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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

For me it was

— I’d seen weirder things in Perl scripts —

Just perfect. No notes.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

How to become a hacker

Average Linux user: Hack the white house

Your mom: Install pi-hole

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

I want to see a live action of this.

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

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

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

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

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago
[–] eus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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.

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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