I'll just leave this here
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I'm not back. I've come across many WTFs I wanted to post, but haven't. But this one-- this fucking WTF.
PS: I hope the image works. I tried to preview the topic, but:
http://i.imgur.com/ZRfncqA.png
I see Discourse is still as shitty and bug ridden as ever, and is still run by a jerk. Drive by complete. Bye.
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That's what you think.
well it is what she said...
also, Welcome back @Lorne_Kates, for however briefly you stay this time!
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It misses comment at the end.
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And I'll just leave this here:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TheGrandListOfForumAndCommunityLaws
CAD's Boomerang Law: If an active user creates a post announcing they are voluntarily
leaving the community, they will almost certainly return. The length of
the post is directly proportional to their likelihood of returning and
inversely proportional to the time it will take for them to return.
However, if an active user suddenly disappears without announcing
themselves, and it was not because they were banned, the chances of them
returning are much less, let alone the chances of them being remembered
outside of the occasional "hey, what ever happened to MacGuffin?"
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Hey, that reminds me, whatever happened to @dhromed?
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Whatever happened to @CodingHorrorBot
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@JazzyJosh Is Doing It Wrong™
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Another discoursistency:
Hmm, unless he deleted the Oct 9th post. That makes sense.
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Or he did a private message or posted in an admin only topic.
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True. That sandwich is taking long, though.
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The captcha isn't a wtf (unless I'm missing something obvious about the image). SolveMedia captchas usually have some understandable phrase (like a pop-culture quote or something well-known), or an instruction (i.e. "Enter the opposite" with the distorted word being "down" and correct answer "up").
They're a lot better for humans than this:
or this (which I don't think would defeat OCR programmed by Brillant Paula):
or worst of all, this:
Hanzo: The preview screenshot is definitely a WTF though.
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I really liked the old TDWTF comment section CAPTCHAs.
They had all those funny - possibly latin - words like "nulla", "luctus" and "sagaciter".
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Isn't the first one part of that OCR project? From what I remember reading: the more readable word has already been successfully OCRed and is there for the basic bot protection. The hard to read one was actually scanned from the book but OCR crapped out on it. So, the idea is that you stick it into a captcha, let humans fill it in and basically crowd-source the OCR.
Of course, the system doesn't trust the first user that came along. Might be a bot who OCRed the easy word. Might be a human that got it wrong. Data is aggregated over time. I'm not sure if captchas that have been filled for the word before you get it are a factor in deciding if you are human, but I'd buttume they are.
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We miss you @Lorne_Kates!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I see Discourse is still as shitty and bug ridden as ever, and is still run by a jerk.
Yeah, pretty much.
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Hey, that reminds me, whatever happened to @dhromed?
IIRC, @PJH said something about @dhromed having some work issues that were keeping him away for a while.
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See, this is why we put T_ prefixes for all of our tables. SQL injection is for suckers.
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See, this is why we put T_ prefixes for all of our tables. SQL injection is for suckers.
Bah! That's too easy to guess. No attacker will be able to inject harmful SQL if your tables and columns are named by random.org. There's real security.
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Bah! That's too easy to guess. No attacker will be able to inject harmful SQL if your tables and columns are named by random.org. There's real security.
Tables are named
table_xxxxxxxx
, but only random ones (choosexxxxxxxx
from random.org) have data in them. You can drop millions of them and still not reach a real one.
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Bah! That's too easy to guess. No attacker will be able to inject harmful SQL if your tables and columns are named by random.org. There's real security.
I wish that was a joke, but when I was in college I had to deal with the University's primary Oracle database using something called Banner. There were literally more tables than students. And all the table names were weird stuff like tbl_sawjh3 for course list and tbl_hywtkk2 for student contact info (made up examples as I've purged the details from memory).
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Tables are named table_xxxxxxxx, but only random ones (choose xxxxxxxx from random.org) have data in them. You can drop millions of them and still not reach a real one.
Hah! Triggers are in the database so that any attempt to drop a meaningful table is simply aborted, with an error returned that says "Haha! Nice try!".
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The potential SQL injection?
I'm guessing since they even allow that phrase to come up as a captcha, they're guarded against simple SQL injection like that.
I don't think a captcha would have a users database anyway.
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I'm guessing since they even allow that phrase to come up as a captcha, they're guarded against simple SQL injection like that.
One would think so, but never underestimate the stupidity of people.
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Not my tables, but I do use random 8 length string to name android elements. Instead of using
mainActivityTitleLabel
I usefjh9jk14
.
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'; DROP ALL TABLES; --
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What in the daily fuck? Why did I get an email about this message? My browser was open, on this tab even!
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@Onyx - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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good morning!
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Hey, that reminds me, whatever happened to @dhromed?
Real life getting in the way - he'll be back.
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And they were taken from a small list of about 20 entries. So after a while you just memorized them all. Or better, Firefox's autocomplete memorized them for you.
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Welcome back @Lorne_Kates!
Some older versions of Firefox have bugs that can cause that CSS layout problem. Looks like you are using one of those versions. I recommend upgrading to a newer Firefox.
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Is Judaism a problem with Discourse? Should I upgrade to the latest version?
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I'm posting here because Discourse simply REFUSES to discard a post I gave up on. I clicked on abandon approximately 17,424,453.00 times now, the only fix I found is to post SOMETHING. So here, posting this and not deleting it, as a monument to Discourse's awesomeness.
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I'm posting here because Discourse simply REFUSES to discard a post I gave up on. I clicked on abandon approximately 17,424,453.00 times now, the only fix I found is to post SOMETHING. So here, posting this and not deleting it, as a monument to Discourse's
awesomenessfailure.FTFY
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Real life getting in the way - he'll be back.
... and posting in the likes thread.
Yes. I know. Been done. But I've gamified into thinking I better post at least once today....
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the table names were weird stuff like tbl_sawjh3 for course list and tbl_hywtkk2 for student contact info
Table saw jaw h3re?
Table hey we talk 2?
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@mott555 said:
tbl_hywtkk2 for student contact info
Table Holds Your Whiny Teen Kids' Kin@mott555 said:
tbl_sawjh3 for course list
Table Student Are Whiny Jackasses, Helpexpanding @mott555's quote embedded in @redwizard's post refreshes memory of original post and why I didn't try to solve acronyms earlier....
@mott555 said:(made up examples as I've purged the details from memory).
WASTED MY TIME.
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WASTED MY TIME
Did you have fun?
If $fun=true, then WASTED_MY_TIME=false;
else WASTED_MY_TIME=True;