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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 thomaslord »

nirui wrote: post #114
miroljub wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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!

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by shagie »

renewiltord wrote: post #95
susam wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it is this one: hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20230610235249/http://bash.org/?5...

Gotta use audible pings and leave the PC speaker plugged in haha! Many network devices have a "blink management LED now" feature for the same reason.

There was a lab I hung out in back in college. The nature of the room and the devices that we had in there, there was 10bT, 10b2, and 10b5. Twisted pair, coax, and thick.

The someone had what was termed "the connector of evil". Apparently coax and thick had the same signal... just thick was more rigid about where you connected into it. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap ). The connector of evil looked like a 10b5 terminator on one side and 10b2 on the other... and passed the signal between them.

When adding another computer onto the 10b2 segment, we would invariably disrupt the wave in the wire and some devices would drop off.

The trick was to have each machine ping -f one of the systems on 10bT and redirect its output to /dev/audio. If the machine was making noise, it was good. And so then we'd fiddle with different lengths of coax between the T connectors until everything was buzzing away.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by themaninthedark »

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #68
vanjajaja1 wrote: post #9

can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something

Wikipedia deletionists would cull it. Twitter is going down the drain if you believe the popular opinions but it would mess up the formatting anyway.

Wikiquotes?

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

Volundr wrote: post #73
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…

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.

> HN does not actually know your password or hide it in comments.

Does it not know? What if I post it in this comment? My password is *****.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by kridsdale1 »

ryandv wrote: post #125

What 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.

IRC was commercialized very successfully. It’s called Slack and Discord.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by viddi »

balou23 wrote: post #83
kratom_sandwich wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.ibash.de for Germany :-)

Newfangled stuff... german-bash.org was the original. Has also been dead for 2 years now. I found a 20 year old quote of mine on archive.org. How time flies.

Not quite. The very first German bash.org clone is https://bash.pilgerer.org/

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by allywilson »

Contacted their/Stablepoint's support bot:

Today

What happened to bash.org?

Hello there! YR

I will be happy to assist you but it appears that the support PIN you entered might be incorrect. Can you double-check, please?

Yordan R.

I haven’t entered any support PIN

Can you please provide me with it as I need to verify the account? YR

You should be able to see your verification number by going to the client area —> Support—> And on the left side you will see your support pin.

Yordan R.

I’ve not got an account YR

I see that the website you mentioned (bash.org) is hosted with us, it’s resolving from our server, but without your support PIN I’m unable to check it further due to security reasons

Yordan R.

OK, can I suggest you reach out to the owner of the site and, in a kind, proactive way, let them know it’s not working and the internet is upset with them?

See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721 YR

Got it, thanks

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