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Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by politelemon »

hairofadog wrote: post #29
muzani wrote: post #10

I try to register @null wherever I go. Most places don't allow it, and the one place that did force changed the name at one point.

There was the guy with license plate “null” who received a citation every time an officer forgot to enter a value in that field https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha...

My coworker was naturalized and changed their middle name to null as part of that. To see what would happen

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by raverbashing »

hairofadog wrote: post #29
muzani wrote: post #10

I try to register @null wherever I go. Most places don't allow it, and the one place that did force changed the name at one point.

There was the guy with license plate “null” who received a citation every time an officer forgot to enter a value in that field https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha...

Remind me of this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171....

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by godzillabrennus »

qingcharles wrote: post #50

I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.

I own a few 867-5309 numbers for different areas. I have them do nothing these days but for a while I let them hit a pbx and we’d get up to 2500 calls a day on each line. Lots of drunk dudes trying to call Jenny.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by v64 »

qup wrote: post #18
raverbashing wrote: post #11

Your username should pass the "search engine" test as well That is, calling yourself a too short or generic name might have been a brag 20 years ago, but now it's just an annoyance

Failing the search engine test is a feature, not a bug.

Hear hear!

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by sph »

petesergeant wrote: post #17

I used to have an email similar to ps@qs.com, and would get a fair amount of email suggesting people would use that as their made up email. In a similar vein I’d like to apologise to knobs@bobs.com for the amount of captive portal spam you receive on my behalf

I have used president@whitehouse.gov since the late 90s

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by dwaltrip »

Retr0id wrote: post #73

I accidentally pasted a backtrace into a github issue outside of a code block. It was a deep stack, with each line prefixed by "#0" "#1", "#2", etc. GitHub decided to turn these into links to the corresponding numbered issues, for every issue , (including back-reference notifications in each of those issues) and there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action.

Oof. There should definitely be an undo button for that, which displays right afterwards.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by prmoustache »

kstrauser wrote: post #72
TylerE wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have my HN username at gmail, and the novelty... wears off. So many recipts, confirmations, random bccs... Where it gets really ugly is gmail's (incredibly dumb, imo) feature where dots don't matter. I've had mulitple people get quite insistent that they own the email tyler.e gmail, which of course routes to...

I registered this username at one of the early big name webmail services. Not unimaginably rare, sure, but neither is it jsmith or the like. You’d be shocked how many different people have signed up for stuff with that email address that I’ve had for like 20 years (and only ever log into so I can check on the mayhem). I’ve had bank notices, home sale records, 2 people creating Facebook accounts, and plenty of other s…

I ended up browsing someone else's "Cloud NAS" once. I had to resist very hard not adding a watermark to all his photos saying "stop registering with my email!!!".

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by justsomehnguy »

voyagerfan5761 wrote: post #70
Tomte wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub even sends me a notification mail when my two letters appear in some large base64-encoded string.

OK, that sounds like a bug unless those two letters happen to be directly preceded by `@`.

base64 encoding does not include spaces and short strings are padded (and there is no '@' in RFC4648), so I wonder how this works too.
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