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The Pidgin “IRSSI Features” Plugin Will Spam Your Friends
The Pidgin IRSSI Features plugin by Gary Kramlich and John Bailey contains a hard-coded “Easter Egg” which will spam all open conversation with a “Happy New Year!” message if Pidgin is running at midnight January 1st. John Bailey has confirmed … Continue reading
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Tagged identity, im, irc, irssi, libpurple, pidgin, security, spam
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RightAWS and SSL Certificates
If you’ve used the RightAWS tools to talk to Amazon Web Services, you’ve probably seen this warning before: warning: peer certificate won’t be verified in this SSL session No one likes warnings cluttering up their output, and this one indicates … Continue reading
Safely executing commands with user data
Do you ever need to call out to a shell command with some user-supplied arguments? category = ‘riddles’ fortune = `fortune #{category}` Q: What’s the difference between a Mac and an Etch-a-Sketch? A: You don’t have to shake the Mac … Continue reading
