Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by spudlyo » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 8:44 PM UTC

Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?
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Post by pnevares » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 8:54 PM UTC

For background info on the referenced Chrome extension: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22cloud+to+butt%22

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Post by reidjs » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 8:56 PM UTC

Great catch, that's the oldest prank in the book, but still one of the funniest.

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Post by jtvjan » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 8:56 PM UTC

Probably. I used that add-on a while ago, and it also modifies your form submissions. Learnt that the hard way.

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Post by lxe » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 8:58 PM UTC

I forget I have it enabled sometimes. It's a welcome reprieve from the seriousness of daily work stuff when I catch the plugin do it's thing.

How would this make it into a posting though? Was it a copy-from-browser and paste-into-tool type of a gaffe?

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Post by Liquix » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 8:58 PM UTC

Cloud-to-butt implemented via editing live TCP streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOqznZUClI&t=1210s

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Post by spudlyo » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 8:59 PM UTC

I can only imagine the terrible feeling in the pit of someone's stomach today when they realized that the plugin modifies form submissions, or they cut and pasted from a page that was rendered with the help of the plugin.

The good news is years from now they'll have a great story to tell at parties.

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Post by extrememacaroni » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

You want me to build what what in the butt??

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Post by sjansen » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

jtvjan wrote: post #4

Probably. I used that add-on a while ago, and it also modifies your form submissions. Learnt that the hard way.

One of our lead developers used it at the height of cloud hype. You could always tell which pages of our internal wiki he had edited recently. Amusing at first, but I got tired of it much faster than he did.

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Post by mgraczyk » Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 9:02 PM UTC

Also posted to linkedin, not yet corrected

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/software-development-engi...