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
noneofyour@business.com
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#112[0]: https://emojipedia.org/winking-face/
Apparently HN strips emojis from comments.
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#113I used to work at Realm (the mobile database company). In order to keep an eye on what was going on, there was a Slack integration that reposted any mention of @realm on Twitter. One morning, we woke up to a #twitter channel full of very nearly porn. Young men, scantily dressed, flexing their abs and flashing smiles at the camera. Turns out someone added a bot on Twitter that would repost things from Instagram to Twi…
You’d be scrolling through hashtags/mentions of us and occasionally be greeted by some young actor being coquettishly tapped on the bare bum with a cricket bat or something.
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#114Tony Finch's email address is still my favourite. https://dotat.at/email.html
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#116I 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.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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#118I 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
Mine is x@x.com, Elon gets those now
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#119Someone should claim the username "mention". It's gonna be wildly successful.
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#120I wish I could turn this feature off.