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[00:03:27] <ted-ious> The stupidity has started already. https://libera.cat
[00:03:27] <systemd> ^ 03Libera Cat
[00:08:22] <chromas> oh dang April onest already
[00:09:48] <chromas> We don't even have a joke ready, like a Midnight Pwnies theme or declaring the new business is up and running :D
[00:13:02] <ted-ious> April onset alzheimer's.
[00:14:25] <progo> meow
[00:18:35] <chromas> at least they're using a different domain for the joke
[00:19:03] <requerdanos> i dunno why someone would confirm they are fools, even seasonal ones.
[00:19:25] <chromas> Everyone's a fool sometimes. Embrace it
[02:03:19] <drussell> We'll probably just get an automatic http 500 error for April Fools... haha ;)
[02:03:38] <drussell> Server with a mind of its own, perhaps poor sense of humour
[02:04:09] <drussell> It taunts us on its own schedule :)
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[08:48:50] <chromas> I wanted to give C# a go, but apparently you can't just create a .cs file and compile it. You have to create "assemblies" and all kinds of other nonsense
[08:50:22] <janrinok> AlwaysNever, you are talking crap.
[09:20:00] <Ingar> for Fools day, I'm reassembling a telescope mount
[09:20:03] <Ingar> that's silly enough
[09:21:35] <Ingar> mmm maybe I should timelapse it
[09:22:09] <chromas> do it
[09:22:19] <chromas> with another telescope mount
[09:22:34] <chromas> set it to follow you around so you're always centered (or centred)
[09:22:43] <Ingar> my heavy photo trip[od will do fine
[09:23:55] <Ingar> chromas: http://ingar.intranifty.net
[09:25:43] <chromas> noice
[09:27:52] <janrinok> Ingar, is this essential maintenance or something to pass the time when you are bored?
[09:28:26] <Ingar> janrinok: in this case it is rather essential
[09:28:40] <Ingar> bought this scope second hand, back in 2016
[09:28:50] <Ingar> the grease has turned into clay or something
[09:29:00] <Ingar> mount was very stiff
[09:29:09] <janrinok> I'll forgive you then... Just for fun, ask someone to hide one piece of it and see if you can work out what is missing :D
[09:29:31] <Ingar> janrinok: I made reference pictures :p
[09:29:53] <Ingar> but I have a pretty good idea what goes where
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[16:39:11] <t3> =submit https://storage.courtlistener.com
[16:39:12] <systemd> t3, 04submit failed: Parse failed
[16:39:40] <t3> "The IAAP program, launched at
[16:39:40] <t3> the request of Mark Zuckerberg, used a cyberattack method called “SSL man-in-the-middle” to
[16:39:43] <t3> intercept and decrypt Snapchat’s—and later YouTube’s and Amazon’s—SSL-protected analytics
[16:39:46] <t3> traffic to inform Facebook’s competitive decisionmaking.
[16:39:50] <t3> insane
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[18:38:23] <chromas> Like wikipedia, we don't accept facts, only articles that claim to be factual
[18:38:38] <chromas> (so we need an article pointing at the pdf)
[18:40:12] <chromas> Remember the olden days though, we we were supposed to hate PDFs? But now the web's gotten so much worse that PDFs don't seem so bad now, much like the prequels
[18:48:18] <janrinok> chromas, I can never work out when you go to sleep. Have you just woken up, or is your next sleep still quite a few hours away?
[18:49:48] <chromas> yeah
[18:50:19] <janrinok> well that answer tells me nothing :)
[18:50:41] <janrinok> 2 questions, one of which can be answered by 'yeah'
[18:50:53] <chromas> sounds about right
[18:51:12] <chromas> I keep saying I'm gonna add in pdf support but then I don't do it
[18:51:57] <janrinok> I only keep links to pdfs - I don't try to get inside them. As you point out, what we really want is a source that links to the pdf
[18:54:44] <chromas> maybe it could do a gewgle search and submit the first seemingly reputable page that links to it
[18:55:18] <chromas> =g https://storage.courtlistener.com
[18:55:19] <systemd> https://gigazine.net - It is revealed that Meta was proceeding with 'Project Ghostbusters' to ...
[18:55:35] <chromas> seems legit
[18:56:03] <janrinok> sort of...
[18:56:12] <chromas> 2016-2019
[18:56:25] <chromas> if you had some rando 'VPN' application nobody's ever heard of installed
[18:57:53] <janrinok> yeah, it does seem strange but it also looks like an interesting story (assuming the pdf is genuine and not related to today's date)
[18:58:24] <chromas> looks like the story's from around the 26th
[18:58:35] <janrinok> it is funny that it should surface today. I wouldn't run it immediately.
[18:58:38] <chromas> https://techcrunch.com
[18:58:38] <systemd> ^ 03Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
[18:58:55] <janrinok> that looks more convincing to me
[18:58:58] <chromas> https://gizmodo.com
[18:58:58] <systemd> ^ 03Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat
[19:00:11] <chromas> Meta also noted that there was “nothing new here,” continuing that this issue was reported on years ago.
[19:00:24] <chromas> "nothing new here"
[19:00:36] <janrinok> Yes, but this is the first time it has landed in court because of it!
[19:00:50] <chromas> good point, but they made a big deal out of Cambridge Analytica even though it was just doing what FB had already done for the previous elections
[19:01:07] <janrinok> I don't know US law but here that is definitely illegal
[19:01:14] <chromas> (good point was res the quote, not your message)
[19:02:35] <janrinok> he is not a nice person
[19:02:37] <chromas> that must be why Ghostbusters 2016 was so bad; it was Facebook all along!
[19:02:43] <janrinok> :)
[19:04:53] <chromas> techcrunch--
[19:05:00] <janrinok> time for me to call it a day for today. I'll be back on tomorrow morning.
[19:05:08] <chromas> if I have first-party js running then it hides the article and replaces it with block filler
[19:05:19] <janrinok> you don't like techcrunch?
[19:05:29] <chromas> so they use first-party js to hide it, then third-party js to show it again. wtf
[19:06:23] <chromas> well aside from their js bs it's still better than gizmodo because at least the article text is there for the scraping
[19:07:23] <janrinok> Arthur can cope with it, and I think that upstart can too
[19:08:02] <chromas> hm, something from gizmodo doesn't work but that link does
[19:08:32] <chromas> gizmodo field guide
[19:08:39] <chromas> like this one https://gizmodo.com
[19:08:39] <systemd> ^ 03Cargo Ship That Collided With Baltimore Bridge Was Involved in a Previous Collision
[19:08:49] <chromas> bot won't extract
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[20:43:26] <aristarchus> The new Soylent Phoenix Corporation is up and running! Everything will be hunky-dory from here on out! Congrats to all who go 'er done!
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