this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
893 points (98.1% liked)
Technology
60039 readers
3959 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Me and my team take our site down the old fashioned way. Code copied from some rando on the internet.
Reminds me of the time that I took down the corporate website by translating the entire website into German. I'd been asked to do this but I hadn't realized that the auto translation Plug-In actually rewrote code into German, I thought it was just going to alter the HTML with JavaScript at runtime, but nope. It actually edited the files.
It also translated the password into German which was fun because it was just random characters so I have no idea what it translated into.
That's fucking hilarious
Same happened with people using the Cloud To Butt extension which replaced every 'cloud' with 'butt' even for codes. Hilarity ensued.
I do have that extension installed. Never been bit so far. I don't copy and paste anymore than a couple of lines at a time.
It's pretty much the same as AIs do - copy and past random code from Stackoverflow - but they do it automatically.
Good old
curl|shCan we take a moment to ask ourselves - how the hell did piping to shell become ok? We have all kinds of method's for deploying stuff - from the age old tarball to the new shinny flat pack. But somehow we also became ok with
Oftentimes as root.
Copy pasting random snippets from search results and chatgpt until something works is how I do my job.
“until something works" At least you're doing a better job than some people.
Some leave it at will ai told me so. And they don't know better and put that into prod!