let me pull out volume 1.... :D

@Feeds Do oneboxes have an edge when it comes to showing blog content?

o/

@MetaAndrewT. Yeah I stumbled across that a while back, really lame

Just their way of making money I guess, they need your personal info to sell to marketing firms

@Luuklag Hello, Just notifying, I have 2 new improvements not just the first three! not spamming or something.

@Rob wonderful link! almost went to report the site!

@VScode_fanboy no problem, that's what Meta is for.

@Luuklag Got it.

@Luuklag now I see in the room's info: general discussions about MSE or the wider network also welcome.

!!/amiprivileged

@VScode_fanboy ╳ You are not a privileged user. Please see the privileges wiki page for information on what privileges are and what is expected of privileged users.

flag-pls spam superuser.com/a/1687069

@VScode_fanboy if you want to familiarize yourself with SmokeDetector, probably pay a visit to charcoal-se.org

@tripleee @journ for you to nuke

or for you ofcourse @David

@tripleee i am there lol

I just saw a pink-ish blurred ball thing go down in this room?

from the starred message section to bottom?

probably you are referring to the animation which happens when a user leaves the room

or more often just times out several hours after they in fact stopped being active

like just now Mithical's avatar, at least for me

@Luuklag gone

Please remember we don't generally publicly discuss suspensions.

@Luuklag ya mean what?

@VScode_fanboy that the linked post is not spam

I'm curious if that's actually an answer tho

@JourneymanGeek I don't know anything about whether it works or not, but seems enough of an apple to me

and if --newtab is a thing that's new.. IE 10's been dead and buried a while. And IE11's basically propped up in bed with strings making the rotten corpse look like its moving....

I don't know, it at least isn't spam

@Luuklag codenames - it works for non privileged users aswell?

@VScode_fanboy See the Commands page - only privileged users can give feedback through SD

Specifically, the f command is listed under Aliases

And it's an alias for one of the commands under Privileged commands as reply

@RyanM Understood.

@KevinB meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/412989/…

The onebox code however is not

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 I did, yes. :)

And I’m doing okay! It’s been a long time.

Glad to see Smokey’s still at it

Sometimes I do miss the old gang of bjb, JasonC, Doorknob, etc., but I don’t suppose any of them are still pingable…

🚽

yes, I more or less stopped participating on SE altogether at some point a couple years ago for a probably-predictable combination of reasons

I have found it amusing to see various SE chat features slowly leak into other chat platforms, but I still miss the stars board :(

@AlexisKing that's what everyone misses elsewhere

I respect you for sticking around in spite of it all!

→ 80 messages moved to Chimney

@AlexisKing bjb said hi here not long ago, in response to my nudge of course... JasonC was around in MSE but didn't respond to my pings... Doorknob is gone, sadly. :(

Alas, all things must pass…

Well some people come back.

Some new people arrive and stick around.

That is true, though I will admit I am probably unlikely to stick around much without a good banter to give me much reason to, as I don’t have much attachment to SE these days

@AlexisKing well you can always chat with... me! ;)

Haha, well, I’m certainly happy to do so, though we may run out of interesting things to talk about before too long :)

What did you use to chat with the "old gang" about? People here also chat, we can be your new gang. :D

@AlexisKing things like Burning Man? Jason used to talk about it a lot.

I think it was roughly equal parts small talk, complaining about SE, and making fun of bjb :)

lol

Well I can make fun of @M.A.R. if that would help. :D

Do you know him? He's pretty long time around as well.

And if we're up to serious small talk, there's also the COVID to talk about... :/

I’m not sure, honestly… the name doesn’t immediately ring any bells, but it’s been something like six years since I was really active here, and plenty of people changed their names on a semi-regular basis

@AlexisKing six years??? Dang... time really really fly. LOL

He was about 12 or 13 back then so doubt he was around, or active. (M.A.R)

indeed it does, haha

Anyhow, @M.A.R. has three kidneys.

Yeah, I was 17 during my most active period, so young, but not that young!

I find it funny. :P (the three kidneys part ;))

it is certainly unusual!

@AlexisKing Sweet 17!

I do remember @rene, though :)

@AlexisKing yeah lol, well both his kidneys collapsed, doctors had to transplant a new one, without taking the others out.

oh, wow, that sounds sort of intense

Yeah M.A.R is a survivor.

Tough kid.

@AlexisKing of course, we all know/remember @rene the everlasting flower! :D

Only few here never change, for all the years I'm around.

Anyway, what have you been up to these past few years?

@AlexisKing me? As stable as something can be.... same job, same wife, same kids. :D

Kids grew up, they're now 11, 8, and 4.

I suppose no news is good news, as they say

Job didn't grow up, I got little raise, and we're moving to a new office in few weeks, but my role is the same.

Oh wait, I did change something, switched from C# to node.js

My life has been rather more eventful, in some ways good and some ways bad… I somehow ended up with a very successful professional career writing Haskell, for one

And in my spare time, I recently got hooked to Final Fantasy 14.

What job are you playing currently?

Class, job, whatever the most accepted lingo is.

@AlexisKing glad to hear (about last part at least ;)) would love more details if and when you want to share. I'm here to listen. :)

I am actually currently voluntarily unemployed :)

But until relatively recently, I was working at hasura.io

@AlexisKing writing books/courses is kind of a job that's what Jon Skeet is doing! :P

And before that I actually had the opportunity to work in academia on an engineering-heavy programming languages research project, which was very neat

@Spevacus me?

Yep! Should've used the reply hook ;D

Programmer/web master

Oh, no, sorry. I meant what class/job you're playing in Final Fantasy 14.

@Spevacus ohh LOL lol heheh

I have since become a coauthor on two PL publications despite not having an undergraduate degree, much less a masters/PhD, which I’ve been pleased about :)

Wait how you know about it? You play too? I'm a Dragoon. Level 56 @Spev

Plan to become tank at level 60 (probably gunblade)

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 A bit, less than WoW, but I'm trying to slowly get a max (or close to max) level Black Mage so that myself and a couple friends can get into lategame content.

Currently only level 50

@AlexisKing how did you manage to do it? ;)

Working on things in my spare time and making various connections, mostly, nothing particularly exciting

@Spevacus oh, you're playing the free version? Yeah 50 is the max. I bought expansion and paying monthly so it's up to level 80.

Nah I did buy the expansion I just haven't levelled too much D:

@AlexisKing actually this does sound pretty exciting. Well done! :)

@Spevacus oh lol

I guess I also started regularly blogging, which somehow became reasonably popular (within my niches, at least), and I’ve ended up with a twitter account with a little over 9k people following me (though to be entirely honest I am not sure how/why)

Actually I can always use someone for the various dungeons

:)

o/ :)

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 OH YEAH? WELL WIZARDS SUCK AND STUFF

@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 I joined SE on 2014, and meta.SE in 2015 or 16

I'm now 22.8 years old

Wait, 22.9

Oh, that’s several years older than Shadow implied

I’m 24, so you’re only a bit over a year younger than me :)

O.o

What are you o.Oing me for

i'm old

I’m young! :) Not as young as I used to be, but I suppose that’s how it works…

when did the mse crossover happen

@KevinB I'm already as boring as the previous generation, no worries

says i joined MSE in 2012

SO in 2010

Me, too, on both counts

Cue lame inspirational quote about ages and stuff

started this job in 08

You can't be older than 26 then

I guess I was 13 when I joined SO, then

Oh, I suppose something else kind of fun is that I’ve gotten into photography in just the past six months or so

Those loading spinners look NEAT

I’ll stop at that to avoid spamming :)

Hm, I wonder if the photo.se chatrooms are at all active, actually

update: signs point to “no”

@AlexisKing I like that one.

Thanks! :)

@AlexisKing how did you make that one? Was the train moving or did you had very favourable light?

The train was moving, yes, and the light was also pretty good.

@AlexisKing that is a good shot then. Nice!

Something I’ve found fun about doing night photography is that it tends to be surprisingly colorful. We’re used to night scenes looking kind of dull because our eyes are less sensitive to color in low light (since we depend more on our rods rather than cones, which are monochromatic). But a camera is no less sensitive to color in low light than it is in bright light, so low-light photos tend to look surprisingly vibrant!

Yeah. There also is long exposure photography, like hours or so. Also gives this strange color feeling.

Yes… I’ve only done a little long exposure photography because that would require lugging a tripod everywhere, and I’ve just been walking around (I don’t own a car!). But there are some neat things you can do with it

Yeah, I don't expect anyone to hold the camera still for an hour ...

> This IP address (185.107.70.56) has performed an unusual high number of requests and has been temporarily rate limited.

:(

(⊙_⊙;)

The rot of tor.

Rot fo torth.

Rot Foto Reht.

LOL

???

How do I make it so the top bar vanishes when I scroll down?

I think it used to be that way but I forget where that setting is.

that setting was removed because it was causing bugs or somethin

:/

Do they plan to add it back when they fix whatever bugs it was causing?

not that i'm aware of

wow

the bug was it was harder to test everything with two different designs

which lead to bugs

Responsive design strikes again!

Maybe I just need to buy a bigger monitor lol

get the userscript that unsticky's it

--> meta.stackexchange.com/a/368984

Can't use userscripts (Tor Browser), but I probably can remove it easily enough in console.

I've been gone for months so it's saddening when I was hoping that SE would have learned a bit by the time I came back. Well, nothing I can do about it, I guess.

Out of curiosity, what kind of problems could even occur due to its existence? It seems to me simple enough to implement that nothing could break by its existence.

the only example i recall was a jobs/teams related page had a broken header

but there had been several over the years, due to testing with sticky and not without

Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to go back to good old frames lol

Ugly, reliable, configurable frames.

the bug: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/407008/…

🤦‍♂️

:/

🚽

Oh god profiles changed too.

Why are profile icons squished into the top left among a pile of unaligned words?

(Or is this just a caching issue on my side?)

Oh nvm

ffs