The Nineteenth Byte

3:02 AM

I found a website for an orchestra, and there was a members logon page with only a single pasword. Literally the first password I tried got me in (the name of the group)

Jo King

5:00 AM

@NathanMerrill Have you checked that that was actually the password? Perhaps it accepts any password

Shieru Asakoto

5:30 AM

Then what's the meaning of password

Curious about whether the password is indeed hard-coded in the website

Pavel

5:47 AM

@NathanMerrill you have to tell us the site now so we can all go hack it

there should be appropriate consequences for poor security

Nathan Merrill

@JoKing yes, I have. It really was the password

@ShieruAsakoto it's literally the name of the orchestra. It's listed across the top of the website in big letters

@Pavel to be fair, once I "unlocked" the content, there was nothing more than a embedded google calendar of practice times and a list of youtube videos to listen to the songs

Shieru Asakoto

@NathanMerrill I mean whether the checking part is hard-coded inside the scripts

Pavel

Can you add events to the calendar?

Nathan Merrill

no, sorry

@ShieruAsakoto oooh...I wonder

Pavel

dang, it'd be nice to leave a 'ur password is shite --the hax0rs' kinda thing

Nathan Merrill

5:56 AM

nope, it's not. It's a POST request. It's a Squarespace website, so I'd expect that the actual framework is doing the right stuff, even if the operators don't know what they are doing :)

Pavel

is it https at least

Nathan Merrill

not by default. I had to manually change it to https, but it does work with https

but that's because the link they chose isn't https

Pavel

there goes the 'the framework is doing the right stuff' theory

Nathan Merrill

no, because it's a user link

oh, yeah, the framework could auto-forward you to https

yeah, squarespace should totally do that

wait, isn't that a DNS setting?

Pavel

No you just send a normal 301

Shieru Asakoto

6:05 AM

squarespace rofl

Jo King

can you go directly to the calendar without logging in?

Nathan Merrill

it's not a page, it's just a public google calendar that was embedded. So if you somehow managed to find the link, then sure, but not really

Pavel

well that should be as simple as inspect element->look at the src attribute of the iframe

Nathan Merrill

right, it's easy once you have the page, but finding the calendar beforehand isn't

but what are you going to do with the calendar?

you can just click on it, and it'll send you to the google calendar page

anyways, it's been fun, but I need to sleep. night all

flawr

7:57 AM

I've a question regarding the sequence tag: I notice that in pretty much every challenge that includes this tag, if the OP doesn't provide any rules on these points, these points will be asked: Is it ok to use 0- / 1-based indexing? Can we return an infinite list/generator? Can instead of the n-th term, can we also just print the first n entries of the sequence?

In order to avoid repeating the discussion every time, I would suggest deciding on some defaults that we do include in the tag description (and maybe default IOs, though I'm not sure how well this post is suited for discussing these specific formats)

Does anyone have an opinion or suggestion on that? I think I'd write a post on meta about this issue with a suggestion for an updated tag description.

flawr

10:00 AM

Or should I directly just add some defaultIOs?

@Mods:@Mego @Dennis, what do you recommend how to proceed?^

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12:22 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

I Love U So Much! Just print i love u, or I Love U. But, because i love u so much, there is two rule. At least there must be one I, and one U. Capital or not is regardless. I and U must be stick together. No sole i and sole u. This is code-golf, so shortest code with byte wins. restricted-...

AdmBorkBork

@flawr I'd say a post on Meta with "Here is what I propose adding to the tag" along with those defaults.

flawr

@AdmBorkBork Ok, thanks for the feedback, I'll do that!

AdmBorkBork

hatahthaht

flawr

12:45 PM

gesundheit

Next time I'll just write "dat"

Veskah

Good gravy, why does DEFCON of all conventions have such problems syncing presentations with the slides and general AV woes? Stop trying to pwn and fix the sound

Also, stop cheaping out on side-rooms and having only face cam. Slides are like 60% of the presentation

flawr

@AdmBorkBork sorry for the multi ping

AdmBorkBork

@flawr No worries. :)

flawr

@Veskah it is very reassuring to know that even they do have problems like these

Veskah

Can't trust a goon, it seems

flawr

12:57 PM

what's a goon?

Veskah

What DEFCON calls its staff, a synonym of 'thug'

flawr

huh

do you maybe know the game tremulous? there was one class of aliens called dragoons, and they were usually shortened to "goons" in the game chat

Veskah

Alas, I do not

flawr

1:47 PM

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Q: Updating the [sequence] tag info: suggestions

The current tag info of the sequence is doesn't contain any additional information and I'd like to improve that. Currently it is almost exclusively used for integer sequences (many times from OEIS) and sometimes also for other sequences. Problem: In all those challenges we repeatedly ask the OPs...

discussion

flawr

1:58 PM

@AdmBorkBork I did as you said^

AdmBorkBork

Looks good to me.

flawr

huh, sorry I did't realize I already answered to your message when I posted the link

It hope this was the last multiping for today:)

Veskah

Just gotta ping Adm on the hourly, Flawr. Make sure he's still awake

flawr

hehe, ok, will do =P

Like in the movies where you tell the hotel reception to call you at a specific time to wake up:)

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Q: Updating the [sequence] tag info: suggestions

The current tag info of the sequence is doesn't contain any additional information and I'd like to improve that. Currently it is almost exclusively used for integer sequences (many times from OEIS) and sometimes also for other sequences. Problem: In all those challenges we repeatedly ask the OPs...

discussion

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3:01 PM

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Q: Who can escape the Nonary Game?

The Nonary Game is a fictional game played in the video game trilogy of the same name. Your goal is to find how many players (at best) can escape a given game, in as few bytes of code as possible. Rules of the game There are 9 players, numbered 1 to 9. All players start in the same room. There...

code-golf game

MilkyWay90

3:29 PM

I found this on my website:

04/07/2019 20:36 ddd: he
04/07/2019 20:42 dddd: ppap dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
04/07/2019 20:42 dddd: i have a pen
04/07/2019 20:42 dddd: i haev an apple
04/07/2019 20:42 dddd: uh
04/07/2019 20:42 dddd: apple pen
04/07/2019 20:42 dddd: ppcg
04/07/2019 20:42 : ppdd
04/07/2019 20:43 dddd: DSAHYHUJIOKOPL gode colf :DASDASgooo

I'm guessing that someone here must've posted that

Since my only friend who knows PPCG says he didn't post that

flawr

3:55 PM

Well did you share this monstrosity somewhere else?:)

AdmBorkBork

4:21 PM

@MilkyWay90 Programming Puzzles and Dode Dolf.

MilkyWay90

4:38 PM

@AdmBorkBork lol

@flawr Which monstrosity are you talking about? The series of messages, or the website itself?

MilkyWay90

4:56 PM

[LIVE] [FAST VERSION] Watch the Highest Known 5 State 2 Symbol Busy Beaver in Action!

►

This is what I do with my life

Show off my only good programming language

flawr

@MilkyWay90 the website :D

I mean, now that I've seen the website I'm not the slightest bit surprized someone write this:)

MilkyWay90

@flawr randomstuffonline.com or randomstuffonline.com/chat.html

flawr

@MilkyWay90 the timestamps O_o

MilkyWay90

@flawr How did you know the site name before I told you?

@flawr What about them

flawr

@MilkyWay90 you're linking to it in your profile

MilkyWay90

5:03 PM

@flawr Yeah

flawr

@MilkyWay90 leading zeros would be nice:)

MilkyWay90

Did you see the chat?

Leading zeroes are completely unnecessary

flawr

except when they are

yep:)

MilkyWay90

What is Westeros, btw?

Or aren't you posting those message

flawr

@MilkyWay90 ?

(maybe a game of thrones reference?)

J. Sallé

5:06 PM

@MilkyWay90 Westeros is the continent where most of Game of Thrones is set

MilkyWay90

Somebody is posting those messages under MilkyWay90

flawr

have you guys seen the meta post about sequence?

MilkyWay90

Yeah

There's a chatroom named ppcg

My conversation with the MilkyWay90 impostor on RSO chat is interesting

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5:24 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Trace My Triangles Triangular is a 2D programming language that reads its code in the shape of the smallest triangle that the code will fit into, ignoring all whitespace. Its IP starts at the very top point of the triangle, and traverses the code starting in a Southeast direction. The IP's direc...

MilkyWay90

06/11/2019 13:22 : Did both of you guys come from The Nineenth Byte?
06/11/2019 19:22 I crawled the web: to search for
06/11/2019 19:22 unsecured: chatrooms

Hmm

I should probably get to password-locking my database

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Q: Can a question be closed for being too complex (but not necessarily hard)?

This question is sort of a follow-up to this other one I found, which I found quite useful but not fully elaborating on what I wanted to know. So, my question is this: I am working on a KoTH puzzle for people to make bots to play. However, as I found myself writing the question, I found that my ...

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