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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)
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#122I 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
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#123Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#124I 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.
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#125"@adrian that reminds me of the story where a sec researcher bought license plate NULL. And got all the traffic violation tickets which could not be assigned to a license plate."
Priceless.
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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)
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#127I'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.
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
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#128Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#129I 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.
Well thank God there isn't a button to undo sent mails.
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#130But 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 ^^;