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Re: Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)

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post #14

Telnet is simpler... I call this my random insult service and it can run on any TCP port. It's not as rude as saying "Fuck Off" as it is meant to be humorous and is intended for all the script-kiddie port scanners out there: telnet 108.4.184.93

telnet: connect to address 108.4.184.93: Operation timed out

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Re: Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)

#73
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US, unfortunately. I'm not convinced of the accuracy of the script's list of commonwealth countries. I could have sworn Canada was part of the commonwealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwea...

It is a very valuable member of the Commonwealth, but as I understand it it uses a mix of Commonwealth English and US English and I didn't get round to including it as an option.

To be honest, you could serve up either and you'd be fine.

The key cases I think are cheque (vs. check), colour (vs. color), and neighbour (vs. neighbor) and "fuck" is none of those.

Or you could sign up for an open source account at http://crowdin.net/ and just let us do it ourselves.

Re: Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)

#74
I made a few cruder services like this at my old job:

http://foaas.willfixeverything.com http://abug.in/linux

They are both running on heroku and slow as hell. Pull requests (http://github.com/jedahan) or better free hosts are welcome, but I get like 50 visits a year so whatevers.

We used in in chat rooms when management was being dumb, mostly.

Re: Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)

#75
post #43
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And why can't you flag it? Is there a quota or something?

I've lost the ability to flag in the past couple of months, for no reason I can discern. I seldom used it unless I thought the story was very off-topic. Only thing I can think of is accidentally fat-fingering flag on my phone, then a mod revoking my ability in retaliation.

If you think this submission is off-topic, and you've flagged other submissions like it, you may have lost your flagging rights.

I dislike the way that people say actions are done "in retaliation" or as "retribution" - as I understand it they're largely automated.

Re: Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)

#77
post #74

I made a few cruder services like this at my old job: http://foaas.willfixeverything.com http://abug.in/linux They are both running on heroku and slow as hell. Pull requests ( http://github.com/jedahan ) or better free hosts are welcome, but I get like 50 visits a year so whatevers. We used in in chat rooms when management was being dumb, mostly.

Heads up that the second link will make your phone talk rather loudly.

Re: Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)

#78
post #44
post #39

This should use POST instead of GET, because you are proposing an action.

But the messaging system is idempotent! The behaviour of 3rd-party endpoints is undetermined. This calls for a standard! The Fuck-Off Protocol, or FOP, will soon have an rfc, a mailing list, and three incompatible implementations.

And Dave will claim to be the father of FOP.
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