Everything about this story, from the way it’s written to the self destructive outcome, reminds me of the “I hacked 127.0.0.1” episode from some twenty years ago.
[1] a mirror since I couldn’t find the original: https://gist.github.com/Androkai/0a2602719fa72ce454d436bfe28...
There is also the true story from the first Scientology vs. Internet clash, someone trolled them that their files were being hosted on 127.0.0.1, under a court ordered deposition they tried to find out who was running this server with their secret files (because yes, they'd looked, and they were there)
True that! Keith Henson's legendary alt.religion.scientology loopback trolling story, with hilarious deposition transcript, in which he patiently explains how 127.0.0.1 works to astonished Scientology lawyers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891
>Just be glad you didn't have to explain an in joke about ftp sites, the local loopback address, and a troll, in a deposition, under oath, to Scientology lawyers, like Keith Henson did.
[...]
>Henson: (patiently) It's at 127.0.0.1. This is a loop back address. This is a troll.
>Lieberman: what's a troll?
>Henson: it comes from the fishing where you troll a bait along in the water and a fish will jump and bite the thing, and the idea of it is that the internet is a very humorous place and it's especially good to troll people who don't have any sense of humor at all, and this is a troll because an ftp site of 127.0.0.1 doesn't go anywhere. It loops right back around into your own machine.
>Lieberman [not getting it]: So the idea here was to make the church think that this person had an ftp site and to take action against him and, in fact, he didn't have it; is that your point?
>Henson: Oh, it's really humorous, and I picked up on it and instantly added something to extend the troll. Extending the trolls like this is an art form of the highest order.
>Lieberman (acidly): I see. So this is part of your art form where you say, "don't you expect the 'ho to blow a gasket?"
[...it just gets even funnier from there...]
Early internet wisdom was "don't feed the trolls" - I never realized trolling was from fishing.
I dunno if it even is because isn't that spelt trawling? just looked it up and they're both correct fishing terms sigh
Trolling is typically done on lakes with fishing lines cast from the back of a boat. A trolling motor sets the boat speed. Trawling usually takes place at sea, with larger boats and wide nets.
https://www.trollingmotors.net/
Trawling is done by dragging nets along the seabed causing massive damage with huge inefficient polluting fuel-guzzling 1000 horsepower diesel engines.
Trolling is as the other guy says where you putter along with minimum effort and a tiny engine pulling a couple of baited lines through the water, seeing if you pass through a patch where anyone bites.
Trawling is far more analogous to the AI scrapers, hammering the absolute shit out of the ecosystem and throwing almost everything they scoop up away with no regard for the consequences.
The localhost troll works better if you use the decimal representation of it:
http://2130706433
or any integer multiple of that 2130706433
You can use any address starting with, 127 to make it a bit less obvious. E.g. 127.48.135.63
That’s up there with the password story, hunter2.
I miss bash.org. Now excuse me, I have a cyber date, and I need to put on my robe and wizard hat.
https://bash-org-archive.com/
Still, every time someone accidentally disconnects from a video meeting or the like I say "That wasn't my speaker cable."
“How can you tell I’m 13?” from username H|t13r
Interesting to think about the cost of training a LLM to understand that it’s operating within an unknown number of larger contexts versus sending that quote to an edgy intern.
https://youtu.be/SXmv8quf_xM
What's up YouTube, it's NextGenHacker101 and today I'll be teaching you guys how to see other people's IP addresses.
You can see what their connection speed is and what site they're on.
Type in Tracer T.
H T T P semicolon. Well, not semicolon, the little dot dot. Dot dot slash slash.
Ten people are currently using Google.
DallasTexas13, obviously his username.
What the heck is *******?
That's so neat that if you type your hacker news password it automatically comes out as stars! ******* More places should have this feature.
I just uses stars as my password, so that works everywhere for me. (For security, I won't let you know how many stars)
This is perfectly safe as long as you keep your username a secret.
I try to use stars as my username, but a lot of places won't allow it
Yeah it’s one of those words that gets snapped up early, like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stars
That doesn't look like a well used account - how do I get it transferred to me?
Edit: never mind, I guessed the password as it was only five stars.
Let me try: *******
Edit: it does really work.
Keeping track of password is for those who can’t crack any account whenever it’s needed, of course.
Just create the account, and crack it everytime a login is needed, as simple as that.
Lmao I bet Dang is watching this chain like *finger on edit button*
Let me try
leafericssonday1
Hello, me! That did, in fact, work.
If mind viruses exist this is one of them along with saying "nice" after something is 69 haha
Weird sort of internet-evolved performance art where people act out the old quote, every time.
It's 20 years old. Quit having fun!
I am a sucker for cultural reference jokes, esp if it’s some subculture that I am/have been a member of (e.g. IRC in the late 90s/00s). It’s fun to find a connection to a stranger, even if it’s vague and superficial. It’s something like that feeling of familiarity and comfort you get when you sing along with a song you know all the words to.
(The score on my post above has been bouncing around all over the place, lol. The fun police are definitely out in full force. I’ll stop having fun when I’m dead, thank you.)
That's because there is no Antimemetics Division.
Oh that sounds like WinNuke? Good times back then!
I would very much like to read the German, if anyone has it.
here you go
https://archive.ph/1uTrd
Doesn't feel fake at all...
Thank you. Omg that's hilarious
… Mainly for the swearing.