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Yes, it's called ProgrammerHumor. No, that doesn't automatically mean someone's posting something sarcastic/bullshit. I'd find a collision of such low probabil

• pvg 7y ago
  It makes it very likely it's a joke. There's really no reason to treat it as anything else, just because it got mistaken for not-a-joke.
  • thayne 7y ago
    If it is a joke, it is very elaborate. Roku published a service alert about it: https://support.roku.com/article/115012351368 https://support.roku.com/article/115012351368
    • pvg 7y ago
      The joke is the explanation not the fact that this issue exists.
• akvadrako 7y ago
  It’s more than humorous - assuming the signature is secure, nothing that amazing has yet happened in the history of the universe.
  • JackRabbitSlim 7y ago
    It probably happens all the time. We just realize its astronomically low and assume the easier to understand, safer explanation in our own incompetence instead and go back to saying we never see that sort of thing.
    • randomb_1979 7y ago
      "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." - Richard Feynman