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  • BlaZeBlaZe Hosting ProviderOG

    Please make me one of the winner, I will use it as seedbox <3 cociu and my linux iso torrents are basically for "giving back to the community" :D

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  • uptimeuptime OG
    edited December 2019

    Hello @BlaZe - if you might be so kind, please do also contribute a random number to this thread, so as to help ensure the perceived integrity of our arbitrarily pseudo-random selection process :)

    EDIT: a single digit would do just fine by the way

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  • @yng68bld said:
    This is nice. I just barely joined the forum to get some low end boxes for VPN and now a nice prize to add to my stack. Really nice Xmas gift for my daughter to learn more about the world of linux VPS and the awesome shell commands.

    Always delighted to hear young kids showing interest in tech.

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  • @yng68bld said:
    This is nice. I just barely joined the forum to get some low end boxes for VPN and now a nice prize to add to my stack. Really nice Xmas gift for my daughter to learn more about the world of linux VPS and the awesome shell commands.

    Cociu's is awesome for collect linux isos

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  • uptime said: inviting people to post their favorite "random" numbers here.

    Here is my contribution: #9 :smiley:

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  • Here is my contribution: #3

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  • 83625475920394382939282626252534354657576879797069583726252424343526282929029338475756564635355466577555557773662727362528849958726611002938737189985773662882993883777388290999969070696869696968584737292848393749375636252728293993883772655267478699957777773141519

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  • i choose 42 for obvious reasons

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  • @dahartigan said:
    83625475920394382939282626252534354657576879797069583726252424343526282929029338475756564635355466577555557773662727362528849958726611002938737189985773662882993883777388290999969070696869696968584737292848393749375636252728293993883772655267478699957777773141519

    Hmm, looks a bit like a prime number but it isn't. But if you divide it by 523, you get 159895747457733045773006933561251156133034186992484863721323947119553122235237740871427465841979859612916936469718407958946175829305183562024354091751001267462703410664222353728430345500706877568995673600092531069551885760474749510294020373360379923437433600653
    which as everyone knows is prime!

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  • edited December 2019

    @notty said:

    @dahartigan said:
    83625475920394382939282626252534354657576879797069583726252424343526282929029338475756564635355466577555557773662727362528849958726611002938737189985773662882993883777388290999969070696869696968584737292848393749375636252728293993883772655267478699957777773141519

    Hmm, looks a bit like a prime number but it isn't. But if you divide it by 523, you get 159895747457733045773006933561251156133034186992484863721323947119553122235237740871427465841979859612916936469718407958946175829305183562024354091751001267462703410664222353728430345500706877568995673600092531069551885760474749510294020373360379923437433600653
    which as everyone knows is prime!

    What if you remove the last 7 digits? (A bit of pi potassium)

    3141519

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  • dahartigan said: What if you remove the last 7 digits? (A bit of pi potassium)

    3141519

    Interesting ... without the pi-tassium it might be prime.
    (Based only on running this until I got bored)

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  • uptimeuptime OG
    edited December 2019

    @dahartigan ... prem

    @notty I thank you for doing the needful

    Okay so ... since the purpose of this numerical stone soup is primarily to get "buy-in" from potentially otherwise skeptical participants, let's keep the opportunity to for more people to add their magic numbers open for the duration

    when we get to member 600 signed up, I'll take all the numbers suggested prior to that point (starting with @notty's "4") - concatenate the digits into an ascii string - and compute the sha256sum of that string. Then @FAT32 can prepend that hash to his original (unhashed, secret) string for the 600 drawing and use that as a seed for the random number generator as per the code he posted earlier. My expectation is that this methodology shouldl be easily recognized as a way to add a relatively unpredictable salt to the secret string.

    And so on once we've reached 700, 800, 900, and 999 signups - with the grand concatenation always starting from @notty's "4"

    If anyone wants to add more than one number, I'll allow it. :scream: (For example, so far we've got two numbers from @dahartigan, very prem!) ... keep 'em coming folks, in plaintext ascii form por favor!

    Thanks!

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    I choose you #200 !

    @uptime #200 is still available?

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  • pl0x

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  • 69

    IV said: for obvious reasons

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  • 123

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  • 57

    (Body was 1 character too short.)

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  • 463 :)
    I didn`t know about that site :open_mouth:

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  • uptimeuptime OG
    edited December 2019

    @BlaZe - the prize for "real signup" number 200 was none other than the perfectly timed and also very lucky @FAT32 - and you may wonder why the prize was won by profile number 221 rather than 200 - that was due to eliminating a number of test accounts created during early development phase of the forum.

    You can catch up with that ancient history of this thread going alllll the way back to around November 19th - ie, https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/2777#Comment_2777

    After that there was some further discussion and some good suggestions, from which the concensus decision emerged to both simplify and complicate the selection process ....

    The simplification was to just use the raw signup count as a trigger for selecting a new winner (at 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, and 999) - no longer bothering to account for any "testing" or otherwise bogus signups

    The complication was that the winner would be randomly selected from the signups at that point. This was seen as a way to encourage people to sign up sooner rather than later - whereas before there might have been some attempt to finesse the timing when signing up, if one were waiting to snipe the exact slot already predetermined as the next winner.

    Now here we are, enjoying yet another wrinkle in the process for random selection. This is both a response to and continuation of a bit of trolling about trust and transparency. I am obviously likely to be a bit biased now but I do think it's been working out just fine lately ... if I do say so myself. Bottom line is we're having some fun witn it again - but I think it actually may now be a decent attempt at a verifiably fair and trustworthy random selection method. :sunglasses:

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  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Hosting ProviderOG
    edited December 2019

    230 comments, less than 30 related to the actual point of the topic, 200+ arguing about how to draw the numbers and putting more fail safes in than any countries government elections.

    people need to chill the **** out, haha.

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  • Good times :)

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  • @cociu provide the cheap vps man

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  • AnthonySmith said: how to draw the numbers and putting more fail safes in than any countries government elections.

    We need external auditors and 3 witnesses to watch @uptime press the button ?

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    I suggest at least 7 and 3 external auditors to pick each one of the 7

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  • uptimeuptime OG
    edited December 2019

    @beagle you have submit number 42 citizen. Is good. Please feel free add more number. Makes better secure theater processing!

    But who will audit the auditors ...?

    EDIT: I am to mean #9 for @beagle - is better, most secure theater!

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  • If you're still taking number suggestions: 2240 (the comic currently on the front page)

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  • I pick #13 just to keep the ball rolling.

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  • @cociu Thank you for gracious offers to community, happy new year 2020, wish you all the best with business.

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  • uptimeuptime OG
    edited December 2019

    we're now at 600+ signups so it's time to do another random selection :smile:

    the sha256 hash from the contributed digits: afb52feddaf080f980f1fbf7688f0a8df8ca0dbaecfb6e32a554006dbdc8bff7

    @FAT32 - I'd like to use the randomizer and seed you setup earlier, but now prepending these user-contributed moar random bits "afb52feddaf080f980f1fbf7688f0a8df8ca0dbaecfb6e32a554006dbdc8bff7" to the original seed you hashed for "round 4" (selecting from 600 signups)

    Assuming that this makes sense to you - when you get a chance, would you could you please run the randomizer to do the selection? And/or let me know original seed string for:

    | 4 | 1-600 | 0619daa83965571edc624c80030684ca2b432afb21d4396b404c338163282b4d

    Thanks!


    notes:

    $ echo -n "49342836254759203943829392826262525343546575768797970695837262524243435262829290293384757565646353554665775555577736627273625288499587266110029387371899857736628829938837773882909999690706968696969685847372928483937493756362527282939938837726552674786999577777731415192006912357463224013" | sha256sum
    afb52feddaf080f980f1fbf7688f0a8df8ca0dbaecfb6e32a554006dbdc8bff7  -
    

    @FAT32 said:
    Not sure if I should do this but these are the SHA256 hash of the random generator seed for fairness purpose, the actual seed will be announced when we hit the target.

    Round Range Hash
    0 1-100 63dc9a321e11a17d64d6d661d4a8c7cc16b6cebf4559b473062d3a4f0e0202d8
    1 1-300 892d9333f872ed34c08a745a090e7a266f072e809a80191a4777b3093567a362
    2 1-400 6cf1a05c37fce8a6eba9d8423610490e984a1da6688fdb01c8a3c35c2f2fe357
    3 1-500 3cc6767b9a93a58970b591210c2492704494d9406226b37d1b0c92e25a92c427
    4 1-600 0619daa83965571edc624c80030684ca2b432afb21d4396b404c338163282b4d
    5 1-700 1323b7ddd7afaf0526a68e99a97770f8dd34b7cee7cac95c12871e77905d6796
    6 1-800 9bc67df4011bbe6f3b7195d49a4e63cf2f25c1affd49b7b60e51608eb52ac60f
    7 1-900 461539ae139d921c84f3264bd0e3a1705bc86c58238e5626f187ed7d311ba686
    8 1-1000 8bd567e8a29480a40a4940e975e4702b439ab68f8df82d75c0e197a7b23c1433

    This is the code to select a random user:

    const seedrandom = require('seedrandom');
    
    function selectWinner(seed, username, total) {
      const rng = seedrandom(seed + '_' + username);
      return Math.ceil(rng() * total);
    }
    

    When the function above is called, username will be populated with the user with ID at the upper bound of the range.

    For example, to select a winner for Round 3, the function call will be selectWinner('some_seed', 'username_of_the_user_with_id_500', 500)


    @notty said:
    Why not just keep things simple?

    @beagle said:
    Here is my contribution: #9 :smiley:

    @EHRA said:
    Here is my contribution: #3

    IV said:
    i choose 42 for obvious reasons

    @dahartigan said:
    83625475920394382939282626252534354657576879797069583726252424343526282929029338475756564635355466577555557773662727362528849958726611002938737189985773662882993883777388290999969070696869696968584737292848393749375636252728293993883772655267478699957777773141519

    @BlaZe said:
    I choose you #200 !

    @Rahul said:
    69

    MS said:
    123

    @debaser said:
    57

    @zomby1 said:
    463 :)

    @souen said:
    If you're still taking number suggestions: 2240 (the comic currently on the front page)

    @beagle said:
    I pick #13 just to keep the ball rolling.

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