FBI director: Cover up your webcam

Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by lostlogin on Thursday September 15, 2016 @03:36AM (#12504102)

You don't know SO rage until you get a case of a small, inconsequential problem which is of vital importance to you. After heaps of searching someone else has posted the same issue on SO. Then reposted a while later with "Don't worry, fixed".

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by aargh_aargh on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:12AM (#12504708)

As always, releavant: https://xkcd.com/979/

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by barking on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:36AM (#12504376)

Also the mandatory upvoted comment 'why are you using vb6'.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by Bartweiss on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:03AM (#12506191)

"You should just tell the client that you'll rewrite everything from scratch in Rust rather than making this two-line fix."

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:05AM (#12504250)

That's just a bot someone made. It scrapes SO, constructs a model of question text and generates new questions from the model. Then, after a random number of days it posts that "Don't worry, fixed" you've seen.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by quirkafleeg on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:28AM (#12504342)

What would be the point of that?

What he's describing is something that also happened (with far greater, more rage-inducing frequency) on tech forums before SO existed.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by celticninja on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:40AM (#12504384)

I believe it is a joke.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by quirkafleeg on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:12AM (#12504508)

Oops. Thanks. I had a fear I was just missing a joke, but I have seen bots used on forums for no immediately obvious/spammy reason and I've also seen people genuinely imagine strange motives for relatively explicable things.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by dkersten on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:37AM (#12504800)

This is probably one of the reasons jokes are very much discouraged on HN. They pollute the conversation and add confusion. I too didn't notice that it was meant to be a joke.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:24PM (#12511042)

It's a joke. I thought it was obvious, I'd have laughed if someone else had made it and I didn't think it's polluting anything, not tucked away in this side-thread-ish.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by katpas on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:17AM (#12505023)

I've been using React for my last few projects (not by choice) and have found this a lot. Maybe because its newer, maybe because it doesn't play nice with other front-end things. SO rage indeed.

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