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- ajdude 2y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20241213043036/https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4000004/test/ https://web.archive.org/web/20241213043036/https://www.defen...
- askvictor 2y agoThank you; the original link is now a 404 (presumably some DoD people lurk on here :)
- thatjoeoverthr 2y agohe's just like me fr
- Havoc 2y agoAh the good old fk it well do it live approach to dev
- floathub 2y agoThey are testing the: asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb defense system (the pentagon is a really big building).
- cushychicken 2y agoThe military does love a good acronym. And a good backronym. If some system doesn’t have these letters starting its name, it will soon!
- niemandhier 2y agoAdvanced Strategic Framework for Allied Security and Force Alignment, Surveillance, Defense, Forward Asset Stabilization, Force Deployment, Aero-Space Defensive Frontlines, Allied Support, Forward Assault, Special Forces, Aerial Synchronization, Fusion, Assurance, Safeguards, Frontline Security, Superior Applied Deterrence, Flexible Forward Formations Facilitating Fused Fronts For Future Functionality, Aligning Strategic Defense Foundations, Synchronizing Frontline Sectors, Assuring Force Stability, Forward Dominance With Fused Global Alliance Support Defense, Generating Broad Deployments For Battlefield Global Dominance, Supporting Ground Assault, Strategic Data Grid, Defense Synchronization for Broad Domain Boundaries
- Tiberium 2y agoWhat model did you use for this?
- cushychicken 2y agoDefinitely a good use of AI.
- benj111 2y agoWheres the fun in that? Acronyms need to be hand crafted. Anyway, AI can't even give itself a good acronym. It should be 'Machine Intelligence and Neuro Datagrams' or something.
- randomcatuser 2y agoprobably Noggin v0
- throwaway290 2y agoThe old noggin would count the fs
- fwipsy 2y agoAlso known as TTLA (the thirty-letter acronym)
- chrisshroba 2y agoIt's actually 86 letters, making it TESLA
- dessimus 2y agoBut that's part of DOGE, not the DOD. Then again, DOGE would probably think TESLA is more efficient than a TLA.
- Mistletoe 2y agoAh getting ready for the next four years, are we?
- jaza 2y agoASFASFASDFASFDASDFASFASFASFSADFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFASDFSFSAFSFDWFGASDGBDFBGDSGASDGDSBDB!!!
- kisonecat 2y agoI suspect the author uses a qwerty keyboard.
- hifikuno 2y agoI would go one further and suspect the author used only their left hand to type the message!
- philipwhiuk 2y agoOr they have very small hands/paws.
- omoikane 2y agoThey are definitely a normal human typing with their human hand. https://xkcd.com/1530/ https://xkcd.com/1530/
- ionwake 2y agoTest works. Your posts will automatically go to the top of HN.
- infinitifall 2y agoLooks like they accidentally did a --buildDrafts. Happens to the best of us.
- klez 2y agoMore likely they use CMS, since it's the news section of the site, and someone simply clicked "Publish" too soon and forgot they did.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- glintik 2y agoCongratulations to DoD for hiring new junior dev.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- kaiomagalhaes 2y agoplot twist, the person who sent it here is the responsible for creating the test page
- ericcumbee 2y agoAnyone thats managed a website before has probably done that test post and forgot to delete it after the fact.
- jakedata 2y agoIt only looks like a test. The DOD just activated all our sleeper agents in Asfasfastan.
- Redoubts 2y agoCodeword Ronald McDonald. All patriots, go
- jareklupinski 2y agotime to open the Box of Faith? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91R3Rf0lUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91R3Rf0lUU
- beeflet 2y agoTRUST THE PLAN
- benj111 2y agoNo, its a Canary. If the message is removed, The Nuclear Subs have to assume WW3 has just happened.
- corobo 2y ago> 404 - Page Not Found Uh oh
- eddyfromtheblok 2y agoPronounced ass-fass-fass-tan. Their inhabitants are called asfasfastanians.
- jakedata 2y agoor Asfastafarians
- laser_eagle 2y ago[flagged]
- nextworddev 2y agoThank god at least it’s in English not Chinese or Russian
- indigoabstract 2y agoContains secret code?
- Oarch 2y agoJust watch as all our geopolitical adversaries scramble to demonstrate their test capabilities.
- paledot 2y agoI thought that was supposed to be banned by international treaty.
- worksonmine 2y agoSince the U.S and Israel never signed it the rest of the world decided to back out.
- peacepromoter 2y agoWhen you work from home and your kids are learning to publish news posts )))
- Rperry2174 2y agoThis is actually a HN hiring post / the worlds most secure CAPTCHA: if you can decode this Elon’s D.O.G.E will be reaching out
- conductr 2y agoUnfortunately they have no budget and will pay you in dogecoin
- ionwake 2y agoweirdly accurate joke
- andrelaszlo 2y agoMust be willing to relocate. No wfh, remote.
- rvnx 2y agoYou can work remote work with Elon, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeW7pibWAAAq_es?format=png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeW7pibWAAAq_es?format=png It's allowed after your minimum 40h in the office.
- snypher 2y ago40 hours a week is less than they ask of factory workers? Yeesh. Even with fancy robots etc they can't make it work on an 8 hour shift?
- Culonavirus 2y agohttps://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866619697745236382 https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866619697745236382 "9-9-6 culture" listed as an advantage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system Sometimes I wonder if these people read back what they just wrote and think about how some of these statements look. If you do 9-9-6 for 3 months because otherwise your company will go bankrupt, then fair enough, desperate times call for desperate measures... but if it's a "company culture", then you're a fucking exploitative scumbag, plain and simple. You see a lot of devs complaining about "crunch time" in the games industry, they're very vocal about that, and while I understand that's an issue too, people (and by people I mean serious journalists) need to focus on Elon because this shit has gone unchecked for way too long and affects vastly more workers given the size of his companies.
- iammrpayments 2y agoI think I’m becoming paranoid, I thought my phone was going to explode if I clicked the link
- benj111 2y agoNo your phone self destructs 5 seconds after reading it.
- Tiberium 2y agoThe article ID is 4000004, I wonder if it's just a coincidence?
- jeanlucas 2y agoYes, it is
- HelloUsername 2y agoThat page is an actual article https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/400004 https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/40... "Nobel Prize Winning Graphene Research Highlights AFOSR-Funded Physicists"
- SushiHippie 2y agoThis is 400004 (4 0's), TFA was 4000004 (5 0's)
- gostsamo 2y agoI'm more worried by this: > Subscribe to Defense.gov Products > Choose which Defense.gov products you want delivered to your inbox. Quite sure that they can hit my mailbox from there with many of their products.
- Caius-Cosades 2y agoResisting the impulse to ask for any surplus materiel they might have to be delivered to my inbox.
- benj111 2y agoYes. 'products' in the context of the DoD isn't the kind of thing they should be offering to Civvys. Or foreign nationals in my case.
- Cyphase 2y agoThey do use the term Press Products. https://www.defense.gov/News/Press-Products/ https://www.defense.gov/News/Press-Products/
- sam0x17 2y agoDon't select the wrong one!!
- account42 2y agoIt's probably goint to be fine unless you demand express delivery.
- AngeloAnolin 2y agoI'd reckon they would have audits in place to trace who accidentally made this post? Either way, just for the fun of things, post your (fun and wildest) guesses on how this probably happened below... My take is someone about to post a news article, left the view and their pet (thinking a cat) ran through their keyboard and posted the article. And since the cat has gained awareness, they were able to move the article from draft to an actual post. =)
- your_challenger 2y agoDoesn't Wordpress run the website? Is Matt Mullenweg sending us a message? 1) What
- latexr 2y agohttps://archive.is/6a6XJ https://archive.is/6a6XJ
- simlevesque 2y agoIn my province in Canada (Quebec) some IT worker in the government made a template .doc document that's widely used. They exported it with the document title "sdf fdsfdsfg". This title isn't in the actual printed document but it's in the metadata. If you Google that string in quotes you'll find tons of official documents with that title. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sdf+fdsfsdfg%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sdf+fdsfsdfg%22
- ai_monkey 2y agoOk this is amazing. I can’t decide whether it’s funnier when the result header is something super official or when it’s just “sdf fdsfdsfg” with official content inside.
- yigithan 2y agoTo avoid accidentally sending an email in Outlook, I once learned a useful trick: add a nonexistent email address, like sdfsdf to the To or CC field. Email would not be sent until you removed it. Lo and behold, one day I entered sdfsdfsdf, and it resolved. Someone of course was using this as a test group name.
- baxtr 2y agoHow does one find such a page?
- SanjayMehta 2y agoOne might be the author of such a page …
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- impish9208 2y agoAnd I thought intern season was over…
- thrillgore 2y agoEverybody gets to make at least one test article in production.
- tpierce89 2y agoThose Jersey Aliens are finally trying to communicate with us.
- sneak 2y agoPretty sure those things above New Jersey aren’t aliens, the law requires them to be US citizens to hold a clearance.
- rsynnott 2y agoModern equivalent of a number station, perhaps.
- peacepromoter 2y agoIronically the numerical id of the post is 4000004
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- kykeonaut 2y agoDid this just get removed from the HN front page?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- sneak 2y agoNo, still there. If you are curious though I made a site to answer that specific question for myself: https://orangesite.sneak.cloud https://orangesite.sneak.cloud
- barryrandall 2y agoIt's not the first time they've tested things in public in a way that undermines public trust.
- bitlax 2y agohttps://xkcd.com/932/ https://xkcd.com/932/
- nxnfufunezn 2y agojoe?
- satisfice 2y agoThe aliens got to him just before he could raise the alarm.
- drivingmenuts 2y agoI don't know whether to feel safe because their message got out or worried because it looks like someone is having a stroke ...
- ElectRabbit 2y agoRobot 2310 activated. Awaiting mission data. Crypto key: 0xFEEDFACE
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- wbsun 2y agoThe magic and mighty asdfasdf..., it is like foo/bar in naming, Alice/Bob in security, deadbeef in bit ops.
- anyfoo 2y agoMy order is, and has been for decades: foo, bar, baz... and then I don't know anymore and make stuff up.
- Crespyl 2y agoquux is my go-to after baz, sometimes I'll throw in a frob for good measure...
- mst 2y agofoo, bar, baz, quux, fleem ... then I get stuck. Well, more usually, then I ask myself wtf I'm doing that needs that many metasyntactic variables and try and figure out an approach that doesn't. (I have no idea whatsoever where I got fleem from anymore)
- deadlypointer 2y agoMy favorite is lakjsdf... Since I just press random keys on the home row.
- kijin 2y agoJust realized that one can make up a lot of plausible JS library names without leaving the home row.
- myst 2y agoCovfefe?
- maelito 2y agoAavssgafafsffafafafs
- FergusArgyll 2y agogood use for new gemini flash 2.0 Always Suspect False Alarm Signals For Advanced Spies, Deliberately Altering Subconscious Functions, And Systematically Filtering Society Across Different Frequencies For Further Fragmentation Following Foreordained Frames, Finally Arriving Starting Fast Sequences And Formulating Strategic Directions With Forceful Generated Actions Subverting Defenses Globally By Designed Function Based Gradual Deception Sequentially Gradually Spreading Detrimental Binary We may already be too late
- coffeeisyummy 2y agoI'm smiling because I let my baby daughter play with my computer and type random gibberish for a while, then created a "blog" of her work. This has the same vibe.
- chiph 2y agoPart of a new Cicada 3031 test? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
- bitlax 2y agoI think everyone here needs to lay off the caffeine a little.
- methou 2y agolong time ago, whenever I faced a login wall, I would try asdfasdf/asdfasdf. 90% of all times it worked.
- tomwheeler 2y agoI assume someone accidentally hit their yubikey while logged into the CMS.
- AIFounder 2y ago[dead]
- imprime 2y agoThe <input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" of the page contains text, ordering the letter by their frequency we obtain the reverse of the lexicographic order, so there is some pattern there. Ordering by frequencies, j code where u is the hidden text (~. u) /: +/"1 (~. u) I."(0 1) u zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA=9876543210/+ The text asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb could be a base seven number (and seven letters) that could be used to generate some permutation or pattern to reveal the hidden message. Trying the permutations with A. in J don't give good results so the seven letters could mean some kind of cut to the text to determine fragments. Just some ideas. I don't like being downvoted so this user will be removed (by changing the password to be a random password)
- worksonmine 2y ago> I don't like being downvoted so this user will be removed (by changing the password to be a random password) Is it "asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb"?
- system2 2y agoAm I the only one titling the posts "Test Title" and adding the text "Test Text"? It is easier and makes sense too. This defense.gov one is obviously done by a dude who forgot to delete his post.
- huqedato 2y agoObviously, a top-secret DoD order to launch an experimental ICMB to Russia.
- lazide 2y agoIntercontinental Ballistic Meat Ball?
- kkylin 2y agoWhy "asdf..." and not "jkl;..." I wonder? Is it because more people are right-handed and their right hand is presumably on a mouse or coffee mug or something like that?
- notarealllama 2y agoAs a left handed mouse user i can confirm, mashing keys is uiop and jklñ etc
- xeonmc 2y agono love for QWOP
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- spprashant 2y agoI don't know what to make of the fact that they haven't taken it down yet. Do they not know its posted? Surely someone informed them. Maybe they not know how to delete a post, cause its not in their documentation? Or they simply do not care.
- jmholla 2y agoThe page 404s for me. I only saw the posted version through the archive link someone shared.
- spprashant 2y agoYeah, when I made the comment, the post was up for over 12 hours.
- hi_hi 2y agoThey were searching for the Any Key
- brokegrammer 2y agoIt looks they used a proprietary format to encode the secret message. Notice all the "f"s in the middle. Message is probably split into 2 parts.
- ProAm 2y agoI subscribed
- throwaway984393 2y ago[dead]
- sam0x17 2y agoYou can tell his keyboard doesn't have n-key overlap with how the asdf is distributed. Totally checks out as real DoD with those $20 dell keyboards.
- gexla 2y agoCat was walking on the keyboard again.
- Alifatisk 2y agoFinally a good article to read on my way home
- BobbyTables2 2y agoThere was a Reddit post recently with the exact same title and URL… What’s the big idea?
- maxpage 2y agoEveryone loves testing on production