Programmers are cooked.
This goes back some years, back when the ping of death was still a thing. I used to hang out in IRC channels and someone decided they needed to show me what a real hacker could do. The dork asked for my IP which was hilarious to begin with, so I replied “127.0.0.1”. About 2 seconds later I see them disconnect from IRC.
A minute goes by and they are back online, spitting mad. Tells me i’m lucky their computer crashed but I’d better get ready…and disconnected again.
Back again and folks are dying laughing thanks to my 1337 teenage hacker skills but eventually someone spills that 127.0.0.1 is localhost. Instantly I’m talking to zero cool again and was too scared to give out my actual address. Being a hardened nerd, this time I complied.
I was on slackware and had already figured out their game from the get go; oh and I actually knew how to find an IP. So right in the middle of this future titan of industry’s insults and threats…they disconnect one last time. 😎
IRC exposed users ips, so not only did they not understand their low orbit ion cannon firing at localhost was self inflicted, but they didn’t actually need to ask for your ip at all.
Why it was funny in the first place. I knew I was messing with the best.
You did not: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hack-127001#fn12
I mean… this is definitely the kind of stuff that happened to “hacker” kiddos back in the days, this stuff probably happened a lot of time.
I swear on my life this happened to me but I don’t care if you believe me or not.
How do you know that wasn’t OP?
He’s bringing it back!
During in my data science master’s program, someone unironically sent me a localhost link to a Jupyter Notebook.
In one of my programming classes I watched a girl open edge, search bing for Google, then search Google for Yahoo, then search Yahoo for Yahoo Mail. It hurt my soul.
In the really early days a guy who loved trolling before trolling had a name had a link on his website that just pointed to the users downloads folder. Really freaked out some people that clicked on it.
Ah the good ol days of Active X. Could pull some pretty sick pranks back then.
I hung in a sysadmins channel on IRC. There was always a new bug/exploit. So many there was never a shortage of ways to lock up or break a windows installation. They would just post random links and hope someone clicked on it. I always used lynx to look at them. It was fun and no one considered at the time using them to steal or rip off people with them.
I made a Zip bomb, hid it, called it virus, and found the school OS reinstalled for what would have been a relatively harmless, and very basic trick.
zip bombs were not really thing back then. A fork bomb the was more common.
Idk, I did some dumb shit with a Zip file.
Oh sure but the first time I saw any mention of a zip bomb was after 2005 or so and the stuff I’m talking about happened around 1995 and 1996.
Oh, I was there at that time, sti in school.
My localhost website was a pong clone that I ran out of boredom. Of course, it was name index html.
This motherfucker over here is ruining the good name of Bens all over the planet
As a Ben, I think I speak for all of us when I say that this Ben does not represent us or our Benly sensibilities.
As a Ben myself, Ben’s can eat shit. I’ve never met a Ben I didn’t want to punch or fuck.
So… What happens when you look in a mirror?
I leave you to make assumptions.
self-BDSM
oh snap, root’s here
TIL that I’m a programmer
My direct experience is that, using chatgpt, making basic html DOM elements is simple, but coding behaviours in a reliable manner isn’t as simple. And css shouldn’t even need AI to be coded effectively. Javascript is the part where the ineffciency and the weird behaviour of a website are. I bet there are professional web design tools that use ai, but using genAI for that is…uh
Behold! My vibe coded website!
That looks exactly like mine! Did you copy me?
Nah, his AI was just trained on the same dataset.
I didn’t know those photos had gone public. I swear it isn’t what it looks like!
It’s asking for a password.
Edit: Never mind, I tried the one from my luggage and it worked.
It’s amazing i love the frontend!
Honestly, it looks like janky shit. That CSS looks like some moron cobbled it together.
Im so disappointed that this isnt a rick roll link
It might be for some of us
At least you got the http server running.
What was that bash.org quote where the guy hacks into 127.0.0.1 and deletes his hard drive?
deleted by creator
…works on my machine
My boss sat me down recently and was telling me about how I needed to adapt because AI was going to take my job soon. Somehow it was suppose to be an inspiring meeting about my career growth. I just walked away blackpilled at the stupidity of leadership in the company. Oh yeah, we are 1 year into an AI adoption program and most people stopped using it 6 months ago due to it making them look like idiots with it’s mistakes.
its
I hate that word. I used a possessive apostrophe like this (its’) for years before somebody finally told me that rule doesn’t apply to its for some unknown reason.
The pain of misplaced apostrophes is why I’m not a programmer
Modern compilers have got your back. Simple compile time syntax error are non issues these days for the most part.
I recently started and left a dev job after just over 2 weeks because the new boss was chugging the AI kool-aid. Luckily I got a late offer from another place I’d applied to and I was able to get the fuck out of there.
Sorry, wrong link for some reason, it’s supposed to be http://192.168.1.36/
That is only your local IP, dumbass.
http://127.0.0.1/ is where it is at.
Hate to be that guy, but localhost is 127.0.0.1, not 172.0.0.1 (which is actually a public IP address)
Damn it, I ruined my own joke
It looks like the whole 172.0.0.0/12 block belongs to AT&T
Ooh, where do you find AT&T block allocations?
You might also be able to see the information on IANA’s website or ARIN’s website
Thank you — is there a way to find a listing? I tried searching the other day (for unrelated reasons) but couldn’t find anything useful.
Eh… don’t want to be mean but that’s what’s called an “IP address” for Internet Protocol Address… but this one is for your LAN, aka Local Area Network.
So that won’t work, people outside your LAN can’t reach it. What you need instead is a domain. What most people don’t know though is that there is a special domain name anybody can use for free! Check this out, assuming your LLM did the right setup do all that step, making website, starting Web server then try :
https://localhost/ and voila, free domain from your newly generated websites!
… /s
Can I do that from Internet Explorer or do I have to use Safari?
That’s actually a great question, safer to ask your LLM directly! So helpful. /s
Entire website
Also known as the most basic thing you could ever do
I made an entire website for my ship using notepad by frankensteining together other websites. Everyone on board thought I was a genius. How wrong they are.
Saw a generated site, but it just made up plausible image links and also went image heavy so it was a bunch of broken image icons as it linked to nowhere.
Haha your job is so done
As a web designer (well, customizer/reseller for small businesses) I definitely thought I was done for when I heard AI could spit out a functional website in one prompt. Then I saw some examples and realized it’s just going to be another thing clients bring me, begging for a fix. No problemo, small upcharge.
Small upcharge? Unfucking a whole front end and backend should be more than small.
They may just be fucked front ends running completely client side, with broken functionality due to no backend
This reminds me of a video where a girl was like “yeah so you know all that streaming stuff is so expensive? Thanks to AI I coded my own Netflix streaming site…”
And there was this one comment like “Backend???” and she was like “Yeah I dont know what that is, but if you want a part 2 I can do that later” 😂
Just tell her about Jellyfin I guess
👍
bro still on windows 💀
No hate, but I am relieved to switch back to Windows 10 after a year of Fedora. Partly because I need Windows for work, but mostly because Fedora and GNOME suck.
Never tried them, what did you hate?
Fedora:
1. Missing Basic GUI Settings
- Startup applications
- No full shortcut customization
- Need to install extensions for basic features
- Media codecs missing by default (no clear indication or prompt)
- You need to enable RPM Fusion (no prompt, hidden toggle)
- Apps not installed via the software center must be removed via the terminal
- Editing app menu entries through a third-party app (unstable / breaks frequently)
2. Issues
- Wi-Fi not working initially
- Onboard GPU not working initially (and also no indication, noticed it in system monitor)
- Couldn’t get the printer driver to work
- GRUB menu became misconfigured
- System stopped booting at some point
GNOME
(GNOME used in Fedora Workstation)
1. UI Design
- No app dock by default
- App grid/selector sucks
- No minimize button by default
- Calculator results cannot be copied
- Search resets when exiting search view
- Thunderbird tray not working
2. Customization
- Cannot properly remap the Windows/Super key
- Very limited ability to customize touchpad gestures
3. Wayland / Mutter Compositor
- GNOME uses Mutter compositor, which has no support for
gtk4-layer-shell - Some apps, like Activity Watch, don’t work due to Wayland’s security philosophy
id prefer fedora with kde for just working. but i personally use arch for gameing :3
I’m sure one day Linux will run the top professional CAD programs. One day.
Fuck man, I was talking about this exact shit today.
