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Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt'

cyanydeez 1y ago
someone needs to update it to V3.
dejobaan 1y ago
I loved this one back in the day, and have referenced it within the past month. The author felt that simply changing "cloud" to "butt" was less funny. But that always brings to mind the 1994 TSR mage-to-wizard search-and-replace: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/s82mi4/til_that_in_1994_tsr_published_the_encyclopedia https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/s82mi4/til_that_in_199...
radpanda 1y ago
I worked at a three-letter agency when the prefix “cyber-” became widely used, and widely disliked. I remember someone there distributed a similar browser extension that changed every instance of “cyber” to “computery”.
bigstrat2003 1y ago
I love the cloud to butt extension, but eventually had to disable it. It would occasionally interfere with the correct operation of sites I visited, and that wasn't worth the amusement of seeing "store your data in my butt" etc.
- DonHopkins 1y ago
  The extension-free, euphemism-treadmill solution is for everyone to regularly use and read "cloud" as if it were "butt". And anybody who doesn't like it can kiss my cloud!
stackedinserter 1y ago
You hate cloud, we got it, but there are many other word replacement extensions, why is this one worth 1st page of HN?
- jaggs 1y ago
  Chill? :)
  - Sharlin 1y ago
    I mean, I wonder about it as well, given that it’s, what, ten years old now and cloud hasn’t been the buzzword in vogue in a long time. Today we need something-like AI-to-butt converter. “We are a ‘my butt first’ company”, “We expect everyone to use my butt at work”, “powered by my butt”…
    - jaggs 1y ago
      LOL
- chuckadams 1y ago
  No need to get all cloudhurt over it.
Dotnaught 1y ago
I wrote a similar generic text replacer, EditoriaLies: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editorialies/pdokniocfimmjglbbhflbeiidbkomcnc https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editorialies/pdokni... https://github.com/Dotnaught/EditoriaLies https://github.com/Dotnaught/EditoriaLies
mococa 1y ago
We need one for AI :-)
- quectophoton 1y ago
  Related comment from a recent thread that I can't unsee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152476
- mrweasel 1y ago
  Just replace AI with "Florida man".
blamazon 1y ago
Someone at Amazon hilariously uploaded a job description that was filtered through this extension: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869819 > Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in my butt?
ocdtrekkie 1y ago
I really have to emphasize that nobody should ever install an extension like this. In exchange for a cheap chuckle you are letting a random individual have the access to read and modify the contents of every website you view. And as long as they don't change the permissions they can silently update the extension whenever they want. If you think this is okay, you should not ever work on anything involving security or private data access, ever.
- BrandoElFollito 1y ago
  This is a good point, in particular regarding the updates that you do not know happened. This is also true for a lot of modern greenfield applications where for the legitimate ones this is a blessing and a nightmare for the malicious ones. We just had a strike of cases related to a ODF reader that got updated with malware (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tamperedchef-infostealer-delivered-through-fraudulent-pdf-editor/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/s...)
quectophoton 1y ago
Alternatively, cloud->clown. Clown Computing, Clownflare, Google Clown Platform, etc.
- crowbahr 1y ago
  Today's forecast is partially clowny with a high of 70 and a low of 58
JJMcJ 1y ago
Finally, an open source project that actually meets an urgent need we didn't realized we had.
deleted 1y ago
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someone needs to update it to V3.

I loved this one back in the day, and have referenced it within the past month. The author felt that simply changing "cloud" to "butt" was less funny. But that always brings to mind the 1994 TSR mage-to-wizard search-and-replace: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/s82mi4/til_that_in_1994_tsr_published_the_encyclopedia https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/s82mi4/til_that_in_199...

radpanda 1y ago

I worked at a three-letter agency when the prefix “cyber-” became widely used, and widely disliked. I remember someone there distributed a similar browser extension that changed every instance of “cyber” to “computery”.

bigstrat2003 1y ago

I love the cloud to butt extension, but eventually had to disable it. It would occasionally interfere with the correct operation of sites I visited, and that wasn't worth the amusement of seeing "store your data in my butt" etc.

DonHopkins 1y ago
The extension-free, euphemism-treadmill solution is for everyone to regularly use and read "cloud" as if it were "butt". And anybody who doesn't like it can kiss my cloud!

stackedinserter 1y ago

You hate cloud, we got it, but there are many other word replacement extensions, why is this one worth 1st page of HN?

jaggs 1y ago
Chill? :)
- Sharlin 1y ago
  I mean, I wonder about it as well, given that it’s, what, ten years old now and cloud hasn’t been the buzzword in vogue in a long time. Today we need something-like AI-to-butt converter. “We are a ‘my butt first’ company”, “We expect everyone to use my butt at work”, “powered by my butt”…
  - jaggs 1y ago
    LOL
chuckadams 1y ago
No need to get all cloudhurt over it.

Dotnaught 1y ago

I wrote a similar generic text replacer, EditoriaLies: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editorialies/pdokniocfimmjglbbhflbeiidbkomcnc https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editorialies/pdokni... https://github.com/Dotnaught/EditoriaLies https://github.com/Dotnaught/EditoriaLies

mococa 1y ago

We need one for AI :-)

quectophoton 1y ago
Related comment from a recent thread that I can't unsee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152476
mrweasel 1y ago
Just replace AI with "Florida man".

blamazon 1y ago

Someone at Amazon hilariously uploaded a job description that was filtered through this extension: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869819 > Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in my butt?

ocdtrekkie 1y ago

I really have to emphasize that nobody should ever install an extension like this. In exchange for a cheap chuckle you are letting a random individual have the access to read and modify the contents of every website you view. And as long as they don't change the permissions they can silently update the extension whenever they want. If you think this is okay, you should not ever work on anything involving security or private data access, ever.

BrandoElFollito 1y ago
This is a good point, in particular regarding the updates that you do not know happened. This is also true for a lot of modern greenfield applications where for the legitimate ones this is a blessing and a nightmare for the malicious ones. We just had a strike of cases related to a ODF reader that got updated with malware (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tamperedchef-infostealer-delivered-through-fraudulent-pdf-editor/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/s...)

quectophoton 1y ago

Alternatively, cloud->clown. Clown Computing, Clownflare, Google Clown Platform, etc.

crowbahr 1y ago
Today's forecast is partially clowny with a high of 70 and a low of 58

JJMcJ 1y ago

Finally, an open source project that actually meets an urgent need we didn't realized we had.

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