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The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

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Re: The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

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Post by urda »

thread_id wrote: post #134

This is reminiscent of a story in the New Yorker about Reddit - there is a part of the story that describes r/Place: Last April Fools’, instead of a parody announcement, Reddit unveiled a genuine social experiment. It was called r/Place, and it was a blank square, a thousand pixels by a thousand pixels. In the beginning, all million pixels were white. Once the experiment started, anyone could change a single pixel, a…

> “That way, no one person can take over—it’s too slow,” Josh Wardle, the Reddit product manager

Except reddit admins / mods abused Place, bypassing the timeouts, to place as many pixels as they wanted.

Re: The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

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Post by drivers99 »

This is the site I went to (65 days ago), saw the swastikas, clicked back, mentioned that fact on HN, got downvoted to -4 and told I was "pearl clutching". But it also kicked off an interesting thread[0] about how sites handle users being able to draw anything. I wonder what it's like now. Oh. It's 1,000,000 solid checks because he disabled unchecking in order to end the site.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40802456

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Post by genewitch »

Perz1val wrote: post #101
langcss wrote: post #53

Reminds of something I thought of as a kid. You know the two way switches for a light bulb: where both switches can turn the same single light on and off. You probably have one. What if it were a 100 way switch and you had the challenge of keeping the light on (maybe everyone else is trying to keep it off). This is like just one checkbox in this game. It is cool to see this exists and someone figured out how to keep…

It's just a XOR gate, isn't it?

Toggling either switch in a 2 way (in the US it's called 3 way) toggles the load on or off. it appears if you toggle any input in xor it toggles the output, so, yes.

I logged in to disagree, found out i had misconstrued a specific part of NEMA (and hallucinated a wiring diagram, to boot!)

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Post by genewitch »

arrowsmith wrote: post #59

Side note but just wondering what you use to capture those little screen recordings as gifs?

not the author but any screen recorder (OBS) can record the video, and ffmpeg + imgmagick can make a video clip into an animated gif (that's how i would have done that specific conversion) but gifv exists so maybe ffmpeg or one of the others can output gif directly from video. there's also "services" online that will gif-ify a video.

Re: The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

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Post by genewitch »

LoganDark wrote: post #80

This is why I've always encouraged people to hack my games. Exploits that ruin other players' fun will obviously be moderated accordingly, but if they're just doing cool stuff, I don't want to ruin their fun!

offhand, gggg (4g) has this same outlook; and requests that people who cheat or hack the game merely disable stat reporting (leave the leaderboards alone if you want to cheat).

I should make a list of devs/studios that encourage hacking/cheating in their games. for example, Thomas Gervraud (Brotato creator) put sliders in the gameplay settings that let you set enemy speed, health, and damage stats (up and down!).

Anytime i load up wemod and a game isn't in the database, i fire up cheatengine (i donated, even) - and if that gives me a hard time, i usually request a refund on the game.

Re: The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

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Post by genewitch »

netsharc wrote: post #209

TL; DR for the first part of the story: Developer discovers ASCII. You're storing bits and you panic about hackers when the bits translated to ASCII display a URL? Come on...

It means that someone was using checkbox status to encode ascii which isn't at all obvious unless you "happen" to convert the raw bytes to ascii. i'm guessing BSON when output as ascii doesn't have such shenanigans.

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Post by Uptrenda »

genewitch wrote: post #217
Uptrenda wrote: post #66

Bro thinks we need to look at their hello world bit shifts and basic js.

feel free to link your projects that were in The New York Times - or better, knowyourmeme.com!

I had projects that were in every major news outlet when I was about 20. Press doesn't mean your projects are good. Don't believe your own hype. its p toxic.

Re: The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

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Post by genewitch »

Uptrenda wrote: post #218
genewitch wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

feel free to link your projects that were in The New York Times - or better, knowyourmeme.com!

I had projects that were in every major news outlet when I was about 20. Press doesn't mean your projects are good. Don't believe your own hype. its p toxic.

I had a projects that was mentioned by the president of america and also the premier of Japan!

Re: The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

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Post by evanb »

eieio wrote: post #5

author here :) this is my favorite story from running the site, and possibly the best story I've ever been a part of. I'm not a big crier but I have cried so many times thinking and trying to write about it over the past 2 months. And of course, the process of discovery (and going from panic to excitement) was pretty crazy too. One of my favorite things about this is that it validated one of the core beliefs I have w…

The messages used the fact that 1,000,000 = 1000 x 1000. But of course 1,000,000 has many other factorizations. Were there messages in any of those?

I guess next time you pick a prime (or a semiprime) if you want to make it harder (or easier) for people to guess a good shape!

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