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I can't read it. pfft
That's because of the HN security. It prints all passwords as stars. You can try putting your HN password in a comment, it would be visible only by you, and the others will not see it.
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Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
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#132It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet. Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it. Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
That was a few years ago now… it’s probably up to hunter19 at least.
* At least 1 capital letter is required
* At least 1 number is required
* At least 1 symbol is required
These days it's probably 'Hunter2024!'
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#133Earlier 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…
In case you're unclear why your being down voted, comment chain is a riff on one of the more famous bash.org quotes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2 . HN does not actually know your password or hide it in comments.
(whistles softly as he changes password from a string of twelve asterisks to ******)
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Ah, I probably missed it because we had the following dialogue at the office . Hey bayindirh, is the log server up? *SSHs to server* Yes, it's up and running nicely. Where's that thing in the system room? *Scratches head* Umm, I don't know? Go find it, we'll upgrade it to newer HW. Uh, OK. *leaves desk to dig the system room*. P.S.: I'm the one who installed that server physically and configured it in the first place…
I once resolved a similar situation by having the PC speaker play the simpsons theme song.
Funny, we used to do the same with random pcs in our lab that people would setup and forget about. We used the Duke Nuken 3D theme song from when the game first loaded.
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#135One 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…
> being ASCII only
Somehow, in the age of TikTok and Discord, ASCII art has survived
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#136What a shame. IRC is one of the few protocols left of the early Internet that hasn't been aggressively commercialized and colonized by corporate interests, and this is just another nail in the coffin. Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web, and if all that historical baggage and complexity is really necessary, or even worth it at all.
Even many social services provided by governments in the west are not available to you unless you have access to the web.
Sounds like we're headed in the right direction... if you're in the business of selling shovels.
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#137Going through it again I now remember how much of my humor is derived from there.
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#138My all time favourite: HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!! try pressing the the Caps Lock key O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!! fuck me https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bash.org/?835030
This is my favorite "brain brown-out" moment: d-_-b how u make that inverted b? wait never mind https://web.archive.org/web/20230709002522/http://bash.org/?...
I want to believe the "d" in inverted being right next to the "b?" is what set the lights off right away.
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#139Someone needs to put on their robe and wizard hat and fix this properly :'(
"I pry apart that battleship you call your ass" xD - what a tremendous loss!
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That was a few years ago now… it’s probably up to hunter19 at least.
* At least 1 capital letter is required * At least 1 number is required * At least 1 symbol is required These days it's probably 'Hunter2024!'
Hunter2 holds such a special place in our hearts, let's keep politics out of this!