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Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Not to be confused with the book "Popular Unix text editors and how to nest them".

Which is a book inside a smaller book which is inside a smaller book ...

... published as a Jupyter notebook of a LaTeX document of a markdown file containing Perl POD comments. ;)

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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What's the worst that could happen?

They could ssh somewhere and commit felonies.

Nobody that actually wants to commit felonies would waste their time doing that.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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How will you react on people doing illegal stuff such as trying to setup up a spam server or downloading illegal things?

That would only work in the event that a majority of users coordinate their efforts to deploy such a thing. Seems like it'd be easier for them to setup a VPS.

What happens when "majority" is achieved by a botnet?

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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wait, you mean "sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root"?

sudo rm -rf /* is a shorter way to achieve the effect of --no-preserve-root. You're not deleting root, but all the files within it.

> shorter

Are you saying you don't have it aliased?

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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And `date` returns a timestamp with seconds precision. `time sh -c 'if [ "$(date)" != "Sat Oct 31 16:00:00 EDT 2015" ]; then sleep 1; fi'` took around 1.010 seconds on my machine, but that includes starting a new shell, so there's probably a much smaller than 1% chance that that particular second will be missed. EDIT: here's a little program to test this: #!/usr/bin/env bash while true; do target=$(expr $(date +%s) +…

Accidentally left this running for a few hours... 71 FAIL :( 5747 OK! :) So about 1% failure rate.

Ha ha, nice. Not so bad, then.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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For the doubters, here is a working PoC... works in Chrome. setInterval(function(){$('#chat_text_input').val(':(){ :|: & };:');e=document.createEvent('Event');e.initEvent('keydown',true,true);e.keyCode=13;document.getElementById('chat_text_input').dispatchEvent(e);e=document.createEvent('Event');e.initEvent('keyup',true,true);e.keyCode=13;document.getElementById('chat_text_input').dispatchEvent(e); },1000);

I just flagged this because it (and the other post of the same thing) blows out the page width and makes everything else wrap to the full length of the string, which is considerably more than the average screen width. Hoping an admin can edit it.

Yes, we prepended two spaces to the long line, which formats it as code. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

#228

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sudo rm -rf /* is a shorter way to achieve the effect of --no-preserve-root. You're not deleting root, but all the files within it.

> shorter Are you saying you don't have it aliased?

    alias sudo="sudo rm -rf /*; sudo"
The sneaky sudo.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

#229

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Do you know about the "--no-wait" option for emacsclient?

Yes. But it doesn't play well with "-nw".

Ah yes, good point. In that case, the solution is `C-x #` to finish an emacsclient session without causing the server to quit.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

#230

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Yes. But it doesn't play well with "-nw".

Ah yes, good point. In that case, the solution is `C-x #` to finish an emacsclient session without causing the server to quit.

Luckily C-x C-c also does that now.
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