Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol
(The attached images: part 1: @QuantEssential-io has invited you to collaborate on the QuantEssential-io/Quant-Interview-Prep-2024 repository part 2: GitHub 404 showing the entire organization has been banned)
14 Comments
nick@midwest.social · 37 pts · 2y
Fun fact: I’m the reason people have to approve being added as collaborators for repos on GitHub now.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 29 pts · 2y
Oh boy, go on..
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y
I, too, am interested in the rest of the story
nick@midwest.social · 3 pts · 2y
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342
The whole dongml thing back in 2011
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Reading the context of the YC post (post link is broken), this doesn’t seem like a thing I’d brag about. Sounds like you were just being kind of an asshole, as well as intolerant. There are more amusing and less trollish ways to white/greyhat platforms to encourage people to fix them.
nick@midwest.social · 10 pts · 2y
Yep I was trolling zed.
However, accusations of homophobia and sexism are dumb and unfounded, as I’m actually gay.
I was also 20 so… find me one person who didn’t do cringy shit as a kid and I’ll give you a million dollars.
nick@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342
The whole dongml thing back in 2011
smeg@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 2y
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 2y
spambot has invited you to collaborate on we-had-a-baby-its-a-boy
Technus@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 2y
I once had a spambot @ me and like 100 other people I didn't know on a repo I'd never touched before.
I reported it for spam and got an email from Github Support within an hour notifying me that they had taken action.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 15 pts · 2y
I remember that time some guy pinged nearly 40k people and single-handedly delayed GitHub's email servers by about 4.18 hours
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 10 pts · 2y
Your Markdown link is backwards. It should be [link text]/(url) (delete the slash obvs)
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 2y
aaaaargh I don't want get old 😭
smowtenshi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Oh hey, it recently happened to me too.
MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com · 8 pts · 2y
Yes, but did you get the job?
Also props for the image description.