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Revert the temporary blockade on unregistered participation

Back in May, I asked the CMs to require registration to participate on U&L, due to a rash of low-quality posts from unregistered accounts. The moderation strike is over, and Charcoal has resumed ...
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Why is a http version of stack exchange websites appearing in my browser search results? [closed]

I've taken a screenshot of what I am referring to, but this occurs on both the machines I have installed Debian Bullseye on, so I'm naturally curious as to why this would occur. I have guessed it ...
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Will something happen when reputation reaches 100k?

What will happen when reputation reaches 100k? Nothing or something?
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Stack Web scraping from AI [closed]

What do you think about the possibility of an AI doing web scraping of the contents of Stack Overflow, of Unix stackexchange for example and after understanding the questions applying the best answers?...
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Example: The number of lines matching the pattern G in file and Example: The number of matches in the same file, but counting each match individually

I am currently on a crusade regarding this question. The edits that I made were reverted with a comment saying: Please don't change your question after receiving answers. You can clarify, but not ...
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Are NixOS questions more suitable at SO or Unix StackExchange?

https://nixos.org/community/ says the NixOS community is active on StackOverflow. Are NixOS questions about programming? Are they more suitable at SO or Unix StackExchange? If latter, How can those ...
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so, any grumpy person rising in the ranks is free whatever they want?

There is this question that was closed for not being clear: Use grep to find files containing regex patterns I have found it while searching for a similar issue. It is not given what is needed to make ...
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Are all the mods on Unix&Linux such dictators?

I've had a question shut down because someone doesn't like people to have a discussion. Anyone else encounter such a poor attitude here ? Is this indicative of the atmosphere one might expect here ?
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Should U&L participate in the "1 reputation voting" change?

Some of you may have seen the Meta feed message in /dev/chat, but for those who haven't: If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites. I am not in a ...
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Is casting a vote to not close a post harder than to close it?

Is casting a vote to not close a post harder than to close it? The options under a post are all various reasons to close a post. Is there no option to not close a post? Is the review queue the only ...
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Should we close questions because they only MIGHT be caused by MS Windows?

I've been reviewing more close votes recently. There's been certain trend of a few questions being impossible to review correctly to my mind, and I wanted to ask if there's a community view on how to ...
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Does anyone know a good OCR tool online that we can use for screenshots?

I'm rather tired of barking at users not to post text as images. We all know the reasons why not to do this. In the community minded spirit, I wonder if anyone knows a reliable OCR tool that could be ...
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Harmonizing use of locking-related tags

I was about to start writing a tag wiki for the lock tag in the sense of a mechanism to prevent concurrent access to resources or to synchronize threads when I realized that the tag usage has now ...
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Low contrast between voted-on and not-voted-on buttons

I think the usability on the voting buttons has gone down since the new round buttons were put in place. I went to upvote a question today and was told I'd already done so. Looking again it's clear ...
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Kind &Humble request to all : Please don't forget reviewing "First questions"

In the early times I had not enough reputation to have my questions going through directly, I remember having been very grateful to those who had took time to review them, this enabling my questions ...
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Why was the "Middle Sidebar Advertising" page removed? Please undelete it

Why was the "Middle Sidebar Advertising" page removed? Please undelete it. I don't see any valid reason to delete it, but if there is one please enlighten me. https://unix.meta.stackexchange....
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Does the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange have a search feature to look for previous questions on a subject

Just registered and tried to find a search feature so I would not ask a duplicate question but did not find such a feature. I went to the help feature but it only searched in help and the create ...
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Is it noise to ask "Could anybody help me?"

I proposed this edit suggestion (link to Q/A) and removed the trailing question "Could anybody help me?" as I thought it improved the quality of the question a bit. I did find this guidance ...
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Applications are off topic for MacOS but ontopic for UNIX

Considering the What topics can I ask about here? page. If I'm using MacOS I cannot ask about front-end applications ("The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend ...
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. have announced a network-wide policy for AI content

A couple of days ago, Stack Exchange Inc., the company running these sites, announced a new policy for handling AI content. This policy goes against our own, local policy on how to deal with AI ...
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General moderators' strike

Open letter here: https://openletter.mousetail.nl I haven't decided what I think about this yet. It seemed fairly apparent months ago that technical support was a prime target for ChatGPT et al., and ...
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Is there a summary of Code of Conduct changes?

When a company (e.g. a bank) changes their Terms and Conditions then they typically provide a high level summary of the changes, and then link to the complete T&C. This is because it's not ...
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Temporary blockade on unregistered participation

Due to the recent low-quality posts on U&L, I've asked the Community Managers to disable unregistered participation on our site. They have recently enacted that change. Hopefully this encourages ...
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Why is it if anyone asks a question, no one can ever just give the answer for the question?

If someone asks a question why do people have a hard time just giving the simple answer? There is always some alternative answer that sometimes has nothing to do with the sought after information. ...
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Are ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex questions on-topic?

ChromeOS is the Linux-based operating system that is found on Chromebooks, made by Google. It uses the Google Chrome browser as the main interface. ChromeOS Flex is the same operating system meant for ...
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Do we have a go-to reference Q&A for "I want to do {grep,sed,awk} on {xml,json,yaml,csv with text}, how do I shoot myself in the foot?" questions?

This still seems to be a very common topic. Over time, and I guess that's a sign of how the tools matured, our answers and comments to all of these end up being: It's very nice that you want to use ${...
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Potential U&L impact from TOS change on Imgur

I've just become aware of Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!, which quotes: We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content ...
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Should we flag comments after making an edit?

I asked my first question over on a different SE site recently. After an initial false start I was advised by a mod that when I edit my question to deal with comments, I can / should flag the comments ...
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can't publish a question "This looks like spam."

I'm trying to publish this question but I can't as the body is marked with "This looks like spam.". Any idea how I can fix my post? Thanks
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What is the link to the android site?

URL link needed for the Android site for these questions same as Linux. Thank you.
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Add one additional reason for closing or reword the "opinion based" reason

Facts : There are a couple of posts, here (on meta), from contributors wording their misunderstanding about the reasons that motivated the closure of their question for the reason that : This ...
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The comment with a link to an example removed (by the moderator, I assume)

I commented on I can run playbook on user but not on crontab My comment: "See Run Ansible playbooks in cron The potential answer to the question is very complex and is out of scope here. I was ...
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Proper tag for discussing tun interfaces

I've noticed that many questions about tun network interfaces are tagged with the [tunneling] tag. This doesn't seem appropriate since, as I understand things, such an interface doesn't provide ...
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Is it okay to post, here on meta, a simple Thank You to our moderators?

I would just like to write a very large "Thank you" to our moderators here, past and present. Things I've recently discovered on other sites across SE have brought into sharp focus the way ...
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Moderators accepting answer on behalf of lost users

Sometimes I find old questions with perfectly reasonable answers with none of them checked as solved. An example I found today: How can I get neovim to load my init.vim file when in sudo mode? It is 4 ...
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Tag "not-root-user" as synonym for "non-root-user"

I have stumbled across two tags which seem to cover exactly the same thing yet only differ by one letter: non-root-user (42 questions) vs. not-root-user (371 questions). I have created a synonym ...
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2022: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Tag Synonym: "Container" and "Containers"

I do not have enough points on either tag to suggest a synonym properly, but anyone here who does should: container containers
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Problem with publishing my first post properly

I am posting my fist question here and have made many mistakes so far so I have ended up with more than one post (I don't really understand how many) about the same question. I don't know how to ...
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I tried to post a question but the preview became garbled

newbie here ! I pasted a text with my question and several parts of code and tried to mark them, and posted it but when I edited it to correct a typo the marking was distorted and several codes ...
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What questions should go here vs. ask different?

Since Mac OS is a unix-based OS, I'm wondering what kind of questions should be asked in askdifferent vs. the UNIX StackExchange? Is it as simple as "if you are asking about something while using ...
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Are my answers just meh or are they being overlooked by Winter Bash excitement?

I've answered 9 questions here in December and all but one are at zero score. Zero score with no comments: Why ping results varied with the CPU load e2fsck deletes many inodes, recovers too little ...
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maybe my questions are not in the right place

I have noticed that you generally seem to be unhappy with my questions. I also read that "Stack Overflow" may be a proper place for questions of such kind. Should I turn to Stack Overflow ...
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Why was my answer downvoted?

Can someone tell me why my answer was downvoted? All I can see is that it was reviewed and the reviewer said "looks ok" but I have a downvote on it. How can I see why it was downvoted, or by ...
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How do we want to handle AI-generated answers?

New software has been released recently named ChatGPT that is causing quite a stir around the network: Could ChatGPT be a viable way to answer people's questions? Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned ...
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Is migration to Stack Overflow blocked?

Recently, I have seen a couple of posts that I think were supposed to be migrated to SO, but weren't. Community locks them like it would for migrated questions and then almost immediately unlocks them....
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What to do when finding a case of ambiguity between two tags?

Although it seems similar, it is a different case from this one. My question goes on the other hand; and is that reviewing several questions about rxvt-unicode, I have found that there are times that ...
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How should I approach a discussion question about a specific Unix&Linux software?

The question is to guide me to select an init for a system without systemd (runit, openrc, s6, dinit...). I understand that this is a discussion question about personal opinions, but I honestly ...
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How do you turn on Dark Mode on this unix.stackexchange.com web site? [duplicate]

Even though my browser (Vivaldi) is set to display web pages in dark mode, when it comes to unix.stackexchange.com it just displays in bright white. Is there a way to turn the Dark Mode On on unix....
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How can I ask a moderator why he deleted my answer?

Some days ago I tried answering a question but it appeared the user asked multiple questions. But due to context, they still seem to connect to the same problem A moderator deleted my answer with: &...
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