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For anyone turned off by the title, here's the first sentence: > Disclaimer: There is no actual profit. That was just one of those clickbaity things everybody
by ryan-duve 2y ago
For anyone turned off by the title, here's the first sentence:
> Disclaimer: There is no actual profit. That was just one of those clickbaity things everybody seems to like so much these days. Also, it’s not really fun. Alright, on with the show!
- cpach 2y agoIn case you didn’t recognize the trope: It’s a reference to the seminal article ‘Smashing the stack for fun and profit’ by Aleph One. Published in Phrack #49, 1996. IIUC that was the article that introduced the concept of buffer overflow exploits to a wider audience. People have been writing ‘X for fun and profit’ headlines ever since. http://phrack.org/issues/49/1.html http://phrack.org/issues/49/1.html
- orwin 2y agoAlso, i think this idiom sound nice, and add disambiguation to the sentence ("Root your docker host" can mean something totally different than the OP title)
- kaashif 2y agoWhat is the other meaning of "Root your docker host" which is disambiguated by adding "for fun and profit"?
- phrotoma 2y agoArcane wisdom. A friend gave me this printed on tractor paper in the 90's and blew my tiny mind.
- grokkedit 2y agowhat is a tractor paper?
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- timrichard 2y agoOn dot matrix and impact (like daisywheel) printers, there were sprockets along the side edges of the paper so that the tractor part of the printer could advance the paper after a linefeed. It's sometimes called 'listing paper', as it was commonly used to print out listings of your code : https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/noi8xm/dot_matrix_printer_paper_if_you_know_how/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/noi8xm/dot_matri... Hmm, wonder what became of my Epson MX80. Much fonder memories than the printers that came after it....
- gtirloni 2y agoEpson LX300 was on my wish list for a long time. I didn't have the money at the time, then inkjet happened and the matrix printers became extremely expensive here.
- dcminter 2y agoAlso known as "Continuous Stationery" (one of my Father's customers companies was even called that) because each page was joined via a perforated line or "fanfold" as it was folded into the box with alternating left-right folds along the perforation just as a paper fan is folded. Often the holes for the tractor feed were also separated from the main part of the page by a perforation so that one could tear it off to leave a more-or-less pristine letter (or A4 over here) page of content. Fiddling with the left-over narrow strips of hole-punched edging paper was one of those universal habits that you don't even notice until long after it's gone. (Edit: _a_ I just realised I replied to the wrong parent post and _b_ now I'm wondering if you're somebody I know!)
- ameliaquining 2y agoIt's much older than that. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-the-origin-of-phrase-for-fun-and-profit https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-th...
- cpach 2y agoAh, yes. You’re right. I see now that I bookmarked that page many years ago and then totally forgot about it!