#Soylent | Logs for 2017-08-25

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[00:47:09] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Tabby's Star Dimming Could be Explained by a Saturn-Like Exoplanet - http://sylnt.us - the-rings-look-amazing
[01:45:10] <TheMightyBuzzard> yeurg. tired.
[01:45:42] <TheMightyBuzzard> at least i'm going to bed on a good note though. the cell shield for the bit of kit i'm looking at using just got fcc certified.
[02:28:26] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Scientists Are Defining Quantum-Computing Terms Because Everyone Is Confused - MIT Technology Review - http://sylnt.us - inconsistent-consistencies-!=-consistent-inconsistencies
[04:17:15] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - SpaceX Lost Money on the Latest Falcon 9 Launch - http://sylnt.us - your-gazintas-needs-to-be-more-then-your-gazoutas
[04:21:07] <Bytram> ~arthur 120411
[04:21:10] <exec> it has been only 33 seconds since the last submission - please wait
[06:06:11] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Evacuations in Texas as Category 3 Hurricane Harvey Nears Landfall - http://sylnt.us - things-ARE-bigger-in-Texas
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[07:55:39] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - This Linux Tool Could Improve the Security of IoT Devices - http://sylnt.us - I-need-a-new-IoT...-and-make-it-Snappy!
[08:01:11] <SoyGuest89314> https://i.imgur.com
[08:01:51] <chromas> This looks like the SN name voting system for android
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[08:26:08] <SoyCow8961> who wants an libre open-source smartphone? https://puri.sm
[08:26:10] <upstart> ^ 03Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone – Purism
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[09:47:03] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Science Abandons Trump! - http://sylnt.us - Well-that-went-well-dept
[10:59:36] <TheMightyBuzzard> coffee++
[10:59:36] <Bender> karma - coffee: 3611
[11:21:44] <TheMightyBuzzard> hrm... not much time left before i gotta start that embedded coding project. better get my vidya in while i can.
[11:37:48] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Company Behind Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Sues Greenpeace - http://sylnt.us - greenbacks-are-good-for-the-environment
[11:48:13] <TheMightyBuzzard> ♫ happy birthday, dear linux. happy birthday to you. ♫
[12:13:34] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit http://www.securityweek.com We really need to standardize TLA definitions. PoC confused me for about half a second in the original headline.
[12:13:35] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[12:14:00] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[12:16:36] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://www.reuters.com It's nice that they won't be outsourcing the data mining of all your personal information and metadata. Merica!
[12:16:37] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
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[12:17:48] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://torrentfreak.com Oopsie...
[12:17:48] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
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[12:19:11] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://www.theregister.co.uk
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[12:21:39] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit http://thevarguy.com I kinda miss just running services directly on physical servers. Guess I'm getting old.
[12:21:42] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
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[12:23:52] <Bytram> coffee++
[12:23:52] <Bender> karma - coffee: 3612
[12:23:55] <Bytram> !uid
[12:23:56] <Bender> The current maximum UID is 6682, owned by Nuxx
[12:24:14] * Bytram woke up just 30 minutes ago and need to be at work in 30 minutes.
[12:24:23] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://www.theregister.co.uk Mmmmmm... butter-fs
[12:24:24] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
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[12:25:09] <TheMightyBuzzard> ~gday Bytram
[12:25:12] * exec diabolically irritates some chewy chunks of the chronic with Bytram
[12:25:16] <Bytram> ~gday TheMightyBuzzard
[12:25:18] * exec $adverb embiggens a tinfoil hat of magnets with TheMightyBuzzard
[12:25:39] <Bytram> not sure but I think tin is not magentically attractive?
[12:26:23] <TheMightyBuzzard> zactly, otherwise you couldn't easily get the magnets out of it.
[12:26:46] <Bytram> LOL!
[12:26:57] <Bytram> would REALLY love to stay and chat but got to get ready for work.
[12:28:18] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk
[12:28:18] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
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[12:30:28] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://www.tizenexperts.com
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[12:31:13] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit http://windowsitpro.com
[12:31:13] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[12:31:38] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[12:38:10] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://joinup.ec.europa.eu Protectionism is supposed to be aimed at <i>outside</i> parties, Europe. You're doing it wrong.
[12:38:11] <MrPlow> Unable to find a title for that page
[12:38:20] <TheMightyBuzzard> ~submit https://joinup.ec.europa.eu
[12:38:24] <exec> error: description meta content not found or empty
[12:38:28] <TheMightyBuzzard> meh
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[12:48:28] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://www.rt.com If you're taking millions of acres off the table for one site, you fail at knowing the definition of a monument.
[12:48:29] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
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[12:52:31] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://www.helpnetsecurity.com Good. It's about time the judiciary started saying no to executive overreach.
[12:52:33] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
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[12:54:55] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://globenewswire.com Eh, it's an interesting idea but this implementation sounds like mostly marketing hype to me.
[12:54:56] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
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[13:07:41] <TheMightyBuzzard> okay, i feel i've done my sitely duty for the day. vidya time.
[13:07:58] * TheMightyBuzzard boots himself some winders
[13:11:25] <SoyGuest89314> I'm not a religious man, but I like this guy's logic: https://i.imgur.com
[13:17:10] <chromas> !bier SoyGuest89314
[13:17:10] * Bender geeft een flesje bavaria aan SoyGuest89314
[13:17:25] <chromas> I kinda remember this http://www.trbimg.com
[13:17:37] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time In Four Decades - http://sylnt.us - more-then-just-a-fission-expedition
[13:18:05] <chromas> Thorium Freakin' Saltways!!!
[13:21:32] <SoyGuest89314> don't melt down!
[13:24:23] <takyon> I put thorium salts in all my dishes
[13:30:20] <boru> Cool!
[13:30:32] <boru> I've been telling people for years to invest in thorium.
[13:30:50] <boru> Molten salt reactors are the future!
[13:31:10] <boru> Plus it'd solve the thorium pollution problem in East Asia.
[13:34:34] <SoyGuest89314> Every time I meat an anti-nuclear person, I ask "what was wrong with thorium-salt reactors?" and I *know* that I'll either get silence or a stream of irrelevant nonsense as a response.
[13:34:39] <SoyGuest89314> meat?
[13:34:46] <SoyGuest89314> I'm not that friendly with them
[13:36:49] <boru> The guy who prototyped the first reactor was really far before his time.
[13:37:13] <boru> I think that, being in the cold war, they went with uranium/plutonium because it could be weaponised.
[13:37:57] <boru> And you get groovy Cherenkov radiation.
[14:03:53] <SoyGuest89314> if it makes the water glow, imagine what it does as it passes through the human body :)
[14:04:21] <chromas> Lights the way for Lemmiwinks.
[14:04:28] <SoyGuest89314> this is what powers the white walkers?
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[15:28:15] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - The Myth of the Skills Gap - http://sylnt.us - do-we-need-a-bridge
[15:35:54] <chromas> Seems like most gaps are myths
[16:50:50] <pinchy> I ought to do some experiments and post fake job ads online.
[17:26:17] <chromas> And then announce you can't find enough qualified applicants so you need some H1Bs?
[17:37:19] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Happy Birthday, Linux - http://sylnt.us - 1A-candles
[18:00:25] <boru> I agree with the latter part. USA should give me a H1B.
[18:00:30] <boru> Or, better yet, a GC.
[18:41:35] <pinchy> a garbage collector?
[18:41:46] <boru> A green card, you silly billy.
[18:42:11] <pinchy> why do u want to goto the states for? whats so enticing about it?
[18:43:05] <boru> Work, atmospheric seeing, tornados, lax gun laws, cute accents, scenery.
[18:48:59] <pinchy> gun nut spotted!
[18:50:06] <pinchy> so none of that stuff applys to where ur currently at?
[18:51:04] <boru> Not all of it, no.
[18:51:19] <boru> The US has a lot to offer to me, personally.
[18:51:34] <boru> I've liked most of the Americans I've met.
[18:52:43] <boru> Anyway, got to run and catch a flight. AFK for a bit.
[19:47:31] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Apple to Build Iowa Data Center, Get $207.8 Million in Incentives - http://sylnt.us - another-byte-of-your-data
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[21:58:08] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Proof of Concept Released for Dangerous iOS Kernel Exploit - http://sylnt.us - another-day-another-exploit
[22:02:20] <chromas> https://github.com
[22:02:21] <upstart> ^ 03MarcLaidlaw-Epistle3/Epistle3_Corrected.md at master · Jackathan/MarcLaidlaw-Epistle3 · GitHub
[22:16:15] * Deucalion slaps everyone in sight
[22:19:31] <clorox|2> Glove slap!
[22:23:49] * Deucalion places a white feather in proximity to clorox
[22:25:02] <TheMightyBuzzard> #yt glove slap
[22:25:02] <MrPlow> https://www.youtube.com
[22:28:03] <Deucalion> Jeebus - been away a week and all and sundry bureaucratic wombles have defacated letters on my mat. The local council wants me to confirm I still live here, with a letter addressed to me at this address. If I fail to affirm I get fined £1000. A fine for not affirming that nothing changed..... surely they have something better to do. ~le sigh~ Of course, if someone else now lived here they would be put off by my name being on the letter and
[22:28:03] <Deucalion> not just return the form having ticked the "no change" box.
[22:28:24] <Deucalion> Oh well, keeps the loonies from doing any real damage I guess.
[22:34:25] <Deucalion> My fucking kneecaps... the next is a letter from the management company that maintain my block.... advising me we ran a surplus on the previous accounting year, please find a credit note attached - along with a Remittance Slip asking for -£106 - yes asking for a negative amount, by cheque or bank transfer, then 10 pages about how if remittance is not made fees may be incurred... I fucking give up.
[22:35:45] * Deucalion wonders what would happen if I sent them a cheque for negative £106.... if they banked it, it may cause a complete meltdown of retail banking systems worldwide!
[22:36:19] * Deucalion apologies for having consumed too many Starbucks today
[22:49:45] <TheMightyBuzzard> NO. SUCH. THING.
[23:02:11] <Deucalion> I had to do it, 9hrs of driving, ~400 miles - just over an hour spent on client sites actually doing something productive. Focus had to be applied. Now my grating teeth regret it. Glad it's not my van or fuel - otherwise I may be ticked off at the utter incompetence of the whole thing :D
[23:03:34] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://www.techdirt.com I was more annoyed by their use of it against gun stores but good riddance regardless.
[23:03:34] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[23:04:00] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[23:04:12] * TheMightyBuzzard does the happy dance after reading that story
[23:05:27] <Deucalion> Something something porn stars were unbanked?
[23:05:57] <chromas> Spank banked.
[23:06:51] <chromas> But hey, "Operation Choke Point" is kind of a topical name
[23:07:18] <Deucalion> Puritans should practise their perversions in private and leave the rest of us out of their projected morality.
[23:08:58] <TheMightyBuzzard> #submit https://www.rt.com
[23:09:00] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[23:09:06] <Deucalion> "Operation Choke Point" would probably class as "Extreme Porn" in the UK now.... just the words would be enough to get on the thought police list
[23:09:22] * TheMightyBuzzard chuckles
[23:09:25] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[23:09:27] <Deucalion> Is that the base60 thing TheMightyBuzzard ?
[23:09:37] * TheMightyBuzzard scratches his head
[23:09:45] <TheMightyBuzzard> no idea what yer talkin about, boss man
[23:09:45] <Deucalion> the tablet
[23:10:03] <TheMightyBuzzard> yeah, looks like
[23:10:10] <TheMightyBuzzard> did we already have it?
[23:10:43] <chromas> https://www.techdirt.com
[23:10:44] <upstart> ^ 03Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life | Techdirt
[23:11:04] <chromas> "last week we were sued for $15 million by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email." herp
[23:11:12] <Deucalion> No - I saw it on elReg https://www.theregister.co.uk - skipped it thus far because I'm too noodled to make sense of base60 at this point in time... not enough braincells to read
[23:11:12] <upstart> ^ 03Forget trigonometry, 'cos Babylonians did it better 3,700 years ago – by counting in base 60! • The Register
[23:11:46] <TheMightyBuzzard> yeah, fnord already has it in queue under his name.
[23:12:15] * TheMightyBuzzard nukes his own sub
[23:12:36] * Deucalion marvels at TMB being humble
[23:13:06] <TheMightyBuzzard> you can't get more humble than me. if there was an award for being humble, i'd win it every year.
[23:13:49] <TheMightyBuzzard> hrm... do i wanna get a shower n go to the movies or sit around on my arse?
[23:14:20] <Deucalion> You'd be the absolute humblest of the humble, the greatest humblest there has ever been - in your own estimation :P
[23:14:32] <Deucalion> shower n movie
[23:15:01] <Deucalion> arse sitting can be done at the movies... who knows you may find a good film to watch
[23:15:14] * TheMightyBuzzard makes room on his mantle for all the humility awards
[23:15:40] <TheMightyBuzzard> they're gonna need some better lighting
[23:15:49] <TheMightyBuzzard> flood lights i think
[23:16:11] <Deucalion> /iconoclast destroys the fucking mantle. Just who do you think you are mortal.
[23:16:39] <Deucalion> Go watch insipid movies
[23:17:10] <TheMightyBuzzard> aight. fine. i'll go belt sand the stank off and throw some money away on a waste of a couple hours.
[23:23:50] <Deucalion> Don't forget to waste some money on the carbonated sugar drinks and pointless fodder that cost more than the movie ticket :D
[23:25:38] <Deucalion> What's the alt anyway? Shit on TV? Knobbing about on here with me? I have no idea what is showing at the moment but I can't imagine either of those options is preferential. Could always get your game on I suppose if in the mood.
[23:30:11] <TheMightyBuzzard> took a household poll. the roomie snored from the couch in response. so we're fucking off around the house instead tonight.
[23:33:45] * TheMightyBuzzard debates rebooting for some skyrim
[23:34:51] <Deucalion> Who you debating with?
[23:35:17] <TheMightyBuzzard> the voices in my head
[23:35:47] <TheMightyBuzzard> they're not very useful though. they just keep saying "kill them. kill them all."
[23:36:38] <Deucalion> Depends.... can you reason them round to a definition of "them"?
[23:37:12] <TheMightyBuzzard> i don't think they're that particular.
[23:37:27] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Meta: Welcome New Trolls! - http://sylnt.us - we're-really-big-time-now
[23:38:40] * TheMightyBuzzard is particularly happy with the first paragraph of that post
[23:40:25] <Deucalion> Nice Meta - short and too the point
[23:40:53] <TheMightyBuzzard> ya. i have not the knack for novelization of minor changes.
[23:41:31] <TheMightyBuzzard> the whole coding efficiency thing spills over into english for me
[23:43:25] * TheMightyBuzzard settles on watching his backlog of tv shows
[23:44:45] <Deucalion> Not a knack to bother perfecting, unless you can engross the reader for pages of course - in that case write a book and become a bazillionaire in some computer system somewhere until the nominal currency your bazzilion was in takes a nose dive unexpectedly due to the magic of...... ummm... I dunno international currency fluctuation.... some shit some bankers made up because they don't like being unable to skim every transaction ever.... or
[23:44:45] <Deucalion> somesuch...
[23:47:28] <Deucalion> What you mean is - re-watching your favourite shows, which will now spectacularly disappoint you as they are not as funny as you remember and ultimately you'll doze off being all sourpuss, then be all cranky and ban everyone from everything in the morning, before reverting the bans once the first coffee hits.
[23:48:21] <TheMightyBuzzard> new shows that i haven't gotten around to watching this week
[23:49:59] <Deucalion> there are new shows? what planet is this?