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stupidestAdvertisingEver (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 3 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol

(The attached images: part 1: @QuantEssential-io has invited you to collaborate on the QuantEssential-io/Quant-Interview-Prep-2024 repository part 2: GitHub 404 showing the entire organization has been banned)

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[-] nick@midwest.social 38 points 3 months ago

Fun fact: I’m the reason people have to approve being added as collaborators for repos on GitHub now.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 29 points 3 months ago

Oh boy, go on..

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

I, too, am interested in the rest of the story

[-] nick@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342

The whole dongml thing back in 2011

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reading the context of the YC post (post link is broken), this doesn’t seem like a thing I’d brag about. Sounds like you were just being kind of an asshole, as well as intolerant. There are more amusing and less trollish ways to white/greyhat platforms to encourage people to fix them.

[-] nick@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago

Yep I was trolling zed.

However, accusations of homophobia and sexism are dumb and unfounded, as I’m actually gay.

I was also 20 so… find me one person who didn’t do cringy shit as a kid and I’ll give you a million dollars.

[-] nick@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342

The whole dongml thing back in 2011

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 16 points 3 months ago

Are you Homer Simpson?

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 months ago

spambot has invited you to collaborate on we-had-a-baby-its-a-boy

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 months ago

I once had a spambot @ me and like 100 other people I didn't know on a repo I'd never touched before.

I reported it for spam and got an email from Github Support within an hour notifying me that they had taken action.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I remember that time some guy pinged nearly 40k people and single-handedly delayed GitHub's email servers by about 4.18 hours

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 12 points 3 months ago

Your Markdown link is backwards. It should be [link text]/(url) (delete the slash obvs)

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 3 months ago

aaaaargh I don't want get old 😭

[-] smowtenshi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Oh hey, it recently happened to me too.

[-] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 8 points 3 months ago

Yes, but did you get the job?

Also props for the image description.

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