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I just had an argument over IRC with a stranger on the internet last week. We're still out there. I thought the humor on this site hadn't aged well, but this one got me: :( Turn that frown upside down! ):
:b
how did you make that backwards d?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…
However, (very unpopular opinion) after decades of people repeating the exact same jokes from Bash.org, the formerly nostalgia inducing jokes started grating on me a lot. The password *** hunter2 joke has made me cringe at its extreme overuse for at least ten years, or the computer responding to ping but being physically unfindable. If they weren’t going to do anything with the site, it would have been better to kill it in 2010 with fond memories rather than let the jokes be beaten like a dead horse for 20 years.
I just had an argument over IRC with a stranger on the internet last week. We're still out there. I thought the humor on this site hadn't aged well, but this one got me: :( Turn that frown upside down! ):
.bef Duck friends
(some sort of duck game for HN could be neat. Can't see why it wouldn't be possible...)
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I just had an argument over IRC with a stranger on the internet last week. We're still out there. I thought the humor on this site hadn't aged well, but this one got me: :( Turn that frown upside down! ):
I remember a similar quote that was something like: :b how did you make that backwards d?
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Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your webserver, OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer versions. This is why I'm scaling down my home infrastructure to SBCs and run everything on Debian with stock package repositories. It reduces tons of burden to something very manageable.
Stick it on s3, tell cloudfront to serve from the bucket, and let that sucker run almost unattended till aws shuts down.
I don't like to use oversized tools for small jobs. Also, it's not fun.
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This has to be a joke. The only way it can be realistically implemented involves the storage of clear-text user password to enable string replacement during comment submission. Either that or converting user comment to a prefix/suffix table (or something similar) and then hash each item to search for a match. Both option is ridiculously unnecessary. Anyway, my HN password is ****. I bet it don't work.
Fortunately with modern serverless architecture, it's possible to make this performant! Just split up each comment into words and dispatch each word to a queue where AWS Lambda workers can check the words against the user's password hash. It might cost $20 to process each comment, but at least it'll autoscale to handle any comment volume you throw at it!