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

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Post by Philpax » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:11 AM UTC

acters wrote: post #140

iamthejuan wrote: post #135

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

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I think you have a different definition of fun to most people!

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

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Post by Washuu » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:15 AM UTC

baz00 wrote: post #80

Github has some very dangerous features when it comes to tagging and mentions. For example, when you add someone to an organisation, it autocompletes the username. We had someone with a fairly common name and accidentally added someone else to the org with a close but not identical name. Fortunately they didn't accept the invitation before we removed them again and added the correct person.

I had that happen to me before. I accepted the invitation, looked at their stuff, and then submitted an issue/PR to remove myself. They panicked, I laughed a bit.

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

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Post by acters » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:20 AM UTC

Philpax wrote: post #141

acters wrote: post #140

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I think you have a different definition of fun to most people!

I have a strange fascination with meetings, legalize, and other boring business stuff.

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

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Post by mcv » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:25 AM UTC

Philpax wrote: post #141

acters wrote: post #140

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I think you have a different definition of fun to most people!

Some people do. Imagine the hilarity of all that paperwork!

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

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Post by acters » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:39 AM UTC

mcv wrote: post #144

Philpax wrote: post #141

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I think you have a different definition of fun to most people!

Some people do. Imagine the hilarity of all that paperwork!

Lol, imagine how confused people will be. They will think that there is a mistake somewhere when infact this guy rightfully owned the username username!

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

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Post by carlsborg » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:45 AM UTC

"Calyx has been used as a part of four research projects and an industrial toolchain to compile PyTorch programs to customized hardware accelerators"

Incredible project.

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

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Post by mcv » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:46 AM UTC

noam_k wrote: post #132

LegitShady wrote: post #43

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https://xkcd.com/327/ relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1963/ Other relevant XKCD

Why does that not list 'null' under "causing trouble"?

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

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Post by throwawaylinux » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:48 AM UTC

acters wrote: post #140

iamthejuan wrote: post #135

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

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Sounds like a good way to get banned from github.

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

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Post by DC-3 » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:48 AM UTC

acters wrote: post #140

iamthejuan wrote: post #135

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

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I have no great fondness for big tech companies, but equally I do believe that society is made worse by people who behave like this.

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

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Post by mcv » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:50 AM UTC

nic547 wrote: 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.

We just discovered this today. We were rather alarmed to find, under an issue for a public repo, a link to a PR in our private repo.

Fortunately, in incognito mode it disappeared, and also when logged in under a different account. So it's not visible to everybody. But for a moment it was a very unpleasant surprise.