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

#121

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however, taking your name from an Atari Teenage Riot song is forever braggable

;) Glad someone noticed it (or googled it, which to be fair is becoming even more commendable with time)

an ATR demo CD was the very first CD of mine ever stolen, my punk rock friends were blown away

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

#122
post #23

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

My new made-up email approach is using admin@$COMPANY in the hopes that they'll send the spam to themselves

You should use info@ instead.

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

#123
post #33

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Mine is x@x.com, Elon gets those now

... didn't Elon always get those? He founded x.com in 1999 (with some other people).

No, Elon had to repurchase the domain from PayPal in 2017.

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

#124

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.

Wild that people actually call those numbers.

Might be students, I vaguely remember freshers being challenged to call these numbers pretending to be from our rival university.

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

#126
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How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!

Looks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png redirects to)

Seems like I'm just slightly older (230381) with a two letter username.

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

#127
post #120

I've been quite embarrassed to discover that linking to a github issue in another repo will create a back link in the linked issue. Removing the link doesn't undo it either, you need to delete the issue completely. I wish I could turn this feature off.

If you really, really want to avoid it I'm pretty sure you could use a link shortener (bit.ly etc) behind markdown, and it would mask it (haven't tested)

But please only do this for personal repos where you're the only contributor because otherwise this looks incredibly sus for anyone to click on

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

#129
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.

>there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action.

Well thank God there isn't a button to undo sent mails.

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

#130
At my previous job, I decided to make a Slack channel named after one of the C preprocessor directives (#define I think, or maybe #endif). A handful of people found it and appreciated the joke.

But then, a few months later, one of the admins contacted me to ask if it would be okay to delete the channel. You see, in large organisations, Slack knows which channels are not meant to be visible to other parts of the org, and it was causing mentions of the C preprocessor directive to be censored for people outside my group ^^;

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