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Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by GTP »

BuildTheRobots wrote: post #82
GTP wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But this also means that they know your plaintext password, meaning that they're saving passwords in plaintext. Given that this is mostly a technical community, it's much more the risk of keeping a database of plaintext passwords than the benefit of being able to obfuscate passwords in comments. EDIT: thanks to another commenter, I understood that what's happening in the above comments is just a meme and HN isn't sto…

(sticking with the obliviousness for a moment,) Would they need to store the plaintext password? Hashing every word typed isn't efficient but it's possible to achieve without knowing the plaintext. It reminds me of Facebook allowing login even when you've mistyped your password: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/214814/why-can-...

Yes, that's true. But since HN is famously hosted on a single not-so-powerful server, that would be unlikely to be the employed solution.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by hhh »

MrDarcy wrote: post #93
halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rather they have some bare metal, FTP-ing files directly to prod, right?

At least one thing has stayed constant: bash brings up both the kube cluster today as it brought up the prod server in the 90’s

Generally brings them down, too.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by frantathefranta »

aspenmayer wrote: post #100
frantathefranta wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happened to me recently when moving. Couldn't find one of my zigbee temperature sensors, but it was still reporting information diligently, so it had to be somewhere in the house. Took about 6 months before I found it.

Where was it?

Anticlimactic, partly unpacked moving box. I was mostly surprised it was able to re-join the mesh while being in a completely different spot, something that a lot zigbee chips struggle with.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by mulmen »

toyg wrote: post #24
frankjr wrote: post #3

Huh, it really looks like it's not coming back this time. It has been offline for ~6 months. At least most of the quotes are backed up. https://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/bash.org https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes

Would make for a nice webservice, like those Pokemon/StarWars/etc apis. Ironically, those quotes will likely survive a lot of more modern content. Even viral stuff, these days, will disappear incredibly quickly - bat an eyelid and the imgur link is broken, the twitter post is paywalled, the reddit thread is taken down... And any private service like Discord or Slack will happily burn everything after a few months. "T…

> "The internet does not forget" is such a massive lie.

This is a warning, not a guarantee.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by naremu »

Demiurge wrote: post #91

One of my all time favorite sites on the interenet, I am glad there is an archive version. IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. These days, Discord displacing IRC, for most people who even have PCs, there is a much different vibe of re-posting meme pics and gifs, or even youtube videos. Yet, I don't know if this is because of the higher production requirements, or not, but there isn't a database of spontaneou…

Ironically, many of the "respectable" discord servers (i.e. revolving around hobbies people under the age of 18 aren't/can't get into) seem to not allow cross-server emojis (which mostly stops all usage of them and discourages gif-memeing as well).

Combined with "compact" mode in user settings, I find myself having a vaguely IRC-like experience in the servers worth participating in.

Terrible shame how many of us have come full circle just to do the same things on the corpo's surveillance state owned land instead of our own.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by Tainnor »

GTP wrote: post #65
bayindirh wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you're right. My HN password is *****. When I edit, I can see it, but when I save the comment, it becomes starred. It even randomizes the length every time I save. Brilliant!

But this also means that they know your plaintext password, meaning that they're saving passwords in plaintext. Given that this is mostly a technical community, it's much more the risk of keeping a database of plaintext passwords than the benefit of being able to obfuscate passwords in comments. EDIT: thanks to another commenter, I understood that what's happening in the above comments is just a meme and HN isn't sto…

I love that some 20-30 years after that famous chat somebody still fell for it.
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