User talk:Arcane

Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 15:42, 23 May 2014 (EDT)

Cabal editing
Do you have any thoughts for the discussion on how to prevent it? Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 16:19, 23 May 2014 (EDT)

Notifications
I just added the notifications extension, which should streamline the appearance and method that information is presented in. I also added Thank, which will be good in addition to WikiLove for helping promote positive community interaction. Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 18:55, 23 May 2014 (EDT)

Dickbutt tool made by Russian hackers
http://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/22nm3e/does_anyone_know_how_to_hack_a_facebook/

Check it out. Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 22:36, 24 May 2014 (EDT)

Apparently DondreKhan wants to start a parody MRA blog
Forum:Alex Meinhold's blog

Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 11:13, 4 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I got back to you. Apperently DondreKhan has a whole thing with that one wiki.  I just deleted a long rant on his user page.  Please let me know if you spot him doing anything questionable.  Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 14:38, 4 June 2014 (EDT)

GitHub Pages
I've been using the Jekyll blog creator tool with it. It works really well.

http://sasha.pavelovi.ch

Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 19:53, 4 June 2014 (EDT)
 * My internets are working very well at the moment, so I can't see the blog yet, but I'll get back to you when the connection issues have been fixed. Arcane (talk) 19:55, 4 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Internets working again, nice blog. Arcane (talk) 22:32, 4 June 2014 (EDT)
 * It works well, if you want to use it to set up project sites on GitHub. Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 17:59, 5 June 2014 (EDT)

User bar
I just made changes to the user bar to make it fixed position using CSS, so it will be script enabled independent. I also made it look nice by having the whole top of the page serve as the user bar rather than just part of it, so it looks more like a normal fixed position top menu. I also used JavaScript to add userspace and user sandbox links. Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 09:55, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

nazis.exposed
We've got the domain nazis.exposed, which we could use specifically for debunking Nazi arguments, myths, and publications. We could focus on debunking arguments and explaining why they are invalid. Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 14:43, 8 June 2014 (EDT)

One concern that I have is that we could fill up 50 pages and that would be it. When you have only Nazi related pseudo history, you have a lot fewer topics than religious loons and their theories. We can expand into debunking various websites, but there we run into the danger of becoming a rambling defamation site like RapeWiki; trying to ruin TheAmazingAtheist's life by posting his real name and supposed comments that he made is ok, but writing about PSAL without mentioning his real name is "defamatory." What a bunch of fucking morons. Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 14:53, 8 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Well, even though it's smaller subset of topics, having a secondary splinter site for debunking Nazi BS couldn't hurt. Arcane (talk) 17:09, 8 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Yes, and I think it would be better to do it there than here. Going in depth would be off topic here and would turn it from a general historical wiki into the anti Nazi POV wiki.  Nazi Arguments Exposed would in some sense be POV by definition, but it should still focus on evidence unlike RapeWiki's POV.  Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 21:14, 8 June 2014 (EDT)
 * This sounds like a really dumb idea. It would be a 20 page list of flawed Nazi reasoning that wouldn't attract any editors.  Just write an FAQ page here concerning Nazi sympathizers if it becomes a problem.  DondreKhan (talk) 16:37, 12 June 2014 (EDT)

Heads up
We just got a really crappy page filled with nothing but apologetic garbage and links to a site that got dropped over at Axis History Forum. It has been dismissed as apologetic garbage on that forum. I proposed deleting it, which is how things will need to go unless he can magically pull citations and really claims out from himself. Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 20:10, 11 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I looked up the people behind the site links, and while I wasn't able to dig up info on the blog author, one of the people mentioned in the testimonial section does check out. As for the article itself, it would need far more fact checking and secondary sources to corroborate the evidence, because the current version is very biased and lack secondary confirmation. Arcane (talk) 22:53, 11 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Good work. I'd still check into whether that historian is creating fringe theories on "genocide" against Germans.  It says he's a genocide historian, and genocide studies are extremely liberal and likely to attract types who make up fringe theories in order to seem intelligent or important.  The article is going to at the very least need to be renamed and completely rewritten.  Lieutenant S. Reznov (talk) 10:02, 12 June 2014 (EDT)

A new forum topic concerning the wiki
Forum:Wikipedia content use

If you could please comment. DondreKhan (talk) 16:34, 12 June 2014 (EDT)

I got your email about moving All the Tropes Wiki
Sorry about taking so long to get to it. I wasn't checking much.

I started a topic on the forum about moving it, since we need to run these things by Marcus. As long has hosting and labor are completely compensated for, I think it should be fine.


 * Forum:Moving All The Tropes Wiki to a new server

Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 21:50, 28 June 2014 (EDT)

Transcluded links are now internal!
I just added JavaScript that converts the Wikipedia links in transcluded pages to be internal within Lexipedium. All you have to do is drop   into pages. You can go from link to link by doing that. Also be sure to check the box to accept the revision for the page when you save it. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 18:42, 7 July 2014 (EDT)
 * Cool. That saves us having to copy-paste and manually having to attribute everything. Arcane (talk) 18:56, 7 July 2014 (EDT)

General discussion
I'm thinking about adding a BuddyPress to Sokolovskaya for general talk between users. Would have a reputable 2FA extension on it for the admin account. I could also throw on an IRC server for chat. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 17:54, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
 * Sweet. You could use Freenode for IRC. Arcane (talk) 18:15, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
 * I just registered on Freenode for Orain. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 11:17, 21 July 2014 (EDT)
 * I also just registered the channel  on Freenode,  Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 11:59, 21 July 2014 (EDT)

If you could weigh in
Forum:Revoking Dewey's sysadmin access

I've notified Marcus. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 17:17, 24 July 2014 (EDT)

Sturmkrieg.ru imageboard
http://sturmkrieg.ru/img/

Do you want join in there? You need a username and password to access the script that posts images. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 15:05, 25 July 2014 (EDT)

Benevolent uses for the Akula servers
While Dewey is busy building Akula servers to deploy Katyn to be ready for nuclear war at a moment's notice, I'm trying to come up with some benevolent function that the servers can be used for. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 22:15, 30 July 2014 (EDT)
 * I couldn't approve more. If they can be used to benefit others instead of doing amoral and illegal things, I'm all for it. Arcane (talk) 00:22, 31 July 2014 (EDT)
 * Nothing that they're doing is illegal.    I still pray that they will never have to be used.  If you have any ideas, let me know.  Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 00:35, 31 July 2014 (EDT)

Wiki crawler
I've fixed a logic error with the rescanning of previous page prevention. I also improved memory management by implementing that feature to remove all stored links that have been scanned from the index of picked up links. Scanned links are stored, but only one each, not the same one from every page. With that it should be ready to start scanning WMF sites. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 21:56, 12 August 2014 (EDT)

You have been blocked indefinitely
Due to certain questionable posts, you have been banned from Lexipedium. Inquisitor64 (talk) 17:02, 28 August 2014 (EDT)

War crimes against Germans on the Eastern Front
Can you please review the page and make a statement on the talk page whether we should approve the article or make changes, keeping in mind that the wiki is not anti Nazi POV. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 14:17, 6 September 2014 (EDT)
 * Hmm, I can't see too many issues with the text aside from the fact it seems to draw heavily from 2-3 primary sources. And additional leavening of a few more secondary sources for these sections of the text might not hurt. Arcane (talk) 15:44, 6 September 2014 (EDT)
 * I took out a lot of stuff from that article because it looks like it was written by Russian sympathizers. Apparently I need to have my revisions approved.  Can I be made an "expert" so I can update the page?  Are you an admin?  Feldwebel (talk) 23:58, 7 September 2014 (EDT)
 * The answers to those questions are as follows: You will need to discuss being made a reviewer/expert with Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium, and I suggest you discuss your edits with her as well, as she did most of the work on the article. I am an admin, but she has most of the executive power here, so you should direct your questions to her. Arcane (talk) 01:13, 8 September 2014 (EDT)
 * The way to become an expert is to demonstrate skill is a given subject and be able to convince other users that you are an expert in that subject so they support giving the associated reviewer rights to approve revisions. Even as an expert you are discouraged from approving your own revisions without consensus because of the focus on mini peer review and the inevitable bias that one's own statements are correct.  Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 12:23, 8 September 2014 (EDT)
 * What do I need to do to show that I am an expert? I could post history papers that I have written.  Feldwebel (talk) 15:27, 8 September 2014 (EDT)
 * I'm trying to remain neutral here, but my suggestion is to present point by point refutations to points you find inaccurate, with links to information supporting your case. Arcane (talk) 15:29, 8 September 2014 (EDT)
 * So find sources that show why that page is wrong about the number of German women raped and was probably written by Russian sympathizers? Feldwebel (talk) 15:45, 8 September 2014 (EDT)

That would seem to be the best way to make your case. Arcane (talk) 18:13, 8 September 2014 (EDT)

sturmkrieg.ru/img
Could you contribute some more to the image board? Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 01:33, 9 September 2014 (EDT)

The Manhattan Project is tearing me up
At the Los Alamos VM, we recently generated more than 3,300 dossiers. The akula servers are scheduled to be armed with these dossiers. I can't stop thinking about what would happen if these dossiers were fired. It's a horrifying idea and I hope that we never have to fire them. I keep moving forward only because this has to be done properly, and because if anyone were to do anything that would result in firing, I would not hesitate. But still, what gives us the right to retaliate that way?

The dossiers themselves will be secured using AES and launch codes that will be stored by Marcus. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 13:46, 12 September 2014 (EDT)

Minecraft
Do you play it? DondreKhan is into the console version and I'm thinking about setting up server for the console version or the PC. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 16:15, 17 September 2014 (EDT)
 * Played it on a friend's PC, don't have my own copy, need to fix that soon, will let you known when I have. Arcane (talk) 16:19, 17 September 2014 (EDT)
 * A second Xbox Live account would only cost half as much as a VPS to run a PC server. I discussed an Xbox server with Don already.  Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 16:26, 17 September 2014 (EDT)
 * Just bought myself an official account. :) Arcane (talk) 17:09, 17 September 2014 (EDT)
 * For the PC?, With an account, it would. I'm in the process of migrating the server from the Linux PC to a VPS.  Just send me your username so I can add it to the whitelist.  Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 18:11, 17 September 2014 (EDT)
 * K. Meet on IRC sometime today and I'll send you the deets. Arcane (talk) 07:54, 18 September 2014 (EDT)

Because some people just seriously believe that Soviet women deserved to be raped by Germans
http://gethn7.blogspot.com/2014/09/some-advice-on-how-to-deal-with.html

DondreKhan has gone on about how he found Raysenn's Facebook profile, as if that makes him some sort of wizard or something. Just a bunch of vile motherfuckers. Thanks for reminding me about them. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 13:14, 28 September 2014 (EDT)

Blog
I made my own. Or a group blog. Send me an HTML page if you have anything for it.

http://redsec.ru/pravda

Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 19:18, 1 October 2014 (EDT)
 * Sure. I might have something in a day or two, but for now I'm busy with some code testing stuff in Linux. Might discuss the results in my post, though. Arcane (talk) 21:48, 1 October 2014 (EDT)
 * That would be helpful. You can write out the HTML that would go in the main section of the post, since the formatting of the page is handled by a script that automatically generates the page.  I'd copy it into the blog page.  VirtualBox is free and developed by a major company, and available for Linux, so I recommend using it for VMs to run vulnerable web applications.  I'm going to work on finding ways into WordPress since it allows files to be uploaded and edited on the server.  Webhosting, GoDaddy at least, has everything accessible to the web server.  Unless they use multiple web server users for each customer, uploading a web shell could allow access to the files of all customers.  So compromising one site could be done just by compromising another site on the same server with more vulnerabilities.  Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 03:26, 2 October 2014 (EDT)

I think we should start our own wiki hosting service
Orain is in a state of being perpetually broken in some way, they have very questionable policies, and a certain someone who I've been constantly saving him and his husband from Dewey's various plots thinks it's a good idea to lie and make threats. I told you about his lies before and that I wasn't going to raise an issue at the time. I think that people deserve a good wiki hosting service, which is why I supported them and why I consider it necessary to revisit the idea of a new service.
 * Advantages:
 * Still free and free of advertising. Donations would be suggested and required for expansion.
 * Automatic wiki creation. No waiting around.  If Orain is so paranoid, they shouldn't have wikis with editable pages, because who know what might get put there.
 * Better privacy protection. Only sysadmins have oversight and check user.  Not the Orain system of allowing anyone who "identifies" themselves, possibly with stolen ID, to have access to everyone's fox.  Not cool.  Major privacy fuck up there.  A certain someone should also know that it's fucking creepy for him to be spying on people's email addresses with DB queries.  The "they provided it and I'm the sysadmin so it's ok" is a total Escyos-ish policy.
 * Better adoption. Adoption does not mean kick people off their own wikis.

I could look into giving you shell access there as well.

I know about an extension for managing wiki farms. I could make a second one for it that would create a wiki creation form for users. Simplest way would require bash escape, which PHP has a function for. I could probably make my own as well. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 20:50, 4 October 2014 (EDT)
 * Alright, fair enough, I see your points, and I'd like to offer some counterpoints:


 * As for being perpetually broken, now that I have shell access on Orain's production cluster, I can see why: in short, Orain does not have the staff to do 24/7 maintenance, their server cluster is not large enough to have enough redundancy checks to prevent downtime, and frankly, Orain is oriented towards providing bleeding edge performance and features, and as we both know, the bleeding edge can be somewhat unstable, and in that regard, I concur you have a very valid point about their instability.
 * Yeah, the wiki creation process is somewhat lacking, I'll grant you that, but part of that is due to the first point. Also, I've been to ShoutWiki, and they have a similar waiting period before they cut you loose, so the automatic wiki creation process being a tad slow is not unique to Orain. Wikia is much better in that regard, but their customization and forced ads policy sucks, so a wiki farm with Wikia's speed in giving you wiki control without the ads and more customization would be totes awesome.
 * The privacy protection concerns I'm not sure how to reply to, partially because I'd like to have a better idea what has gotten you so incensed (please email me privately, I will keep this confidential). I can say however I'm not sure what would be a better method of verifying one's identity, as I submitted some personal documentation (and I was given a chance to blank out any information I deemed unsuitable for viewing) to gain my shell access and so far have no reason to regret that, and I currently have some degree of access to private information as an Orain sysadmin, though I have yet to utilize this capability and am loath to do so with good cause, but again, please privately email me with any further concerns you have and will do my best to listen with an open mind, as I'm a very private person IRL and I totally understand security paranoia (I worship at that particular altar like a zealot).
 * As for the adoption topic, please email me more details, as I have no idea what that concerns.
 * Finally, whether or not you did give me shell access to this proposed process, I will be frank with you: I am rather fluent in Windows based CLI's, and still learning Linux/Unix, though I already have most of the basics down.
 * Anything further about your concerns you'd like to keep between us, please email me privately and I'll get back to you. Arcane (talk) 23:12, 4 October 2014 (EDT)

Forum
I'll get back to your reply.

I made a forum here that we can use.

http://redsec.ru/forum/

If you can't make the hash for the spam check, I can send it to you. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 12:15, 5 October 2014 (EDT)

I made you a moderator account. You can request a new password to your live.com email address. Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 16:29, 5 October 2014 (EDT)

Pony bondage
Bert stare | Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 01:31, 14 November 2014 (EST)
 * Would you be surprised if told you this isn't even half as bad as some of the insanity I've seen bronies do? Seriously, this is like the shallow edge of the ocean of perversion for these sickos......... Arcane (talk) 08:42, 14 November 2014 (EST)
 * WAT? So, how bad?  Is it worse than what I saw on 0x81?  Lieutenant S., Geschichtmeister des Lexipedium (talk) 01:38, 15 November 2014 (EST)
 * Look up some of the more jacked up MLP Rule 34, or check out the "Fluffy Pony" fandom is you really want your faith in humanity to plummet. Arcane (talk) 07:26, 15 November 2014 (EST)