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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by bad_user on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:26AM (#24659192)
Love this one — somebody is trying to rename "package.json" into "package":

https://github.com/dinosaurjs/website/pull/28

Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by bobbyi_settv on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:44AM (#24659290)
No, he renamed it to "package: An Amazing Project.json"
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by bad_user on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:56AM (#24659364)
OMG even better :-))

My mind did not parse anything after ":"

Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by Thorrez on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:57AM (#24659372)
Windows doesn't even let you have a colon in a filename!
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by livre on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:25PM (#24667189)
I suppose it is because the colon is used for NTFS alternate data streams, see the example in the introduction here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/stre...
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by sumtechguy on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:19AM (#24662859)
Wonder if NTFS 'lets' you. I know the API does not let it. But I wonder if you could get it in a different way. I know you can sneak case sensitivity in here and there.

Think I shall go ruin a VM tonight... :)

Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by rubatuga on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:05AM (#24659414)
Had a hell of a time downloading a torrent with a colon in the name.
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by vijayr02 on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:06AM (#24659823)
You mean it was a pain in the colon? :)
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by Zeturic on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:19AM (#24659512)
My favorite one I saw renamed "README.md" to "My Reading".
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by bad_user on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:22AM (#24659536)
Link, please :)
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by hombre_fatal on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:01AM (#24660590)
"An amazing project!" is going to part of dev culture for years, at least some circles.
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by rjmunro on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:38AM (#24661139)
You can search for all PRs by a user: https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Asalimjaved18
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by yesbabyyes on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:59AM (#24659382)
Not even that, the file is actually renamed "package: An Amazing Project.json". Amazing indeed!
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by CGamesPlay on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:41AM (#24659646)
What’s this bitboxx? Somebody decided the spam PRs weren’t enough spam so they created a bot to amplify it?
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by geewee on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:45AM (#24659296)
This is my favourite trash PR