You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky

Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by teaearlgraycold on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:47PM (#36936347)

What was the bug?

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by abra0 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:24PM (#36936622)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Knightsofthebutton/comments/38q9x5/...

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by Jarwain on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:50PM (#36936375)

> The final point of failure was even less spectacular: a co-ordinated attempt to keep the button alive by automatically pressing it with donated accounts when it got too low had been working on overtime, but a fatal flaw meant that no-one bothered to check whether the anointed account actually could press.

> The bot queued up the account, attempted to press the button – and found that the account had been registered after 1 April.

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by jackphilson on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:52AM (#36940481)

This seems like one of the first things they would check for though, right?

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by hattar on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:38AM (#36942280)

> the most embarrassing bug of my career

Though to be honest, if that’s the most embarrassing bug abra0 is doing great.

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