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by notadev 4y ago
“You really want to avoid censorship on social networks? Here is the solution: Stop arguing. Play nice. The catch: everyone has to do it at once. I guarantee you, if you do that, there will be NO CENSORSHIP OF ANY TOPIC on any social net
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by notadev 4y ago
Was this using master AOL/star tool and invoking an FDO token that generated the modal?
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by notadev 4y ago
I think it was the same exploit which used free.aol.com. They had a 3-step sign up process with the first step letting you choose a name. It would validate the name was >= 3 chars in length, started with a letter, and didn’t contain bann
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by notadev 4y ago
They were usually RAR files, so you would use WinRAR to reassemble them into one archive.
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by notadev 4y ago
The MMers allowed you to specify chat commands, but the default was usually /list or /listme
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by notadev 4y ago
I hated ccoms. Just flooded chat. Eventually chats would just be everyone shuffling through their list of 10K songs downloaded from Napster.
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by notadev 4y ago
AOL would let you play wav files in a chat room that everyone, who had that file on their system, would hear. You could play the default AOL sounds like {S gotmail and everyone in the chat would hear "You've Got Mail". When s
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by notadev 4y ago
For lame progz, I loved Gothic Nightmares by Masta. Every time it opened it'd play the intro to ICP's Great Milenko and just made you feel like you were some cool hacker dude lol. Mikey's VIP spammer was pretty awesome too, e
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by notadev 4y ago
Progz were sort of the gateway drug to real hacking of AOL. There was a headbanger dude named Beav who archived most progs for download on his Angelfire website LensHell. There's still an archive available ( https://lenshellp
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by notadev 4y ago
To expand on this a bit, when you mailed an attachment on AOL, it would upload and be hosted on their servers. So when you forwarded that email to someone, the download was just a pointer to the original location on their servers. Warez gro
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by notadev 5y ago
I think what you wrote makes perfect sense and I could get behind not caring so much about some standards for some positions. What would you propose for the support jobs like “Culinary Specialists” or “Logistics Specialists”?
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by notadev 5y ago
The point of bootcamp isn’t just for you to learn how to do this or that, it’s also about breaking you of your individualist civilian mentality and molding you into a soldier/sailor/marine/airman who can put the mission and t
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by notadev 5y ago
I was a Chief and got out at 16. They made me CMEO so instead of doing my job, I was handling Equal Opportunity and Harassment complaints, which are taken very seriously. When I was told of something, I had mandatory reporting timelines and
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by notadev 5y ago
A few things in play here. Each job has certain quotas they have to fill. Too many of one job will make advancement nearly impossible which prevents people from moving up into leadership positions and will eventually cause a shortage when t
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by notadev 5y ago
In the Navy, MOSes are called Rates, so “choose your rate, choose your fate” was a common refrain.
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by notadev 5y ago
Maybe auditing. When I was a wee lad on American Online in the 90s, our biggest desire was to steal the most 31337 screen names. One way of doing this was learning of people who worked at the call centers you’d call for account problems. On
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by notadev 5y ago
Wordle is basically Bulls and Cows (or a text-based Mastermind). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_Cows
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by notadev 5y ago
Another way of saying this is you only support the right to protest if it’s a cause you support.
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by notadev 5y ago
This is the second time someone has implied this protest isn’t valid because they’re doing it efficiently. It sounds like boomer “in my day” type rhetoric but is irrelevant to the legitimacy of any protest.
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by notadev 5y ago
Since when was the efficiency of how a group protested used to determine the validity of a protest? Slacktivism, or using social media to protest, generally costs participants nothing in the way of comfort. Neither does walking in a street
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by notadev 5y ago
Are you being truthful about the 24/7 horn blasting? I’ve seen reports on Twitter that the convoy stops horns at 10 PM because they’re not protesting the Canadian people/Ottawa citizens. Is there any video of the horns honking 24&
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by notadev 5y ago
How accurate of a gauge do you think your liberal friends are? I am not as liberal as all of my coworkers seem to be, but implying otherwise would make me feel less certain about keeping my job. Any chance your friends are just conforming t
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Ask HN: How do you make a NoCode/LowCode application?
11 points by notadev 5y ago|6 comments
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by notadev 5y ago
I’ve always tried to use naming of variables and methods to make it obvious what the code is doing. Something like: ``` if service_is_disabled: start_service() else: send_notification(“Service is running”) ```
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by notadev 5y ago
My school keeps sending my kid home with food for “supper” simply because they keep buying so much of it to act like a soup kitchen and they need to get rid of it all. I keep telling them not to accept it, but they apparently have no choice
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by notadev 5y ago
Unless the pandemic is never over
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by notadev 5y ago
I benefit by sending my child to a school where the teachers are incentivized to teach them reading, writing, and arithmetic, while leaving their politics and activism at the door.
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by notadev 5y ago
Not just that, AOL allowed playing sound files from within a chat room. If a user sent `{s gotmail`, it would play the `gotmail.wav` file on the computer of each person currently in the chat room. So, sending `{s /con/con` or `{s
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by notadev 5y ago
Selenium IDE allows recording/playback of actions via browser extensions as well, without having to figure out the XPath, etc., yourself. Preflight looks much nicer than Selenium IDE interface, but is it much more different in its func
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by notadev 5y ago
After seeing the episode of The Simpsons where Bart bought Milhouse’s soul, I went to school and did the same thing to my classmates. Most acted like it was no big deal, but still wouldn’t sign “the contract” and the few that did, similar t

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