Ben Lubar
@ben_lubar
Best posts made by ben_lubar
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RE: 256 is "oddly specific number"...
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RE: The IRC quotes Thread
15:23 <BenLubar> my salts are 1GB long 15:23 <BenLubar> also I don't hash the password 15:23 <BenLubar> it's just buried in a pile of salt 15:25 <naygeeplus> BenLubar: I think you were reading *Practical Crypto* and switched to *Scandinavian Fish Preservation for Dummies* 15:25 <naygeeplus> and didn't notice
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RE: Easier Than Fizz Buzz - Why Can't Programmers Print 100 to 1? (article)
Guys, you're not solving the correct problem.
for(int i=0; i < strlen("100 to 1\n"); i++) { putc("100 to 1\n"[i]); }
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RE: NPM package that does nothing accidentally removed, breaks shit AGAIN
@LB_ said in NPM package that does nothing accidentally removed, breaks shit AGAIN:
@Grunnen When the major version number is 0, that is "unstable". When the major version number is greater than 0, that is "stable".
I'm not sure what the middle number is for, but the first number changes when you break something on purpose and the last number changes when you break something by accident.
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RE: The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant
@apapadimoulis said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
The advancement of the UNIX/Linux mindset of “nothing is intuitive, CLI or GTFO” -- combined with the “modern” development practices -- means that writing code as a job is becoming less and less accessible to people who would otherwise be great software developers, because they simply don’t want to memorize obscure commands and quirks for the shitpile of tools required today.
It's almost as if someone saw that Linux software was hard to use but generally worked without issues once you figure it out, that Windows software was easy to use but third-party software broke if you looked at it wrong, and that websites were written in JavaScript that required more compatibility shims than code but are pretty well sandboxed, and then they took the wrong half of each.
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
NodeBB's method:
"Hey, there are some bugs in your software that I don't pay for."
"Ok, we'll fix those because they also affect people who pay us because they use the same software."
Resolved: FIXED
Discourse's method:
"Hey, there are some bugs in your software that I don't pay for."
"THIS PROBLEM CANNOT POSSIBLY EXIST BECAUSE IT WAS NOT FIRST DISCOVERED BY ONE OF OUR hundreds OF PAYING CUSTOMERS"
Resolved: BANNED, no longer welcome here, IMAGE MACRO, WEBCOMIC
Community Server's method:
"Hey, there are some bugs in your software that I don't pay for."
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"Wait, why can't I find the product I'm using on your website?"
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Resolved: no bugtracker so technically there's no unresolved bug report
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RE: You're welcome, front page commenters!
My favorite spam so far is this advertisement for a spambot that "can bypass almost any anti-botnet protection" that was caught by possibly the dumbest anti-spam algorithm ever created.
Latest posts made by ben_lubar
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RE: Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations
In the past 48 hours, it has become very clear to me why so many moderators have left this forum.
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RE: Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations
@Polygeekery said in Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations:
Sigh. I just got an unsolicited PM from Ben stating that he's requesting to have all his data deleted from this forum under the GDPR, and subtly encouraging me to do the same. I can't imagine any reason why he would have sent this to me personally, which means it's almost certainly not personal, but a message being spammed to multiple high-profile users.
@apapadimoulis I believe this attempt to be in bad faith, as an attempt to cause damage to this forum:
- As a former admin, he's fully aware of the havoc that deletion wreaks on the community by deleting not only posts but entire topics. And he's started some pretty significant ones!
- Being from America, Ben has no rights under the GDPR, which makes his invocation of it fraudulent.
- Being from America, I have no rights under the GDPR, and I've always been an outspoken critic of it, and particularly of the RTBF which he's attempting to invoke here. And yet somehow he's attempting to incite me to fraudulently invoke it.
- The fact that he's doing this in private messages rather than openly speaks of a campaign of sabotage.
I strongly recommend that any such request be summarily denied.
I agree with Mason, and this even furthers my suspicion that Ben "resigned". That might have happened, but I have a suspicion that he was ousted suddenly and before he could nuke the forums. I was suspicious enough of that happening that I sent messages to Alex and others suggesting that they make sure they have good backups before they do anything because as far as I know the only backups were on Ben's machine. I sincerely doubt that he would not have nuked everything on his way out if he were given the choice and it's always best to cover your ass.
I still have root access to the server. Which I am not using to cause harm because I'm not an incompetent asshole, no matter how much someone who sent me death threats and indeed has a reference to that in their forum signature claims otherwise.
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RE: Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations
@TwelveBaud said in Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations:
@ben_lubar Your argument is a fair one, but the tool provided by the software for that purpose is far more destructive than it would first appear. And to be blunt I don't trust Alex or Boomzilla to be able to find every topic you've created, split off the first post, and create a substitute (if needed), among all 27,203 threads on this forum. This is the kind of thing we'd need to commission @julianlam, @barisu, or yourself to do, and that will take more time than I think you would want to give us.
Edited to add: If you want something done today, right now, this instant, the best we can offer is reattributing your posts to be from "Guest". Your content will still be here, but neither it nor the site will be associated with you.
Here is a list of topics I have created: https://what.thedailywtf.com/user/ben_lubar/topics
You may choose to immediately start going through those and splitting out the OP if you see fit.
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RE: Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations
@TwelveBaud said in Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations:
There's a button to delete an account without deleting any of its content. It's not what Ben wants, but it's the closest that we can give him without wrecking the place, and he's not entitled to anything beyond that.
I do not wish to have my content associated with a website run by someone who would reverse my actions against someone who sent me death threats without asking me a single question, and also claim that my actions caused irreparable harm despite them all being reversed within a period of six minutes.
There are buttons to split and merge threads, which can be used to disassociate my threads from other users' posts within them.
I highly encourage anyone who's confused about this to read @Weng's posts in the discussion thread. I do not feel the current administration is acting in good faith.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@Polygeekery I have resigned as administrator because the other administrators of this forum would rather side with someone making death threats towards me than "upset the decorum" or some other nonsense.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@GÄ…ska that's correct
we're a tech forum
we laugh at mistakes people make
we don't call people mistakes
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RE: NodeBB Updates
Because there has been some confusion, I would like to clarify: arguing is not banned. making jokes is not banned. you can absolutely be an asshole without being a bigot.
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RE: Bug Bites
Starting a new chat with anybody in one tab causes all other tabs to blink their page titles with the message "X has sent you a message". Even before a single letter is typed by either person. I believe that's new.
Also you started a completely empty chat with me that was marked as unread somehow.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@GÄ…ska It was a coincidence. The "be a decent person" rule applies to all subforums.