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When Your "Hack" Is Just Downloading Public Files
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20 days ago 120.5K views 0 shares
When Your "Hack" Is Just Downloading Public Files
When your "sophisticated hack" is just a Python script that downloads publicly available files... 🤦‍♂️ This tweet perfectly skewers the media's tendency to sensationalize basic web scraping as "hacking." The code shown is literally just making API requests to fetch JSON data and download image files from URLs that are intentionally public . It's like claiming you "hacked" a library because you checked out a book. Or saying you "breached security protocols" because you walked through an open door. The bar for what constitutes "hacking" has apparently dropped lower than my production server's uptime.

When Your "Hack" Is Just A GET Request
Security Programming Python Databases
22 days ago 152.7K views 0 shares
When Your "Hack" Is Just A GET Request
The media: "HACKERS BREACH TEA DATABASE IN SOPHISTICATED CYBERATTACK!" The actual "hack": requests.get(PUBLIC_URL) Nothing screams "senior developer energy" like seeing Python code that's just fetching publicly available JPG files being labeled a "hack." It's like calling yourself a master chef for successfully boiling water. The real security breach here is whoever decided that putting files in a publicly accessible URL with zero authentication was a good architecture decision. That person probably also uses "password123" and wonders why they keep getting "hacked."

Fox News Tries To Explain GitHub
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2 months ago 130.1K views 0 shares
Fox News Tries To Explain GitHub
Ah yes, the famous "GitHub Dictionary" where repositories are just "big chunks of code" and forking is "the term for code editing." And my personal favorite: a pull request is apparently an "e-note" asking for "edit rights." It's like watching your grandparents try to explain what you do for a living after you mentioned it once at Thanksgiving dinner. Next up: "The Hacker Known as Terminal" and "Why Cloud Computing Requires Umbrellas."

User Benchmark Is Back At It Again!
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4 months ago 115.5K views 0 shares
User Benchmark Is Back At It Again!
Ah, UserBenchmark—the Fox News of hardware reviews. This gem shows them "objectively" reviewing AMD's RX 9070-XT with all the neutrality of a scorned ex. They're basically saying "Sure, AMD might win some cherry-picked benchmarks, but their GPUs are basically expensive paperweights that cause more stutters than a nervous teenager asking someone to prom." The kicker? That 3% market share stat they pulled out of nowhere while conveniently ignoring that driver issues plague both AMD and NVIDIA. It's like watching someone with an Intel tattoo pretending to give unbiased advice. This is why we can't have nice things in tech journalism.

People Are Unfamiliar With Memory Efficient Coding
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4 months ago 125.7K views 0 shares
People Are Unfamiliar With Memory Efficient Coding
Journalists discovering that 256 is an "oddly specific number" while every developer is facepalming so hard they've left a permanent mark. For the uninitiated: 2^8 = 256, which is a power of 2 that makes perfect sense when you're allocating memory or designing data structures. It's like watching someone be confused why pizza comes in 8 slices instead of a "nice round 10." Next headline: "Developer uses 65,536 as maximum file size - sources say he 'just made it up'."