover mysql database innodb 'table doesn't exist' by kylfederer123 on serverfault.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: What Are The Ingredients? by armindadeegauhy on stackoverflow.com

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9:25 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu-

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@SmokeDetector tpu-

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cv-pls duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/4791140/…

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cv-pls duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/6475887/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Alternative ways to manage lots of Passwords since Lastpass was hacked & now acquired by Petr on security.stackexchange.com

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@SmokeDetector why

Q: Alternative ways to manage lots of Passwords since Lastpass was hacked & now acquired

9:31 AM

@Cupcake Body - Position 47-59: ypassword.co

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I don't know what to do with that.

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Also, apparently this was a thing,

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2

There is a lot of debate on Reddit and other sites about whether the hack was or was not bad based on lack of salt to uncover the password hashes. Also, LogMeIn seems to have poor reputation & ratings as a reliable company. I read a lot about KeePass in sync with DropBox/ G Drive/ OwnCloud etc....

password-management lastpass

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Storing your passwords on someone else's servers just seems like such a Bad Idea.

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Even if they were hashed :P

9:40 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: Protect Eyes Avoid Eyestrain by anelisegenevra on workplace.stackexchange.com

9:55 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: What All Are Used to formulate item? by alsisjams on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: What is this thing? by alsisjams on stackoverflow.com

10:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Better Brain Boosters Not Manufactured? by iwatokurui on drupal.stackexchange.com

Can anyone volunteer to educate someone about how expensive the close vote is on SO?

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@SmokeDetector tpu-

Particularly, a question was closed as off-topic due to A, but he suggested to closed as dupe to B

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@AndrewT. what do you mean?

user163250

How do you define the cost of a close vote on SO?

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10:12 AM

Time spent reviewing a question?

well, I mean the resource (availability) of the votes

Or should I not care about him anyway

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As in how many votes each user is allotted to cast on a daily basis?

Yeah, more-or-less

I'll put a link here stackoverflow.com/questions/15837081/…

but if it's too trivial, I'll just delete ^ and move on

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I stopped reviewing most questions for closure a long time ago, let me see how many votes I actually have.

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I don't remember if you get more if you're a high-rep user or not.

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10:16 AM

I get 50 votes per day.

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But I'm also well-past 25k rep.

user163250

It looks like everyone gets 50 per day.

user163250

That number is a lot higher than I remember...they must've bumped it up for Stack Overflow over the past year.

I guess I lost my argument, or just plain unclear... moving on~

@Cupcake Yeah rep doesn't make a difference, but SO is higher than most (all?) other sites - the rest are either 24 or 25 (I probably remember seeing 24 left after the first vote)

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10:19 AM

Right, I thought it was supposed to be 25.

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So I guess they must've doubled it for SO sometime over the last year.

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I could single-handedly dupe close 50 git questions a day with that many votes...such power ...must...not...abuse...

Yeah not sure. For the queue if it's > 1000 long you get 40 reviews so you need the extras to be able to do it, not sure if you get extras on the other sites if the queue gets that long.

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@AndrewT. I looked at the Ada question and the one the other person thought was a dupe.

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The "original" question doesn't even have anything to do with Ada at all, it's language-agnostic...not really an appropriate dupe target in this case, in my opinion.

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10:26 AM

Beyond that, "not a real question" isn't even used as a closed reason anymore.

I can agree with that..

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By today's site standards, I know a few users who might even reopen that question, despite its poor quality.

Super Mario Maker: Contra Level 1 Remade

Ok, understood

Derpy

May as well leave it here too. If anyone of you is old enough to remember the first Contra...

►

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lol

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10:28 AM

Drive-by link drop :P

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best AB INITIO Online Training by anajna83 on stackoverflow.com

10:43 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: eah this is all it was by create.singe on drupal.stackexchange.com

10:53 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: therefore actress adults. Mix in ligh by cyrvengautx on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: head wellbeing ally will offer you superior by gilsoniya32 on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Protein, An Important Nutrient To Boost Brain Power by user53155 on drupal.stackexchange.com

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: VEGETATION INDICES USING RISAT-1 (HH,HV) by chandrakant on gis.stackexchange.com

@Cupcake How grandpa you are!

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11:11 AM

:P

11:51 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Does online porn killing playboy? by Naresh Gokmalaa on skeptics.stackexchange.com

THE SHINING (1980) - "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" [HD]

@SmokeDetector ignore- VLQ

user202362

12:09 PM

smokey killed this chat ... kinda - ppl used to hang around here to see what meta things are fun to have a party at, now it smells like all work & no fun :p

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23 hours ago, by Cupcake

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: stock on hand which Crazy Mass Reviews announce by Garzajenet on drupal.stackexchange.com

user163250

@chmod711telkitty you could always ask that SD be moved into its own chat room.

user163250

People can hang out in multiple rooms at once, right?

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: informatica online training in india by lathsuki on stackoverflow.com

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12:12 PM

I wouldn't be against having SD spew reports in its own room, in order to keep The Tavern less cluttered.

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/cc @Undo @hichris123 @ProgramFOX

user163250

What do you guys think about that?

user202362

I don't mind SD being here, just don't wanna regulars to all run away!

Pretty sure it already does that, but not enough people follow it there to quell the spam.

user163250

Well, that's a people problem then.

user163250

12:14 PM

Wait, which room is the SD room?

Hey, somebody didn't restart Smokey in ELU chat!

Now I have to actually look for him.

user163250

I'll file a missing person report.

user163250

One missing blue unicorn. Likes to snitch on people.

user163250

Overly talkative.

Charcoal HQ

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12:18 PM

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ASP.NET,C#.HTML,BOOTSTRAP by Lalitha on stackoverflow.com

12:38 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Is NZT-48 real? by Aly Shmahell on biology.stackexchange.com

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12:52 PM

@tchrist well of course no one hangs out there, look how hard that room is to find! :P

user163250

The room needs to be part of the chat.meta.stackexchange.com domain, not chat.stackexchange.com.

Cuz?

user163250

Convenience?

user163250

Between all the chat domains, I spend 99.99% of my chat time on chat.meta.stackexchange.com.

user163250

I very rarely visit the other ones.

user202362

12:56 PM

Oo gosh, SE chats are like mazes now

user202362

so many of them & everywhere

Andy

@Cupcake I'm guessing the lack of mod powers on chat.meta is a big factor of why it sits over on chat.se

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Does Internet speed depends on processor? by loooool on superuser.com

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1:49 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Bangalore @ expert5th.in/packers-and-movers-bangalore by Nilesh Patwal on stackoverflow.com

sd tpu-

Anyone know if it's possible to create a String[] in Java with n elements all containing the same string?

Andy

If only there were a web site where one could ask such questions...

Dunno, haven't done Java in a while

Might be able to do that using some Array util class

Can't even remember the name

Slaps face

meh

@Andy nah, if it gets to the stage of asking a question, it's probably going to get for-loop answers.

2:02 PM

Yep

status-need-to-revise-and-do-more-java

@bjb568 Seems relevant: stackoverflow.com/questions/9128737/…

so Arrays.fill?

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@SmokeDetector fp-

		String s = "asdf";
		int n = 18;
		String[] a = new String[n];
		Arrays.fill(a, s);
		s = Arrays.toString(a).replace(", ", "");
		s = s.substring(1, s.length() - 1);
		System.out.println(s);

seems to work

Yay

2:11 PM

So much work.

s = s.substring(1, s.length() - 1);

What is it for, @bjb568? ^

Seems to remove the first and last char?

Hey! Idea!

Java eval!

Capture the output, so anything to be captured should be printed

I'll see how that goes

@YummyUnicornRainbowTails but why? So if n will be 2, the output will be "sdfasd"?

Yes

Anyway toString(a).replace(", ", ""); looks wrong, since it assumes the .toString() will behave in a very specific way

What if a future version will make the .toString() join the items by newline instead?

2:19 PM

No, normally in Java toString doesn't take any args

They should make array.join

Something like that

@YummyUnicornRainbowTails I know, in this case he's using the static method of Arrays helper

user163250

@bjb568 might depend on which version of Java that you're using.

user163250

My Java is really rusty, I haven't really used it much since college.

user163250

Not to say that Java is useless once you're out of college. It just depends on what language your job uses.

Android devs use Java everyday

user163250

2:25 PM

Mine happened to be C# :P

2:46 PM

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@Cupcake it's dying

Q: Will Java still be relevant in 5 years?

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Will Java have the same importance it had in the past, or it will be less relevant than nowadays?

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LOL

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And an ultra popular thread on reddit of course reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/35u5bv/…

Guess that means we’re all in the clear now.

3:03 PM

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user163250

@bjb568 according to who/what?

user163250

So much of today's software runs on Java, it's never going away.

Your phone

user163250

3:10 PM

I mean, come on, there are machines out there that are still running FORTRAN, Perl, and COBOL!

user163250

FORTRAN

user163250

Have you seen FORTRAN?

user163250

C AREA OF A TRIANGLE WITH A STANDARD SQUARE ROOT FUNCTION
C INPUT - TAPE READER UNIT 5, INTEGER INPUT
C OUTPUT - LINE PRINTER UNIT 6, REAL OUTPUT
C INPUT ERROR DISPLAY ERROR OUTPUT CODE 1 IN JOB CONTROL LISTING
      READ INPUT TAPE 5, 501, IA, IB, IC
  501 FORMAT (3I5)
C IA, IB, AND IC MAY NOT BE NEGATIVE
C FURTHERMORE, THE SUM OF TWO SIDES OF A TRIANGLE
C IS GREATER THAN THE THIRD SIDE, SO WE CHECK FOR THAT, TOO
      IF (IA) 777, 777, 701
  701 IF (IB) 777, 777, 702
  702 IF (IC) 777, 777, 703

user163250

Fortran

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3:23 PM

@Cupcake Smokey has its own room, but the Tavern is way more active so if we stop reporting here, spam will live much longer. If you don't like seeing it here, you can always ignore it.