[HECnet] OFF-TOPIC (but it's Friday guys): APL FAIL

[Dave McGuire]

  Ah, 2600.  To be perpetually fifteen years old and have nothing to do.
 What a wonderful life that must be.

             -Dave

On 04/29/2016 06:47 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
> NOTA BENE: Feel free to ignore this message but I think some of you guys might find this rather amusing..Also, it’s Friday before Valborgsafton so, Johnny, I’m sure you’ll be cool about this (I guarantee very infrequent) totally off-topic post.
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> Right Johnny? Hyvää Vappua and all that? (it’s like Christmas for alcoholics in Finland. Hell, it’s like our third most popular holiday)
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> Anyway,
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> Some background: Yesterday there was something of a revolution in the alt.2600 Facebook group (“The Hacker Quarterly”, I am a member purely out of professional interest) which led to the owner of the actual machine basically kicking out all the admins since facts emerged that the founder of the FB group, Adrian Lamo (same guy that basically handed Bradley/Chelsea Manning over to the Feds over the Wikileaks thing since he had some Very Serious Business federal charges hanging over him) had been data mining the alt.2600 IRC server for the NSA.
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> This did not go down too well, since he wasn’t actually coerced into this - it’s what he does for a living now, apparently (OSINT - open-source intelligence gathering).
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> So anyway, new admins were installed, including a buddy of mine [I’m fairly certain she’s not a Fed, if she is, she hides her money well] and as the group reopened a hilarious typhoon of bovine excrement started flying around including some 17 year old clearly on his 8th can of Monster Energy posting a hilariously poor attempt at high register English rhetoric about Adrian Lamo’s “High Crimes against the Hacking Community”.
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> Of course, the guys being the sociopathic pranksters they are, immediately started question said script kiddy’s coding abilities.
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> At which point I (and APL, the programming language) entered the conversation, which you can see here:
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> http://sampsa.com/apl.png
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA