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

#131

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,…

That'll teach 'em to put it in a code block!

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

#133
post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If I was less scrupulous, I can think of a few ways to easily monetize that. The first and simplest is to have a toll line that charges on call and have a recording on the 867-5309 numbers that refers them to call it. Whether you go the sultry "really meet Jenny" angle or just try to find something that piques the interest of the average drunk male that would call, just to see what they're being referred to, you'd pr…

There's got to be an automated chatbot (or perhaps "voice bot") opportunity in there somewhere. ;)

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

#135

@reset here. Always reply when I get @‘d because I love the laugh and also genuinely find the joy in looking at what people are building afterwards. Never stop, it’s a great part of my day

Mine was @username and GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.

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

#136
post #21

I sometimes get tagged on Github as a timezone.

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

I got tzs and based on the tzs.png redirect URL trick from another comment I was number 322633.

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

#137
post #46

I 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…

We had something similar. Public board that went by an acronym that was also used in gay paddling fetish. 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.

> tapped on the bare bum

That's a kind of public board too...

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

#138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Could be one of the sibling encodings, like base85 or uuencoded, perhaps? From afar they could look sufficiently similar to base64 that OP got them mixed up?

There are some encodings with @, but the problem is why it would trigger notification in

  aslkdjfhkj@tanelivasdklfjhasdfasdfasd
or in, the best case:

  faskjdhgfkajshdgfasldfhaksdjf@taneliv
In both cases there are something before @ and it's not \s or ^

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

#139

I always try to get the username 'petabyte' or some variation of it, but I was able to get the letter p as a username on codeberg.

As a fellow user with an SI-prefixed username, I hope "hellabyte" is one of the options that you try.

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

#140

@reset here. Always reply when I get @‘d because I love the laugh and also genuinely find the joy in looking at what people are building afterwards. Never stop, it’s a great part of my day

Mine was @username and GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.

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