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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I started reading and though this was someone who had lost their marbles, by target 2 I was hooked.

And next to his original, fully erect penis, was another one. Identical. Bio-engineered, apparently. He struck a pose.

Poetry.

[–] zer0@programming.dev 24 points 2 weeks ago

For me it was

— I’d seen weirder things in Perl scripts —

Just perfect. No notes.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

How to become a hacker

Average Linux user: Hack the white house

Your mom: Install pi-hole

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty fun (and funny) sci-fi story, the open source katana bit gave me unix surrealism vibes but then again what doesn't these days.

[–] sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! I borrowed the open source katana bit from unix surrealism

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun background info: Trusted Representatives don't actually carry their shard of the key (to prevent exactly this scenario), they have (iirc) a keycard which allows them to access the secure storage medium where their different pieces are stored.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

to prevent exactly this scenario

I'd love to be in the group that brainstormed this exact scenario

[–] sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Every software system worth its salt should have safeguards against Nokia nunchuck attacks.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And now we move on to the second item on the agenda: Advanced Protection against Shrubbery and Why We Need It

[–] eraor@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to see a live action of this.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you seen Blackhat from Micheal Maan. (I’m no hacker/programmer/or whatever techie)

[–] eraor@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah I did. Honestly, it's not worth your time.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] eus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

I had a blast reading this and had some great laughs throughout–thanks for sharing and making my morning!

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

A beautiful read. I’ll keep checking my certificate resolutions.

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

These, after do many decades, are still stupid funny. I can't help but picture an ugly 13 year old male desperate for companionship but not receiving any.

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

So good. the vatican while loop one was a lot of fun too

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't get what the others are talking about, there is nothing after this, even through scribe or on an archive.org snapshot made recently

Taking him down would put the fear into the rest and, hopefully, get some intel on the other keyholders through the IRC backchannels.

[–] sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You probably have an extension which removes the "Friend link" query param from the URL