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Re:The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:24PM (#28408947)
OP never claimed to be special but simply above average, which I think is fair since most vegans transitioned to that stage by starting to think much more about what they consume than they ever did before.

Ask HN: What to do when discovering a vulnerability?

Hi HN,My wife just realized she's been victim of identity theft (bank account opened at her name, address, even her SIN) and when she thought about the last place where she entered these information, she remembered a portal for city services where she recently created a profile. I looked at the network activity on Chrome dev tools, found the profile page HTTP request, and played it with another...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst thing your code has done? on Monday July 17, 2017 @09:17PM (#14793676)
I was an intern at a university security lab working on a 7 months project. Early on, I figured it would be a good idea to use SVN to save my work so I setup a repository and did a few commits but quickly stopped maintaining the repo.

One hour before the end of my internship, I was ready to leave, my work done, ready to be used for the next person taking over the project. I want cleanup my files and documentation so it is all tidy and I try to commit my work. Of course SVN cannot commit because the repo and my work have nothing left in common. So I type (on a Linux system): svn delete to cleanup the repo so that I can push my files... I lost months of work and I was not able to recover my lost files from the file system... I had to leave for my country of origin since this internship was part of an exchange program. I felt so bad about it, it still haunts me.