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Strange, the site is run by an Ian Carroll, but the examples show Sam Curry, who is a very famous bug bounty hunter.


From the post:

"Having been able to attend these events by hoarding airline miles and schmoozing certain cybersecurity vendors, Gal Nagli, Sam Curry, and I thought it would be fun to try and hack some of the different supporting websites for the Formula 1 events."


if you look at his other posts, it looks like they collaborate often.


Is it common that folks are going into work at 11am and leaving at 4pm? I thought America had a crazy work hour culture


It's very uncommon to go in that late. What's much more common is people taking morning meetings from home and then going into the office to complete their day. If you're a 996 grindset blogger, I suspect you're fairly likely to mistake one for the other.


They work a lot of days (they have very few paid leaves compared to EU in general) but not a lot of hours per day (from what I could see working at French/American companies)


I feel this was an ‘of it’s time’ thing, but I am so glad we have moved on from this. I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable.


> I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable.

I understand Americans are prudish to depictions of nudity, however objecting to ASCII art is simply beyond my comprehension.

Anyone objecting to such a thing here would, quite rightly, be considered a nutter.


People aren't objecting to the ASCII art itself, but the context in which it is used — a workplace.


The context being ASCII nudity (!) should not be seen in a workplace?

Is that honestly the problem you have?

I'm not being unkind when I say that if such a 'concern' was raised in Blighty, people would question your sanity.


The consequence is that the workplace is a sterile no mans land and you're better off remote.

Like I said: if being there were actually meaningful it might make sense to be there.


And it was. The developer above posted an ascii dragon and the other posted a topless woman. Tasteful too.

Both ASCII artwork of different things. No idea why folk are so riled up about this.


seriously, what makes that so bad?


It's an ASCII art of a nude woman. So what? It just seems like such a busybody thing to get one's feathers ruffled over.


How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE?

The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. Luckily we’ve gotten away from the locker room behavior being the median and now the median is approaching good-manners behavior. This is one of the situations where the Overton window shifting makes us better as a species instead of worse.


>makes us better as a species instead of worse.

IMHO it's made the world worse. We're not sterile robots. To deny us mischievous ASCII art is to deny the very things that make us human. Bring on the IDE penis. Make it widescreen if you like. It's not nearly as offensive as having a censoring big brother overlord telling us what is and isn't acceptable for the workers' enjoyment.


As a gay dude, I'd have no problems at all with this out of a garage game developer.

And any reasonably well adjusted straight male would probably get a good laugh out of the art, same as I would.

We now live in a world where female colleagues can speak in whispers about how a male colleague is hot/attractive, but male colleagues cannot engage in the same behaviour.

Trust me, I know. Because of media stereotypes about gays most female colleagues don't have any problem engaging in "girl talk" once they know I'm gay. Like damn I don't care, I'm just a dude.


> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE?

Once again: So what?

> The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting.

I'm part of this "median" you seem to hold in such high regard. If you try to silence all data points outside your preconceived notion of what the "median" view is, then what you have there isn't a median, but just a few vocal people who happen to be on your side.


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Why would you assume other men want to see that shit either? It's weird, creepy, unprofessional, and weird and creepy. Mostly weird and creepy though. Like are you so lonely and horny that you need to plaster your shit with half-naked women?


None of those things. I personally laugh at it for shits and giggles.

"Andy, lol."

It's not weird, nor creepy. Unprofessional maybe, but it's a developers morning shit post and humorous for its time. 1999.

Stop applying the future on to past antics.

If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.


> If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.

No, that would be fucking weird too, dude.


What's weird is how we're taught that the human body is uniquely something to be ashamed of.


To you perhaps. I would still find it lol worthy. What makes it "weird" to you?

It's ASCII art, non threatening, and compared to the degraded stuff you can find online is none of that.

What about anthropomorphic animals is that weird to you because I find that idealisation more creepy than a half topless naked woman.


Even if you restrict yourself to talking about men, asexual and gay men exist. And honestly, I suspect that such people are more common among developers than among the base population.


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Funny that I and my coworkers have figured out how to make the office not an "unpleasant sterile place" without doing so in a way that alienates so many classes of people.


As a gay man lmao no that's not the reason. Don't get salty just because you can't make homophobic jokes anymore.

When it comes to sexual openness, kinks, volume of sex, etc us gayz/queers got you beat by a long, long shot. We generally aren't prudes at all.


Oh yeah it's so unpleasant not having to see creepy and gross shit in the work place because some horny dork never grew up. Gosh won't someone please think of the incels?!


ascii cart nude woman is "gross"? What is it about yourself that makes you uncomfortable with this?


>I think everyone can agree women are nicer to look at

How is this toxic bullshit upvoted on HN. What the actual fuck. No everyone does not agree with your bullshit.


I have reported your homophobic comment.


Interesting. How is that comment homophobic? Might be factually incorrect, but not homophobic. Quite the contrary, it implies that women prefer looking at women too.


> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE

I already do, it's called VSCode and it definitely operates like a phallus.


It's teenager-ish, and the kind of thing that would make people uncomfortable if they saw it at our own workplaces. We can argue about whether companies 'should' punish people for stuff like this, but I can say for sure that I don't feel like I'm missing out on much here.


I still design and add banners to my servers' MOTD to add a little fun to my day. No NSFW stuff, however.


Mine is a corporate style # rectangle but instead of legal crap it just says "msgodel's laptop/vps/robot/whatever\n Be Nice!"


Mine are old BBS style banners, generally glorifying the hostname, and a small tagline for the server itself, related to its function.

A hypothetical DNS server might greet you with "All your zones belong to us!".


> A hypothetical DNS server might greet you with "All your zones belong to us!".

DNS is usually UDP, so it's tricky.

Maybe a database server? We don't even have to modify the original quote.


Avalon Emerson is such a great dj and producer. I’d love to see them live sometime - I’ve a great set from 2017 of theirs on SoundCloud that’s really eclectic. Love the style.


I met her briefly in 2014 through common friends in Berlin, and then saw her live in some early (before midnight) session in a semi empty small club in Kreuzberg. Some other friend and I then tried our luck at Berghain. We didn't make it. The San Francisco group did. Fun times nonetheless.


Oh gosh reading this I thought we waited in line together.

My experience, from 2015, was that we left Vögelchen in Kreuzberg, went back to her spot where she played records for a bit, then at 5am folks decided to go to go to Berghain. She waited in line with the rest of us commoners.


Seen her twice at Making Time and once on her album tour in Philly, definitely go out of your way --- she does an amazing live show!


I’ve seen her three times now. One of my favorites. Was surprised to see her on the front page of HN of all places!


I got to see her play in SF in January. So much fun. I'd love to experience one of her longer sets.


Couldn't agree more. I also saw her live djing in 2019, such a great and exceptional artist.


Very excited for this - think the age transitions is a great way to spice up the middle game, which often turned into a slog.


A hape ‘a spuds with a slatherin of real butter is hard til bate,bai!


How did this pass code review?


Walter Shao [0] says lgtm... (There is simply little awareness and not even minimum standards in the industry)

[0] https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=160849&start=450...


ouch…


This is completely usual for IoT/networking devices. It’s the longstanding reality. They just come at this stuff differently.


What code review?


Exactly.


Might be worth considering moving the arch of the site to a SaaS solution like netlify to really benefit from the scaling capabilities of serverless.


Haven’t the serverless horror stories scared you already?


I hope this is a joke.


Irish?


I would love to develop on this, and onboarding looks pretty straightforward and pain free.

However with Googles history of junking projects, I just wouldn’t have the confidence to take this any further than a hobbyist tinkering.


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