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Cake day: July 8th, 2024
  • GottaHaveFaith@fedia.iotoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This browser extension replaces Wikipedia's donation pop-ups with a counter of its real revenue
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    28 days ago

    Photobucket has been so ridiculous with their email I’m not even blocking them, just to see what happens. They started last June with a “WE’RE GOING TO DELETE ALL YOUR PICS IF YOU DON’T LOG IN”

    Your account needs attention Your free account has been deactivated and may be at risk of deletion. To preserve your photos and continue using Photobucket, please take action below.

    and now they send an email every 4 days:

    • We found photos you probably thought were gone
    • The past is calling (and it has photos)
    • These photos are worth a thousand smiles
    • We just unearthed a classic
    • A glimpse into the good old days
    • Your old selfies are now fossils
    • Your old haircut called. It wants closure

    And more, I’m not even sure I have pictures uploaded. I think they just generate an email with AI every 4 days

  • GottaHaveFaith@fedia.iotoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?
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    2 months ago

    I basically fix other people shitty voice for a living (replacing it with my own shitty code), the “best” one was by a guy, I suppose he was a self taught c programmer from how he wrote code, writing a complex python program. I saw:

    • a function called randomNumberGenerator. It was a function which started a webserver. While looking for a python tutorial for something I found out why: he copy pasted the tutorial snippet but then didn’t bother renaming the function
    • a program whose job was to listen to all other services and send them to another service via udp BUT it had a maximum buffer size so messages sometimes got truncated. I just directly put the listener in the target program and deleted it
    • like another guy in this thread he didn’t use git. First day on the job they told me “yes, we need to check which machine has the latest code because he ssh into them and work there”. His version control was basically putting code in different machines
    • lot of copied variables, because of c I suppose? Things like var = self.var
    • camelCase python (ok this is just styling in the end)
    • files with 10k lines of code
    • half the services were in python 2, half in python 3. Don’t ask me why
    • variables name in his original language (not English, not the client language)
    • single letter variables, I fondly remember self.I (upper case i)
    • I remember an if a == a: (I left it there because lol)
    • he added a license check which used the ethernet mac address. Too bad ethernet was removed from the machine, and his code launched an exception which returned 00:00:00:00 as mac address, so all licenses were working on all machines

    And many other things…

    In another project I saw a backend running on the frontend, as in, this guy wrote the logic for a machine on the Javascript running the user interface of the screen