Geek Anvil (currently geeking...)

[markfiend]

I got bored of the minimalist window managers and moved back to the shiny, fully featured KDE

Still can't work out how to get .xinitrc to run under it though

[Pista]

...sort of geeking...
Anyone get stuck reading Apple's Ts & Cs? Fear not.
Someone's made them into a graphic novel

[markfiend]

CG: trying out different knots for tying shoelaces.

The standard shoelace knot is a doubly-slipped reef knot (or Shoelace knot) but I've been trying what is effectively an overhand loop but treating the two working ends as one line.

It's much quicker to tie than the standard, seems less prone to working loose, and is as easy to untie (just pull on the working ends simultaneously).

[EvilBastard]

So how to you make sure that the knot is tight? I can't see how you would easily tighten an overhand loop.

My go-to is a shoelace knot and then tie the loops in a single overhand. Doesn't work loose, adds a bit of time to the undo and I wouldn't do it on thin (dress) laces, but on hiking/work boots it's great.

[Swinnow]

Ain't seen a laced-up dress for a couple of years now, but the thought made me smile lol

[markfiend]

Oh looking at it again, it's not an overhand loop at all. I'm getting bogged down in various wikipedia knot pages now

Edit: It's like this but with one of the loops actually being the two loose ends of the laces.

Edit again no it's not. Leave it with me.

[markfiend]

Slip knot on the bight?

[Pista]

Oh looking at it again, it's not an overhand loop at all. I'm getting bogged down in various wikipedia knot pages now

Edit: It's like this but with one of the loops actually being the two loose ends of the laces.

Edit again no it's not. Leave it with me.

*send new keyboard to.....*

[EvilBastard]

Slip knot on the bight?

Slip knot?

[EvilBastard]

Ain't seen a laced-up dress for a couple of years now, but the thought made me smile lol

Yeah, you definitely want to use a standard shoelace knot for those, or you'll never get her out of it!

[Swinnow]

Yeah, you definitely want to use a standard shoelace knot for those, or you'll never get her out of it!

Casting my memory back the issue became getting her in it rather than out of it
The then Ms Swinnow changed her taste in clothing lol

[markfiend]

Grrr. Some cnut has found an SQL injection attack vuln on one of our websites. Still, 90 minutes between discovery and code patch isn't bad.

[Pat]

Geeky I suppose.
Live view of Starman (or The Stig in space).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKA ... tUNslZht-6.

[markfiend]

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[more-sedatives-pls]

? No lo se.

Just a brief note : the above shoelace geekiness deserves to be framed!
Very funny dead-serious - gotta love it.

[EvilBastard]

My lovely shiny new employer (no, really - lovely. Been here a month waiting for the other shoe to drop, hasn't yet, maybe it won't - stress levels through the floor, happiness through the roof, blood pressure at its lowest since I was maybe 4 years old) is looking to build out a knowledge base to make information/intel shareable across the business and its clients.

Requirements:
Needs to be something that can be both internal & client-facing, maybe having a switch that you can toggle to decide which audience(s) you want to be able to see the content.
Should have a content-rating system - "Did you like this article?" - so we can track engagement and increase quality.
Should have a means by which users can be led down a path - "Now that you've read this article, maybe you'd be interested in this video/article/info."
Should be trackable - how many people looked at/clicked on this article in the past n months?
Ideally should be linkable to another page - marketing is keen on having knowledge base content accessible on various pages on the company website.

Right now we're using Atlassian's JIRA and Confluence applications - Atlassian has something called Service Desk but it doesn't have a customer-facing knowledge base, so it's not an ideal solution. ZenDesk is pretty, but it's a Bugatti Veyron where we need a good reliable station wagon.

Does anyone have experience with online knowledge bases from an implementation perspective?

[lazarus corporation]

Right now we're using Atlassian's JIRA and Confluence applications

I would have thought that Confluence can fit all of those requirements (with the odd plugin or two).

[Quiff Boy]

Designing and building Google Actions for their smart speakers

[Swinnow]

Was listening to TalkRadio during one of those 'can't get to sleep nights' when I heard of a right on alternative to google for your browser searches.

Will give it a go for at least a few weeks at home and in work. Also trying less coffee

https://info.ecosia.org/what

[markfiend]

Was listening to TalkRadio during one of those 'can't get to sleep nights' when I heard of a right on alternative to google for your browser searches.

Will give it a go for at least a few weeks at home and in work. Also trying less coffee

https://info.ecosia.org/what

I use duckduckgo sometimes: https://duckduckgo.com/

I have also been geeking more shoelace knots https://www.animatedknots.com/shoesurgeons/index.php

[emilystrange]

i love my rocketbook everlast notebook.
have outgeeked our school geeks. briefly, for a tiny shining moment

[Pista]

This pretty awesome background removal tool

Gives you a pretty darn good transparent .png that you can overlay onto anything you want to.

[Charlie]

This pretty awesome background removal tool

Gives you a pretty darn good transparent .png that you can overlay onto anything you want to.

oooh yes, that is pretty cool!

runs off to find images to play with.

[Swinnow]

....the mind boggles....

[mh]

We got a new SAN in work and I'm like a pig in sh!t.