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New comment by s3krit in "Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)"

s3krit — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:46:06 +0000

Reading and reciting this poem and the works of Benjamin Zephaniah (particularly ‘dis poetry’) in gcse English convinced me that it wasn’t ‘lame’ and poetry can be inspiring

New comment by s3krit in "Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal"

s3krit — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:19:44 +0000

I’ve been involved in this once. There were two of us in the QA department that did subtly different jobs. They wanted rid of the other guy, but as we had very similar roles I had to be involved in the consultation process. What they did is very specifically outline the differences and that his were the ones that were redundant. My manager and friend pulled me into a room beforehand and told me ‘you’re gonna go through some shit but trust me you’re keeping your job’. It all left me with a fairly sour taste in my mouth and to this day I’m not entirely sure it was all above board. If a company wants you gone, they’ll figure a way to do it.

New comment by s3krit in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"

s3krit — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:43:46 +0000

I remember the formation of /r/playdate! Good times, I remember getting very drunk on voice chat, I barely remember what we were playing, maybe CSS

Remote authentication by-pass in inetutils-telnetd

s3krit — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:49:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703303

Points: 1

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New comment by s3krit in "Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?"

s3krit — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:42:02 +0000

Basically, yeah. It actually has its origin in MUDs, from 'spec_proc', short for special procedure.

New comment by s3krit in "Central Park hits temp record last seen in 1888"

s3krit — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:01:20 +0000

1888 is very much not 'pre-industrial revolution', which had started over 100 years prior.

New comment by s3krit in "What happens when clergy take psilocybin"

s3krit — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:08:38 +0000

Not quite the specific chemicals anymore. As I understood it, when they outlawed 1v, the legislation was changed to also consider the weight of the molecule. Ok fine, still whack-a-mole, it just took the clandestine chemists slightly longer to figure out what mostly inert structures they could add to the LSD (though not actually add, since that would mean they were at some point making LSD, which is illegal) that would be cleaved off metabolically so you end up with LSD in your system

New comment by s3krit in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

s3krit — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:08:59 +0000

Oh interesting, thanks! Which makes that comment in the code even more confusing

New comment by s3krit in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

s3krit — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:32:14 +0000

I’ve used it probably daily since about 2006. Which is kind of sad actually.

New comment by s3krit in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

s3krit — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:15:45 +0000

/ck/ from around 2015 to hmm… maybe 2018-19 was pretty good, and probably my home board. Decent cook along threads (I hope Patti is doing ok), /ck/ challenge threads where there was some theme we had to follow and posts would get ranked… and of course the yearly lemon pig [1] threads. Sadly I guess fast food posting, shitting on foodtubers, and general /pol/ shittery made it go down in my view. Still went there most days until yesterday though.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig

New comment by s3krit in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

s3krit — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:39:56 +0000

Based on one of the comments in the leaked source, at least php 6, though no idea what specific version:

> // In PHP 6 this... doesn't seem to do anything? Let's try again in 7.

New comment by s3krit in "3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)"

s3krit — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:19:38 +0000

You can 'fix' the texture filtering to nearest neighbour in hl by adding the following to userconfig.cfg (should be in a directory called 'valve' in the game's root directory):

gl_texturemode GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR

gl_ansio "0"

gl_round_down "0"

Or just entering those lines in the consoe, preceded by 'set'

New comment by s3krit in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

s3krit — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:02:45 +0000

The electric fence is for keeping foxes out, not chickens in

New comment by s3krit in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

s3krit — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:59:12 +0000

You set them free and they’ll find the bugs. You can also give them a huge variety of food waste. This mostly only supplements their feed though

New comment by s3krit in "Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more"

s3krit — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:10:03 +0000

My surname is an example of this! Pugh comes from ap Hugh (though more commonly spelt in Welsh these days as Huw)

New comment by s3krit in "FOSDEM 2025: Streaming Schedule"

s3krit — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:55:23 +0000

This has been the case of years. My first FOSDEM was about a decade ago and it felt like that then. You go to a room a talk or two before the talk you actually want to see because of the queues, which means you’re in a talk you didn’t necessarily want to go to, at the expense of someone who might have wanted to. So they’ll queue a talk or two ahead next time, ad infinitum

New comment by s3krit in "I've acquired a new superpower"

s3krit — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:26:38 +0000

Actually, given enough practice, you can literally just get your eyes to do it. I started doing magic eye puzzles as a kid and loved it, so just eventually learned how to control my eyes in that way. Even today, if I see any repeating pattern, or even anything vaguely similarly shaped, I can’t help but do it

New comment by s3krit in "A Real Life Off-by-One Error"

s3krit — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:50:05 +0000

> Once you have learned it, it is hard to unlearn, to the point that once in a while my eyes and brain will snap onto repetitive patterns like grid paper or just text without any intention to do so.

Rare that I meet someone else that does this. I learned how to do magic eye puzzles as a young child, I think my first was in a magazine and I ‘solved’ it the standard way of placing it close to your nose then slowly pulling back. Before long I could just do it on command and as an adult I find myself doing it all the time, often unconsciously. Makes spot the difference puzzles trivial, that’s for sure

New comment by s3krit in "Riven"

s3krit — Sun, 19 May 2024 09:57:08 +0000

> Actually, I did phone the super mario 64 help hotline as I was missing level 10

Aha, snowman’s land! Jump through the wall that has the snowman portrait reflected in the mirror. Blew my mind as a 10 year old

New comment by s3krit in "Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty"

s3krit — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:04:40 +0000

For the last level, you can get onto the moving platform on the first cycle if you're quick