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Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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post #21

I sometimes get tagged on Github as a timezone.

How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!

Looks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png redirects to)

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

#52
post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!

Looks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png redirects to)

That shows up as a picture of a worm for me.

Edit: aha! The link forwards to https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

#53

I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.

Wild that people actually call those numbers.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

#54
post #46

I used to work at Realm (the mobile database company). In order to keep an eye on what was going on, there was a Slack integration that reposted any mention of @realm on Twitter. One morning, we woke up to a #twitter channel full of very nearly porn. Young men, scantily dressed, flexing their abs and flashing smiles at the camera. Turns out someone added a bot on Twitter that would repost things from Instagram to Twi…

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Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

#56

I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.

Jenny? Don’t change your number.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

#59

I used to have an email similar to ps@qs.com, and would get a fair amount of email suggesting people would use that as their made up email. In a similar vein I’d like to apologise to knobs@bobs.com for the amount of captive portal spam you receive on my behalf

noneofyour@business.com
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