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diddledanthere we go, changed my password from a nickserv pass to a server pass in irccloud so it doesn't have to wait for nickserv to prompt me00:16
diddledansleepynow03:05
MooDoohowdy all06:43
SuperMattmorning chaps07:24
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.07:55
davmor2Morning all08:03
brobostigonmorning davmor208:03
fjaiohgaeMorning all, I have some trouble with my headphones to get it connected, the bluetooth pairing worked, but the audio profile look like wrong, is it common to have driver issues with standard audio devices ?08:35
SuperMattSometimes linux really sucks at bluetooth headphones. You may need to completely disconnect them and reconnect08:44
SuperMattI've had the same issues in Ubuntu and Fedora08:44
SuperMattAnd you may need to do the disconnect/reconnect thing a few times until it loads the correct profile08:45
fjaiohgaedone it few time no luck, unpair, pair, connect disconnect, and still no luck, but then I will use the windows method of reboot and reconnect and re-gret.08:49
fjaiohgae"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." :(08:49
davmor2SuperMatt: there is work afoot to try and help with that08:53
SuperMattwonderful08:57
fjaiohgaehip hip hurray !09:02
popeyyeah, bluetooth is broken until bluez5, where it's less broken09:16
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awilkinsYay, Synaptic won't start on Wayland10:50
foobarryhttps://askubuntu.com/questions/938606/dwarf-fortress-starting-during-apt-get-upgrade12:21
diddledan*sigh* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/14/donald-trump-inauguration-protest-website-search-warrant-dreamhost12:23
popeywow12:33
popeyhe's a real snowflake12:33
foobarrywhat is it about dictators and funny haircuts?12:34
popeyeveryone too scared to tell them they look like tools?12:35
foobarrythere must be more to it12:35
foobarryhttps://hubpages.com/style/Hairstyles-of-the-Dictators is so out of date it doesn't have USA or latest N Korea12:37
zmoylan-pihe's president and he can order weird stuff to happen on a whim?12:38
diddledanthis is sucky for ladies :-( https://twitter.com/lydiajones_18/status/89743725664610713612:39
zmoylan-pihave you not read the evil overlord list?  http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html12:40
diddledanwoman: "hi, can you help me?" man: "yes. let's have sex"12:40
foobarryVishal is an accomplished inspirational public speaker on sales, marketing, well being and branding. He regularly coaches start-ups and SME sector12:45
foobarryon linkedin. same guy?12:45
foobarryyep12:47
foobarryso the thing is, these people organise 3 day book camp to motivate vulnerable people into thinking they can write a book in 3 days12:51
foobarrychurn out some drivel, pat everyone on the back and sell to friends, call yourself an author12:51
foobarrydon't think he has anything to do with tech though12:53
awilkinsCreepazoid hitting on 18 year olds13:08
awilkinsMaybe we should endorse him for that skill on LinkedIn13:09
awilkinsShame you have to accept endorsements for them to be visible13:09
czajkowskianyone else for the real ale train ... https://beta.doodle.com/poll/drwv3c2pwcqs33ny13:30
* Seeker` has been using DreamHost for...a decade? 13:34
awilkinsWhere is the Real Ale Train physically located?13:34
Seeker`I'm pleased by their response13:34
foobarryon train tracks13:34
awilkinsAha 8eac0-5d16a13:36
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foobarryfail13:36
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awilkinsOh crap13:36
awilkinsMegafail13:36
OliOh dear.13:36
foobarryfail^213:36
ali1234what are those?13:36
* zmoylan-pi tests this list for passwordds :-P13:37
foobarrystnragely formatted mac addreses?13:37
zmoylan-pi...or are we turning this channel into a number station to flush out the paranoid? :-)13:38
awilkinsThey're the set of Github 2FA recovery codes I just replaced with new ones13:38
ali1234ouch13:38
foobarryhahahaha13:38
diddledan2fa13:38
awilkinsWhat I meant to say was : https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Alton/@51.1519289,-0.9672465,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xcd485fe0a901f2f5!8m2!3d51.1519289!4d-0.967246513:38
diddledanlovely13:38
diddledanthat was an epic paste!13:38
foobarryhunter13:38
awilkinsWhy you posting lines of asterisks again, foobarry?13:39
foobarrysourceforge makes me cry13:39
diddledanhow is sourceforge still a thing?13:40
awilkinsSourceforge I just ignore now13:40
foobarryexcept when you need source code13:40
awilkinsInertia is the only thing keeping it alive13:40
foobarryand source code13:40
awilkinsEven if their new owner is less evil, the stank left behind by the previous owner lingers13:40
awilkinsSource code needed keep SF alive any longer since any source you're allowed to copy can be migrated to a git repo somewhere else13:41
awilkinsIf you really care about a particular project, set up a process to mirror any new revisions periodically.13:42
awilkinsHell, you could probably do that with AWS Lambda for free (the free tier on Lambda runtime is so generous, and at the moment, free in perpetuity)13:43
OliIf they're actively using SF though for bug triage, and everybody starts using your github tree, that might not be the most welcome idea to upstream.13:43
ali1234SF has new owners?13:44
OliFew and far between, for sure... But I'm sure there are a few old grumblies refusing to move off svn.13:45
Oliali1234, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BizX13:45
ali1234you can disable issues on github13:45
foobarrydoes launchpad do git yet?13:45
diddledanyes it does13:45
ali1234lots of projects have semi-official mirrors on there13:45
Olifoobarry, yeah13:45
foobarrythey missed the boat really though13:45
OliThey did13:45
ali1234SF is pretty useless if you just want to browse the source code or mailing list archive13:46
ali1234the UIs for that are just awful13:46
awilkinsThey missed the new boat, then they took an auger to the bottom of the boat they had13:46
OliWe say that but many projects are using self-hosted Trac installs on top of their own self-hosted repos. Launchpad is still a clear mile ahead of some of those.13:47
ali1234https://github.com/xfce-mirror for example13:48
ali1234i'm not sure SF is actually better than self-hosted trac13:48
ali1234not if you set it up properly anyway13:49
awilkinsI like Redmine13:49
awilkinsPoops all over Trac for features. Only wish it was written in Python and not Ruby.13:49
ali1234repos on github, issues on LP13:49
diddledanwhat about gitlab?13:49
awilkinsWe use GitLab at work. Not decided about it yet. It's clearly very good at what it focuses on (to me, that's repo management and Continuous integration)13:50
foobarrywe use github enterprise13:50
awilkinsI'm probably keener on Mattermost than GitLab TBH13:50
foobarryits sweeeeet13:50
OliI like Gitlab though haven't managed to use it in anger yet. All I ever seem to see about it these days is super-mega-urgent security fixes. I guess that means it's still getting plenty of developer attention (which is better than the other end of the spectrum)13:51
diddledanisn't mattermost part of gitlab now?13:51
awilkinsYes, hence the mention (otherwise it would have been a total segue)13:51
ali1234the absolute worst i've encountered is when the project management system is written by the same people as the project itself13:52
ali1234like, dude, you don't have time to do both13:52
zmoylan-pididn't linus write git? :-P13:53
ali1234haha that's true13:53
ali1234but i was thinking more about issue tracking13:53
awilkinsThings GitLab does that Redmine doesn't : has it's own CI server, does git-flow workflows. Things Redmine has that GitLab doesn't ; wiki, forum, time tracking (time spent on issues), gannt chart, calendar13:53
zmoylan-piit's those annoying exceptions... :-)13:53
awilkinsAnyone who writes their own issue tracker as a de-novo project in this day and age is either a software forge hosting company or a certified idiot13:54
ali1234to be fair, git isn't perfect... all those command line options that dont make sense13:54
ali1234and the bisect "good/bad" thing13:54
awilkinsI find once you understand the internal data model you can get by with very few commands13:54
ali1234where good and bad don't actually mean good and bad, they mean before and after13:55
awilkinsAnd you only delve into the man pages when you want to do mad things13:55
ali1234because git assumes you are looking for a regression, not the commit that fixed the bug13:55
zmoylan-piprobably make perfect sense if you have a few decades of kernel programming behind you :-)13:55
awilkinsLike stitching together the histories from two separate SVN repositories that have been spawned as pushes from a Bazaar tree with the same library used by different projects...13:55
ali1234yeah i only use about 1% of git commands13:56
ali1234and i use it all the time13:56
awilkinsI liked Bazaar, and there was a period when it was totes the best VCS on Windows, bar none.13:56
awilkinsThen Git started working properly on Windows13:56
ali1234i could never understand bzr... it doesn't even have bisect at all!13:56
awilkinsIt has bisect as a plugin13:57
ali1234an unmaintained plugin that doesn't work any more, yes13:57
ali1234bzr seems to be designed for people who never ever look at the code history13:57
awilkinsSurely you can just check out a revision of Bazaar that still works with bisect... you can use bisect to find it!13:57
ali1234lol13:57
awilkinsOh.13:57
ali1234you can always import the zr repo into git, and then bisect it that way13:58
awilkinsI have a bunch of users in my old job still using Bazaar13:58
ali1234someone seriously, unironically told me to do that once13:58
awilkinsBazaar had better 2-way interop with SVN than Git does13:58
awilkinsThat was one of my main faves about it when I still had to work with SVN Old Grumpies.13:59
ali1234svn... i literally never figured out how to use that one13:59
awilkinsYou could share a Bazaar branch that was a pull of an SVN repo without trouble. With Git you're constantly rewriting history whenever you push to SVN so you can't13:59
ali1234like, how do you commit changes?13:59
awilkinsIn SVN? You do a commit. Everything in your tree that's changed is committed unless you tell it not to.14:00
ali1234it always just says i don't have permission14:00
awilkinsWell, the server needs to think you have permission14:01
ali1234yeah... that's what i never understood14:01
ali1234how are you supposed to use it if you aren't a project member?14:01
awilkinsPull it into a git repo :-)14:01
awilkins(another reason DVCS rules the world now)14:01
ali1234yeah :)14:01
awilkinsYou can't just give everyone access to your SVN repo, they'd DoS the hell out of it.14:01
awilkinsActually worked on a project that used SVN a bit like that. It wrote transaction logs for your local DB edits and pushed them to SVN.14:02
awilkinsThen everyone else ran the Tx logs to get up to date.14:03
awilkinsProblem was, it would write bad transactions. Your DB would be fine because they were written ex-post-facto the actual DB edits going through.14:03
awilkinsBut you'd commit and everyone else would be hosed.14:03
diddledanthe WordPress.org dev repo, their plugin directory, and the theme directory are all on a massive svn system14:03
awilkinsOne thing SVN helps you do : defer decisions about how to organize your code repos properly....14:04
awilkinsI have a theory for writing better SVN support for Git ; convert the entire root of the SVN filesystem, and then "thread" that with commit histories by detecting the real checkout trees you want.14:05
awilkinsThe core problem with SVN is that though, that it's a filesystem with a Tau dimension, rather than a system for snapshotting entire trees like Git.14:05
awilkinsThe Worst Thing people do with SVN : work on their super-special tree of code then cut the tree in their IDE and paste the new one in. Hey presto, their IDE / SVN plugin interprets this as "delete these files and add new ones", severing the file history forever.14:07
awilkinsGit just goes "Meh, that's two trees that look very similar"14:07
awilkinsAnd hence fixes this issue when you convert an SVN repo. SO helpful.14:07
diddledanwow. I just had a full system lock-up16:37
diddledaneven the magic sysrq thing didn't work16:38
daftykinsdiddledan: ooh-err18:44
daftykinslurvely bay up north here on the rock - http://i.imgur.com/HQZC28R.jpg18:44
diddledanthat's disgusting!18:44
diddledanyou should be thoroughly ashamed!18:45
daftykinswat18:45
diddledanposting pornography like that!18:46
daftykinsisland porn, mmm18:46
foobarrydid anyone do day trading in GTA V?19:02
daftykinslittle bit19:02
daftykinsin single player?19:02
foobarryyeah19:03
foobarryis it linked to missions?19:03
daftykinsyep the Franklin assassination ones from Lester19:03
daftykinsas all 3 characters you can invest before doing the mission, then there'll be a big payout for them all19:04
daftykinsbut it's better to wait until the heists are done so they have capital to invest19:04
foobarryah, but avoid at other times?19:04
daftykinsyeah just leave the Lester missions undone for Franklin until you've finished the main plot is some advice i read online19:05
daftykinsi was doing a replay on the xbox one version after i'd originally played it on the xbox 360 way back, but lost interest19:05
daftykinsin fact i was only playing it when limited for entertainment in my hotel apartment during the house works :D19:06
* diddledan wanders off to do some oven thing19:14
daftykinsdiddledan: ooh you wanna be careful with those, do it just once and then you'll be hooked for life19:19
foobarryhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/15/crash-cyclist-shouted-charlie-alliston-pedestrian-lay-wounded fixed wheel bikes are illegal?20:31
daftykinsyeah i was shocked about that too20:31
daftykinshad no idea20:32
daftykinsthey really are turning that guy into a villain now20:32
daftykinsof course you shout at idiot pedestrians as a cyclist, jeez20:32
zmoylan-piwhatever mode of travel you use, you shout at _ALL_ the others20:33
foobarryhe might get off. the witness didn't see the build up to the incident20:36
foobarryonly saw at moment of impact20:37
foobarryhe could have shouted "why did you step into my path?"20:37
daftykinsmmm20:38
diddledan"I SAY, GOOD LADY, WOULDS'T THOU PLEASE VACATE THE ROAD?"21:36
diddledanperiod English would be fatal21:37
diddledanI mean the difference in time it takes to say that vs "OI! MOVE!"21:37
zmoylan-pi'no brakes' in his case would be admitting to his crime...21:38

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