#editorial | Logs for 2017-01-10

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[21:57:06] <Fnord666> /back
[21:12:01] <takyon> byetram
[20:34:44] -!- charon_ has quit [Quit: lunchbreak]
[20:14:40] <charon_> and boo
[20:14:17] <charon_> yay and yay
[20:14:01] <cmn32480> charon_
[20:13:34] <exec> editor ping for cmn32480 (reason: heard from bytram. he is still alive. and we don't get to call him lefty): janrinok zz_janrinok n1 nick martyb Bytram cmn32480 coolhand takyon bytram|away Fnord666 charon GreatOutdoors FatPhil Snow goodie mrpg
[20:13:33] <cmn32480> ~eds Heard from bytram. he is still alive. And we don't get to call him lefty
[18:35:42] <nick> good to hear
[18:33:35] <charon_> doing pretty well today
[18:33:27] <charon_> huh, that sort of sounds like my job
[18:32:40] <nick> yourself?
[18:32:33] <nick> not too bad, entertaining a cat so he doesnt spend all afternoon being a dick
[18:31:52] <charon_> how are you this fine day?
[18:31:09] <nick> ahoy-hoy charon_
[18:30:00] * exec sneakily pisses a gigabyte of excitement on nick
[18:29:59] <charon_> ~gday nick
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[05:59:49] <Fnord666> good night.
[05:59:21] <Fnord666> apparently exec has gone scatalogical this morning.
[05:58:50] <Fnord666> lol
[05:58:47] * exec hurriedly cyberbullies a shitton of windows 3.11 for workpoops at charon
[05:58:46] <Fnord666> ~gnight charon
[05:58:32] <charon> uhh... sorry
[05:58:24] * exec brazenly offers a tinfoil hat of surprise buttsex to Fnord666
[05:58:23] <charon> ~gnight Fnord666
[05:58:15] <charon> take care, seeya later
[05:58:03] <Fnord666> well, it's going o n1am here so I better get going. talk to you tomorrow.
[05:57:15] <Fnord666> lol
[05:55:57] * charon wears the punster sandwich board of shame
[05:55:47] <Fnord666> maybe a few days in a punitentiary
[05:55:27] <Fnord666> you should be punished
[05:55:03] * charon hangs his head
[05:54:54] <charon> oh god... i did not even notice the pun. i'm sorry
[05:54:34] <charon> no, i figured it would explode
[05:54:32] <exec> <Fnord666> and very cute re "sniping"
[05:54:31] <Fnord666> s/cure/cute/
[05:54:25] <Fnord666> and very cure re "sniping"
[05:54:10] <Fnord666> I'll have to check it out. Did you expect anything less though? There aren't enough mod points in the world to quell the flames I'm guessing.
[05:52:37] <charon> man, this gun story. so much sniping and name-calling
[05:51:06] <Fnord666> Our senior technical management came up through the ranks though so they have a good grasp of how to do that.
[05:47:13] <charon> good. keep people where their strength is
[05:47:10] <Fnord666> Rather than management as the only way up.
[05:46:55] <Fnord666> So I went back to programming, etc. Fortunately the company recognizes and supports people who want that as a career path.
[05:45:50] <Fnord666> That's pretty much what I did as well. I'm too hands on to sit back that much.
[05:44:52] <charon> i had a friend in college who worked coding video games. he loved it and was so good at it he got promoted to team lead. which meant he hardly ever got to code because he was wrngling people
[05:44:19] <Fnord666> It changes from year to year. SAme job, same desk, different label
[05:44:00] <charon> heh
[05:43:49] <Fnord666> I have been both in the past. At this point I am a "Principal Systems Engineer" or some such caca.
[05:42:43] <charon> are you a team lead or manager?
[05:40:40] <charon> oh i bet
[05:40:37] <exec> <Fnord666> We do a lot of paperwork to make sure every i is dotted and every t is cross come audit time.
[05:40:36] <Fnord666> s/some/come/
[05:40:26] <Fnord666> We do a lot of paperwork to make sure every i is dotted and every t is cross some audit time.
[05:39:44] <Fnord666> although it's still 80% tedious stuff and 20% interesting stuff most weeks
[05:38:56] <Fnord666> Sometimes it just works out.
[05:37:50] * charon is slightly jealous
[05:37:41] <charon> very cool to have a job that intersects with your actual interests
[05:37:15] <Fnord666> Took the job in '93 and I've been there ever since.
[05:37:11] <charon> nice
[05:36:46] <Fnord666> He asked if I wanted to stop by for an interview.
[05:36:29] <Fnord666> I was teaching in the evenings while I was still going to college and one of the more senior programmers at my work was a student in my class.
[05:35:26] <Fnord666> Always loved programming. Found a lot of interesting stuff in cryptography and number theory.
[05:34:38] <Fnord666> I did.
[05:34:03] <charon> interesting work, though way over my head. did you go to school for CS?
[05:32:05] <Fnord666> Cheaper to probably replace it
[05:31:10] <charon> yeah. the little independant atms in convenience stores will kick and scream all the way
[05:29:57] <Fnord666> s the ATM skimming story mentioned though, ATMs and fuel pumps are going to be last.
[05:29:33] <Fnord666> A lot more common now
[05:29:25] <Fnord666> It's an ongoing sort of thing.
[05:28:26] <charon> i guess so. i've had chip readers at my POS for over a year, so i guess i still have a skewed idea of how widespread adoption is
[05:28:01] <Fnord666> Then there's always audit, compliance, maintenance updates ....
[05:27:11] <Fnord666> Nope. Look at EMV and all of the new cryptography involved in processing those transactions for example.
[05:26:17] <charon> is it not a solved problem by now though?
[05:26:12] <Fnord666> I work with a lot of the cryptographic equipment that's used to encrypt the transactions in flight.
[05:25:31] <Fnord666> Quite.
[05:25:23] <charon> sounds like the sort of thing you absolutely do not want to screw up
[05:25:21] <Fnord666> We handle the part between the acquirer and the card issuer.
[05:24:46] <Fnord666> I develop software for a real time transaction processing system that handles credit and debit card traffic.
[05:24:31] <charon> say, Fnord666, what do you do for work?
[05:24:18] <charon> fine, make it tough on me
[05:24:07] <Fnord666> I'm not sure if you did either.
[05:23:22] <charon> i'm not sure if i ever asked what you do for a job?
[05:22:32] <Fnord666> even better
[05:21:48] <charon> oh no, here in editing land. day off today from work
[05:21:30] <Fnord666> did you say it was a quiet day at work?
[05:17:43] <charon> yeah
[05:17:38] <Fnord666> oh well. probably be called a lot worse down the road
[05:17:36] <charon> i was going to continue, but... there's no logic he would accept as proof
[05:17:06] <Fnord666> His tinfoil hat is o ntoo tight
[05:16:10] <Fnord666> i know. what a load of caca for a 4 digit UID
[05:16:00] <charon> except i guess you've been more active on your account than i was
[05:15:27] <charon> you get tarred with that brush too
[05:15:15] <charon> right?
[05:15:10] <Fnord666> lol
[05:13:44] <charon> yes
[05:13:40] <Fnord666> was that in the pedo story?
[05:12:43] <charon> lol
[05:12:39] <Fnord666> now to go see why you are a govt agent
[05:12:31] <Fnord666> yup
[05:12:11] <charon> well, we can only wait and see
[05:11:59] <Fnord666> hmmm.
[05:10:36] <charon> nor a reply to a text he sent
[05:10:23] <charon> k. no, he has not
[05:10:15] <Fnord666> did cmn32480 hear back from him via email?
[05:10:05] <Fnord666> I do not. I haven't heard anything today and there was little info yesterday.
[05:09:40] <charon> you don't by chance know what's up with bytram?
[05:09:22] <charon> not bad. slow night
[05:09:02] <Fnord666> good. You?
[05:08:52] <charon> hiyo Fnord666, how is you?
[05:08:42] <Fnord666> good evening
[05:08:38] <Fnord666> hey charon
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[03:57:13] <charon> sleep well
[03:57:08] <cmn32480> night!
[03:57:05] <cmn32480> anyway...
[03:57:01] <cmn32480> or MC75's depending on yoru store
[03:56:12] <cmn32480> same people who make the TC70's you use at work for inventory
[03:56:08] <charon> i'm smort
[03:56:02] <cmn32480> zactly
[03:55:54] <charon> black and white
[03:55:46] <charon> oh i see
[03:55:45] <cmn32480> thermal printers
[03:55:37] <exec> └─ 13Zebra makes businesses as smart and connected as the world we live in.
[03:55:35] <cmn32480> http://www.zebra.com
[03:55:20] <cmn32480> yup
[03:55:10] <charon> holy balls did i mess that up
[03:55:01] <charon> a vetarenarian?
[03:54:36] <cmn32480> and a Certified Zebra Repair Technician
[03:54:24] <cmn32480> 2 more days adn I'm done
[03:54:19] <charon> yeah, tie
[03:54:17] <cmn32480> basically
[03:54:12] <charon> a day of training means no typing
[03:54:08] <cmn32480> tie?
[03:53:51] <cmn32480> stupid fingers
[03:53:50] * exec unnecessarily sodomizes a matrix of splode with cmn32480
[03:53:49] * exec implicitly instantiates a dong of TempleOS for charon
[03:53:49] <charon> ~gnight cmn32480
[03:53:48] <cmn32480> ~gnight charon
[03:53:39] <cmn32480> ~gngiht charon
[03:53:35] <cmn32480> thanks
[03:53:25] <cmn32480> I won't ahve IRC open again until tomorrow night
[03:53:20] <charon> will do
[03:53:13] <cmn32480> if you hear anythign from bytram, drop me a note by ~tel
[03:52:59] <cmn32480> thanks man
[03:52:53] <charon> i'll take it from here.
[03:52:37] <cmn32480> but my eyes aren't staying open
[03:52:31] <cmn32480> I have the queue out to a shade before noon
[03:52:15] <cmn32480> one of the few perks of the job
[03:51:48] <charon> heh. my own favorite i don't think anyone noticed. but it still makes me happy
[03:51:25] * cmn32480 notes that it is sad he used up his one good dept line so early in the year
[03:50:54] <charon> bullseye
[03:50:27] <cmn32480> and snarky was wht I was shooitng for
[03:49:41] <cmn32480> I thought so
[03:49:38] <cmn32480> lol
[03:49:11] <charon> very nice dept line in the subsidized sex story. amazing how much snark fit into those 7 letters
[03:48:04] <cmn32480> so we filled the table
[03:47:56] <cmn32480> I ahve guys who specialize in this, but we can have up to 8 people in the class
[03:47:43] <cmn32480> not this
[03:47:18] <charon> and here i thought you knew everything already
[03:46:59] <cmn32480> repair cert for one of our manufacturers
[03:46:50] <cmn32480> being trained
[03:44:42] <charon> being trained? or training others?
[03:43:05] <cmn32480> today tomorrow adn wednesday
[03:42:59] <cmn32480> derp
[03:42:52] <cmn32480> been in training yesterday today adn tomorrow
[03:42:45] <cmn32480> I haven't even looked at it
[03:42:40] <cmn32480> lol
[03:41:08] <charon> i should have known the gun story would explode. i blame mrpg
[03:05:36] <chromas> Sad but true
[03:03:25] <cmn32480> like it's owner
[03:03:21] * chromas is in the process of installing another
[03:03:09] <chromas> Well the router took a dump. I put up a spare but it's old and mentally challenged
[03:02:23] * MrPlow smakes chromas' server upside the head with shit
[03:02:23] <cmn32480> #smake chromas' server
[03:00:24] <chromas> [server smaking intensifies]
[03:00:05] <exec>  http://chromas.0x.no
[03:00:04] <exec> 03
[02:59:33] <chromas> ~last channel= nick=Bytram limit=5
[02:58:15] <exec>  http://chromas.0x.no
[02:58:15] <exec> 03
[02:57:54] <cmn32480> ~last bytram
[02:26:12] TurdFerguson is now known as TheMightyBuzzard
[02:22:33] TheMightyBuzzard is now known as TurdFerguson