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lol - so, I am wondering ... specifically which three weird situations are you seeing here?
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@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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Good times :)
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@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…
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@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…
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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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congrats - glad to hear this one will be put to good use! please go easy on @cociu - it may take a while to get setup, but good things do eventually come to those who wait :)
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good points @mfs tbh I assumed we were just taking the piss out of the cheap vps SEO ... :smiley:
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Let's start with the number 4 - as posted by @notty
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@FAT32 - this looks good - I'd like to bolster the trust factor (mostly as a psychological exercise) by inviting people to post their favorite "random" numbers here. We can then take some arbitrary number (lets say 7? or whatever) of those posted numbers and concatenate those with the seeds you have already given hashes of…
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aha - in all the confusion since then, I totally forgot! (perhaps mind was scrambled by black friday eggs ...) Thanks - this looks good, will take a closer look now
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@FAT32 - I forgot what it was? lol :)
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@elliotc lol true ... see https://web.archive.org/web/19971210213501/http://lavarand.sgi.com/cgi-bin/how.cgi for a "state of the art" example from the previous century EDIT - whaaa lavalamp tech still going strong at cloudflare? (who knew!) https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps photo by Tom Scott also I…
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@tgl - thanks for understanding. And if you catch me at some random moment of the morning, I'm as likely as any other cynic to confess my deepest suspicion that maybe there is no such thing as a truly innocent bystander in this world, original sin and all that. (But catch me later on in the afternoon and I'll be getting…
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right-o, will do
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ok, thanks @MikePT ! just going to do the next simplest thing and run the snippet suggested by @Solaire $ python3Python 3.6.8 (default, Oct 7 2019, 12:59:55) [GCC 8.3.0] on linuxType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. import random…
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@AnthonySmith - no worries about that, for me learning about useful maths is always fun (and I just try to keep it that way - no more, no less.) Though can see how having people casting aspersions as to the intent and integrity of the game would surely suck eggs - just maybe a bit less so for me, by virtue of the fact that…
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@Solaire - thanks! indeed that makes good sense, in line with what was agreed on before for as a nice way to bump odds a bit for the earliest OG OGs - thus encouraging people to sign up sooner rather than later :) sorry I forgot about that! so let's definitely do something along those lines going forward - but as for this…
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though I suppose now someone could run that last source through sha256sum and see what the magic number is. So will have to add some random salt. Needless to say I do hereby also remove myself from being eligible to win this prize, in order to avoid appearance of possible shenanigans, just for the principle of the thing or…
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(unless there are any serious objections) I'll leave it to @MikePT and @Kyle_ to get in touch with @cociu to claim their fine fine superfine FREE FOR LIFE 1 TB prize for being the latest lucky OGs blessed by the sacred hash! :scream:
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$ sha256sum -@AnthonySmith - sure, I'll just pipe the text of this message through sha256sum and do a modulo 500 of the hash. (And a modulo 400 as well, if that's still to be determined).Mathematically I'm not sure if that makes exactly even odds for all players - but it is about as random (that is, difficult to…
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@AnthonySmith - sure, I'll just pipe the text of this message through sha256sum and do a modulo 500 of the hash. (And a modulo 400 as well, if that's still to be determined). Mathematically I'm not sure if that makes exactly even odds for all players - but it is about as random (that is, difficult to predetermine) as one…
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https://support.fastspring.com/hc/en-us/articles/207436716-Order-Refund-Policy-Chargebacks-and-Return-Processing Note emphasis added in final opention sentence. Though should also note that italicized wrinkle about "claiming they did not make the purchase" - which does not seem to be an entirely accurate or complete…
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@tgl - as you may know I am a fan of teh lulz ... big fan. But in this situation I would humbly suggest and request erring on the side of caution and due respect for possibly innocent bystanders (or by-sitters, as the case may be in the photo from glassdoor) put it this way - that could just as easily be you or me (or…
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ hey hey we just hit 500 accounts (501 but who's counting ...) :smiley: @cociu @AnthonySmith @FAT32
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the Internet Research Agency has now entered the chat That's a good question. I suppose eventually many do pay some cheap tuition to learn a valuable lesson: don't believe everything you read on the internet. But now you are in good company here. Many of us are all about learning how to learn, and sometimes even how to…
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@AnthonySmith - seriously a "Registered Troll" tag could take the art and science to a whole 'nother level :trollface: And :+1: for a shoptalk section as suggested by @willie
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for what it's worth (probably not much, but) https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/fastspring/ - just an article from 2010 about ... something something botnet monetization system trying to use Fastspring (?) I imagine they would prefer not to get dragged into too much messy business - but if they're taking a cut of it to serve…
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there are some rumours to that effect, yes. But I don't believe any of it. Really just seems like yet another dastardly plot to divide and confuse us! I blame @Francisco ... :trollface:
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The canary image that may or may not be displayed directly above is served from Hosting73 (thanks @dahartigan) - and of course also cached by browser and possibly cloudflare (?) etc ... but if you don't see the tweety bird sippin' lean any more, then that party is surely over. :scream: the end is nigh! :scream:
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My 2 cents: excellent, keep it simple (and flexible) - and let's see how it goes.
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@Abdullah - apparently the "hosts" (actually or supposedly a single CC customer ... aka "former client" - lol!) are now done, but the services will remain online for another week or so as CC sees fit to extend some stay of execution. Make of that what you will ...
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Welcome @corey - I don't know nothing about no tags or timezones boss! But I'm sure if you ping @AnthonySmith he'll be happy to do the needful :)
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https://fastspring.com/risk-management-and-compliance/
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as per https://fastspring.com/question-a-charge/