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diddledaninteresting WSL developments: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/02/07/windowswsl-interop-with-af_unix/00:22
diddledanwhy do folk love to point out when they're the "first" to comment, message, etc. in a forum or chat?00:27
zmoylan-piit's now an online comment trope... as much as a hello mum sign behind a tv commentator01:04
daftykinsdiddledan: idiots on the internets!01:29
diddledanINORITE01:29
daftykinswhat's funny is when someone does that and gets second ;D01:31
ali1234unix sockets eh? that should make running a desktop environment a lot easier01:54
diddledan "How To Make Package Managers Cry" (https://youtu.be/NSemlYagjIU)01:58
diddledanDesktop environments is one thing, but what about sharing ssh-agent between dows and wsl?!01:59
daftykinsComic Sans >_<01:59
diddledan><01:59
diddledanIrccloud!!!!!!!02:00
diddledanY U show comic sans in comic sans?!02:00
daftykinsseriously?02:00
diddledanAye02:00
daftykinsthat's a pretty amusing trick :D02:03
daftykinsso does it change the entire line if i refer to Comic Sans mid sentence?02:03
diddledanNo, just the words comic sans. The rest is untouched02:04
daftykinsah, that's acceptable02:04
diddledancimic sans https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/yPThGuGu/Capture%2B_2018-02-15-02-07-38.png02:08
daftykinshow's this for a quirky one, an optical drive of mine is giving loads of errors on certain audio tracks of multiple CDs, but they go away if i cancel and restart...02:23
daftykinsmust be the drive flaking out :S02:23
diddledanMight be having trouble focusing02:29
daftykinsif i eject and reload then rip a same track again, it comes back fine though02:32
daftykinsthis is using EAC with accuraterip together with the test and copy method, so the CRCs are compared between then also against a database of known values online02:33
ali1234probably the drive belt is getting worn out02:37
ali1234stopping it will allow it to cool and grip again02:37
ali1234do CD drives even have drive belts? ;)02:38
ali1234sometimes apparently http://lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/REFERENCES/cec51/cec-26.jpg02:39
daftykinsit's a pretty annoying drive as i have to hit eject about 20 times typically to open it up, something sits and spins most of the time02:40
daftykinsonly when it's been idle for a while, though02:40
daftykinsreal shame as it's been ace and fast for accurate rips02:40
ali1234that is also caused by a worn out belt, but a different one02:42
ali1234not so much worn out as just perished02:42
daftykinsyip, but i think i've already had it open - or maybe i'm thinking of another drive02:44
daftykinsanywho onto the next disc i suppose02:45
daftykinsmore concerningly, ever have half your face suddenly begin peeling for no good reason - and nothing helps? not even moisturising...03:21
daftykinslife and its' little surprises03:23
foobarrygot me some nvidia volta GPUs..these things are fast09:03
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.09:08
zmoylan-pio/09:48
brobostigono/09:49
SuperMatt\o09:59
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diddledanfoobarry: how much were those voltas?14:54
diddledanthe Dual EC DRBG problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nybVFJVXbww15:00
diddledanany non IANALs? looking at my philips hue copyright blurb they offer source code for the gpl stuff "up to three years from purchase". Just wondering if they're allowed to limit the availability term there16:59
zmoylan-pithey might just have the code on a floppy disc... good luck reading that after a few years sitting on a shelf... :-)18:50
diddledan*hug* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxNdQJSlg5419:59
ali1234popey: does anyone ever look at the moderation queue on ubuntu-devel mailing list? cos will replied to my mail but i still didn't get a moderation response either way. "Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision."20:23
popeyI think so20:24
ali1234i assume he picked it up from the CC20:24
popeylooks like cjwatson is the only person20:24
ali1234i can understand if the queue is a bit larger than normal after that post :)20:27
popeyheh20:27
popeyI think everyone is posting their carefully considered thoughts elsewhere tbh20:28
ali1234actually this happened the last time i tried to post there20:33
ali1234that was 6 years ago though20:33
diddledansomething fun going on?20:51
* diddledan will check the ml in a bit20:51
popeydefine $fun20:51
diddledanpopcorn throwing at the moaning idiots?20:51
diddledanI saw Xen posted his retirement from "helping"20:52
diddledancuriously it was almost immediately after Zeljan stopped talking on the Ubuntu Podcast telegram20:52
diddledanmy mind correlated those events20:53
diddledandear god spammers will try anything: "Get your WikiPedia Page at 85% off"21:55
zmoylan-pias george carlin said, think of the average intelligence and remember that 50% are dumber than that and they'll get loads of clicks...21:58
brobostigonif like myself and my father you have an average IQ 154, thats a standaard.22:00
brobostigonbetweem us, i mean.22:01
zmoylan-piyes but as you age your gullibility goes up...22:03
brobostigonzmoylan-pi: if your my father, his enginerring creativity ideas goes up, but the logic goes downhill.22:06
brobostigonzmoylan-pi: or when he has studied nuclear physics and worked at sellafield, and you wonder why he doesnt understand the basics of quantum mechanics.22:10
diddledanthere's a reason they call quantum things such names as "spooky action at a distance" - specifically because NOBODY understands it22:11
diddledansee with that particular one, it kinda breaks the rule that information cannot travel faster than light, because if you move the entangled pair apart far enough you can use it for instantaneous data transfer faster than light can travel22:13
zmoylan-piwormholes... :-)22:14
brobostigonthats exactly the point, they are entangled, time and space is irrelivant.22:14
diddledanit will be interesting when we actually start using such methods for communication - imagine being on mars with a data link to earth with zero latency beyond the normal internetty style latencies22:15
brobostigonone could be one side of the universe and the other totally the opposite side, space and time doesnt matter for thst entanglement.22:16
diddledanI love the ideas that such properties can enable22:17
brobostigondiddledan: i dont think we can manipulate quantum particles on those fine scales with that accuracy yet.22:17
diddledanI don't suppose we can, but imagine it when we develop those skills!22:18
diddledanwe'll probably be close to large scale fusion at that point, too :-p22:19
brobostigoni read about quantum mechanics when i was a teenager and i couldnt help but be consume by the idea, it seemed perfectly right for my teenage autie mind,22:20
diddledan:-)22:20
brobostigonnow that would be good, :)22:20
brobostigondiddledan: i was one of those people, when i had physics lessons, i corrected my physics teacher during lessons.22:21
diddledanI did that, too22:22
zmoylan-piit might have it's downsides... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days22:22
daftykinsMass Effect had entangled communication devices :> that was fun22:22
brobostigondiddledan: and i still do it now, when people get it wildly wrong.22:23
diddledanhe wouldn't agree with me when I told him that mains voltage in the uk is specced to operate closer to 230 than 240 for interoperability with the European providers (although these days we seem to be hovering at around 246 where I am in Amazingstoke)22:24
daftykinshow's that vary throughout the day?22:25
zmoylan-pii once argued with a teacher who insisted that sunday was the start of the week for over an hour... was super popular with rest of the class as no one had the homework done for that day :-)22:26
diddledanlol22:26
diddledanit doesn't tend to drop below 240, but it'll vary a few V either way depending on load. I've seen it pop over 254 before at which point my UPS goes into AVR mode22:27
daftykinsi have a client who sets their Outlook calendar like that, insanity22:27
zmoylan-pii couldn't let it pass when he tried to pass off that nonsense as the truth...22:27
diddledan"my arbitrary decision has no more or less relevance than yours" :-p22:27
diddledanI vote Wednesday as the start!22:28
daftykinsmy UPS currently states over 77 million volts22:29
daftykinsace software22:29
diddledanhmm, what have you got it plugged into?!22:29
zmoylan-piexcept that in uk and ireland monday is the legal definition. in astronomy too for record keeping22:30
diddledandid you pull the undersea cable and shove it directly into your UPS??!22:30
daftykinsa big cable snaking across to Cape de la Hague power station ;D22:30
daftykinsah there we go, 246 - 24822:45
diddledanone to snap? https://www.myabandonware.com/game/blade-runner-a4322:46
diddledanI should probably get a graphing thing plugged into my ups and see the overall trends22:46
daftykinsi wonder if it has all the original video sequences23:00

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